Even with total wealth redistribution and a basic income stipend, I’d still work 80-100 hours a week because I can’t help myself.
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I think actually merging the real physical stuff I did for decades (and the research I did in grad school) into the coverage I produce now created some added value in a lane that is still mostly empty of other people who can generate that content
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Other people do the wrestling stuff and it's good, but it's the stuff on strength and embodiment and so on I've done that is still somewhat novel given how Sam Fussell wrote one book and then called it and there's just not much else
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And I was better at pumping iron and wrestling than, say, Loic Wacquant was at boxing because I had a hell of head start. So that's a unique sort of value add, and gives my work an interesting retrospective feel
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what a book that was. "And in the final arena there will be no judges...only witnesses to my greatness."
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And alone in its field for 20 years, a true oddity that was supposedly becoming a showtime show but thank goodness it didn't because I'd read too many bad takes on it
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