~0.004% of NYCers Commit 33% of Crime
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In this episode, we talk about how few people commit the vast majority of crimes, and why this is a good thing. We also talk about why we should execute everyone who commits a crime. And we talk a little bit about adoption.
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Hello, Simone! I'm excited to be here with you today. Today we're going to be talking about a
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interesting thread by a personal in-person friend of ours, a guy we quite like,
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Cremieux. It was on crime statistics and it focused on how very few people commit the
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vast majority of crimes. Oh, yes. We had talked about this in our episode on police,
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but I wanted to have a dedicated episode on this particular subject because I find it interesting
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and I think he provides even more color than we had before. So I am going to go over his
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statistics and I'm going to give you a chance to react to them and I'm going to provide some
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additional information. Three cheers for Cremieux. I love them. All right. New York storefront businesses
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are already weathering inflation and uneven recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, are also contending
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with what the police say is a dramatic increase in shoplifting, but statistics reveal a startling
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reality. A relative handful of shoplifters are responsible for an outside percentage of retail
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crime. Nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in New York City last year were just 327 people.
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Police say collectively they were arrested more than 6,000 times. So just 327 people arrested over
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6,000 times. So for example, that means in New York, 0.00385% of New York's population
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is responsible for 33% of the shoplifting in the city. Now, if you are a sane person, you might be
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thinking, why aren't those people in jail always? But it gets worse than that. This isn't unprecedented
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by any means. The number of burglaries in Leinster plummeted after three men died in a car crash.
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And I'm going to put an image on screen here of an article about this. And it actually took me a bit
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to find how much it went down. It went down by from 2019 to 2023 by 43%.
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Ah, yikes. And these, by the way, are three white looking bro guys. So if you're like reading this
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and you're like, oh, this is like a black person thing or a Mexican thing. No, it's, you know,
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depending on where you're living, it's just a criminality thing. Yeah. Well, it seems to be
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when people make this their careers, then they just keep, especially if they discover that they can
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make it their career kind of sustainably and they don't really get in that much trouble for it. Of
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course they're incentivized to keep going because it's easier than working and they're probably in
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some kind of debt hole or crime hole that they can't get out of. I disagree. That doesn't appear
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to be what's happening. It appears to be mostly genetic. We'll get to that in a second.
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Oh no. So cycling UK hails quote unquote cover policing after bait bicycle used to track down
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130,000 pounds of bike theft, a bike theft gang stole in one shift. Local bike
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theft fell 90% following the arrest was 11 people now sentenced. So arresting 11 people dropped
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And this is where like, there's a progressive meme of that guy who's like, well, this guy stole my bike,
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but you know, net the world's probably happier now because he needed the bike more than I did. And
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you know, progressive brain rot of assuming the stabber is the victim and not the stabby if not
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having a sane mind and understanding that the vast majority of crimes are done by very, very few people
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who are career criminals and who are working for other career criminals with that money generally
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going downstream to like big crime syndicates that are using it to terrorize grannies in Mexico.
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Like, no, nobody is benefiting from your bike being stolen. In fact, it's making things worse. Yeah.
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Better off if whoever stole your bike on average, if a bike thief was forced to kneel and executed on
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the spot, the world would be better off. There would be less pain and there would be less suffering.
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Yeah. That looks that way. Yeah. I mean, from these stats, that's, oh gosh, this is terrible.
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I'm not saying we need to start executing everyone who commits a crime. I'm just saying,
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Just think, please consider it. That's all you're saying.
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All right. Here's where it gets concerning here.
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Okay. Like it's not already immensely concerning.
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Oh, no, no, no, no, no. This is a, hold on. I'm just going to have a drink here so you can,
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because we're going to be talking about adoption studies.
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1% of adoptees whose biological parents had three or more offenses were responsible for 30% of the
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offenses among adoptees. If you stopped people with three or more convictions from having kids,
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the number of crimes in this country would drop.
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I'm pointing out a statistical fact. I am saying we shouldn't do this.
