Mark Bell's Power Project - EP. 277 - Meathead Millionaire Summit Recap

Episode Date: October 29, 2019

What the heck was the Meathead Millionaire Summit? Mark explains what it was, why it was, and how it went. Subscribe to the Podcast on on Platforms! ➢https://lnk.to/PowerProjectPodcast Visit our sponsors: ➢Piedmontese Beef: https://www.piedmontese.com/ Use Code "POWERPROJECT" at checkout for 25% off your order plus FREE 2-Day Shipping on orders of $99 ➢Perfect Keto: http://perfectketo.com/powerproject Use Code "POWERPROJECT" at checkout for 15% off your order! ➢Quest Nutrition: https://www.questnutrition.com/ Use code "MARKSQUEST" at checkout for 20% of your order! ➢SHOP NOW: https://markbellslingshot.com/ Enter Discount code, "POWERPROJECT" at checkout and receive 15% off all Sling Shots FOLLOW Mark Bell ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marksmellybell ➢ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarkBellSuperTraining ➢ Twitter: https://twitter.com/marksmellybell ➢ Snapchat: marksmellybell Follow The Power Project Podcast ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/MarkBellsPowerProject Follow Nsima Inyang ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nsimainyang/  Podcast Produced by Andrew Zaragoza ➢ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamandrewz #PowerProject #Podcast #MarkBell

I sent you a text, Andrew, of the origin of the cool man pose. I thought we were the origin. Just check it out. And whatever happened to Harriet Tubman being on the $20 bill? You guys remember that? Hold on, let me... Why is this taking so long? Didn't you hear when, like, I don't know if it was a few years ago?

Oh, yeah, they were going to make a push, right? Yeah, so whatever happened to that? I'm, like, I'm so confused. they were going to make a push, right? Yeah, so whatever happened to that? I'm so confused. I don't know. I remember people talking about it.

Who's on there now? Jackson? Yeah, it's been Jackson forever. Yeah. Huh. Yeah, I mean, they could switch shit up. I mean, shit like fucking why not throw Michael Jordan on a dollar bill or something for a little while little while yeah he deserves to be on some money that'd be dope come on man yeah jordan i can't wait um people excited there's a jordan documentary that's supposed to be coming out yeah and it's supposed to be a super raw one like it's supposed to like because everyone knows how

jordan like you know he was competitive but he was also just a massive asshole yeah you know what i mean but it's gonna show those dark parts yeah because i've seen like the old jordan documentary how could you not have you're gonna have some flaws right yeah yeah but like you know you see the ones in the 90s and you know he's competitive but you don't get a sense of like how like you know the stuff he would say to his teammates sometimes like he would say some really like his his his shit talk was apparently legendary i'm sure he'd make people cry you know yeah so you get to see some of that and that was cool i know that like there there were certain things he would do um he'd be like he'd tell his team he'd say i i bet you my luggage comes off first you know he would

like you know he obviously got into like a gambling thing later off first you know he would like yeah he obviously got into like a gambling thing later on right but uh he would bet people different things he was competitive on like everything but what he would do is he would like slip the bad guy like like 20 bucks and then he'd bet everybody else 100 bucks so his shit would come out first he'd make money on the deal but yeah it's just super competitive at every single thing and then he you know jordan has that story of uh not making his varsity basketball team i think when he was like a freshman or sophomore but one of the things that happened in there at least the story from what i heard um and i you know i don't know how true it is, but the legend goes that his coach, you know, cut him from the team.

And he basically told him he's not good enough. And he asked, like, what he needs to do. And he's like, well, if you want to be on this team, you want to be in a different position next year, then you need to show up every morning and practice with me. And supposedly that's kind of the kind of legend goes. And he he trained with his coach every morning. And then not only did he do that, but he trained with him every morning. He made the team. And then even after he made the team, he continued those training sessions in the morning before school, even when they didn't have basketball season.

Yeah. Also in a time, too, before all these camps. You know, if you're a basketball or soccer player nowadays, you that's you. And you might have been part of that too um people just play the sport all the time right like in soccer there's like there's like a soccer team for the high school then there's like a travel club and then there's like a club team and there's like you can be on like four or five different teams right yeah like no for soccer you know you have a team then you have competitive soccer where you travel around that you have yeah

it's just non-stop year-round so that's like all you're doing yeah same thing with basketball in the aau they travel around and they have basketball at high school it's kids are getting into the sports real early now getting to them early and they just focus on that as like a a kind of singular focus i went to the 49ers game yesterday and it was a really fun, a lot of, a lot of excitement. Um, not 49ers are undefeated. They're seven and oh, and my brother-in-law has been a big fan for a long time. Um, I love football myself, but I have been a little bit more out of touch with it in the last few years, just cause I haven't had a chance to sit down and watch a lot of it. Um, but it was great going there with like a true hardcore fan.

And then on top of that, he has never been to this stadium. So he's been to a lot of Niner games in the past, but he has not been to the stadium yet. And so as a birthday gift, my wife and I, we got like VIP seats and kind of the whole treatment where you get sushi and know, sushi and drinks and I mean, all kinds of food. And there's celebrities there. There's former NFL players. There's Hall of Fame, NFL athletes, former 49ers.

Ronnie Lott was there. Bill Romanowski was there. Charles Haley was there. I had an opportunity to shake Charles Haley's hand, and his hand was like out Hogan's. There's a big old giant just mitt, you know. And Charles Haley, like, for those that don't follow football all that much, Charles Haley is one of the greatest defensive players in the history of football.

And I believe he won like five Super Bowls he played with a bunch of teams and he ended up winning a bunch of championships but he's an absolute savage on the field but I but I'm also kind of thinking like man this guy really gave a lot of himself for this game and you know people are like yelling his name and stuff but unfortunately Iles haley uh you know he suffered a lot of concussions and uh he looked healthy when i saw him he looked he looked good and everything but i think maybe the price that you pay sometimes in some of these sports man it's it's uh it's a lot a lot of a lot of smash in your smash in your head but what i thought was awesome is after the game was over uh the uh the head coach of the not the head coach

of the panthers but one of the coaches of the panther panthers um was asked how the uh how he thought the 49ers work because 49ers 7-0 and whenever a team's undefeated there's half the people being like they're gonna win the super bowl and there's the other half being like who'd they play bro they haven't played anybody yet where do they play the seahawks they're gonna get crushed right yeah uh and so the they asked the coach how are the 49ers and after getting beat 51 to 13 he was like i don't think they're world beaters i don't think they're that that amazing i think they're just okay something along those lines and then they asked the defensive end of the 49ers who just wrecked shop the entire game uh and just was kicking the crap out of the panthers they asked him what he thought of the coach's uh remarks and uh when they asked him they were like

hey you know they said that you guys aren't you know world beaters you guys aren't that good he was like who said that and then they said the coach's name and he goes, oh, okay. Like almost like whatever, bro. And they're like, you don't care. He goes, no, I don't care. And I just thought that was really cool because like they're trying to trigger him, you know? Like we get that on social media sometimes. People get triggered. They're trying to like bait him into saying something.

And he's just like, especially in that moment, he's just like, I don't need to say anything. Like we just said everything. Like, you know just like, I don't need to say anything. Like, we just said everything. Like, you know, we just said everything we need to say. Like, we just absolutely crushed them. I think we're pretty good. Yeah. Especially in comparison to them. Yeah.

That is probably one of the best responses that I can think of, like, for, especially for, like, because was it one of the rookies or? Yeah, he's a rookie okay defensive any a nick uh boso i think bosa oh my gosh yeah like i think like two or three sacks and then he ran back one if he doesn't get defensive player of the week for the nfc then i don't know that's yeah he's been going but that's such a cool response and i think it was a weird response from the uh panthers coach to to say like, they're not world beaters, but they beat the world out of you. Like, it was really bad.

I couldn't believe the score. He looks like a troll. Like, literally, like him saying that, it's just like he looks like an internet troll. Yeah. Like, you can't say something like that and not sound stupid after just getting your ass beat. Right. Really? Yeah.

