Having recently binged a lot of the videos on this channel, I've realised it's better to thumbs up the video in the beginning, because I know the video will be good, and it feels less weird before than after hearing all about terrible murderers. So I'll be doing that now!
As much as I agree with your sentiment, I think I’ve heard that liking later on in a video is better for the creator’s profit/for the algorithm or something like that. By all means like away, but just figured I’d throw it out there!!
I don’t share Simon’s disdain for “Stat Wars”, but regardless of his pop culture knowledge or lack thereof, I enjoy the commentary. And the whole point of “likes” is monetization, which I do not begrudge him in the least!
The con artist emerged as a likable, charismatic guy, asking to be made ruler, making promises of installing a better governmental/societal system once he is in charge but with no intention or practical means to achieve it soley for self promotional means..so he's a politician?
Sounds like my prime minister Trudeau... Wrecking a country, such a disgrace... I don't think any Canadian can apologize enough for that chicken $hit.... #freedomconvoy2022
Pro-Tips for Criminals As the self-proclaimed unofficial Archivist of CC Lore, I've been writing down the tips for criminals since the channel started. Here is an updated list. (For regulars, items added since last update start around #75.) 1. Don't write down your crimes. 2. Don't tell other people about your crimes. 3. Don't boast about your crimes. 4. Don't take souvenirs from your victims. 5. Hide the evidence of your crimes. 6. Don't involve other people in your crimes. 7. Your family are less likely to screw you over. 8. Keep your story straight. 9. Paying people to back up your story increases your odds of getting screwed over. 10. It's a mistake not to pay people you said you'd pay. 11. Don't commit crime at the school where you studied. 12. Don't drive a red sports car. 13. If you're changing your identity, don't use the same alias you got busted under last time. 14. If you're making a secret identity, don't go for something interesting. 15. If you're just making up a career, go with advertising executive. 16. Don't make a screenplay out of your crimes. 17. If you're deleting stuff, empty the recycle bin, use a shredder program. 18. Don't get drunk when disposing of a body. 19. Bad idea to google your crimes. 20. Don't wrap the body in your own pajamas. 21. Don't dispose of the body in the cellar - put it in the attic. 22. If the car has blood in it, don't clean it, just set it on fire. 23. If you want to get away with murder, being a billionaire is helpful. 24. It's best to be a thief in a rich country. 25. Don't try to kill an Irishman with whiskey. 26. If you try to kill someone and they don't die, why not finish the job since you were already going to be a murderer? 27. Don't drop your glove. Robbers and surgeons shouldn't leave gloves behind. 28. If you want to ask someone about whether you should be committing crimes, definitely pretend it's a joke. 29. If you're risking going to prison for a really long time, let's do it for more than 190,000 rand. 30. Don't be out saying, "I kill police officers." 31. Destroying evidence is pretty smart. Clean up after your crime. 32. If you're gonna go out murdering, don't murder the mother of a famous criminologist. 33. Don't go on TV. What are you doing going on TV? What are you up to? 34. Don't tell your crimes to someone who's writing them down. 35. Leave the scene of the crime. You can't stay there. You have to go. 36. Don't return to the scene of the crime. 37. Don't take any photos. 38. Don't take records of your own crimes. 39. Always bend to the will of the Mob. 40. Leaving intentional clues for the police is not a good idea. Bro, trust me, you're leaving clues anyway. 41. If you fail to do two abductions in two days, maybe take a break, work on your technique. 42. If you're going to be burned at the stake, take deep breaths because then you'll die of smoke inhalation before the flames reach you. 43. Do your crimes better. You can at least try. 44. Again: Don't write down your crimes. 45. Don't fuck with Big Syrup. 46. Hold up the bus, lock the bus so no one can escape, and then set it on fire. I don't want to give the terrorists ideas, but I guess that one's for free. 47. Dude, you gotta get some duck tape. 48. Chainsaw's gonna be way too messy - just use a big knife. 49. Don't review your crimes. 50. There's a reason that people go to ten different hardware stores to buy all their murder equipment... because if you bought all that in one place people are gonna be like, "What's up my dude? Let me call the police." 51. Don't admit your crimes. 52. Burning things is nice. 53. If you're gonna go do some murdering, bring the weapon with you and have a plan to dispose of it afterwards. 54. If you're murdering at night, how about bringing your own form of illumination? 55. You've got to burn your clothes in a barrel somewhere. 56. Don't write down how much you hate your husband. That's weird. 57. If you're cooking crystal meth in the city, what's wrong with you? Check yourself before you wreck yourself. 58. If your crime business isn't super high profit, what are you up to? 59. Get on to that South American fisherman lifestyle and maybe get your face changed by some sketchy mob doctor south of the border. 60. If you have glasses, get contacts or laser surgery. If you're bald, get a wig or a hair transplant. If you have a beard, shave it off. 61. Don't get involved in a documentary about your crimes. 62. If you've committed a crime and it's reported in the paper, don't clip it out and keep it. 63. You do not take trophies or in the very least you don't keep them in plain view at your house or in the houses of your relatives. 64. You don't tell other people about your crimes, even your brother. 65. Don't make soap out of your victims. Not a good idea. 66. Don't deal drugs with your family. Don't deal heroin, but if you want to deal heroin, do it yourself. 67. Everyone knows you should charge 100K minimum for a hit job. 68. If you google how to commit your crime, use a VPN. 69. Don't involve your friends or your family in your crimes. 70. Too many cooks/assassins spoil the broth/murder. 