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August 25th, 2026: The Freedom 250 Race, A Kangaroo Escape In Kansas And Ray's M&M's Preferences · The Daily Sarcast

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  funny quote from the news. Gentlemen, start your engines.
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  That's Interior Secretary Doug Burgum getting the Indy race started in Washington, D.C. on Sunday.
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  Which, if you've ever heard or seen Doug Burgum speak, probably prompted everyone
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  in the crowd to go see him before the race.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Sarcast. I give you the news and maybe
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  a laugh. I'm Ray Farrow, and today is Tuesday, August 25th, 2026.
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  Tell us a little bit about yourself. I'm Ray Farrow, as you know,
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  and I'm not a fan of peanut M&Ms. They just weren't my thing.
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  They're not bad. I mean, I'll take a peanut M&M if you offer me one,
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  but I just, yeah, better flavors out there of M&Ms.
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  They're not even chocolate. It's just fine. I don't know. It's like the keel
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  of putting a peanut in the M&M. Just anyway.
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  In real news, 25 race cars screamed around a 1.7-mile track
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  that wheeled in between the white marble monuments and Smithsonian museums on
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  Pennsylvania Avenue, cut across the National Mall, and passed the Capitol,
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  ruining traffic and brunch plans for everyone in D.C. on Sunday.
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  The Freedom 250 was in honor of America's 250th birthday, which some of you
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  more astute listeners may have noticed was well over a month ago.
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  Starting to suspect this administration is not very responsible.
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  All right. War and extreme weather are causing global wheat prices to go up.
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  Bread, pasta, and even instant noodle prices are expected to skyrocket.
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  Finally, my friends with celiac disease are laughing at us instead of the other
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  way around. This actually isn't that funny.
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  Heat and drought have diminished harvests of some of the biggest wheat-producing
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  countries, including the United States, which is expected to have its worst
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  wheat harvest in half a century.
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  With spike prices, the Black Sea, a crucial passage for the global wheat trade,
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  is an active theater on the Russia-Ukraine war.
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  And while the Houthian militia's attacks on shipping in the Red Sea have already
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  forced grain shipments to take a longer, more expensive route around South Africa,
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  beyond that, the supercharged El Nino further threatens water levels in the Panama,
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  Canal, while drought has reduced water levels to imperiously low levels in transit
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  routes like the Rhine and Danube rivers in Europe, raising transportation costs.
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  All this at a time when the global atmosphere is hotter than normal because
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  of a century of fossil fuel burning threatening livelihoods of small farmers in poor countries.
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  You know things are really bad when the price of cup of noodles is about to go up?
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  In more pleasant news, a kangaroo escaped a facility in Kansas,
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  and there's a cool security video of a kangaroo hopping by, said the authorities,
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  to the Kansas kangaroo, we'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too.
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  Come on, shoehorned Wizard of Oz reference. Let's go. Speaking of let's go, it's almost NFL season.
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  A lot of you are like, Ray, you're gay. Why do you care about that?
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  The answer is, I don't know, daddy issues.
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  But I am actually coming out of retirement for fantasy football this year.
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  So wish me luck. My draft is next week.
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  Do you have any tips? Please let me know. And if you don't care about fantasy
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  football, to be honest, neither do I. But it's a chance to hang out with my
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  straight friends and pretend that what they have to say is actually interesting.
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  Cooking tip of the day. Crispy M&Ms. Those are the best M&Ms.
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  They're way better than peanut M&Ms. Regular chocolate M&Ms, they're fine.
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  Have you ever had the coffee M&M's? I don't know. Email questions,
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  comments, a nice Jewish boy looking for a date, any M&M suggestions,
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  any great M&M stories, any recipes of a brownie with M&M's in it,
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  email Lindsay at the Daily Starcast, and I promise I'll see it.
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  Or just DM me and tell me I'm an idiot for not liking the peanut M&M's.
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  I know I'm in the minority on that one, and I do think that the yellow M&M in
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  the commercials is a more adorable one, but I just couldn't ever get with the
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  peanut M&M's. Am I crazy? I don't know. Let me know.
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  Have a great day. We got some more sarcastic coming for you tomorrow. Bye.