They're not world beaters. You beat our ass, though. Yeah. I don't know. Really? Yeah. They're not world beaters. You beat our ass though.

Yeah. I don't know. I know this probably wouldn't, this would also get a bad or a lot of backlash, but to be like, okay, well they beat us and I know we're, we're really, really good. So these guys are, must be incredible. Right. They're probably going to win the Superbowl. They beat us this bad. Right.

I know that wouldn't get, that's not an acceptable response, but I would lean more towards that way to be like, they're basically untouchable, you know, because look how bad they are. Or even like, you know, even just saying, hey, you know what? They got off to a really good start in this game and we just we were behind the whole time and we couldn't catch up. We couldn't, you know, because sometimes that'll happen. You know, sometimes you go in with a bunch of strategy. You have these ideas like, OK, we're going to do this. Doesn't matter what sport it is.

It could be MMA. Like maybe you're just thinking I'm going to jab a lot, right? I'm going to jab and I'm going to keep my distance from the guy. And every time he comes close, I'll throw a kick and keep the guy at bay. But then you get punched and you feel how powerful somebody is. And then you're like, whoa, this guy is an animal. And it changes your game plan, and then maybe the game plan you switch to

plays right into their hands, because that's what the opponent's trying to have you do, right? Yeah, yeah, it's, God, that's so stupid. That is so extremely stupid. But I mean, 50 to 13 or whatever the score was. Man, but do you just not get PR training? Because I feel like, I've heard so, I don't know, some people in those positions,

when you know you're going to be in front of a mic so much, you should just have things that you're ready to say. If you lose or if you win, just have things you're ready to say so you don't cause too much, so you don't sound stupid. He legit just sounded like a, just so dumb. Yeah, it sounds kind of childish. I mean, if you look at Bill Belichick so you don't sound stupid. He legit just sounded like a, just so dumb.

Yeah, it sounds kind of childish. I mean, like if you look at Bill Belichick, and he's always really stoic. Like he barely moves his lips. Like that's what he's known for. So to try to get him to be reactionary for anything is tough. So they'll be like, hey, you know, Brady threw five touchdowns today. What did you think of that?

And he'll be like, Tom executed really well. He's really monotone. And then they might say, wow, Tom, he really struggled today. Three interceptions. You guys lost pretty bad. Is it true? Does Tom have something wrong with his shoulder? Or he'd be like, the other team executed really well. Yeah. The other team, they had a good game plan.

We got to get better. And he looks so mad, too, that whoever asks the question is like, all right, bro. I'll move on to something else. Or I'm not going to ask another question. He looks irritated all the time. Yeah. See if you can pull up a couple clips of if the internet's's working yeah we're good today of bill bellache check i mean the guy that's really good with that kind of stuff is lebron james yeah he's really rarely gets involved in

a bunch of crap right other than the china incident did you hear about that oh so what i don't even know what i just i don't know. OK, so let's pretty much do a quick. OK, I'm going to make this quick. China and Hong Kong. You know how like Hong Kong, they were they're kind of like a U.S. I guess they're not it's not called a satellite, but they have more freedoms than China because the U.S. like was I don't did some stuff with them. So compared to the rest of China, Hong Kong had like liberties and they,

they have freedom. Communists. Exactly. There we go. Now China's trying to, you know, take back Hong Kong and they're not letting the people of Hong Kong, like I guess have a lot of contact with the outside world.

They're trying to take away their freedoms. They're pretty much trying to make it communist like China, less internet and stuff like that. Exactly. But the people of Hong Kong aren't used to that. There's a lot of protests going on in Hong Kong right now. For example, if a journalist in Hong Kong were to go to jail, like pretty much the Chinese government's trying to have it so that let's just send them to China and then we can do anything we want with them. You know, so that's what's going on in Hong Kong. Now, a Warriors, I think one of like the higher ups in the Warriors made a tweet about how like support Hong Kong and free speech. Right.

And then obviously that got massive backlash from like the Chinese, the NBA. And you know how like not not the Warriors, the Rockets, but the NBA makes a lot of money from China. So this got them in trouble. Now, LeBron then was asked about it and he, he made, he said something so stupid. He's like, uh, you know, you shouldn't be, you know, sometimes you got to be careful about what you say. You got to understand more of the situation. He was talking about the guy that made the tweet about supporting Hong Kong. So you gotta, you know, you gotta be careful about what you say. You shouldn't just, uh, you know, put things out there. It can mess

with people's money, et cetera, et cetera. But LeBron's one of those guys who like, you know, he tries to do things for the community. And when, like, I don't think he understood the situation. He didn't like,

and, uh, yeah, he just, he just sounded really bad there because like, you're, you know, that's,

you're now not supporting people's freedom. Although you're someone who is touted for trying to, you trying to give people free speech and not being more than a player. It's a tough position because much like the coach of the Panthers, I don't really know the context of it. They may have irritated them. They may have been insulting. They may have been like, coach, you guys really played like shit. Well, it's like when they start talking to you you like that like a reporter's not going to really talk to you like that but if if you're kind of feeling that way then that's when you would be like well

they're not that great you know like they're not that you know that's when you would be like mad frustrated and you get those sound bites too from celebrities after somebody's been in their room for four hours like that i don't think people understand when these people go to these celebrity like award shows, they'll have 15 reporters come in their room. Like not all at once but in a row. Like this guy gets 10 minutes. This guy gets 10 minutes. And it's like they have to be kind of careful. They have to not be themselves for hours on end because if they are themselves and they're just like well

you know if they say their actual true feelings or true opinion it could set somebody off the other way it could trigger them the other way you know and um if they have certain uh maybe they have a certain religious belief or maybe you know maybe they don't believe in like interracial marriage or like it could be anything but they can't share it. You can't, no. Which they should be able to, but they can't. They can't say anything because anything that they say is really used against them. It's held, and it's like, all right, we got this thing. We know that this guy doesn't like this particular thing, and they used it against you forever. Literally also, it can potentially offend everybody.

Literally also like it can potentially offend everybody because once, once somebody says something like a bunch of people get offended and then boom, they're, they're deemed as like a racist or they're deemed as like a, I don't know, just a bigot or whatever. And it's not necessarily the case, but like you gotta be so midline and you can't really go one way or the other. It's dangerous to really even put out your opinions on something because people will lump you in. I agree. I think that's where you might have to think to yourself, the world only knows this part of me, this side of me. They don't know. And not only do they not know, but they probably aren't that interested in this other side of me. They love my talents as an actor. They love my talents as a football player. And so football related questions, I'm going to stick to those, you know you know, why didn't you catch the touchdown pass this week? Well, you know, at last week I hurt my finger and like something went wrong and I just got clumsy. Hey, what do you think of Donald Trump? I think I dropped that pass because I hurt my finger, you know, right? But how hard would that be to like always be in that mode?

And it's hard. Even somebody like a John Cena who's so well-spoken, he shot a video that was like maybe about three minutes long where he's walking down the street i don't know what john's deal is i i don't know i'm always swinging from his nuts but i don't know if he can feel that or not you know but uh he's super smart and he's able able to articulate himself really well but he has this video where he's just talking about america and he's talking about like it was just i don't know sort of like this tone that was going on about two or three years ago where people were still pretty i mean people are still on accepting and fucking everything but he was just like kind of fed up with it he shot this

video where he just he stuck to the facts. He just went right down the center where you got people fighting on this side, people fighting on this side. He just blew right past everybody by just going right down the middle and basically saying the stats of like the United States. I can't recall all the different things that he said, but he basically was saying this country was founded with immigrants. You know, like this country was built with slaves. This country was built. He's just saying all these things that are, they almost can't be inflammatory because they're, yeah, because they happen. They're like actual truths.