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That would be a horrible, horrifying thing to do. I'm just pointing out that the statistics,
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the statistics say that the 1% of adoptees whose parents had committed three or more crimes
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Oh, danger. Oh, God. They tried this. The PR disaster was-
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Yeah, I don't, yeah, not great PR-wise, but if you, if you want to see how bad this would
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be here, I'm going to show a homicide rate graph.
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Well, so this is a homicide rate for the rate of criminality graph.
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So it's the homicide rate for people who've been arrested of other crimes and the homicide
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rate of non-criminals. If you look at non-criminals, the rate hovers around like 2 to 3%. If you
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look at the percent of people who've been convicted of other crimes, it's like between 10 and 7%.
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No, because of course it is. Of course it is. Of course. Yeah.
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Yeah, this is really, it's making me reconsider. So I grew up in California where there was something
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called a three strikes law that was largely condemned. I'm going to put huge numbers of
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people in jail who quite frankly should not have been in jail. And I think a lot of that is because
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they were, sorry, there we go. I think a lot of that is because they were jailed for drug charges,
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like just possessing marijuana. Like that was enough for them to get three strikes and then just be in
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jail forever, which is super dumb. But now when I look at the level of committing crimes again and again,
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when they're damaging crimes, crimes that are like possessing marijuana, dude, like this person is just
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chilling out for the most part. Okay. But then when you're shoplifting, when you're committing
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burglary, when you're committing aggravated assault, when you are, God forbid, killing someone, that's
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very different. That's where I feel like three strikes laws suddenly make a lot of sense because this is
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ultimately who's committing all the crimes. And it's clear that if someone has committed a crime twice, they're
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probably within that really small percentage of the population that's just going to keep doing it and
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really, really, really hurting society. Wow. I mean, it just makes so much sense. And now I'm
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getting really frustrated that the three strikes law was so poorly executed in California, which is
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probably seen as a major case study. Yeah, focusing on like minor drug offenses instead of like deaths.
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Yeah, because that's dumb. Of course, that's not a good idea. Like who thought that was a good idea?
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And now anyone here is three strikes and they're like, that's a bad idea. Democrats and Democrats.
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You just thought it was a good idea. But hold on. Remember, who was your head? No, sorry. Who was
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the head of your cops and legal department during that period? It was Kamala Harris. Someone who is
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when they said, oh, you know, you have you smoked marijuana privately. This is someone who jailed
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thousands of people, tens of thousands of people for marijuana charges. She laughed when she was asked
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if she'd smoke marijuana privately. She laughs always. That's her thing. She laughs.
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My fingers are favorite. She laughs as if to imply, of course I am. I'm the elite. I get to do whatever
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I want. That's what I would do as an autistic person who's just trying to. Simone, she would
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have said no if the answer was no. I don't know. Listen, honestly, like as as someone who constantly
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is trying to look normal in public and just make people feel comfortable and happy. I imply a whole lot.
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Hold on. Have you smoked marijuana? No. Yes, you have. You must have.
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No. Are you actually you haven't smoked marijuana? No, I've never I've never done any legal drug ever
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period. I I've I've I've done fentanyl that is in surgery that is like only been in hospitals and I've had
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You're arguing that Harris is as square as you and she doesn't want to admit it.
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Yeah. She doesn't seem to me like the kind of person who would enjoy.
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Like I disagree. I think maybe not. I don't know who caves to peer pressure and whenever we're around
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our like billionaire friends or otherwise like super successful friends are always this is a weird thing
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about life. Like as an adult, I understand dare so much more than as a kid. We go to her reticons.
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They're like free tattoo seminar every day. You want to go to your free tattoos today?
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You should have gotten a tattoo ring. I'm just saying it's or they'll say like, oh, you know,
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we hang out with our other like super super wealthy friends. They're like, hey, you want to do drugs,
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man? Our our normie friends never ask us to do this shit. They never have you seen the the tweet
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that went viral, which was a picture of RFK on Trump Force One eating McDonald's with with Elon Musk
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and Donald Trump. And I think it was Don Trump Jr. I love it. There was like peer pressure.
