Hey Simon , you should get someone to write a script about Mark " Chopper " Read . He was a hitman , author , comedian ( kind of ) . Eric Bana played him the the Biopic of his life. The movie Chopper is easily one of the most iconic movies made in Australia. Chopper himself became an icon in Australia.
Great video as always, I would also enjoy it if Arnaldo wrote a script about "Missy Bevers" for Casual Criminalist & George wrote about "The Yuba County Five (AKA America's Dyatlov Pass) for Decoding the Unknown.
Hey simon and team. I actually prefer the longer videos and hate watching anything shorter than 45 minutes. Usually I'm listening while I'm working and I do not like having to stop and interrupt my work to find something else to listen to. And I don't think most people care that some videos go long
I lived in Sacramento when Dorothea got caught.. Things changed dramatically in California after that. I had to physically take a man I was caring for to the Social security office to prove that he was still alive.
The most literal use of "habeus corpus". As a person who lived in the region when this happened - it was CHILLING. I gotta agree more oversight is a good thing
Wasn't there a movie in the 80's or 90's that had part of the plot being wheeling in a dead person to get their retirement check? Ferris Bueller's Day Off, maybe? (I swear I've seen that movie but only in pieces).
Listening to Simon repeat one thousand four hundred and twenty six over and over instead of saying fourteen twenty-six was one of the highlights of this video. 🤣
Here’s an idea. Either the authors including an pronunciation guide for the word “effortlessly”, or Jen creating an blooper reel with Simon attempting to say “effortlessly”. 😅
I feel like the writers are purposefully putting it in to force Simon to mess it up. It seems to be coming up frequently on many of his channels lately.
The landlady still claiming wellfare cheques reminds me of the case in Scotland where a disabled woman was murdered by her carers and they continued to claim her disability benefits payments for nearly 20 years. They only got caught because the system was changing and needed the victim to confirm details like her address etc but obviously they couldn't respond and the police went around looking for her. It was only then the carers actually submitted a missing persons report claiming she ran away. The local townspeople all started trying to recall the last time they saw her and realised the last known sighting by anyone was 1999. This woman was missing for years and has her payments cashed by her killers and nobody noticed until an administrative change happened. Margaret Fleming was the victim's name.
@@neegas3490 tragic, but it's softened knowing that civilians are just not all that vigilant about other's circumstances. those "caretakers" took advantage of a system based on a world full of people preoccupied with their own day-to-days, but at least the towns folk were perceptive enough to remember their last sightings of the victim. we're all just tryna survive out here, some of us more selfishly than others.
There's apparently been a rash of these kinds of cases happening in Japan as well, many of their centarian population have been contacted by local wards to congratulate them on their 110th, 115th birthdays etc and they're discovering that the person died as much as a decade previously and the children were just cashing their social security payments.
The ladies in my local post office tell my daughter - who is my carer and collects my disability - to bring me in every so often, presumably so they can check I'm still alive and kicking.
You can tell that Simon was a good kid and never had any serious addiction. Person in the story: alcoholic with gambling addiction. Simon: But why don't they just not spend the rent money on gambling and alcohol? Simon, you sweet, soft, sheltered boy. I admire your naivete sometimes. But what I really admire is all your channels. I watch at least one just about every day. Super interesting and informative. And you hosting makes it charming and entertaining. Keep up the work, buddy! Sorry for giving you a bit of a hard time there, I've just been surrounded by addiction for the last 20 years. I live in a rough neighborhood and I've seen a lot.
Idk if it was because I read this before watching the video and it colored my expectations, but am I the only one who didn't see much (or any) of that? Even his suggestion that the government shouldn't pay welfare to addicts in money but instead in goods shows that he understands these people are broken enough that they'd just take any cash given and go spend on these things. It's a bit out of touch with reality, sure, having dealt with and seen these things personally it didn't take me more than a second to think "well if you give them the goods directly they'll just peddle them for money duh," but at least it shows he knows self control isn't that much of a thing in their state of being
My time to shine! My grandmother was a clerk for the some judges here in Sacramento. When she was sitting outside waiting for the judges to call her into the room for one reason or another, a nice old lady sat next to her and was acting all dramatic and sobbing and my grandma who is a kind soul turns to her and asks "what's wrong miss" and the lady tells her about how she is so upset because she missed bail and now is definitely in trouble and needs help, my grandma around this time noticed clerks and judges looking out of the room and laughing at her, my grandmother talks with this lady more and as the conversation goes my grandma mentions her head hurts, the old lady says "come with me and I can help your headache" at that moment the door swung open and her friend who's a judge is standing there ushering her inside, when my grandma entered the room they all started to laugh at her and when she asked why they were laughing one judges goes "that's Dorothea Puente! She's a murderer!" That shook my grandma
The thing that flips me out about her is after they told her that they were going to dig up her yard she just smiled and popped off to have a pot of tea.
Holy shit. I got so sad for Bert. Shit man, it hit me so hard. He was ill, he was getting his life together was ready to move on... and then this. He just needed some help man.
The first time I heard about this case was when I was a teenager. Since then, I've never been able to get Alvaro out of my head. I've always, *always* felt so bad for the man...he was doing so well, and then he was betrayed in the most horrible way. None of those people deserved to be killed, but his name will always stand out to me.
As far as thinking that 90 or even 120 minutes is too long for a you tube video, it's actually what I LOOK for. I don't bother with 18 or even 35 minute true crime content. I like the deep dives. The details. The whole enchilada. 🙂 Thank You and well done! 🤩
Judy Moise deserves so much credit for following up on Bert after he went missing and not giving up the search. I could see how many people in her position might have just assumed that he went somewhere else but she was clearly committed to her job of helping people on the street. Who knows if Dorothea would have ever been caught if she (Judy) hadn't of kept digging.
Your initial use of "rose colored glasses" was correct 😂 lol. It means looking at something and thinking its better than it actually is. Also here in the US the address would be said as "fourteen twenty-six" we dont say hundreds or thousands in addresses.
Simon, two things that might help: First, real quick, most Americans would pronounce that "fourteen twenty-six" breaking it into sets of two for quickness. Second, as for the welfare/addicts stuff, I used to think the exact same way until a friend explained it to me like this: not only is testing for that sort of thing expensive and ineffective (other than marijuana and PCP, almost all drugs become undetectable in under 3 days), but addicts don't just stop being addicts when you cut off their support. Indeed, that usually just makes help harder to find. Instead they end up fully homeless and/or committing crimes to support their addiction. At this point local crime goes up, property values go down, and you end up paying more in taxes to try to bolster a police force to counter said crime. But that doesn't ever really work does it? So you end up in a situation where you can just pay the taxes for social support, knowing some people will abuse it OR end up paying the same amount in taxes, but now with increased crime rates and your property devaluing. It is a no-win situation where you kinda just have to pick the less-bad one and hope people eventually get help. (If anyone disagrees with that, totally fine, like i said, i had my mind changed. Please keep it civil. In the end, addiction just sucks and hurts everybody, including the community, no matter what)
SIMON NEEDS TO SEE THIS but also some addresses are ACTUALLY stupidly long for some reason. 4 digits? fine 13420 XXXXXX Street? shit like THAT exists....WHY? four digits I can understand- especilly in cities, but my mom moved to a SUBURBAN neighborhood in florida with 5 digit HOUSE numbers. fuck that.
Yep. After growing up in the Bible belt in a rich white family, then becoming a ne’er-do-well myself for almost 2 decades living on and off the street… I can completely agree that “harm reduction“ works… And anyone who disagrees with that might change their mind once they see a loved one, their children, or themselves in the same situation. And yes my family helped me for the first few years but they were all dead and gone by The time I was in my early 20s, and I inherited nothing. So just because someone grew up in a rich white family, doesn’t mean that their family bails them out and pays for everything so that they can continue screwing up their entire life
Simon as someone on Disability in the modern day, I can tell you there's a lot of controversy involving benefits in the USA. Foodstamps are all done electronically via a special coded card that won't pay for anything else or for restaurant food or premade food such as rotisserie chickens, but people will still sell them. And that is against the law. Lye is also used in making soap and in certain crafting recipes such as rhetting fibers for making rope. It used to be that paper checks were sent to a person's address. However, in my lifetime (I'm 36) checks are now direct deposited either into an account or onto a refillable prepaid card. You can also hire someone from an agency to handle the money for you, probably to protect people from the sort of scam Puente was running. Puente would simply intercept the checks at the mailbox or intimidate the people into giving them to her, then either forge the signature on the checks or get them to sign them and then just cash them and not give the guy their money.
20 years ago, a lady ran a similar house on Beacon Hill in Boston. She never killed anyone, when the old-timers died, she just had the bodies left on the Boston Common with no ID, and kept getting their Gov't Checks..He daughter ran a brothel out of the basement of the same house. Quite a family. It went on for nearly 20 years.
I'm laughing listening to Simon struggle with the address 1426. In the states we pronounce it as "fourteen twenty six". Hope this helps with your grating problem.
I was just thinking this, and then he changed to saying "one four two six", which is even more efficient than what we'd say.... so now I'm questioning my language habits 😂
I say one four two six. I have auditory processing issues and when people put numbers together like that “fourteen” easily sounds like “forty” to me. But as usual I’m probably in the minority. 😣
I've noticed that I only say the single numbers when we get into 5 digit housing. A previous address of mine was one-five-two-two-five. Saying fifteen thousand two hundred twenty five was just cumbersome lol
Lye is used for quite a few innocuous things like making good soap, gardening, certain yummy baked goods like pretzels... Just a few of the reasons I've bought it over the years. There are limits on how much you can buy now, but it's still really inexpensive. I can only imagine how easy it was to get a few decades ago. *Disclaimer: I am not a murderer*
Yeah or Laugenbrot as it's known in Germany. Also cheap drain declogger, basically what's in them but 100 times cheaper. Also great for chemisty used to increase PH of solutions and also used in developing photos. That's why you can buy it in hobby shops. But like 1 kg not tons of it. Edit: Also don't dissolve bodies.... feel free to dig in my garden, no warrant needed :)
She's one of the few criminals who actually scare me. Because she had so much power over the people in her care and because of the situation they were in, it's rare that anyone would believe them. Being trapped by an abuser with no way out is my worst fear.
Yep. Same reason I don’t like cases involving hospitals. You put a lot of trust into those people and these episodes just go to show how it can backfire if you aren’t careful 😬
I’m glad Simon doesn’t understand homelessness or poverty, speaking as someone whose had to rebuild his life from both situations (simultaneously of course lol) I would hope no one has to know how hard that can be. Obviously people suffer these situations, but I’d also hope anyone in that situation knows they can still make it and their lives still matter. 🙏🏽
I couldn’t have said it better myself. I was binge watching and really enjoying the content. Until I clicked on this one. Talk about someone having to check their privilege!
@@VetNurseJoy people just don’t understand how hard it is in the US. They see the glitz and glam of Hollywood and make the ignorant assumption that we all have those opportunities. They don’t realize that if you weren’t born into privilege it ain’t gonna happen here. We don’t have free higher education or free healthcare for that matter. Most citizens don’t even have a extra $500 for emergencies which could def put you on the streets. It’s unfortunately very real.
Simon accidentally lying for YEARS about playing tennis is so hilarious, and somehow seems like such a Simon thing to do. It's so specific, but makes total sense? Dishonesty borne from being too polite just fits in my expectations for him.
Im much the same so i relate to him. Hell if it was me i may have ended up just frigging learning to play tennis if it were the path of least resistance.