And he talked about people that were gay and he talked about transgender and he talked about different races and different religions and his whole point wasn't really like, hey, can we all like buddy up and like be best friends or anything like that? But it was like, this is a great country. This is, you know, the quote unquote land of opportunity

and let's keep it that way. And let's just, let's just have respect for each other. And the key thing with respect is a simple fact that, you know, if I, if I respect you, if I respect you as a person, then that means that I'm not going to disrespect you. And that's all, I think that's all, I think that's all anybody's like in search of. don't think uh everyone always needs to be like uplifted or a big old pat on the back but just not being an asshole to each other yeah yeah I'm really curious about that video and all so so his his point was just respect he wasn't even trying to make a like I guess a political point he was just trying to it's not

heavily like it it seems political like when he did it people are like oh shit like what's like what's he doing like is he gonna um he's gonna like run for office or something like he's gonna get into politics and i don't know if he uh i don't know if he would ever have that intention i don't know if that would be uh a goal of his but it kind of seemed that way you could probably play some of it yeah Yeah, it's right here. Yeah, it was a really, really good video. Why don't you actually see if you can... I think I've seen this. Can you pull up some audio? Yeah, play a chunk.

Good reason. Because it means love and devotion for one's country. Love. For a word designed to unite, it can also be pretty divisive. See, there's more to patriotism than flag-sequel onesies and rodeos and quadruple cheeseburgers. Patriotism is love for a country, not just pride in it. But what really makes up this country of ours? What is it we love?

It's more than just a huge rock full of animals like cougars and eagles, right? It's the people. Do me a favor. Close your eyes for a second. I want to try something. Picture the average U.S. citizen. Think about it. How old are they?

What's their hair like? How much can they bench? You got one? Okay. So chances are, the person you're picturing right now looks a little different than the real average American. There are 319 million U.S. citizens. 51% are female. So first off, the average American is a woman.

Cool, huh? Is that what you pictured? 54 million are Latino. 40 million senior citizens. 27 million are disabled. 18 million are Asian. That's more people in the U.S. than play football and baseball combined. 9 million are lesbian, gay, bi, transgender.

More than the entire amount of people that live in the state of Virginia. Around 10 million are redhead, 5.1 million play ultimate frisbee, and 3.5 million are Muslim. Triple the number of people currently serving in the United States military. Almost half the country belongs to minority groups. People who are lesbian, African-American, and bi, and transgender, and Native American, and proud of it.

We know that labels don't devalue us, they help define us. Keeping us dialed into our cultures and our beliefs and who we are as Americans. After all, what's more American than freedom to celebrate the things that make us us? Can we play this? I mean, it's stitched into the stars, the stripes of this country. Constitution to get. Yeah, but people can look it up.

Yeah, we might have gotten in trouble for playing. We'll be fine. But, you know, like and I it's been a long time since I've seen this. So I forgot exactly 100% what it was about. And then, you know, right there, I think he described like, what, what's the country made of, you know? And I think that that's important. Like, yeah, what is the country made of? Maybe the shit that we're complaining about, you know, maybe, maybe we just have the wrong picture in our head of what we're fighting and what we're against. And John is like – he's lived a lot because of WWE, like the travel schedule and the different countries and different cultures and different people that he's run into over his lifespan.

And then also where he's from, Massachusetts, very diverse. over his lifespan. And then also where he's from, Massachusetts, very diverse. They're going to have people that are in the middle of the country that sometimes don't grow up around people that are other religions and other ethnicities. They're not used to each other as much. And so there's like white people over here and there's black people over here and there's Mexican people over here and there's Asian people over here. I mean, it still happens all the time here, you know? Um, I mean, everywhere, um, even in Davis, there's a, a lot of, a lot of Asian people and there's a lot of white people. There's not a lot of black people. Um, but there's a lot of black people in California for sure. There's a lot of black people in Sacramento, right? Uh, but yeah, things get divided up and that's, that's that, I guess. It really is. It's funny. Um, my girlfriend and I, we were driving through Napa the other day,

forgot where we were coming from, but we were going through Napa. So we stopped in the middle of there and we were walking around, man. And it's, it's crazy. Cause we were, we were going to a Lululemon and literally there was not a single black person in this downtown area of napa not a single one not as like not even a single like indian person mexican i didn't see anybody it was just like it's like get out and then where were you guys at napa napa it was like yeah yeah we were like we were going to a lululemon there so then we start driving cause we're leaving and it's like, it goes from there. And then we start seeing a lot of like Indian and Mexican people in one part

of it as we were driving out. And it's just like, just the areas are so segmented. It's crazy. Well, I mean, I'm not surprised if you're going towards Lululemon. I know.

You didn't see, and then you probably got closer to the flea market out there and started seeing my people. I know, but it's just so, I guess it's still so wild just how, like, you know, it's just so separate in terms of like these areas. But well, I think, and people that are part of a majority have never, they don't, they don't have any experience with what that would feel like, you know? And not even saying that like anything happened or anybody was viewing you anybody was viewing you a particular way but it's like your own feelings

on how you feel about yourself that end up mattering in those circumstances right you might be like oh fuck like and what does a white dude think you know when he's right you're gonna be like oh man like i'm in the i'm i don't see anybody else that looks like me. I'm about to get mugged. I'm in the wrong area. Like I need, you know. Yeah. So, yeah, it is definitely something that you see still all over the place. But I think it's just, I think it's in our nature.

You know, from the time we're a kid, I remember, you know, when my children were really young, when they were like four or five years old, we'd go to like a grocery store and they'd see another kid. Now, this didn't matter what ethnicity they were. They just saw another kid and they're like, that person's like me. They're like, I want to go play with that kid. And they would like, especially like on like a playground or something. They didn't know. They were like, hey, what's your name?

Like, where are you from? And like, oh, and turn around and like not hang out with the kid. They wouldn't even ask him anything. They'd just be like, yeah, dude, these swings are sick. Look at that slide over there. Let's go. Let's go. You know, let's go throw around these wood chips, you know? Yeah. But it's just that you see somebody that is like you. They look like you. They kind of walk like you they babble the words the same way as you do and stuff like that yeah i was gonna say i remember like the first thing was like like who's your favorite you know football team like the niners all right yeah yeah jerry rice so like that's kind of the first like start of it i guess sacramento is very uh different in that like or interesting in that way because like growing up, I don't know how it was for you, Mark, but like, it was super, it's super mixed here. Like, you know, my whole childhood, like there was never just like only black people or only Mexican people or whatever. It was like super mixed, even the schools I went to.

that feeling of, you know, sometimes there was a feeling of being another, but it wasn't as, you know, as much as other people were like where you grew up, I'm guessing like, were there. Where I grew up, couldn't be any more. I mean, you could, you guys could write it down on a piece of paper. I mean, you guys could, you guys could probably visualize it in your head. I'm from upstate New York, which is like, I think sometimes when people think New York, they're thinking, you know, concrete, they're thinking like New York which is like I think sometimes when people think New York they're thinking you know concrete they're thinking like New York City you know there's no concrete it's just like woods you know

it's primarily white the school I went to we didn't have one black kid in the school but it kind of seemed like we did right and of course he was the best athlete in the school like he demolished everybody and every like he was fucking awesome he was a great wrestler he was the best athlete in the school. Like he demolished everybody and every like he was he was fucking awesome. He was a great wrestler.

He was a great football player. And even when I was younger, I think my school as as I went to high school, my school was pretty big. And so there was more diversity there. But I remember growing up, one of my best friends, his name was Malik. And he was he was the football player and then there was another kid that was all these kids were always in my classes and this other kid jonathan jonathan lu asian kid and jonathan lu like he fucking skyrocketed through school like i think he was taking college courses in like ninth grade yeah yeah and so like that's you know for me that's my

uh that's my education on like races like got this black kid he's really fucking good and obviously like i said as i got older like of course you you know more stuff you have you're more educated but as a young kid i was like oh those guys are faster than me i'm like oh those guys over there they're for whatever reason are a lot smarter than me. Yeah. I remember I used to sit next to Jonathan Lou all the time and that motherfucker would never let me cheat off. But it was amazing in the beginning of the school year.

