WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:03.450 --> 00:00:06.510 Michael Pina: So here we are another episode of yo soy. 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:09.960 I have Rodrigo Morales sitting with me. 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:14.280 He's actually my co-host today in all days. 00:00:14.460 --> 00:00:17.250 And he is my assistant actually Rodrigo. 00:00:17.250 --> 00:00:18.270 And I go way back. 00:00:18.510 --> 00:00:20.370 We actually, I met him when he was 14. 00:00:20.370 --> 00:00:21.780 We made a movie together. 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:27.900 Yeah, called a, he told me he wanted to be a movie star. 00:00:27.900 --> 00:00:28.440 Rodrigo Morales: So I. 00:00:29.610 --> 00:00:30.720 Hey, you wanna join us? 00:00:30.810 --> 00:00:31.680 We're making a movie. 00:00:32.500 --> 00:00:32.990 yeah. 00:00:32.990 --> 00:00:33.470 Yeah. 00:00:33.780 --> 00:00:37.920 In that time I, used to want to be an actor. 00:00:38.760 --> 00:00:42.150 Also I broke some big girl, ah, at times. 00:00:42.150 --> 00:00:47.400 So I wanna be in a movie and seek her and make a, some kind of jealous. 00:00:47.460 --> 00:00:49.140 Oh, you wanted to make you jealous, huh? 00:00:49.140 --> 00:00:49.320 Yes. 00:00:50.160 --> 00:00:51.210 we didn't know that one. 00:00:51.420 --> 00:00:51.850 That's a good. 00:00:53.031 --> 00:00:56.595 You know what, that's one way of doing it another way is to make sure 00:00:56.595 --> 00:00:58.935 that you just do good, good work. 00:00:58.935 --> 00:01:00.465 You were a Netflix movie too. 00:01:00.585 --> 00:01:00.855 Yeah. 00:01:00.855 --> 00:01:01.125 Yeah. 00:01:01.125 --> 00:01:02.805 I was in a movie in 2020. 00:01:05.063 --> 00:01:13.485 I, made a movie with Mexican director, the movie it's asalto goddess. 00:01:14.205 --> 00:01:14.595 Asalto goddess. 00:01:14.595 --> 00:01:15.105 Yes. 00:01:16.177 --> 00:01:17.325 Asphalt goddess. 00:01:18.285 --> 00:01:21.125 how do you say it in Spanish asphalt? 00:01:22.275 --> 00:01:24.075 So that was a fun experience. 00:01:24.075 --> 00:01:26.805 And you were a bad guy in that movie, right? 00:01:26.805 --> 00:01:27.075 Yeah. 00:01:27.075 --> 00:01:31.065 It was a bad guy and yeah, it was a really great experience. 00:01:31.070 --> 00:01:36.885 It was my firsts experience at stage and, from the camera and 00:01:36.945 --> 00:01:40.605 also with very good actors. 00:01:40.935 --> 00:01:41.445 Yeah. 00:01:42.134 --> 00:01:42.675 Post me. 00:01:42.675 --> 00:01:43.634 I wasn't a good actor. 00:01:43.664 --> 00:01:47.714 No, you gotta watch your words. 00:01:47.895 --> 00:01:49.185 I understand English too. 00:01:50.155 --> 00:01:51.854 it was, you was a great actor. 00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:55.544 These guys made a lot of teacher before. 00:01:55.604 --> 00:01:55.815 Yeah. 00:01:55.875 --> 00:01:58.215 Before appear in that movies and just teasing. 00:01:58.390 --> 00:01:58.807 Huh? 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:04.350 So now in Mexico city, and I've been doing this podcast, yo soy, and the name 00:02:04.350 --> 00:02:07.830 . I remember we made it, we made some hats. 00:02:07.835 --> 00:02:09.960 We've made some merch because that's what you do in the world. 00:02:10.050 --> 00:02:15.990 So you can go to our MajorDomoList.com website, and you can find our merch 00:02:16.290 --> 00:02:20.190 as well as you can find our products in the, I just forget the name. 00:02:20.190 --> 00:02:21.090 What's it called again? 00:02:21.660 --> 00:02:24.049 Sube Mercado. 00:02:25.059 --> 00:02:25.299 Sobe. 00:02:25.299 --> 00:02:30.525 S You'll see it in our landing page. 00:02:30.615 --> 00:02:33.525 And you can buy stuff that we found here unique in Mexico. 00:02:33.530 --> 00:02:33.835 Yeah. 00:02:34.515 --> 00:02:37.935 Inventory will be changing all the time, but today we wanna talk about 00:02:37.935 --> 00:02:39.825 an interesting subject yesterday. 00:02:39.830 --> 00:02:45.375 I Rodrigo was busy cuz he's working on a, project in, in, in his city 00:02:45.375 --> 00:02:47.625 where he grew up called Roma Norte. 00:02:47.775 --> 00:02:47.895 See? 00:02:48.095 --> 00:02:48.375 Yeah. 00:02:48.380 --> 00:02:48.525 Yeah. 00:02:48.705 --> 00:02:54.165 Roman Norte and he's actually working on an apartment so he can in fact. 00:02:55.725 --> 00:02:57.135 Rent it out if he wants yeah. 00:02:57.135 --> 00:02:58.635 Or live in it in a nice place. 00:02:58.845 --> 00:03:01.425 And one of the things that happened, and I thought it'd be a great story to 00:03:01.425 --> 00:03:05.445 talk about today because we're talking about reform in Mexico, things in Mexico 00:03:05.595 --> 00:03:09.915 from an American perspective and a Mexican it's on both and from a Mexican 00:03:09.915 --> 00:03:12.165 perspective because he's Mexican okay. 00:03:12.705 --> 00:03:16.335 He grew up in Roman and he's has a little history here 00:03:16.335 --> 00:03:17.325 where actually his whole life. 00:03:18.075 --> 00:03:20.475 And we thought it'd be a great idea to talk about what's 00:03:20.475 --> 00:03:21.735 going on one subject matter. 00:03:21.735 --> 00:03:27.015 I talked about that we're not gonna talk about today was gentrification. 00:03:27.255 --> 00:03:30.165 Yeah, him and I have had a lot of conversations on gentrification, 00:03:30.375 --> 00:03:33.825 but today I decided I wanted to talk about something different. 00:03:34.305 --> 00:03:38.445 I wanted talk about what's happening with the president, 00:03:38.775 --> 00:03:42.315 president Andre Manuel said. 00:03:43.020 --> 00:03:44.250 And Manuel Lopez. 00:03:44.820 --> 00:03:45.240 Oh yeah. 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:51.720 And right now there's a big fight between United States, Canada and Mexico, 00:03:51.870 --> 00:03:57.120 because Mexico, when they created the, north is called NAFTA at first, and 00:03:57.125 --> 00:03:58.590 now it's called some other agreement. 00:03:58.590 --> 00:04:03.609 I don't know what it's called USMCA that was negotiated with the last 00:04:03.609 --> 00:04:05.460 president of the United States. 00:04:05.944 --> 00:04:09.190 But the first one starts way back from Clinton. 00:04:09.700 --> 00:04:12.619 I have a huge history with Clinton, not myself, but from politic. 00:04:13.149 --> 00:04:15.609 My brother worked with political sides. 00:04:15.699 --> 00:04:19.269 Anyway, long story short, I won't go into that, but I wanted to talk 00:04:19.419 --> 00:04:23.140 about the electrical reform last year. 00:04:23.380 --> 00:04:25.750 It was it this year, it went for vote. 00:04:26.169 --> 00:04:26.380 Yes. 00:04:26.380 --> 00:04:27.039 And it failed. 00:04:27.189 --> 00:04:27.490 Yeah. 00:04:27.490 --> 00:04:27.969 It failed. 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:28.520 It failed. 00:04:28.525 --> 00:04:31.329 Didn't have enough ammunition behind it. 00:04:31.334 --> 00:04:33.159 I believe that I understand why it failed. 00:04:33.159 --> 00:04:34.640 I think it was failed on purpose. 00:04:35.427 --> 00:04:36.400 But we're not gonna go into that. 00:04:36.610 --> 00:04:37.179 We're gonna go into a. 00:04:38.350 --> 00:04:42.100 And I, when I was talking to RGO today, he was giving me telling me a story. 00:04:42.100 --> 00:04:45.669 Actually, he called me in panic because something happened in his apartment 00:04:45.669 --> 00:04:46.480 and he didn't know what to do. 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:46.990 Next. 00:04:47.679 --> 00:04:51.549 What happened was his electric his, gas was turned off. 00:04:51.699 --> 00:04:52.689 His gas was turned off. 00:04:52.900 --> 00:04:53.260 That's right. 