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Peer pressure. RFK who hates McDonald's. Of course he caved. Yeah, he kind of had to.
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Yeah, no, rich people peer pressure is a real thing. But also, I don't I don't feel comfortable
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with with like controlled substances like that, because I don't know the exact dosage in provenance.
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Like I spoke about this with someone I won't name, who has done a lot of psychedelics, but he he's done
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them all with like Stanford researchers who have like lab grade psychedelics. And I would like offered
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me psychedelics. No, this is a guy this is. But no, yeah, no, that that was it was the the person who
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was in our house when a deer was shot outside. Oh, that guy. It's the tornadic precursors guy who was
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like, but but like in those scenarios, I would, of course, be comfortable. Well, I mean, we don't
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want to do psychedelics until we feel like we're less creative. But like, I would be comfortable
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trying something else. If I knew that it was, you know, I knew where it came from. I knew what the
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dosage was. I knew exactly what I was playing with. But I wouldn't just like, I don't know, it's it's
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akin to eating food off the floor. You don't know where that's been. I mean, okay, I eat food off the floor
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all the time now that I have kids. But like, you know what I mean? Yeah. Like eating a an ice cream
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cone that you found on the street in New York. I'm not doing that. That's gross. Even if a billionaire
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got it, I don't care. Gross. All right, so I'll continue with this. Please work. God, yes. Go on.
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If it because you're talking about the three strike law, if the three strike law had been effectively
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enforced in Sweden, it would have reduced violent crime by half. That's huge. The three strike law
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is actually important in terms of reducing crime. And we as a country need to say, let's learn how to
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correctly implement it instead of it's bad. Yeah. Yeah. A few people with extensive criminal histories
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drive most crimes, arrests, etc. When it comes to the population that actually serves jail time,
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the reasons largely have to do with these people just being impulsive. And that's the end of the day.
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It is all about impulsivity. Recall that violent crime explains the largest part of the prison
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population and that getting in dumb fight explains most violent crime. Yeah. And that's all about
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impulse control. Most violent crime and even most homicides that are known were created by personal
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disputes. And after personal disputes, the next biggest one is group related conflict.
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And after that, it is instant dispute. And after that, it is drug related dispute.
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I think it's just like, basically, somebody pissed you off. And after that,
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it's robbery. Way down, down, down, down, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Robbery. And then what happens
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when you go past robbery? Domestic violence. Again, just poor self-control. Yeah. And then below
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that, retaliation or revenge? That's a crime? Well, when you murder someone, it is. Oh, okay. These
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are causes for, okay. Yeah. Not murder. Murder or assault. Like, revenge isn't a crime in and of
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itself. Yeah. I was like, ooh. Or revenge is. Yes, Simone. No, except for there was that one
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exception. I think it was in some Asian country where if you were a woman and your husband cheated
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on you, you had the right to legally kill him. Really? I think you had to be with your bare hands,
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but you could kill him. Whoa. Yeah. Wait. So if you murdered me with your bare hands,
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that was legal in that country? My understanding was, yes, that if you had proof that they cheated
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on you and you murdered them with your bare hands, you had to get out of jail free card with that.
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So I think what I would do as a wife in that scenario, if I cared about that and I wanted to
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kill my husband is one, you get totally documented proof. You submit it to a lawyer. You make sure like
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the lawyer is like, yep, checks out. This is going to hold up in court. And then, I mean,
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I think it's pretty easy to strangle someone at night, like while they're sleeping.
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First, you sort of. I don't think you'd be able to strangle me unless you drug me or something
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first. I'm significantly. Dude, you are such a heavy sleeper. That's the problem. Even so,
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I'd wake up in time. Simone. I don't really. Just look, you know how much stronger I am than you.
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I'd have to tie you to the bed or something, but. Okay. You'd have to tie me to the bed. I'm sure
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there would be like a well-known collection, like in online forums of like, okay, if you're a
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wife in this country and you've been cheated on, you know, I'm like, there'd probably be
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specialized lawyers who had like kits, you know, like here's your, and also there are
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the best way to kill someone used to be on a cruise ship. Very easy way to kill someone.
