Episode 26: Keep It Live with Mike on TikTok Live EP 1

Yo Soy by #michaelortega aka @MichaelPinaComedy

Hello everybody, so I want to welcome you to the Keep It Live with Mike's show every day, 9:00 PM Central Standard Time. We will talk about anything you want. We can go from politics to minor sports. I'm not into the football, baseball, or baseball politics in both Mexico and the United States, and just about life and, uh, what's life about. So join me every evening for a half hour of talk and answers at least ideas. So, um, if you would like to go live, just go ahead and go live and, uh, I mean go ahead and add me and I will surely add you on and we can chat and if you say a follow, I will follow you back. So make sure you follow up and we can have some chats and have some good times together. Talking about life. Today is Mon. I know what is today? Thursday, November 17th and it's 9:00 PM for the live Mike with Live with Mike's show, . I used to do a comedy show. In fact, I still do have a comedy show. It's a comedy festival that we do every year, but we also do every six months for another minor festival. So make sure to add your content and we can actually enjoy some time. So if anybody would like to go live, just go ahead and go live. Go ahead and send me a request and I'll add you and we can join and have a good time chatting about the world or what's going on in the world, or talk about your local area with ideas. Talk about things that maybe, maybe are important in life. We'll be doing this every day from nine o'clock to nine 30, and then as we start getting more, we'll start doing more. Why not? So anyways, go ahead. If you'd like to join in a conversation, go ahead and add me and we can have a chat about life, politics, anything you want, just kind of chilling. My work is good and done did my work the other day. Uh, we can speak in Spanish or we can just talk in English, , and, uh, we can talk about a lot of different ideas. Talk about where I live in Mexico City, so if you have any ideas or thoughts of coming to Mexico City, let me know. I do have an Airbnb here, so I do work with people during that time. But anyways, I'm here and I can work with you guys, talk to you guys about anything you want, um, anything that crosses your mind, go ahead and add me and I will go ahead. Hey, pride light. Hey, how you doing? I'm a gay guy as well. ? Yes. Hey Guy, you should add a, send me a request and we can have a chat and uh, yeah, I'm actually a gay guy and I've been gay for a long time. . So anyways, so Perry, the light. Nice to meet you, Perry, the light. And I love your gay rainbows that you sent in the in the chat. And if you'd like to have a conversation, go ahead and hook up and we can have a little conversation, two to three questions, and we'll move on to the next person. But anyways, so we're gonna have a longer conversation. Yes, go ahead. Let me, maybe I can send you a request. Is this how it works? Follow. I'm gonna follow you. So I just followed you and invite you as a guest. Oh, you don't have guest access. It says for some reason. Oh, too bad. Yeah. Say if you can request, uh, request it to me for some reason. It says you don't have friend, you don't have, lemme try again. Top one. Manage friends, followers, likes, invite. I sent you an advice. It says The veer does not have guest access. Hm. I don't know what that quite means. You don't have guest access? Hmm, definitely. Ah, okay. Yes, yes. I get it. I get it. Yeah. With time I think you'll be able to do it, but right now you don't have guest access. It says, oh, maybe you need to have so many users. Ah, that's probably what. But go ahead and type something in the chat and that we can have a discussion and I can answer some questions. Um, maybe, uh, we can share through the chat back and forth some information and ideas. and I'm liking people who are appear to, uh, show up in the chat and, um, swipe right to view more comments. Wipe left . I just don't understand Oh, here we go. Oh yeah, here we go. Now I see a lot more chats. That's that's pretty. Uh, that's great actually. I'm glad we have that. So anyways, so, uh, don't you ask me a question in the chat and maybe we can, uh, carry a little conversation while we're going this way, since we can only communicate this way. There's people kind of coming in and out, but this is live chat about the world. Anything you wanna talk about and let's see if we can gain a theme. I actually run a comedy show online as well as was live when I was in la, but I moved to Mexico City now. So now I'm living in Mexico City. And we're looking at maybe, perhaps starting our standup there. What is the first thing someone should be aware of? So their first visit to Mexico City. What is the first thing someone should be aware of for their first visit to Mexico City? Well, first of all, Mexico City has changed since the eight years that I first came here. Right now, the city has been, went through a redevelopment in the downtown area, and it actually, uh, with the, in, with the influx of Ubers into me city, I honestly think it's very, very safe. Um, Have no problems taking Ubers anywhere. Uh, the, I've noticed that the, even the taxi taxis have