He didn't know. And I was just like rocking it, man. And in every class I was just killing it. And then my parents were like, what's going on? And then, yeah,

yeah. You were 98%. Yeah. Yeah. You were smoking everything. I like yeah fucking jonathan louie he uh he started like you know creeping his papers over getting his shoulder in there and i couldn't fucking read him anymore oh man yeah so i remember someone saying that sacramento was the most diverse city in america so i just one of, I think, too, right? I've heard that too.

Yeah, we're like, that's a stat. Oh, God. So I just, damn, that sucks. No wonder why the Kings can't sign any players. Oh, God. Looks like we're down to number 10 now. In terms of? As far as most diverse city in America.

Ooh. Yeah. It just says... I saw a lot of diversity when we had the Meathead Millionaire Summit. Bart is like, hey, he's like, he's like, I went to, he's like, I went to go out

just to see if I could find some food. He goes, and I saw a guy taking a shit on the sidewalk. Because there's like, right there where the Citizen Hotel is, there's a lot of bums. A lot of homeless people, I should call them probably. Well, because it's right in front of Chavez Park, which is where they all congregate. Oh, wow. And so, yeah, he said he was walking down and he looked down an alley and he's like, there was a guy full on taking a shit on the street.

That's more like some San Francisco stuff. I've never seen it's really bad over there but it's getting bad here too though yeah oh that area is a little bit a little bit weird it's very sketchy there yeah man how was that summit but by the way can you talk about that i can okay i can talk about it i can i talk about it andrew it was about it, Andrew? It was your summit. It was your summit. Hold on, let me check with myself real quick. Self? I thought it really turned out really well.

My intentions and goal for it, I didn't truly know. I didn't really know what it was going to turn into. didn't truly know. I didn't really, I didn't really know what it was going to turn into. I just knew that I have felt very fortunate with bringing people in, um, you know, getting people here to super training gym, getting, uh, guys like Chris Duffin and Matt winning and, uh, uh, guys like Ron Pena. And, you know, like we started off like kind of just bringing in power lifters and communicating with power lifters because, uh, that's my background and that's my passion. And so I was like, well, I would love for people like, I know a lot about squat bench and deadlift, but I certainly don't know all there is to know. So it'd be great to bring in other people

that have different vantage points, different views. And then also in powerlifting, you don't really get a spotlight put on you. And so the intention of the podcast originally was, let me allow you to take the spotlight because you have impressive information and you have impressive lifts. And I don't know why everyone's so excited about what I have to say,, a Kaler Wollum is like deadlifting 900 pounds over here and we should pay attention to that. So that's how some things originally started. But as people kept coming in, I just kept learning from them and I kept absorbing and I felt like I kept getting better. We would have Jay Cutler come in and sure enough, I would start to get leaner. We would have Stan Efferding come in and every time Stan has been around, I get a little bit stronger again. So every time someone would come

around, you know, I would gain knowledge towards something else. I'd get fired up again about something else and I'd start working really hard towards it. And so over the years, as I transitioned into not having as many power lifters and really trying to gain more knowledge for my own business and, and for, and to provide value for the people that work here at Slingshot and to occasionally do like seminars and things like that. I was like, man, like this is so cool and so powerful, but imagine if I could bring together a bunch of people at one time and imagine if I could trim all the fat and just get rid of let's just let's just take social media stuff and let's just crumple it up and let's just throw it in the garbage

let's not really film anything the only thing we had done was um we had uh josh setledge uh use his phone a little bit just to get a couple shots here and there and we had our boy andrew over there uh snapping some pictures some pictures just to have them because it is great that we're able to assemble all these people. Being close with a guy like Todd Abrams and Ron Penna is really amazing. I don't know why these guys are so willing to share so much information. Ron Penna has been one of the original co-founders of quest nutrition um we we were we were trying to figure out some different things with amazon

and uh he was like oh no problem he's like we'll get our team to get on a phone call with uh josh kim who's our you know right hand man when it comes to that stuff and uh we'll be on the phone call with you guys and it's like wait what like what did you say yeah like your your team of people that you pay you're gonna let them take two hours out of their day to like work with my team for for free for nothing and so what i've been learning for a long time is the guy in the gym with the 20 inch arms that guy's that guy's waiting for you to come up to him and ask him a question the uh girl in the gym with the 20 inch arms, that guy's, that guy's waiting for you to come up to him and ask him a question. The girl in the gym with the abs, she's, she wants you to go over to her and not if you're a dude, probably she probably doesn't want to be hit on, but she probably wants you to come over and ask her some questions. Hey, what are you doing with your diet? You, you look amazing.

What are you doing with your nutrition? I would love to be able to figure something out like that. These people that are wealthy, same thing. These people that are wealthy, same thing. These people that are wealthy, you wouldn't think that. Some people that are really wealthy live in like gated communities. They don't want anybody fucking come in and they want to be secluded or they want to move out to their country like I did. But the second that you say, hey, man, how'd you build this? How'd you build this up? They're going to go.

They're going to pepper you with a lot of information. In most cases, everyone's a little different, but usually people are pretty willing to give information. And as I got around, you know, Bart Kwan, Robin Dana Lynn Bailey, Todd Abrams, his wife, Debra, Jason Kalipa, Ashley Kalipa, uh, Stefan Hayden bow. As I got around Steph Cohen and and hayden bow as i got around steph cohen and hayden bow as i got around all these people i started recognizing that these had these people had these qualities where they were just real open they were like oh yeah i get that manufactured overseas and they're not going to like give you like their manufacturer because like that's not really the point of it because anyone anyone who's like a high roller

or anybody who plays on that level they already know like that shit ain't cool like don't don't really ask for that specifically yeah um and anyone who's smart that's in business like let's say let's say i made protein bars and let's say uh you know someone came to me for they wanted to know how to make protein bars i would say oh man – OK, you have to go to this kind of company and most of them are in this location. Most of them are in Kansas, let's just say, right? Just totally making this shit up. Most of them are in Kansas. Don't know why, but that's where they make protein bars.

And you're going to want to – it's going to take a while for you to get the right flavors and make sure you don't use some of these ingredients. But that's where you're going to want to go. And I'd leave it at that. Yeah. Because that's not the game. That's only a small part of the game is to actually make a product. The game is to like really try to create a really powerful brand and to have a really powerful message. And that stuff just sort of happens.

And so that was a big reason to have this seminar is I wanted everybody to explain the shit that just happened kind of by accident to everybody. And I wanted everybody else to hear it and to be motivated and fired up about it. Something that was really amazing that happened was I just – I mean I really appreciate everyone that came. I'm really inspired by everyone. But I do have a huge boner. Well, a small boner, I guess you'd say. I guess it depends on who you are. If we're comparing it to other boners, I would say it's a modest boner at best. But it's really strong for its size.

It depends on the day. Good blood flow? Hmm? Good blood flow? Blood flow's good. I mean, there's some highlights to it, but maybe not. It depends if you had a vegetarian meal the night before, of course. If you had that vegetarian meal, you'd have a much stronger boner.

Anyway. Shame. Now I'm getting sad. Oh. Anyway, I got a boner for the Bailey's. Oh. Rob and Dana Lynn. Both of them.

And I just, I love the way they execute stuff. I love watching their social media. I love the commercials and stuff that they put together. I love the passion that they have for the fitness industry. But Rob Bailey was talking about Flagner fail. I always kind of had an idea of what it meant. I've read some of the descriptions and stuff that they had on their website of what Flagner Fail meant to them and things like that. But kind of this idea of like never surrender type of thing. But when Rob was explaining kind of like where it really came from, he said that originally he was just trying to do something with like shirts. He was into art. He was into music. He liked to draw. His mom taught him how to sew

um and and he's into music he's in like kind of this whole like art thing right and so he created a company or trying to create a company he was trying to come up with a name and he came up the first name he came up with was broken text and like that didn't work someone else already owned like the domain the website yeah so i think he said that they actually they had it like they had the name and everything and then like i could be wrong but like they didn't pay to renew the website name oh yeah because like 200 bucks he was like i didn't have 200 bucks 150 he's like i don't have 150 you keep the name it's like rob bailey didn't have $150 to buy his name back. That's amazing.

