September 24, 2025 • 17 mins
What happens when a funeral director becomes Bigfoot? Ryan Beatrice knows firsthand. This captivating conversation reveals the remarkable journey of a multi-talented Pittsburgh native who balances life as an actor, funeral home director, vending route operator, and—most surprisingly—the official East Coast Sasquatch for Jack Links jerky.
For three years, Ryan has donned the iconic Sasquatch costume, enduring sweltering heat for up to six hours while bringing joy to thousands across events from Maine to Florida. Behind the furry facade is a story of perseverance and unexpected opportunity that emerged during the darkest days of the pandemic. "A big furry Sasquatch hand reached out and grabbed mine," Ryan reflects, describing how this unlikely role transformed his life and finances when traditional acting jobs had dried up.
Beyond his Bigfoot persona, Ryan's acting career continues to flourish. He appears in Jeremy Renner's "Mayor of Kingstown" and recently wrapped filming for Netflix's upcoming "How to Rob a Bank" alongside Pete Davidson, John C. Reilly, and Zoe Kravitz. Throughout our conversation, Ryan offers profound insights on mental wellness, emphasizing the importance of self-kindness and purpose. "Working without purpose is just work," he observes, encouraging listeners to nurture their unique talents and interests.
Perhaps most touching is Ryan's philosophy on fatherhood. As his 14-year-old son excels in track and football, Ryan prioritizes unwavering support while encouraging independence: "I never pushed him into anything. I said you choose what you want to do and I'm going to be right there with you." His parting wisdom resonates whether you're an aspiring actor, overwhelmed parent, or anyone facing life's challenges: "Befriend yourself and be there for yourself, because you're going to need yourself at some point in life."
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All righty, ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome
Ryan Beatrice to Outlaw Wisdom.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Ryan, how are you today?
I'm great, I'm great, it'sgreat to be here, and thank you
so much for having me be a partof this.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Fantastic, so tell the listeners a little bit about
who you are, where you comefrom and what you do so.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I am from a little bit outside of Pittsburgh.
I've been in the acting fieldfor quite some time.
However, that's just one of thefew hats that I wear.
I'm also a funeral homedirector and embalmer.
I graduated down here.
I do that still more so on theside, but I also run a vending
route and that's for Snyder's ofHanover and Lance Cracker, so I
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distribute that to all thebigger supermarkets in my area.
The acting also comes into playfor me and I run with that just
wherever it takes me, and it'sbeen fantastic year this year.
For me it's.
I couldn't ask for more.
It's all the things that Iprayed for a couple of years
back.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Fantastic, and I know I know.
When I first met you, Ryan, youwere telling me something about
Bigfoot.
Yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So one of the contracts I've held for quite
some time now, since rightaround COVID is working with
Jack Links and I work with themas Sasquatch, so it is a
fantastic role.
They're a fantastic company towork for.
They treat me great.
Work for that, treat me great.
It is interesting acting, youknow, behind heavy costume and
makeup number one, just the heatfactor but also it's kind of
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like being a undercovercelebrity.
You know, you walk into some ofthese events and I do all
different types of events, frommeet and greets and pictures and
all kinds of stuff.
But one of the most fun thingsI do is these big events where I
get to meet people, because alot of people are excited to
meet me and they come up, theyannounce my name over the
loudspeaker and there'sthousands of people at these
events.
My next one coming up is I'mgoing to September 25th, that is
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, in Atlantic City at one of thebiggest trade shows they have.
So I'm going to be performingdown there and I'm really
excited for that show.
I hope the weather's holding updown there, because I think it
was raining when I looked last,but it changes so much down
there that I'm really excitedfor this next trip with Jack
Lynx.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
How long have you been doing the role of Bigfoot?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's been going about three years now.
I haven't missed a single event, at least for the East Coast
Mostly Northeast we kind of arein, but I'll cover from Maine to
Florida wherever they need meat.
There also are another Squatchas well as Getty over on the
West Coast.
So those guys are great andI've talked to them a few times.
(02:39):
But we cover both sides of theUS the best that we can.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Awesome, and how did you get into that role?
That's kind of like a you knowa fringe part of acting.
How did you get into that?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You know I love the stress.
The part about this is you justnever know what the next door
you know is going to open into,and you don't know what tomorrow
holds, so just keep on goingwith it.
I didn't expect to get this.
I saw it being advertised thatthey were looking through one of
the talent agencies that I knewand I messaged back and they
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said you know, we like all thestuff that you've sent us, we
like you, but we need to makesure that you, you know, are
going to look good in this.
So we had to get measurementsand dimensions and all that fun
stuff and from there I met theguys.
They're two of the salesmen inthe Northeast.
They'd also run the marketingdepartment and the side of
dealing with Sasquatch and we goto all these different events
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or picture opportunities or evenstuff for some of the shirts.
We do all kinds of stuff andthey're fantastic to me.
They treat me well.
They always send jerky home fornumber one, my 14-year-old son.
His name's Michael and hereally appreciates getting to
try all of the new flavors.
So it's very exciting for himas well as me.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
That's great, and that means you must be pretty
tall, though, right?
Or do they put you on spills orsomething?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, so I'm about 6'2" myself.
We're on 250.
So I'm a bigger guy.
However, the Sasquatch does therest for me.
It does add to my height aswell, as you know my stature,
kind of how I stand, how wide Iam.
It does the magic and you know,whenever Sasquatch is out there
, that's him and he's.
(04:20):
You know it's the call of thewild, I'd say.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Right, right.
And did they have training forthat?
Did you have, to like, learnhow to walk like Sasquatch, or
was that just like?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
There were multiple trainings that we went through
and different classes that theysent, and when I got there my
first day, you know I wasn'taware of how hot it really could
get in there and I learnedquickly that you have to
regulate your body temperaturein every movement you make,
every motion that you do.
That's a little bit of energythat you have less and you don't
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get it back until you take abreak because you're not cooling
down.
So you always have to kind oftake that into your thoughts,
especially when you're going tobe out there for hours at a time
.
Balls balls to the wall and wasbouncing around and going crazy
and dancing and, you know, justmeeting people and getting hugs
, and an hour went by and I waslike, oh man, I have to, you
(05:13):
know, calm down or I'm not goingto make it these last two or
three hours, depending on wherewe work.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So, yeah, it does get hot behind there and how many
hours a day, you know?
