A hole or not a hole is two options. Two possible places that may or may not have a hole is 4 options. 3 -> 8 possible combinations 32 -> 4294967296 possible but some wouldn't get used so Billions is right.
To be fair, the mafia was and still is big in Kansas City (both sides). KC was practically started by the mafia and is a great spot since it's right in the middle of the country.
Simon of the past: "People severely underestimate the effects of exponential growth" Simon of today: Severely underestimates the effects of exponential growth
Oh fantastic, TH-cam deleted my comment again. Just wanted to say this was a really fun episode to write, and Simon's reaction to the fake twist in the middle of the script was absolutely priceless. I'm also surprised he didn't pick up that the keycard would be 2^32 which is a huge number, because I know Simon understands how insane exponential growth is.
The fact that Charlie was so coy about the description of the "commercial woman" and the two "visiting" makes it abundantly clear that people weren't more innocent or censored themselves more than us. We've just forgotten all of the euphemisms they used.
Exactly! My uncle for years would rant about how young people nowadays have no respect for marriage, have kids outside of wedlock, etc, and that back in his day it was never like that. Turns out our great-aunt who 'had a stumble on some stairs' actually 'had a baby while on a different continent to her husband and gave it up for adoption'
@@geofff.3343I mean... Magic spoon & the vitamin green shakes for nutrition and a foreo to keep the not-sun-kissed skin from aging prematurely + a projector so he can pretend he's outside? Seems pretty fair payment to me.
Here’s the math on that locking mechanism in the beginning for you Simon: Each of the 32 positions can be holes or not holes (2 possibilities), all independent from each other. For the first one, there are 2 possible combinations (hole or not hole). With 2 positions, it rises to 4 possible combinations. With 3 positions, it rises to 8 possible combinations. Each added position raises the number of possible combinations by a power of 2. So the total number of possible combinations with 32 positions is 2^32. Or just under 4.3 billion. You’re welcome have a nice day!
However, if this is a paper or plastic card that drops into a slot, then it could potentially be reversed horizontally or vertically, making some combinations redundant. Who is big brain enough to figure that one out? (Not me.)
RE: Cryogenics Simon, its not that we cant unfreeze people, thats actually really easy, just let them sit at room temp for a few hours. The problem with cryogenics is that we dont know how to freeze people without also killing them in the process.
@@pioneercynthia1 Very true. Theres no guarantee that the place will still be there when and if we do figure out how to make it all work. You might have ended up as Soylent Cola by then.
As a former hotel night manager, can confirm: there is some weird shit going down in hotels all the time. You're doing good if the man naked in the room is actually the one who owns the room 😫
Used to work the desk at two separate places. Man, people get weird when they've been drinking (Them: "we *hic* visited all sixteen wineries!" Me: I can tell...). Had one hotel fill up at a college graduation and just before my shift ended a large family group all came to check in...except one room had been cancelled because the rest of the family said the couple in that room couldn't come. When the couple tried to check in of course the room was taken. They called their graduate, the graduate called the hotel and went on an absolutely vicious rant that left me in tears. The hotel manager called the cops to get the family to settle down and I went home and had a stiff drink. Next day I found out that the family had been hoping the couple with the cancelled room wouldn't show up due to a family feud. I quit a few weeks later!
Yep... ive witness child trafficking too many times to count and called authorities EVERY TIME and not once did they do anything... Ive worked every job a hotel offers and ive worked at numerous different companies and nothing tops a popular but unamed hotel chain, specifically the one in downtown DC... 100s of kids are trafficked thru that building a day and the cops show up and say "oh yeah, we asked her and she said she was 19 so everything's fine" when the girl is OBVIOUSLY 5... in no world would anyone believe that child was 19.... ugh... sorry for the trauma dump 😅 I've lived too long with the atrocities I've seen 🥺😞
I have to wonder if the phone was cointinually off the receiver, because Roland was trying to call for help and kept passing out. Also, pauper's graves in the US aren't necessarily mass graves. The only one I know of offhand is the one on the island off of NYC. People don't usually die all at once, so the Jane and John Does are buried in a plot with a number marker, so they know where to look for them if someone comes forward to claim the body.
@@KS-PNWwell the Bay Area & LA each have like 8 million residents so it's not that hard to fathom that they'd need mass graves at some point (as morbid as that sounds)
Ive worked at both of the hotels in this story. I always felt the mob must be involved. A handful of the hotels built during the time had mobs involved in their construction. Several have pillars that they used to inflate cement pricing. The president has those pillars. Plus KC police was taken over by the mob to the extent that the state eventually took over control of our police department. KCMO to this day does not have control of our own police department. The only city in America where this is the case. Another fun fact that Ive never heard come up in retellings of the story, no one knows which room this would be now. The hotel wad vacant for a long time and almost torn down before it was purchased by the current owners. They renovated the rooms and took it down to about half of the original rooms so they would be big enough to accommodate modern travelers. Id never heard he asked for a courtyard view. That does narrow down the possibilities a lot.
I used to work Banquets at the President. Ive also never heard the courtyard view story either. But yeah the rooms before renovation were tiny, and not worth what we charged for them. That Ballroom though. I still want to get married there, but i am broke. HA Also lets not get started on the issues of the KCPD, theyve had issues the entire time and it has never stopped
The story that makes the most sense is exactly what the caller to the morgue said. Ronald was a cheat, his travelling buddy got mad and killed him. Maybe Ronald was cheating on his buddy's sister or friend, and that wraps the whole story up perfectly.
I literally walked into the hotel today to ask if room 1046 could be rented and the concierge said that room doesn’t exist any more 😭 I felt like an idiot. oh well. now I can be an idiot again and make the little commute over to the cemetery to hunt for his grave. he died on my birthday.
@@supermexicanroboninja3116 but what kind of cheat. Was he cheating in a relationship? Was he cheating at gambling? Was he cheating the mob? Was he cheating money out of people? A combination of those?
Simon's description of what to do with the shard of glass got so complex it reminded me of the scene from The Emperor's New Groove where Yzma described what she wanted to do with Cuzco, ending with smashing the package with a hammer.
Her name is Clementine, and she is Garfield levels of fat and lazy. My old cat would murder anything and anyone, but I think Clem has only ever caught one mouse
Kevin writing in a Majora's Mask reference in the titles and Simon thinking it is from a TV show is exactly the kind of stuff I love in these episodes. It's funny cause isn't Kevin older than Simon? Either way, a true man of culture, that Kevin lad is.
12:05 The reason the combination count is that big is because each hole has 2 possibilities, and you get the total # of combinations by multiplying the number of possibilities for each hole with each other. So multiplying 2 together 32 times (i.e. 2^32) gives you that 4b figure.
@@JcGross93sadly the term "exponential" has had such an inflationary use over the last decade or so, people actually have no grasp whatsoever what it even implies
Agreed as a fellow KC native! Fantastic video. Also, I thought it was funny that Simon compared the two kansas cities to cities that are 100 miles apart! For non-KC readers, there is a street called State Line Rd. and ... the State line runs down it. Go north on that street and you are in KC,MO. Go south and you are in KC,KS. The two cities are literally separated by a street median.
