The Update with Brandon Julien

Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we're doing something that's a little bit different. In 2021, I had been the host of the show for four years, and my wife Tommie had been a producer on the show for two of those years. She had to do a podcast with me for some time, so we dec...

Talk about clingy. An Italian model vacationing in the Seychelles found love when he was least expecting it — with an octopus. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, a winter storm moved into New England after delivering a messy combination of heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain in the Midwest and Northeast. More than 100 migrants have been rounded up in the Big Apple in the last week as part...

So much winning. A game designer has revealed his strategy for triumphing over an opponent in a game of rock, paper, scissors. New Yorker Nick Metzler, or @nickmetzler1 on TikTok, recently took to the popular social media site to share a tactic that he said should work nearly half of the time. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, A winter storm hit the Big Apple, bringing with it inches o...

Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it wor...

Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we're doing something that's a little bit different. In 2021, I had been the host of the show for four years, and my wife Tommie had been a producer on the show for two of those years. She had to do a podcast with me for some time, so we decided to just gra...

It’s all fun and games. Though its iconic crossword puzzle was first unveiled on Feb. 15, 1942, the New York Times Games section has skyrocketed in the past few years — and the data for 2024 proves it. Of the 11.1 billion puzzles were solved in 2024, 5.3 billion were Wordle games — but one particular day of Wordle was so difficult that it ended 5.6 million streaks. In the headlines on #TheUpdate t...

Festive households rush to put up their Christmas trees weeks before the holiday — but don’t seem to know when to take them down. And the answer to that can vary depending on the type of Tannenbaum you have — or what traditions you follow. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James told hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering...

A doctor spent $7,529 throwing herself an extravagant party with 130 guests — to celebrate the end of her PhD. Aileen Delaney, 27, says her four-year doctorate degree was “very stressful” and her studies interrupted by the pandemic. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, In Washington, families of victims of the deadliest U.S. air disaster since 2001 visited the crash site and divers scoured...

The Australian woman who has been described as the Meryl Streep of pornography has added another feather to her cap. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, Divers are expected to return to the Potomac River as part of the recovery and investigation after a midair collision killed 67 people in the United States’ deadliest aviation disaster in almost a quarter century. Locally, a fired-up Mayor...

Can a simple three-ingredient drink help with weight loss and get your poop moving? A TikTok pharmacist says so — and there’s some science to back him up. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, a jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in t...

Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we're doing something that's a little bit different. In 2021, I had been the host of the show for four years, and my wife Tommie had been a producer on the show for two of those years. She had to do a podcast with me for some time, so we dec...

Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it wor...

Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it wor...

Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it wor...

Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it wor...

Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it wor...

Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it wor...

Hello everyone! We're going into #TheUpdate vault to play one of our many episodes throughout our many years of the show. For today's episode, we go into the world of 2020- or as we call it around here, Year 4 of The Update. It was a weird year- starting off in the WKRB studios and then going out on the road (in the middle of a pandemic no less!), but somehow, we found a way to make it wor...

We've done a lot of episodes throughout our many years of #TheUpdate, but some of them are my personal favorites. Every month, we're going to go into The Update vault and play one episode from my personal list of favorite episodes. I hope you enjoy them as much as i did hosting it.

New year, new scams. Fraudsters won’t give their antics a break, always discovering a new way to scam the innocent despite the extreme methods they have to go through. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, It’s on. Heavily armed federal immigration agents swept through the Big Apple under the cover of darkness early Tuesday to nab about 30 accused illegal-migrant killers and traffickers in...

They’re New Year’s Res-delusions. Come January 1st, everyone seems to be binging on brown rice and hitting the gym like David Goggins, in an effort to become a new, so-called better version of themselves. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, an unhinged maniac repeatedly stabbed a fellow passenger on a northbound 5 train in the Bronx and cops are still searching for the suspect. A Bronx man...

New year, new pantry? A new survey finds that 19% of US adults plan to eat healthier in 2025. One way to do that is to ditch ultra-processed foods, which are often bursting with calories, sugar, fat and salt. Dr. Mitchell Roslin, chief of bariatric surgery at Northern Westchester Hospital, warns against one popular health halo — vegetable chips. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, the sick...

This past year marked the worst in over a decade for stomach bug outbreaks on cruise ships docking in the US, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, this week’s frigid weather has many New York City residents shivering, scurrying into cozy spots and feeling sapped. Including the rats. Such cold has, yes, a chi...

This tourism trend is giving nightlife a new meaning. “Noctourism” — the desire to “ditch the daylight crowds for midnight magic” — has been named a top travel trend for 2025, according to Booking.com. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, students throughout New York state might have to give up their cellphones during school hours starting next fall under a proposal announced by Gov. Kat...

Looking for love will cost you. In the past six years, the price of eating out in NYC has increased nearly 30%, according to the NY State Department of Taxation and Finance and Office of the New York City Comptroller, while other costs associated with going out, such as taxis and Ubers, have also risen sharply. Local men complain that dating has become ridiculously pricey. In the headlines on #The...