You can find any book youre looking for and support independent book sellers across the country. With that out of the way, lets get started. Youll probably recognize the voices of both of our guests tonight but our host is laura ziegler, a national npr reporter covering the midwest. Currently shes producer and Community Engagement reporter as kansas city affiliate kcur. Laura, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Youre welcome. Good to be here. And im jumping in now, i guess. Im delighted to be here and introduced you to pam fessler, who is an awardwinning journalist at npr. Shes covered poverty and election issues, voter issues for many years. Now in the tradition of npr journalists who you recognize as excellent storytellers, podcasts and online, shes proven the ability to translate that ability to tell stories on the radio, to the platform of the printed word and, of course, a book. Her new book car villes fear, leprosy, stigma and fight for justice. Im delighted to have the
Hosted the program and provided the video. Interviewing ms. Fessler is Laura Zeigler Community Reporter and producer with kcur radio in kansas city. Director of marketing at the Kansas City Public Library. My job, take care of housekeeping items before i hand it over to the two women smarter and more capable than i am. Any questions put them in the comments q a or chat box. If you hope to purchase the book, i hope you will, available through most major retailers and the Kansas City Public Library refer you are to bookshop. Org. Find any book and support authors across the country. With that out of the way, lets get started. Youll probably recognize voices of both of ourest go esest gues tonight. Host, Laura Zeigler, with npr washington, d. C. And covering the midwest and currently producer and commune engagement reporter at kansas citys npr and kcur. Laura, thank you for joining us tonight. Youre welcome, and good to be here. And jumping in now, i guess. [ laughter ] im delighted to be
verne: every precaution being taken now. verne: o brien has been placed on the stretcher on his verne: jalen reeves-maybin, cameron sutton on the sideline. gary: it s good right there. we re seeing him wiggle his fingers. a lot of time the medical staff is assuring him we re doing don t panic. we re doing this for your own good to make sure. he may be saying i feel fine, i feel fine. they re saying time take our time. we re going to do it the proper way. verne: you see in the background his teammates on a knee. on this side of the field, the the field. gary: again, the replay, he was spinning off a block, turning and the ballcarrier ran into him. he didn t initiate the hit. let s watch. he takes on the double team like he s supposed to, he feels the ball inside, goes down low but so does the ballcarrier, at the verne: just a murmur through gary: when the game does resume this is the toughest part. you ve got to go out there and rely on your instincts
verne: every precaution being verne: o brien has been placed on the stretcher on his verne: jalen reeves-maybin, cameron sutton on the sideline. gary: it s good right there. we re seeing him wiggle his fingers. a lot of time the medical staff is assuring him this in a precautionary way. don t panic. we re doing this for your own good to make sure. he may be saying i feel fine, i feel fine. they re saying time take our time. we re going to do it the proper way. verne: you see in the background his teammates on a knee. on this side of the field, the posture both on the bench and on the field. gary: again, the replay, he was spinning off a block, turning and the ballcarrier ran into him. he didn t initiate the hit. let s watch. he takes on the double team like he s supposed to, he feels the ball inside, goes down low but so does same time. verne: just a murmur through gary: when the game does resume this is the toughest part. you ve got to go out there a
gary: they call it with eight seconds to go. verne: the snapper is going to be christian robertson out of grapevine, texas. the holder mclean. the foot belongs to daniel lacamera. gary: they ll probably try to freeze him. he s got two left. verne: butch called it. referee: time out, tennessee. their second. this will be a 30-second time out. ncis: new orleans followed by a new edition of 48 hours tonight, only cbs. josh dobbs has assumed a prayerful posture. all he s done is throw for 394, rushed for 52 and caught a touchdown pass. one of these teams is going remain undefeated. this is only the seventh time that two top-10 teams have played at kyle field. the last aggie win in one of these was in 1975 when they defeated texas. eight seconds to go. gary: he did it again. burned another one. referee: time out, tennessee, this will be a 30-second time out. gary: tennessee football is fun to watch, isn t it? verne: we ve had them three weeks in a row and we