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0:00Homeless [bleeped] I’m from St. Louis. I just got through doing 10 years in federal prison for bank robbery out of Denver. Oh, yeah? I robbed more banks than any [bleeped] in this city. You look me online, Clearinghouse Bandit. I robbed 14 banks in this [bleeped] Okay.
0:14Look me online, Clearinghouse Bandit. Can I interview you? Yeah, yeah, I get an interview, you hear me? Okay, clip this on you? How long is going to take? It’s You can tell me when to stop. Yeah, cuz I’m trying to keep flying catching my ear. Okay, you’re trying to what? Yeah, well, well, well.
0:26to catch somebody, I understand. Yeah. It’s nice to meet you. I’m Masaya. Masaya. a project that’s called We Them Media. Where you from? You going to give me your website? Yeah, yeah, for sure. You can see it. I’m posting on Instagram, it’s going to be on YouTube.
0:38Okay. I do Yeah, it’s going to be on this other platform, Farcaster. All right. Uh Well, I’m known as the Clearinghouse Bandit here in Denver. You can look me up online, I’m on all on the internet. I robbed 14 banks in this [bleeped] Went and did 10 years in in in in federal prison for bank robbery and murder out of car robbery frame. My name is Jennifer Griffin. I ain’t going to play no games with you. God, I used to hustle streets here. Now it’s a bunch of homeless homeless low-down scandalous dope fiend [bleeped] down here. Used to be some hustlers down here. Ain’t no
1:07hustlers down here anymore. But I’m from St. Louis, and Denver ain’t it ain’t [bleeped] no more. It’s a [bleeped] dope fiend city. I’m just telling you what it is. I’m getting ready to go back to Seattle where some real [bleeped] money is at. Yeah, it’s cool. I didn’t knock [bleeped] out on that corner, robbed [bleeped] up and down the streets here. You know me, St. Louis. But I just got out of federal prison, I’ve been out 4 months. Okay, how you spent your months since you got out? Uh I got I got a job. I’m working UPS. Okay. I’m working at UPS. Basically staying out of
1:36trouble. Been drug-free for like 10 years. I don’t [bleeped] with nothing. I don’t use, I only smoke cigarettes, I don’t drink none of that. You know what I’m saying? And I’m just walking through this area here, just old memories, you know? There ain’t nobody down here when I was down here coming through here. And getting ready to head to a friend’s house, you know what I’m saying? Oh, that’s it.
1:55But yeah, yeah, I remember these streets used to be these streets used to be a lot better than what they are now, man. It’s just just a different I guess a different drug, too. Back then it was a bunch of crack down here. Pearl and Colfax used to be the one of the most moneyest getting streets in this [bleeped] city. You could hang stand on Pearl and Colfax and make a thousand dollars an hour.
2:15Mhm. Yeah, I’m telling you. It was [bleeped] city. I came here from St. Louis. This is the first place I started hanging out at. Yeah, Pearl and Colfax. I used to be the deceiving [bleeped] area right here.
2:25Yeah, but ain’t [bleeped] That always That that used to always I always knew it was 12:00 cuz at 12:00 that [bleeped] always rang. And it’s supposed to be a turn to lifestyle community, but you know you know, it’s it’s gays now. They I don’t They don’t bother me. I don’t bother them. You know, people do do what they do down here. You know what I’m saying? But the city changed a whole lot. It didn’t kind of It didn’t kind of vibe up a little bit. And one of the reasons that vibed up a little bit was because when when when marijuana came in, it kind of like actually drove
2:57up the cost of living here cuz they used These motels used to be like $35, $40 a night. Now they’re like $75, $80 a night. You could actually rent one for a week. You could actually rent one for a week for like $300. Now you can’t even live one. That’s why you got so many homeless people out here. They need to do more I I never lived on the streets. I always kept me a motel or or a spot to live in, but you know uh not now. It’s It’s just, you know, it’s it’s a different world out here now, man. You know, different characters. You know
3:26what I’m saying? A lot of these [bleeped] make you [bleeped] them up and kill them out. And I don’t have no problem I don’t have no problems. Woo. Yeah, your dog kind Yeah. Yeah, I have no [bleeped] problem with accommodating them because you got a bunch of stupid [bleeped] out here that try some stupid [bleeped] cuz they don’t give a [bleeped] about if they live or die. You know what I’m saying? You’re good.
3:46What’s up, homie? Where I know you from? I’m St. Louis. We were somewhere Huh? All right, come on. We were somewhere together. You been to the feds? Where were you at the feds? No, the feds. You was that state. You look kind of familiar, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Be safe out here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s a different world out here. You look still look kind of familiar. But yeah, man. It’s it’s it’s you know, people used to be always been homeless people down here, but they just like robbing them like they just had somewhere to live and stay and [bleeped] you know what I’m saying? But yeah, man.
4:22That’s my interview, bro. Uh I have one more question. I’m curious. Somebody’s been asking me to ask you about the internet. How do people see the internet? Is the internet good for us, bad for us? Um Has it been making a I think the internet is good because I think you can learn you can go around get make contact do a lot of things a lot quicker on the internet. I think the internet is a good thing. It has some bad things to it, too. With all the you know, the porno and all the but anything anything that starts
4:50Bless you. Good. It’s going to end up in a bad [bleeped] way. You know, that’s just that’s that’s just that’s just that’s just Yeah, how you doing, bro? That’s just a cycle of life, you know what I’m saying? Anything that starts off good it’s going to end up bad. Anything that starts off bad can turn good. Yeah. But yeah, the internet I think the internet is good. People is learning. People are learning being taught. So, the internet is is a good thing. People learn quicker and faster. Get information quicker and faster. But I tell you one thing I’ve been I’ve been I’ve been growing up
5:21in the penitentiaries three states in Illinois, Missouri, Watson State, and been to the feds. I have been hustling all across this country from New York all the way here all the way to California, Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, Reno, Las Vegas, all that. And I’ll tell you one thing that put a dent in crime, it wasn’t DNA cell phones. The reason cell phones put a dent in crime because people can can can can contact the police and get them to the scene, take pictures. That it would put a dent in crime. Have a good day. You know what I mean? Talk
