228-Front Runner in Today’s World of Entertainment – TTST Interview with Marcus Rixon of Rixon Entertainment Group

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Marcus Rixon is the founder and president of Rixon Entertainment Group, which is a front runner in today’s world of entertainment. With roots in artist management, branding, social media, networking, distribution, and digital marketing, they work with clients to create a strategic plan for success.

Live beyond your box. Hard work will pay off!

– Marcus Rixon 

Knowledge Nuggets and Take-Aways

1. Never be afraid to ask!  It is part of perseverance

2. Be open to other paths to your dreams, but become really excellent at what you are good at 

3. If it serves you then embrace your labels

4. Always appreciate your family and the ones around you who have stood by you!

Level Up! 

Fergie

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Speech Transcript (very little editing so not exact)

Unknown Speaker  0:00  

Hey this is Marcus Rixon from Rixon Entertainment Group. And if you really want to listen how to level up your life you should listen to time to shine today podcast with my good friend Scott Ferguson time

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to shine today podcast first you squad. This is Scott Ferguson word Episode 228 with my good friend Marcus Rickson from Erickson entertainment. He’s a true White Tiger story. Born in India lived a kind of a really underprivileged life but he never let it stop him from serving people and then leveling up his life building a great family. He’s located there in the country music and gospel capital up there in Tennessee. And I’m just so stoked to to bring you this story. Fantastic gentlemen, fantastic human being. So without further ado, make sure you do break out your notebooks because Marcus is going to trap some leveling up knowledge nuggets, just trust me on that. So without further ado, here’s Markson Marcus Rickson with Erickson entertainment. Let’s level up.

Unknown Speaker  1:08  

Time to shine today podcast firstly swatting is Scott Ferguson and my good friend Bertha Medina hooked me up with my other now good friend Marcus Rickson His story is fantastic I’ve been I’ve waited way too long to get this episode out to you guys. And I apologize to you guys and to Marcus for this but Marcus is the president of Rickson Entertainment Group and rixon is alright x o n Rickson Entertainment Group which is a front runner in today’s world of entertainment, with roots in artists management, branding, social media, networking, distribution, and digital marketing. He works with clients to create a strategic plan for success his clients include punch, pray, Chris Bevins, Nathan shared and Alyssa Turner who she’s one of my favorite. And Jay spike. And Marcus, thank you for so much for coming on. Please introduce yourself to the time to shine today podcast varsity squad. But first, what’s your favorite color? And why?

Unknown Speaker  2:04  

My favorite color is red. Red says it it’s a color that just gets your attention straight away. Because I’m a big I’m a big soccer fan. And my favorite team is Manchester United. is red. So yeah.

Unknown Speaker  2:18  

Red squad if you’re watching, like red is a color red for one. I’m gonna do all the marketing and read for you, right? Yeah, too. It’s like I get a personality. But you’re so chill, bro. Like red is kind of like are you know, and the blue is kind of the chill and like I was thinking you’re gonna say kind of a purple but you know, red reds in your color wheel brother. So that works for me too. It’s in my blood. It’s so that’s funny. I know where you went with that. It’s funny. So let’s get to the origin story here, man. What got you from where you were, which I know but I want you to share with the squad. What got you where you were up to opening a highly sought after, you know artists management brand new social media company.

Unknown Speaker  3:07  

So Marcus Rickson president of Rickson Entertainment Group. We’re based here in Nashville, Tennessee. I was born and raised in Calcutta, India. Calcutta, pretty big city. 16 million people. A lot of people just kidding squat if you watch it on YouTube, but no, no. Calcutta, a lot of people know Calcutta be a Mother Teresa. That’s that’s a home base where she she’s from. And I actually grew up catty corner to Mother Teresa mission work. So super familiar with her and, and her work. So I grew up in Calcutta did not grow up in a very rich family. Matter of fact, a family support grew up with my parents who had a 12 by six feet home. 12 feet by six feet. Wow, that is that is not not big. And my mom and dad slept on the floor all my life and me and my sister shared in bed. And they did everything to provide for me and my sister, but just financially, they didn’t have the means bullets out of there. And so they partnered up with the nuts. They were approached by a nonprofit organization called one child. When I was like three years old or something, I was like, Hey, we there’s a school down the street. We can help get a sponsor for your son to go to the school and the sponsor pays for his education meals, uniform and a pair of shoes every year. So I had a sponsor 14 years that that through this organization, and paid like $40 a month wasn’t a lot of money. That helped me go to school, get a meal every single day and take that burden off my parents and my parents were working people. And so I was a sponsored kid. My my sister was a sponsor kid. And that’s how I got through high school was going through a, a school that was started by some missionaries to help underprivileged kids. So that that’s my background. I came to the States about 11 years ago, I came to the States. I was a little older. I was I was 21.

