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August 17th, 2026: The Daily Sarcast Residency Begins! · The Daily Sarcast

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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 Wernick and today is Monday, August 17th, 2026.
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  Surprise! I'm doing the Sarcast today, but don't get used to this because this
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  is just kind of like my intro into what to expect for the next month.
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  So, you know, normally at this point I would have some news for you,
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  but today let's talk about the Daily Sarcast residency.
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  So I will be starting to travel today over the course of the next month for work,
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  which means I have officially left my apartment in New York,
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  my routine, or whatever you want to call whatever I do every day,
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  and most importantly, my Nespresso machine.
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  And honestly, I don't know which one I'm taking harder.
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  Probably the Nespresso machine.
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  So while I'm gone, as you guys know, the Daily Starcast is going into residency.
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  Yeah, I'm abandoning my own podcast and I'm handing it over to other people,
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  which, depending on who you ask, is either a very exciting new chapter or not good at all.
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  So over the course of the next month, you're going to be hearing from a few different hosts.
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  Some are friends, some are comedians that I've actually never met or maybe have
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  met once, and some are comedian friends.
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  So I hope that you guys enjoy all of them.
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  They all have different senses of humor and they are all going to keep the Daily
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  Starcast going while I'm off producing a brand new tv show,
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  which means for the first time since I started this podcast I'm not actually
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  going to be doing it but I'm happier to keep it going rather than stopping.
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  This podcast has become such a big part of my routine.
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  I love going through the news every day and looking up weird news articles and
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  just talking about the regular ones with the craziest headlines that,
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  you know, just seem so normal.
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  But now I'm going to be off somewhere in the country. I mean,
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  right now I'm in Las Vegas and I'm probably going to be running around every
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  morning in my hotel room at 6.30 wondering how the fuck I get an espresso.
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  So let's talk about the Sarcast residency. Think of it as the Daily sarcastic,
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  but Lindsay Free, which is my every one of my ex-boyfriend's favorite things to hear.
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  So every guest will get their own chance to see if they have the opportunity
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  to prove that this podcast can survive without me.
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  This is kind of like when you're left home alone for the weekend and your parents
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  are like, don't throw a party without me and then leave.
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  But instead of a house, this is a podcast. And instead of alcohol, it's microphones.
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  And instead of finding out someone broke a lamp, I'm going to find out someone
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  spent seven minutes talking about their ex-boyfriend and I couldn't do anything about it.
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  But the part that I love about this is that the Daily Starcast has always been
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  a place where you can talk about what's happening around the world without taking
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  it too seriously and laughing because, you know, at the end of the day is just life.
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  I think it's going to be really fun for me and all of you to hear what other
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  people's versions of it are.
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  So over the course of the next month, please make sure that you still tune in.
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  You can also feel free to go back to other episodes. I will have some special
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  episodes drop throughout the course of the month just for fun.
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  So make sure you stay tuned in for that too.
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  And if you're listening at some point, you're like, wait, I actually want to sign up.
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  Please make sure you message me or hit the sign up link and sign up because it's not too late.
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  Things I will miss while I'm gone. My apartment, my bed, my normal schedule,
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  which entailed waking up at like 8 a.m. and then going to the gym at 10 and
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  then getting to work at like 1 o'clock.
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  I'm going to miss my coffee machine. I'm going to miss just being able to hang out with my friends.
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  I'm going to definitely miss doing improv and stand-up and just being able to
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  go home after a long day and hang out on my couch.
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  Things that I'm definitely not going to miss.
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  The subway and it always getting delayed and how hot it is when you stand down by the platforms.
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  Paying $18 for a salad and $18 for a coffee.
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  The garbage smell on a hot New York summer day,
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  dating I am not going to miss dating feel like I have to cook because there's
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  food in the refrigerator and always that constant feeling that I have to be
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  doing something because I live in New York City,
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  I'm a very long schlep of having to get anywhere that I really want to go things
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  I am excited not to think about for the next month grocery shopping,
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  laundry dating,
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  cooking and having to go out That is what some may call a vacation,
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  but for me, that's just working 14-hour days.
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  So that's where we're at with that.
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  I'm officially, as I said in Las Vegas right now, I'm bopping around to a bunch
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  of different cities. I'm excited to tell you guys more about the show I'm on,
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  and I'm sure I'm going to have a lot, a lot of great stories when I come back.
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  Definitely some trauma and even more laundry.
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  Cooking tip of the day is don't buy groceries the day before you leave for a month.
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  Feedback comments questions a nice jewish boy looking for a date email me at
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  lindsey at the daily starcast.com thank you so much for listening i'll be back before you know it,
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  and to all the guest hosts taking over while i'm gone i'm gonna say my favorite
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  line that got cut from sexy beasts,
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  good luck you're gonna need it.