Unless the person is in a rehabilitation program or have adequate support, it's actually better to let them buy alcohol with the money. Going cold turkey is a very difficult way to get clean from anything and with alcoholism, you risk having alcoholic seizures that can kill you. Obviously, it's much better to actually get the person into a social care program and actually help them get clean, but if not, it tends to be better to give them a safe way to access the substance they're addicted to. I can confirm that the UK is awful for supporting addicts, or at least the West Midlands is. If you receive benefits, you can access help for addiction, but one of the problems is that the help is outsourced to private companies and every year, there's essentially a competition between the companies to be the most appealing which tends to be asking for the lowest price. It's a terrible system and often someone will be doing great and then be swapped to a new program randomly and suddenly they're regressing. Someone close to me is an alcoholic and one of the other insane problems we've encountered is not offering any mental health support on the NHS unless they're clean even though it's kinda impossible to separate addiction from mental health.
Trying to get sober cold turkey especially from alcohol has one of the highest death rates If i remember correctly. Because people get spasms and are at a high risk to eighter die of that or by suffocating on their own vomit. Its really bad especially since many hospitals are requiring patients to remain sober to get treatment, so if they can't hold up to that standart they get kicked out. I've had a few clients die that way, it truly is a horrific death.
Yeah here in California, it’s hard to get an addict to detox because they can leave whenever they want. So it’s better to let them drink instead of withdrawing and dying. If someone is detoxed professionally there’s halfway houses they can stay in that ban substances, but it’s not always effective. Active addicts will do anything to get their fix.
Yep. Alcohol is one of the hardest drugs to get off of. The only thing that is worst is Benzodiazepine or Benzos which got a lot of attention thanks to Jordan Peterson.
I used to shelter a homeless girl with substance abuse disorder (heroin and crack cocaine), and once when I was trying to get her help when she was going through withdrawal I was advised by a specialist from an addiction centre that there was no point trying to make her go to A&E - the best thing I could do for her in the moment was give her money to get a fix. He was right. She was treated abysmally by medical professionals and never offered viable support or treatment pathways. (She was temporarily housed during covid when magically the government got homeless people off the street overnight and did subsequently get a funded place in a residential treatment centre, so there is a semi-happy resolution to that depressing anecdote… now she “just” has to deal with her complex ptsd and the health issues that come from sleeping rough for years)
Simon, I work in medicine and volunteer at the local homeless basecamp. It is unfortunately very much a 'then, just as now's situation, in the Western United States at least. Homeless is being actively criminalized in more than one large city here in Washington state at the moment. Also, a not-insignificant number of people in my city protested the cost increase of cranking up the heat at the shelter and the additional outdoor heating stations for the homeless during our snowstorm last month...
I remember arguing with a former coworker about how the homeless people in Denver are apparently just “lazy” because they can “afford” to have space heaters and generators in their tents, and how “real homeless people” wouldn’t have that. I about shouted at her that they’d be fking dead if they didn’t. The amount of people who think the homeless aren’t suffering enough because they have basic survival necessities like phones or heating in blizzard territory is disgusting. The idiotic belief that people, real human people, are willing to wallow in life or death situations because they’re “lazy” is so fking stupid.
@Wired User A phone is not a survival need. Food, water, and shelter are. You have had too good of a life if you believe that a phone is a necessity to survival.
@@tartanmctwisted4223 yeah im allways really active in my mind so i need some thing to focus on while i subconciously prepare to fall asleep, i even do it with business blaze sometimes allthough simon yelling isn't the most effective way to fall asleep :')
I work at a theater 2 blocks away from the Puente boarding house and that place is a trip! The guy who owns it now has a mannequin of Dorothea on the front porch, signs that say "keep off the grass, you don't know what"s underfoot" and a bronze plaque on the fence with a QR code that takes you to a documentary about the house. He also goes all out during Halloween with fake body bags in dirt piles on the front yard. It's an experience to say the least!
Hey Simon, in case you were genuinely curious why people want to still see parents that abandoned them I might be able to give you some insight. My mother abandoned my brother and I when I was around 12 so this is just my own experience and what I’ve seen from other abandoned children in the homes I lived in since. As far as I can tell, one of the main reasons why there is an urge to connect with the parent is the emotional blow that comes with being abandoned by someone who is supposed to love you unconditionally. It’s hard not to internalize that and see it as a failure on your own part to some degree, even if it’s subconsciously (was I a bad child to be unwanted, etc). Many want these and other questions as to why they were abandoned answered at some point. Others hold out the hope that their parent had good reasons and regret what they did, or have to deal with pressure from other family members to reforge a bond. There is just a lot of emphasis on families, especially mothers and the bond with their children. Without it, things can often feel like you’re incomplete or missing something. I personally never wanted to see my mother again, but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t feel uprooted and that I’m not still dealing with the fallout from it 20 years later. If I didn’t know why already, I’d probably want some answers as well.
As someone who literally watched a parent constantly keep walking out of their life and never knowing when/if they would see them again, I am really grateful you brought up that incomplete/missing feeling. While I can't say what it's like for children too young to remember, there is definitely a part of you that's not quite whole after the abandonment, even if the child-turned-adult has got to the point of never wanting to see the other parent again. And I will point out there's also an unconscious habit of looking at other families with a "the grass is always greener" wonder about what if. No matter how good life might be, you never forget that there was a time when that missing piece was there. I also agree that there can be a real pressure by other family members who seem to expect you to reach out to the parent. I've had a lot of conversations with family members which have subtly declared me the bad guy for not wanting to find and speak to my father.
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Contrast that against my five year old daughter, who's arguably seen _too many_ episodes. I didn't think this was possible til, out of the blue, she theatrically closed the front door while spinning to looked me straight in the face, while exclaiming, "fasten your seatbelt, slutpuppy; it's going to be a bumpy ride!".
From a healthcare worker perspective: Alcoholism is deadly in many ways. You can die from alcohol detox. We provide alcohol inpatient if the patient is an alcoholic to prevent detox. It’s pretty serious and happens within a day or 2 depending on severity. It’s not pretty, it’s very unsafe, and people who recover still can have lasting effects for years after. This probably plays into it.
My dad had a medical detox when he got sober. He’d been drinking heavily for years, so it took him days just to sober up from his last drinking binge anyway. I appreciate your healthcare insight to help people understand how dangerous it is to quit drinking on your own without medical help. I think without that medication I would have lost my grandma and my dad within the same month. He’s been 11 years sober and I’m so grateful he is! Only my oldest kid remembers drinking grandpa. He greatly prefers sober grandpa. Thanks again! 💖
Yup. Other than detox from booze, the only other detox that is just as dangerous is benzo detox-- because both work on the exact same receptors in the brain. I tell me friends a lot that if they want to quit benzos of alcohol, they probably should consult their GP first for a referral to the proper hospital or facility, and if they're lucky, the hospital/facility will knock them out with meds for the worst of it. Aside from that, I remember that the charge nurse always had a bottle of that gag-a-maggot, disgusting Wild Irish Rose (*ugh.... ew*) for our frequent fliers that were homeless and alcoholic. Still, it doesn't cease to amaze me how quickly a cup of booze can transform someone from a shaking, DTing, out of their mind mess, into a suddenly normal, level person. Alcoholism is a real monster.
The thing with avoiding giving addicts actual money bc they'll spend it on their addiction doesn't work well. Addicts will always find a way to get a fix, even foodstamps can be traded for less cash that could be used for getting their fix or they'll do something more dangerous to do it. Giving them both the autonomy to chose AND support systems that will get them over their addiction and a healthier safer life is more effective in the long run.
It sucks that pharmaceutical companies, doctors, corporate media and stupid stupid politicians created the issue around Addicts, they created the problem. Instead of providing people with the way out they just created another drug problem. I'm going to break down how suboxon, and subutex are the governments/doctors way to keep people hooked on drugs. So how it works around our area. You need to have something in your system in order for them to see you. But before that you have to provide 250$ cash. They'll do debit cards but that's an additional 50$ charge. Most of the time they don't do even check you over, if they ask for more pills, and says the right things they'll up there amount. Go to pharmacy and pay additional 250 cash. Now most ppl dont have insurance. If you have insurance the pills can be relatively inexpensive. But these programs are to ween people off the drugs now extend their misery. I've literally watched 6 guys go in all pee dirty, and NOT have the correct medicine in their system. The owners/doctors will walk back in and hand another piss cup and say now. Do it right this time. So before anyone says shit. This is in D.C., BALTIMORE, GLEN BURNIE, VIRGINIA BEACH, PITTSBURGH, NYC, and so on. So it's not just one local area. Almost all of these damn doctors are just as corrupt as the pharmaceutical companies. That's who's destroying our country, our world, our lives.
@@nicholascorbett1256 While some of the things you say is true and I agree with you, not all doctors are like that. As long as I can remember I’ve had depression and addiction issues. My doctor is a wonderful women, who helped me greatly. She lets me choose what medications I want to take, and we both agreed I’m not to be prescribed anything addictive. She’s a sweet little old lady names Olga, and she’s from the eastern bloc. I’ve had her as a doctor for years now. Even then, I’ve spend most of my life in mental health services, and I’ve met more doctors who actually care to help then the ones who just wanna drug me up and shove me out the door.
As a recovering addict I can personally back this up. I used to trade my food stamps for cash, fifty cents on the dollar, which I then used for heroin or meth. I got in a methadone clinic 5 years ago & I've never looked back.
@Nicholas Corbett I agree with a lot of what you said. The opioid epidemic was in large part caused by pharmaceutical companies lying about research on the addiction potential of medications, and doctors neot addressing pain well for a variety of reasons (also pill mills). It's a little more complex in that it also has to do with using pain as a vital sign as well as general practitioners prescribing pain medications instead of specialists who often would also utilize non-pharmaceutical approaches. The stigma we have around people using pharmaceuticals in order to aid with their substance use disorder is not helpful. They often are how people are able to gain control of their lives again. Yes. There are absolutely doctors who prey on the situation as there are people who use their career to prey on others in any situation. Think of the stereotypical idea of a car mechanic gouging prices when someone doesn't know enough about cars. There are some ways in which people can get medications for free (through research on how to determine which are the most effective for people; they often can also get free access to things like therapy and information on programs that could benefit them). Unfortunately we do not invest in enough harm reduction programs and people often aren't even aware of programs that could help them. Also in reality we need to help people with the reason why they have been using so many substances (beyond dependence, it's oftentimes trauma) in order to actually help people.
It's amazing that Simon can put together that Dorothea held power over these people but then assumed she was telling the truth about what they did with their money.
Simon: "if they'd just shut up than the police wouldnt have been contacted" The Casual Criminalist, giving the best crime advice for the low price of free.
To be fair, a 100% functional human being _never has to kill someone._ Or even commit a felony. They can just exploit people to death legally and make bank. It's the broken people looking for shortcuts that are willing to bet it all on not getting caught. And those people are _unable_ to follow Simon's advice. TLDR: "Sensible felon" is an oxymoron.
@@JoshSweetvale eh, you don't hear about sensible criminals because they don't often get caught, and when they do get caught it's because of luck or a legal loophole
@@JellyLocke damn straight!All these famous serial killers and psychos were total idiots. The cops/public try to make them out to be “geniuses” but they barely even tried to cover their tracks. I mean check out how BTK got caught,absolute moron
Simon saying that he didn't see many homeless people in New York City clearly indicates that he hasn't been there in a while. Also, Where is Callum? Buried in Simon's back garden?
Love the long episodes! Also, just as an fyi, in the states we tend to say addresses by number groups rather than as whole numbers. So "621" would be said "six twenty-one" and "1426" would be said "fourteen twenty-six"...hope that helps in the future!
Yeah, it sort of drove me nuts that he kept complaining about how long the address was, and I was like, that's cause you are saying it the longest way possible.
I'm happy he's learned this now though. I remember watching a recent episode where he specifically said this. And how much he appreciated people letting him know because it was driving him crazy as well.
@@melissamccleary9611Yup, the house I grew up in was along the lines of 12654. We said “twelve-six-fifty-four”. For a while I lived in a house with only 2 numbers and people would tell me “that’s not a full address” or act like I was pranking them. Most people had never encountered a two-digit address before. Some of the houses in that neighborhood were single digit and I always wondered how people reacted to being told the address is “3 Elm Street”. In the US it does sound made up.
