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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. Good afternoon. Im susan [inaudible] on behalf of our owners and our entire staff, id like to welcome you to politics prose. Just a reminder to, please, turn off or silence your cell phones. Also during our question and answer session, if you could step up to this mic right here, wed appreciate it because were recording this event. And you can leave your chairs, as we have a couple more events this afternoon. If you havent been to the store before, please, pick up one or our events calendars and take a look at all we have going on here including classes. Weve got three International Trips this fall, we have [inaudible] next month, so lots going on. Im excited to introduce steve almond and Gregg Easterbrook this afternoon to discuss two books on the remarkablytimely subject of football reform. Im not sure we could have picked a better moment to have this discussion gi
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Elected officials. There are now something over 1000 young elected officials who are holding offices as mayors and three of them are in the congress of the United States now. Its doing very well. And next steve almond author of against football and Gregg Easterbrook the author of the king of sportss. Thanks for coming out. Its a beautiful day. We can all agree together we would rather be outside. Thank you for being inside for a little bit. Im going to read just a little bit from the preface of this book which is called i wasnt out cold but i was out and it has two setup of the book is about. It begins with the fact that i have a clipping on my wall for many years which is a game story thats about a game between the new England Patriots in the Miami Dolphins and theres a player named kevin faulk gets tackled and after the game is asked about the tackle because he is motionless on the ground for quite sometime. Quote i wasnt out cold but i was out said faulk. Asked if he remembered goin