 of discussions and particularly the Facebook group, International Brotherhood of Polyvans. I am your host, James P. Madonna of Megalife21M, Progressive Discussions, and I am the founder of this group back in 2012. It is a group that represents old school physical fitness, ancient warrior fitness. We honor the martial arts of different forms from different cultures, different parts of the world. Drug free, safe, and I cannot overemphasize the word safe, physical fitness. But I also incorporate progressive populist politics, aka, otherwise known as the absolute proven truth by truth seekers. Reality, proven reality, like what the finest scientists in the world tell you, and if you choose to ignore them, then you will meet your dire fate. You know, you can't, you can't argue with success. You can't debate the real proven hard hitting truths of life. How could you argue with true facts? How could you argue with them? How could you argue with evidence? I want to start off by giving seven lucky bells for the show, followed by the old Ed Norton Honeymooners Selma bell, for those that are familiar with the Honeymooners and our fans, followed by the world's largest and loudest jingle bells, followed by humble, mellow old fashioned jingle bells, happy Krampus day, and with their solstice, you were no fool, and happy Festivus for the rest of this, even though it's not even summer yet, it's not even single Demio yet, right? We're in the middle of spring, early April. So this is part of the April fools for progressive discussions, right? I'm giving, I'm paying homage to a pagan Christmas where Jesus was not even born in December, and all the traditions of Christmas in Easter were based on paganism coming from the, I believe the Holy Roman Empire, all right, or Simon Amagus and the Emperor Constantine. I wonder if Constantine was constipated. Anyway, let me blow my old fashioned police whistle. I thought it was a train whistle, but that's enough. You're probably wondering, where is my co-host? Where is just Sam Bellow? Well, I called him and his voicemail picked up. So I had no idea. I told him, if he wants to go on the show, audio, just type me a message here on the show in the comments column on the right hand side of this video, and I will simply call him via the internet, like I normally do. So the show must go on. I know that I was told by certain individuals on social media. Some of them are from the fanatical, very anal-retentive craft beer group, groups that talk about fine wine and craft beer, and they're very, sometimes whiskey, bourbon, whatever, Scotch, and they're very anal-retentive and serious and very rigid about it. So much so are they fanatics and very similar to these conservative evangelical, zealot religious freaks. So much are they that way that even when they go off the air, they must continue to review craft beer. They can't even have an open forum and and relax and let loose and have fun. Open topic. Oh no, no, no, no, they continue to critique beer because they have no life. They're geeks. They admit that they're beer geeks, but I didn't believe that they really were bona fide geeks. Anyway, certain individuals, not just from this group, these groups that I used to do live shows with, with. And it was fun while it lasted until human nature, until personality conflicts came into play. Other people too, even from the fitness world and fitness industry, they want me to be like Barney the dinosaur. You know, like similar to what the wooden Trojan horse Zay Ricardo tried to get me to do in a very pushy way. They want me to be like Barney the dinosaur. They want me to turn into a Pollyanna. You know, I love you. You love me. I blow sunshine up your ass. And I tell you things that you want to hear. I speak softly. I speak about pleasant things to make you feel good, instead of telling you the real truth and being honest. So they don't want honesty. They want sunshine blown up their ass. Even people that I thought were in agreeance with me that were on my side, they want to make nice, nice. Even though they may act tough and macho privately, when they send me private message, their macho is all hell. But you know, in reality, they weren't worried about their popularity. They're worried about collecting people on social media, having a billion people on their friends list that like them. They're desperately worried about being fucking liked. I was even told, you know, try not to curse. Well, you know, some things in life get under your skin. And I look at it this way. There are many selfish, self-centered, self-serving, greedy, corrupt, crooked, downright underhanded people in this society that are scumbags. They are bona fide scumbags. They lie to you, they're pathological liars. They live behind a facade, they're fake people. And they are, most of all, they are adults. They are supposed to know better. They have freedom of choice. They choose to be the rotten people that they are. They're not children. So if an adult chooses to go down that path and be that way, well, do they deserve my respect? No. Do they deserve to be spoken nice, nicely and softly to? No. Do they deserve any consideration whatsoever, people that are just rotten selfish? I say no. So I'm speaking soft right now, but I'm being honest. I'm not yelling. And I only use, so far, I only use one curse word. So it's not too bad. I mean, other people, Jesse Ventura, Howard Stern, I've heard them curse many times on their live stream shows. So I'm not doing too bad. But I believe if I give the facts, and I do, like Teddy Roosevelt said, speak softly and carry a big stick, I think that's a good policy to go by. Now, I want to begin by having a sip of not liquor, but a combination of