DAN GENIS - INTERVIEW NOTES

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