Are you in the costume?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So it ranges.
I've done so many differentevents where sometimes it's
three hours and sometimes it'ssix, but they make sure I get a
lot of breaks and I've learnedhow to drink within the costume
properly so I can stay hydratedat all times.
A lot of it is a mental game.
It's how you talk to yourselfin your mind, how you keep
yourself going.
(05:45):
It has to be positive thoughts.
You have to keep that positiveline of thinking.
You have to remember that I amlooked up to by a lot of these
adults that are here, let alonethe kids that are here, and you
know people come up and they'reall watching me.
So I always put the best showthat I can forward and I think
that's why Jack Links has stuckwith me.
I stick with them, you know,and we just get along together
(06:11):
and we both work for each otherand I think it's a wonderful
relationship that we've had forthese past years.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's fantastic.
I love Jack Links, by the way.
You know their jerky is great.
It's so good when I was drivingtrucks back in the day, I mean
that was my go-to all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh yes, oh yes.
And here's the funny thingabout it it's just meat and them
preserving it and themdehydrating it, yeah, and it's
good, even if you leave it out.
So a couple of times I had bigbags I left out and the jerky
dried out, but it just changedits texture and I still liked it
.
It still tasted good.
It's just a little bit of a dryjerky.
(06:46):
So where I'm going with it isit's one of those snacks you can
have in the back of your car.
It's one of those snacks youcan throw in you know your broom
and find it a year later andit's still fantastic, if not
better with time.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Exactly, exactly so.
So, aside from Sasquatch, you,you also acted in a couple
movies recently, right?
Yes, can you talk about some ofthose or no?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Of course I'd love to , so I do.
Mayor of Kingstown.
That's a Pittsburgh-based show.
Jeremy Renner is the main star.
I am in the prison gangs.
In season three and season fourI was the prison tattoo artist
that was featured.
I started as background withthat show and that's how I tell
every young actor to start is dobackground, see how it goes,
see how a set works, see howeveryone does their job
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separately.
See how you're supposed to act,see how you are contracted to
act and go there, have fun.
Network.
Some people love it, somepeople don't.
My first time on set was notwith them.
It was another show calledAmerican Rust.
That's also on Amazon and ithas some big stars in it as well
.
That I was a frack worker and Istarted with that, and then
(07:52):
Mary King's Time was second forme.
But this year was a lot of fun.
I was up on set with them somany days.
They treat us well.
We always eat good.
You get to see big, huge stars.
It's fantastic.
The latest one that I did it'sgoing to be coming out next year
.
It's called how to Rob a Bank.
It has big stars like PeteDavidson, john C Reilly, zoe
(08:13):
Kravitz a whole ton of greatstars and I got to work, you
know, face-to-face with thesepeople and be in scenes with
them, and we were in downtownPittsburgh.
They rented out the city.
I don't even know how muchsomething like that would cost,
but it sure was a lot because itwas like four streets that
buildings are taken over andevery night I'd get there about
(08:34):
5 pm and we'd go until 5 amfilming this and we're doing all
kinds of crazy stunts and funstuff and I can't get too deep
into all the things, but Ireally hope everyone goes out
and sees.
Uh, well, doesn't go out andsee, but just goes to netflix
and goes to their room and seesme on screen.
I have a really cool part as aprotester.
I was part of their corebackground actors in this film
(08:58):
and I was there for two weeksstraight.
So, uh, you will see a lot ofmy face on there.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Oh, that's fantastic.
I'm excited to see that one.
And you said it's on netflix.
Right, it's going to be comingto netflix yes is that?
Is that next?
That's next year, I'm assumingright next year, yeah 2026.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I'm not exactly sure of the date, but it will be.
It will be coming, however,america, kingstown, that's going
to be starting in.
Well, we're going to startfilming again for the last
season, I'd say in January Atleast that's what we're thinking
, but we don't even have thatcontract yet.
You know how that goes with themovies.
Maybe there won't be anotherseason, so it's kind of one of
those things that we'll have tosee how that goes Right.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Well, I wish you all the best of luck with that
series and everything else yougot going on.
Thank you so much.
So let's tell the listeners alittle bit about like.
You know you want a personallevel.
I know when we first met wetalked briefly about some
struggles you had and you know,one of the goals with the show,
ryan, as you know, is we like toinspire our listeners.
(09:55):
So anything you can maybe youknow, maybe tell the listeners a
little bit about you know I'lltell you how you got beyond your
hardships.
You know, sure I'd love to dothat, I'd love to share that.
I'm going to stick on theacting side of things.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Listen a little bit about.
You know how you got beyondyour hardships.
You know Sure I'd love to dothat, I'd love to share that.
I'm going to stick on theacting side of things now.
I have hardships outside ofthis, just like everyone else,
and I think the biggest piece ofadvice I could give anyone is
be kind to yourself.
Talk kind to yourself.
You're having your voice.
You're the only one there foryou.
No one else is going to chaseyour dreams.
No one else is going to tellyou it's okay when you fail.
(10:26):
They might, but they're notgoing to tell you as many times
as you have to tell yourself.
So be comfortable with yourself, love yourself, take care of
yourself and be kind to yourself, because the world is cruel
right now.
It's a crazy place to be in.
So be kind to yourself.
But I was down some years back.
Acting wasn't taken off how Iwanted it to.
It's been my dream.
I've done it since high schoolmusicals Guys and Dolls, hello,
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dolly Joseph and the AmazingTechnicolor Dreamcoat some of
the bigger ones that I did thatI had bigger parts in back in
high school and I stuck with itand I've always done like brand
ambassador work and I've alwayshad a good face to present to
people.
I like to storytell.
That's what I wanted to do mywhole life and that's what I
have the chance to do right nowis storytell for a lot of the
movies and shows that I'm actingin.
(11:10):
But getting back to the COVIDtime, when everyone was down and
out and everyone was, I mean,no one was doing too good, at
least some people were.
But you still had some issueduring that period and I had a
lot of them.
I worked in the food industry,didn't know if stuff was going
to be open, didn't know if stuffwas going to be closed.
My acting stuff was kind ofslow.
I only did one thing that yearand then it was kind of like a
(11:31):
big furry Sasquatch hand reachedout and grabbed mine.
It was just something thatwasn't expected.