unsweetened mango juice with passion fruit juice and some filtered ice water in my wonderful Polyvon paisley book, which is very applicable to the International Brotherhood of Polyvons, which this live stream show is on. Oh, Donald Booz has joined us. Welcome, Donald Booz, originally from Dumont, New Jersey, now residing in San Diego, California, because he was a career Navy person. Well, maybe he was just in the Navy and decided that he loved San Diego. Too bad it's expensive to live there, from what I understand. But then again, it's not so cheap living here in Northeastern New Jersey. Um, after many years of hard work and dedication and devotion and bringing sometimes bringing her work home with her and multitasking, which some people actually brag about, you're actually being used by the corporation when you're doing it. So they can, you know, they can downsize, they can lay off more people, and you get suckered into multitasking. After, after busting her hands for all these years, my sister recently got laid off, and it was a company connected with the pharmaceutical industry. And uh, business got slow. They lost a big client and they started laying people off. And uh, what are they, what was their choice to have a bunch of inexperienced punks fresh out of school that work for less money? And, and they got rid of the most expensive employees that were experienced and well seasoned and very reliable and very devoted. They got rid of them. So forget about being devoted to a company. It's, it's, it's all about the bottom line with these companies. They don't care. They have no loyalty to you. If you work hard and are really good at what you do, they don't, they don't give a shit. They would love to have two weeks notice or more from you if you're leaving, but they sure as hell won't give you two weeks notice if they want to get rid of you. Now healthcare, you know how the argument against universal single payer health insurance uh, has been bouncing back and forth quite often in this uh, uh, pre 2020 election campaigning campaign uh, uh, era for 2020. And uh, for those that do not know me, I am a democratic socialist, a Bernie Sanders supporter. I believe in single payer universal healthcare and free public college universities just like Scandinavia, the most perfect uh, uh, most fair political and societal system ever developed and, and they are successful. And I do not see any Scandinavians trying to immigrate to the United States, by the way. Because they know how fucking the good that they got. They know how good they got it. The only problem is it's too cold over there. I can't take the cold. They're near the arctic circle. You think Odin and Thor are going to warm me up? Yump in Yemeni. But anyway, uh, Iowans, United healthcare just through 425,000 Iowans off of their privatized health insurance. So uh, the argument of people having the freedom to keep their own privatized health insurance. Well, there you go. The, the scumbags, the sleazy scumbag insurance CEOs have the right to throw your ass off the policy. Hardy har har jokes on you. You, you trust the CEO more than, than a big government? Well, it would have to be honest big government, you know, but let me see what Donald has to say. Thanks for mentioning me. Ah, yes. Well, thank you for, for saying something and contributing in, and spending some time with me because, uh, I don't know. No, not too many people do it when Jeff is with me. I don't know. I don't know why. I mean, uh, I appreciate it. You're a riot, James. Oh, you like all my props? Hold on. Let me blow it a little. London, Bobby whistle. Masher, masher. Oh, remember Mrs. Chote from Seinfeld with the marble rye bread? When Jerry Seinfeld stole her, her, her love for marble rye, that man stole my marble rye. He, I got mud. God, my ears. Selma, please step into the dining area. With my coffee, I would like two lumps. If you keep on ringing that bell, you'll get two lumps. Hey, it matches the background, Donald Booth. Oh, oh, a little, a little more of the loudest jingle bell note to man. Oh, oh my, the decibels are killing me. Going to Cabo San Lucas in two weeks. Yes, you do remember that episode. Listen, Cabo San Lucas. We also are, not only are we restaurant and buffet critics here, and I, I went to the Royal Hibachi Buffet today and I took video of course and it will go on the internet. It will go on YouTube and the Facebook group. Everything is food as well as my Facebook page. Anyway, I digress. We're also consumer advocates and we are travel critiques, resort critiques. Donald Booth, I trust, has a very good eye for value. And when he goes on a resort, when he goes to a resort and they don't live up to the itinerary, they don't live up to the description of the vacation. Donald is not shy about telling you how he felt. Like one time he went on a cruise. I don't know if it was a three hour tour or three hour tour or it was a booze cruise or it was a booze and food cruise with gambling. I don't know what it was, but it was off of San Diego somewhere and they were kind of cheap with the liquor, I think, right? Donald, you said you weren't too happy about that cruise. Just like I was not happy about a cruise that I took on the Spirit in New Jersey out of Liberty State Park in Jersey City. I got screwed on that one. And the reason being is the food was outstanding, right? I went up. I filled my plate. I sat down. I absolutely loved the food. I got up to get seconds. They took all the food away. So why, how is it a buffet? Guess what it was all about? Some Broadway show with these namby, pamby, bubbly, metrosexual men prancing around singing and dancing. That's what it was about. It was the NYE party cruise on the Spirit