Who Is Your Cinderella Man?

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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening everybody. Hey, welcome to this episode of the Note Closure Show. As always, Scott Carson. I'd Be here today. Today's episode I want to dive into going back a little bit. I don't know about you guys, but I like motivational movies. I'm a big movie fan. We like to go to the movies. Probably, I don't know, once, two, at least a week with a new release and stuff like that. Get a season pass. It's cheaper that way. But there are movies that mark spots in our lives. You know, it's like music can do the same thing. You hear music, you're instantly transported back to a memory. You know what I mean? Or it pops up from, you know, makes you think about a concert you went to or an event that you experienced or something going on. I'll give an example. Like, quiet ride, Bang your head. I always think I'm in the car with my buddies in high school, driving to the, you know, the locker room, get ready for a football game, you know, or anytime I hear the. The band, you know, the rum. The. The rum. The drums, that rum playing. I think back to being in high school. You know, I think about college and concerts and country songs and how I hear Willie Nelson. I think of Green hall and the Gristmill and places I worked at. But as an adult, there's movies that I absolutely love to watch, no matter when it's on. One of those, obviously, is a Shawshank Redemption. If it's on, I'll watch it, no matter what's going on. Another one is a movie called the Cinderella man. And if you haven't seen it, it's an amazing movie that was out in 2004.

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That's when it came out. 2004, 2005. It stars a couple stars you might be familiar with in. Russell Crowe, you know, previously from Gladiator, stars alongside him, Renee Zellweger, as well as wife. And the story is about the American boxer back in the depression era known as J.J. braddock, the bulldog of Burgundy, New York. Okay. And J.J. and his wife May. There's an actual photo of him here. He was a boxer, all right. His first 44 fights, really good. He's 42 and two 40 wins, two losses by decision and two draws. And that went very well for him. But the movie talks about his life and how he's on an arise. He fought for a championship, but. But got beat. And then the depression kicked in and he lost some fights. He started losing the next 30. He was horrible. Like 11 and 20. Even lost his boxing license. They took it away from it because it was no contest. And he suffered that because of some injuries, he couldn't box. I mean, he was known basically for his right hand. His left had no power. And he was forced to go to work on the docks in New New York, New Jersey. And we all know what happened during the Great Depression days of, you know, 29 through 34, 35, stuff like that was a horrible time. And he was basically not quite starving, but barely getting by. And there's a lot of similarities with what's taking place in the country right now. A lot of people struggle to get by, thinking they're gonna do one thing and they're getting knocked down. Life is knocking them out and breaking their hands along the way. Well, for me, going back to 2009, 2010, I felt like that. Not that I was J.J. braddock boxing anything, but that. I kept getting hit by. Life was knocking me down. I'd gotten divorced. Suddenly the real estate market was in a downturn. I had projects that I thought would be great, that, you know, I thought would be home runs that were just absolute knockout punches. I was getting KO'd by them, did know what to do, didn't know when to turn. I moved into a rehab that we had because that was the only place I was like, I need to move into this to try to make this some sort positive, because it wasn't a good situation. I mean, it's one of those deals where you buy it, you think it's worth 300, 350. In the matter of six months, it drops to 150,000 because of the foreclosure market, and everybody's struggling, just like happened the Great Depression. Now, I'm no J.J. braddock, I'll tell you that right now. I am no Russell Crowe either, but I can remember sitting in that house not having cable, but I had TV and a DVD player. And if you've never watched this movie, I highly recommend you go out and watch again, especially if feeling down, because I am not joking. I probably watched that movie 30 Nights in a row. I put it on. I'd get a little bit of work done, but I would watch it because it is