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April 22nd, 2026: Kevin Warsh, Madonna's Missing Clothes And Being In Charge · 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 April 22nd, 2026.
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  Hey, so I'm currently recording this podcast somewhere in upstate New Jersey.
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  Is that a thing? Upstate New Jersey or is it up New Jersey? Northern New Jersey.
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  However you say it, I'm in northern upper New Jersey and some Marriott at some
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  hotel and yeah, I'll get more into it in my Lindsay Life update.
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  In real news, yesterday's big Washington performance featured Kevin Warsh,
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  Trump's pick for Fed chair, and he spent hours assuring senators he's absolutely,
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  positively, definitely not there to do Trump's pick.
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  It's just a totally random coincidence that Trump wants lower interest rates
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  and nominated a guy saying rates should maybe just go lower.
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  Senators repeatedly asked whether he'd be a sock puppet, which is honestly the
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  most efficient phrase Congress has said in years.
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  Warsh insisted he be independent, at the same time as Trump is talking to CNBC
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  saying he'd be disappointed if Warsh didn't cut rates. You know the drill here.
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  Warsh also blamed the Federal Reserve for past inflation, said the central bank
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  talks too much, and suggested AI could boost productivity enough to justify lower rates.
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  So the plan might be for him to trust the robots, cut rates,
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  and hope everyone forgets eggs cost $12 last year.
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  Meanwhile, both Republicans and Democrats questioned whether this was a monetary
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  policy or just another season of who wants to control the economy.
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  For everybody listening at home, this affects mortgages, credit cards,
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  car loans, and whether buying groceries continues to feel like financing a yacht.
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  So basically, Warch says he's nobody's puppet, and Washington responded, yeah, okay, sure.
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  Florida announced their criminally investigating chat GBT and OpenAI after reviewing
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  messages from the man responsible for a shooting at Florida State last year
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  where two people were killed.
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  Yes, we have now entered the era of prosecutors trying to indict a.
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  The attorney general said the gunman asked ChatGBT about things like gunpowder,
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  ammunition, crowd timing, and how people will react to a campus shooting.
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  Prosecutors claim if a human had given the same advice, they charged them with murder.
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  OpenAI responded by saying the shooting was a tragedy, but ChatGBT is not responsible.
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  They said the bot gave factual information already available publicly and did
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  not encourage violence. Basically, they said he could have just Googled all
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  of this and got the same information.
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  Florida says it will subpoena records, policies, and internal safety documents
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  to see whether anyone involved in building or managing the systems could face liability.
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  Meanwhile, this also happens to be election season in Florida,
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  where nothing says serious government quite like announcing a war on chat.
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  The real issue underneath this is how responsible should AI companies be when
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  dangerous people use their tools.
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  Apparently more responsible than the dangerous people. Brace yourself for this one.
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  Madonna says several vintage pieces from her personal collection went missing
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  after her surprise Coachella performance with Sabrina Carpenter.
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  Apparently, even pop royalty loses her things too.
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  The missing ensemble included a purple jacket, corset, and dress that Madonna
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  said were part of her own archive. She posted that the moment was full circle
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  until she realized history had disappeared into the desert.
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  Police reportedly believe the items may have fallen off a golf cart while being
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  transported and have not been intentionally stolen, which means somewhere in
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  California there might be a rhinestone corset lying in the sand,
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  or some cop just scooped everything up and is now hiding all the stuff at their house. Either or.
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  Madonna is offering a reward for their return. if anyone suddenly finds any of these vintage items.
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  They're kind of like a missing person, right? If anyone is spotted wearing it,
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  they could probably call 911 and be like, I just saw someone wearing Madonna's
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  missing jacket at In-N-Out.
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  And imagine like three cars show up and surround the girl and they're like, drop the jacket.
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  I don't know. I mean, like crazier things are happening in the world right now, right?
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  In Lindsay life. Okay, so as I said, I'm currently at this random hotel in Northern
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  Upstate, however you want to call it, New Jersey.
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  I'm a producer on this 90s show with,
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  like, a bunch of 90s celebrities, and I obviously can't name whom they are,
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  but right now, it's just me and the celebrities at this hotel,
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  and I'm, like, the only one,
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  like, I guess, like, in charge here, and something actually did happen last
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  night where I had to, like,
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  actually kind of take charge, and everything ended up fine, and it was one of
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  those things where you really have to fake it until you made it, and I guess I made it.
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  Things I'm thinking about. How I'm basically 31 years old and my mom still freaks
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  out about the idea of me driving a minivan on the highway.
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  And she says she doesn't want to become like her mom.
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  Cooking tip of the day. Sometimes, if you taste as you go, it will help you
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  figure out if things are going really, really well or really, really bad.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, and as you wish by 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.