And it was just something thatwasn't expected and it was
something that put a lot ofmoney in my pocket.
And there were people that Ihave grown great relationships
with.
I'm friends with these people.
I mean, they're great friends I.
You know they started over justjack link and his sons.
It was a family thing that grewhuge.
And the gentleman who I workwith who's the lead salesman and
(11:55):
marketing guy.
He is fantastic and he's beenwith the company since I started
, so it was a great relationshipfor me to make.
I've gotten to go places Idon't have money to afford.
They make sure I can travel toall these areas that they take
me and it's been eye-opening,it's been mind-blowing, it's
been humbling.
I've been so thankful,mind-blowing.
It's been humbling.
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I've been so thankful.
Everything's been changing inmy life.
I've dropped 50 pounds.
This is over five or six yearsthat I've dropped 50 pounds, but
I've really been working at it.
I quit drinking four years ago.
I just was too busy.
I didn't want to drown out anyof my feelings anymore, which is
hard at first, but it'ssomething I recommend that
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everyone does at some point isjust be okay with yourself.
Be okay with yourself, yourfeelings, be okay sitting in the
room alone at night by yourself.
Be happy there.
Make that a place of comfort,because if you feel like you're
trapped with your thoughts andyou don't want to be alone and
all those things, it's kind ofhard because most of your life,
I'm sorry to say, you are goingto be alone.
You have a lot of things yougot to do on your own adventures
(12:58):
, and there's a lot of timesyou're not going to have a
companion.
So just love yourself andalways look forward and know
that that door could open at anysecond.
So never quit, just keep going.
Tomorrow's a better day.
You have the power to changeanything about yourself.
You have the power to becomeanything you want.
You have the power to be ascreative as you want.
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You have the power to bleedyour creativity and to show the
world you do, especially withsocial media.
You can put things on there.
You have a new audience ofpeople.
You can spread yourself.
You can become and sellyourself how you want,
especially if it's acting todifferent casting directors, to
different acting companies,commercial companies, to
different casting directors, todifferent acting companies,
commercial companies.
You know huge, it doesn'tmatter.
The sky is the limit.
Just get up, go out there, workevery day towards a goal,
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because working without purposeis just work.
When you're working towards agoal, you have something to look
forward to.
You have something to be proudof.
You have something to displayto others and when people
acknowledge that and see thatespecially with a lot of the
things I've been doing peopleare saying that's so cool.
I love that you're doing that.
Those are fantastic things.
Those things mean the world tome, because it's what I wanted.
(14:08):
I wanted to show people you cando it.
I want people in my area, inyour area, across the world, to
get involved and to bleedcreativity and to never stop,
because the second that you putout that little flame that's
burning inside you.
I can't say what it is, buteveryone's good at something.
Everyone has some skill.
It doesn't have to be an art,it doesn't have to.
It could be a sport, it couldbe how you cook, it could be any
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.
You have something in you,everyone does, and if you let
that flame get extinguished, itmay never relight, and when
that's gone, then you're justliving without purpose and it's
just work.
And to wake up every day and tohave no real thing to look
forward to, I think is one ofthe biggest downfalls that we
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can give to ourselves, becausewe're the only ones that do it.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Exactly.
I agree with you a hundredpercent.
My father told me as a kidgrowing up that if you wake up
every morning loving what you'redoing, it's not a job.
I've heard that.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I've heard that as well and I love that.
I love that saying.
It's very true with my actingthing because, yes, I love
distributing chips.
Yes, I loved helping in thefuneral industry.
However, if I could chooseanything, I want to go out there
and get to be differentcharacters and tell a story and
personify a character the bestthat I can.
I leave it all out on the floorat every set that I go to.
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I put it all out there.
I don't do what it will do asextra.
That's another tip I'd like togive to anyone starting out.
If you're going in as abackground actor, if you're
going in for a small part or bigpart, don't do that little
extra thing, even or big part.
Don't do that little extrathing.
Even if you're thinking aboutit, you're like I want to do it.
Don't Look and do the part.
Do what your script says.
Sometimes, if they sayimprovise, sure, improvise.
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But if they say, do what is onthis script and just run it,
just run it and be a part ofsomething bigger and then watch
all of those things cometogether and that's the magic of
movies.
It's never just one person.
There's a whole crew and teamof people that are adjusting the
sounds, the lights, people thatare feeding you, the people
that are cleaning up after you,the people that are taking care
of the bathrooms, the big starsthat make millions of dollars,
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the little stars that make acouple hundred All of those
people are coming together on asingle day, which isn't hard to
get any group of people togetherfor anything and they're making
what I think is magic in myeyes, because what I do and when
I see what comes after they'vedone post, it's magic to me and
I hope it's magic to everyoneelse who enjoys these shows and
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these movies and thesecommercials and just anything on
a screen or anything on apodcast or anything that's
recorded.
I hope people enjoy them andtake them because as a country,
I feel it's getting squeezed outa lot and it's getting diluted
because there's so much that'sbeing forced social media and
people try to live up to otherpeople's standards and lose part
of themselves with that.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I couldn't have said it better myself, ryan.
You know words to live by, youknow.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, sure, sure, I appreciate you know getting to
let out a lot of this and Iapologize sometimes if I start
going, but this is all stuffcoming from the heart and stuff
I really mean and feel and justwant to get out there, and I
really appreciate you giving methis platform and the
opportunity to say these thingsand spread what I really love
(17:15):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
One thing I want to ask you you have so much going
on.
How do you manage your time?
I mean between Sasquatch andthe movies and the business and
your 13-year-old son?
I mean that's got to bedifficult.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
It is.
That's one of the toughestthings is time management.
I'll say it like this Right nowI can do it.
Right now I'm in good health, Ican get to all these places, I
can run on a couple of hours ofsleep and still be functional
the next day.
I'd say not drinking is one ofthe biggest helps to that,
because we get so lost in that.
Or just having a couple on theweekend or having a couple here
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a couple of days of the weekthat I can't do that because it
just doesn't work with my system.
So any of those pollutingfactors that I could say to
people if they want to get ridof, try some of them first.
No one says you have to quitanything, but try to reduce some
of that and give yourself somehealth and ability to go and do
extra things out in the workfield.
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If it's not the work fieldbehind the desk, any type of
work that you're going to bedoing.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Right right behind the desk, any type of work that
you're going to be doing, right,right, and you know for me
everything, everything you know.