71. If someone is paying you 9 million dollars to kill someone and all you have to do is provide evidence of it, you should do it yourself and it should be someone you definitely don't know. 72. Just get a fake phone number! Just get a burner phone! 73. If an online creep ever asks you to commit a crime for money, please do the right thing: Demand to see half the cash up front with the rest after the job. 74. Don't commit crimes in your own town... go to the next town. 75. Lawyer, lawyer, lawyer... where is your lawyer? 76. Don't film your crimes. 77. Don't rob the gun store. 78. Yo, if you're gonna do crimes, make sure the crimes make you loads of money. 79. If you have hidden a body in a camera case and then months go by and you haven't disposed of the camera case and/or cleaned it extremely thoroughly - well, you're just a bad criminal, aren't you? 80. If you're committing crimes, don't - while you're committing crimes - commit smaller accidental crimes. Focus on the task at hand. 81. Think through just a little bit before you do crimes. 82. Getting drunk while you're committing crimes - don't do it. You're not going to be better at crime if you're drunk. 83. Disposing of the body should be on your list of things to do before going on vacation. 84. Yo, if you're gonna do a big robbery and there's gonna be a big pay day, invest some time into getting it right. 85. Being used to danger doesn't mean it's not dangerous anymore. 86. Firing AK-47s automatically renders them rather inaccurate because the first round will go where you want and the rest will go where they want. 87. Commit well-paying robberies early in your career so you can retire when you're old. 88. Dude, you used your own car with your own plates as a get-away car? Are you stupid? 89. Guys, DNA gets everywhere very easily. Take some proper precautions. Google "how to not leave DNA behind." 90. If you've murdered 10 people, you have to run away. You have to run away to, like, Chinese Alaska or wherever. 91. You can't just walk in and take over someone's life and business... Something is gonna come up. 92. Yo, if your crime is worse than the punishment for destroying evidence, maybe you should destroy that evidence. Disclaimer: CC Archivist not responsible for the quality, consistency, or redundancy of the tips recorded. Archivist neither commits nor condones criminal behavior. Allegedly. Hey, Simon... when the inevitable OGCC shirts come out, I think I've earned the first one. Also, my little tips notebook is running out of pages...
This whole case is crazy! The fact that he did it and got away with it for any amount of time is wild. An absolute legend. Like the writing style, definitely a good change of pace. Glad everyone is giving Simon a little break from the serial killer or brutal murder cases
Reference the dress nicely remark: I was dressed up in my favorite power dress suit for a meeting but I needed to stop off somewhere before going home. I walked into a well known business, and they ran and got me snacks and drinks and ushered me to the conference room saying the managers were waiting on me. They handed me a very fancy folder with someone else's name in it before I entered the room. It was then I realized something was wrong but they had already opened the door and everyone turned around to look at me. -- They were expecting their new regional manager and they had never seen her before (this was before the internet was so big). I explained they were mistaken and I wasn't who they thought I was. -- One of the managers said, "Well, you look the part. If you're not our regional manager you should be someone's regional manager." I've thought about that day my whole life.
Hey, if I have to make a choice, I would much rather be a victim of a con-man than the usual guys who got featured here. Not being chopped up or shot is an upside when dealing with criminals.
As someone who assists with educating people about conmen, no you don't. Victims of violent crimes are dead. Victims of conmen are screwed, mostly don't have any way to get whatever was taken from, them back, often don't wake up from the scam until they've lost everything, and are frequently judged by others for falling for it because they were in a vulnerable place and someone knew to push just the right buttons. I'm not going to argue that it's better than being killed, but their life is irreparably altered, in ways that at the very least make "what's worse" a tossup. Some people can deal with it. Some people really can't.
From Simon to Simon this is my favorite channel of yours no matter what you cover! Murder, heists, cons, I love it all. Keep doing what you do and I'll keep supporting the channels however I can!
I listen/watch your videos on this channel while I work a 12 hour graveyard shift at a Nursing home. Thanks to your videos, even the nonviolent ones, I stay alert all night. Thank you so much for these!
My mother actually met the guy who the “Catch Me If You Can” is based on. She works for the Department of Justice and he holds seminars on different frauds and cons and how to catch them. Pretty much teaching them how to get in the mind of a criminal…because he was one lol
The heist/con Casual Criminalist episodes are my favorite! I have family that I introduced to this show via the Maple Syrup heist that *loved* it and ask for any new non-serial killer/brutal murder episodes that come out. These not-as-dark episodes can act as a break for Simon and a nice niche for true crime fans who don't want things to get too dark! Win-Win :)
That's kind of how I lean. Subject matter aside, I think the non-murdery stuff just meshes better with Simon's personality. He seems so horrified sometimes to the point where I want to reach out and give him a hug.
Doing some research, there are in fact Bonaparte descendants in America via one of his sisters Caroline Bonaparte, though no direct descendants that I could find in my brief research, also gives me the chance to bring up that Napoleon's grand-nephew Charles Joseph Bonaparte became the Secretary of the Navy and later Attorney General of the United States, because history is weird.
Somewhere (useful charts a youtube channel I think) said there is a chance that Napoleon does have descendants through an illegetimate son of a Polish woman. And there were children of some of his brothers.
