right now in the lead i think iraq the bombings beatable in one hundred twelve. lead lead. we never got the shows neighborhood can to safely get ready because of the our freedoms. are still there even if they are. black and they alone assail they'll get the real headline from it none of them are the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and for what actually matters to those viewers and so that's why young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it but we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back in t.v. . you know some leisure suit a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then

a glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charged welcome to the big picture. little. leg. it's time for tonight's top time award and tonight

we're giving it to a state lawmaker with the idea i with aids and other elder and it introduced an amendment to the senate budget bill twenty three thirty six his amendment doesn't have much to do with the state budget in fact children's proposal targets for families and more importantly child support recipients who most likely are women now the men who would allow the pair the child support to require the parent who is receiving the support to submit to a drug test up to every six months so just let that sink in and a divorced parent out there paying out child support can take it to their acts by making them pay into a cup twice a year well guess who put the idea in sheldon's head proposed this ridiculous plan a constituent who is sick of paying child support this is the job of the legislature to listen to constituents to work on their behalf when a constituent calls up and says i have an issue i'd like to have some have it looked at dealt with it's our job to consider those as being legitimate concerns of

the citizen. and it's also lawmakers job to use common sense to terminate if a voter's idea is just downright crazy and it's really fantastic you know that one constituent can influence a lawmaker so much that he just takes his or her policy proposals based directly on personal experience and then send them straight out over the legislature they'd gone to some lawmakers during a discussion of this and that meant explain how absurd this would be if you don't know it in your opening statement you said you don't know if this is really a problem other than maybe the first talks you this is not the public policy we want to proceed with when we know that it will be used defiantly against one of the parents usually against the woman and it would cause that they're only to the woman but also to the family and to the children. yes this proposal would for the most

part target women who are receiving money from their exparel says that the court ruled they were entitled to and how shall we want to treat them like they're some sort of criminals but when you look closer turns out the sjogren's one of those republicans is all about drugs and seeing everybody that he sees being on the government dole or here i guess an ex husband or wife still in fact here's another proposal in the works would require welfare recipients to submit to random drug testing and we've seen legislation like that brought up in states like florida indiana and now possibly iowa and as we've spoken about many times on the show florida actually passed that law that drug tests of their welfare recipients and guess what it backfired in that state it turns out that only two percent of those who submitted to the drug tests actually came back positive ninety six percent of those on welfare came back clean and there was this other two percent they couldn't get results for so the link between drug use and welfare was shattered and a whole lot more state money aka taxpayer money was spent on doing all the drug

testing and yet now we have this i meant it which is just another attempt by republican lawmakers to try to criminalize people of basi is taking someone else's money even if it's a mother getting the government mandated child support to take care of her kids now thankfully voices of sanity and reason laughed at children's proposal for divorced parents forcing the states and there to kill that amendment but the question since when is accepting money make you a criminal think about it people on welfare are been automatically labeled as druggies even though there is overwhelming well evidence for florida for example to prove that stereotype isn't true there is not a shred of evidence that women receiving child support decided on by courts or druggies so why do laws like this one and i will keep popping out when he approaches some conservatives seems to be that if you're receiving money from the government from an ex-pat house your i'm trustworthy therefore you must be on drugs or you must be treated like some sort of criminal cuba they don't treat those on corporate welfare the same way so for trying to stigmatize those receiving money in

any form as drug. i was state senator in our children and sides to a time where. now we often talk about what's becoming or what becoming part of the largest known prison population in the world has done to millions of people in this country who are second class citizens for whom finding work amongst other things like housing education loans not to mention voting becomes nearly impossible but some ex cons of learn to use their experience behind bars to help others and in some cases to make money so called prison consultants help people facing jail time prepare for what lies ahead that includes prison etiquette how to deal with medical issues even learning the paperwork to make prison transfer and sentence reduction a possibility now this industry has been around for a while but according to recent reports the industry which is and regulated is growing and if you read a recent new york times feature the competition has led to rising tempers and flying accusations when it comes to credibility so let's speak to somebody who actually does it joining me to discuss is william the hall and owner of the real

