Why Are We Shooting It Straight?

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Randy Black: Shooting It Straight, episode number one, July first, twenty twenty five.

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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 sugarcoated and excuses get bitched.

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Randy Black: I’m Randy Black, podcast guy.

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Randy Black: professional question asker and apparently the only one here who doesn’t yell pam son in public.

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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

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Coach Jim Clayton: tool known to man.

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Randy Black: Each week, we’re taking what Jim’s learned from the court, 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 for you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: 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: If you’re looking for fluff, 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 stronger.

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

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Coach Jim Clayton: Damn, son!

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Randy Black: This is episode number one of Shooting It Straight.

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Randy Black: I’m Randy Black, joined by my co-host

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Randy Black: Jim Clayton.

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Randy Black: Jim Clayton.

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Randy Black: Great.

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Randy Black: Great name to hear if you know anything about basketball.

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Randy Black: And he’s finally doing it.

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Randy Black: He’s finally getting a podcast going.

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Randy Black: So we’re going to take some time here on our debut episode to kind of go through and outline why it is we’re doing this show.

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Randy Black: What is the reasoning for it?

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Randy Black: But before we that do that, anybody who might be new, I’m sure there’s a lot of people listening who know Jim, but don’t know me.

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Randy Black: There might be some people listening that know me, but don’t know Jim.

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Randy Black: We’re going to take a minute to kind of introduce ourselves, give our background info so you kind of know.

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Randy Black: where it is we’re coming from on this.

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Randy Black: So I’m gonna throw to Jim and let him kind of talk for a minute about himself because I know he loves to talk a little bit.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh gosh, I hear you buddy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, you know again

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Coach Jim Clayton: This is just something that I’ve been wanting to do for a long, long, long time.

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Coach Jim Clayton: People have asked me, coach, you need to write a book.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You need to do this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So this is going to be like my first stage to get into that book

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so you know the things that I’ve learned, the lessons I’ve learned along the way.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I’ve been an educator for 40 years in Cabell County.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I taught high school

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Coach Jim Clayton: Started a little elementary school at East Lynn Elementary, then I moved to Huntington East in nineteen eighty, coached there, shut school down in ninety-six, moved to Huntington High, was there through about two thousand and eight

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then went to Cabal Medellin and finished up there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I’ve been in the in the in the thick of things, you know, in the trenches with the students

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Coach Jim Clayton: you know, really get into the guts of what it’s all about.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And so the things that I’ve learned is along the way is what can I do to help make everybody better?

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Coach Jim Clayton: See, it’s all about what can you do to help somebody else

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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not really about me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not about you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s about what can you do to make somebody else better?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because really when you do that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: At the end of the day, when you put your head down on the pillow, man, you’ve got a real sense of satisfaction.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and it happens every day for me.

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Coach Jim Clayton: It doesn’t happen for everybody else, but it happens every day for me because I make it happen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: See, that’s the key to the deal.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, I’ve coasted all over the world.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Um, I started my business in 1992 in Huntington.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I’ve been around for a few decades.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Quite a while.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Learned a lot along the way.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Didn’t have a business model to follow

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Coach Jim Clayton: I just learned through trial and and and just figuring it out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s what a lot of people need to learn how to do because everything’s not going to be handed to them right in their lap.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, here’s what you do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so I had to learn through

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Coach Jim Clayton: Trial and error learned through experience and I learned along the way one of the biggest lessons that I probably didn’t know

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Coach Jim Clayton: Especially being in education, is that failure and success are not opposites.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They run side by side every day down the road.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you can’t have really great success without some form of or many forms of failure.

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Randy Black: Do you remember my fortune cookie?

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Randy Black: Oh yeah.

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Randy Black: Failure is feedback?

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Randy Black: Oh yeah.

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Randy Black: And feedback is the breakfast of champions.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s exactly right.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But see in today’s world, see in the old school world, the dinosaur world where I grew up

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s how people learn.

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Coach Jim Clayton: In today’s world, it’s kind of opposite because kids think failure is like, oh my gosh.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t know you’re going to learn from it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Everything’s based like it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Here’s how I know that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: through my experiences.

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Coach Jim Clayton: When you ask a player, how did you do?

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Coach Jim Clayton: They go, we won, we lost.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I said, that’s not what I asked you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, how did you do?

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Coach Jim Clayton: And they say, well, I did pretty good.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But you see, they forget how good they did because they just think everything’s based on win and lose.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And so I come with this question.

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Coach Jim Clayton: This is the one I come with right afterwards.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I say.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Is it possible for you to play a good game and your team not win?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, well see, then don’t be so hard on yourself.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now when all four of your other players play really good

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Coach Jim Clayton: You’re gonna have a good team win.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, so I I I’ve been through that segment.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, I’ve worked for Nike, I’ve traveled all over the world, done Nike speaking tours with them, met some fabulous people and coaches all over the world.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Um I wouldn’t change that for anything.

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Randy Black: Met some uh pretty famous basketball players as well.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Made some players along the way too.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now that was that was probably the

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Coach Jim Clayton: the the the best of the best, but I’d already been a little bit oh, he is the best of the best.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Let me clear that up real quick.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But I’ve been with some other NBA teams before I really got connected with him

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Coach Jim Clayton: I was with the Nets, New Jersey Nets.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s when they had Kenny Anderson.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They had Drosin Petrovic, Sam Bowie.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They had I mean they had Ramil Robinson.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, they had some really, really good players

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then I was with the Portland Trailblazers and they had Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I mean they had a heck of a team over there too.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Buck Williams back in the old school days from Maryland.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I got to do all that kind of stuff and you know and and

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s kind of the gist of how all this came together.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, I I never really was, I mean, I guess I just.

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Coach Jim Clayton: was a upbeat type of person.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I never thought myself as a motivational person.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But I got into, you know, motivation.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, do I want to be a motivated person where I motivate you one day and then the next day you can’t remember what I told you

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Coach Jim Clayton: Or do I want to be somebody that leads you and helps you and mentors you so that you don’t forget it and you can use it every day in your life and help make your life better?

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I chose the second one

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I said, if I’m gonna be good at this, I gotta get with the best.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If you want to be the best, you gotta get with the best.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I got with my buddy named John Maxwell.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yep.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He’s the leadership guru of the world.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If you don’t know John Max well, then you don’t really know a whole lot about leadership.

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Coach Jim Clayton: He’s only written about a hundred bestsellers.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Okay.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I went down and trained with him and learned and got, oh, the best of the best

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Coach Jim Clayton: you know, and still use that st all that stuff.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Every day I listen to him say something.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it don’t matter how many times I’ve heard him say certain things.

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Coach Jim Clayton: If he says the same thing over again, somehow I get a different vibe off of it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and because, you know, learning is a lifelong skill.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And there’s an old saying that says, it’s what you learn after you think you know it all that counts.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, how many people think they know it all?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, there’s a lot of people out there with that.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So, you know, that’s kind of my background information of how I put all this together.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, I’ve always wanted to do it and really how this the last thing I’m gonna say on this is a great story and this is how I got the idea to do it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I didn’t come up with it

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I was reading a story about this this this this uh grocery store.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And they have three or four alliance of people in there, you know like your grocery store.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well, all of a sudden, everybody’s in this one line that the cashier’s ever going, hey, we’ll take you over here.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We don’t want to get in that line

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Coach Jim Clayton: So they’re looking like, why do they not want to get in that line?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well there’s a little boy that was bagging groceries and that was when it was a brown paper bags, not a glass

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Coach Jim Clayton: And every time he’d bag a grocery, he put little words of wisdom in that thing, like your fortune.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Like a fortune cookie

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Coach Jim Clayton: And they were in there wanting to get that fortune for the diet.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I’m thinking to myself, man, that is cool.

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Coach Jim Clayton: What if I did that

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Coach Jim Clayton: So instead of talking myself out of it like most people do, I didn’t know anything about a computer.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I couldn’t type, cut and paste, couldn’t do anything.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I got one of my boys in class.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, Well, you gonna help me do this?

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Coach Jim Clayton: He goes, Yeah, I’ll help you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I gave him the first quote

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Coach Jim Clayton: And we did twenty-five on the first page.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I cut it out in little squares, put it in my pocket.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Well I ran the the cafeteria.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And so I so I just got ’em in there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They’re all on their lines, doing their getting ready to eat, and I go

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, anybody want you want to hear the word for today?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah, cuz what’s the word?

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Coach Jim Clayton: I’d hand them one of those little strips.

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Coach Jim Clayton: They go, that’s cool.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I said, why?

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Coach Jim Clayton: Use it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So the next day, they won’t know the word of the day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So that 25 went to 50, went to 75, went to 100, got up to five or 600.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And today I was passing out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And then I started thinking, man, I could do this a whole lot.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Because that was before social media.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So now I’ve kind of taken the same thing and turned it a little bit.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Now you don’t have to be in the line in the cafeteria to get the word for the day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You can get it every day.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s this is going to help share that even to a bigger audience.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And what I found out is, which I’m sure you know,

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Coach Jim Clayton: A lot of people need to hear positive vibes every day.

