Floyd Landis responds to Lance Armstrong comments, shows off new life in CBD business — Transcript

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1. 0:00the name floyd landis won most of us mid
2. 0:02Staters know but haven't heard in a
3. 0:04while he's grabbing some national
4. 0:06headlines this week though a decade
5. 0:08after exposing illegal drug use in
6. 0:10American cycling he's back home now in
7. 0:12the mid state a much different floyd
8. 0:14landis at least in most ways he's a
9. 0:17business owner now and his career of
10. 0:19choice drugs he was one of the biggest
11. 0:26sports heroes in central Pennsylvania
12. 0:28history but it didn't take long for
13. 0:31Lancaster County native Floyd Landis to
14. 0:33go from cycling champion tonight Landis
15. 0:37comes clean about playing dirty in the
16. 0:39cycling world and his 2006 Tour de
17. 0:42France victory was indeed tainted - one
18. 0:44of the most shameful athletes in
19. 0:46American sports I lived through it and
20. 0:49I've tried to not obsess over it the
21. 0:51last few years like I did for the
22. 0:53longest time and I'm happy that it's
23. 0:54over but I wouldn't wish that on anybody
24. 0:56almost ten years ago to the day Landis
25. 0:59admitted to using performance-enhancing
26. 1:01drugs a claim he had long denied despite
27. 1:05already being stripped of his 2006 Tour
28. 1:08de France title at the end of the day
29. 1:09there was never really a time to
30. 1:11appreciate it they made it public about
31. 1:14this test you know within like three or
32. 1:16four days afterwards and that for all
33. 1:18intents and purposes that was it but his
34. 1:20admission was a mere Ripple
35. 1:22he accused other top American cyclists
36. 1:24of doing the same thing
37. 1:25including seven-time Tour champion
38. 1:28former teammate Lance Armstrong this
39. 1:31week ESPN aired a documentary on
40. 1:33Armstrong and the former American icon
41. 1:36didn't hold back on his feelings about
42. 1:38where Floyd Landis I could be Floyd
43. 1:40Landis what living in Leadville
44. 1:43waking up a piece of [ __ ] every day so
45. 1:47anything yeah yeah that's what I know
46. 1:52yeah I mean obviously I would dispute
47. 1:55that but he you know I know Lance and
48. 1:59I've known him for a long time and he he
49. 2:01blames me and I guess if he needs to
50. 2:03attribute it to somebody directly then I
51. 2:05guess I'm the guy but I wish he would
52. 2:07just
53. 2:08I mean I don't know I feel bad I feel
54. 2:10bad for him I wish you would be able to
55. 2:12just you know move on with his life but
56. 2:14he still kind of resents me so so be it
57. 2:19Floyd's pro cycling career is long over
58. 2:23so he moves on the bicycles are now
59. 2:27growing past his business in Columbia it
60. 2:30doesn't look like it but it's got oil in
61. 2:32it not a huge amount but you know 20%
62. 2:34it's a hemp processing plant it's been a
63. 2:37rewarding thing to do and it's been a
64. 2:39project that's big enough that it takes
65. 2:41most of my time and energy so it's in
66. 2:43that sense it's kind of good for my for
67. 2:45my mental state it's then recaptured in
68. 2:48a in a cooling unit he's a former
69. 2:50cyclist turned pseudo-scientists
70. 2:53overseeing the production of his brand
71. 2:55of Floyd's of Leadville CBD products is
72. 2:58there anything in this field that you're
73. 3:00doing now that you can even relate
74. 3:02remotely to psyche no no other than it
75. 3:05were processing drugs
76. 3:06[Laughter]
77. 3:10only this time these drugs are legal
78. 3:13those are all hemp biomass yet that's
79. 3:16generally how they get transported these
80. 3:18days the CBD industry is booming in
81. 3:20Pennsylvania and Floyd moved back home
82. 3:22to take advantage it's hidden babe this
83. 3:24is a pretty place man it's hard to hide
84. 3:26maybe if you didn't grow up here you
85. 3:27don't see it the same way but I like
86. 3:32he opened up Floyd's cafe in Lancaster
87. 3:35City in February just weeks before the
88. 3:38coronavirus shut it down right now it's
89. 3:41crawling back towards a return I don't
90. 3:44think this is one that I actually wore
91. 3:45is just a replica of it
92. 3:47his jerseys are hung up all around the
93. 3:49cafe and in the back there's a bike shop
94. 4:00back then it wasn't more of an obsession
95. 4:03and it's all I did and all I thought
96. 4:04about then it was a different kind of
97. 4:07thrill you know but this is now I do it
98. 4:10cuz it's fun and that's why I did it in
99. 4:11the first place when I was 15
100. 4:12Floyd has experienced highs and lows
101. 4:15most couldn't think of a lot of it
102. 4:17self-inflicted here's a fly oh I missed
103. 4:23it shoots salt but a decade after
104. 4:28shaking up the sports world did this
105. 4:30thing come with a manual he's found
106. 4:31peace and a new purpose at room
107. 4:34temperature will crystallize over time
108. 4:35healing I mean I don't really see myself
109. 4:37as a cyclist I guess I don't there's
110. 4:39nothing I can do to undo that and I
111. 4:41don't know though that I would that's
112. 4:43part of the story but I am happy to be
113. 4:45back in Lancaster County and I think
114. 4:46when I was a kid I didn't really
115. 4:47appreciate some of the things about it
116. 4:49but I thought it was a little slow but
117. 4:51now slow is better