Tony Reali

Mental health, physical, like a toll on your mental health, toll on your sanity, toll on your expectation of privacy, toll on your physical body, for sure, because you're sitting a lot.

Obviously, you can change that if you want to, but many people just like they sit in front of the computer, myself included.

uh yeah toll on your relationships but ultimately on the other side of it everyone will say what are you talking about you're just describing like a regular job that sucks in the exact same way and you make not even a fraction of what you are able to make as a top twitch streamer and they're right um i think the real privilege that i have on the other hand doesn't even come from the the finances it comes from the freedom

because I've worked with someone else.

I worked for someone else in the past, and I've worked for myself.

And I know the the

incredible freedom that you have when you set your own time when you even know in the back of your mind that you don't have to work that day like that is infinitely more preferable to to working for someone the reason that i'm smiling about that is because when i left espn i thought i was embarking on freedom and then didn't see the number of restrictions that would come with freedom and what you're describing

Yeah, you're absolutely right about that, but I really like the prison and it's doubly bad.

It's doubly bad because I'm a committed believer in the things that I speak about.

Because like if I was just grifting, that would be probably a lot easier to just be like, I love I love the cloud.

I love the money.

I'm just going to stop tomorrow.

But because on top of and I certainly don't hate the cloud or the money, make no mistake.

But because I also I'm like, this is something that matters.

I feel like I stopped doing this and.

you know, hundreds of thousands of people that normally tune into my broadcast on and at any point in the day to, like, figure out what's going on in the world are going to be like, Oh, what the hell?

I just don't have NPR today.

You know what I mean?

I don't have I don't have The New York Times, The Daily today.

And I see that as like something that is important.