Hello everyone and welcome back to Red Left Radio. On today's episode we have the fifth

and perhaps final technical installment of our dialectics deep dive with Matthew Furnall.

The reason I say technical is because Matthew and I have more projects and more topics

that we want to cover but they might be the end of this specific series and we can move

on to covering other things as like standalone episodes. But as always with these deep

dive episodes these are you know deep dives into philosophy. They can be very challenging

and they are very lengthy but for those that are interested in this sort of stuff I think

it's really a fascinating series overall and a fascinating episode. Matthew did lose

a friend recently and would like for me to read this thing that he wrote for his friend

who passed away and it'll explain everything in this so I'm going to read this from Matthew

to his friend Catherine. On February 11th in Ecuador my friend Catherine and her partner

Jay drowned while saving two children from rough waters. I'd known Catherine since our

early high school years when we belonged to a large circle of friends that mainly congregated

in and through the local underground music scene. She was a sweethearted person down to

earth incapable of pretense incredibly funny and creative minded. She was together with

my best friend for many years and thus well into adulthood I was happy to see her and have

a chat wind I would visit my hometown. Catherine also struggled with a ferocious alcohol

addiction in later years that the last time I saw her had seriously affected her physical

of not her mental health. I had not had contact with her in a couple of years and do not know

if she was in recovery when she died. I am ashamed to say that when I received word of

her death I immediately assumed she had succumbed to that disease. Learning how she actually

died left me shaking and humbled. As we know addiction in this society is treated as

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