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Speaker 1: Good Luck with That is an iheartwomen's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment.
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Speaker 2: What's up, everyone, I'm Ashley Rafel, the host of Good Luck with That. We're gonna drop right into the news week because I know you guys have all wanted to know what happened since we last left off. Wheels of Fortune thirteen just went down in Seattle, Washington. The podium looked so good, Nicos Sugamoto taking first place, Keinamida taking second, and ev Perchard taking third. Ruby Lilly, I think that was your first time going to Wheels of Fortune.
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Speaker 3: Do tell did you have a good time or what?
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Speaker 2: Dude?
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Speaker 4: That was my first Wheels of Fortune and honestly so overwhelming. There was so many girls skateboarders. I've never seen that many in one place, I think. Ever, Yeah, it was amazing. I met so many people and I had so many conversations in one day that I like lost my voice.
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Speaker 5: See you could.
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Speaker 4: Still hear it a little bit, but it's getting better. I had take some like throat coat tea because streaming and like yelling so much.
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Speaker 5: But that just tells you how good of the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Like I said, we weren't just leaving you all hanging out there listeners. We were saying, please make it to this event. It really is like one of the world class events for women in gender expensive skateboarders showing up at one place for three days to the point where you have so much fun you lose your voice. But I love how young so many of the skaters were coming out on these trips doing the witch hunt, Like these are like ten to like eighteen year olds, Like that was like the primary age range, right Ruby.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like Anna's eleven twelve, and she's like in the streets and it's just really cool to see her, like meeting all these different women and legends and pros and just like being around it and socializing. I feel like that's so good when you're young and you're coming up, because it's like you don't want to just be this like kid that's like contain just like learning tricks and not really like getting to experience the culture and like the best part of skateboarding, you know. So I feel like that's important to be involved in like events like that and just be around a bunch of different skaters.
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Speaker 2: I can't even imagine if I had an event like that when I was thirteen to be there and see that, So shout out to everyone behind the scenes that made that happen. Skateboarding Hall of Fame also had a big weekend during WAFF weekend, bringing in Vanessa Tours and Alexis the bloone up into the.
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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame. World of it all.
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Speaker 2: So incredible to see Vanessa Turus and Alexis a blow and get their flowers in such an honorable way. I can't wait to see the video recap, but watching it from Afar via Instagram looked amazing. Hearing little snippets of Alexis's speech just an amazing point of history for women's skateboarding. So shout out to our new Hall of famers. If you haven't seen yet, Leo Baker's new part for Tacky Joy Factory just dropped, called Dead Name. It's about two and a half minutes of incredible skateboarding and.
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Speaker 3: Such a good part.
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Speaker 2: And Leo he's singing his own song on top of his own part, which just makes it that much ratter. There's a line that just says it all that we don't exist just to make you rich.
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Speaker 3: So I'll carry on the skateboarding is incredible.
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Speaker 2: The point of view is amazing and important, and it's just Leo just doing his own thing.
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Speaker 3: Ruby, did you watch the part?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so they premiered it after the skate Jam won the last night and it was incredible. I was like watching it and I was just like I left the skate shop kind of just like I had no words, you know, I was just like kind of letting it sink in. That was my first time meeting Leo too. I was like so nervous and I was so like, it was fangirling really hard. Of course, of course, So check it out. It's on YouTube live right now. It deserves a watch. So yeah, congrats on that.
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Speaker 2: So if you haven't already put it together, Ruby Lilly, you are a guests of good luck with that. Hailing from Ocean City, Maryland, one of eight kids raised on a farm with rabbits, goats, chickens, which we'll get into in just a moment. You're our newest minted pro for Foundation goofy stance with a hell of a famous backside and front side nose grind. You're an all terrain rider in my opinion and many others.
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Speaker 5: I'm an all terrain trying rider, but.
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Speaker 3: You look you make it look so good.
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Speaker 2: We're talking backyard pools, concrete diise vert ramps. You're also really good at finding like transition spots in the streets, which is not easy to come by. So I don't know, I think you've earned your all terrain title. Like your resume is very deep for being nineteen. You've been killing yourself for skateboarding these last few years. I'm just going to go through a couple more with you here because you know them, but maybe some don't. Silver X Games, Japan, twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, I'm sorry, Paris Olympian thirteenth in Women Park. You've been putting out back two back while competing video parts, Dealer's Choice, down straight up, Volume four, Loop Hardware, STF you shut the up and most recently your Foundation Today, Tomorrow and Forever part which I'm still waiting to see.
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Speaker 3: So can we get that thing up online?
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Speaker 5: Yeah? So it comes out on Friday.
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Speaker 3: You're skating to Big Thief, Is that right?
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Speaker 5: Yes? Super hyped on that big Big Thief fan.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, while you're just like listing off all of the parts, I'm just like, oh, my back is hurting just thinking about that, Like it's definitely like taking a toll on my body physically, and now like I just remember at well, I remember it just happened. But at the Foundation premiere, people are just.
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Speaker 5: Like, are you gonna go crazy tonight? A You're gonna party?
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Speaker 4: And I was just like I had just gone back from Italy the night before, and I'm like, I.
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Speaker 5: Can't wait to sleep. That's all I was thinking about.
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Speaker 4: I got the premiere, I'm like, I'm just I'm so tired, you know. But that's like part of it, and I just feel like, I don't know. As I'm like watching it, I'm like, oh, like I could put out a better part. That's like how I felt every single time I've put out something, And I think that's like what keeps me putting out things so quickly and fast. It's because like as soon as it comes out, I'm watching it and I'm.
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Speaker 5: Like I was hyped on that.
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Speaker 3: What the fuck?
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Speaker 5: No, Like I'm already better now, you know.
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Speaker 4: So I just keep like I'm like my own worst enemy in that type of way where I just want to like keep one upping myself, and it's like a constant contest with myself and these videos. So as I'm watching the Foundation one, I'm like in the theater and like my name pops up and I'm like, ugh, it can already feel a better far. You're already working on the next part. Yeah, it's super annoying, but it's part of it. And then when the stuff comes down on Instagram, I'm like, oh, okay, I see like the love and support and I'm like, okay, I'm proud of this, you know, like I'm really grateful for these memories and trips. But in the moment sometimes it's just like better part.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: So what I'm hearing is there's more in the tank, even though you're exhausted at this point, But do take a moment to pause and look back, because yeah, time goes so quickly when you're going from event to trip to trip. Like you said, you were just on a plane coming back from Italy straight into the Foundation premiere, all of a sudden, you're pro going right up into wheels of fortune, back to back stuff.
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Speaker 3: But like, yeah, you didn't just get here overnight, So yeah, take a moment, take a breath.
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Speaker 5: For sure.
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Speaker 4: Even though that I'm like still young, I feel like some people like that haven't seen me like skate or come up with my first part or first contest, or.
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Speaker 5: Just like who is this girl?
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Speaker 3: What goes pro?
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Speaker 4: And like puts out one video and I'm like, Okay, I know, I'm yes, like I'm nineteen, so I know it does seem like I've just jumped, but no, definitely like it's been a journey for sure.
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Speaker 2: Before we get into the whole journey and get people caught up for those that thought you just popped up on the scene yesterday and had.
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Speaker 3: One video part, we'll go through the whole entire history.
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Speaker 2: And I do want to get deep and I do want to get into just who is Ruby Lilly. But we're going to use a tool, a highly respected journalistic tool we like to call on the show, Get a Grip. So welcome to our Get a Grip segment.
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Speaker 3: Ruby.
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Speaker 2: It's a fast lightning round, So just hit us as quick with the answers as you can, don't don't overthink it. I just want to get right into it. Oh, in your opinion, is Old Bay is Old Bay mandatory? Is it optional or a federal requirement on most things in Maryland?
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Speaker 5: Mandatory?
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Speaker 3: All right, what's one trick?
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Speaker 2: You wish you could download into your brain like overnight and just wake up and it's yours.
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Speaker 3: Kickflips, kickflip.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I was not expecting you to say that, all right, all.
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Speaker 4: Right, No, it's it's like I can kick flip. But it's like I'm not kick flipping like I need. Like I need to download it like I needed. It needs to be programmed into me. I need to fully understand it.
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Speaker 3: What's scarier? First contest run or a first try at a krusty like backyard spot?
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Speaker 5: First contest run?
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Speaker 3: Headphones, sketch book, What's what's always in your bag?
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Speaker 5: Journal? And eyeliner?
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Speaker 3: Okay?
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Speaker 2: Of all the brands you ride for, who's your favorite TM team manager?
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Speaker 5: That's so hard? Uh, Fabiana Duffy.
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Speaker 3: Love that all right?
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Speaker 2: And that's for Loop Hardware Dream Skate Trip. You're leaving tomorrow morning?
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Speaker 3: Where are we going?
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Speaker 5: SF?
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Speaker 3: SF? Okay, San Francisco, let's get in the van.
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Speaker 5: Yep? All right?
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Speaker 2: What's your most RFL moment of all time? And for those that don't know, what does RFL stand for?
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Speaker 3: Ruby?
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Speaker 5: Oh god, this is.
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Speaker 4: Fucked, but my mom came up with this ruby fucking lily. But my most RFL moment, probably doing doubles with Fobby and getting knocked out and breaking my nose. And she said that when everyone looked in the bowl there was eyelashes and hoop earrings on the ground.
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Speaker 2: It's like hitting a bird on the freeway, like the windshield.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, like I just my like fucking girly jewelry and makeup just exploded.
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Speaker 2: For listeners that don't know, rfl Ruby faith Lily and then moved into the ruby fucking lily.
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Speaker 5: Very different meanings.
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Speaker 3: All right, what was your favorite animal on the farm growing up?
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Speaker 5: The angora bunnies?
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Speaker 2: And what makes an angora bunny like different from all the other bunnies.
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Speaker 4: Their hair is really fluffy and you can literally just pull it out and we and you can spin it into.
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Speaker 5: What is it called.
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Speaker 4: You can spin it into yarn and then we would knit and we'd make scarves out of it. And so that's very ancient, very random fact. But yeah, that's super random.
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Speaker 3: Love.
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Speaker 2: Okay, if skating disappeared tomorrow, which we don't want that to happen, what job do you think you would have?
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Speaker 3: Who would you be?
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Speaker 5: I don't think I would have a job, and I think I would.
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Speaker 4: I would probably just try around in a car or or like an r V and just explore and enjoy life. And I wouldn't want to have a nine to five.
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Speaker 2: I'm hearing vlogger is could be in your future home is where you park it.
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Speaker 3: You'd be offline, just living.
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Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, if I didn't skate, I would be that is the answer. If I didn't skate, I would just be off the grid. I would be off the grid complete you no Instagram. I want to go back to a flip phone, and I want to go back to VHS tapes.
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Speaker 2: I live for that level of nostalgia. I think a lot of people will get that. So that concludes our Get a Grip round. I love that you are able to just hang on real quick. I want to just go straight from the farm to foundation arc of your life story go up. Okay, so you're one of eight kids, you have a lot of siblings. You grew up with rabbit, sheep goats. Could you like it explain your childhood to us a little bit when you think about it.
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Speaker 5: Okay?