improved their services in Mexico City. As far as anything else, um, the water of course is still not good for drinking, but you can get used to it. Uh, it just takes a little bit of time. But if you're in a short term, I just drink a lot of water out of a bottle. They sell it everywhere. That's very, very cheap price. They don't gouge you here. Also, uh, the food is great, the tacos. Uh, the thing I don't like about Mexico City just to inform you, is you can have two restaurants across from each other. One's focused on the American dollar, so they'll charge you maybe three quarters of the American dollar for food. For a nice restaurant Americanized experience across the way, you'll get a more of a homegrown, um, Mexican restaurant that's no self proprietor ship, and it'll be one quarter of the price . So you have to decide what you like. Oh, Los Angeles. Yes. Oh. But it's very safe here. I actually go to the United States almost every Thursday. I fly out of city, um, um, cmx, I mean, not cmx. Yeah. CMX Airport. I arrive in, in, in the United States, and then I fly back the next day. I use Uber to get there. Uh, I get, when I get, when I get home, I use Uber to come back to my home, which is in the middle of El is the Centro, the Mexico City. Um, and I have no problems. Nothing, nothing very safe. Uh, if you're a traveling female, you, you'll have no problems either. I don't see any problems here. I've been here now for 18 months, going on 19 months, and I've seen no issues that were substantiated as what they show you in Hollywood. Los Angeles. Yeah, Los Angeles. I lived there for quite a while. I read my comedy show there. And I did a lot of films there as well. Made some films and, uh, both as the actor, as a producer, and basically, yeah, I like la a little pricey. Uh, very pricey. So I've kind of, uh, enjoyed being here a little bit better. So what part of the, what part of the world do you live in? Prairie. Prairie Light waits for some feedback. Hi, Dorothy. How you doing Dorothy? How you doing? Dorothy? Oh, Colorado. I used to live, I used to go to Colorado Springs in my first life, my first 20 years of my life, I was a gymnastics coach. And so I used to go to Colorado Springs, um, every year, two to three times with my athletes because they were high level athletes. . So we'd go to the Tra Olympic Training Center. So I'd fly through Denver and go to Colorado Springs. Oh, New Mexico. Oh, great. I used to go to New Mexico a lot at the, for the pit, at the pit for gymnastics meets. And I would take all my athletes to the pit for d various, uh, championship meets that were there. So we end up in, um, I think that's, uh, Albuquerque. Yeah, Albuquerque. That's great. Yeah, I've lived in area, I was born and raised in Arizona and then I went from Arizona to to Oregon. How you doing Bryce? How you doing? I like to watch your videos, Bryce. I watch them often. It's great to see you there. And uh, yeah, I lived in Oregon. I lived in Washington, I lived in California, San Francisco area, as well as La Santa Monica. In San Diego. Um, hi Bryce. How you doing? Jay Dominguez, how are you doing? Jay Dominguez, what was the Hold up, how's life? Hey Bryce. I watched your videos. Oh yeah, you're great. I love it. I love it. I love awesome things. And maybe we can chat. You wanna chat? Can you chat yet? I don't know. It doesn't say you can chat. But yeah, I watch your stuff. It's great. You remind me of a good friend of mine, uh, when I was in college. Yes, I'm doing good. I'm, I'm home now, right now in Mexico City and, uh, I decided to stay for the holidays, so the next few days, although me, Thanksgiving isn't a holiday here, um, I. Uh, people that I, I work with here, so I'm gonna spend my holiday here with them, although I don't know if I'm gonna make any Turkey So that's what I do. And, uh, so what's up? What are you up to, uh, Bryce? What's going on? What's going on in your life? What's different? What's fun? Uh, what's interesting? Tell me something interesting about your life that I don't know, or No one knows if you want . I do run a comedy show. I do it online right now, but I also have done it in, um, uh, in, in LA in a comedy club there. And right now, uh, I'm here in Mexico. We are thankful for Mexican food. I am very thankful for Mexican food. You know, I, I do tacos. I love the tacos here and every quarter there seems to be a good taco stands. Happy birthday. Happy holidays, Bryce. Yes. So we have some, where are you from, Bryce? We have one person that's here from Colorado and New Mexico. And where is Bryce from? Although I think you said it. Oh, that's awesome. Awesome. How did that go? The election polls? How? How did that go? Oh, Atlanta, right. I knew that. I knew that. I actually used to work in Atlanta. I used to fly from Portland, Oregon to Atlanta, every work in Atlanta for a week and come home on the weekend. I did that for several years. I was living in Portland, Oregon. Uh, this is in the top.com days when there's a lot of money. So companies paid us lots of money and we were able to fly back and forth at Will. So yeah. Atlanta, yes, big, big community. How was the, uh, tell us a little bit about your experience on the polls