James, how you doing today?

Great, Aaron.

I'm always glad when Porter takes a vacation because I always like going on the show.

Well, man, we appreciate it and we know we get a lot of positive feedback whenever

Porter's out and you're able to sit in.

We have a special guest on.

It's somebody that you know well, Mark Echo, who is a fashion designer.

It's probably what he's most known for.

But this guy is a stud entrepreneur and a venture capitalist.

How do you know, Mark?

Well, I basically have met him through, you know, when his book was coming out, we both knew Ryan Holiday, and we started talking through that.

And then just continued the conversation.

So I was glad when he said yes to come on to the show.

Yeah, I think it's great.

I've got some questions for him.

I know that you'll have a lot of questions for him.

Him and Ryan Holiday, I can imagine, have a lot in common

because they're both the type of people that have the ability to reach real high connectors

and create these kind of events for themselves where it's more pool marketing versus push marketing.

And I know you've written about that too.

So we'll kind of get into that in a little while.

But before we do, let's jump into some kind of like financial headlines or some topics in the news right now.

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