All my organizational skillsare like mental.
Do you actually, you like, doyou write things down and do you
have like a calendar, or do youjust you just put it in your
head and you seem to remember itlike I do?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I live off a calendar .
I have everything punched intomy calendar, I have alarms set,
I have timers going.
I have so much sometimes that Ireally have to break it down
and I do take the time to makesure I have enough time to at
least take care of myself for acouple hours.
One of my favorite things to dothat I do every day, seven days
a week is I go to the YMCA Anumerous amount of them because
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I have a pass and it'll let mego to any of them but I go into
the sauna.
It does help me for just mentalclarity.
The sauna has been used sincetimes of the Romans they used to
have them back there and evenfurther back times where I'm
sure that they were heating upcaves or just fire and being hot
in there and sweating itproduces all kinds of good
hormones that come out,chemicals that are released in
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our brain.
It produces a bunch of greatthings and I try to do that a
little bit every day.
It's kind of my place formental clarity.
It's where I can sweat out allof my problems.
When I usually do a 30-minutehit for 180, 190, 200 degrees, I
like to usually be in a saunaat, and it's fantastic for me,
it's just something that helpsme daily, that I look forward to
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every day.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Oh, that's awesome.
So I want to go back real quickto something you touched on
earlier regarding you know youryour career and you know how
things didn't really seem tokind of pan out for you
initially.
What kind of advice would yougive to somebody who may be
dealing with those same thoughtsand maybe struggling with their
(19:58):
mental health?
Because you know, like you said,we're in a world right now that
is on fire and I know a lot ofpeople are kind of thinking
worst case scenario and I alwaystry to keep positivity in my
life and the lives of peoplearound me.
How would you express that tosomebody that's dealing with
certain with similar thoughtsand feelings?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
So I know everyone's struggling right now with some
form of mental health, and whenI say these things, I would
never take away from mentalhealth, because most of all of
these conditions in mentalhealth there's a wide spectrum
affect everyone differently andsignificantly or not
significantly Everyone isdifferent.
Everyone's DNA is completelydifferent and we handle things
(20:39):
differently.
However, what I'm going to sayis I think everyone has a little
bit of form of depression, aform of anxiety.
They don't have to begeneralized like you have a
disease.
It's more like every humanfeels these things at different
levels throughout the day.
And if you can try to Everyhuman feels these things at
different levels throughout theday and if you can try to level
some of those and maybe to takesome of the lesser blows in life
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a little less harshly and pushthem off to the side.
If something is reallybothering you, you got to think
it through.
It's kind of like a wave youlet it come in and you let that
wave go right back out, but ifyou sit with it too long, you're
going to drown in any form ofthat.
So I'd say that all goes backto what I touched on in the
beginning, which is be kind toyourself.
Don't get bogged down becauselife it's so easy to.
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It's so easy just to go onFacebook.
It's so easy for me.
I pick up the newspaper.
I still like reading thenewspaper.
Maybe it's just the feeling ofthe pages, but when I do that
it's just sadness mostly.
There's some good stories, sure, but most of it is just them
highlighting bad stuff.
That's just kind of what themedia is and it's what people I
think are hungry for.
(21:43):
They're always looking for thenext worst thing and terrible
things happen and we forgetabout it the very next week or
the next year because we'repounded with so much shit on
social media that it's just likebang, bang, bang, bang.
We are getting desynthetized tothat.
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That's something that happenedand that they touch on in
mortician school is you will getdesynthetized to all different
types of feelings.
When dealing, especially withdeath, you have to be able to
regulate, but I don't think thateveryone should be like that
all the time.
We got to feel and we got todeal with things, but let things
come in like a wave and letthem go right back out.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
That's great advice, and is there anything that you
know before we wrap it up,anything you want to add or tell
the listeners?
Sure, I haven't touched on.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I would like just to touch on my son real quick.
He's doing fantastic.
This year he stepped into arole in track and field the past
couple of years.
He goes to a very large highschool is prominent in football
as well as all of their otherextracurricular and curricular
activities.
But he went to Penn Nationalsthis year where he was invited.
It was hosted by New Balance.
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They took 70 of the best kidsfrom all around and he got first
place in his flight.
His name's Michael Beatrice.
Also this year he is startingas a freshman on his high school
football team and I just wantedto shout out to him how proud I
am of him and how fantastic ithas been watching him grow and
be the man that he needs to beand step up into some really big
shoes.
He's only 14, going against 18year olds and cracking like he's
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never cracked before.
So that is something I wantedto touch on real quick.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Awesome, and you think he'll follow in his
father's footsteps.
Steps into the acting, or is hegoing to go his own way?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I've always coached him and taught him and just
fathered him to go his own way.
I never pushed him intoanything.
I never made him do anything.
I said you choose what you wantto do and I'm going to be right
there with you.
I'll be sitting there when youwin.
I'll be sitting there when youlose.
I'll make sure that I'm alwaysyour biggest support and I
haven't missed a single eventfor him, and all of the
companies I work for, thankgoodness have been very
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supportive of that and theywon't ever have me miss his
games because I won't.
He knows who's there.
All kids know who's there andI'd always say that if your
kid's doing something, pleasedon't ever miss it.
If they're doing something, Idon't care what it is, I don't
care how small you think it is.
It doesn't have to be a sport.
It doesn't have to be.
It could just be somethingthey're interested in or
something they want to talk toyou about.
Take that time and go.
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Always show up, always supportthem.
Never make a kid feel stupidfor something they're excited to
tell you.
You'll regret it every day forthe rest of your life.
You'll listen, you'll be a partof their life and you help them
grow, because in my life I wanthim to be so much better than I
ever was.
I want him to be way higher upthan I ever could have been, and
I tell him those things and Itell him he can do it.
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It's easy Well, it's not easy,but it's easy if you keep some
things in mind.
And the things are is be kindto yourself, realize that you're
your best friend and you haveto always have your own back.
You have to make sure that youget through these humps in life.
You have to make sure you getover those hills and yes, there
are people and yes, you can leanon people.
But really befriend yourselfand be there for yourself,
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because you're going to needyourself at some point in life.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Exactly, exactly.
I couldn't have said it bettermyself, ryan, and I want to
thank you.