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Randy Black: Yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But when I send those things out.

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Randy Black: We’ll talk I’ll talk about that in a second.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I send that stuff out and they send that back and go, Coach, I needed to hear that today.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Thanks for sharing that, Coach.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I needed that today.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I go, if it helps one person to me, it’s worth it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s how the whole thing kind of started.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s how and that’s how I met you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I was doing a motivational speech at Teen Institute.

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Randy Black: We’ll talk about that in a little bit.

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Randy Black: Yeah.

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Randy Black: So

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Randy Black: Uh I still work in education, but I’m not in a classroom.

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Randy Black: When you teach a some teach a student something.

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Randy Black: And it’s so cliche to use it, but it it’s so true.

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Randy Black: I know you know it.

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Randy Black: 100%.

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Randy Black: I I worked in educ I still work in education.

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Randy Black: Um, I was a teacher.

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Randy Black: I taught social studies, mostly history, some geography, sociology.

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Randy Black: Uh, I was in a classroom for six years, and then I slid onto the tech side in education, was a tech coach for about two and a half years at Huntington Middle and Cabell County Schools here in West Virginia.

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Randy Black: Uh and left Cabell County and went to Putnam County, worked in the technology department in Putnam County for another two two and a half years or so

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Randy Black: uh before I left and I lived uh in Wayne County at the time and the high school that I graduated from, Spring Valley High School, had a position open and I went back there, stayed there for about eight months and realized I needed to move on because it was not the fit for me.

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Randy Black: And went back to Cabell County, worked there at Huntington High, made connections back with people that I knew because I did my student teaching in 2004.

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Randy Black: And I went back in twenty nineteen and the first person I saw in the hallway after I got in and got acquainted back to the building everything

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Randy Black: And Bruce turned and looked at me and he pointed at me and said, I told you you’d be back.

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Randy Black: And I laughed because he was right.

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Randy Black: It was a stressful job handling technology for that building.

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Randy Black: Um, and I just I had other things going on in life and I had to I had to move on from it.

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Randy Black: But I’m back in Putnam County, still working in education, working in technology, trying my best to make a difference every day.

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Randy Black: I still get those interactions though with the kids every once in a while.

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Randy Black: And it just I I have those and I just I leave the situation smiling.

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Randy Black: I’ve showed him something he didn’t know about.

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Randy Black: Um something has has hit

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Randy Black: And that’s that’s what it’s all about.

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Randy Black: It’s about making the difference.

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Randy Black: I’ve been in podcasting now for about a decade, been involved in the space.

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Randy Black: Um I’ve had I can’t say I’ve had

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Randy Black: I had moderate moderate things happen in podcasting, but it’s allowed me to make connections with people that I never thought I’d have connections with, people that I can reach out to and go, hey, I’ve ran into this problem

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Randy Black: Can you kind of guide me along the way and help me get there with what I’m doing in podcasting?

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Randy Black: And it’s been amazing.

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Randy Black: It’s been great.

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Randy Black: You know, people I never thought I’d ever talk to in my life, like Adam Curry.

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Randy Black: Adam Curry is the guy that invented podcasting.

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Randy Black: He’s the podfather.

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Randy Black: He’ll he today He’s the goat.

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Randy Black: He’s the goat.

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Randy Black: He is.

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Randy Black: He won’t say he is now.

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Randy Black: He used to.

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Randy Black: And now he says that because he’s made changes in his life, now he says that

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Randy Black: God just guided him to it to find a way to get to get messages out in a new way.

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Randy Black: That’s how he sees it now.

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Randy Black: Never in the in my wildest dreams would I think I’d ever

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Randy Black: Ha exchanged messages or or uh, you know, through telegram or email or even talk to the guy and I’ve had that opportunity.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Don’t underestimate yourself.

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Randy Black: Thank you.

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Randy Black: Thank you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And see if it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t be sitting here right now.

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Randy Black: We sat in this room in July of twenty eighteen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: How about that one out there?

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Randy Black: Things that Jimmy has done in his teaching career working at the schools, working here at Sports City U, his business

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Randy Black: And how that has impacted things and impacted lives and things and the way his mindset has worked and changed and grown over time.

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Randy Black: Great podcast.

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Randy Black: You can actually find it on YouTube if you search for the Randall Black show, Jimmy Clayton.

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Randy Black: You’ll find it.

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Randy Black: It’s still up.

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Randy Black: It’s archived on YouTube right now.

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Randy Black: It’s not available anywhere else, though.

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Randy Black: But it’s out there.

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Randy Black: Um, and we had a fantastic time.

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Randy Black: And at that time we sat here and somebody looked across the table from me and said, I’m gonna start a podcast.

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Randy Black: Well, we’ve done it seven years later almost.

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Randy Black: So it took a little while, but we got it going.

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Randy Black: We’ve got it going.

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Coach Jim Clayton: That’s why I got you.

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Coach Jim Clayton: See, I had to get a guy that knew what to do.

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Coach Jim Clayton: that knew how to do everything.

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Randy Black: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And this guy this is the guy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: This is the guy.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, if it wasn’t for him

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Coach Jim Clayton: Oh let me sit there doing this.

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Coach Jim Clayton: So I mean all the kudos go out to him, I mean, because I mean really uh

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Coach Jim Clayton: It’s really weird how things happen.

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Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

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Coach Jim Clayton: But I always believe that things happen for a reason.

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Randy Black: Oh yes.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I don’t always know the reason.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And I’m not trying to always f I don’t even try to figure it out.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I just go with the fact that this is what I believe.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We’re blessed to be here.

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Coach Jim Clayton: This is going to be a cool experience.

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Coach Jim Clayton: We’re going to share stuff with you guys that’s going to blow your mind.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s going to help you

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Coach Jim Clayton: So that’s the whole key to everything.

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Randy Black: Oh yeah.

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Randy Black: So, you know, the idea is that we came together because we got to know each other.

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Randy Black: You know, Jimmy mentioned earlier, the very first time I met Jim Clayton.

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Randy Black: I was a sophomore in high school, so that would have been 1995, 96, probably in that range.

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Randy Black: I was attending CK High School, Sherido Canova High School, doesn’t exist anymore.

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Randy Black: And at the teen institute, I remember this guy came in and was talking about things.

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Randy Black: And he was the most I can’t tell you exactly what he talked about.

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Randy Black: But he was the most positive, upbeat, energetic guy I had ever listened to.

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Randy Black: And I remembered that.

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Randy Black: And I it didn’t go away.

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Randy Black: Come 2004, I get my placements to do my student teaching.

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Randy Black: And that second half of student teaching, I was at Huntington High School

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Randy Black: And every day at lunch, I had the opportunity to sit down and eat lunch with Jim Clayton.

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Randy Black: And I got to know the man that I remembered from that event taking place when I was a youngster.

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Randy Black: And we struck up

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Randy Black: I can’t say at the end it was a friendship, but we knew each other.

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Randy Black: We talked to each other every day for the time I was there.

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Randy Black: until I took a job teaching at Cabble Midland High School.

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Randy Black: And at the same time, Jim got transferred to Cabble Midland High School

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Randy Black: And we had the opportunity for a couple years to work together in the same building, and I can remember walking in to the office, front of the building

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Randy Black: Daniels’ office and Jim’s there and he’s talking about something he’s like, I just I don’t know how to do it.

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Randy Black: And she looks at me and I look at him and I go, let’s go.

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Randy Black: And we went back to his classroom and I helped him look at the thing, get the idea of what he was doing, tried to help him get started with it.

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Coach Jim Clayton: And from that point on, I knew I didn’t know anything about his Yeah.

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Randy Black: And I can say from that point on, I knew I had a friend.

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Randy Black: That if I needed something, I could reach out and go, hey, I need some help, Jim.

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Randy Black: Can you help me?

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Randy Black: And it’s been that way.

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Randy Black: You know, when I was doing that podcast, I reached out and I said, hey, let’s let’s sit down and talk.

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Randy Black: What do you think?

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Randy Black: And he’s like, okay, let’s do it.

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Randy Black: And it we were able to take it and we turn I turned it into two episodes of that show because we were able to talk for a little while and get some get some a great conversation going and share some great info.

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Randy Black: He’s wanted to talk about these things.

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Randy Black: And I reached out to him several months ago because Jim’s had some health issues.

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Randy Black: that, you know, I didn’t realize we’re going on.

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Randy Black: And when I found out, the first thing it is, I reached out to him and I said, hey, I just want to check on you.

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Randy Black: Make sure you’re doing okay.

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Randy Black: He said, I’m good.

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Randy Black: I’m good.

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Randy Black: I said, well, I’m going to come by and see you.