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No, no, but this, again, I think that the rule in this country was that you had to kill them with
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your bare hands. Like you couldn't take a firearm. No, yeah, I'm just saying, because you're like
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different countries. We're not in that country. If you want to kill someone in this country,
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it's boats. Well, yeah. Well, not get caught, right? Like you don't even have to like,
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be worried about the illegality of it because there's such a tragic boat accident. Yeah.
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Yeah. And it's, it's considered an accident and it happens to like a surprising number of people
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every year. Yeah. Like if you ever meet someone who's, who's a family member or significant loved
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one died in a tragic boating accident. Yeah. They're a murderer. Yeah. No, a tragic boating
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accident. Yes. It's always, it's always a tragic boating accident. Yeah. If it was. Well,
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for yachting accidents, of course, you know. Oh. Yeah. But no, I mean, that is a great way to
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kill someone. When we have, one of our really old podcast episodes is about this. Yeah. How you
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would kill me if you were going to kill me and how I would kill you if I was going to kill you. But
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I think that the answer that both of us came to is just boats. No, I said icicle. What? Like
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icicle. So you typically need a murder weapon. Yeah. And it melts. I get that. But like,
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how do you do it? Well, so what you argue is that the icicle fell from a nearby building. This kills
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people all the time. All you need to do is stab someone with an icicle. Oh, inside. Like, so
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they're asleep or something and then you stab them from the right angle. No, don't do that. That'd be
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too easy. I mean, you might even create like an ice shooting gun and then stab them where the gun wound
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was. Oh, well, just create an ice shooting gun. Like, that's so easy. Oh, okay. And then why don't we
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just, you know, solve the housing crisis at the same time? Yes. And then perfect. Good. Done. Done.
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I'm glad we had this conversation. The ice shooting gun. So you put the ice through the wound. You can
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say, oh, this fell after they fell. And then it fell through up there. It melts the weapon. It melts
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the. You put the ice through the wound that you created with another weapon. Yes, because it
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forensics is better than that. No, the ice has to be the weapon. So you create, you create the ice
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shard. You supposedly, but see, you'd have to stab them from an angle that plausibly could have been
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a falling icicle. And then also you have to make sure that from within the home, like if you're not
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doing this on top of a plastic mat that you somehow dispose of later inside your home, you also have to
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remove all blood splatters. You have to remove it from your body. I mean, people bleed, people splatter.
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It's embarrassing and gross. That's why I'm not into murder. It's like too
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unhygienic. Well, yeah. Why don't you just like quiet quit in your relationship and let it fall
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apart the normal way, you know, do it the normal way. Or maybe like just, we were going to get into
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robbery. Okay. Okay. How would you do robberies? Now robberies when you just take it from someone
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burglary is when you sneak in, are we being burglars? Okay. How would you do it? We were going to make
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our money through criminality. How would you do it? Oh, dude, like office space style where you
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discover how to like shave a penny off of transactions in some way where we don't have
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access to anything that we can put a book. Well, then step one is get access to something
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like that. I mean, I'm sure that there are billions of people in the federal government
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doing this every single day. It's called procurement. You know, no, no, no, no. I think that you've hit on
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a huge under, under exploited arbitrage area of criminality, which is stealing from corporate
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offices that not many people are using anymore. I think there's a bunch of corporate offices that
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people barely visit anymore. They're really just there to tell investors. Oh, it's all just like
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remote work. No, no, no. But people are starting to enforce in office work again. I think largely
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companies like Amazon, because they got permission and huge tax breaks for these offices in states that
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expected people to come. I don't disagree that companies like Amazon are doing this. But what
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I'm saying is I bet there's a 10 to 25% of companies in the United States right now that
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are basically empty almost all the time. Well, we know this when we host those dinner parties in New
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York and we're like in the 36th floor on Park Avenue. Yeah, because you can look at the offices.