of San Diego. So whatever coastal city the ship leaves from, it's the Spirit of whatever. Oh, by the way, that old time sailing vessel that is docked in San Diego, it's a big, was it the India Star or the Star of India? It's very haunted. It was on the travel channel, hit show, the ghost adventures, the paranormal investigators with Zach Bacon, they spent the night locked inside the, I think it's called the Star of India. It is very haunted. And they got a lot of recordings, voices and everything. I mean, it's without a doubt, it's haunted. I think it's called the Star of India or something of that nature. And it has, in its lifetime, it has seen many voyages. And it is now, I guess a museum, a floating museum, maritime museum that they decided to give to the city of San Diego and it's in a harbor. Yeah, it's an old time sailing vessel, a wooden sailing vessel, big too. I think it was an old time cargo ship, sailing vessel. Yeah, I'm not positive about the name. I think it's the Star of India. But anyway, it's very haunted. So anyway, yes, Donald is our official vacation resort critic, because I don't really get away that much, because I got a lot of things on my plate right now. But Donald gets around, instead of running around Suze, I run around Donald. Remember that song, running around Suze? But anyway, let me finish up the uh, politicking. What do we got here? Oh, oh, this is something many of you people can relate to. I noticed that when I'm online, the pop-ups, the sales oriented web pages that are called pop-ups, sometimes it's an entire page that always ends up trying to get you to part with your harder and money. There's no way to get rid of it. There's no X in the upper right hand corner to close it out. And I click on everything imaginable, and the more I click, the deeper into the sales pitch I get, and I have to end up rebooting my iPhone. Or if it happens to be, well, if it's on my PC, uh, I have ad block on Google Chrome, which happens to be highly rated, but it's not 100%. None of them are 100%. It's a pop-up blocker. I can't get rid of the friggin' pop-up, especially when it relates to my iPhone. Very intrusive, very pushy, obnoxious. They do not want you to be able to close out their pop-up, their ad. And I don't know if there's a good, reliable pop-up blocker for an Android or an iPhone. I really don't know. But Donald, you're familiar with such an annoyance. Um, it's very pushy, you know. And uh, speaking of annoying and pushy, you're all familiar with the Jared K. Druller, um, with the other one. Zales, fine Drullery commercials, they're on certain holidays. Here's a pair of Cubic Zirconia stud earrings, beautiful, big Cubic Zirconia stud earrings from the dollar zone in Saddlebrook, New Jersey. Aren't they gorgeous? Aren't they gorgeous? Aren't they aesthetically pleasing to the eyeballs? Eye candy. And of course a buck. So what I'm trying to say is, it's like my retired, very wealthy Uncle Phil used to say, prestige is all in the mind. And the look, the look of a diamond is all in the eyes of the beholder. So there you go. The beauty of Cubic Zirconia is which can be equal to a perfect investment grade diamond. Whereas diamonds are no longer an investment because the De Beers Diamond Mining Company controls the exportation of diamonds out of South Africa. So they control the price. There are, there are tons of diamonds being mined. They're not precious stones as opposed to rubies, sapphires, sapphire, emeralds, and soon to be aquamarine, those are precious. Okay, Donald says, looks like the real thing. Can't tell the difference. Yeah, that's what I said when I, when I, when I scrutinized it at the dollar zone. I thought it would be excellent product. An excellent example, you know, for the consumer advocates. Now, when speaking of Cabo San Lucas, I guess because it's at the end of the very long Baja Peninsula, which is believe it or not 2000 miles long. I had no idea it was that long in 24 hours of driving. It was extremely hot there. And actually human compared to the rest of the Baja, which is the Sonora Desert. Now I'm sure Donald is going to fly there because he's smart. Either fly or take a cruise. So not driving through the desert with no cell phone signal, signal or Wi-Fi, you know, watching the buzzards drag roadkill, dragging roadkill off the highway and, you know, watching cute roadrunners zoom by and going around dangerous mountain roads with no railing. Now he's going to do it the smart way. Cabo San Lucas, he's probably going to stay at a resort on the beach where he's going to enjoy the, the nice cool, dry, refreshing breeze coming off the Pacific Ocean. And he's going to probably go on that glass bottom boat tour. And he's probably going to go maybe party boat fishing for Marlin or whatever happens to bite his hook, bite his hook. Maybe some good looking maze will open his hotel door while he's still sleeping thinking they're going to go in there and change the sheets. Meanwhile Donald's going to be laying there in his birthday suit. What is submarine periscope up? Periscope up. You got a little bit. Let me see. I think Donald's probably cracking up right now. Flying. Yes. You are, you are a smart cookie. That's the way to do it. You fly and you go directly to the resort by the beach. You know what else I had? They had a bachelor party cruise where they, they, they brought the gentleman and I use that term loosely on a cabin cruiser with a whole bunch of young chicky poos wearing the same pink t-shirt with matching pink caps, aka horse. And they take them to this very private deserted island where they frolic for a certain amount of hours. I guess they have cases of beer and liquor and food and everything