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Randy Black: And I stopped in here at SportsCity U because we are currently upstairs.

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Randy Black: We are in the what I’m going to officially dub today on the show, the SportsCity U podcast studio.

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Randy Black: upstairs here in the building and I stopped in to check on him and talk with him and you know, I am I’m I’m I don’t I don’t hide it.

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Randy Black: I’m Christian

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Randy Black: I have a very strong belief in God and I believe God has the ability to touch individuals and heal them and take care of them.

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Randy Black: And we stood right out here in the middle of this court, my arm around Jim, hugging him, and I gave him I prayed for him right there.

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Coach Jim Clayton: You did.

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Coach Jim Clayton: I’ll never forget that.

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Randy Black: Ever.

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Randy Black: Since then, he’s had some good news with things.

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Randy Black: Things are getting better.

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Randy Black: Things are looking looking better.

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Randy Black: He’s on the men.

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Randy Black: Things are going good.

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Randy Black: But that day he told me, I want to start a podcast.

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Randy Black: He’s like, I want to do it.

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Randy Black: I want you to help me.

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Randy Black: I said, okay.

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Randy Black: Let me think about some stuff and we’ll get to it.

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Randy Black: And we took us a little while.

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Randy Black: It doesn’t matter.

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Randy Black: But we got to it.

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Randy Black: We got back to it.

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Randy Black: And we sat down for a couple evenings and we talked about things and walk worked our way through it.

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Randy Black: And we were maybe 30 minutes into that second night talking.

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Randy Black: I said, you’re ready.

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Randy Black: Let’s go.

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Randy Black: You’ve got the topics.

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Randy Black: You’ve got the ideas.

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Randy Black: Let’s let’s start looking at things and let’s get ready to go.

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Randy Black: And that’s why we’re here today.

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Randy Black: We’ve come together because like I’m not a sports guy in any way.

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Randy Black: At all.

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Randy Black: I coached football for a couple years because I was helping out a friend.

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Randy Black: You know, it’s one of those things.

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Randy Black: It was a school I was teaching at at the time.

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00:19:49,500 –> 00:19:53,100
Randy Black: I’m not a sports guy, so I don’t have those lessons

403
00:19:53,460 –> 00:20:04,420
Randy Black: like Jim has from the court that he’s used all these years and teaching people the game and and teaching them not just about the game though, taking that and applying it to life.

404
00:20:04,160 –> 00:20:07,360
Randy Black: and how they can be a better person by what they’re learning there.

405
00:20:07,360 –> 00:20:09,600
Randy Black: I’m here because I’m the tech guy.

406
00:20:09,600 –> 00:20:11,440
Randy Black: I’m keeping I’m keeping the tech going.

407
00:20:11,440 –> 00:20:13,200
Randy Black: I’m making sure the recordings are good.

408
00:20:13,200 –> 00:20:14,000
Randy Black: I’m the editor.

409
00:20:14,000 –> 00:20:18,960
Randy Black: So I’m gonna edit this together, make sure it sounds good, get it all posted online, ready to go.

410
00:20:18,740 –> 00:20:24,340
Randy Black: And um I might be a guardrail in a way, because sometimes Jim talks and you got to keep him going.

411
00:20:24,340 –> 00:20:31,540
Randy Black: But we’re here because he has stuff he wants to share, stuff he wants to tell everybody about.

412
00:20:32,520 –> 00:20:33,480
Coach Jim Clayton: 100%.

413
00:20:33,480 –> 00:20:35,320
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’m gonna tell you something.

414
00:20:35,320 –> 00:20:37,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Hey, if it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t be here.

415
00:20:37,960 –> 00:20:41,560
Coach Jim Clayton: So it’s a t it it’s you know, it’s all it’s always it’s a two-way street.

416
00:20:41,560 –> 00:20:42,760
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not a one-way street.

417
00:20:43,080 –> 00:20:43,480
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

418
00:20:43,480 –> 00:20:46,760
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not the general patent rule my way or the highway.

419
00:20:46,460 –> 00:20:48,780
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s a two-way street, okay?

420
00:20:48,780 –> 00:20:52,780
Coach Jim Clayton: And like I said, the things that he’s really good at, I’m not very good at.

421
00:20:52,780 –> 00:20:55,500
Coach Jim Clayton: Some of the things I’m really good at, he might not be really good at.

422
00:20:55,500 –> 00:20:58,380
Coach Jim Clayton: But so some things we’re shared, he can take it

423
00:20:58,240 –> 00:20:59,600
Coach Jim Clayton: and use it in his life.

424
00:20:59,600 –> 00:21:07,040
Coach Jim Clayton: And then the stuff he’s sharing with me, I can take it, not very far, but I can take it and use some of the stuff in my life.

425
00:21:07,040 –> 00:21:08,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Especially tech stuff.

426
00:21:08,160 –> 00:21:10,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Because I’m not a real I’m not

427
00:21:10,419 –> 00:21:14,340
Coach Jim Clayton: really like super novice, but I just don’t have any patience.

428
00:21:14,340 –> 00:21:14,660
Randy Black: Yeah.

429
00:21:14,660 –> 00:21:17,620
Coach Jim Clayton: And tech it don’t like tech doesn’t like me.

430
00:21:17,620 –> 00:21:20,820
Coach Jim Clayton: It works fine ’til I need it, then it breaks.

431
00:21:20,820 –> 00:21:21,059
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

432
00:21:21,059 –> 00:21:22,340
Coach Jim Clayton: And that drives me crazy.

433
00:21:22,340 –> 00:21:23,860
Coach Jim Clayton: But I ain’t worried about that

434
00:21:23,960 –> 00:21:24,600
Coach Jim Clayton: You know what I mean?

435
00:21:24,600 –> 00:21:25,080
Coach Jim Clayton: We’re here.

436
00:21:25,080 –> 00:21:26,120
Coach Jim Clayton: We’re gonna make it happen.

437
00:21:26,120 –> 00:21:28,040
Coach Jim Clayton: We’re gonna make some cool stuff happen.

438
00:21:28,040 –> 00:21:29,960
Coach Jim Clayton: We’re gonna have some great guests.

439
00:21:29,960 –> 00:21:32,680
Coach Jim Clayton: We got some great topics to talk about.

440
00:21:32,460 –> 00:21:33,260
Randy Black: And I’m pumped.

441
00:21:33,260 –> 00:21:34,620
Randy Black: Yeah, we’ve got we’ve got we’ve got an idea.

442
00:21:34,620 –> 00:21:41,580
Randy Black: Like a lot of see, you know, there’s going to be times where we’re sitting here and it’s, you know, Jimmy’s gonna come to the table and he’s gonna have a topic and we’re gonna start talking about it.

443
00:21:41,580 –> 00:21:42,700
Randy Black: He’ll let me know ahead of time.

444
00:21:42,700 –> 00:21:45,740
Randy Black: I’ll do some research, look into some stuff, come up with some ideas

445
00:21:45,919 –> 00:21:54,480
Randy Black: And he and I will just sit here and shoot the breeze and go through it, talk about it, and see how he takes that idea and uses it to apply it to life.

446
00:21:54,260 –> 00:21:57,700
Randy Black: And then I’m going to take those ideas and see how I might be able to do the same.

447
00:21:57,700 –> 00:22:04,179
Randy Black: So we’re kind of taking two different perspectives on it to try to share that and try to try to help people to see

448
00:22:05,260 –> 00:22:09,500
Randy Black: that there are ways to do things in their lives that they may not expect.

449
00:22:09,500 –> 00:22:11,340
Coach Jim Clayton: And not just one way to do everything.

450
00:22:11,340 –> 00:22:11,899
Coach Jim Clayton: Exactly.

451
00:22:11,899 –> 00:22:12,380
Randy Black: Exactly.

452
00:22:12,380 –> 00:22:13,659
Randy Black: There’s not just one way.

453
00:22:13,659 –> 00:22:14,620
Randy Black: There’s always

454
00:22:14,840 –> 00:22:16,200
Randy Black: multiple paths to get somewhere.

455
00:22:16,200 –> 00:22:19,880
Randy Black: The story I’ve shared with people before in the past, I mentioned her a little bit ago, Mrs.

456
00:22:19,880 –> 00:22:21,720
Randy Black: Daniels at Cabal Midland High School.

457
00:22:21,720 –> 00:22:22,120
Randy Black: Mrs.

458
00:22:22,120 –> 00:22:23,720
Randy Black: Daniels and I, to this day,

459
00:22:24,140 –> 00:22:25,020
Randy Black: Get along great.

460
00:22:25,020 –> 00:22:28,140
Randy Black: If she sees me out somewhere, I see her, I walk up to her.

461
00:22:28,220 –> 00:22:28,940
Randy Black: She walked up to me.

462
00:22:28,940 –> 00:22:29,580
Randy Black: Big hug.

463
00:22:29,580 –> 00:22:30,380
Randy Black: How you doing?

