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October 15th, 2026: The New Press Secretary, Argentina's President Loves His Dead Dogs And Things I Did This Week · The Daily Sarcast

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  Well, that briefing was basically an SNL skit. Except it wasn't.
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  Jen Psaki on the new press secretary's 14-minute press briefing.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Starcast. Give you the news and maybe a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Wernick, and today is October 15, 2026.
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  Hi, guys. This is actually going to be the last pod of mine for the week.
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  Topher is taking over the pod again tomorrow on Friday. I love him. He's so freaking funny.
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  So I figured why not hand him the mic again for Friday. So make sure you tune
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  in to tomorrow's pod for a very special Topher's Daily Sarcast.
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  So in real news, as you might know, there's a new White House press secretary,
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  Katie Zachariah, and she's facing a lot of questions about her credentials because
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  she keeps describing herself as a lawyer.
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  So Katie graduated from Pepperdine Law School back in 2011, and she later worked at a law firm in Beijing.
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  But people have been unable to find evidence that she's actually licensed to
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  practice law in any U.S. state.
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  So when Trump was asked which state she passed the bar in, he then just,
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  like, turned to Katie, and then Katie was like, well, when I moved to China,
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  and then the sound of Air Force One starting to turn on just kind of,
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  like, tuned everything out.
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  But the thing is, China's national legal qualification exam is only for Chinese
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  citizens, so she couldn't have taken the Chinese as far as.
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  The White House says that she practiced international transactional law with
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  all of the appropriate credentials, but they have not specified where she was licensed.
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  But then get this.
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  A government watchdog has filed a complaint asking California's state bar to
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  investigate whether she actually misrepresented herself as a lawyer.
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  And this all just happened after her first press briefing lasted just 14 minutes.
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  At which point she then told reporters to ask Trump their questions directly.
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  I mean, I get it. Whenever I get super overwhelmed on a job,
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  I only last 14 minutes on a call before I'm telling them to just ask my boss instead.
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  And also, she has only been on the job for a week now, and this administration
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  has not ever been particularly interested in making things easy for anybody.
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  They also have never made it easy for people trying to verify their resume,
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  but that's a whole other story.
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  And in all people news, everyone who's getting Social Security is getting a bump in their payments.
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  3.6% more in 2027, which works out to be about $75 more a month.
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  The government says that they're doing this because of inflation.
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  Inflation did hit 3.7% in September.
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  So even with this giant increase, the old people are still losing money. I mean, aren't we all?
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  This is kind of like your landlord raising your rent, but then giving you $75
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  to go to the grocery store.
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  This new increase will start in January. So all social security people slash
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  retirees can look forward to getting a little extra money or just look forward
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  to being able to afford things.
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  Okay, this is a weird one. The president of Argentina hired a psychic to communicate
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  with his dogs, who died in 2017.
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  So not only is this guy trying to communicate with his dogs,
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  but he's also trying to communicate with his clone dogs.
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  Yeah. So this president, Justin, had one of his dogs cloned.
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  Because obviously when you love your dog so much, you just want to make copies of them.
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  So the psychic also says that she taught this guy how to communicate telepathically with the dogs.
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  So the president of Argentina is just like communicating with his dogs telepathically.
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  And the psychic apparently charges $35 an hour for animal communication just using a photograph.
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  I mean, $35? Sign me up for that therapy.
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  So the White House has a press secretary facing questions about her legal credentials.
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  And Argentina has a president that's stalking to his dead dogs.
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  That is the current state of our world.
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  In Lindsay life, last night I went to this dating event,
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  like this Jewish dating event, and I have to say the most successful part
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  of the event was meeting this super cute girl who I thought would be an absolute
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  perfect match for my ex-boyfriend.
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  And I set them up, and I'm pretty sure that they're going to go out,
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  and I'm genuinely excited for them.
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  So that's where my dating life is,
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  things that i did this week i applied for a new passport because i cannot find
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  my current one it is somewhere in my house but i do not know where it is,
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  but i got a new one so that's a big check mark off the to-do list the next one
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  is when i tried to get this giant mystery yellow stain out of my mattress to
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  submit a new warranty claim,
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  it kind of disappeared when I went to go like spray it with all this stuff so
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  that's good but it's also still there so I'm working on that and trying to get
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  a new mattress because if I get the stain out then I'll literally get a new mattress for free.
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  I audited a Planet Fitness gym because I do mystery shopping sometimes,
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  and I had to go work out anyways, and they were going to pay me a little bit of money.
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  I went to Brooklyn, like deep in Brooklyn, and when I got there,
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  I just kept thinking, I am definitely not on the Upper East Side anymore.
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  And when I was doing the New York Times crossroad puzzle this week,
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  there was a clue that was like what does stephanie tanner say in full house,
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  so i texted jody sweeten to tell her that she was in the new york times cross
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  her puzzle and i felt really cool because she was like texting me back how cool it was,
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  cooking tip of the day add bone broth to your pan when you're like cooking something
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  because it makes it a lot more flavorful and it adds a lot more protein,
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  feedback comments questions a nice jewish boy looking for a date email me at
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  lindsey at thedailystarcast.com.
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  Thank you guys so much for listening. Make sure you tune in to Topher's episode
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  tomorrow, and I'll talk to you guys on Monday.