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Speaker 4: So, so I grew up on a farm in Berlin, Maryland, which is like outside of Ocean City, Maryland, and we had twenty two acres and we had like a house. I had seven siblings and we had goats, sheep, bunnies, ducks, and chickens, and my dad would build custom Harley's for work. And then I'm trying to think, we had like some life shifts happened. We had some like financial issues, and we lost the house and then we were still We got my dad bought an RZ, and my older the top four older city, they were like kind of already moving out and kind of already had their life, you know, figured out, So they stayed in Ocean City, Maryland. And then the bottom four, me and my two brothers, little sister, and mom and dad, we moved into this RV and we were just like we're just gonna make use Like we don't have a place to live. We're just gonna go travel and we're just gonna go see shit and have fun. So we started out. I think the first place we ended up was we went to Montreal and Quebec, traveling around. Mainly my brothers were skating. I was like kick turning around and like playing in the dirt and like drawing and just doing random stuff in the RV, and I just I was a little kid. You know, I was just having fun. I didn't really like, Okay, I want to be a skateboarder. But my brothers were super good. They were getting all the attention and they were like killing it. After Okay, so Quebec, Montreal, and then we went to Colorado, Arizona, and then California. But when we were in Colorado and Arizona, we would like stay there for like five to six months and meet people, skate and just hang out and you'd stay at RV parks and stuff. And then we when we got to Arizona, I was doing this local contest and some girl was like, there's gonna be a girl's comby contest in Orange County. It's this really big contest, like I can get your daughter like on the alternate list if you want, you know, it's like a big deal, like she should really take it up. And I honestly like didn't actually want to do it, Like I just felt like I was skating for fun, and I didn't realize how big the level was in California. You know, I'm just from the East Coast, where one other girl skates, you know, And I was just like I don't know, but I I want to like not take up the opportunity.
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Speaker 5: And I remember going to the event and I was like, oh my god, dude, these girls are so good.
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Speaker 4: They're doing inverts and like just skating insane, and I'm doing like kick turns like I'm scared to drop in like Comby's huge.
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Speaker 3: Comby's no joke anyway.
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Speaker 4: So I get to Cobby and it's like this massive bowl and these thirteen year old girls are just killing it, like they're just tearing it up, and I am so heavily intimidated. I'm like, I don't know. I think I don't know if I want to do this, Like I don't know if I want to do do skateboarding or like I just want to skate for fun because this is like so gnarly and this level is so like can I reach it?
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Speaker 3: Ever?
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Speaker 4: I don't know, you know, just like second guessing everything. And then after the contest, I just got so fired up and I was like, I mean, they're gonna get really good at skating, and I'm going to be competing like those girls who are like I'm not doing this next a few months skating like I'm young. So I'm skating eight hours a day and I'm like homeschool in the RV. So I'm waking up, you know, doing school and the RV going to prints from twelve to dark, you know, from eleven to dark, like I'm just skating all day.
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Speaker 5: Would not even stop to like get food.
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Speaker 4: My mom would have to like come grab me, like all right, it's you want to you haven't eaten in like seven hours, you know.
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Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 5: I learned.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And then like during COVID, I was like skating a lot. The parks were empty, just me and my mom would go learn back nose grinds, like back lips, a lot of like really important tricks.
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Speaker 5: But yeah, so after comby what happened, I think.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we had to go back to the East Coast and get our stuff out of storage that we still had, like from our house, and then we like sold it and me and my brothers were like, we want to go back to California. We don't want to stay here, please please, my parents like it's so expensive, please we cannot. Like after we'd gotten a taste of the West Coast, it was just like there's no way we can ever live in the East Coast again.
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Speaker 5: Like the skate park because we were so spoiled.
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Speaker 4: Now it's like we have to be there, so we like drive the RV back to the West Coast and then from there it was just a time of like RV life and skating and that's what went on for years, and we met a lot of really cool people on Oceanside that are like some of my best friends to this day.
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Speaker 5: And it was like hard and then really like.
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Speaker 4: Shit got rough and it was really hard, and we were like getting kicked out a lot of places we'd parked the RV and it was rough, and I'm gonna go a little more personal, fuck it. But then my parents they divorced and my brothers also moved out, so it was just like a crazy hectic time. And when my parents divorced, we had like a van and the RV, and my mom was like I'm taking the van, like and we're splitting up. So I kind of went with my mom, and my brothers went and moved out in ocean Side with some friends, and then my little sister went with my dad.
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Speaker 5: So me and my mom were.
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Speaker 4: Like living in our car in Oceanside, and I was going to these USA National contests and I'm like waking up and like brushing my teeth on the side of the road, you know, like crazy, Like I just think about that now and I'm just like that's so insane that I was just like balancing that and then the stress of the contest, and it's like I don't know how to handle any of this stuff. Like I didn't ask to just be an Olympian or a pro skater, Like I was just like I felt like kind of thrown into this and very naive, and like just didn't know anything about skateboarding or the industry or just how brutal it really is, and especially for the women too, Like that's a whole different thing. So I really had no idea, and I was just so grateful and happy to be invited and be in California, Like I just took that as a win.
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Speaker 5: So I was super grateful.
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Speaker 3: Hey, everyone, stay with us.
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Speaker 2: We'll be right back with Ruby Lilly after this quick ad break. Where do we even begin from like Ocean City to Ocean side. There's a theme happening there as long as as there's an ocean in the name.
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Speaker 3: You guys are there.
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Speaker 2: You figured out a way to manage like life in compact environment just on the go making it work.
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Speaker 4: That's so important because then having to go through that be homeless, live in a van, live in an RV. It's like it just translates to trips and being in the van so much. I feel so comfortable on skate trips like in the van and just like having to throw down or having to like has to be a little rough or just tough it out.
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Speaker 5: Kind of. It's like, I'm your girl.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting you say that, because like you are the chillest of chillest people to throw in a van, And I just kind of always summarize it as like, oh, you grew up in a big family, like you know how to like make yourself small, but like, no, there's so much more to this.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And honestly, it was fine because you just sleep in the van and then you're just skating all day and you're out skating, so it's you know, so like I need to just sit in my room, you know, I just need a place to lay my head at and a roof and food.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and skateboarding seem to be like the thing that like would get you through all of this uncertain Like it sounds like it.
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Speaker 4: Was like a coping mechanism at the time, because it's like it's just something like that would get my mind off these living situations and family stuff and personal stuff. It's just like, Okay, I can go and skate this out and not think about it or worry about it. It's like like skateboarding owes me nothing, but it has given me everything. So I just have so much appreciation for it because it doesn't need to give me anything at the end of the day, but it has given me so much and so much more than just like a place to stay in a room and a bed, but like people in a community and a family and more fun you know, functional family and just stuff like that than I feel like I haven't had. So I think that's really special.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 2: I'm just so curious, like you kind of got thrusted into skating contests, like you were skating, you were soul skating, you were skating with your brother. We haven't even talked about how I've heard that your mom is a quad skater, so we'll get into that too. But you were you were just skating with the crew and the family, and then all of a sudden, you're at Comby. You're showing up in these contests, Like you said, you didn't ask to just like end up into these high pressure situations, but they allowed for you to get put on the map. They allowed for you know, a bit more sponsorship to flow in. Like how did you manage Like you said, you didn't even know each door would open a new door, and you didn't even know the industry. You don't even know how it all went. How did you manage to make sense of this map?
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Speaker 5: What's that saying? That's like it's about like not knowing is better?
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Speaker 3: What's it?
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Speaker 5: Oh my god, I'm trying to think.
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Speaker 4: I say that the whole situation and like contest and not knowing the like industry, it was just ignorance is bliss.
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Speaker 5: Like I just I didn't know.
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Speaker 4: Anything, So it was like what is there to lose? What am I scared of? And just jump head in?
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Speaker 5: You know?
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Speaker 4: But I actually was like I didn't understand. Well, I'm sorry, I'm like thinking of so many different things jumping topics in my head.
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Speaker 5: But I grew up watching video parts.
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Speaker 4: That's how I found out who my favorite skaters were. That's how I found out about these pros, And so I found out about Nora and Lizzie and Fobby. Like I grew up watching video parts, I wasn't seeing that from a contest. I wasn't watching contests, you know, I didn't really like my brothers would show me, you know, like the ants I hear of video parts, and they were just very into the core side of skateboarding, and they never really competed in contests and they would just skate for fun and they were into backyard pools and stuff like that.
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Speaker 5: So I got a lot of inspiration.
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Speaker 4: From them because that's my family, and so that's the closest people to me, and I think they really like guided and showed me a lot in skateboarding because I didn't know, and it wasn't like I grew up in it in the scene in California, so I didn't have anyone that's.
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Speaker 5: Like, oh, okay, here's what you do.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 4: It's like my brothers who have just like researched and watched all this stuff and nerd it out from the East Coast. So but yeah, So when I moved to Oceanside and I was like skating for a while, skating there for a while, maybe it'd been like a year, two years, I got approached from Tony Magnusen for H.
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Speaker 5: Street Skateboards so crazy.
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Speaker 4: I literally did not realize how much history that company has till like two years ago.
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Speaker 5: That was insane.
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Speaker 4: And I rode for Tony for I think two years, two and a half maybe three. It was a while and it was fun.
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Speaker 5: It was cool.
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Speaker 4: Taught me a lot about like the history, and he really loves the eighties nineties.
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Speaker 3: Like really love a lot.
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Speaker 4: I learned a lot of, you know, from that era or about that era after H Street.
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Speaker 2: Well, didn't do you quit H Street on your birthday and got an offer from like Creature like same time too, Like is that right?
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Speaker 4: I quit H Street when I was fifteen, and he was super bummed. And then I felt really bad and I was like second Guests saying, and I'm like, oh my god, that was a terrible decision.
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Speaker 5: I gotta move forward, you know.
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Speaker 4: And then I think I got an offer from Creature, maybe from Alex White.
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Speaker 5: And then what did I do next?
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Speaker 4: I think I went to Madness Skateboards and that was so brief because they had all the issues with the distribution. And as soon as I officially got on the team and I put out this like little mini video part that's on YouTube somewhere for them. Then they were like, oh, we can't pay you anymore and we're like going out of business. I was like okay, and then I felt I was like, I don't know what to do next. I'm just gonna focus on skating and like try not to stress.
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Speaker 5: Let me see, And then how did Foundation get in the met Oh?
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Speaker 4: I think then creature is an offer again then Foundation at the same time.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so it was creature versus Foundation. You're you're an ocean side prince, is your local park?
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Speaker 3: Is that right? This is the time period that this is all coming together.
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Speaker 5: Skating prints every day, Yep.
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Speaker 3: Creature fits like how I see you as a skateboarder.
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Speaker 2: At that point, I'm like, okay, I get it, but like, how did Foundation come into all of all of this?
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Speaker 5: Creature does fit me?
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Speaker 4: But when it's hard to like tell that when you're younger, you know what I mean, it's hard to like you can't see like a.
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Speaker 5: POV of yourself from yourself.
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Speaker 4: You can't see like you can't see the future, and you can't see what you're gonna turn into, and you obviously don't knows stuff like what this or like what distribution has a lot of money or marketing or they like you just don't I don't know. You don't know any of that. You're just like, Oh, my friends are there. I want to go there. You know, That's kind of what happened.
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Speaker 5: Basically.
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Speaker 4: I was just like skating with Liam Pace a lot and Jesse lin Loff amazing skaters, and I would always see they're going out filming with Don for Foundation, and like I just loved all of the art honestly, and the logos.
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Speaker 5: I was such a big fan, and you know those are my friends.
00:28:35
Speaker 4: Like I would skate with them a lot, and you'd go film and backyard pools and stuff. So I was like, I want to be with my friends and feels like.
00:28:46
Speaker 5: Close to home.
00:28:48
Speaker 4: Cause it's it's so scary to like get thrown in a van with people that you don't know.
00:28:55
Speaker 2: If you were given the seat, you want to show up and like show that you've like earned that seat. So there's there's so much pressure in the initial days. I don't know if that pressure ever goes away, but like I just like that you were telling me. Ultimately, what led to like Foundation is like the crew, the vibe the trust that you had a seat like okay.
