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LOVE YOU GLENN!

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I hope the launch is telling of your husband and family doing markedly better, I offer a secular prayer for you health and safety....

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Congratulations Glenn! Can't wait to watch.

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OK, but what if I already have a Locals account? The link you sent me from Substack asks me to create a Locals account, when I already have a Locals account. How do I get my Substack credit added to my already existing Locals account? I don't want two Locals accounts.

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Thanks for the info. I used a different email address to sign up for Substack than Locals. For security purposes, I don't use a single email address as my identity. I'll reach out to support@locals.com.

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Good to hear, and among other things it shows Greenwald's husband has a better health outlook now.

In terms of irony, this new show is a nice counterpoint to the classic Greenwald tweet "Victor makes me go on Fox" -- twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1126244731464318981 . (Not that I expect Greenwald to stop doing that.)

This could be an important and very valuable show if Greenwald grows with it. I'll wait to see, but my evaluation of that isn't dependent on him agreeing with me on everything.

I'm looking forward to reading the transcripts, hopefully there will be at least rough auto-generated transcripts available without too much of a delay.

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Mr Greenwald, will the pre launch local shows be archived and available after the stream ends? Is it exclusively a livestream?

The timing will be a conflict for me and I don't want to miss a second...

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How is your husband doing, Glenn?

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The set looks great and the design is very apropos - it will have Glenn Greenwald sitting in front of a... wait for it... mostly green wall! Seriously, this new venue is something we're all looking forward to. Wishing you and yours every success!

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Bravo Glenn.

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I’m so excited for this new program - it’s genius and I fully expect it to be highly successful!

Praying for your husband and family 💛.

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Damn Glenn - congrats on your studio. It looks amazing. Wow this is some real deal pro stuff going on now. Very impressed. And rumble investing too? Dare I say we stand a chance now?

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Very excited. Cannot wait!

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Great Glen! I am sure it will be great.

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I tried to register for Locals but abandoned it because it is too intrusive about my info. I do not want to reveal my location, DOB, etc. If I am a paid subscriber the additional info demanded is too intrusive and I will not participate. Thanks.

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Since there was, unexpectedly, no installment of Greenwald's Rumble show announced for tonight, it's possible that his husband's health has gotten noticeably worse. I was hoping that wouldn't be true but it may well be. In any case, can wait till the next installment of the System Update show is announced by email. Greenwald had said he hoped to do shows every weeknight, but he also made very clear to us that he might not be able to do so sometimes if there are health issues for his husband. His husband David's health is and should be the priority, and you can't expect Greenwald to prioritize giving us updates on that.

I have been considering the possibility that there may be a "counter-expectations" tendency in this health crisis with his husband -- which would mean that at times when things are expected to get better, they have a tendency to get worse instead. I don't want to act like I know that's true since I'm not sure if it is, and even if it is true I wouldn't speculate on the cause. But I do want to say, speaking for myself and quite possibly for others, that Greenwald shouldn't feel obliged to return to the planned nightly Rumble show any time soon. He's already done one pre-launch installment for his subscribers, and that was a more than adequate demonstration of what he's hoping to do. It isn't as if pressing ahead rapidly now is needed.

I am considering the possibility that maybe Greenwald might want to put off any future installments of the System Update show more radically than he has already planned -- not just waiting till his husband is out of the ICU or out of the hospital, but maybe even more than that and waiting till his husband David has had some peaceful time at home. Of course this is not my decision to make at all, but as an outsider I can imagine some advantages to it. David would get to be home with the kids (who can only visit in the hospital) and the dogs (who can't visit at all). I'm not totally sure that the new System Update studio is in their family house, but if it is, maybe it would be good for David to spend some time at home without the daily bustle of getting the show ready. When David gets better, at some point he might be able to use his skills in helping to design or redesign aspects of the program, more than he was able to do already, and then it would be even more of a joint project. I wouldn't be surprised if David misses the opportunity to make things more distinctly a joint project and to put his stamp on the path their partnership takes. As he gets closer to doing that he might also somehow get closer to beating the counter-expectations tendency of the illness, though it's far from a one-dimensional thing and I'm sure there are lots of subtleties which I can't know but which Greenwald and Miranda might find their way through as a couple back out of the hospital. So I would be open to postponing future installments of the program longer -- I mean a lot longer, if need be -- until whenever David's constitution has recovered the strength to more or less turn the corner on the "counter-expectations" aspect of his illness. Greenwald's journalistic work is not the only important thing, and I kind of feel that if something is needed to help David turn the corner it may even turn out to have a positive long-term effect on Greenwald's journalism or political work.

Sorry for the uninformed speculation. Of course I'm barely in a position to raise something like this as a possibility, much less call for it. Greenwald has the humaneness to weigh these things and I'm sure issues of this nature are among what he talks over with his husband, when he can (though I don't know if his husband David is even at full strength to go deeply into such things). I just feel that since I'm a part of Greenwald's audience, I should at least mention the above set of issues as a possibility that I'm open to.

In any case, I hope this crisis passes soon. And again, Greenwald doesn't have to keep sending us updates, because his husband's health matters more.

I'll post another copy of this comment underneath one of Greenwald's comments on this page.

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