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Podcast: The Update with Brandon Julien
Episode: The Update (Halloween 2025)- October 31st
Description: Thirty-one days into the government shutdown, and we’ve officially crossed from “temporary inconvenience” into “long-term relationship.” Congress is still arguing, the bills are still piling up, and at this point, even the interns are starting to grow beards. The glimmer of hope we saw earlier in the week has dimmed back down to a faint nightlight — the kind that flickers right before the ghost jumps out in a bad horror movie. And speaking of haunted things, we’ve got another big shakeup brewing in the media world. Gayle King — yes, that Gayle King — might be saying goodbye to CBS Mornings next...