Really enjoyed this episode and this channel. Although since you live in Czech Republic as I, would love to see you maybe cover some Czech criminals like Jiří Kajínek or Jaroslav and Dana Stodolovi!
Which is partly why states require you to graduate law school to be able to take the test. They don't want randos becoming lawyers, without the knowledge. 🤣 I'd like to take it, oh well.
@@zeusathena26 Except for the 4 that don't, Washington, California (surprising I know), Virginia, and Vermont. Not to say they don't have other requirements, but a law school education isn't required to go for your bar exam.
Simon should read his comments because when he said, sarcastically, that making homelessness illegal would take care of it; the comments section was full of people saying ya that's the stance of the United States as well...
This is by far my favorite RUclips channel. I watch them when I'm going to bed. Simon's voice helps to relax me and I fall asleep. So I end up watching them twice cause I usually miss half the video.
"Who cares if I'm exhausted, it's a new episode of CC!" 20 min later I've lost the plot four times and can't figure out what King Kong had to do with macaroni. Oh well, see you tomorrow, Simon.
Jen was in rare form on this one! Actually, I always enjoy her video interjections. Thank you Simon and your entire staff for yet another entertaining story. Tha casual criminalist is in my top 3 of favorite channels to watch on a regular basis, week in and week out.
Simon, so good to see another person acknowledge how fantastic Rushmore is! It's my favorite Wes Anderson movie and one of my top of all time and it always seems to be left out or just straight up forgotten when people discuss his filmography. I legit yelled out "YESSSSSSSSS!!" when you said how great it was.
It's actually really refreshing getting to see Simon has so much fun with this one. After the nonstop horror of the last few murderers, hearing this balls-to-the-walls story about a dude conning his way into leading a micro nation is... it's nice.
Just discovered all of your channels ! So been binging on it so much ! Immediately hit play when this vid notification came up and I was not let down! Really interesting and strange story !
@@stephjovi 🤣 why thank you 😊 I'm watching " the eight immortals murders" right now ! When I find a youtuber I like I will binge them for days / as much as possible ..just totally dive in 😆
Just wanted to say I enjoy your little asides and siliques about the story, even when you get off topic! Please don't think you're taking too long to discuss something because that is what makes your videos unique and interesting
When I lived in Korea, I would get tickets for 1st class on the train when they were available. It was worth every penny, those trains going to Seoul were unbelievable. I didn’t do that often on the trains in Germany though because all the trains were nice.
This show has very quickly risen to the top of my weekly entertainment. Don't remember half the things a week later but the side tangents are entertaining AF. Keep it up fact boy!
I’ve watched every episode of this channel (some of them twice), and since he hasn’t done many scripts for this channel (yet), I must point out that I really like Arnaldo’s writing! The White Uno Gang episode is one of my top five favorites. I love his writing style! I really liked the fictional introductory scenario-I mean, give me a little Colonel Mustard, and I’m on board! Lol I hope Arnaldo writes more for this channel more often! :)
Fascinating video Simon and glad you get a bit of a mental health break with this. Honestly Boris is the nicest fellow we've had on casual criminalist 🤣
@The Casual Criminalist If you like con movies, you have to watch The Sting. Absolute classic, with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Intense hardcore grifting action.
First class trains in the UK in my experience (once) was a separate carriage with doors, had bigger seats, the all had tables and a little lamp and outlet. You also get free food. Cooked meals for lunch and dinner and a continental breakfast. You also get access to the first class lounge so you don't have to wait with the peasants and they had free food and drink in there too. I spent 2 hours just chilling with a mini coke, losing at scrabble with a couple of business men
I took a train from suzhou to Shanghai a couple times . The first time I didn't realize there was a first class which only cost a few dollars more . But wow what a difference thw regular cars were complete chaos. There was people selling stuff like fireproof and stab resistance socks? Chickens the seats were all full and same with the lane front to back and there was folks walking up and down back and forth for 3 hours I had to move constantly to let folks past cause I didnt get a seat . Then the first class was amazing in comparison. Mt own seat and table with only one person next to me . I couldn't believe it .I th8nk it was 2 dollars coach or 6 dollars for first I recommend always going 1st class on this train
Simon, it's not just that we're all sickos. I'm willing to bet that there are quite a lot of us that listen to this stuff because we want to find out what drove the person to do bad things, how their victims got into the bad circumstance in the first place, and what the victim might have done differently to avoid winding up a victim, ultimately. For these reasons, I am absolutely captivated by the casual criminalist, and really appreciate that you don't focus too much on gory details, but, rather, the details that are pertinent to explain the case, and then focus on the victims themselves. Hearing the little stories about each person and what the situation was, really puts you in a certain headspace, as you are almost forced to imagine being in their position, and asking yourself what you would do, as a result. To me, that makes this series incredibly useful, as well as entertaining. Also, some people are "sickos" and psychopaths. You f*cking psychos!
Thank you to this week's Little Man (Arnaldo), Fact Man, and Enola Jen for this episode. Love it! I had to make that stressed 'joke' because... Fact Man/Fat Man... start of the Cold War... even though this isn't Megaprojects. Moving on. Here's an idea for you for a potential future episode. Ronnie Biggs and the Great Train Robbery.
Wow Simon, I've been am O.G. viewer for many years and I must say that I'm rather appalled that you would be brazen enough to indicate that people don't just blindly follow a biased news source for "factual" information and insinuate that people should think for themselves, in much fewer words. Well done! This is why I watch your channels, this an the awesome writers who provide entertaining and informative content to be gracefully read, and amusingly interjected with random tangents by the orator.