464
00:22:30,380 –> 00:22:31,180
Randy Black: Checking on me.

465
00:22:31,180 –> 00:22:31,820
Randy Black: Make sure I’m okay.

466
00:22:31,820 –> 00:22:33,100
Randy Black: I make sure she’s good

467
00:22:33,240 –> 00:22:35,640
Randy Black: But we did a lot of headbanging at first.

468
00:22:35,640 –> 00:22:38,520
Randy Black: We did not we did not see eye to eye.

469
00:22:38,520 –> 00:22:44,680
Randy Black: But what happened is we both realized we had the same end goal in mind.

470
00:22:44,840 –> 00:22:46,840
Randy Black: We just had different paths to get there.

471
00:22:46,840 –> 00:22:51,240
Randy Black: And once we did once we figured that out, we were able to communicate with each other.

472
00:22:51,240 –> 00:22:52,280
Randy Black: We could talk our way through it.

473
00:22:52,280 –> 00:22:56,440
Randy Black: So if I thought her way didn’t work and she kept pushing on me about it, I’m like, well, well, Ms.

474
00:22:56,440 –> 00:22:58,120
Randy Black: Daniels, why don’t we think about this

475
00:22:58,440 –> 00:23:01,080
Randy Black: And give her that other route to look at.

476
00:23:01,080 –> 00:23:02,840
Randy Black: And she did the same thing to me.

477
00:23:02,840 –> 00:23:06,200
Randy Black: And it’s that’s it’s it shows you that there’s more than one way

478
00:23:06,240 –> 00:23:08,000
Coach Jim Clayton: All roads lead somewhere.

479
00:23:08,400 –> 00:23:10,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Some people just got better roadmaps or GPS.

480
00:23:10,960 –> 00:23:11,360
Randy Black: Exactly.

481
00:23:11,360 –> 00:23:11,680
Randy Black: Exactly.

482
00:23:11,840 –> 00:23:14,160
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s kinda how I’ll take that right there.

483
00:23:14,580 –> 00:23:16,580
Randy Black: But we’ve also got people lined up.

484
00:23:16,580 –> 00:23:19,380
Randy Black: Jim’s talked to some people he knows from all over.

485
00:23:19,380 –> 00:23:20,900
Randy Black: No, not just the basketball world.

486
00:23:20,900 –> 00:23:28,340
Randy Black: There’s some people that are also in some other fascinating areas of life that we’ve got lined up to that we’re going to talk to at times.

487
00:23:27,760 –> 00:23:28,080
Randy Black: Alright.

488
00:23:28,080 –> 00:23:30,000
Randy Black: Yeah, you’re not even gonna believe it.

489
00:23:30,160 –> 00:23:35,520
Randy Black: Well we’re gonna bring people on the show, let them, you know, weigh in on topics or talk about things and you know

490
00:23:35,560 –> 00:23:42,520
Randy Black: Some of these people, like I know we have a a a lady who plays professional basketball in Australia, who is one of your students.

491
00:23:42,520 –> 00:23:44,200
Randy Black: Oh yeah, she plays sixteen years.

492
00:23:44,200 –> 00:23:50,200
Randy Black: And she is going to come on and I know we’ll get her to talk about what she’s learned

493
00:23:50,260 –> 00:23:57,299
Randy Black: From the teachings she got playing basketball or learning basketball, learning that game from Jim and how she’s applied that in her life.

494
00:23:57,299 –> 00:24:01,140
Randy Black: So it’s just it’s it’s a gamut of things to talk about and look at.

495
00:24:01,140 –> 00:24:02,340
Randy Black: We don’t have

496
00:24:02,820 –> 00:24:06,020
Randy Black: a very specific, we’re always going to talk about this.

497
00:24:06,020 –> 00:24:08,100
Randy Black: No, we’ve got a lot of different ways to look at stuff.

498
00:24:08,100 –> 00:24:11,620
Randy Black: I know we’ve talked about, we’re going to look at the idea of courage.

499
00:24:11,360 –> 00:24:21,360
Randy Black: And having courage in the game can lead you having courage in your life that can lead to you having more success in your life because you’re willing to put yourself out there

500
00:24:21,440 –> 00:24:25,919
Randy Black: And it’s stuff like that, you know, courage, determination, confidence, confidence.

501
00:24:25,919 –> 00:24:27,279
Randy Black: Confidence is a big one.

502
00:24:27,279 –> 00:24:28,240
Randy Black: Oh man.

503
00:24:28,240 –> 00:24:29,039
Randy Black: Pressure.

504
00:24:29,039 –> 00:24:29,840
Randy Black: Pressure.

505
00:24:29,840 –> 00:24:34,720
Randy Black: So we have we got a lot of different ideas, ways we can go with it, ways we can

506
00:24:35,019 –> 00:24:41,100
Randy Black: Kinda shape the conversation to help illustrate these ideas for people who are listening.

507
00:24:41,100 –> 00:24:43,340
Randy Black: Looking to level up your basketball skills

508
00:24:43,519 –> 00:24:51,679
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509
00:24:51,340 –> 00:24:55,179
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510
00:24:55,179 –> 00:25:03,660
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511
00:25:03,500 –> 00:25:14,299
Randy Black: So if you’re ready to train with purpose, improve your game, and learn from one of the best, call 304-562-2424 to get started today.

512
00:25:14,299 –> 00:25:17,820
Randy Black: Uh the thing, the the one of the big things though with this show that

513
00:25:17,900 –> 00:25:23,820
Randy Black: I want to make sure people know is that this is the vehicle for Jim.

514
00:25:23,820 –> 00:25:24,860
Randy Black: This is his vehicle.

515
00:25:24,860 –> 00:25:26,700
Randy Black: I’m along for the ride.

516
00:25:26,300 –> 00:25:27,340
Randy Black: I’ll share stuff.

517
00:25:27,340 –> 00:25:29,100
Randy Black: I’ve got stuff that’s going to be valuable.

518
00:25:29,100 –> 00:25:29,820
Randy Black: I know I do.

519
00:25:29,820 –> 00:25:30,540
Randy Black: 100%.

520
00:25:30,540 –> 00:25:32,460
Randy Black: But this is this is Jim’s vehicle.

521
00:25:32,460 –> 00:25:34,860
Randy Black: I’m the guy who’s helping him to steer that ship.

522
00:25:34,860 –> 00:25:37,020
Randy Black: I’m the guy helping him keep the train on the rails.

523
00:25:37,020 –> 00:25:37,740
Randy Black: The guy that’s

524
00:25:37,660 –> 00:25:43,420
Randy Black: Making sure the roller coaster stops when it’s supposed to and then goes along and gets through the loop when it needs to.

525
00:25:43,900 –> 00:25:47,740
Coach Jim Clayton: And let me tell you, that is critically important.

526
00:25:47,800 –> 00:25:51,880
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, it’s just that’s you can’t have one without the other.

527
00:25:51,880 –> 00:25:52,520
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

528
00:25:52,520 –> 00:25:56,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so you know, everybody talks about this and that, everybody talks about

529
00:25:56,480 –> 00:25:57,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Me, me, me, me, me.

530
00:25:57,840 –> 00:25:59,840
Coach Jim Clayton: This is not about me, me, me, me, me.

531
00:26:00,000 –> 00:26:01,600
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s about we.

532
00:26:01,600 –> 00:26:01,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

533
00:26:02,160 –> 00:26:04,240
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s not a me show, it’s a wee show

534
00:26:04,419 –> 00:26:11,780
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.

535
00:26:11,780 –> 00:26:13,220
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s amazing

536
00:26:13,360 –> 00:26:14,480
Coach Jim Clayton: What can be a cop?

537
00:26:14,960 –> 00:26:16,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Amazing.

538
00:26:16,080 –> 00:26:19,039
Randy Black: J just like the kids on the court, we’re a team.

539
00:26:19,039 –> 00:26:20,080
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, yeah, exactly.

540
00:26:20,080 –> 00:26:20,720
Randy Black: We are a team.

541
00:26:20,720 –> 00:26:22,240
Randy Black: We’re here one, two punch.

542
00:26:22,240 –> 00:26:22,799
Randy Black: Pop pop.

543
00:26:22,799 –> 00:26:24,559
Randy Black: We’re here to work together.

544
00:26:24,160 –> 00:26:28,480
Randy Black: to help get this message out, to get these get this information out, to have these discussions.

545
00:26:28,480 –> 00:26:33,200
Randy Black: You know, and some of these discussions, they ultimately may not be they may not be fun.

546
00:26:33,200 –> 00:26:35,200
Randy Black: There may be some hard stuff we talk about.

547
00:26:35,200 –> 00:26:37,920
Randy Black: Because you know there’s there’s always, you know, the idea of

548
00:26:37,960 –> 00:26:45,880
Randy Black: You’ve got to somebody you know, you can talk about from from anything, from basketball, from football, to being an artist, being a musician, you know, that

549
00:26:46,240 –> 00:26:47,920
Randy Black: The idea of you’ve already mentioned it.

