In this week’s completely unhinged yet somehow heartfelt edition of The Update Journal, we begin where all responsible adults do in February: convincing ourselves that this is the year. Spring Training is back, Mets and Yankees fans are stretching like it’s emotional yoga, and I am once again refilling my Optimism Cup like it’s bottomless brunch in Port St. Lucie. Will there be a parade? Probably not. Will we talk ourselves into one anyway? Absolutely.
Then—because I have a college degree and apparently refuse to use it responsibly—we pivot into a conversation I never expected to have on a show that once covered transit budgets and mayoral press conferences: the sociology, psychology, and complete chaos theory of “trash dick vs. quality dick.” At some point during this segment, I paused mid-rant and asked myself, What happened to my life? My producers considered cutting my mic. Tommie texted me, “Are you okay?” I am not.
And finally, before we head into President’s Week and gear up for the march toward our 9th anniversary, we land the plane with The Last Word—a Valentine’s note to Tommie. Because after baseball delusion and academic disgrace, the only thing that makes sense is love. Sweet, sincere, “please don’t judge what I said earlier in this episode” love.
It’s optimism, existential crisis, and romance—all in one episode. Just another calm, normal week on The Update.
In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Friday, a 40-year-old panhandler was shot dead inside a Midtown 7-Eleven after he held the door open for the gunman and asked him for money, cops and sources said.
New York politicians defiantly raised a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument amid a boisterous, cheering crowd, rebuking the Trump administration for removing the well-known symbol of pride from the LGBTQ+ landmark.
And in Minneapolis, the Trump administration is ending a massive immigration crackdown that swept across the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and other Minnesota communities, border czar Tom Homan said, concluding an operation that led to thousands of arrests, angry mass protests and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens.