As a community college mathematics instructor, this one really hurt. 2 to the power of 32… one of the simplest questions in elementary probability. I was so relieved when he asked Chat GPT. Now I can laugh at it. But it really turned into a great lesson.
I don't think it's as simple as saying 2 32nd power but that'll get you close because if you have 1 and 2 on while the rest are off that's another 32 combinations but when you move down the line starting with 2 on well we already did 1 so that only 31 combinations then 3 on and 1 other one would give us 29 more unique combinations because we already did 1 and 2 on with the rest off. Maybe I'm wrong and it's possible as you get to the higher ons vs off combinations they might over power the on vs off repeats
This video just made my night, sitting here with no power, candles going, charging my phone with a power bank lol. Totally changed my mood. We have a huge storm in the US where I live and the whole state is blackout pretty much lol
@@briannam3140This might’ve gone over my head. But it would be really funny if OP commenter is your friend without power and you’re just here styling on him
I wish we had thunder storms here all year long instead of the regular 4 seasons we get. We love to watch thunder storms here where live in Northern Canada. I love watching Simon's videos during storms
As a consumate viewer of The Casual Criminalist and Decoding The Unknown, I'm all for this crossover of the two. Speaking of, I have a suggestion for a video that will fit nicely here and on CC. Kevin, if you're reading and are interested in a heist script, let me know so I can suggest it to you.
3:20 Hey fellow writers, I hope Simon Whistler is going to give ve you guys a Christmas meal down in the basement. Maybe I should start a GoFundMe so he can get that KFC big box that he talked about from Japan and he'll be in such delirium from all that KFC that he'll set you free. Either way thank you all for entertaining me 4:53 making me laugh when I was sad and keeping the depression at Bay You guys are amazing writers keep up the good work❤ Happy Christmas 🎄
To be fair, anyone who follows him on all his channels, especially Brain (formerly Business) Blaze knows he hates fantasy and everything to do with the fantasy genre. So a LoZ reference will fly over his head, and his writers ALL know this, and thus maximize fantasy references for the lols.
@@propakindustries22 I have a feeling you're less fun, if you think not knowing a specific game reference is an appropriate gage of someone's personality. I can make a bunch of video game and movie references that you're unlikely to get, because different people like different things.
I saw this a while ago on Facebook and my mom said it was weird ... yet we tossed gramps ashes over a cliff on a natural materials wreath. 😂 (In advance, yes. We checked all legal requirements for materials including the compostable ash bag. The most illegal thing was it being state park land.)
3:10 - Chapter 1 - Dawn of the 1st day, 72h remain 3:25 - Mid roll ads 4:35 - Back to the video 18:45 - Chapter 2 - Dawn of the 2nd day, 48h remain 27:25 - Chapter 3 - Dawn of the final day, 24h of pain 33:15 - Chapter 4 - The investigation 56:45 - Chapter 5 - The theories 1:05:00 - Chapter 6 - 1 final twist
I'm sure someone's already explained the whole "twin cities" thing, but there are lots of cities in the US (and probably other countries) that are separates by a river and/or state border but are basically the same city. People be settling along rivers, then governments be using those rivers as borders. Some examples that are well-known to me, a lifelong midwesterner, are Fargo ND and Moorhead MN, Duluth MN and Superior WI, St. Paul and Minneapolis MN, Omaha NE and Council Bluffs IA, and many, many more. These cities are literally right next to each other and are sometimes referred to interchangeably.
Around 54:00 there is a question about what a "Carriage Return" is. Programmers know it until today because the Windows line breaks are often written as (return) (new line). It is also known as ASCII CRLF (13+10, 0x0D0A, Carriage Return + Line Feed). So the first sign puts the input place back to the leftmost position and the next sign moves it a line down. I do love the little "bing" typewriters made, when you reached the rightmost sign space.
Right?! I'm all for constructive criticism, but maybe the writer of that email could dial it down just a smidge. 😅 I though *I* got crazy hate mail, but that was more savage than most of mine.
Ah, I have a real world example of that whole murder thing. My aunt's sister and husband were murdered riding their bicycles back from an event, and after a few weeks they caught the guy that did it. He admitted to doing it, he didn't know them at all, and he claims he had no specific reason to do it. It feels so appalling, a truly random double murder, and there's just no reason. It's awful and boring simultaneously.
My great uncle was murdered in California in the 70s. Pretty sure it was a random robbery at a bar. He was so far away from his family it almost went unnoticed. I can’t even find any information on it, they just knew he died and pretty sure they got the guy.
That’s awful. To me it sounds like he was ashamed of the motive he had. Perhaps seeing a happy couple enjoying their life and being angry and jealous when seeing that kind of thing. Incel rage type of thing.
@@AtomicMama42 I think they were trying to squeeze every last penny out of an old building before it had to be torn down. There was a tropical storm at the time, and the whole 6 story building with me on top would move side to side all night. Did I forget to mention cockroaches?! I chose to walk up 6 flights of stairs rather than risking the elevator... I bet they are waiting for it to fall over, and make insurance build them a new one! If today me saw this place we would not get past check in. Nope. No way. But to be honest the whole point was to go and get drunk all night, this was Myrtle Beach. LOL!
Funerals are expensive because it's a non-elastic market: even if you know you're being overcharged you generally pay the money anyway. Because it's the last thing we can do for someone we love. The entire industry is controlled by investment groups. It is absolutely ghoulish.
A friend of mine is a funeral director and she’s so fed up with it. It’s also only like 5 companies that own 90% of funeral homes, big corporations that fix prices high. Mom and pop shops can charge less kinda - but they have higher overhead so it isn’t much cheaper. Many go into the field to help people (like my friend did) and quickly the money hungry people who got into it because it’s a good market take over.
Hi Simon. Love your channels.. I saw you were having problems with your tablet? There are metal frames to sit your tablet/Ipad on that are adjustable. I have one myself, and it really helps with sore muscles. I hope this helps. Once again, I love your channels. I learn so much every time.
I stayed at a really expensive hotel a few weeks ago with my husband - it was a gift from his Boss last Christmas and we’d only just got around to using it. It’s in Wales and the Welsh Rugby Team stay there as their home base when the international’s are on. Anyway we were staying in one of their downstairs suites that overlooks the golf course and had its own terrace etc. We were given our keycards and vague directions and sent on our way (we only had a small pull-along suitcase and carry-on bag) with no porter. It took us AGES to find the bloody room 😂😂😂 ! The suites are a separate section that you go downstairs and underneath reception to get too - it’s VERY weird. Don’t get me wrong it was beautiful but getting to it after a couple of bottles of wine at the evening meal proved just as complex as the first time - my husband and I were laughing loudly down the corridors trying to find ANYTHING that stood out, I kept leading us in the wrong direction, it was funny but ridiculous 😂😂 I would definitely recommend it if you’re ever in Wales, especially if the weather is nice and you can make use of the private terrace - we however stayed there in gale force winds and sleet as it was the beginning of December !! It’s called The Vale Resort and the suites are lovely, as is the food at The Grill Restaurant.
