Hello everyone, welcome to the very special edition of Roots Chief Podcast.

This week we're joined by Mr. Bernie Burns, Matt Hullam, CEO, Cray Haddock, supervising

producer, and Gus Therola, as usual.

And I mean, I don't know, there's some of you I'm sure that are watching the podcast

who might not read the website or might not follow us in various forms of social media.

For those of you who weren't aware already, last Thursday, our dear friend, Monty Ome, had

a simple medical procedure.

And afterwards, he had an extreme allergic reaction.

He lost consciousness and over the course of the last week, he's been hospitalized.

He did not regain consciousness.

And we were very sorry to say that money passed away yesterday, Sunday, February 1st, at

about 434 in the afternoon.

And so last week we missed the podcast.

We did not have a live edition of it.

We showed the PAX panel because we were dealing with this crisis at that time.

But we weren't yet comfortable enough to really talk about it publicly because we

didn't have a chance to tell us what his wishes would be.

So we wanted to respect his privacy as much as we could.

That being said, if we missed two podcasts in a row on Monty's behalf, I don't think

Monty would have liked that very much.

I don't think he would have.

No, despite the fact he didn't feature regularly on the podcast.

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