What’s Next for Shooting It Straight!?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, believe in yourself or nobody else will.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Set the bar high, achieve greatness, and stay motivated through the process.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what that spells

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Coach Jim Clayton: Bam, son!

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Coach Jim Clayton: This is Shoot It Straight, the podcast where life blessings don’t come sugar-coated and excuses get bitched.

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Randy Black: I’m Randy Black, podcast guy, professional question asker, and apparently the only one here who doesn’t yell bam.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well we’re working on that Randy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m Jim Clayton, coach, mentor, motivator, and the guy who still thinks a whistle may be the best motivational tool known to man.

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Randy Black: Each week we’re taking what Jim’s learned from the course.

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Randy Black: The drills, the discipline, the drive, and translating it into real-world success.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: This ain’t just about basketball.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s about showing up when life presses full court.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s about pushing through when the clock’s ticking down.

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Randy Black: Well, you might just want to ride the bench.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We’re here to help you believe bigger, achieve louder, and motivate strong.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So buckle up and whatever you do, keep shooting it straight.

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Randy Black: Bam, son

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Randy Black: Welcome back to Shooting It Straight.

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Randy Black: I’m Randy Black, and today’s episode is a special one, but I’m going to be straight with you.

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Randy Black: It’s also a hard one.

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Randy Black: Being here behind this mic without Jim Clayton, my friend, my co-host, my brother in in so many ways feels different.

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Randy Black: There’s a weight to it.

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Randy Black: There’s an empty space that he filled.

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Randy Black: That’s empty right now.

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Randy Black: And stepping into an episode like this without him is something that I’ve dreaded, but I’m I know that I need to do.

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Randy Black: But if there’s one thing that he taught me, so you don’t run from hard things.

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Randy Black: You face them with honesty, with courage, and with heart

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Randy Black: And that’s what we’re going to do today.

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Randy Black: We’re going to honor him.

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Randy Black: We’re going to remember the wisdom and the humor that he poured into this show.

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Randy Black: And we’re going to talk openly about what comes next for shooting it straight.

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Randy Black: Because this is not the end.

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Randy Black: This is a continuation of something that Jim started with purpose

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Randy Black: And today begins the next chapter.

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Randy Black: One that I know he would be so proud of.

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Randy Black: And today we begin that next chapter of shooting it straight with someone who meant the world to him.

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Randy Black: Jim’s daughter Elizabeth Clayton is joining us as the new co-host of Shooting It Straight.

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Randy Black: Many of you have heard her name before or heard Jim talk about her in the stories.

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Randy Black: Uh, if you knew him personally over the years and here on the show.

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Randy Black: But what you may not know is just how deeply she influenced him and even this show.

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Randy Black: So there’s a clip that I want to play.

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Randy Black: Something that that Jim said about.

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Randy Black: uh about the his notebooks where he’s written things down, those handwritten thoughts, those ideas, those things he carried with him, literally for decades.

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Randy Black: So let’s listen to what he had to say.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Our system, you know, my always thing is uh I write everything down.

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Randy Black: Uh-huh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If you if you don’t if you if you don’t know it, you can’t write it down.

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Randy Black: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Try to write it down.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It helps me remember.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now sometimes I can’t read my notes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But, you know, somebody said, well, you should just record it

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well I probably should.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But I still what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I got stocks and stocks and stocks and pages and pages pages pages.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Notes everywhere.

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Coach Jim Clayton: When I’m gone, somebody goes through those notes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s hard to tell them what they’ll find

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Coach Jim Clayton: Hard telling.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I looked at something the other day I wrote ten years ago, I go, Oh man, I remember writing that.

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Randy Black: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But I let ten years go by and I’ve never used it again.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mrs Mrs.

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Randy Black: Clayton and the kids are gonna have fun going through this stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh my gosh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well I’ll tell you I’ll tell you we’ll go through it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well be my dollar.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now she’ll go through piece by piece and she never throws nothing away.

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Randy Black: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She’ll collect.

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Randy Black: to to do certain things.

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Randy Black: Oh to get your get your thoughts and your ideas out there for people.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah, she has definitely and she calls, checks on me every day, you know what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: All that stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She lives in Louisville.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, it’s just

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, like for her it’s just a different mindset ’cause she don’t see me every day.

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Randy Black: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well she calls me every day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Or I call her every.

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Randy Black: So

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Randy Black: He said that he knows you will be the one, Elizabeth, to start going through that stuff.

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Randy Black: So my question is, have you started going through that stuff?

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Elizabeth Clayton: Oh yeah.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um I started you you cry all you want.

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Randy Black: I’m here I’m here crying too

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Randy Black: So it’s it’s fine.

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Randy Black: You you let it you let those tears flow.

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Randy Black: But you know, it’s I I I can just imagine, because I I I you know, I brought you a stack of papers.

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Randy Black: from Sports City U from where we recorded.

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Randy Black: And I know how messy that was.

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Randy Black: I can’t imagine what that looks like at at your mom’s house.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Well, it really wasn’t as crazy as I thought it would be.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um of course when he was in the hospital

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um, of course I was there a lot, but there was a few times I went home and um, you know, something that really brought me comfort was just reading through some of the things that my dad had

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Elizabeth Clayton: written down and uh I really didn’t start diving into it till well the day after he passed.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um remember I met you up at Sports City.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Yeah.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Uh because we were looking for that banner and

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um, ignore Lola in the background.

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Elizabeth Clayton: She is talking to Cece, which is only fitting my dad would get a kick out of that.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um

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Elizabeth Clayton: But um anyway uh I went out I think I don’t know if it was before or after you

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Elizabeth Clayton: before you got there, after you uh I don’t know, in between and I went out to that table that my dad always worked on in the gym.

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Elizabeth Clayton: You know, he would have it in the middle of the gym or to the side and he would sit there and, you know, work on stuff and um

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Elizabeth Clayton: He had all kinds of stuff laying there, of course, and his open bag of gummy bears and liquors were still there.

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Elizabeth Clayton: He liked ’em, you know, he liked to make get ’em uh he he liked ’em hard.

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Elizabeth Clayton: I’m like, ha ha ug

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Elizabeth Clayton: uh all my life he would he would let the licorice get stale or the gummy bears.

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Elizabeth Clayton: I’m like, that’s not good for your teeth, Dad.

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Elizabeth Clayton: But anyway, um, I found it was so funny, I found a bunch of notes of his, but what really struck me was um

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Elizabeth Clayton: I found a paper that had my handwriting on it.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And I thought, what in the world is this?

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Elizabeth Clayton: Well, of course, you know, I’ve been in Louisville for 15 years.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And prior to that, um, of course, I was at Marshall and um

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Elizabeth Clayton: You know, after high school, I started working for my dad and we had the the gym in Huntington and the gym in Hurricane at one point.

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Elizabeth Clayton: So we had two.

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Elizabeth Clayton: So there were times that I would r I would get out of Marshall and I would go to the Huntington Sports City and I would run that in the evening and then my dad would be in hurricane, you know, running the other or whatever the case was.

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Elizabeth Clayton: So I had must have sat down with him

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Elizabeth Clayton: One day, and he told me we had level one, two, three classes, depending on the age groups.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And so I sat down with him and he detailed everything that I needed to do

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Elizabeth Clayton: And it was all in my handwriting.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Well, apparently he kept that.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And I thought, what in the world did he keep that for?

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Elizabeth Clayton: I have no idea.

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Elizabeth Clayton: But then I thought

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Elizabeth Clayton: Well, m maybe he all these years he’s just missed me in the gym.

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Elizabeth Clayton: I don’t know.

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Elizabeth Clayton: But um it really struck me that he had that there on that table.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And of course the next day we went up to do that um

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Elizabeth Clayton: I did that speech and my brother taught too for um that uh Tex Williams um museum.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um and so

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Elizabeth Clayton: I I talked about that in my speech as well.

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Elizabeth Clayton: But anyway, going upstairs, seeing the table with all the podcast stuff.

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Elizabeth Clayton: I went up there that day, all of his notes, the stuff you brought me, I was blown away.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And then um of course that week following

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Elizabeth Clayton: You know, before his visitation and funeral, um, I really started diving deep into his desk that he had in um upstairs in his bedroom, and he had stacks and stacks of stuff.

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Elizabeth Clayton: I found all kinds of things and then

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Elizabeth Clayton: He had a few notebooks sitting by the kitchen table, and that’s really where I found a lot of his newer stuff that he had written.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Yeah.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And I’ve still got my mom and our poured we poured through stuff over the weekend and I’ve got in the back of my car

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Elizabeth Clayton: stacks of folders of things that he’s written and um you know things that he kept and so I’ve got to go through all that.

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Elizabeth Clayton: I didn’t even get a chance to yet

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Elizabeth Clayton: But um but yeah it’s it’s I mean it’s it’s exactly what he said.

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Randy Black: You’re the one going through it.

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Randy Black: Um and he always he always talked about that, you know, people tell him, yeah, you need to write a book.

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Randy Black: Well technically he probably wrote several

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Randy Black: If if we can get down to it when we see all the stuff that he’s done.

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Randy Black: So I’m sure that I’m sure that uh it was um it wasn’t it was it was

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Randy Black: maybe even therapeutic to say to to be able to start going through that and looking at those things.

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Randy Black: Um but I I know that in the you know, as we record this it’s it’s it’s a day after two months that he had passed away and we’ve we’ve talked

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Randy Black: uh several times.

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Randy Black: Um and I know that you didn’t realize something he said in that clip.

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Randy Black: And that you were

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Randy Black: And something I actually said, because he had said it to me privately, but I brought it up, was that you actually were what spurred him on.

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Randy Black: You were that inspiration to get him going to do the podcast.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Yes.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um well you know from the minute you guys started the the first episode, I would tune in weekly um to listen to you guys once you once you get it recorded, then you started doing the live

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Elizabeth Clayton: recordings and I would s always try to tune into that.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um but that third episode, I remember being in my apartment and listening to you all talk and

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Elizabeth Clayton: You know, from that point on when he set when you all were having the conversation and you said to him, you know, now wasn’t it your daughter

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Elizabeth Clayton: that inspired you or you know however you worded it and from that point on I had a whole different perspective when I listened to those podcasts every week.

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Elizabeth Clayton: It was like a whole new meaning for me.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um and I never

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Elizabeth Clayton: Mentioned it to my dad though.

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Elizabeth Clayton: We never had a conversation about that.

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Elizabeth Clayton: I I I wanted to say something to him like, oh my gosh, dad, that really meant a lot.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um I didn’t know I was sure

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Elizabeth Clayton: You know, but I vividly remember actually, you know those b um months prior, well, within that probably that that year before you all started, um, you know those bracelets he had made?

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Elizabeth Clayton: The Bam bracelets?

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Elizabeth Clayton: Okay, he had ’em everywhere.

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Elizabeth Clayton: So um I think we had talked we had talked about that actually.

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Elizabeth Clayton: I said, Dad, why don’t you make a bracelet um that you can give out like when you go get your chemo treatments or you can give out to people and you can tell them your story

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Elizabeth Clayton: you know, or whatever the case is.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And so he had these bracelets made and they they got kind of messed up a little bit, but they still looked good.

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Randy Black: Yeah.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And um

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Randy Black: He uh it it won’t fit my wrist, but I have one.

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Randy Black: Uh it’s set it’s setting on my nightstand.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Well, um it’s uh

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Elizabeth Clayton: Uh you know, I was so excited when he actually did that.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And um, of course he gave them out.

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Elizabeth Clayton: People love them.

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Elizabeth Clayton: But for months, you know, when you when you’re on social media and you see something like a video that somebody records

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Elizabeth Clayton: There was this gentleman, Frank So and so.

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Elizabeth Clayton: He was a judge.

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Elizabeth Clayton: He had his own reality TV show.

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Elizabeth Clayton: But um very inspirational guy.

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Elizabeth Clayton: You know who I’m talking Yes.

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Elizabeth Clayton: So I’d see his videos and his cancer journey, and that’s what sparked the conversation with my dad.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Like, hey dad, you’re always on social media posting about basketball and you know motivational stuff for life.

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Elizabeth Clayton: I said, why don’t you share what you’re going through in your cancer journey?

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Elizabeth Clayton: Because I said, you of all people, you have no idea how many people you could help.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And they don’t know you’re going through that unless they’ve talked to you recently or or you know, know somebody who knows you that told them about your what you’re dealing with.

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Elizabeth Clayton: So

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um, I remember there was we were on FaceTime one one particular day.

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Elizabeth Clayton: So anyway, when I remember when he told me he was doing the podcast, I’m like, wow, that’s amazing.

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Elizabeth Clayton: You are totally born for to do that.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And I didn’t know you.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Right.

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Elizabeth Clayton: At the time I had no idea what this was going to sound like.

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Elizabeth Clayton: He just said you were the guru of all this.

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Randy Black: He was set on telling everybody I was the guy

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Elizabeth Clayton: You are and you were to him, let me tell you.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um, because I wouldn’t know how to even do any of this without you.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And I never 11 we well

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Elizabeth Clayton: From the beginning of July when y’all started this and I started listening and just every week I would enjoy it so much.

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Elizabeth Clayton: I had no idea that however many weeks later, here we are tonight, um, you know, um doing this.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um, you know, that third episode, what my what you and my dad talked about, you know, um, it really struck me, and I I I just that

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Elizabeth Clayton: My dad was not the type of pr you know, I don’t think my dad ever bought me a card or ever wrote me a message, um

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Randy Black: He wasn’t the openly sentimental person.

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Elizabeth Clayton: That was on his desk.

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Elizabeth Clayton: That was on his desk and um

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Elizabeth Clayton: But anyway, um, you know, I was thinking to myself recently, I said, man, my dad never actually wrote me

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Elizabeth Clayton: like anything like that I know of down on paper or a card or, you know, a message that can read, but

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Elizabeth Clayton: Right.

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Elizabeth Clayton: I know my dad is with us right now and he’s listening and and knows what’s going on and um

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Randy Black: Yeah, and it’s like you just like you said, he wasn’t

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Randy Black: He wasn’t that openly sentimental kind of person, but you know, I tell everybody the story of the last night I recorded with him

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Randy Black: And that, you know, we always finished up and he’d let Alfie run up and go to the bathroom and he’d get Alfie put him in the car and when as soon as Alfie’d be in the car, he’d shut the door

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Randy Black: He’d turn back around to me and it’d be the, hey Jim, love you, brother.

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Randy Black: And he’s like, I love you too.

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Randy Black: And he’d do fist bump or handshake or you know, I talked about the the when I talked at the funeral, I talked to that cheesy guy hug that every man in the world does, where you’re shaking hands and you pat him on the back.

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Randy Black: And he told me, he goes, Randy, I love you.

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Randy Black: And that wasn’t like that was that was not normal.

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Randy Black: That was not Jim Clayton normally.

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Randy Black: And you know, I look at it now, and you and I’ve talked about it, I look at it now and I’m wondering

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Randy Black: Did he think maybe something was gonna happen?

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Randy Black: You know, and you told me that when he left on Saturday after that, when he left from

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Randy Black: When he left that day, he kinda just kept waving.

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Randy Black: To to make sure he’s make sure you knew he was saying bye.

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Randy Black: Um well, yeah.

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Randy Black: It’s one of those things where we’re we’re looking at it now with a different perspective because we didn’t think we’d lose him.

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Randy Black: Um and we’ll we’ll talk about we’ll talk about that here in a second.

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Randy Black: You know, the I want I just want to, you know, fur you know, openly say here in this forum where we’re recording and people are going to hear it that

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Randy Black: I didn’t think this was gonna continue.

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Randy Black: I thought we were I thought I was done.

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Randy Black: I thought, you know, Jim’s gone.

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Randy Black: You know, I don’t I don’t think anybody’s gonna step up.

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Randy Black: I don’t think anybody wants to take that that seat

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Randy Black: Because there was there was only one Jim Clayton.

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Randy Black: And once you and I met, uh, because we had not met, we had never met in person until after he passed away.

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Randy Black: Um, and we had only talked on the phone that one night after we had recorded, that last night we recorded.

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Randy Black: And it was like we immediately had that friendship because we were going through this together.

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Randy Black: I can I can say that well, I can’t say that that your dad would have said that I was his best friend

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Randy Black: for those last six months where we worked and go on this and did all this work.

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Randy Black: Other than my wife, I talked to your dad more than anybody else in the world.

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Randy Black: Every day I talked to your dad.

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Randy Black: We were rocking.

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Randy Black: Once you and I we met, we started talking about things as we worked our way through and up to, you know, doing the the visitation and then services.

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Randy Black: And you were, you were, every, every time we talked, you were more of, I think I want to do this.

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Randy Black: I think I want to do this.

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Randy Black: I think he’d want me to do this.

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Randy Black: And then you’d be you we’d be sitting there like we were s I think we were standing at New Baptist at the night the before the visitation and you were standing there and you’re we’re watching the slideshow that I put together for you guys and you kinda looked at me and went

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Randy Black: And I just kind of went, well, okay, we’ll we’ll see what happens.

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Randy Black: And you’ve been you’ve been on fire wanting to go, wanting to do this.

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Randy Black: And the the thing for me is that I’m so happy at your excitement for wanting to do it.

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Randy Black: Because there’s some people who would be like, okay, I’m gonna do it because it was my dad.

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Randy Black: I’m gonna do it because of this.

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Randy Black: That’s not why you’re doing it.

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Randy Black: It’s part of it

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Randy Black: But you’re excited about it because you saw what he saw for the future.

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Randy Black: You saw what his goal was.

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Randy Black: And you want to keep that going and you want to keep building his legacy.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Well, you hit the nail on the head right there.

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Elizabeth Clayton: You were quite uh yeah, honestly, of all the people through the process.

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Elizabeth Clayton: But that that first that last night of y’all recording when I when you said, oh, before you ended, they somebody’s listening from Louisville.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um I was like, wow, they can tell where people are listening from.

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Elizabeth Clayton: That’s so cool.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um, and they said, Probably my daughter.

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Elizabeth Clayton: It’s probably your daughter.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Well, I had just I had come home that night and I had probably only tuned in for the last thirty minutes, um, been able to, ’cause I was on Facebook and I said, Oh, they’re c recording live.

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Elizabeth Clayton: I’m gonna click on it.

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Elizabeth Clayton: So um of course I went back and listened to the whole thing later, but um anyway, uh talking to you that night, I’ll never forget

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Elizabeth Clayton: Went I mean, you all literally hit end.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And the funny part about it was when you all did not end the podcast, you could still hear my dad talking.

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Elizabeth Clayton: The stream kept going and it was so funny.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And so anyway, the minute you ended it, I

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Elizabeth Clayton: FaceTime my dad and I remember seeing him answer the phone and I uh in my mind I just see this smile on his face and he

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Elizabeth Clayton: He looked so happy and y’all were talking and you know he first thing he said was, no, what are your habits?

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Coach Jim Clayton: You remember that?

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Elizabeth Clayton: And you know, we went through all of that and um

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Elizabeth Clayton: You know, it just that’s such a special memory in in in my mind and this getting to talk to you.

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Randy Black: Yeah.

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Randy Black: So while you’re talking about let’s let’s ’cause I’ve got some clips of that.

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Randy Black: So let’s let’s uh you know, this is the last episode and he’s talking about going to the concert, so let’s take a listen to that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, I’m watching a lot of videos of old

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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m going tomorrow to Lexington with my daughter to see a concert.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m going to see a group called Little River Band.

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Randy Black: Oh yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And a group called Three Dog Night.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: One is the loneliest number.

