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or request it from your local library, and follow us at Death Panel underscore. So today, I'm here with my co-host, Phil Rocco. Hey. And we are joined by returning guests and friend of the panel, Tim Faust, to talk about a recent piece that he wrote about health care and the social determinants of indie wrestling for Defector.

Tim is a writer and fellow single payer polemic and the author of the fantastic book,

Health Justice Now.

Tim, welcome back to the show.

It is so good to have you back on.

It's been a six-year-long relationship.

It's so nice to be back.

It's, you know, honestly, one of our very

first episodes of the show was with Phil and one of our very early episodes of the show was with

you. And it's nice to be able to, like, have the three of us all on one episode together,

finally, because you and Phil have never actually been on an episode together. So I feel like

this is going to be really fun.

So as I mentioned at the top, we're going to talk about the piece that Tim wrote last month for Defector,

which was called, in American indie wrestling, bodies are cheap and health care is not,

which is not just a fascinating story about labor conditions for indie wrestlers and how they're fucked over by our

extractive model of American health finance.

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