00:29:15
Speaker 5: Like I know some homies on here, and.
00:29:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I belong in the van with them because I felt comfortable with them because I'd been on like little mini side trips with them or side missions with them, and they're film or friends.
00:29:33
Speaker 5: So I was like, okay, like we have a connection, like.
00:29:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, but there's definitely so much pressure, like I felt the pressure of like okay, I just don't.
00:29:43
Speaker 5: Want to be too much.
00:29:46
Speaker 4: I don't want to be annoying, like I hope I'm not too much, Like I'm okay, I'll like everyone gets their coffee and I'll be back in the van like first, like I'll make sure, you know, like I'm not cutting the line like okay, like Dakota is like I'll let him go in front of me, you know.
00:30:01
Speaker 5: They're like like I'm scared, you know, okay.
00:30:04
Speaker 3: But now now where are you in that van lineup?
00:30:06
Speaker 2: I feel like that's too nice, too polite, like we want you to be Ruby Lilly, like that is exactly why you're in that damn thing.
00:30:13
Speaker 4: And then it leads me coming home with no clicks because I'm too scared to ask to go to the ver amp. I'm too scared to ask to go to the bowl, too scared to peek. Speak up, Oh my god, speak up. We are actually okay, two people, but I knew in the van it was jesse linl Loaf and then Shy Lookatri.
00:30:31
Speaker 5: We literally were both.
00:30:33
Speaker 4: So shy and quiet that when the guys stopped to go pee, we had we had to go pee for so long we went behind the bushes together because we were so scared to go ask to go to a gas station with the bathroom like that scared that. It's like, okay, we're basically a dude too, you know, Like all right.
00:30:55
Speaker 5: So this is just a yeah, pee break.
00:30:57
Speaker 2: But did you think like by asking or like being too much you it might like hurt the chances of you, like having that seat in the van.
00:31:06
Speaker 4: Is that kind of the thinking, Yeah, well, I just know that I was just scared what the team, you know, would think, Like, I want to have a good first impression. This is my first trip with everyone, and I want to have like a good reputation so that I get invited on the next trips. Like, so what you're saying, I want to have a seat in the van, But it's you know, it's scary. You don't know what they're gonna say, and you can never control that really, but you're just hoping that they're like, oh yeah, like Ruby, she was super chill and like really easy to have in the van. You never want like they were so high maintenance, like I'm never inviting them again.
00:31:45
Speaker 5: Like, no, that's so scary. So I'm like, maybe if i'm invisible, I'll have a good reputation.
00:31:53
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, invisible leads to really great video parts. How long did you film for today, tomorrow, forever? And how did you get to the place where we're like, no, we're stopping at that vert ramper, I want to film a clip here, like what was the evolution here?
00:32:07
Speaker 5: No, I'm still shy in the van, but I'm not, but I am.
00:32:13
Speaker 3: I don't know.
00:32:13
Speaker 5: It's scary. You gotta ask Bobby.
00:32:15
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm not shy, but then I'm I'm shy asking for what I want sometimes or I have no balance and I'm like, ah, this is what I want, Like vert ramped this like we have to go here, and I'm like, so I just need to I need to figure out like a balance.
00:32:35
Speaker 2: Do you like do you think you're more productive if like Charie White is filming you, or you're on a trip with Bobby or someone else who kind of gets it.
00:32:46
Speaker 4: Definitely, if I'm on a trip with people that I really trust, skaters, filmers, photographers like I have a good connection with them. They know my skating, I know how they work, they know how I operate, it definitely makes things a lot easier and you just feel more comfortable around them and asking for what you need. It doesn't feel like such a burden. And I don't like that feeling of feeling like a burden because then I'm like, why am I here in the first place?
00:33:12
Speaker 5: You know, why would you invite a burden on the trip?
00:33:14
Speaker 3: You're not a burden, And I think it's just you trying to like figure it out. But when you yeah, like I guess, I am also curious, Like you filmed, how don't how long?
00:33:23
Speaker 5: Oh?
00:33:23
Speaker 3: How long did you film your Today Tomorrow Forever part?
00:33:27
Speaker 5: Oh?
00:33:27
Speaker 4: It felt like forever because I was Tomorrow forever. I was qualifying for Paris during that, and well, yeah, I was filming a little bit during Paris. Then during the monster video down straight up, I was also full on filming both of those videos at the same time.
00:33:52
Speaker 5: That was really stressful.
00:33:53
Speaker 4: I would like come back from a monster trip, then I would go to Seattle with my filmer that had the right case camera for Don. He didn't want this, He didn't want the other cameras that Shari and blah blah blah had. He wanted like this certain aesthetics so that the whole video would match because he's like, I'm getting everyone to film with this certain camera.
00:34:15
Speaker 5: It definitely made things a little more difficult.
00:34:18
Speaker 4: And I do tell him that we joke about it now, but I was just like so frustrated in the beginning.
00:34:23
Speaker 5: I'm like, who am I supposed to film with.
00:34:25
Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't even know what the cameras are called, Like, I'm not a filmer. This is not my job. This is so frustrating. So then I found out Ed Warto, who I filmed with all the time in San Diego. He's local, he has the right camera, he's a great filmer, he's.
00:34:42
Speaker 5: A great guy. The whole package is awesome. So that's who I was filming with.
00:34:49
Speaker 4: And it took a while. It was like kept getting pushed back. It was supposed to come out December twenty twenty five, and before that, it was supposed to come out October twenty twenty five, and before that, you know, like it was just yeah. So they kept getting pushed back months months, months, and then May twenty twenty six, so I think it was getting pushed back because of uh, Dawn put new street skaters on the team. So there's a bunch of different things, and you know how videos go, like there's always something that causes the process to slow down.
00:35:27
Speaker 5: But to see it finally happen and I was like, oh my god, this is like the video was released. It was like just a boulder off my shoulder.
00:35:38
Speaker 3: Literally.
00:35:39
Speaker 2: Was it the first time of watching it in the theater or had you been able to kind of like see the part and clear it and see everyone else's footage or front first to stop like that was the first time you saw it first time.
00:35:51
Speaker 4: I was so nervous. I was really scared. I had not seen I hadn't even seen one clip from the video. I didn't know what was going to be in the video, and I didn't know the view roll or anything.
00:36:04
Speaker 5: I did know.
00:36:05
Speaker 4: I didn't know the song though, which that was really nice, and that made me feel less stressed. Me and Don had mutual greed, like mutually agreed on that song, so it was very hyped. It went really good with the part, and I'm excited for everyone to see the whole video.
00:36:20
Speaker 2: We are so ready and also to just queue those in if you were following along on the internet or didn't know that video, premiere was kind of a big deal for you. It was a moment that you got to see your part for the first time, to see the video and then lo and behold you exiting the theater became Foundations and newest pro. So what a crazy moment. Do you want to like walk us through that moment and what that felt like?
00:36:46
Speaker 4: Oh, that night at the premiere, it was the most overwhelming stressful night in the best way. I was so happy and my cheeks hurt from smiling so much that night. And then I woke up the next day and I was just like, I don't feel like I'm like ready to be pro. And I don't think anyone ever feels like it, you know, like it just gets thrown at you and you're just like, ah, I wish I had like a warning, like I need a warning sign.
00:37:16
Speaker 5: You know, it's kind of hard to put into words. The feeling.
00:37:20
Speaker 4: It's overwhelming, exciting and nerve wracking in the best way, Like you're so happy that it just kind of feels like you're high off adrenaline.
00:37:31
Speaker 5: I don't really know how to describe it.
00:37:33
Speaker 4: It's but I definitely was super stoked that night, and I had like the graphic too. Yeah, the graphics, oh hype types one that because I know that, like I don't know, I feel like pros get nervous for that or people turning pro You just don't know what the board graphic's gonna be, and you feel like it's like supposed to be like a representation of you or like things that you like. So if it's something that like you're not hype through and you're just like, this is.
00:38:00
Speaker 5: Not me, you know.
00:38:01
Speaker 2: But the cats so cute. It was super hyped. Yeah, it came out sick. It deserves to be on the wall. People are buying it. I feel like I keep seeing it go in skate shops as of the newest, like drop.
00:38:13
Speaker 3: On their instagram with your board so cool.
00:38:18
Speaker 5: We're hyped on the board.
00:38:19
Speaker 4: They seem super hyped in the graphic and that just makes me super stoked because I'm like, Okay, I'm hyped on this and you are too, Like all right, we got something good going on, you know.
00:38:31
Speaker 2: So what's what's keeping you excited right now? Like what's the day to day? Looking like you're like all over the place. You just got back from Seattle, you just turned pro you filmed a huge part that you should take a break, but now it sounds like you're already trying to film another part, Like yeah, where are we on the journey? No?
00:38:49
Speaker 4: I mean I'm always thinking that, but then my body's like a girl, you need to slow down. Speaking of slowing down, I'm going to a trip, a monster trip in Japan at the end of this month, like twenty seventh.
00:39:07
Speaker 5: Holy, it's coming up so quick.
00:39:09
Speaker 4: And then from Japan, I'm flying to Ostia, Italy for the World Skate Olympic LA twenty twenty eight.
00:39:19
Speaker 3: Coal of Vibes.
00:39:21
Speaker 4: Can't believe that's already happening again too. So this is gonna be a busy summer for me. A lot of trips that I'm like looking forward to, and I hopefully more time on the road and in the van that's where I want to be.
00:39:37
Speaker 5: So I'm really looking forward to it.
00:39:39
Speaker 2: We need to get you your own Ruby Van mobile, that's what I'm hearing. I would love to just see you kind of cruising through. Uh wait, so you're gonna you're gonna go for twenty twenty eight?
00:39:50
Speaker 3: Like you're just why not?
00:39:51
Speaker 5: Girl?
00:39:52
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like the Olympics is one of those things where if you've done it before, you can do it again. I mean, if you like the experience I feel like is what I have from Paris and contest over the years. It's not like I'm doing a switch mctwist or a nine hundred, But you know, I have played this game before, so that's that's what I got.
00:40:18
Speaker 5: So I'm excited.
00:40:19
Speaker 3: Dude. How crazy was Paris?
00:40:21
Speaker 2: Though?
00:40:22
Speaker 3: Like you've skated contests, this was a different kind of contest.
00:40:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, it felt like a contest, and it felt pretty similar to the other ones, but there was something so different about it because.
00:40:31
Speaker 5: It was like not put on by skateboarders.
00:40:35
Speaker 4: It's like a big sports event and it's not it doesn't really have like a connection with skateboarding. It's hard to explain, but it's I don't know, like it feels like you're kind of competing in like a baseball stadium and a bunch of baseball fans are watching you and they're.
00:40:55
Speaker 5: Like, oh, she's in the air. WHOA Like, I don't know, it just feels crazy, Like what did.
00:41:02
Speaker 3: That make it easier?
00:41:04
Speaker 2: Do you think that might have made it like easier for you to just be like whatever, I'm going to go have fun and do this, or did you still feel like I'm representing my country and my family when I'm on this like huge global stage.
00:41:14
Speaker 4: I felt like a mix of both feelings because I was like, no one here even gets skateboarding or skates or understands skateboarding, So who cares? Girl, Like go out there and just have fun and like none of it really matters at the end of the day. And then also I was like, oh my god, I'm in the Olympics. Like my family was stoked and I was facetiming all my siblings. And then I just realized how big of a deal it was, and I'm like, oh, I can maybe take it a little bit serious, you know, like okay, like this is a big deal. I also actually had broken my scaphoid rate before Paris, like really bad. I almost had to get surgery. I broke it at Omar Hassan's bowl at a van shoot like two weeks before it, and that sucks. That was like, I think the worst part. I was like in a bad mood because I couldn't really grab doing a lot of tricks, so I was like, ah, but then I was just so stoked that I had made it.