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Coach Jim Clayton: There you go.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so I remember all those guys looking at what’s that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now how come I’m not up there doing that?

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Coach Jim Clayton: One, I can’t sing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Two, I definitely can’t what?

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Coach Jim Clayton: But how’d those guys get to that way?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Same way.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Same exact thing.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well I can shoot a jump shot and teach that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They worked, they can do no They worked on that guitar, that keyboard, or whatever.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, whatever.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then he had this to add to it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: See, I’ll go watch that concert and I’ll be thinking about this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I’ll be thinking about what we talked about tonight.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Nice.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s where my brain goes.

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Randy Black: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I’ll be sharing it with my daughter.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She has no idea.

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Coach Jim Clayton: She might be listening.

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Randy Black: I mean that’s that’s a perfect example of Jim Clayton.

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Randy Black: He’s always like he’s he’s he’s always thinking.

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Randy Black: So what we just talked about, all this stuff that we talked about about habits and tools and

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Randy Black: He’s always thinking about it.

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Randy Black: He’s always learning.

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Randy Black: He’s always taking in the information.

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Randy Black: He’s synthesizing it.

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Randy Black: He’s doing everything with it.

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Randy Black: And then he’s always sharing because he’s like, I’m gonna go, but I’m gonna talk to her about this.

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Randy Black: I’m gonna tell her all about this.

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Randy Black: That was just, I mean, that was him.

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Randy Black: That was the perfect example.

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Randy Black: That was Jim Clayton.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And it really it’s so cool that you know, I hate it that that was the last recording for you guys, but um

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Elizabeth Clayton: You know, that was it’s that that night’s just a the special memory and then he like I said, him coming the next day and uh you know, I wasn’t sure if that would ever work out.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um I

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Elizabeth Clayton: for whenever I wanted my dad to come I could always get him to go to a concert with me if I planned it out in advance, but I never knew

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Elizabeth Clayton: how his treatments were gonna fall weekly.

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Elizabeth Clayton: If it was an off week for his treatment and it was a you know, Fridays were always good for him.

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Elizabeth Clayton: So it happened to be an off week

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Elizabeth Clayton: And even the week before I said, Dad, are you coming?

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Elizabeth Clayton: I didn’t buy the tickets till it the day before, just because I was watching the prices too.

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um, so anyway, um the fact that he

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Elizabeth Clayton: Um it I would it was just so exciting for me and um

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Elizabeth Clayton: You know, he uh uh like I said, he uh just didn’t get out as much as he used to.

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Elizabeth Clayton: And it wasn’t that he didn’t want to, he just was afraid something would happen if he got too far away from home

396
00:24:30,740 –> 00:24:34,980
Elizabeth Clayton: And so that particular night, I mean, i everything just was perfect.

397
00:24:34,980 –> 00:24:41,780
Elizabeth Clayton: And I’ll never forget I bought that that particular uh Little River Band came on first, which I thought it would have been opposite.

398
00:24:41,780 –> 00:24:42,980
Elizabeth Clayton: Three Dog Night

399
00:24:42,960 –> 00:24:46,000
Elizabeth Clayton: came on second and I thought it would be the opposite.

400
00:24:46,000 –> 00:24:53,040
Elizabeth Clayton: So anyway, um Little River Band came on and they started at seven thirty and went till about what?

401
00:24:53,419 –> 00:24:54,860
Elizabeth Clayton: 845 ish.

402
00:24:54,860 –> 00:25:00,299
Elizabeth Clayton: And so at the end they had these 50th anniversary guitars.

403
00:25:00,299 –> 00:25:02,059
Elizabeth Clayton: Um they had the full size ones.

404
00:25:02,059 –> 00:25:06,140
Elizabeth Clayton: And so we have little mini replicas that we um had made

405
00:25:06,320 –> 00:25:11,520
Elizabeth Clayton: And one of them was for the song Night Owl and the other one was for the song Take It Easy on Me.

406
00:25:11,520 –> 00:25:17,360
Elizabeth Clayton: And so um of course I when the concert ended, they said, Come up to the merchandise booth, you know, yada yada.

407
00:25:17,360 –> 00:25:19,360
Elizabeth Clayton: And so of course I wanted to buy a t shirt

408
00:25:19,100 –> 00:25:30,700
Elizabeth Clayton: So I went up there and I remember getting in line and this woman was standing there with me and we started talking and I said, Oh my gosh, I want to get my dad something, but I don’t wanna, you know, didn’t really know what to get him and not a t-shirt.

409
00:25:30,700 –> 00:25:33,820
Elizabeth Clayton: He definitely didn’t need that, that’s for sure.

410
00:25:32,919 –> 00:25:37,320
Elizabeth Clayton: Um, but uh that guitar just kept playing in my mind.

411
00:25:37,320 –> 00:25:41,080
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, anyway, we got she goes, you need to get your dad that guitar

412
00:25:41,260 –> 00:25:49,020
Elizabeth Clayton: And so of course Night Owl is my favorite song and they had him in these really cool boxes and so I remember I got my T shirt, got the guitar, and I went down and

413
00:25:48,900 –> 00:25:51,700
Elizabeth Clayton: He was talking to everybody all around where we sat.

414
00:25:51,700 –> 00:25:53,300
Elizabeth Clayton: Everybody was just so nice.

415
00:25:53,300 –> 00:25:55,540
Elizabeth Clayton: And they were all in his generation too.

416
00:25:55,540 –> 00:25:57,060
Elizabeth Clayton: I was probably the youngest one there.

417
00:25:57,060 –> 00:25:57,540
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

418
00:25:57,540 –> 00:26:00,660
Elizabeth Clayton: But um anyway, I gave him that guitar

419
00:26:00,600 –> 00:26:07,320
Elizabeth Clayton: And he was like, wow, I said, oh, you can set that somewhere and remember this night and you know, it just it’s just a good memory.

420
00:26:07,320 –> 00:26:12,600
Elizabeth Clayton: And so it wasn’t then, but after the concert um was over, um

421
00:26:13,440 –> 00:26:20,880
Elizabeth Clayton: We went to the bathroom and I stood out and, you know, at one point and I remember he hand, you know, or something, I handed him back the guitar and he made a comment.

422
00:26:20,880 –> 00:26:23,679
Elizabeth Clayton: He goes, Well, you’re just gonna get this back one day

423
00:26:23,740 –> 00:26:25,980
Elizabeth Clayton: And I said, well, not for a long time.

424
00:26:26,460 –> 00:26:31,020
Elizabeth Clayton: And so anyway, that was like the first thing that happened that night that kind of struck me.

425
00:26:31,180 –> 00:26:32,860
Elizabeth Clayton: It really just set with me.

426
00:26:32,860 –> 00:26:34,060
Elizabeth Clayton: And I’m thinking

427
00:26:34,040 –> 00:26:45,320
Elizabeth Clayton: Something when he said that, it just you know, s something that stuck with me and I just couldn’t forget those words because I was always afraid in my mind something was gonna happen to my dad, you know, with him being sick and all that.

428
00:26:45,320 –> 00:26:46,200
Elizabeth Clayton: So anyway

429
00:26:46,140 –> 00:26:52,940
Elizabeth Clayton: the next day, like what you just prefaced about, you know, that morning we got up, I fixed him breakfast and we sat and talked.

430
00:26:52,940 –> 00:26:54,860
Elizabeth Clayton: I remember he FaceTimed my two nieces.

431
00:26:54,860 –> 00:26:56,060
Elizabeth Clayton: We talked to them.

432
00:26:55,800 –> 00:26:59,080
Elizabeth Clayton: And no, he was always the type of person he had to get on the road and get back home.

433
00:26:59,080 –> 00:27:00,520
Elizabeth Clayton: He had something else to do.

434
00:27:00,520 –> 00:27:05,080
Elizabeth Clayton: He he not that he didn’t want to spend more time with me, but he was always on to the next thing.

435
00:27:05,040 –> 00:27:13,760
Elizabeth Clayton: So when he got we went out to the car, something told me, you need I’d never been in this particular car that he had gotten, um, because it was a newer car for him.

436
00:27:13,760 –> 00:27:16,720
Elizabeth Clayton: So I said, something told me go sit in the car with him

437
00:27:16,820 –> 00:27:26,180
Elizabeth Clayton: And so I did and sat there for a few minutes and um I remember he I said, Okay, well, call me when you get home, you know, whatever and then

438
00:27:26,100 –> 00:27:28,660
Elizabeth Clayton: I remember when he backed out and he turned and looked at me.

439
00:27:28,660 –> 00:27:32,820
Elizabeth Clayton: He looked so much like my grandmother, his mother, when he turned and waved at me.

440
00:27:32,820 –> 00:27:36,580
Elizabeth Clayton: And it’s like something told me, like, do not forget that moment.

441
00:27:36,640 –> 00:27:40,880
Elizabeth Clayton: And it just really the whole day, it was a dreary day like today.

442
00:27:40,880 –> 00:27:43,440
Elizabeth Clayton: And I was just like with the guitar thing.

443
00:27:43,440 –> 00:27:46,160
Elizabeth Clayton: It just never it didn’t leave me.

444
00:27:46,160 –> 00:27:46,960
Elizabeth Clayton: And um

445
00:27:47,820 –> 00:27:53,500
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, it’s just you have these moments in life where y it’s it’s like is somebody trying to tell me something?

446
00:27:53,500 –> 00:27:54,300
Randy Black: Right.

447
00:27:54,300 –> 00:28:01,260
Elizabeth Clayton: And I felt like like what you’re talking about when he’s he that night that he hugged you and said he loved you, like that was different

448
00:28:01,400 –> 00:28:09,320
Elizabeth Clayton: Um, you know, so um I’m just so glad that I was able to spend that time with him and um you know then of course.

449
00:28:10,600 –> 00:28:14,200
Randy Black: That was Saturday and he went to the hospital Wednesday.

450
00:28:13,560 –> 00:28:16,200
Elizabeth Clayton: So Wednesday, five days later, yeah.

451
00:28:16,200 –> 00:28:21,960
Elizabeth Clayton: Um and uh, you know, it just it’s shocking to say the least, but um

452
00:28:22,900 –> 00:28:25,380
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, it’s what do you do?

453
00:28:25,380 –> 00:28:25,940
Elizabeth Clayton: Yeah.

454
00:28:25,940 –> 00:28:28,100
Elizabeth Clayton: Um, it’s your time, it’s your time.

455
00:28:28,980 –> 00:28:31,300
Elizabeth Clayton: Um, but um

456
00:28:32,679 –> 00:28:33,240
Randy Black: Yeah.

457
00:28:33,960 –> 00:28:37,240
Randy Black: Let me let’s let’s let’s let’s lay off for that for a minute.

458
00:28:37,240 –> 00:28:39,720
Randy Black: You know, we’ll we’ll cry some more here in a minute.

459
00:28:39,720 –> 00:28:39,960
Randy Black: Um

460
00:28:40,360 –> 00:28:43,799
Randy Black: ‘Cause I wanna I wanna talk about here in a minute about what happened, what actually happened.

461
00:28:43,799 –> 00:28:47,000
Randy Black: But let’s let’s keep things on a no on a higher note for just a minute.

462
00:28:47,000 –> 00:28:49,000
Randy Black: And I wanna I wanna kinda share some

463
00:28:49,340 –> 00:28:51,900
Randy Black: some Jim Clayton stories, some Jim Clayton stuff.

464
00:28:51,900 –> 00:28:54,780
Randy Black: Like because he was he was absolutely one of a kind.

465
00:28:54,780 –> 00:28:57,020
Randy Black: There will never be another Jim Clayton.

466
00:28:57,020 –> 00:28:58,620
Randy Black: I don’t care what anybody says.

467
00:28:58,600 –> 00:29:05,400
Randy Black: I don’t care what anybody thinks, he was like when God created him, he broke the mold, and that was it.

468
00:29:05,400 –> 00:29:06,280
Randy Black: It was it

469
00:29:06,720 –> 00:29:10,720
Randy Black: Um, and everybody who knows it, truly knew him, knows that.

470
00:29:10,720 –> 00:29:15,200
Randy Black: You know, he had this this wisdom about him, this sense of humor.

471
00:29:15,200 –> 00:29:18,800
Randy Black: Um, his approach to everything was just so

472
00:29:19,940 –> 00:29:21,540
Randy Black: So no nonsense.

473
00:29:21,540 –> 00:29:22,580
Randy Black: He didn’t put up with it.

474
00:29:22,580 –> 00:29:24,660
Randy Black: He wanted to make things, this is the way it’s gotta be.

475
00:29:24,660 –> 00:29:25,540
Randy Black: We gotta do it this way.

476
00:29:25,540 –> 00:29:26,980
Randy Black: And here’s why it’s gonna work.

477
00:29:26,980 –> 00:29:28,260
Randy Black: And that shaped

478
00:29:28,620 –> 00:29:34,620
Randy Black: every single thing that he and I did together in in in starting this and working on it.

479
00:29:34,620 –> 00:29:37,260
Randy Black: And he used to say all kinds of little things.

480
00:29:37,260 –> 00:29:39,420
Randy Black: He had those I called them Jimmyisms.

481
00:29:39,420 –> 00:29:41,660
Randy Black: The little the little things he would say that

482
00:29:41,860 –> 00:29:44,100
Randy Black: Just you you just had to stop and think for a second.

483
00:29:44,100 –> 00:29:45,539
Randy Black: Did he did he really say that?

484
00:29:45,539 –> 00:29:47,299
Randy Black: And what in the world does that mean?

485
00:29:47,299 –> 00:29:53,779
Randy Black: And I pulled a couple clips, like just some of the things that he said that I just it just love and they stick with me.

486
00:29:53,779 –> 00:29:55,539
Randy Black: And I say ’em myself now

487
00:29:55,540 –> 00:29:58,260
Randy Black: Because that’s that’s how impactful they were.

488
00:29:58,260 –> 00:30:08,340
Randy Black: So here here’s the first one, because we were talking about um we were talking about an episode about, you know, finding ways to to get to the same conclusion.

489
00:30:08,140 –> 00:30:10,060
Randy Black: And not actually having the same path.

490
00:30:10,060 –> 00:30:11,180
Randy Black: And this is what he said about it.

491
00:30:11,500 –> 00:30:13,260
Coach Jim Clayton: All roads lead somewhere.

492
00:30:13,580 –> 00:30:16,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Some people just got better roadmaps or GPS.

493
00:30:16,380 –> 00:30:21,260
Randy Black: I mean, it’s it’s such a a simple statement, but so profound

494
00:30:21,760 –> 00:30:23,039
Randy Black: They all go somewhere.

495
00:30:23,120 –> 00:30:27,279
Randy Black: They’re all gonna get you somewhere, but some people just get there better than other people do.

496
00:30:27,279 –> 00:30:31,840
Randy Black: I mean it’s just you think about that, it’s like, well yeah, that was that was Jim Clayton.

497
00:30:31,840 –> 00:30:32,880
Randy Black: That’s that’s what he thought.

498
00:30:33,200 –> 00:30:34,880
Randy Black: You know, and we talked about

499
00:30:35,480 –> 00:30:37,640
Randy Black: um this whole process.

500
00:30:37,640 –> 00:30:39,080
Randy Black: And this was in the first episode.

501
00:30:39,080 –> 00:30:43,720
Randy Black: We talked about the show and what we were going to do and how we were going to handle it.

502
00:30:43,620 –> 00:30:48,900
Randy Black: And, you know, a lot of people, because, you know, I said in the very beginning, this show was his vehicle.

503
00:30:48,900 –> 00:30:56,420
Randy Black: This was his way to take all these things from all this time and coaching and teaching and everything he’s done and and sharing those ideas.

504
00:30:56,420 –> 00:30:58,100
Randy Black: He wanted to get them out.

505
00:30:57,740 –> 00:31:00,540
Randy Black: And I said, this is this is Jimmy’s vehicle.

506
00:31:00,540 –> 00:31:01,420
Randy Black: This is his way.

507
00:31:01,420 –> 00:31:02,860
Randy Black: This is his show.

508
00:31:02,860 –> 00:31:04,780
Randy Black: And he didn’t feel that way

509
00:31:05,820 –> 00:31:07,260
Coach Jim Clayton: And here’s what he said.

510
00:31:07,260 –> 00:31:09,180
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, everybody talks about this and that.

511
00:31:09,180 –> 00:31:11,420
Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody talks about me, me, me, me, me.

512
00:31:11,420 –> 00:31:13,580
Coach Jim Clayton: This is not about me, me, me, me, me.

513
00:31:13,580 –> 00:31:15,180
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s about we we we we.

514
00:31:15,180 –> 00:31:15,500
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

515
00:31:15,740 –> 00:31:17,820
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not a me show, it’s a we show

516
00:31:17,940 –> 00:31:25,380
Coach Jim Clayton: And uh there’s power in numbers when everybody’s got the right agenda, they all on the right path, they got the right mindset.

517
00:31:25,380 –> 00:31:28,419
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s amazing what can be a company.

518
00:31:28,580 –> 00:31:29,539
Coach Jim Clayton: Amazing

519
00:31:29,820 –> 00:31:39,820
Randy Black: He from day one, when I sat down and we talked about this and started making plans for this, he said, at some point, I think we’re going to make some money.

520
00:31:39,400 –> 00:31:41,880
Randy Black: I said, Jimmy, most people don’t make money on podcasting.

521
00:31:41,880 –> 00:31:43,160
Randy Black: He goes, well, we’re going to do it.

522
00:31:43,160 –> 00:31:43,960
Randy Black: I said, okay.

523
00:31:43,960 –> 00:31:47,080
Randy Black: Well, if if uh if we get there, we get there.

524
00:31:47,080 –> 00:31:48,440
Randy Black: He goes, and we’re going to split it.

525
00:31:48,440 –> 00:31:49,480
Randy Black: You’re going to get half of it.

526
00:31:49,480 –> 00:31:51,480
Randy Black: And I said, Jimmy, I don’t want half of it.

527
00:31:51,480 –> 00:31:52,360
Randy Black: This is your show.

528
00:31:52,360 –> 00:31:53,880
Randy Black: He goes, nope.

529
00:31:53,160 –> 00:31:54,040
Randy Black: You’re helping me.

530
00:31:54,040 –> 00:31:55,400
Randy Black: I’m gonna take care of you.

531
00:31:55,640 –> 00:31:56,520
Randy Black: That’s your dad.

532
00:31:56,520 –> 00:31:57,480
Randy Black: That’s Jim Clayton.

533
00:31:57,480 –> 00:31:59,240
Randy Black: That’s who he was.

534
00:31:59,240 –> 00:32:03,240
Randy Black: And the the the one the one thing he said that I say the most

535
00:32:03,640 –> 00:32:07,160
Randy Black: Um, out of everything he’s ever said to me is this one here.

536
00:32:07,160 –> 00:32:09,960
Coach Jim Clayton: And so today’s a gift, that’s why they call it the present.

537
00:32:09,960 –> 00:32:13,240
Randy Black: Today’s a gift, that’s why they call it the present.

538
00:32:13,419 –> 00:32:14,059
Randy Black: Mm-hmm.

539
00:32:14,059 –> 00:32:15,740
Randy Black: That’s that’s so profound.

540
00:32:15,740 –> 00:32:17,980
Randy Black: It’s so simple and so profound.

541
00:32:17,980 –> 00:32:20,700
Randy Black: And he had so many things he said like that.

542
00:32:20,700 –> 00:32:21,900
Randy Black: You’ve got his phone.

