So today I learned of the untimely passing of Michael Brooks.

He was 36 years old and he passed away from what is being described as a sudden medical

condition to really know more information than that.

I was, you know, taking her back in absolutely heartbroken, brought to tears after hearing

his death not because him and I were incredibly close personally.

We had this conversation which you're about to hear and we had a couple of communications

over, you know, online, on social media through email before this episode.

And so I'm not, I wasn't somebody that was very close to him in his life, but somebody

that definitely came across him and somebody that worked in the same general field of left-wing

media.

And all of my interactions with Michael were just indicative of the sort of person he

is and indicative of what everybody else online who had any interactions with him are saying

that he was, which is a genuinely kind, generous, loving, supportive human being who would lift

up voices trying to find a foothold in left-wing media who would go out of his way to give

advice to young up-and-comers or people who wanted to break onto the left-media scene.

And just somebody who treated everybody with the respect and dignity and humanity that

really flowed through everything that he did.

A lot of people are pointing out his hilarious sense of humor and that was certainly an important

aspect of him.

He had a sort of brilliant taste for comedy and for political satire specifically.

He was also somebody that was very engrossed in meditation who went on silent retreats

who studied the same sort of meditative practices that I study under the Vipassana meditative

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