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July 7th, 2026: Trump + The Bell, California's New Parking Rules And Lazy Days · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is sponsored by Tate Measures. Parking eight feet from a fire
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  hydrant is basically the same as parking on the moon.
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  That friendship was over before, but if there was hope, it's gone.
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  They'll never be friends again.
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  Someone on Blake Lively's friendship with Taylor Swift. Insert theme song here.
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  This is the Daily Starcast. I give you the news, maybe a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick, and today is July 7th, 2026.
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  I am not interested in celebrity gossip and drama like at all,
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  but there's something about this whole bleak lively taylor swift thing that
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  i'm so interested in i just think it's so crazy and just like it's so publicized,
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  i just cannot imagine my friendship being or just any part of my life being
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  publicized so much on that level it's just so crazy like literally every breath you take,
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  it's like being watched like there's like huge articles out right now if taylor
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  swift has a dog or not like could you imagine if like millions of people are
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  wondering like about your dog and what your dog's name is like that's so wild to me.
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  Anyway i know i sound like i'm from like outer space but like it just like processing
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  it it's like so strange but then again my boss jen swears that I'm from outer
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  space and that I'm an alien, so I guess this all tracks.
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  So anyway, with that, in real news, Trump kicked off yesterday by becoming the
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  first president to ring the opening bells for both the New York Stock Exchange
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  and NASDAQ from the Oval Office.
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  This marked the launch of the administration's new Trump Accounts,
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  which is a program that creates government-seeded investment accounts for newborn American children.
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  The idea is to give kids a financial head start. by allowing their accounts
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  to grow as soon as they're born.
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  But the policy announcement quickly took a backseat to the bell.
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  Because right after the ceremony, Trump looked at the large gold ceremonial
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  bell sitting in the Oval Office and joked that he wasn't giving it back.
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  And he said, they're going to have to fight like hell to get it back.
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  He then decided that it would be a great new piece for his new ballroom.
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  Eventually, they were able to pry the bell out of Trump's hands and haul it back up to Wall Street.
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  So, no, it's not officially becoming White House decor.
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  I mean, I do understand, like, when I'm at work and I'm using,
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  like, a pen with pink ink, like, it's mine.
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  But also, a pen is a little bit different than the New York Stock Exchange bell.
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  If you live in California or are planning to go there anytime soon,
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  there's a new rule that could cost you a lot of money.
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  So you can now be fined up to $63 for violating the state's new daylighting law.
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  It has nothing to do with electricity.
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  Daylighting is a traffic safety rule that makes it illegal to park within 20
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  feet of a crosswalk, even if the curb isn't painted red.
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  This law just went into effect, but a lot of cities now are really starting to enforce it.
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  The goal is to improve visibility between drivers and walkers,
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  by keeping parked cars from blocking the view at intersections,
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  which makes sense, right?
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  They say that it could help reduce crashes by people getting hit by cars. I mean, love.
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  The tricky thing here is that there's a lot of intersections that still don't
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  have signs or red curbs marking the 20-foot zone, so you're just,
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  like, expected to know the rule even if there's no, like, sign or anything.
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  In LA, the fine starts at $63, and it can vary depending on the city.
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  So beware, in California, there are now parking tickets that you cannot even see.
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  Lionel Messi is finally addressing one of soccer's longest-running internet rumors.
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  For years, a ton of people have thought that there was something going on romantically
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  between him and the sports reporter, Sophie Martinez,
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  a lot because of his emotional interviews with her right after he won the World Cup in 2022.
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  And they've been seen together, too. And obviously, social media has made it
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  into a whole thing, even though there's actually no evidence that they're together.
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  So after Argentina's huge win, three to two World Cup win over Cape Verde this
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  past week, Messi saw Martinez in the media area right before their interview
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  and he decided to address these rumors.
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  And he told her, if I look at you, they'll ask why I looked.
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  If I greet you, they'll ask why I greeted you.
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  And she just laughed and thanked him and also said that the rumors are all lies,
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  she also said that messi's wife had privately reassured her not to worry about
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  the speculation because none of it was true which is super sweet of her,
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  so after years of all these conspiracy theories and hidden meetings and people
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  analyzing photos like they're detectives.
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  This is just to go to show that the internet and their imagination is absolutely wild sometimes.
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  In Lindsay life, I sat on the couch yesterday.
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  I was so exhausted from July 4th weekend, and I have not had a night in.
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  I literally cannot remember. It has to have been at least over a week or two
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  now, the last time I had a night in.
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  I know, I'm so popular and so busy, but I literally just like go out and just
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  go to open mics myself. Trust me, I don't have a lot of plans.
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  I don't have a lot of friends.
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  Anyway, I realized I can actually only sit on the couch for, like, maximum amount.
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  I think I spent five hours yesterday on the couch, which actually is a lot.
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  But, like, I found myself, like, wandering around the apartment because I don't
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  want to leave. It's like that weird line, right?
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  Like, you don't want to leave your house, but you can't sit and watch television anymore.
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  So it's like, what's a girl supposed to do?
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  So I just went to bed at 8 o'clock.
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  Lindsay Lessons, a lesson by Linz. so you want to date a guy whose last name
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  is in the beginning of the alphabet,
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  because that means that if you get married your kids will be in front of the
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  line in all of their classes and like forever growing up and like that's amazing
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  right also who wants to be at the end of the alphabet,
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  also as my last name starts with a v,
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  i was at the back of the line like literally my whole life, so it's really important
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  to me to marry up in the alphabet.
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  Cooking tip of the day. You have to cook your food longer than you want to sometimes.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, a nice Jewish boy looking for a date,
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  email me at lindsay at thedailystartcast.com.
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  Thanks so much for listening. Talk to you guys tomorrow.