00:42:11
Speaker 2: We'll have more with Ruby Lilly after we take this quick ad break. How do you like kind of balance the You're gonna go on the monster trip, You're gonna film the video part, but then you also need to like try to qualify for the twenty twenty eight games, Like, how are you balancing your risk in all of it? Because I don't know, like you said, your broker skateboid, these things happen. I've broken mind three times. I feel for you.
00:42:44
Speaker 5: I have no idea how I do it. I just do it. I think one day at a time.
00:42:49
Speaker 4: I'm kind of like that meme where it's just like a guy in a random place with a bunch of random objects, and it's just like how I be living life.
00:42:57
Speaker 5: That's how I feel like.
00:42:59
Speaker 4: I'm like, when someone asked me for advice, I'm like, that's time leaving like, I'm just like in, just a guy in a bunch of different places.
00:43:08
Speaker 5: I don't know. I'm just getting through it one day at a time.
00:43:10
Speaker 2: You're just saying yes. I feel like you say yes all the time, and you're the best vibe every time I see you.
00:43:16
Speaker 3: I don't get it. You're just like, I'm having a good time. I'm here. I don't know where i'll be tomorrow, but I'm right now.
00:43:20
Speaker 2: I'm right here, and you like participate in the whole thing, So I just I think it's super cool.
00:43:26
Speaker 3: It's not easy to do.
00:43:27
Speaker 5: I'm just down to participate. I'm down to go like I'm down. I'm just down. That's why I felt skating the Wheels of Fortune contest.
00:43:34
Speaker 4: I'm like, because there's so many good girls like kick foot from boarding these rails, and I'm just like, I'm participating.
00:43:46
Speaker 5: I'm all terrain trying.
00:43:49
Speaker 3: All terrain trying.
00:43:51
Speaker 2: I love that. I have not heard that that might be a first. Let us know out there if it's not, but it is now. So thank you for that new good luck.
00:44:01
Speaker 3: We love that.
00:44:02
Speaker 2: And speaking of with Ruby, you are on good luck with that. Everyone needs a little luck with things. Is there anything you're needing some luck right now besides downloading that kickflip, Like, what else do you need some luck with out there?
00:44:14
Speaker 5: I think I already have good luck because I believe it.
00:44:20
Speaker 3: De Lulu good luck, it's already you already have it. You don't need it.
00:44:24
Speaker 2: We're just gonna keep sending it then, or maybe I'm going to try to channel that version from you, so on this this segment of good luck with that, I'm needing to get into Ruby Lily's brain and just be like, I got it. I already have the good luck on my side. I'll let you guys know how it goes next week. We'll work it out on the pod. But for right now, I'm gonna try that delusional good luck attitude. What else do you want to tell anyone out there who like it? Sounds like your journey has just been to participate, and it's just been like one thing after the next, and now you're a pro in the whole damn thing.
00:44:58
Speaker 3: You're going on trips all over the world.
00:45:01
Speaker 2: Is there any anyone out there that you want to tell them how they can do that too?
00:45:05
Speaker 4: I would say I feel like being open and taking the opportunities that are in front of you and are like really important because you don't know where it's going to play a part in your life down the road, and to try to be adaptable. I think being adaptable has been one of the most like important skills that I have learned in my life.
00:45:32
Speaker 5: And I feel like I don't know it's I don't know, I think just I don't know. I don't know. There's I feel like there's so many skills that I've learned.
00:45:39
Speaker 4: It's really hard to just like be like, all right, this is the one thing, because I feel like I haven't just learned one thing.
00:45:46
Speaker 5: I've learned like two million things. Fuck. But I think just being super open, being really open.
00:45:53
Speaker 4: I've been open my whole life and it's led me to this crazy journey that I absolutely love and I'm so grateful for.
00:46:02
Speaker 5: So be open. You never really know what you're gonna end up.
00:46:05
Speaker 2: Well, skateboarding is endlessly better because you're in it, and I just love that there's so much more of the journey for you ahead. I'm ready for your cross country road trip though, where we're in your van learning how to just like do it right, pulling up to the spot in the park. I see it. Ruby I see it. The home is where you park it. It's coming to a theater.
00:46:29
Speaker 5: Near you, exactly. I can't wait. I'm so stoked.
00:46:33
Speaker 2: Well, I feel like our news desk we always bring you up, and especially Nora and Alex just like love what you've been giving to skateboarding and specifically this last year.
00:46:43
Speaker 3: They're always like she's.
00:46:44
Speaker 2: Cut from a certain kind of cloth that they just don't make them like you And.
00:46:48
Speaker 4: Oh my god, me and Bobby talk about that all the time, like, bitch, we're cut from a different motherfucking cloth.
00:46:56
Speaker 5: But just kidding, no, but.
00:46:59
Speaker 3: What is that claw?
00:47:00
Speaker 1: Like?
00:47:00
Speaker 2: Seriously though you guys all are it would make the craziest quill.
00:47:07
Speaker 4: It's the cloth of going through absolute hell at a super young age and then you're just build different and you're built different and you have a little bit of trauma luggage that you're carrying behind, but turns out, like I don't know, it ends up helping.
00:47:22
Speaker 5: You in a way, you know.
00:47:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally, especially with skateboarding.
00:47:28
Speaker 5: Yeah, character dictates everything.
00:47:31
Speaker 4: That's what my mom would always tell me when I was younger, And that is like the that is.
00:47:36
Speaker 5: The most true, That is the most truth, because it's.
00:47:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, like think about it, like all of our favorite skaters, like we love them because of their skating, but like their character, their background, everything about them. It's like who they are that we are kind of attracted to in a way, and plus they're amazing skating. We're just like, oh my god, like, yeah, you're amazing, and you're like my role model and just like favorite skater.
00:48:01
Speaker 5: I think that I just like automatically do that.
00:48:04
Speaker 4: I kind of attach like my favorite skater, but it's also because like I'm obsessed with them as a person, and I kind of put that together and I'm like favorite skater, but really it's like favorite human being.
00:48:16
Speaker 5: I don't know, I'm just ranching. I had a lot of catching some fucking heights good.
00:48:21
Speaker 2: As you should be, and I totally agree with that, Like it's watching someone who's excellent at skateboarding is cool, but if there's no like if there's nothing behind that, then it's really hard to like catch the vibe and be into the part. Like I love watching the imperfections. I love watching like the individuality of someone's style selection on the same trick, Like that's the whole beauty of this whole art thing that is skateboarding is that everyone's gonna show up and do it a little bit different, and your personality is gonna seep through. You light up when you're skating, the smiles endlessly there, you're kind of rassing people, like I get, I feel like you a little feisty in the best way when you're out at this skate spot and like just like knowing how to like throw down.
00:49:03
Speaker 4: I really like to like mess with people, kind of fuck with them.
00:49:08
Speaker 5: But then when I'm not skating.
00:49:10
Speaker 4: I'm like, I like, I'm super like spiky, but then yeah, when I'm skating, I'm like also spiky.
00:49:18
Speaker 5: I don't know a differently, but.
00:49:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like I don't know. Definitely, your personality radiates through your skating and radiates through what you're doing, and you can totally tell when someone like hasn't had a character development or you know, it's just like silver spoons skating and it's like you just see tricks, like you just see tricks, like you don't see anything else, Like there's nothing else like fascinating or interesting about them. You're just seeing tricks. But then when there's like so much more and it combines, it's just so beautiful to watch and be around other skaters like that, and I'm just like, I relate to you so much, and like, ah, this is so cool.
00:49:57
Speaker 5: You know. I just met Jackie Michael Ran for the first time this past weekend. So cool. I have so many great things to say about her. She's amazing.
00:50:08
Speaker 2: I just tried to throw that out there and leo, such good style. We love Jackie Michael and holding down. Is she still in Las Vegas?
00:50:16
Speaker 3: Is that right?
00:50:17
Speaker 2: Yep, which is like such a crazy place to be a skater all year because it is usually one hundred degrees the majority of the year out there. But her style is so sick and obviously everyone loves to be like the sibling package with Nick Michaels, but she holds down on her own too. And I love the family skate tree that's happening with siblings becoming like pro and am skaters and the whole mix so badass.
00:50:46
Speaker 3: I love it. Do you still skate with your brothers?
00:50:48
Speaker 5: Yeah? I do so.
00:50:51
Speaker 4: Right after the premiere, we all went to Washington Street and we filmed a little video. I forgot to mention also in the process of oh, like everything that's been going on, I've also been filming an Out There with Thrasher with Gregson, and that's coming out I think late June, and it's like, you know, a little mini doc behind the scenes all my life and even more.
00:51:20
Speaker 5: Details on my past and childhood.
00:51:25
Speaker 4: And so I was like filming with my brothers at Washington Street and we had a crazy session. They're so good at skating. They're so talented, like it's amazing. It's just really cool to skate together again. It's been like a couple of years. And then yeah, so I was miked up during the whole Foundation premiere, so I was like hopefully and safety crazy.
00:51:47
Speaker 2: Oh my god, So we're gonna see all of that in the Out There doc. Hell yeah, okay, Well I'm stoked.
00:51:54
Speaker 4: You're gonna see them skate in it too, So you're gonna see what they look like and how they skate. My older brother David, he skates. They actually both skate everything. They're actually all terrain. There are ATVs. They skate everything from rail's ledges to vert and big bowls and parks like they can skate at all. And they have really good style too. So I'm excited for everyone to see. That's the cloth I'm cut.
00:52:20
Speaker 2: From just kidding in Washington Street is the least easy place to skate.
00:52:25
Speaker 3: Is so gnarly.
00:52:27
Speaker 2: So that's gonna be cool to watch the Lily Family session go down and how you've been able to step to different just like levels of Washington Street, because that place will eat you alive, I feel like, and you make it look like a playground.
00:52:41
Speaker 5: No, it is so gnarly.
00:52:44
Speaker 4: Washington Street is one of the most like underestimated diis I think ever. I mean like, there's Burns Side and there's one.
00:52:53
Speaker 5: Are the other ones. There's I can't think of it, any other ones.
00:52:57
Speaker 4: There's a lot of other ones, but yeah, Washington it looks so chill on Instagram, and I think it's because it doesn't have graffiti or any paint on it.
00:53:06
Speaker 5: It just looks. It doesn't look intimidating you go there in person.
00:53:09
Speaker 4: I would love to see someone get a clip first time going there because it's not really happening.
00:53:16
Speaker 3: Welcome to the pro Ranks. We're so ready to see what's next.
00:53:20
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Ashley, so stoked, thanks for having me on here, and yeah, I can't wait to do another one and update you guys.
00:53:28
Speaker 5: My crazy blogger r V Journey Life.
00:53:31
Speaker 3: It's gonna be so sick. Where can we find you on Instagram?
00:53:35
Speaker 5: You can find you on Instagram.
00:53:37
Speaker 4: Ruby Underscore, Lily r u v Y Underscore, l I L L E Y all lowercase. I'm also unfortunately on the TikTok and I think it's the same realby Lily Perfect.
00:53:51
Speaker 3: Yeah. Maximize the media space, you know, do what you gotta do.
00:53:55
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm actually media trained, been media trained in the RV.
00:53:59
Speaker 3: Just just kidding. Love that.
00:54:01
Speaker 2: All right, everyone, Well that was another episode of good Luck with That.
00:54:05
Speaker 3: We'll be here next week.
