The Update with Brandon Julien

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! This summer, we did something a little unusual- we took a summer hiatus, and I started growing some facial hair. But in two days, we start Season 4 of our podcast. But before we can go forward, we have to look back all the way to show number 1 back in February of 2017. It sounds a lot different than today's shows d...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Our Season 4 premiere is not four days away, but in the meantime, the summer archives continue with today's trip back to August of 2017. The top story on this day was that the NYPD was investigating the stabbing of a homeless man who was playing chess in the middle of Union Square.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As new episodes and our season 4 premiere comes closer, we're wrapping up a summer of looking into the archives. For today's trip into June of 2019, the top story on this day was about how a former prosecutor in the Central Park Five case was forced to step aside after a new Netflix documentary came out.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives back in June of 2018, the top story on this day was about a legacy being cut short as Kate Spade was found dead by an apparent suicide.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! 2020 was destined to be an important year. Not only was it a Presidential election year and supposed to be a summer Olympic year, but 2020 was also all about the Census. But in today's trip into the archives back in June of 2019 had a top story about how the Census could possibly be compromised with an undercount.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives back in August of 2018, the top story was some high flight drama after a plane carrying the rapper Post Malone had to make an emergency landing at Stewart Airport after two wheels blew off during takeoff at Teterboro Airport.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! After surviving a summer camp year with my voice fully intact this time around, today's trip to the archives takes us back to August of 2018, where the top story on this day was the criminal charges that were about to be dropped against President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! The summer hasn't exactly been very kind to us when we did shows. In 2017, I battled a summer camp job and a case of laryngitis. In today's trip to the archives in July of 2018, before I took another hiatus to work on another summer job, the top story on this day had to deal with the Harvey Weinstein case before it...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! We may not like the snow, but sometimes we may prefer it to the searing summer heat. As we continue through our summer archival trip, we go back to the first few weeks our show existed in March of 2017, where we covered the aftermath of Snowstorm Stella. 

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As we continue our summer archival trip, we go back to June of 2019 and the 75th anniversary of D-Day with co-host Cristopher Cruz, where the top story on this day was out of West Point, where a five ton cargo truck overturned, killing one cadet and injuring 21 others.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As we continue our archival trip through the summer, today's trip into the archives takes us back to the very beginning in April of 2017, where the top story on this day was that the NYPD was investigating after two bodies were found in the Hudson River.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On today's trip into the archives back in February of 2020 (pre-pandemic), the top story on this day was that many people were starting to wonder if it was safe to walk around on the streets of the City of New York. Or at least the streets of East New York in Brooklyn after another accident that killed another chil...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! On today's trip into the archives back on this day in February of 2020 (as the pandemic was taking hold), there were several developing stories to lead off, including Roger Stone being sentenced to 3 and 1/2 years in federal prison.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! As the summer of 2017 was winding down, we were about to make a major change and go from mornings (11:30AM) to evenings (5PM). In today's trip into the archives however, we go back to the show we did back on September 11th of 2017.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Midway through our first summer back in 2017, we were still trying to find the right balance as I was doing the show in addition to working a summer job. Regardless, in today's trip into the archives back in July of 2017, the top story was that New York state's top Democrats were joining together to stop the impend...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! From archive trips that took us from the very beginning, today's archive trip takes us back to the pre-pandemic recent history. Back in February of 2020, the top story was at the Harvey Weinstein rape trial, where one name kept popping up more than any other: Annabella Sciorra.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Always wear the right shoes when it rains so you don't slip and fall. We'll explain why. As we were heading into our second full semester at Kingsborough (and a change in the timeslot to 5pm), in today's trip into the archives back in August of 2017, a new report found that transit delays had cost New York City ove...

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives, the top story on this day back in August of 2017 was that a man was shot and seriously wounded in the Norwood section of The Bronx.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives, the top story on this day back in August of 2018 was that the plane carrying rapper Post Malone had to make an emergency landing at Stewart Airport after two tires blown off during takeoff at Teterboro Airport.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip to the archives, the top story on this day was that New York City stopped a future terrorist the previous day, sentencing the man to 20 years in prison for trying to assist the Islamic State group.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives, after taking more than a month off to work a summer camp job, the top story on this day in August of 2018 was that people that were aware of the federal investigation into Michael Cohen said that prosecutors were preparing criminal charges.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! In today's trip into the archives in April of 2019, the top story was Chanel Lewis being convicted of murder in Karina Vatrano's death.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! My WKRB producers always liked to play tricks on me. Whether it was locking me out of the studio or giving me my coffee in a dribble glass, they were just full of surprises. April 1st is normally April Fool's Day and perfect for jokes, which is today's trip into the archives.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! Halloween is my wife's favorite holiday. She goes all out for it, and she's even gotten me into the swing of it now. Today's trip to the archives takes us to Halloween in 2019.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien! If you remember how the year began, it all started with the Impeachment Trial of President Trump in January of 2020. In today's trip into the archives, we go back to Day 1 of the trial with the written Questions and Answers of impeachment, which were read by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.