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They're just all empty. But here's why I also feel like burglary is super dumb now and I don't get it.
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Is this like, where's the secondary market for this? Are they selling it on Facebook marketplace? You're not
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making a ton of money there. Like who, who's buying this? You would need to industrialize the scale of
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this. Oh, and that's why there's like this huge Mexican cartel that sells all the bikes. Yeah,
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I guess you have to create a, you have to take it to scale. Yeah, there has to be like some,
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some scale that you're going to take, what, staples? You're going to sell the staples? You're
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going to sell old computers. You don't sell the staples. You then put it all on like, like eBay
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or something, right? Pretty undifferentiated products. Yeah. Maybe that's what Newegg does.
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But if you do this at like, okay, you better hire minimum wage workers, right? Yeah. But if you do
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this at all of the corporate parts, right? There are just so, so, so many of these.
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Yeah. Maybe that's where AWS gets all its compute power. Maybe this is where Newegg gets all of its
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computers. Maybe this is already being done. You know, you always wonder. I know. I bet
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have these places that's like dusty and old and they don't have like new computers and no one's
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been there. I genuinely think a lot of places are like only pretending to operate and really no one
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has really worked for them since COVID. Yeah. I just, I wouldn't work in resale. I just feel like,
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oh, like getting product market fit. Like that's now you're just creating a business. Like just,
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I don't know, find something easier that doesn't get, you know, that doesn't involve crime. Cause
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that's another liability. And that's, that's uninsurable. I just wouldn't do it. So, okay.
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You want to insure our crime business? I don't know. I want to protect myself from downside risk. I
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think that, you know, any, any responsible business owner, and this is why ultimately this is
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unfortunately coming back to this really uncomfortable conversation about like in the
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end, if you're dumb enough to do crime, it's typically because you are, you're not, you don't
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have the processing power capable of thinking through all of the consequences. And therefore
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you do it because you aren't thinking about the downside. What downside risk? You don't do crime
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because you can't get insured. This is, this is your, because I'm thinking of the second and third
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and fourth and fifth order consequences. And my argument here in the problem and the very
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inconvenient truth of crime is that the people who commit crime maybe aren't capable of thinking
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through the second and third and fifth and seventh order consequences. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
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Simone. So you have to make your money through something that's illegal. What are you doing?
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Our family runs out of money. You're just like, I need money tomorrow. What are you doing?
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I'm doing something legal because if it's illegal that your downside risk could make,
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could take you from $0 to dead, to your family taken away from you. Like just, again, the downside
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risk, crime doesn't pay. I mean, crime pays some people, but then there's always, you know,
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think about the guy who was a dread pirate Roberts, huge respect for him. Read that biography,
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fantastic biography. Can't remember the name of it that talks about his whole story, creating the Silk
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Road. He was, I mean, okay. He got, he was very sloppy and made some very stupid early mistakes,
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but he was very smart and he still got caught. And, and that sucks. Like he just, it's not worth it.
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Trying to remember. He let, it was a sting operation. Someone that he trusted ultimately
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got close to him and was able to reveal enough information. And then he was also found
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in a library. They were able to get him to a library. He was found.
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A library to do what? How did that confer with him?
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Oh God, I can't honestly, if my memory's so bad, if it's not useful to me, I don't remember it.
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with, with the laptop, with all the incriminating information. And that's where they had to catch
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him. They had to lure him out there, but I can't remember exactly how and why they did that.
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If you're curious like me on this particular point, I decided to look this up and edit and post.
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Ulrich made several critical errors that led to his identification. He used the name
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Altoid to announce Silk Road on a Bitcoin forum and later used the same username to ask for
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programming help, providing his personal email address. Both Ulrich and DeadPirateRoberts were
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vocal supporters of libertarian economist Ludwig von Mises with Ulrich's public Google Plus account
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linking to related videos. Oh, getting busted for a Google Plus account.
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They seized a server in Iceland that gave access to personal chat logs. They traced some of his
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activity to a cafe in San Francisco near his residence. The final trap, October 1st, 2013.
