welcome everybody to watch from the hog and tap at the wall as glenn jacobs began his time in the spotlight as one of the most internationally famous professional wrestler ever known as eighteen his big bold and stoic take on pro no prisoners style is still legendary in the ring so when he announced his run for mayor of notts county tennessee recently and made the watching the hochstein take notice not because he was a wrestler but because he had retired from wrestling and instead of sitting by the pool he started an insurance business he became active a member of his community and decided to step up for that community by running for office recently tyrrell and i spoke with glen jacobs about the future and importance of government on a local and state level with the federal government in such turmoil. glad it's a pleasure having you on the show congratulations on running for mayor of knox county i have to because a successful entertainer known the world over now you are throwing your hat into the political arena not that myself would know anything about you know they're having a successful

knoxville what are those major issues that are really facing knox county today and how how is glenn jacobs going to help solve. well as you said knox county has a population of about four hundred fifty thousand people it's the third largest county in the state of tennessee of the budget is not quite eight hundred million dollars so it is a pretty significant size. i think as with all municipalities one of the things the challenges that we face is how are we going to compete in the twenty first century global economy because the economy worldwide is more competitive than we've ever seen it at this point. is doing very well we have a very good fiscal footing it's a great place to live i think that would for me would be one of the big questions as well as when we look at education. and how we're going to prepare our kids to enter the workforce and i think that our current education system stresses college but what about the kids that don't want to enter college what about the kids that want to go and get a skilled trade out of. high school or perhaps be prepared to go to community college to

with former internationally renowned wrestler and mayoral candidate for knox county tennessee glenn jacobs you don't want to miss it absolutely not thank you so much tabitha thanks that all right and that does it for now for more of the stories we've covered that you tube dot com slash our to america and check out our website the art class america you can follow me on twitter at the top this week's question . i'm joe marvin and i will give you what the mainstream media chants the big picture . and wouldn't question more on what you're looking to see. who go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. all the world just you know the news companies merely players but what kind of parties are in t. america party america offered more r t america first lead in many ways you claim it is just like you believe really big names good actors bad actors and in the end you could never hear all. the barking all the world all the world all the world's a stage we are definitely a player. i don't identify as a liberal and i don't identify as a conservative i identify as just a meek in