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Podcast: The Update with Brandon Julien
Episode: The Update- May 20th
Description: There are empty cups and empty hearts. McDonald’s customers are bidding a bitter farewell to free drink refills, one of the latest casualties from the brand already facing an identity crisis over extreme prices. In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, the FDNY firefighter who almost died while battling a Bronx house fire was released from the hospital to a rousing round of applause from fellow first responders. The teen shooter who fatally gunned down a 16-year-old “peacemaker” in Soho rode to the killing in a Citi Bike basket and was identified in part by his distinctive Air Jordan...