Man, you've been, you've justbeen, amazing to talk with and I
think you've you have somegreat stories and and and great
feet and great input, definitely.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I feel we always talk well and I hope to come back
again one day and talk you Justin our interview process we
were-.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I would love to have you on in season two and we can
update listeners and talk abouthow to rob a bank.
Hopefully by then it'll be out.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That's right.
That's right and I love yourshow and what you do and the
conversations that you have.
Freedom of speech is huge.
I hope we always keep that andI thank you for what you do as
well.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Speech is huge I hope we always keep that, and I
thank you for what you do aswell.
Thank you, ryan, it's greatspeaking with you.
I look forward to it in thefuture.
Thank you, my friend, it wasgreat talking to you as well.
Thanks, we'll talk soon.
Thanks, bye-bye, bye.
All righty, ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome
Ryan Beatrice to Outlaw Wisdom.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Ryan, how are you today?
I'm great, I'm great, it'sgreat to be here, and thank you
so much for having me be a partof this.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Fantastic, so tell the listeners a little bit about
who you are, where you comefrom and what you do so.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I am from a little bit outside of Pittsburgh.
I've been in the acting fieldfor quite some time.
However, that's just one of thefew hats that I wear.
I'm also a funeral homedirector and embalmer.
I graduated down here.
I do that still more so on theside, but I also run a vending
route and that's for Snyder's ofHanover and Lance Cracker, so I
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distribute that to all thebigger supermarkets in my area.
The acting also comes into playfor me and I run with that just
wherever it takes me, and it'sbeen fantastic year this year.
For me it's.
I couldn't ask for more.
It's all the things that Iprayed for a couple of years
back.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Fantastic, and I know I know.
When I first met you, Ryan, youwere telling me something about
Bigfoot.
Yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So one of the contracts I've held for quite
some time now, since rightaround COVID is working with
Jack Links and I work with themas Sasquatch, so it is a
fantastic role.
They're a fantastic company towork for.
They treat me great.
Work for that, treat me great.
It is interesting acting, youknow, behind heavy costume and
makeup number one, just the heatfactor but also it's kind of
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like being a undercovercelebrity.
You know, you walk into some ofthese events and I do all
different types of events, frommeet and greets and pictures and
all kinds of stuff.
But one of the most fun thingsI do is these big events where I
get to meet people, because alot of people are excited to
meet me and they come up, theyannounce my name over the
loudspeaker and there'sthousands of people at these
events.
My next one coming up is I'mgoing to September 25th, that is
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, in Atlantic City at one of thebiggest trade shows they have.
So I'm going to be performingdown there and I'm really
excited for that show.
I hope the weather's holding updown there, because I think it
was raining when I looked last,but it changes so much down
there that I'm really excitedfor this next trip with Jack
Lynx.
That's great.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
How long have you been doing the role of Bigfoot?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It's been going about three years now.
I haven't missed a single event, at least for the East Coast
Mostly Northeast we kind of arein, but I'll cover from Maine to
Florida wherever they need meat.
There also are another Squatchas well as Getty over on the
West Coast.
So those guys are great andI've talked to them a few times.
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But we cover both sides of theUS the best that we can.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Awesome, and how did you get into that role?
That's kind of like a you knowa fringe part of acting.
How did you get into that?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
You know I love the stress.
The part about this is you justnever know what the next door
you know is going to open into,and you don't know what tomorrow
holds, so just keep on goingwith it.
I didn't expect to get this.
I saw it being advertised thatthey were looking through one of
the talent agencies that I knewand I messaged back and they
(03:11):
said you know, we like all thestuff that you've sent us, we
like you, but we need to makesure that you, you know, are
going to look good in this.
So we had to get measurementsand dimensions and all that fun
stuff and from there I met theguys.
They're two of the salesmen inthe Northeast.
They'd also run the marketingdepartment and the side of
dealing with Sasquatch and we goto all these different events
(03:33):
or picture opportunities or evenstuff for some of the shirts.
We do all kinds of stuff andthey're fantastic to me.
They treat me well.
They always send jerky home fornumber one, my 14-year-old son.
His name's Michael and hereally appreciates getting to
try all of the new flavors.
So it's very exciting for himas well as me.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
That's great, and that means you must be pretty
tall, though, right?
Or do they put you on spills orsomething?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, so I'm about 6'2" myself.
We're on 250.
So I'm a bigger guy.
However, the Sasquatch does therest for me.
It does add to my height aswell, as you know my stature,
kind of how I stand, how wide Iam.
It does the magic and you know,whenever Sasquatch is out there
, that's him and he's.
(04:20):
You know it's the call of thewild, I'd say.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Right, right.
And did they have training forthat?
Did you have, to like, learnhow to walk like Sasquatch, or
was that just like?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
There were multiple trainings that we went through
and different classes that theysent, and when I got there my
first day, you know I wasn'taware of how hot it really could
get in there and I learnedquickly that you have to
regulate your body temperaturein every movement you make,
every motion that you do.
That's a little bit of energythat you have less and you don't
(04:52):
get it back until you take abreak because you're not cooling
down.
So you always have to kind oftake that into your thoughts,
especially when you're going tobe out there for hours at a time
.
Balls balls to the wall and wasbouncing around and going crazy
and dancing and, you know, justmeeting people and getting hugs
, and an hour went by and I waslike, oh man, I have to, you
(05:13):
know, calm down or I'm not goingto make it these last two or
three hours, depending on wherewe work.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So, yeah, it does get hot behind there and how many
hours a day, you know?
Are you in the costume?
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So it ranges.
I've done so many differentevents where sometimes it's
three hours and sometimes it'ssix, but they make sure I get a
lot of breaks and I've learnedhow to drink within the costume
properly so I can stay hydratedat all times.
A lot of it is a mental game.
It's how you talk to yourselfin your mind, how you keep
yourself going.
(05:45):
It has to be positive thoughts.
You have to keep that positiveline of thinking.
You have to remember that I amlooked up to by a lot of these
adults that are here, let alonethe kids that are here, and you
know people come up and they'reall watching me.
So I always put the best showthat I can forward and I think
that's why Jack Links has stuckwith me.
I stick with them, you know,and we just get along together
(06:11):
and we both work for each otherand I think it's a wonderful
relationship that we've had forthese past years.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
That's fantastic.
I love Jack Links, by the way.
You know their jerky is great.