I feel like the first clue as to the guys identity should have been his complaint about the cost of the room. Nobody from LA is going to complain about Missouri prices. The cost of living has always been starkly different.
Simon Please please PLEASE could you epic blaze a selection of the most mental emails. I was in stitches hearing your incel correspondence, and I'm guessing theres a lot more where that came from
One of the reasons so many people came to identify the body is likely how many men walked away from their lives and families during the Depression. There were many who disappeared when they could no longer find work and provide for their families, and sadly many who left and committed suicide. Life was cheap and times were hard.
Now this is the type of true crime that I like, mystery, intrigue, and isn't a 2 hour long story about all the messed up stuff a serial killer did, I wish we got more stuff like this in The Casual Criminalist
This is one of the weirder mysteries currently out there, I’ve heard a numbers of presentations of it but it’s interesting to hear a new take on it. Besides Kevin sending up Simon. Well done to all.
As for Simons question about weird stuff going on at hotels around the 18 min mark of the video I have to say to although I never personally worked at a hotel I did deliver pizza to many different hotels and I've seen alot of interesting things but for me the most curious thing I found was how many ppl would open the door butt naked and not always with a towel for cover. Come on your expecting a delivery put something on jeez lol
Native Kansas Citian here. The President is still here, but it's definitely considered one of the nicer ones now since Hilton took over. Also, fun fact: The Hotel President was featured in Brüno. My manager at the restaurant I work in at the time was also a manager there and wound up in the movie.
Idk. I feel like the American hotels are on an arc relative to breakfast. Too cheap of a hotel, and it's a toast bar. Too expensive of a hotel, and breakfast is a separate expense.
I highly doubt you known any more...someone who knew more might consider the possibility that hes simply put in a position where he can be seen by millions of more people than the average person and therefore can be seen appearing to forget things more often than any normal person.
@@jackthurman2642 He's criticized several authoritarian countries now that very might detain him if he ever has stopovers there and I think this was one of those videos where he shares something naughty he does at airports in a tangent.
@@dreadnaught2406he said he doesn’t say when he has liquids, which is really on airport security. In Honduras the security people confiscated my big box of crayons because it came with a tiny crayon sharpener built in. And I didn’t not announce it or remove it from my bag, they just found it
As someone who’s worked as a hotel front desk agent at multiple hotels, depending on the layout someone can very easily sneak in. In one hotel I worked at we had stairwells on both ends of the hotel, one of the doors was broken and the keycard lock didn’t work so anyone could get in and have access to all floors of the hotel. That hotel was horribly managed so more than half of our security cameras didn’t work. One night some kids had snuck in through that door and made it up to the second floor. They finally walked past one of the working cameras and I saw them. Let’s just say I definitely made some complaints to management about the security issues🤦♀️
I’m from KC and there was a hotel by Bannister Mall (rip) that everyone knew had bad security, so it was pretty normal to get drunk and break into their pool several times a week 😬
To be fair this was also a different time. There was the stairwell I mentioned, but this was back when elevators still had people working full time as operators
Ty for the discount code simon was thinking of buying one of these for some time and when i can support the best youtube creator at the same time its a given!
The show you are referencing is 48 Hours. A show where people dissappear and its based on the idea that if 48 hours pass before a missing person is found, the chances of finding them alive diminish significantly.
There's another show called "The First 48" where the main idea is that if law enforcement can't identify major clues/get their hands on a suspect/possibly solve a murder or other violent crime, within the first 48 hours after the crime occurs, the chances of ever doing so become much less likely. Both shows are excellent, IMO.
im pretty sure that was the one i was actually refering to..... now that i think about it, 48 hour was a drama wasnt it. the whole jack bauer thing? I was referring to the law enforcement one. Thanks for the correction!@@ladyrazorsharp
New to your channel, but I love the info you give. I am from MO, but was born in KC, KS…you can get turned around and end up in KS easily. I have heard of this case, but the fantastic details you gave! The mob was BIG in KC (there’s a famous story of a shootout with police, when members tried to take their prisoner)…stayed in a hotel in which they had blown up and framed. My guess has always mob-related, somehow. I doubt we will ever know. Thanks for your stories, humor, and solid research!
France has some of the best ‘cheap’ hotels in Europe. You can get a room AND BREAKFAST for around 100€ a night and although the rooms are small they’re always extremely clean and comfortable. They’re usually an Ibis etc and people actually look down on them, but for an overnight stay on your way to the South they’re perfect and the breakfast is always fresh with plenty of coffee, tea and fresh juice.
Simon, $100 a night hotels in the west are super basic. But in Thailand, $100 a night can get you a 600 sqft resort suite with a Jacuzzi tub big enough for 8 people, your own private pool, and only 5 minutes walk from the beach. Just so you know 😂
my sister was staying in a hostel for the equivalent of like $4, it was just a big, hot room with a bunch of college aged ppl... she then realized that if she doubled that, shed get her _own_ closet-sized room _and_ an AC! for abt $8!!
$150 where I live gets you a worker hotel lol $150 I Thailand got me The Grand Fourwings Hotel in Bangkok (literal 5 star hotel). Nicest hotel I've ever stayed in, I even have stayed in a Canadian 5 star (Fairmont Palliser) and the Thai one was MUCH nicer.
Um if I got an email like that, I would promptly take it to the police. Who writes like that??? Geez Simon, sorry to hear that. Stay safe. Your followers are here for you and we’ll gang up on those haters for you.
Kansas City is two incorporated cities because it straddles the border between the states of Kansas and Missouri. At the border you can literally be in two states at once if you have a foot in each state. Although Four Corners has this beat with the ability to be in four states (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah) at once. I did this when I visited the Four Corners Monument as a kid.
1:07:03 I love how people can talk about how they would get away with murder, you would think it would get you put on a list somewhere, but it's just fun to contemplate how you might do better at not getting caught than other killers who did get caught. IDK why its fun, its almost like a puzzle, like it's very hard to beat the police, much like its hard to complete a rubix cube and we want to figure out how to solve it.
Simon, your first tangent of the day is exactly on point. The idea is that right now, technology and medical science are moving so fast that life lengthening technology will reach a state where advancements are happening faster than it would take for you to age the amount of time they are extending your life by.
Lmao I've been watching a lot of Casual Criminalist lately and through the introduction I forgot this was Decoding the Unknown until Simon said something about it.
No no, if he turns out to be a murderer, just keep a close eye on him. I'm willing to risk the occasional death (of another person) to keep hearing Kevin's scripts. Maybe his murderous history is why he's so good at this! He has inside knowledge!
My fearless 4yo always gets very suddenly scared when it’s time to go to bed. She’s not afraid of the dark, mind you…she doesn’t like transitions. Anyways, I got a cheaper version of that Galaxy projector, and I am very much regretting it now that I’ve heard this ad read. So you can best believe that I will be returning to this video in the future, if for no other reason than to make sure I go to the right shop and use the right code. I mean, I’ll probably come back to this video anyways because Kevin’s scripts are always that entertaining, but anyways…you were talking about a hotel, Simon? 5:05
Keep in mind how you worded that question to the AI. You need to set additional parameters, such as how many holes total are used on each card. They may have decided they want six holes used on each card. Or 5, or 8, or go halfway up to 16. That will limit the number of combos. Furthermore, the order of numbers doesn't matter. Meaning a card punched for 23451 and 51234 will read the same in a punch card reader. Slots 1,2,3,4, and 5 are read either way. That also severely limits the number of available combinations. Or, you could just do 1's and 0's and start numbering sequentially in binary. (I wouldn't recommend that though.)
