[applause] >> next, eric greitens talks about joining the navy seals after doing humanitarian work and earning a ph.d. from oxford university. it is about an hour. >> good afternoon everybody. and if you read the book, then i'm the guy that -- when the bomb went off so that is my claim to fame. [laughter] but the only reason i came here was because i wanted to get a free autographed copy of the book. that is what i came for because they promised me they would give me one. actually you know, i was lucky enough to serve with eric over in fallujah area and a lot of other great people one of whom i will mention here in a minute and i know eric's biography and some of you have read the jacket of the book. you know eric is smart. he is a rhodes scholar and goes to ask her and gets his ph.d. and then becomes a navy s.e.a.l. and only published one book already with his humanitarian work so most of us are just hanging out looking for the next party that eric has gone over the world to help people so pretty incredible. so way smarter than me. way better looking than me. [laughter] all that good

book and the guy who really has a great message both in his foundation and everything he writes, eric greitens. [applause] >> first of all good evening. thank you all for coming out tonight. i've been looking forward to this for a long time and i'm especially honored dead joel came out to talk to me. joel thank you very much. thank you very very much for being here. [applause] jill and i, where joel came the other day is ever since bin laden was killed navy s.e.a.l.s have been in the news quite a bit, and the other day i was in spokane washington and somebody asked if i would do an interview for a newspaper in spokane about what it means to be a navy s.e.a.l.. so, i went out and i talked to a reporter and i woke up the next day and i was excited to see that they had written a little story and on the bottom it said, navy s.e.a.l.s says the rule requires humility as well as strength. well that is nice. that is a nice little headline about what it means to be a navy s.e.a.l.. that i noticed that story was right underneath a story about a wild that had been shot dead in the street. [laughter] and