{"id":10021,"date":"2014-07-15T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T13:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/?p=10021"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:41:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:41:36","slug":"remember-phil-chalmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2014\/07\/15\/remember-phil-chalmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember Phil Chalmers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Public Speaker Phil Chalmers talks to Bowie Junior High seventh-graders about the consequences of bullying, Feb. 2, 2012, at the school in Odessa, Texas. Heather Leiphart\/Odessa American\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

I used to debate Big Phil<\/a> at the National Youth Workers Convention, at least until the year that a member of his posse started shouting at me and grabbed a chair like he was going to throw it. I don\u2019t think Phil got asked back after that.<\/p>\n

Well, now Phil is the self-purported \u201cleading expert on school shootings,\u201d although he lacks any formal training\u2026in anything. Self-promotion, however, is still in his wheelhouse, as Newsweek reports<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Chalmers also says he is in talks with a \u201cmajor television network\u201d about producing an\u00a0Intervention<\/em>-style reality show. He would introduce would-be killers\u2014those who meet his criteria for homicidal risk\u2014to incarcerated teen killers. The prisoners would then talk some sense into the troubled, but not yet homicidal, kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tentative title is\u00a0The Teen Killer Whisperer<\/em>,\u201d Chalmers says. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of funny.\u201d\u00a0(Chalmers asked that the network not be named, and a representative for the network did not comment at press time.) \u201cWe\u2019re also pitching a book right now called\u00a0See Spot Die<\/em>,\u201d he continues. \u201cIt\u2019s on the connection between animal cruelty and homicide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chalmers says his work has helped law enforcement avert many crimes, though he did not specify how many cases he was directly involved in. Without explaining how he gets the number, he says, \u201cWe\u2019ve stopped over 200 school massacres since Columbine. Probably more.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s more in the article, including a quote from YFB. If this causes any PTSD to youth workers out there, my apologies. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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