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April 24th, 2026: How To Get Money From Trader Joe's, Another Shooting And My Last Day On A Show · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is brought to you by leaving a job early due to getting a new
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  one. It feels a world different than getting fired.
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  President Trump has a different way of calculating. There's two ways of calculating percentages.
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  If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction.
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  RFK Jr. on Trump's MAGA math. Insert theme song here.
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  This is the Daily Sarcast. I give you the news and maybe a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick and it's April 24th, 2026.
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  Happy Friday. I just want to give a quick shout out to all the listeners who
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  are abroad and listening to this podcast.
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  I don't know if you guys actually are or not, but
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  I'm getting like things that saying that you
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  are and I just want to thank you for listening and just
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  generally thank everybody for listening because it means a lot to me my numbers
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  have grown all the way from like two to three listeners today to an average
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  of like 15 a day ish so that's really exciting and for everyone that's listening
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  whether we're friends or we're not.
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  Thank you again for tuning in,
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  and I'm going to stop saying thank you and getting on with the podcast.
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  So in real news, if you went to Trader Joe's back in 2019, which you probably
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  did, congratulations, you may be able to get money for that. Here's the situation.
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  Trader Joe's got hit with a class action lawsuit because receipts allegedly
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  printed too much of your card number.
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  It didn't print the whole thing, but enough of the number to make people go,
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  yeah, that feels like a little too much of her sharing there.
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  The rule is basically for this stuff, like don't print too much card info and
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  receipts and keep it minimal and safe and forgettable, like most of our dating history.
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  The lawsuit says some stores printed more digits than they were supposed to,
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  so Trader Joe's was like, we deny everything, but also like nobody's identity
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  was stolen from this, and also this is a small issue. And also,
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  please stop looking at us.
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  It's classic corporate statement energy.
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  Very nothing happened, but also here's $7.4 million just in case you want to stop asking questions.
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  So the fun part is, if you shop there between March and July 2019 with a card,
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  you might be eligible for around $100.
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  Obviously, it's not life-changing money, but it is giving free groceries.
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  And yes, you do need to file a claim for this because obviously you have to
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  fill out a forum to recover money from a receipt you definitely threw out like over six years ago.
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  The deadline is this June, so you have time to fill it out, which is great because
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  procrastination is truly the only universal lifestyle at this point.
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  Anyway, $100 for your emotional inconvenience from 2019 is kind of the most
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  American thing I've heard all week.
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  Yesterday, at the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge, a normal Thursday apparently
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  turned into an emergency situation you can't really file under a shopping trip.
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  Police say two groups got into an argument inside the food court and started shooting at each other.
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  It's giving very budget-friendly West Side Story vibes.
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  At least one person was killed and five others were hurt. Some of the people
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  hurt weren't even involved, they were just in the wrong place at the absolute worst time.
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  Shoppers described hearing rapid gunfire and doing what you do in that exact
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  moment, which is basically anything that gets you behind a wall,
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  a rack of clothes, or a locked dressing room as fast as possible.
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  This wasn't random, and it was a targeted dispute between two groups of people.
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  A couple of people are in custody, and investigators are still figuring out
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  how many shooters were actually involved.
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  The FBI and ATF are assisting, and apparently there's no ongoing threat to the public right now.
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  So yes, there was basically like a gang fight at a mall in a food court.
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  It doesn't sound like it's real, but like everything else that's happening these
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  days, it very much is real.
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  In genuinely good news, which feels very too rare, unfortunately,
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  the FDA just approved a new gene therapy that can help children born with a
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  rare inherited form of deafness here for the first time.
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  The treatment is for a condition caused by a single gene mutation,
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  and doctors say it's the first time in history a medical therapy has restored
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  hearing in children born deaf.
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  One little boy named Miles received the treatment last year,
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  and doctors say his hearing is now normal.
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  He was born deaf, and now he can hear, which is very, very crazy and very, very cool.
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  The company behind the therapy says it plans to provide it to free to any child who needs it.
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  And honestly, between doom-scrolling scams and people fighting with guns in
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  mall food courts, it's nice to report a story where humans use technology for
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  something that's actually very, very good. in Lindsay life.
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  Yesterday was my last day working on a show with the 90s people.
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  Very sad, but I am moving on to a new show that's in New York City,
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  and I'm very excited to start on that on Monday.
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  But for my last day, I got made fun of, which is literally my favorite thing
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  in the world because I am the easiest person to make fun of. If you know me, you know.
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  One of the cast members was telling the story about
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  how I was driving them this week and how I
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  could barely step on the gas pedal and they
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  were literally yelling at me to step on the gas because
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  the car was moving so slowly and it
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  took me like 20 minutes to do a u-turn and then the audio guy comes out of nowhere
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  and was like yeah Lindsay doesn't really know what she's doing and the cast
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  member was like yeah that's not really a great sign when someone from the outside
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  of the car says what a bad driver somebody is.
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  So yeah, it was my last day. And I tried to Irish goodbye, everybody,
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  because it was such a short show.
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  I would think I was on it for maybe three weeks. And I didn't really get that close with anybody.
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  But the one producer who was really mean to me the whole show,
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  she comes up to me and she was like, it was so nice working with you.
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  And tries to give me a hug. And I just started waving in her face. And I was like, bye.
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  See you later. And turned around and left.
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  MVP of this week goes to the fertility clinic that accidentally mixed up the embryos.
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  This week's MVP is not a celebrity, and it's not an athlete,
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  and it's most definitely not someone who tried their very best.
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  It is the entire concept of we triple check everything in a fertility clinic
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  being proven as not working.
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  So in Florida, there was this couple that went through IVF and they had a baby
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  and they bonded with that baby and named that baby and then later found out
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  that that baby was not genetically theirs,
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  which is honestly the kind of plot twist you normally get from a limited series
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  on streaming called something like Untangled or Estranged.
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  But DNA testing later confirmed that this child is 100% South Asian.
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  And it's very obvious when you look at the pictures because these parents are
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  100% Caucasian, and the clinic has since identified the likely biological parents
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  among other IVF patients from the same window.
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  So the MVP here is not a person, and it's also really not really an MVP.
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  It's LVP, least valuable player.
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  IVF is supposed to be one of the most controlled environments in medicine.
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  It's not casual logistics.
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  This is not, oh sorry your coffee was decaf. This is like identity level precision work.
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  And somewhere in this chain, labeling, tracking, or transferring,
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  somebody just messed up here.
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  So congratulations to the Fertility Center of Orlando's operational workflow
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  when this week achieved something truly rare in healthcare.
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  It turned a science-backed process into a high-stakes mystery box.
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  Because it turns out, nothing humbles modern technology faster than paperwork.
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  Cooking tip of the day. Take the chicken off the bone before serving it.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, and a shoe-ish by looking for a date,
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  email me at lindsay at thedailystarcast.com. Thank you so much for listening.
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  Have a great, great weekend, and I will talk to you guys on Monday.