As we do every Friday night, we are going to have a Q&A this evening where we gather questions that were submitted throughout the

week by our locals members. As always, it covers a fairly wide range of topics.

It asks about issues that we cover from a perspective different than the one that we analyzed

it from. Sometimes these questions raise topics that we have been covered,

and that's the case tonight. And I always really look forward to this in part because I think

that a dialogue with one's viewers and readers is of the utmost important for journalists,

a important form of accountability for journalists, but also it is kind of an unpredictable evening.

I generally don't see the questions beforehand,

or if I do, I see it a minute or two right before we air.

And so it tends to be a less kind of structured,

less planned, more spontaneous, extemporaneous show.

And that often leads to thoughts and ideas and points that might not otherwise emerge if

the show were more planned as it is on other nights. So I really look forward to it. So let's get

right into that before we begin. A couple of quick programming notes, as you probably have heard,

System Update is also available in podcast form.

You can listen to every episode 12 hours after they first broadcast live here on Rumble.

You can listen on Spotify, Apple, and all of the major podcasting platforms.

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