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June 1st, 2026: Mount Everest, 2028 Elections And Flan · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is sponsored by Unpacking Just to Repack Everything.
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  Is he that great of a chef that he didn't have to cook for me?
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  F you, Bobby Flay. Chelsea Handler on going on a bad date with Bobby Flay.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Starcast. I give you the news and made me a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick and it's June 1st, 2026.
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  God, it feels like forever since I've done a Starcast, but it's only been,
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  like, pretty much the regular amount of time.
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  But has it been though? I don't even remember. Today is Monday,
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  right? I can't even keep track of the days anymore.
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  But happy June 1st. Happy Rent Day. And oh my god, it's June. Yay, it's summer.
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  And also because I always, always, always forget to say this,
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  please feel free to send this to somebody that you think might enjoy it.
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  Thank you to my friends who share this, especially Emily always post this on her story.
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  I really appreciate it. But anyway, to help me share this podcast would be awesome.
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  In real news, Trump is going around the White House right now asking whether
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  people prefer Vice President J.D.
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  Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the future leader of the Republican Party.
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  Apparently, Trump has been questioning whether Vance is what it takes to carry
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  on the MAGA movement, but also complimenting Rubio's performance and openly
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  polling people about which one they like better.
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  Imagine being the vice president and finding out your performance review is
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  happening like a middle school student council election.
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  Trump has criticized Vance for everything, from his stance on Iran to taking
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  vacations, and even keeps bringing up the time that Vance dropped Ohio State's
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  National Championships trophy.
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  So the vice president of the United States
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  is still hearing about that one embarrassing thing he did at a party.
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  The good news is that the 2028 election is still years away.
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  The bad news is that the 2028 election is still years away.
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  Mount Everest just had one of its busiest weeks in history.
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  More than 500 climbers reached the summit in just a few days,
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  including a record 274 people in a single day from the Nepal side of the mountain.
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  I guess the Nepal side is very hard.
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  What's so surprising about all of this is that nobody died.
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  That's really big because Everest has become so crowded recently that photos
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  of climbers standing in traffic jams near the summit have become almost as famous as the mountain itself.
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  Despite hundreds of people making the climb, guides reported that there were
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  no major injuries and no deaths, which is, like, super crazy because there always is.
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  Among all the climbers making history was a woman who became the first Afghan
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  woman to reach the summit, a double-leg amputee who climbed the mountain without
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  prosthetics, literally just by using his arms and torso.
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  If you look at the pictures online, it's literally insane.
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  That's, like, so crazy. he can
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  do that which makes me believe that I can probably
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  get to the gym today and there was
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  a Sherpa who climbed Everest for the 32nd time because
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  obviously 31 times isn't enough and
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  for the last story today I debated on telling
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  this one but it's been on my mind all weekend it's
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  just one of those big headlines that just is so
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  horrific that you just can't stop thinking
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  about so i just figured i might as
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  well share this so this past weekend there was
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  a bus going from new york to north carolina
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  and they were traveling in the middle of the night and it
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  was this guy who barely spoke any english
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  i think he's like 48 years old anyway there
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  were signs to say slow down there
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  was a construction zone coming up and he
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  didn't and he hit a bunch of cars and unfortunately he killed a young family
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  of four and a 25 year old girl i know i'm sorry i'm not trying to ruin your
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  monday it's just like so horrible and just one of the big headlines this past weekend.
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  So now investigators are looking into whether the driver was super tired or
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  was impaired or there was something wrong with him medically or literally anything
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  else going on to why this happened.
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  The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation and it's
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  going to review the driver's actions in the 72 hours leading up to the collision.
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  And he has already been charged with two counts right now of involuntary manslaughter,
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  but apparently they're expecting a lot more charges.
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  Come soon also i don't know if it's just me but
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  i'm just now realizing that a lot of people in
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  new york who drive for like uber or any like
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  public transportation like these buses they don't
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  speak english like but i just went on a bus the other
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  day from philadelphia to new york and the driver
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  did not speak english at all and
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  even when i got in an uber yesterday he showed
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  me the screen with my name on it and like what they couldn't even say is this
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  you he was like tapping the phone I'm like how can you not like that's scary
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  for someone to not be speaking English and driving a car right okay anyway moving on in Lindsay life.
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  Okay, so a bunch of stuff happened the past week when I was in Miami,
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  and I'll share it over the course of this upcoming week.
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  But one thing that happened that really, really bothered me.
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  So I'm in Miami this past week for work, right?
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  And we're sitting at lunch. I'm with the crew, and we all ordered dessert.
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  I was so full and didn't want anything. But it literally just so happened that
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  an extra flan came, and everyone was like, Lindsay, you better have it.
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  And I was like, okay, whatever.
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  So i'm like kind of slowly eating it
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  and the camp one of the camera guys is sitting across
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  the table from me and i think we've had a
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  total of like five conversations like we've never gotten anything personal like
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  we're not friends so we're like mid-dessert and the camera guy across from me
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  he finishes dessert and before i could process what was happening this man does not say a word to me,
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  takes his spoon and reaches over and takes a bite of my flan.
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  And then puts the spoon down, gets up, and, like, walks away.
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  And I just look around to see if anybody's noticing. And nobody notices.
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  Everyone's, like, on their phone or in conversation.
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  Like, nobody just watched this guy just take a bite of my flan.
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  Without asking is, like, the craziest part. Like, if he would have asked,
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  I would have been like, sure, I guess. But, like, how do you just not ask someone
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  that you're not friends with and take a bite of their food?
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  But anyway, so yesterday I go to improv and I go up for a scene and I just started
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  yelling at my scene partner for taking a bite of my flan without asking me because we're co-workers.
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  And everyone's cracking up and I tell them after, I was like,
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  wow, that felt so good. I was really angry about this whole situation.
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  And everyone was like wait what that was real that was
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  a real thing that happened to you and I was like yeah most of the things
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  that happened in this classroom that I talk about
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  yeah that actually has happened to me in real life thing of the week this week
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  is sports so the Knicks are in the NBA finals for the first time in like forever
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  and it's a really big deal so they kill Cleveland in the Eastern Conference
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  finals and now they're going to play San Antonio in game one on Wednesday night.
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  I don't know anything about sports, but apparently this is a matchup that nobody
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  could have ever predicted.
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  New Yorkers are already preparing accordingly by pretending that they've always
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  believed in this team and immediately putting on all of their Knicks gear and
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  wearing it around and googling the price of finals tickets before having a major heart attack.
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  Meanwhile, the World Cup starts in less than two weeks, and Iran's national
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  soccer team still doesn't know if they're getting into the United States or not.
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  The team is currently training in Turkey while waiting for their visas.
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  Their training base was moved from Arizona to Mexico, and the plan is to fly into the U.S.
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  For games and then immediately head back to Mexico afterwards.
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  This is the first time in World Cup history that a host nation has been at war
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  with a qualified participant, which is politically called a diplomatic challenge,
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  and what the rest of us call an absolutely insane situation.
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  At this point, Iran isn't even trying to advance out of the group stage.
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  They're just trying to advance their customs.
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  So between the Knicks making the finals and a World Cup team potentially commuting
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  internationally between games,
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  sports have officially entered their written-by-asleep-deprived television producer era,
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  like me cooking tip of the day don't take it for granted when you're able to
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  feedback comments questions a nice jewish boy looking for a date email me at
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  lindsay at the daily starcast.com thanks so much for listening talk to you guys tomorrow.