We moved into our house in 2018. The old owner’s granddaughter was in prison for drugs or something. She did not know her mom sold the house and moved. She came to my door one day, looking high af, and being really weird. I told her we were the new owners and her mom wasn’t there (it’s a long story, my parents live next door, so we were familiar with the family and all the drug issues, very crazy things all the time)… she left and about an hour later a cop knocked on my door to do a welfare check. Once he came in and looked around he told me that someone reported their grandfather was murdered in the house and put through a wood chipper in the back yard! So yeah. I was fine letting the cop look around! He was familiar with the granddaughter though and we got a no contact order. I still get letter from prison addressed to her mom.
How tragic it was probably true and you guys didn't really realize it that the grandfather probably died naturally but the mother had a joint bank account that his retirement pension or social security money was going into. What some people will do is take the body out and dump it in the desert or yeah we find it all over Nevada and Arizona and they keep getting the money in their joint account and then all of a sudden the account is closed people have moved and well Social Security is too busy to really follow up and it isn't until like five or six years later when some grandkids come around looking for you where did Grandpa go he was supposed to be staying at this nursing home and now they've told me he never was there. So you have to go out and check was he really never there especially with some little small kind of like private facility that Mom placed him in or dad did because when we had to move where I had to move and you would be surprised you wouldn't be surprised how many parents end up in prison on drug charges while their kids are in prison on drug charges. You got to remember once crack-cocaine hit that was the end of it. We ended up having grandparents and great-grandparents raising kids who were cocaine addicts when they were born period that generation of elderly people and now you have people who were addicts that you never knew were attics suddenly they're elderly they can't get their pain meds in there goes day nowhere to go look on the street to get drugs. And they are getting arrested. Such a bizarre world today. And Social Security doesn't track down these couple of month extra payment chicks all they need is a letter stating that oh you can close the account we don't need it anymore they passed away don't even need a death certificate
Here's to Simon and his phenomenal writers. I love these longer episodes. Helps work to fly by. So appreciative for all the personalities involved in these channels. I love every single one!
It doesn't sound bad at all when you can admit you're privileged, in fact it gives me even more respect for you. You've got self awareness, which is more than a lot of people can say.
yeah but then there is the fact that you have privileged and privileged, i feel privileged when i have a stable roof over my head and tons of food for my dogs, i did 10 years ish of homelessness, so i get that feeling pretty quickly, what Simon is talking about is the other kind, the kind you feel bad about it only if you are a decent human beeing while living in over abundance
I’m only 20 mins in while watching, but much respect to the cops for caring about a mentally ill person who disappeared!!! It warms my heart that they cared enough to talk to people there and dig around the backyard!
I prefer longer videos !! I see over the hour mark and I’m straight onto it !! Especially in this channel , I love the content and delivery of it , props to the script writers as well of course as well as the person delivering it ! Long videos like this are perfect , I hate having to try choose a new video every 20 minutes , it’s heaven for me to stick on an hour plus long true crime vid / podcast and just not have to think about what to watch for an hour or more 😂❤️✨
Where's Calum? I like all your writers, but you guys had something going on this show that worked so well. Is he working on something big? Or has he moved on to other things?
@@stephjovi I was convinced for the first several months that Simon hadn't actually got him in the basement yet. Hence why he was being so nice to him to lure him in... Maybe he actually is in the basement now, and being too stubborn to write, I wonder who will win the contest of wills...
I have often had the thought in the hours of fantastic content made by Simon that he has been very privileged. When he talks about it he seemed to be trying to explain himself. Privilege is unearned advantage. Its not anyone's fault they receive that advantage. It is up to each individual to recognize it and do with it what they can. So I appreciate that he is trying. He's doing what he can.
Everyone has an invisible knapsack of privilege. Yes, people from an economic super-state, who are born rich by the standards of that state, typically have a much larger knapsack. But people like me (marginalised by the standards of my economic super-state) still have powerful knapsacks. People who we typically categorise as the poorest of the world also have their knapsacks. Mostly empty. (but if a disaster hits, they know how to survive it!) The best thing you can do with a powerful knapsack is to learn how to distribute its benefits. And Simon, you're distributing a lot of benefits. You have a bunch of writers and editors employed. You use sponsors well and wisely. And your chosen topics of discussion hand out bits of knapsacks. Here's one that probably will benefit the marginalised: survival strategies. First Nations people often know them, so do the poor and marginalised of most societies. You can start with 'foods of last resort'. How to find and prepare things that we privileged folks find icky. Did you know that dandelion leaves are edible?
@@juliatarrel1674 there's also a leafy green all over wooded areas (at least in the SE United States), called Poke Salad. You're supposed to season it, and boil it, but you can eat the raw leaves. It ain't a good time, but it's food. Dandelion salad actually isn't bad. I've even seen it in some fancy restaurants.
@@leahsanders798 I think you have to boil Poke weed at least 3 times (boil it, dump out the water to put in fresh water, boil it again, etc) to make it edible. I think it's also at least mildly toxic (if not very toxic) if it isn't boiled at least 3 times. Dandelions are much more palatable. Oh, kudzu is another plant that you can make a lot of stuff from. Source: born and raised in the SE US.
Using prescription drugs to kill people who were known drug addicts or alcoholics would be hard to detect, even if the bodies had been examined soon after death. It’s common enough for such people to overdose themselves, accidentally or intentionally.
Simon, your channels have gotten me through many boring evenings. I work a desk job, with quite a lot of downtime, and discovering your content was a godsend. I recommend you to all who will listen. Keep it up man!
I suppose one small piece of comfort can be taken here from knowing he was so appreciated by his peers that even Judy, the social worker who's job it was to help him and folks like him, became so attached to him that she refused to let his disappearance go. Lots of folks in her job are spread incredibly thin and can't help but let clients slip through the cracks, or their identities blend together after years of working with people, but she worked to find him and in doing so, helped to uncover Dorothea's whole plot. If it weren't for Berts loveable nature and impact that he had on people, this series of events may have never been set off, meaning Dorothea may have ended up murdering plenty of other poor folks.
This channel has made me a long-form video enthusiast and I prefer watching content from creators that are putting in the amount of time to tell a story or captivate an audience that isn't 15- or 30- seconds long. Good on you, Simon!
That was a hell of a 2 min transition from "I don't know if I could do enough to pass for 25 years older" to "hey 15 year olds, just act like your 90 to get beer"
Simon, they're now making sure to install railings partway through most benches in my city and put spiked concrete under bridges so homeless people can't sleep there. We have exactly ONE homeless shelter with very strict rules and the weather is so inhospitable that most of most winters sleeping rough could be deadly. (This winter is an exception, for most of the time it's been freakishly warm, it's actually creeping me out, although I bet the homeless people are happy about it.) Extreme heat in the summer is also a concern, not as bad as Arizona or the Middle East, but still bad enough that a year or two ago I watched a drunk threaten to rob a bank so police would take him somewhere where he could lie down in air conditioning. There's certainly been even worse times in the past to be homeless, but I wouldn't really say we treat homeless people better now than 4 decades ago.
Last winter a houseless person died of the cold. After much public outrage the city set up a temporary warming shelter, but they didn't make it again this winter. Also Simon, you wondered about "giving people money that can't be spent on alcohol", there are now ways of doing this in America. There are SNAP points that get you more food at farmer's markets and such, and I think certain cards that can only be used on some groceries?
@@allisonjeffery9239 SNAP can only be used on food and nothing else. You can’t buy certain energy drinks or alcohol with them. However if someone was smart enough or had been in prison or jail they could buy the raw ingredients to make liquor. Fruit, yeast, water from the tap and in a few days they’re drinking. Watching documentaries on anything and everything gives you odd knowledge.
A lot of homeless people in Kansas City have smart phones and often leave donated food and water abandoned at street corners to later be picked up and thrown away by the city. It’s nothing like it was 20 years ago or more. I volunteered at food kitchens back in the 90’s and the poverty of the homeless back then is like night and day in comparison to today. Even the poorest people today are extremely privileged in comparison to how it was back then.
Jesus was homeless. 150 homeless froze to death 1 winter. Homeless have dogs bc they need love also but prob is, shelters dont take dogs. One winter EMTs were trying to get a frozen man & his dog protected him from these strangers. Dog was loyal to the end. 1 bdrm from Puente's goes for $3,000 in 2022. No vacancies create $$ rent! Natural Disasters along with Ron Reagan thinking tax payers should have to pay for mentally ill so mental hospitals released the mentally ill so they could support Cartels my self medicating. Bc of those cars being towed that homeless lived in hence they live on the sts. CEOS have numerous residences have employees that live in their cars! Hey the homeless use my yd for their toilet & have stripped my car for dope.
A long wait list to get in a shelter today. Wash had a heat wave along with Or but no ACs caused discomfort yet homeless died from heat dehydration. LOTS bc climate change snuck up on them. Hawaii has an area they cleanup every Sun & treat like a campsite. They need to volunteer each for toilets & not pay city employee. Being productivre would make them feel good about themselves also. Sad they cant get out of rain under bridges. I used to read to homeless children whod love to keep dry!
Tbh, as a child who was taken away from my parents.. honestly the best thing you can do for your kid is get rid of them by adoption or family. If you don’t want your kid, don’t hang onto them and fuck them up more 🤷🏼♀️ her daughters are probably way better off without her. Worst thing you can do is let them growing up knowing you despise them. A lot of people keep their kids out of pride. My mother outright denies I got taken off of her, but it’s in the child protective services record lol. I’ll say her personality is very similar to Dorthothea lol, very grimy and thieving.. refuses to get a job. aside from that, no actual personality. I was conceived at a strip club (learned that when I met my bio dad a few years ago) and she routinely had affairs, faking illnesses and age.
Agreed! I recently discovered that my abusive POS great uncle had a whole family that he abandoned and kept secret from the rest of us. Turns out that being abandoned was the best thing that could have happened to my cousins, because they were adopted by their grandmother and raised properly, all of them going on to great success. The rest of us turned out... not so well. We only discovered one another through ancestry testing.
My oldest Aunt gave her daughter up for adoption right after birth. It's strange to think that we have one cousin, a sixth and oldest of our clan we'll never know. She'd be in her 40s now wherever she is
Yea, we love psycho dark messed up stories, but, we mostly here to watch a man gradually losing his believe in humanity, getting more and more insane, more extreme with each podcast that he had.
When they let her go, there was one body of indeterminate but probably at least a decade old…meaning who knows how long it’s been there and how many people have had access to the yard in that time…she had been cooperative, had not fled during the night when her opportunity would have been greater opportunity, and it seems unlikely she could have been burying anyone anywhere given her age and stature. The record for drugging and forgery is obviously a huge red flag, but I honestly get the cop not thinking that he could arrest her at that juncture. Therefore he kinda had to let her walk. Maybe a tail would have been smart, but I don’t think this is as egregious as you’re saying, not by the established standards of terrible policing we’re used to. This seems more understandable.
Agreed. It'd be plausible to think that the individuals hired to work in the garden took the opportunity to kill someone and bury them there. The police still thought she was 20 years older than she actually was. It's hard for many of us even cops to picture an elderly woman killing people and getting someone else to bury the bodies. Look at the reactions in the dark comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace" if you want the way many of us would view that idea.
We love the long episodes Also someone needs to give Simon all the dads of Star wars and golden girls to watch when his kidnappers let him take a break from recording.
Simon and team, I watch all these videos while I am work. Worry not for long videos, I infact live for them to help make the day go by faster. Great show as always!
I watch these videos bevore I go to sleep and when I week up and geth ready for the way to work and on the weekends - They are so good made - could watch for 6 h straight.
Great work everyone! I was born and raised in Sacramento and going to grade school and into high school during this whole thing. I actually rented a place on F street about two blocks from that infamous house. And no,. I never had any ghostly visitors creeping around my place while I lived there.😁 Just for future reference Simon, in the states we just say fourteen twenty six F Street or thirty three oh four Freeport Blvd, etc...you get the idea. Again, great work! Love your vids!
