No Bull Radio Crosses The Line

No Bull Radio hosted by John Romano & Dave Palumbo have pushed the racial card one knotch further than Don Imus. "No Bull Radio," an increasingly popular online radio program that covers bodybuilding & fitness, places special value on extremes. Past guests Mike "Mighty Mike" Quinn have appeared on the program using racist slurs, meanwhile agents with recurring roles like Gregg Valentino have made racist remarks like "Mexican women have cleaning in their blood" and his rants can be read on the hardcopy of MD (run directly by John Romano), making such assertions as "filthy Puerto Ricans" (again referring to women he's dated and/or had extensive relationships with).

We believe, that apart from the program having ties to folks esposing racist values of varying degrees, the program seems to be extensively critical and often dismissive of bodybuilding's greatest star since Sergio Oliva, Gustavo Badell. The show hosts, like many idiots on the Bodybuilding.com boards, fail to recognize that Victor Martinez & Silvio Samuel are both Latino, but with Gustavo the animosity is undeniable. Gustavo, a past 2x Top 3 Olympian, past Iron Man Champion, and quite possibly the owner of the best triceps in the business, gets downgraded and underrated, almost incessantly, by NPC star Dave Palumbo.

Boycotting MuscularDevelopment.com and/or Species Nutrition (Palumbo's line of nutrition supplements) would probably not do very much in terms of pushing for change. We are not disinterested assholes, we are guys that love to train, love the lifestyle, and live it with a burning passion; we are guys that looked up to these meatheads and are now realizing just how badly they are managing their medium. No Bull Radio & PBW both mimick mainstream outlets, because they offer live programming, guests, and have sponsors. Eventually as the sport grows, so too will these programs. Where we're going with this is... a guy like Greg Valentino gets so many laughs, because although "NBR" & "PBW" are still somewhat undeground mediums, they mimick larger AM/FM stations. A guy like Valentino could never say what he says even on the smallest, lowest frequency AM station.

Valentino has made bigotry & vulgarity into a novelty of radio, a novelty that's not quite so novel, but that would never get past the FCC on radio or past the censors for TV. People laugh because they can't fathom any reputable station broadcasting that filth...Puerto Ricans aren't the filthy ones, his thoughts and remarks are what's filthy.

And since even John Romano co-host of "NBR" wanted to furhter explain himself, to Mr. Palumbo's "that's enough on that" and his later "joke, b/c I'm Jewish," make us realize that this program isn't truly apologetic.

There is why we are preparing a national boycott of all MHP products. MHP is the title sponsor of "NBR." We are currently in talks with African American & Hispanic-Latino civil rights organizations, as well as athletic groups across the United States. Given the limited reach of this program and the underground-nature of bodybuilding & fitness, we are aware that this boycott will take a great deal of legwork and time, but we hope to officially get this ball rolling within four weeks. We are hoping that after a maximum of eight weeks, MHP will notice a significant decline in its profit margins and/or affect its annual earnings.

We would prefer not to punish an innocent third party, but as we see it, MHP should know better than to sponsor a program that gives carte blanche on these matters, especially when MHP's top athlete, Victor Martinez, is himself a Hispanic-Latino. Latinos & African Americans, we are one, and if you take a look at professional and amateur bodybuilding, fitness, & figure.... we are MANY!