prison consultant and author of prison etiquette the real guide and secret codes for living and surviving in prison we have thanks so much for joining us tonight and i guess for starters you know tell us a little bit about yourself in terms of how much time you had to serve what kind of facility you were it what gives you the the credibility because you do they will yourself as the number one prison consultant in the u.s. absolutely i have thirty years in the criminal justice system and i are actually searched more than one years in sark reasons from sheriffs and. high security persons and i believe that it is neither credentials to reprise its arms on their interviews i'm going to prison and not the standard bars some of these prison partly or mark america are going to miss garston they're going to get we're going to prison but overall do you think we're better equipped to prepare someone for going behind bars than say an attorney would be. absolutely there is some

government officials and other acts to get into this president's own and i believe that they're going to miss advise clients and they're going to get him for certain they're going to advise him on the wrong things on how to approach you know education in prison. you know anything any small thing like i said is out walking on a wet floor in the new york times article doesn't have to get you killed it's the wet floor belongs to that person or at that time is not in it so it's no one just to walk around the wall and not in any trouble it's really it's really simple but it's not the simple things that comes from doing so i'm. he gave us other examples i mean what are. what we go out across a wet floor and someone's lopping is wind but what are the really the big big key elements maybe the most important advice that you give to somebody is the key advice is this is this be yourself don't try to be hard work conquered just be

a regular guy and just do your time you know like a lot of guys who go to college they absolutely do great in prison because they don't get involved in politics they don't get involved in the drama i drink and do and all this i think are not just mostly going american assets will be drawn in and that will get you and me it will get you a better so that's what i understand you also do this you're doing it for free you're still on supervisory relief and so you just can't charge people yes what i'm trying to do in this time is i'm trying to build up my credentials and show people who have i know what i'm talking about i've been through this my book that i wrote was written on the inside i went to a lot of gangs a lot of groups i mean big names and speak neighborhoods and i went to them and we took all the sockets and we put them down in the book there used to be a long time ago in terre haute there was

a program put on by the prisoners and we used to do an orientation to teach people how to stay out there are not get injured not to kill this time now in this era the prison doesn't allow those type of orientations and that basically their orientation is what's in my book. i mean considering how large our present population is becoming in this country it sounds like really important work that you're doing because we know that prisons are a dangerous place but so the way the best feature in your ties make it seem as if there's a lot of. a lot of tension between you and some of your competition out there and some people like that you are doing this for free and are other people really trying to make big bucks absolutely i have a lot of people that are upset that i'm offering this information for free but i believe there's information that you can charge for. your base and everything that you know want but you'll keep websites state websites i'm not trying to sort of experiment i want to show those families that i am an honest person and i can show

them the someone i know how to operate and how to you know it's transport not charge a six hundred if that's all for free my thing is is to just watch t.v. in sardine spears or person as before they're going to not i don't want to get involved in the part where the lawyer is taking over i don't want to be involved in any other part except for parking or getting ready for prison and doing your time anything else is a free service for my website. now you know so you're saying that it's a free service but overall once let's say once you're off of your supervisor release and you could technically begin charging for this he said you're building up in your experience in this sense if you like he would be able to get a different job you know i is this easier for you than having to go fill out a resume somewhere and mark off on that application the jail time you served no ma'am this is very easy for me either because it's not my dream job i actually grown up. with my wife we don't want

a big. room in business we have all journalists and that's what i do when i do because as a part time because i'm really. what's the word for a passionate about this and i remember when i was younger i growing up with my parents had to learn all the ropes never going to get through this i want to offer it after three people and i want to offer just to certain clients that want to have those private moments. to have the opportunity to buy my book and and the rest. it's something that i'm dispassionate about and so i guess this last thing i want to find out you know have you noticed and outtake is this business booming or do you for the most part serve a certain clientele maybe people that actually have a little more time a little more money so that they can properly prepare. what is my business this and starts the next year or so i really don't know the statistics of the other person sultans. i run

a facebook site where i answer questions for free and figure out earlier mostly females that i answer questions for better really stressed out about their husbands doing time but i wouldn't really notice that there's except this moment i will have to check back in with you just see how it go and when you start the business when thanks so much for joining us tonight thank you for the invites of the show. taking a quick break away come back friday and i will have a heavy dose of happy hour you know holding hands. and one woman's weapon of choice at a bar with her desire to. see a story. is if you understand it and the. other part of it and realize that everything is all. part of the big.

mystery. well for the loner so you'll get the real headline not. the problem with the mainstream media today is that they're completely disconnected from the viewers and for what actually matters for those viewers and so that's like young people just don't watch t.v. anymore if they want news they go online and read it and we're trying to take those stories that people actually care about and transfer them back to t.v.

