Hey listeners, Marcel here.

Today we're dropping a bonus conversation into your feed featuring Adrian Angus,

a dear friend of mine who passed away unexpectedly in September.

Adrian and I met during our undergraduate years at McGill University where I and many others knew him as a

bombastic, confident, over-the-top moderate and should disturber who relished good governance and excelled at navigating administrative

bureaucracy.

After McGill, like many of our colleagues in student government, Adrian went to law school where he honed his already

significant rhetorical and analytical skills. He spent his adult life working as a

public defender for the Committee for Public Council Services, an agency in Massachusetts

that provides criminal representation for people who can't afford it.

Journalist Brad Petrician writes in the Worcester telegram and gazette that Adrian, quote,

helped establish the Worcester County Bar's Committee for Anti-Racism and Equality

and volunteered on the Massachusetts Bar Association's Criminal Justice and Policing Reform Working Group.

He, Adrian, was appointed by the state's highest court to the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission and authored a Black Lives Matter

resolution passed by the State Bar Association in the wake of the police

murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, end quote.

These are just some examples of the incredible work to which Adrian tirelessly focused his many talents.

He is missed widely by friends and colleagues for his warmth, his work ethic, his commitment to his clients, and his commitment to racial justice.

When I learned of Adrian's death, I asked our team if we might honor his memory by revisiting the conversation you're about to hear.

This bonus episode was originally a Patreon perk released back in March 2021. At the time our flagship show was Which Please,

a scholarly podcast about the Harry Potter world. If you're not familiar with that show,

it ran from 2015 to 2018, was rebooted in 2020, and then wrapped up in the

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