00:54:06
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00:54:11
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Speaker 2: What's up, everyone, I'm Ashley Rafel, the host of Good Luck with That. We're gonna drop right into the news week because I know you guys have all wanted to know what happened since we last left off. Wheels of Fortune thirteen just went down in Seattle, Washington. The podium looked so good, Nicos Sugamoto taking first place, Keinamida taking second, and ev Perchard taking third. Ruby Lilly, I think that was your first time going to Wheels of Fortune.
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Speaker 3: Do tell did you have a good time or what?
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Speaker 2: Dude?
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Speaker 4: That was my first Wheels of Fortune and honestly so overwhelming. There was so many girls skateboarders. I've never seen that many in one place, I think. Ever, Yeah, it was amazing. I met so many people and I had so many conversations in one day that I like lost my voice.
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Speaker 5: See you could.
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Speaker 4: Still hear it a little bit, but it's getting better. I had take some like throat coat tea because streaming and like yelling so much.
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Speaker 5: But that just tells you how good of the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Like I said, we weren't just leaving you all hanging out there listeners. We were saying, please make it to this event. It really is like one of the world class events for women in gender expensive skateboarders showing up at one place for three days to the point where you have so much fun you lose your voice. But I love how young so many of the skaters were coming out on these trips doing the witch hunt, Like these are like ten to like eighteen year olds, Like that was like the primary age range, right Ruby.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like Anna's eleven twelve, and she's like in the streets and it's just really cool to see her, like meeting all these different women and legends and pros and just like being around it and socializing. I feel like that's so good when you're young and you're coming up, because it's like you don't want to just be this like kid that's like contain just like learning tricks and not really like getting to experience the culture and like the best part of skateboarding, you know. So I feel like that's important to be involved in like events like that and just be around a bunch of different skaters.
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Speaker 2: I can't even imagine if I had an event like that when I was thirteen to be there and see that, So shout out to everyone behind the scenes that made that happen. Skateboarding Hall of Fame also had a big weekend during WAFF weekend, bringing in Vanessa Tours and Alexis the bloone up into the.
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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame. World of it all.
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Speaker 2: So incredible to see Vanessa Turus and Alexis a blow and get their flowers in such an honorable way. I can't wait to see the video recap, but watching it from Afar via Instagram looked amazing. Hearing little snippets of Alexis's speech just an amazing point of history for women's skateboarding. So shout out to our new Hall of famers. If you haven't seen yet, Leo Baker's new part for Tacky Joy Factory just dropped, called Dead Name. It's about two and a half minutes of incredible skateboarding and.
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Speaker 3: Such a good part.
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Speaker 2: And Leo he's singing his own song on top of his own part, which just makes it that much ratter. There's a line that just says it all that we don't exist just to make you rich.
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Speaker 3: So I'll carry on the skateboarding is incredible.
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Speaker 2: The point of view is amazing and important, and it's just Leo just doing his own thing.
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Speaker 3: Ruby, did you watch the part?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so they premiered it after the skate Jam won the last night and it was incredible. I was like watching it and I was just like I left the skate shop kind of just like I had no words, you know, I was just like kind of letting it sink in. That was my first time meeting Leo too. I was like so nervous and I was so like, it was fangirling really hard. Of course, of course, So check it out. It's on YouTube live right now. It deserves a watch. So yeah, congrats on that.
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Speaker 2: So if you haven't already put it together, Ruby Lilly, you are a guests of good luck with that. Hailing from Ocean City, Maryland, one of eight kids raised on a farm with rabbits, goats, chickens, which we'll get into in just a moment. You're our newest minted pro for Foundation goofy stance with a hell of a famous backside and front side nose grind. You're an all terrain rider in my opinion and many others.
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Speaker 5: I'm an all terrain trying rider, but.
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Speaker 3: You look you make it look so good.
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Speaker 2: We're talking backyard pools, concrete diise vert ramps. You're also really good at finding like transition spots in the streets, which is not easy to come by. So I don't know, I think you've earned your all terrain title. Like your resume is very deep for being nineteen. You've been killing yourself for skateboarding these last few years. I'm just going to go through a couple more with you here because you know them, but maybe some don't. Silver X Games, Japan, twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, I'm sorry, Paris Olympian thirteenth in Women Park. You've been putting out back two back while competing video parts, Dealer's Choice, down straight up, Volume four, Loop Hardware, STF you shut the up and most recently your Foundation Today, Tomorrow and Forever part which I'm still waiting to see.
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Speaker 3: So can we get that thing up online?
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Speaker 5: Yeah? So it comes out on Friday.
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Speaker 3: You're skating to Big Thief, Is that right?
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Speaker 5: Yes? Super hyped on that big Big Thief fan.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, while you're just like listing off all of the parts, I'm just like, oh, my back is hurting just thinking about that, Like it's definitely like taking a toll on my body physically, and now like I just remember at well, I remember it just happened. But at the Foundation premiere, people are just.
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Speaker 5: Like, are you gonna go crazy tonight? A You're gonna party?
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Speaker 4: And I was just like I had just gone back from Italy the night before, and I'm like, I.
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Speaker 5: Can't wait to sleep. That's all I was thinking about.
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Speaker 4: I got the premiere, I'm like, I'm just I'm so tired, you know. But that's like part of it, and I just feel like, I don't know. As I'm like watching it, I'm like, oh, like I could put out a better part. That's like how I felt every single time I've put out something, And I think that's like what keeps me putting out things so quickly and fast. It's because like as soon as it comes out, I'm watching it and I'm.
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Speaker 5: Like I was hyped on that.
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Speaker 3: What the fuck?
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Speaker 5: No, Like I'm already better now, you know.
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Speaker 4: So I just keep like I'm like my own worst enemy in that type of way where I just want to like keep one upping myself, and it's like a constant contest with myself and these videos. So as I'm watching the Foundation one, I'm like in the theater and like my name pops up and I'm like, ugh, it can already feel a better far. You're already working on the next part. Yeah, it's super annoying, but it's part of it. And then when the stuff comes down on Instagram, I'm like, oh, okay, I see like the love and support and I'm like, okay, I'm proud of this, you know, like I'm really grateful for these memories and trips. But in the moment sometimes it's just like better part.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 2: So what I'm hearing is there's more in the tank, even though you're exhausted at this point, But do take a moment to pause and look back, because yeah, time goes so quickly when you're going from event to trip to trip. Like you said, you were just on a plane coming back from Italy straight into the Foundation premiere, all of a sudden, you're pro going right up into wheels of fortune, back to back stuff.
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Speaker 3: But like, yeah, you didn't just get here overnight, So yeah, take a moment, take a breath.
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Speaker 5: For sure.
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Speaker 4: Even though that I'm like still young, I feel like some people like that haven't seen me like skate or come up with my first part or first contest, or.
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Speaker 5: Just like who is this girl?
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Speaker 3: What goes pro?
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Speaker 4: And like puts out one video and I'm like, Okay, I know, I'm yes, like I'm nineteen, so I know it does seem like I've just jumped, but no, definitely like it's been a journey for sure.
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Speaker 2: Before we get into the whole journey and get people caught up for those that thought you just popped up on the scene yesterday and had.
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Speaker 3: One video part, we'll go through the whole entire history.
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Speaker 2: And I do want to get deep and I do want to get into just who is Ruby Lilly. But we're going to use a tool, a highly respected journalistic tool we like to call on the show, Get a Grip. So welcome to our Get a Grip segment.
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Speaker 3: Ruby.
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Speaker 2: It's a fast lightning round, So just hit us as quick with the answers as you can, don't don't overthink it. I just want to get right into it. Oh, in your opinion, is Old Bay is Old Bay mandatory? Is it optional or a federal requirement on most things in Maryland?
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Speaker 5: Mandatory?
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Speaker 3: All right, what's one trick?
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Speaker 2: You wish you could download into your brain like overnight and just wake up and it's yours.
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Speaker 3: Kickflips, kickflip.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I was not expecting you to say that, all right, all.
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Speaker 4: Right, No, it's it's like I can kick flip. But it's like I'm not kick flipping like I need. Like I need to download it like I needed. It needs to be programmed into me. I need to fully understand it.
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Speaker 3: What's scarier? First contest run or a first try at a krusty like backyard spot?
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Speaker 5: First contest run?
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Speaker 3: Headphones, sketch book, What's what's always in your bag?
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Speaker 5: Journal? And eyeliner?
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Speaker 3: Okay?
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Speaker 2: Of all the brands you ride for, who's your favorite TM team manager?
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Speaker 5: That's so hard? Uh, Fabiana Duffy.
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Speaker 3: Love that all right?
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Speaker 2: And that's for Loop Hardware Dream Skate Trip. You're leaving tomorrow morning?
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Speaker 3: Where are we going?
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Speaker 5: SF?
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Speaker 3: SF? Okay, San Francisco, let's get in the van.
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Speaker 5: Yep? All right?
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Speaker 2: What's your most RFL moment of all time? And for those that don't know, what does RFL stand for?
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Speaker 3: Ruby?
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Speaker 5: Oh god, this is.
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Speaker 4: Fucked, but my mom came up with this ruby fucking lily. But my most RFL moment, probably doing doubles with Fobby and getting knocked out and breaking my nose. And she said that when everyone looked in the bowl there was eyelashes and hoop earrings on the ground.
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Speaker 2: It's like hitting a bird on the freeway, like the windshield.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, like I just my like fucking girly jewelry and makeup just exploded.
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Speaker 2: For listeners that don't know, rfl Ruby faith Lily and then moved into the ruby fucking lily.
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Speaker 5: Very different meanings.
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Speaker 3: All right, what was your favorite animal on the farm growing up?
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Speaker 5: The angora bunnies?
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Speaker 2: And what makes an angora bunny like different from all the other bunnies.
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Speaker 4: Their hair is really fluffy and you can literally just pull it out and we and you can spin it into.
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Speaker 5: What is it called.
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Speaker 4: You can spin it into yarn and then we would knit and we'd make scarves out of it. And so that's very ancient, very random fact. But yeah, that's super random.
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Speaker 3: Love.
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Speaker 2: Okay, if skating disappeared tomorrow, which we don't want that to happen, what job do you think you would have?
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Speaker 3: Who would you be?
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Speaker 5: I don't think I would have a job, and I think I would.
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Speaker 4: I would probably just try around in a car or or like an r V and just explore and enjoy life. And I wouldn't want to have a nine to five.
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Speaker 2: I'm hearing vlogger is could be in your future home is where you park it.
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Speaker 3: You'd be offline, just living.
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Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, if I didn't skate, I would be that is the answer. If I didn't skate, I would just be off the grid. I would be off the grid complete you no Instagram. I want to go back to a flip phone, and I want to go back to VHS tapes.
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Speaker 2: I live for that level of nostalgia. I think a lot of people will get that. So that concludes our Get a Grip round. I love that you are able to just hang on real quick. I want to just go straight from the farm to foundation arc of your life story go up. Okay, so you're one of eight kids, you have a lot of siblings. You grew up with rabbit, sheep goats. Could you like it explain your childhood to us a little bit when you think about it.
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Speaker 5: Okay?