The hard thing to understand about this case is why the victim didn’t speak up to finger his killer or to save his own life. He was somehow complicit in his own death.
If the mafia was involved they could’ve threatened him that if he speaks up they would target his surviving families. Or if the murderer was connected to his lover(s) he might not want to get them in trouble.
Here I am enjoying the mystery and then get reminded of my age because I learned to type on a manual typewriter and got really good at pick and peck typing.
Simon, the buried and turned into a tree is only creepy when the tree some day expels your skull. And if you don't want to have to worry about those burial arrangements, then make sure to take care of it yourself rather than leaving it to your children to deal with.
I couldnt ever imagine Simon honestly threatening to beat the shit out of somebody now that ive seen it i can now see Simon kicking the shit out of someone who just tried to jump him and end up embarrassing the shit out of themself
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A hole or not a hole is two options.
Two possible places that may or may not have a hole is 4 options.
3 -> 8 possible combinations
32 -> 4294967296 possible but some wouldn't get used so Billions is right.
The distance between Bratislava and Vienna is actually only 55 km, so basically in Dungeon & Dragons units that would be around 34 miles.
To be fair, the mafia was and still is big in Kansas City (both sides). KC was practically started by the mafia and is a great spot since it's right in the middle of the country.
I've been checked into rooms that weren't ready
Simon of the past: "People severely underestimate the effects of exponential growth"
Simon of today: Severely underestimates the effects of exponential growth
He somehow didn't realize that it was exponential
That's why business blazes got rebranded lol
XD which is probably most of us, sooner or later. I know I've done it
Simon is people confirmed
Simon sits down and somehow loses his brain machine
Oh fantastic, TH-cam deleted my comment again. Just wanted to say this was a really fun episode to write, and Simon's reaction to the fake twist in the middle of the script was absolutely priceless. I'm also surprised he didn't pick up that the keycard would be 2^32 which is a huge number, because I know Simon understands how insane exponential growth is.
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No! You’ve viewed the video and are now part of the statistical murder pool! what have you done!? Fact boy needs his writers!
One of the best scripts ever Kevin! (Funny too) "And then he opened his eyes!" 😂😂😂
@@captain_red_beard4202Glad you enjoyed! Simon's reaction to that was incredible
On mobile anyway, half your original comment is still right under the description. Funky.
The fact that Charlie was so coy about the description of the "commercial woman" and the two "visiting" makes it abundantly clear that people weren't more innocent or censored themselves more than us. We've just forgotten all of the euphemisms they used.
Exactly! My uncle for years would rant about how young people nowadays have no respect for marriage, have kids outside of wedlock, etc, and that back in his day it was never like that. Turns out our great-aunt who 'had a stumble on some stairs' actually 'had a baby while on a different continent to her husband and gave it up for adoption'
“Pay everyone fairly” that’s not the keeping-Danny-locked-in-the-basement capitalist we all know and love
Well, paying them fairly isn't the same as letting them leave the basement.
They get paid in Magic Spoon.
I was going to say the same thing about magic spoon 😂 no need for Danny to have vessis
@@geofff.3343I mean... Magic spoon & the vitamin green shakes for nutrition and a foreo to keep the not-sun-kissed skin from aging prematurely + a projector so he can pretend he's outside? Seems pretty fair payment to me.
Everyone else should pay their workers fairly. But Danny isn't a worker. Danny is [information redacted]
Here’s the math on that locking mechanism in the beginning for you Simon:
Each of the 32 positions can be holes or not holes (2 possibilities), all independent from each other.
For the first one, there are 2 possible combinations (hole or not hole). With 2 positions, it rises to 4 possible combinations. With 3 positions, it rises to 8 possible combinations.
Each added position raises the number of possible combinations by a power of 2. So the total number of possible combinations with 32 positions is 2^32.
Or just under 4.3 billion. You’re welcome have a nice day!
I just came here to comment this! Hi fellow math geeks. 😊
My immediate thought was "32 bits -- yeah, that's a few billion." 🤣
Facts for the factboi
However, if this is a paper or plastic card that drops into a slot, then it could potentially be reversed horizontally or vertically, making some combinations redundant. Who is big brain enough to figure that one out? (Not me.)
omg thanks, I was confused by the maths and this explains it perfectly :)
RE: Cryogenics
Simon, its not that we cant unfreeze people, thats actually really easy, just let them sit at room temp for a few hours.
The problem with cryogenics is that we dont know how to freeze people without also killing them in the process.
I can't believe that Simon didn't mention the people who were frozen in the Star Trek: TNG episode “The Neutral Zone”!
And to preserve the organs once thawed and to be functioning again after a trip in the freezer and not turn to mush..
Actually that is the problem.
We can't unfreeze people, only corpses.
Ask a Mortician did an episode about this. The biggest problem is the continued funding of the storage facility.
@@pioneercynthia1 Very true. Theres no guarantee that the place will still be there when and if we do figure out how to make it all work. You might have ended up as Soylent Cola by then.
I have not laughed as hard as I have in quite a while than when Simon read out that hate email
Can we have a "Simon reads the most insane emails he got" please?
Oh yes! I loved watching him laugh at ridiculous email 😂
I was thinking Simon reads his insane emails and also Simon argues with ChatGPT.
Yeah, that be so fun! But then again. There’s that chatBot.
😂 Please, Simon. Please 🙏
Oh, that would be good.
As a former hotel night manager, can confirm: there is some weird shit going down in hotels all the time. You're doing good if the man naked in the room is actually the one who owns the room 😫
Used to work the desk at two separate places. Man, people get weird when they've been drinking (Them: "we *hic* visited all sixteen wineries!" Me: I can tell...). Had one hotel fill up at a college graduation and just before my shift ended a large family group all came to check in...except one room had been cancelled because the rest of the family said the couple in that room couldn't come. When the couple tried to check in of course the room was taken. They called their graduate, the graduate called the hotel and went on an absolutely vicious rant that left me in tears. The hotel manager called the cops to get the family to settle down and I went home and had a stiff drink. Next day I found out that the family had been hoping the couple with the cancelled room wouldn't show up due to a family feud. I quit a few weeks later!
Yep... ive witness child trafficking too many times to count and called authorities EVERY TIME and not once did they do anything... Ive worked every job a hotel offers and ive worked at numerous different companies and nothing tops a popular but unamed hotel chain, specifically the one in downtown DC... 100s of kids are trafficked thru that building a day and the cops show up and say "oh yeah, we asked her and she said she was 19 so everything's fine" when the girl is OBVIOUSLY 5... in no world would anyone believe that child was 19.... ugh... sorry for the trauma dump 😅 I've lived too long with the atrocities I've seen 🥺😞
@@ladyrazorsharpoh I know. I night cap as a bartender and have for 16 years. Alcohol does vile things to humans...