543
00:32:21,900 –> 00:32:27,660
Randy Black: You’ve got all those videos and things that he had that he would post on social media that you’re now starting to post.

544
00:32:27,060 –> 00:32:28,340
Randy Black: on his accounts.

545
00:32:28,340 –> 00:32:32,660
Randy Black: And it’s just amazing the the stuff that he would say.

546
00:32:32,660 –> 00:32:41,700
Randy Black: And there’s there was always, no matter what he said, no matter what was happening around him, there was always a lesson that he would find a way to get tucked in there.

547
00:32:41,440 –> 00:32:44,320
Randy Black: To make sure you knew that you still need to be learning.

548
00:32:44,320 –> 00:32:46,480
Randy Black: And that was that was your dad.

549
00:32:46,480 –> 00:32:51,679
Randy Black: And I, you know, that’s that’s the reason why I had so much fun with him doing this show.

550
00:32:51,900 –> 00:32:52,780
Elizabeth Clayton: Mm-hmm.

551
00:32:52,780 –> 00:32:55,980
Elizabeth Clayton: Um well you know, it’s funny with that last clip.

552
00:32:55,980 –> 00:32:58,860
Elizabeth Clayton: You know the the beginning part of that quote, right?

553
00:32:58,860 –> 00:33:00,700
Elizabeth Clayton: You’re missing about half of it.

554
00:33:00,700 –> 00:33:01,420
Randy Black: What’s that?

555
00:33:01,420 –> 00:33:03,420
Elizabeth Clayton: I don’t the well um

556
00:33:04,140 –> 00:33:10,700
Elizabeth Clayton: He would always say, and of course I’ve said it most of my life, yesterday’s history, tomorrow’s a mystery, today is a gift.

557
00:33:10,700 –> 00:33:12,140
Elizabeth Clayton: That’s why they call it the present.

558
00:33:12,140 –> 00:33:12,780
Randy Black: Yeah.

559
00:33:12,580 –> 00:33:14,740
Randy Black: See, he never pulled the full one out on me.

560
00:33:14,740 –> 00:33:24,900
Randy Black: But um well I know like I I I can go back and I can look at I look at what I said at at the funeral and I and I I paraphrased him.

561
00:33:24,660 –> 00:33:31,940
Randy Black: And I said, um, he would say, you can’t look back at yesterday because it’s the past, and you can’t look at tomorrow because tomorrow isn’t a day.

562
00:33:31,940 –> 00:33:34,500
Randy Black: You have to live for today because it’s a gift.

563
00:33:34,500 –> 00:33:36,420
Randy Black: That’s why they call it the present.

564
00:33:36,100 –> 00:33:37,220
Randy Black: And at 12.

565
00:33:37,220 –> 00:33:40,100
Randy Black: 01, the day is going to reset.

566
00:33:40,100 –> 00:33:43,940
Randy Black: So don’t let yesterday be better than today.

567
00:33:43,940 –> 00:33:45,299
Randy Black: That’s just powerful.

568
00:33:45,299 –> 00:33:48,100
Randy Black: And that’s you know that’s the kind of stuff that I’m like, man.

569
00:33:48,560 –> 00:33:49,840
Randy Black: I miss that.

570
00:33:49,840 –> 00:33:52,160
Randy Black: I miss those little messages he’d send me through.

571
00:33:52,160 –> 00:33:56,720
Randy Black: Like he’d just send me random stuff and it would be those little things, those little sayings.

572
00:33:56,720 –> 00:34:00,320
Randy Black: And the best one was he’d be trying to promote the show to people.

573
00:34:00,720 –> 00:34:04,560
Randy Black: and send out like clips and stuff that I’d post or notes I’d post.

574
00:34:04,560 –> 00:34:05,920
Randy Black: And he’d send them to me.

575
00:34:06,080 –> 00:34:07,200
Randy Black: He’d send them to me too.

576
00:34:07,200 –> 00:34:09,520
Randy Black: And I’m like, Jimmy, I’m the one that posted this.

577
00:34:09,520 –> 00:34:11,600
Randy Black: He goes, I know, but it’s still good.

578
00:34:11,620 –> 00:34:16,100
Randy Black: So that’s just that’s just what it the way it was and it was great and I loved it.

579
00:34:16,100 –> 00:34:23,140
Randy Black: But like earlier this evening, before we got on and recorded, you told me a um a story.

580
00:34:23,159 –> 00:34:28,600
Randy Black: Uh, or talk to me about a story your dad had shared all the way back in the very first episode of the show.

581
00:34:28,600 –> 00:34:31,879
Randy Black: And I pulled it so we can listen to it.

582
00:34:31,600 –> 00:34:33,200
Randy Black: So I want to share that story.

583
00:34:33,200 –> 00:34:37,440
Randy Black: It’s about two minutes long, two and a half, two minutes and twelve seconds, maybe.

584
00:34:37,760 –> 00:34:40,960
Randy Black: But I’m going to play it and then we’ll let you talk about it, okay?

585
00:34:40,960 –> 00:34:41,760
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

586
00:34:42,320 –> 00:34:44,159
Coach Jim Clayton: This is how I got the idea to do it.

587
00:34:44,159 –> 00:34:46,000
Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t come up with it.

588
00:34:46,000 –> 00:34:50,879
Coach Jim Clayton: And I was reading a story about this this this this uh grocery store

589
00:34:51,679 –> 00:34:55,760
Coach Jim Clayton: And they have three or four lines of people in there, you know, like you’ll go to the store.

590
00:34:55,760 –> 00:35:01,359
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, all of a sudden everybody’s in this one line that the cashier is ever going, hey, we’ll take you over here.

591
00:35:01,359 –> 00:35:03,359
Coach Jim Clayton: We don’t want to get in that line

592
00:35:03,620 –> 00:35:07,060
Coach Jim Clayton: So they’re looking like, why do they not want to get in that line?

593
00:35:07,060 –> 00:35:12,420
Coach Jim Clayton: Well there’s a little boy that was bagging groceries and that was when it was brown paper bags, not plastic.

594
00:35:12,260 –> 00:35:18,500
Coach Jim Clayton: And every time he bagged a grocery, he put little words of wisdom in that thing, like your fortune.

595
00:35:18,500 –> 00:35:20,020
Coach Jim Clayton: Like a fortune cookie.

596
00:35:20,020 –> 00:35:23,780
Coach Jim Clayton: And they were in there wanting to get that fortune for it to die.

597
00:35:23,100 –> 00:35:25,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m thinking to myself, man, that is cool.

598
00:35:25,820 –> 00:35:27,580
Coach Jim Clayton: What if I did that?

599
00:35:27,900 –> 00:35:32,700
Coach Jim Clayton: So instead of talking myself out of it like most people do, I didn’t know anything about a computer.

600
00:35:32,700 –> 00:35:35,500
Coach Jim Clayton: I couldn’t type, couldn’t paste, couldn’t do anything

601
00:35:35,100 –> 00:35:36,540
Coach Jim Clayton: So I got one of my boys in class.

602
00:35:36,620 –> 00:35:37,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, Well, you gonna help me do this?

603
00:35:37,900 –> 00:35:38,940
Coach Jim Clayton: He goes, Yeah, I’ll help you.

604
00:35:38,940 –> 00:35:41,100
Coach Jim Clayton: So I gave him the first quote.

605
00:35:41,100 –> 00:35:43,420
Coach Jim Clayton: And we did 25 on the first page.

606
00:35:43,420 –> 00:35:46,060
Coach Jim Clayton: So I cut it out in little squares, put it in my pocket.

607
00:35:46,060 –> 00:35:49,500
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I ran the the cafeteria.

608
00:35:48,300 –> 00:35:50,060
Coach Jim Clayton: And so I so I just got them in there.

609
00:35:50,060 –> 00:35:52,140
Coach Jim Clayton: They’re all on their lines doing their getting ready to eat.

610
00:35:52,140 –> 00:35:54,860
Coach Jim Clayton: And I go, yeah, anybody want you want to hear the word for today?

611
00:35:54,860 –> 00:35:56,300
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, cuz what’s the word?

612
00:35:56,300 –> 00:35:58,380
Coach Jim Clayton: I’d hand them one of those little strips

613
00:35:58,200 –> 00:36:00,040
Coach Jim Clayton: They go, well, that’s cool.

614
00:36:00,040 –> 00:36:01,160
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, why?

615
00:36:01,160 –> 00:36:02,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Use it.

616
00:36:02,200 –> 00:36:04,839
Coach Jim Clayton: So the next day, they won’t know the word of the day.

617
00:36:04,839 –> 00:36:09,320
Coach Jim Clayton: So that 25 went to 50, went to 75, went to 100, got up to five or 600.

618
00:36:09,320 –> 00:36:11,160
Coach Jim Clayton: And today I was passing out

619
00:36:11,059 –> 00:36:13,779
Coach Jim Clayton: And then I started thinking, man, I could do this a whole lot.

620
00:36:13,779 –> 00:36:15,539
Coach Jim Clayton: Because that was before social media.

621
00:36:16,339 –> 00:36:21,059
Coach Jim Clayton: So now I’ve kind of taken the same thing and turned it.

622
00:36:21,420 –> 00:36:26,220
Coach Jim Clayton: A little bit now you don’t have to be in the line in the cafeteria to get the word for today.

623
00:36:26,220 –> 00:36:27,500
Coach Jim Clayton: You can get it every day.

624
00:36:27,980 –> 00:36:32,140
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s this is going to help share that even to a bigger audience.

625
00:36:32,380 –> 00:36:34,780
Coach Jim Clayton: And what I found out is, which I’m sure you know,

626
00:36:35,900 –> 00:36:38,940
Coach Jim Clayton: A lot of people need to hear positive vibes every day.

627
00:36:38,940 –> 00:36:39,340
Randy Black: Yes.

628
00:36:39,340 –> 00:36:40,700
Coach Jim Clayton: But when I send those things out.

629
00:36:40,780 –> 00:36:42,140
Randy Black: We’ll talk I’ll talk about that in a second.

630
00:36:42,140 –> 00:36:42,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

631
00:36:42,620 –> 00:36:46,460
Coach Jim Clayton: I send that stuff out and they send that back and go, Coach, I needed to hear that today.

632
00:36:46,460 –> 00:36:47,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Thanks for sharing it, Coach.

633
00:36:47,980 –> 00:36:50,060
Coach Jim Clayton: I needed that today.

634
00:36:49,200 –> 00:36:55,520
Coach Jim Clayton: And I go, if it helps one person to me, it’s worth it.

635
00:36:55,520 –> 00:36:57,760
Randy Black: So what did you tell me about that?

636
00:36:59,540 –> 00:37:08,820
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, um, I remember listening to that episode and of course I was reminded of it today when I was sitting here looking at our notes about the show.

637
00:37:08,820 –> 00:37:11,380
Elizabeth Clayton: And um, you know, I didn’t know

638
00:37:11,820 –> 00:37:23,820
Elizabeth Clayton: what inspired him to start when I was in high school ’cause of what uh you know, I I don’t remember exactly what year he started doing that where he would cut the quotes out and hand them out to the kids in the in the when he would um

639
00:37:23,880 –> 00:37:32,680
Elizabeth Clayton: We had four lunch periods at Huntington High and they were, you know, forty minutes apiece, whatever, but he was the person that when you came through there, if you cut the line

640
00:37:32,700 –> 00:37:33,900
Elizabeth Clayton: He gave you table duty.

641
00:37:33,900 –> 00:37:38,300
Elizabeth Clayton: Or if you did anything in that lunch period that was out of line, you got table duty.

642
00:37:38,300 –> 00:37:43,180
Elizabeth Clayton: He was, you know, like the referee or the he he watched over everybody.

643
00:37:43,180 –> 00:37:44,619
Elizabeth Clayton: So anyway, um

644
00:37:45,040 –> 00:37:49,520
Elizabeth Clayton: I had no idea where he got the idea to hand those quotes out.

645
00:37:49,520 –> 00:37:53,360
Elizabeth Clayton: And so when he started talking about that, I said, oh my gosh, that is so cool.

646
00:37:53,360 –> 00:37:56,160
Elizabeth Clayton: Um well of course that was that was on the first episode, right?

647
00:37:56,160 –> 00:37:56,800
Elizabeth Clayton: Yeah

648
00:37:56,740 –> 00:37:58,100
Elizabeth Clayton: When you talked about that.

649
00:37:58,100 –> 00:38:04,020
Elizabeth Clayton: So, you know, um, like I said, when I was in high school, um, I loved

650
00:38:04,460 –> 00:38:09,740
Elizabeth Clayton: the fact I my freshman, sophomore, and junior year, I would ride to school with him every day.

651
00:38:09,740 –> 00:38:14,220
Elizabeth Clayton: And I was, you know, I didn’t have him for class, but I’d see him throughout the day all day long.

652
00:38:14,220 –> 00:38:17,100
Elizabeth Clayton: And I was always so inspired to have my dad

653
00:38:17,059 –> 00:38:23,779
Elizabeth Clayton: you know, at school with me, um, not only was he my dad, but everybody just loved him and he got along with everybody.

654
00:38:23,779 –> 00:38:26,180
Elizabeth Clayton: He was always, you know, making people feel good and

655
00:38:26,440 –> 00:38:29,480
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, I was always so excited when he started hanging those out.

656
00:38:29,480 –> 00:38:33,320
Elizabeth Clayton: Um, I would come through the lunch line and I’m like, Dad, what’s the quote?

657
00:38:33,320 –> 00:38:34,200
Elizabeth Clayton: You know.

658
00:38:34,200 –> 00:38:34,520
Elizabeth Clayton: Um

659
00:38:35,020 –> 00:38:49,339
Elizabeth Clayton: So um I guess what I started doing when I get home from school, I had a little plastic container with a lid, and I started putting those little strips of paper in this plastic container.

660
00:38:49,280 –> 00:38:57,040
Elizabeth Clayton: And you know, I don’t I mean, I’m sure most majority of them they’re in there, but I forgot

661
00:38:56,940 –> 00:38:58,140
Elizabeth Clayton: I even did that.

662
00:38:58,140 –> 00:39:01,020
Elizabeth Clayton: And that was twenty plus years ago.

663
00:39:01,020 –> 00:39:01,820
Elizabeth Clayton: Okay.

664
00:39:01,820 –> 00:39:03,820
Elizabeth Clayton: Um, even longer than that.

665
00:39:03,820 –> 00:39:07,500
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, anyway, when I came home, um

666
00:39:08,420 –> 00:39:20,260
Elizabeth Clayton: And when my dad after my dad got sick and was in the hospital, um, I started going through one of his cabinets looking for something, and I came across that container and I said, Oh my gosh, this used to sit

667
00:39:20,260 –> 00:39:26,500
Elizabeth Clayton: on my shelf in my bedroom, my dad must have taken it and, you know, put it in here.

668
00:39:26,500 –> 00:39:33,700
Elizabeth Clayton: And maybe, you know, that somehow when he saw that, I don’t know when he saw that, but maybe that, you know, brought him in some inspiration

669
00:39:33,640 –> 00:39:35,000
Elizabeth Clayton: I have no idea.

670
00:39:35,000 –> 00:39:37,480
Elizabeth Clayton: But um I took it to the hospital with me.

671
00:39:37,480 –> 00:39:43,559
Elizabeth Clayton: And uh I set it on the the the the table next to his bed and of course he couldn’t talk at that point.

672
00:39:43,559 –> 00:39:46,599
Elizabeth Clayton: But he could hear me and I said, Dad, look what I found

673
00:39:46,300 –> 00:39:50,780
Elizabeth Clayton: And I said, wow, this was, you know, you talked about it in your your first episode.

674
00:39:50,780 –> 00:39:56,060
Elizabeth Clayton: And um, you know, I I didn’t know the backstory of why you started doing this.

675
00:39:56,060 –> 00:39:59,500
Elizabeth Clayton: But as we sat, I sat in the hospital with him that week

676
00:39:59,420 –> 00:40:02,860
Elizabeth Clayton: Every night I’d make him listen to your all’s podcast.

677
00:40:02,860 –> 00:40:07,500
Elizabeth Clayton: And I said, you know, one of the things he always said was, Tough times don’t last, tough people do.

678
00:40:07,500 –> 00:40:09,340
Elizabeth Clayton: And so I’d spend the night with him and

679
00:40:09,640 –> 00:40:13,799
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, I’d s I’d I’d I’d say, Dad, you need to listen to your own words here.

680
00:40:13,799 –> 00:40:22,599
Elizabeth Clayton: I know you can’t respond back, but I said, you’re hearing me loud and clear, and I’ve got I said, I I brought that little container with me and said it and I said, I’ve got this here too

681
00:40:22,200 –> 00:40:26,680
Elizabeth Clayton: I just want you to know I found it and um it’ll be here when you wake up.

682
00:40:26,680 –> 00:40:31,880
Elizabeth Clayton: But um you know it just uh there’s something about throughout my life

683
00:40:32,140 –> 00:40:42,299
Elizabeth Clayton: you know, hearing my dad talk and all of the inspirational things that he said or did, or whether it was those little quotes, um, you know, it just always stuck with me.

684
00:40:42,320 –> 00:40:51,840
Elizabeth Clayton: And there’s certain things he’s always said that, you know, I can repeat verbatim, but um, you know, just all the things that he did leading up to this point in his life.

685
00:40:51,840 –> 00:40:54,560
Elizabeth Clayton: And, you know, when you guys started the podcast and

686
00:40:54,400 –> 00:41:01,440
Elizabeth Clayton: The things that he said in those el eleven episodes, um I there you know, there’s things that I never knew.

687
00:41:01,440 –> 00:41:02,480
Elizabeth Clayton: And um

688
00:41:03,059 –> 00:41:09,380
Elizabeth Clayton: uh you know, listening to those and the fact that you all were able to record those, those are things I’ll listen to for the rest of my life.

689
00:41:09,380 –> 00:41:15,619
Elizabeth Clayton: Those are the last two and a half months of my dad’s life that, you know, he he uh I mean it’s just it’s like priceless.

690
00:41:15,619 –> 00:41:16,500
Elizabeth Clayton: I mean

691
00:41:16,620 –> 00:41:21,260
Elizabeth Clayton: It um I’m so thankful that, you know, you all were able to work together.

692
00:41:21,260 –> 00:41:25,900
Elizabeth Clayton: You were able to help each other, and you know, you had the brains to help him.

693
00:41:25,740 –> 00:41:26,780
Elizabeth Clayton: Facilitate some of that.

694
00:41:27,420 –> 00:41:28,700
Randy Black: Brains is the right word.

695
00:41:28,700 –> 00:41:32,300
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, you had the the technical uh the technical ability.

696
00:41:37,940 –> 00:41:44,820
Elizabeth Clayton: And um, you know, hearing you talk, uh, I mean, you’re you sound like I’m like, wow.

697
00:41:44,820 –> 00:41:50,820
Elizabeth Clayton: Hearing you guys talk on that podcast, it it sounded like y’all been doing this for years, honestly

698
00:41:50,700 –> 00:41:53,579
Randy Black: And I was just blown away by your ability.

699
00:41:54,220 –> 00:41:56,060
Randy Black: It took me one episode.

700
00:41:56,060 –> 00:41:58,460
Randy Black: We recorded the first episode.

701
00:41:58,460 –> 00:42:02,460
Randy Black: And once I had him through that first one, I said, okay, here’s what’s happening.

702
00:42:02,460 –> 00:42:05,420
Randy Black: Next time, we’re going live to the recording.

703
00:42:05,340 –> 00:42:07,820
Randy Black: We’re just gonna hit we’re gonna do queue all the music.