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Speaker 4: So, so I grew up on a farm in Berlin, Maryland, which is like outside of Ocean City, Maryland, and we had twenty two acres and we had like a house. I had seven siblings and we had goats, sheep, bunnies, ducks, and chickens, and my dad would build custom Harley's for work. And then I'm trying to think, we had like some life shifts happened. We had some like financial issues, and we lost the house and then we were still We got my dad bought an RZ, and my older the top four older city, they were like kind of already moving out and kind of already had their life, you know, figured out, So they stayed in Ocean City, Maryland. And then the bottom four, me and my two brothers, little sister, and mom and dad, we moved into this RV and we were just like we're just gonna make use Like we don't have a place to live. We're just gonna go travel and we're just gonna go see shit and have fun. So we started out. I think the first place we ended up was we went to Montreal and Quebec, traveling around. Mainly my brothers were skating. I was like kick turning around and like playing in the dirt and like drawing and just doing random stuff in the RV, and I just I was a little kid. You know, I was just having fun. I didn't really like, Okay, I want to be a skateboarder. But my brothers were super good. They were getting all the attention and they were like killing it. After Okay, so Quebec, Montreal, and then we went to Colorado, Arizona, and then California. But when we were in Colorado and Arizona, we would like stay there for like five to six months and meet people, skate and just hang out and you'd stay at RV parks and stuff. And then we when we got to Arizona, I was doing this local contest and some girl was like, there's gonna be a girl's comby contest in Orange County. It's this really big contest, like I can get your daughter like on the alternate list if you want, you know, it's like a big deal, like she should really take it up. And I honestly like didn't actually want to do it, Like I just felt like I was skating for fun, and I didn't realize how big the level was in California. You know, I'm just from the East Coast, where one other girl skates, you know, And I was just like I don't know, but I I want to like not take up the opportunity.
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Speaker 5: And I remember going to the event and I was like, oh my god, dude, these girls are so good.
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Speaker 4: They're doing inverts and like just skating insane, and I'm doing like kick turns like I'm scared to drop in like Comby's huge.
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Speaker 3: Comby's no joke anyway.
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Speaker 4: So I get to Cobby and it's like this massive bowl and these thirteen year old girls are just killing it, like they're just tearing it up, and I am so heavily intimidated. I'm like, I don't know. I think I don't know if I want to do this, Like I don't know if I want to do do skateboarding or like I just want to skate for fun because this is like so gnarly and this level is so like can I reach it?
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Speaker 3: Ever?
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Speaker 4: I don't know, you know, just like second guessing everything. And then after the contest, I just got so fired up and I was like, I mean, they're gonna get really good at skating, and I'm going to be competing like those girls who are like I'm not doing this next a few months skating like I'm young. So I'm skating eight hours a day and I'm like homeschool in the RV. So I'm waking up, you know, doing school and the RV going to prints from twelve to dark, you know, from eleven to dark, like I'm just skating all day.
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Speaker 5: Would not even stop to like get food.
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Speaker 4: My mom would have to like come grab me, like all right, it's you want to you haven't eaten in like seven hours, you know.
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Speaker 3: Uh?
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Speaker 5: I learned.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And then like during COVID, I was like skating a lot. The parks were empty, just me and my mom would go learn back nose grinds, like back lips, a lot of like really important tricks.
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Speaker 5: But yeah, so after comby what happened, I think.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we had to go back to the East Coast and get our stuff out of storage that we still had, like from our house, and then we like sold it and me and my brothers were like, we want to go back to California. We don't want to stay here, please please, my parents like it's so expensive, please we cannot. Like after we'd gotten a taste of the West Coast, it was just like there's no way we can ever live in the East Coast again.
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Speaker 5: Like the skate park because we were so spoiled.
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Speaker 4: Now it's like we have to be there, so we like drive the RV back to the West Coast and then from there it was just a time of like RV life and skating and that's what went on for years, and we met a lot of really cool people on Oceanside that are like some of my best friends to this day.
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Speaker 5: And it was like hard and then really like.
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Speaker 4: Shit got rough and it was really hard, and we were like getting kicked out a lot of places we'd parked the RV and it was rough, and I'm gonna go a little more personal, fuck it. But then my parents they divorced and my brothers also moved out, so it was just like a crazy hectic time. And when my parents divorced, we had like a van and the RV, and my mom was like I'm taking the van, like and we're splitting up. So I kind of went with my mom, and my brothers went and moved out in ocean Side with some friends, and then my little sister went with my dad.
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Speaker 5: So me and my mom were.
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Speaker 4: Like living in our car in Oceanside, and I was going to these USA National contests and I'm like waking up and like brushing my teeth on the side of the road, you know, like crazy, Like I just think about that now and I'm just like that's so insane that I was just like balancing that and then the stress of the contest, and it's like I don't know how to handle any of this stuff. Like I didn't ask to just be an Olympian or a pro skater, Like I was just like I felt like kind of thrown into this and very naive, and like just didn't know anything about skateboarding or the industry or just how brutal it really is, and especially for the women too, Like that's a whole different thing. So I really had no idea, and I was just so grateful and happy to be invited and be in California, Like I just took that as a win.
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Speaker 5: So I was super grateful.
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Speaker 3: Hey, everyone, stay with us.
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Speaker 2: We'll be right back with Ruby Lilly after this quick ad break. Where do we even begin from like Ocean City to Ocean side. There's a theme happening there as long as as there's an ocean in the name.
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Speaker 3: You guys are there.
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Speaker 2: You figured out a way to manage like life in compact environment just on the go making it work.
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Speaker 4: That's so important because then having to go through that be homeless, live in a van, live in an RV. It's like it just translates to trips and being in the van so much. I feel so comfortable on skate trips like in the van and just like having to throw down or having to like has to be a little rough or just tough it out.
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Speaker 5: Kind of. It's like, I'm your girl.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting you say that, because like you are the chillest of chillest people to throw in a van, And I just kind of always summarize it as like, oh, you grew up in a big family, like you know how to like make yourself small, but like, no, there's so much more to this.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And honestly, it was fine because you just sleep in the van and then you're just skating all day and you're out skating, so it's you know, so like I need to just sit in my room, you know, I just need a place to lay my head at and a roof and food.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and skateboarding seem to be like the thing that like would get you through all of this uncertain Like it sounds like it.
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Speaker 4: Was like a coping mechanism at the time, because it's like it's just something like that would get my mind off these living situations and family stuff and personal stuff. It's just like, Okay, I can go and skate this out and not think about it or worry about it. It's like like skateboarding owes me nothing, but it has given me everything. So I just have so much appreciation for it because it doesn't need to give me anything at the end of the day, but it has given me so much and so much more than just like a place to stay in a room and a bed, but like people in a community and a family and more fun you know, functional family and just stuff like that than I feel like I haven't had. So I think that's really special.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 2: I'm just so curious, like you kind of got thrusted into skating contests, like you were skating, you were soul skating, you were skating with your brother. We haven't even talked about how I've heard that your mom is a quad skater, so we'll get into that too. But you were you were just skating with the crew and the family, and then all of a sudden, you're at Comby. You're showing up in these contests, Like you said, you didn't ask to just like end up into these high pressure situations, but they allowed for you to get put on the map. They allowed for you know, a bit more sponsorship to flow in. Like how did you manage Like you said, you didn't even know each door would open a new door, and you didn't even know the industry. You don't even know how it all went. How did you manage to make sense of this map?
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Speaker 5: What's that saying? That's like it's about like not knowing is better?
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Speaker 3: What's it?
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Speaker 5: Oh my god, I'm trying to think.
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Speaker 4: I say that the whole situation and like contest and not knowing the like industry, it was just ignorance is bliss.
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Speaker 5: Like I just I didn't know.
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Speaker 4: Anything, So it was like what is there to lose? What am I scared of? And just jump head in?
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Speaker 5: You know?
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Speaker 4: But I actually was like I didn't understand. Well, I'm sorry, I'm like thinking of so many different things jumping topics in my head.
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Speaker 5: But I grew up watching video parts.
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Speaker 4: That's how I found out who my favorite skaters were. That's how I found out about these pros, And so I found out about Nora and Lizzie and Fobby. Like I grew up watching video parts, I wasn't seeing that from a contest. I wasn't watching contests, you know, I didn't really like my brothers would show me, you know, like the ants I hear of video parts, and they were just very into the core side of skateboarding, and they never really competed in contests and they would just skate for fun and they were into backyard pools and stuff like that.
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Speaker 5: So I got a lot of inspiration.
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Speaker 4: From them because that's my family, and so that's the closest people to me, and I think they really like guided and showed me a lot in skateboarding because I didn't know, and it wasn't like I grew up in it in the scene in California, so I didn't have anyone that's.
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Speaker 5: Like, oh, okay, here's what you do.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 4: It's like my brothers who have just like researched and watched all this stuff and nerd it out from the East Coast. So but yeah, So when I moved to Oceanside and I was like skating for a while, skating there for a while, maybe it'd been like a year, two years, I got approached from Tony Magnusen for H.
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Speaker 5: Street Skateboards so crazy.
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Speaker 4: I literally did not realize how much history that company has till like two years ago.
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Speaker 5: That was insane.
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Speaker 4: And I rode for Tony for I think two years, two and a half maybe three. It was a while and it was fun.
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Speaker 5: It was cool.
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Speaker 4: Taught me a lot about like the history, and he really loves the eighties nineties.
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Speaker 3: Like really love a lot.
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Speaker 4: I learned a lot of, you know, from that era or about that era after H Street.
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Speaker 2: Well, didn't do you quit H Street on your birthday and got an offer from like Creature like same time too, Like is that right?
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Speaker 4: I quit H Street when I was fifteen, and he was super bummed. And then I felt really bad and I was like second Guests saying, and I'm like, oh my god, that was a terrible decision.
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Speaker 5: I gotta move forward, you know.
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Speaker 4: And then I think I got an offer from Creature, maybe from Alex White.
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Speaker 5: And then what did I do next?
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Speaker 4: I think I went to Madness Skateboards and that was so brief because they had all the issues with the distribution. And as soon as I officially got on the team and I put out this like little mini video part that's on YouTube somewhere for them. Then they were like, oh, we can't pay you anymore and we're like going out of business. I was like okay, and then I felt I was like, I don't know what to do next. I'm just gonna focus on skating and like try not to stress.
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Speaker 5: Let me see, And then how did Foundation get in the met Oh?
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Speaker 4: I think then creature is an offer again then Foundation at the same time.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so it was creature versus Foundation. You're you're an ocean side prince, is your local park?
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Speaker 3: Is that right? This is the time period that this is all coming together.
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Speaker 5: Skating prints every day, Yep.
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Speaker 3: Creature fits like how I see you as a skateboarder.
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Speaker 2: At that point, I'm like, okay, I get it, but like, how did Foundation come into all of all of this?
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Speaker 5: Creature does fit me?
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Speaker 4: But when it's hard to like tell that when you're younger, you know what I mean, it's hard to like you can't see like a.
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Speaker 5: POV of yourself from yourself.
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Speaker 4: You can't see like you can't see the future, and you can't see what you're gonna turn into, and you obviously don't knows stuff like what this or like what distribution has a lot of money or marketing or they like you just don't I don't know. You don't know any of that. You're just like, Oh, my friends are there. I want to go there. You know, That's kind of what happened.
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Speaker 5: Basically.
00:28:15
Speaker 4: I was just like skating with Liam Pace a lot and Jesse lin Loff amazing skaters, and I would always see they're going out filming with Don for Foundation, and like I just loved all of the art honestly, and the logos.
00:28:31
Speaker 5: I was such a big fan, and you know those are my friends.
00:28:35
Speaker 4: Like I would skate with them a lot, and you'd go film and backyard pools and stuff. So I was like, I want to be with my friends and feels like.
00:28:46
Speaker 5: Close to home.
00:28:48
Speaker 4: Cause it's it's so scary to like get thrown in a van with people that you don't know.
00:28:55
Speaker 2: If you were given the seat, you want to show up and like show that you've like earned that seat. So there's there's so much pressure in the initial days. I don't know if that pressure ever goes away, but like I just like that you were telling me. Ultimately, what led to like Foundation is like the crew, the vibe the trust that you had a seat like okay.
00:29:15
Speaker 5: Like I know some homies on here, and.
00:29:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I belong in the van with them because I felt comfortable with them because I'd been on like little mini side trips with them or side missions with them, and they're film or friends.
