Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden.

I want to welcome you to episode 126 of my podcast.

Who's paying attention?

Now, if you hear some faint music in the background or noise in the background, well,

it's because I'm recording from the beautiful Royalton Riviera resort in Cancun, Mexico.

That's right.

I've been here all week.

I'm doing just for laughs, their first Royalton Resort week.

And I got to tell you, it's phenomenal.

This is a beautiful all-in-one resort.

Today, I actually left the resort today to go explore some Mayan ruins, which were interesting,

and I may talk about that at the end.

The funniest thing about the ruins that we explored today

is our tour guide. We had a private tour to a place called Touloum, T-U-L-U-M, and I don't,

let's just say he was sketchy. Okay, he was, he reminded me a lot of a, of a, of a politician.

Yeah, of a presidential candidate.

Because he tell us stories and we just kind of wondered, is this true?

Is he making this up as he goes?

According to him, he told us that Cancun actually was started, was developed because Jacques Cousteau told the

Mexican government they should build this resort area on this little empty island because Cuba was

closed to the United States and Americans would come down. I don't know if that's true or not,

but when we got to the, to Lomom, to the Mayan ruins, it just seemed there were a lot of buildings

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