It's so good when I was drivingtrucks back in the day, I mean
that was my go-to all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh yes, oh yes.
And here's the funny thingabout it it's just meat and them
preserving it and themdehydrating it, yeah, and it's
good, even if you leave it out.
So a couple of times I had bigbags I left out and the jerky
dried out, but it just changedits texture and I still liked it
.
It still tasted good.
It's just a little bit of a dryjerky.
(06:46):
So where I'm going with it isit's one of those snacks you can
have in the back of your car.
It's one of those snacks youcan throw in you know your broom
and find it a year later andit's still fantastic, if not
better with time.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Exactly, exactly so.
So, aside from Sasquatch, you,you also acted in a couple
movies recently, right?
Yes, can you talk about some ofthose or no?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Of course I'd love to , so I do.
Mayor of Kingstown.
That's a Pittsburgh-based show.
Jeremy Renner is the main star.
I am in the prison gangs.
In season three and season fourI was the prison tattoo artist
that was featured.
I started as background withthat show and that's how I tell
every young actor to start is dobackground, see how it goes,
see how a set works, see howeveryone does their job
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separately.
See how you're supposed to act,see how you are contracted to
act and go there, have fun.
Network.
Some people love it, somepeople don't.
My first time on set was notwith them.
It was another show calledAmerican Rust.
That's also on Amazon and ithas some big stars in it as well
.
That I was a frack worker and Istarted with that, and then
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Mary King's Time was second forme.
But this year was a lot of fun.
I was up on set with them somany days.
They treat us well.
We always eat good.
You get to see big, huge stars.
It's fantastic.
The latest one that I did it'sgoing to be coming out next year
.
It's called how to Rob a Bank.
It has big stars like PeteDavidson, john C Reilly, zoe
(08:13):
Kravitz a whole ton of greatstars and I got to work, you
know, face-to-face with thesepeople and be in scenes with
them, and we were in downtownPittsburgh.
They rented out the city.
I don't even know how muchsomething like that would cost,
but it sure was a lot because itwas like four streets that
buildings are taken over andevery night I'd get there about
(08:34):
5 pm and we'd go until 5 amfilming this and we're doing all
kinds of crazy stunts and funstuff and I can't get too deep
into all the things, but Ireally hope everyone goes out
and sees.
Uh, well, doesn't go out andsee, but just goes to netflix
and goes to their room and seesme on screen.
I have a really cool part as aprotester.
I was part of their corebackground actors in this film
(08:58):
and I was there for two weeksstraight.
So, uh, you will see a lot ofmy face on there.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Oh, that's fantastic.
I'm excited to see that one.
And you said it's on netflix.
Right, it's going to be comingto netflix yes is that?
Is that next?
That's next year, I'm assumingright next year, yeah 2026.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I'm not exactly sure of the date, but it will be.
It will be coming, however,america, kingstown, that's going
to be starting in.
Well, we're going to startfilming again for the last
season, I'd say in January Atleast that's what we're thinking
, but we don't even have thatcontract yet.
You know how that goes with themovies.
Maybe there won't be anotherseason, so it's kind of one of
those things that we'll have tosee how that goes Right.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Well, I wish you all the best of luck with that
series and everything else yougot going on.
Thank you so much.
So let's tell the listeners alittle bit about like.
You know you want a personallevel.
I know when we first met wetalked briefly about some
struggles you had and you know,one of the goals with the show,
ryan, as you know, is we like toinspire our listeners.
(09:55):
So anything you can maybe youknow, maybe tell the listeners a
little bit about you know I'lltell you how you got beyond your
hardships.
You know, sure I'd love to dothat, I'd love to share that.
I'm going to stick on theacting side of things.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Listen a little bit about.
You know how you got beyondyour hardships.
You know Sure I'd love to dothat, I'd love to share that.
I'm going to stick on theacting side of things now.
I have hardships outside ofthis, just like everyone else,
and I think the biggest piece ofadvice I could give anyone is
be kind to yourself.
Talk kind to yourself.
You're having your voice.
You're the only one there foryou.
No one else is going to chaseyour dreams.
No one else is going to tellyou it's okay when you fail.
(10:26):
They might, but they're notgoing to tell you as many times
as you have to tell yourself.
So be comfortable with yourself, love yourself, take care of
yourself and be kind to yourself, because the world is cruel
right now.
It's a crazy place to be in.
So be kind to yourself.
But I was down some years back.
Acting wasn't taken off how Iwanted it to.
It's been my dream.
I've done it since high schoolmusicals Guys and Dolls, hello,
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dolly Joseph and the AmazingTechnicolor Dreamcoat some of
the bigger ones that I did thatI had bigger parts in back in
high school and I stuck with itand I've always done like brand
ambassador work and I've alwayshad a good face to present to
people.
I like to storytell.
That's what I wanted to do mywhole life and that's what I
have the chance to do right nowis storytell for a lot of the
movies and shows that I'm actingin.
(11:10):
But getting back to the COVIDtime, when everyone was down and
out and everyone was, I mean,no one was doing too good, at
least some people were.
But you still had some issueduring that period and I had a
lot of them.
I worked in the food industry,didn't know if stuff was going
to be open, didn't know if stuffwas going to be closed.
My acting stuff was kind ofslow.
I only did one thing that yearand then it was kind of like a
(11:31):
big furry Sasquatch hand reachedout and grabbed mine.
It was just something thatwasn't expected.
And it was just something thatwasn't expected and it was
something that put a lot ofmoney in my pocket.
And there were people that Ihave grown great relationships
with.
I'm friends with these people.
I mean, they're great friends I.
You know they started over justjack link and his sons.
It was a family thing that grewhuge.
And the gentleman who I workwith who's the lead salesman and
(11:55):
marketing guy.
He is fantastic and he's beenwith the company since I started
, so it was a great relationshipfor me to make.
I've gotten to go places Idon't have money to afford.
They make sure I can travel toall these areas that they take
me and it's been eye-opening,it's been mind-blowing, it's
been humbling.
I've been so thankful,mind-blowing.
It's been humbling.
(12:15):
I've been so thankful.
Everything's been changing inmy life.
I've dropped 50 pounds.
This is over five or six yearsthat I've dropped 50 pounds, but
I've really been working at it.
I quit drinking four years ago.
I just was too busy.