20:05 😳😳😳 a notification just popped as Simon said he should rewrite his life story.... it was a notification for ZDoggMD new video "How to Re-Write Your life" with the thumbnail that says "CHANGE YOUR LIFE STORY"... whoa that was freaky...
As always, I gotta give a huge shoutout to Jen for the editing on this video! Every little aside i.e. Simon as a fake astronaut makes me giggle every time.
AH! I LOVED this one! Very entertaining, very funny! You really do need a channel for funny stories Simon. Because all of us, especially you, need to laugh more.
Great series this - a couple of suggested topics 1) The Great Bookie Robbery - the largest robbery in Australian History which caused a gang war. 2) The Kangaroo Gang - the great gang of thieves that plagued Europe from the sixties to the eighties & was led by a man known as the King of Thieves.
Come on Fact Boi, you're English.... just say "efferlessly", and I promise nobody will even notice you dropped the T. Although it is good for a laugh, so maybe don't. OH MAN I'm pumped for the Alternate History podcast!!!
Alternate history podcast 🤔 Into the shadows : I'm working on a secret project with David. Alright David has officially exchanged Australia for a czech basement
Hi Simon, I just saw the breaking news about the 1972 Durham triple homicide case being finally cracked. Maybe you and your team could do an episode about it?
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I'm pretty sure they put me on a spam call list after I canceled.
Not going to lie this episode is kind of hard to follow
@@ashproof What made you cancel?
This code doesn't work in New Zealand😭😭
Having recently binged a lot of the videos on this channel, I've realised it's better to thumbs up the video in the beginning, because I know the video will be good, and it feels less weird before than after hearing all about terrible murderers. So I'll be doing that now!
Right the only channel I click the like button to
Obviously that's what you do when you watch a WhistlerTube video you like while Simon says hello
I DO THAT TOO 😀
As much as I agree with your sentiment, I think I’ve heard that liking later on in a video is better for the creator’s profit/for the algorithm or something like that. By all means like away, but just figured I’d throw it out there!!
I don’t share Simon’s disdain for “Stat Wars”, but regardless of his pop culture knowledge or lack thereof, I enjoy the commentary. And the whole point of “likes” is monetization, which I do not begrudge him in the least!
The con artist emerged as a likable, charismatic guy, asking to be made ruler, making promises of installing a better governmental/societal system once he is in charge but with no intention or practical means to achieve it soley for self promotional means..so he's a politician?
The lines are blurry.
Sounds like my prime minister Trudeau... Wrecking a country, such a disgrace... I don't think any Canadian can apologize enough for that chicken $hit.... #freedomconvoy2022
@@melissahennessy5631 You're a liar. You're not Canadian and your name isn't Melissa.
Boris Von Trumptovski
@@TheCasualCriminalist Sounds like "Lobbying", allegedly, in my opinion.
It's quite rare for Simon to be smiling at the end of an episode, how nice! Also that podcast sounds great! Hope it comes out.
Pro-Tips for Criminals
As the self-proclaimed unofficial Archivist of CC Lore, I've been writing down the tips for criminals since the channel started. Here is an updated list. (For regulars, items added since last update start around #75.)
1. Don't write down your crimes.
2. Don't tell other people about your crimes.
3. Don't boast about your crimes.
4. Don't take souvenirs from your victims.
5. Hide the evidence of your crimes.
6. Don't involve other people in your crimes.
7. Your family are less likely to screw you over.
8. Keep your story straight.
9. Paying people to back up your story increases your odds of getting screwed over.
10. It's a mistake not to pay people you said you'd pay.
11. Don't commit crime at the school where you studied.
12. Don't drive a red sports car.
13. If you're changing your identity, don't use the same alias you got busted under last time.
14. If you're making a secret identity, don't go for something interesting.
15. If you're just making up a career, go with advertising executive.
16. Don't make a screenplay out of your crimes.
17. If you're deleting stuff, empty the recycle bin, use a shredder program.
18. Don't get drunk when disposing of a body.
19. Bad idea to google your crimes.
20. Don't wrap the body in your own pajamas.
21. Don't dispose of the body in the cellar - put it in the attic.
22. If the car has blood in it, don't clean it, just set it on fire.
23. If you want to get away with murder, being a billionaire is helpful.
24. It's best to be a thief in a rich country.
25. Don't try to kill an Irishman with whiskey.
26. If you try to kill someone and they don't die, why not finish the job since you were already going to be a murderer?
27. Don't drop your glove. Robbers and surgeons shouldn't leave gloves behind.
28. If you want to ask someone about whether you should be committing crimes, definitely pretend it's a joke.
29. If you're risking going to prison for a really long time, let's do it for more than 190,000 rand.
30. Don't be out saying, "I kill police officers."
31. Destroying evidence is pretty smart. Clean up after your crime.
32. If you're gonna go out murdering, don't murder the mother of a famous criminologist.
33. Don't go on TV. What are you doing going on TV? What are you up to?
34. Don't tell your crimes to someone who's writing them down.
35. Leave the scene of the crime. You can't stay there. You have to go.
36. Don't return to the scene of the crime.
37. Don't take any photos.
38. Don't take records of your own crimes.
39. Always bend to the will of the Mob.
40. Leaving intentional clues for the police is not a good idea. Bro, trust me, you're leaving clues anyway.
41. If you fail to do two abductions in two days, maybe take a break, work on your technique.
42. If you're going to be burned at the stake, take deep breaths because then you'll die of smoke inhalation before the flames reach you.