a motivational movie of when one man overcoming tremendous odds, doing what he needs to do to get by, and then he's given a chance as some boxer that was in the a fight playoff, I guess you could say, to fight Max Bear, who was the champion that time gets cut, and Braddock's manager is able to get him a fight at the last minute. He wins that fight, he wins two another fights and ends up fighting Max Bear for the heavyweight championship and ends up beating him in a big surprise, three big upsets. It's a great story in the movie. It's very realistic in what happened in real life about the actions of him, you know, thrown in the ring within basically a few hours notice fighting, overcoming odds. And then he ends up winning the the championship. And he held it for two years until he lost eventually to the legendary Joe Lewis. And Joe Lewis always calls J.J. braddock the most heroic man. He. Most courageous man he ever fought. And Joe Lewis would call J.J. braddock was the only. He called him champ. He would never call champ to anybody else, but he called J.J. braddock champ. That says a lot from Joe Lewis. We all know Joe Lewis was right. Amazing fighter, actually. He beat the hell. It's the only time. I mean, Braddock knocked you loose down in the first, first, you know, the first round. But Lewis went on to beat him and knock him, knock him out. And so what I, I love this movie, absolutely love this movie because it always brings a tear to my eye the, the movie aspect of it and the relationship between JJ and his wife May in the chemistry between Rene Russell Crowe in the movie and the ups and down. If you've ever been there where you didn't have enough money to put, you know, gas in your tank to get by, or you're eating ramen noodles for a week because you're waiting for things to go, you know, a check to come in to pay for things, or you don't know where the next meal is coming from, this is a movie you all need to watch because it really does show the true power of overcome adversity and believing in oneself. When everybody else had written Braddock off, he didn't. Or his best. His biggest believer is Trainer. Even when his wife was against him to fight Max Bear because Max Barry killed two people in the ring, he still believed in himself and got it done and overcame the obstacles. And that's the true. The media took on the post. The Cinderella Man, a great book out about it. Highly recommend you read it. But that's why I like this story so much is there's so many of us that need that Cinderella Man. We need somebody in life that we can look to and find inspiration and have it happen. And I'm a big movie fan, big Russell Crowe fan, Russell Crans. But Russell Crowe is my favorite actor. Steph always jokes, oh, you're gonna watch your. Your man crush on TV with the Russell Crowe My Hell yeah, why not? Gladiator A Beautiful Mind. Maybe The Quick and the Dead. Maybe not your top five, but that and Cinderella man are like three of my favorite movies out there. All time that he's on now. Obviously, he's a little bit older now. Russell just celebrated his 60th birthday. But last night I got to accomplish something that I never thought I'd be able to do. We were fortunate enough that Steph found a. A listing that Russell and his band was coming to Austin to play. And I didn't know Russell was a musician. And Russell was actually a musician. How he got started in his early 20s, was actually traveling around South Wales, New Zealand and then Australia, becoming a magician and playing the guitar. He's a big fan of country western and kind of the honky tonk and blues jazz aspect of things. He actually was coming to Austin for the first time in over two decades. Visiting Austin, playing at the legendary Stubbs Barbecue Amphitheater downtown. If you've ever been to one of our Mastermind events before, been here. You know, we like going to stubs, and so we like, heck yeah, let's grab some tickets. We got tickets. We got VIP passes to it. And actually last night I got to meet my Cinderella man. And you know, a lot of people will look at, oh, I'm gonna take something to get it signed or do it. And then when we got there for to get in line, there's all these collectors. And that's great. Collectors had posters of Gladiator, you know, Gladiator movie or A Beautiful Mind or even Cinderella man posters. Or they had the hairware, you know, the head gear from Gladiator there. And it was great that they were there to have them sign something. But I was like, I don't need to sign something. I mean, great.

I get.

