My name is Ian Bick and you're tuned in to Lockton with Ian Bick. On this week's episode,

I interview Colin Ray, who after committing a series of robberies in his hometown, goes to prison,

gets out, and becomes one of TikTok's biggest prison social media influencers. We all make mistakes,

experience failure, and fall down in life. But if you

decide to get back up and use it as fuel to your fire, you can choose to not let it define you. You can

make it through to the other side and turn it into an opportunity. I went from owning a popular

nightclub when I was 19 years old to becoming a federal inmate by the time I was 21.

Join me, Ian Bick, as I interview people from all over the country who have experienced the rock

bottom of the American justice system.

Colin Ray, the OG prison talker, the friendliest felon on TikTok that you iconed that name. Welcome to Lockton with Ian Bick.

I appreciate you having me, man. Awesome. What was your childhood like growing up? So my childhood

wasn't too different from anybody else. My dad was in the military. We moved around a lot,

which was nice but not at times. It's

kind of depended on where you were living, like whether you liked it or not. And eventually, when

I was 11, my dad got stationed at the Pentagon, so we moved to, you know, central Pennsylvania,

which is like an hour and 20 minute drive from D.C. He would commute back and forth every day.

So we got stuck in, I always say stuck in Pennsylvania.

But I was also born in Pennsylvania because my dad was stationed there previously outside of Philadelphia.

And that's where he met my mom.

So childhood was like, it was normal.

You know what I mean?

For a military family, got beat a lot for nothing and

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