Apr 8, 2018
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 GENIS 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.
8:41 - 14:28## 1,046 - GENIS BOOKS OF PRISON RECORD GENIS
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 GENIS 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 GENIS MADE A VIDEO FOR THE NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL SHOWING THE SURPRISING VARIETY AND QUALITY OF
FOOD WHICH CAN BE PREPARED 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).
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;
## 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).
33:23 - ## OUT-OF-CONTROL PAROLE AND A 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).
## 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.
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.'
## 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.