Yeah. And then so what he said next really kind of blew me away. And then everyone else had a similar story, which blew me away even further. But Rob Bailey said, he's like, I wasn't really trying to create a brand. I wasn't trying to do anything necessarily. He goes, I just had a bunch of shit in my head that I needed to get out. And when I put it on a T-shirt and when I saw it in the mirror, it made me feel better. And I was like, holy shit.

Like that is fucking crazy. That is so different than going in and saying, Hey, I have this game plan. I want to make this product. And you know, I think by, by year number two, it's going to make this amount of money. And by year five, I think I'll be a millionaire. Like, Whoa, like those are not, not that option B can't work because it does. And people have recipes for business and they can do pretty well with them but man way different right because the guy with option a is probably in most cases the guy with option a as long as he stays with option a will always be fucking happy and he'll always be pumped he'll always be excited

and will be a mutant like rob bailey like who knows how to do you know the website he knows how to do like the marketing he knows how to do photography he knows how to model who knows how to do, you know, the website. He knows how to do like the marketing. He knows how to do photography. He knows how to model. He knows how to have his wife pose and model. And she knows how to like, they just took, they just embraced all that stuff out of the love and passion for this concept of, I wanted to put something on a shirt that when I looked at it in the mirror, it made me feel better. Cause it just had certain words on it that made him feel good.

I was like, holy fuck. And that was like a constant theme throughout everybody like a lot of stuff was a little bit accidental and they just kind of stumbled upon it bart kwan who uh i don't even know how many million followers the guys have the guy has several million followers yeah because he has like jk films um which is uh and then JK Films, he has a bunch of other YouTube channels and a bunch of other styles of shows throughout that. And then so does his wife, Gio. And they're just, they're extremely popular and people know who they are all over the world.

But Bart originally started his YouTube channel by sending stuff to his friends. He didn't really know that it was a platform where everyone could view all kinds of different stuff on. He just thought it was like a server that just held the information there. And so he would share it like he would do something funny and he'd send it to his buddies. And then his buddies would do something funny and they'd send it back. And they just kept uploading stuff to this thing. and then he saw like oh it's got 20 views like that's pretty normal because it probably got passed around in like 20 friends but then it would have like 800 views and he's like this shit's going viral like who's watching this like

how is this getting seen by so many people and that's you know so he again same thing he wasn't trying to do anything yeah and then even more accidental than that story is how accidental the fitness side of things were for him he he was like people were like hey man you're pretty jacked because he's a former uh marine and he he loves to stay in shape he loves his fitness and he was like i have no business talking about fitness and so every once in a he was like, I have no business talking about fitness. And so every once in a while, he'd fall into the trap of talking about it a little bit just because people ask so much. And then if he talked about it too much, then he got hammered. Like people were like, you're not a fitness guy.

Like the fitness people, right? Yeah. And then he was like, oh, maybe if I just start my own channel, that's mainly just for that like barbell brigade right if i start my own channel that talks about lifting and fitness and nutrition i'll just explain what i do not an expert you know but i am 205 pounds i look pretty damn good and i'm fucking strong and i'm a fucking killing machine like that guy can hurt somebody really bad he's really uh he's a really um mild-mannered dude like you know you're not gonna have any problems with someone like him but if he wanted to he can jack you up he can jack people up so yeah just it was really really uh

just compelling to hear these different stories like that how old is bart by the way man you know he's probably like 28 or something i don't know 30 i think he's in i think he's in his 30s because honestly like i remember in high school freshman sophomore year of high school me and my buddies would like we'd see his videos and at that time like it wasn't any fitness he was like uncle same and he was like he had this vietnamese character or whatever and that shit would like crack me up in high school i didn't know anything about fitness then so i mean i feel like he's in his 30irties, but that's like, it's crazy. Probably is. Yeah. Yeah. That's that dude. You know, if YouTube or if Google is correct, he's 33 and Gio is 36. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense.

Yeah. I was watching those videos and he was in his early twenties and we would just like, we would send those videos to each other back in high school, but it was nothing with fitness. So that's how I came across him back in the day but it's yeah it's crazy yeah bart is fun he's funny and um you know i think what something else that he said that i thought was really cool is he each person got a chance to do like an introduction explain who they are and kind of how they fell ass backwards into what they're doing now because that that was pretty much the theme all around the table um with bart you know bart just said that he was kind of a loser growing up in his own words he was just like i just i wouldn't do the right thing you know i'd hang out the wrong people he he was in a gang when he was a kid um he'd get a lot of trouble um he just caused his

parents a lot of heartache by being that way. They wanted him to do well in life and he had bad grades and different things like that. So he just thought to himself, well, you know, I need to like, I need to do something with my life. This is not, this is not a good way to good route to go. So eventually he just kind of thought of that on his own and he was like, I'm going to go into the military. So I went into the Marines, which is, he just kind of thought of that on his own and he was like i'm going to go into the military so i went into the marines which is which is kind of a which is kind of a crazy move because like that's like the such an extreme to the other other side of things but he probably knew in his head like i'm going to need an extreme if i'm going to really make some changes and so he did that and then even after that he was thinking like you know what would he do with

himself then he was like well i i don't feel like i'm smart enough to become like a doctor or anything like that and he really didn't know where to turn but he knew that he loved working out he knew that he loved uh lifting um and he loved being uh creative and i think that's when he started kind of he started writing um he started filming stuff they They started doing the YouTube stuff slowly. And they were like, well, people think this is pretty funny and we're just kind of like making shit up. Like,

what if we put more time into it? You know, let's like write stuff down. Yeah. And then, you know, he also met Gio around that time. And then Gio was also like modeling.

She was into production and she was like, you know, she would get like uh she would scout places for them to actually do the skits at so it became like more professional um pretty uh pretty rapidly and what he has going on now like i don't think people don't like bart bart is a fucking baller and a half like people don't understand he's got studios yes i know a lot of people and i know only one guy that has studios and with an s uh at the end in los angeles i mean they're huge they're they're big they're big ass place i can't imagine like what you know what you pay on something like

that um but they're filming stuff there all the time and he's just super creative and yeah what what just what a cool story he also has food places too like he's like a serial entrepreneur i think um one of his places uh-oh what is it ice cream or something he has like a yogurt shop he had he had we could probably talk about right because he doesn't have it anymore publicly doesn't have it did we share that part we can talk about it okay well anyway like yeah even if he doesn't have it he tried it yeah it was uh well so me being there like it's just one of those things where i look around and i'm like this doesn't make any sense what the hell am i doing here by the way by the way though that will never go away and if it does then you got problems

it should never that should never go away oh cool okay well you should always kind of feel like that you should always be like i don't think i belong around all these awesome people yeah i think that's a good thing keeps you hungry you know like you're the sum of the five people around you i'm like can we time stamp that right now but uh anywho so i was i was there and so everyone's going around the room and what what I picked up is like, obviously no regrets. And like anything that sets you back, it doesn't even like, there's no such thing as a setback. And I've been saying that for a while because of this podcast, because of all the random stories that we get about, you know, like Mark's brother passing away. Like he used that to propel the slingshot. Yeah.

