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April 29th, 2026: Costco's Hot Dog, The Food From The Correspondents' Dinner And Traveling Far Away In Manhattan · The Daily Sarcast

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Today's episode is brought to you by Working. It is not for the weak.
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Let's put my face on passports. The orange man.
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Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Starcast. I give you the news and maybe a laugh.
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I'm Lindsay Vernick and it's April 29th, 2026.
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Surprise! There's a Daily Starcast today. Who knew?
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I didn't know. Did you know? Well, honestly, I knew last night.
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Well, I just ended up having some time. I didn't actually really have some time,
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but I made the time to do this So there actually won't be a sarcast tomorrow,
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but there will definitely be one on friday It's actually gonna be a really fun special one.
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So make sure you tune in on friday for that And sorry if this one is a little chaotic and weird.
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I'm just like so tired But as my mom likes to
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remind me they all are weird in real
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news jimmy kimmel is refusing to apologize after
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melania and donald trump demanded abc fire
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him over a joke he made last week about melania looking
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like an expectant widow kimmel was like the joke was about their age gap duh
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and like she's visibly never happy whenever she's standing next to trump i was
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just pointing that out i wasn't calling for violence kimmel said he was genuinely
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sorry for the fear everyone at the dinner experienced,
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but he's not taking back what he said about Melania.
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Meanwhile, the FCC is now reportedly fast-tracking reviews of ABC's broadcast station licenses.
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It's not a direct investigation into Kimmel, but the timing feels less like a coincidence, though.
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Kind of reminds me of how one of the women who I most recently worked with,
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who I actually talked about on this podcast,
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was so mean to me, and she coincidentally just happened to remove me from the
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group chat after she went in for a hug with me when I was saying goodbye and
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I just waved at her instead.
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And speaking of the correspondence dinner, I know what you're thinking.
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There are so many unanswered questions. Like, what the hell happened to all
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of the dinners that were supposed to be served that night?
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There were around 2,600 meals that went unserved by the end of the night.
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Everyone got to the salad course, but the steak and lobster never made it to the tables.
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So in a very rare feel-good twist, the hotel freeze-dried the untouched steak
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and lobster meals and donated them to shelters for abused women and children
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in Virginia and Maryland.
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And then the remaining produce was composted.
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So while the entire night was
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a mess and went to waste, at least the food didn't end up in the trash.
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So now, somewhere out in the world, there are people in shelters eating White
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House Correspondents Dinner lobster, which honestly is probably the best thing
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that has happened in all of Trump's presidency.
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And in even more exciting news, Costco has finally innovated in the most Costco
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way possible by changing almost nothing.
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So as we all know, for 40 years, the $1.50 hot dog combo has been untouched.
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I mean, you have always been able to go to Costco and get that $1.50 hot dog, right?
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Even when everybody got smartphones and iPhones and streaming and the economy
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collapsed, Costco was like,
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you can still come here and get this disgusting thing for $1.50 with a fountain
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drink and just don't ask us any questions.
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And now, get this, you can swap the soda for a bottle of water.
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Like, how freaking crazy is that one?
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Honestly, it's smart. And sometimes you want to really want a hot dog.
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But sometimes you don't need to have a giant soda with it.
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And sometimes you just want to leave Costco feeling hydrated and better and not worse.
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Also, it's just so on brand that Costco didn't change the price of their hot dog.
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Those executives were probably like, while the rest of the world falls apart,
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we can't raise our hot dogs to $1.75.
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What would the world become then. I think between Iran and the president and
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everything else happening in the world,
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at least we know we can rely on our $1.50 Costco hot dog to still always be there for us.
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In Lindsay Life, yesterday I was filming down in the seaport,
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and if you don't know Manhattan very well, that's like the very,
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very, like, farthest you can go to the bottom of Manhattan.
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And work was over and it was time to go home, but I was like,
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shit, I don't know how to get home from here. I'm so far away.
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I've never been here before. I don't know how to get home. and all of my co-workers
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who are LA-based were like, don't you live here?
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And I was like, yeah, but I don't travel this far away. I don't go all the way
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to the seaport area of Fidei.
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This is like crazy for me.
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Anyway, so I made it home safe, clearly.
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Things I'm thinking about. How I very clearly
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more and more am realizing I need to be sleeping instead
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of doing this podcast right down cooking tip of
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the day it's not a good sign usually when the
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microwave is your most used kitchen appliance feedback
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comments questions a nice jewish by looking for a date
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email me at lindsey at the daily sarcast.com thank you so much for listening
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i really really highly doubt it there will be a sarcast tomorrow but stay tuned
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for friday because i have something special coming have a great next few days
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and i will talk to you guys on friday maybe tomorrow who knows It's all up in there.