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August 18th, 2026: Drunk Deer, Expensive Beef And Ray's Life · The Daily Sarcast

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  This episode is brought to you by the fine folks at Restoration Hardware for
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  helping me find an end table that matches my coffee table, which,
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  as you all know, in the gay community is the equivalent of having your second child.
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  And the fact that my end table is from Restoration Hardware means it's like
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  having a second child in a fancy private school.
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  That's right. If you come over and you don't use a coaster, I will consider it a hate crime.
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  Hard pivot. If Bambi overindulges in forced aperitif, it might not be time to
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  drive like you own the road.
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  This somewhat weirdly worded warning is a literal warning from French police,
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  warning drivers to be aware of drunk deer who are running around the French
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  countryside eating fermented fruit and getting drunk.
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  You can see the videos online, which means that the deer in France are having
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  almost as much fun as we're going to have as your special guest hosts during
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  the Daily Sarcast summer residency. Woohoo.
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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 Ray Farrow. Today is Tuesday, August 18th, 2026.
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  I'm Ray, as I said before. Some of you might remember me as the OG guest when
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  Lindsay had a missing episode, taking over the daily sarcasm because,
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  I don't know, I'm bored this morning.
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  And I think it would be fun to share my hot takes on Luigi Mangione,
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  Jesus Christ. All right, sorry, guys.
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  But yes, in real news, on Friday, Luigi Mangione pled guilty in federal court.
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  To stalking that resulted in the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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  Notably, he did not plead guilty to murder.
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  Now his lawyers could argue that because Mangione has already pleaded guilty
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  to killing Thompson, the Constitution's protection against being tried twice
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  for the same crime means New York can't try him for murder,
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  when his state trial begins on September 8th.
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  Is that a legitimate legal argument or an attempt to walk away on a technicality?
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  Folks we're all adults here what yes he's trying to get off a murder from a technicality,
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  Wherever you stand on this politically, two years ago, this murder happened
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  and nobody's insurance rates went down.
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  So maybe let's find a more peaceful way to discuss the state of health care
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  in the United States of America. But again, what do I know?
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  I'm standing on the couch reading news headlines in the New York Times in my
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  pajamas, filling in for a free podcast.
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  So I don't know, maybe single payer health care.
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  Let's talk about beef and how nobody can afford beef anymore.
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  After absorbing almost two years of surging beef costs, Americans are finally
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  showing signs that they've reached their limit.
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  Beef consumption has dropped in the country while people are eating more chicken,
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  which I guess is good for our heart health collectively. But beef is also delicious.
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  So, you know, just keep an eye on that if you're not consuming much beef.
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  In adorable news jenny lu a six-year-old pug found abandoned in a box in south
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  korea was crowned world's ugliest dog on friday at,
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  the sonoma county fair in her fourth attempt at the title the floppy tongue
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  champion takes some five thousand dollars on a trip to new york,
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  to be on the today show later today hell yeah first off four attempts to be crowned world this dog.
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  Good for her. You never give up on your dreams.
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  It's never no. It's just not yet. Second, Google this cute dog, Ginny Liu.
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  This tongue is so precious. She deserves the title and then some.
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  This is the most adorable dog I've ever seen, and I cannot wait to see her on
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  the Today Show in a few hours.
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  In New York City news, congestion pricing, it turns out, has little effect on
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  air quality, study fines, which means that all the cars that are avoiding the
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  city haven't caused any more pollution than cars usually would.
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  In the other boroughs, which, cool, we're not going to die from cars.
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  Thanks, New York Times. That's some real, how much money do we spend on these
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  studies? Like, come on, guys.
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  Ray life update. Okay, guys, I do have a coffee table and an end table now.
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  So I am officially an adult.
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  This is what life is in your 40s. I have a confession, though.
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  I don't know why they call the coffee table the coffee table.
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  Who keeps who keeps their coffee on the coffee? You got to bend over every time
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  I want to take a sip of coffee. That's ridiculous.
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  I keep my coffee on the end table. You should call the end table the coffee table.
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  And the coffee table in your 40s, your coffee table is actually your giant expensive
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  book table because that's the table where I keep giant expensive books,
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  giant expensive books about architecture, giant expensive books I've never opened
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  because I don't care about architecture.
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  The only thing I'm trying to build is a facade of being an adult that has their life together.
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  So people, when they come over to my house are more inclined to use coasters,
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  which is all we really want in the world. That's why we march.
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  All right. Tuesday is Lindsay lessons, a lesson by Ray.
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  Okay. Some of you know, I used to be a wine sommelier a million years ago.
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  And people are like, Ray, do you have a passion for wine? And I'm like,
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  no, I just have a passion for being condescending to rich people.
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  But there is like one little hack a lot of people want to know when your wine's not cold enough
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  if you just like put a bunch of grapes in your freezer and then you can just
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  drop grapes in your wine whenever and when they thaw it it'll chill your wine
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  but it won't water your wine down or affect the taste all that much so
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  on a hot day if you have a pinot grigio that's a little too warm just pull some uh,
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  some some grapes some concord grapes out of the freezer and uh go to town and
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  it won't ruin the taste of your wine at all.
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  Cooking tip of the day, because nobody's eating beef anymore,
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  I'm going to give you guys a steak recipe.
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  Cooking the best steak in the world is easier than boiling pasta.
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  You get a cast iron skillet and keep it in your oven and then preheat your oven to 450 degrees.
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  And while your oven's preheating, dry the steak out as much as possible.
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  Get your steak from a good butcher, get a prime cut of steak,
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  make this a treat, dry your steak off of the paper towel, then put salt and
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  pepper on each side. That's all you need, salt and pepper and a drizzle of olive oil.
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  And then you're going to throw the steak on that really hot cast iron skillet
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  and you're going to get a sizzle and you're going to throw it in the oven for
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  two minutes and then get a disc of butter ready.
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  Flip the steak, put the disc of butter and maybe some garlic on top of the steak,
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  put it back in the oven for two to three to five minutes, depending on how rare
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  or well you want your steak cooked.
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  After that, pull it out, put it on a cutting board and spoon some of the melted
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  butter on top of the steak and let it sit for like 10 minutes and then cut it and it's done.
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  And that was so much easier than anything you've ever cooked before.
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  And this steak could cost like hundreds of dollars and you can impress millions
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  of people and you won't be single anymore, I promise.
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  And I guess like the basic thing is pair it with a good Napa cab and you'll
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  have the best date of your life and you'll be married in a week. I promise.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, a nice Jewish boy looking for a date,
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  email lindsey at the daily sarcastic.com.
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  Thanks for listening to this first episode of the summer residency.
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  It was so cool like being here. I'm doing the laughing Buddha festival.
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  So if you want to follow Ray Ray Pharaoh on Instagram and then see me tell stupid
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  jokes, I'd love to have you. And if you don't, you get your money back for this
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  free podcast. I promise.
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  Have a great day, guys. Lindsay, thank you so much for letting me do this.
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  This was so fun. Love you guys. Bye.