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Power Athlete Radio listeners, staying with the theme of strong guests. Today we have Mark Bell.

Mark is an inventor, podcaster, bodybuilder, powerlifter, and new runner. He is the true definition of a Renaissance

man who's never let his appearance or his passions define him. He is the founder of super training

products, Inc, and the inventor of the slingshot. This is a long overdue guest on Power Thet

Radio, but one I wanted to do in person, and it was well worth the wait. As the Stoics say,

patience is a virtue that's

essential for living a good life. Buckle up and strap in for Mark Smelly Bell. Dude, thanks for coming on the podcast. I feel like we're well overdue. I know. It's been a long time. You said what was episode. 60 of your podcast. Yeah. And I'm, which was what, eight, nine years ago. Yeah. And that was of my first run at podcasting. And that was, we have three, four hundred, maybe five hundred episodes of that. Now we're on a thousand of these new ones with my new crew. How many a week do you guys do? We do at least three or four. Wow. Yeah. We're cranking on them all the time. So basically professional

podcasters. Professional podcasters, yeah. It's been a lot of fun. This week I got to visit

with Nick Bear, had an opportunity to run with him and also podcast with him. Zach Bitter.

I got a chance to run with him. And then Tom Seguer, I got a chance to lift with him and podcast with him. And tell jokes. It's great to be down here in Austin, Texas. No, you know, he said it was too hard. So I mean, imagine that. Imagine like, you know, I think, you know, once you get a reputation going as a comedian, and it's probably kind of nice, people are already like expecting to laugh. but when you're working for those first laughs it's got to be that's got to be a tough gig i think uh was it will feral said that uh everywhere he goes people expect him to be funny so his way of being funny is not being funny right so i always wonder with these comics if like people know who they are you know they're like waiting for him to drop drop something and he just ends up not doing it. And they're like, fuck, that's got to be gratifying. It seems like a hard skill to learn and you got to do it on stage in front of people, you know. Well, have you ever seen how many opportunities they have to do it? Did you guys get to go to Rogan's mothership? I haven't been there there yet no so one of the guys that works with us uh

arash he um works security he does some stuff for him so we got a chance to go and it's interesting

to hear uh like i i saw rogan during uh lockdown he and dave chapelle had their deal at uh

i saw some of that too stub's barbecue and i saw what he was working on and then I saw the special that he was where that he ended up doing it was night and day better. And then I watched him get up and he's, you know, in rare form, you know, was killing it. And I guess he gets up and this is his deal and they just keep rehearsing until it's super sharp. Practice, practice, right?

Over and over again.

Yeah.

And they get to the point where they just know exactly where the laughs are coming and how to play it and that.

And I really appreciate their craft.

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