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July 15th, 2026: The New Workout Trend, New UFO Files And Running Into An Ex In PJs · The Daily Sarcast

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  They want me to stop. People think I'm acting crazy. Whatever.
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  I'm not acting crazy. I saw something.
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  James Franco, I'm posting a lot of videos on TikTok that he's been seeing aliens.
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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 15th, 2026. Hey.
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  This is just a little quick health reminder to make sure that you're wearing
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  your sunscreen because yes it's so hot out but also.
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  Even if you aren't at the beach or you're not really outside you should be putting
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  on sunscreen even if you're just going for a walk or something because the uv
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  is super high right now and you can get color,
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  even being outside for like 30 minutes i mean obviously i'm not a dermatologist
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  but i do know that the uv has been really high and you can get color,
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  really easily so you don't want to get wrinkles put on your sunscreen,
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  so in real news california is leading a group of 12 states and they're suing
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  to block paramount's proposed 110 billion dollar acquisition of warner brothers,
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  calling it the biggest hollywood merger ever like yes this is still going on can you believe,
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  All of the state's attorneys generals are like, this combined company would control about 27%,
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  of all theatrical movie releases and basic cable programming.
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  What's even crazier is that along with Disney, Universal, and Sony,
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  there would be just four companies and they would control 86% of movies released in theaters.
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  They argue that it's a monopoly waiting to happen leading to higher prices fewer
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  movies fewer jobs and a lot less competition and paramount is just like guys you're overreacting.
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  We're not getting too big. We're just trying to compete with Netflix and Amazon. Like, look at them.
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  But I mean, if this merger goes through, the opening credits of every movie
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  is just going to say, produce five, and then just say the same five people.
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  And then at that point, why even list their names? Just write the same five people.
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  Watching sports is no longer enough now. Now people are treating going to games like a trip to the gym.
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  The other day at the FIFA Club World Cup final, one person went viral after
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  he spent the match doing squats, spinged lunges, and jogging in place in the stands instead of,
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  I don't know, like, you know, just sitting in the seat and watching the game with a beer.
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  At one point, when he was doing his little lunges, he bumped into the woman
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  in front of him, who finally turned around and snapped, there's literally a game going on right now.
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  Believe it or not, he's not the only one doing this.
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  Fitness viewing is becoming an actual trend now.
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  There are now events where fans can run 5Ks while watching soccer matches on
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  giant screens so they can get their workout in without missing kickoff.
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  Apparently, we've reached a point where people can't just watch TV without optimizing something.
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  Like, we literally just can't sit anymore. We have to burn at least 600 calories,
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  hit 10,000 steps, hydrate at the same time, while also tracking our heart rate,
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  and obviously remembering who just scored.
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  So now movie theaters are in talks with Peloton to install bikes so everyone
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  can still watch the latest Christopher Nolan film while getting their workout in.
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  The Pentagon just released 40 new UFO files, and one of them involves something
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  flying over a nuclear weapons facility in Texas.
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  The files include 14 documents, 19 videos, 4 audio recordings,
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  and 3 images from agencies including the Pentagon, NASA, the CIA,
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  the FBI, and the Energy Department.
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  The strangest case out of all these files happened back in 2015 at this plant
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  near Amarillo, Texas, which is one of the country's main facilities for maintaining nuclear weapons.
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  Security saw an unidentified object entering the airspace, and the facility
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  got placed on lockdown while everyone tried to investigate what was going on.
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  This object was described as roughly four feet tall and two feet wide,
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  and it was moving very slowly.
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  It made no sound, had no visible propulsion system, and when they tried to approach
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  it, it changed speed and direction before disappearing back into the sky again.
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  The Pentagon isn't saying, yeah, this is aliens. They're just saying,
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  we have an object, witnesses, reports, and we still don't know what it was.
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  It doesn't get more of a government message than, we can't identify the thing
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  hovering over the nuclear facility, but there's nothing to worry about here. Enjoy your weekend.
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  Another file came from a military pilot with 28 years of experience and described
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  seeing an object with flight characteristics that were unlike anything he had ever seen.
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  Maybe it's aliens. Maybe it's a secret military project. Maybe it's Maybelline.
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  In Lindsay life. Yesterday, I needed a quick break from work.
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  I decided not to go to a mic or improv last night, which I do every weeknight, pretty much.
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  But I still need to get out of the house for a minute. Like also,
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  my apartment barely has any windows in it.
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  So I just kind of feel like it's, I don't even know what time of day it is.
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  If I don't look at a clock, it's very weird in here.
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  But anyway, sorry. So I was like, I need to get out of here for a second and go for a walk.
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  So I was literally just wearing like a t-shirt and shorts that very much don't match,
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  barely any makeup just kind of showered didn't do my hair anything whatever
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  and I was like you know what like whatever I'm gonna be out for like 20 minutes
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  who could I possibly run into on the east river so I'm on the phone with my dad I'm like walking,
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  and I see this like really hot guy with his shirt off.
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  And I was like oh like he's cute and then he says hi to me I realized I already freaking dated him,
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  and of course I was literally just thinking five minutes before like maybe I'll
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  run into somebody I should like maybe put on clothes that match maybe a bra
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  too and I was like no what are the chances what are the actual chances of this,
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  of course it happens with my look.
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  Things I'm thinking about. Okay, so as you might know, I work freelance,
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  so I'm quite often without a job and I'm scrambling to figure out what I'm going to do next.
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  And I'm not dating anybody. But as of right now, I have a job and I feel like
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  my roster is starting to fill up a little bit again.
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  And by that, I mean, might have one list on the name soon. So yeah.
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  Talk to me in two months. Then we'll see where things are.
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  Cooking tip of the day. If things are going to expire soon, make sure you cook
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  them. You don't actually have to eat them.
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  You can have them for lunch tomorrow or maybe not, but it's better than it just getting thrown out.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, a nice Jewish boy looking for a date,
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  email me at lindsay at thedailystarcast.com.
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  Thank you so much for listening to this one today. Have a great day and I'll
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  talk to you guys tomorrow.