Unknown Speaker  5:33  

Okay, look, what happened between the time though? Like, yeah, I’ve kind of high school and that 21 year old like, Yeah, what? Continue education or what?

Unknown Speaker  5:45  

So from high school. So during the eighth grade, I had these these, I think the American missionaries had come and visited my school, and some of them were musicians. And they performed for a chapel service that I was attending in school. This is a story I wanted to hear. Yeah. Okay. And I was like, What is going on here? This is so cool. And so I talked to my music teachers, like, wait, people get to travel and play music. What give me give me that insight. And he had a conversation. This is the eighth grade, he had a conversation and be like, yeah, along with just being a singer and songwriter. There are other ways to be a part of the music industry. And during the eighth grade, I was like, I want to be a part of the industry. I love music. I grew up with my mom playing the radio every night at home, we didn’t have a television. So music was an escape from me, from my my house that was 12 feet by six feet wide. When I listened to things I was in a different space. So I loved everybody from elton john, to the Eagles to the Beatles, anything that the radio played, I just seen the western music. So in the eighth grade, I was like, how do I learn more about this? So I started helping the audio visual team at my, at my school to set up for any events that they had, I just volunteered, there wasn’t even this position. And I got to meet a lot of great people that were either musician, speakers, or some way to kind of learn about the industry. And I was like, Okay, I want to be a sound guy. So I figured it down before high before. Like as the 11th grade, I was not going to be a sound guy. But it was as expensive for me to go to a school in Bombay or Mumbai, India, that’s the same name. It’s like the Hollywood of India. Then for me to come to the States. It’s a it’s so expensive to live there. And I came from a poor family, there’s no way this is even going to be possible. So I graduated out of high school and I wasn’t interested in becoming a going to medical, medical school or going to engineering school, I wanted to learn about music and sound and India didn’t have a lot of resources. an alum from the university that I attended in Kentucky called Asbury University, had come down to work with Mother Teresa’s mission work and was walking down the street and ran into my dad and mom. And my parents at that point in time in, in the little that we have we they had a street program that will feeding 250 kids on the street, five days a week, through their funds and through our family’s fun just to provide meals for this kids. Right. So this alum from Asbury decided, hey, I want to be a part of this. So he decided he wanted to sell his home in a house in in buncombe, Ville, Illinois and moved to India. And he did and he’s been in India for what 1518 years. I can’t even remember this point in time. When he came back to the States, he he asked my dad, can you come with me and help me move all my assets and do all these things. So they came to the states and on their way to Illinois, or vice versa. They drove to drove to Wilmore, Kentucky. That’s, that’s where Asbury University was involved. Get involved. They were breaking ground and a new building. And my my dad and alum ran into the President and the Dean of Media Communications. And while talking, they will say yeah, we’re gonna put in a music studio, that’s gonna be a film studio, that’s gonna be a radio station. My dad was like, that’s what my son wants to do. So I was out of school for about two years at this point of time, just helping my parents back home. My dad was in construction, and I can always smell some of those things. And I get a call from my mom saying, Hey, dad just asked if we can fax all your transcripts, like okay, so I faxed all my transcripts to his number and then and then he says, Hey, this was for this university that has a music music program. A month later, I get an email saying you’ve been accepted to Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. And I was like that’s so good. Long story short, I still couldn’t afford to come to school because it’s, it’s expensive. And my parents could afford that. But the the President’s email used to be on the university’s website. And my, my dad would be the one with my mom writing emails be like, hey, my son would love to go, he’s really talented. And he would write the letters like, like grandma would like writers like they’re two or three pages long.

Unknown Speaker  10:29  

To the point where the you cannot find the universities presidents email on the website anymore. My parents for that out, but between the President and the admissions department, they figured out to give me a good amount of scholarship, where I was able to get my resources put together in India, and then I worked during the summers on the university as a carpenter, I have a left. So I was the assistant Carpenter did hpac I did any maintenance work at the university to help pay the rest of my bill off. So that’s how I even ended up going to college and learn about music and sound and, and TV and film, things like that. Awesome. Awesome.

