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May 28th, 2026: Shows Leaving Netflix, The Lincoln Memorial Pool And Misplaced Things · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is sponsored by Traveling for Work. It looks a lot more glamorous than it really is.
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  The image was sourced from a third-party licensed library, the lighting company
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  Govi, on licensing a white supremacy book for their marketing photos.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Sarcast.
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  I give you the news and may be a laugh. I'm Lindsay Vernick and it's May 28th, 2026.
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  Coming to you live today from South Beach, Miami. It's Thursday morning.
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  If you missed yesterday's pod, I am in South Beach this week for swim week.
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  I'm here filming a show right now, and like some of it will be occurring during swim week.
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  So yeah, I haven't been to Miami in almost like 10 years now,
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  and I'm realizing why it's been almost 10 years now.
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  In real news, the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool or repair is now costing
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  $13.1 million after originally being pitched as way cheaper than that.
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  And apparently the contractor's profit margin is significantly higher than what's
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  normal for federal projects.
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  So the government gave this company a no big contract, which means that there
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  was no competition, there was no comparing prices,
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  it was just straight to congrats, you got the gig to this company,
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  which is pretty bold for fixing one of the most famous landmarks in America.
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  What makes it even crazier is that this company never had a federal contract before.
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  Like, imagine getting hired to fix the Lincoln Memorial because someone liked
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  what you did with their backyard pool.
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  And the pool is still leaking, which is literally their entire your assignment.
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  According to the reports, the contractor tried sealing the concrete gaps twice,
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  and both times it failed.
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  So now they're brainstorming solutions, which is the exact phrase you want to
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  hear when it's attached to a $13 million government project.
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  Also, the waterproof coating they used to apparently tint American flag blue
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  came out blotchy and uneven.
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  Nothing says the United States quite like expensive confusion.
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  My favorite quote came from a group that criticized this entire thing,
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  and he said, We've known this is America's 250th anniversary for 250 years.
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  That's true. He's not wrong.
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  Joe Biden is now suing the Justice Department to stop the release of audio recordings
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  from interviews he did with his ghostwriter while writing his memoir.
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  It's a little terrifying because if anyone released the voice notes from my
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  creative process, I would immediately sue too.
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  The recordings were apparently collected during the classified documents investigation
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  a few years ago, and now the Trump Justice Department plans to hand them over
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  to Congress unless a judge blocks it.
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  Biden's lawyers are arguing the conversations were private and personal,
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  especially because they involved discussions about his son Beau and whether
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  he should run for president in 2016.
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  But the Republicans want the tapes released because apparently the United States
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  has now become a nation where every political scandal eventually turns into podcast content.
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  This whole thing started because Biden's ghostwriter handed over a hard drive
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  during the investigation, which is a reminder that nobody in your life can destroy
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  you faster than a ghostwriter.
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  And now every former president is currently deleting every single one of their voice memos.
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  Wait, I just thought of this, and this doesn't really go in the news section,
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  but do you think the old presidents have a group chat? They definitely do, right?
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  And our current president is definitely not in it.
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  Okay, moving on. Netflix just announced a bunch of movies and shows that are
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  leaving in June, which means it's once again time for all of us to pretend we
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  were definitely about to watch all of them.
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  Sex and the City is one of them, and it's leaving at the end of the month,
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  which feels very dangerous for New York women specifically and any girls who
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  dream of moving to New York.
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  So a lot of girls are about to lose their entire identity.
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  Also leaving is Mrs. Doubtfire, Mean Girls, and Glory. So Netflix is literally
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  getting rid of all comfort movies.
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  Nothing makes me feel older than seeing Mean Girls described as a classic while
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  my knees crack while standing up.
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  They're also removing K-19, The Widowmaker, which apparently is the only movie
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  where Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson have ever appeared together.
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  That's honestly shocking. that feels
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  like a movie your dad accidentally falls asleep watching a
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  recliner with one shoe still on the thing
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  is everybody suddenly panic watches these movies
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  the second they're leaving like the second netflix
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  says last chance people are suddenly like wow i've always deeply cared about
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  aquarius season two no you really didn't in lindsey life so as you know i work
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  in tv And this business is very different than your traditional nine to five job.
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  I was just talking about this with a coworker the other day,
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  and it has this other level of intimacy that you will never see in a corporate job.
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  Like we will constantly like share drinks and food with each other like that we took a bite out of.
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  Like we act as if we're close friends, but we're not. We still are co-workers.
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  It is very strange. Anyways, so I found myself yesterday texting my boss that
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  I left my medication back in my apartment in New York, but she's not supposed
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  to fly down to Miami until today, so I text her like, you can bring it.
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  And she was like, okay, cool. Let me know. And then I ended up like finding
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  my medication when I got to the hotel in Miami. And I texted her like,
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  okay, found it. I'm good.
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  And I'm like, well, only me would I be texting my own boss, texting her to bring
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  like my like SSRIs down to Miami for me because I left them.
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  So that's the Lindsay Life update today.
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  Things I misplaced this past week and may or may not have found my hotel room
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  key. And yes, I know I literally did just get here.
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  My portable battery pack, I did fine.
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  My medicine, again, did fine. My passport, unfortunately not.
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  And my mind, unfortunately not either.
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  Cooking tip of the day. You need a spoon to eat your yogurt.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, and I use Jewish by 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, and I may or may not talk to you guys tomorrow.