Hey, everyone. This is Chris Ryan from The Ringer. As many of you have heard by now, we lost a treasured

colleague and friend over the weekend. Jonathan Charks passed away on Saturday. John was 34. He leaves

behind a wife and a son, and we are obviously mourning his loss and sending all of our love to his family

right now. If you go to the ringer.com slash Jonathan Charks, that's J-O-N-A-T-H-A-N-T-J-A-R-K-S.

You will find a memorial page for John, which has links to his GoFundMe that benefits his family,

and the amazing writing he did throughout his experience. I encourage you to go there,

and if you can, please support the Charks family. Briefly, I will just say that John was among the first people that we hired to work for the

Ringer, so he was instrumental in defining the voice and perspective of the site.

He has as much to do with what this place is as anyone else.

And throughout his experience with Cancer, John communicated eloquently about the challenges

he was facing, both through

his writing and his podcasting. You could never stop John from talking about his passions. It's one of the

things I loved about him. Over the last few months, whenever we would talk, whenever I would reach out

to see how he was doing, I would try to keep it very John focused, and the next thing I knew

we would be talking about James Hardin

or Better Call Saul. He really loved this stuff. He loved talking about it, celebrating it,

debating it, illuminating it. We're going to keep putting out our pods and writing while we

grieve, but we wanted to let folks know that John was in our hearts and that his family was in

our thoughts. Thanks for listening.

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