Eduardo, gracias again carnal. This one of the few channel/casts that keep my attention. My grandfather marched me with Cesar Chavez to support Philippino workers when I was a toddler. Mi Madrina was from Guadalajara, crossed same as Bryan's parents. My Catholic gradeschool was a guerró island in a sea of field worker culture. I always thought we were all equal same growing up. My 80's was Norteño, de Watson XIV, Watsonville, CA by night, 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' Aptos, CA by day. Then lived in The Mission San Francisco 90's. I look like Ron Howard so I guess am lucky to not get shot all the cocaheen bay area in the 90's. Your podcast is so cool. Makes me laugh, and all your guests remind me of some Monterey Bay/San Diego memory I have. This Bryan kid without past hard suffering can still see the big picture. Pretty mature for his age. I guess I got to see peaceful times compared to the Not Really Nafta Can/Mex/US craziness it has all become.
I appreciate hearing from others who are very close to their ancestral lands, for lack of a better word. I related a lot to what you guys were saying, having family who went from Peru and crossed over via Mexico on foot with y'all. One interesting note is when you were talking about so-called authentic Mexican versus tex-mex. Potatoes are actually from the Andes so those are all imports to Mexico and the rest of the world for that matter. Even the animals that we eat on this side of the world are imports from Europe because cows pigs goats chickens did not exist in the Americas before they came. Nor did horses. Interesting huh. Corn tortillas on the other hand are as autóctono as they come. :) I just thought it was interesting to see what is considered authentic anything today is often a result of culture clashes, exchange, mixture or colonization. It's really interesting.
