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June 25th, 2026: REI VS AI, North Korean Ties To The Cartel And Taking My Friends TJ's Virginity · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is brought to you by being unemployed and going to open mics
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  in the middle of the day with a surprising amount of other people there.
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  First, we would reiterate previous comments that dumping trash onto the street
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  and stealing public property for your own personal use are both illegal,
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  antisocial behaviors, and not what New Yorkers do.
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  On top of all that, doing both on camera is incredibly stupid.
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  The New York City Sanitation Department on a woman who went viral for taking
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  a Knicks-themed trash can and dumping it in the middle of the street during
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  the Knicks parade and is now no longer with JPMorgan Chase.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Starcast. I gave you the news and made me a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick and today is June 25th, 2026.
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  Good morning. I hope you're surviving the beginning of summer.
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  It's like so freaking hot, so I hope you're putting your sunscreen on and staying cool out there.
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  In real news, the MTA and Amtrak are currently fighting over who gets to redesign
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  Penn Station, and it feels like two agencies who won't credit for what we already
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  know will be a shitty renovation.
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  The chair of MTA called Amtrak's partnership proposal bizarre and says that
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  details leaked to the press before he even got the letter. Burn Amtrak!
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  The good news is everyone agrees Penn Station needs fixing.
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  The bad news is that the people in charge of fixing it are currently beefing
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  harder than the Real Housewives reunion.
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  So as of now, Penn Station might get renovated before anyone who works for any
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  of these agencies learns how to use Reply All correctly.
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  REI is getting roasted online after posting an ad on Instagram that very much looks AI-generated.
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  Generated the company says the weird looking image wasn't created with ai,
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  they said that somebody who works for the company accidentally used a meta ai
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  editing tool when they were resizing the photo and didn't realize that it transformed
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  the image into what looks like a fever dream produced by a robot,
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  unfortunately for rei the internet has already made its decision the comment
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  section immediately turned into CSI, artificial intelligence,
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  with people zooming in on every
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  little pixel like they were actually investigating a true crime scene.
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  So the lesson is here, we've reached the point where even if you don't use AI,
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  people assume that you did, which means AI has officially become the glitter of technology.
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  Once it's on something, good luck convincing anyone it got there by accident.
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  The women's national soccer team of North Korea is facing scrutiny after they
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  arrived at a tournament on private jets that were a part of the ICE Barbie drug trafficking network.
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  Yes, that actually really did happen.
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  So officials say the team itself isn't accused of wrongdoing,
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  but this whole thing has raised plenty of questions about how the flights were
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  arranged and who paid for them, and why are those planes in North Korea.
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  It's one of those headlines where every new detail somehow makes less sense than the last.
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  You start reading about soccer, and then three paragraphs later,
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  you're in a story involving private jets, international sanctions,
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  and a drug cartel nickname that sounds like a rejected Disney villain.
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  FIFA has a lot of rules, but apparently, please don't arrive on a cartel-adjacent
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  aircraft wasn't specific enough.
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  In Lindsay life yesterday I hung out with my friend Zoe hey Zoe if you're listening,
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  and we met the most New York way possible I kid you not this is how we became
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  friends when I was working back at the spa at the front desk this past winter
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  Zoe was getting a massage and she was checking out,
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  and we ended up chatting for like 20 minutes as I was checking her out and she
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  was telling me how she just moved to the neighborhood and she was looking to
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  meet new people because she's from Australia.
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  Anyway, we like exchanged Instagrams and ended up hanging out and now we're like legit friends.
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  My mom still doesn't believe that I became friends with someone after checking them out at the spa.
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  But yeah, it's actually very true. Anyway, so yesterday when we hung out,
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  I was like, let's go get coffee and let's take a walk down to Trader Joe's because
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  it's like 20 blocks from our neighborhood. It's so far away.
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  Anyway, it turns out Zoe has never been to Trader Joe's. She's only been in
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  this country now for like two months.
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  So she's very, very fresh off the boat.
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  So we walk up to Trader Joe's and I was like, we're here. And she was like,
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  what, what is this? And I was like, what, what are you talking about?
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  Like, what do you mean? What is this? Like, it's Trader Joe's. How do you not know?
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  She's like, I've never been. I'm like, what did you think I was talking about
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  when I said, let's go to Trader Joe's?
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  And she was like, I don't know I just figured it was somewhere that you needed
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  to go and I was down to come with you and I was like yes and this is why we're
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  friends because we're such yes girls anyway so I got to give her a tour around
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  Trader Joe's I loved it it was so fun.
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  I got to take some on Trader Joe's virginity with them.
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  And that was also my second time this year doing that with somebody.
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  Like, I don't know what that says more about the world or me.
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  Things taking up space in my brain this week. What I should cook for dinner
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  tonight and all of the other nights.
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  If a guy that I dated for 10 days 10 months ago will ever call me again,
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  i really need to clean the apartment before my roommate gets home from tour next week,
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  chat gbt always telling me i'm right even if i say the sky is green and how
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  it's literally basically july because march was four years long,
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  cooking tip of the day frozen veggies are super cheap and sometimes better than
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  fresh ones feedback comments questions and ice jewish by looking for a date
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  email me at lindsay at the daily starcast.com thanks so much for listening Talk to you guys tomorrow.