Maddy Myers

And that drives me and the work that I do.

And Jason, I don't know if you feel this way, but I feel like that's the most fun part of any extended reporting project or book in this case, is getting to talk to people and learn about something I didn't already know about.

Yeah.

Um, and hopefully I'll get to say what it is eventually, but for now I'll just say I'm working on it and I'm excited to work on something like this.

Sure.

I, I will, I can describe a book concept I had that I didn't sell, uh, which was that

A few years ago, I really wanted to write about the intersection of Twitch streaming and cam girls and how there's like a pretty straight line between those two forms of work and how we owe a lot of how we see personas online to like very early Internet sex work.

And I think that's really fascinating.

And I still think that's really fascinating.

It's like a linchpin of the way the Internet works now is that we're all performers and

And, uh, I think the, the rise of only fans has made that really clear.

And like, that's something about internet culture and also games and playing games and, you know, the hot tub met on Twitch, all that stuff that I, I still think is really interesting.

And, and like anything else would involve me talking to a lot of people about something that I don't do and that I don't know a lot about, but which I think is really interesting.

But yeah, anything I write, it's gonna, it's gonna have something to do with games.

It's like,

One of my favorite topics to think about and talk about.

So there's no real surprise there.

No, I'll check it out.

Is that the premise of it?

Oh, that's amazing.