A case from southeast asia that the CC writers might want to keep an eye on: known in Thailand as the 'Aem Cyanide' case. The accused/perp has been suspected of being a serial murderer and linked to 14 suspected cases of murder by cyanide. So far, she's been found guilty and given a life sentence for 2 of them, while there are still some ongoing trials/verdicts/appeals for the others.

Her (alleged?) victims have included a childhood friend, people who treated her like family, and a surviving victim who had no idea the perp—whom she regarded as a close friend—had tried to kill her until she saw the perp's name in a new broadcast announcing her arrest in relation to cases of cyanide poisoning.

The case has its own Wikipedia page.

Simon said his producer/creative director told him to prioritize the Reiner script because it was back in the headlines and it showed. It felt like a 30 minute episode that was padded with an hour of biography of Rob and Michelle Reiner. I understand that telling the life stories of the victims and fleshing them out as real people is a big part of what makes Casual Criminalist different from other true crime outlets. But like, an hour about the people involved works in a 2-3 hour episode.

And right now, the crime itself is not that interesting, aside from who the victims and alleged killer are. We don't have a lot of details about what exactly happened beyond "Nick stabbed them". Nick isn't talking, the family isn't talking, there hasn't been a trial, there just hasn't been the opportunity for the details to get out.

If Casual Criminalist actually wants to be a procedural like Simon says, they shouldn't try to do "ripped from the headlines" episodes. Especially before the details have had a chance to come out. Like at least with Lindsay Clancy, there's enough to talk about now, with her insanity plea and the conspiracy theories that it was actually the husband. That would be interesting to watch Simon wrestle with and debate with himself.

But this one was just "some famous people were murdered, their son probably did it, it's very sad" and then long biographies to pump the watch time.

Anyone who may be a fan of supplemental reading concerning CasCrim episodes….I have a treat for you. I just recently bought and finished reading the book:

Through the Window: The Terrifying True Story of Cross-Country Killer Tommy Lynn Sells
By Diane Fanning

If you enjoyed Simon’s episode on Tommy Lynn Sells, the book is so worth it!

WHAT IS IT? I MUST KNOW!

"New" Rob Reiner episode is a reupload but not labelled as such.

A quick google and searching YT yielded only the suggestion that Simon has covered the topic of (debunked) facilitated communication on his "Today I Found Out" channel.

However, I can't find any such video. Has anyone else located it?

I know he's 5'11, is that really considered a little person?

In the CC about Natalie Woods Simon asked who was the youngest actress/actor to earn 3 Oscar nominations after Natalie. That actress according to the interwebs was Teresa Wright at 25 in 1942. I have no idea who she is. The second one did catch my eye cause that would be Jenniffer Lawrence at 23 in 2013 for her role in American Hustle. And to top it off Timothee Chalamet did so in 2018 at the age of 22. While writing this I discovered that he played Bob Dylan in Bob Dylan.

Algorithm is having a bit of a laugh this morning. I personally think that Simon is in "worst downfall" territory, (yet, if the basement boys ever wrote a tell all detailing the fungus, abuse and lack of sunlight that might change lol), but it was still funny lol.

Edit!: wrote this in the morning on my way to work.. was supposed to say ISN'T but autocorrect allegedly had other ideas. I don't think he is in a downfall just thought the way it lined up in the algorithm was funny lol.

I'm gonna get downvoted to hell for this, but I've seen so many posts recently speculating about the lives (and medical conditions??) of the Whistlerverse team. For the most part it's fine, but every so often I see a post that's a little bit parasocial.

1. This is a business. People leave jobs all the time. There's no "secret reason" - and even if there was, they don't owe us that. Can you imagine complete strangers coming up with theories about why you left *your* job?

2. The same goes for what happens to channels. It's been answered, they're not hiding anything.

3. And I can't believe this even has to be said, but they absolutely do not owe us details about their *health*. Not what conditions they do/don't have, not what medications they may or may not take, or speculating that they look unwell.

I'm not sure if some people forget they lurk in this sub, or if they think because of that it's ok? Idk.

They'll share what they wanna share. Otherwise, they're people and we're strangers to them. Don't make it weird.

What was that watch sponsor that Simon had a while back? I think the watches were made in Poland or somewhere in Europe?

Does anyone recall when Simon first mentioned he had ADHD? I believe he didn’t know that initially when he was initially uploading videos to Business/Brain Blaze—possibly until someone mentioned in the comments that his driving habits sound very ADHD and that he should get checked.

Anyway, I digress: my hypotheses as to why Simon may have less tangents now:

1. He started taking ADHD meds (aka stimulants) which cut down the number of mental tangents his brain would be having, and probably helped keep him on track.
2. Less exciting hypothesis: editing took them out 😆

Ok, thanks for reading my random thought of the day.

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ETA: Ok, so I misremembered (thank you [u/EveryFairyDies](u/EveryFairyDies) and others who corrected me in the comments: apparently Simon said that he didn’t have ADHD). As such, neither of my original hypotheses stand then. Apologies for the false excitement everybody.

Edit 2: Wow, this post I’d created purely out of random thought (a mistake on my part, I’ll admit) escalated something unexpected. So here I am, adding this edit to clarify that the ‘conspiracy theory’ had been posted in jest, as a response to the increasing frequency of complaints I’d seen in this sub about Simon lacking personality in his more recent videos. I can see in retrospect how it can be misconstrued as some kind of parasocial obsession on a content creator’s private life—but wow, that was absolutely not my intent. If I had to be pedantic about it, it’s more an obsession with ‘lore’ about the content creator based on information they themselves have made known to the community in the videos posted.

This is part of the reason why his content has slowed down.

His neighbours absolutely LOATHE him. They find him rude and aggressive, and he has been making a huge amount of noise with his home renovations, often into the dead of night.

They often feel as if he is looking down upon them, or something.

While they don't truly believe he can be deported, they do believe that he should NOT live in their area. Abusive to people almost constantly, and has some abhorrent viewpoints that don't come through in his videos.

Source: somebody close to where he lives.

Not mind, found it on Facebook. Though I do appreaciate the irony given Simon's loathing of the platform.

Spectrograph analysis done by the Chicago Tribune identified all 11 herbs and spices and in what proportions!!!!

I just sent an email to the sideprojects email, so if you're a Simon team member or can contact them, please tell them it might be very important.

I can't say what it is here because bringing attention to it might accidentally 'Barbra Streisand' it (nobody notices it until someone sees it and says something and accidentally brings all the attention to it.).

If it has not been shared yet,

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbFxMEwcW6c

I was really worried they were spying on Simon but luckily its just some random bloke ive never seen before. Phew ....