and they leave them there. And then they pick them up later on. And I'm sure they, they have sex in the, on the beach and in the, in the, in the pristine shallow tropical waters or whatever. And nobody sees them really. Supposedly. Except those with other boats and binoculars. Anyway, and then they pick them up. I thought it was interesting. Of course, they were all young and, and they, and they were, they had ample breasts and, you know, but anyway, I digress. But the glass bottom boat tour was a fascinating because there was stingray jumping out of the water. Actually, how they get the fish excited to do all this is they chum the water. They throw food in the water, buckets of food. And then the fish just go nuts. And, but it was very memorable. Periscope up, way up. Oh, you're not staying at a resort. That means you're staying with someone you know who has a place down there, perhaps some woman with, as we say in Italian skull order. Huh? And somebody you know, Donald, somebody that lives near the, near the ocean. That's, is she Mexican? She's got to be really well off. If she's Mexican and she lives near the water in Cabo San Lucas, would you admit you met yourself a, a, a Goyle friend, a young lady, perhaps? Oh, wait a minute. Oh, oh, no, no, you, you, you found yourself a new girlfriend. Ah, you're going with her, but you're not going, you're not going to a resort with her. I'm confused. She owns a place down here. You're not going to a resort. So maybe your new girlfriend has, has a getaway down here, a place, not supplying that information. Ah, you're not, you're not supplying yet. You're not even telling me, Bob, who are you, who are you going down with? Okay, gotcha. Smart guy because this show generally goes on YouTube. So good. Anyway, you're going to have a good time I'm sure. And it's great that you're able to go on vacation once again, like you used to in the old days. You know, I don't know if you have a genie in a lamp or you have a leprechaun when I'm Irish guys with the chilele. I have no idea. But you know, your, your, your life is getting lucky and I'm very happy for you. I'm very happy for you. I'm surprised that Jesse Ambella hasn't showed up. He says he doesn't want to bash anybody anymore. I told him, I wouldn't be honest if I honestly, you know, became like Barney the dinosaur when I record videos on the internet and go live. And I was like, I love you and you love me and I think life is wonderful and people are wonderful. It wouldn't be me. I mean, he used to be venomous like me. You know what? The show must go on. Who said that? P.T. Barnum. The show must go on, Donald Booth. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Human race disappoints me or every time, but the show must go on. Yes. Gotcha. I got you done. Okay. Now, little fitness talk. We have a store that I was introduced to because one opened up in my area called Five Below, which means everything is either $5 or under $5. All right. I found this, which they happen to also sell at Walmart, but this is five bucks. Extra heavy duty resistance to complete with door anchor as a bonus and the neoprene rubber handles. Great bargain, but of course what I did because it wasn't enough resistance for me. I was too strong. I'll show you what I did. Here's the door anchor in action. You can place it anywhere on the door. Donald, if you go on, excellent for going on vacation because, you know, the bathroom doors in hotel rooms are usually very strong and you can just place them anywhere on that door and I will show you what I did. Oh, by the way, I use these as workout gloves. I get them from the Dollar Tree, a dollar repair. Got the rubber, excellent workout glove, two for a dollar, and it's great for you ladies that go shopping and you have a problem opening up a jar. Let's say it's a jar of dill pickles. You put this on and that jar snap will just open right up. We give consumer tips on a shelf. All right. Now, okay. There's the neoprene rubber handle. There's the extra heavy duty tubing. Here's the door anchor. It has a hard rubber ball on the end, which enables the door anchor to catch any portion of the door. You choose to put it. You shut the door on that and you do your exercises. But what I had to do for extra resistance is I got one. I buy these heavy duty stainless steel clips. Okay. I think mountain climbers sometimes use them. I put industrial warehouse pallet bands. This happens to be smallest when they make. I have various sizes. Mr. Ken Beeson turned me on to these because this is what they use in WWE training camp to exercise with. These are more challenging than any fitness tubing or bands, than any power bands, the pallet band when you think about it. I mean, just think about how much weight is on a pallet in a warehouse. And it could be hundreds, if not thousands of pounds. And this same amount of tonnage goes on cargo ships in containers, right? So they come in all different sizes. So I hooked it on. Of course, there is another one on the other end. And you, this is my idea. And you can just attach as many, how bands as you want. And you have progressive resistance. Don't estimate, don't do, never underestimate power bands or tubing, not the ones that Kessler Institute for rehab. The fettuccines, they make you play with it. That's for like accountants, you know, and, you know, that's for like Woody Allen. You know, that's not for real alpha men. You got to get power bands and extra heavy duty tubing. And this, of course, this is held by a solid rubber ball at the end. And it's in the hole how they get it in. I have no idea. But anyway, that's my little invention. I don't know, Zuckerberg is trying to fuck with my video. I don't know why it fades