Weekends: July 18, 2020, Michael's last show (ft. Vivek Chibber)
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🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday starting at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Michael Brooks have been broadcasting live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. This week features an interview with professor Vivek Chibber on the state and the left's road to power. Sadly and very unexpectedly, Michael passed away the Monday after recording this episode.
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Read more on our website:
"Remembering Our Friend and Comrade Michael Brooks" by Bhaskar Sunkara https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/remembering-our-friend-and-comrade-michael-brooks
"'Michael Brooks Was My Absolute Political Inspiration'," a series of reflections collected by Micah Uetricht https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/michael-brooks-viewers-listeners-reflections
"Michael Brooks Was a True Internationalist" by Daniel Bessner https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/07/michael-brooks-internationalist-remembrance
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Weekends archive on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxlNhP2f0kULVe45TbPaF-uLuMQYMJcLk
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone it's Bosker's and Carr the editor of Jackabitten. This is a really difficult |
| 0:05.4 | message to record as I'm sure a lot of you have heard this podcast this episode of |
| 0:10.7 | weekends was one of Michael's last broadcast. |
| 0:14.4 | He passed away unexpectedly from a blood clot on Monday and we're just sitting here thinking |
| 0:20.5 | about his life and thinking about how to carry on without him. |
| 0:25.0 | The Jacobin YouTube channel that we launched earlier this year was Michael's dream. |
| 0:30.0 | He envisioned the finished product of the channel being two live shows as well as frequent |
| 0:36.3 | explainers and enough clips to keep the channel going. |
| 0:40.2 | So far we've only launched weekends. Project he was really excited with because he really loved working with with Anna and we were waiting a bit to launch at Second Live Show. |
| 0:50.0 | That one was also going to be hosted by Michael with other Jackman contributors as |
| 0:54.0 | guests and his plan was to run it for about a year and a half and eventually train |
| 0:58.8 | his successor so he could see the channel going, see the institution being built and probably |
| 1:04.2 | focused on his other work, his writing, his work with the MBS, and so on. |
| 1:09.5 | You know, I don't know what form it'll take, but I know we'll continue on with the videos in some form. |
| 1:14.2 | We'll never forget our friend and his contributions. |
| 1:17.4 | The last exchange I had with Michael was actually about this episode of weekends. |
| 1:21.8 | He thought it went well, especially the interview |
| 1:24.7 | with Vivek Chipper, a favorite of his. I told him this was actually the first one that I've |
| 1:28.9 | missed since I was driving all day on Saturday, but that that I we should chat later. Obviously I never |
| 1:35.1 | got that chance and I still can't bring myself to be honest to to listen much |
| 1:40.1 | less watch this episode but I really hope you do because Michael put so much |
| 1:45.8 | effort and so much love into what he was putting out. Michael Brooks was |
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