Lance Armstrong on Betrayal, Family, Livestrong and New Podcast — Transcript

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1. 0:01it doesn't matter that cycling grew and
2. 0:05bicycles became a billion-dollar brand
3. 0:07and LIVESTRONG raised to have it none of
4. 0:09that matters what matters is your camera
5. 0:14guy who I'd never met might be sitting
6. 0:17at home going this is not right this is
7. 0:21wrong and being upset and betrayed a
8. 0:24candid Lance Armstrong talks about his
9. 0:27long ride since the Oprah interview and
10. 0:29where he is now
11. 0:29he recently launched a new podcast
12. 0:31called the forward and that's what he's
13. 0:33doing moving forward in this exclusive
14. 0:35interview he talks to me about betrayal
15. 0:37his family and why he says he's now
16. 0:40fearless look at my story and I fully
17. 0:45admit this a lot but you know my life
18. 0:48falling apart or falling to pieces was
19. 0:51self-inflicted
20. 0:52Lance Armstrong now talks candidly about
21. 0:55his fall from the top of the cycling
22. 0:57worlds who does that right but he says
23. 0:59it took several years after the big
24. 1:01Oprah interview to get there I have my
25. 1:03family and I know exactly who my friends
26. 1:05are and you know for the next second
27. 1:10half of my life it puts in this position
28. 1:13of being completely and totally fearless
29. 1:15all right with that new attitude Ryan
30. 1:17holiday man thanks for being here thanks
31. 1:19for having me
32. 1:19Armstrong launched the forward a podcast
33. 1:22out of a small austin studio tim league
34. 1:24was my first podcast the local founder
35. 1:28of alamo drafthouse he's also
36. 1:30interviewed Brett Favre Rickie Fowler
37. 1:32Lyle Lovett Wendy Davis and Mack Brown
38. 1:35to name a few if you're gonna listen to
39. 1:36one you have to listen to Michael Bourn
40. 1:38it'll have to change my life it'll
41. 1:40change you can't listen to it and not
42. 1:42feel changed I mean he's the man's a
43. 1:45hero is Oprah on the list yeah yeah she
44. 1:49owes me he says he knew the Oprah
45. 1:52interview where he admitted to doping
46. 1:53was going to be a difficult ride it
47. 1:56wasn't gonna go over well and it wasn't
48. 1:58gonna be received well and there was
49. 2:01gonna be a lot of hate and a lot of hurt
50. 2:04feelings a lot of people in Austin felt
51. 2:06betrayed yeah
52. 2:07what do you say to them you know I I say
53. 2:13and I do that because I
54. 2:14told it you know at times to my face and
55. 2:18while some people may think that that
56. 2:20would make me angry or I would it would
57. 2:22be confrontational I understand I
58. 2:26totally get it and if if they're mad
59. 2:33forever I also understand that you know
60. 2:35if it's if it's unforgivable there's
61. 2:39nothing I can do about that I can't I
62. 2:41can't change it I can't fight it and he
63. 2:43says he understands the hurt of those
64. 2:45people who defended him and believed in
65. 2:48him at every turn and now they felt like
66. 2:51they were complicit which is a whole
67. 2:54nother layer to betrayal the toughest
68. 2:57conversation had to be with your family
69. 3:00your kids
70. 3:01well it's your right I mean it was not
71. 3:05it was not an easy conversation but it's
72. 3:07also not it's not over all of my kids no
73. 3:12matter how old they are we'll watch the
74. 3:14Oprah interview the older ones watched
75. 3:16it live I can't say hey we talked about
76. 3:18that ten years ago this is over and
77. 3:20that's the deal that I have with them we
78. 3:22can talk about this whenever you want so
79. 3:24it's it's an ongoing commitment and
80. 3:27promise to them as for cycling he still
81. 3:30rides almost every day for me it's a
82. 3:32place to you know clear my head almost
83. 3:36almost like I'm my own little private
84. 3:38therapy when it comes to LIVESTRONG the
85. 3:41Cancer Foundation he started in 1997 he
86. 3:44says it's hard to watch it from the
87. 3:45sidelines I'm proud of what I did there
88. 3:48I'm proud of what the organization did
89. 3:50my 15 years there I mean how could you
90. 3:52not be it was we raised a half a billion
91. 3:55dollars in 15 years we changed the lives
92. 3:57of millions of people but it took a lot
93. 4:01of work Walton now our strong says he's
94. 4:03focused on moving forward in Austin a
95. 4:05town that he says was kind to him and
96. 4:08his family as he struggled with his
97. 4:10doping controversy and now the lawsuits
98. 4:12here's the thing Walt and and almost
99. 4:15nobody has this perspective there are
100. 4:18people that do because they've been
101. 4:19through situations that has taught than
102. 4:21this I know exactly who my friends are
103. 4:25and I know exactly who are not my
104. 4:28friends
105. 4:29it was fascinating again his podcast is
106. 4:32called the forward big names on their
107. 4:33musicians artists sports stars and he
108. 4:36openly talks about his life something he
109. 4:38really didn't do before I've covered
110. 4:39Lance Armstrong since 1997 many times he
111. 4:42was defensive angry some people would
112. 4:44say arrogant much different not now he's
113. 4:47not like that and interesting that all
114. 4:48of these big-name people there they're
115. 4:50saying yes to an interview with Lance
116. 4:51Armstrong they're not backing away from
117. 4:52this yeah I asked no about anybody he is
118. 4:55he reached out to somebody and they said
119. 4:56no because maybe it's past he says no
120. 4:58not yet Luke Bryan was in town last week
121. 5:00doing a concert they wanted a bike ride
122. 5:03in Austin and Luke Ryan did the concert
123. 5:05so he's slowly coming back it'll be
124. 5:06interesting to see what he doesn't