336 - Apoplectic ExCon Dan Genis - the NYC Crime Report Interview

Published: April 8, 2018, 11:16 a.m.

DAN GENIS - INTERVIEW NOTES

DAN GENIS - INTERVIEW NOTES## NOTE: TIMESTAMPS ARE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE INTERVIEW, NOT THE BEGINNING OF THE PODCAST. ADD ROUGHLY A MINUTE AND 40 SECONDS# :01 - 8:40## PEDOPHILE ADJACENT\xa0GENIS EXPLAINS HIS ACCIDENTAL FRIENDSHIP WITH A FELLOW PRISONER WHO WAS LOCKED UP VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER AND WITH WHOM HE ATE EVERY MEAL FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, ONLY TO LATER DISCOVER THE MAN WAS ACTUALLY CONVICTED FOR MOLESTING 4 BOYS WHO WERE ALL BROTHERS, A CRIME WHICH DESTROYED THE BOYS' FAMILY.
## BOUNCING LETTER SYSTEM AND THE RECTUM PIPELINEGENIS EXPLAINS HOW INFORMATION GETS FROM PRISON TO PRISON.
## GENIS HISTORY XGENIS RECOUNTS HIS FIRST NIGHT AT RIKERS ISLAND, WHERE HE SPENT THE FIRST 9 MONTHS OF HIS PERIOD OF INCARCERATION, AND GOES ON TO DISCUSS THE CONSIDERABLE FINANCIAL INVESTMENT IN RIKERS; THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW WEAPONS USED TO CONTOL INMATES; THE SINGLE FACTOR THAT CONTRIBUTES THE MOST TO THE DRUGS, VIOLENCE AND OTHER PROBLEMS INSIDE RIKERS.\xa0
8:41 - 14:28## 1,046 - GENIS BOOKS OF PRISON RECORD\xa0GENIS DISCUSSES VARIOUS ASPECTS OF PRISON LIFE, WHY HE READ OVER 1K BOOKS WHILE INCARCERATED AND HOW THIS BECAME THE FOCUS OF HIS UPCOMING MEMOIR, 1046.
## SELF-IMPROVEMENT THROUGH INCARCERATION(?)ALTHOUGH HIS LIFE WAS CHANGED FOR THE BETTER IN SOME WAYS BY HIS 10-YEAR PRISON TERM, HE DOESN'T CONSIDER HIMSELF A "SUCCESS STORY" OF THE REHABILITATION PROGRAMS HE WAS PUT THROUGH WHILE BEHIND BARS.
## JUST BE YOURSELF\xa0GENIS WASN'T A TYPICAL PRISONER, THE EX-CONVICT EXPLAINS WHY HE CHOSE NOT TO PRETEND TO BE AT HOME IN PRISON.
14:29 - 23:33## THE APOLOGETIC BANDITTHE AUTHOR EXPLAINS HOW HE WAS CONVICTED OF 5 ARMED ROBBERIES; WHY HE WAS KNOWN AS THE "APOLOGETIC BANDIT"; HIS MARRIAGE AND HIS ADDICTION TO HEROIN; AND THE MYTH OF THE GREAT WHITE DEFENDANT; HIS WIFE'S SURPRISING RESPONSE TO HIS ARREST AND CONVICTION.
## COOKING IN PRISON\xa0GENIS MADE A VIDEO FOR THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL SHOWING THE SURPRISING VARIETY AND QUALITY OF FOOD WHICH CAN BE PREPARED\xa0 BY INCARCERATED PRISONERS, INCLUDING A 4-POUND CHEESECAKE WHICH WAS CONSUMED IN ONE SITTING BY AUTHOR [BURL BARER](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burl_Barer).\xa0
23:34 - 33:22## WHY RUSSIANS ARE NOT SENTIMENTAL PEOPLEGENIS DISCUSSES HIS PARENTS; A PRISON VISIT FROM HIS UNCLE THAT WAS DISRUPTED BY AN UNFORTUNATE MOMENT OF VIOLENCE WHICH OCCURRED WHEN A BLOOD'S GIRLFRIEND BROKE UP WITH HIM IN THE VISITING AREA.
## SCARRED FOR LIFETHE EX-CON AND AUTHOR EXPLAINS THE SIGNIFICANCE BEHIND CERTAIN SCARS YOU SEE IN PRISON; HIS STATUS IN PRISON; PLAYING CHESS WITH A KILLER;\xa0
## THE AMITYVILLE CONVICTGENIS WAS LOCKED UP WITH THE REAL-LIFE KILLER WHOSE MASS MURDER OF SIX FAMILY MEMBERS SPARKED THE AMITYVILLE HORROR BOOK AND MOVIE, [RONALD DEFEO JR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amityville_Horror).\xa0
33:23 -\xa0## OUT-OF-CONTROL PAROLE AND\xa0A BLA MILITANT IS UP FOR PAROLE; [KATHY BOUDIN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Boudin), CONVICTED FOR HER ROLE IN THE BRINK'S ROBBERY WHICH RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF TWO POLICE OFFICERS, HAS NOT CHANGED SINCE HER PAROLE; THE LEFT WILL EAT ITSELF; COMMUNISM; HATE SPEECH; SHADOW-BANNING; SCANDINAVIA, IMPORTING RAPE CULTURE, THE RELUCTANCE OF THE POPULATION OF ADMIT THE PROBLEM; COMMUNISM, GLOBALISM, ALEX JONES; THE RACISM OF [THE YOUNG TURKS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Turks).\xa0
## RACISM OF THE LEFTGENIS CAME OUT OF PRISON AFTER 10 YEARS TO FIND THAT OVERT RACISM AGAINST WHITES HAD BECOME ACCEPTABLE AND VERY COMMON; THE NIGHT OF BARRACK OBAMA'S ELECTION; FEMINISM; COMMUNISM.
49:27 - 56:10## WORLD HISTORY AND NEWSGENIS GRADUATED FROM NYU WHERE HE WAS REQUIRED TO TAKE A CLASS IN WORLD HISTORY CALLED "[NEGRITUDE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9gritude)" WHICH ILLUSTRATES THE LACK OF TRADITIONAL EDUCATION IN WESTERN HISTORY; CHINA AND THE MEDIA LIES WHICH DISTRACT AMERICANS FROM WHAT'S IMPORTANT, RACE-BAITING; FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE FARM TORTURES, MURDERS AND OTHER PROBLEMS IN SOUTH AFRICA.\xa0
56:11 - 1:27:23## LOSING FRIENDS THROUGH RATIONAL THINKINGHAS NYC GIVEN UP ON ENFORCING THE LAW? STOP-AND-FRISK, ARE QUOTAS A PROBLEM; IGNORING THE EXPERIENCE OF THE POLICE, INTERFERING WITH ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW; RAPE IN CITIES IN ENGLAND IS RAMPANT BECAUSE OF THE FEAR OF BEING LABELLED 'RACIST.'\xa0
## NEW RELIGION ON THE LEFTGENIS TALKS ABOUT THE FAILURE OF ATHEISM IN THE FIRST WORLD AND THE 'SINS' OF THE RELIGION OF THE NEW LEFT; THE DISINGENUOUS FAITH-BASED ARGUMENTS OF THE AUTHORITARIAN LEFT; THE LIBERAL ACTIVISM HASN'T REACHED PRISONS; and the rest.