550
00:26:47,920 –> 00:26:48,880
Randy Black: The idea of failure.

551
00:26:48,880 –> 00:26:50,560
Randy Black: That’s a hard conversation to have.

552
00:26:50,560 –> 00:26:51,120
Randy Black: Hundred percent.

553
00:26:51,200 –> 00:26:52,640
Coach Jim Clayton: Same principles apply.

554
00:26:52,640 –> 00:26:52,960
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

555
00:26:53,120 –> 00:26:54,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Don’t matter what you’re in.

556
00:26:54,320 –> 00:26:54,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

557
00:26:55,040 –> 00:26:57,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, so same principles apply.

558
00:26:57,360 –> 00:27:02,720
Coach Jim Clayton: So it’s not just uh, you know, it only works for basketball, it doesn’t work for no it cannot there’s they transfer

559
00:27:02,960 –> 00:27:04,480
Coach Jim Clayton: you know, right into each other.

560
00:27:04,480 –> 00:27:04,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

561
00:27:04,800 –> 00:27:06,080
Coach Jim Clayton: They run parallel.

562
00:27:06,080 –> 00:27:10,400
Coach Jim Clayton: The lessons you learn over here can run parallel in the game of life.

563
00:27:10,400 –> 00:27:12,720
Coach Jim Clayton: And, you know, that’s really what it’s all about.

564
00:27:12,720 –> 00:27:13,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

565
00:27:13,280 –> 00:27:14,400
Coach Jim Clayton: The game of life.

566
00:27:14,400 –> 00:27:14,720
Coach Jim Clayton: Yes.

567
00:27:14,720 –> 00:27:17,680
Coach Jim Clayton: And you know, my motto on the game of life is today’s the day.

568
00:27:17,900 –> 00:27:20,860
Coach Jim Clayton: Because we can’t do anything about yesterday, because it’s history.

569
00:27:20,860 –> 00:27:22,540
Randy Black: And we don’t know what tomorrow is gonna be.

570
00:27:22,540 –> 00:27:22,860
Coach Jim Clayton: Nope.

571
00:27:22,860 –> 00:27:24,860
Coach Jim Clayton: So that’s hey, that’s the future.

572
00:27:24,860 –> 00:27:26,140
Coach Jim Clayton: And so today’s a gift.

573
00:27:26,140 –> 00:27:27,980
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s why they call it the present.

574
00:27:27,640 –> 00:27:29,160
Coach Jim Clayton: So we’re in it right now.

575
00:27:29,160 –> 00:27:30,840
Coach Jim Clayton: So we’re going to make the best of it.

576
00:27:30,840 –> 00:27:31,720
Coach Jim Clayton: And at 12.

577
00:27:31,720 –> 00:27:33,880
Coach Jim Clayton: 01, here’s what I want you to understand.

578
00:27:33,880 –> 00:27:35,560
Coach Jim Clayton: This is stuff you’re going to learn.

579
00:27:35,560 –> 00:27:36,280
Coach Jim Clayton: At 12.

580
00:27:36,280 –> 00:27:37,560
Coach Jim Clayton: 01 tonight

581
00:27:37,820 –> 00:27:42,860
Coach Jim Clayton: It doesn’t matter if you had the best day of your life or the worst day, because you know what?

582
00:27:42,860 –> 00:27:44,060
Coach Jim Clayton: It ends.

583
00:27:44,060 –> 00:27:46,940
Coach Jim Clayton: And at 1201, you’re starting a new day.

584
00:27:47,340 –> 00:27:49,900
Coach Jim Clayton: So I’m not going to start a new day

585
00:27:49,940 –> 00:27:51,700
Coach Jim Clayton: Dealing with what I did yesterday.

586
00:27:51,700 –> 00:27:52,659
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s history.

587
00:27:52,659 –> 00:27:53,380
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s gone.

588
00:27:53,380 –> 00:27:55,940
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m gonna learn from it, but I’m gonna be better today.

589
00:27:55,940 –> 00:27:56,340
Randy Black: Yeah.

590
00:27:56,340 –> 00:27:57,539
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s your attitude.

591
00:27:57,539 –> 00:27:57,940
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm

592
00:27:58,419 –> 00:28:00,419
Coach Jim Clayton: And your attitude and your gratitude.

593
00:28:00,419 –> 00:28:01,220
Randy Black: Oh, there we go.

594
00:28:01,220 –> 00:28:02,900
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s the most important two things, baby.

595
00:28:03,860 –> 00:28:05,780
Randy Black: We’ve had several Jimmy-isms coming out there.

596
00:28:05,780 –> 00:28:06,500
Randy Black: That’s what I call them.

597
00:28:06,500 –> 00:28:07,220
Randy Black: Some people don’t.

598
00:28:07,220 –> 00:28:08,260
Randy Black: I call them Jimmy-isms.

599
00:28:08,419 –> 00:28:09,700
Randy Black: Jimmy’s little phrases

600
00:28:09,660 –> 00:28:10,700
Randy Black: that he puts out there.

601
00:28:10,700 –> 00:28:11,820
Randy Black: And that’s another thing.

602
00:28:11,820 –> 00:28:17,420
Randy Black: Every week here on the show, we’re gonna have what I call, I’ve dubbed it

603
00:28:17,440 –> 00:28:20,159
Randy Black: Jim’s Wisdom of the Week.

604
00:28:20,159 –> 00:28:23,519
Cheesy Announcer Guy: Now it’s time for Jimmy’s Wisdom of the Week.

605
00:28:23,519 –> 00:28:28,960
Cheesy Announcer Guy: This is where Jimmy shares one of his famous Jimmy isms to inspire the listeners.

606
00:28:28,960 –> 00:28:31,039
Randy Black: We’re gonna start it off with

607
00:28:31,620 –> 00:28:36,500
Randy Black: The phrase that is, and there’s another way to say it.

608
00:28:36,500 –> 00:28:37,540
Randy Black: It’s the brand.

609
00:28:37,540 –> 00:28:38,420
Randy Black: It is the brand.

610
00:28:38,420 –> 00:28:40,980
Randy Black: And it’s this phrase right here.

611
00:28:41,320 –> 00:28:43,000
Randy Black: Bam son.

612
00:28:43,000 –> 00:28:44,440
Randy Black: Bam son.

613
00:28:44,440 –> 00:28:53,800
Randy Black: I’ve heard that said so many times by this man that I had to make sure that he explains what it is for those people who don’t know.

614
00:28:53,800 –> 00:28:55,960
Randy Black: So Jim.

615
00:28:55,140 –> 00:28:57,300
Randy Black: Bam, son, what does that mean?

616
00:28:57,300 –> 00:29:05,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I’ll tell you it’s it’s bam is a word that when somebody says, I don’t care if you hear it on TV, somebody goes, bam.

617
00:29:05,600 –> 00:29:07,760
Coach Jim Clayton: It just kind of gets you excited.

618
00:29:08,880 –> 00:29:11,919
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s a fast twitch word that boom it pops you up.

619
00:29:11,919 –> 00:29:16,559
Coach Jim Clayton: So if you’re sitting there bored of that, bam, it’s going to bring you up out of your sink.

620
00:29:16,160 –> 00:29:18,320
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay, it’s a little different than boom.

621
00:29:18,320 –> 00:29:19,760
Coach Jim Clayton: See boom bam.

622
00:29:19,760 –> 00:29:21,520
Coach Jim Clayton: See there’s a little different than that.

623
00:29:21,520 –> 00:29:26,000
Coach Jim Clayton: And so so I think, okay, so bam, what’s that mean?

624
00:29:26,000 –> 00:29:27,840
Coach Jim Clayton: What does that mean?

625
00:29:27,540 –> 00:29:29,300
Coach Jim Clayton: So I started to think about it.

626
00:29:29,300 –> 00:29:30,420
Coach Jim Clayton: I started writing it down.

627
00:29:30,420 –> 00:29:32,660
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s one of those three o’clock in the morning events.

628
00:29:32,660 –> 00:29:37,060
Coach Jim Clayton: I wake up at three o’clock a lot of times and I’ve learned to have by notes

629
00:29:37,080 –> 00:29:39,160
Coach Jim Clayton: And my pen and a pencil right by me.

630
00:29:39,160 –> 00:29:42,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Because some of those are the greatest things and thoughts I’ve ever had.

631
00:29:42,360 –> 00:29:45,480
Coach Jim Clayton: And if I don’t write them down, I’m going to forget ’em

632
00:29:45,540 –> 00:29:47,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Because they’re in my subconscious.

633
00:29:47,460 –> 00:29:49,380
Coach Jim Clayton: I think I’ll remember that tomorrow.

634
00:29:49,380 –> 00:29:50,500
Coach Jim Clayton: No, I won’t.