43. Do your crimes better. You can at least try.
44. Again: Don't write down your crimes.
45. Don't fuck with Big Syrup.
46. Hold up the bus, lock the bus so no one can escape, and then set it on fire. I don't want to give the terrorists ideas, but I guess that one's for free.
47. Dude, you gotta get some duck tape.
48. Chainsaw's gonna be way too messy - just use a big knife.
49. Don't review your crimes.
50. There's a reason that people go to ten different hardware stores to buy all their murder equipment... because if you bought all that in one place people are gonna be like, "What's up my dude? Let me call the police."
51. Don't admit your crimes.
52. Burning things is nice.
53. If you're gonna go do some murdering, bring the weapon with you and have a plan to dispose of it afterwards.
54. If you're murdering at night, how about bringing your own form of illumination?
55. You've got to burn your clothes in a barrel somewhere.
56. Don't write down how much you hate your husband. That's weird.
57. If you're cooking crystal meth in the city, what's wrong with you? Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
58. If your crime business isn't super high profit, what are you up to?
59. Get on to that South American fisherman lifestyle and maybe get your face changed by some sketchy mob doctor south of the border.
60. If you have glasses, get contacts or laser surgery. If you're bald, get a wig or a hair transplant. If you have a beard, shave it off.
61. Don't get involved in a documentary about your crimes.
62. If you've committed a crime and it's reported in the paper, don't clip it out and keep it.
63. You do not take trophies or in the very least you don't keep them in plain view at your house or in the houses of your relatives.
64. You don't tell other people about your crimes, even your brother.
65. Don't make soap out of your victims. Not a good idea.
66. Don't deal drugs with your family. Don't deal heroin, but if you want to deal heroin, do it yourself.
67. Everyone knows you should charge 100K minimum for a hit job.
68. If you google how to commit your crime, use a VPN.
69. Don't involve your friends or your family in your crimes.
70. Too many cooks/assassins spoil the broth/murder.
71. If someone is paying you 9 million dollars to kill someone and all you have to do is provide evidence of it, you should do it yourself and it should be someone you definitely don't know.
72. Just get a fake phone number! Just get a burner phone!
73. If an online creep ever asks you to commit a crime for money, please do the right thing: Demand to see half the cash up front with the rest after the job.
74. Don't commit crimes in your own town... go to the next town.
75. Lawyer, lawyer, lawyer... where is your lawyer?
76. Don't film your crimes.
77. Don't rob the gun store.
78. Yo, if you're gonna do crimes, make sure the crimes make you loads of money.
79. If you have hidden a body in a camera case and then months go by and you haven't disposed of the camera case and/or cleaned it extremely thoroughly - well, you're just a bad criminal, aren't you?
80. If you're committing crimes, don't - while you're committing crimes - commit smaller accidental crimes. Focus on the task at hand.
81. Think through just a little bit before you do crimes.
82. Getting drunk while you're committing crimes - don't do it. You're not going to be better at crime if you're drunk.
83. Disposing of the body should be on your list of things to do before going on vacation.
84. Yo, if you're gonna do a big robbery and there's gonna be a big pay day, invest some time into getting it right.
85. Being used to danger doesn't mean it's not dangerous anymore.
86. Firing AK-47s automatically renders them rather inaccurate because the first round will go where you want and the rest will go where they want.
87. Commit well-paying robberies early in your career so you can retire when you're old.
88. Dude, you used your own car with your own plates as a get-away car? Are you stupid?
89. Guys, DNA gets everywhere very easily. Take some proper precautions. Google "how to not leave DNA behind."
90. If you've murdered 10 people, you have to run away. You have to run away to, like, Chinese Alaska or wherever.
91. You can't just walk in and take over someone's life and business... Something is gonna come up.
92. Yo, if your crime is worse than the punishment for destroying evidence, maybe you should destroy that evidence.
Disclaimer: CC Archivist not responsible for the quality, consistency, or redundancy of the tips recorded. Archivist neither commits nor condones criminal behavior. Allegedly.
Hey, Simon... when the inevitable OGCC shirts come out, I think I've earned the first one. Also, my little tips notebook is running out of pages...
Keep up the good work.
🙌🙌🙌👌👌
Man, his notebook is ARLEADY out of date.
Fucking LEGEND!
We should all consider these tips gospel, if for no other reason than that some of them contradict each other, just like real gospels.
This whole case is crazy! The fact that he did it and got away with it for any amount of time is wild. An absolute legend. Like the writing style, definitely a good change of pace. Glad everyone is giving Simon a little break from the serial killer or brutal murder cases
Reference the dress nicely remark: I was dressed up in my favorite power dress suit for a meeting but I needed to stop off somewhere before going home. I walked into a well known business, and they ran and got me snacks and drinks and ushered me to the conference room saying the managers were waiting on me. They handed me a very fancy folder with someone else's name in it before I entered the room. It was then I realized something was wrong but they had already opened the door and everyone turned around to look at me. -- They were expecting their new regional manager and they had never seen her before (this was before the internet was so big). I explained they were mistaken and I wasn't who they thought I was. -- One of the managers said, "Well, you look the part. If you're not our regional manager you should be someone's regional manager." I've thought about that day my whole life.