00:04:53.260 --> 00:04:59.049 And as he started revealing the story to me, I became fascinated by the story. 00:04:59.049 --> 00:05:02.650 And when he came to back to my place to our studio here, he started 00:05:02.650 --> 00:05:04.030 telling me more of the story. 00:05:04.150 --> 00:05:07.780 And then I said, we need to do a podcast because I want to talk about. 00:05:08.664 --> 00:05:09.973 The electrical reform. 00:05:10.192 --> 00:05:14.125 Yesterday I did a small video talking about the electrical reform and how 00:05:14.934 --> 00:05:21.745 people are starting to say, wait a second, electricity, gas, power, 00:05:21.745 --> 00:05:28.375 anything that touches the people is a critical element of life in that country. 00:05:28.885 --> 00:05:29.155 Yeah. 00:05:29.365 --> 00:05:31.554 So it's a national security concern. 00:05:31.975 --> 00:05:34.434 It's a true natural security concern. 00:05:34.615 --> 00:05:37.495 And if a government doesn't protect that from the people. 00:05:38.184 --> 00:05:41.095 then other countries can control that people. 00:05:41.694 --> 00:05:42.115 Okay. 00:05:42.235 --> 00:05:45.684 For example, what people don't know is Walmart, it's a huge 00:05:45.715 --> 00:05:47.574 conglomeration in the United States. 00:05:47.814 --> 00:05:50.005 It's bought land all over the country. 00:05:50.184 --> 00:05:53.605 And the reason why he's bought is bought this land, not to build 00:05:53.605 --> 00:05:57.355 new stores is because underneath that land is natural water. 00:05:58.015 --> 00:05:58.284 Yeah. 00:05:58.525 --> 00:06:00.304 So he's selling the resource. 00:06:01.750 --> 00:06:03.159 Under the Wells. 00:06:03.340 --> 00:06:05.620 Some states like California are getting wise to that. 00:06:05.620 --> 00:06:11.289 So under charging anybody, if you have land and you happen to have natural 00:06:11.289 --> 00:06:14.860 water underneath you, they're starting to charge you for your own water. 00:06:15.880 --> 00:06:20.259 So now you see government controlling private enterprise in the United States. 00:06:20.409 --> 00:06:22.150 We thought it always was precious. 00:06:22.539 --> 00:06:22.689 Yes. 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:26.350 Now in Mexico, that's not the same in Mexico. 00:06:27.010 --> 00:06:29.254 The government owns all the buildings when it boils down. 00:06:30.172 --> 00:06:33.294 You live in a building that's probably a hundred years old. 00:06:33.625 --> 00:06:33.805 Okay. 00:06:33.805 --> 00:06:34.555 It's older. 00:06:35.185 --> 00:06:40.555 And when the gas was turned off, I want you to tell me in your own words, 00:06:40.615 --> 00:06:43.914 what happened when the guy knocked on the door and you couldn't turn 00:06:43.914 --> 00:06:45.430 on the gas, tell me what happened. 00:06:46.069 --> 00:06:52.705 The guy arrives and he going to, to my roof and see all 00:06:52.705 --> 00:06:55.794 the full installation and. 00:06:56.470 --> 00:07:02.980 She came back to, my apartment and he tells me your installation 00:07:02.980 --> 00:07:12.460 is good, but unfortunately we, we can't turn on your, gas. 00:07:12.850 --> 00:07:13.900 And I said, why? 00:07:14.440 --> 00:07:18.280 And they say you, because you have your boiler inside your bathroom. 00:07:18.880 --> 00:07:27.735 And that's why that's was like I, I, That boiler has been there like 10 years ago. 00:07:29.950 --> 00:07:31.120 What's the trouble. 00:07:31.630 --> 00:07:39.460 So they made me recontract made a new agreement with them to turn on my gas. 00:07:40.983 --> 00:07:46.510 And also they made me move my boil. 00:07:47.155 --> 00:07:54.607 From another place and they gonna charge me every month a price for, that work. 00:07:55.885 --> 00:08:02.455 So, let me get this straight a month ago, you had gas in your apartment end up. 00:08:02.460 --> 00:08:03.265 There was no problem. 00:08:03.355 --> 00:08:03.613 Yeah. 00:08:04.248 --> 00:08:07.255 You're paying your month every time you could afford it. 00:08:07.434 --> 00:08:07.674 Yeah. 00:08:07.704 --> 00:08:11.395 And then all of a sudden it got disconnected for various reasons. 00:08:11.574 --> 00:08:12.745 And now you have to. 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:15.400 For a gas company. 00:08:15.400 --> 00:08:17.350 That's now a private gas company, right? 00:08:17.350 --> 00:08:17.409 Yeah. 00:08:17.409 --> 00:08:18.369 It's not Mexican government. 00:08:18.580 --> 00:08:19.330 No, It's private. 00:08:19.539 --> 00:08:23.050 It's a private company, a Spain company from Spain. 00:08:23.200 --> 00:08:29.260 It's a company from Spain that now is charging him to turn his, gas back on 00:08:30.039 --> 00:08:32.049 when it was working perfectly a month ago. 00:08:32.169 --> 00:08:32.470 Yeah. 00:08:32.980 --> 00:08:37.360 So let me explain a little bit why we're having this, discussion let's first go 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:39.309 back to who owns the infrastructure. 00:08:39.370 --> 00:08:40.630 The building is owned by the. 00:08:41.574 --> 00:08:44.604 They lease it to you guys, or however it happens, they lease, you bought 00:08:44.604 --> 00:08:46.254 a long term lease from it, correct? 00:08:46.285 --> 00:08:46.555 Yeah. 00:08:46.584 --> 00:08:47.874 Your mother did your family did. 00:08:47.874 --> 00:08:49.494 And you've been living there since you were little kid 00:08:49.824 --> 00:08:50.844 since you're a baby, right? 00:08:50.904 --> 00:08:51.175 Yeah. 00:08:51.594 --> 00:08:54.535 Now so, construction work was done on it. 00:08:54.535 --> 00:08:56.185 You guys fixed it, somebody fixed it. 00:08:56.394 --> 00:08:57.264 So you're using it. 00:08:57.264 --> 00:09:00.415 Then all of a sudden the electric the, gaskets turned off and now you have to 00:09:00.415 --> 00:09:03.504 pay more money to get it redesigned. 00:09:03.685 --> 00:09:07.555 So that meets the requirements of this private company that 00:09:07.555 --> 00:09:09.714 now you have to pay gas to yeah. 00:09:11.560 --> 00:09:12.640 this is my problem. 00:09:13.420 --> 00:09:19.750 This private company was, this deal with Binette though from 2012 to 2018, he 00:09:19.750 --> 00:09:24.520 struck a deal with these private companies that privatized certain industries. 00:09:25.330 --> 00:09:29.550 And it ha this is what AMLO is fighting for against. 00:09:30.310 --> 00:09:36.460 He doesn't want the privatization of these utilities that are basis 00:09:36.640 --> 00:09:38.350 structure for all of Mexican. 00:09:39.069 --> 00:09:39.369 Yeah. 00:09:39.400 --> 00:09:39.790 Okay. 00:09:40.089 --> 00:09:43.209 Everybody needs gas so they can have hot water in their apartment. 00:09:43.709 --> 00:09:44.199 Yeah. 00:09:44.199 --> 00:09:45.459 Everybody needs electricity. 00:09:45.459 --> 00:09:47.229 So they have electricity into the apartment. 00:09:47.619 --> 00:09:50.530 Everybody needs these certain infrastructure things that 00:09:50.530 --> 00:09:51.579 you're paying taxes for. 00:09:51.670 --> 00:09:52.089 Correct? 00:09:52.300 --> 00:09:52.569 Yeah. 00:09:52.660 --> 00:09:54.760 The government you are paying taxes for something. 00:09:54.910 --> 00:09:55.400 Okay. 00:09:55.839 --> 00:10:01.689 So clearly what pian Netto did was pretty smart for the government is now the 00:10:01.689 --> 00:10:05.680 government isn't paying for anything, even though you're paying taxes to them. 00:10:06.640 --> 00:10:11.800 Because what's happening is they've the politicians in Mexico, just like they 00:10:11.800 --> 00:10:17.650 do in the United States have set policy by working with private companies, to 00:10:17.920 --> 00:10:24.880 privatize certain commodities necessities that you need to survive as a Mexican. 