Good evening. It's Friday, August 8th. Welcome to episode 500 of System Update, which means that over the last two years, ever since we launched in December of 2023, 500 times I have sat my ass in this chair, and we have done a program for you. Today is number 500. System Update, of course, in our live nightly show that it airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m.

Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

For our 500th episode, we're going to have a special after show where for our locals community, for our locals members, we're going to have sort of an old style after show where our show's director,

Victor Pucci and I sit down. We have some responses to some things that are on your mind,

plus some reflections on the show, what it says about independent media, some thoughts about

broader politics and journalism as well. So definitely tune in for that. As a couple of other

reminders, system update is also available in podcast form.

You can listen to every episode 12 hours after the first broadcast live here on Rumble,

on Spotify, Apple, and all the major podcasting platforms. If you rate, review, and follow our program.

It really helps spread the visibility of the show. Finally, as independent journalists, we do

rely on the support of our viewers and our members,

and we do so through our locals community,

where if you join, you get access to a whole wide array

of benefits, including a lot of original

and exclusive video content and video interviews.

We put all sorts of interactive features there

to allow us to hear from you and interact

with you throughout the week. It's a place that we publish original professionalized transcripts

of every program that we do here. We publish those the next day. We take every Friday night,

as we're doing tonight, questions solely from our locals members, which when we do our Friday

night show, typically,

we try and answer as many of those as we can.

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