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 Year 5 of The Update. When we first started this then-show at WKRB in 2017, the first year had a lot of things going on. Donald Trump's first year in office, mass shootings worldwide, and the Great American Solar Eclipse to name just a few. In Year 5, it was more of the same. There was the Russian war in Ukraine, more mass shootings in America, and the overturning of Roe V. Wade to name just a few that we'll mention. But also, after more than two years out on the road, we made our way to a new studio at UD Team in the summer of 2022. Oh, and one last thing- be on the lookout for some WKRB highlights as we looked back on five years of memories.

This edition of The Update Journal takes a hard left turn into nostalgia, broadcast law, and whatever Gen Z found in the back of the fashion closet with a “DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 2006” sticker on it.

First, Code Lyoko might be coming back, which means my childhood just sat up in bed like, “Wait… are we doing this again?” A potential Season 5 sounds exciting, terrifying, and emotionally classified as a gray area, because yes, I loved the show — but some memories are delicate museum artifacts. You don’t just reboot them without asking the people who were emotionally raised by cartoon kids fighting evil inside a supercomputer.

Then, in A Closer Look, we get into The FCC vs. WABC, where The View, equal time rules, and license renewal anxiety all walk into the same room and immediately ask for legal counsel. This is the kind of media story where one bad segment can turn into a paperwork tornado, and suddenly everybody is reading FCC guidelines like they’re trying to defuse a bomb with a commercial break coming up.

And today’s honorable mention: Gen Z has revived a sexy fashion trend that was previously declared extinct, because apparently no trend ever truly dies. It just waits in a drawer, gains confidence, and comes back when someone under 25 says, “Actually, this is a vibe.” Somewhere, a millennial is staring at their old photos in horror, whispering, “We buried this for a reason.”

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Clive Davis, the record company lawyer who became one of the music industry’s most powerful figures, launching or resurrecting the careers of such superstars as Janis Joplin, Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana and Alicia Keys, has died, his family confirmed. He was 94.

The Supreme Court reinstated a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.

And in Minnesota, a federal judge has blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials, accusing the Justice Department of using its investigatory powers to retaliate against state officials for not cooperating with federal efforts to crack down on illegal immigration.

On this edition of The Update Journal, we begin by honoring the true soldiers of the school year — the ones who never get a prep period, never get a lunch break, and somehow are always expected to perform miracles five minutes before dismissal. Today, we salute the main office printer, a machine that has survived permission slips, attendance sheets, event flyers, missing homework packets, last-minute schedules, and at least twelve people saying, “Can you print this real quick?” like that phrase has ever meant anything quick in the history of education.

Then, our summertime watchlist continues with Interview With the Vampire, Episode 2: “He Had a Way About Him… And Apparently a Casino Budget.” Louis continues getting pulled deeper into Lestat’s spell because, as he puts it, Lestat “had a way about him.” And apparently that “way” includes emotional manipulation, vampire mess, and the kind of financial flexibility where buying someone a casino is treated like picking up a birthday card from CVS. Louis is trying to understand his new life, his new urges, and the growing distance from his family, while Lestat is out here handling conflict like, “Have you considered real estate?”

And finally, we talk about the last week of school — also known as organized chaos with bulletin boards. The kids can smell summer vacation. The adults can smell burnout. The building is running on half-empty coffee cups, lost permission slips, hallway announcements, and the collective prayer that nobody does anything wild before the final bell. It is the one week where everyone is physically present, mentally on a beach, and emotionally one printer jam away from a full collapse.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Monday, A 51-year-old Connecticut man fell to his death from an upper deck of Madison Square Garden during a concert on Saturday night, police said.

Four people — including two teens — were shot and wounded in a wild shootout that erupted at a Big Apple park Saturday night, cops said.

And in Chicago, a spate of shootings in Chicago has led to at least seven deaths and 38 injuries since Friday evening, police say, prompting President Trump to renew his call for a military intervention in the nation’s third-largest city.