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July 10th, 2026: The Increased Price Of Stamps, Flying Ants Are Not A Hurricane And Getting Lost In A Foreign Land AKA Queens · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is sponsored by a good lecture. They can be very life-changing.
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  We are all made in the image of one
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  almighty God. Trump's misquote of the Constitution on Independence Day.
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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 today is July 10th, 2026.
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  Happy Friday, guys. I don't know about you, but this week felt weirdly long.
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  Like, I can't believe July 4th was only last Saturday.
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  Like, so weird, right?
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  So, in real news, if you're planning to mail literally anything right now,
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  you should probably do it before Sunday.
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  The U.S. Postal Service is raising the price of a forever stamp from $0.78 to $0.82 on July 12th.
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  This is the sixth stamp price hike in five years, and USPS says it needs the
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  extra money because it's facing major financial losses.
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  I mean, aren't we all, guys?
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  But also, a lot of people just aren't using the mail as much.
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  The agency lost about $9 billion last year, and they've warned us that without
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  additional funding, it could run out of money sometime next year.
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  Could you imagine, though, like, no mail? That's, like such a staple.
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  It's like actual physical banks. We don't actually need to go to them,
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  but it's nice to know that they actually still exist.
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  This price increase doesn't just affect letters. If you're sending a postcard,
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  it's going to go from $0.61 to $0.65, and international letters and postcards are going to cost $1.75.
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  Yikes.
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  So if you're one of those very rare people who still sends birthday cards instead
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  of just like a Venmo, it just got a lot more expensive for you.
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  At this point, a handwritten thank you note is becoming very luxury.
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  Pretty soon, it's going to be cheaper to fly across the country to tell grandma
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  happy birthday in person.
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  Police in the UK said a woman was caught driving 108 miles per hour because
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  she was trying to get home in time to watch Love Island.
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  According to the officers, she admitted she didn't want to miss the episode,
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  which kind of makes the explanation worse and not better.
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  Like, we've all rushed home for something.
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  Maybe we were late for the Super Bowl or the season finale of a show.
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  But if you're risking a speeding ticket over a dating show where everyone falls
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  in love literally every single episode, it might be time to reevaluate your life.
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  The good news is she made the news. The bad news is that she probably missed
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  Love Island anyways because she had to pull over and explain to a police officer
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  that reality TV was in fact an emergency. see.
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  And more news out of the UK today. If you were to look at a weather map in the
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  UK this week, you probably saw a giant storm system moving across the country,
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  and you're probably like, oh shit.
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  But it turns out this wasn't a storm. It was millions of flying ants.
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  Meteorologists noticed strange patterns showing up on the radar,
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  and it just looked like huge thunderstorms.
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  But instead it was actually a giant swarm of ants taking flight during their
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  annual mating season which is a phenomenon sometimes called flying ant day,
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  yeah this is this is very much real so first of all why do ants get a whole
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  day dedicated to romance i feel like they're a very unromantic bug out of all of the bugs,
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  also why are they mating in the air isn't that a lot of work for them.
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  The swarm was so large that it showed up on radar systems designed to check storms.
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  So a meteorologist actually had to say, good news, this isn't a hurricane,
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  it's just a lot of ants mating up there.
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  These ants are literally getting more love and action this summer than I am.
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  In Lindsay life, I was on my way home from improv last night,
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  and as usual, I stand on the subway track where the queue goes. The queue is my train.
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  And sometimes the subways will switch.
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  And that very rarely happens on the queue. And for whatever reason,
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  last night, I just was so hungry and just not thinking and just assumed it was the queue. So I got on.
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  Anyways, I'm on the queue trying to do my New York Times crossword puzzle.
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  And we're making, like, the queue is express. We're making, like,
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  a lot of local stops. And I'm like, oh it's fine like a little weird but we're
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  making local stops and then we go outside.
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  And if you live in New York, you know that the subway is like you're either
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  you know that you go inside or outside.
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  But it's very alarming when the train goes to the outside world when you're not expecting that.
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  So at the next stop in the outside world, I jump off the train and I'm like, what?
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  Where am I? I look at my maps and it says it was going to be like another 30 minutes to get home.
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  I was going to have to like go on the end back to the queue and I'm like I am
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  literally starving it's like 8 30 on a school night like I just need to get the F home,
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  so I go on Uber and thank God an Uber home is literally like $12 so I'm like
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  and you know when you're in Manhattan you see an Uber for $12 like that's amazing
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  you're literally so dumb to not take advantage of that.
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  So I ordered the uber and I couldn't find him it took me like a few minutes
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  to find the guy because I had to like go down from the subway to find this man and,
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  I'm messaging him and I'm like where are you and he's like I am literally at
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  your pickup location but I'm like I don't know where my pickup location is,
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  so finally I like go to I follow the dots on the I'm literally just following
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  the phone on the docks I'm like it was like very strange out in Queens it felt
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  like I was like in a different world like it was so weird out there.
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  I'm like I'm literally talking about a place that's 15 minutes away from me
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  but when you're in Manhattan you know like anywhere that's not you're familiar
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  with is like a very foreign country so,
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  I get in the Uber and I was like hey I'm so sorry like I don't know where I
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  am right now I've gone on the wrong train and I was like asking him where I
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  was like where are we right now and he was like we're in Long Island City,
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  because only I order an Uber and ask somebody where I am.
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  MVP of this week goes to the Wimbledon Ball Kids.
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  While the world's best tennis players are battling it on the center court,
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  these kids are sprinting around in the background, diving for balls,
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  staying completely silent, and somehow looking calm while thousands of people
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  watch their literally every move.
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  Let's be honest, they might have the hardest job at Wimbledon.
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  The players are getting breaks, the coaches get chairs, fans get snacks and
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  drinks, and these kids are running around in the heat wearing uniforms that
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  look like they were designed by someone who hates pockets.
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  They're basically the unpaid interns of professional sports,
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  except they're somehow more athletic than most of us will ever be,
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  or maybe even the athletes themselves.
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  This week's MVP goes to the people
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  making sure the games keep moving one perfectly timed sprint at a time.
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  Cooking tip of the day. PB&Js are very underrated.
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  Feedback comments questions a nice jewish by looking for a date email me at
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  lindsey at the daily sarcast.com i don't know why i just sounded like a robot
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  when i said that um have a great week and oh my god i can't talk anymore,
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  and i will talk to you guys on monday.