on election day. What did you feel, uh, after? Just ask that, after the event, what did you feel? About the election, uh, what did you feel? Did you feel uncomfortable? Did you feel everything felt good? Um, what, what posture your mind working as a poll? Uh, as a poll. Poll day. Oh, wow. What happened? What you just felt that the, the election didn't sway right. Or you felt that. Um, the way things were voting was handled. Were the machines breaking? What, what did you think clerk? That's an important role. Yeah. Ha. That's a bit of a joke in itself. That's great. And in fact, I was gonna, if I was going back to LA I was considering to work on the election again. I worked in 2000 before I came to Mexico. And then when I been here since then and I was considering going back cuz I was offered some opportunities and then I decided just to keep the opportunities I have now in, in Texas. Yeah, that's a, that's that's true. Sometimes people don't know what they want and so it's easier just to follow. Unfortunately, the American system isn't built on that. What had you moved to Mexico? Honestly, I'm gonna be completely honest with you. Liberty, and opportunity. I, I, I've been to Mexico eight years ago for the first time when I made a film. When we finished the film at the end of this shoot, it was two, two week shoot, I just felt that I wanted to come back and yes, you're right. The American system is built on conformity and not creation. You're absolutely right. So I decided that I would research my family background. Little did I know , that um, I had a very strong family background in Mexico. Uh, so much so that I was able to get my Mexican citizenship. And I also found that my surname, Ortega had a bit of popularity here that I didn't know about. and, uh, that's a kind of, I guess by living in the United States, I was concentrating on my life there. And it wasn't till I started looking for alternatives and dissatisfaction with being a Mexican in the United States, even though I was, um, very gringo. Um, my me, my family is very Mexican. My brothers and sisters are, and my mother are very modern, which is very dark-skinned. I just happen to be very light. And I just decided that I just wasn't satisfied with, you know, what was going on in the United States. So I decided, well, you know what? I have my citizenship. Why not come down here and see how it does give it a year? Uh, about six months into it I decided, okay, I'm gonna stay. And then a year and a half into it, uh, I said, I'm definitely gonna stay. And that's kind of where I'm at now. Isn't creation a come up? I don't know what that, um, I am a Mexican also. Oh, wow. That's great. Awesome. That's awesome. You know, you know, I, I, I have a long history of, of being my, I have, I have, my family has been in, in politics indirectly. Um, My whole life, my brother who just passed away was into politics. Uh, my other brother's wife who just passed away, unfortunately, she was very big into politics, various roles in the background, and I always just had a different way of looking at things. But I was too busy in my own life and I didn't really care much. But now that I've gotten older, I decided to take a little bit of different approach. And although I've always worked with young people, I decided to be more of a voice of reason and, uh, freedom. Mexican Kent. That's a funny, funny phrase. you know, it's, it's, it's, um, uh, it's so funny that you said that because the, the, the, the people in Mexico are very diverse. Uh, there's a lot of people who are light-skinned like me. There's the moos who are dark-skinned, and then there's other ethnicities here that come from all the whole region. In fact, the current mayor of Mexico City, she's first generation from, from Russia, uh, Russia area. I think she also, I thought it was Poland. No hung, no hungry, hungry Russian background. She's a first generation Jewish person. who lives here and who's running for mayor, who's mayor? Um, I won't go into her if you watch my videos, you pretty much know what I think about her, but she's first generation. And the bottom line is, um, Mexico is a very, uh, amazing country with a v lot of culture, a lot of poor culture that has made it great, uh, even though they have little, little means. So it's very, uh, very diverse and that's why I like it here actually. It's a fun community to live in. And, uh, I have a lot of people that I, um, work with here, uh, young people, um, street vendors, and uh, I love it. I love it. So, Well, Bryce, you're right. Poverty is ly rising in the United States. Um, one of my biggest dissatisfactions, and one of the reasons I left was because living in Santa Monica, I've been going there since I was a kid. I love it there. Santa Monica, California team was just an amazing. It has the Hispanic culture. It has, uh, the, uh, beauty, the beach, the the Ferris wheel on the part on the, on the, on the pier. Nice long walks I would take every day. Then I start going to Venice area and it just start getting worse and worse and worse. And since I'd been going to Santa Monica since I was 16 years old, I just was blown away by it. And yeah, the peer. I love the peer, but I started seeing