I didn't want to drown out anyof my feelings anymore, which is
hard at first, but it'ssomething I recommend that
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everyone does at some point isjust be okay with yourself.
Be okay with yourself, yourfeelings, be okay sitting in the
room alone at night by yourself.
Be happy there.
Make that a place of comfort,because if you feel like you're
trapped with your thoughts andyou don't want to be alone and
all those things, it's kind ofhard because most of your life,
I'm sorry to say, you are goingto be alone.
You have a lot of things yougot to do on your own adventures
(12:58):
, and there's a lot of timesyou're not going to have a
companion.
So just love yourself andalways look forward and know
that that door could open at anysecond.
So never quit, just keep going.
Tomorrow's a better day.
You have the power to changeanything about yourself.
You have the power to becomeanything you want.
You have the power to be ascreative as you want.
(13:24):
You have the power to bleedyour creativity and to show the
world you do, especially withsocial media.
You can put things on there.
You have a new audience ofpeople.
You can spread yourself.
You can become and sellyourself how you want,
especially if it's acting todifferent casting directors, to
different acting companies,commercial companies, to
different casting directors, todifferent acting companies,
commercial companies.
You know huge, it doesn'tmatter.
The sky is the limit.
Just get up, go out there, workevery day towards a goal,
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because working without purposeis just work.
When you're working towards agoal, you have something to look
forward to.
You have something to be proudof.
You have something to displayto others and when people
acknowledge that and see thatespecially with a lot of the
things I've been doing peopleare saying that's so cool.
I love that you're doing that.
Those are fantastic things.
Those things mean the world tome, because it's what I wanted.
(14:08):
I wanted to show people you cando it.
I want people in my area, inyour area, across the world, to
get involved and to bleedcreativity and to never stop,
because the second that you putout that little flame that's
burning inside you.
I can't say what it is, buteveryone's good at something.
Everyone has some skill.
It doesn't have to be an art,it doesn't have to.
It could be a sport, it couldbe how you cook, it could be any
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.
You have something in you,everyone does, and if you let
that flame get extinguished, itmay never relight, and when
that's gone, then you're justliving without purpose and it's
just work.
And to wake up every day and tohave no real thing to look
forward to, I think is one ofthe biggest downfalls that we
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can give to ourselves, becausewe're the only ones that do it.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Exactly.
I agree with you a hundredpercent.
My father told me as a kidgrowing up that if you wake up
every morning loving what you'redoing, it's not a job.
I've heard that.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I've heard that as well and I love that.
I love that saying.
It's very true with my actingthing because, yes, I love
distributing chips.
Yes, I loved helping in thefuneral industry.
However, if I could chooseanything, I want to go out there
and get to be differentcharacters and tell a story and
personify a character the bestthat I can.
I leave it all out on the floorat every set that I go to.
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I put it all out there.
I don't do what it will do asextra.
That's another tip I'd like togive to anyone starting out.
If you're going in as abackground actor, if you're
going in for a small part or bigpart, don't do that little
extra thing, even or big part.
Don't do that little extrathing.
Even if you're thinking aboutit, you're like I want to do it.
Don't Look and do the part.
Do what your script says.
Sometimes, if they sayimprovise, sure, improvise.
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But if they say, do what is onthis script and just run it,
just run it and be a part ofsomething bigger and then watch
all of those things cometogether and that's the magic of
movies.
It's never just one person.
There's a whole crew and teamof people that are adjusting the
sounds, the lights, people thatare feeding you, the people
that are cleaning up after you,the people that are taking care
of the bathrooms, the big starsthat make millions of dollars,
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the little stars that make acouple hundred All of those
people are coming together on asingle day, which isn't hard to
get any group of people togetherfor anything and they're making
what I think is magic in myeyes, because what I do and when
I see what comes after they'vedone post, it's magic to me and
I hope it's magic to everyoneelse who enjoys these shows and
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these movies and thesecommercials and just anything on
a screen or anything on apodcast or anything that's
recorded.
I hope people enjoy them andtake them because as a country,
I feel it's getting squeezed outa lot and it's getting diluted
because there's so much that'sbeing forced social media and
people try to live up to otherpeople's standards and lose part
of themselves with that.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I couldn't have said it better myself, ryan.
You know words to live by, youknow.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, sure, sure, I appreciate you know getting to
let out a lot of this and Iapologize sometimes if I start
going, but this is all stuffcoming from the heart and stuff
I really mean and feel and justwant to get out there, and I
really appreciate you giving methis platform and the
opportunity to say these thingsand spread what I really love
(17:15):
Fantastic.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
One thing I want to ask you you have so much going
on.
How do you manage your time?
I mean between Sasquatch andthe movies and the business and
your 13-year-old son?
I mean that's got to bedifficult.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
It is.
That's one of the toughestthings is time management.
I'll say it like this Right nowI can do it.
Right now I'm in good health, Ican get to all these places, I
can run on a couple of hours ofsleep and still be functional
the next day.
I'd say not drinking is one ofthe biggest helps to that,
because we get so lost in that.
Or just having a couple on theweekend or having a couple here
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a couple of days of the weekthat I can't do that because it
just doesn't work with my system.
So any of those pollutingfactors that I could say to
people if they want to get ridof, try some of them first.
No one says you have to quitanything, but try to reduce some
of that and give yourself somehealth and ability to go and do
extra things out in the workfield.
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If it's not the work fieldbehind the desk, any type of
work that you're going to bedoing.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Right right behind the desk, any type of work that
you're going to be doing, right,right, and you know for me
everything, everything you know.
All my organizational skillsare like mental.
Do you actually, you like, doyou write things down and do you
have like a calendar, or do youjust you just put it in your
head and you seem to remember itlike I do?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I live off a calendar .
I have everything punched intomy calendar, I have alarms set,
I have timers going.
I have so much sometimes that Ireally have to break it down
and I do take the time to makesure I have enough time to at
least take care of myself for acouple hours.
One of my favorite things to dothat I do every day, seven days
a week is I go to the YMCA Anumerous amount of them because
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I have a pass and it'll let mego to any of them but I go into
the sauna.
It does help me for just mentalclarity.
The sauna has been used sincetimes of the Romans they used to
have them back there and evenfurther back times where I'm
sure that they were heating upcaves or just fire and being hot
in there and sweating itproduces all kinds of good
hormones that come out,chemicals that are released in
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our brain.
