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October 12th, 2026: Our Colorful Moon, The White House And Parents Weekend · The Daily Sarcast

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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Sarcast. I give you the news and maybe a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick and today is October 12th, 2026.
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  Happy Monday. I hope you guys all had a nice weekend.
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  God, it literally has been rainy at least the past three Sundays in a row. It's like crazy.
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  Like, yeah, I love a rainy Sunday, but also it's gotten to the point where it's
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  like, okay, we get it. Can we like have some normal weather now for a Sunday?
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  In real news. So NASA just put out new data from its mission that it had this past year.
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  And it turns out that the moon is a lot more colorful than we originally thought.
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  So do you remember like way back in April when four astronauts traveled around the moon?
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  So apparently they saw like the moon has subtle shades of brown,
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  blue, green, and yellow across the surface. Like so pretty.
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  One astronaut even described one area of the moon looking like a John Dice cheek
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  of the moon, which is how I describe myself after a weekend of drinking.
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  But these colors aren't just, like, for show. Scientists say that some of the
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  blue areas indicate that there's titanium-rich volcanic rocks.
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  Brown areas show that there could be some iron there.
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  And the green shows that there might be some glass formed by some really old
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  volcanic eruptions or just, like, some impact by an asteroid.
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  The astronauts also saw five tiny flashes of light that were caused by rocks hitting the moon.
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  I mean, the moon is literally always getting pelted by space debris.
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  So now NASA has released more than 800 gigabytes of data from the mission,
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  which is like a lot of information.
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  That includes over 11,000 images and videos for all scientists and the public to look at.
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  So for all space junkies like this could not be more an exciting time for them
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  i'm sure so now nasa thinks that the moon is basically a mood ring,
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  and maybe we should let the moon have this moment right now like it's been hanging
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  around our planet for billions of years and we're now just noticing its undertones,
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  and like that's a bit confusing right.
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  Considering that we've been there a bunch of times, did no one look closely,
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  or was everyone just too busy planting flags and taking pictures of themselves?
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  But again, I didn't really pay attention in geology, so maybe this stuff is just really hard to see.
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  Hurricane Simon is heading down Mexico's Pacific coast, with winds reaching
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  around 155 miles an hour, making it a really intense Category 4 hurricane and
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  potentially Category 5.
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  So as of yesterday, the storm is moving very slowly towards the coast,
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  near very popular tourist destinations, including Puerto Vallarta.
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  This is leaving many college students very stressed about their spring break
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  plans for this year. Oh no!
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  They're warning that some areas could get up to 30 inches of rain.
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  That's enough to cause life-threatening flooding and mudslides,
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  especially in the mountain areas.
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  Classes and schools in dozens of coastal communities have been suspended.
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  Evacuations have started in some areas, and they've already started opening up emergency shelters.
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  Puerto Vallera's international airport has also closed as everyone's preparing for the storm.
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  So that probably sucks, to say the least, for whoever decided to go on vacation right now there.
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  And the thing about this storm is what makes it super, super dangerous is that
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  even if the eye of the hurricane doesn't make direct landfall,
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  the winds and the enormous waves and heavy rainfall are still going to cause
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  really, really bad damage.
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  So this goes to say that this is a really big and dangerous storm,
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  and everyone is being urged to follow evacuation instructions if needed and
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  just stay inside. Let's hope it's not too bad.
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  Okay something really really horrible happened this weekend actually a couple
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  really horrible things happened but i'm just going to talk about one of them
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  because i don't need to obviously go into everything because i'm sure you also
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  read the news or at least i would hope so,
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  so the one really bad thing i'm going to talk about is the missile attack that
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  hit the main international airport in saudi arabia arabia killing at least 13
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  people and injuring more than 300,
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  So it was the Houthis that are backed by Iran who attacked Saudi Arabia.
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  And then, very unexpectedly, the airport was hit again yesterday.
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  So they were hit twice, once on Saturday and one on Sunday this weekend.
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  The airport has obviously been closed since, and the Houthis have warned airlines
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  and everyone to continue to stay away from Saudi airspace.
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  What's so horrible is that innocent people just traveling in the airport were
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  either killed or injured, and Saudi Arabia has vowed to retaliate against Iran.
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  And Trump says that the United States might jump in with Saudi to go against
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  the Houthis. So we'll see about that.
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  So this could become yet another war, making more places hard to travel to and
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  increase our prices of everything.
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  I mean you all know I hate talking about this stuff but this was really big
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  and I figured I'd touch on it super super fast so if you want to learn more definitely read up on it,
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  in Lindsay life my parents visited this past weekend so it was like a little
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  parents weekend it was really nice we like went to lunch with my roommate and
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  like we all got to catch up because my roommate is like never in town so that was super fun,
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  one thing though was that my parents
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  acted like they were never have never been to New York City before.
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  Like every store that we walk by, they had to like announce it.
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  They were like a bagel store, pizza, Dunkin Donuts. I'm like,
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  guys, have you never been to New York City? Like, I'm so confused.
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  And then my mom wouldn't let us walk on the grates, like, you know,
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  on the sidewalk. And I am finding out now a lot of people are very superstitious about this stuff, too.
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  Like, my mom wouldn't let any of us walk on, like, the grates on the sidewalk.
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  You know what I'm talking about? Like, not, like, where the sewer stuff is, but, like, the grates.
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  I guess that's all I could. That's the only way to explain it.
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  And like she was going against traffic to like walking in on the other side
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  where people were walking they kept running into people i'm like mom you have
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  to walk on the great side and she absolutely refused for us and everybody else to do it,
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  because like god forbid we fall in and i was like mom what are the chances of
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  us falling in and she's like well what are the chances of anything happening these days
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  it's like good point really good point thing of the week this week is the whole
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  White House press investigation.
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  So as you probably know, the Department of Justice is investigating ABC,
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  CBS, CNN, NBC, and Fox News after all of these networks temporarily stopped
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  showing Trump for like a hot second last week.
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  So if you weren't paying attention or listened to the Daily Sarcast that day,
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  the White House refused to let in reporters from CNN, MSNOW,
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  and Politico from coming into the White House and reporting.
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  So all of the news networks came together and they said, well,
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  if they can't come in, then we're not going to come in either. Ha ha, that sucks.
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  And then also the networks who were banned sued to get their badges back and
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  a judge temporarily restored their access.
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  So now the DOJ is looking into whether the network's united decision violated
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  antitrust law, which is designed to prevent these very things from happening.
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  Because when, like, five television networks collectively decide not to cover
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  the president after reporters are banned from the White House,
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  that might be a Justice Department issue.
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  But when the government starts investigating the networks or how they cover
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  the government, that brings a pretty important question about press freedom.
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  The press is supposed to hold the government accountable, not the other way
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  around. And also, you know, that's kind of how our Constitution was designed.
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  Like, I might not have paid attention in geology class, but at least I paid
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  attention in history class, and I don't think our government did.
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  Cooking tip of the day. Taste your pasta before you put it in the streamer.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, and nice 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 will talk to you guys tomorrow.