What is up, everybody, and welcome in to the DNBR Nuggets podcast, present as always by

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I'm flying solo as your host today, but I'm joined by who is one of,

if not my single favorite writer on the interwebs covering the NBA. Certainly somebody that writes

the most interesting topics, right about the most interesting topics, including today,

writing about mental health in a way that I just thought was absolutely fascinating. We're probably

going to talk a little bit about that. We're going to talk a lot about Steph Curry, Nikola Yokic, RSNs, the media, all of this, all this stuff I think people find

interesting. We'll find out he is, of course, Ethan Strauss. Ethan, thanks so much for joining me.

Thanks for having me. I don't know. I don't know if I cover the NBA, but I'll take all of the compliments. I cover something.

Something.

I'm doing something over there on substack.

Doing something well.

So yeah, a success story of independent media here, you know, leaving, obviously left ESPN

several years ago, left the athletic and then went out on your own.

And it's a big success story here doing substack.

And in a lot of ways, what's interesting about you, you've always written, I think,

good angles, but by your own admission, you're unshackled now, having to write for what

maybe bosses want you to write about. You're diving into controversy, and it's funny,

I say controversy, you're just writing into topics that are hard to write about when you

write for an establishment. Yeah, that's the thing. And what's funny about it, something I've

learned because I thought, oh my God, people are going to be so angry at me when I started this

and they're going to lash out. I think it happens in the public forum of Twitter to a degree,

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