Me too! There are crazies everywhere, but they seem to love to check-in, and then things really got crazy!!!
@@nomdeplume2213 Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence, bub. You'd better deliver or I'm calling BS
I have to wonder if the phone was cointinually off the receiver, because Roland was trying to call for help and kept passing out.
Also, pauper's graves in the US aren't necessarily mass graves. The only one I know of offhand is the one on the island off of NYC. People don't usually die all at once, so the Jane and John Does are buried in a plot with a number marker, so they know where to look for them if someone comes forward to claim the body.
LA and San Francisco both also have mass graves. I want to say Detroit had one at some point but no longer uses it due to declining population.
@@KS-PNWwell the Bay Area & LA each have like 8 million residents so it's not that hard to fathom that they'd need mass graves at some point (as morbid as that sounds)
Idea for new channel:
Reaction Videos of the Writers watching Simon read their scripts. 😹💜
This needs more upvotes!!
#spinoff #wouldwatch
Ive worked at both of the hotels in this story. I always felt the mob must be involved. A handful of the hotels built during the time had mobs involved in their construction. Several have pillars that they used to inflate cement pricing. The president has those pillars. Plus KC police was taken over by the mob to the extent that the state eventually took over control of our police department. KCMO to this day does not have control of our own police department. The only city in America where this is the case.
Another fun fact that Ive never heard come up in retellings of the story, no one knows which room this would be now. The hotel wad vacant for a long time and almost torn down before it was purchased by the current owners. They renovated the rooms and took it down to about half of the original rooms so they would be big enough to accommodate modern travelers. Id never heard he asked for a courtyard view. That does narrow down the possibilities a lot.
I used to work Banquets at the President. Ive also never heard the courtyard view story either. But yeah the rooms before renovation were tiny, and not worth what we charged for them. That Ballroom though. I still want to get married there, but i am broke. HA Also lets not get started on the issues of the KCPD, theyve had issues the entire time and it has never stopped
The story that makes the most sense is exactly what the caller to the morgue said. Ronald was a cheat, his travelling buddy got mad and killed him. Maybe Ronald was cheating on his buddy's sister or friend, and that wraps the whole story up perfectly.
I literally walked into the hotel today to ask if room 1046 could be rented and the concierge said that room doesn’t exist any more 😭 I felt like an idiot. oh well. now I can be an idiot again and make the little commute over to the cemetery to hunt for his grave. he died on my birthday.
@@supermexicanroboninja3116 but what kind of cheat.
Was he cheating in a relationship? Was he cheating at gambling? Was he cheating the mob? Was he cheating money out of people? A combination of those?
@@HappyBeezerStudiosmy guess is he cheated the mob. They don’t take cheats very well, it can drastically lower your life expectancy.
Best part of the video is when Simon looked up the combination answer and proved himself wrong
Simon's description of what to do with the shard of glass got so complex it reminded me of the scene from The Emperor's New Groove where Yzma described what she wanted to do with Cuzco, ending with smashing the package with a hammer.
The Majora's Mask reference was top tier, its a shame Simon didnt get it.
Part of the joke all his writers play is that he will NEVER get a reference related to anything fantasy related. Or Anime.
@@Varizen87 he didn’t get Mean Girls either which is expected 😂
Yes, as expected 😂 all zelda fans cried
Most of us got it and enjoyed his confusion XD
I got instant anxiety when I heard him read that out, and heard the horrible cackling of the mask salesman in my head.
I want to hear more about Kevin's cat...
Great job as always, y'all! Keep up the great work!
Her name is Clementine, and she is Garfield levels of fat and lazy. My old cat would murder anything and anyone, but I think Clem has only ever caught one mouse
Kevin writing in a Majora's Mask reference in the titles and Simon thinking it is from a TV show is exactly the kind of stuff I love in these episodes. It's funny cause isn't Kevin older than Simon? Either way, a true man of culture, that Kevin lad is.
12:05 The reason the combination count is that big is because each hole has 2 possibilities, and you get the total # of combinations by multiplying the number of possibilities for each hole with each other. So multiplying 2 together 32 times (i.e. 2^32) gives you that 4b figure.
It's literally an exponential function.
I believe he thought it was 32^2
as a Stargate fan and them always harping on about how many addresses there are it should be easy for Simon to get.
@@JcGross93sadly the term "exponential" has had such an inflationary use over the last decade or so, people actually have no grasp whatsoever what it even implies
I can already hear myself screaming programmer noises when I heard him
4:01 Omg this is the first time I've ever seen Simon's kids! They're absolutely adorable!!!
A mystery from my hometown! Sweet! Thank for the great story Kevin.
Your kids are adorable and so excited about the fun lamp. Happy Holidays!
Agreed as a fellow KC native! Fantastic video. Also, I thought it was funny that Simon compared the two kansas cities to cities that are 100 miles apart!
For non-KC readers, there is a street called State Line Rd. and ... the State line runs down it. Go north on that street and you are in KC,MO. Go south and you are in KC,KS. The two cities are literally separated by a street median.
@@maggiesnow7745 thanks for clearing that up. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
You're welcome!
East of State Line Rd is Missouri, west of State Line Rd is Kansas. Kansas is west of Missouri.
As a community college mathematics instructor, this one really hurt. 2 to the power of 32… one of the simplest questions in elementary probability. I was so relieved when he asked Chat GPT. Now I can laugh at it. But it really turned into a great lesson.
I don't think it's as simple as saying 2 32nd power but that'll get you close because if you have 1 and 2 on while the rest are off that's another 32 combinations but when you move down the line starting with 2 on well we already did 1 so that only 31 combinations then 3 on and 1 other one would give us 29 more unique combinations because we already did 1 and 2 on with the rest off.
Maybe I'm wrong and it's possible as you get to the higher ons vs off combinations they might over power the on vs off repeats
@@spaceninja1252it literally is 2 to the power 32. Not an extra 32.
This video just made my night, sitting here with no power, candles going, charging my phone with a power bank lol. Totally changed my mood. We have a huge storm in the US where I live and the whole state is blackout pretty much lol
Hope you're doing well and they're able to get the power up again soon
Its been storming so much the past 24 hours at my house and my friend 15 min away hasn't had power all day but luckily I do haha
Glad you enjoyed!
@@briannam3140This might’ve gone over my head. But it would be really funny if OP commenter is your friend without power and you’re just here styling on him
I wish we had thunder storms here all year long instead of the regular 4 seasons we get. We love to watch thunder storms here where live in Northern Canada. I love watching Simon's videos during storms
6:55 the struggle of feeling bad for trying to be nice, failing, and wondering wtf to do next time haunts my autistic ass constantly
As a consumate viewer of The Casual Criminalist and Decoding The Unknown, I'm all for this crossover of the two.
Speaking of, I have a suggestion for a video that will fit nicely here and on CC. Kevin, if you're reading and are interested in a heist script, let me know so I can suggest it to you.
Gardner Museum heist.
@ThatWriterKevin
@@--enyo-- That is indeed my suggestion
Over 4 hours of Simon today! 😊
Just came over from the Casual Criminalist to watch this new video!
