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August 6th, 2026: Salmonella In The South, RFK's Wise Words And Ruining Someones Lunch · The Daily Sarcast

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  insert theme song here this is the Daily Starcast.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick and today is August 6, 2026.
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  In real news, if you've looked at concert ticket prices lately and thought,
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  hell no, you're definitely not alone there.
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  After years of people complaining about outrageous prices, artists like Coldplay,
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  Olivia Rodrigo, and Charlie XCX are offering a limited number of $20 tickets for select shows.
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  The catch is that you're not going to know where you're sitting until the day
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  of the concert and usually when you get there, so it's also going to be a lot
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  harder for scalpers to snatch them up and resell them for five times the price.
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  Average concert ticket prices climb from around $84 in 2013 to more than $130
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  last year, with some major tours charging hundreds, sometimes even thousands,
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  i.e. Taylor Swift, for literally a single seat.
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  Not every artist is doing this $20 thing, and the discounted tickets are very
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  limited too, but it's a sign that musicians are realizing that fans can't just
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  keep spending half their paycheck just to sing along to their music for two hours.
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  So whether it's an act of goodwill or people really have finally hit their spending
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  limit, one thing's for sure.
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  The days of casually deciding to go to a concert have been replaced by budgeting and payment plans.
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  And also, if we're bringing back $20 concert tickets, can we also bring back
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  concert drinks that don't require financing too?
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  But baby sips, I guess.
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  Bad news for anyone who thought that the eggs were the safe,
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  boring option this week.
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  Now, they're not again. More than 2 million eggs have been recalled after a
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  salmonella outbreak linked to eggs produced by Midwest Poultry Services at a farm in Texas.
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  These eggs were sold across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi,
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  New Mexico, and Oklahoma under brands including Kroger, Simple Truth,
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  Country Morning, Brookshires, and Cal Maine Sun Ups.
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  So basically, if you're in the South, check your eggs.
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  And these eggs were produced between June 6th and July 3rd.
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  So also, if you did recently buy eggs, maybe take a quick look before you make your morning omelet.
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  That wouldn't be a great way to start the day, would it?
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  Grocery shopping has really become a trust exercise. First, all of the prices went up.
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  And then we had shrinkflation, where your cereal box got smaller,
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  but the price got bigger.
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  And now eggs are just ruining our lives all over again.
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  RFK Jr. wants you to eat healthier. But first, he wants you to know that his
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  own stomach has the durability of a tank.
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  Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week discussed
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  his unusual eating habits, and he will literally eat anything.
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  And like, he really does mean anything. He said that he has no gag reflex and
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  has described his approach to food as being extremely adventurous,
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  trying foods that most people would probably look at and say, that's not dinner.
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  That's literally a medical emergency waiting for a Yelp review.
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  That's our government official. Kennedy is leading the Make America Healthy
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  Again movement, which really focuses on food, nutrition, and wellness.
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  But the internet also just resurfaced some of his previous comments about health,
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  including his very enthusiastic descriptions of the benefits of his personal wellness routine.
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  At one point, he even called certain digestive health experiences orgasmic.
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  Yes, again, our government health official.
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  That's also never something that you would expect to hear from the person in
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  charge of America's health policy.
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  But as we know, there's a lot of sentences we would have never expected to hear from our government.
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  I mean, RFK Jr.'s diet isn't wrong. Like, we should all be super healthy, right?
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  But if your wellness philosophy is like a combination of a nutrition seminar
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  and a dare from Fear Factor, maybe that's not it.
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  In Lindsay life, the only thing I can report on is yesterday,
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  my sister and I got in a fight in the middle of a sweet green on the Upper East,
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  around the corner from where we live.
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  And we sat down at this booth and we're enjoying our little salad together and this woman,
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  there's only one booth at the bottom of the sweet green and she just sat there
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  with her baby in the shoulder I guess she didn't want to take it up the stairs
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  so she asked if she could sit across from us and we're like yeah sure like we're gonna leave in a few,
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  anyway we just started yelling at each other and I had to apologize to the woman
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  after for fighting in front of her and ruining her lunch.
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  Things we pretend are normal but are actually insane.
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  Getting in a car with a random person constantly, or depending how much you use rideshares.
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  People always asking for tips for literally anything. Like somebody sells you
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  a water and you're supposed to tip them.
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  And dating apps require a monthly feed to find love.
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  Of there's literally one app now where you pay $20 just to go on the date and
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  nothing is even paid for then.
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  And having to prove that you're a human by clicking on 14 pictures of a crosswalk
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  and still not getting it correct,
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  cooking tip of the day it's really just turning on a pan and putting stuff in
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  at lindsay at the daily starcast.com thanks so much for listening talk to you
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  guys tomorrow Thank you.