Michael Brooks
American talk show host and writerWikipedia
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Oct 5, 2026
Eric BennettHOST
Mm-hmm.
Grace Robin SomervilleGUEST
Thank you, Michael Brooks, for uplifting Tinashe.
Eric BennettHOST
I texted Michael after, uh, Melatonin came out and was like, "Have you been keeping track with the singles of this Tinashe album?" He goes, "Eric, course I have."
Miranda ReinertHOST
[laughs]
Matt BinderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So I mentioned earlier how...
Matt BinderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The famous music star Halsey shared a speech on Israel and Palestine from Michael Brooks on her Twitter.
Matt BinderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And, you know, she clearly...
Matt BinderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Watch the interview because she tweeted out a quote from it that isn't in the title.
Matt BinderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
She put, it's not complicated by Michael Brooks.
Matt BinderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then with a link to the YouTube video.
Matt BinderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And she put the whole video up, but I really wanted to just play this portion specifically because Michael was always on point.
Jesse HessGUEST
We were just...
Jesse HessGUEST
Somehow Michael Brooks came up, and I was talking about how it's just, like, it's really hard to listen to, like, political media just across the board.
Jesse HessGUEST
And I, like, mentioned, like, you know, like I try to listen to Democracy Now! And she was just like, "I can't handle Amy Goodman." Like, it's just, like, the way that it goes, I think this is what she meant, which is, like, it's just this sort of, like, monotone reading of horror.
Jesse HessGUEST
Like, she has her own-
15 MINS LATER
Ben GoodmanHOST
Of course
Jesse HessGUEST
... and I think that, like, working with children, it's like...
Jesse HessGUEST
I just remember, like, that, like, Michael Brooks poem about his sister, Licia, where he was like, um, like he wrote as a boy, and it was, like, something about, like, her unrehearsed kindness.
Ben GoodmanHOST
Yeah.
Anthony GraffioGUEST
do you know? Because somebody leaked
Kurt MetzgerGUEST
that to Michael Brooks, that fucking shit lib reporter that was writing the alt-right book about the pipeline.
Kurt MetzgerGUEST
And he sat on it because he's like, I don't think his sexuality is important.
Kurt MetzgerGUEST
But I think it is important since he's fucking trash.
Benjamin MoserGUEST
Oh
Sam SederHOST
... uh, because, uh, he was, um, arguably, I think, um, my late co-host, uh, Michael Brooks's favorite, uh, South African, uh, or one of, uh-
Benjamin MoserGUEST
And one of his favorite guests, definitely.
Sam SederHOST
Yeah.
Ben BurgisHOST
In some ways, I suspect that the germ of the idea might have been planted in his head several months before that.
Ben BurgisHOST
I don't remember exactly when, but it was definitely in 2019 when Bhaskar and I were on the Michael Brooks show together in studio.
Ben BurgisHOST
that was actually also the conversation that, uh, that led to the starting to write for Jacobin, uh, because there was, uh, I mean, honestly, kind of a half jokey comment I'd made to him, you know, sort of
speaker_1UNKNOWN
over beers in between the main
17 MINS LATER
Ben BurgisHOST
portrait of Bernie Sanders.
Ben BurgisHOST
Not a photograph, like a portrait that was actually drawn by Nando Vila's sister.
Ben BurgisHOST
I've got two of them, one of Bernie and one of Michael Brooks that sit on my desk.
Ben BurgisHOST
They're in Mexico right now.
Matt LechHOST
Um, it's fundamental to what, I mean, this should be, which is like to create governance that works for people.
David GriscomHOST
And look, I think it also defends, I mean, you know, talking about infrastructure or whatever is also like a classic tool of centers, right? It's not something that they deliver on, but it's like old Michael Brooks show fans will probably remember a character named Steve Klubeck, you know, keep it simple, stupid, no bumps in the road.
David GriscomHOST
There's a multi-billionaire guy who is constantly flipping out on Bernie Sanders talking about class politics in this country.
David GriscomHOST
But what did he try to use to attack class politics? It was fixing problems like the decay in the infrastructure.
Nadav CaineHOST
Rather than the means returning home to your people, to the fact that whether you like it or not, you're in the covenant.
Nadav CaineHOST
That, as Michael Brooks, alav ha-shalom, used to say, Judaism is more like the Navajo than it is like Christianity.
Nadav CaineHOST
We are called home to the tribe.
Nadav CaineHOST
I'm so proud of those who, when shocked at the world's reaction October 7th, chose to learn Torah and prayers and have an adult bar bat mitzvah.
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Nadav CaineHOST
You do them because you're making chuvah, repair of your community, not because you'll be a more moral human being, but that's what Jews do.
Nadav CaineHOST
Rabbi David Walpe warned that we should not offer reasons for Jewish practices because if you give a reason, there can always be a counter reason.
Nadav CaineHOST
I prefer Michael Brooks's formulation.
Nadav CaineHOST
He taught, every time you see a mitzvah, read it as a description.
Matt LechHOST
You know, I can't remember who the guy...
Matt LechHOST
Michael Brooks, we did an interview back in the TMBS days about some sort of fixer that was going around different Latin American countries as well.
Matt LechHOST
What's the...
Matt LechHOST
Is there like a resentment to this or like this sort of right-wing international thing? It seems like...
Rick SmithHOST
heard some beef ranchers? You heard some cattle ranchers
Alex LawsonGUEST
complaining now? I will say, because I know, but Michael Brooks always had it best.
Alex LawsonGUEST
Sympathy for the con, none for the con men.
Alex LawsonGUEST
No, I'm with you.
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