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August 7th, 2026: The Guy In The Billboard, Bans On Meta Glasses And Talking To My Grandmother With Dementia · The Daily Sarcast

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  The host of QVC Live on air yesterday while showing off one of her wigs.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Starcast. I give you the news and made me a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick and today is August 7th, 2026.
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  Guys, I want to give a big shout out today to one of my best friends from growing
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  up, Casey. It's her one year wedding anniversary. I think this weekend or next weekend.
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  I think it's this weekend. So happy anniversary, Casey and Spence.
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  Love you guys. Miss you guys. And I hope you enjoy eating the top of your cake.
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  You guys probably aren't even doing that. I'm probably the only one who will do that.
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  In real news, I know you were so worried, but Mitch McConnell is back on his feet.
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  He was discharged from a rehab after falling down and getting a concussion and a fractured rib.
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  He's home and he's doing physical therapy, but he does plan to go back to the Senate soon.
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  The guy is literally 84 years old.
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  While this is all great news for Mitch, it's terrible news for anyone hoping
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  Congress might actually get something done while he was gone.
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  Although, after watching Congress for the last few years, I'm not sure if anyone
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  can tell the difference between a senator recovering from a fall and a senator
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  just sitting through a hearing.
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  So remember when we all thought COVID was over and we could all just finally move on with our lives?
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  Just kidding. The government decided, based on the last few years of chaos,
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  that we needed to go back and talk about it some more.
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  Dr. Anthony Fauci has been held in contempt of Congress yesterday after refusing
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  to answer questions during a Senate hearing about the government's COVID response.
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  Fauci repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment rights, saying he was concerned
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  about potentially incriminating himself.
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  But Republicans were like, no, you just don't want to cooperate with us.
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  But wherever you stand on Fauci, there's something uniquely American about taking
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  one of the most stressful periods in modern history and turning it into a political reunion tour.
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  Most countries retire their controversies, but we just put them on a comeback tour.
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  We have Taylor Swift eras, we have Marvel faces, and now we have the Fauci face
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  of Congress where every few months someone says, this is the hearing that will
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  finally explain everything. And it doesn't.
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  The pandemic may be over, but the paperwork is not.
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  So welcome back to the Fauci hearings, America's longest running medical drama,
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  now with less science and more subpoenas.
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  In tech news, restaurants, pubs, and theaters in the UK are starting to ban
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  meta smart glasses over privacy concerns.
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  So as you know, these glasses look like normal glasses, right?
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  Except that they have that little camera built in, which means every person
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  wearing them now has the ability to look like they're casually enjoying brunch
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  while also potentially filming everyone else around them.
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  And there's plenty of normal uses for this. I mean, some people just want to
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  record their vacation or you just want hands-free directions or capture your
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  dog doing something really cute.
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  It's a literal way to take a mental photo.
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  I mean, the other day, my cousin had me try on her glasses and you could literally
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  listen to music from the glasses and it sounded like I had headphones on. It was wild.
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  But the problem here is that when someone walks into a restaurant wearing these
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  glasses, nobody thinks, wow, I hope they're recording their sandwich review.
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  Everyone is thinking, am I accidentally going to become TikTok famous for something really stupid?
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  So people are worried that customers and employees can be recording without their consent.
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  And the tiny cameras make it harder for people to know when they're being filmed.
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  So we've reached this really funny point in technology where the future was
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  supposed to look like flying cars and robot assistants.
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  Instead we have sunglasses where the person wearing them has to immediately
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  say don't worry I'm not recording you,
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  in Lindsay life yesterday I called my grandmother who has dementia,
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  it's not that bad yet but it's bad enough where I had a 45 minute phone call
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  with her and you know with people with dementia you have to repeat yourself
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  so I had to go through what I was doing for work twice.
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  And like this was two different times throughout the conversation in the beginning and then later on.
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  And then we cycled through my dating life three different times.
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  So that really drilled in for me that I'm not dating anybody right now.
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  Then she started freaking out about her white kitchen floors and how horrible
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  they are because she can't spill anything on them. And it's just so dirty all the time.
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  And she has to keep it so clean, which was why I had my fake sponsor today as white kitchen floors,
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  so after she goes on and on to me for like I don't know 10-15 minutes about
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  something from her past I don't I honestly I don't even remember.
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  Maybe I have dementia so we hang up and then she calls me back right away and
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  I was like oh shit what's wrong she tells me she doesn't know how to hang up
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  and I'm like well we did just hang up the phone. We literally weren't talking.
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  And then she goes, and this is why I need a new phone and hangs up. Great girl. Great girl.
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  MVP of the week this week goes to the guy who lived in a billboard.
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  Yeah, so this guy proved that in 2026, the fastest way to get noticed is not
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  by going viral or starting a podcast or making a TikTok.
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  It's by moving into a billboard.
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  So to promote Netflix's new movie, The Last House, Netflix put a guy inside
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  a billboard 30 feet above Sunset Boulevard.
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  And he wasn't just standing there holding a sign like those car wash guys.
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  They turned the billboard into a little tiny apartment, like with a couch,
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  books, games, and enough amenities to make everyone wonder, does this guy have
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  better housing than half of LA?
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  For three days, this man lived inside an advertisement while people walking
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  by could interact with him.
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  People stuck in traffic could have conversations with him.
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  We have to give this guy credit. Most people spend years trying to become memorable.
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  Who's going to forget about the guy in the billboard?
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  He didn't just promote the movie, he became the movie. So congrats to our MVP,
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  the guy in the billboard.
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  May your rent be cheap, your view be incredible, and may you never have to explain
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  to your future children why dad was so desperate for money he had to live in
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  a billboard for three days.
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  Cooking tip of the day. Don't walk too far away from the kitchen while you're cooking.
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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.
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  Have a great weekend. Do not forget to sign up for their residency if you haven't already.
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  And I will talk to you guys on Monday for the last week of the pod for me for a bit.