Juan Meets a New Yorker on Her First Visit to California

Buenos días. Good morning. Beautiful morning, huh?

How you doing? You from out here or what?

No. No? Where you from? I'm from New York. New York? Yeah.

Damn, you come all the way out here? Uh-huh. You been out here a long time or what? No.

No, I just got here yesterday. Oh yeah, this is your first time? Mm-hmm.

Damn, how you like California? It's hot. Yeah? It's not this hot in New York right now. No, it's just sunny. Yeah.

It's hot. Yeah? It's not this hot in New York right now. No, it's just sunny. Yeah.

Man, right now is the good weather. You should throw on a bathing suit and go to the beach. I need to.

You're like, you're like five minutes away.

I need to, I need to check it out for sure.

So it's your first time in California? Yeah. Oh, yeah? What part of New York you from, though?

Brooklyn. Brooklyn? Oh, all right. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I was planning, planning to go out there. I've never been out there.

Brooklyn is nice. Yeah? Are you Mexican? No. No, what are you?

I'm Boricua. Boricua, all right. We have different kind of Latinos out there, huh? Yeah.

That's cool, man. Hell yeah. Well, welcome to California. Thank you so much.

Where all the Mexicans out here. I know, I seen that. Yeah.

Ain't nothing wrong with it. We family. All right, man. We family.

What was your name? Ari. Ari, nice to meet you. You as well. My name's Juan.

Nice to meet you. All right, you have a good day.

She said she's Boricua.

Good morning.

Look at this pelican, homies. Look at the pelican.