I'm all for two hours of Casual Criminalist, it's relaxing to hear Simon's dulcet tones relating gory criminal activity. And lye is used in making soap, mixed with oils or animal fats. If only Dorothea had thought to tell the police she was making soap in her garden. Although I do believe use of human fat is a no no. 🙄😏
Simon, long is good! Even on UA-cam. Lots of artists listen to your podcast and we need long videos to keep our ADD at bay :) love all the channels as is, keep it up! 😊
You use lye to make soap by combining it with some sort of fat. I recall that you can make lye by drilling a tiny hole in the bottom of a bucket, filling the bucket with wood ash, and adding water to filter through the ash and slowly drip out the hole at the bottom. My grandma said one time they ended up with too much butter (from their cow) and to use it up before it went rancid, her mother made soap from it.
Hey Simon, when we have those long numbers in addresses in the U.S., we tend to pronounce it in parts, i.e. "1426 Park St." Is pronounced as "fourteen twenty-six Park St." And "21369 Main St." would be "twenty-one three sixty-nine." I didn't realize it was unique to the States until you pointed it out. It's just habit here. 😀I
Simon, it's surely amazing to me that a total truthteller and historian like you could give me a better education on all forms of knowledge in a few hours of checking your channels out on UA-cam than the public education system ever gave me in fourteen years. Never change, Professor Whistler. Never change.
I don't know if Simon ever reads this, (or whomever needs to read this) but you should not feel guilty and apologize for having better upbringing than other people, and not understanding well fare checks or whatever, that's what is wrong with today's internet culture, its not like you are actively looking to hurt someone or take advantage of someone less privileged than you are. I don't know if you are like what you show on your videos but the character Simon Whistler as it appears on the internet has empathy enough as I see, and understand peoples problems and hardships. By the way thanks for the constant stream of content throughout all channels.
Well you can’t know everything. I think it’s more arrogant to assume that all people SHOULD know that kind of stuff. It isn’t bad to know but you can’t fault people for not knowing if it’s not part of their daily life. Everyone SHOULD be open to be educated though.
if anything I appreciate when people who had comfortable or steady upbringings can say that and admit that they don't know what growing up in long term financial instability is like. There's nothing more frustrating than someone who is pretty well off trying to argue that they aren't. It's always good to acknowledge the truth of where we come from and what we have to be grateful for, I think, and how those experiences can leave us needing to learn about the experiences of others. I grew up in a single parent household with a lot of financial hardship, for example, but my mother was a wonderful, devoted parent who did everything she could to care for us. As a result, I'm incredibly grateful for her and my heart goes out to anyone who has strained relationships with their parents. We're all fortunate in some ways and unfortunate in others, being aware of those things is always a good thing.
Best PSA ever by Simon Whistler and just plain good advice to live by, "Let's just move on, before i get cancelled for something." Well said Sir...well said.
I love the longer ones. They are great for listening at work and helping the night pass. 2 or 3 episodes per shift always makes me feel like I'm cheating somehow.
I have been seriously mentally ill and homeless personally, and have researched the subject since. Things have definitely improved in regards to how the general public views and treats us, as well as how the government does. There is still a long way to go, but things are definitely significantly better than they were. Remember, this was a time when asylums where you were simply dumped and the key thrown away were still very common. Psychiatric hospitals aren't perfect, but they're a whole different world to an asylum. My mother stays in them regularly by her own choice.
In the US we usually pronounce a 4-digit house number in two parts. Example : 1234 would be “twelve thirty-four.” Might be easier for you, Simon. As always, thanks for the great content!
"When somebody's been a con-man or a criminal their whole life and they start running a charity". We have a pretty prominent family of them in this country.
Trump kept all the charity $ so often that I cant recall all those the gov had to shut down. Military was 1 I know for sure without 1 vet getting a cent. I know alot have more go to administrative than the cause so it pays to research before donating. I know Salvation Army is the real thing like Red Cross. I volunteered at SAL Army & I admire bell ringers bc I served food etc.
And to think that we replaced that disgusting, scheming, con-artist first family with a first family only - at best - marginally less corrupt. And every bit as evil. (Actually, in terms of mass harm and suffering inflicted on the american public and world at large, Biden’s long, arch-evil career actually dwarfs Trump. Our country is deeply screwed.
Yeah, it is rather annoying. At least the girl got a few Thousand subs from his shoutout. I bet money it would've been more if he actually linked it like he said he did.
I’m currently catching up on all the shows. The writers are talented and Simon’s reading is entertaining, with excellent editing. I recently saw one about how he zoned out while stocking shelves. That’s exactly what I have been doing. I think I’ll be able to do it for a very long time.
Haven't hit 2 hours yet but been consistently in the 1:30-1:42 range and as a YT exclusive watcher/listener, I love that range. The 30-40 mins seem too short, I follow all the channels with Simon, he's pleasant to listen to, personality is agreeable even if you do not agree and the topics are usually great. Writers do a great job, and I adore Jen's pop ins.
While I cant speak for other countries or people, as someone who had the displeasure of having to deal with the benefits/welfare system here I'd say it is already very restrictive and almost dehumanizing. On a surface level restricting what people can buy with their money doesn't sound like a bad idea, but I've seen comments here explaining why we shouldn't do that (and they do a far better job explaining than I ever could, so I'll leave it to them). For me, when they were going through my finances I was heavily discouraged from ordering food delivery, and I should spend the money better. The thing is that food was for both me and the person helping me out because I was sick and needed help, and it was likely also the most I ate in 2/3 days. A lot of rules and regulations may sound good, but it mostly doesn't benefit the people that it would affect and could even make everything worse. It might help some politician get votes though.
When I was a teenager, I lived about 2 blocks from that house. I passed by it pretty much every day! Now I guess the new owners put up a mannequin dressed up as old Dorothea! 🤣
I *love* David’s writing, and shouting out fellow UA-camrs for good practices is a hella classy move. Keep it up, Doc, and keep making Simon say “effortlessly” until he can do it…….effortlessly 🥰
Hi! I found your channel a few weeks ago and have been bingeing it. I put it on whenever I'm doing yard or housework. I don't mind the long ones, I think they're great. Carry on.
Dorothea must have been really good at filing paperwork as most welfare programs in North America require a bunch of forms and ongoing reporting... Or this happened long enough ago that SHE is a reason so much paperwork is required.
The latter, mainly... although once you figure out what the Government wants to see it's easy enough. The limits on how long you can receive aid is fairly recent (Reagan started it, and Clinton finished crafting the limits), but mainly the former is the truth.
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Hola Simon, we say fourteen twentysix
Hey Simon , you should get someone to write a script about Mark " Chopper " Read .
He was a hitman , author , comedian ( kind of ) .
Eric Bana played him the the Biopic of his life.
The movie Chopper is easily one of the most iconic movies made in Australia.
Chopper himself became an icon in Australia.
Great video as always, I would also enjoy it if Arnaldo wrote a script about "Missy Bevers" for Casual Criminalist & George wrote about "The Yuba County Five (AKA America's Dyatlov Pass) for Decoding the Unknown.
@@drbosommd oohh, sounds like a great story. Thank you🤙🏽🕊
I like the longer episodes and this lady was particularly f*kked up.
Hey simon and team. I actually prefer the longer videos and hate watching anything shorter than 45 minutes. Usually I'm listening while I'm working and I do not like having to stop and interrupt my work to find something else to listen to. And I don't think most people care that some videos go long
I agree!!!!
Agreed
Love the long videos. Look forward to them all week
Absolutely!
I might not watch long ones at release, but I do savor them inbetween homework breaks.
I lived in Sacramento when Dorothea got caught.. Things changed dramatically in California after that. I had to physically take a man I was caring for to the Social security office to prove that he was still alive.
Oof
Please, tell us more! This is interesting!
The most literal use of "habeus corpus". As a person who lived in the region when this happened - it was CHILLING. I gotta agree more oversight is a good thing
Wasn't there a movie in the 80's or 90's that had part of the plot being wheeling in a dead person to get their retirement check? Ferris Bueller's Day Off, maybe? (I swear I've seen that movie but only in pieces).
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley yeah. That's not ferris bullets day off lmao
Listening to Simon repeat one thousand four hundred and twenty six over and over instead of saying fourteen twenty-six was one of the highlights of this video. 🤣
Love when Simon doesn't pander to the psychopaths who say it weird.
Well, it is a bit like you writing out the full number instead of just numbers. No?
😂 That’s so funny and I didn’t even realize that was an option while listening 😂
I’m glad I didn’t have to search very hard for this comment lol
That and him seemingly unknowingly describing food stamps lol.
I love his videos the longer the better.
Here’s an idea. Either the authors including an pronunciation guide for the word “effortlessly”, or Jen creating an blooper reel with Simon attempting to say “effortlessly”. 😅
blooper reel👌🏻
Blooper!!!
I feel like the writers are purposefully putting it in to force Simon to mess it up. It seems to be coming up frequently on many of his channels lately.
Inigo di montoya you killed my father prepare to die etc
Blooper reel! You’ll never have to say the “E” word again. ☠️😭
The landlady still claiming wellfare cheques reminds me of the case in Scotland where a disabled woman was murdered by her carers and they continued to claim her disability benefits payments for nearly 20 years. They only got caught because the system was changing and needed the victim to confirm details like her address etc but obviously they couldn't respond and the police went around looking for her.
It was only then the carers actually submitted a missing persons report claiming she ran away. The local townspeople all started trying to recall the last time they saw her and realised the last known sighting by anyone was 1999. This woman was missing for years and has her payments cashed by her killers and nobody noticed until an administrative change happened. Margaret Fleming was the victim's name.
That's sad tbh
@@neegas3490 tragic, but it's softened knowing that civilians are just not all that vigilant about other's circumstances. those "caretakers" took advantage of a system based on a world full of people preoccupied with their own day-to-days, but at least the towns folk were perceptive enough to remember their last sightings of the victim. we're all just tryna survive out here, some of us more selfishly than others.
There's apparently been a rash of these kinds of cases happening in Japan as well, many of their centarian population have been contacted by local wards to congratulate them on their 110th, 115th birthdays etc and they're discovering that the person died as much as a decade previously and the children were just cashing their social security payments.
@@kpturn42 Oh wow what the hell? That's interesting but really messed up.
The ladies in my local post office tell my daughter - who is my carer and collects my disability - to bring me in every so often, presumably so they can check I'm still alive and kicking.
You can tell that Simon was a good kid and never had any serious addiction. Person in the story: alcoholic with gambling addiction. Simon: But why don't they just not spend the rent money on gambling and alcohol? Simon, you sweet, soft, sheltered boy. I admire your naivete sometimes. But what I really admire is all your channels. I watch at least one just about every day. Super interesting and informative. And you hosting makes it charming and entertaining. Keep up the work, buddy! Sorry for giving you a bit of a hard time there, I've just been surrounded by addiction for the last 20 years. I live in a rough neighborhood and I've seen a lot.
Idk if it was because I read this before watching the video and it colored my expectations, but am I the only one who didn't see much (or any) of that? Even his suggestion that the government shouldn't pay welfare to addicts in money but instead in goods shows that he understands these people are broken enough that they'd just take any cash given and go spend on these things.
It's a bit out of touch with reality, sure, having dealt with and seen these things personally it didn't take me more than a second to think "well if you give them the goods directly they'll just peddle them for money duh," but at least it shows he knows self control isn't that much of a thing in their state of being
My time to shine!
My grandmother was a clerk for the some judges here in Sacramento. When she was sitting outside waiting for the judges to call her into the room for one reason or another, a nice old lady sat next to her and was acting all dramatic and sobbing and my grandma who is a kind soul turns to her and asks "what's wrong miss" and the lady tells her about how she is so upset because she missed bail and now is definitely in trouble and needs help, my grandma around this time noticed clerks and judges looking out of the room and laughing at her, my grandmother talks with this lady more and as the conversation goes my grandma mentions her head hurts, the old lady says "come with me and I can help your headache" at that moment the door swung open and her friend who's a judge is standing there ushering her inside, when my grandma entered the room they all started to laugh at her and when she asked why they were laughing one judges goes "that's Dorothea Puente! She's a murderer!" That shook my grandma
Dayummmmmmmm!