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They monitored public places with free Wi-Fi, like San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood.
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Ulrich was observed leaving his apartment and entering Glen Park Branch Library. An undercover
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agent posting as a Silk Road administrator engaged Dredd Riot Rawert in an online chat. When Ulrich logged
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into the Silk Road administrator account, FBI agents in the library moved in and arrested him.
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To prevent Ulrich from encrypting and deleting his files, agents created a distraction while another
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But here's what I would ask. Yeah. Tomorrow, the head of a Mexican cartel dies, you end up taking
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over because they find out that you're the long lost guy. Then I like legitimize their business. I'm
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like, all right, we're firing these people. Like, I'm, you know, I am going to have to kill people.
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They'd kill you if you did that. No, no, no. You have to, you have to run their existing operation.
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Okay. Where are the arbitrage opportunities within the criminal market right now? I think you'd be the
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most ruthless and effective criminal boss I have ever seen. Oh, thank you. That's sweet. No, I think
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honestly, I think a lot of women would be really effective criminal bosses. Um, I also think the
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Mexican cartels right now as a woman. Yeah, that would, that would not surprise me at all, even
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remotely. But I think it's one of those things also, I think where a big problem you get in many
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industries, like the fashion industry, for example, is it attracted, uh, like much of the talent it
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attracts is just kind of dumb talent that doesn't really understand fashion or business dynamics.
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And just as like, Oh, it's pretty, it's high status. And they go there and they kind of mess
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everything up. And then when you get someone who goes in there and has a business mind, they just
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clean up. And often they don't give a shit about fashion. Like when you look at how some key people
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at Vogue dress, they like wear like black sack clothing because they don't care. Like they just,
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they can't be bothered. And then they kind of dictate how everyone else dresses or, I mean,
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that's how it used to be now. Of course, fashion has very different industry dynamics and market
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dynamics, but yeah, I think the, the, the core thing is understanding the, the underlying dynamics
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and the 4d game of chess and not actually caring about the thematics of the thing. And I think to a
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great extent, crime is like, it's like a search fund. So search funds or like down market private
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equity is what we were into. And it was all about finding inglorious markets that were under managed
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that had a lot of people operating them who could with smarter operations and better connections,
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make a lot more money. And to a great extent, I think crime is a lot like that. It's stuff that
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people just don't want to deal with. And then they find there's a market opportunity and they make
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money from it. So here's my question for you. If you're choosing between one of two styles,
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because the existing cartels that sort of fight have one of two styles, like one cartel,
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they try to do everything pretty business-like and be on good terms as much as they can with the
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local population. And the other major cartel just basically kills anyone who opposes them.
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Yeah. Which side, how would you handle opposition if you're running a cartel?
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I would probably, I would be the former and I would probably step in. Here's, here's where I guess
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there's here, if we're talking good tailwinds, right. Is to become what government has failed to be.
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So like vigilante, so like they will just go in and kill people who shoplift multiple times,
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like just dead. They will be, they will be the ones to be law enforcement when law enforcement
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literally doesn't have the right. So when the U S starts to collapse, you will start a criminal
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organization. Yeah. A criminal or yeah. And of course it needs protection money. Like it does,
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it does take taxes. Yeah. Taxes. But like, yeah, basically like the government, like work with
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me here. Like imagine. Manhattan needs a second. No, but like this is, this is, but this is, that's
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the thing is this is literally what Kings were. Kings were the ones who like were able to create enough
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societal stability and order where like, you would become the clan chieftain or you'd become the
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king. And then like, suddenly then like civilization spring up and then you have a legitimate government
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and suddenly you're not a criminal anymore. You're respected and you wear your robes and you're, you know,
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so like fancy and you have your like hood and like, just, but like, yeah, that's what I would do.
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I would create civilization and it would start out illegal and very violent because it would need to be,
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I guess. What would you do? Would you be the nice or the mean? I actually think you do need a certain
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level of ruthlessness to maintain operations in a region like this. I think like what America,
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New York, a CVS, New York. I think what you need to have is hard lines in the sand. They cannot be
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adjudicated by on the ground people, or they will abuse these lines in the sand. However, you do need
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some sort of system for adjudication, which is fairly good at deciding. It doesn't need to be perfect.