00:10:25.479 --> 00:10:30.280 And now when you have to do an upgrade, not because you have to, 00:10:30.579 --> 00:10:33.520 but because the government's forcing you, I know when he first called 00:10:33.520 --> 00:10:35.290 me and said because the government. 00:10:35.979 --> 00:10:36.880 And I started laughing. 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:40.750 I'm like yeah, that's the government rules, but those rules were initiated 00:10:40.870 --> 00:10:42.880 because who's, making the money. 00:10:43.180 --> 00:10:45.699 Then when he told me the gas company came back and says, oh, 00:10:45.699 --> 00:10:47.120 gotta, what's a deal for you. 00:10:47.339 --> 00:10:52.479 RGO for 59 99 a month, fast sauce. 00:10:52.780 --> 00:10:54.430 You can pay for this upgrade. 00:10:54.430 --> 00:10:59.439 We're gonna give you that you don't need, but because the government mandated it and 00:10:59.444 --> 00:11:01.660 us as the good guys are gonna help you. 00:11:03.340 --> 00:11:03.730 Yeah. 00:11:03.820 --> 00:11:04.000 Yeah. 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:04.600 How do you feel? 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:05.830 Do you feel like he's a good guy? 00:11:06.010 --> 00:11:09.940 I feel like an assault. 00:11:11.230 --> 00:11:12.020 an assault. 00:11:13.037 --> 00:11:14.440 He's insulting your pocket. 00:11:14.620 --> 00:11:15.040 Yeah. 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:17.920 10 PEs at a time. 00:11:17.925 --> 00:11:18.380 Okay. 00:11:19.270 --> 00:11:21.730 And what's the Mexican skin wage, 120 PEs. 00:11:22.060 --> 00:11:22.570 Okay. 00:11:22.690 --> 00:11:26.620 And if you're paying 120 PEs a month to fix this thing, when we find out 00:11:26.620 --> 00:11:29.979 tomorrow, That's gonna be highway robbery and you will be insulted. 00:11:30.249 --> 00:11:30.459 Yeah. 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:35.011 Insulted and assaulted Double assaulted. 00:11:35.766 --> 00:11:38.119 See, that's what I'm talking about. 00:11:39.018 --> 00:11:41.290 I'm gonna get on a subject matter that people don't like a lot, 00:11:41.290 --> 00:11:44.349 but I really criticize this mayor from Mexico city a lot. 00:11:44.560 --> 00:11:46.629 Like you don't agree necessarily, or I do agree. 00:11:46.930 --> 00:11:48.339 The issue is this. 00:11:49.180 --> 00:11:51.879 She's building this train that goes through Mexico and I call 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:55.300 it the train through nowhere that money, those billions of. 00:11:56.335 --> 00:11:58.555 That can use to build that train in nine months. 00:11:58.555 --> 00:12:01.585 So she has something good to show us that she can try to run for president. 00:12:01.915 --> 00:12:02.425 Okay. 00:12:02.485 --> 00:12:07.975 And she's done something for Mexico and react shows that she's done 00:12:07.975 --> 00:12:11.515 nothing for Mexico because those billions of dollars could have easily 00:12:11.515 --> 00:12:13.375 paid for this guy's gas improvements. 00:12:14.005 --> 00:12:14.495 okay. 00:12:14.905 --> 00:12:21.205 But instead they advised away the government has to stick it to the Mexican, 00:12:21.895 --> 00:12:24.175 the poor Mexican, because they let. 00:12:25.270 --> 00:12:26.920 PTO with the monies in his pocket. 00:12:27.195 --> 00:12:28.300 He's in Spain now, right? 00:12:28.390 --> 00:12:28.600 Yeah. 00:12:28.660 --> 00:12:30.850 He's in Spain with 500 million vessels. 00:12:30.850 --> 00:12:31.120 I heard. 00:12:31.420 --> 00:12:31.990 Okay. 00:12:32.020 --> 00:12:35.350 Five, Hey PTO, send him some money. 00:12:36.130 --> 00:12:37.150 he needs some money. 00:12:37.210 --> 00:12:37.840 Okay. 00:12:37.930 --> 00:12:38.110 Yeah. 00:12:38.110 --> 00:12:42.220 To pay his gas bills, please he's even asking nicely. 00:12:44.020 --> 00:12:47.950 So here we have a solution that the government gave the 00:12:47.950 --> 00:12:50.210 Mexicans that isn't a solution. 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:51.970 In fact, it's only a solution for the. 00:12:52.690 --> 00:12:56.230 So now every vessel that he pays for taxes okay. 00:12:56.710 --> 00:13:01.480 Is not going to helping him in his crisis of getting hot water, to take a shower. 00:13:02.139 --> 00:13:04.329 It's not helping him in his crisis to have water. 00:13:04.329 --> 00:13:05.560 He can drink from the tap. 00:13:06.369 --> 00:13:10.389 It's not helping him with maybe building out this infrastructure side of building 00:13:10.395 --> 00:13:13.480 that the government ultimately owns yeah. 00:13:14.079 --> 00:13:15.490 To improve the building. 00:13:15.790 --> 00:13:18.849 And everybody living in this area, especially in Roma. 00:13:19.359 --> 00:13:21.250 Roma is a highly gentrified area. 00:13:21.880 --> 00:13:22.780 And I don't wanna talk about that. 00:13:22.930 --> 00:13:26.470 Unless this podcast will get forever, but it's a highly gentrified. 00:13:26.500 --> 00:13:28.569 I do remember though, I didn't wanna talk briefly about it. 00:13:28.810 --> 00:13:29.020 Okay. 00:13:29.020 --> 00:13:34.030 When I first met Rodrigo in I met him at that, fountain. 00:13:34.035 --> 00:13:35.017 What was the fountain called? 00:13:36.656 --> 00:13:37.359 Place three. 00:13:38.339 --> 00:13:38.829 Okay. 00:13:38.829 --> 00:13:39.910 It's a beautiful fountain. 00:13:39.915 --> 00:13:43.599 In fact, I found out just recently that fountain was only three 00:13:43.599 --> 00:13:48.700 ever made and that France sent it to, to to, to Mexico as a peace. 00:13:49.704 --> 00:13:49.974 okay. 00:13:49.974 --> 00:13:51.175 A friendship in culture. 00:13:51.295 --> 00:13:52.765 It's a statue of David. 00:13:53.125 --> 00:13:53.425 Okay. 00:13:54.685 --> 00:13:58.525 When I met him there, soon thereafter, I actually met his parents and we 00:13:58.525 --> 00:14:00.505 went out to eat in the Roman area. 00:14:00.505 --> 00:14:04.045 We had some tacos, tacos, of course because we were Mexican. 00:14:04.045 --> 00:14:05.425 We always eat tacos anyway. 00:14:05.425 --> 00:14:10.105 So he had some, tacos and six or seven years later when I came 00:14:10.105 --> 00:14:12.655 back Roma, I couldn't identify. 00:14:13.435 --> 00:14:18.835 I was like, where's that taco stand we ate at it's just so different and costly. 00:14:18.835 --> 00:14:22.555 I remember that night that only cost me like a couple hundred vessels. 00:14:22.615 --> 00:14:23.274 Okay. 00:14:23.305 --> 00:14:27.264 And that we all ate your brother, your little brother, your father, everybody. 00:14:27.264 --> 00:14:29.095 That was the rich man and 200 vessels. 00:14:29.125 --> 00:14:29.545 Okay. 00:14:29.694 --> 00:14:29.935 Yeah. 00:14:29.935 --> 00:14:33.534 Now the same, no cost me 800 vessels easily. 00:14:33.655 --> 00:14:34.105 Okay. 00:14:35.335 --> 00:14:39.204 So what I'm saying is here in Mexico city, there's a lot of change going on. 00:14:39.210 --> 00:14:41.305 There's a transformation in where government is acting 00:14:41.305 --> 00:14:42.545 more like American go. 00:14:43.165 --> 00:14:46.825 The politicians are thinking more like political politicians where 00:14:46.825 --> 00:14:50.755 the, where they find and devise ways to stick it to the Mexican. 00:14:51.145 --> 00:14:51.355 Yeah. 00:14:51.385 --> 00:14:51.865 Okay. 00:14:51.984 --> 00:14:55.885 Where they're actually in this particular case, when all Rodrigo wanted to do 00:14:55.885 --> 00:14:58.555 was to turn on his electric his, gas. 00:14:58.734 --> 00:15:01.675 So he could actually maybe rent the place or do something with the 00:15:01.675 --> 00:15:05.575 place and all of a sudden, even just live in it, he can't, he has to 00:15:05.575 --> 00:15:07.765 take cold, hot showers in my place. 