To slingshot the slingshot. But one of the things that Bart said, because somebody had asked about like his Pops thing whatever company that he had started and he's like oh yeah about that so they did they had the grand opening and you know he's there and he's with all the fans and stuff and one fan just yells out good he just yells like hey bart take your pants off and he's like fuck it okay he throws his pants off and of course everyone's on their phone you know instagram everything's happening and i think uh one of the investors or somebody in the company was like that's our guy that's that's the guy that's the guy that's supposed to like be the uh the main you know figure in this whole company like i'm out that's it this

is stupid this is terrible we cannot have this and he's like so yeah we started selling tea instead of popsicles yeah so you open up a matcha yeah yeah the matcha thing yeah so but the matcha thing's still going yeah yeah and it's and i bet you it's gonna turn out to be a million times better than the fucking popsicle idea but he never would have got there unless something, unless he did those pants off. Yeah. Which is, you know,

people would look at that and be like, Oh my gosh, like how am I going to ever bounce back from this? It's like, well he did. And like I said, it's probably going to be better than the other idea. And there,

there are just so many stories like that throughout the whole, uh, the table. And I, again, thank you Mark for, you know, letting me be a part

of that it was it was it was incredible yeah yeah like i said it just sort of worked out the way that i that i um it worked out like in a way that i i couldn't really imagine but i felt that if i kept it a certain way that it would end up being very like quote unquote organic you know and that's the way that it ended up i mean we're all, you know? And that's the way that it ended up. I mean, we're all just like hanging out and that's the way I wanted to try to keep it. And so it wasn't really like,

although like the second day, so it was a two day thing. Um, and by summit people are probably, you know, thinking that we went to like golden one and that we had like fans there and stuff or something like that. But no,

it was nothing like that. I, again, I wanted to take out all outside distractions and have it just i wanted to try to provide as much value as possible for each individual that was there yeah and so i felt like fans would distract from that uh having your phone out would distract from that trying to make a youtube video would distract from that trying to speak in front of a microphone and recording it, that would just, I felt like, I felt everything would kind of distract from it. So we kept it super low key. Day one was at the house and then day two, we did at a hotel here

in Sacramento and everyone really liked it a lot. Everyone enjoyed themselves. Uh, everyone got a lot of value. It wasn't one person that wasn't taking notes. You know, once we've kind of went around the table and started talking a little more heavily about, um, actual business, then, um, people whipped out their notepads and started, uh, started writing stuff down. And then we started, you know, talking about, um, employees and we started talking about lawsuits and we started talking about employees. We started talking about lawsuits. We started talking about paperwork. We started talking about how do you run a business? How are we supposed to treat people? Because a lot of – everyone is so different.

All the people that you hire are going to be so different from each other. But you have to figure out a way to you know andrew can't be you know getting a bunch of free shit from the store uh randomly um if that's not the rule for everybody else you know what i mean and it's like it caught that like that kind of stuff is annoying to me i'm like it's fucking stupid like andrew's my boy he should be able to go get whatever he wants but then at the same time it's like well it costs the money. So it really doesn't make sense for there to be an absolute like free for all for it. And then the good thing is like everyone here like understands all that. Like everyone here is like, oh, that's it's not it's not the price they put on the website. Everyone has that understanding, too. But they know that it's not free. It didn't just like show up here out of nowhere. And so like, there's just a lot of stuff that was talked about that was like that, that was helpful. But one thing I'll say is that, and you'll find this a lot with coaching, when you coach somebody in something, whether it's jujitsu, bodybuilding, or powerlifting, you kind of pause

for a second and you're like, oh wow. Like I know a lot more stuff than I thought makes you more confident about yourself. And so that was like probably one of the main things I got from it as they started asking, cause I'm thinking like, we'll get everybody together and I'll, I'll, I'll be able to ask everybody a bunch of questions and, and, uh, I'll get a bunch of cool answers, but I wasn't really thinking about them asking me stuff. And I was like, Oh shit. They're asking, like Andrew said, you like, thinking about them asking me stuff. And I was like, oh, shit, they're asking. Like Andrew said, you don't feel like you belong. I'm like, why are they asking me shit?

Like they're already kicking ass. But then I'm like, oh, yeah, well, I've been doing this for the last 10 years or so. And then I was like, oh, that's actually longer than anybody else in the room. Ah, maybe I'm not such an idiot. Maybe I do know a couple things. room ah maybe i'm not such an idiot maybe i do know a couple things and then you start saying things that also um it also uh like re-ups your original vision and maybe also you start talking about um some core values that you believe in that you just haven't maybe brought up in a long time and you're like then after you say it, you're kind of like, oh yeah.

And you get back to doing some of that stuff. Might be something you might mention to a lifter. You might say, hey man, like back when I was really struggling, I used to do a five by five and I did it for three months and it got me over a bunch of hurdles. And I just, I moved the weight slow. I really worked on form and technique. And then I, you know, I was able to kind of like get through it. And then as you say it, you're like, oh, I need to go back to doing that again.

Right. So there's a lot of stuff like that. A lot of like kind of aha moments. Yeah. Sharpens your skills when you teach somebody. That's what I always think. But what I loved and I'll change the questions around just for, you know, keeping it exclusive. But, you know, like anybody would ask like a simple question

like hey so how do you get up at 4 a.m and i'm thinking like they're probably going to go over like the craziest most complex aspects of running a business but then there was like the simple question of like yeah so like do you set an alarm and then everyone was like just no filter just answering completely honestly like it was and then he eventually did get into the complex stuff where i was like i again don't belong here because this doesn't pertain to anything i do yet but you know at that moment it was like oh man that's amazing like you guys do that like oh shit sick like thanks for sharing that you know it was just i i think that was huge and you could tell and it

was even mentioned that like it was a genuine um you know uh i don't know i can't think of the word but like mark wanted this to happen just because he wanted it to happen there was no like you know incentives or anything to like purchase something or like to put in money for a fundraiser or any like whatever the case even if it was for it came from a good cause but people were like this is dope like we want to do it again and then todd abrams was like let's not wait a year yeah another cool thing that happened was that no one really knew why they were there so that was kind of cool yeah like the fact that they came there just because i asked them i mean I gave them all like a little bit of information, but I don't think they had any idea. Like Rob Bailey was like, he's like, people kept asking me, like, what, like, what is this thing?

Is it like, is Mark doing like his own fit expo type thing? Or like, is this an expo or is it a powerlifting meet or some sort of show? Like, like, and they're trying to figure out like well why are you going like what are you getting out of it he's like i don't know he told me to be there so i'm gonna show up and so that part was really cool amazing it was really cool like first off people were super curious like even on the dinner on the first night i was just hearing like stephy right she would when people were saying she's like why oh why'd you do that? Why? She does that a lot. Yeah, and I was like, damn, well, that's why you are who you are.

That's why you're doing what you're doing because you're curious as hell. And a lot of them are. Actually, I think all of them are that same way. Jay Cutler probably does that more than anybody I've ever seen. Really? He just continues to ask. And you're like, why? You're overwhelmed.

You're like, why is Jay Cutler asking me anything? You know, four time Mr. Olympia. You're like, why is he asking me this? But like if you, I don't know if he got talking about like a particular workout or something, he might be like, what do you do? And you'd be like, you start explaining it. And then he'd be like, oh, well, why are you doing it that way? He's not asking you like, oh, like why? He's not like being like a jerk.

He really wants to know. And then he'll be like, wow, never thought. I never tried it that way. That's pretty cool. Like maybe I would try it that way. And you're like, he's just amazed. Ron Penna is actually amazing because, and I know we talk about him a lot.

We got some of our favorites that we talk about here on the show all the time. But he like poses questions to you, which is interesting because that's a great, I mean, that's a great teacher. That's a great teacher at work, you know, asking you something they already know the answer to. Yeah, and if you can't answer something that what he considers an entry-level question, he'll just be like, I'm not talking to anybody else until you answer this question. Yep. Like, oh, man, somebody figured it out. Yeah, the most abundant amino acid in the body, right? Remember that one?

Mm-hmm. Was it leucine? Leucine, yeah. Yeah, I remembered. And then Seema saved the room because he would have probably killed all of us. He could have. He would have made us all do the splits. He would have probably killed all of us.

