#1101 - Chris & Mark Bell

Joe Rogan (0:02)

Three, two, one, is that a gun? That's a real gun? Gentlemen, we're live.

Mark Bell (0:08)

We are live. Yeah, thanks.

Joe Rogan (0:09)

What's going on? How are you, fuckers?

Mark Bell (0:11)

Doing great, man. It's great to be on the show again.

Joe Rogan (0:13)

Great to have you guys here.

You know, I was watching your Instagram the other day, and I was looking at you with fake hips, doing crazy fucking heavy deadlifts, man. That's amazing.

Chris Bell (0:23)

I am starting to deadlift a little bit more because I've been doing this carnivore diet, and I feel great, and there's no reason not to, right? So I just figured if I can do it and it doesn't hurt, then why not? So I was going up to about 400 pounds, but I think I can even get stronger now. So what I'm so happy about is this is something, squatting and deadlifting, it's something that was a part of my life all growing up. I was a powerlifter all growing up.

Mark Bell (0:50)

I used to want to have gotten me into this shit.

Chris Bell (0:52)

And it got taken away from me, and I was really sad and disappointed, became a drug addict and an alcoholic because of it, and now I can lift again, so I feel good.

Joe Rogan (1:00)

Is that unusual for someone who's got artificial hips to be able to do something like that? Do you know? How many people do you know that have artificial hips?

Chris Bell (1:08)

Well, I do know that Ed Cohen, who's the greatest powerlifter of all time, he has two fake hips now, right? Yeah, I think so. And I think he still squats 600

Joe Rogan (1:15)

Jeez.

Chris Bell (1:17)

Yeah, he can still lift so many. At Eddie Cohen, check him out, he's a beast.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

Fake hips, squatting 600 pounds? They say that is like one of the most effective replacement surgeries that they do, is replacing people's hips.

Mark Bell (1:31)

Yeah, for him it's been a big deal.

Chris Bell (1:32)

I think it's a great surgery. Before I got it done, I mean, I couldn't even get up out of a chair. I'd be stuck, you know, I would stick places.

And before I got it done, I couldn't really move at all. And then after I got it done, they had botched one side. So one side went perfect. The other side for two years was all screwed up and the doctors didn't know it.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

What was screwed up about it?

Chris Bell (1:54)

The cup, there's a cup, and then there's the ball that goes into the cup. The cup came loose and it would shift around. Now they think the cup comes loose because when you do both hips at the same time, they hammer one hip into one side, and then you're completely like a dead body almost, and they flip you over.

Mark Bell (2:11)

It's really violent, actually.

Chris Bell (2:13)

When they flip you over, they think that's when the hip, that socket may come out. So they're starting to question doing them both on the same day now.

Joe Rogan (2:23)

Yeah, I've heard of people getting one done and then a couple months later.

Chris Bell (2:26)

I would recommend getting one done because then when I got my other one, when I got the one that was messed up redone and I had one good leg and one leg to recover on, it was so much easier. I didn't have to have the special toilet and all the other stupid things.

Mark Bell (2:38)

You could be on crutches instead of being a wheelchair probably, right? If you only had one leg at a time.

Chris Bell (2:42)

I actually wasn't even on crutches. I came home from the hospital and that day that I came home from the hospital, I was walking, I even climbed a ladder and our mom yelled at us, yelled at me because I climbed a ladder and she's like, what are you doing, you just got a hip surgery and I'm like, I gotta change this light bulb.

Joe Rogan (2:57)

Now I would think that one good benefit about weight lifting would be increase in bone density and that you would want that if you have artificial hips, especially because you got that bar that goes down deep into the bone.

Chris Bell (3:09)

We just got a DEXA scan done.

Mark Bell (3:11)

We got weird shit going on.

Chris Bell (3:13)

We got really weird shit going on. We had a DEXA scan done and Dr. Jacob Wilson told us that our bone, was it bone mineral density?