00:15:08.484 --> 00:15:10.015 in our studio, but that's part of the deal. 00:15:10.015 --> 00:15:10.944 That's okay. 00:15:10.974 --> 00:15:11.964 But the reality. 00:15:13.420 --> 00:15:16.690 what's happening is the government is going in transition. 00:15:17.079 --> 00:15:17.200 Yeah. 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:21.460 We have politicians like shine bomb who are globalists, who talk about things 00:15:21.460 --> 00:15:27.490 like green energy, but then in the same instance when Mexican kids need them to 00:15:27.490 --> 00:15:31.450 help, they're not there to help in fact, oh yeah, there is that private companies 00:15:31.450 --> 00:15:33.970 there to help, to charge him more money. 00:15:34.510 --> 00:15:35.020 Okay. 00:15:35.079 --> 00:15:39.339 Of to improve the Mexican infrastructure that he has to. 00:15:40.510 --> 00:15:45.700 Out of his own pocket plus his taxes and today he still has no hot water. 00:15:47.109 --> 00:15:47.440 Yeah. 00:15:48.099 --> 00:15:49.899 That's basically that happened. 00:15:51.280 --> 00:15:53.980 so to the Mexicans right now, to the Mexicans right now. 00:15:54.250 --> 00:15:54.460 Yeah. 00:15:54.609 --> 00:15:55.629 It's a serious issue. 00:15:55.629 --> 00:15:58.240 Can you think of other issues just like that, that you see happening? 00:15:58.240 --> 00:15:58.300 Yeah. 00:15:59.889 --> 00:16:07.550 You it's a place called it here in Mexico is there have a issue in the gas price. 00:16:08.035 --> 00:16:18.474 Because I think two, two months ago the gas has the most 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:21.655 highest prices in the history. 00:16:21.984 --> 00:16:22.405 Oh really? 00:16:22.405 --> 00:16:22.974 Yeah. 00:16:23.005 --> 00:16:32.935 It cost us four months ago 10, maybe nine passes and goes to the 15, 17. 00:16:33.295 --> 00:16:33.805 Oh, wow. 00:16:35.680 --> 00:16:37.210 Almost the total price. 00:16:39.069 --> 00:16:45.280 In that area, the government build a state company. 00:16:45.430 --> 00:16:45.460 Okay. 00:16:45.460 --> 00:16:48.880 Call it the gas for, poly star. 00:16:49.710 --> 00:16:52.569 So gas, it's gas for the weld. 00:16:53.079 --> 00:16:54.780 For the wellness gas for the wellness. 00:16:54.780 --> 00:16:55.260 Yeah. 00:16:55.270 --> 00:16:55.960 Gas for the belt. 00:16:56.740 --> 00:16:57.580 How does that work? 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:02.590 And they sell the gas in that, in the whole area. 00:17:02.830 --> 00:17:07.480 They put away the, price companies and take, it over. 00:17:07.485 --> 00:17:08.350 Take to stop it. 00:17:08.620 --> 00:17:08.770 Yeah. 00:17:08.775 --> 00:17:12.070 To stop the price Gouging price gouging. 00:17:12.220 --> 00:17:12.420 Yeah. 00:17:12.450 --> 00:17:16.330 What's once again, one of the fallacies in the United. 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:21.100 Is that government is not there to help the citizen, although 00:17:21.100 --> 00:17:25.150 government's supposed to be there to help the citizen in Mexico. 00:17:25.155 --> 00:17:28.780 We're seeing a transition where half of the government wants to help the 00:17:28.780 --> 00:17:32.410 citizen, but the other half likes the money that has in their pocket. 00:17:32.950 --> 00:17:33.440 okay. 00:17:33.670 --> 00:17:35.470 So you're not so willing to help the citizen. 00:17:35.560 --> 00:17:35.740 Yeah. 00:17:35.740 --> 00:17:38.800 And unfortunately, those, both those people are politicians 00:17:39.460 --> 00:17:40.660 and there's a lot of conflict. 00:17:41.050 --> 00:17:42.310 In fact, when ILO. 00:17:43.510 --> 00:17:47.020 rules or laws about reform electrical reform. 00:17:47.025 --> 00:17:49.060 And it wasn't just electrical, it's all reform. 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:50.200 It was killed. 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:52.390 It was killed by the same politicians who were trying to 00:17:52.390 --> 00:17:54.730 run for, president when he's gone. 00:17:55.030 --> 00:17:55.300 Yeah. 00:17:55.330 --> 00:17:58.420 So it's ironic that they said, oh, we're gonna leave it till next time. 00:17:58.889 --> 00:18:00.490 You're gonna leave it till next time, because you're 00:18:00.495 --> 00:18:01.630 not gonna solve the problem. 00:18:01.635 --> 00:18:05.230 Cause you don't wanna solve the problem because it was available to you to solve. 00:18:05.530 --> 00:18:09.820 And Rodriguez's example is the example of what I'm talking. 00:18:10.735 --> 00:18:10.885 Here. 00:18:10.885 --> 00:18:17.965 We have a situation where a young millennial aged Mexican. 00:18:18.535 --> 00:18:20.275 Yeah, Mexican educated. 00:18:20.275 --> 00:18:24.355 Who's trying to make better in his life level, himself up 00:18:24.355 --> 00:18:25.765 from his family before him. 00:18:26.455 --> 00:18:27.415 And he's stuck. 00:18:27.865 --> 00:18:29.335 He's stuck having to pay things. 00:18:29.335 --> 00:18:32.875 Now that the generation before him didn't have to pay because 00:18:32.875 --> 00:18:38.335 being ne Netto wanted to make some laws and no politician after him. 00:18:38.995 --> 00:18:43.885 was willing to fix those laws so that the Mexican doesn't have to get stuck. 00:18:44.215 --> 00:18:44.425 Yeah. 00:18:44.725 --> 00:18:48.205 Paying for infrastructure that they do not even own. 00:18:48.504 --> 00:18:52.135 See, that's the biggest pre here in the United States, when you improve 00:18:52.135 --> 00:18:55.585 infrastructure, the theory is that you're gonna own, it only makes it 00:18:55.585 --> 00:18:57.175 better for the next time you sell it. 00:18:57.835 --> 00:18:58.915 You're not selling anything. 00:18:58.915 --> 00:19:02.215 My friend because the government owns it. 00:19:02.215 --> 00:19:04.225 You may lease it to somebody else for a short period of 00:19:04.225 --> 00:19:05.365 time and make a little markup. 00:19:05.665 --> 00:19:06.355 But that's about. 00:19:07.405 --> 00:19:13.735 So the reality is these American ideas do not work in Mexico 00:19:14.545 --> 00:19:16.585 because the basis is not the same. 00:19:16.645 --> 00:19:17.845 And that's the problem we have. 00:19:18.085 --> 00:19:22.825 And Roger goes, examples is, just one of many that I see as I'm walking 00:19:22.825 --> 00:19:24.055 through Mexico city all the time. 00:19:24.774 --> 00:19:28.735 I don't wanna make this podcast too long, but I wanted to introduce you to Rodrigo. 00:19:28.735 --> 00:19:32.635 And I talked to him very much and he's my sidekick in Mexico. 00:19:32.695 --> 00:19:34.195 And he speaks fluent Spanish. 00:19:34.195 --> 00:19:35.665 When I fluent taco. 00:19:36.430 --> 00:19:36.920 Okay. 00:19:37.510 --> 00:19:43.600 And I cook though, and he's happy you . And the reality is this is 00:19:43.600 --> 00:19:45.940 the podcast about electrical reform. 00:19:45.945 --> 00:19:49.090 We didn't talk about explicitly, but we talked about it in real world 00:19:49.300 --> 00:19:53.800 of how it's impacting Mexicans and future podcasts RGO will be here and 00:19:53.800 --> 00:19:57.490 we'll talk about more subject matters and more importantly, to support us. 00:19:57.490 --> 00:20:02.020 We do major Domo list.com and make sure to go to our website, look 00:20:02.020 --> 00:20:02.920 at the stuff that we're doing. 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:03.940 Look at our podcast. 00:20:04.270 --> 00:20:07.480 And more importantly, join us the next time we have a podcast. 