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September 7th, 2026: Sabrina Wins An Emmy, The Single Backhand Dies and LINDSEY IS OFFICIALLY BACK · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is sponsored by Camp for Adults. Remember summer camp?
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  You'd wake up early, spend all day with a bunch of people who basically become
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  your family, sleep somewhere that wasn't your house, eat questionable food,
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  and have absolutely no idea what the schedule was the next day.
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  Well, good news. You can get paid to do it. Welcome to Camp for Adults,
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  where your bunkmates are your co-workers, your counselor is your boss,
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  and your arts and crafts project is a Google spreadsheet.
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  And instead of singing songs around a campfire, you spend four hours running
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  around trying to film a scene.
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  At Camp for Adults, you'll make lifelong friendships, get very little sleep,
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  carry three bags everywhere you go, and occasionally have a complete breakdown
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  in some random city. Camp for Adults.
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  Disclaimer, it's actually really hard and most people wouldn't call it fun.
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  They're very, very smart, but they're high IQ stupid people.
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  Louisiana Senator John Kennedy on people who work on AI.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Starcast. I give you the news and maybe you'll laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick, and today it's Monday, September 7th, 2026.
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  I'm back officially. The summer residency is officially over.
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  I'm currently flying somewhere in the country home right now,
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  but I am officially done my show.
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  So I'm back. The Daily Starcast is officially done with the summer residency,
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  and I am officially hosting full-time again until...
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  Until hopefully forever. So in real news, also, I just wanted to give a shout
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  out. Sorry, I'm like recording this in like the Hawaii airport. So it's a little weird.
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  So sorry if the audio sounds really bad, but I wanted to get a pod out for tomorrow
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  and I had to check out of my hotel this morning.
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  But yeah, I just want to give a really big shout out. Thank you so much to everyone
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  who did this in my residency. It was amazing.
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  I got really great feedback from it. and hopefully I'll be able to do that again soon.
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  So in real news, all right, we're going to start off with a serious one today
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  because I feel like I kind of want to talk about this because this is like a major thing.
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  As you know, there was this Amazon cargo plane and crashed at Miami airport yesterday.
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  And as of right now, it killed at least five people and injured at least five others.
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  So it was this Amazon Prime plane and it was a Boeing 767.
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  It came from Puerto Rico and it landed in Miami around 2 p.m.
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  When it overran one of the airport's runways. So it just landed and then just
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  kept going and then crossed over a street and then hit a lot of cars before
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  coming to a stop in a field where the plane caught on fire.
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  Again, sorry, I'm in an airport. So five people were killed and five other people were injured.
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  This is a little bit of ironic reporting on this like this, right?
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  So three of the people who were hurt were taken to a trauma center in critical
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  condition, and two other people were hospitalized with less serious injuries.
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  Initially, they said it was too early to determine whether the people who died
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  were on the plane or on the cars were hit.
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  So obviously, the rescue operation was massive. More than 250 people came out to help.
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  People were trapped in cars. They were looking for the pilots in the cockpit.
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  And there was obviously this huge fire in the plane in the engine area,
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  so they were trying to take care of that and then also on top of that there
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  was an active fuel leak so it was obviously a really major scene.
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  And, of course, on top of that, Miami Airport just came to a stop,
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  and all flights couldn't go out for about three hours.
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  So almost 200 flights were canceled, and almost 300 were delayed.
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  And now they're trying to figure out why this plane couldn't stop.
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  Because the plane was 32 years old and originally flew as a passenger plane.
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  And then it became a cargo plane in 2015.
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  Also, there were thunderstorms and wind of about 30 miles per hour.
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  But, like, that never, you know, stopped a crash. Like, I mean,
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  that never caused a crash like this before.
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  So there's a lot of investigations going on. But right now there's no confirmed cause.
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  And Amazon is being cooperative with the investigation.
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  So obviously this is very devastating and there's a lot of families that are
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  dealing with this today that nobody should ever have to deal with so i'm gonna
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  leave the rest of my airport jokes for another story,
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  sabrina carpenter has officially won her first emmy and it's kind of crazy how
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  she did it she won outstanding guest actress in a comedy series for her appearance
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  on the muppet show yeah like the muppet show i love that for her,
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  and this is putting her on the road towards an EGOT because she already did
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  a Grammy and now she has an Emmy.
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  So now she just like made pop music and won a Grammy and befriended Kermit and got an Emmy.
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  So now is she going to go after a Tony or an Oscar?
