Consumption of violence, sanctioned violence within the gridiron. I am worried the biggest growing sport in the country is soccer, what all the kids are playing today, not football. Make the distinction that steve made between sub concuss of hits and accumulation of neurological harm is clearly higher in football. If you just look at diagnosed concussions the rate is about the same in football and soccer. But that is why soccer with helmets, you get your head hit more than you would guess. I should add that people often ask me, what if your son wanted to play football . Response would be, if he wants to play pickup football, even tackle football, i did that, got a concussion. Had my shoulder dislocated. Would not stop in print doing that. I do not think that you put kids in giant michelin man outfits. They have to incur risk. That is a part of growing up, managing risk. Kids cannot be protected from that, but it is a Huge Industry, this Huge Industry that has grown up around this beaut
Words, with guest host, author nomi prins. This week this American Life contributor jake halpern and his latest book, bad paper. It tells the story of a former Bank Executive and a former bank robber going into business together to collect unpaid bank debts by often questionable means. The program is about an hour. Host hi and welcome. Im nomi prins here today with jake halpern, the author of the fascinating and horrifying new book, bad paper chasing debt from wall street to the underworld. Jake, welcome. Guest thanks for having me. Host thank you. This book is incredible, and so is your story. And i think the two really mirror each other. This takes place in buffalo, new york, a lot of it. And youre from there, arent you . Guest yeah, thats right. I grew up there. My tad and his wife my dad and his wife still live there, and its how i find my way into this world. Host you talk about a particular and many unsavory characters that are scrabbling to make their own peace with the world an
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They realize, and they have no idea exactly where their debt has been. In this particular story in my book, i talked to these consumers, and they dont their debt, theres two women whose stories i follow, and they pay someone that calls them that has all the information that would give me or you confidence; Social Security number, address, you open the account, okay, well pay this. Or the Credit Report like youre saying. They start making calls, who did i pay . Well, they paid the guy that stole this debt. And what happens, and this goes back to my book, as the banker that bought this debt for pennies on the dollar, he starts getting calls from these collectors saying, hey, these debtors that were talking to are saying they paid someone else. Somehow this debt has been stolen at which point the banker, whos one of main characters in the book, calls his associate and says youve got to put a stop to this. So he does his detective work, gets a bunch of excons with guns, drives down to buff