704
00:42:07,820 –> 00:42:08,780
Randy Black: We’re gonna go through it all.

705
00:42:08,780 –> 00:42:11,980
Randy Black: We’re gonna go through the segments, cue all the transitions, we’re gonna do it all live.

706
00:42:11,980 –> 00:42:13,660
Randy Black: And he went, okay.

707
00:42:13,740 –> 00:42:15,020
Randy Black: And that’s what we did.

708
00:42:15,020 –> 00:42:16,940
Randy Black: And yeah, that’s like I told you today.

709
00:42:16,940 –> 00:42:18,060
Randy Black: That’s what we’re gonna do.

710
00:42:18,060 –> 00:42:19,820
Randy Black: And if we mess up, it’s okay.

711
00:42:19,820 –> 00:42:23,420
Randy Black: We’ll fix it and post and we’ll keep working on it and we’ll get there.

712
00:42:23,059 –> 00:42:24,180
Randy Black: Because I hate editing.

713
00:42:24,180 –> 00:42:25,539
Randy Black: I’m just going to say that publicly.

714
00:42:25,539 –> 00:42:26,420
Randy Black: I hate editing.

715
00:42:26,420 –> 00:42:27,220
Randy Black: It’s not fun.

716
00:42:27,220 –> 00:42:28,020
Randy Black: It’s boring.

717
00:42:28,020 –> 00:42:29,220
Randy Black: It’s tedious.

718
00:42:29,220 –> 00:42:36,500
Randy Black: But uh, you know, it’s it it it it it helped tremendously that he and I had the existing relationship

719
00:42:36,599 –> 00:42:45,079
Randy Black: that we’d worked together and we knew each other from that and we’d already even recorded together previously when he recorded with me in twenty eighteen.

720
00:42:45,079 –> 00:42:45,400
Randy Black: So

721
00:42:46,040 –> 00:42:47,720
Randy Black: It made it made that transition.

722
00:42:47,720 –> 00:42:48,840
Randy Black: It was just comfortable.

723
00:42:48,840 –> 00:42:49,320
Randy Black: You know?

724
00:42:49,640 –> 00:42:51,800
Randy Black: We were already we already were friends.

725
00:42:51,800 –> 00:42:57,560
Randy Black: So it made it it made it that easy, that much easier to just sit down and and and go at it

726
00:42:59,260 –> 00:43:03,180
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, y’all sounded I mean, just you inspired me.

727
00:43:03,180 –> 00:43:04,460
Elizabeth Clayton: And I would send every week.

728
00:43:04,460 –> 00:43:06,860
Elizabeth Clayton: I’m like, who can I send this podcast to?

729
00:43:06,780 –> 00:43:07,579
Elizabeth Clayton: For somebody to listen.

730
00:43:07,579 –> 00:43:13,820
Elizabeth Clayton: And so there was a point I’m like, I gotta I I just went through my phone and I just started sending it to people and they’re like, What is this?

731
00:43:13,820 –> 00:43:17,180
Elizabeth Clayton: And even today st people are still like there’s a podcast.

732
00:43:17,180 –> 00:43:17,500
Elizabeth Clayton: Um

733
00:43:17,760 –> 00:43:26,720
Elizabeth Clayton: And it was so funny because when we recorded the intro in the trailer last week, um you sent it to me and I guess you I I don’t I sent it to Mike or and you maybe.

734
00:43:28,540 –> 00:43:36,380
Elizabeth Clayton: Okay, well we both sent it regardless, but um I got a text from his mother and um she goes, Wow, that’s I said, huh?

735
00:43:36,380 –> 00:43:36,780
Elizabeth Clayton: What?

736
00:43:36,780 –> 00:43:42,460
Elizabeth Clayton: And I guess he sent it to her and then last night when I went we went to go watch a football game up at Beerno’s

737
00:43:42,320 –> 00:43:48,400
Elizabeth Clayton: And um he said, Oh, uh he was he was pulling his phone out and having people at Earhoes listen to it.

738
00:43:48,400 –> 00:43:50,720
Elizabeth Clayton: And then he goes, Oh, I send it to my sister.

739
00:43:50,720 –> 00:43:53,040
Elizabeth Clayton: And she was like, Wow, that’s amazing.

740
00:43:53,040 –> 00:43:53,360
Elizabeth Clayton: Um

741
00:43:53,799 –> 00:43:59,000
Elizabeth Clayton: And uh I just uh it uh you know I sent it to my mother and I really wanted her to hear it.

742
00:44:03,319 –> 00:44:04,440
Randy Black: I don’t think she has it.

743
00:44:04,440 –> 00:44:05,720
Randy Black: I don’t think I don’t think she has well.

744
00:44:06,680 –> 00:44:11,400
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, um, you know, she didn’t really understand my vision behind it.

745
00:44:11,400 –> 00:44:13,000
Elizabeth Clayton: She, you know, uh

746
00:44:14,140 –> 00:44:19,500
Elizabeth Clayton: Like I said, it sometimes people just don’t understand what inspires you to to wanna do.

747
00:44:19,819 –> 00:44:22,700
Elizabeth Clayton: I ha like I said, I had no plans of of

748
00:44:22,880 –> 00:44:30,240
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, maybe at some point coming on your podcast with my dad and talking or doing something like that, but the fact that um

749
00:44:31,020 –> 00:44:36,220
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, it’s been eleven weeks since, you know, I met you or talked to you for the first time.

750
00:44:36,220 –> 00:44:40,540
Elizabeth Clayton: And then of course my dad got sick, and you know, now we’re sitting here and um

751
00:44:40,940 –> 00:44:44,460
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, every day something new comes to me, like, what can I do?

752
00:44:44,460 –> 00:44:48,300
Elizabeth Clayton: Like my an idea my dad had, or something he was doing.

753
00:44:48,300 –> 00:44:50,380
Elizabeth Clayton: And it’s so funny because um

754
00:44:50,760 –> 00:45:00,040
Elizabeth Clayton: You know all the the the you’ve seen him wear it and you’ve seen it through the gym, his brand, the clothing logo JMPR jumper.

755
00:45:00,040 –> 00:45:03,480
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, um anyway, he uh

756
00:45:04,160 –> 00:45:14,320
Elizabeth Clayton: I didn’t really know the backstory to why when he created that or where it came from, but uh it stands for just more player reps is is what the what it stands for.

757
00:45:14,320 –> 00:45:15,440
Elizabeth Clayton: So anyway.

758
00:45:15,520 –> 00:45:28,320
Elizabeth Clayton: Um before he passed away, you know, he would he had a gentleman that he he knew in Pakistan that he had been working with for years that he would create the clothing with all the logos on it and

759
00:45:28,460 –> 00:45:30,220
Elizabeth Clayton: My he would ship it all to my dad.

760
00:45:30,220 –> 00:45:37,580
Elizabeth Clayton: Of course my dad would pay him, but apparently he he’s been messaging me back and forth and I had no idea that um

761
00:45:37,940 –> 00:45:39,859
Elizabeth Clayton: My dad had helped him.

762
00:45:39,859 –> 00:45:45,300
Elizabeth Clayton: He’s helped he was this first person that ever placed an order with him and helped this

763
00:45:45,460 –> 00:45:50,260
Elizabeth Clayton: this gentleman like get his business started eight, nine years ago since this kid was eighteen.

764
00:45:50,500 –> 00:45:52,260
Elizabeth Clayton: And so anyway, he he’s so sad.

765
00:45:52,260 –> 00:45:55,060
Elizabeth Clayton: He goes, I’m so sad to see the Jay, the jumper

766
00:45:55,260 –> 00:45:58,860
Elizabeth Clayton: Clothing line, we had big aspirations to do really great things with it.

767
00:45:58,860 –> 00:46:03,580
Elizabeth Clayton: He goes, Your dad was just so amazing at helping me create these things.

768
00:46:03,580 –> 00:46:05,180
Elizabeth Clayton: And um, so anyway

769
00:46:05,160 –> 00:46:09,400
Elizabeth Clayton: I called, I was like, what is the origin of jumper?

770
00:46:09,400 –> 00:46:16,440
Elizabeth Clayton: So I called Mark Sisko yesterday and I said of all the people that would maybe know the answer to this, he would.

771
00:46:16,440 –> 00:46:19,960
Elizabeth Clayton: He goes, well, it goes all the way back to the nineties.

772
00:46:19,520 –> 00:46:28,560
Elizabeth Clayton: And he goes, We were somewhere and, you know, um the the shoot you know the shootaways that my dad has in the gym that all the kids would work out on?

773
00:46:28,560 –> 00:46:32,720
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, back in the day, the shootaways, they were not

774
00:46:33,240 –> 00:46:35,800
Elizabeth Clayton: automated where they shoot the ball out to you.

775
00:46:35,800 –> 00:46:43,160
Elizabeth Clayton: They had a the net thing around the basket, you shoot the ball and then it would roll down a track back to you.

776
00:46:43,160 –> 00:46:46,120
Elizabeth Clayton: And so anyway, he created this

777
00:46:46,420 –> 00:46:55,700
Elizabeth Clayton: years ago that that tied in with this shootaway because that’s all about getting reps and you know player reps and yada yada and so Mark kinda filled me in but

778
00:46:55,600 –> 00:47:00,560
Elizabeth Clayton: I said, man, it made me realize all the things I’m like, I just never asked my dad about.

779
00:47:01,120 –> 00:47:06,640
Elizabeth Clayton: And there’s so many stories out there for and is but Mark goes, his mind never stopped.

780
00:47:06,100 –> 00:47:12,980
Elizabeth Clayton: He always had a notepad and a pen, and I don’t care where we were, he was always thinking of something and creating something new.

781
00:47:12,980 –> 00:47:15,460
Elizabeth Clayton: And um it just really I said

782
00:47:15,740 –> 00:47:24,700
Elizabeth Clayton: Uh what really blew me away was I realized yesterday that even if I didn’t get to ask my dad something or know the answer, I can call there’s people I can call that probably know the answer.

783
00:47:24,700 –> 00:47:25,260
Randy Black: Oh, yeah

784
00:47:25,940 –> 00:47:27,300
Elizabeth Clayton: And we can write a book.

785
00:47:27,300 –> 00:47:28,260
Elizabeth Clayton: We can write that book.

786
00:47:28,260 –> 00:47:36,020
Elizabeth Clayton: I told Mark yesterday what you said that we can start logging all these things over time and work on writing my dad’s book.

787
00:47:36,020 –> 00:47:36,820
Elizabeth Clayton: And I said

788
00:47:36,940 –> 00:47:38,700
Elizabeth Clayton: uh wow, we can do that.

789
00:47:39,180 –> 00:47:41,020
Elizabeth Clayton: Um because he wanted to do that.

790
00:47:41,020 –> 00:47:41,820
Randy Black: Right.

791
00:47:41,820 –> 00:47:43,900
Elizabeth Clayton: But um but anyway.

792
00:47:43,900 –> 00:47:44,619
Randy Black: Yeah.

793
00:47:44,619 –> 00:47:51,660
Randy Black: So let’s uh let’s hit that point in the conversation where it’s gonna be a little rough.

794
00:47:51,339 –> 00:47:58,859
Randy Black: And there’s people who who don’t know what actually happened with your dad and and passing away.

795
00:47:58,859 –> 00:48:04,460
Randy Black: And ’cause it’s so many people knew about his cancer journey and a and assumed that

796
00:48:05,040 –> 00:48:08,800
Randy Black: the cancer is is what led to his passing.

797
00:48:08,800 –> 00:48:10,800
Randy Black: But that wasn’t it.

798
00:48:10,800 –> 00:48:17,200
Randy Black: So kind of kind of share what what happened in that that time frame, that that last week or so

799
00:48:18,400 –> 00:48:26,400
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, he was actually doing f I mean, to me he seemed to be doing well.

800
00:48:26,400 –> 00:48:28,880
Elizabeth Clayton: He had just started a new line of treatment.

801
00:48:28,880 –> 00:48:29,200
Elizabeth Clayton: Um

802
00:48:29,740 –> 00:48:32,460
Elizabeth Clayton: Probably beginning of August, because it’s interesting.

803
00:48:32,460 –> 00:48:38,620
Elizabeth Clayton: The last time I was home, um, which was like July twenty first ish, right around there, um

804
00:48:38,859 –> 00:48:40,300
Elizabeth Clayton: For some reason I didn’t go home.

805
00:48:40,460 –> 00:48:45,660
Elizabeth Clayton: I was supposed to go home that Sunday night, and I ended up staying that Monday and my ma I woke up that morning.

806
00:48:45,660 –> 00:48:48,220
Elizabeth Clayton: I’m gonna tell you this story, then I’ll go into what happened.

807
00:48:48,220 –> 00:48:48,540
Elizabeth Clayton: Um

808
00:48:48,900 –> 00:48:52,740
Elizabeth Clayton: My uh I thought he went to Sports City, my mom goes, no, he went to the hospital.

809
00:48:52,740 –> 00:48:56,500
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, yeah, I said, oh yeah, he always gets blood work the day before his treatment

810
00:48:56,260 –> 00:49:03,940
Elizabeth Clayton: So I remember um I my nieces were there and they’re six and four and Vera, the six-year-old, I said, Vera, do you want to go?

811
00:49:03,940 –> 00:49:06,660
Elizabeth Clayton: Let’s go surprise pop pop at the hospital.

812
00:49:06,540 –> 00:49:16,380
Elizabeth Clayton: Because of all the three years he had been going through his cancer journey, I’d never physically been able to to be there and go sit with him when he got his chemo or met with his doctor or whatever the case was.

813
00:49:16,380 –> 00:49:18,940
Elizabeth Clayton: So um I’d always FaceTime with his doctor

814
00:49:18,920 –> 00:49:21,880
Elizabeth Clayton: And um here, you know, I talked to him, ask him questions.

815
00:49:21,880 –> 00:49:23,240
Elizabeth Clayton: I was always very involved.

816
00:49:23,240 –> 00:49:26,040
Elizabeth Clayton: So we we we went over there real fast and we walked in.

817
00:49:26,040 –> 00:49:27,800
Elizabeth Clayton: He was waiting to get his blood work.

818
00:49:27,800 –> 00:49:29,080
Elizabeth Clayton: And he was so surprised.

819
00:49:29,080 –> 00:49:32,120
Elizabeth Clayton: It was so happy, but he was talking to everybody and

820
00:49:32,160 –> 00:49:35,360
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, just really everybody was so grim over there.

821
00:49:35,360 –> 00:49:39,920
Elizabeth Clayton: There’s not a lot of energy and he would he had more energy than the whole room, okay?

822
00:49:39,760 –> 00:49:41,440
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, everybody loved him.

823
00:49:41,440 –> 00:49:43,840
Elizabeth Clayton: All the nurses, everybody that was there.

824
00:49:43,840 –> 00:49:45,680
Elizabeth Clayton: I mean, he just inspired them so much.

825
00:49:45,680 –> 00:49:50,160
Elizabeth Clayton: And so we we go upstairs and Vera is intrigued, you know, like what is going on here?

826
00:49:50,160 –> 00:49:52,320
Elizabeth Clayton: And he’s telling her everything as we go along.

827
00:49:52,320 –> 00:49:52,800
Elizabeth Clayton: Well

828
00:49:53,120 –> 00:50:00,320
Elizabeth Clayton: Anyway, um we go upstairs and we we meet with different people and we met with this doctor and I had never got to meet the doctor in person.

829
00:50:00,320 –> 00:50:01,680
Elizabeth Clayton: I felt like I had, but

830
00:50:02,020 –> 00:50:08,099
Elizabeth Clayton: Um, you know, so anyway, m I realized after the fact, I said, gosh, that was the last time I was home.

831
00:50:08,099 –> 00:50:12,820
Elizabeth Clayton: That was the last thing I did with my dad was besides him coming to Louisville, was go to the hospital with him.

832
00:50:12,820 –> 00:50:16,020
Elizabeth Clayton: And, you know, we they switched that was the point where they were like, we’re gonna

833
00:50:16,040 –> 00:50:17,080
Elizabeth Clayton: Switch you up.

834
00:50:17,080 –> 00:50:21,400
Elizabeth Clayton: Um basically there were some things that maybe started to grow a little bit.

835
00:50:21,400 –> 00:50:25,400
Coach Jim Clayton: He had these nodules in his lungs that they were watching and um

836
00:50:25,700 –> 00:50:35,140
Elizabeth Clayton: Because his colon cancer, when it w when it’s when it’s stage four, it spreads from your colon to either your um liver or your lungs and then your lymph nodes.

837
00:50:35,140 –> 00:50:37,780
Elizabeth Clayton: Well his was his lymph nodes and his lungs.

838
00:50:38,340 –> 00:50:39,380
Elizabeth Clayton: um initially.

839
00:50:39,380 –> 00:50:42,180
Elizabeth Clayton: So they shrunk all that down over the three year period.

840
00:50:42,180 –> 00:50:45,620
Elizabeth Clayton: And so at this point they were like, okay, we’re gonna switch your treatment up.

841
00:50:45,620 –> 00:50:48,980
Elizabeth Clayton: This is gonna be the fourth line of treatment and yada yada.

842
00:50:48,980 –> 00:50:51,780
Elizabeth Clayton: So he started that beginning of August

843
00:50:52,000 –> 00:51:02,560
Elizabeth Clayton: Then uh like I said he came to visit me and I remember what was really interesting that night we went um after the concert we went to Wendy’s

844
00:51:02,840 –> 00:51:05,800
Elizabeth Clayton: And uh he goes, I want to get some junior bacon cheeseburgers.

845
00:51:05,800 –> 00:51:10,440
Elizabeth Clayton: So we went through there and we got some burgers and fries and we came back to my apartment and

846
00:51:10,620 –> 00:51:17,340
Elizabeth Clayton: Um, you know, I have a king-size bed, so I was like, Dad, you just sleep with me and um I want you to be comfortable.

847
00:51:17,340 –> 00:51:21,820
Elizabeth Clayton: So anyway, he kept waking up, you know, like with heartburn.

848
00:51:21,300 –> 00:51:23,460
Elizabeth Clayton: And I said, Do you want me to get you a pepsid?

849
00:51:23,460 –> 00:51:24,660
Elizabeth Clayton: Are you okay?

850
00:51:24,660 –> 00:51:27,060
Elizabeth Clayton: And um, you know, I didn’t think anything of it.

851
00:51:27,060 –> 00:51:28,420
Elizabeth Clayton: He just said, Oh, this is normal.

852
00:51:28,420 –> 00:51:29,940
Elizabeth Clayton: He had to burp, whatever.

853
00:51:29,940 –> 00:51:32,020
Elizabeth Clayton: So anyway, um

854
00:51:32,940 –> 00:51:41,099
Elizabeth Clayton: When my mom called me f well, that was on what Friday night, so he left Saturday and then that that Wednesday, September tenth

855
00:51:41,880 –> 00:51:47,079
Elizabeth Clayton: Um, my mom called me at what, one, two o’clock in the afternoon and she was on FaceTime.

856
00:51:47,079 –> 00:51:56,359
Elizabeth Clayton: My dad was laying there in the ER, he was already back into a room and she said, Oh, my dad’s been vomiting and he had really bad abdominal pain and I’m thinking if they thought he had food poisoning.

857
00:51:56,359 –> 00:52:03,480
Elizabeth Clayton: That’s just what I remember my mom saying to me and I thought, oh, okay, well, they got back, they did a CT scan, and it was his gallbladder.

858
00:52:03,480 –> 00:52:06,520
Elizabeth Clayton: And his gallbladder was basically dead, it was full of air.

