His ratings must be down for him to stoop so low

I went out to get the radio DJ's side of the picketing story. He seems like a nice enough guy and all his buddies picketing with him seem to be the type you may want to have a beer with, so I am not really sure how it got to this point. I actually can picture them in Baracuda or the Sandbar, not here on the street picketing the gym.

As we spoke, HBO was filming. I wasn't so crazy about that. I was telling the cameraman to stop filming me, as if I was the guilty party. But we had an interesting little debate right there on the street.

First off, this is the guy, in the photo, who says the he was discriminated against because he is fat. The fourth one from the left, the smalIest one in the picture. I don't see it. When I asked him to remove the placard, he refused. But he honestly does not look fat to me.

He says he has been working out at the gym since January, and he lost 35 pounds. So if the gym is against fat people, why didn't they throw him out 35 pounds ago when he first signed up? And why do I see large people working out every time I am there. I actually notice them and admire them for being there.

Basically I think he is out for fame. When I said this to him, he insisted he was very famous already, although I have never seen or heard of him before and he still has not told me his name. I guess it's Enrique Santos since that is on the placard. I don't listen to Latin radio stations, so maybe he is the most famous of them all, I don't know.

According to his website, he looks like he's partners with someone else and they are the ones who make fake phoney calls, you know, to Fidel Castro and such? So is he even to be taken seriously with this picketing deal?

The people picketing with him are making fools of themselves. This is something that may haunt all of them in the future when they go on job searches. They are there to further Enrique's DJ career. That is what I believe.

One lady who was picketing told me she was denied a job by the Port of Miami because she was fat. If you spoke with her for one minute, you would see she was not hired because honestly, she is stupid. I asked her why she was picketing Shaq 24 Hour Fitness if it was the port who denied her a job. She didn't have an answer for that.

These people were quite loud, too. Annoyingly loud. The police were questioned by a few merchants, about the noise ordinance. They were told that they need a decibel meter for that, but it did seem to be over the 100 feet sound limit. Walls were vibrating blocks away. As for a permit to picket, they had that.

Everyone passing on the street said that it looked like something out of central casting. And they thought it was a movie or something being filmed. No one takes them seriously. That's the funny part.

Enrique told me he was doing this because someone in the gym told him his friend could not be his trainer and the person "smirked" at him, meaning in Enrigue's mind that he was fat. All this is about a smirk? He did say all he wanted was an apology. Is the gym so stubborn that they won't apologize to get rid of the nonsense? Maybe they deserve each other.