ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Tom Teicher spent twenty-two years inside the systems most people only argue about from a distance. Twelve years helping people find their footing after prison. A decade working on homelessness in Seattle. Then he did something unusual for a man with that resume: he turned his attention to the Constitution itself.
In this conversation, Bruce Anthony sits down with Tom Teicher to trace the whole arc, from a childhood where the world felt like his oyster to a career spent meeting people who never got that same head start. They get into what actually helps someone coming home from prison, why a full-time job still is not enough to keep a roof over your head, and how two decades of watching institutions fall short led Teicher to one provocative idea: a 28th Amendment that would call a constitutional convention roughly every forty years.
It is an idea that cuts both ways, and Bruce does not let it slide. If you can reopen the Constitution, you can reopen everything in it, including the protections that had to be fought for and won. What follows is an honest, no-flinching exchange about foundations, resilience, and what a country owes the people living inside it.
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Chapters:
00:00:00 22 years inside failing prisons and housing and a daring fix 🏛📜🔥
00:02:17 Meet Tom Teicher: 22 years on the front lines of the system 🧑🔒🏠
00:04:31 A Leave It to Beaver childhood and discovering another New York 🏡🚆🗽
00:10:12 Housing inspections to juvenile jail: seeing the system fail 🏚🔒📋
00:14:59 Tough love, poverty, and why so much crime tracks circumstance 👊💸⚖
00:21:59 Why reentry starts the day you enter prison, and resilience 🔓🥊💪
00:24:16 Support systems, stereotypes, and the quiet pull back to prison 🤝🔄🔒
00:27:34 Working and still homeless: what just get a job totally misses 💼🏠❓
00:32:03 Homeless veterans prove it works, and a safety net in silos 🎖🧩📉
00:39:22 The 28th Amendment explained: why the Constitution has to evolve 📜🔄🏛
00:42:27 The runaway convention fear and why a full reset every 40 years ⚠🌀⏳
00:48:06 Keeping dark money out of delegate picks and the 80 percent rule 💰🚫🗳
00:55:57 Ratification, majority rule, and why no state will sit this out ✍🗳🤝
00:58:06 The slippery slope: could a convention gut our current rights? ⚠📜🛑
00:59:39 People are dumb: can voters be trusted with the Constitution? 🧠📱❓
01:01:22 Responsibility for all, trusting the process, and the verdict 📰🧭🙌
01:08:45 People need a foundation, and the real question of what we owe 🧱🤝💭
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