859
00:52:06,520 –> 00:52:09,640
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, come to find out, he was already starting to go septic

860
00:52:09,540 –> 00:52:10,820
Elizabeth Clayton: like later that afternoon.

861
00:52:10,820 –> 00:52:16,260
Elizabeth Clayton: And if they didn’t operate on him when they did, I mean he wouldn’t have made it through the night.

862
00:52:16,260 –> 00:52:16,580
Elizabeth Clayton: Right.

863
00:52:16,580 –> 00:52:18,100
Elizabeth Clayton: That’s what the the surgeon said.

864
00:52:18,100 –> 00:52:19,540
Elizabeth Clayton: So anyway, um

865
00:52:20,040 –> 00:52:22,920
Elizabeth Clayton: And I was already nervous anyway.

866
00:52:22,920 –> 00:52:30,600
Elizabeth Clayton: When they my mom called me that afternoon and said it was the gallbladder, I was like, I had a my my pet sitter’s daughter had died like

867
00:52:30,760 –> 00:52:34,200
Elizabeth Clayton: th two, three months prior from having her gallbladder taken out.

868
00:52:34,200 –> 00:52:36,440
Coach Jim Clayton: She had other preexisting health conditions.

869
00:52:36,440 –> 00:52:40,520
Elizabeth Clayton: She was on dialysis for quite a few years, but she was like three years older than me.

870
00:52:40,520 –> 00:52:41,160
Elizabeth Clayton: Okay.

871
00:52:41,160 –> 00:52:41,480
Elizabeth Clayton: And

872
00:52:41,740 –> 00:52:43,180
Elizabeth Clayton: She the whole thing happened.

873
00:52:43,180 –> 00:52:45,180
Elizabeth Clayton: I remember she texted me, Lauren died.

874
00:52:45,180 –> 00:52:46,300
Elizabeth Clayton: I said, what?

875
00:52:46,300 –> 00:52:54,620
Elizabeth Clayton: And so that that whole thing and I had gone through six months of gallbladder testing this past year because I had heartburn and that was my number one symptom.

876
00:52:54,620 –> 00:52:55,820
Elizabeth Clayton: And my doctor goes

877
00:52:55,960 –> 00:52:57,480
Elizabeth Clayton: Have you ever had your gallbladder checked?

878
00:52:57,480 –> 00:53:02,200
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, I had no idea that heartburn was a symptom of a gallbladder not functioning correctly.

879
00:53:02,200 –> 00:53:10,760
Elizabeth Clayton: So when I started thinking back to my dad spending the night with me and him waking up and having the the the burping and the heartburn,

880
00:53:10,559 –> 00:53:25,039
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, he I think he was having symptoms, but he didn’t know because when you’re going through cancer treatment, they give you something to mask, the heartburn, the nausea, the any kind of gastrointestinal things you’re feeling, you have a pill to take.

881
00:53:24,140 –> 00:53:25,260
Elizabeth Clayton: to mask it.

882
00:53:25,260 –> 00:53:36,460
Elizabeth Clayton: So if he had symptoms, he didn’t know till it was pretty much he had that infection so bad that um, you know, and uh it it just he I thought

883
00:53:36,540 –> 00:53:46,780
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, I I really didn’t think oh this is you know, he’s this is gonna kill him, but I was still nervous because when you have any kind of surgery, uh when you’re undergoing his immune system was so low, like

884
00:53:46,960 –> 00:53:48,480
Elizabeth Clayton: It it just there’s always a risk.

885
00:53:48,960 –> 00:53:51,680
Randy Black: Yeah, the key the chemotherapy had wiped him out.

886
00:53:52,000 –> 00:53:55,680
Elizabeth Clayton: Oh, and uh you know, yeah, that’s that’s exactly right.

887
00:53:55,680 –> 00:54:00,240
Elizabeth Clayton: And it continues to keep your immune system low as you go through all of that.

888
00:54:00,240 –> 00:54:00,560
Elizabeth Clayton: Um

889
00:54:01,020 –> 00:54:08,619
Elizabeth Clayton: But the weird thing was he had had blood work the week before this happened and I asked the when he was in intensive

890
00:54:08,940 –> 00:54:12,859
Elizabeth Clayton: care after the surgery, I had one of the nurses say, Can you pull up the blood work from the week before?

891
00:54:12,859 –> 00:54:19,260
Elizabeth Clayton: I want to see if there’s any sign of infection, because they would have caught that and sent him to the emergency room if they saw anything weird.

892
00:54:19,579 –> 00:54:23,660
Elizabeth Clayton: But nope, the only thing that there was was low white blood cell count.

893
00:54:23,340 –> 00:54:33,180
Elizabeth Clayton: So um anyway, I tried to piece together as much as I could to figure out, but you know, his body just could not handle that infection.

894
00:54:33,180 –> 00:54:35,580
Elizabeth Clayton: And over the days, there were moments where

895
00:54:36,099 –> 00:54:41,300
Elizabeth Clayton: We thought, okay, it was like every other day there’d be a moment like, yeah, this is cool good.

896
00:54:41,300 –> 00:54:45,940
Elizabeth Clayton: Then all of a sudden something would happen and they’d say, well, we don’t know.

897
00:54:45,940 –> 00:54:46,420
Elizabeth Clayton: Yeah.

898
00:54:46,420 –> 00:54:47,780
Elizabeth Clayton: Um, but

899
00:54:48,599 –> 00:54:53,400
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, at a time, I would send you a message and ask, you know, hey, how what’s going on?

900
00:54:53,400 –> 00:54:54,119
Randy Black: What’s the update?

901
00:54:54,119 –> 00:55:02,920
Randy Black: And I’d get an update, he’d be like, oh things are going things are looking better, this is going on, and then, you know, twelve hours later it’d be the direct opposite.

902
00:55:02,620 –> 00:55:14,620
Randy Black: And like it was and I I I can’t imagine I can’t imagine what it was like for you and your mom and your brother and everybody, you know, because you were there.

903
00:55:14,640 –> 00:55:22,960
Randy Black: Um, I you know, part of me, and I’ve I you know I’ve told you this, part of me regrets that I didn’t come to the hospital to see him.

904
00:55:22,960 –> 00:55:26,559
Randy Black: But part of me also is is thankful that I didn’t

905
00:55:27,020 –> 00:55:36,859
Randy Black: Because I didn’t want my last memory of him to be in that bed and not able to to communicate and and talk with me.

906
00:55:36,859 –> 00:55:39,500
Randy Black: I I loved that my last memory was that hug

907
00:55:39,460 –> 00:55:41,700
Randy Black: And him telling me how much he loved me.

908
00:55:41,700 –> 00:55:47,060
Randy Black: Um, I can’t I just I can’t imagine what that was like because it was tearing me up.

909
00:55:47,060 –> 00:55:54,260
Randy Black: I’d be sitting here and get the message with an update from you or sometimes from your mom and I just start crying.

910
00:55:53,460 –> 00:55:55,060
Randy Black: And my wife’s like, are you okay?

911
00:55:55,060 –> 00:55:56,500
Randy Black: I’m like, no.

912
00:55:56,500 –> 00:55:57,940
Randy Black: She’s like, what’s what’s wrong?

913
00:55:57,940 –> 00:56:00,900
Randy Black: I said, I just I just got an update on Jimmy.

914
00:56:00,900 –> 00:56:02,260
Randy Black: And she’s like, oh.

915
00:56:02,260 –> 00:56:03,700
Randy Black: I’m like, yeah.

916
00:56:03,700 –> 00:56:08,260
Randy Black: And, you know, I I spent that whole week wondering, yeah.

917
00:56:07,740 –> 00:56:09,180
Randy Black: Is he gonna make it?

918
00:56:09,180 –> 00:56:11,100
Randy Black: And it was tough.

919
00:56:11,100 –> 00:56:15,660
Randy Black: Like I I still remember, you know, I remember the the exact moment

920
00:56:16,240 –> 00:56:24,480
Randy Black: When I found out, because you messaged me on Thursday morning after he had had the surgery and told me, hey, this is what’s going on.

921
00:56:24,480 –> 00:56:25,840
Randy Black: Dad’s in intensive care.

922
00:56:25,840 –> 00:56:27,440
Randy Black: He’s at the ho in the at the hospital.

923
00:56:27,440 –> 00:56:29,200
Randy Black: They’ve had to do this.

924
00:56:29,240 –> 00:56:32,440
Randy Black: And it hit me like a ton of bricks.

925
00:56:32,440 –> 00:56:36,360
Randy Black: It it flew I was at work and I just had to sit down.

926
00:56:36,360 –> 00:56:39,720
Randy Black: Cause it it blew me away, because I didn’t expect it.

927
00:56:39,740 –> 00:56:42,700
Randy Black: I didn’t expect it because he had been doing so well.

928
00:56:42,700 –> 00:56:44,860
Randy Black: He’d been doing so well.

929
00:56:44,860 –> 00:56:46,620
Elizabeth Clayton: Mm-hmm.

930
00:56:46,620 –> 00:56:52,620
Elizabeth Clayton: Yeah, he really um and that’s the thing, you know, he had the cancer down to a science um

931
00:56:53,320 –> 00:56:58,920
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, he he was so uh every time he went to that hospital, he he would ask so many questions.

932
00:56:58,920 –> 00:57:01,160
Elizabeth Clayton: I would l talk to the doctors.

933
00:57:01,160 –> 00:57:05,000
Elizabeth Clayton: And I mean he really was very he he learned so much and really

934
00:57:05,540 –> 00:57:18,180
Elizabeth Clayton: If he and if he needed to do something different, he was always about like, okay, you know, he was always open to to anything new or changing or the w take whatever it was, you know, to help him, you know, in his cancer journey.

935
00:57:18,180 –> 00:57:18,980
Elizabeth Clayton: And um

936
00:57:19,620 –> 00:57:27,780
Elizabeth Clayton: you know, uh it like I said, it it broke my heart because I was so involved in that journey with him.

937
00:57:27,760 –> 00:57:32,160
Elizabeth Clayton: And I know I was three hours away, but I was right there with I mean, it was like I was right there with him every day.

938
00:57:32,160 –> 00:57:34,000
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, what I don’t care what it was.

939
00:57:34,000 –> 00:57:40,160
Elizabeth Clayton: Um we FaceTimed every day, sometimes multiple times a day, and uh call and check on him and um

940
00:57:40,540 –> 00:57:48,700
Elizabeth Clayton: you know, it it uh it it really broke my heart that that’s what happened to him, but

941
00:57:49,140 –> 00:57:50,900
Elizabeth Clayton: He didn’t suffer much.

942
00:57:50,900 –> 00:57:52,099
Elizabeth Clayton: That’s all I know.

943
00:57:52,099 –> 00:57:59,059
Elizabeth Clayton: And, you know, watching him in the hospital, I mean, for the first two days, like he was conscious, he was talking.

944
00:57:59,120 –> 00:58:07,680
Elizabeth Clayton: Um and what the part that br this I’m gonna share this story with with with you and of course everybody that listens will hear this, but

945
00:58:07,920 –> 00:58:14,800
Elizabeth Clayton: Um that Thursday morning, you know, I got to the hospital and I remember the first thing he said was, What time did you get here?

946
00:58:14,800 –> 00:58:17,280
Elizabeth Clayton: And I’m like, Well, I got here middle of the night.

947
00:58:17,280 –> 00:58:19,280
Elizabeth Clayton: But um, you know, uh

948
00:58:19,840 –> 00:58:30,880
Elizabeth Clayton: that particular evening I didn’t stay at the hospital, but the I went Friday and, you know, saw him and of course Sam Spurlock, his his best friend and I, we we went back later that evening.

949
00:58:30,880 –> 00:58:33,200
Elizabeth Clayton: We had gone out to get a bite to eat

950
00:58:32,859 –> 00:58:42,540
Elizabeth Clayton: I went with he and his wife and we came back and um you know, my dad was getting agitated that evening, you could tell, and so the nurses just said, just quietly slip out

951
00:58:42,840 –> 00:58:45,560
Elizabeth Clayton: you know, um, let him we’ll let him rest.

952
00:58:45,560 –> 00:58:56,120
Elizabeth Clayton: And so anyway, um we did and that next morning my mom woke me up and said they called about four thirty that morning and said um they had to

953
00:58:56,900 –> 00:58:58,900
Elizabeth Clayton: Incubate him, put him on the ventilator.

954
00:58:59,300 –> 00:58:59,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Intubate.

955
00:58:59,780 –> 00:59:00,580
Elizabeth Clayton: I can’t ever say that right.

956
00:59:00,900 –> 00:59:01,460
Coach Jim Clayton: Intubate.

957
00:59:01,460 –> 00:59:04,180
Elizabeth Clayton: Um or I didn’t know the right way to say it because I always the ventilator.

958
00:59:04,180 –> 00:59:04,900
Elizabeth Clayton: That’s what I think of.

959
00:59:04,900 –> 00:59:06,100
Elizabeth Clayton: So anyway, um

960
00:59:07,640 –> 00:59:09,320
Elizabeth Clayton: I said, oh Lord.

961
00:59:09,320 –> 00:59:13,000
Elizabeth Clayton: I didn’t really understand the significance of all that, but I knew it wasn’t a good thing.

962
00:59:13,000 –> 00:59:16,440
Elizabeth Clayton: Um so anyway, when I went, I stayed at the hospital.

963
00:59:16,240 –> 00:59:17,600
Elizabeth Clayton: that Saturday night.

964
00:59:17,600 –> 00:59:19,120
Elizabeth Clayton: That was the first night I stayed all night.

965
00:59:19,120 –> 00:59:24,640
Elizabeth Clayton: I said, I can’t leave my dad at the hospital overnight by himself anymore because he would just I think it

966
00:59:25,020 –> 00:59:28,460
Elizabeth Clayton: You get scared and you get nervous when you don’t have somebody there with you.

967
00:59:28,460 –> 00:59:31,740
Elizabeth Clayton: And even though he was on the ventilator, I just wanted him to know I was there.

968
00:59:31,740 –> 00:59:33,180
Elizabeth Clayton: Well that particular night

969
00:59:33,359 –> 00:59:43,040
Elizabeth Clayton: He had the same nurse that had been there the nights prior and the um respiratory therapist came in to check on him when he because that’s who puts the ventilator in.

970
00:59:43,359 –> 00:59:47,119
Elizabeth Clayton: And so they shared with me what happened the night before

971
00:59:47,220 –> 00:59:49,380
Elizabeth Clayton: And what led to all of this.

972
00:59:49,380 –> 00:59:54,260
Elizabeth Clayton: And so after he she said, Oh, he slept peacefully for a few hours after you all left.

973
00:59:54,260 –> 00:59:58,819
Elizabeth Clayton: And then about three o’clock in the morning I was in the next room and all of a sudden I heard all this commotion

974
00:59:58,500 –> 01:00:02,580
Elizabeth Clayton: He ripped all his IVs out and he goes, I want to get out of here.

975
01:00:02,580 –> 01:00:08,260
Elizabeth Clayton: And um anyway, she came back, she got him all hooked up again, and then five minutes later he did it again.

976
01:00:07,900 –> 01:00:11,420
Elizabeth Clayton: And so she came back and she said, Are you okay?

977
01:00:11,420 –> 01:00:15,980
Elizabeth Clayton: And he goes, he was having trouble breathing from fluid buildup.

978
01:00:15,980 –> 01:00:17,420
Elizabeth Clayton: And so she asked him.

979
01:00:17,420 –> 01:00:20,140
Elizabeth Clayton: I can’t remember if he asked her or she asked him, but

980
01:00:20,240 –> 01:00:22,480
Elizabeth Clayton: Do you want to be put on the ventilator?

981
01:00:22,480 –> 01:00:23,280
Elizabeth Clayton: And he said yes.

982
01:00:23,280 –> 01:00:29,760
Elizabeth Clayton: Well they’ve got to ask you who you are, what your name is, where where you worked, things about yourself before they do that.

983
01:00:29,760 –> 01:00:33,760
Elizabeth Clayton: So they know that you’re fully, you’re you’re in tune with who you are

984
01:00:33,660 –> 01:00:41,980
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, the the respiratory therapist, she came in and she when she was check on them, she said, Oh my gosh, before

985
01:00:42,700 –> 01:00:44,460
Elizabeth Clayton: She put the ventilator in.

986
01:00:44,460 –> 01:00:50,700
Elizabeth Clayton: One of the last things he said, he she pa patted her hand and she he goes, You’re doing such a good job, honey.

987
01:00:50,660 –> 01:00:51,700
Elizabeth Clayton: That’s what he said.

988
01:00:51,700 –> 01:00:53,300
Elizabeth Clayton: And it just really touched me.

989
01:00:53,300 –> 01:00:57,220
Elizabeth Clayton: And th they these nurses that I would ta a lot of these nurses had my dad in school.

990
01:00:57,220 –> 01:00:58,980
Coach Jim Clayton: That was what was so crazy.

991
01:00:58,760 –> 01:01:03,160
Elizabeth Clayton: So, um, but anyway, that first night that really touched me.

992
01:01:03,160 –> 01:01:08,440
Elizabeth Clayton: And the one of the last things he was encouraging her and telling her how good of a job she was doing.

993
01:01:08,440 –> 01:01:11,240
Elizabeth Clayton: And that was the last thing he said, probably

994
01:01:11,520 –> 01:01:19,040
Elizabeth Clayton: Um, and it was so fitting and um that that night I have my I started playing the podcast for him

995
01:01:18,800 –> 01:01:20,800
Elizabeth Clayton: And that’s what really got me through.

996
01:01:20,800 –> 01:01:22,800
Elizabeth Clayton: I said, you’re gonna hear your own words, Dad.

997
01:01:22,800 –> 01:01:24,640
Elizabeth Clayton: I said, we’re gonna get you through this.

998
01:01:24,640 –> 01:01:28,080
Elizabeth Clayton: And I said, I need you to hear yourself loud and clear, you and Randy.

999
01:01:28,080 –> 01:01:29,760
Elizabeth Clayton: And I said, one of the things that

1000
01:01:29,840 –> 01:01:39,680
Elizabeth Clayton: got me through being in that hospital with him was listening to you guys talk and that was the most comforting thing to me to hear his voice and um

1001
01:01:40,540 –> 01:01:45,500
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, I knew no matter what happened, I would always carry that with me throughout my entire life.

1002
01:01:45,500 –> 01:01:47,820
Elizabeth Clayton: The motivation, the inspiration, the

1003
01:01:48,059 –> 01:01:50,940
Elizabeth Clayton: That’s what he’s been coaching me through my entire life.

1004
01:01:50,940 –> 01:01:55,020
Elizabeth Clayton: And whatever the difficulty is, whatever I’m gonna come up against, I can handle it.

1005
01:01:55,020 –> 01:01:56,700
Elizabeth Clayton: Yeah, and not and and not just you.

1006
01:01:56,700 –> 01:01:58,299
Randy Black: He coached everybody at that.

1007
01:01:58,299 –> 01:01:59,180
Randy Black: That was who he was.

1008
01:01:59,180 –> 01:01:59,740
Elizabeth Clayton: Yeah.

1009
01:01:59,740 –> 01:02:01,980
Randy Black: It was always about making sure that

1010
01:02:02,040 –> 01:02:06,520
Randy Black: Whatever he did was helped somebody get better in some way.

1011
01:02:06,840 –> 01:02:08,520
Randy Black: That’s what I loved about him.

1012
01:02:08,520 –> 01:02:09,960
Elizabeth Clayton: Mm-hmm.