He could have. He would have made us all do the splits. But one thing that you said, Andrew, that just made me think of like, I guess, people and dieting. The failures, right? Like a lot of people like having setbacks, right? And they didn't really look at it as a setback. But I think like one of the big reasons why most people fail on like a diet type of thing is because when they have one bad week or two bad weeks that just cascades into them totally falling off you know i see that happen a lot like they they just they just stop you know but like even if you have something like that or something like

that happens you literally just you just learn from it and you get back on you literally have to you know i think that's it's just i see that happens so much it's frustrating but it's it's You literally just learn from it and you get back on. You literally have to. I see that happen so much, it's frustrating, but it's important to understand that. Yeah, and also I think your standards, what would be the word? Raise your standards. Yeah, you just raise your standards. Because I know over Friday and then Saturday, there was a lot of good food around me. And I remember thinking, I'm not tracking like,

ah, fuck. Like I'm, I know I'm going to go way over. And then as I'm going for my second, like helping, uh, these amazing meatballs with like some crazy honey,

something, something, it looked like syrup, but it was delicious. As I put them on the plate, all I hear in the back of my head do you want abs i'm like huh i look over and there's in sema pounding food by the way non-stop eating and i'm like well come on dude and he's like come on man he's like oh i'm just

joking i'm joking enjoy it enjoy it yeah come on man but do you want abs i'm like fuck so then there was that and then you know at uh the the summit you know there was some more great food and i you know had some potatoes what i normally wouldn't have because they wouldn't have been available to me so then i'm like oh dude that's it i'm eating i'm eating like shit but i'm actually not like i'm still eating tons of protein and like still fairly low carb. But yeah. So over the weekend I felt like I'm way off the plan. But then I'm like, well, it's because I'm just tightening it up.

Like that's still better than what I've been doing a month ago or whatever. So I think that's also what happens is people, they raise their standards and then they feel like shit when they can't maintain that. But it's like really if you look at it, you're still doing way for sure better than like probably everybody that you're workplace but you're doing better than you were previously exactly and that's huge and that's also kind of what uh you know the flag nor fail thing he was kind of talking about like just stay above the water right like just because you're not improving you're not dying just don't die just survive this right now and then tomorrow that's when you're going to step up and do something better that was really that was really powerful yeah yeah and there

was even a point where people shared uh some of their finances they just flat out kind of said like what dollar amount they're at and that was cool too um just because it's like wow like everyone's just like really letting their guard down. Like this is, this is sick. And then a lot of other people to share too. And some people didn't, and some people chose to like, didn't matter. No one really skipped a beat. No one was like overly shocked or, you know, or you know, there wasn't, there was nothing weird about it. It was just like mentioned. It wasn't, it wasn't like to show off or anything like that, but it was just mentioned. And I think it gave everybody in the room a good understanding of, OK, like everyone's kind of around same-ish area and everyone's trying to get more.

But what Rob Bailey kind of pointed out, too, is when he was asked a specific question, he's like, no, he's like, we don't do that. question he's like no you know he's like we don't do that and they were somebody was like why he's like we just don't like it to take too much time and like we're trying we're trying to improve on what we already have and then he was like well to be honest like we're pretty happy with where we're at like we love we love where we're at and you know if it doesn't if our company doesn't turn into nike or under armor that's okay yeah i was like, ah, I was like, that's pretty good. That's pretty like, not, not pretty good. It's great because, uh, that shows you that maybe he's not feeling the anxiety that maybe some other entrepreneurs might be feeling in that, like, it's just never enough. Like it doesn't matter what you do. It's never enough. Um, it has to be, it has to be enough, you know, cause, because uh you know all you can do is is all you can do

are are you doing maybe not everything because you can always figure out a way to to do a little bit more but that's like probably not all that realistic are you doing most things to try to improve and if the answer is yes then you got to chill the fuck out yeah and i also like how you know he was saying you know if our company brings in this much if the difference between that and the next level means we have to change who we are or some aspect of the business i'm good we're just gonna we're gonna hang out here yeah i was like damn like you know it's it it must be really cool to be in a spot where you can be like, nah, we're going to keep doing what we're doing and we're happy. You just continue to stand your ground.

Yeah. Even though there's a bunch of shiny, cool things around you that you want to dive for. You just stay in that same spot, stay in that pocket. Yeah, they're happy in, where is it? I forgot wherever the hell they're from right now. They're just happy there with all their goats and shit. Montana. Montana, yeah.

When I went and visited Rob and Dana Lynn in Pennsylvania, they moved from Pennsylvania to Montana. I haven't visited their new spot in Montana. But Dana Lynn Bailey, these people, they love animals. And they have these, they have a bunch of dogs. Um, they have goats.

They have, uh, I can't remember if they had like chickens, but they had all kinds of stuff. But like Dana just goes from her walk, like from her house and she goes and feeds the goats. And then there was like a goat that like just started following her. So she's got a goat following her.

She has a dog following her. And then out of the woods comes a deer and the deer is following her and i'm like this is fucking snow white yeah i know i know it was like something out of a movie and then she like like fed the deer something or something or whatever. I was like, oh my God, this is crazy. Um, wow. Yeah. It was just like, but that's just, it's, it's really great when you get behind the scenes and, um, you know, people are a certain way. You think they're a certain way. Um, and they actually not only are they the way that they're portraying, but they're like

way beyond that. Like it's like way, it's way deeper than that. Um, she's, uh, she mainly only eats fish and then Rob is, uh, is a full on vegan. But like I said, these are people that love animals and then you see it in the way that they're acting all the time. Like the way that, the way that they operate, the way that they do things. And Rob was also really candid about that too. He's like, I'm not crazy. Like, I'm not, you know, I don't, I don't go all nutty in it. And I, he's like, if, um, you know, there's a dairy product in my salad or something, he's like, I don't freak out. Um, he's like, I have cars that have leather seats, but you know, my next, the next car I buy won't have leather seats. He's like, I have shoes that have leather in them. I

have this that has that. And he's like trying to, to um he's not trying to like get rid of everything but every time he tries something new he's trying to be conscious of the environment and conscious of the animals and i'm like dude who who can't appreciate that yeah you know what i mean like you just have to be an asshole if you if you don't appreciate that so whether you're no matter what diet you're on, you'd have to, you know, just recognize like, that's cool. Yeah. Back to the goats real quick. Do they, do they just use them for milk or they just have goats? No, I think they just have goats.

Yes, have them, yeah. I feel kind of bad. You want some goat milk? Nah. Oh, because you like eating goats. If you pull up my IG story you'll understand why i feel a little bit bad um but anyway yeah no that's awesome i don't know i don't know how they feel you know uh like i don't think i don't think what other people what other people do or what

other people are doing i don't think uh i don't think really bugs them, but maybe to some level it does. That's fucked up. What is that? It's a goat head. Oh, my God. Or half of a goat head. Yeah. Did you eat some goat brains? Yeah, I ate some goat pepper soup.

Really good. Yeah, I mean, I think for them, I don't think they're outwardly against. Yeah. Like, I mean, I eat tons of meat around them. And, you know, we were joking about it and stuff yeah but but yeah no that that's pretty awesome like it again it's it's cool that he did that and he's like you know no one here has problems with vegans and like he doesn't have problems with people that eat meat that's it's it's not people aren't getting dogmatic about it you know that's the one thing I guess within diet culture that's really kind of annoying when people demonize others just because of what they do.

So that's awesome. Kind of last thing I'll finish with this Meathead Millionaire Summit that we put together. It was the first year that we're doing it. It looks like we got another one lined up. We're not sure if we're going to be in Texas or Montana. Either the Bailey's will host it or Todd Abrams might host it. We're going to work out some details on that over the next few months. I would prefer like that all the people that we had involved that it's like a board

and that we kind of like vote on stuff. Like I liked that it was closed off. I also wouldn't be opposed to like having a day or having, you know, a few hours with some fans and stuff. Cause I think that they would, um, I think that would provide value for everybody. I think the fans would get something out of it. I think everybody involved would get something out of it. So, um, that would, that would be, uh, that would be kind of cool, but yeah, I'm looking forward to doing more stuff with everybody. The other thing that I found really awesome was that having someone like Jason Kalipa there who's been in business for a long time, who utilized CrossFit as kind of like a springboard

into a lot of the things he's doing today. And by using CrossFit, I just mean using his CrossFit Games Championship. I don't mean like he used them in a wrong way. I'm just meaning that he used that as like a springboard, and most people aren't able to do that. A lot of times somebody would be a champion. Maybe they won Mr. Olympia, and they just never really turn it into much. They won something really big, and then they're not able to really do a ton with it.

