Hey, everyone. This is Chris Ryan from The Ringer. As many of you have heard right 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 TheRinger.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. 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 TheRinger, 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. Throughout his experience with Cancer John, he 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 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.

Welcome to TheRinger NFL Show, Shield Compadria.

Join by Ben Solak, the adrenaline is flowing. We just watched the Seattle Seahawks pull off the

upset 17 to 16. This show is not just going to be about that game, but we are absolutely going to

lead off with that game Ben. We could do like two hours on just that with that. I mean,

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