1013
01:02:10,740 –> 01:02:18,180
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, um it was interesting, you know, I have no idea what was going on in his brain throughout that week of him not being able to talk, but

1014
01:02:18,240 –> 01:02:24,320
Elizabeth Clayton: The one, the last interaction I had with him two days before he passed, they he was on the ventilator, of course.

1015
01:02:24,320 –> 01:02:32,160
Elizabeth Clayton: He had gone about three days, and they they start doing these spontaneous breathing trials where his oxygen was a hundred percent throughout the whole process, but

1016
01:02:32,100 –> 01:02:41,460
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, he was just so worn out with that infection that um anyway they they weaned him off the sedation that he was on and he started waking up

1017
01:02:41,640 –> 01:02:50,039
Elizabeth Clayton: And he started squeezing my hand and um, you know, he was man, he was moving his shoulders back and forth, and then I was talking to him and

1018
01:02:50,059 –> 01:02:54,220
Elizabeth Clayton: He would turn his head and and look at me, but he couldn’t open his eyes fully.

1019
01:02:54,220 –> 01:02:55,980
Elizabeth Clayton: But he heard me and I was by myself.

1020
01:02:55,980 –> 01:03:01,099
Elizabeth Clayton: So I think that was probably the last moment that he really had with anybody that

1021
01:03:01,540 –> 01:03:11,460
Elizabeth Clayton: He knew he could hear and, you know, he he felt me there in the room along with the nurse, because the nurse was talking to him, and, you know, he really um

1022
01:03:11,960 –> 01:03:19,800
Elizabeth Clayton: Yeah, it was really an inner I I remember that vividly and it you know, he couldn’t talk to me, but he heard me

1023
01:03:19,660 –> 01:03:20,220
Randy Black: Yeah.

1024
01:03:20,220 –> 01:03:28,780
Elizabeth Clayton: And um that was pretty much the last time that I ever had the f the interaction with him and he moved his hands and squeezed and all of that.

1025
01:03:28,780 –> 01:03:30,380
Elizabeth Clayton: And you know, um

1026
01:03:31,220 –> 01:03:41,059
Elizabeth Clayton: I just the whole uh I it it was a traumatic thing to go through, but at the same time it was a very peaceful thing at the same time because I knew where he was going.

1027
01:03:41,380 –> 01:03:42,260
Elizabeth Clayton: And um

1028
01:03:42,840 –> 01:03:45,720
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, I just did he wasn’t in any pain.

1029
01:03:45,720 –> 01:03:51,880
Elizabeth Clayton: Um and uh like I said, it it I just couldn’t believe it was happening at the same time.

1030
01:03:51,880 –> 01:03:53,160
Elizabeth Clayton: It’s like what in the world?

1031
01:03:53,160 –> 01:03:55,080
Elizabeth Clayton: Well I how did he deserve this?

1032
01:03:55,080 –> 01:03:56,920
Randy Black: I’ll I’ll share this that I

1033
01:03:57,340 –> 01:04:09,500
Randy Black: Okay, the the night after we did that last recording, I had come home and I don’t know why, but I I started talking with my wife and I said, Beth.

1034
01:04:10,280 –> 01:04:14,840
Randy Black: Something tells me I need to talk to Jimmy.

1035
01:04:15,000 –> 01:04:16,280
Randy Black: She’s like, well, what about?

1036
01:04:16,280 –> 01:04:19,000
Randy Black: I said, well, I need to make sure

1037
01:04:19,359 –> 01:04:22,400
Randy Black: I need to make sure I’m going to see him if something happens.

1038
01:04:22,400 –> 01:04:25,760
Randy Black: Meaning if he passes, that I’ll get to see him again.

1039
01:04:25,760 –> 01:04:26,079
Randy Black: And

1040
01:04:28,380 –> 01:04:34,060
Randy Black: I I I told her, I said, I don’t know, like I know what he believes.

1041
01:04:34,060 –> 01:04:35,740
Randy Black: I know what he believes in his heart.

1042
01:04:35,740 –> 01:04:39,100
Randy Black: I know he believes there’s a God and that there’s this higher power and everything.

1043
01:04:39,180 –> 01:04:40,780
Randy Black: I said, I know all that.

1044
01:04:41,420 –> 01:04:50,540
Randy Black: But I don’t know I don’t know if he’s ever accepted that and accepted that he has a savior who will

1045
01:04:50,740 –> 01:04:56,740
Randy Black: save him and and let him go to heaven and and spend eternity in the with with us in the future.

1046
01:04:56,740 –> 01:04:58,260
Randy Black: I don’t know.

1047
01:04:58,260 –> 01:04:58,580
Randy Black: And

1048
01:05:00,600 –> 01:05:11,560
Randy Black: My my plan was when we got back together on the 11th, when we finished recording, was to say, hey, I need to talk to you about something.

1049
01:05:13,060 –> 01:05:15,300
Randy Black: And it didn’t get to happen.

1050
01:05:15,300 –> 01:05:22,180
Randy Black: And I beat myself up over it for days and days, thinking I missed the chance.

1051
01:05:22,180 –> 01:05:23,620
Randy Black: I missed the chance

1052
01:05:24,020 –> 01:05:35,619
Randy Black: And as everything was going on and I talked to more people and we we headed toward the the visitation and the services and I learned I learned

1053
01:05:36,380 –> 01:05:40,539
Randy Black: that me talking to him about that, it wasn’t necessary.

1054
01:05:41,180 –> 01:05:44,940
Randy Black: He he he was on the path and he knew where he was going.

1055
01:05:44,859 –> 01:05:56,060
Randy Black: And I know, and I tell everybody this, I know sometime in the future, when I leave this world and I go to heaven and get to meet my savior and meet my Lord.

1056
01:05:56,540 –> 01:06:04,780
Randy Black: I’m gonna find Jim Clayton and the first thing I’m gonna do is walk over and give him a hug and yell, bam, son.

1057
01:06:06,220 –> 01:06:08,940
Randy Black: Because I know I know that now.

1058
01:06:08,840 –> 01:06:09,880
Randy Black: It was hard.

1059
01:06:09,880 –> 01:06:12,600
Randy Black: I beat myself up for days because I didn’t know.

1060
01:06:12,600 –> 01:06:14,200
Randy Black: Um, and I was so happy.

1061
01:06:14,200 –> 01:06:16,200
Randy Black: Like when it hit me, oh

1062
01:06:17,000 –> 01:06:18,440
Randy Black: He’s he’s there.

1063
01:06:18,440 –> 01:06:20,360
Randy Black: And it it put me at so much peace.

1064
01:06:20,360 –> 01:06:26,600
Randy Black: And I think that’s part of what made my ability to speak at the services so much easier.

1065
01:06:26,599 –> 01:06:27,320
Elizabeth Clayton: Oh yeah.

1066
01:06:27,320 –> 01:06:29,079
Randy Black: Because I knew at that point.

1067
01:06:29,079 –> 01:06:30,280
Randy Black: So yeah.

1068
01:06:30,280 –> 01:06:38,599
Randy Black: It’s um it’s just it’s it’s been, you know, I I for me, it’s been traumatic.

1069
01:06:39,080 –> 01:06:43,000
Randy Black: But I know that doesn’t compare to what you and your family have had to go through.

1070
01:06:43,640 –> 01:06:45,720
Elizabeth Clayton: Well you you’ve been right along with us.

1071
01:06:45,720 –> 01:06:51,080
Randy Black: I know that I know you’ve I I can I’ve I’ve never had

1072
01:06:52,039 –> 01:06:59,720
Randy Black: Like I’ve I’ve lost my I’ve lost all four of my grandparents and I’ve dealt with that and and handled it in the ways I handled it.

1073
01:06:59,720 –> 01:07:14,359
Randy Black: But this one, someone who I had no blood relation with, someone who yeah, I’ve I met him when I was fifteen years old the first time and we got to work together and then became friends and we worked on this p show and stuff together.

1074
01:07:14,120 –> 01:07:17,480
Randy Black: It hit me harder than anything else has ever hit me.

1075
01:07:17,480 –> 01:07:21,800
Randy Black: And but I’m so happy that it happened.

1076
01:07:21,800 –> 01:07:25,480
Randy Black: Like because I know that what he and I started

1077
01:07:25,940 –> 01:07:31,700
Randy Black: What we started with this podcast, you and I are gonna keep going.

1078
01:07:32,020 –> 01:07:34,980
Randy Black: We we have you there was a clear vision

1079
01:07:35,240 –> 01:07:36,360
Randy Black: to share these things.

1080
01:07:36,360 –> 01:07:38,760
Randy Black: And it’s not even it doesn’t even matter what they are.

1081
01:07:38,760 –> 01:07:42,760
Randy Black: It’s just to share things that can help somebody else.

1082
01:07:42,760 –> 01:07:44,280
Randy Black: That’s the goal.

1083
01:07:45,039 –> 01:07:48,240
Randy Black: And that you want to step in and do that still.

1084
01:07:48,240 –> 01:07:50,720
Randy Black: And, you know, like I said, I didn’t expect it to happen.

1085
01:07:50,720 –> 01:07:52,640
Randy Black: I didn’t expect anybody else who wanna do it

1086
01:07:52,559 –> 01:07:57,920
Randy Black: Um, I had some people reach out and say, oh, but we can, you know how we can come on and we can talk about and tell all these stories.

1087
01:07:57,920 –> 01:08:01,599
Randy Black: And I’m like, okay, but that’s not what he wanted to do.

1088
01:08:01,599 –> 01:08:03,440
Randy Black: He didn’t want to talk about him.

1089
01:08:03,440 –> 01:08:07,279
Randy Black: He wanted to talk about ways to make you better.

1090
01:08:07,320 –> 01:08:10,520
Randy Black: And that’s, you know, that’s that’s our goal.

1091
01:08:10,520 –> 01:08:12,440
Randy Black: That’s what we’re trying to do.

1092
01:08:12,440 –> 01:08:16,120
Randy Black: Um, you know, the idea is, you know.

1093
01:08:16,619 –> 01:08:18,540
Randy Black: What’s gonna happen next with this?

1094
01:08:18,540 –> 01:08:20,859
Randy Black: Well, we really don’t know.

1095
01:08:20,859 –> 01:08:23,020
Randy Black: We’re gonna we’re gonna keep going.

1096
01:08:23,020 –> 01:08:25,980
Randy Black: You know, are we gonna mix up the show from what it was?

1097
01:08:25,980 –> 01:08:27,099
Randy Black: Yeah, probably.

1098
01:08:27,099 –> 01:08:31,259
Randy Black: We’re gonna have to make it work for us in a way.

1099
01:08:31,359 –> 01:08:35,119
Randy Black: that still honors what he did and still carries that on.

1100
01:08:35,119 –> 01:08:40,319
Randy Black: So, you know, are we gonna have the same tone all the time that would that, you know

1101
01:08:40,640 –> 01:08:43,520
Randy Black: that I had with him that our our conversational style.

1102
01:08:43,520 –> 01:08:44,480
Randy Black: Probably not.

1103
01:08:44,480 –> 01:08:48,159
Randy Black: You and I don’t talk to each other the same way that he and I talk to each other.

1104
01:08:48,159 –> 01:08:49,920
Randy Black: So there’s gonna be some shifts.

1105
01:08:49,920 –> 01:08:51,600
Randy Black: There’s gonna be some changes.

1106
01:08:51,600 –> 01:08:51,920
Randy Black: Um

1107
01:08:52,719 –> 01:08:55,040
Randy Black: He and I tried to get people to come on the show.

1108
01:08:55,040 –> 01:08:57,279
Randy Black: We had one guest in 11 episodes.

1109
01:08:57,279 –> 01:08:58,080
Randy Black: And that was Dr.

1110
01:08:58,080 –> 01:08:58,799
Randy Black: Brad Miller.

1111
01:08:58,799 –> 01:08:59,040
Randy Black: Dr.

1112
01:08:59,040 –> 01:09:00,319
Randy Black: Brad Miller is amazing.

1113
01:09:00,319 –> 01:09:01,600
Randy Black: He’s a great friend.

1114
01:09:01,600 –> 01:09:05,359
Randy Black: He texts me every couple days to check on me to see how I’m doing.

1115
01:09:05,040 –> 01:09:14,319
Randy Black: With everything that’s been going on with with the loss of your dad, and then my my father-in-law has some issues, but I’m not going to talk about those because I’ve been told not to talk about ’em publicly.

1116
01:09:14,319 –> 01:09:14,639
Randy Black: Um

1117
01:09:15,719 –> 01:09:22,679
Randy Black: But, you know, and I got that connection because we did this with Brad on the show.

1118
01:09:22,679 –> 01:09:25,480
Randy Black: But, you know, the goal is to keep talking about it.

1119
01:09:25,480 –> 01:09:29,640
Randy Black: And if that means we’re gonna bring in more people to talk to with us, we’ll bring in more people to talk with us

1120
01:09:29,540 –> 01:09:36,099
Randy Black: If we’re going to change things up, like my favorite segment I’ve ever done in a podcast was Jimmy’s Wisdom of the Week.

1121
01:09:36,420 –> 01:09:39,299
Randy Black: You know, are we going to keep doing a wisdom of the week?

1122
01:09:39,299 –> 01:09:40,659
Randy Black: I’m going to try.

1123
01:09:40,640 –> 01:09:46,560
Randy Black: I can’t always, you know, I can’t I can’t always guarantee they’re gonna be as good as Jimmy’s Jimmy isms, but we’re gonna try.

1124
01:09:46,560 –> 01:09:55,280
Randy Black: You know, we’re not we’re trying not to stray from what the core principles that we that your dad and I started this show on.

1125
01:09:55,960 –> 01:10:06,360
Randy Black: The hope is though that by sticking with those principles and having your voice, your views, will help us to expand that.

1126
01:10:06,360 –> 01:10:08,360
Randy Black: That’s how I look at it.

1127
01:10:09,900 –> 01:10:11,420
Elizabeth Clayton: Yes, I like that.

1128
01:10:11,420 –> 01:10:19,660
Elizabeth Clayton: Um well we definitely have unlimited wisdom of the weeks for quite a while because as every time I go through some type of note or something of his

1129
01:10:19,940 –> 01:10:27,300
Elizabeth Clayton: There will always be something to go off of and um no matter what, we will always have his inspiration around us and um

1130
01:10:28,060 –> 01:10:31,580
Elizabeth Clayton: It’s just I said he has fifteen thousand videos in his phone.

1131
01:10:31,580 –> 01:10:36,780
Elizabeth Clayton: Now a lot of these videos are um a lot of them, you know, every time he would be in the gym

1132
01:10:36,960 –> 01:10:44,159
Elizabeth Clayton: nightly and he was doing the lessons on the the the shootaway guns, he would film the players and their shots and everything.

1133
01:10:44,159 –> 01:10:47,679
Elizabeth Clayton: So I mean he has tons of that, but he’s always talking in the background.

1134
01:10:47,679 –> 01:10:48,159
Elizabeth Clayton: Yeah.

1135
01:10:48,159 –> 01:10:48,960
Elizabeth Clayton: And um

1136
01:10:48,900 –> 01:10:53,860
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, so I’m trying to go through and find the most important ones and f and save them.

1137
01:10:53,860 –> 01:10:59,219
Elizabeth Clayton: And um, like I said, uh one of the things, you know, he every time I was around him

1138
01:10:59,660 –> 01:11:04,540
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, I get so I’m not mad at him, but I mean like dad, get off your phone.

1139
01:11:04,540 –> 01:11:06,220
Elizabeth Clayton: Like, get off your phone, Dad.

1140
01:11:06,220 –> 01:11:08,460
Elizabeth Clayton: I’m I’m here to visit you or you’re here to whatever.

1141
01:11:08,620 –> 01:11:09,900
Elizabeth Clayton: I’m uh uh you know

1142
01:11:09,860 –> 01:11:11,700
Elizabeth Clayton: Can you pay attention to me for a little while?

1143
01:11:11,700 –> 01:11:19,860
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, he of course he would, but he was always so glued to his phone because I think his mind was always thinking, like, what can I do next?

1144
01:11:19,560 –> 01:11:20,679
Elizabeth Clayton: What can I put out there?

1145
01:11:20,679 –> 01:11:27,400
Elizabeth Clayton: Every day he was always posting a video or a an inspirational quote, picture, whatever he created.

1146
01:11:27,400 –> 01:11:30,520
Elizabeth Clayton: And, you know, going through his phone

1147
01:11:31,080 –> 01:11:37,640
Elizabeth Clayton: And having his phone in my possession, it really brought to light like he he was his mind was always spinning.

1148
01:11:37,640 –> 01:11:41,560
Elizabeth Clayton: He was always thinking of the next thing that he could do to help somebody.

1149
01:11:41,560 –> 01:11:43,960
Elizabeth Clayton: And, you know, I really thought like, man

1150
01:11:44,199 –> 01:11:46,760
Elizabeth Clayton: No what I mean I I understand why he was always on the phone.

1151
01:11:46,760 –> 01:11:54,440
Elizabeth Clayton: That brought him comfort, I’m sure too, in what in what he was going through in the last three years, just knowing he could help somebody else.

1152
01:11:54,440 –> 01:11:58,199
Elizabeth Clayton: Um whatever they were going through and, you know, um

1153
01:12:06,260 –> 01:12:08,660
Randy Black: With everything else, that’s what kept him young.

1154
01:12:08,660 –> 01:12:09,940
Elizabeth Clayton: Oh my gosh.

1155
01:12:10,600 –> 01:12:11,400
Elizabeth Clayton: Yeah.

1156
01:12:11,400 –> 01:12:18,360
Elizabeth Clayton: And I mean, just all the people that have reached out to me, um, you know, in the the week

1157
01:12:19,179 –> 01:12:26,300
Elizabeth Clayton: The last few weeks, they’re all the one consistent thing they say to me is we’re gonna miss his daily messages.

1158
01:12:26,860 –> 01:12:32,380
Elizabeth Clayton: And so that led me when I got his phone and I started looking through

1159
01:12:32,400 –> 01:12:39,600
Elizabeth Clayton: I said, what can I do to keep because I realized, you know, he had built something up on his social media account.

1160
01:12:39,600 –> 01:12:42,320
Elizabeth Clayton: And I said, well, I can’t let that go.

1161
01:12:42,320 –> 01:12:47,360
Elizabeth Clayton: If I can figure out a way to continue to maybe do something in that regard.

1162
01:12:46,660 –> 01:12:48,580
Elizabeth Clayton: So I said, what can I do?

1163
01:12:48,580 –> 01:12:53,220
Elizabeth Clayton: I have to come up with like some kind of a slogan to put on there every week.

1164
01:12:53,220 –> 01:12:55,860
Elizabeth Clayton: So of course I’m like, nobody likes Mondays.

1165
01:12:56,180 –> 01:12:58,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I’m sure some people do, but

1166
01:12:58,160 –> 01:13:01,760
Elizabeth Clayton: Most people dread Mondays ’cause it’s the start of the the work week or whatever.

1167
01:13:01,760 –> 01:13:06,000
Elizabeth Clayton: And so I said, Well, I’ll just call it Believe, Achieve, Motivate Monday.

1168
01:13:06,000 –> 01:13:06,320
Randy Black: Huh

1169
01:13:06,440 –> 01:13:09,080
Elizabeth Clayton: And make a post, pick a video or something funny.

1170
01:13:10,920 –> 01:13:12,200
Randy Black: Believe, achieve, motivate.

1171
01:13:12,200 –> 01:13:14,280
Randy Black: I think that th then don’t you mean this?