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80%. And if somebody crosses one of these lines, execution. And I think outside of that,
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things like incarceration, especially long-term incarceration and government systems for like
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the death penalty are really silly. They're very, very, very expensive. Government death penalty
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actually costs more than keeping someone in jail for their entire life. So we need to make these
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systems more efficient and more extreme. And I think that you would quickly see many people living
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better lives, both because they're not dying due to the, you know, as we pointed out, the criminal
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individuals end up killing lots more people. Two words, Malcolm. Penal colonies. Say it with me.
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I mean. Well, here's a question I ask you about the adoption study. I mean, what are your thoughts
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on sterilization? I mean, it's maybe sterilization is making a comeback. There was that one Japanese
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politician who thought that one way to boost, um, fertility in Japan was to, um, force sterilization
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on Japanese women who didn't have children by the age of 30. I actually agree with that. People need
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to understand their fertility windows. And I think, no, he he's getting on something, but he's, he's,
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he's sort of modeling it. There are two things that he's touching on here that have a lot of weight.
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One is people have to be aware of their fertility windows. Two is people won't appreciate the value
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of life until they understand just how fleeting and rare and difficult to achieve it is. And he's,
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he's getting at that, but he's getting at it the wrong way. Threatening people with sterilization is
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not the way. And this is where we hit. I mean, speaking of fertility windows, this is where I hit
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onto a very interesting fact recently that you and I have been talking about. We might do an episode
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on which is black American, African-American fertility windows are significantly smaller
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than any other ethnic group. What on earth? No, we need to research this way more though. I really
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want to understand what's going on. You are a black woman. You need to have kids much earlier than
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other ethnic groups before your fertility collapses. And because our society doesn't talk about ethnic
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differences and things like fertility windows, like we just completely ignore this. And so a lot of
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black women are like trying to get pregnant in their thirties and they're like, wait, black women
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are sterile by the time they're 30. I will note here that this isn't the way the science investigates
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this problem. They would just say that black women are twice as likely to experience infertility than
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white women. They would then go on to say black women are two to three times more likely to be
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diagnosed with uterine fibroids, which can affect fertility. And they would say that IVF outcomes are
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much lower success among black women than white women without attempting to just lower the age at
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which they're having kids. Because of course, then we would be admitting that there are actual
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medical ethnic differences between individuals. For example, black kids gestate for much less than
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white kids. But we can't talk about any of this for whatever weird reason, which is obviously having
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really deleterious effects on the black population. I can see why from a progressive mindset,
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it would be horrifying if it got out that if you're a black woman and you want to have kids,
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you need to do it in your twenties. If you want to have the same shot as a white woman who's doing
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it in her thirties. And it's like, yeah, it turns out that that's about the case. And this explains,
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I think why if you are not in the bottom, I think it's like 15% or 18% of income of the black
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population, you have a lower fertility rate than any other ethnic group in the United States.
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That is wild. No, we have to dig deeper on though. This is going to be a really interesting
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episode. We have to do it because, ah, that's so scary. And yeah, talk about like double-sided
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attack. One, you have Planned Parenthood, which was like designed for like black genocide.
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So what she means here is that the person who founded Planned Parenthood worked with the KKK.
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She said the goal of the organization was to remove genetically undesirable people from the United
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States population. And very clearly targeted black populations. Even today, 83% of Planned
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Parenthood clinics are in majority minority neighborhoods and the black population of the
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U S would be a quarter higher if Planned Parenthood didn't exist. Yeah. So this is like one end of like
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aborting disproportionately black babies in the United States. And then there's this other end of
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like, oh my God, wait. And their fertility window seems to be disproportionately shorter just
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for whatever reason. This is just like, you know, a key for dysgenics, right? Like
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what I mean is it disproportionately means that the individuals in the community who are like,
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if you're like, okay, so why is wealthy black fertility? People who are being, I guess, responsible
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waiting until they have enough money and enough home and all these other things that are impossible
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to get these days. And then they're ready. And then suddenly they can't have kids. This is,
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this is horrible. Yeah. And then the, yeah. Anyway, three strikes laws, definitely in favor.
