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What question should Denver be answering? A man from Las Vegas, in Denver for one night, goes through AI, leadership and the thing he keeps returning to: that most of what happens to people happens because they did not know their rights.

On AI: “you can’t trust it, you don’t know if it’s real, if that’s really your girlfriend.” It is a tool for getting started, he says, not for thinking.

On leadership: “our society just right now is just really a lack of leadership.” He dates the last time it felt otherwise to around 2004, when he was in high school.

On Trump, he says people believed in him because they wanted change, and that the attention went to the wrong place: “he just thinks about the Mexican border.” Maceo explains crypto to him in the middle of the conversation.

Denver, 2026.

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0:00AYou want to be on film? Just shouting people out?

0:03BWe’re not shouting people out, we’re asking people questions. You just keep saying stuff. Yeah, we’re asking people questions. I’ve been doing this thing where I’ve been using a podcast style. And I’m trying to get more into doing man on the street content now. And I’m like, okay, going out and trying to do journalism, trying to get the story. What are the stories? I feel like we don’t have as much of the journalism there. And so we’re trying to figure out what is the question we should be asking people. Yeah, essentially.

0:29COkay, so what are the questions that you should ask people?

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0:34BWhat’s the question you have about Denver right now?

0:36CA question that I have about Denver? I’m from Las Vegas. I’m not from Denver. But I’m in Denver for the night. I’m trying to see what’s up with the ladies.

0:50AI’m trying to find these nice fucking girls, get them interviewing, saying things. We were asking about AI, too. Do you like AI?

0:55BImagine, he said he’d make some ghosts and scare him away, talking about AI, what’s going on?

0:58AThey were here though, they-

1:00CAI seems, AI seems as if it could be tapped, you know what I’m saying, like you don’t know, you know what I’m saying, if you really talk to even another person or, you know, artificial, you know, some artificial intelligence, yeah, you can’t trust it, you don’t know if it’s real, if that’s really your girlfriend, if it’s not, you know what I’m saying, but, so,

1:21Ayeah, he’s right,

1:23Cyeah, you know, it’s just based on that person,

1:34ASome people use it for school and stuff so like do you have business or anything you know like what do you do for like a living like does that help you AI help you at all in your life you know organizing thoughts

1:45CAI really doesn’t

1:47Aa lot of people just use the chat box It’s not telling people about AI

1:50CIt’s not me because it’s not I’m just asking I’m not dependent on, you know what I’m saying I’m not slow People sometimes that aren’t really active thinking They need to kind of be led The AI will help lead their You know, their first thought And then, you know, like Like a web, spider web You know, brainstorming So when you don’t know, it’s like selling somebody Something, Maceo It’s like, oh, you like a girl right? Pick which one, you know what I’m saying? Black, white, Mexican, shit like that So, it’s something that’s interesting, it’s something that, as far as designers, it’s something that’s profitable, that’s gonna sell, something that people’s gonna be interested in

2:33ASo, I have another question, I have another question

2:35BWho is the most impactful person that I know?

2:38CThe most impactful person that I know? I don’t want to say, like, Michael Jordan

2:45AI mean, you can.

2:46CEverybody has Michael George, you know?

2:49AWell, for different reasons, right?

2:50CI mean, for different reasons, but everybody does. I mean, like, almost everybody. You know, you wouldn’t say it’s a sterile, typical kind of shoe for a person or clothing or redline, but you see it everywhere. You know what I’m saying? Fake, real, everything, you know? He’s indirectly influential, but something that’s kind of influential that somebody that’s influential that’s helping our economy right now, there’s people trying, but there’s anyone that’s really, our economy is so hurt right now that it’s still coming out that depression, that recession, that it’s still not, you know what I’m saying? The people still are still trying to be motivated by our leaders that are in office right now, like Trump.

3:31CSome people might have believed in him, but as, you know, his stay in office, Because, you know, as teen year in office continues, more people are kind of still thinking bad about him instead of some of the good things that he was doing.

3:50BOkay, man.

3:51CYou know, because sometimes there’s folk that want to see change. So with the current economy and some of the things that was going on, and those things that aren’t changing, they believe in Trump and things like that. And he still, he just thinks about the Mexican border and some of the things that, you know, So he did address some of the things that people are concerned about, but there’s still a lot of things that, you know, he’s still doing that people are kind of still, you know, what’s going on with Trump

4:19AThat they’re missing out on?