Truly a power-move.
This is hilarious, his advice was a joke but look, it worked for you
You need business cards that say, "Amanda Jones - I look like I'm in charge, therefore I am."
@@josephschultz3301 I love that. 😅😅😅
@@ariahann4114 It was a pretty cool day for sure! 😅
Hey, if I have to make a choice, I would much rather be a victim of a con-man than the usual guys who got featured here.
Not being chopped up or shot is an upside when dealing with criminals.
As someone who assists with educating people about conmen, no you don't. Victims of violent crimes are dead. Victims of conmen are screwed, mostly don't have any way to get whatever was taken from, them back, often don't wake up from the scam until they've lost everything, and are frequently judged by others for falling for it because they were in a vulnerable place and someone knew to push just the right buttons.
I'm not going to argue that it's better than being killed, but their life is irreparably altered, in ways that at the very least make "what's worse" a tossup. Some people can deal with it. Some people really can't.
Absolutely. Those other guys have messed me up so much in the head that I actively root for the occasional conman that makes an appearance on CC
Or having your skull violated...
From Simon to Simon this is my favorite channel of yours no matter what you cover! Murder, heists, cons, I love it all. Keep doing what you do and I'll keep supporting the channels however I can!
"Murder, heists, cons, I love it all!"
What are you up to, you psycho?
@@ridleyroid9060 I've been told to never write down my crimes ;)
@@slimonator9788 🤣👍👍👍
I forgot how much joy it brings me to listen to Simon saying "effortlessly"
Note to Self: Get a Girlfriend with enough money to buy you a Kingship.
That first part is pretty difficult by itself ngl.
Love this free-talking format. Simon’s crazy ad-libs and segues are brilliant.
I listen/watch your videos on this channel while I work a 12 hour graveyard shift at a Nursing home. Thanks to your videos, even the nonviolent ones, I stay alert all night. Thank you so much for these!
My mother actually met the guy who the “Catch Me If You Can” is based on. She works for the Department of Justice and he holds seminars on different frauds and cons and how to catch them. Pretty much teaching them how to get in the mind of a criminal…because he was one lol
Yeah I remember that ending for him. Man was so good at his stunt that the state was like "help us catch people like you thanks"
Didn't it turn out that his biggest con was making people believe he truly did all these cons when he didn't?
Turns out it was a double con. Conning people to believe the level of conning he achieved...
The heist/con Casual Criminalist episodes are my favorite! I have family that I introduced to this show via the Maple Syrup heist that *loved* it and ask for any new non-serial killer/brutal murder episodes that come out. These not-as-dark episodes can act as a break for Simon and a nice niche for true crime fans who don't want things to get too dark! Win-Win :)
That's kind of how I lean. Subject matter aside, I think the non-murdery stuff just meshes better with Simon's personality. He seems so horrified sometimes to the point where I want to reach out and give him a hug.
Doing some research, there are in fact Bonaparte descendants in America via one of his sisters Caroline Bonaparte, though no direct descendants that I could find in my brief research, also gives me the chance to bring up that Napoleon's grand-nephew Charles Joseph Bonaparte became the Secretary of the Navy and later Attorney General of the United States, because history is weird.
That is so freaking cool!!
Somewhere (useful charts a youtube channel I think) said there is a chance that Napoleon does have descendants through an illegetimate son of a Polish woman. And there were children of some of his brothers.
Yeah, Napoleon’s brother claimed he saw the jersey devil lol
Up until recently the last heir to the ottoman throne lived in nyc
My favourite thing Simon has ever said: "Time is really long; they probably could."
Really enjoyed this episode and this channel.
Although since you live in Czech Republic as I, would love to see you maybe cover some Czech criminals like Jiří Kajínek or Jaroslav and Dana Stodolovi!
As a fellow slav, how do you pronounce that r? For us in Serbia this sign is used for Š, which is sh, ive never seen r with that.
@@ridleyroid9060 I am not a Slav, I am Irish/English but love it here and love Slav culture and history :)
@@danfosh9826 "Slav culture" has the same energy as "Asian nationality" lmao, all Slavic cultures are vastly different (and violently hate each other)
@@ВасилийПупкин-ж8и fair comment like linking Irish and English culture, should have said Czech culture, thanks for the correction
To be fair Leo doesn't pretend to be a lawyer, he legit passed the bar exam.
Which is partly why states require you to graduate law school to be able to take the test. They don't want randos becoming lawyers, without the knowledge. 🤣 I'd like to take it, oh well.
@@zeusathena26 Except for the 4 that don't, Washington, California (surprising I know), Virginia, and Vermont. Not to say they don't have other requirements, but a law school education isn't required to go for your bar exam.
@@zeusathena26 It's not about knowledge, it's about increasing barriers to entry.
Great video, Simon! I love these 'less dark' ones. The writer for this episode should be writing screenplays.
Simon should read his comments because when he said, sarcastically, that making homelessness illegal would take care of it; the comments section was full of people saying ya that's the stance of the United States as well...
But it's not..
This is by far my favorite RUclips channel. I watch them when I'm going to bed. Simon's voice helps to relax me and I fall asleep. So I end up watching them twice cause I usually miss half the video.
"Who cares if I'm exhausted, it's a new episode of CC!"