00:20:07.570 --> 00:20:07.870 Yeah. 00:20:08.380 --> 00:20:09.880 Thank you very much, guys. 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:10.510 See ya. 00:20:10.780 --> 00:20:11.170 Okay. 00:20:11.230 --> 00:20:11.530 Thank you. 00:20:11.700 --> 00:20:12.140 Bye-bye. 00:20:19.458 --> 00:20:22.518 The impact of Oil Reform in Mexico City-1: So here we are another episode of yo soy. 00:20:22.968 --> 00:20:25.968 I have Rodrigo Morales sitting with me. 00:20:25.968 --> 00:20:30.288 He's actually my co-host today in all days. 00:20:30.468 --> 00:20:33.258 And he is my assistant actually Rodrigo. 00:20:33.258 --> 00:20:34.278 And I go way back. 00:20:34.518 --> 00:20:36.378 We actually, I met him when he was 14. 00:20:36.378 --> 00:20:37.788 We made a movie together. 00:20:37.968 --> 00:20:43.908 Yeah, called a, he told me he wanted to be a movie star. 00:20:43.908 --> 00:20:44.448 So I. 00:20:45.618 --> 00:20:46.728 Hey, you wanna join us? 00:20:46.818 --> 00:20:47.688 We're making a movie. 00:20:48.508 --> 00:20:48.998 yeah. 00:20:48.998 --> 00:20:49.478 Yeah. 00:20:49.788 --> 00:20:53.928 In that time I, used to want to be an actor. 00:20:54.768 --> 00:20:58.158 Also I broke some big girl, ah, at times. 00:20:58.158 --> 00:21:03.408 So I wanna be in a movie and seek her and make a, some kind of jealous. 00:21:03.468 --> 00:21:05.148 Oh, you wanted to make you jealous, huh? 00:21:05.148 --> 00:21:05.328 Yes. 00:21:06.168 --> 00:21:07.218 we didn't know that one. 00:21:07.428 --> 00:21:07.858 That's a good. 00:21:09.039 --> 00:21:12.603 You know what, that's one way of doing it another way is to make sure 00:21:12.603 --> 00:21:14.943 that you just do good, good work. 00:21:14.943 --> 00:21:16.473 You were a Netflix movie too. 00:21:16.593 --> 00:21:16.863 Yeah. 00:21:16.863 --> 00:21:17.133 Yeah. 00:21:17.133 --> 00:21:18.813 I was in a movie in 2020. 00:21:21.071 --> 00:21:29.493 I, made a movie with Mexican director, the movie it's asalto goddess. 00:21:30.213 --> 00:21:30.603 Asalto goddess. 00:21:30.603 --> 00:21:31.113 Yes. 00:21:32.185 --> 00:21:33.333 Asphalt goddess. 00:21:34.293 --> 00:21:37.133 how do you say it in Spanish asphalt? 00:21:38.283 --> 00:21:40.083 So that was a fun experience. 00:21:40.083 --> 00:21:42.813 And you were a bad guy in that movie, right? 00:21:42.813 --> 00:21:43.083 Yeah. 00:21:43.083 --> 00:21:47.073 It was a bad guy and yeah, it was a really great experience. 00:21:47.078 --> 00:21:52.893 It was my firsts experience at stage and, from the camera and 00:21:52.953 --> 00:21:56.613 also with very good actors. 00:21:56.943 --> 00:21:57.453 Yeah. 00:21:58.143 --> 00:21:58.683 Post me. 00:21:58.683 --> 00:21:59.643 I wasn't a good actor. 00:21:59.673 --> 00:22:03.723 No, you gotta watch your words. 00:22:03.903 --> 00:22:05.193 I understand English too. 00:22:06.163 --> 00:22:07.863 it was, you was a great actor. 00:22:08.808 --> 00:22:11.553 These guys made a lot of teacher before. 00:22:11.613 --> 00:22:11.823 Yeah. 00:22:11.883 --> 00:22:14.223 Before appear in that movies and just teasing. 00:22:14.398 --> 00:22:14.815 Huh? 00:22:14.928 --> 00:22:19.758 So now in Mexico city, and I've been doing this podcast, yo soy, and 00:22:19.998 --> 00:22:21.588 the name actually came up with RGO. 00:22:22.364 --> 00:22:23.838 I remember we made it, we made some hats. 00:22:23.843 --> 00:22:25.968 We've made some merch because that's what you do in the world. 00:22:26.058 --> 00:22:30.708 So you can go to our major, do major Domo list.com website, and you can find 00:22:30.838 --> 00:22:36.198 our merch as well as you can find our products in the, I just forget the name. 00:22:36.198 --> 00:22:37.098 What's it called again? 00:22:39.608 --> 00:22:41.538 Umdo Sobe. 00:22:41.568 --> 00:22:42.658 Medo Sobe. 00:22:43.083 --> 00:22:45.023 S U B E Margo. 00:22:45.033 --> 00:22:46.533 You'll see it in our landing page. 00:22:46.623 --> 00:22:49.533 And you can buy stuff that we found here unique in Mexico. 00:22:49.538 --> 00:22:49.843 Yeah. 00:22:50.523 --> 00:22:53.943 Inventory will be changing all the time, but today we wanna talk about 00:22:53.943 --> 00:22:55.833 an interesting subject yesterday. 00:22:55.838 --> 00:23:01.383 I RGO was busy cuz he's working on a, project in, in, in his city 00:23:01.383 --> 00:23:03.633 where he grew up called Roma Norte. 00:23:03.783 --> 00:23:03.903 See? 00:23:04.103 --> 00:23:04.383 Yeah. 00:23:04.388 --> 00:23:04.533 Yeah. 00:23:04.713 --> 00:23:10.173 Roman Norte and he's actually working on an apartment so he can in fact. 00:23:11.733 --> 00:23:13.143 Rent it out if he wants yeah. 00:23:13.143 --> 00:23:14.643 Or live in it in a nice place. 00:23:14.853 --> 00:23:17.433 And one of the things that happened, and I thought it'd be a great story to 00:23:17.433 --> 00:23:21.453 talk about today because we're talking about reform in Mexico, things in Mexico 00:23:21.603 --> 00:23:25.923 from an American perspective and a Mexican it's on both and from a Mexican 00:23:25.923 --> 00:23:28.173 perspective because he's Mexican okay. 00:23:28.713 --> 00:23:32.343 He grew up in Roman and he's has a little history here 00:23:32.343 --> 00:23:33.333 where actually his whole life. 00:23:34.083 --> 00:23:36.483 And we thought it'd be a great idea to talk about what's 00:23:36.483 --> 00:23:37.743 going on one subject matter. 00:23:37.743 --> 00:23:43.023 I talked about that we're not gonna talk about today was gentrification. 00:23:43.263 --> 00:23:46.173 Yeah, him and I have had a lot of conversations on gentrification, 00:23:46.383 --> 00:23:49.833 but today I decided I wanted to talk about something different. 00:23:50.313 --> 00:23:55.953 I wanted talk about what's happening with the president, president Andres. 00:23:56.223 --> 00:23:58.323 Manuel said. 00:23:59.028 --> 00:24:00.258 And Manuel Lopez. 00:24:00.828 --> 00:24:01.248 Oh yeah. 00:24:02.568 --> 00:24:05.418 AMLO I just say alos I can't say it all. 00:24:06.228 --> 00:24:08.208 And more importantly, we're talking about. 00:24:09.273 --> 00:24:09.963 Azure reform. 00:24:10.443 --> 00:24:15.603 And right now there's a big fight between United States, Canada and Mexico, 00:24:15.753 --> 00:24:21.003 because Mexico, when they created the, north is called NAFTA at first, and 00:24:21.008 --> 00:24:22.473 now it's called some other agreement. 00:24:22.473 --> 00:24:23.913 I don't know what it's called us. 00:24:23.913 --> 00:24:30.173 M C that was negotiated with the last president of the United States. 00:24:30.657 --> 00:24:33.903 But the first one starts way back from Clinton. 00:24:34.413 --> 00:24:37.333 I have a huge history with Clinton, not myself, but from politic. 00:24:37.863 --> 00:24:40.323 My brother worked with political sides. 00:24:40.413 --> 00:24:43.983 Anyway, long story short, I won't go into that, but I wanted to talk 00:24:44.133 --> 00:24:47.853 about the electrical reform last year. 00:24:48.093 --> 00:24:50.463 It was it this year, it went for vote. 00:24:50.883 --> 00:24:51.093 Yes. 00:24:51.093 --> 00:24:51.753 And it failed. 00:24:51.903 --> 00:24:52.203 Yeah. 00:24:52.203 --> 00:24:52.683 It failed. 00:24:52.713 --> 00:24:53.233 It failed. 00:24:53.238 --> 00:24:56.043 Didn't have enough ammunition behind it. 00:24:56.048 --> 00:24:57.873 I believe that I understand why it failed. 00:24:57.873 --> 00:24:59.353 I think it was failed on purpose. 00:25:00.140 --> 00:25:01.113 But we're not gonna go into that. 00:25:01.323 --> 00:25:01.893 We're gonna go into a. 00:25:03.063 --> 00:25:06.813 And I, when I was talking to RGO today, he was giving me telling me a story. 