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September 30th, 2026: The Iced Coffee Controversy, A Skydiver Saves The Day And Naveen's Life Update · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's podcast is brought to you by those TV shows that you watch when you're
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  doing other things. You know, the ones.
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  Sometimes there's detectives in them. Maybe they're in Miami.
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  And they're solving cases. You think maybe it's doctors or something and one
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  of them is sad all the time.
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  Those TV shows that you watch while you're folding laundry. They're there.
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  And you get your folded laundry.
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  Oh wait, they're a doctor and a detective? Wait, okay, that makes more sense.
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  When you show up with an iced coffee or an iced latte, it says that this interview
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  is just a stop on your list of errands for the day.
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  That's Caitlin Whitehand, a recruiter who unwittingly set off a week of online
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  discourse about whether people who bring some cold caffeine to a job interview deserve work.
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  So let me just take a drink and insert theme song here.
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  This is the Daily Sarcast. I give you the news and maybe you'll laugh.
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  I'm Naveen Vambar and today is September 30th. 2026.
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  I'm one of Lindsay's improv class friends. I've done an episode before and I
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  was just so sad that I missed this on a residency that I pushed her down a ladder
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  so I could take all the glory for myself again.
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  In real news, of all the states, it's Florida that's actually going to apply some regulations.
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  Florida has taken open AI to court to stop them building their models until
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  they can explain how they're keeping families safe.
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  Florida Attorney General James
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  Altmyer said on X, stop pretending it's human. Stop selling it to kids.
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  Obviously, this is just the start, but at least he's not pretending that all
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  these companies are doing something that already doesn't have regulations that apply to them.
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  This is also something that Lena Kahn, former FTC commissioner, said also on X.
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  Law enforcers already have the authority to charge companies and their CEOs
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  for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products.
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  All I can say is, finally, I have a lot of feelings about AI,
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  but it's a thing that should be able to break the law because people at the
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  top are super rich? It is not one of them.
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  Honestly, though, I'm surprised that posting these things on X didn't drive
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  Grok to go completely feral.
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  I mean, OpenAI just has the whole crime of breaking into another company's databases
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  because someone forgot to say, but do it out without criminal trespass at the
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  end of their search for a cookie recipe.
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  But Grok's got some serious felony time in the future.
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  I would have thought it would have gone down like a bank robber cornered at
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  the end of the movie, screaming at the cops how he isn't going to be taken alive.
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  In East Troy, Wisconsin, a plane crashed into a cornfield, which was witnessed
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  by another plane that was carrying skydivers who called it in to the police.
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  But some of those divers were EMTs, so they jumped out of the plane and went
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  to the crash plane and helped out the survivors.
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  In the end, everybody who was on the crash plane survived, with just a few of
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  them going to the hospital.
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  This is a feel-good version of the story of the old woman swallowing the fly.
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  One thing after another, but each thing gets better and better and better.
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  I'm just waiting for the follow-up next year, when one of the EMTs and one of
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  the passengers have fallen in love, and they're getting married and going to
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  live happily ever after.
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  And lastly, New York City has arrested the mole people.
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  In May, three people are spotted in Queens going into manholes.
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  Three random guys walking around in a strange suit open the sewer and go in
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  like ninja turtles, an observer said.
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  But a few days ago, police arrested Kevin Rodriguez and Samuel Reveron,
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  both 25, for the crime of going underground, I guess.
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  They suspected the mole people were diving into the sewer for valuables.
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  They were caught after the trio were witnessed going into a sewer near the UN General Assembly.
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  Which leads me directly into a Naveen's life update and a request.
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  Kevin, Samuel, if you found a pair of wireframe glasses in your sewer diving,
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  I'd really like them back.
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  On my first date with my partner, I watched my Warby slip out of the car and
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  straight down into the sewer.
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  Perfect swoosh, no net, just didn't hit anything. I really like that pair.
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  I got actual compliments on it.
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  So please, at least, if you don't return them, put them to good use.
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  Someone deserves a swag.
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  But this isn't the first time I've lost things like this. I've dropped a pair
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  of sunglasses between the train and the tracks, hopping onto the subway.
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  Dropped my house keys down an elevator shaft. I feel like all of these require
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  some sort of skill, but I haven't figured out how to make money out of dropping
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  my own valuables down narrow holes.
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  But, you know, hey, the date went well. We're still together,
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  despite the fact that I had to wear prescription sunglasses in the bar for at least half of it.
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  Things I've been thinking about. It's been a year since I've moved to New York,
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  and I'm really loving it.
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  I know I have to earn being called a New Yorker, but I've had a few key experiences.
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  I've sighted celebrities. I've been stroking a bridge on the subway for 30 minutes.
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  Been to a dank warehouse basement for a show in Brooklyn.
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  I also sat outside a bar and screaming alongside everyone cheering for the Knicks,
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  which felt really special.
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  So, to all the folks who have made this place friendly and home to me in this
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  last year, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  That's what I've been thinking about. Remember, this is The Daily Sarcast.
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  I'm Naveen, and you can find me at Naveen Vembar on Instagram.
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  Tune in tomorrow for another episode of The Daily Sarcast.