Unknown Speaker  11:10  

So as we fast forward then like, how do we really kind of launch Rickson entertainment? Yeah.

Unknown Speaker  11:16  

So in college, I went to school for Media Communications, emphasis in audio production, and I needed a internship to, to graduate. And so so I didn’t have a car. And Nashville is about three and a half hours away from from Lexington, Kentucky. That’s where I was going to school. And I found these guys online on a website. And they were Burning Man spoken and they were like, Hey, we’re needing help on the road, if someone wants to help reach us here, and so I reached them, and they’re like, okay, meet us downtown Nashville, like 6am we’re gonna hit the road. And I was like, Okay, so then I didn’t have a car. So I hitchhiked with a couple of my friends from from Lexington to Nashville, and waited in a parking lot at 6am in the morning for this band to show up to help me get on the road. So here am I with a backpack and a Volkswagen Jetta just circles around the empty parking lot. And I was like, I have no idea just me. I’ve never been to Nashville at this point in time. And Hollywood man. And these guys circle and come back around and stop and they were like, Hey, you Marcus, like yeah, you guys unspoken? They’re like, yep. They’re like, Alright, you got middle backseat. And so I jumped in the middle of backseat and then went on the road with them for two weeks. What I learned was on that trip on that trip with why they circled was like, they don’t know what I look like. And all they had was a smiley, tiny space in the middle backseat, right? So like if this is going to be a big dude that was just gonna leave me and go

Unknown Speaker  12:58  

but I was I was gonna say something about the middle back seat so you went on tour them and like that kind of sparked the Hey, I’m gonna start my own kind of

Unknown Speaker  13:11  

Yeah, get went on tour with them and give me the opportunity of learning so much more from outside the classroom into the real world environment. While I while I made friends with them, they soon became a band that has a number one song on the Billboard. They have two tour buses, they grew with themselves, I was still in college. And then I came back to Nashville and work with Martina McBride and john McBride in the country scene and I had I got the opportunity to working everybody with Dolly Parton, Tim McGraw kashia a lot of a level artists in the studio at this point in time, so I had the road experience I had the studio experience and then soon after that I learned was like man, I love creating music, but I also love going and being a part and seeing what the audience is I enjoy so I love the road and being with the artists are more than just sitting behind a recording while and so I took that on myself to be the best sound guy best bus guy best merge guy best case pusher coffee guy and traveled and tour with all these artists. And while I did that I made a lot of friends with them. And my my my brain just doesn’t sit at like what what am I doing good but also what can I be better at and while you travel with artists, you start learning that you be your very business minded. You got to keep accounts you got to keep you know the cash flow going in charge of a lot of people move moving pieces doing it over and over again. Sure. And one of the artists named Mark scholtes he’s a Christian artists Platinum selling was like hey man, I love when you’re on the road with me but I also think you’ll be super valuable. If you come back in the office on Monday morning and help manage my career. Looking at getting me the next record deal, next book deal. Anything that has to do with branding and I was like, Okay, okay, sure. Okay, so I got in the office and an amazing company named like Atkins entertainment that have been around for 30 years. And they have a lot of a levels, a level artists like Platinum artists, I started learning from the best of the best, and kind of managing the careers record deals, music, film, TV, cruises, anything that they were a part of. Right. And I just loved it so much that my brain just collected. Sure. And then it came to a point where I was working at Atkins, I just hit a ceiling where I was like, just going at it that I had to decide, do I need so I was I was still touring, which is basically I would leave on Thursday, shows to write Monday morning going with all these audit

Unknown Speaker  15:58  

actions, because your your time is out there. Right? So yeah, come down, I’m out.

Unknown Speaker  16:04  

I need to jump. I had a little boy that was born, I had a little baby. And the first three months of his life, I was only home for 15 days, I was just like, yeah, slammed, I was like, I need to step back and just take a breath. I did not have a plan of starting Rickson entertainment, I was going to just step back and find a job at another record label. Sure another with a higher ceiling that you could climb, got it, okay with the higher ceiling. And so I stepped away with no plan in mind. I said I was going to take a month and just debrief myself and find something. Okay. within seven days, I had three job offers from different people. And I was like, This is too fast, too fast. I still need time. And then the word got around to other artists that I stepped away from man, my management company, and they were like, we were considering joining your management company because you were there. And now you’re not there. Will you start your own. I was like I never really considered that. Wow. And so. So within two weeks, Rickson entertainment was born. And I had five artists that signed on to me straight away while I’m being one being sailor which there are no Christian artists, you know, Christian? Yep, platinum, platinum, like big time, right? Yeah, they were the first one that asked me so I didn’t even watch it or being I didn’t think I was the guy I. And then here we are, you know, last November Rickson one five double awards within our own company. And the dubs are like the Grammys to Christian music right? Within that small team. I was able to do that I still work in country music and pop music and write still helping artists build that. But that’s that was the birth of rixon Entertainment.