. or is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to the us. to tonight's fireside. this week yet another painful reminder for the priorities of our government and we spoke about it on yesterday's show a report by the inspector general's office for the troubled asset relief program it

revealed a program called the hardest hit fund that's the most part gone. out of more than seven billion dollars put into this initiative to provide relief for a troubled homeowners in the states is the hardest by the housing crisis hit the hardest by unemployment only three percent of those funds have been used by the end of two thousand and eleven that's more than two years since the program's inception and now while the treasury department trying to defend itself blamed it all the slow pace of government bureaucracy hypocrisy here is just too much to bear present too much bureaucracy to meet. at least have all of the funds available to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the banks and then with taxpayer money and yet when it's the taxpayers themselves that need the help the bureaucratic process suddenly comes to a halt again priorities and the truth is that it's just one small example and would become an entire culture of putting wall street and corporate interests first just think of how debates are shaped here in washington the president has consistently

been attacked by wall street as not being business friendly specifically to their business now this is despite the fact that there haven't been any criminal prosecutions on wall street for bringing down the economy despite the fact the new overburdensome regulations and the banks whine about are just a drop in the bucket when it comes to repairing our system and it's despite the fact of the president has surrounded himself with advisors including his treasury secretary who came directly from wall street so many new people to write it people like bill daley well he had a stint there jack lew they were brought in to smooth over relations with wall street and the business community you imagine if the same thing happened after the occupy movement began what if the president really felt that he needed to smooth over his relationship with average americans with the ninety nine percent and what if you were to bring in a real advisor with real fundamental systemic change in mind and the truth is we don't and we won't see that happening there are some initiatives that can be blamed

on inaction in congress jobs programs making the tax system more fair but even the hardest hit homeowners can't get help to years after a program was designed specifically to direct money their way because the treasury just doesn't really acted on it well hope seems ours and say it all the time on the show and i will say it again we cannot undervalue the media's role in this entire discussion the media has the ability to guide the discussion we see this all the time when scandals emerge the media jumps on it politicians the. we react because they feel the pressure and they get scared and we even saw it in the media finally caught on to the occupy movement suddenly the political rhetoric coming from the president shifted from the debt ceiling debate to the issues of inequality but the thing is you can't just give up and then let it go you can't bring it up and then forget about it and nothing's actually what our media does best they blow up a story they exhausted to the point where you can't even bear looking at the t.v.

screen anymore and then after a couple of days move on to the next one about power needs to be used to highlight where the priorities of the government lie to call out how ridiculous the idea of this is ministration being unfriendly to business and wall street is too late to talk about the housing crisis you want to ask why we haven't seen a real recovery then you can start there but the truth is it's very hard to find people working within the current power structure whose priorities don't lie in making money and keeping it business as usual the norm the news it's just a business washington is just the same and so americans who are struggling are last in line to get a meeting. ok it's finally time for happy hour and joining me to thieving artsy producer argin

web producer andrew blade and artsy producer andriano who throw. true friends happy friday yesterday where should we start i have a problem that none of us have. counseling. yet so basically this is existed at the banks for a long time they have had they have had counselors that help people try to figure out how to manage their wealth but apparently they've seen a special uptick in this since the financial crisis hit since now there's this kind of bitter angry attitude towards people that are part of the one percent. and. the thing that i find kind of funny is that first they have the people that come from really rich families they just call them legacy families you know want to deal with the rich label and then there's a thing called sudden wealth syndrome which they help some people deal with. maybe a person can. or recently like many athletes before him say that filed for