635
00:29:50,500 –> 00:29:51,540
Coach Jim Clayton: So I wrote this down.

636
00:29:51,540 –> 00:29:53,540
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, okay, what am I going to do?

637
00:29:53,540 –> 00:29:54,100
Coach Jim Clayton: Bam.

638
00:29:54,100 –> 00:29:55,860
Coach Jim Clayton: What’s the biggest thing?

639
00:29:55,860 –> 00:29:57,220
Coach Jim Clayton: Believe.

640
00:29:57,540 –> 00:29:58,900
Coach Jim Clayton: Believe.

641
00:29:58,900 –> 00:30:05,220
Coach Jim Clayton: If you don’t believe in yourself, then don’t expect anyone else to.

642
00:30:05,500 –> 00:30:05,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

643
00:30:06,380 –> 00:30:09,020
Coach Jim Clayton: So I said, okay, I’m gonna go with bullet.

644
00:30:09,020 –> 00:30:10,780
Coach Jim Clayton: So what’s A gonna be?

645
00:30:10,780 –> 00:30:13,500
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, hmm, achieve

646
00:30:13,760 –> 00:30:15,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, what do I want to achieve?

647
00:30:15,840 –> 00:30:18,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Well, I want to achieve greatness.

648
00:30:18,160 –> 00:30:20,799
Coach Jim Clayton: I want to achieve the right mindset.

649
00:30:20,799 –> 00:30:25,120
Coach Jim Clayton: See, because with the right mindset, anything is possible

650
00:30:25,260 –> 00:30:30,780
Coach Jim Clayton: Because you’re listening to the right side of your brain, it goes, you got this, coach, you can do it.

651
00:30:30,780 –> 00:30:34,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Unfortunately, we flip the coin to the left side

652
00:30:34,200 –> 00:30:36,519
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s the side goes, no, you can’t.

653
00:30:36,519 –> 00:30:37,559
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re a failure.

654
00:30:37,559 –> 00:30:38,679
Coach Jim Clayton: You can’t do it.

655
00:30:38,679 –> 00:30:39,880
Coach Jim Clayton: It ain’t gonna happen.

656
00:30:39,880 –> 00:30:40,919
Coach Jim Clayton: Nobody’s gonna do it.

657
00:30:40,919 –> 00:30:43,399
Coach Jim Clayton: And so see, so many people flip back and forth.

658
00:30:43,399 –> 00:30:45,720
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t even turn that on my dial

659
00:30:45,760 –> 00:30:51,360
Coach Jim Clayton: I call that W E A K Radio, the sound that brings you down.

660
00:30:51,679 –> 00:30:53,600
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t turn that on my dial

661
00:30:53,640 –> 00:30:56,040
Coach Jim Clayton: So I achieved the right mindset.

662
00:30:56,040 –> 00:30:57,640
Coach Jim Clayton: So I believe in myself.

663
00:30:57,640 –> 00:30:59,640
Coach Jim Clayton: I achieved the right mindset.

664
00:30:59,640 –> 00:31:02,520
Coach Jim Clayton: And no matter what you do in life,

665
00:31:02,240 –> 00:31:05,200
Coach Jim Clayton: You got to be motivated through the process.

666
00:31:05,360 –> 00:31:08,000
Coach Jim Clayton: See, everybody goes through a process.

667
00:31:08,000 –> 00:31:13,920
Coach Jim Clayton: And the ones that are successful, here’s the difference in what they did that nobody else did.

668
00:31:13,540 –> 00:31:15,460
Coach Jim Clayton: They paid the price.

669
00:31:15,460 –> 00:31:17,940
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s always a price you have to pay.

670
00:31:17,940 –> 00:31:22,660
Coach Jim Clayton: And if you don’t invest in yourself, you can’t expect others to

671
00:31:22,660 –> 00:31:24,340
Coach Jim Clayton: And you gotta be motivated.

672
00:31:24,340 –> 00:31:28,660
Coach Jim Clayton: Now, motivation is a hard pill because it’s not a natural thing.

673
00:31:28,660 –> 00:31:29,060
Randy Black: Right.

674
00:31:29,060 –> 00:31:30,980
Coach Jim Clayton: Now, I get up every day, man.

675
00:31:30,980 –> 00:31:35,540
Coach Jim Clayton: I always say your day’s determined before your feet hit the floor.

676
00:31:35,140 –> 00:31:40,500
Coach Jim Clayton: So when I swivel those feet and my I come out of that bed, it’s on.

677
00:31:40,500 –> 00:31:41,380
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s on.

678
00:31:41,380 –> 00:31:44,100
Coach Jim Clayton: And you some of y’all there that are listening to this, you go.

679
00:31:43,900 –> 00:31:47,180
Coach Jim Clayton: You walk downstairs, your mom says, Well, how’s it going today?

680
00:31:47,180 –> 00:31:48,140
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m tired.

681
00:31:48,140 –> 00:31:49,660
Coach Jim Clayton: And you go, Oh tired.

682
00:31:49,660 –> 00:31:51,340
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh well, it’ll be okay.

683
00:31:51,340 –> 00:31:52,220
Coach Jim Clayton: You go to school.

684
00:31:52,220 –> 00:31:53,100
Coach Jim Clayton: Hey, what’s up?

685
00:31:53,100 –> 00:31:54,380
Coach Jim Clayton: Man, I’m tired.

686
00:31:54,380 –> 00:31:55,820
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, you go, I’m tired.

687
00:31:55,820 –> 00:31:58,700
Coach Jim Clayton: And by the end of the day, what kind of day did you have?

688
00:31:58,480 –> 00:31:58,800
Randy Black: No, I’m not sure.

689
00:31:58,960 –> 00:32:00,240
Coach Jim Clayton: A tired ass day.

690
00:32:00,240 –> 00:32:01,360
Coach Jim Clayton: That’s what you had.

691
00:32:01,360 –> 00:32:05,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Hate to say it, but see that’s you believe that crap.

692
00:32:05,360 –> 00:32:06,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Okay?

693
00:32:06,000 –> 00:32:08,240
Coach Jim Clayton: So when you go, how you doing, man?

694
00:32:08,240 –> 00:32:09,760
Coach Jim Clayton: If I was worried about me

695
00:32:10,240 –> 00:32:13,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Man, sh I’m uh it’s happening.

696
00:32:13,840 –> 00:32:15,680
Coach Jim Clayton: I’m having the best day ever.

697
00:32:15,680 –> 00:32:17,920
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, ordinary man be dead.

698
00:32:17,920 –> 00:32:18,640
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, man.

699
00:32:18,720 –> 00:32:19,680
Coach Jim Clayton: So see, hey

700
00:32:20,040 –> 00:32:25,720
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s if I was worried about many, you know, I’m not worried about man because I’m God going on.

701
00:32:25,720 –> 00:32:27,480
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, and that’s how I look at it.

702
00:32:27,480 –> 00:32:30,520
Coach Jim Clayton: So I believe, I achieve, and I motivate

703
00:32:30,540 –> 00:32:34,300
Coach Jim Clayton: Now the sun part that came a little bit later.

704
00:32:34,700 –> 00:32:41,420
Coach Jim Clayton: And I got that off of I was watching one day, I was watching the Legends of the Bluegrass basketball.

705
00:32:41,740 –> 00:32:43,420
Coach Jim Clayton: And I was just sitting there

706
00:32:43,300 –> 00:32:44,980
Coach Jim Clayton: And I was about to half pay attention.

707
00:32:45,060 –> 00:32:47,860
Coach Jim Clayton: There was a guy that Billy Mike Runyon.

708
00:32:47,860 –> 00:32:51,620
Coach Jim Clayton: He was a legendary coach at Paintsville High School.

709
00:32:51,540 –> 00:32:55,700
Coach Jim Clayton: And there’s a section in that video, he’s got these boys in the locker room.

710
00:32:55,700 –> 00:32:59,460
Coach Jim Clayton: And he’s going, Dang, son, you can’t guard that boy’s son.

711
00:32:59,460 –> 00:33:01,140
Coach Jim Clayton: He’s wearing you out, son.

712
00:33:01,140 –> 00:33:03,540
Coach Jim Clayton: What are you gonna do about that, son?

713
00:33:02,900 –> 00:33:05,540
Coach Jim Clayton: And then I just said, BAM, son!

714
00:33:05,780 –> 00:33:07,940
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s how that stuck.

715
00:33:07,940 –> 00:33:08,580
Coach Jim Clayton: Took.

716
00:33:08,580 –> 00:33:10,260
Coach Jim Clayton: And I that’s I just put it together.

717
00:33:10,260 –> 00:33:12,820
Coach Jim Clayton: Then it just kind of goes, BAM, son.

718
00:33:13,080 –> 00:33:14,360
Coach Jim Clayton: Just there it is.