00:25:06.813 --> 00:25:10.383 Actually, he called me in panic because something happened in his apartment 00:25:10.383 --> 00:25:11.193 and he didn't know what to do. 00:25:11.193 --> 00:25:11.703 Next. 00:25:12.393 --> 00:25:16.263 What happened was his electric his, gas was turned off. 00:25:16.413 --> 00:25:17.403 His gas was turned off. 00:25:17.613 --> 00:25:17.973 That's right. 00:25:17.973 --> 00:25:23.763 And as he started revealing the story to me, I became fascinated by the story. 00:25:23.763 --> 00:25:27.363 And when he came to back to my place to our studio here, he started 00:25:27.363 --> 00:25:28.743 telling me more of the story. 00:25:28.863 --> 00:25:32.493 And then I said, we need to do a podcast because I want to talk about. 00:25:33.378 --> 00:25:34.686 The electrical reform. 00:25:34.905 --> 00:25:38.838 Yesterday I did a small video talking about the electrical reform and how 00:25:39.648 --> 00:25:46.458 people are starting to say, wait a second, electricity, gas, power, 00:25:46.458 --> 00:25:53.088 anything that touches the people is a critical element of life in that country. 00:25:53.598 --> 00:25:53.868 Yeah. 00:25:54.078 --> 00:25:56.268 So it's a national security concern. 00:25:56.688 --> 00:25:59.148 It's a true natural security concern. 00:25:59.328 --> 00:26:02.208 And if a government doesn't protect that from the people. 00:26:02.898 --> 00:26:05.808 then other countries can control that people. 00:26:06.408 --> 00:26:06.828 Okay. 00:26:06.948 --> 00:26:10.398 For example, what people don't know is Walmart, it's a huge 00:26:10.428 --> 00:26:12.288 conglomeration in the United States. 00:26:12.528 --> 00:26:14.718 It's bought land all over the country. 00:26:14.898 --> 00:26:18.318 And the reason why he's bought is bought this land, not to build 00:26:18.318 --> 00:26:22.068 new stores is because underneath that land is natural water. 00:26:22.728 --> 00:26:22.998 Yeah. 00:26:23.238 --> 00:26:25.018 So he's selling the resource. 00:26:26.463 --> 00:26:27.873 Under the Wells. 00:26:28.053 --> 00:26:30.333 Some states like California are getting wise to that. 00:26:30.333 --> 00:26:36.003 So under charging anybody, if you have land and you happen to have natural 00:26:36.003 --> 00:26:39.573 water underneath you, they're starting to charge you for your own water. 00:26:40.593 --> 00:26:44.973 So now you see government controlling private enterprise in the United States. 00:26:45.123 --> 00:26:46.863 We thought it always was precious. 00:26:47.253 --> 00:26:47.403 Yes. 00:26:47.433 --> 00:26:51.063 Now in Mexico, that's not the same in Mexico. 00:26:51.723 --> 00:26:53.967 The government owns all the buildings when it boils down. 00:26:54.885 --> 00:26:58.008 You live in a building that's probably a hundred years old. 00:26:58.338 --> 00:26:58.518 Okay. 00:26:58.518 --> 00:26:59.268 It's older. 00:26:59.898 --> 00:27:05.268 And when the gas was turned off, I want you to tell me in your own words, 00:27:05.328 --> 00:27:08.628 what happened when the guy knocked on the door and you couldn't turn 00:27:08.628 --> 00:27:10.144 on the gas, tell me what happened. 00:27:10.782 --> 00:27:17.418 The guy arrives and he going to, to my roof and see all 00:27:17.418 --> 00:27:20.508 the full installation and. 00:27:21.183 --> 00:27:27.693 She came back to, my apartment and he tells me your installation 00:27:27.693 --> 00:27:37.173 is good, but unfortunately we, we can't turn on your, gas. 00:27:37.563 --> 00:27:38.613 And I said, why? 00:27:39.153 --> 00:27:42.993 And they say you, because you have your boiler inside your bathroom. 00:27:43.593 --> 00:27:52.449 And that's why that's was like I, I, That boiler has been there like 10 years ago. 00:27:54.663 --> 00:27:55.833 What's the trouble. 00:27:56.343 --> 00:28:04.173 So they made me recontract made a new agreement with them to turn on my gas. 00:28:05.696 --> 00:28:11.223 And also they made me move my boil. 00:28:11.868 --> 00:28:19.321 From another place and they gonna charge me every month a price for, that work. 00:28:20.598 --> 00:28:27.168 So, let me get this straight a month ago, you had gas in your apartment end up. 00:28:27.173 --> 00:28:27.978 There was no problem. 00:28:28.068 --> 00:28:28.326 Yeah. 00:28:28.961 --> 00:28:31.968 You're paying your month every time you could afford it. 00:28:32.148 --> 00:28:32.388 Yeah. 00:28:32.418 --> 00:28:36.108 And then all of a sudden it got disconnected for various reasons. 00:28:36.288 --> 00:28:37.458 And now you have to. 00:28:38.553 --> 00:28:40.113 For a gas company. 00:28:40.113 --> 00:28:42.063 That's now a private gas company, right? 00:28:42.063 --> 00:28:42.123 Yeah. 00:28:42.123 --> 00:28:43.083 It's not Mexican government. 00:28:43.293 --> 00:28:44.043 No, It's private. 00:28:44.253 --> 00:28:47.763 It's a private company, a Spain company from Spain. 00:28:47.913 --> 00:28:53.973 It's a company from Spain that now is charging him to turn his, gas back on 00:28:54.753 --> 00:28:56.763 when it was working perfectly a month ago. 00:28:56.883 --> 00:28:57.183 Yeah. 00:28:57.693 --> 00:29:02.073 So let me explain a little bit why we're having this, discussion let's first go 00:29:02.073 --> 00:29:04.023 back to who owns the infrastructure. 00:29:04.083 --> 00:29:05.343 The building is owned by the. 00:29:06.288 --> 00:29:09.318 They lease it to you guys, or however it happens, they lease, you bought 00:29:09.318 --> 00:29:10.968 a long term lease from it, correct? 00:29:10.998 --> 00:29:11.268 Yeah. 00:29:11.298 --> 00:29:12.588 Your mother did your family did. 00:29:12.588 --> 00:29:14.208 And you've been living there since you were little kid 00:29:14.538 --> 00:29:15.558 since you're a baby, right? 00:29:15.618 --> 00:29:15.888 Yeah. 00:29:16.308 --> 00:29:19.248 Now so, construction work was done on it. 00:29:19.248 --> 00:29:20.898 You guys fixed it, somebody fixed it. 00:29:21.108 --> 00:29:21.978 So you're using it. 00:29:21.978 --> 00:29:25.128 Then all of a sudden the electric the, gaskets turned off and now you have to 00:29:25.128 --> 00:29:28.218 pay more money to get it redesigned. 00:29:28.398 --> 00:29:32.268 So that meets the requirements of this private company that 00:29:32.268 --> 00:29:34.428 now you have to pay gas to yeah. 00:29:36.273 --> 00:29:37.353 this is my problem. 00:29:38.133 --> 00:29:44.463 This private company was, this deal with Binette though from 2012 to 2018, he 00:29:44.463 --> 00:29:49.233 struck a deal with these private companies that privatized certain industries. 00:29:50.043 --> 00:29:54.263 And it ha this is what AMLO is fighting for against. 00:29:55.023 --> 00:30:01.173 He doesn't want the privatization of these utilities that are basis 00:30:01.353 --> 00:30:03.063 structure for all of Mexican. 00:30:03.783 --> 00:30:04.083 Yeah. 00:30:04.113 --> 00:30:04.503 Okay. 00:30:04.803 --> 00:30:07.923 Everybody needs gas so they can have hot water in their apartment. 00:30:08.423 --> 00:30:08.913 Yeah. 00:30:08.913 --> 00:30:10.173 Everybody needs electricity. 00:30:10.173 --> 00:30:11.943 So they have electricity into the apartment. 00:30:12.333 --> 00:30:15.243 Everybody needs these certain infrastructure things that 00:30:15.243 --> 00:30:16.293 you're paying taxes for. 00:30:16.383 --> 00:30:16.803 Correct? 00:30:17.013 --> 00:30:17.283 Yeah. 00:30:17.373 --> 00:30:19.473 The government you are paying taxes for something. 