It produces a bunch of greatthings and I try to do that a
little bit every day.
It's kind of my place formental clarity.
It's where I can sweat out allof my problems.
When I usually do a 30-minutehit for 180, 190, 200 degrees, I
like to usually be in a saunaat, and it's fantastic for me,
it's just something that helpsme daily, that I look forward to
(19:34):
every day.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Oh, that's awesome.
So I want to go back real quickto something you touched on
earlier regarding you know youryour career and you know how
things didn't really seem tokind of pan out for you
initially.
What kind of advice would yougive to somebody who may be
dealing with those same thoughtsand maybe struggling with their
(19:58):
mental health?
Because you know, like you said,we're in a world right now that
is on fire and I know a lot ofpeople are kind of thinking
worst case scenario and I alwaystry to keep positivity in my
life and the lives of peoplearound me.
How would you express that tosomebody that's dealing with
certain with similar thoughtsand feelings?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
So I know everyone's struggling right now with some
form of mental health, and whenI say these things, I would
never take away from mentalhealth, because most of all of
these conditions in mentalhealth there's a wide spectrum
affect everyone differently andsignificantly or not
significantly Everyone isdifferent.
Everyone's DNA is completelydifferent and we handle things
(20:39):
differently.
However, what I'm going to sayis I think everyone has a little
bit of form of depression, aform of anxiety.
They don't have to begeneralized like you have a
disease.
It's more like every humanfeels these things at different
levels throughout the day.
And if you can try to Everyhuman feels these things at
different levels throughout theday and if you can try to level
some of those and maybe to takesome of the lesser blows in life
(21:00):
a little less harshly and pushthem off to the side.
If something is reallybothering you, you got to think
it through.
It's kind of like a wave youlet it come in and you let that
wave go right back out, but ifyou sit with it too long, you're
going to drown in any form ofthat.
So I'd say that all goes backto what I touched on in the
beginning, which is be kind toyourself.
Don't get bogged down becauselife it's so easy to.
(21:23):
It's so easy just to go onFacebook.
It's so easy for me.
I pick up the newspaper.
I still like reading thenewspaper.
Maybe it's just the feeling ofthe pages, but when I do that
it's just sadness mostly.
There's some good stories, sure, but most of it is just them
highlighting bad stuff.
That's just kind of what themedia is and it's what people I
think are hungry for.
(21:43):
They're always looking for thenext worst thing and terrible
things happen and we forgetabout it the very next week or
the next year because we'repounded with so much shit on
social media that it's just likebang, bang, bang, bang.
We are getting desynthetized tothat.
(22:04):
That's something that happenedand that they touch on in
mortician school is you will getdesynthetized to all different
types of feelings.
When dealing, especially withdeath, you have to be able to
regulate, but I don't think thateveryone should be like that
all the time.
We got to feel and we got todeal with things, but let things
come in like a wave and letthem go right back out.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
That's great advice, and is there anything that you
know before we wrap it up,anything you want to add or tell
the listeners?
Sure, I haven't touched on.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I would like just to touch on my son real quick.
He's doing fantastic.
This year he stepped into arole in track and field the past
couple of years.
He goes to a very large highschool is prominent in football
as well as all of their otherextracurricular and curricular
activities.
But he went to Penn Nationalsthis year where he was invited.
It was hosted by New Balance.
(22:53):
They took 70 of the best kidsfrom all around and he got first
place in his flight.
His name's Michael Beatrice.
Also this year he is startingas a freshman on his high school
football team and I just wantedto shout out to him how proud I
am of him and how fantastic ithas been watching him grow and
be the man that he needs to beand step up into some really big
shoes.
He's only 14, going against 18year olds and cracking like he's
(23:17):
never cracked before.
So that is something I wantedto touch on real quick.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Awesome, and you think he'll follow in his
father's footsteps.
Steps into the acting, or is hegoing to go his own way?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
I've always coached him and taught him and just
fathered him to go his own way.
I never pushed him intoanything.
I never made him do anything.
I said you choose what you wantto do and I'm going to be right
there with you.
I'll be sitting there when youwin.
I'll be sitting there when youlose.
I'll make sure that I'm alwaysyour biggest support and I
haven't missed a single eventfor him, and all of the
companies I work for, thankgoodness have been very
(23:46):
supportive of that and theywon't ever have me miss his
games because I won't.
He knows who's there.
All kids know who's there andI'd always say that if your
kid's doing something, pleasedon't ever miss it.
If they're doing something, Idon't care what it is, I don't
care how small you think it is.
It doesn't have to be a sport.
It doesn't have to be.
It could just be somethingthey're interested in or
something they want to talk toyou about.
Take that time and go.
(24:08):
Always show up, always supportthem.
Never make a kid feel stupidfor something they're excited to
tell you.
You'll regret it every day forthe rest of your life.
You'll listen, you'll be a partof their life and you help them
grow, because in my life I wanthim to be so much better than I
ever was.
I want him to be way higher upthan I ever could have been, and
I tell him those things and Itell him he can do it.
(24:29):
It's easy Well, it's not easy,but it's easy if you keep some
things in mind.
And the things are is be kindto yourself, realize that you're
your best friend and you haveto always have your own back.
You have to make sure that youget through these humps in life.
You have to make sure you getover those hills and yes, there
are people and yes, you can leanon people.
But really befriend yourselfand be there for yourself,
(24:51):
because you're going to needyourself at some point in life.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Exactly, exactly.
I couldn't have said it bettermyself, ryan, and I want to
thank you.
Man, you've been, you've justbeen, amazing to talk with and I
think you've you have somegreat stories and and and great
feet and great input, definitely.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I feel we always talk well and I hope to come back
again one day and talk you Justin our interview process we
were-.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I would love to have you on in season two and we can
update listeners and talk abouthow to rob a bank.
Hopefully by then it'll be out.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That's right.
That's right and I love yourshow and what you do and the
conversations that you have.
Freedom of speech is huge.
I hope we always keep that andI thank you for what you do as
well.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Speech is huge I hope we always keep that, and I
thank you for what you do aswell.
Thank you, ryan, it's greatspeaking with you.
I look forward to it in thefuture.
Thank you, my friend, it wasgreat talking to you as well.
Thanks, we'll talk soon.
Thanks, bye-bye, bye.
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