Unknown Speaker  17:54  

That’s awesome, man. That’s just perseverance to the Hill. And like what you said, like you were going to go above and beyond what you were supposed to be doing when you’re on that tour boss and everything else that got you noticed by shelves and shelves is like, Hey, man, you need to come in here. And then when you left, like people saw that that’s amazing, amazing example of perseverance. So let me ask you something if you saw the movie Back to the Future. Yes. Okay. Let’s get in that DeLorean with Michael J. Fox. Right? Or Marty McFly. Sorry, Marty. Let’s get in that door with Marty. Let’s go back to the 20 year old Marcus Rickson what kind of knowledge nuggets as we call them here. Time to shine today? What kind of knowledge nuggets would you drop on Marcus to maybe help them level up blast through or shorten the learning curve just a little bit.

Unknown Speaker  18:40  

When I was a 20 year old, I was so focused on like, my, my dream. And like, this is the only path to get to my dream. And the path was to go become a sap like go to a school that had audio engineering and things like that. Sure. But the older I got, I realized there are other ways to get to that dream. If I if I’m the best bass guy and the best lighting guy, the best tour manager, the best manager, I learned that there are so many other places that I could be better at and open the door. So so I would tell that Marcus, a 20 year old I was I was discouraged. I was disappointed. I wasn’t in I wasn’t going to college for two years out of high school and all my other friends who are already in there. And so it’s so it was it was probably my darkest place in my life period during the Age of 18 to 20. But my parents, man, I would say appreciate family and appreciate people that are around you. I think at that point in time I knew what was best, best for myself and I did but the people around me knew what I knew. My potential sir listen to people. And people kept me on track. So I love that if it wasn’t for those people, I wouldn’t be where I am. Love it that you’re paying homage to them. That’s fantastic. So

Unknown Speaker  20:12  

how do you want your dash? Remember that little line in between your life date and your death date, incarnation date expiration date? How do you want Marcus’s dash remembered?

Unknown Speaker  20:23  

Quickly? Know what, what I would what I would want people to remember is here’s a kid that grew up in a place that wasn’t built for success. And here is where he got to what? living beyond the box. I’m outside my box right now. I’m living beyond my dream. So I want people to realize that anything is possible as long as you put in hard work, and it pays off.

Unknown Speaker  20:50  

Yes, absolutely. So what do you think then people misunderstand the most about markets?

Unknown Speaker  20:59  

misunderstand, I think, some people, I consider myself the underdog, as you can see. Absolutely. I’m an Indian guy in Nashville, Tennessee, managing Christian and country artists.

Unknown Speaker  21:15  

I was gonna go there actually, Mark is with that stereotype. I

Unknown Speaker  21:19  

was gonna go there. So go on, brother. I want to hear about this. And so so I’ve been labeled as the brown kid and Christian music, brown kid, and country music. But here’s the thing. I embrace it. And I’ve worked with, with people all over because they remember Hey, what’s that one kid that does that and he’s really good at it. So people look at me as an underdog when they before they know who I am and actually meet me. So I so so I sometimes the doors don’t open easier for me in a place that’s well established. Sure. But once the door is open, I’m not leaving any my baby game on so

Unknown Speaker  21:59  

and so that’s my biggest you know, misunderstanding people. You know, do not take me seriously the first time you take that smile and like oh, we can stop specially Nashville, dude, I have friends that you know, have tried to make it there. And it can be brutal. And for you. And once again, that’s the way I am to someone lets me in just a little bit. I’m staying. That’s awesome. So then what what keeps Marcus up at night?