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Okay. No, no low level drug offenses. What are you guys doing? Like the war on drugs that what a
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mistake that was. Oh no. Trump's actually ramping up the fentanyl stuff. And I really agree with it.
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No, no, no, no. I get that. I'm referring to like the nineties were on drugs where you go to jail
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He wants to make it a, a, a death penalty offense to be selling drugs. Yeah. And for human trafficking
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too. And for human trafficking. And I'm like, yeah, I'm all down for that. Yeah. I mean,
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well, I under, I understand about, about having like really strict rules, but again, this concept
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of like possessing drugs means that you go to jail is incredibly stupid. I'm not at all for that.
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And I don't know. I mean, also like death penalty for selling drugs. I don't know. I don't know.
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I think that that's not well advised that it's not an optimal decision. I think that what we really
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need to be focused on is getting hard on repeat crimes that are actively damaging to social stability.
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And yes, drug sale and consumption is, is a threat, but not as much as like shoplifting and aggravated
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assault, murder, abuse, things like that. Like that, that is, that is a bigger fish to fry.
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And once we have those under control, I'm happy to look at drugs. Um, but to a certain extent,
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I do think that the masses need an opiate, like quite literally based on where society is going.
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And I want, I mean, essentially what's happening, Malcolm is, and we've talked about this,
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a huge portion of society is euthanizing itself. And I believe in euthanization that is humane.
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Yeah. And I think that people being allowed to essentially euthanize themselves with,
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with a pain dulling medication or, or, you know, a sort of suffering dulling medication
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is, is the, is the empathetic and fair thing to do for people who've been essentially ruined by
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society and by the woke mind virus or whatever you want to call it. No, seriously, Malcolm. Like
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it's, it's not, it's not cool to ruin a bunch of people to, to effectively neuter them. They're not
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going to have families. They're living in debt. They're not going to have meaningful lives. And
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then to be like, Oh, and by the way, you don't get drugs.
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That is what you're saying. Huh? You want to euthanize the woke people.
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They're euthanizing themselves. They're dead men walking. I just don't want them to suffer
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No, no, no, no. I've never been a fan of euthanasia. They're lazy and they're communists.
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They, they asked the president, Mr. President, what's your views on euthanasia? And he goes,
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they're lazy and they're communists. He heard youth in Asia.
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I know. I know. I know. I got your dad joke the first time.
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You need to shut up, Simone. You're a terrible wife and a bad mother. And I am sick and disgusted
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Speaking of which, I'm going to try to make a Dutch baby tonight.
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So more air fried, breaded, karai seasoned chicken, but I wanted to make a Dutch baby. And
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you can tell me if this appeals to you. Because there's this dude who does these shorts that
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I'm like, this might sound a little bit weird, but here's how you can make a Dutch baby.
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Why is my YouTube totally broken? If I can restart it, because I feel like you would like this
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and it seems really simple and maybe even the kids will like it.
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Is your phone working anymore? Do we need a new phone?
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This might sound a little bit weird, but here's how you can make a Dutch baby.
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Place it in the oven to preheat at 425 degrees, about 20 minutes.
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The best part of this recipe is that you can do it all in a blender.
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And if you're not a human, I'll be there on five.
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For all my visual learners, this is the consistency you're looking for.
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20 minutes later, add some butter to the hot skillet and squish it around.
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Add in the batter and put back into the oven for an interview for 20 to 25 minutes.
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I add a little bit of parmesan and prosciutto just to get that sweet and salty element.
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I was going to make it tonight, but I needed an hour to do that since it's a free meal.
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If you could make fried rice, it'd go really great with air fried chicken.
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Especially if you can turn on some veggies and cut them up a bit.
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Everyone's allowed three hits like a piñata.
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