00:30:19.623 --> 00:30:20.113 Okay. 00:30:20.553 --> 00:30:26.403 So clearly what pian Netto did was pretty smart for the government is now the 00:30:26.403 --> 00:30:30.393 government isn't paying for anything, even though you're paying taxes to them. 00:30:31.353 --> 00:30:36.513 Because what's happening is they've the politicians in Mexico, just like they 00:30:36.513 --> 00:30:42.363 do in the United States have set policy by working with private companies, to 00:30:42.633 --> 00:30:49.593 privatize certain commodities necessities that you need to survive as a Mexican. 00:30:50.193 --> 00:30:54.993 And now when you have to do an upgrade, not because you have to, 00:30:55.293 --> 00:30:58.233 but because the government's forcing you, I know when he first called 00:30:58.233 --> 00:31:00.003 me and said because the government. 00:31:00.693 --> 00:31:01.593 And I started laughing. 00:31:01.593 --> 00:31:05.463 I'm like yeah, that's the government rules, but those rules were initiated 00:31:05.583 --> 00:31:07.593 because who's, making the money. 00:31:07.893 --> 00:31:10.413 Then when he told me the gas company came back and says, oh, 00:31:10.413 --> 00:31:11.833 gotta, what's a deal for you. 00:31:12.053 --> 00:31:17.193 RGO for 59 99 a month, fast sauce. 00:31:17.493 --> 00:31:19.143 You can pay for this upgrade. 00:31:19.143 --> 00:31:24.153 We're gonna give you that you don't need, but because the government mandated it and 00:31:24.158 --> 00:31:26.373 us as the good guys are gonna help you. 00:31:28.053 --> 00:31:28.443 Yeah. 00:31:28.533 --> 00:31:28.713 Yeah. 00:31:28.713 --> 00:31:29.313 How do you feel? 00:31:29.313 --> 00:31:30.543 Do you feel like he's a good guy? 00:31:30.723 --> 00:31:34.653 I feel like an assault. 00:31:35.943 --> 00:31:36.733 an assault. 00:31:37.751 --> 00:31:39.153 He's insulting your pocket. 00:31:39.333 --> 00:31:39.753 Yeah. 00:31:41.193 --> 00:31:42.633 10 PEs at a time. 00:31:42.638 --> 00:31:43.093 Okay. 00:31:43.983 --> 00:31:46.443 And what's the Mexican skin wage, 120 PEs. 00:31:46.773 --> 00:31:47.283 Okay. 00:31:47.403 --> 00:31:51.333 And if you're paying 120 PEs a month to fix this thing, when we find out 00:31:51.333 --> 00:31:54.693 tomorrow, That's gonna be highway robbery and you will be insulted. 00:31:54.963 --> 00:31:55.173 Yeah. 00:31:55.233 --> 00:31:59.724 Insulted and assaulted Double assaulted. 00:32:00.479 --> 00:32:02.833 See, that's what I'm talking about. 00:32:03.731 --> 00:32:06.003 I'm gonna get on a subject matter that people don't like a lot, 00:32:06.003 --> 00:32:09.063 but I really criticize this mayor from Mexico city a lot. 00:32:09.273 --> 00:32:11.343 Like you don't agree necessarily, or I do agree. 00:32:11.643 --> 00:32:13.053 The issue is this. 00:32:13.893 --> 00:32:16.593 She's building this train that goes through Mexico and I call 00:32:16.593 --> 00:32:20.013 it the train through nowhere that money, those billions of. 00:32:21.048 --> 00:32:23.268 That can use to build that train in nine months. 00:32:23.268 --> 00:32:26.298 So she has something good to show us that she can try to run for president. 00:32:26.628 --> 00:32:27.138 Okay. 00:32:27.198 --> 00:32:32.688 And she's done something for Mexico and react shows that she's done 00:32:32.688 --> 00:32:36.228 nothing for Mexico because those billions of dollars could have easily 00:32:36.228 --> 00:32:38.088 paid for this guy's gas improvements. 00:32:38.718 --> 00:32:39.208 okay. 00:32:39.618 --> 00:32:45.918 But instead they advised away the government has to stick it to the Mexican, 00:32:46.608 --> 00:32:48.888 the poor Mexican, because they let. 00:32:49.983 --> 00:32:51.633 PTO with the monies in his pocket. 00:32:51.908 --> 00:32:53.013 He's in Spain now, right? 00:32:53.103 --> 00:32:53.313 Yeah. 00:32:53.373 --> 00:32:55.563 He's in Spain with 500 million vessels. 00:32:55.563 --> 00:32:55.833 I heard. 00:32:56.133 --> 00:32:56.703 Okay. 00:32:56.733 --> 00:33:00.063 Five, Hey PTO, send him some money. 00:33:00.843 --> 00:33:01.863 he needs some money. 00:33:01.923 --> 00:33:02.553 Okay. 00:33:02.643 --> 00:33:02.823 Yeah. 00:33:02.823 --> 00:33:06.933 To pay his gas bills, please he's even asking nicely. 00:33:08.733 --> 00:33:12.663 So here we have a solution that the government gave the 00:33:12.663 --> 00:33:14.923 Mexicans that isn't a solution. 00:33:15.153 --> 00:33:16.683 In fact, it's only a solution for the. 00:33:17.403 --> 00:33:20.943 So now every vessel that he pays for taxes okay. 00:33:21.423 --> 00:33:26.193 Is not going to helping him in his crisis of getting hot water, to take a shower. 00:33:26.853 --> 00:33:29.043 It's not helping him in his crisis to have water. 00:33:29.043 --> 00:33:30.273 He can drink from the tap. 00:33:31.083 --> 00:33:35.103 It's not helping him with maybe building out this infrastructure side of building 00:33:35.108 --> 00:33:38.193 that the government ultimately owns yeah. 00:33:38.793 --> 00:33:40.203 To improve the building. 00:33:40.503 --> 00:33:43.563 And everybody living in this area, especially in Roma. 00:33:44.073 --> 00:33:45.963 Roma is a highly gentrified area. 00:33:46.593 --> 00:33:47.493 And I don't wanna talk about that. 00:33:47.643 --> 00:33:51.183 Unless this podcast will get forever, but it's a highly gentrified. 00:33:51.213 --> 00:33:53.283 I do remember though, I didn't wanna talk briefly about it. 00:33:53.523 --> 00:33:53.733 Okay. 00:33:53.733 --> 00:33:58.743 When I first met Rodrigo in I met him at that, fountain. 00:33:58.748 --> 00:33:59.730 What was the fountain called? 00:34:01.369 --> 00:34:02.073 Place three. 00:34:03.053 --> 00:34:03.543 Okay. 00:34:03.543 --> 00:34:04.623 It's a beautiful fountain. 00:34:04.628 --> 00:34:08.313 In fact, I found out just recently that fountain was only three 00:34:08.313 --> 00:34:13.413 ever made and that France sent it to, to to, to Mexico as a peace. 00:34:14.418 --> 00:34:14.688 okay. 00:34:14.688 --> 00:34:15.888 A friendship in culture. 00:34:16.008 --> 00:34:17.478 It's a statue of David. 00:34:17.838 --> 00:34:18.138 Okay. 00:34:19.398 --> 00:34:23.238 When I met him there, soon thereafter, I actually met his parents and we 00:34:23.238 --> 00:34:25.218 went out to eat in the Roman area. 00:34:25.218 --> 00:34:28.758 We had some tacos, tacos, of course because we were Mexican. 00:34:28.758 --> 00:34:30.138 We always eat tacos anyway. 00:34:30.138 --> 00:34:34.818 So he had some, tacos and six or seven years later when I came 00:34:34.818 --> 00:34:37.368 back Roma, I couldn't identify. 00:34:38.148 --> 00:34:43.548 I was like, where's that taco stand we ate at it's just so different and costly. 00:34:43.548 --> 00:34:47.268 I remember that night that only cost me like a couple hundred vessels. 00:34:47.328 --> 00:34:47.988 Okay. 00:34:48.018 --> 00:34:51.978 And that we all ate your brother, your little brother, your father, everybody. 00:34:51.978 --> 00:34:53.808 That was the rich man and 200 vessels. 00:34:53.838 --> 00:34:54.258 Okay. 00:34:54.408 --> 00:34:54.648 Yeah. 00:34:54.648 --> 00:34:58.248 Now the same, no cost me 800 vessels easily. 00:34:58.368 --> 00:34:58.818 Okay. 00:35:00.048 --> 00:35:03.918 So what I'm saying is here in Mexico city, there's a lot of change going on. 00:35:03.923 --> 00:35:06.018 There's a transformation in where government is acting 00:35:06.018 --> 00:35:07.258 more like American go. 00:35:07.878 --> 00:35:11.538 The politicians are thinking more like political politicians where 00:35:11.538 --> 00:35:15.468 the, where they find and devise ways to stick it to the Mexican. 00:35:15.858 --> 00:35:16.068 Yeah. 00:35:16.098 --> 00:35:16.578 Okay. 00:35:16.698 --> 00:35:20.598 Where they're actually in this particular case, when all Rodrigo wanted to do 00:35:20.598 --> 00:35:23.268 was to turn on his electric his, gas. 00:35:23.448 --> 00:35:26.388 So he could actually maybe rent the place or do something with the 00:35:26.388 --> 00:35:30.288 place and all of a sudden, even just live in it, he can't, he has to 00:35:30.288 --> 00:35:32.478 take cold, hot showers in my place. 