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June 15th, 2026: The Knicks Big Win, Donald Trump The Buffalo And My Wedding Weekend · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's ad is sponsored by Finally getting home and getting into bed early after
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  a long weekend. There's quite nothing like it.
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  Nothing has changed since the last time I talked about all this,
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  and I haven't worked with him in a really long time, and I have no plans to.
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  Seth Rogen on not speaking to James Franco after a lot of allegations came out about him.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Starrcast. I give you the news and maybe a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick, and today is June 15, 2026.
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  Yes, I know. I did a video pod on Friday. I know it's all very, very exciting.
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  I plan to do more of them soon. And if you haven't checked out my interview
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  with Max, please make sure you do. I know it's very, very long. It's a lot.
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  It's like a normal length podcast. But for the Daily Starcast,
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  it's a very, very long one.
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  So if you have some time, check it out We talked about me making out with Shane
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  Gillis We talked about dating in New York and comedy,
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  and crushes And a lot of other things that I can't remember right now But that
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  we covered a lot of ground Oh, and we both went to an all-girls or an all-boys
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  overnight camp Which was so crazy,
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  Because, you know, he was a nice Jewish boy.
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  Anyways, in real news, a seven-year-old boy just became the youngest person
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  ever to reach the top of El Capitan in Yosemite in what sounded like a feel-good
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  story, but has now turned into a full-blown climbing civil war.
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  This kid Joey spent five days going up the 3,000-foot mountain with his father and brother.
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  National news outlets celebrated this achievement, but a lot of climbers say
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  the headlines left out some pretty important details.
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  This big controversy is because the seven-year-old Joey didn't actually climb
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  the route in the traditional sense.
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  He kind of just like used ropes that were set up by other climbers,
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  which you're supposed to set up yourself.
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  Some people who've been climbing forever have compared calling it an El Cap
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  climb to taking an escalator up a mountain and claiming that you climbed Mount Everest.
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  This story got even messier after it came out that the family hired unofficial
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  guides and climbers to do a lot of the technical work.
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  An anonymous person, because I guess the climbing world is that small,
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  told a climbing magazine that the kids cried regularly during the journey and
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  that the trip really felt more like a social media production than a climbing expedition.
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  The father has pushed back on this criticism saying the media often misrepresents
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  what his children accomplish and he never claimed they were elite climbers,
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  so now the debate isn't really about climbing it's about parenting publicity
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  and where the line is between giving your kids incredible experiences and turning
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  them into little tiny content creators so this kid may be the youngest person
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  to reach the top of El Capitan?
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  Or is it El Capitan? I'm not sure.
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  But the dad may be the first person to get accused of stage parenting a mountain.
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  Knicks fans can finally stop telling stories that began with, well, back in 1973.
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  After a 53-year championship drought, the New York Knicks are NBA champions
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  again, defeating the San Antonio Spurs 94-90 in Game 5 of the Finals.
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  This win capped off one of the wildest playoff runs in recent NBA history.
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  The Knicks were behind by 15 points in the second half on Saturday night before
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  having yet another comeback.
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  Jalen Brunson scored 45 points and led the charge as New York closed out the series.
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  Throughout the finals, the Knicks seemed determined to give their fans cardiac issues.
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  Every game was decided in the final minutes, and New York repeatedly erased
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  double-digit deficits.
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  Their most dramatic moment came in Game 4 the other day, when they rallied from
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  a 29-point hole for their biggest comeback in NBA Finals history.
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  You could literally hear the entire city screaming when they came back and won. It was so electric.
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  For longtime fans, this ends more than five years of frustration,
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  bad contracts, coaching changes, front office disasters, and the annual tradition
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  of saying, maybe next year.
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  The championship also cements Brunson as one of the most beloved athletes in New York sports.
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  He was signed in 2022, and he transformed the Knicks from a respectable playoff team into champions.
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  So the Knicks won their first title in 53 years proving two things miracles do happen,
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  and a 78 year old man from the Upper West Side who has lived here his entire
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  life just said see I told you we'd be good again in a couple of years.
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  Meanwhile, over in Bangladesh, there's this rare albino buffalo named Donald
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  Trump, and it has become a national attraction thanks to its blonde tuff of hair.
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  The buffalo was originally destined to be sacrificed during a religious festival,
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  but after going viral online, the government stepped in and moved it to a zoo.
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  Thousands of people are now showing up to see this buffalo, and zoo workers
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  brush its hair for visitors, and some people are traveling a very long distance just to see it.
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  So there's an animal named Donald Trump, currently living in government-provided
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  housing, getting his hair professionally maintained, and attracting crowds wherever
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  he goes. You know, that's pretty on brand.
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  Honestly, we're going to have trouble telling them apart, as if we can already.
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  In Lindsay life, I was at my sister's best friend's wedding this weekend with
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  my family. It was so much fun.
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  And I met this really cute doctor there. So I was talking to him for a while
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  and during dinner, I asked him if he wanted to go to the bar with me to get a drink.
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  So I turned to my parents and I said, I'm going to go flirt with that guy over at the bar. I'll be back.
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  And this man who was like my parents' age overhears and goes, oh, you mean my son?
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  Let me give you some tips for that. And like goes on to me about what I should
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  talk to him about, which were like the Knicks, the Giants, and like all of the
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  other sports teams that we have here.
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  So that was a fun night. And then yesterday, he sent me a LinkedIn request.
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  I guess that's one way to connect, I guess. Thing of the week is New York's chaos era.
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  Well, if you haven't heard, the Knicks just won their first championship in 53 years.
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  The championship parade is Thursday in Manhattan.
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  And the World Cup is underway. And New York City has decided to host all of
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  this excitement at the exact same time.
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  So on Thursday, hundreds of thousands of Knicks fans are expected to flood lower
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  Manhattan for the city's first Knicks championship parade since 1973.
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  For most people, this is literally the first time they've ever seen a Knicks
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  championship celebration that wasn't on YouTube.
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  And obviously, everyone will be celebrating like they haven't had any good news in years.
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  At the same time, the World Cup is bringing soccer fans from all over the globe
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  to New York and New Jersey, which means every bar is packed, every train is packed,
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  every train that is supposed to be running express is running local,
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  every sidewalk is packed, and every tourist is currently standing in the middle
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  of Times Square looking directly upward for absolutely no reason.
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  The city already operates at a constant level of control panic,
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  and now we're adding a championship parade, international soccer,
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  summer tours, and whatever fresh hell the MTA has planned for us today.
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  Honestly, if aliens landed this week, nobody would even notice.
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  A guy could walk through Penn Station carrying a live alpaca wearing a Knicks
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  jersey, and most New Yorkers wouldn't even bat an eye.
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  The city has waited over 50 years for a Knicks title, in over 30 years for the
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  World Cup to come back to the States. Somehow both happened at once.
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  If this city gets one more major event, we're going to start to have to stack
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  people vertically. I mean, we kind of have to already.
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  So if you need me this week, I'll be somewhere between a championship parade,
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  a World Cup crowd, and a delayed subway train, wondering how I accidentally
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  became an extra in the largest sporting event on earth.
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  Cooking tip of the day. Leftovers can last a lot of days if you let them.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, a nice Jewish by looking fruity,
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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.