and then it clears. I know he fucks with me with Facebook Messenger, because he's a control freak. He's a geek, probably got beat up by the jocks in high school, like all fucking geeks do. And his, the power of owning Facebook is his penile extension. That's his manhood. I used to have geeks try to push my buttons and, you know, and I beat them up. And then this is the, this is the largest industrial warehouse pallet band. And I thank Mr. Kim Beeson for introducing me to these. These, you see, they're, I don't know what kind of glue they use, but it's a continuous loop, right? And it's glued by God knows what, because it is powerful. This is hard as hell. Okay. And just in case I put the same steel clips from Home Depot on the end, in case I ever need to attach them to something. But lately what I've been doing is I've been doing a drop set where I'll do curls, let's say, or even reverse curls for the forearms or regular curls. And then without resting, I'll grab a pair of these and step on the ends and continue to do the curls or whatever exercise you're doing. So I just wanted to introduce people to what real hardcore exercising is all about. If you, if you still think this is a toy, go on YouTube and look up a video by Scooby, spelled like Scooby Doo. He's a man that's in his 60s. He's a old school bodybuilder and personal trainer. And he tells you the real truth about everything. A German American guy, great sense of humor. He wears like a Gilligan hat. And you'll see how well built he is. And he has some videos going into detail about power bands and just how challenging they really are. And you should never underestimate any power bands. So that takes care of that. Now let's see what we got here. Maybe Donald Boos has some words of wisdom there. I will check it out. Okay. All right. Seven bells for Donald's vacation. And I think he, you had a great time in Las Vegas. I know that. So we talked about, okay, little mysticism Donald Boos. I'm sure you're going to appreciate that. I have genuine copper divining rods from an occult web store online. You probably have seen it before. Copper divining rods. Will Donald Boos have a wonderful time in Cabo San Lucas very soon? Yes, Donald. When they come together, it means yes. When they go apart, it means no. And I put these straws in it so there's no friction and there's no way I can be moving them. Donald Boos, his new vacation, I mean his upcoming vacation in Cabo San Lucas, well it exceed his expectations. Yes. Good. I'm very happy. Will you be dining out of your own pocket or is there some kind of a package where the meals will be included? If you're still there Donald, how will the food be supplied? Would it be like, you have to bring pesos down there and buy breakfast, lunch and dinner every day on your own or is there a package? Donald has lots of experience in travel. When I was in Baja at some of the hotels, did they deliberately withhold negative information from their advertisement to sucker people to stay there? In other words, do they lie a lot, the owners of these Mexican resorts? No, so they frito bandidoed us. When I was there, when Natalia, this guy that owned this hotel in Bahia de Los Angeles, which is on the the beginning of the sea of Cortez, it might be the beginning of southern Baja. I don't think it's part of north, northern Baja, but it might be the beginning of the sir, SUR. I think that's southern Baja. It was like, there was no lock on the back door facing the bay, no lock at all, which is not good. There was no Wi-Fi that will allow you to do really anything. It was really not much of anything. I mean, the water pressure was a terrible little trickle. If you wanted to take a shower or whatever, it's almost like the movie I saw, the old Western with John Wayne, where they had the bucket with the holes in it and the midget would pour the hot water in a bucket. That was like the first shower. That was so funny. It was really pretty bad. Like the owner, his name was, he called himself William. He had like a waspy name. I know that wasn't his real name. He said he used to work for the, he says, oh, I've worked in New Jersey. I've worked for the Marriott Corporation. Oh, wow. You've been to New Jersey? You worked for the Marriott. Okay. And his name was, he called himself William, and he had like a waspy last name. I knew that wasn't his real last name. So I said, you know, in Spanish, William is Guillermo. He got defensive. He goes, no, my name is William. So Natalia explained to me that some people, some Mexicans or Latinos, they do not want to embrace their heritage or they, they're embarrassed or they, they feel, they feel more, they feel more special if they use, use a stage name that is waspy. You know, like in the old days, actors and comedians would use like a name like Roberts or Williams or a waspy name, you know, I just thought it was funny. So what if he's Guillermo? Guillermo is William. Well, you know, it's like Roberto or, or Juan is John or Jose is Joseph or things of that nature. I only know James and Giacomo, I think that's in Italian. I don't know about James in Spanish, but anyway, I'm not doing all inclusive this visit. So it's going to be, everything's going to be a la carte. Never been to a timeshare presentation, cannot tell you. Well, let's put it this way. They tried to sucker that on me and my guests in Cancun. I didn't go because it was not in the itinerary. Like they weren't, the package did not say it was mandatory for me to sit through a presentation for a timeshare, a half hour, 45 minute presentation, you know, where there's some time without what they'll do is they'll offer you a free, like seafood buffet or whatever, you know, but they'll say it's mandatory. They'll, they just try and to get you to go to work. But the package that I went on with the moon palace and which was very exclusive. And then the Royal Salars, they did not like force us to go to a presentation. It was just so much money, all inclusive. It was about $800 per week. Or you can drink or you can eat 24 seven. And I repeat 24 seven, hotel, transfer, whatever, blah, blah, blah. Plain fare. I know Cancun, I'm not Cancun. I'm at the Cozumel. So I like, I like the whole diving and snorkeling on the reef deal and fishing. Even though I see a lot of fish, even right at the beach, if I put my mask on, I see loads of fish. What's that place? Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic is an outstanding value, a great bang for the buck. And those Dominican women, they got some bodies on them too. And I'm sure when they see the, the American gringo down there, they start massaging you as soon as you get off the plane. You know, yeah, a friend of mine paid only $600 for one week in Punta Cana through, through cheap Caribbean.com, which was found through travelzoo.com, which specializes in packages. But you know, you got to hold them to it. I mean, I went to, when I went to Margarita Island, Venezuela, it was not all inclusive. They're El President, they, whatever, American or whatever, fuck they call them, the resort. What happened was in the itinerary, it said that there was a free shuttle because it was away from everything. It was really way out there, away from the, from any town or the main city of Paulamar, which is the only city in Margarita Island, which was like a desert. It was all cactus. So anyway, they said there was going to be free shuttle supplied by the hotel. Well, guess what? The hotel management decided to do away with the free shuttle. And every time we wanted to go anywhere, and I mean anywhere, without getting screwed over by the hotel restaurants, all right, and to go shopping, we had to take a taxi. Guess what? We got fucked over again by the taxi. I hear the Bahamas, I hear the taxi cab drivers there are a bunch of crooks. They, this is what kills me, Donalds. Now a poor, a poor country that really relies on tourism for their economy, because they're in a tropics and they really do not have much of anything else to keep their economy thriving. So they rely on tourism. You would think these people would be really great to the tourists, that they would kiss their ass. They really, they wouldn't piss you off as a, as a European or American tourist. They would, or Canadian tourists, they would really do the right thing by you. But they do so much to fuck you over is almost like they, they want to be miserable and poor. Let me tell you something. Once I'm fucked over, I'll never return to that resort or that region. They asked me if I'm returning. I said, no, no, I'm not returning ever again. I should have said, do you like apples? Do you like Monzana? And they would have said, yeah, I would have, then I would have told them and said, well, how do you like them apples? It's like, why are you fucking the bread and butter of your country's economy? It could be the Cayman Islands. It could be the Bahamas. It could be the U.S. Virgin Islands. What is the St. Croix, St. Thomas? You know, it could be Aruba, Curacao Bonair, the Netherlands and Tillies. I know my geography. Any of those countries that are poor, yet tropical, they desperately need tourism. You don't fuck over the tourists. Now, I'm glad you're here because I've been wanting to discuss this for years about resorts and about tourism and about my experiences getting fucked by these people in every which way. They try to rip you off. Like in Mexico and Cancun. It's really difficult to bargain with them in the flea market, to haggle with them. They're stubborn when it comes to lowering prices. Why? Because all these stupid waspy people with money from the Midwest, they don't haggle. People that are not street-wise don't haggle. They see the price and because they're on vacation, they pay it. Maybe these Mexicans that own these little gift shops at the flea market, maybe they're used to these stupid ass suckers just paying the high-top dollar for it. So they don't, you know, so then when somebody like me starts haggling with them, I got to be real sneaky about it. And I'll tell you exactly how I out Frito Bandito, the Frito Banditos. All right, let's see what the great Donald has to say. Have not been to Punta Cana yet. Donald Buu says Costa Rica likes the gringo. Yes, and I bet they appreciate the gringo. Costa Rica has it all. They have beautiful beaches. They have the rainforest. They have the mine pyramids. They have volcanoes. They have, they have it all. Costa Rica. San Jose is the capital of Costa Rica. It's in the middle somewhere. Oh, it's by coastal. Caribbean Pacific Ocean. I don't think it takes that far to drive from one end to the other. Very popular. Many Americans purchase condominiums and, you know, homes and everything there. Hopefully the government there will remain stable and it will be a safe investment for the gringo, for the gringo to own real estate there, hopefully. But they, they, it's good that they respect the tourists. Now, I hear Belize has one of the finest reefs for diving, coral reefs. Belize is a, was a British colony. They speak English and I hear people enjoy themselves there and they're treated well, you know, but to treat them badly is like shooting yourself in the foot. That's your bread and butter. It's tourism. If you're a poor country, even though your country is a beautiful tropical paradise, you don't, you don't want to disrespect your, your lifeblood. This is how I own Frito Bandito, the Frito