00:29:33
Speaker 5: So I was like, okay, like we have a connection, like.
00:29:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, but there's definitely so much pressure, like I felt the pressure of like okay, I just don't.
00:29:43
Speaker 5: Want to be too much.
00:29:46
Speaker 4: I don't want to be annoying, like I hope I'm not too much, Like I'm okay, I'll like everyone gets their coffee and I'll be back in the van like first, like I'll make sure, you know, like I'm not cutting the line like okay, like Dakota is like I'll let him go in front of me, you know.
00:30:01
Speaker 5: They're like like I'm scared, you know, okay.
00:30:04
Speaker 3: But now now where are you in that van lineup?
00:30:06
Speaker 2: I feel like that's too nice, too polite, like we want you to be Ruby Lilly, like that is exactly why you're in that damn thing.
00:30:13
Speaker 4: And then it leads me coming home with no clicks because I'm too scared to ask to go to the ver amp. I'm too scared to ask to go to the bowl, too scared to peek. Speak up, Oh my god, speak up. We are actually okay, two people, but I knew in the van it was jesse linl Loaf and then Shy Lookatri.
00:30:31
Speaker 5: We literally were both.
00:30:33
Speaker 4: So shy and quiet that when the guys stopped to go pee, we had we had to go pee for so long we went behind the bushes together because we were so scared to go ask to go to a gas station with the bathroom like that scared that. It's like, okay, we're basically a dude too, you know, Like all right.
00:30:55
Speaker 5: So this is just a yeah, pee break.
00:30:57
Speaker 2: But did you think like by asking or like being too much you it might like hurt the chances of you, like having that seat in the van.
00:31:06
Speaker 4: Is that kind of the thinking, Yeah, well, I just know that I was just scared what the team, you know, would think, Like, I want to have a good first impression. This is my first trip with everyone, and I want to have like a good reputation so that I get invited on the next trips. Like, so what you're saying, I want to have a seat in the van, But it's you know, it's scary. You don't know what they're gonna say, and you can never control that really, but you're just hoping that they're like, oh yeah, like Ruby, she was super chill and like really easy to have in the van. You never want like they were so high maintenance, like I'm never inviting them again.
00:31:45
Speaker 5: Like, no, that's so scary. So I'm like, maybe if i'm invisible, I'll have a good reputation.
00:31:53
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, invisible leads to really great video parts. How long did you film for today, tomorrow, forever? And how did you get to the place where we're like, no, we're stopping at that vert ramper, I want to film a clip here, like what was the evolution here?
00:32:07
Speaker 5: No, I'm still shy in the van, but I'm not, but I am.
00:32:13
Speaker 3: I don't know.
00:32:13
Speaker 5: It's scary. You gotta ask Bobby.
00:32:15
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm not shy, but then I'm I'm shy asking for what I want sometimes or I have no balance and I'm like, ah, this is what I want, Like vert ramped this like we have to go here, and I'm like, so I just need to I need to figure out like a balance.
00:32:35
Speaker 2: Do you like do you think you're more productive if like Charie White is filming you, or you're on a trip with Bobby or someone else who kind of gets it.
00:32:46
Speaker 4: Definitely, if I'm on a trip with people that I really trust, skaters, filmers, photographers like I have a good connection with them. They know my skating, I know how they work, they know how I operate, it definitely makes things a lot easier and you just feel more comfortable around them and asking for what you need. It doesn't feel like such a burden. And I don't like that feeling of feeling like a burden because then I'm like, why am I here in the first place?
00:33:12
Speaker 5: You know, why would you invite a burden on the trip?
00:33:14
Speaker 3: You're not a burden, And I think it's just you trying to like figure it out. But when you yeah, like I guess, I am also curious, Like you filmed, how don't how long?
00:33:23
Speaker 5: Oh?
00:33:23
Speaker 3: How long did you film your Today Tomorrow Forever part?
00:33:27
Speaker 5: Oh?
00:33:27
Speaker 4: It felt like forever because I was Tomorrow forever. I was qualifying for Paris during that, and well, yeah, I was filming a little bit during Paris. Then during the monster video down straight up, I was also full on filming both of those videos at the same time.
00:33:52
Speaker 5: That was really stressful.
00:33:53
Speaker 4: I would like come back from a monster trip, then I would go to Seattle with my filmer that had the right case camera for Don. He didn't want this, He didn't want the other cameras that Shari and blah blah blah had. He wanted like this certain aesthetics so that the whole video would match because he's like, I'm getting everyone to film with this certain camera.
00:34:15
Speaker 5: It definitely made things a little more difficult.
00:34:18
Speaker 4: And I do tell him that we joke about it now, but I was just like so frustrated in the beginning.
00:34:23
Speaker 5: I'm like, who am I supposed to film with.
00:34:25
Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't even know what the cameras are called, Like, I'm not a filmer. This is not my job. This is so frustrating. So then I found out Ed Warto, who I filmed with all the time in San Diego. He's local, he has the right camera, he's a great filmer, he's.
00:34:42
Speaker 5: A great guy. The whole package is awesome. So that's who I was filming with.
00:34:49
Speaker 4: And it took a while. It was like kept getting pushed back. It was supposed to come out December twenty twenty five, and before that, it was supposed to come out October twenty twenty five, and before that, you know, like it was just yeah. So they kept getting pushed back months months, months, and then May twenty twenty six, so I think it was getting pushed back because of uh, Dawn put new street skaters on the team. So there's a bunch of different things, and you know how videos go, like there's always something that causes the process to slow down.
00:35:27
Speaker 5: But to see it finally happen and I was like, oh my god, this is like the video was released. It was like just a boulder off my shoulder.
00:35:38
Speaker 3: Literally.
00:35:39
Speaker 2: Was it the first time of watching it in the theater or had you been able to kind of like see the part and clear it and see everyone else's footage or front first to stop like that was the first time you saw it first time.
00:35:51
Speaker 4: I was so nervous. I was really scared. I had not seen I hadn't even seen one clip from the video. I didn't know what was going to be in the video, and I didn't know the view roll or anything.
00:36:04
Speaker 5: I did know.
00:36:05
Speaker 4: I didn't know the song though, which that was really nice, and that made me feel less stressed. Me and Don had mutual greed, like mutually agreed on that song, so it was very hyped. It went really good with the part, and I'm excited for everyone to see the whole video.
00:36:20
Speaker 2: We are so ready and also to just queue those in if you were following along on the internet or didn't know that video, premiere was kind of a big deal for you. It was a moment that you got to see your part for the first time, to see the video and then lo and behold you exiting the theater became Foundations and newest pro. So what a crazy moment. Do you want to like walk us through that moment and what that felt like?
00:36:46
Speaker 4: Oh, that night at the premiere, it was the most overwhelming stressful night in the best way. I was so happy and my cheeks hurt from smiling so much that night. And then I woke up the next day and I was just like, I don't feel like I'm like ready to be pro. And I don't think anyone ever feels like it, you know, like it just gets thrown at you and you're just like, ah, I wish I had like a warning, like I need a warning sign.
00:37:16
Speaker 5: You know, it's kind of hard to put into words. The feeling.
00:37:20
Speaker 4: It's overwhelming, exciting and nerve wracking in the best way, Like you're so happy that it just kind of feels like you're high off adrenaline.
00:37:31
Speaker 5: I don't really know how to describe it.
00:37:33
Speaker 4: It's but I definitely was super stoked that night, and I had like the graphic too. Yeah, the graphics, oh hype types one that because I know that, like I don't know, I feel like pros get nervous for that or people turning pro You just don't know what the board graphic's gonna be, and you feel like it's like supposed to be like a representation of you or like things that you like. So if it's something that like you're not hype through and you're just like, this is.
00:38:00
Speaker 5: Not me, you know.
00:38:01
Speaker 2: But the cats so cute. It was super hyped. Yeah, it came out sick. It deserves to be on the wall. People are buying it. I feel like I keep seeing it go in skate shops as of the newest, like drop.
00:38:13
Speaker 3: On their instagram with your board so cool.
00:38:18
Speaker 5: We're hyped on the board.
00:38:19
Speaker 4: They seem super hyped in the graphic and that just makes me super stoked because I'm like, Okay, I'm hyped on this and you are too, Like all right, we got something good going on, you know.
00:38:31
Speaker 2: So what's what's keeping you excited right now? Like what's the day to day? Looking like you're like all over the place. You just got back from Seattle, you just turned pro you filmed a huge part that you should take a break, but now it sounds like you're already trying to film another part, Like yeah, where are we on the journey? No?
00:38:49
Speaker 4: I mean I'm always thinking that, but then my body's like a girl, you need to slow down. Speaking of slowing down, I'm going to a trip, a monster trip in Japan at the end of this month, like twenty seventh.
00:39:07
Speaker 5: Holy, it's coming up so quick.
00:39:09
Speaker 4: And then from Japan, I'm flying to Ostia, Italy for the World Skate Olympic LA twenty twenty eight.
00:39:19
Speaker 3: Coal of Vibes.
00:39:21
Speaker 4: Can't believe that's already happening again too. So this is gonna be a busy summer for me. A lot of trips that I'm like looking forward to, and I hopefully more time on the road and in the van that's where I want to be.
00:39:37
Speaker 5: So I'm really looking forward to it.
00:39:39
Speaker 2: We need to get you your own Ruby Van mobile, that's what I'm hearing. I would love to just see you kind of cruising through. Uh wait, so you're gonna you're gonna go for twenty twenty eight?
00:39:50
Speaker 3: Like you're just why not?
00:39:51
Speaker 5: Girl?
00:39:52
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like the Olympics is one of those things where if you've done it before, you can do it again. I mean, if you like the experience I feel like is what I have from Paris and contest over the years. It's not like I'm doing a switch mctwist or a nine hundred, But you know, I have played this game before, so that's that's what I got.
00:40:18
Speaker 5: So I'm excited.
00:40:19
Speaker 3: Dude. How crazy was Paris?
00:40:21
Speaker 2: Though?
00:40:22
Speaker 3: Like you've skated contests, this was a different kind of contest.
00:40:26
Speaker 4: Yeah, it felt like a contest, and it felt pretty similar to the other ones, but there was something so different about it because.
00:40:31
Speaker 5: It was like not put on by skateboarders.
00:40:35
Speaker 4: It's like a big sports event and it's not it doesn't really have like a connection with skateboarding. It's hard to explain, but it's I don't know, like it feels like you're kind of competing in like a baseball stadium and a bunch of baseball fans are watching you and they're.
00:40:55
Speaker 5: Like, oh, she's in the air. WHOA Like, I don't know, it just feels crazy, Like what did.
00:41:02
Speaker 3: That make it easier?
00:41:04
Speaker 2: Do you think that might have made it like easier for you to just be like whatever, I'm going to go have fun and do this, or did you still feel like I'm representing my country and my family when I'm on this like huge global stage.
00:41:14
Speaker 4: I felt like a mix of both feelings because I was like, no one here even gets skateboarding or skates or understands skateboarding, So who cares? Girl, Like go out there and just have fun and like none of it really matters at the end of the day. And then also I was like, oh my god, I'm in the Olympics. Like my family was stoked and I was facetiming all my siblings. And then I just realized how big of a deal it was, and I'm like, oh, I can maybe take it a little bit serious, you know, like okay, like this is a big deal. I also actually had broken my scaphoid rate before Paris, like really bad. I almost had to get surgery. I broke it at Omar Hassan's bowl at a van shoot like two weeks before it, and that sucks. That was like, I think the worst part. I was like in a bad mood because I couldn't really grab doing a lot of tricks, so I was like, ah, but then I was just so stoked that I had made it.