Unknown Speaker  22:26  

My brain? Oh, my goodness. What keeps me up is how can I get better. But also, I love serving people. So if you come to me with a problem, my mind does not shut off till I can help you either figure out the problem or go find somebody that can help us figure out the problem. So what keeps me up is just man. I love what I do. So I don’t wake up thinking I’m going into a job, right? I wake up going like I’m a dreamer. So every day when I’m like, oh, tomorrow’s gonna I’m gonna be cool. So that keeps me up at night trying to think of all the things that I can do tomorrow The day after, but it’s not a stressful part. Like, I don’t go to sleep stress. I go to sleep like, oh man, what a cool opportunity to be in Tokyo. I’m going to be in Tokyo in two months doing this Olympic thing. Oh man, what can I do in Tokyo while I’m there? So that’s what keeps me up is like, how active and how creative you’re living life bro.

Unknown Speaker  23:25  

That’s what I you know, get busy living or get busy dying, right? The good old Shawshank Redemption quotes, but that’s the truth. And you’re living that that’s fantastic. So Mark has been what would your definition of a life well lived to be? You’ve lived one bro.

Unknown Speaker  23:43  

leaving a legacy for my, my my kids and my my family that when they look back, like Marcus took the little that he had and was able to leave a legacy that blessed more than what he could give back. And for that last down generations, and I’m not talking about wealth. I’m talking about putting characteristics into people, loving on people. And being remembered as the person that went above and beyond for me even even they didn’t have to or I didn’t it could be a stranger. Sure. And so that would be that would be something I don’t wealth is here and gone tomorrow. I came from nothing and wealth is nothing. But if I can change one kid’s life and help them dream again, like my son, my son is an extension of someone else believe in me when I was three years old and letting go to school, right so that that person’s blessing is now going down generation you You nailed it with that because my whole goal in life and you’re already living this, and the people that actually gave you that opportunity when you’re younger, they they’re planting seeds of trees that don’t never sit in the shade. You know what I’m saying? That’s what You that’s what I strive to do because there’s people a brother that passed on, and they haven’t been able to see what I become and what I’m helping others become. And you’re doing that and I love that. Hey, time to shine today podcast varsity squad.

Unknown Speaker  25:13  

We’re back with my boy, Marcus, and Marcus. We have our leveling up lightning round. You and I could talk 1520 minutes on each one of these but you’ve got five seconds with no explanations on these. You’re ready to rock. Let’s go. Let’s do it. Let’s level up. Marcus, what’s the best leveling up advice you’ve ever received? treat someone like you treat yourself Golden Rule baby. Awesome. share one of your personal habits that contributes to your success. Oh, goodness.

Unknown Speaker  25:48  

Man. I always always walk into the door with no wanting to let me take that back. I always walk in with what can I give them? What can I take?

Unknown Speaker  25:58  

Yes. Awesome. Do you see me I’m just kind of walking around my shoulder slumped. Like Fergie’s is not feeling it looks like he’s in his doldrums. What book are you handing me?

Unknown Speaker  26:09  

You know what? I am. I’m not a big book guy. Okay, but I’ll suggest a podcast, you know, like yours. Or, I’m usually I love business wars. I don’t have a lot of business. Okay, that keeps me entertained to kind of learn from other people’s experiences. like Hey, man, just check this out. I

Unknown Speaker  26:32  

love it. That’s so good. Yeah. Love it. Thank you, man. So when you text what’s your most commonly used emoji? Oh, my. It’s the big smiley face. I love it. Chess or checkers. chess. Love it. I was I slept at it. But I’m trying. So I’m indian indian bro. So what’s your favorite charity and organization like to give your time or money to

Unknown Speaker  27:00  

one child, the organization that I was sponsored through and now I’m an ambassador for them. So I’ve helped them connect with big influencers. And through my story, we’ve gotten 1000s of kids. That’s awesome. That’s

Unknown Speaker  27:11  

gonna be on our show notes right at the top. Yeah, awesome. Last thing question. You can elaborate on this one. But what is the best decade in music? 6070s 80s or 90s?

Unknown Speaker  27:22  

Oh my goodness. So yeah, I was a kid so I was a 90 skin that for the music influenced me in the 90s to learn and be a part of it. But I’m a classic rock guy. So I love the 83rd you see the house? The Eagles out it’s my band. I have to I have two songs I can tell you that. The reasons why I’m in music industry that’s 01 is one is Hotel California just because of the line and the other one is sweet child of mine by Guns and Roses. You know, I just I just love love that piece of music and the piece of art and then the older I got obviously a lot of Beatles stuff

Unknown Speaker  28:02  

gotcha you ever curious you ever yellow deals you ever see Martina McBride anymore?

