Sargassum in Playa del Carmen
hello and welcome back to Playa del Carmen Now podcast from a very interesting subject today and it's sargassum in Playa del Carmen ohmygod ohmygod but on the show today we have this amazing person this is my good friend and I'm not about to kiss and then what what makes Omar so special well he will tell us about it but hello Omar how are you doing hey how are you how are you thank you you're welcome you're welcome and before we get into the subject of sargassum and what amazing things Omar has done with sarcasm
Omar you live in
the Riviera Maya huge you're all over the Riviera Maya correct correct I'll be in here for the last eight years and that's where you originally from I'm from Guadalajara Guadalajara just three time we make enough fun of can cuz can't can't get Spanish names correct
sorry kid that's okay I love it I love it I just love it okay so we won't go out all the Hara from a city in Jalisco City from Guadalajara or 98 years is 8 years so Omar when somebody comes to visit you in the Riviera Maya where do you take them which one of your favorite places where I came to that cenotes I'll take him to Buckeye Laura in the Pacific you know what I love
give me haha okay it's very beautiful. But I mean I know a lot of cenotes parking lot is very nice okay and I'll bring them over to Puerto Morelos to the rate for the Morales is just what about 40 minutes 40 minutes to an hour south of here. You're showing off how come you South Salem North Port
I volunteer for 16 years I don't know where I'm at but it's okay alright so well the favorite restaurant do you got those same people where do you take them words that words that that the key restaurant that only the locals know about it it's a lot of them but one especially one event that I love in the morning Vite you guys pretty soon it's important Morelos and it's a Punta Gorda show me to Courtyard restaurants in the whole country would they be having a lot of War attendance like that Seafood everything with would like you guys to the address for perfect for all you guys perfect I love that that's beautiful place
we're on like episode number 10 and everybody has come up with something different there hasn't been one repeat yet it's amazing it's amazing how there's so many little secret places not only in Playa del Carmen in the whole Riviera Maya which is just so you know spelling throw away I mean when he's talking about Puerto Morelos in Puerto Aventuras or Walmart or any of these Rivia marathon in Riviera Maya Jesus can't even talk right the Riviera Maya locations they're all within very close driving distance ends in a day it's not it's it's very easy to do so these locations that he's talking about are they are amazing and I'm sure we're going to go to this restaurant and David and I are going to love it go to Ortho Punta Gorda listening
pregnant for a beautiful place beautiful view Greatwood getting bigger so it sides getting big like everything here is beautiful and it's getting bigger and more people are coming that's why we are here so let's move on to this incredible topic of sargassum I guess it was year 2018 right was it 2017 or 2018 or 2016 maybe you know it if it's became a problem in 2008 and 2015 it was a huge arrive
that nobody about what was prepared for that correct so the government state governments play everywhere I mean Ethan a government they couldn't do anything so I'm 16 and 17 and I will say it you know everybody relaxed is like always be coming back from that coming back I knew I knew was coming back for her for the recent global warming is real I mean we seen at every single day so I'm 2018 does when we have the most most the biggest are right but forgot so and I read Amaya in and the whole Caribbean it where I could and it was here and it was here all year long it was it was it was it was it was about nine months of the year it was it was a very long time and it was a very tough time for us because just like you said the country was in them ready for this nobody was ready for this it started like you said in 2015 we we got I don't remember the football field
sargassum I remember there was some good invasions and that's where you come into the picture because you were able to take this sargassum and do something positive with it
actually start using for gas when I got here when I got to go to go to my yeah I own a nursery and I start making fertilizers
for my aunt and compass from my plans for my business and I start using it in about an 2013 biggest I mean sargassum it's been here always correct and I'll just leave it just little area Augustine an important things you said to mention that I mean I mean for people that the counter Mexico and say all you know don't go there because you thought I forgot some I mean I'm sorry to tell all of you guys but we are all responsible of that right and it's it's everywhere to it's not I mean it's not only now it's everywhere mean Alison DiLaurentis Republic I just came back I was in Martinique I will send gotten I was in Africa and its Rick Astley everywhere and I have friends in Florida in the states and their having not only sarcasm but they're having other stuff or red tide stuff and other very dangerous stuff even more dangerous than sargasso I guess I'm just an annoyance
how much but I mean we just need to be responsible you are sure and that's what you're trying to do right that you're driving to to bring that to a to a positive
and what I just took responsibility of my axe children why do baby I mean when we contaminated and we used
I want to bleach and things like that and everything goes to that is a beautiful sea you know I'm so craving and I just took responsibility of it and say what can I do to make this better you know this problem to turn it to an opportunity that's what I that's what I do I'm very good at it you know been having problems with alcohol and drugs and change my life I was not easy and that's exactly what I did with the sarcasm it was a problem that everybody was complaining
but it was kind of sad and even the government would complain complain complain but no one I would have done anything and you came up with a solution that is what was the solution and how how did this start so why do yard maintenance in hotels and houses and things like that and after 25 team it's when I when I put that means you know Beach maintenance service for my services and blue-green Mexico to stop my company and then 2018 2018 they they hire me my company to clean
