Okay, welcome back and cut with Jay Cutler. We've got another week. Um, this week we have Ryan Lottie, uh, Olympic swimmer, uh, 12 time Olympic medalist, uh,

uh, from the York was raised, uh, went down to Florida, uh, went to, uh, UF. Swam there. Um, had a reality show at one point. It was on dance hit the stars.

Had a little trouble in Brazil, the 2016 Olympics, 2018, you know, we'll talk to him about that. Um, but I, I, I, I want to know more about what would Ryan Lottie do. The, the, the e reality show.

I remember watching it, um, as a, as a kid, I think we're the damn near the same age. So I want to kind of see what, um, he says about that. But I know we just did a, uh, had a press conference to make the Olympic team kind of an emotional press conference.

Um, so last month that he's married to get two kids to see what dad life is. And then maybe talk about this pen, uh, swimmer, um, the transgender, um, situation there. So, uh, let's get into it. Ryan Lottie.

All right. Here we go. Uh, uncover J colored this week. Ryan Lottie.

Professional swimmer, 12 time Olympic medalist. What do you, I mean, it goes on and on world record, 200 meter individual medley, uh, four by 200, four by 100, 90 medals in overall.

And then I just saw your press conference didn't make the, sorry about that. I didn't make the Olympic team that had to be, uh, that was tough.

That was very tough. Um, you know, throughout my whole swimming career and everything I've been through, I never went through like depression. Yeah.

And it was one of the hardest like, one of the hardest things besides 2016, um, was just, you know, waking up and looking myself in the mirror and being like, damn, I'm a failure.

Yeah. And it's scary to think, all right. What now? Cause I mean, how do you 37? Yeah. I mean, I'm 38. You know, I think I was playing football at 35, 36 and to say, all right. Now, what am I going to do?

What am I doing now for the rest of my life? Um, so I'm still going to swim. I'm still swimming for one, um, one more year. Uh, cause I want to do like, it's called the World Cup in the fall. Yeah.

And it's overseas. Um, so I've never done it and I want to do it. Um, so I'm going to be training for that. Um, but yeah, like you said, what do I do now?

Where'd you grow up? I knew you moved to Florida. I was born. I was born and raised upstate New York, right outside of Rochester.

Did you get involved in swimming in New York? Yeah. Um, so both my parents were swim coaches. Oh, really? I mean, I was always around the pool deck.

And once I jumped in the water, it was like everything came really natural and so easy for me to pick up like different strokes, different techniques. Yeah.

And it was just like, I guess you could say is my happy place. Did you play any other sports? It was just swimming. Oh, um, in New York, I played lacrosse, soccer, baseball, swimming.

And when I moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, when I was 11, I picked up surfing, skateboarding, basketball. Pretty much everything doing it at all. When did, when did something become real for you?

Um, well, when I was about eight or nine years old, I was like, I want to make the Olympic team and get a gold medal at the Olympics.

Um, so that's where it kind of like my dream started, but I didn't think that was actually possible until after my freshman year of college. Oh, really?

Yeah. Um, I just, I mean, going into college, I was five, like seven, a hundred and like 40 pounds, just a little scrawny kid.

And after my freshman year, I like just, I got bigger, stronger, grew like five inches and then, yeah, my swimming started taking off. So I was like, you know what? I got a shot at this.

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