@@reg4211 to the day she was taken from us she swears that was the closest she's ever been to literal death
@@SEAairsoftTeam srsly - death smiled right at her!
Hahaha! You almost died! Legal humor, I guess.
She had the only guaranteed headache cure
Welcome to the Casual Criminalist: Come for the the true crime, stay for Simon's head scratching weird philosophical ramblings.
😁 - Because his head scratching and weird philosophical ramblings are the best 🙂👍
@@katarinatibai8396 now we know where his hair went :P
@@wiaf8937 😂😘👋
i cant keep up with the story due to his incessant interjections and rambling off topic.im done,,,
The thing that flips me out about her is after they told her that they were going to dig up her yard she just smiled and popped off to have a pot of tea.
Holy shit. I got so sad for Bert. Shit man, it hit me so hard. He was ill, he was getting his life together was ready to move on... and then this. He just needed some help man.
The first time I heard about this case was when I was a teenager. Since then, I've never been able to get Alvaro out of my head. I've always, *always* felt so bad for the man...he was doing so well, and then he was betrayed in the most horrible way. None of those people deserved to be killed, but his name will always stand out to me.
there is way too many Berts out there too, not all end up just like the Bert but many of them just need a hand and they dont get it till it's too late
"Oh, she's the baddie!" The look of realisation, lol.
More hour and a half long episodes!!
apparently the fact that she was called "the devil's golden girl" didn't mean anything to him
As far as thinking that 90 or even 120 minutes is too long for a you tube video, it's actually what I LOOK for. I don't bother with 18 or even 35 minute true crime content. I like the deep dives. The details. The whole enchilada. 🙂 Thank You and well done! 🤩
Its 45 minutes or longer for Casual Criminalist for me
I mentally ill and I have been homeless, so far I really appreciate Simon's kindness and willingness to try and understand.
Judy Moise deserves so much credit for following up on Bert after he went missing and not giving up the search. I could see how many people in her position might have just assumed that he went somewhere else but she was clearly committed to her job of helping people on the street. Who knows if Dorothea would have ever been caught if she (Judy) hadn't of kept digging.
Sucks though. I would feel horrible about bringing him to her... Obviously she couldn't know but I would feel shit.
She’s an example of a social worker whose in the profession because she actually cares
Your initial use of "rose colored glasses" was correct 😂 lol. It means looking at something and thinking its better than it actually is. Also here in the US the address would be said as "fourteen twenty-six" we dont say hundreds or thousands in addresses.
Or by just saying each number individually.
It's so ironic how much effort Simon puts in to saying "effortlessly"
slow tongue
Simon effortlessly doing his thing. He makes being a UA-camr look like it can be done effortlessly.
Effortlessly.
I'm sure at this point they've silently agreed to make Simon suffer this word every episode. I love it ❤
Effortlessly.
Allegedly
mwah
@@Unknowngfyjoh Legend
it's so funny how Simon can say "Dismembered Appendices" so easily but also can't help but say effortlessly as "effort-le-lessly"
And he pronounces lengthy as "length-ly"
@@MsSilverTulipI never noticed that!
"Schtick"? "Theme"? Wouldn't the obvious term for The Casual Criminalist be your, "Modus Operandi"?
USP, Unique Selling Point
Gimmick
Brilliant 😎
Gimmick
My thoughts exactly. A perfect fit.
Simon, two things that might help:
First, real quick, most Americans would pronounce that "fourteen twenty-six" breaking it into sets of two for quickness.
Second, as for the welfare/addicts stuff, I used to think the exact same way until a friend explained it to me like this: not only is testing for that sort of thing expensive and ineffective (other than marijuana and PCP, almost all drugs become undetectable in under 3 days), but addicts don't just stop being addicts when you cut off their support. Indeed, that usually just makes help harder to find. Instead they end up fully homeless and/or committing crimes to support their addiction. At this point local crime goes up, property values go down, and you end up paying more in taxes to try to bolster a police force to counter said crime. But that doesn't ever really work does it?
So you end up in a situation where you can just pay the taxes for social support, knowing some people will abuse it OR end up paying the same amount in taxes, but now with increased crime rates and your property devaluing. It is a no-win situation where you kinda just have to pick the less-bad one and hope people eventually get help.
(If anyone disagrees with that, totally fine, like i said, i had my mind changed. Please keep it civil. In the end, addiction just sucks and hurts everybody, including the community, no matter what)
Pretty much all this.
if the human cost isn't enough, the financial cost of not helping might change minds.
This sums it up perfectly, in almost every country i think.
SIMON NEEDS TO SEE THIS
but also some addresses are ACTUALLY stupidly long for some reason. 4 digits? fine 13420 XXXXXX Street? shit like THAT exists....WHY? four digits I can understand- especilly in cities, but my mom moved to a SUBURBAN neighborhood in florida with 5 digit HOUSE numbers. fuck that.
Yep. After growing up in the Bible belt in a rich white family, then becoming a ne’er-do-well myself for almost 2 decades living on and off the street… I can completely agree that “harm reduction“ works… And anyone who disagrees with that might change their mind once they see a loved one, their children, or themselves in the same situation.
And yes my family helped me for the first few years but they were all dead and gone by The time I was in my early 20s, and I inherited nothing. So just because someone grew up in a rich white family, doesn’t mean that their family bails them out and pays for everything so that they can continue screwing up their entire life
Simon as someone on Disability in the modern day, I can tell you there's a lot of controversy involving benefits in the USA. Foodstamps are all done electronically via a special coded card that won't pay for anything else or for restaurant food or premade food such as rotisserie chickens, but people will still sell them. And that is against the law.
Lye is also used in making soap and in certain crafting recipes such as rhetting fibers for making rope.
It used to be that paper checks were sent to a person's address. However, in my lifetime (I'm 36) checks are now direct deposited either into an account or onto a refillable prepaid card. You can also hire someone from an agency to handle the money for you, probably to protect people from the sort of scam Puente was running.
Puente would simply intercept the checks at the mailbox or intimidate the people into giving them to her, then either forge the signature on the checks or get them to sign them and then just cash them and not give the guy their money.
20 years ago, a lady ran a similar house on Beacon Hill in Boston. She never killed anyone, when the old-timers died, she just had the bodies left on the Boston Common with no ID, and kept getting their Gov't Checks..He daughter ran a brothel out of the basement of the same house. Quite a family. It went on for nearly 20 years.
What was rhe ladies name
Hang on, I've lived in Boston since 1999 and I never heard this! I must know more!
hot damn, quite a family indeed. Imagine living next door or on the same street and not realising the full scope of what was going on.
Sadly, not an uncommon happening.
I need a video on this haha!!
I'm laughing listening to Simon struggle with the address 1426. In the states we pronounce it as "fourteen twenty six". Hope this helps with your grating problem.
Or is it grinding…?
I was just about to say. 😂
I was just thinking this, and then he changed to saying "one four two six", which is even more efficient than what we'd say.... so now I'm questioning my language habits 😂
I say one four two six. I have auditory processing issues and when people put numbers together like that “fourteen” easily sounds like “forty” to me. But as usual I’m probably in the minority. 😣
I've noticed that I only say the single numbers when we get into 5 digit housing. A previous address of mine was one-five-two-two-five. Saying fifteen thousand two hundred twenty five was just cumbersome lol
"May as well give up; there's just women buried here." I literally laughed out loud, Mr. Whistler.
Simon: We haven't broken the two hour mark yet...
Danny: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!!
David
@@audreymuzingo933 you didn't get it
@@jonyemm get what?
@@audreymuzingo933 Business/Brain Blaze joke. Another channel Simon runs.
@@Ceyrenn460 Ah thanks. This is the only channel of his I really like so I don't watch the others very often.
Lye is used for quite a few innocuous things like making good soap, gardening, certain yummy baked goods like pretzels... Just a few of the reasons I've bought it over the years. There are limits on how much you can buy now, but it's still really inexpensive. I can only imagine how easy it was to get a few decades ago.
*Disclaimer: I am not a murderer*
That sounds like something a murderer would say!
Hmm not sure I believe your disclaimer.
Disclaimer: I am not a bat.
@@Agatharose457 I'm not entirely certain that you are not a bat, as you stated in the disclaimer above. Disclaimer. I am a bat.
@@trinitythex6625 would you like to hear my impression of a bat using echolocation?
Yeah or Laugenbrot as it's known in Germany. Also cheap drain declogger, basically what's in them but 100 times cheaper. Also great for chemisty used to increase PH of solutions and also used in developing photos. That's why you can buy it in hobby shops. But like 1 kg not tons of it.
Edit: Also don't dissolve bodies.... feel free to dig in my garden, no warrant needed :)
She's one of the few criminals who actually scare me. Because she had so much power over the people in her care and because of the situation they were in, it's rare that anyone would believe them. Being trapped by an abuser with no way out is my worst fear.
Yep. Same reason I don’t like cases involving hospitals. You put a lot of trust into those people and these episodes just go to show how it can backfire if you aren’t careful 😬
I’m glad Simon doesn’t understand homelessness or poverty, speaking as someone whose had to rebuild his life from both situations (simultaneously of course lol) I would hope no one has to know how hard that can be. Obviously people suffer these situations, but I’d also hope anyone in that situation knows they can still make it and their lives still matter. 🙏🏽
Thank you, sir
22 years out there
Never found any where more honest...
Thank you for saying this. I’ve experienced both as well, and am still trying to recover emotionally (and financially)!
I couldn’t have said it better myself. I was binge watching and really enjoying the content. Until I clicked on this one. Talk about someone having to check their privilege!
@@VetNurseJoy people just don’t understand how hard it is in the US. They see the glitz and glam of Hollywood and make the ignorant assumption that we all have those opportunities. They don’t realize that if you weren’t born into privilege it ain’t gonna happen here. We don’t have free higher education or free healthcare for that matter. Most citizens don’t even have a extra $500 for emergencies which could def put you on the streets. It’s unfortunately very real.
Well said !
Simon accidentally lying for YEARS about playing tennis is so hilarious, and somehow seems like such a Simon thing to do. It's so specific, but makes total sense? Dishonesty borne from being too polite just fits in my expectations for him.
Crying with laughter
Im much the same so i relate to him. Hell if it was me i may have ended up just frigging learning to play tennis if it were the path of least resistance.
A story well told is never too long
Unless the person is in a rehabilitation program or have adequate support, it's actually better to let them buy alcohol with the money. Going cold turkey is a very difficult way to get clean from anything and with alcoholism, you risk having alcoholic seizures that can kill you. Obviously, it's much better to actually get the person into a social care program and actually help them get clean, but if not, it tends to be better to give them a safe way to access the substance they're addicted to.
I can confirm that the UK is awful for supporting addicts, or at least the West Midlands is. If you receive benefits, you can access help for addiction, but one of the problems is that the help is outsourced to private companies and every year, there's essentially a competition between the companies to be the most appealing which tends to be asking for the lowest price. It's a terrible system and often someone will be doing great and then be swapped to a new program randomly and suddenly they're regressing. Someone close to me is an alcoholic and one of the other insane problems we've encountered is not offering any mental health support on the NHS unless they're clean even though it's kinda impossible to separate addiction from mental health.
Trying to get sober cold turkey especially from alcohol has one of the highest death rates If i remember correctly. Because people get spasms and are at a high risk to eighter die of that or by suffocating on their own vomit. Its really bad especially since many hospitals are requiring patients to remain sober to get treatment, so if they can't hold up to that standart they get kicked out. I've had a few clients die that way, it truly is a horrific death.