Puerto Morelos Playa de Carmen tantalum so I had 300 employees that's when I call I was leaving my Mexican dream you know imma country 346 352 light up blow up 2 in the morning and send some people in Puerto Morelos the other ones here and then go to them and I mean it was from 2 a.m. to 11 p.m. everyday I only slept like 3 or 4 hours today and I have to thank
this guy that works in the car payment I have to thank him all my life because they took the contract away from me and I had to fire a few hundred people it was really hard for me to do because I remember these things I mean wow that's a contract for three months and twenty days later just let you know I don't wear I'm sorry but we're going to have somebody else how can I how can you tell 300 people from one day to another thing in Mexico right now that's how it came up with that idea is like I cannot give these people I cannot take the job away from them and I woke up next morning with that with that idea and start making blocks breaks Star Building because you were mentioning at first contract that service it was to clean the I was just cleaning
I mean are the countries that IHOP I just have to clean it and in every every I mean in the whole state they were just taking him to the ER. It everywhere and remove it from the beach from the beach and have this big trucks and I don't know where and that's the way now you become a good idea to do something good out of it and now I call that you know of a grey full circle of cleaning in the beach hiring people like me. But I had no problems with alcohol track depression and things like that and then make the break what I do I don't need houses and at the end that's I start selling it I mean I did it backwards you know how everybody they make something good they want to sell it it when I make money and then they might help or they might not
how you doing I rehired history on your people say you guys have a job don't worry about it everybody start fighting you know that they want to clean because he was so much money on cleaning sargasso so I let everybody fight each other things go ahead and and then you took the sarcasm and you made blocks blocks I build a house and then tell your plan it it's been busy all day here not to get Amaya and Puerto Morelos and if that's fine I can eat that in memory of my mom who passed away 18 years ago and it's a replica of my grandparents house and how do you spell wow what a story that's amazing it's amazing sword I have some blocks makes a house replicates it from his mother's house
and that's how you got the name Mister sargassum right yeah that's how he got that makes it was funny because I was with my three daughters saying let's Google your daddy now they puts on your so anyhow yeah I'm everywhere so yeah I got the pleasure of seeing you once before and I saw you on the FedEx FedEx Playa Del Carmen the same tedx that Javier was on thank you and you guys both did an amazing job. Great job thank you I mean I have to thank Xavier
because stop Turrentine his participation at tedx I lost 25 lb already so you'll like it. My heart attack my heart and I lost 25 lb oh well that's fantastic I love hearing that is sad that he's not I'm almost crying right now you don't know how my eyes out right now okay so yeah so just so everybody just to remind everybody on the tedx Omar was talking about him being sued mr. sargasso is great story in in Javier was on the show about bicycles he's a bicycle enthusiasts
who is what we have a whole episode on him and then coming up shortly I know you can go or you can wait for it at the Walmart talking about he listened to him and didn't actually do more he did the same with me because I heat I help you help me get a bike and and in most days I do ride the bike to work
so what if I go every day so now go to the beach and look at the beautiful so I guess what I love you. That's awesome. That's awesome and tell us a little more like if you felt more houses have you don't so how many more ounces are how many how many how many blocks over and 150000 blocks already in 50 000 block every house I don't need houses we start the number 14th last Monday I'm very happy because we're going to bless this family. They don't have a place to leave to stay and I donate 13 house already 13 cases I can leave that they will have the name of my mom I really don't want to have you take two or three hugs before so everybody knows everybody knows your mother
which house is about 3000 blocks and we consume 20 tons of her gas a house so we're making a big difference that's that's amazing I'm glad to see that something positive is that you've turned something it still seems to be a little bit of a negative it is Mother Nature it is Monday night and you're right we were contributing to this this problem and I'm not going to dwell on that but yeah we have a problem and in Omar like what the saying that there's that you a saying saying he turns lemons into lemonade yes leave it if you got to guess all this mr. sargassum mr. young building houses with Blocks made the sarcasm so how long do they last cuz they last forever I mean they last forever we're better than iPhone so I can tell you that
stock price of 10 I mean I should do exactly this is salvation I don't know what number is but we did a seven or seventy years are Generation in one year so they do just one generation per year we did have it in one day there will be good forever and their approval acoustic which is very good there
dermacol you know when it's too hot outside is very fresh in the inside its organic what did this Oddball it proofs of The Ballot or the bullet bullet don't go in your thing just in case you know I mean to do that but that's very funny
that's the best thing like I said you know I mean a block and Omar Vasquez it's like a mirror you know we ain't seen each other everybody will see no problem with me with my addictions everybody was in a proper got so I'll problem and we turn it to change people's life does a great story and it's just it's just a great story and Anne and I want everybody when they walk on the beach and they see the sarcasm that there's a person his name's Omar and took that sarcasm and turned it into lemonade I really did you spell housing people he's he's volunteered and he's giving these houses away so that's an amazing thing when we are and I think that's I love that kind of story thank you so much thank you for doing it and another thing that I'm curious about like how does the