That’s what she said
3:20 Hey fellow writers,
I hope Simon Whistler is going to give ve you guys a Christmas meal down in the basement. Maybe I should start a GoFundMe so he can get that KFC big box that he talked about from Japan and he'll be in such delirium from all that KFC that he'll set you free. Either way thank you all for entertaining me 4:53 making me laugh when I was sad and keeping the depression at Bay You guys are amazing writers keep up the good work❤ Happy Christmas 🎄
Simon is a real deku scrub for not getting the 72, 48, 24 hour references.
To be fair, anyone who follows him on all his channels, especially Brain (formerly Business) Blaze knows he hates fantasy and everything to do with the fantasy genre. So a LoZ reference will fly over his head, and his writers ALL know this, and thus maximize fantasy references for the lols.
I bet Simon is fun at parties
@@propakindustries22 he does like science fiction so I wouldn’t entirely write him off. When his kids get a bit older, he might change some.
Hard agree. I'm not biased at all, though.
@@propakindustries22 I have a feeling you're less fun, if you think not knowing a specific game reference is an appropriate gage of someone's personality. I can make a bunch of video game and movie references that you're unlikely to get, because different people like different things.
I am absolutely on board with the tree idea. That’s what I want. To continue to live by supporting and supplementing more life. ❤️
I want to be composted!
I saw this a while ago on Facebook and my mom said it was weird ... yet we tossed gramps ashes over a cliff on a natural materials wreath. 😂
(In advance, yes. We checked all legal requirements for materials including the compostable ash bag. The most illegal thing was it being state park land.)
Same! I’ve already written into my will that I want to be cremated and put into a cardboard box with a lilac bush (my favorite) planted over me.
What a great episode! It really was like a crossover with Casual Criminalist!
Until I read your comment, I thought it was casual criminalist. I immediately forgot which channel he said this was lol
3:10 - Chapter 1 - Dawn of the 1st day, 72h remain
3:25 - Mid roll ads
4:35 - Back to the video
18:45 - Chapter 2 - Dawn of the 2nd day, 48h remain
27:25 - Chapter 3 - Dawn of the final day, 24h of pain
33:15 - Chapter 4 - The investigation
56:45 - Chapter 5 - The theories
1:05:00 - Chapter 6 - 1 final twist
I'm just starting the episode. Does Simon ever figure out the script was done in the style of Majora's Mask?
@@deadcard13,,k,,k,,k,,😅😅😅😅
I'm sure someone's already explained the whole "twin cities" thing, but there are lots of cities in the US (and probably other countries) that are separates by a river and/or state border but are basically the same city. People be settling along rivers, then governments be using those rivers as borders. Some examples that are well-known to me, a lifelong midwesterner, are Fargo ND and Moorhead MN, Duluth MN and Superior WI, St. Paul and Minneapolis MN, Omaha NE and Council Bluffs IA, and many, many more. These cities are literally right next to each other and are sometimes referred to interchangeably.
Sioux City is mostly in Iowa, but north Sioux City is South Dakota and South Sioux City is Nebraska.
Memphis and West Memphis and Texarkana come to mind
Around 54:00 there is a question about what a "Carriage Return" is. Programmers know it until today because the Windows line breaks are often written as
(return)
(new line). It is also known as ASCII CRLF (13+10, 0x0D0A, Carriage Return + Line Feed). So the first sign puts the input place back to the leftmost position and the next sign moves it a line down. I do love the little "bing" typewriters made, when you reached the rightmost sign space.
51:04 - Simon is funny and very good at what he does. He's sometimes a little smug, condescending etc.. but WOW! that email was all the way at 11!
Right?! I'm all for constructive criticism, but maybe the writer of that email could dial it down just a smidge. 😅 I though *I* got crazy hate mail, but that was more savage than most of mine.
I mean, it's an incel. What else to expect.
Incels aren't exactly known for their emotional stability
Ah, I have a real world example of that whole murder thing. My aunt's sister and husband were murdered riding their bicycles back from an event, and after a few weeks they caught the guy that did it. He admitted to doing it, he didn't know them at all, and he claims he had no specific reason to do it. It feels so appalling, a truly random double murder, and there's just no reason. It's awful and boring simultaneously.
My great uncle was murdered in California in the 70s. Pretty sure it was a random robbery at a bar. He was so far away from his family it almost went unnoticed. I can’t even find any information on it, they just knew he died and pretty sure they got the guy.
That’s awful. To me it sounds like he was ashamed of the motive he had. Perhaps seeing a happy couple enjoying their life and being angry and jealous when seeing that kind of thing. Incel rage type of thing.
@@Steph-sk3xbit could be, but there's also just some sociopathy psychos out there who just want to take a life (or 2) to see what it feels like
Simon telling that dude from the email that he would beat his ass… virgin 😂😂😂😂. That is my new favorite thing ever
I got a room for $26 at the beach during summer a few years ago...and I also learned why you should spend at least 3 digits per night.
Only place you should be able to spend $30 for a night in a hotel now adays is Thailand
@@AtomicMama42 I think they were trying to squeeze every last penny out of an old building before it had to be torn down. There was a tropical storm at the time, and the whole 6 story building with me on top would move side to side all night. Did I forget to mention cockroaches?! I chose to walk up 6 flights of stairs rather than risking the elevator...
I bet they are waiting for it to fall over, and make insurance build them a new one!
If today me saw this place we would not get past check in. Nope. No way. But to be honest the whole point was to go and get drunk all night, this was Myrtle Beach. LOL!
@ryanroberts1104 where I live we've had those types of hotels, just they usually end up the homes of the local tweakers lol
No one wants to hear these details about your homosexual experiences in cheap hotels.
@@DiamondCake2 Wow, you've got some deep issues.
Props for the Majora's Mask shout out Kevin!
Gotta love when the video starts with an existential crisis, thanks for bringing me back to earth Simon, happy holidays! 🥲❤️🎉
Funerals are expensive because it's a non-elastic market: even if you know you're being overcharged you generally pay the money anyway. Because it's the last thing we can do for someone we love. The entire industry is controlled by investment groups. It is absolutely ghoulish.
I see what u did there...(ghoulish lol) can't spell funeral without "fun"
A friend of mine is a funeral director and she’s so fed up with it. It’s also only like 5 companies that own 90% of funeral homes, big corporations that fix prices high. Mom and pop shops can charge less kinda - but they have higher overhead so it isn’t much cheaper.
Many go into the field to help people (like my friend did) and quickly the money hungry people who got into it because it’s a good market take over.
1:12- I'm 24 and I am ready to die now. Having my life extended by technology sounds like a nightmare.
Despite popular acclaim, your 20's suck.
Yet, oddly still alive.
you only say that because it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the negative things in our life. keep goin
Hi Simon. Love your channels..
I saw you were having problems with your tablet?
There are metal frames to sit your tablet/Ipad on that are adjustable. I have one myself, and it really helps with sore muscles. I hope this helps. Once again, I love your channels. I learn so much every time.
Oh and a Happy Bday to Kevin my bday bud and quite the fun and one of the skilled writers of this channel and more. 🎉
Thanks!
