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July 6th, 2026: A New Gay Dating App, Trump's FIFA Fix And Guest Starring · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is brought to you by eggplants. They're actually berries.
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  You can declassify whatever you want. Donald Trump.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Starcast. I give you the news and maybe a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick, and today is July 6, 2026.
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  I hope that you guys had a great weekend and stayed cool and got to see some fireworks.
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  And if you posted fireworks on your story, I think this is a reminder that we
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  all know what fireworks looks like and we don't need to continue to watch it
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  on your story. So if you didn't post it, thank you.
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  In real news, there's this new dating app called Goose and it launched with
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  the promise of helping gay men find actual meaningful relationships instead of endless hookups.
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  Super cute idea, right? Except there's a little bit of a problem with this one.
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  Apparently a bunch of the hot guys promoting the app on instagram don't actually exist,
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  their profile photos seem to be ai generated and they all send the same exact
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  messages to people and many of the counts were created within weeks of each other,
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  dating apps are full of ghosting i mean i would know it's a lot of catfishing
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  and people who say that they're 5 11 when they're really 5'6".
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  Now apparently you have to wonder if Brad with the perfect jawline is just AI.
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  The app isn't being accused of having fake users. The controversy is over the marketing.
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  But if your launch strategy is let's trick lonely people with imaginary influencers,
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  maybe you should workshop that one a little bit longer.
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  The FDA has issued a recall for certain potato chips after they were linked
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  to a possible salmonella contamination.
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  Contamination.
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  Potato chips literally have one job, just to be salty and crunchy and fun.
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  Maybe cut the roof of your mouth by accident, but that's literally it.
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  You expect salmonella from undercooked chicken, not from something that's a
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  crispy potato and seasoning.
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  Imagine getting sick from a bag of potato chips.
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  This is just another reminder that life is a random number generator.
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  You can meal prep every Sunday, drink green juice, count your macros,
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  and then a potato chip comes in and ruins your entire life.
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  It's not often that the most dangerous thing at the party could come from Trader Joe's.
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  The TSA agents at Indianapolis Airport discovered a live smoke grenade hidden
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  inside a jar of peanut butter the other day.
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  Most people are just trying to sneak snacks. God, I cannot talk today.
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  They're trying to sneak snacks onto a flight, but this guy is building a criminal lunchable instead.
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  Even better, there was a second grenade in the bag. That's also a lot of peanut butter.
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  And the defense was basically, someone told me this would work,
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  which is also the official saying of every bad decision ever made at an airport.
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  In Lindsay life, I had a very wholesome July 4th weekend.
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  On both saturday and sunday i hung out with two different groups of girls at like a friend's house,
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  on saturday i was with a friend group from med school and then on sunday i was with a high school group
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  and i'm not actually in any of these friend groups but i always like to guest
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  star and i always get invited to like guest star in them but i'm not actually
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  in them so it's kind of fun when you
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  get to do that because you get to hear about all the drama unfolding,
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  but you're not involved in any of it.
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  And you kind of just get to watch it like it's a TV show. It's fun.
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  Thing of this week is FIFA's kind of non-existent legit rulebook.
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  So there's some weird stuff happening in the World Cup right now.
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  One of the players on the U.S. team got a red card the other day when we were
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  playing against Bosnia.
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  And that means you're automatically suspended for the next match. End of story.
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  I also heard it was like a bit controversial.
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  Like he immediately got red carded, which was kind of crazy.
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  But then also he didn't really get the red card.
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  So trump decided that this situation took priority over all of his other presidential duties,
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  and picked up the phone and called the fifa's president so fifa reversed the
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  suspension using this little known disciplinary rule,
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  and all of a sudden this u.s player was cleared to play now against our game
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  against belgium that's coming up,
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  so obviously everyone in belgium is like super pissed.
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  And a lot of people are wondering whether the rulebook is written in ink or just a dry erase marker.
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  And now maybe FIFA genuinely believe the red card was unfair. Maybe.
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  But when the punishment changes after a phone call from one of the most powerful
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  people in the world, it doesn't really start to feel legit anymore, does it?
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  If this becomes the new standard, every coach is going to spend halftime saying,
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  does anyone have the president's number?
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  Cooking tip of the day. You can let the husbands do it, but the girls always know how to cook best.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, a nice Jewish boy looking for a date,
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  email me at lindsay at thedailystarcast.com. Thanks so much for listening.
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  Talk to you guys tomorrow.