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  But congrats to Sabrina, who has officially accomplished something that I never
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  knew was on anyone's bucket list, getting an Emmy for acting with a frog.
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  And finally, the tennis world is mourning a very specific death the one-handed backhand is dying,
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  so the other day ben shelton beat stefanos tisipasios at the u.s open and that
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  ended a 149 year streak of at least one player with a one-handed backhand reaching the men's singles,
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  semi-finals at a grand slam,
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  149 years that's like older than sliced bread and that's older than the light
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  bulb and now it's gone Tispasias, who plays with a one-handed backhand,
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  by the way, I'm definitely pronouncing his name wrong.
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  So he plays with his one-handed backhand, and he gave a eulogy for the shot after he lost.
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  He said that in the 1950s, 97 or 98% of players used a one-handed backhand,
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  and now it's down to like 2 or 3% of players use it.
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  He also complained that tennis has become too uniform and said that there used
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  to be all these different styles of play, and not everyone is basically just playing the same way.
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  Like imagine spending your entire career perfecting a beautiful elegant technically
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  difficult tennis shot only for the entire sports would be like yeah we're just
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  going to use two hands for that one now so that's,
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  it for the one-handed backhand another casualty of modern life right up there
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  with landlines skinny jeans and being able to call someone without texting first,
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  in lindsey life so the summer residency is officially over and i've spent the
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  last three weeks month essentially living out of a suitcase,
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  and when I say living out of a suitcase I don't mean I packed efficiently like
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  I wish it was just one suitcase I mean I literally had at least three to four
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  bags on me at all times I had my suitcase like my big suitcase a backpack
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  a purse my fanny pack and then also like this little side bag whenever my suitcase was too heavy,
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  that I had to like put stuff in.
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  I don't know how I kept track of everything. And I'm honestly getting nervous
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  that I, I mean, I definitely lost some stuff.
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  So this brings me to one of my very favorite stories from the show.
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  And I will be telling them now for a while.
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  So at one time I'm standing in the TSA line with cast and I need my ID.
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  So obviously I start looking through my purse and everyone calls it like a mom's
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  purse because I have like a gazillion things in there and never can find anything.
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  So when I start looking for my purse, I mean i'm digging like i'm literally
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  pulling everything out I'm, like getting I literally just cannot find it and
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  i'm pulling out the most random things like a thing of honey I offer the cast like a tampon.
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  Meanwhile, they take a bunch of like five boys So then they start like helping
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  me so then they I start like handing them like random things From my purse to
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  hold and so they're all like standing there holding.
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  I'm literally standing at airport security with all of my belongings distributed
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  among reality TV contestants. Like, someone has my lip gloss,
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  someone has my wallet, someone has my toothbrush.
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  Like, I don't even know what's going on.
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  And I'm just still trying to find my ID.
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  It's kind of, like, the perfect metaphor for this entire past month.
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  Like, it was a full month of hotels, airports, charter flights,
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  regular flights, rental cars, schedules, and always wondering what city are we in again.
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  I'm officially ready to be stationary. I'm ready to sleep in my own bed unpack
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  my suitcase not have to live out of the suitcase and spend at least one week
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  knowing where exactly where everything is wherever I last put it I mean.
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  So this week is the other week this week is unpacking.
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  So when I say unpacking I mean that both physically and emotionally.
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  Physically I have an entire suitcase and then some that needs to be unpacked.
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  And I'm literally dreading it. Like opening that suitcase is kind of like opening
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  a time capsule from the last month.
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  Like when I open it, it's going to look like a bomb went off.
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  And there's a very good chance that there's a wet bathing suit somewhere in
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  there that's been marinating for some time.
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  But then there's the emotional unpacking. Because when you spend a month constantly
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  moving, working, traveling, sleeping in different places, never really knowing
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  what day it is. You don't really have time to process anything.
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  Like I was literally in seven cities in three weeks.
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  Some days I was in like three cities in two days. Like it was crazy.
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  So I was always just constantly onto the next thing, the next city,
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  the next flight, the next hotel, the next call time, the next problem.
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  And now that I'm finally home, I have a lot to unpack, literally.
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  And maybe just figuring out what just happened. So this week I'm unpacking,
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  and probably very slowly. I can handle the emotional unpacking.
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  It's the suitcase I'm really avoiding.
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  Cooking tip of the day. The most cooking I've done is put raw steak on a hot rock at the Ritz.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, and as Jewish by looking for a date,
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  email me at lindsay at thedailystarcast.com.
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  Thanks so much for listening. Happy Labor Day, and I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.