Bandito. I went, I walked around the entire downtown central in Cancun flea market. I decided what I want. I looked at it. The guy comes over right away, senor, I know you love it. He's only, he's $180. I said, what? 180, what? 180 pesos? No, 180 US dollar. I go, nah, nah, that's okay. I don't love it that much. And then he's following me and he's lowering the prices and walking away. I go, I go get some great Mexican food, have some ceviche or whatever, which is Peruvian anyway. I come back later. I take a peek. He smiles, hey, senor, you come back. Yeah. Okay. All right. And he tries to lower the price a little more. I go, ah, that's all right. What I did was I went to another gift shop and I was looking at something. I asked for the person's business card. Then the next day, when I went back to the downtown central to the flea market, right? I stopped by and the guy says, oh, I know you loved it. I know, I know you will be back. I knew it. He throws a price at me and I says, well, I don't know about your price. But this guy, and I put the business card right in front of his face, this guy offered me and I give him a dirt cheap. I make up a price off the top of my head, like $40 or something like that from, you know, from the price he wanted to like, I make, it was a total bullshit story that this other business never, never offered me that low price. I made it up. I just showed him the card and he goes, okay, for you. Yeah, you take it. You take it for that price. Wrap it up. Wrap it up. That's how I out Frito Bandito, the Frito Bandito. Salvatore Mercurio, the chef of the future. How are you, sir? Yes, they have it all. They have it all. Who has it all? Oh, Costa Rica. San Jose is like downtown Tijuana. Oh, it's like a wild and crazy town. That's not the, what do you call it? Do you know the way to San Jose? That's the one in California, right? Yeah. It was at Whitney Houston's cousin back in the day. What the hell was it? Dionne Warwick. That's right. Anyway, it's like, they're all probably like downtown Tijuana. You know what else is going on in Costa Rica? Former, well now he's a fat, hairy slob, former porno star from the 70s. Ron Jeremy started a rum manufacturing company and distribution and he hasn't made in Costa Rica, probably with child labor, dirt cheap. And he calls it Ron de Jeremy because the word Ron means rum in Spanish. Play on words. Ron de Jeremy, he has a Facebook page. Ron Jeremy now is making rum. He's not, from what I understand, he's not producing porno movies anymore, unless he's using Costa Rican women and paying them like $10 a day or something or maybe $5 a day. Listen, I wouldn't put a password. I wouldn't put a password. Well, no sign of Jeff Stambeau. That means Jeff wants to, does not want to get venomous. He wants to make extra nice, nice and have massive amounts of friends on social media, which is his, it's his right. That's what he wants. He's an adult. He's a grown man. Personally, I can't do that. I can't bite my tongue. I can't turn into Barney the dinosaur. I got to tell it like it is. That's it. No Pollyanna. No looking at the world with rose colored glasses. But getting back, getting back to physical fits. If you concentrate on perfect form, and you could find out the perfect form by watching YouTube videos. Everything is on YouTube. There's so much on YouTube. You don't even need to hire a personal trainer. That'd be honest with you. If you stick to perfect, proper exercise, biomechanics form, you won't get hurt. If you don't lift too heavy, you won't get injured. If you do it properly, you will gain, you will slowly progress without ever getting hurt, and you will reach your goals. But unfortunately, like with a lot of young guys, especially Americans, they think big. How much can you bench press is the first thing out of their mouth. How much can you curl? It's always about numbers. They don't ask, well, let me see your form. How do you do the bench press or the dumbbell flies or the shoulder press or rolling? Rolling is not just rolling. Too many people, unfortunately, use their arms and shoulders in the rolling exercise. You're only supposed to use your scapula, your shoulder blades. It's supposed to be protraction and retraction of the scapula. The arms are just merely hooks in the rolling process when you're exercising your back muscles. That's all the arms are supposed to be hooks. You can feel your scapula protracting and retracting. The same thing if you're doing curls. You're supposed to pronate and supinate your wrist. As you're coming up, you try to twist your wrist inward. As you're coming down, your wrist ends up in the opposite direction. Pronation, supination, pronation, supination. And you're only supposed to move your forearms in curls. You're not supposed to curl up here. You're supposed to keep your upper arm stationary against your torso, against the sides, and just move the forearms. You do the same thing with dumbbell flies. The most experienced bodybuilders and people that really know what they're doing, what they'll do is they'll hang out mostly by the dumbbell rack in front of the mirror. They'll use dumbbells. They'll do rowing with the straps, heavy one-arm rowing with one knee on the bench. Or you can use two. They'll use dumbbells because dumbbells have a longer range of motion than machines or barbells. And that's the part of the gym where the real experienced big guys are. You'll notice they stay by the dumbbell rack. You can do everything with dumbbells. And I mean everything, every part of the body. But you should learn the proper strict form and you shouldn't worry about weight. You should worry about doing it slowly, going two seconds up in the eccentric motion and four