process of picking their sargassum killed you got the last product brother I love you you know I love you right I have a patent and trademark if I tell you the formula and then but it's organic okay let's give it another other than building houses and Cermak in bocce I start making it's a Chinese word that means fermento fermented romantic for the last 1 000 years that's why they use for their rice fields to grow okay
although China and Russia to grow vegetables in my Nursery in different houses and right now we start making tiles I forgot so I'm going to start making pots for plants out of sargasso and pretty soon I want to be the second oldest city I have a heart on my desk if if I can get Fernando the technical advisor to just jump up real quick they can headphones off and jump up I want to know I'm where if you created this cuz it's on my desk it's a it's a heart there's a heart look look behind a computer there's a there's a heart
it's like a little heart have you seen it
or did you say competition where is the competition make that I have to shade and I honestly I pray for all these people that they're doing something else with the cigar so you know they asked me all what do you think that they doing something I mean it's plenty so I got a problem and it works good as a fertilizer oh yeah it works really good good all my plans I have over 10 000 plants I mean you are Siri and that's always our lights are made out of gas or analyzer made on his way and now you're calling him and I met you at the beginning of this year and you've been traveling a lot around so what are your travel all right now what it what it what are you doing while you're traveling because you're going to play the score
very sargasso and people want to know about you while I just I mean it's a blessing it's amazing how God makes everything so perfect I mean who the youngest sign up all three kids you know that we grew up with nothing cuz sleeping sometimes and sidewalks and things like that and I never I mean and I never not even in my on my dreams to be to be in Cancun it was it was impossible thing I'm thinking to go to old truck Arabian like Dr Dominican Republic going to Martinique or Billy's or even go to Europe I mean it was not an eye on your vision and my fishing and I will. I mean what I do outside there in tedx they hire me to tell my story and different countries I go to the other places they have a problem with
forgot so that way we can make a replica of what I'm doing in Mexico and do it there I'm just blessed for the people that may be struggling with this idea and are not able or or are just focus on the bad side from and if there is a bad side like that and you are bringing them the good part of it you know that's one thing I am I want to be gone I'm going to be leaving on Saturday I'm going to be our I'm coming back on the 17th because the 18 the embassy of French they're coming over to Puerto Morelos and see my house and number one number two and number one free still I mean there I mean I'll be more than happy to invite you guys and and and do an activity you know
I would like love it right I would like we can all ride by synopsis for you guys to go there and make a break and put your name on it so the next house that we're going to donate your name is passing some crazy ideas. I love right now I want something special for things like this thing that he's telling us like just putting our name in in a block that might be really easy or maybe nonsense but at the end at least for me it it brings a different level of feeling you know I mean it's it's it's having your name and your break or a family that is going to be thankful the rest of their life and and and be part of you guys to be on the bridge it's part of U2
therefore it forever we're going to die you know sooner or later we're going to die and I really appreciate it thank you Omar how do you want people to contact you how do they want the how do you want them to contact you or they can go Instagram sargasso of course via Facebook or Omar Vasquez on Facebook and if they have questions of my phone number is 984-175-0536. They they come in in in in want to take picture with me or to talk about is like you so easy to to contact you you know I say I thought you were going to have an assistant or whatever I mean I don't
do everything by myself so if you guys want to come to Port tomorrow and talk to him just give me a call we got to go there at least to do the Instagram worldwide well-known attraction from Puerto Morelos right Greg a photo with mr. Masterson I'm getting one
okay well let's talk about the promotion for this episode the promotion for this episode will be sargas
it's our guests are good luck Saga block that's within a block and that's going to give you 15% off of any of our properties at condo hotels Playa Del Carmen. Cam for any dates from now until October my on 100 my assistant tells me October so she's got that written down is going to make sure to put that in the system and then when you get here go ahead and give them our call and go take a picture go get that Instagram picture with Omar at sure what would I can do what I can do for you guys is to bring the soccer block I mean I have 10 I say tennis racket blocks of the last generation which is a Seventh Generation and I have 10 of 8 or 10 special people and then you guys are one of it put my name on it bring it over it and you can give it to somebody what do you think
amazing I'm always learning from you my friend I mean we learn from each other I think thank you
well Mar thank you so much for coming this was this was a great show I just was really the dangerous I felt it was dangerous and I was nervous about doing this but it's turned into a stream that mean your story is just absolutely amazing and what you're doing for people is absolutely amazing and you made Xavier cry in the show no photos
no thank you for the invitation and it was a pleasure being here with you guys. Have a wonderful day thank you thank you bye-bye thanks
