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Podcast: The Update with Brandon Julien
Episode: The Update- December 9th
Description: In The Update Journal, we have brand-new recurring side-series: Great Ideas… On Paper, where we take a fond look back at brilliant concepts that absolutely should have worked — until reality showed up wearing sweatpants and holding a melted McFlurry. Today’s inaugural lesson: McDonald’s All-Day Breakfast. A concept so perfect, so universally beloved, that it crumbled the moment someone tried ordering an Egg McMuffin at 3:47 in the afternoon. And in today’s Honorable Mention: Millennials are gearing up to make more 2026 New Year’s resolutions than any other generation — because nothing says “I am holding my life together” like putting unrea...