Yeah here in California, it’s hard to get an addict to detox because they can leave whenever they want. So it’s better to let them drink instead of withdrawing and dying. If someone is detoxed professionally there’s halfway houses they can stay in that ban substances, but it’s not always effective. Active addicts will do anything to get their fix.
Yep. Alcohol is one of the hardest drugs to get off of.
The only thing that is worst is Benzodiazepine or Benzos which got a lot of attention thanks to Jordan Peterson.
I used to shelter a homeless girl with substance abuse disorder (heroin and crack cocaine), and once when I was trying to get her help when she was going through withdrawal I was advised by a specialist from an addiction centre that there was no point trying to make her go to A&E - the best thing I could do for her in the moment was give her money to get a fix. He was right. She was treated abysmally by medical professionals and never offered viable support or treatment pathways.
(She was temporarily housed during covid when magically the government got homeless people off the street overnight and did subsequently get a funded place in a residential treatment centre, so there is a semi-happy resolution to that depressing anecdote… now she “just” has to deal with her complex ptsd and the health issues that come from sleeping rough for years)
@@annasutton4029 great comment on a terrible subject. Thank you for sharing this Anna.
Simon, I work in medicine and volunteer at the local homeless basecamp. It is unfortunately very much a 'then, just as now's situation, in the Western United States at least. Homeless is being actively criminalized in more than one large city here in Washington state at the moment.
Also, a not-insignificant number of people in my city protested the cost increase of cranking up the heat at the shelter and the additional outdoor heating stations for the homeless during our snowstorm last month...
I remember arguing with a former coworker about how the homeless people in Denver are apparently just “lazy” because they can “afford” to have space heaters and generators in their tents, and how “real homeless people” wouldn’t have that. I about shouted at her that they’d be fking dead if they didn’t. The amount of people who think the homeless aren’t suffering enough because they have basic survival necessities like phones or heating in blizzard territory is disgusting. The idiotic belief that people, real human people, are willing to wallow in life or death situations because they’re “lazy” is so fking stupid.
@Wired User A phone is not a survival need. Food, water, and shelter are. You have had too good of a life if you believe that a phone is a necessity to survival.
That awkward moment when Simon's tutor watches his video and thinks, "That bastard! We had so many good talks about tennis!" 😂
😂 I had a roommate that allowed the doorman to call him thee wrong name for like three years🤣
I can't wait for tonight, falling asleep to simon's soothing voice describing terrible events.
Why wait? Fall asleep now!
No sh!t, you too!
@@tartanmctwisted4223 yeah im allways really active in my mind so i need some thing to focus on while i subconciously prepare to fall asleep, i even do it with business blaze sometimes allthough simon yelling isn't the most effective way to fall asleep :')
This is what I do... Are you me?
I often fall asleep to these videos...I thought it was just me!
If I were one of the writers I’d be tossing “effortlessly” in more and more because watching Simon is such a blast. Also liquor up that coffee
I always drink my coffee Irish up😍😂😂
In another episode he said he'd fire himself if he was drinking on the job.
@@HSamee and in yet another one he was drinking some wine while reading 😂
@@monicasegovia6176 which one? Tell meeee. 🤩 I wanna see.
@@HSamee oh I don't even know anymore, I've been binge watching recently so I don't remember lol
I work at a theater 2 blocks away from the Puente boarding house and that place is a trip! The guy who owns it now has a mannequin of Dorothea on the front porch, signs that say "keep off the grass, you don't know what"s underfoot" and a bronze plaque on the fence with a QR code that takes you to a documentary about the house. He also goes all out during Halloween with fake body bags in dirt piles on the front yard. It's an experience to say the least!
Hey Simon, in case you were genuinely curious why people want to still see parents that abandoned them I might be able to give you some insight. My mother abandoned my brother and I when I was around 12 so this is just my own experience and what I’ve seen from other abandoned children in the homes I lived in since. As far as I can tell, one of the main reasons why there is an urge to connect with the parent is the emotional blow that comes with being abandoned by someone who is supposed to love you unconditionally. It’s hard not to internalize that and see it as a failure on your own part to some degree, even if it’s subconsciously (was I a bad child to be unwanted, etc). Many want these and other questions as to why they were abandoned answered at some point.
Others hold out the hope that their parent had good reasons and regret what they did, or have to deal with pressure from other family members to reforge a bond. There is just a lot of emphasis on families, especially mothers and the bond with their children. Without it, things can often feel like you’re incomplete or missing something. I personally never wanted to see my mother again, but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t feel uprooted and that I’m not still dealing with the fallout from it 20 years later. If I didn’t know why already, I’d probably want some answers as well.
I am really sorry you went through that. It is a very awful feeling to try & work through. Hope all is well.
As someone who literally watched a parent constantly keep walking out of their life and never knowing when/if they would see them again, I am really grateful you brought up that incomplete/missing feeling. While I can't say what it's like for children too young to remember, there is definitely a part of you that's not quite whole after the abandonment, even if the child-turned-adult has got to the point of never wanting to see the other parent again.
And I will point out there's also an unconscious habit of looking at other families with a "the grass is always greener" wonder about what if. No matter how good life might be, you never forget that there was a time when that missing piece was there.
I also agree that there can be a real pressure by other family members who seem to expect you to reach out to the parent. I've had a lot of conversations with family members which have subtly declared me the bad guy for not wanting to find and speak to my father.
It's wierd to.me that great comments like this never get a ❤️ from Simon/team. Only the ones that complim3nt or ass-kiss.
9:50 - Chapter 1 - The lunatics running the asylum
22:00 - Mid roll ads
23:15 - Chapter 2 - Meet dorothea puente
41:10 - Chapter 3 - Black coffee, dark thoughts, darker deeds
47:05 - Chapter 4 - The devil's golden girl
1:03:10 - Chapter 5 - A harmless old woman
1:16:15 - Chapter 6 - Never trust a gold digger
1:26:35 - Dismembered appendices
Thank you for this!
It is impressive how you can narrate these stories for hours so effortlessly.
The Honourable Callum Howe needs to be back in a few episodes.
I think he managed to escape Simon's basement.
@@Siilikeiju well, Simon needs to hunt him down and bring him back to the basement!!!!! I love all the writers, but I really miss Callum….
As previously shown by the reliable sources from Brain Blaze, the honourable Callum Howe is currently out of the deluxe CC studio basement, doing an internship with Sam, Danny and ETA. He is currently engaged in Blazement wall mushroom therapy, and will be back at the earliest possible time.
Thank you for your patience and for using Fact Boy's basement customer support
Was wondering about this
Yeah I was wondering what happened to him
Simon, I don't think you've said or done anything that made me lose respect for you before today, but not seeing the Golden Girls? I cannot abide.
At least look up who Sophia is lol
Contrast that against my five year old daughter, who's arguably seen _too many_ episodes.
I didn't think this was possible til, out of the blue, she theatrically closed the front door while spinning to looked me straight in the face, while exclaiming, "fasten your seatbelt, slutpuppy; it's going to be a bumpy ride!".
Lol😂
He did his best Arthur Morgan impression and died of tuberculosis. Classic line, love it
From a healthcare worker perspective: Alcoholism is deadly in many ways. You can die from alcohol detox. We provide alcohol inpatient if the patient is an alcoholic to prevent detox. It’s pretty serious and happens within a day or 2 depending on severity. It’s not pretty, it’s very unsafe, and people who recover still can have lasting effects for years after. This probably plays into it.
My dad had a medical detox when he got sober. He’d been drinking heavily for years, so it took him days just to sober up from his last drinking binge anyway.
I appreciate your healthcare insight to help people understand how dangerous it is to quit drinking on your own without medical help. I think without that medication I would have lost my grandma and my dad within the same month. He’s been 11 years sober and I’m so grateful he is! Only my oldest kid remembers drinking grandpa. He greatly prefers sober grandpa. Thanks again! 💖
Yup. Other than detox from booze, the only other detox that is just as dangerous is benzo detox-- because both work on the exact same receptors in the brain. I tell me friends a lot that if they want to quit benzos of alcohol, they probably should consult their GP first for a referral to the proper hospital or facility, and if they're lucky, the hospital/facility will knock them out with meds for the worst of it.
Aside from that, I remember that the charge nurse always had a bottle of that gag-a-maggot, disgusting Wild Irish Rose (*ugh.... ew*) for our frequent fliers that were homeless and alcoholic. Still, it doesn't cease to amaze me how quickly a cup of booze can transform someone from a shaking, DTing, out of their mind mess, into a suddenly normal, level person.
Alcoholism is a real monster.
The thing with avoiding giving addicts actual money bc they'll spend it on their addiction doesn't work well. Addicts will always find a way to get a fix, even foodstamps can be traded for less cash that could be used for getting their fix or they'll do something more dangerous to do it. Giving them both the autonomy to chose AND support systems that will get them over their addiction and a healthier safer life is more effective in the long run.
It sucks that pharmaceutical companies, doctors, corporate media and stupid stupid politicians created the issue around Addicts, they created the problem. Instead of providing people with the way out they just created another drug problem. I'm going to break down how suboxon, and subutex are the governments/doctors way to keep people hooked on drugs. So how it works around our area. You need to have something in your system in order for them to see you. But before that you have to provide 250$ cash. They'll do debit cards but that's an additional 50$ charge. Most of the time they don't do even check you over, if they ask for more pills, and says the right things they'll up there amount. Go to pharmacy and pay additional 250 cash. Now most ppl dont have insurance. If you have insurance the pills can be relatively inexpensive. But these programs are to ween people off the drugs now extend their misery. I've literally watched 6 guys go in all pee dirty, and NOT have the correct medicine in their system. The owners/doctors will walk back in and hand another piss cup and say now. Do it right this time. So before anyone says shit. This is in D.C., BALTIMORE, GLEN BURNIE, VIRGINIA BEACH, PITTSBURGH, NYC, and so on. So it's not just one local area. Almost all of these damn doctors are just as corrupt as the pharmaceutical companies. That's who's destroying our country, our world, our lives.
@@nicholascorbett1256 While some of the things you say is true and I agree with you, not all doctors are like that. As long as I can remember I’ve had depression and addiction issues. My doctor is a wonderful women, who helped me greatly. She lets me choose what medications I want to take, and we both agreed I’m not to be prescribed anything addictive. She’s a sweet little old lady names Olga, and she’s from the eastern bloc. I’ve had her as a doctor for years now. Even then, I’ve spend most of my life in mental health services, and I’ve met more doctors who actually care to help then the ones who just wanna drug me up and shove me out the door.
Only if they want to. A vast majority don't
As a recovering addict I can personally back this up. I used to trade my food stamps for cash, fifty cents on the dollar, which I then used for heroin or meth. I got in a methadone clinic 5 years ago & I've never looked back.
@Nicholas Corbett I agree with a lot of what you said. The opioid epidemic was in large part caused by pharmaceutical companies lying about research on the addiction potential of medications, and doctors neot addressing pain well for a variety of reasons (also pill mills). It's a little more complex in that it also has to do with using pain as a vital sign as well as general practitioners prescribing pain medications instead of specialists who often would also utilize non-pharmaceutical approaches. The stigma we have around people using pharmaceuticals in order to aid with their substance use disorder is not helpful. They often are how people are able to gain control of their lives again. Yes. There are absolutely doctors who prey on the situation as there are people who use their career to prey on others in any situation. Think of the stereotypical idea of a car mechanic gouging prices when someone doesn't know enough about cars. There are some ways in which people can get medications for free (through research on how to determine which are the most effective for people; they often can also get free access to things like therapy and information on programs that could benefit them). Unfortunately we do not invest in enough harm reduction programs and people often aren't even aware of programs that could help them. Also in reality we need to help people with the reason why they have been using so many substances (beyond dependence, it's oftentimes trauma) in order to actually help people.
It's amazing that Simon can put together that Dorothea held power over these people but then assumed she was telling the truth about what they did with their money.