20 min later I've lost the plot four times and can't figure out what King Kong had to do with macaroni.
Oh well, see you tomorrow, Simon.
That’s Simon on a typical day, though.
I really enjoyed the more whimsical style this episode demonstrated! It was fun, funny, and well written to! Good job
Simon, I had the best time giggling through your narration. It’s all good.
Jen was in rare form on this one! Actually, I always enjoy her video interjections. Thank you Simon and your entire staff for yet another entertaining story. Tha casual criminalist is in my top 3 of favorite channels to watch on a regular basis, week in and week out.
29:52
"Boris I [eye]!"
Simon, you fact boy, it's "Boris the First".
Don't be disappointed in yourself Simon,you're KING of RUclips!
5:00 - Chapter 1 - Setting the stage
17:15 - Chapter 2 - Introducing Boris
25:00 - Mid roll ads
27:50 - Chapter 3 - The king's move
33:15 - Chapter 4 - The bishop's move
41:25 - Chapter 5 - The last caper
47:15 - Dismembered -appendices- alternates timelines
Home with Covid, binging your video. Thanks for keeping me sane, Whistle boy.
How cool is it to see Simon happy at the end of a CC story?
A semi peaceful break from senseless attacks. Guess I can have a drink this time around. Good on ya Simon & the team
I’ve heard of this guy before but this read had me glued, great work!
Simon, so good to see another person acknowledge how fantastic Rushmore is! It's my favorite Wes Anderson movie and one of my top of all time and it always seems to be left out or just straight up forgotten when people discuss his filmography. I legit yelled out "YESSSSSSSSS!!" when you said how great it was.
Been waiting for a new video to come out .. I'm super excited now.
It's actually really refreshing getting to see Simon has so much fun with this one. After the nonstop horror of the last few murderers, hearing this balls-to-the-walls story about a dude conning his way into leading a micro nation is... it's nice.
Do it!!!! Alternate history podcast sounds like a blast
OMG!! There are movies that Simon HAS seen???
20:00 I hope Simon gets that framed on his desk 🤣
Just discovered all of your channels ! So been binging on it so much ! Immediately hit play when this vid notification came up and I was not let down! Really interesting and strange story !
Welcome to the Whistlerverse SimonTube 😇. Lots of channels to ehm xplr
@@stephjovi 🤣 why thank you 😊 I'm watching " the eight immortals murders" right now ! When I find a youtuber I like I will binge them for days / as much as possible ..just totally dive in 😆
@@trincrymsyn6383 enjoy. 13 channels well I guess 12 since xplrd has been declared dead but there are still really good videos to binge
Simon with another channel, fantastic, can't wait. I see you're attempting to catch up with Boris's productivity after all!
Mr. Whistler has blessed us again.
I'd absolutely love to hear more stories like this, this was extremely enjoyable.
Just wanted to say I enjoy your little asides and siliques about the story, even when you get off topic! Please don't think you're taking too long to discuss something because that is what makes your videos unique and interesting
Me reading the title: King Con: The Man who stole a countr- A COUNTRY?!
And now I have to know
This is some payday 2 secret ending crap, he just up and steals a fecking country
Thank goodness for you Simon, my insomnia had set in and here’s YOU!!👍🏼✌️👋🏽👏👏🍻🤓
These always makes my day better. Thanks
👏🏾👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾Been waiting since Friday. 🤤 Thanks for coming back😌😙
When I lived in Korea, I would get tickets for 1st class on the train when they were available. It was worth every penny, those trains going to Seoul were unbelievable. I didn’t do that often on the trains in Germany though because all the trains were nice.
Thank you been waiting for this video!
I'm definitely pumped for the alternate history podcast, I'll absolutely tune in if it gets released! It sounds intriguing
This show has very quickly risen to the top of my weekly entertainment. Don't remember half the things a week later but the side tangents are entertaining AF.
Keep it up fact boy!
I’ve watched every episode of this channel (some of them twice), and since he hasn’t done many scripts for this channel (yet), I must point out that I really like Arnaldo’s writing! The White Uno Gang episode is one of my top five favorites. I love his writing style! I really liked the fictional introductory scenario-I mean, give me a little Colonel Mustard, and I’m on board! Lol I hope Arnaldo writes more for this channel more often! :)
You are dead wrong.Callum is the only decent writer on this channel. This script is going to lose fact boy a LOT of money
This is the narration I live for. I can now die happy
49:21 - This alternate history sounds like a lost episode of "'Allo 'Allo!" 🤣
22:22 Simon definitely haven't watched The Tinder Swindler on Netflix
jen is having a lot of fun with these con/heist episodes and so are we
"the king of france, macaroon" 🤣
Sweet was just looking for a video to listen to at work
Fascinating video Simon and glad you get a bit of a mental health break with this. Honestly Boris is the nicest fellow we've had on casual criminalist 🤣
This comes at a time where I am about to play a Psychic con man in my local D&D group so this is great! Love the idea of trying to steal a country!
@The Casual Criminalist
If you like con movies, you have to watch The Sting. Absolute classic, with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Intense hardcore grifting action.
But Arnaldo, we don't need Bianca for Exposition, we have Simon for that..
First class trains in the UK in my experience (once) was a separate carriage with doors, had bigger seats, the all had tables and a little lamp and outlet. You also get free food. Cooked meals for lunch and dinner and a continental breakfast. You also get access to the first class lounge so you don't have to wait with the peasants and they had free food and drink in there too. I spent 2 hours just chilling with a mini coke, losing at scrabble with a couple of business men
Please don't feel bad for only making videos Simon. You're a King in our World.