bankruptcy court documents show more than six point seven million dollars to creditors and in back child support. always good we bring that up because a lot of athletes end up suddenly you know having so much money when they get their own i'm going bankrupt i've done it right and they're done in terms of a sort of like seriously millions and you got to catch a ball all day once a week there's a guys are incredible athletes let's not talk about you know you want to or they know it's fine and. i don't know that does not sound like a huge problem for me or at least you know a problem i wish i had so i can't say obviously none of us are into wealth counseling or money more problems more money more problems. right there right there but what do you think of when you know one of the things from these peoples is that wealth is still a taboo in our culture and so they have to manage this no way no way is a taboo is

a goal is goal you want to be wealthier intercessors to have group well no he doesn't know much not so much. ok. guys friday we've got a whole bunch of fun topic story tonight including. let me hear it. so this is fake and we totally fell for it on the show because it's so believable and we realized it was fake and we decided we should still talk about it on the show because it was just so funny report's release said the research think tank showed that beards have a direct correlation to combat effectiveness i thought that was true i don't i mean it was years i was literally true because it is like this one that but i think we all feel that. we are. all for

friday night and talk about combat effectiveness that's how you feel every morning right after i was a kid rowlings. i know there was a goodly even though there is no truth today. people will look at you just think again like i must be a beast on about absolutely i want our treasure doing our muscle mass right now but i would want to show you up on your own t.v. show what is true. to the show right here i know but what is true is mustaches now that science are you close enough the man in p.r. i mean that just gives a certain gravitas to a man that's data storage up nor as you look at all the orders of the war and stash no it's a must not be chester molester i mean it's being i don't know where i wanted beards and i am always that. time choose. to write every friday. ok let's talk about i believe this bill

before in tennessee just one of many states right now that are doing stupid things across the country and so. basically they have. sex education law. to. the bill prohibits teachers on demonstrating. t.v. planned parenthood director of education to local pieces that would include health education models it makes it very clear that you can't promote contraception if an instructor goes beyond the curriculum the bill gives parents more legal rights stating quote the peer or legal guardian shall have a cause of action against the instructor or organization for actual damages. so these are crazy and ridiculous laws where suddenly now you can offer them and actually tell you it's a really safe but get this the tennessee senate just approved an update to the bill so in the new instructions yours was to tell your students that holding hands and

kissing can be considered gate with. cons hand-holding comes marriage. baby care and where a lot of hand-holding apparently. it was not the marijuana of sex with marijuana. i was a catholic school that is one hundred percent true obviously that's what i was taught any form of human contact goes directly at you know you i have a lot of sex usually before i have sex i hold hands so i will vouch for this as a sex person i'm a sex men. oh yeah but hand-holding sex men so that all these tennessee people know what. i wish i had a red button to push right now so you don't drop through a little hole big bad live but that's ok i'm sure you did a thing like this is a sex offender. i think you just yes you speechless congratulations

congratulations i see this hear him. bad boy got a lot of things ok. on you tube comments let's hear no one more story i mean this is really a get it's friday so it is forgiven for these stories but there was a massive beating that was done with an expensive designer shoe in the bay area take a look at this. this morning the search is on for this woman her alleged crime to read. it all happened at this bar in san francisco the mystery woman reportedly saw red punching a passer by after he accidently kicked one of her infamously pricey cribs and sold stilettos when medicare intervened she turned her heels. so that's really part of the story the people who was very good to see because she actually got her a christian moved on and then decided to smash they don't want to go with her

expensive movie and here you know what out a five hundred dollars reward for her name that's less than the shoe costs actually that's true yeah fair enough crap don't get between woman and her she has got a moral story but i don't know if they were basically would you risk taking off like three hundred dollars pair of loot on to hit this guy in the head with it or just say not worth and run away you know because i'm not not but i can see how about it up and so i mean one goes with the other guy i mean iowa is the living limit when they have he was limited to saying if exactly if i spent eight hundred dollars. thousand dollars on a pair of shoes maybe i would be if i would be inclined to use them as a weapon because obviously you know i'm nuts enough to spend the thousand dollars just on shoes and one pair of shoes very good probably i don't think it's all very the mean but i'm there you go get your little girl you know maybe the guy deserved it just ok guys i got to thank you for joining me have

a great weekend here rather but a night show thanks for tuning in and add make sure that you come back on monday one coal blogger and university of michigan compressor is going to be on the show in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of the lower show out of facebook and follow us on twitter if there is anything you never miss it's a cute dot com slash the longer show and coming up next it's nice. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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