Simon: "if they'd just shut up than the police wouldnt have been contacted"
The Casual Criminalist, giving the best crime advice for the low price of free.
To be fair, a 100% functional human being _never has to kill someone._ Or even commit a felony.
They can just exploit people to death legally and make bank.
It's the broken people looking for shortcuts that are willing to bet it all on not getting caught. And those people are _unable_ to follow Simon's advice.
TLDR: "Sensible felon" is an oxymoron.
@@JoshSweetvale eh, you don't hear about sensible criminals because they don't often get caught, and when they do get caught it's because of luck or a legal loophole
@@JellyLocke damn straight!All these famous serial killers and psychos were total idiots.
The cops/public try to make them out to be “geniuses” but they barely even tried to cover their tracks.
I mean check out how BTK got caught,absolute moron
Simon saying that he didn't see many homeless people in New York City clearly indicates that he hasn't been there in a while. Also, Where is Callum? Buried in Simon's back garden?
In Simon's basement, of course!
I live in New York City and I can't remember the last time I saw a homeless person.
for real! I about spit my coffee out! Having been homeless the whole rant was painful to listen to, truly ignorant.
I love the longer videos, especially with Simon's added commentary and sudden realisations
Love the long episodes! Also, just as an fyi, in the states we tend to say addresses by number groups rather than as whole numbers. So "621" would be said "six twenty-one" and "1426" would be said "fourteen twenty-six"...hope that helps in the future!
Yeah, it sort of drove me nuts that he kept complaining about how long the address was, and I was like, that's cause you are saying it the longest way possible.
I'm happy he's learned this now though. I remember watching a recent episode where he specifically said this. And how much he appreciated people letting him know because it was driving him crazy as well.
Where I'm at it's 5 numbers. What a pain.
@@melissamccleary9611Yup, the house I grew up in was along the lines of 12654.
We said “twelve-six-fifty-four”.
For a while I lived in a house with only 2 numbers and people would tell me “that’s not a full address” or act like I was pranking them. Most people had never encountered a two-digit address before. Some of the houses in that neighborhood were single digit and I always wondered how people reacted to being told the address is “3 Elm Street”. In the US it does sound made up.
We moved into our house in 2018. The old owner’s granddaughter was in prison for drugs or something. She did not know her mom sold the house and moved. She came to my door one day, looking high af, and being really weird. I told her we were the new owners and her mom wasn’t there (it’s a long story, my parents live next door, so we were familiar with the family and all the drug issues, very crazy things all the time)… she left and about an hour later a cop knocked on my door to do a welfare check. Once he came in and looked around he told me that someone reported their grandfather was murdered in the house and put through a wood chipper in the back yard! So yeah. I was fine letting the cop look around! He was familiar with the granddaughter though and we got a no contact order. I still get letter from prison addressed to her mom.
How tragic it was probably true and you guys didn't really realize it that the grandfather probably died naturally but the mother had a joint bank account that his retirement pension or social security money was going into. What some people will do is take the body out and dump it in the desert or yeah we find it all over Nevada and Arizona and they keep getting the money in their joint account and then all of a sudden the account is closed people have moved and well Social Security is too busy to really follow up and it isn't until like five or six years later when some grandkids come around looking for you where did Grandpa go he was supposed to be staying at this nursing home and now they've told me he never was there. So you have to go out and check was he really never there especially with some little small kind of like private facility that Mom placed him in or dad did because when we had to move where I had to move and you would be surprised you wouldn't be surprised how many parents end up in prison on drug charges while their kids are in prison on drug charges. You got to remember once crack-cocaine hit that was the end of it. We ended up having grandparents and great-grandparents raising kids who were cocaine addicts when they were born period that generation of elderly people and now you have people who were addicts that you never knew were attics suddenly they're elderly they can't get their pain meds in there goes day nowhere to go look on the street to get drugs. And they are getting arrested. Such a bizarre world today. And Social Security doesn't track down these couple of month extra payment chicks all they need is a letter stating that oh you can close the account we don't need it anymore they passed away don't even need a death certificate
Here's to Simon and his phenomenal writers. I love these longer episodes. Helps work to fly by. So appreciative for all the personalities involved in these channels. I love every single one!
It doesn't sound bad at all when you can admit you're privileged, in fact it gives me even more respect for you. You've got self awareness, which is more than a lot of people can say.
yeah but then there is the fact that you have privileged and privileged, i feel privileged when i have a stable roof over my head and tons of food for my dogs, i did 10 years ish of homelessness, so i get that feeling pretty quickly, what Simon is talking about is the other kind, the kind you feel bad about it only if you are a decent human beeing while living in over abundance
The best part of Simmons podcasts is when he says “enough rambling” and then proceeds to ramble
i love the longer vids! i am usually running errands, mowing the lawn, doing household stuff etc while listening! thanks for the great content!
I’m only 20 mins in while watching, but much respect to the cops for caring about a mentally ill person who disappeared!!! It warms my heart that they cared enough to talk to people there and dig around the backyard!
Honestly I love how Simon shouts out his coworkers, "he writes, she memes, Danny's in the basement.. this is how the show works"
I prefer longer videos !! I see over the hour mark and I’m straight onto it !!
Especially in this channel , I love the content and delivery of it , props to the script writers as well of course as well as the person delivering it !
Long videos like this are perfect , I hate having to try choose a new video every 20 minutes , it’s heaven for me to stick on an hour plus long true crime vid / podcast and just not have to think about what to watch for an hour or more 😂❤️✨
Where's Calum? I like all your writers, but you guys had something going on this show that worked so well. Is he working on something big? Or has he moved on to other things?
Probably escaped the Blazement or died trying. His scripts were like movie scripts I miss them
@@stephjovi I was convinced for the first several months that Simon hadn't actually got him in the basement yet. Hence why he was being so nice to him to lure him in... Maybe he actually is in the basement now, and being too stubborn to write, I wonder who will win the contest of wills...
@@heatherhiggins2002 same I thought he's safe in Japan. But seems like we were wrong RIP Callum. Now Danny will never dare to run
I hope he escaped. Run, Calum, run!
Callum is a brilliant writer, miss his scripts...
I have often had the thought in the hours of fantastic content made by Simon that he has been very privileged. When he talks about it he seemed to be trying to explain himself. Privilege is unearned advantage. Its not anyone's fault they receive that advantage. It is up to each individual to recognize it and do with it what they can. So I appreciate that he is trying. He's doing what he can.
Everyone has an invisible knapsack of privilege.
Yes, people from an economic super-state, who are born rich by the standards of that state, typically have a much larger knapsack. But people like me (marginalised by the standards of my economic super-state) still have powerful knapsacks.
People who we typically categorise as the poorest of the world also have their knapsacks. Mostly empty. (but if a disaster hits, they know how to survive it!)
The best thing you can do with a powerful knapsack is to learn how to distribute its benefits. And Simon, you're distributing a lot of benefits. You have a bunch of writers and editors employed. You use sponsors well and wisely. And your chosen topics of discussion hand out bits of knapsacks.
Here's one that probably will benefit the marginalised: survival strategies. First Nations people often know them, so do the poor and marginalised of most societies.
You can start with 'foods of last resort'. How to find and prepare things that we privileged folks find icky. Did you know that dandelion leaves are edible?
@@juliatarrel1674 there's also a leafy green all over wooded areas (at least in the SE United States), called Poke Salad. You're supposed to season it, and boil it, but you can eat the raw leaves. It ain't a good time, but it's food. Dandelion salad actually isn't bad. I've even seen it in some fancy restaurants.
@@leahsanders798 Useful to know. Thank you.
Well said!
@@leahsanders798 I think you have to boil Poke weed at least 3 times (boil it, dump out the water to put in fresh water, boil it again, etc) to make it edible. I think it's also at least mildly toxic (if not very toxic) if it isn't boiled at least 3 times. Dandelions are much more palatable. Oh, kudzu is another plant that you can make a lot of stuff from. Source: born and raised in the SE US.
Using prescription drugs to kill people who were known drug addicts or alcoholics would be hard to detect, even if the bodies had been examined soon after death. It’s common enough for such people to overdose themselves, accidentally or intentionally.
Simon, your channels have gotten me through many boring evenings. I work a desk job, with quite a lot of downtime, and discovering your content was a godsend. I recommend you to all who will listen. Keep it up man!
Poor Bert. He was finally finding his feet and had hope for the future and it was snatched away from him. It's absolutely tragic and unfair
I know... I hate it.
I suppose one small piece of comfort can be taken here from knowing he was so appreciated by his peers that even Judy, the social worker who's job it was to help him and folks like him, became so attached to him that she refused to let his disappearance go. Lots of folks in her job are spread incredibly thin and can't help but let clients slip through the cracks, or their identities blend together after years of working with people, but she worked to find him and in doing so, helped to uncover Dorothea's whole plot. If it weren't for Berts loveable nature and impact that he had on people, this series of events may have never been set off, meaning Dorothea may have ended up murdering plenty of other poor folks.
Real name Isaac Walnut
I heard it as "Burt."
@@RealElongatedMuskrat this is true, he probably saved many lives, along with Judy
This channel has made me a long-form video enthusiast and I prefer watching content from creators that are putting in the amount of time to tell a story or captivate an audience that isn't 15- or 30- seconds long. Good on you, Simon!
That was a hell of a 2 min transition from "I don't know if I could do enough to pass for 25 years older" to "hey 15 year olds, just act like your 90 to get beer"
Simon, they're now making sure to install railings partway through most benches in my city and put spiked concrete under bridges so homeless people can't sleep there. We have exactly ONE homeless shelter with very strict rules and the weather is so inhospitable that most of most winters sleeping rough could be deadly. (This winter is an exception, for most of the time it's been freakishly warm, it's actually creeping me out, although I bet the homeless people are happy about it.) Extreme heat in the summer is also a concern, not as bad as Arizona or the Middle East, but still bad enough that a year or two ago I watched a drunk threaten to rob a bank so police would take him somewhere where he could lie down in air conditioning. There's certainly been even worse times in the past to be homeless, but I wouldn't really say we treat homeless people better now than 4 decades ago.
Last winter a houseless person died of the cold. After much public outrage the city set up a temporary warming shelter, but they didn't make it again this winter.
Also Simon, you wondered about "giving people money that can't be spent on alcohol", there are now ways of doing this in America. There are SNAP points that get you more food at farmer's markets and such, and I think certain cards that can only be used on some groceries?
@@allisonjeffery9239 SNAP can only be used on food and nothing else. You can’t buy certain energy drinks or alcohol with them. However if someone was smart enough or had been in prison or jail they could buy the raw ingredients to make liquor. Fruit, yeast, water from the tap and in a few days they’re drinking. Watching documentaries on anything and everything gives you odd knowledge.
A lot of homeless people in Kansas City have smart phones and often leave donated food and water abandoned at street corners to later be picked up and thrown away by the city. It’s nothing like it was 20 years ago or more. I volunteered at food kitchens back in the 90’s and the poverty of the homeless back then is like night and day in comparison to today. Even the poorest people today are extremely privileged in comparison to how it was back then.
Jesus was homeless. 150 homeless froze to death 1 winter. Homeless have dogs bc they need love also but prob is, shelters dont take dogs. One winter EMTs were trying to get a frozen man & his dog protected him from these strangers. Dog was loyal to the end. 1 bdrm from Puente's goes for $3,000 in 2022. No vacancies create $$ rent! Natural Disasters along with Ron Reagan thinking tax payers should have to pay for mentally ill so mental hospitals released the mentally ill so they could support Cartels my self medicating. Bc of those cars being towed that homeless lived in hence they live on the sts. CEOS have numerous residences have employees that live in their cars! Hey the homeless use my yd for their toilet & have stripped my car for dope.
A long wait list to get in a shelter today. Wash had a heat wave along with Or but no ACs caused discomfort yet homeless died from heat dehydration. LOTS bc climate change snuck up on them. Hawaii has an area they cleanup every Sun & treat like a campsite. They need to volunteer each for toilets & not pay city employee. Being productivre would make them feel good about themselves also. Sad they cant get out of rain under bridges. I used to read to homeless children whod love to keep dry!