I took a train from suzhou to Shanghai a couple times . The first time I didn't realize there was a first class which only cost a few dollars more . But wow what a difference thw regular cars were complete chaos. There was people selling stuff like fireproof and stab resistance socks? Chickens the seats were all full and same with the lane front to back and there was folks walking up and down back and forth for 3 hours I had to move constantly to let folks past cause I didnt get a seat . Then the first class was amazing in comparison. Mt own seat and table with only one person next to me . I couldn't believe it .I th8nk it was 2 dollars coach or 6 dollars for first I recommend always going 1st class on this train
Simon, it's not just that we're all sickos. I'm willing to bet that there are quite a lot of us that listen to this stuff because we want to find out what drove the person to do bad things, how their victims got into the bad circumstance in the first place, and what the victim might have done differently to avoid winding up a victim, ultimately. For these reasons, I am absolutely captivated by the casual criminalist, and really appreciate that you don't focus too much on gory details, but, rather, the details that are pertinent to explain the case, and then focus on the victims themselves. Hearing the little stories about each person and what the situation was, really puts you in a certain headspace, as you are almost forced to imagine being in their position, and asking yourself what you would do, as a result. To me, that makes this series incredibly useful, as well as entertaining. Also, some people are "sickos" and psychopaths. You f*cking psychos!
Thank you to this week's Little Man (Arnaldo), Fact Man, and Enola Jen for this episode. Love it!
I had to make that stressed 'joke' because... Fact Man/Fat Man... start of the Cold War... even though this isn't Megaprojects. Moving on.
Here's an idea for you for a potential future episode. Ronnie Biggs and the Great Train Robbery.
Well done Simon, and crew. I did enjoy this one!
The picture of Simon as an astronaut just made me audibly laugh out laugh! Your content is brilliant!
Wow Simon, I've been am O.G. viewer for many years and I must say that I'm rather appalled that you would be brazen enough to indicate that people don't just blindly follow a biased news source for "factual" information and insinuate that people should think for themselves, in much fewer words. Well done!
This is why I watch your channels, this an the awesome writers who provide entertaining and informative content to be gracefully read, and amusingly interjected with random tangents by the orator.
Turns a 20 minute video into almost an hour with just tangents 😂 we love you Simon
Ohhh one where Simon isn't thrown head first into the wall of horror.
Yeah listened to this one Sunday on Spotify lol back for the YT version
I can't lie, the amount of trail-offs/tangents in this episode began to annoy me, but the photo of Astronaut Simon made it worthwhile.
20:05 😳😳😳 a notification just popped as Simon said he should rewrite his life story.... it was a notification for ZDoggMD new video "How to Re-Write Your life" with the thumbnail that says "CHANGE YOUR LIFE STORY"... whoa that was freaky...
Another channel!? Omg.. Simon already dominates my subscriptions. 🤣 long live the fact boi!
As always, I gotta give a huge shoutout to Jen for the editing on this video! Every little aside i.e. Simon as a fake astronaut makes me giggle every time.
"It has to be easier to be a conwoman than a conman" - Jen cuts to a gif of Elizabeth Holmes - and now I'm dead from wheezy "OH YOU DID IT" laughter
That was the best!!
I definitely prefer fun heist and swindlers. No need for hello kitty murders
New history type channel, around Christmas??? Is this still in the works? Sounds intriguing!
Well, I learned something very valuable today. Time is long. Very astute Simon.
I wonder if theres a good hacking/ social engineering story out there. Might read like an episode of Leverage, but we've had heists but not hacks
AH! I LOVED this one! Very entertaining, very funny! You really do need a channel for funny stories Simon. Because all of us, especially you, need to laugh more.
Simon could be a football player! Or a Cowboy! Or a spaceman! Orrrrr, a football playing cowboy in space!
Great series this - a couple of suggested topics 1) The Great Bookie Robbery - the largest robbery in Australian History which caused a gang war. 2) The Kangaroo Gang - the great gang of thieves that plagued Europe from the sixties to the eighties & was led by a man known as the King of Thieves.
I love listening to Simon and his comments.
"I admire the balls of it."
Took the words right out of my comment, Whistler. 👏👏👏
very enjoyable listen, thanks for making this
Omg when this suddenly turned into a romance novel! Lmaooo
Come on Fact Boi, you're English.... just say "efferlessly", and I promise nobody will even notice you dropped the T. Although it is good for a laugh, so maybe don't.
OH MAN I'm pumped for the Alternate History podcast!!!
Nice to see Simon smiling at the end of an episode for a change!
love the heists!!!
10x better than t he Kim Kardashian episode. Thank you guys!
‘Fact Boi’ Simon’s continual references to fictional shows as his source for how real life works constantly amuses me.
Where's that alt history podcast? Sounds like it'd be fun
Alternate history podcast 🤔 Into the shadows : I'm working on a secret project with David. Alright David has officially exchanged Australia for a czech basement
Hi Simon, I just saw the breaking news about the 1972 Durham triple homicide case being finally cracked. Maybe you and your team could do an episode about it?
Love the throwback to XPLRD. That was a great channel
explored is or was a great channel i watched them all thank you
I like these lighter crimes videos! Its a nice breather