4:20CYeah, that they’re missing out on, yeah, totally, but just our society just right now is just really a lack of leadership Like there used to be, say, when we were in high school or something like that, 2004 or something like that When there’s more leadership, the economy is more better, people, you know, were more happier, things like that, you know, inflation wasn’t hard, gas prices, home, like,

4:47Bhome purchases and things. You know, it’s funny you bring up inflation that you’re talking about, inflation.

4:52AWell, like, yeah, Craig, you heard about crypto at all?

4:56CI’ve heard about it, but I really don’t know too much about it or what’s the benefit of it.

5:00AThe big benefit of crypto to me is that I can send money and receive money and store money without anybody even the government being able to take it from me. Even if it’s not a lot of money I could store five dollars in a crypto wallet and even the cops they think I’m a criminal.

5:16CDo it double? Like if you have five dollars is it really like fifteen?

5:19AThat’s like speculative so it might or it might not but the important thing is you can actually keep just dollars like US dollars in a wallet.

5:26CSo that’s why I’m not really into it, because it’s more of a speculative thing,

5:30Ait’s not a matter of fact, you don’t really know if it’s going to double up, you know what I’m saying? So if it was just using money to pay for the concert or pay for stuff, and it just stayed a dollar, would you use it if it cut the government out?

5:43CIf it processed in my pocket, yeah.

5:46AWell no, it doesn’t hurt your pocket at all, it just stays a dollar. You pay me a dollar, I pay you a dollar. But it cuts out credit card companies, no taxes, no anything else. No government intervention. I can give you money, you can give me money. We’re saying

5:57CVegas, right? There is a tax.

5:59BWe don’t

6:00Chave sales sales. Yeah. Oh, shit. So, Bitcoin wouldn’t really make a difference.

6:04BYeah, I don’t know why you’re talking about sales tax, peer-to-peer stuff. He’s talking about inflation. Inflation is the opportunity. I hear you talking about sales.

6:10AI’m talking about the ability to send money and receive money without a third party.

6:15BYeah, yeah, yeah.

6:16AAnd then USDC doesn’t change in value.

6:19CBut you have to... What?

6:21AUSDC.

6:23BI know, it doesn’t matter, ignore USDC. The premise of Bitcoin is that inflation is they’re printing more money, but they can’t print more Bitcoin. That’s the whole premise of Bitcoin. It’s supposed to be like, like you’re saying, there’s no government intervention. As opposed to every year, your dollar can be worth less. The Bitcoin might stay the same, but the dollar’s getting worth less, so Bitcoin looks like it’s getting more expensive. But it’s just like the eggs, it’s just going up in price because the dollar’s going down. And so that’s kind of where crypto came from. But I’m like, oh, you can talk about that. And he’s like, no, I’m going to pay that.

6:49CSo our value is going down, the value of the U.S. dollar is going down.

6:54BYeah, only faster by the year. And the

6:55ABitcoin only...

6:56COnly faster by the year because of the economy and shit.

7:02ASo no, all I was saying, you know, you don’t see my side, is that people can send each other money. Yeah. And instead of them freezing the assets, if I sell my friend weed and it’s legal here in Colorado, say, right, they can’t just shut my bank account down. They have to come and arrest me and do something. They can’t fuck with my money. We have

7:20Cmore probable cause and shit like that.

7:22BIt’s just like they can’t seize your asses, that’s all you can.

7:24CYeah, so it’s a matter of knowing or not knowing or not let the government play you, it’s a shame, you know what I’m saying? Because they will. If you don’t know that, they can’t do that. Yeah. You know what I’m saying? But if you don’t know that and they try to push that and you just let them do it, you know what I’m saying? It’s a matter of enlightening folks and being knowledgeable, you know what I’m saying? And knowing your rights to survive in our system because our government is fucked up, I don’t know about Denver, but Vegas, man, there’s so many political fucked up shit that people can’t be scared to come out and protest about those things that are wrong because those people are in office will change.

7:47CYou have to believe that. Trump will, when you bring those things across to him, what he needs to do, he’ll do it. You know what I’m saying? I hope.

8:08AFuck yeah. All right. Well, thank you, bro. I appreciate it. What’s your name?

8:13BThat’s free, alright,

8:13Anice to meet you, homie

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