Tbh, as a child who was taken away from my parents.. honestly the best thing you can do for your kid is get rid of them by adoption or family. If you don’t want your kid, don’t hang onto them and fuck them up more 🤷🏼♀️ her daughters are probably way better off without her. Worst thing you can do is let them growing up knowing you despise them. A lot of people keep their kids out of pride. My mother outright denies I got taken off of her, but it’s in the child protective services record lol. I’ll say her personality is very similar to Dorthothea lol, very grimy and thieving.. refuses to get a job. aside from that, no actual personality. I was conceived at a strip club (learned that when I met my bio dad a few years ago) and she routinely had affairs, faking illnesses and age.
Agreed! I recently discovered that my abusive POS great uncle had a whole family that he abandoned and kept secret from the rest of us. Turns out that being abandoned was the best thing that could have happened to my cousins, because they were adopted by their grandmother and raised properly, all of them going on to great success. The rest of us turned out... not so well. We only discovered one another through ancestry testing.
My oldest Aunt gave her daughter up for adoption right after birth. It's strange to think that we have one cousin, a sixth and oldest of our clan we'll never know. She'd be in her 40s now wherever she is
No worries, Simon. I'd love a 2+ hr video of you reacting to whatever weird story the writers cook up for us.
Same here I regularly watch 3-4 hr long UA-cam videos.
me too!❤
Yes. Just yes.
I'd watch it..
Yea, we love psycho dark messed up stories, but, we mostly here to watch a man gradually losing his believe in humanity, getting more and more insane, more extreme with each podcast that he had.
When they let her go, there was one body of indeterminate but probably at least a decade old…meaning who knows how long it’s been there and how many people have had access to the yard in that time…she had been cooperative, had not fled during the night when her opportunity would have been greater opportunity, and it seems unlikely she could have been burying anyone anywhere given her age and stature. The record for drugging and forgery is obviously a huge red flag, but I honestly get the cop not thinking that he could arrest her at that juncture. Therefore he kinda had to let her walk. Maybe a tail would have been smart, but I don’t think this is as egregious as you’re saying, not by the established standards of terrible policing we’re used to. This seems more understandable.
Plus she allowed the police to search the garden initially which reinforces the idea that she had no idea about the body in the backyard.
Agreed. It'd be plausible to think that the individuals hired to work in the garden took the opportunity to kill someone and bury them there.
The police still thought she was 20 years older than she actually was. It's hard for many of us even cops to picture an elderly woman killing people and getting someone else to bury the bodies. Look at the reactions in the dark comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace" if you want the way many of us would view that idea.
We love the long episodes
Also someone needs to give Simon all the dads of Star wars and golden girls to watch when his kidnappers let him take a break from recording.
Simon and team, I watch all these videos while I am work. Worry not for long videos, I infact live for them to help make the day go by faster. Great show as always!
Simon probably thinks all Americans don't work while at work due to the comments. 😂
@@generaljuanitopequeno I mean, statistically, he isn't exactly wrong haha
I watch these videos bevore I go to sleep and when I week up and geth ready for the way to work and on the weekends -
They are so good made - could watch for 6 h straight.
@@Shizznad yes anything to make work go by faster lol
"Murder me once, shame on you. Murder me twice, you're going to jail!" 😂😂😂
Great work everyone! I was born and raised in Sacramento and going to grade school and into high school during this whole thing. I actually rented a place on F street about two blocks from that infamous house. And no,. I never had any ghostly visitors creeping around my place while I lived there.😁 Just for future reference Simon, in the states we just say fourteen twenty six F Street or thirty three oh four Freeport Blvd, etc...you get the idea. Again, great work! Love your vids!
As a child of an alcholic I can assure you the neglect and emotional merry go round is indeed abuse and devestating to normal development.
Devastating*
Neglect is a kind of abuse, but it is different in its effects to emotional and physical abuse. I think that's what Simon was trying to say
I'm all for two hours of Casual Criminalist, it's relaxing to hear Simon's dulcet tones relating gory criminal activity. And lye is used in making soap, mixed with oils or animal fats. If only Dorothea had thought to tell the police she was making soap in her garden. Although I do believe use of human fat is a no no. 🙄😏
Simon i love the longer formats i listen while i work and i work 10 hour shifts so these are perfect
Simon, long is good! Even on UA-cam. Lots of artists listen to your podcast and we need long videos to keep our ADD at bay :) love all the channels as is, keep it up! 😊
Sorry for typos. Blame the add. 😂
Agreed. Adult ADHD here 🙃
You use lye to make soap by combining it with some sort of fat. I recall that you can make lye by drilling a tiny hole in the bottom of a bucket, filling the bucket with wood ash, and adding water to filter through the ash and slowly drip out the hole at the bottom. My grandma said one time they ended up with too much butter (from their cow) and to use it up before it went rancid, her mother made soap from it.
Hey Simon, when we have those long numbers in addresses in the U.S., we tend to pronounce it in parts, i.e. "1426 Park St." Is pronounced as "fourteen twenty-six Park St." And "21369 Main St." would be "twenty-one three sixty-nine."
I didn't realize it was unique to the States until you pointed it out. It's just habit here. 😀I
Simon, it's surely amazing to me that a total truthteller and historian like you could give me a better education on all forms of knowledge in a few hours of checking your channels out on UA-cam than the public education system ever gave me in fourteen years. Never change, Professor Whistler. Never change.
I don't know if Simon ever reads this, (or whomever needs to read this) but you should not feel guilty and apologize for having better upbringing than other people, and not understanding well fare checks or whatever, that's what is wrong with today's internet culture, its not like you are actively looking to hurt someone or take advantage of someone less privileged than you are. I don't know if you are like what you show on your videos but the character Simon Whistler as it appears on the internet has empathy enough as I see, and understand peoples problems and hardships. By the way thanks for the constant stream of content throughout all channels.
Hahaha. You must be a rich POS as well.
Well you can’t know everything.
I think it’s more arrogant to assume that all people SHOULD know that kind of stuff. It isn’t bad to know but you can’t fault people for not knowing if it’s not part of their daily life.
Everyone SHOULD be open to be educated though.
if anything I appreciate when people who had comfortable or steady upbringings can say that and admit that they don't know what growing up in long term financial instability is like. There's nothing more frustrating than someone who is pretty well off trying to argue that they aren't. It's always good to acknowledge the truth of where we come from and what we have to be grateful for, I think, and how those experiences can leave us needing to learn about the experiences of others. I grew up in a single parent household with a lot of financial hardship, for example, but my mother was a wonderful, devoted parent who did everything she could to care for us. As a result, I'm incredibly grateful for her and my heart goes out to anyone who has strained relationships with their parents. We're all fortunate in some ways and unfortunate in others, being aware of those things is always a good thing.
Strongly disagree.
Reeks of apathy.
Yes, I think (in my humble opinion) True Crimers don't want short content. Either way..what you do is amazing work! Thank You!
Best PSA ever by Simon Whistler and just plain good advice to live by, "Let's just move on, before i get cancelled for something."
Well said Sir...well said.
It's amazing how hard it is for some people to just _not be mean._
I've struggled to sleep the last week or so, but I've finally got a good night sleep while listening to this☺️
I love the longer ones. They are great for listening at work and helping the night pass. 2 or 3 episodes per shift always makes me feel like I'm cheating somehow.
"We've all be young, and we're all gonna be old" Unless an old lady running a halfway house decides to bury you in her garden.
Technically, born in 1929 Puente was even older than a boomer. Despite being younger than she made herself look
@@sherryhewins4396 she’s part of the ‘Silent Generation’ which makes it weirder. She survived the Great Depression.
I have been seriously mentally ill and homeless personally, and have researched the subject since. Things have definitely improved in regards to how the general public views and treats us, as well as how the government does. There is still a long way to go, but things are definitely significantly better than they were. Remember, this was a time when asylums where you were simply dumped and the key thrown away were still very common. Psychiatric hospitals aren't perfect, but they're a whole different world to an asylum. My mother stays in them regularly by her own choice.
Lye is used in making soap, for unclogging drains, and a host of other common everyday things.
It's basically anti-acid. A great solvent, especially of complex carbons.
Finally, the work week has been painfully slow without one of these.
In the US we usually pronounce a 4-digit house number in two parts. Example : 1234 would be “twelve thirty-four.” Might be easier for you, Simon. As always, thanks for the great content!
"When somebody's been a con-man or a criminal their whole life and they start running a charity". We have a pretty prominent family of them in this country.
Trump kept all the charity $ so often that I cant recall all those the gov had to shut down. Military was 1 I know for sure without 1 vet getting a cent. I know alot have more go to administrative than the cause so it pays to research before donating. I know Salvation Army is the real thing like Red Cross. I volunteered at SAL Army & I admire bell ringers bc I served food etc.
Lol 😂
And to think that we replaced that disgusting, scheming, con-artist first family with a first family only - at best - marginally less corrupt. And every bit as evil. (Actually, in terms of mass harm and suffering inflicted on the american public and world at large, Biden’s long, arch-evil career actually dwarfs Trump. Our country is deeply screwed.
@@conzmoleman agree. I’m sick of this dumb system giving us the “lesser evil” choice 😡
Truth
I wish I had a dollar for every time Simon says "We'll put a link below" and then doesn't.
I think this is the channel he said he'd link: ua-cam.com/users/ViktoriaEvans
Yeah, it is rather annoying. At least the girl got a few Thousand subs from his shoutout. I bet money it would've been more if he actually linked it like he said he did.
I’m currently catching up on all the shows. The writers are talented and Simon’s reading is entertaining, with excellent editing. I recently saw one about how he zoned out while stocking shelves. That’s exactly what I have been doing. I think I’ll be able to do it for a very long time.
Haven't hit 2 hours yet but been consistently in the 1:30-1:42 range and as a YT exclusive watcher/listener, I love that range. The 30-40 mins seem too short, I follow all the channels with Simon, he's pleasant to listen to, personality is agreeable even if you do not agree and the topics are usually great. Writers do a great job, and I adore Jen's pop ins.
While I cant speak for other countries or people, as someone who had the displeasure of having to deal with the benefits/welfare system here I'd say it is already very restrictive and almost dehumanizing. On a surface level restricting what people can buy with their money doesn't sound like a bad idea, but I've seen comments here explaining why we shouldn't do that (and they do a far better job explaining than I ever could, so I'll leave it to them).
For me, when they were going through my finances I was heavily discouraged from ordering food delivery, and I should spend the money better. The thing is that food was for both me and the person helping me out because I was sick and needed help, and it was likely also the most I ate in 2/3 days. A lot of rules and regulations may sound good, but it mostly doesn't benefit the people that it would affect and could even make everything worse. It might help some politician get votes though.
When I was a teenager, I lived about 2 blocks from that house. I passed by it pretty much every day! Now I guess the new owners put up a mannequin dressed up as old Dorothea! 🤣
I *love* David’s writing, and shouting out fellow UA-camrs for good practices is a hella classy move. Keep it up, Doc, and keep making Simon say “effortlessly” until he can do it…….effortlessly 🥰
Thanks so much! And I'll toss that word in a few times with the draft I'm currently writing. :P
I feel like Simon represents the inner voice in all our heads whilst watching this, it’s brilliant 😂
Hi! I found your channel a few weeks ago and have been bingeing it. I put it on whenever I'm doing yard or housework. I don't mind the long ones, I think they're great. Carry on.
Dorothea must have been really good at filing paperwork as most welfare programs in North America require a bunch of forms and ongoing reporting... Or this happened long enough ago that SHE is a reason so much paperwork is required.
The latter, mainly... although once you figure out what the Government wants to see it's easy enough. The limits on how long you can receive aid is fairly recent (Reagan started it, and Clinton finished crafting the limits), but mainly the former is the truth.