1172
01:13:14,280 –> 01:13:15,560
Randy Black: Bam, son.

1173
01:13:17,080 –> 01:13:17,880
Elizabeth Clayton: Yes.

1174
01:13:17,740 –> 01:13:20,220
Elizabeth Clayton: Yes, um, that’s exactly it.

1175
01:13:20,220 –> 01:13:28,620
Elizabeth Clayton: Um so I’ve done it the last three weeks on Monday, and people really seem to um enjoy it.

1176
01:13:29,000 –> 01:13:38,360
Elizabeth Clayton: And um, you know, I just want people to know that I don’t I know my dad is in another place, but he was a l he’s still alive.

1177
01:13:38,200 –> 01:13:44,200
Elizabeth Clayton: And he’s still I want, you know, I I want people to still hear his voice and know that he’s still with us.

1178
01:13:44,200 –> 01:13:52,280
Elizabeth Clayton: And he would love nothing more than knowing every time I’m holding his phone and I’m looking, I know he’s looking over me like, oh, this makes me so happy.

1179
01:13:52,280 –> 01:13:52,520
Elizabeth Clayton: Like

1180
01:13:52,660 –> 01:13:58,580
Elizabeth Clayton: I I just know that he would really get a kick out of it and the fact that we’re st we’re doing this right now.

1181
01:13:58,580 –> 01:14:02,100
Elizabeth Clayton: And I I I just know that this is

1182
01:14:02,560 –> 01:14:08,239
Elizabeth Clayton: if I can do anything to honor my dad, doing these things is the best thing I can do.

1183
01:14:08,480 –> 01:14:15,840
Elizabeth Clayton: Um and the things that he loved the most is, you know, when it comes to helping people and motivating people and inspiring people

1184
01:14:15,960 –> 01:14:21,960
Elizabeth Clayton: Um, I’ve always had that in me in some way, shape, or form, but I never knew how to use it.

1185
01:14:21,960 –> 01:14:22,119
Coach Jim Clayton: Right.

1186
01:14:22,280 –> 01:14:26,679
Elizabeth Clayton: And so the last I mean I pr I did in different ways, but

1187
01:14:26,760 –> 01:14:27,960
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, it’s been interesting.

1188
01:14:27,960 –> 01:14:39,080
Elizabeth Clayton: The things that have been um stirring inside of me since his passing, I don’t know if it’s hi I don’t know what it is, but I just feel so called to every day like something new comes to me and I’m like, how can I do this?

1189
01:14:39,080 –> 01:14:39,720
Elizabeth Clayton: What can I do?

1190
01:14:39,720 –> 01:14:41,560
Elizabeth Clayton: So like the podcast.

1191
01:14:41,160 –> 01:14:48,520
Elizabeth Clayton: When we start talking about it um after his passing, I’m like, I don’t know how this is gonna work, but we’ll figure it out.

1192
01:14:48,520 –> 01:14:53,320
Randy Black: Yeah, and and and what’s what’s funny to me is that every you know, somebody’d say, like, well, what’s gonna happen to the podcast?

1193
01:14:53,400 –> 01:14:54,040
Randy Black: I’m like, well

1194
01:14:54,740 –> 01:14:56,180
Randy Black: Elizabeth wants to do it.

1195
01:14:56,180 –> 01:14:58,180
Randy Black: And I’d get, Elizabeth?

1196
01:14:58,180 –> 01:14:58,820
Randy Black: What?

1197
01:14:58,820 –> 01:15:01,700
Randy Black: Like my favorite was when I said that to to Mike.

1198
01:15:03,220 –> 01:15:05,700
Randy Black: Anybody listening who doesn’t know Mike is Elizabeth’s boyfriend.

1199
01:15:05,820 –> 01:15:07,100
Randy Black: Um, nice guy.

1200
01:15:07,100 –> 01:15:07,660
Randy Black: Really like him.

1201
01:15:07,660 –> 01:15:09,740
Randy Black: And Mike went, how’s she gonna do that?

1202
01:15:09,740 –> 01:15:14,380
Randy Black: I said, uh just we’re gonna take equipment down there and we’re gonna set it up to it remotely.

1203
01:15:14,380 –> 01:15:16,060
Randy Black: He goes, You can do that?

1204
01:15:16,060 –> 01:15:17,020
Randy Black: Yeah.

1205
01:15:16,880 –> 01:15:18,320
Randy Black: Well, where’s she gonna set it up at?

1206
01:15:18,320 –> 01:15:20,000
Randy Black: I said, I think we’re going to your house.

1207
01:15:20,000 –> 01:15:21,440
Randy Black: And he went, what?

1208
01:15:21,440 –> 01:15:23,520
Randy Black: I went, I’m just telling you what I was told.

1209
01:15:23,520 –> 01:15:25,280
Elizabeth Clayton: So but just just stuff like that.

1210
01:15:25,280 –> 01:15:27,760
Randy Black: Like in when I was you know, when I was getting the equipment.

1211
01:15:27,560 –> 01:15:30,679
Randy Black: Your mom was like, you know, I don’t know why she wants to do this.

1212
01:15:30,679 –> 01:15:32,280
Randy Black: I said, because she loved him.

1213
01:15:32,280 –> 01:15:34,520
Randy Black: That was her dad, and she wants to keep this going.

1214
01:15:34,520 –> 01:15:36,280
Randy Black: She wants to carry that on.

1215
01:15:36,080 –> 01:15:43,680
Randy Black: I said, and if that’s, you know, if if I can help do that and and help carry on, you know, Jimmy’s name and his legacy, then I’m gonna do it too.

1216
01:15:43,680 –> 01:15:44,000
Randy Black: So

1217
01:15:44,340 –> 01:15:51,700
Randy Black: It’s and I you know, I haven’t talked to your brother, so I don’t know what he thinks, but I’m sure that he’s kinda like, uh, it’s Elizabeth doing something crazy.

1218
01:15:51,700 –> 01:15:54,500
Randy Black: But you know, it’s it is what it is.

1219
01:15:54,500 –> 01:15:58,980
Randy Black: You know, it’s it’s it’s the way for you to honor your dad.

1220
01:15:58,940 –> 01:16:01,420
Randy Black: That’s all it comes down to.

1221
01:16:01,420 –> 01:16:03,340
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, and you know what?

1222
01:16:03,340 –> 01:16:06,300
Elizabeth Clayton: Um what what did my dad say?

1223
01:16:06,300 –> 01:16:12,300
Elizabeth Clayton: Well he I don’t remember, it was either in an episode or one of his he said, you know, I’d rather somebody try and fail

1224
01:16:12,180 –> 01:16:13,860
Elizabeth Clayton: then do nothing and succeed.

1225
01:16:14,340 –> 01:16:21,380
Elizabeth Clayton: And, you know, at the end of the day I found the thing that helps me the most with n you know, his passing

1226
01:16:21,740 –> 01:16:23,740
Elizabeth Clayton: is having him all around me.

1227
01:16:23,740 –> 01:16:29,260
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, I have his what you know those big pictures that we had made uh we had him next to h at the service

1228
01:16:29,100 –> 01:16:30,380
Elizabeth Clayton: There was four different ones.

1229
01:16:30,380 –> 01:16:31,500
Elizabeth Clayton: I’ve got one in my car.

1230
01:16:31,500 –> 01:16:33,740
Elizabeth Clayton: He rides in the front seat with me everywhere I go.

1231
01:16:33,740 –> 01:16:35,900
Elizabeth Clayton: I’ve got one sitting at my table at my house.

1232
01:16:35,900 –> 01:16:37,740
Elizabeth Clayton: I’ve got one at my office.

1233
01:16:37,300 –> 01:16:42,820
Elizabeth Clayton: I I’ve got one everywhere that I am, you know, and I look at it and he look like I’m looking right at him.

1234
01:16:42,820 –> 01:16:47,059
Elizabeth Clayton: And, you know, I have things of his around me and

1235
01:16:47,540 –> 01:16:53,139
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, uh I’m just constantly, that’s what helps me cope with everything that has happened.

1236
01:16:53,139 –> 01:16:54,980
Elizabeth Clayton: And him physically not being here.

1237
01:16:54,980 –> 01:16:55,619
Elizabeth Clayton: Now

1238
01:16:55,260 –> 01:16:59,260
Elizabeth Clayton: I know some people, well most people, they have a hard time with that.

1239
01:16:59,260 –> 01:17:04,220
Elizabeth Clayton: That makes it harder for them to cope, is hearing their voice, looking at their picture.

1240
01:17:04,060 –> 01:17:07,500
Elizabeth Clayton: At least I know that for my mother seems to have a harder time with that.

1241
01:17:07,500 –> 01:17:11,020
Elizabeth Clayton: I don’t know about my my brother or other people, but me

1242
01:17:11,920 –> 01:17:13,280
Elizabeth Clayton: I need to hear him.

1243
01:17:13,280 –> 01:17:16,080
Elizabeth Clayton: I need to know he’s around me and he existed.

1244
01:17:16,080 –> 01:17:16,480
Coach Jim Clayton: You don’t know.

1245
01:17:16,640 –> 01:17:19,840
Elizabeth Clayton: And I I I refuse to let him

1246
01:17:20,699 –> 01:17:21,340
Elizabeth Clayton: die.

1247
01:17:21,340 –> 01:17:27,260
Elizabeth Clayton: And I know he’s he’s physically gone, but I refuse to let his voice die.

1248
01:17:27,260 –> 01:17:29,420
Elizabeth Clayton: And if I have to be that voice

1249
01:17:29,360 –> 01:17:30,240
Elizabeth Clayton: I will step in.

1250
01:17:30,240 –> 01:17:34,400
Elizabeth Clayton: I’m not trying to replace my dad, but I know I have him inside me.

1251
01:17:34,400 –> 01:17:38,320
Elizabeth Clayton: He has always he has coached me and guided me for 40 years of my life.

1252
01:17:38,320 –> 01:17:40,160
Elizabeth Clayton: He was there the day I was born.

1253
01:17:40,160 –> 01:17:40,480
Elizabeth Clayton: And

1254
01:17:41,020 –> 01:17:44,300
Elizabeth Clayton: He is I am who I am because of him.

1255
01:17:44,300 –> 01:17:50,460
Elizabeth Clayton: He is, you know, uh from the time I was little, I knew that we had a special bond.

1256
01:17:50,400 –> 01:17:52,800
Elizabeth Clayton: And um I am him and he is me.

1257
01:17:52,800 –> 01:17:53,840
Elizabeth Clayton: Whatever you want to say.

1258
01:18:02,940 –> 01:18:04,620
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, you know, it’s interesting.

1259
01:18:04,620 –> 01:18:07,580
Elizabeth Clayton: I have a funny story to tell you based off of what you just said.

1260
01:18:07,580 –> 01:18:12,620
Elizabeth Clayton: So his my grandmother, my dad’s mom, she was my best friend growing up.

1261
01:18:12,620 –> 01:18:15,420
Elizabeth Clayton: Um I spent every weekend at her house

1262
01:18:15,340 –> 01:18:20,540
Elizabeth Clayton: And um, you know, I’d call her on Saturday morning and I’d say, Grandmother, what are we doing today?

1263
01:18:20,540 –> 01:18:25,580
Elizabeth Clayton: We’d go hit up three grocery stores and go to the mall or whatever, and we’d have our little routines in the evening.

1264
01:18:25,580 –> 01:18:27,740
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, it was so the thing that struck me

1265
01:18:27,740 –> 01:18:35,660
Elizabeth Clayton: growing up and going places with her was she would walk into the grocery store and they would say, Hey Jane, how are you?

1266
01:18:35,660 –> 01:18:36,860
Elizabeth Clayton: What can we get for you today?

1267
01:18:36,860 –> 01:18:37,980
Elizabeth Clayton: What can we do for you?

1268
01:18:38,060 –> 01:18:40,940
Elizabeth Clayton: And it struck me like every time we what they all knew her name.

1269
01:18:40,940 –> 01:18:42,460
Elizabeth Clayton: They all were like so helpful.

1270
01:18:42,460 –> 01:18:46,380
Elizabeth Clayton: And she had a personal relationship with each one of these people that worked in these stores.

1271
01:18:46,380 –> 01:18:50,780
Elizabeth Clayton: And she always told me, she goes, everywhere you go, you need to make a friend

1272
01:18:50,719 –> 01:18:53,760
Elizabeth Clayton: And she had the same personality like my dad.

1273
01:18:53,760 –> 01:18:55,520
Elizabeth Clayton: She never knew a stranger.

1274
01:18:55,520 –> 01:18:56,800
Elizabeth Clayton: And it was so funny.

1275
01:18:56,800 –> 01:18:58,719
Elizabeth Clayton: Years later, I remember she told this story.

1276
01:18:58,719 –> 01:19:02,560
Elizabeth Clayton: She sold real estate at one point or another and later in life.

1277
01:19:02,560 –> 01:19:03,199
Elizabeth Clayton: And so

1278
01:19:03,280 –> 01:19:04,480
Elizabeth Clayton: Which was very fitting for her.

1279
01:19:04,480 –> 01:19:10,960
Elizabeth Clayton: Everywhere we would drive and hike, and she would say, I sold this house at this year and for this price and this family and blah.

1280
01:19:10,960 –> 01:19:12,640
Elizabeth Clayton: She never forgot anything.

1281
01:19:12,640 –> 01:19:14,560
Elizabeth Clayton: And so anyway, um

1282
01:19:15,140 –> 01:19:16,260
Elizabeth Clayton: She said the story.

1283
01:19:16,260 –> 01:19:20,659
Elizabeth Clayton: She was somewhere and somebody said, Do you have a son?

1284
01:19:20,659 –> 01:19:22,500
Elizabeth Clayton: And she goes, yes.

1285
01:19:22,500 –> 01:19:24,020
Elizabeth Clayton: And she said it she goes

1286
01:19:24,340 –> 01:19:25,460
Elizabeth Clayton: I knew it.

1287
01:19:25,460 –> 01:19:26,180
Elizabeth Clayton: I knew it.

1288
01:19:26,180 –> 01:19:29,300
Elizabeth Clayton: You all are just alike and you look just alike.

1289
01:19:29,300 –> 01:19:38,580
Elizabeth Clayton: And so um, you know, I spent most of my, you know, adolescent life into college with her, and of course my father too, but

1290
01:19:39,020 –> 01:19:41,740
Elizabeth Clayton: My personality is them.

1291
01:19:41,740 –> 01:19:43,740
Elizabeth Clayton: And he got every everything he is.

1292
01:19:43,740 –> 01:19:45,900
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, he was very close with my with his mother.

1293
01:19:45,900 –> 01:19:46,380
Elizabeth Clayton: Right.

1294
01:19:46,380 –> 01:19:47,180
Elizabeth Clayton: And um

1295
01:19:47,740 –> 01:19:55,260
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, uh I just those those are in my life the definitely the two most important relationships I’ve ever had.

1296
01:19:55,260 –> 01:19:57,660
Elizabeth Clayton: They taught me more than I can even

1297
01:19:58,320 –> 01:20:03,440
Elizabeth Clayton: I you know, uh it it just it’s unbelievable um when I start thinking about it.

1298
01:20:03,440 –> 01:20:08,960
Elizabeth Clayton: And um, you know, uh I just want to make sure that

1299
01:20:09,520 –> 01:20:19,920
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, people know that I want to keep my dad like I said, I want to keep him alive and I want him to still be there and be a voice for people and

1300
01:20:20,160 –> 01:20:22,080
Elizabeth Clayton: You know, maybe I can help him too along the way.

1301
01:20:22,080 –> 01:20:22,480
Elizabeth Clayton: Right.

1302
01:20:22,480 –> 01:20:28,240
Elizabeth Clayton: Sharing things about my dad and the things he taught me and the people we bring on the show and you know, your words

1303
01:20:28,340 –> 01:20:29,460
Elizabeth Clayton: things that you have to say.

1304
01:20:29,460 –> 01:20:33,940
Elizabeth Clayton: You just if like he my dad said, if we can just help one person, that’s all that matters to me.

1305
01:20:34,580 –> 01:20:35,380
Elizabeth Clayton: One person.

1306
01:20:35,380 –> 01:20:36,900
Elizabeth Clayton: You just never know.

1307
01:20:36,900 –> 01:20:37,220
Elizabeth Clayton: Um

1308
01:20:37,740 –> 01:20:39,180
Elizabeth Clayton: what is gonna hit people.

1309
01:20:39,180 –> 01:20:47,980
Elizabeth Clayton: Like I remember when we went and did that um that’s that thing for my that two days after my dad died, we went with Greg White up to, you know, um

1310
01:20:48,440 –> 01:20:51,880
Elizabeth Clayton: Tex Williams Museum and my dad was supposed to be honored that day.

1311
01:20:51,880 –> 01:20:54,760
Elizabeth Clayton: So I got up and talked and I talked about his podcast.

1312
01:20:54,760 –> 01:20:56,280
Elizabeth Clayton: And after the show

1313
01:20:56,340 –> 01:21:02,580
Elizabeth Clayton: After the not the show, the the ceremony, um, this woman came up to me and she goes, Now what’s the name of the podcast?

1314
01:21:02,580 –> 01:21:06,580
Elizabeth Clayton: She goes, I have a friend who’s going just started her cancer journey.

1315
01:21:06,240 –> 01:21:09,680
Elizabeth Clayton: And I really want to share that podcast with her and have her listen.

1316
01:21:09,680 –> 01:21:13,200
Elizabeth Clayton: And what you said was just so inspiring and really touched me.

1317
01:21:13,200 –> 01:21:14,480
Elizabeth Clayton: And I really want to listen to that.

1318
01:21:14,480 –> 01:21:15,680
Elizabeth Clayton: And I want my friend, I said

1319
01:21:15,760 –> 01:21:16,240
Elizabeth Clayton: Wow.

1320
01:21:16,240 –> 01:21:22,160
Elizabeth Clayton: Like I had no idea that that, you know, but you just never know who’s listening or who’s going to be touched by what you say or do.

1321
01:21:22,960 –> 01:21:25,920
Elizabeth Clayton: And that’s all that matters here in the world we live in.

1322
01:21:27,880 –> 01:21:30,679
Randy Black: what doors are gonna open or close.

1323
01:21:30,679 –> 01:21:31,159
Elizabeth Clayton: Yeah.

1324
01:21:31,159 –> 01:21:39,080
Randy Black: Um, which, you know, yeah, like I said, my favorite segment with that I ever came up with for a podcast was Wisdom of the Week and

1325
01:21:39,820 –> 01:21:41,260
Randy Black: I have one for this week.

1326
01:21:41,260 –> 01:21:45,100
Randy Black: It’s it’s not a Jim Clayton Jimmyism, but I do have one.

1327
01:21:45,100 –> 01:21:47,500
Randy Black: And it kind of goes along right with what you were saying there.

1328
01:21:47,500 –> 01:21:50,060
Randy Black: So let’s kind of let’s move that direction.

1329
01:21:49,960 –> 01:21:50,280
Randy Black: Okay.

1330
01:21:50,280 –> 01:21:50,599
Randy Black: Okay.

1331
01:21:50,599 –> 01:21:54,360
Randy Black: So we’re gonna go into that direction.

1332
01:21:54,360 –> 01:21:57,239
Randy Black: Now it’s time for our wisdom of the week.

1333
01:21:57,239 –> 01:22:04,360
Randy Black: This is where we share a quick statement of inspiration or motivation to provide our listeners with a final

1334
01:22:09,440 –> 01:22:16,480
Randy Black: So the quote I pulled out and and used this week is that when God closes a door

1335
01:22:17,119 –> 01:22:20,159
Randy Black: He doesn’t lock the hallway.

