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June 17th, 2026: The Florida IVF Embryo Mix-Up Update, The Williams Sisters And Hanging With My Sister · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is sponsored by the sun. It feels so good when you sit in it for a while,
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  but not too long, then you really get tired and more than likely get burnt.
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  If the hands have been cleansed prior to washing the body, we know that it's less likely to
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  transfer, say, bacteria or other potential infection. A dermatologist on why we should
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  use our hands to wash our body in the shower instead of a loofah or a washcloth. Insert
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  theme song here. This is the Daily Sarcast. I give you the news and maybe a laugh. I'm
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  Lindsay Vernick and today is June 17th, 2026. Hey guys, what's up? I hope that you've been
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  enjoying the video pods lately. On Friday, I had a random comedian. I just met Max come on the pod
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  and we talk about comedy and dating and being Jewish and going to like to going to both boys
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  and girls overnight camps. So make sure you check that out. And then yesterday I had Emily on the
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  pod. She's one of my good friends and I did the Daily Sarcast format for her and she kind of
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  responded and we chatted a bunch and super fun. So make sure you check that out and let me know
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  if you want to be my next guest on the pod. Also, Emily and I are doing a fun show tonight down at
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  the pit. If you're around, it's in Midtown. We wrote this really fun sketch together and some
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  actors will perform it tonight at the pit. So let me know if you want more info on that, but I'm
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  really excited. It should be cool to actually watch a sketch of mine come to life. So in real news,
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  remember that Florida IVF story where the couple had a baby and then they found out it was actually
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  not their genetic child? Like the hospital version of you got the wrong lunch order,
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  but the human kind? Well, kind of a plot twist. It's still going. The couple in the middle of
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  this whole embryo mix-up has now reached a custody agreement with the baby's biological parents.
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  So yeah, there are now officially two sets of parents involved in this situation, which is
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  exactly as emotionally complicated as it sounds. So here's the update. The couple who carried and
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  have been raising the baby will keep her as the permanent custodial parents. The biological
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  parents who were located after genetic testing confirmed the embryo mix-up are not taking custody,
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  but they are expected to maintain a relationship with the family. So the baby is staying where
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  she's been since birth, but now this is turning into a co-parenting situation from hell.
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  Quick rewind here if you have no idea what I'm talking about. This all started at a Florida IVF
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  clinic where an embryo was implanted incorrectly into the wrong person. The mistake only came to
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  light after the baby was born and looked so different from the parents, so much so that
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  they had genetic testing done to prove that the baby is very much 100% South Asian while both
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  parents are very much white, which is not how surprise features usually arrive. This clinic
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  is now facing lawsuits and has since shut down operations because yes, they implanted the wrong
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  embryo and then quietly exited stage left like a magician who just set the curtains on fire.
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  The takeaway here is that everyone involved is trying to do something unprecedented.
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  Legally divide biology from parenting in real time without completely emotionally
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  detonating a family. The courts are saying, actually we're going to prioritize who raised
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  the baby over who contributed their DNA, which is either very modern family law or the opening
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  scene of a dystopian HBO series. Anyway, baby is with the only parents she's known. Biological
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  parents are in the picture. Lawyers are still billing and IVF clinics everywhere
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  are triple checking every freezer door like it's Fort Knox. Yum Brands, the company that owns
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  Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell just sold Pizza Hut for $2.7 billion after years of sales have been
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  going down and not being able to keep up with dominoes. This will now split the company into
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  two. Private equity firm Long Range Capital gets Pizza Hut everywhere except for China,
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  while Yum China buys the China side of the business. Pizza Hut has been having a rough
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  stretch for a while now. Sales have been down for a very long time, stores have closed,
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  and the chain has struggled against rivals like dominoes while people cut back on spending. Yum
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  Brands started exploring a sale last year and ultimately decided Pizza Hut will be better off
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  under different ownership. Maybe people just realized they would rather have dominoes or maybe
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  it's Ozempic. In very crazy and super exciting news, Serena and Venus Williams got the wild
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  card entry into the doubles tournament at Wimbledon Championships, making their first
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  Wimbledon appearance together in years. Serena just got back to competing again after nearly
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  40 years away from professional tennis. Now the sisters will once again team up on the courts
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  together where they won 6 doubles titles once before. Together they have won 14 Grand Slam
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  doubles titles and 3 Olympic gold medals as a team. Serena is 44 and Venus turns 46 this week,
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  giving Wimbledon one of the biggest storylines before the tournament even starts, which is in
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  a week or two. Meanwhile, every other women's doubles team right now is all googling,
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  how can I fake a hamstring injury? In Lindsay life, last night my sister and I cooked dinner
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  together and by that I mean that she cooked me dinner. After we went to see Moulin Rouge
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  because she won lottery tickets, it was super fun. I would semi-highly recommend going. I think I
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  would just recommend going. My sister thinks I'm too much of a critic, especially for somebody who
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  has no idea what Broadway is like. Like of course I could never in a million years imagine performing
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  on Broadway, but you know when you just see a show and you're like, I'm not, I don't feel it. Like I
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  just wasn't feeling the energy. Like I want to feel that they're all belting out their little hearts
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  and it didn't feel like that and that's what I want when I see Broadway. But maybe that's just me,
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  maybe I'm crazy. Things I'm thinking about. How I kind of just found out that the World Cup is
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  happening here and that's why it's been so freaking busy. I thought everyone was just like
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  watching the game in the city. I didn't realize like people were playing the soccer games in like
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  the tri-state area. Cooking tip of the day. If you cook dinner with someone and prove that you're not
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  a big help with the cooking, they won't need your help and you don't have to cook. Feedback, comments,
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  questions, a nice Jewish boy looking for a date, email me at lindsay at thedailysarcast.com.
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  Thanks so much for listening. Have a great day and I will talk to you guys tomorrow.