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0:00AThis is new to me. This is my friend’s camera.
0:02BOh, okay.
0:03AThis is my first time using it. What’s up everybody? This is Masea.
0:06BCome on now.
0:07AAnd I’m here with -- tell me your name one more time.
0:08BKeith. Keith.
0:09AI’m here with Keith. We just met. I’m doing this interview series. I think I’m gonna try and do 10 interviews before I leave Denver and we’ll see if that changes. But I’m just asking people how they see Denver, the community here, the culture here. Yeah.
0:22BYeah.
0:23AHow long you been here?
0:24BI’ve been here -- I moved back about 5 years ago. I was here with the airlines for a little while, then I got laid off.
0:32AI got that. What were you doing for the airline?
0:35BI was a flight attendant.
0:36AOh yeah? So you got to travel all over the world, huh?
0:39BNo, just, uh, continental.
0:41AOkay.
0:42BI was low. I was on the small little jets.
0:45AOkay, that’s pretty cool. Like, uh, so is that like small? Like, is that like small planes?
0:50BYeah, 50 to 70 passengers.
0:52ASo that’s like going like shorter distances?
0:55BYeah, uh, yeah, shorter distances. But a lot of ups and downs.
0:59AOkay, I hear that. Like, like, what does that mean, ups and downs? Like stops?
1:02BYeah, you go back and forth. How you doing?
1:05AOkay, sick.
1:06BAnd we go to the smaller, you know, like smaller little cities too, or towns, and then take them back to the like main hubs.
1:14ASo yeah, you feel like you have a, a more like a -- does he feel like that’s informed your perspective on America?
1:20BUh, yeah, well, I, I got like Certain -- like, I lived in DC for a little while and I liked living there, but it was crazy expensive. And the Metro didn’t go past 1 o’clock, which didn’t make no sense, and everybody closed at 2 or 3.
1:38AYeah, I get that. How you doing, man?
1:40BWe’re going that way.
1:42AOkay, dope. Yeah, you’re saying the Metro closed early in DC?
1:46BYeah.
1:46AYeah, we hate that.
1:47BBut the Metro was easy to use, unlike New York City, which is easy to have a hell No, that’s fair.
1:54AI only -- I feel like I’m only successful at using New York City Metro because of Google Maps.
1:59BYeah, I don’t like going. Well, back then when I was in the city, I’m like we just have Google Maps.
2:04AYou have to ask for.
2:05BYeah, yeah, that’s what I’m saying. Nobody knows where you’re going. Yeah, like oh no.
2:10AYeah, it’s a big city. That’s true.
2:12BYou’re like they only know their route and that’s about it.
2:14AYou know? Mm-hmm. That’s true. It’s a big city. I feel like it’s like eight Denver’s. Yeah. Yeah, you can go by outside, man.
2:21BWell, as far as Denver, I like living, uh, each community, each little area of Denver has its like little community. Like if you, uh, like up on Federal, it’s more Hispanic. Down here is more, uh, uh, well, they say this is the gay part, gay community.
2:39ABut is the gay community?
2:41BSupposedly. I like going. I don’t see it, but I see a lot of gay people, you know. But it doesn’t bug me.
2:48AYeah, yeah.
2:49BIt’s like, who cares?
2:50AYeah, yeah, I hear that. I mean, I’m staying with my friend. Their guess.
2:53BYeah, but that’s what everybody else says. I’m only going, ah, it’s you. But let’s see, down like 16th Street is like the tourist area. Right now it’s all under construction, so nothing’s going on.
3:15AWhat do you think about the city politics?
3:17BCity politics? It’s a mixture of both. Like you got conservative and liberal and just depending on who you could talk to. Like you could talk to somebody ultra conservative.
3:29AYeah.
3:29BAnd then turn around and talk to somebody super liberal. Like in the same bar or the other.
3:35AYeah.
3:36BYeah.
3:37AOkay. And how do you think that bodes for the actual people who are in office here? Like, what do you think about the governor?
3:44BThe governor, I don’t mind.
3:46AWhat’s the governor’s name?
3:47BOh God, I can’t remember right now.
3:49AThat’s okay, I couldn’t tell you my governor.
3:50BI used to know the governor of New York.
3:54ACuomo?
3:56BNo, that was a long time ago, but yeah, he was governor.
3:59AYeah, it’s okay.
4:02BAnd the bear.
4:04AOkay, I get that, I get that. So what would you say is your favorite part about being here in Denver?
4:11BThe nightlife, the entertainment, the community, some of the food. ’Cause it’s a mixture.
4:23AWhen you say like the nightlife, what are things that stand out to you about the nightlife?
4:32BLike you could go like Down towards, uh, like the baseball stadium and up, you got nightclubs and everything. Got little, uh, uh, hole-in-the-wall bars like this one. This one’s a nice bar.
4:47AOh yeah?
4:48BBar None.
4:49AOkay, yeah, yeah, actually I’ve seen this on the internet. Political Works LLC.
4:53BYeah, interesting. And then like just in this little neighborhood, you got 3 or 4 bars in walking distance. And I got a nightclub right down the street that’s called The Church where the girls dress nice.
5:09AMm-hmm.
5:10BUh, let’s see what else. I just like living here. I like, uh, the weather’s been great this winter, but no snow though.
5:23AYeah, no snow. I noticed that. I came from Philly.
5:26BYeah.
5:26AAnd I feel like it’s actually been colder here than it was where I was back home. It was like, it was like -12 degrees is how it felt, like by the water in Philly. And then I came here and I was like overdressed in my coat and I was like, yeah, it’s scratching my head.
5:40BYeah, this has been a warm summer or warm winter this season. Last season was like constant snow, you know, like it was cold, cold.
5:50AYou think it’s the AI?
5:51BI think it’s not AI. I think it’s just the Well, it’s El Niño, I think. What’s that? The weather, how the weather pushes the weather, like El Niño, El Niña. And it pushes the high up higher, so the temperature from like down south comes up higher.
6:15ASo that makes sense. I can see that. Okay.
6:18BSo it’s, you know, out here, water’s the main Yeah, thank God for water, right? Right. Well, here it’s like going -- it helps put out fires, you know, all that, you know.
6:31AThere’s a lot of fires here?
6:32BYeah, uh, not here in Denver, but like on the outskirts. Like there was one, there was a couple like last year I think, or the year before, where it hit, uh, part of the outskirts of the suburbs and it torched a whole bunch of homes and everything because it Uh, because, uh, I think a transformer arced. It fell? Just arced. It started the fire.
6:57AThat’s what arc means? Yeah, like an electric arc. Oh, interesting. I never seen that. Yeah, I never seen that.
7:04BWell, the winds and everything kind of just like --
7:06AWow, that’s crazy. Yeah. Well, it’s nice to meet you, kid. Nice meeting you.
7:10BYou have a good night. What was your name again?
7:12AMaseo. Maseo? I like to say booyah at the end of some of my content. Would you like me to say booyah? Booyah! 3, 2, 1. Booyah! Hell yeah.
