How To Survive Prison – Big Herc (Ep. 124)
Elite Man Podcast
Justin Stenstrom
4.2 • 700 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2017
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Big Herc, author, entrepreneur, and former federal penitentiary inmate turned motivational speaker, joins our show in this special episode of the Elite Man Podcast! Big Herc talks about what to do if you’re sent to jail and how to survive prison! He shares with us exactly what prison life is life, what to expect going in, what you absolutely need to know, whether or not you have to be big or physically tough, and what really goes on when the cell doors close behind you. If you’re wondering how you can survive being sent to jail or prison and exactly what you need to know, check this episode out now!
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In our episode we go over:
- What Big Herc did to get sent to prison for a 10-year sentence
- The major difference between county jail and federal prison and which is more dangerous
- What it’s like the very first day you’re sent to county jail
- What you should absolutely not do when you get there
- How to deal with someone blatantly disrespecting you or calling you out
- Whether or not an average-sized man or even a small guy can survive being sent to jail
- How to protect yourself if you are a smaller-sized man
- The many weapons that can be made out of virtually anything inside prison
- The type of mindset you need to survive in jail or prison
- How to not be intimidated by other inmates and how to act when you go out on the yard
- Why inmates are divided up by race in prison and what this means for you
- How to pass the time in prison
- How to get over your fears of being claustrophobic in a cell
- How many fights Big Herc was in while in prison and what he did when he was challenged by other inmates
- The relationship between the prison guards and the inmates
- What really gets snuck into prison (you will be shocked) and how it actually gets in
- What the food is like in prison
- Whether or not men actually get raped in prison and if it is as common as everyone thinks
- The work, schooling, and self-improvement that you can do in prison
- The craziest thing Big Herc saw while in prison
Check out Big Herc on:
Website: freshoutseries.com
YouTube : youtube.com/FRESHOUTSERIES
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| 0:26.4 | On today's episode, episode number 124, entitled, How to Survive Prison, I chat with a man by the name of Big Herk. Big Herk is an author, entrepreneur, |
| 0:41.4 | and former federal penitentiary inmate turned motivational speaker. Big Herk talks about what to do |
| 0:48.1 | if you're sent to jail and how to survive prison in today's episode. He shares with us exactly |
| 0:53.6 | what prison life is like, what to |
| 0:55.8 | expect going in, what you absolutely need to know about prison, whether or not you have to be |
| 1:01.2 | big or physically tough, and what really goes on when the cell doors close behind you. If you're |
| 1:07.7 | wondering how you can survive being sent to jail or prison, this episode is exactly |
| 1:13.2 | what you need to listen to. |
| 1:14.9 | And guys, just a couple quick announcements and updates I wanted to share with you. |
| 1:19.5 | Last week we had some problems with the Eliteman Magazine.com website. |
| 1:23.1 | We were going through an upgrade to a larger hosting account. So the site was periodically down, |
| 1:28.9 | but it is all set 100% fixed now. So no worries there. You can check out all the show notes |
| 1:34.1 | and everything else at Elitemanmagine.com. Also, a number of you emailed me along those lines |
| 1:40.3 | about having problems subscribing to the podcast because of the migration. So the feed that was |
| 1:47.4 | going into iTunes and a few of the other hosting platforms, Google Play, and I believe maybe Stitcher |
| 1:54.2 | were down for a few hours as well. And a couple of you had some issues with subscribing to the show. |
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