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The James Altucher Show

The Villain's Journey of the Criminal Mastermind, Paul Le Roux with Evan Ratliff

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

How does one become a criminal mastermind? How does one turn into a villain? In this episode,  I was joined by Evan Ratliff, an American journalist, and author, to talk about his book, The Mastermind, A True Story of Murder, Empire, and a New Kind of Crime Lord.What is fascinating about his book, and his reporting is that Paul Le Roux, is like the criminal and crime lord equivalent of Elon Musk, where he is tech savvy, and well-versed in technology, and engineering!And at the same time, he also fits into the "Villini's Journey Arc", where he was a genuine and kind-hearted guy,  but due to some obstacles, he turned 180 and started falling into the path of the villain! At some point, Paul Le Roux also mentioned that he wanted to be the biggest criminal out there.Listen to the episode and find out more!Visit Notepd.com to read more idea lists, or sign up and create your own idea list!My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.8

This is the James Altiger Show.

0:12.8

Today on the James Altiger Show.

0:16.2

First it started as an online prescription network, maybe legal, maybe not.

0:21.6

Then it got into more and more illegal drugs until finally this guy Paul LaRue was dealing

0:27.4

with drug cartels everywhere.

0:29.8

And then it got even more illegal with murder, arms trafficking, tyrant and much more.

0:37.2

Here to tell the tale is the guy who wrote the book on it.

0:39.9

It's called The Mastermind.

0:42.4

Here's Evan Ratliffe.

0:43.4

Plus he's got some pretty wild stories of his own.

0:59.0

This is the first time we're talking to each other but let's get right into it.

1:03.6

Jay tells me you have this pet theory on Twitter that you think Twitter's a Ponzi scheme.

1:07.2

Yeah, it's probably more right to say pyramid scheme and I probably shouldn't share this

1:11.0

because I want to write it up at some point but anyway it's not like the most novel theory

1:14.6

in the world.

1:15.6

But I used to love Twitter.

1:16.9

Everyone knows what's happening with Twitter and everyone has opinions about it.

1:21.8

But I have this particular theory that it's a pyramid scheme in that if you think about

1:27.5

it like what you input, what you deposit is your attention and I would say your dignity

1:35.2

in many cases.

1:36.7

And then what you're expected to get as a return is usually attention, like a greater

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