The Update with Brandon Julien

Only a sole tier of iPhone users will have access to Apple’s latest, artificially intelligent operating system. The tech company unveiled iOS 18 on Monday, along with its ChatGPT-powered AI component called Apple Intelligence. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Saturday, Mayor Adams pleaded not guilty to federal bribery charges, firmly rejecting allegations that he accepted overseas travel, campa...

Sex sells — for $100. SKYN, a popular non-latex condom brand, is now offering a pack of “luxury” condoms that essentially “guarantees you’ll have great sex” for an eye-opening hundred bucks. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, Mayor EAdams vowed to stay in office Thursday after federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment accusing him of letting Turkish officials and businesspeople buy his i...

Apps before entrees. When McDonald’s executives start complaining publicly about fast-food prices, you know things are getting messy. But for every sensational, inflation-era shocker — stop us if you’ve heard the one about the $18 Big Mac meal or the vintage Taco Bell receipt that ruined the internet’s day — there’s a good deal waiting to be snagged. And it’s already likely downloaded to the phone...

Generation Z has spoken, and the hot rodent man is in, and they don’t want him fumigated. The concept of the hot rodent man might sound foreign to anyone who has ever worn skinny jeans, but it is a term young people use to describe a hipster. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, the head of New York City’s public schools system, David Banks, said that he will step down at the end of the...

Not to air out their dirty laundry, but the last thing a parent wants to do is sort their kids’ soiled clothes after summer camp. The weeks-long getaway — which can cost as much as $15,000 — often requires an exhaustive packing list which yields a mountain of laundry at the end of the trip. That’s when she turned to First Class Laundry Services and decided to dish out $450 for the cleaning service...

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...

Brace yourself for this news. With horror stories of extreme turbulence filling the news lately, aviation and flight experts are speaking out about the best places to be seated on a plane when the going suddenly gets rough. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, Federal authorities searched the homes of New York City’s newly named interim police commissioner and seized materials unrelated to...

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...

Relationship expert Chanel Contos has busted one of the most common online dating myths she says is plaguing modern relationships, after three years of championing its importance. “We need to break the myth that talking about consent is awkward,” she says. Her comments come as Tinder is set to launch eight new terms in an upgrade to its online Dating Dictionary. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this...

The man chosen for a unique $100 ($66 USD) an hour Domino’s Pizza job which went viral has been revealed. Queensland schoolteacher Matt Strain was chosen by the fast food company to be their next hand model after a nationwide search for the coveted role was announced in May. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, Damning new text messages were revealed in the sex-trafficking case against Se...

If you like to come home from a hard day at the office and put your feet up on the coffee table, you might want to think again. Especially if you put those feet up without removing your shoes first. A viral clip starring Dr Karl Kruszelnicki explains how two new pieces of scientific data show exactly what happens when your outside shoes come indoors, and bring with them some unwelcome guests. 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 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...

Maybe he’s a bad texter — or maybe he’s just not that into you. That’s the question on Adrianna Guerrero’s mind when the single 42-year-old texts eligible bachelors, only to be burdened with a lackluster conversation akin to pulling teeth. Most women have been victims of the self-proclaimed “bad texter” — a boyfriend, lover or husband who barely replies to messages, and, if he does, the conversati...

Florida, schmorida. After enjoying a pandemic-era boom where many a weary northerner packed up and moved to the Sunshine State, the bloom is off the citrus tree, new research suggests. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, the top legal adviser to Mayor Adams resigned abruptly over the weekend, the latest sign of instability in the Democrat’s administration as it deals with multiple federal...

Dare to bead fashionably hot! Fashionistas are going to extreme lengths to get their hands on the unlikely must-have fashion accessory: beaded handbags. But it’s not something you can find online easily, if at all. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban resigned, one week after it emerged that his phone was seized as part of a federal investigati...

Nudists are worrying that interest in naked public displays has taken a downturn in recent years. The German Association for Free Body Culture (DFK) is concerned that people aren’t baring it all as membership has declined and people seem to be losing interest in going au naturel. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, With presidential candidates looking on, some 9/11 victims’ relatives app...

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.

Rich people are genetically at greater risk of cancer than the poor, new research has revealed. The new study — conducted at the University of Helsinki in Finland — examined the relationship between socio-economic status, or SES, and an array of diseases. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, a personal assistant convicted of killing and dismembering his former tech entrepreneur boss afte...

If you want your flight to go smoothly, don’t just wing it — put a little planning into your trip. According to AAA, when you fly can have a great impact on how likely you are to be held back, possibly missing a crucial connection. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Police Commissioner Edward Caban is “facing tremendous pressure” to resign, according to political sources who said they do...