1336
01:22:20,159 –> 01:22:22,480
Randy Black: And that hit me kind of profoundly.

1337
01:22:22,480 –> 01:22:28,559
Randy Black: You know, there’s moments in our lives when when something we hope for just doesn’t pan out

1338
01:22:29,140 –> 01:22:30,820
Randy Black: A door closes.

1339
01:22:30,820 –> 01:22:32,580
Randy Black: That could be a job falls through.

1340
01:22:32,580 –> 01:22:35,060
Randy Black: It could be a change in your relationship.

1341
01:22:35,060 –> 01:22:38,500
Randy Black: It could be something you’re chasing after, a dream you’ve had.

1342
01:22:38,500 –> 01:22:40,739
Randy Black: It just doesn’t materialize.

1343
01:22:41,119 –> 01:22:44,320
Randy Black: It doesn’t happen the way that we imagined it.

1344
01:22:44,320 –> 01:22:52,239
Randy Black: And it’s easy for us as human beings to take that closed door and view it as a dead end.

1345
01:22:52,420 –> 01:22:57,380
Randy Black: But the truth is, it’s often just a redirection.

1346
01:22:57,380 –> 01:23:01,700
Randy Black: When God closes a door, he doesn’t walk the hallway.

1347
01:23:02,020 –> 01:23:04,740
Randy Black: That means there’s still room to move.

1348
01:23:04,740 –> 01:23:06,900
Randy Black: There’s still room to breathe.

1349
01:23:06,900 –> 01:23:15,060
Randy Black: There’s room for us to look around, for us to see what else might be lining up for us at his will.

1350
01:23:15,580 –> 01:23:19,820
Randy Black: Closed doors feel like rejection.

1351
01:23:19,820 –> 01:23:22,940
Randy Black: But there’s so many times that they’re not.

1352
01:23:22,940 –> 01:23:24,860
Randy Black: They’re actually protection.

1353
01:23:24,860 –> 01:23:26,300
Randy Black: They’re clarity.

1354
01:23:26,440 –> 01:23:38,600
Randy Black: There are opportunities for us to shift our focus from where we thought we needed to be to where he actually has us guided to what direction we should go based on his will.

1355
01:23:40,160 –> 01:23:46,160
Randy Black: When we keep walking, the door’s closed, we’re still moving in that hallway.

1356
01:23:46,160 –> 01:23:50,880
Randy Black: Even if we’re moving slow, even if we’re moving with uncertainty

1357
01:23:51,420 –> 01:23:56,860
Randy Black: We often discover another doors waiting just a few steps down the hallway.

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01:23:56,860 –> 01:24:00,300
Randy Black: One that fits better in our situation.

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01:24:00,300 –> 01:24:03,660
Randy Black: One that leads to growth or to healing

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01:24:04,020 –> 01:24:08,100
Randy Black: Or gives us an impact that we didn’t see coming.

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Randy Black: So if you’re staring at a door that won’t open, don’t lose heart.

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01:24:13,620 –> 01:24:15,220
Randy Black: Take a step back.

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01:24:16,160 –> 01:24:18,240
Randy Black: Take a step forward.

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01:24:18,240 –> 01:24:21,120
Randy Black: Just keep moving down that hallway.

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01:24:21,120 –> 01:24:25,920
Randy Black: God’s still working, and He’s not done writing your story yet.

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01:24:26,320 –> 01:24:28,160
Randy Black: It’s pretty powerful.

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01:24:28,160 –> 01:24:35,840
Randy Black: And the reason I I reason I saw this quote and chose it was re- was was was re-emphasized for me today.

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01:24:35,840 –> 01:24:40,400
Randy Black: I met a gentleman today for the first time, Coach Perry Estep.

1369
01:24:40,619 –> 01:24:43,659
Randy Black: Coach E Step knew Jim Clayton very well.

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01:24:43,659 –> 01:24:46,059
Randy Black: Elizabeth, you know who he is too.

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Randy Black: And I met him today at Pocahie where he was subbing because he’s retired now.

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01:24:50,940 –> 01:24:59,260
Randy Black: And one of the things he said to me is, you just, and I hadn’t shared this with anybody other than Elizabeth when I put this on our notes.

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01:24:59,260 –> 01:25:04,060
Randy Black: He said, you know, sometimes God closes that door, but you just got to keep moving to the next one

1374
01:25:04,460 –> 01:25:09,340
Randy Black: It hit me so hard because I knew this was on my notes.

1375
01:25:09,340 –> 01:25:13,100
Randy Black: It was my reinforcement that this is what I needed to talk about.

1376
01:25:13,140 –> 01:25:16,260
Randy Black: That this is what I needed to share this week in our wisdom segment.

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01:25:16,260 –> 01:25:26,659
Randy Black: I know it’s not Jimmy, it’s not Jimmy Clayton saying it, but it’s one of those things that I knew he would understand and he would see this in a very similar way.

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Randy Black: And it’s it’s it’s it’s very profound for our situation because a door closed for us.

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01:25:37,199 –> 01:25:38,560
Randy Black: We lost Jim.

1380
01:25:39,540 –> 01:25:42,020
Randy Black: And it hurt.

1381
01:25:42,020 –> 01:25:43,380
Randy Black: But what have we done?

1382
01:25:43,380 –> 01:25:46,580
Randy Black: Well, Elizabeth and I have found another path.

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01:25:46,580 –> 01:25:52,100
Randy Black: We walked up that hallway, and another door was waiting there for us, and it allowed us to connect.

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01:25:52,580 –> 01:26:06,900
Randy Black: And you know, before, you know, I can I I can I can say this, and I’m sure that that you’ll agree, Elizabeth, before this happened, yeah, we were connected and we were friends on Facebook, but were we really friends?

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01:26:07,240 –> 01:26:09,080
Coach Jim Clayton: I’d say probably not.

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Randy Black: But this has allowed us to open that door, to build that friendship, and now to bring to do this work on this podcast so that we can carry on Jim’s legacy.

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Randy Black: And that’s our goal.

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01:26:24,320 –> 01:26:26,719
Elizabeth Clayton: Yes, you said it well.

1389
01:26:26,800 –> 01:26:33,600
Randy Black: So I think we’re about that point where we’re going to close up this episode, uh, this first episode with Elizabeth.

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Randy Black: It’s been great.

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01:26:34,460 –> 01:26:38,300
Randy Black: Um, I’m looking at the counter on my Rodcaster and we’re up to almost an hour and a half.

1392
01:26:38,300 –> 01:26:42,780
Randy Black: So it’s it’s just like talking to Jim ’cause sometimes you can’t stop people from talking.

1393
01:26:42,640 –> 01:26:48,000
Randy Black: But I want to take a moment and thank anybody who’s listening and thank you for your support.

1394
01:26:48,000 –> 01:26:49,600
Randy Black: We’re in this transition period.

1395
01:26:49,600 –> 01:26:51,360
Randy Black: We’re working our way through.

1396
01:26:51,360 –> 01:26:54,640
Randy Black: And Jim and I had actually talked about and had planned.

1397
01:26:55,360 –> 01:27:00,960
Randy Black: a way for listeners to support us because we don’t we don’t want to take ads.

1398
01:27:00,960 –> 01:27:02,639
Randy Black: That was not what we wanted to do.

1399
01:27:02,639 –> 01:27:05,520
Randy Black: We had people who said, hey, we can get ads for you.

1400
01:27:05,760 –> 01:27:07,199
Randy Black: That’s not what we wanted to do.

1401
01:27:07,520 –> 01:27:12,240
Randy Black: We, if we provide value, we hope that you would provide value back.

1402
01:27:12,240 –> 01:27:19,360
Randy Black: So shooting it straight has always been about honest, down-to-earth conversations.

1403
01:27:19,360 –> 01:27:22,080
Randy Black: That’s what Jim and I had every week.

1404
01:27:21,740 –> 01:27:26,060
Randy Black: And our goal is to challenge, to encourage, to inspire.

1405
01:27:26,060 –> 01:27:36,300
Randy Black: And now Elizabeth’s taking his seat, and we’re in this new season, and we’re excited because we’re going to try to keep growing and try to keep reaching more people.

1406
01:27:35,540 –> 01:27:40,820
Randy Black: And we would love for anybody who’s listening to help us make that happen.

1407
01:27:40,820 –> 01:27:45,780
Randy Black: So we have set up a few ways that you can support the show each month.

1408
01:27:46,119 –> 01:27:48,679
Randy Black: It starts at just a couple of dollars.

1409
01:27:48,679 –> 01:27:55,960
Randy Black: So we’ve got some different levels set up so you can you can join as what we call a listener or a friend of the show or a partner

1410
01:27:56,420 –> 01:27:59,860
Randy Black: a champion or one of our legacy supporters.

1411
01:27:59,860 –> 01:28:03,620
Randy Black: And every level has its own little perks that are associated with it.

1412
01:28:03,620 –> 01:28:08,900
Randy Black: You know, it could be bonus episodes, it could be shout-outs on the show, and it could be exclusive

1413
01:28:09,240 –> 01:28:14,040
Randy Black: online hangouts where you get a you know chat with Elizabeth and I one-on-one.

1414
01:28:14,040 –> 01:28:21,240
Randy Black: Um and you know the goal is that it would cover the expenses that we have for doing this show.

1415
01:28:21,240 –> 01:28:23,960
Randy Black: That’s all that’s all we’re looking for.

1416
01:28:23,760 –> 01:28:33,440
Randy Black: So as part of launching that and getting that support system out there, we’re making a limited time offer to anybody who signs up.

1417
01:28:33,340 –> 01:28:44,060
Randy Black: If you sign up right now before the 28th of February, anybody who joins as a supporter will get 50% off for the first year they want to support us.

1418
01:28:44,140 –> 01:28:47,820
Randy Black: So that on that base level listener support is like $2.

1419
01:28:47,900 –> 01:28:49,260
Randy Black: 50 a month.

1420
01:28:49,260 –> 01:28:51,420
Randy Black: But if you join now, right now

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01:28:51,840 –> 01:28:52,320
Randy Black: $1.

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01:28:52,400 –> 01:28:53,360
Randy Black: 25.

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01:28:53,360 –> 01:28:53,840
Randy Black: $1.

1424
01:28:54,080 –> 01:28:59,040
Randy Black: 25 a month to show us that we’re providing you with some value.

1425
01:28:59,040 –> 01:29:02,960
Randy Black: It doesn’t matter what level you choose out of those ones I just rattled off.

1426
01:29:03,119 –> 01:29:07,440
Randy Black: They’re all specially priced at that 50% off.

1427
01:29:07,440 –> 01:29:16,400
Randy Black: It’s our way of saying thank you because you have supported us by listening, and we hope that we’re giving you enough value that you might help us.

1428
01:29:16,520 –> 01:29:29,640
Randy Black: And it’s our way of also trying to control, you know, help with this relaunch so that we can continue what Jim and I started, trying to help people.

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01:29:29,840 –> 01:29:36,960
Randy Black: If you’re interested in doing that, you can learn more about it and sign up by heading over to our website, shooting itstraightpodcast.

1430
01:29:36,960 –> 01:29:38,640
Randy Black: com slash support.

1431
01:29:38,640 –> 01:29:44,480
Randy Black: There’s also a support link right there at the top of the page if you just go to the shootingitstraight podcast dot com.

1432
01:29:44,800 –> 01:29:52,880
Randy Black: The goal and the hope is that we are providing value that you then can help us to cover the expenses we do have.

1433
01:29:52,840 –> 01:30:03,160
Randy Black: and and keep producing this show and making something that is quality and something that you enjoy and want to hear each and every week when we do it.

1434
01:30:03,160 –> 01:30:06,360
Randy Black: Anything you want to share real quick before we close out, Liz?

1435
01:30:07,360 –> 01:30:14,400
Elizabeth Clayton: Well, I’m just thankful that we’re on this path and um you know I feel like

1436
01:30:15,180 –> 01:30:26,540
Elizabeth Clayton: you know things that have been happening over the last few weeks since my dad’s passing, uh I would have never thought I you know, I you always wonder, you know, where life’s gonna take you, but um

1437
01:30:27,300 –> 01:30:35,940
Elizabeth Clayton: you know, uh it’s just interesting to to see all the things happening and brewing and um it’s exciting at but at the same time, you know

1438
01:30:36,160 –> 01:30:46,560
Elizabeth Clayton: I I miss my dad and I I but I know he’s still with us and he’s always going to be, you know, inspiring us and sending us signs or whatever the case is, letting us know that he’s here with us.

1439
01:30:46,560 –> 01:30:49,280
Elizabeth Clayton: But um I’m just super excited to

1440
01:30:49,540 –> 01:31:01,219
Elizabeth Clayton: work with you and um you know build on this and uh you know really honor my dad in the process of it all because you really helped start this with him and um I’m just

1441
01:31:01,420 –> 01:31:07,660
Elizabeth Clayton: super thrilled and excited that I can be a part of it and continue um the legacy of what you all started.

1442
01:31:07,660 –> 01:31:08,060
Elizabeth Clayton: Yeah.

1443
01:31:08,060 –> 01:31:14,060
Randy Black: And I’m I’m I’m like I said earlier, I’m I’m I’m elated that you were you were wanting to jump on.

1444
01:31:14,060 –> 01:31:14,380
Randy Black: So

1445
01:31:14,740 –> 01:31:21,620
Randy Black: Real quick, before we close out, the only other thing I can ask you to do is to head over to our website, shootingitstrapepodcast.

1446
01:31:21,620 –> 01:31:22,020
Randy Black: com.

1447
01:31:22,020 –> 01:31:22,740
Randy Black: There are

1448
01:31:22,960 –> 01:31:24,800
Randy Black: All the episodes available there.

1449
01:31:24,800 –> 01:31:28,719
Randy Black: There are any updates with that have been posted throughout this whole process.

1450
01:31:28,719 –> 01:31:33,360
Randy Black: Um there’s actually, I mean, I’ve even, there’s a copy of Jimmy’s obituary that’s published to the website.

1451
01:31:33,360 –> 01:31:35,679
Randy Black: So that we have it there to keep it

1452
01:31:35,560 –> 01:31:38,760
Randy Black: and to honor him and and have that memorial to him.

1453
01:31:38,760 –> 01:31:44,040
Randy Black: Um we also have links to all the pod uh not all, but a big number of the podcast apps.

1454
01:31:44,040 –> 01:31:45,159
Randy Black: So if you want to quickly

1455
01:31:45,360 –> 01:31:50,640
Randy Black: You know, go to Apple Podcasts or Spotify or YouTube Music or wherever to subscribe to the show.

1456
01:31:50,640 –> 01:31:52,960
Randy Black: There’s links there at shootingstraightpodcast.

1457
01:31:52,960 –> 01:31:54,080
Randy Black: com slash follow.

1458
01:31:54,080 –> 01:31:58,240
Randy Black: Uh, there’s also a link there that will take you straight to our Facebook page.

1459
01:31:58,240 –> 01:31:59,680
Randy Black: Uh we post uh

1460
01:32:00,040 –> 01:32:12,520
Randy Black: uh cl links to things to episodes, uh little short blurbs, funny stuff sometimes, just just to to to have a community and a page where people can come to and they can learn and and hear about the show.

1461
01:32:12,100 –> 01:32:19,380
Randy Black: But to close out the show, what I want to do is we have put together a new intro for the show.

1462
01:32:19,380 –> 01:32:19,700
Randy Black: Um

1463
01:32:20,340 –> 01:32:22,020
Randy Black: It still has Jim’s voice.

1464
01:32:22,020 –> 01:32:28,420
Randy Black: I want to make sure that that is 100% clear that his voice is always going to be on this show one way or another.

1465
01:32:28,420 –> 01:32:34,020
Randy Black: And a way that we can always guarantee that is by having him right there at the beginning of the intro.

1466
01:32:33,500 –> 01:32:43,980
Randy Black: You heard the intro to start the show, which had Jim and I, but I’m going to close the show out by playing our new intro that we’ll have from this point forward with Elizabeth and I.

1467
01:32:43,840 –> 01:32:46,400
Randy Black: And uh again, thank you for listening.

1468
01:32:46,400 –> 01:32:52,240
Randy Black: Elizabeth, thank you for for jumping in and and taking taking the seat behind your dad’s mic.

1469
01:32:51,960 –> 01:32:54,280
Randy Black: Um and it is it is it is Jim’s mic.

1470
01:32:54,280 –> 01:32:56,199
Randy Black: It is 100% his microphone.

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01:32:57,000 –> 01:32:58,760
Randy Black: It’s the one he talked in every week.

1472
01:32:58,760 –> 01:33:03,159
Randy Black: Um I made sure that he talked into the pink one because it’s got a pink cover on it.

1473
01:33:03,159 –> 01:33:03,480
Randy Black: Um

1474
01:33:03,500 –> 01:33:04,380
Randy Black: He’s like, that’s pink.

1475
01:33:04,380 –> 01:33:05,020
Randy Black: I love it.

1476
01:33:05,020 –> 01:33:05,820
Randy Black: I’ll do it.

1477
01:33:05,820 –> 01:33:16,940
Randy Black: So um, but this is this is this is gonna be uh an adventure, and that’s I wouldn’t have it any other way because I get to share about

1478
01:33:17,619 –> 01:33:22,739
Randy Black: My co-host, my friend, my brother, Jimmy Clayton.

1479
01:33:22,739 –> 01:33:23,940
Randy Black: So thank you, folks.

1480
01:33:23,940 –> 01:33:28,659
Randy Black: We’ll talk to you again soon, but let’s close out with that really quickly with our new intro.

1481
01:33:29,320 –> 01:33:32,600
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, believe in yourself or nobody else will.

1482
01:33:32,600 –> 01:33:36,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Set the bar high, achieve greatness, and stay motivated through the process.

1483
01:33:36,440 –> 01:33:37,800
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what that spells

1484
01:33:37,400 –> 01:33:38,679
Coach Jim Clayton: Bam son!

1485
01:33:38,679 –> 01:33:45,480
Randy Black: This is Shooting It Straight, the podcast where life lessons don’t come sugar-coated and excuses get checked at the door.

1486
01:33:45,480 –> 01:33:50,199
Randy Black: I’m Randy Black, podcast guy, educator, and resident technique.

1487
01:33:50,199 –> 01:33:52,040
Randy Black: And apparently, still the only one here who

1488
01:33:52,480 –> 01:33:54,480
Randy Black: doesn’t yell bam son in public.

1489
01:33:54,480 –> 01:34:04,000
Elizabeth Clayton: And I’m Elizabeth Clayton, stepping into some big shoes, ready to ask the tough questions, call it like it is, and maybe even challenge Randy a little along the way.

1490
01:34:04,000 –> 01:34:07,040
Randy Black: Each week we’re taking what life teaches us.

1491
01:34:07,400 –> 01:34:14,040
Randy Black: The discipline, the drive, the lessons you can’t just read in a book, and translating it into real-world success.

1492
01:34:14,040 –> 01:34:14,920
Elizabeth Clayton: That’s right.

1493
01:34:14,920 –> 01:34:21,719
Elizabeth Clayton: This is about showing up when life gets messy, pushing through when the pressure’s on, and figuring out how to get better, no matter what.

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01:34:22,719 –> 01:34:34,480
Elizabeth Clayton: looking for fluff this probably isn’t your show we’re here to help you believe bigger achieve louder and motivate stronger so buckle up and whatever you do keep shooting it straight bam son