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July 20th, 2026: The VP's New Baby, Andrew Tate Is The New Diddy And The Bus Breakdown · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is brought to you by the awkward turnaround when you're walking
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  down the street and realize that the blue dot on the map is going the wrong way.
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  Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it the most never use it. Anonymous.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Sarcast. I give you the news and maybe a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick, and today is July 20th, 2026.
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  Like, thank God we're able to be outside again.
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  And I don't know about you, but, like, a lot of people that I know were like,
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  what are you talking about? I was just outside, like, normal.
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  I was being so weird, and I was pretty much inside the past couple days,
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  and yesterday was the first day I was, like, actually going outside.
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  I don't know if I'm just, like, a psychopath or just somebody that's,
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  like, conscious of my health.
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  And, like, I'm not trying to be passive-aggressive in any way,
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  but, like, that whole wildfire situation was very rough and intense.
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  So, speaking of very rough and intense and real news, Andrew and Tristan Tate
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  are back in the headlines.
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  Not for good reasons. And if you don't know who Andrew Tate is,
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  he's this, like, super famous podcaster.
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  I don't even know why, but I just know that he's a super famous podcaster.
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  But now he's in the news for, like, really bad reasons.
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  The brothers just got arrested in Miami after the cops in the UK were like,
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  can you please go after these guys?
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  They were arrested for allegations of rape, human trafficking,
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  and assault. So like very ditty vibes.
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  The brothers obviously deny any wrongdoing, and they've continued to fight against all of this.
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  The Tate brothers have been dealing with legal battles across multiple countries,
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  including Romania and the UK.
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  And now the US has become the latest stop on what might be the least relaxing world tour ever created,
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  like literally most people just use their passport to collect stamps and like
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  go to a lot of different airports and take pictures in front of landmarks and
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  the tape brothers have somehow turned those into a legal document with frequent flyer miles.
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  Here's the strangest thing about internet fame. You can build such a massive
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  following and sell millions of dollars in courses about confidence and success,
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  and convince people that you have life completely figured out,
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  but you also at the same time could be the main character in an international legal drama.
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  Right now, the biggest mystery isn't where they're going to go next.
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  It's whether any country is still accepting new applications for the Andrew
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  Tate Legal Saga World Tour.
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  So this is just a little reminder that if somebody seems like they have it all
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  figured out they're the people who have at least figured out.
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  J.D. and Usha Vance just welcomed a baby boy this week making history because
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  it's the first time for more than 150 years that a sitting vice president has
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  had a child born while in office.
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  This is such a strange history, fun fact.
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  Like, the fact that no VP has had a baby in over 150 years is crazy, right?
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  The Vances announced the birth of their son, and now the White House has a new
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  little tiny resident whose main job is basically just to be adorable and occasionally
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  interrupting important meetings with the most powerful people in the country.
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  So as we all know, Costco used to be a place where your parents went to buy
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  a 48-pack of toilet paper and a rotisserie chicken that somehow still cost the
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  same as it did exactly 20 years ago.
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  But thanks to TikTok, Costco has become a full-blown lifestyle brand.
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  Suddenly, everyone has a Costco must-buy list.
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  There are influencers showing you the best seasonal items, they're ranking snacks,
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  reviewing kirkland products and acting like they just discovered a hidden treasure
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  chest instead of a warehouse full of mayonnaise the size of a bathtub,
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  costco has become what people are calling a tiktok monoculture where millions
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  of people are suddenly obsessed with the same products at the same time,
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  like the other day someone just posted on tiktok about like some random pair
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  of sweatpants that they found and then overnight everyone is like running to
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  costco like there's a Black Friday sale on them.
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  But Costco has kind of cracked the code, though, right?
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  Other companies spend millions trying to make people obsessed with their products,
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  and Costco just puts a giant jar of something on a shelf and just kind of,
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  like, lets the internet do free advertising for them.
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  I mean, Costco is a pretty cool place. My mom used to take me and my sister
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  there for lunch literally all the time.
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  She would just have us go around the store at least twice and got every single sample that they had.
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  I mean, it works, right?
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  The American dream used to be owning a house, but now it's getting a Costco
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  membership and finding the limited edition item before it disappears.
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  In Lindsay life, so if you were listening to the pod last week,
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  you know that I was down the shore at the Jersey Shore with my family.
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  So on Saturday, I took the bus back to New york i actually ran into like a family
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  friend who i may or may not have seen in like at least 15 years but that's besides
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  the point so i get on the bus with her,
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  and we're almost back to the city we're like almost at the lincoln tunnel and our bus breaks down,
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  and he like our bus driver like pulls over in the beginning
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  and he stops for a few minutes but then he like goes to check on something and
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  like these bus drivers don't speak English so you hear him like babbling in
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  like Chinese or something you're like I don't know what this guy is saying,
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  whatever but he like keeps driving on but then like every few minutes he keeps
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  pulling off and then at one point he like pulls off and he like.
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  Something explodes on him so he has all this stuff like all over his shirt we're
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  like well this is probably not okay,
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  but then he like keeps getting back into the bus and like driving so we're like
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  well maybe it is okay maybe we can get back into the city,
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  and the girl in front of me was like i'm calling an uber but i'm like the uber
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  is literally 60 like it's so expensive anyway finally he pulls over to the side
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  right before the tunnel and was like we we can't get any further there so.
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  It was either like call an uber for 50 or wait for another like 15 20 minutes
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  for another bus to come take us,
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  so me and my family friend were like let's just like wait for the bus to come
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  so we waited like 20 minutes for this bus to come this little tiny bus shows
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  up like a little school bus situation to get us through lincoln tunnel,
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  and we're all like cheering for this bus literally took me like five hours to
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  get back into the city just for me to go on some like little mediocre date,
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  but that's a story for another time you can check out my tiktok if you want
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  to know about my latest dating adventures thing of the week this week is the
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  world cup is finally over,
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  what feels like it's been literally forever now the world cup is finally over,
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  it wrapped up this past weekend, which means the entire world can finally unclench.
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  For the last month, literally every conversation has somehow become about soccer.
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  People who literally haven't kicked a soccer ball around since middle school
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  were suddenly like experts on the game.
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  Every office in this country and around the world have had at least one person
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  secretly watching a game during a meeting.
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  Every sports bar suddenly had flags from countries nobody has thought about in years.
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  Every person you know discovered they're either one-quarter Italian,
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  one-eighth Argentinian, or like spiritually Spanish whenever their team started winning.
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  The best part of the World Cup wasn't even about the soccer.
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  It's watching adults lose their mind over a sport, then completely ignore the
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  other three years and 11 months.
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  Jerseys come out of storage and group chats are literally war zones and people
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  wake up at 6 a.m on a tuesday because like you know that's when belgium played,
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  and then the tournament just ends and everyone just like puts their jerseys
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  away forgets every player's name maybe except for one and goes right back to
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  pretending that soccer doesn't even exist again.
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  So congratulations to Spain on winning it all.
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  Congratulations to Argentina for making it an incredible run for them.
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  And congratulations to the rest of us for reviving a month where every bar had
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  at least one person screaming at a TV in a language that nobody knows.
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  See you all again in four years where we magically become soccer experts again.
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  Cooking tip of the day. If you put a raw onion in the fridge for 20 to 30 minutes
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  before slicing it, it helps reducing crying.
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  You'll still cry though, but like over something else.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, and is Jewish by looking for a date,
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  email me at lindsay at thedailystarcast.com.
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  Thanks so much for listening. Have a great Monday and I will talk to you guys tomorrow.