They had a little poster for indoor garden party that everybody could take and sign. That's great. We got that. But I think we're like the 12th person line. And we got up there, and I didn't need them to sign anything. Just meeting him and shaking his hand was worth. Was so valuable to me because that movie, that role that he played, is worth so much more than any signature on any type of item I could get. I actually did a little something different that surprised the people in line. I actually stopped Sunday and bought some boots, some country western boots, Texas boots, to give to them. Because his acting may not have known this, but it helped me get through such a rough time mentally, physically, financially, during that rough time that a lot of us went through in 2008, 2009, 2010, and when I said, people, you're gonna have signs of boots, like, no, no, I'm actually going to give him these boots because if you're coming to Austin, you gotta have some cowboy boots. Because it was the only time he would be anywhere near Austin. They only played six times, six spots here in the States, most of their tours in Italy and Europe, stuff like that. So only six spots here and the only night in Austin, I think. He made appearance of the Joe Rogan podcast earlier today, but it was great walking up to him and saying, Mr. Crow, I just want. I don't have anything. I don't need you to sign anything. I just want to give you a pair of cowboy boots. And the first thing is. Well, he had this kind of weird look on his face. They usually. What size are they? They usually get them wrong. I said, well, it says 11 on side on. On online. He goes, yeah, that's wrong. I mean, well, that's good because I went with a 12. He goes, well, then you got it right, mate. And shaking his hand and him looking at the boots, stuff like that, he's like, I'll take those. That's awesome. Because he got it right. He says, I've been giving them boots before, but they're never the right size. And if you don't. Never worn western boots, boots can be a little tight. And if you don't have the right size, it is, you know, you don't want to walk. You'd rather walk barefoot than wearing tight boots. I've been there, done that before. But being able to give them those boots and say, hey and leave a card and just simply say thank you for your inspiration and helping me get through a rough time. I don't need to sell a poster. I don't need to have them sign anything that I plan on selling. That alone was value enough. So I ask you, who is your Cinderella Man? Who is the actor or the artist or the musician who you turn to when you need inspiration? Obviously, an Academy Award winner like Russell Crowe doesn't need boots from me. You know, all the money he's made over a decade, far out seeds any boots I can give him. But he was gracious. I hope he wears them. They're black boots. That'll go along with just about everything he wears. He shook my hand, said, thank you, mate. Just a chance to do that. And, you know, that's the. That's the great thing. He probably everybody there was there to have him sign something for them. Me, I wanted to give him something and I was the only there was another guy that gave him a little bottle of bourbon, which is great, but he helped me walk in my shoes. Maybe I can help walk him in his shoes for a little while when it comes to that. And that whole experience was so worthwhile, what the cost was. It wasn't crazy. I didn't spend a fortune on the boots because I didn't know they even let me in to stubs with the boots. But they did. And it was worthwhile getting to see one of my, I guess you'd say, heroes, not only in person, talk with them for a minute too, but also see him perform. And it's interesting to see how big of a country western, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson fan that he is. And that's kind of the music that I I grew up with as well and a big fan of that. But I One of the great things about being an educator and teaching and doing what I've done for the last 20 years as well is when I do hear from my students, do hear from my listeners to tell me they reach out to me, don't need anything, but tell me that they find it valuable or was able to help them or they comment on something. Those items to me are like gold. And so I just want to thank you for everybody else out there who's we've helped. We've helped overcome an obstacle, been an inspiration, or helped you kick you in the butt a little bit gently to make things happen. And unbeknownst to me, when I was thinking about this episode, because I've been actually playing this episode for a couple weeks, when we bought tickets to us, I didn't know if I'd get a chance to meet him because he showed up late there to the signing. But I didn't realize that. Today also marks the seven year anniversary of us launching the first episode of the no Closure show podcast. And this is episode 888. A little karma there. I don't know if it just kind of synchronicity. The JJ Braddock also fought 88 times. Maybe there's a little fung shui with it. 88 was my high school football number. I don't know, I'm maybe I'm silly like that. He's an Aries and Geminis get get together as well. But I just want to say thank you to all of you out there that have listened to the show, listen to the podcast. If we can help you in any form or fashion, help you be your Cinderella man or women. We're here to do that. But thank you for all of you taking in listening. It's hard to believe that we started the podcast that we'd ever hit a million episodes over. I mean, not a million episodes over a million downloads. Like 1.1 and a quarter million downloads out there. I don't know how many views. 500,000 views on YouTube. Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much. If we can help you in any form or fashion, please do not hesitate to reach out to it. Love to hear from you. Whether you're leaving a review or shoot me an email or you want to book a phone call to talk with me, you can always do so by talkwithscottcarson.com I'm no Russell Crowe. I am no Maximus Aurelius. But I will fight for you. I will help you overcome any obstacle that we can and help you take it to the next level. So go out, take some action, everybody, and we'll see you at top. God bless each and every one of you. Sam.