But the diversity at the table was really cool. Jason has done so many things within business and he's had so many gyms, he's had over 20 gyms. And I'm sure like in the next two years, we'll probably be talking in the hundreds. We'll probably have hundreds of gyms. I really just think that that guy's going to explode and that he's heading in that direction. On the other side of the table, you had Steph Cohen and Hayden Bowe. They have a gym, but they also service people a similar way that Jason does with a lot of online coaching. And so here's these two online coaching juggernauts. But online coaching juggernaut. Jason has been doing it longer.

And Jason has a different business model because Jason coaches coaches. He coaches people as well, just regular people that are trying to be more fit. But he coaches like gyms. And so his app that he has, NC Fit Collective, is utilized by a few hundred gyms. And then the model that Steph and Hayden have is much different. They have the hybrid training method. I believe that's what it's called. And in that, they have someone that does gymnastics. They have someone that does powerlifting. They have someone that does powerlifting. They have someone that does CrossFit. They have somebody, uh, you know, Olympic lifting strong man, all these different, um, genres that you can select, you know, who you get coached from. And on top of that,

they have nutrition. So I just thought it's like really cool. And then there's Bart who has a gym, um, and he does some stuff with programming, but in a much different way. Like his is, his is maybe more, uh, his is maybe more traditional. Like he has, he has a specific, uh, style of training that you can purchase. It doesn't have as many options as the other two. So what I thought was really cool about all this stuff and Dana Lynn has a service like that as well. What I thought was cool about all this stuff is that you could kind of pick and choose and you'd be like, oh, that kind of fits my business. I think I should implement that. Or that sounds like it's too much.

I don't think I could do that. That's not my space. Like I'm not a material expert the way that Steph Cohen is on this particular thing, so I'm not going to tackle it. But I really like that part of it and then also some of the age differences. that part of it and then also some of the age differences. There wasn't huge discrepancies in ages, but I think the oldest person there was 47. And I think Steph, I think she's only like 24 or something like that, right?

She's super young. So all of that was really neat to have all those different kind of generations of people and just to, I mean, you felt like your head was going to explode by the end of the weekend because there's just so much, so many different things to learn from everybody. What you got, Andrew? Not much. Just thinking about how good I am or how much I love that hero bar right there. Oh, man.

So what, can you tell us again, like why cubing it up does taste better? Did you chop it up? No, I didn't. Honestly, I why cubing it up does taste better? Did you chop it up? No, I didn't. Honestly, I unwrapped it and I got too excited. I couldn't crush it up. It's not so much with the Hero Bar, but just a regular Quest Bar. If you, and not one with like a coating on the outside, but a regular Quest Bar. You can do it a couple of ways.

You can chop it up and then put it in the microwave and give it like 10 seconds or so or you can just leave it as a whole bar and throw it in the microwave for about 10 seconds and then you can chop it up afterwards or whatever but it's amazing it just makes it like soft and doughy and warm and yeah it's awesome but yeah the

Hero Bar I actually took some with me as I went to the 49ers game because I was like, I'm probably going to eat a little bit of junk. I'm going to want to top it off with like something sweet. And I literally ate two of those instead of like, you know, eating a bunch of ice cream and eating a bunch of crap. I mean, I still had, you know, a regular cheeseburger with the bun. I still like went off my diet. But by going off my diet, I ate sushi.

I ate rice. I ate some bread. Again, not too much damage, but yeah, I finished off the night with the vanilla and the, what's the other one? Is it got raspberry? So they got blueberry cobbler. Blueberry cobbler. That one's probably my favorite still.

I ate both of them. Yeah, during the game, that's what I indulged with. I'm like, I'm going to sit back, watch the game, enjoy a damn Quest bar. That's the thing, I didn't have the patience to do it either. Because the day that he told us about it, I was like, ooh, I'm going to do that tonight. I opened it, I'm like, I don't want to cut this in a warm-up. It's already eaten now. I just started eating it.

So I'm going to try that. Yeah, I can't get enough of them, dude. The Hero Bar, I seriously believe that you can put that next to a Snickers bar, it so i'm gonna try that yeah i uh i i can't get enough of them dude there's the the hero bar i seriously believe that you can put that next to a snickers bar and people wouldn't know the difference like they wouldn't understand that that's actually good for you it's actually not exaggerating your action it's that good yeah yeah i highly recommend you guys check out that bar head over to quest nutrition.com right now at checkout checkout enter promo code mark's quest that'll get you 20 off your order at questnutrition.com hell yeah you know one more thing about the summit that i forgot

was that there were two people that spoke at the summit that probably didn't feel like they had a spot one of them was andrew and one of them was Ashley Kalipa, Jason's wife. And what I'm always trying to illustrate to people is that everyone has a place at the table whenever a person is successful because it's teamwork. It takes like an army of people to make someone successful. And so Ashley was kind of like, well, I'm not really like business minded. I don't really do that. But out of all the intros, I kind of thought hers was the coolest. You know, the way that she was, what she shared with us, I felt provided the most, the most value.

And then on top of, you know, her trying to claim that she's not a business minded person. She did used to help run a lot of what Jason did in the beginning. And then in addition to that, she runs Ava's Kitchen, which is a fundraiser for pediatric cancer, where they've raised over a million dollars over the last three years. So she's really great and really gifted at a lot of those things. But I think sometimes I think people are like,

well, I don't have much to say here. And it's like, no, you still have a lot to say because even watching the kids, being a stay-at-home mom, that's a job. That's not a side job, but it's a job that is allowing Jason to go off and do some of these other things. So it's always going to take some teamwork. And that was another big point of the seminar

was everyone I selected is very specific. I selected couples for a specific reason because I've recognized that with myself. I wouldn't be able to do the things that I do without my wife. And I think everybody else kind of there recognized that was kind of the theme as well. point was probably the most valuable point made the whole time because it was um it was a really good lesson for everyone there because everyone does have employees and andrew talked about how he felt andrew didn't say anything the whole time he just said this like one thing but he he said how um he felt a certain kind of way when something, when a situation happened here and that made everyone else in the room go, ah, like they, they, they just really understood how important it is to stay close to your core values, just reinforced it. Everyone already knows that. Um, but for an employee to say like, you know, this, this certain thing impacted me as well, impacted me heavily and

how I feel and how I work. Then everyone else was like, oh shit. Okay. You know, they really, that really sank in really well with everybody. Well, that's cool. I just like, uh, you know, I, I, again, you know, I don't need to say it again, but like I beat me being there. I didn't even know if like, shit, is Mark going to get upset that I'm even speaking? Like am I not supposed to make a sound over here? But because I am on the

other side you know I do work with Mark but you know he's the the the owner of the company I'm not therefore I do have a voice at that table because I can give them insight on you know something that they just don't understand because they they're not on this other side and I just like I'm glad you said that because yeah I wasn't sure if, you know, it was the right place to even say anything. Cause I did have something else to say, but I ended up talking to Bart after everything. Cause I didn't want to, you know, throw off the conversation even further, but, um, yeah, that's cool, man. It just, again, I just saw an opportunity where I'm like, shit, I do have something to share and here you go.

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So am I salted caramel? Yeah. If you're chocolate, Mark's vanilla, can I be salted? Yeah, actually. This is a beautiful little thing that we just made right here. Andrew's salted caramel, I'm chocolate, and Mark's vanilla. Well, I mean. What does this mean, though?

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