00:42:11
Speaker 2: We'll have more with Ruby Lilly after we take this quick ad break. How do you like kind of balance the You're gonna go on the monster trip, You're gonna film the video part, but then you also need to like try to qualify for the twenty twenty eight games, Like, how are you balancing your risk in all of it? Because I don't know, like you said, your broker skateboid, these things happen. I've broken mind three times. I feel for you.
00:42:44
Speaker 5: I have no idea how I do it. I just do it. I think one day at a time.
00:42:49
Speaker 4: I'm kind of like that meme where it's just like a guy in a random place with a bunch of random objects, and it's just like how I be living life.
00:42:57
Speaker 5: That's how I feel like.
00:42:59
Speaker 4: I'm like, when someone asked me for advice, I'm like, that's time leaving like, I'm just like in, just a guy in a bunch of different places.
00:43:08
Speaker 5: I don't know. I'm just getting through it one day at a time.
00:43:10
Speaker 2: You're just saying yes. I feel like you say yes all the time, and you're the best vibe every time I see you.
00:43:16
Speaker 3: I don't get it. You're just like, I'm having a good time. I'm here. I don't know where i'll be tomorrow, but I'm right now.
00:43:20
Speaker 2: I'm right here, and you like participate in the whole thing, So I just I think it's super cool.
00:43:26
Speaker 3: It's not easy to do.
00:43:27
Speaker 5: I'm just down to participate. I'm down to go like I'm down. I'm just down. That's why I felt skating the Wheels of Fortune contest.
00:43:34
Speaker 4: I'm like, because there's so many good girls like kick foot from boarding these rails, and I'm just like, I'm participating.
00:43:46
Speaker 5: I'm all terrain trying.
00:43:49
Speaker 3: All terrain trying.
00:43:51
Speaker 2: I love that. I have not heard that that might be a first. Let us know out there if it's not, but it is now. So thank you for that new good luck.
00:44:01
Speaker 3: We love that.
00:44:02
Speaker 2: And speaking of with Ruby, you are on good luck with that. Everyone needs a little luck with things. Is there anything you're needing some luck right now besides downloading that kickflip, Like, what else do you need some luck with out there?
00:44:14
Speaker 5: I think I already have good luck because I believe it.
00:44:20
Speaker 3: De Lulu good luck, it's already you already have it. You don't need it.
00:44:24
Speaker 2: We're just gonna keep sending it then, or maybe I'm going to try to channel that version from you, so on this this segment of good luck with that, I'm needing to get into Ruby Lily's brain and just be like, I got it. I already have the good luck on my side. I'll let you guys know how it goes next week. We'll work it out on the pod. But for right now, I'm gonna try that delusional good luck attitude. What else do you want to tell anyone out there who like it? Sounds like your journey has just been to participate, and it's just been like one thing after the next, and now you're a pro in the whole damn thing.
00:44:58
Speaker 3: You're going on trips all over the world.
00:45:01
Speaker 2: Is there any anyone out there that you want to tell them how they can do that too?
00:45:05
Speaker 4: I would say I feel like being open and taking the opportunities that are in front of you and are like really important because you don't know where it's going to play a part in your life down the road, and to try to be adaptable. I think being adaptable has been one of the most like important skills that I have learned in my life.
00:45:32
Speaker 5: And I feel like I don't know it's I don't know, I think just I don't know. I don't know. There's I feel like there's so many skills that I've learned.
00:45:39
Speaker 4: It's really hard to just like be like, all right, this is the one thing, because I feel like I haven't just learned one thing.
00:45:46
Speaker 5: I've learned like two million things. Fuck. But I think just being super open, being really open.
00:45:53
Speaker 4: I've been open my whole life and it's led me to this crazy journey that I absolutely love and I'm so grateful for.
00:46:02
Speaker 5: So be open. You never really know what you're gonna end up.
00:46:05
Speaker 2: Well, skateboarding is endlessly better because you're in it, and I just love that there's so much more of the journey for you ahead. I'm ready for your cross country road trip though, where we're in your van learning how to just like do it right, pulling up to the spot in the park. I see it. Ruby I see it. The home is where you park it. It's coming to a theater.
00:46:29
Speaker 5: Near you, exactly. I can't wait. I'm so stoked.
00:46:33
Speaker 2: Well, I feel like our news desk we always bring you up, and especially Nora and Alex just like love what you've been giving to skateboarding and specifically this last year.
00:46:43
Speaker 3: They're always like she's.
00:46:44
Speaker 2: Cut from a certain kind of cloth that they just don't make them like you And.
00:46:48
Speaker 4: Oh my god, me and Bobby talk about that all the time, like, bitch, we're cut from a different motherfucking cloth.
00:46:56
Speaker 5: But just kidding, no, but.
00:46:59
Speaker 3: What is that claw?
00:47:00
Speaker 1: Like?
00:47:00
Speaker 2: Seriously though you guys all are it would make the craziest quill.
00:47:07
Speaker 4: It's the cloth of going through absolute hell at a super young age and then you're just build different and you're built different and you have a little bit of trauma luggage that you're carrying behind, but turns out, like I don't know, it ends up helping.
00:47:22
Speaker 5: You in a way, you know.
00:47:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally, especially with skateboarding.
00:47:28
Speaker 5: Yeah, character dictates everything.
00:47:31
Speaker 4: That's what my mom would always tell me when I was younger, And that is like the that is.
00:47:36
Speaker 5: The most true, That is the most truth, because it's.
00:47:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, like think about it, like all of our favorite skaters, like we love them because of their skating, but like their character, their background, everything about them. It's like who they are that we are kind of attracted to in a way, and plus they're amazing skating. We're just like, oh my god, like, yeah, you're amazing, and you're like my role model and just like favorite skater.
00:48:01
Speaker 5: I think that I just like automatically do that.
00:48:04
Speaker 4: I kind of attach like my favorite skater, but it's also because like I'm obsessed with them as a person, and I kind of put that together and I'm like favorite skater, but really it's like favorite human being.
00:48:16
Speaker 5: I don't know, I'm just ranching. I had a lot of catching some fucking heights good.
00:48:21
Speaker 2: As you should be, and I totally agree with that, Like it's watching someone who's excellent at skateboarding is cool, but if there's no like if there's nothing behind that, then it's really hard to like catch the vibe and be into the part. Like I love watching the imperfections. I love watching like the individuality of someone's style selection on the same trick, Like that's the whole beauty of this whole art thing that is skateboarding is that everyone's gonna show up and do it a little bit different, and your personality is gonna seep through. You light up when you're skating, the smiles endlessly there, you're kind of rassing people, like I get, I feel like you a little feisty in the best way when you're out at this skate spot and like just like knowing how to like throw down.
00:49:03
Speaker 4: I really like to like mess with people, kind of fuck with them.
00:49:08
Speaker 5: But then when I'm not skating.
00:49:10
Speaker 4: I'm like, I like, I'm super like spiky, but then yeah, when I'm skating, I'm like also spiky.
00:49:18
Speaker 5: I don't know a differently, but.
00:49:21
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like I don't know. Definitely, your personality radiates through your skating and radiates through what you're doing, and you can totally tell when someone like hasn't had a character development or you know, it's just like silver spoons skating and it's like you just see tricks, like you just see tricks, like you don't see anything else, Like there's nothing else like fascinating or interesting about them. You're just seeing tricks. But then when there's like so much more and it combines, it's just so beautiful to watch and be around other skaters like that, and I'm just like, I relate to you so much, and like, ah, this is so cool.
00:49:57
Speaker 5: You know. I just met Jackie Michael Ran for the first time this past weekend. So cool. I have so many great things to say about her. She's amazing.
00:50:08
Speaker 2: I just tried to throw that out there and leo, such good style. We love Jackie Michael and holding down. Is she still in Las Vegas?
00:50:16
Speaker 3: Is that right?
00:50:17
Speaker 2: Yep, which is like such a crazy place to be a skater all year because it is usually one hundred degrees the majority of the year out there. But her style is so sick and obviously everyone loves to be like the sibling package with Nick Michaels, but she holds down on her own too. And I love the family skate tree that's happening with siblings becoming like pro and am skaters and the whole mix so badass.
00:50:46
Speaker 3: I love it. Do you still skate with your brothers?
00:50:48
Speaker 5: Yeah? I do so.
00:50:51
Speaker 4: Right after the premiere, we all went to Washington Street and we filmed a little video. I forgot to mention also in the process of oh, like everything that's been going on, I've also been filming an Out There with Thrasher with Gregson, and that's coming out I think late June, and it's like, you know, a little mini doc behind the scenes all my life and even more.
00:51:20
Speaker 5: Details on my past and childhood.
00:51:25
Speaker 4: And so I was like filming with my brothers at Washington Street and we had a crazy session. They're so good at skating. They're so talented, like it's amazing. It's just really cool to skate together again. It's been like a couple of years. And then yeah, so I was miked up during the whole Foundation premiere, so I was like hopefully and safety crazy.
00:51:47
Speaker 2: Oh my god, So we're gonna see all of that in the Out There doc. Hell yeah, okay, Well I'm stoked.
00:51:54
Speaker 4: You're gonna see them skate in it too, So you're gonna see what they look like and how they skate. My older brother David, he skates. They actually both skate everything. They're actually all terrain. There are ATVs. They skate everything from rail's ledges to vert and big bowls and parks like they can skate at all. And they have really good style too. So I'm excited for everyone to see. That's the cloth I'm cut.
00:52:20
Speaker 2: From just kidding in Washington Street is the least easy place to skate.
00:52:25
Speaker 3: Is so gnarly.
00:52:27
Speaker 2: So that's gonna be cool to watch the Lily Family session go down and how you've been able to step to different just like levels of Washington Street, because that place will eat you alive, I feel like, and you make it look like a playground.
00:52:41
Speaker 5: No, it is so gnarly.
00:52:44
Speaker 4: Washington Street is one of the most like underestimated diis I think ever. I mean like, there's Burns Side and there's one.
00:52:53
Speaker 5: Are the other ones. There's I can't think of it, any other ones.
00:52:57
Speaker 4: There's a lot of other ones, but yeah, Washington it looks so chill on Instagram, and I think it's because it doesn't have graffiti or any paint on it.
00:53:06
Speaker 5: It just looks. It doesn't look intimidating you go there in person.
00:53:09
Speaker 4: I would love to see someone get a clip first time going there because it's not really happening.
00:53:16
Speaker 3: Welcome to the pro Ranks. We're so ready to see what's next.
00:53:20
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Ashley, so stoked, thanks for having me on here, and yeah, I can't wait to do another one and update you guys.
00:53:28
Speaker 5: My crazy blogger r V Journey Life.
00:53:31
Speaker 3: It's gonna be so sick. Where can we find you on Instagram?
00:53:35
Speaker 5: You can find you on Instagram.
00:53:37
Speaker 4: Ruby Underscore, Lily r u v Y Underscore, l I L L E Y all lowercase. I'm also unfortunately on the TikTok and I think it's the same realby Lily Perfect.
00:53:51
Speaker 3: Yeah. Maximize the media space, you know, do what you gotta do.
00:53:55
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm actually media trained, been media trained in the RV.
00:53:59
Speaker 3: Just just kidding. Love that.
00:54:01
Speaker 2: All right, everyone, Well that was another episode of good Luck with That.
00:54:05
Speaker 3: We'll be here next week.
00:54:06
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00:54:11
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Speaker 6: Our executive producer is Jesse Katz, supervising producer Tari Harrison, video producer Daniel Goodman, and video production by School of Humans.
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Speaker 3: This podcast was created by Ashy Rayfeld. Listen to good luck with that.
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Speaker 6: A skateboarding podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
