Hi, it's Saturday. It's the Saturday show, the old best of the week, best of the vault,

and other interviews Mike has done elsewhere. So this might technically bend the rules about when we

did the interview. It was a week ago. The topic, Ethan Strauss and I, discussed essentially the

death of sports writing, the death of one type of sport writing, which is the gamer.

That's the recap of the game that just occurred.

The thinking is, you don't need the written form of this.

But as Ethan and I discussed, as a training ground, the gamer is invaluable.

And also as a piece of art and as a piece of

journalism. Let's not even call it art. Let's call it as a piece of craft. The gamer, when done

right, delivers great joy. So enjoy this. This was a longer substack live. Ethan and I often talk

on his show. We haven't done a live,

I think, ever before. And so it's a good way to do a chat where we also solicit some audience

interactions. And how we do it is when it is live. You could always join in live. And that's at

Mike pesca.com. It's also at his

house of Strauss. And then we post them for paying subscribers to Mike pesca.com. Enjoy.

I'm Mike Peska. I'm joined by Ethan Strauss, who has been up for eight hours.

Now, you may be thinking, well, does he live in Belgium, Kuala Lumpur? No, the man lives in California, and he likes to rise and grind at 4 a.m. I have some questions. I also have some questions about

sports journalism, the construction of the craft, and also what we're reporting on in the world of

sports journalism. Ethan, I'd like to welcome myself to your substack live. I think that technically

might be what we're doing. I do think that might be

technically what we're doing. And I rise and grind, Mike, because our topic is how the sports

writing industry has died. This is part of my pivot. I'm an influencer. I'm going to be making

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