719
00:33:14,360 –> 00:33:14,679
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

720
00:33:14,679 –> 00:33:20,679
Coach Jim Clayton: And if it wasn’t for that, so I talked I met with him later, I said, I got a saying, which is kind of like my brand.

721
00:33:20,679 –> 00:33:22,840
Coach Jim Clayton: I go, bam, son.

722
00:33:22,840 –> 00:33:23,160
Coach Jim Clayton: And

723
00:33:23,740 –> 00:33:25,740
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, I got the son from you.

724
00:33:25,740 –> 00:33:26,940
Coach Jim Clayton: He goes, from me.

725
00:33:26,940 –> 00:33:29,100
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, you remember that episode in the locker room?

726
00:33:29,260 –> 00:33:31,100
Coach Jim Clayton: He goes, oh yeah.

727
00:33:31,580 –> 00:33:34,060
Coach Jim Clayton: So then this is how you learn.

728
00:33:34,060 –> 00:33:37,820
Coach Jim Clayton: I was at a camp here one time called my college prep camp.

729
00:33:37,260 –> 00:33:40,140
Coach Jim Clayton: And had a guy in there that was a heck of a player.

730
00:33:40,140 –> 00:33:41,419
Coach Jim Clayton: Johnson Central.

731
00:33:41,419 –> 00:33:43,820
Coach Jim Clayton: His name was Cole Crace.

732
00:33:44,059 –> 00:33:45,500
Coach Jim Clayton: What a player.

733
00:33:45,500 –> 00:33:48,299
Coach Jim Clayton: He says, Coach, we’re sitting out there at half court.

734
00:33:48,299 –> 00:33:48,700
Coach Jim Clayton: He goes

735
00:33:49,360 –> 00:33:53,120
Coach Jim Clayton: I don’t mean to be critical, but he goes, I’m going to tell you something.

736
00:33:53,120 –> 00:33:56,000
Coach Jim Clayton: If you do this, you’re going to make lots of money.

737
00:33:56,000 –> 00:33:57,680
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, well, okay, Mr.

738
00:33:57,960 –> 00:34:00,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Big shy says, show me what you got.

739
00:34:00,200 –> 00:34:06,120
Coach Jim Clayton: He says, his eyes ain’t your face ain’t whatever he goes, but if you take your mustache

740
00:34:06,419 –> 00:34:13,060
Coach Jim Clayton: And put it on a shirt and put, bam, son, you’re gonna sell a bunch.

741
00:34:13,379 –> 00:34:15,379
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, really?

742
00:34:15,379 –> 00:34:16,580
Coach Jim Clayton: He said, really.

743
00:34:16,580 –> 00:34:18,820
Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody in the camp goes, that’s right

744
00:34:19,120 –> 00:34:22,800
Coach Jim Clayton: So I the lady across the street me was an architect.

745
00:34:22,800 –> 00:34:25,520
Coach Jim Clayton: So I said, let me this is what I got a little bit.

746
00:34:25,520 –> 00:34:28,000
Coach Jim Clayton: Now she wasn’t a graphic artist, she was an architect.

747
00:34:28,000 –> 00:34:29,520
Coach Jim Clayton: So she kind of drew it out a little bit.

748
00:34:29,520 –> 00:34:31,760
Coach Jim Clayton: I said, yeah, that’s kind of cool.

749
00:34:31,059 –> 00:34:32,339
Coach Jim Clayton: But that ain’t what I want.

750
00:34:32,339 –> 00:34:37,539
Coach Jim Clayton: So I got a hold of my buddy I had in school, graphic artist, one of the best in the country.

751
00:34:37,539 –> 00:34:40,260
Coach Jim Clayton: And I gave him the idea and guess what?

752
00:34:40,260 –> 00:34:41,379
Coach Jim Clayton: He came back.

753
00:34:41,379 –> 00:34:41,779
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm

754
00:34:42,520 –> 00:34:43,480
Coach Jim Clayton: There it was.

755
00:34:43,480 –> 00:34:48,040
Coach Jim Clayton: So I said, all right, I’m gonna print some shirts, and I’ll be dagged if old Cole wasn’t right.

756
00:34:48,040 –> 00:34:50,919
Coach Jim Clayton: Those things went like hotcakes

757
00:34:50,760 –> 00:34:52,600
Coach Jim Clayton: Now they’ve been on the stove for a while.

758
00:34:52,600 –> 00:34:53,960
Coach Jim Clayton: I broke them out for a while.

759
00:34:54,360 –> 00:34:56,360
Coach Jim Clayton: But if I break them out, they’re going again.

760
00:34:56,680 –> 00:34:58,600
Coach Jim Clayton: I break them out after this podcast.

761
00:34:58,600 –> 00:35:00,120
Coach Jim Clayton: Guess what?

762
00:34:59,740 –> 00:35:01,980
Coach Jim Clayton: And on the back, it tells you what it is.

763
00:35:01,980 –> 00:35:07,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Believe in yourself, achieve the right mindset, and stay motivated through the process.

764
00:35:07,180 –> 00:35:07,580
Coach Jim Clayton: Nice.

765
00:35:07,580 –> 00:35:10,460
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s the formula to bam, son.

766
00:35:10,460 –> 00:35:12,780
Coach Jim Clayton: And if you do that every day

767
00:35:12,660 –> 00:35:14,340
Coach Jim Clayton: You’re gonna have a great day.

768
00:35:14,340 –> 00:35:15,780
Coach Jim Clayton: I’ll do it every day.

769
00:35:15,780 –> 00:35:19,620
Randy Black: We we may need to take we may need to take this logo and make some stickers or something.

770
00:35:19,620 –> 00:35:20,180
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh I got it.

771
00:35:20,180 –> 00:35:21,140
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh I’ll send it to you.

772
00:35:21,460 –> 00:35:22,180
Coach Jim Clayton: You can put it out.

773
00:35:22,180 –> 00:35:24,420
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh I got it man, I got it everywhere.

774
00:35:24,420 –> 00:35:25,780
Coach Jim Clayton: But you’d love

775
00:35:26,120 –> 00:35:28,520
Coach Jim Clayton: And I haven’t seen it in a while and these kids have it.

776
00:35:28,520 –> 00:35:30,600
Coach Jim Clayton: I got in every different color in the rainbow.

777
00:35:30,600 –> 00:35:31,160
Coach Jim Clayton: Mm-hmm.

778
00:35:31,160 –> 00:35:34,200
Coach Jim Clayton: And uh but that’s how the word came came about

779
00:35:34,680 –> 00:35:37,079
Coach Jim Clayton: And it’s probably never ever gonna go away.

780
00:35:37,079 –> 00:35:40,599
Coach Jim Clayton: And I’ll send you one time, you’re gonna die on this one.

781
00:35:40,599 –> 00:35:43,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Had this little girl from Logan, West Virginia.

782
00:35:44,119 –> 00:35:45,640
Coach Jim Clayton: And she is in here.

783
00:35:45,559 –> 00:35:48,839
Coach Jim Clayton: And she is a she was a fire s she’s a firecracker.

784
00:35:48,839 –> 00:35:52,359
Coach Jim Clayton: She had on her little Logan shirt, she had on a sweatband.

785
00:35:52,359 –> 00:35:57,400
Coach Jim Clayton: And so what I said to her, so I said to her, I said, What do you got to say about that?

786
00:35:57,400 –> 00:35:58,680
Coach Jim Clayton: And she goes

787
00:35:59,640 –> 00:36:09,000
Coach Jim Clayton: BAM son woo woo So I’ve got this video you have to see it once I see it

788
00:36:09,140 –> 00:36:10,579
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh, you’ll go wild.

789
00:36:10,579 –> 00:36:16,900
Coach Jim Clayton: So now when I go at my house and I go, a little granddaughters, once four, once six

790
00:36:16,780 –> 00:36:19,339
Coach Jim Clayton: I go the one that’s four, I go, bam, son.

791
00:36:19,420 –> 00:36:21,820
Coach Jim Clayton: She goes, whoa.

792
00:36:22,220 –> 00:36:23,900
Coach Jim Clayton: And what’s everybody do?

793
00:36:23,900 –> 00:36:24,859
Coach Jim Clayton: They smile.

794
00:36:24,859 –> 00:36:25,660
Coach Jim Clayton: They laugh.

795
00:36:26,220 –> 00:36:27,740
Coach Jim Clayton: They take the edge off.

796
00:36:27,740 –> 00:36:28,940
Randy Black: Oh yeah.

797
00:36:28,720 –> 00:36:30,799
Coach Jim Clayton: And really that’s the key.

798
00:36:30,799 –> 00:36:33,440
Coach Jim Clayton: I mean, don’t take life so seriously.

799
00:36:33,599 –> 00:36:37,279
Coach Jim Clayton: You know, it’s it’s the little things.

800
00:36:37,279 –> 00:36:41,119
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s those little victories that we get every day.

801
00:36:41,119 –> 00:36:43,200
Coach Jim Clayton: Not the big victories.

