Glenn Takes Your Questions on Major Saudi Arabia Celeb Controversies, Zohran Mamdani and the NYC Debate, Anti-ICE Protests, and More
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Glenn answers your questions about Zohran Mamdani and the NYC mayoral debate, anti-ICE protests and Antifa, U.S. military action against Venezuela, and more. Plus: Glenn breaks down the controversies over athletes and celebrities traveling to Saudi Arabia for events and lucrative gigs.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. It's Friday, October 17th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern on the dot, exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech, alternative to YouTube. And to the people in the chat, yes, I know I look very good tonight. You don't have to keep saying it over and over and over. Please focus on the substance of our program and not in the words of many of you, my stunning physical appearance. It's really important. We prepare a lot on the |
| 0:41.3 | show, and that should be the focus of your conversations. All right, so for tonight, it's Friday |
| 0:46.6 | night, so we do our Q&A session where we take questions that were submitted throughout the week |
| 0:50.9 | by our locals members, and we answered them. And as usual, there is a wide range of topics raised by these questions that we hope to get to as many |
| 0:58.5 | as possible. Before we do that, we're going to do the segment that we intended to do last night |
| 1:03.8 | but didn't have time, which is the issue of the moral indignation that happens every time |
| 1:08.8 | celebrities or athletes or in the case of a couple |
| 1:12.9 | weeks ago comedians go to Saudi Arabia to pick up millions of dollars in cash and all this |
| 1:17.8 | indignation about how they can do that when Saudi Arabia is such a horrible country which |
| 1:21.7 | want to talk a little bit about that there were a couple questions about it as well before we |
| 1:25.3 | get to that a few quick programming notes first of of all, a week from tonight, Friday night in San Antonio, a week from |
| 1:32.1 | tonight, next Friday night at 7.30 p.m. I'm going to be appearing with Megan Kelly and |
| 1:38.1 | Emily Jusinski at the Majestic Theater in San Antonio. We're going to have a wide-ranging discussion. A whole bunch of things playing for that evening. If you haven't gotten your tickets, there are very few left, but you can go online and just search that event and you'll find the ticket dispensers. We would love to see you there. I'm looking forward to going to San Antonio. I've been there several times. I always love that city. A couple other quick program notes. First of all, system update is available in podcast form as well. |
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