00:35:33.198 --> 00:35:34.728 in our studio, but that's part of the deal. 00:35:34.728 --> 00:35:35.658 That's okay. 00:35:35.688 --> 00:35:36.678 But the reality. 00:35:38.133 --> 00:35:41.403 what's happening is the government is going in transition. 00:35:41.793 --> 00:35:41.913 Yeah. 00:35:41.913 --> 00:35:46.173 We have politicians like shine bomb who are globalists, who talk about things 00:35:46.173 --> 00:35:52.203 like green energy, but then in the same instance when Mexican kids need them to 00:35:52.203 --> 00:35:56.163 help, they're not there to help in fact, oh yeah, there is that private companies 00:35:56.163 --> 00:35:58.683 there to help, to charge him more money. 00:35:59.223 --> 00:35:59.733 Okay. 00:35:59.793 --> 00:36:04.053 Of to improve the Mexican infrastructure that he has to. 00:36:05.223 --> 00:36:10.413 Out of his own pocket plus his taxes and today he still has no hot water. 00:36:11.823 --> 00:36:12.153 Yeah. 00:36:12.813 --> 00:36:14.613 That's basically that happened. 00:36:15.993 --> 00:36:18.693 so to the Mexicans right now, to the Mexicans right now. 00:36:18.963 --> 00:36:19.173 Yeah. 00:36:19.323 --> 00:36:20.343 It's a serious issue. 00:36:20.343 --> 00:36:22.953 Can you think of other issues just like that, that you see happening? 00:36:22.953 --> 00:36:23.013 Yeah. 00:36:24.603 --> 00:36:32.263 You it's a place called it here in Mexico is there have a issue in the gas price. 00:36:32.748 --> 00:36:43.188 Because I think two, two months ago the gas has the most 00:36:43.193 --> 00:36:46.368 highest prices in the history. 00:36:46.698 --> 00:36:47.118 Oh really? 00:36:47.118 --> 00:36:47.688 Yeah. 00:36:47.718 --> 00:36:57.648 It cost us four months ago 10, maybe nine passes and goes to the 15, 17. 00:36:58.008 --> 00:36:58.518 Oh, wow. 00:37:00.393 --> 00:37:01.923 Almost the total price. 00:37:03.783 --> 00:37:09.993 In that area, the government build a state company. 00:37:10.143 --> 00:37:10.173 Okay. 00:37:10.173 --> 00:37:13.593 Call it the gas for, poly star. 00:37:14.423 --> 00:37:17.283 So gas, it's gas for the weld. 00:37:17.793 --> 00:37:19.493 For the wellness gas for the wellness. 00:37:19.493 --> 00:37:19.973 Yeah. 00:37:19.983 --> 00:37:20.673 Gas for the belt. 00:37:21.453 --> 00:37:22.293 How does that work? 00:37:22.833 --> 00:37:27.303 And they sell the gas in that, in the whole area. 00:37:27.543 --> 00:37:32.193 They put away the, price companies and take, it over. 00:37:32.198 --> 00:37:33.063 Take to stop it. 00:37:33.333 --> 00:37:33.483 Yeah. 00:37:33.488 --> 00:37:36.783 To stop the price Gouging price gouging. 00:37:36.933 --> 00:37:37.133 Yeah. 00:37:37.163 --> 00:37:41.043 What's once again, one of the fallacies in the United. 00:37:41.913 --> 00:37:45.813 Is that government is not there to help the citizen, although 00:37:45.813 --> 00:37:49.863 government's supposed to be there to help the citizen in Mexico. 00:37:49.868 --> 00:37:53.493 We're seeing a transition where half of the government wants to help the 00:37:53.493 --> 00:37:57.123 citizen, but the other half likes the money that has in their pocket. 00:37:57.663 --> 00:37:58.153 okay. 00:37:58.383 --> 00:38:00.183 So you're not so willing to help the citizen. 00:38:00.273 --> 00:38:00.453 Yeah. 00:38:00.453 --> 00:38:03.513 And unfortunately, those, both those people are politicians 00:38:04.173 --> 00:38:05.373 and there's a lot of conflict. 00:38:05.763 --> 00:38:07.023 In fact, when ILO. 00:38:08.223 --> 00:38:11.733 rules or laws about reform electrical reform. 00:38:11.738 --> 00:38:13.773 And it wasn't just electrical, it's all reform. 00:38:14.193 --> 00:38:14.913 It was killed. 00:38:14.913 --> 00:38:17.103 It was killed by the same politicians who were trying to 00:38:17.103 --> 00:38:19.443 run for, president when he's gone. 00:38:19.743 --> 00:38:20.013 Yeah. 00:38:20.043 --> 00:38:23.133 So it's ironic that they said, oh, we're gonna leave it till next time. 00:38:23.602 --> 00:38:25.203 You're gonna leave it till next time, because you're 00:38:25.208 --> 00:38:26.343 not gonna solve the problem. 00:38:26.348 --> 00:38:29.943 Cause you don't wanna solve the problem because it was available to you to solve. 00:38:30.243 --> 00:38:34.533 And Rodriguez's example is the example of what I'm talking. 00:38:35.448 --> 00:38:35.598 Here. 00:38:35.598 --> 00:38:42.678 We have a situation where a young millennial aged Mexican. 00:38:43.248 --> 00:38:44.988 Yeah, Mexican educated. 00:38:44.988 --> 00:38:49.068 Who's trying to make better in his life level, himself up 00:38:49.068 --> 00:38:50.478 from his family before him. 00:38:51.168 --> 00:38:52.128 And he's stuck. 00:38:52.578 --> 00:38:54.048 He's stuck having to pay things. 00:38:54.048 --> 00:38:57.588 Now that the generation before him didn't have to pay because 00:38:57.588 --> 00:39:03.048 being ne Netto wanted to make some laws and no politician after him. 00:39:03.708 --> 00:39:08.598 was willing to fix those laws so that the Mexican doesn't have to get stuck. 00:39:08.928 --> 00:39:09.138 Yeah. 00:39:09.438 --> 00:39:12.918 Paying for infrastructure that they do not even own. 00:39:13.218 --> 00:39:16.848 See, that's the biggest pre here in the United States, when you improve 00:39:16.848 --> 00:39:20.298 infrastructure, the theory is that you're gonna own, it only makes it 00:39:20.298 --> 00:39:21.888 better for the next time you sell it. 00:39:22.548 --> 00:39:23.628 You're not selling anything. 00:39:23.628 --> 00:39:26.928 My friend because the government owns it. 00:39:26.928 --> 00:39:28.938 You may lease it to somebody else for a short period of 00:39:28.938 --> 00:39:30.078 time and make a little markup. 00:39:30.378 --> 00:39:31.068 But that's about. 00:39:32.118 --> 00:39:38.448 So the reality is these American ideas do not work in Mexico 00:39:39.258 --> 00:39:41.298 because the basis is not the same. 00:39:41.358 --> 00:39:42.558 And that's the problem we have. 00:39:42.798 --> 00:39:47.538 And Roger goes, examples is, just one of many that I see as I'm walking 00:39:47.538 --> 00:39:48.768 through Mexico city all the time. 00:39:49.488 --> 00:39:53.448 I don't wanna make this podcast too long, but I wanted to introduce you to Rodrigo. 00:39:53.448 --> 00:39:57.348 And I talked to him very much and he's my sidekick in Mexico. 00:39:57.408 --> 00:39:58.908 And he speaks fluent Spanish. 00:39:58.908 --> 00:40:00.378 When I fluent taco. 00:40:01.143 --> 00:40:01.633 Okay. 00:40:02.223 --> 00:40:08.313 And I cook though, and he's happy you . And the reality is this is 00:40:08.313 --> 00:40:10.653 the podcast about electrical reform. 00:40:10.658 --> 00:40:13.803 We didn't talk about explicitly, but we talked about it in real world 00:40:14.013 --> 00:40:18.513 of how it's impacting Mexicans and future podcasts RGO will be here and 00:40:18.513 --> 00:40:22.203 we'll talk about more subject matters and more importantly, to support us. 00:40:22.203 --> 00:40:26.733 We do major Domo list.com and make sure to go to our website, look 00:40:26.733 --> 00:40:27.633 at the stuff that we're doing. 00:40:27.633 --> 00:40:28.653 Look at our podcast. 00:40:28.983 --> 00:40:32.193 And more importantly, join us the next time we have a podcast. 00:40:32.283 --> 00:40:32.583 Yeah. 00:40:33.093 --> 00:40:34.593 Thank you very much, guys. 00:40:34.713 --> 00:40:35.223 See ya. 00:40:35.493 --> 00:40:35.883 Okay. 00:40:35.943 --> 00:40:36.243 Thank you. 00:40:36.413 --> 00:40:36.853 Bye-bye.