802
00:36:43,120 –> 00:36:44,880
Coach Jim Clayton: We’ll see those down the road.

803
00:36:44,880 –> 00:36:45,440
Coach Jim Clayton: Yeah.

804
00:36:45,440 –> 00:36:49,360
Coach Jim Clayton: But all those little success stories, I call them little victories.

805
00:36:49,920 –> 00:36:52,320
Coach Jim Clayton: And all those little victories, you know what they do?

806
00:36:52,320 –> 00:36:53,200
Randy Black: They add up.

807
00:36:53,200 –> 00:36:53,920
Randy Black: Oh yes.

808
00:36:53,920 –> 00:36:57,760
Coach Jim Clayton: And if you don’t pay attention to the little things.

809
00:36:57,640 –> 00:36:59,800
Coach Jim Clayton: Don’t worry about the big ones.

810
00:36:59,800 –> 00:37:01,000
Coach Jim Clayton: This ain’t gonna happen.

811
00:37:01,640 –> 00:37:02,840
Coach Jim Clayton: Everybody wants the big one.

812
00:37:02,840 –> 00:37:03,400
Randy Black: Oh yeah.

813
00:37:03,400 –> 00:37:04,920
Coach Jim Clayton: They don’t want to take the steps.

814
00:37:04,920 –> 00:37:08,600
Coach Jim Clayton: And in my world, there’s no elevator to the penthouse

815
00:37:08,940 –> 00:37:10,300
Coach Jim Clayton: There’s just steps.

816
00:37:10,300 –> 00:37:10,940
Coach Jim Clayton: Oh yeah.

817
00:37:10,940 –> 00:37:12,460
Coach Jim Clayton: And we gotta take the steps.

818
00:37:12,460 –> 00:37:21,020
Coach Jim Clayton: And when you step from one step to the next one, you’re leaving people where they are, and you’re stepping on people that are happy where they are

819
00:37:21,520 –> 00:37:25,359
Coach Jim Clayton: So you’re leaving something behind to get to the next step.

820
00:37:25,359 –> 00:37:30,079
Coach Jim Clayton: And every time you step, you’re leaving somebody to go to the next one.

821
00:37:29,820 –> 00:37:32,220
Coach Jim Clayton: And all the room is where?

822
00:37:32,220 –> 00:37:33,500
Coach Jim Clayton: It’s at the top.

823
00:37:33,500 –> 00:37:34,140
Randy Black: Yeah.

824
00:37:34,140 –> 00:37:37,900
Coach Jim Clayton: What’s the motor most overcrowded place in America?

825
00:37:37,900 –> 00:37:39,260
Coach Jim Clayton: The bottom.

826
00:37:39,260 –> 00:37:41,740
Coach Jim Clayton: Doesn’t take much effort to be on the bottom.

827
00:37:42,120 –> 00:37:44,040
Coach Jim Clayton: And everybody gets that when you tell them.

828
00:37:44,840 –> 00:37:46,440
Coach Jim Clayton: But they think that.

829
00:37:46,440 –> 00:37:48,520
Coach Jim Clayton: I say it comes back to your mindset.

830
00:37:49,000 –> 00:37:50,280
Coach Jim Clayton: Your mindset.

831
00:37:50,280 –> 00:37:52,680
Coach Jim Clayton: Is it open or is it closed?

832
00:37:52,820 –> 00:37:56,580
Coach Jim Clayton: And if it’s open, man, sky’s the limit for you.

833
00:37:56,580 –> 00:37:59,220
Coach Jim Clayton: And that’s kind of how it all came about.

834
00:37:59,220 –> 00:38:00,100
Randy Black: Awesome

835
00:38:00,540 –> 00:38:02,220
Randy Black: So we’re gonna close this one up.

836
00:38:02,220 –> 00:38:05,180
Randy Black: Uh before we do though, I want to give a shout out real quick.

837
00:38:05,820 –> 00:38:09,980
Randy Black: As you listen to the open on this show, there was some music playing there in the background.

838
00:38:09,980 –> 00:38:10,380
Randy Black: Kinda

839
00:38:10,859 –> 00:38:13,660
Randy Black: Kind of sounded a little bit, you know, like Jackson Brown there.

840
00:38:13,660 –> 00:38:15,579
Coach Jim Clayton: Had a nice, nice beat to it, nice rhythm to it.

841
00:38:16,700 –> 00:38:19,020
Randy Black: And uh just want to give a shout out to my brother.

842
00:38:19,020 –> 00:38:21,420
Randy Black: I have a twin brother for people who don’t know me.

843
00:38:20,859 –> 00:38:22,859
Randy Black: And he’s uh he’s a works in education.

844
00:38:22,859 –> 00:38:24,460
Randy Black: He works in technology and education as well.

845
00:38:24,460 –> 00:38:27,579
Randy Black: He was a math teacher for several years, but he’s also a musician.

846
00:38:27,579 –> 00:38:29,980
Randy Black: And then I s I said, hey, I got an idea.

847
00:38:29,980 –> 00:38:31,420
Randy Black: I need some help.

848
00:38:31,080 –> 00:38:33,720
Randy Black: Jim and I are wanting to do this podcast and we need some some music.

849
00:38:33,720 –> 00:38:36,120
Randy Black: And he’s like, okay, tell me what you’re looking for.

850
00:38:36,120 –> 00:38:45,560
Randy Black: And we lay I laid it out to him and I don’t know why, but for some reason, I said, how about uh something that’s kind of southern rock?

851
00:38:45,140 –> 00:38:50,500
Randy Black: And his reply back was, are we talking like Leonard Skinner or are we talking like the Almond brothers?

852
00:38:50,500 –> 00:38:53,539
Randy Black: And I went, uh, Southern Rock was not what I meant.

853
00:38:53,539 –> 00:38:57,700
Randy Black: I said, I’m thinking more like that Southern California country rock sound

854
00:38:57,400 –> 00:38:58,599
Randy Black: He’s like, okay.

855
00:38:58,599 –> 00:39:03,720
Randy Black: I said, you know, the Eagles, early Eagles, before Don Felder came in.

856
00:39:03,720 –> 00:39:04,520
Randy Black: He’s like, okay.

857
00:39:04,520 –> 00:39:06,839
Randy Black: I said, maybe, maybe Jackson Brown.

858
00:39:06,839 –> 00:39:09,079
Randy Black: And it’s like that light bulb went off.

859
00:39:09,079 –> 00:39:11,400
Randy Black: And he went, got it.

860
00:39:11,140 –> 00:39:15,059
Randy Black: And a couple days, you know, a couple days later he sent me just a basic MIDI file.

861
00:39:15,059 –> 00:39:16,339
Randy Black: He’s like, what do you think of this?

862
00:39:16,339 –> 00:39:17,700
Randy Black: And I was like, okay, that’s good.

863
00:39:17,700 –> 00:39:18,579
Randy Black: And I sent it to Jim.

864
00:39:18,579 –> 00:39:20,020
Randy Black: And Jim’s like, yeah, this is gonna be good.

865
00:39:20,819 –> 00:39:22,339
Randy Black: It was off to charge.

866
00:39:22,040 –> 00:39:26,600
Randy Black: He he worked on it, uh, put that together, and we want to you know give a big shout out and thank him for that.

867
00:39:26,600 –> 00:39:29,240
Randy Black: Rick, you did a great job and we appreciate that.

868
00:39:29,240 –> 00:39:30,280
Randy Black: Love it, love it.

869
00:39:30,280 –> 00:39:33,800
Randy Black: Appreciate it, and we you know it it sets the tone on the show

870
00:39:33,460 –> 00:39:40,340
Randy Black: It builds us in and it’s gonna it’s gonna catch you here on the way out uh here in a second when we start close when we close out the show.

871
00:39:40,340 –> 00:39:41,700
Randy Black: But come back each week.

872
00:39:41,700 –> 00:39:46,100
Randy Black: We’re gonna be here, we’re gonna be spreading our met spreading this message, uh building up

873
00:39:46,140 –> 00:39:50,299
Randy Black: These life lessons and sharing them with you here on Shooting It Straight.

874
00:39:50,299 –> 00:39:57,819
Randy Black: If you’ve enjoyed today’s episode, make sure to subscribe, share it with someone who needs a boost, and follow us online at shooting it straight podcast.

875
00:39:57,819 –> 00:39:58,299
Randy Black: com.

876
00:39:58,299 –> 00:40:00,460
Randy Black: That’s where you’ll find every episode, updates, and

877
00:40:01,460 –> 00:40:09,460
Coach Jim Clayton: In life, just like in a game, it’s not about being perfect, it’s about showing up, putting in the work, and taking your shot when it can.

878
00:40:09,460 –> 00:40:11,779
Coach Jim Clayton: And remember, keep shooting it straight.

879
00:40:11,779 –> 00:40:15,859
Coach Jim Clayton: Bam, son.