The Update with Brandon Julien

The key to keeping your wits about you as you age may lie in shut-eye during midlife. A study found that people over 60 who didn’t get enough slow-wave sleep — the third stage in the human sleep cycle — were at a higher risk of developing dementia. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, Dozens of fed-up New Yorkers rallied outside a massive migrant shelter in Brooklyn on Sunday — demanding th...

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...

With rancor over rising fast food prices at an all time high, it’s easy to forget that not all states are California or New York. Yes, it’s true, for example, that McDonald’s prices have nearly tripled in a decade in at least some cases, but in some parts of the country, you might hardly notice. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, Federal investigators this week seized phones from NYPD com...

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 work. Oh, a...

A real estate agent was left unsettled after she stumbled upon an eerie dungeon-like room hidden behind a bedroom closet door in a Florida home that had recently been put up for sale. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, an underwater tunnel that passes beneath New York City’s East River sprung a leak after a city contractor mistakenly drilled a hole through it, sending streams of water i...

Watch out for this pair of issues if you want to keep your spouse to have and to hold from this day forward. James Sexton, a world-renowned family lawyer based in New York City, has revealed the two main reasons why people get divorced: infidelity and money. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, a former aide to two New York governors was charged with acting as an illegal agent of the Chi...

More like checked lug-gouge. With air travelers facing soaring bag fees this summer — sometimes nearly high as the airfares themselves — everyone’s talking packing hacks. Why not ask an actual expert? The pros at 1st Move International specialize in overseas relocations, when every square inch counts — and costs. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, a man who was shot at the historically b...

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, NHL player Johnny Gaudreau and his younger brother were killed when they were hit by a suspected drunk driver while riding their bicycle in their home state of New Jersey, police said. Well, that stinks. The city sprayed “Christmas”-scented perfume around the Gowanus Canal — but it’ll take a lot more than holiday cheer to neutralize the stench seeping fr...

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday on the road from Camp Shibley on Long Island, a lawyer for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked a state appeals court to restore him to New York’s presidential election ballot, even though he has suspended his campaign. These Uber drivers took passengers on a $40 million ride. A pair of fraudsters sold hacked smartphones and fake apps — including one dubbed “Scr...

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Wednesday, The Big Apple is set to sizzle with temperatures soaring into the mid-90s — before thunderstorms are expected to roll in and usher in a cold front. Mayor Adams is putting up $1,000 of his own money to help catch the wrong-way driver who killed a groom-to-be just one day before his wedding last weekend. And in Oklahoma City, their police department is...

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...

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, An 18-year-old man was struck and killed by a Queens subway train after fleeing a fight with another teen inside a station. Fare evasion is so rampant on city buses that almost half of all riders aren’t paying — as scrambling transit officials deploy a new crew of enforcers to catch the freeloaders. And in Washington, a federal judge in Texas paused a B...

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, Five people were killed in a slay-suicide horror on a quiet cul-de-sac in Nassau County— days after the family’s matriarch died and kin were set to sell the house, cops and sources said. WCBS 880 radio sent its final transmission at midnight — after 57 years of delivering breaking crime news, political happenings and subway delays to New Yorkers, many of...

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...

Avid travelers tend to opt out of checked bags to avoid delayed baggage arrival, difficulty picking out their items or fear of their bag not reaching their destination. Travelers have developed a habit of attaching a colorful ribbon, luggage tag or other accessories to make their suitcases stand apart from the hundreds of bags in the rotation. Dublin Airport baggage handler John revealed that bagg...

When a Gentoo penguin has a crush, the way to their lover’s hearts is simple: A pebble. The flightless birds gift each other rocks, which are used to build nests, to signal that they’re interested in becoming a mating pair. Now, it seems, humans are taking a page from the Antarctic animals, as a trend known as “pebbling” takes hold. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Thursday, Columbia University...

Your chariot awaits. It’s no secret that status matters, particularly when flying legacy carriers like American, United and Delta — but there are upper tier privileges so exclusive, most passengers boarding your typical flight won’t even know they’re available. In the headlines in #TheUpdate this Wednesday, the federal fraud trial against former US Rep. George Santos, slated to start in a matter o...

Video game-turned-HBO series “The Last of Us,” of course, is science fiction. Yet the idea is loosely based on a real fungus, cordyceps, that infects and manipulates the behavior of a wide range of insects, including ants. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, a judge ruled that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name should not appear on New York’s ballot, saying th...

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...