I think Kevin has become my favorite writer for this channel. Lol
Why thank you! This is the channel I started out on 2 years ago writing like every internet mystery ever. I also did the JFK and MLK episodes
@@ThatWriterKevin No one derails Simon with fits of laughter like you do. It's great content!
@@ThatWriterKevinplease do RFK!
I stayed at a really expensive hotel a few weeks ago with my husband - it was a gift from his Boss last Christmas and we’d only just got around to using it. It’s in Wales and the Welsh Rugby Team stay there as their home base when the international’s are on. Anyway we were staying in one of their downstairs suites that overlooks the golf course and had its own terrace etc. We were given our keycards and vague directions and sent on our way (we only had a small pull-along suitcase and carry-on bag) with no porter. It took us AGES to find the bloody room 😂😂😂 ! The suites are a separate section that you go downstairs and underneath reception to get too - it’s VERY weird. Don’t get me wrong it was beautiful but getting to it after a couple of bottles of wine at the evening meal proved just as complex as the first time - my husband and I were laughing loudly down the corridors trying to find ANYTHING that stood out, I kept leading us in the wrong direction, it was funny but ridiculous 😂😂 I would definitely recommend it if you’re ever in Wales, especially if the weather is nice and you can make use of the private terrace - we however stayed there in gale force winds and sleet as it was the beginning of December !! It’s called The Vale Resort and the suites are lovely, as is the food at The Grill Restaurant.
I feel like the first clue as to the guys identity should have been his complaint about the cost of the room. Nobody from LA is going to complain about Missouri prices. The cost of living has always been starkly different.
Simon Please please PLEASE could you epic blaze a selection of the most mental emails. I was in stitches hearing your incel correspondence, and I'm guessing theres a lot more where that came from
Only problem is that is could encourage people to write crazy emails with the hope of their chance at five second of fame.
@@--enyo-- and would our capitalist fact boys heart beat with vigour on that day, for he would have parts 2-10 sorted and can make all the MONAY!
One of the reasons so many people came to identify the body is likely how many men walked away from their lives and families during the Depression. There were many who disappeared when they could no longer find work and provide for their families, and sadly many who left and committed suicide. Life was cheap and times were hard.
This was the most in-depth, detailed, and thorough account of this story. I give it a 10/10 and my complements to the author.
Simon, the number of key combinations is basically an unsigned 32-bit integer. If it couldn't count very high, your computer wouldn't work very well.
Now this is the type of true crime that I like, mystery, intrigue, and isn't a 2 hour long story about all the messed up stuff a serial killer did, I wish we got more stuff like this in The Casual Criminalist
To beat the awkward tip situation, I always ask "are you allowed to take tips" first.
Neat. Lets them decline without making an offer.
True it’s always safe to ask
I ask it at kissing booths 👌
@@DontBeSilencedByMedia what an odd comment to make...
@@wingerding "are you allowed to take tips?"
the 'tip' in this instance being a part of my anatomy
This is one of the weirder mysteries currently out there, I’ve heard a numbers of presentations of it but it’s interesting to hear a new take on it. Besides Kevin sending up Simon. Well done to all.
As for Simons question about weird stuff going on at hotels around the 18 min mark of the video I have to say to although I never personally worked at a hotel I did deliver pizza to many different hotels and I've seen alot of interesting things but for me the most curious thing I found was how many ppl would open the door butt naked and not always with a towel for cover. Come on your expecting a delivery put something on jeez lol
Native Kansas Citian here. The President is still here, but it's definitely considered one of the nicer ones now since Hilton took over.
Also, fun fact: The Hotel President was featured in Brüno. My manager at the restaurant I work in at the time was also a manager there and wound up in the movie.
It's weird that, here in the US, the more expensive the hotel, the less likely it is to have a free breakfast.
Lmà😂
More expensive hotels are also less likely to have free wi-fi, in my experience. I agree it's very weird!
Idk. I feel like the American hotels are on an arc relative to breakfast. Too cheap of a hotel, and it's a toast bar. Too expensive of a hotel, and breakfast is a separate expense.
Simon has been to the wrong hotel!
Because they assume you can afford your own damn breakfast.Anyone who isn't a peasant,prefers to spend more money.
"Commercial woman", "vacuum demonstration". I gotta remember those. 😂
I never get tired of learning so much from Simon's videos, while being aware that Simon himself knows very little
I highly doubt you known any more...someone who knew more might consider the possibility that hes simply put in a position where he can be seen by millions of more people than the average person and therefore can be seen appearing to forget things more often than any normal person.
Simon: What is an Automatic Carriage Return?
Me: God, I'm old!
I'm younger than Simon and I know what it is 😂
What is it?
@@KS-PNW it's the equivalent of the Enter Key on a modern keyboard, but for a typewriter
@@kentwobits oh that makes a lot of sense. I was thinking carriage was British for car or something.
Thanks
This one really is a decoding the unknown since I've never heard of this one
The more I learn about Simon the more I realize how much of a flight risk he is.
In what way is he a flight risk?
@@jackthurman2642 He's criticized several authoritarian countries now that very might detain him if he ever has stopovers there and I think this was one of those videos where he shares something naughty he does at airports in a tangent.
Remember: Somebody who can hijack a plane with nailclippers can hijack a plane without nailclippers
@@dreadnaught2406he said he doesn’t say when he has liquids, which is really on airport security. In Honduras the security people confiscated my big box of crayons because it came with a tiny crayon sharpener built in. And I didn’t not announce it or remove it from my bag, they just found it
As someone who’s worked as a hotel front desk agent at multiple hotels, depending on the layout someone can very easily sneak in. In one hotel I worked at we had stairwells on both ends of the hotel, one of the doors was broken and the keycard lock didn’t work so anyone could get in and have access to all floors of the hotel. That hotel was horribly managed so more than half of our security cameras didn’t work. One night some kids had snuck in through that door and made it up to the second floor. They finally walked past one of the working cameras and I saw them. Let’s just say I definitely made some complaints to management about the security issues🤦♀️
My son & daughter-in-law worked in a hotel and their stories about some of the shit they saw were wild. Humans are just f’ing crazy.
I’m from KC and there was a hotel by Bannister Mall (rip) that everyone knew had bad security, so it was pretty normal to get drunk and break into their pool several times a week 😬
To be fair this was also a different time. There was the stairwell I mentioned, but this was back when elevators still had people working full time as operators
Exactly!!! And this was the good old 1930s. A totally different world.
Thank you for all the wonderfully in-depth instructions on how to discard a murder weapon. Much appreciated, very useful
It was clearly Professor Plum in the Bedroom with the Candlestick.
Ty for the discount code simon was thinking of buying one of these for some time and when i can support the best youtube creator at the same time its a given!
Simon: the situation with Kansas city is very much like the situation with the cities Buda and Pest (now generally referred to as Budapest)
That B roll was so sweet! My heart!
Even the KGB would of had a hard time labeling this a suicide.
I've seen a few of your other channels and i love this more casual script read lol it's great
The show you are referencing is 48 Hours. A show where people dissappear and its based on the idea that if 48 hours pass before a missing person is found, the chances of finding them alive diminish significantly.