Unknown Speaker  28:12  

I have not because I haven’t gone to the studio in a while. But actually the other day I know exactly where a husband gets Mexican food at and I had just pulled out while john pulled back in because to get his food and so we saw each other through the car windows and did this. But no I haven’t seen Martina

Unknown Speaker  28:31  

if you ever saw her. If you ever see her, tell her that I still haven’t watched the right cheek where she gave me a pack a kiss. And she was she she came on the USS Kitty Hawk when I was in the Navy in 1992 or three. And she put on a performance along with other country bands. And that’s when my baby loves me just the way that I am was out right. And she like I was in charge is not in charge. I worked with part of the security team for where she was staying in one of the state rooms on the aircraft carrier. And she needed an iron and I wouldn’t gotten the iron and I handed it to who I thought was her assistant or publicist. But it was her but she was all dressed down in sweats and stuff. It’s still very pretty. And she gave me a kiss and she’s like and then my the Master Chief’s like hey, Martina, like if you kiss other chicks, so I was like, Oh, that’s cool. But if you ever see her just be like, hey, this guy was on the USS Kitty Hawk. And you put on a performance in San Diego, California. And it was it was really cool, man. That’s cool that you said Oh, yeah. Wow.

Unknown Speaker  29:37  

I can totally see her doing that. She’s just one of those people that she loves and other people around them right and racism. Yeah, I wouldn’t share that story with john but

Unknown Speaker  29:49  

I wouldn’t either. But she was so polite and so nice. So nice. So cool. Marcus, quickly leave us with one last Knowledge Nugget you want us to take with us and internalize and take action on.

Unknown Speaker  30:02  

I’m going to, I’m going to repeat my, my little saying about, if you can walk into a room and be like, Hey, here’s what I want to give to people. And what I mean about a room, it could be a relationship. It could be a meeting, it could be anything that you walk into, be like, Hey, here’s what I want to give from my side without needing something in return. People remember that so much more than walking into a space be like, hey, what can you give me today? What knowledge can I take from you? What what finances Can you help me with? People start pushing those people aside, but once you are known as the giver, people just embrace that and want to be a part of that and remember you and that’s been a key to my success is like, I never had anything. So now when I do, I’ll bless them people with me, because it doesn’t hurt me as it was never mind. So if I can pay for your meal, I’ll do it all the time. I never I never would think about and that’s the Indian way. There was something new when I came here people like okay, you pay for this up for this. I was like, Well, if we eating together I called you out. I’m paying for it today. Next time you call me out you pay for it. Gosh, and people just remember that and that’s just

Unknown Speaker  31:21  

give give give until it hurts so good. That’s fantastic. In squad you just had like, a free masterclass with a very successful human being my good friend, Marcus Rickson, you know, I affectionately calling this like a person that I know personally now they’re white tiger story. You know, he’s, he’s very humble, you know, being an India really just he he says what my good friend Leah Woodford will say is he got us asking gear. He was always asking questions, something interested him. He’s always asking questions of perseverance. And this gentleman is just absolutely fantastic. You know, it’s like, Don’t focus so much. He says on what you are good at, focus on what you can get better at, you know, and that will open to other paths in dreams for you to even better and serve more people. You know, he wants you to always appreciate your family and the people around you. He wants you to live beyond your box and realize that if you work your arse off, the hard work will pay off, you know, and he’s going to leave a legacy for his kids in his kids kids and on down the road. Because there’s people that have left a legacy for him. And again, like we say, you know, he’s planting seeds of a tree that he may not never sit in the shade up and he’s totally fine with that. He’s okay with that. You know, and he wants you to give give, give until it hurts so good without expecting anything in return because but on the flip side of that with markets, I’m sure you’ll agree is that you have to have the open to the reciprocation, don’t expect it be open to it might not come monetarily, it might just come in a new friendship. It might just come in a compliment someone pays you the other day it came in my goddaughter actually calling me to talk to me without wanting something you know. So it’s like Marcus, you’re fantastic. you level up your health, you level up your wealth. You’re always you’ve earned your varsity letter squad with me man. I’ve got a great friend there in Nashville that I promise the next time I’m there, I’m going to look up and take you to dinner. You heard that right. I’m taking you to dinner. And thank you so much, brother. I love your guts. Thanks for coming on, man.

Unknown Speaker  33:19  

Thank you so much, Scott. And thank you for everybody for listening in and what a blessing. Thank you so much. Talk to Marcus. Hey, thanks

Unknown Speaker  33:28  

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