seconds down in the negative, retrogravity. Or is it concentric, eccentric, eccentric might be the negative. But the negative is coming down. It should be slow, four seconds or longer. Some people do as much as like 15, 20 seconds lowering the weight. That's where you develop more is when you're in the lowering phase. Okay, not in the contraction, not in the lifting phase. So you can achieve a lot with a pair of lighter dumbbells, like a pair of 25 pound, 30 pound dumbbells. In strict form, you can get more results doing slow, perfect form with those than you would doing fast ballistic movements with heavy dumbbells. Where you're not really challenging the muscles that strenuously or deeply. And you're also inviting injury. So that's the best thing I can, to summarize fitness advice for everyone, not just for young people, but people will do what they want anyway. And that's pretty much it. For the show, Donald Booth, I'm going to finish off the show by blowing the Booth's whistle. Oh, I wanted to tell you a story. My friend Jimmy, he won almost 700 dollars, you know how he won it in the casino? The penny machine. There's a penny machine that has like a wheel that spins. It's different now, of course, you get a ticket. You don't have the quarters coming down. You get the ticket and you put it in the machine. So anyway, it's a wheel that spins. And when you get the right configurations, there's like a ball of energy that starts building up in the center of the animated wheel, of course, animated. It starts building up and it looks like a supernova and then boom, it explodes and it spins. He ended up winning almost 700 bucks on a penny machine and a penny machine. And we were there. It was supposed to have been 3 a.m. in the Tropicana in Atlantic City. And we're drinking Bloody Marys. We say, keep them coming, man. Keep them coming. So we're drinking Bloody Marys with the stalk of celery. No, not celery, olives. I love olives. Give us like a half a dozen olives for each Bloody Mary. So that's what we were doing, drinking Bloody Marys, which is vodka, right? Tomato juice, Tabasco sauce, whatever. And yeah, on a penny machine. And what I'm going to tell him is, when we go back, let's look for that same penny machine. Let's go back there. And it wasn't far from the cash machine where you stick the ticket in. It was like maybe like five seconds walk. So it was like conveniently there. And then you get the bullshit with the bar made, you know, it brings you to drink. Ours was pretty friendly. She said, we look like a couple of hordelums, a couple of thugs. I go, why? Because of the way we talk. That's the way. Oops, a good time. Went to Boogie Nights. Yeah, you saw that video. Very good. Reminds me of my Navy days. Yeah, you know, we've educated a lot of people. Every show is unique. Every show is different. Penny slots. Yeah, penny slots. Yeah, yeah. But you know, the pennies sure add up on there with the right machine. The worst was Heidi's beer garden had a cartoon of a blonde girl with the pony tails, pigtails, wearing the Octoberfest outfit. And yeah, my friend didn't do so good. I didn't do so good on that either. Heidi's beer garden spelled capital B, I-E-R, the German way. And then there was some Wonder Woman slot. There's a slot for everything. I think they do it to captivate people. It's eye candy to attract you. Every possible old TV show or cartoon, you name it. They make a slot machine of it. And just amazed me, the amount of money that can be won. And you know, it's also, you're there, you're there longer playing it because it's a penny machine, you know. But that, you know, I mean, it's always in their favor. The house always wins eventually if you, if you don't bet with your head, not over it like the commercial, you know. The same thing happens with lottery tickets. People play the Powerball Lottery, I think one jabroni, one like almost a billion dollars. What the hell was it? Was it like 700 million? Like only one person won. It was, it was, it was several hundred million. But you know, a person can play the Powerball Lottery and they could buy like a hundred dollars worth of tickets and say, oh, I stand a better chance. You know how many people buy Powerball Lottery tickets? You know, a hundred dollars worth of tickets is not going to really put a dent in your odds. Not that much. Now, one time I didn't bring, I didn't have the, uh, the buying rods. I used a pendulum. A friend of mine brought me to the racetrack in the metal lanes and I put the pendulum over the racing form over the name of each horse. And I won every race, but, but, but they were the favorites and I only bet two dollars. So, you know, the payout wasn't great, but it was fun. You know, the pendulum would go counterclockwise means no, that's don't bet on that horse. What about this horse? No. And then finally it went clockwise. It starts spinning. Yes, bet on that horse. It was the favorite horse anyway. You know, almost, almost like a short thing, almost. Anyway, thank you for joining me for this week's progressive discussion. I appreciate you guys. Uh, Donald Booth, Salvatore Mercurio, mostly Donald, Donald Booth. You are my, uh, oh, uh, Vern, uh, Eubesian, the very old friends, uh, gave the thumbs up that she liked the show. Uh, but I do appreciate Donald Booth. You're my co-host for this week officially. Okay. Here goes the Bosun's missile. Oh, you must have seen my t-shirt already, right? Irish, you were beer. Irish, you were beer. Hey, my buddy gave it to me, a free t-shirt. Welcome to our totally uncensored pirate ship. Bye-bye. Have a good weekend too. And you have a great time in Cabo San Lucas. If that's coming up soon. This has been a Megalive 21 production.