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Hello media consumers, Brian Curtis and David Schumaker of the Ringer here. We got a lot of great

stuff to get to today. We'll talk about the slow death of beloved indie bookstores during the

coronavirus. We'll talk about the latest round of COVID media hell. The cuts and furloughs now

reaching writers like SB nation Spencer Hall plus David guesses a strain pun headline in the

overworked Twitter joke of the week. But David, let's begin here. I'm not sure if you've read any

articles on the wringer about this, but there was a Michael Jordan documentary on ESPN last.

Yes, I'm aware, dimly aware. It's called the last dance, the first two of 10 parts aired on

the network last night creating a mother load of Twitter content. Let's listen to one clip from

episode one. I am Chris this mentality of competitiveness competition.

It's an addiction.

Every day was a battle. Dad is getting up in. Boom. I don't hear it. See Dennis for 48 hours.

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