a lot of homeless and I started seeing politicians coming in and out, in and out, and they never were addressing the issue, and I just felt dissatisfied. Uh, the last seven years of my life, living in California Santa Monica, before I came to Mexico. I was very disappointed with what I saw, and I started looking at the demographics and the numbers. And the numbers weren't jiving for me. What I mean by the numbers is, uh, you know, I work in it and I had to do what they call, you know, we had to do balance sheets and the balance sheets always have to match up, but I was noticing the balance sheets weren't matching up. And I decided, well, either I have to do something about it or I need to go somewhere where I can do something about it. So that's why I ended up. Yeah. You know, it's funny that you said that because politicians on both sides have been addressing the issue, but wouldn't do nothing about it. For example, in 1920, I know 1942 was the, uh, there was a act, a Civil Rights Act for, um, helping the homeless. I forget, I forget the name. And when I started researching this, I couldn't believe that this act was in place and passed by Congress. And the Senate, and here we were a hundred years later and nothing had happened. No, not a hundred, but 70 years later, nothing had happened. So then I realized billions of dollars were being spent and nobody was, somebody wasn't accounting for those dollars. For example, I worked with a lot of homeless in, in Washington, Seattle, Washington. In fact, ironically, a funny story is I was at the Union Gospel Mission in Santa Monica co. I mean in Seattle, Washington. And one night, a, a guy walked in and wanted to do a, a speech about drug addiction, and that person was Robin Williams. Okay. As I saw him do his speech in front of all the people who were living there and sleeping there and paying $5 to be in the union gospel missing per night. I was pretty blown away by a lot of things. Um, I was blown away by himself, how he acted in his body. and his stories. But then I was also saddened because when I looked at what was happening in the Union Gospel mission, the people were having to pay $5 to sleep in this place. And at the same token they were having, they were having a bedbug epidemic epidemic. So not only were they having to show up to sleep there at night at 4 30, 5 o'clock at night, They were because the doors shut down at six 30, but they also were sleeping and paying $5 to sleep in bed bucks. And that kind of was the crest of why I said there's a problem here. So then I started going to Goodwill because Goodwill is based outta Seattle. So I went there and I started working in the backend department. Cause you know, I was a little bit of, people knew who I work. I had a, a company. So then as I was working with, um, the company I had was an employment agency and I was hiring felons and people who were at high risk and couldn't get jobs. So I hired them to do jobs that were actually pretty good jobs, uh, that, uh, companies would let us work with them on certain things. And, uh, that means they had visibility. They, they were never ashamed of what they were doing, uh, because no one knew their backgrounds. And at the same token, we had a. Good control because they knew that I was there and working for them as well. But I started working the Salvation Army and I No, Goodwill. Oh my gosh. After two to three weeks of several meetings, I just, I couldn't do it anymore. I said, I can't do this because I'm seeing too many things that are, are bad. They're taking advantage of the customers, they're taking advantage of the funding. Uh, it's just, I, I don't want anything to do with. So I just backed off and moved on and, uh, my business didn't associate with them anymore. Uh, brown versus Board of Education. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Brown versus Board of Education. You know, after dealing with this stuff long enough, you start second guessing what's this all about? And that when I say second guessing, I don't mean second guessing. You see what it's. You're just always a little stunned that you're actually having this conversation with yourself and that stunning conversation is the crest of the problem, and that's, that's, it's just brown versus education is class example. America has legislative laws so that they don't have to hold their word. Well, that's a good way of saying it. I like to say it a little differe. I like to say it that America, United States has built process so that way the process can be the bad guys, so that way they can always look like they're doing good. That's politicians. But the process is distinctly written so that two things happen. A, they are not accountable to the process. And B, they put bodies in front of them that are accountable so people can attack them. The policing in in, in United States is the exact same issue when I was in Washington State because I was working with so many people who were felons and who were on probation. be with, you're the oaxacans, careful with the Oaxaca cheese tacos. Those things are . They'll up. You're right. Okay. You much and bye-Bye guys. See you tomorrow. Bye. Right. Thank you. Thank you. Auto-scroll