Playa del Carmen NOW

hello and welcome to the Playa Del Carmen Now podcast all right today without Xavier I have our famous play Wild Oak Farm a person Johnny Playa a big shoes to fill every areas in here but very happy to do it
so we're here on this beautiful Sunday December day drag the staff out to do a recording they're happy
where we have this beautiful drink that I I made up it's called a 400° and it itches it's it's it's sweet and sour spicy and strong so it's a combination of Mezcal some I don't know what that other bottle was it's like fire chili agave and then Agave some lemon juice and some agave and in some penis and we got actually pineapple cubes in there but work today is about so you know what it tastes like what's it taste like another one
I know that's the thing about these and don't feel they're going to I already got it kind of getting a Groove going here but so today is today's episode is about about
donkey balls in Playa del Carmen or if you Google it it's called ladderball in Playa del Carmen it's a game where you're throwing taken can you go get me a pair so we can
and get me a blue pair cuz everybody wants a pair of blue balls right better red ones I guess and the ladder
so this is a game best so yeah these are these aren't this is why we call it donkey balls but it's they're technically ladder ball balls
and you throw them across and he's he's
graciously showing us the ladder and you throw the balls into the ladders like you would throw up like a bowling ball
you throw a bowling ball and the top ladder is three points the middle one is two in the bottom was one is very competitive very competitive this is the winter Invitational so as you know Johnny Flyers are our Canadian retiree and I I think I've mentioned before I hang out with the Canadian Canadian retirees plan on the weekends token American American here
and we're playing ladder ball so I dragged my assistant out on Sunday and she's she's my ringer so she she made sure we won the second game in the first game we were you know we weren't there but for game 2
so what's your name on a trophy
oh and bring the trophy over when you get a chance to go cuz we got to show them our end and the individual thumbs-up and the individual thumbs up so so so so Johnny this some this event how did this this how did this all come right so just while I'm here and by the way we got to show the section where it says can mix up here goes can mix 2021 I was playing with Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea whose kid is Chelsea Johnny daughter is named Kelsey and she was a ringer for that day cuz I was
at the time drinking lately weeks and then there's other names there's Eric Antigua and then there's damage on Johnny play Johnny Playa like we can change it I'll go if it's that expensive dollar 99 trophy from Amazon delivered to my house and then everybody that wins gets one of these fantastic thumbs up emoticon statues 3 got to fill the Trophy case so was that we have to win so you can have one of these for your office you'll have something always do I want to I want it now he's breaking it
we won one of these wonderful thumbs up
with the boss on Sunday that's like $0.10 on Amazon
it's about $0.09 more than it's worth
do Johnny tell me tell me this whole thing started cuz I came in after the fact I actually did too in like 2018 and there is a bar we used to hang out called the pee Gees pinche Gringos language and we would set up on a Saturday afternoon there and there's nothing else to do and two games going and 20 people who came up with this crazy idea of I think was my partner G end donkey Dean donkey Dean huh I think came up with it
Lake cabins in the summer time in Canada is everybody here Canadian am I the only token you're the token dreidel
I am okay so just so you know if you're from Canada there's no reason why you can't be here right now cuz you're probably freezing your
a song called We don't beat this is an adult show Jill already told us that she's like can we swear while you're doing the podcast and I says yes it's an adult friendly podcast no worries
YouTube hasn't censored you you know YouTube
he said it it's what he said it was freaking cold working working called and I get it yeah all 16 subscribers to our Channel by the way and you're watching this on YouTube and make sure you click and subscribe so you can learn all the crazy stuff that goes on in Playa de Carmen behind the scene also myself exactly man can Max Max Max and let's play donkey ball and it blows me away is it went from just playing the it's an event an event now it's a date I mean it's been 28 1820 19 20 20 20 20 in pain and today we are I mean work five years into this thing
you know people at the crowd and the teams have been growing everybody wants to be a part of this I know it's it and you got to come to Playa del Carmen and and it feel free to come to the hotel ask for Ken and I would be more than happy to drag your butt out on a Sunday and we can play this week we have people it's a waiting list you know everybody wants to play this game they all want those trophies I know the status and buy one of my trophy case I'll probably have to have
reply to I'm alright so we've been doing this for five years and this is the actual term tournament day this is actually a trophy day does here are some fun days we've done some what would you call it not test but
I guess it'd be a preseason preseason preseason now I have one can cheated I cheated and and then one we we did a preseason game probably what two months ago and Xavier was there and we didn't do the podcast cuz I was in a bad mood but we played and I was a token Gringo and he was a token Mexican and they want and they won but I was keeping score that's right
and I might have I might have cheated you think I cheated all I know is that me and my