They've met with a terrible fate, haven't they?
in most cases. i was a primetime tv show after all@@Nesseight
There's another show called "The First 48" where the main idea is that if law enforcement can't identify major clues/get their hands on a suspect/possibly solve a murder or other violent crime, within the first 48 hours after the crime occurs, the chances of ever doing so become much less likely. Both shows are excellent, IMO.
im pretty sure that was the one i was actually refering to..... now that i think about it, 48 hour was a drama wasnt it. the whole jack bauer thing? I was referring to the law enforcement one. Thanks for the correction!@@ladyrazorsharp
The actual reference is to Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
New to your channel, but I love the info you give. I am from MO, but was born in KC, KS…you can get turned around and end up in KS easily. I have heard of this case, but the fantastic details you gave! The mob was BIG in KC (there’s a famous story of a shootout with police, when members tried to take their prisoner)…stayed in a hotel in which they had blown up and framed. My guess has always mob-related, somehow. I doubt we will ever know. Thanks for your stories, humor, and solid research!
France has some of the best ‘cheap’ hotels in Europe. You can get a room AND BREAKFAST for around 100€ a night and although the rooms are small they’re always extremely clean and comfortable. They’re usually an Ibis etc and people actually look down on them, but for an overnight stay on your way to the South they’re perfect and the breakfast is always fresh with plenty of coffee, tea and fresh juice.
Love this channel and every other channel Simon has. It's him. He's hilarious!
Simon, $100 a night hotels in the west are super basic. But in Thailand, $100 a night can get you a 600 sqft resort suite with a Jacuzzi tub big enough for 8 people, your own private pool, and only 5 minutes walk from the beach. Just so you know 😂
my sister was staying in a hostel for the equivalent of like $4, it was just a big, hot room with a bunch of college aged ppl... she then realized that if she doubled that, shed get her _own_ closet-sized room _and_ an AC! for abt $8!!
$150 where I live gets you a worker hotel lol $150 I Thailand got me The Grand Fourwings Hotel in Bangkok (literal 5 star hotel). Nicest hotel I've ever stayed in, I even have stayed in a Canadian 5 star (Fairmont Palliser) and the Thai one was MUCH nicer.
$50/night got us a 3 star hotel with a pool access room (I love Phuket)
@@AtomicMama42 pool access rooms are cool, but nothing beats having your own private pool lol
I haven’t seen American Beauty but I have seen the poster and Simon and I had that realisation at the same time
Watch it
Oh, hey. I was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. I've never heard this story but it's very interesting. I am intrigued by mysterious murders.
Um if I got an email like that, I would promptly take it to the police. Who writes like that??? Geez Simon, sorry to hear that. Stay safe. Your followers are here for you and we’ll gang up on those haters for you.
Simon calling him a virgin is very very funny though
Lol you care a lot more than Simon then
What’s your email?
Love that can-can music, in the background ! Takes me back ! Seena few shitty hotel rooms !
I bet my cats would LOVE that galaxy lamp...
If you buy one for them, they will make a point of ignoring it.
@@kensmith5694 That's actually very possible...
I was thinking the same thing that my cats would like it.
Pretty happy to get a bonus CasCrim episode! Odd to find it over here though.
Kansas City is two incorporated cities because it straddles the border between the states of Kansas and Missouri. At the border you can literally be in two states at once if you have a foot in each state. Although Four Corners has this beat with the ability to be in four states (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah) at once. I did this when I visited the Four Corners Monument as a kid.
Thank you Kevin this one was especially fun to watch
Kevin's sense of humour is spot on, dry and dark
1:07:03 I love how people can talk about how they would get away with murder, you would think it would get you put on a list somewhere, but it's just fun to contemplate how you might do better at not getting caught than other killers who did get caught. IDK why its fun, its almost like a puzzle, like it's very hard to beat the police, much like its hard to complete a rubix cube and we want to figure out how to solve it.
"Speak for yourself Sir, I plan to live forever" -William The Legend Riker
"Dying? My dear, that's the last thing I plan to do." - Groucho Marx.
Simon, your first tangent of the day is exactly on point. The idea is that right now, technology and medical science are moving so fast that life lengthening technology will reach a state where advancements are happening faster than it would take for you to age the amount of time they are extending your life by.
Lmao I've been watching a lot of Casual Criminalist lately and through the introduction I forgot this was Decoding the Unknown until Simon said something about it.
I loved this episode!!! As always, great writing 👌 It defiantly has some CC vibe to it. Hope everyone is well ✌
Imagine making yourself a tree, and in 20 years the tree falls over and your skeleton pops out to greet the fam 😅
Another fantastic job, Kevin. Happy Holidays from Louisiana xo
Oh hell yeah, new DTI is the best part of any day 😎
What a delightful episode for the holiday season! Great job, DTU crew
Kevin is an absolute master at this… never fire him fact boy.
Unless he turns out to be a murderer or something then obviously fire him.
No no, if he turns out to be a murderer, just keep a close eye on him. I'm willing to risk the occasional death (of another person) to keep hearing Kevin's scripts. Maybe his murderous history is why he's so good at this! He has inside knowledge!
@@AubreyWilkinsWursten lol
My fearless 4yo always gets very suddenly scared when it’s time to go to bed. She’s not afraid of the dark, mind you…she doesn’t like transitions. Anyways, I got a cheaper version of that Galaxy projector, and I am very much regretting it now that I’ve heard this ad read. So you can best believe that I will be returning to this video in the future, if for no other reason than to make sure I go to the right shop and use the right code. I mean, I’ll probably come back to this video anyways because Kevin’s scripts are always that entertaining, but anyways…you were talking about a hotel, Simon? 5:05
Simon trusts ChatGPT way too much (though it was right this time)
Keep in mind how you worded that question to the AI. You need to set additional parameters, such as how many holes total are used on each card. They may have decided they want six holes used on each card. Or 5, or 8, or go halfway up to 16. That will limit the number of combos. Furthermore, the order of numbers doesn't matter. Meaning a card punched for 23451 and 51234 will read the same in a punch card reader. Slots 1,2,3,4, and 5 are read either way. That also severely limits the number of available combinations. Or, you could just do 1's and 0's and start numbering sequentially in binary. (I wouldn't recommend that though.)
The hard thing to understand about this case is why the victim didn’t speak up to finger his killer or to save his own life. He was somehow complicit in his own death.
If the mafia was involved they could’ve threatened him that if he speaks up they would target his surviving families. Or if the murderer was connected to his lover(s) he might not want to get them in trouble.
Here I am enjoying the mystery and then get reminded of my age because I learned to type on a manual typewriter and got really good at pick and peck typing.
Simon, the buried and turned into a tree is only creepy when the tree some day expels your skull. And if you don't want to have to worry about those burial arrangements, then make sure to take care of it yourself rather than leaving it to your children to deal with.
I couldnt ever imagine Simon honestly threatening to beat the shit out of somebody now that ive seen it i can now see Simon kicking the shit out of someone who just tried to jump him and end up embarrassing the shit out of themself