oh great and larger my invalid partner didn't get a chance to play a second game that's right cuz we forgot to do the demo double-elimination and although you probably would have gone anyway probably and then Graham said that the only reason why we want is because we weren't drinking so I made sure to bring this fantastic drink yes this fantastic drink today so that there be no no dispute if I won even though I might have brought a ringer I didn't even know it's funny I was I did not expect I'm driving here was that my assistant who has just been with me for a few months I looked at her and I says well we're going to play donkey balls she had no freaking idea of course he had no idea about the donkey balls
and she says no problem we're in I'm in in in Fernando the technical director in the social media guy he's like I got nothing planned today and hobbies like Hobbies busy he's he's he's doing his bike thing today missing out he's missing out and
so I picked her up and I hear a big off so that means somebody must have missed but. I picked her up and I says okay so it's it's really called ladder ball
and in the past
possessed was a Entertainer in a all-inclusive is that correct so she's shaking her head yes bring a ringer
and I was like okay cool she's on my team so cuz when I got here they said they only have room for two people and I looked at my two staff and I went all right so so you come here with this special drink you get the competition all drunk on it and you bring a ringer
there's a reason why I'm a CEO of a company I've been the one smart cookie
right you got it cheers cheers I need a fork
yeah because in the drink I do put pineapple cubes in the bottom so because we're drinking Mezcal in the drink the Mezcal kind of gets absorbed in the pineapple those are good good Pina haven't had that for breakfast before yeah it's good stuff so we're here on so
hi so we've been doing this this is where at Jill's house or Jill's Place Jill and Ed gillentine Papa you see there's two courts behind us can you see that can you see the courts behind us or or no doing anything live out in the sun in the shadow
is never easy and he's just kind of rolling his eyes at me like us like all this I'm going to this is going to take me forever to prep but it's going to look good I'm sure it's going to look good he's going to drag me out in the Sunday for this yes they know it's great they know it's great there with the boss didn't want to be at the bus station week so this is the week I take all the employees cuz it's typically a low occupancy week
and it wasn't low this week. It wasn't low so typically the first week of December is a week I tell people to come to Playa because it's typically slow no right now we're running 90% occupancy
and it's super busy and on an Employee Appreciation Week
the company takes everybody out on a catamaran
take out the staff one day and we take the catamaran from Cancun to Isla Mujeres we go to the beach Pub have a few drinks have some food and come back and then Friday night was our
in Mexico it's called the Posada
it's not so much a Christmas party but it's a Posada but I even I don't use the word Posada and the reason why I don't use the word Posada because when you say a Posada in Mexico it means you can invite everybody family in Mexico your 3rd 4th 5th 10th cousins and their grandparents and everybody that lives on the Block including the 16 dogs and they all show up so you got to be super careful you don't say Posada so but that's that's it's all good so it is December it is hot I am sweating sweating yes I am sweating
in December the tough sport on here and you have to stretch before hand and in your in the Sun and you're just lucky if you can get a little bit of Shadow to play some people are ice in their shoulders after a match
do we have the medic crew here just in case we have injury there are some retired nurses
one right there
you're retired nurse so we're good we're a retired nurse and kill someone we have a two nurses right here so if we have a donkey ball injury we have
we have nurses here the hell on.
Okay there you go
what else do we have here we have here retired a beer
we have I guess it kind of funny I think we have 18 people playing today and 19th and Robin it's a good group
and a happy group that's for sure cuz we are already a couple hours into this and
you can't play if you're not drinking oh I know it and I told you because G who used to be Johnny's bar and I owe partner our names are on the trophy whose names are on the trophy G is in Florida right now shopping he just got home how he's home he's not here he's not here he's actually upset I've been sending them to the scores of my myself and my new partners games please call me a traitor although my new partner has scored more points in two games and G did and five tournaments ouch oh yeah that's what makes the world you'll get this far and I don't think he gets as far as even with the part he watches I wasn't going to mention it
I think 6 minutes watching ability busy there they're breaking records like crazy lately they just had the most airplane landings in one day I think it was 66 66 66 660 something I remember 660 airplane landings in in Cancun and a majority of these people are good by Nazis people are coming to plow the apartments right
that's awesome that is freaking awesome and in now they said that there was 9 million plane tickets to the Riviera Maya for the high season of 2023 straight and I think they should have total of 27 million for the year in the state of Q or what
okay so we're going to cut this episode short because it's my round if there isn't my round or is it oh so I'm playing you your beat I'm going to kick you okay here we go trash talk trash talk okay I'm going to Archie's she is going to kick your butt my partner will kick both your butts let's see what happened and we appreciate you don't forget to subscribe and ring the bell so that you are aware and get that notification that you're going to
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