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September 28th, 2026: The Not So Crazy Nor'Easter, The VMA's And I Fell Down · The Daily Sarcast

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  Sponsored by Accurate Weather, the first weather app that actually tells you
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  what the weather is instead of what it might do.
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  Other apps say severe weather alert, dangerous conditions, major nor'easter
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  coming, but Accurate Weather tells you that it's just raining.
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  There's no hurricane graphics for a thunderstorm, no 87% chance of rain when
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  it's not going to rain at all, and no telling you to stay indoors because there's
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  just a little bit of rain too.
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  And definitely not canceling your entire weekend because the forecast might be bad.
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  Accurate weather, because sometimes inaccurate weather is very misleading.
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  We did not bend the knee. We did not bow our head. Iran's president speaking at the UN last week.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Starcast. I give you the news and made you a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Wernick, and today is September 28, 2026.
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  As you can tell, I'm very bitter about this past weekend, this weather.
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  Like, why would you tell us it's going to be so bad and cancel all of these
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  events and all of these things?
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  And then it's like just rains a little bit. It's like a regular rainstorm.
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  Which brings me to our real news. Like, you probably noticed that the reading
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  was slightly more dramatic than necessary.
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  And don't get me wrong. There was this crazy northeastern that hit the northwest.
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  There was a ton of heavy rain, strong winds, really, really bad flooding,
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  and power outages across New York, New Jersey, and other parts of the Northeast.
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  Tens of thousands of people lost power. There have been downed trees and flooding.
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  The Jersey Shore got hit really, really bad. New York City is dealing with more
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  than a thousand reports involving damaged or fallen trees.
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  But like, that was it. Literally, just like a couple of fallen trees.
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  There was no need to cancel the farmer's market, the open mics,
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  like all of the things, just for a little rain. Like, are we going to be able
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  to handle this winter with like actual weather?
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  Five men were arrested yesterday near a military base in southwestern England.
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  That has been used by U.S. forces.
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  The British people say that they're arrested because they think that they had
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  explosive and were going to do some sort of terrorist attack.
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  The police evacuated a nearby village that had about 85 homes because they were
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  nervous about, like, a bomb going off.
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  This is still a very much developing story, and unfortunately,
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  that is all the information that I have.
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  But however, they are clearly not that very good at being terrorists because
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  they got arrested for having suspicious-looking vans.
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  And in AI news, OpenAI is pausing their training of its latest AI models because
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  there are several incidents where the AI was behaving in ways that they were
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  really not supposed to be.
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  So the company said that some of their AIs were searching federal government
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  websites and like went above and beyond what they were supposed to be doing.
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  And one time they found something on the Department of Education website that
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  they, like, really weren't supposed to. But OpenAI was like, don't worry.
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  They said that no non-public information was accessed. Okay,
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  well, then why is it such a big deal then?
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  And then there was this other incident involving Securities and Exchange Commission,
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  and an agent found, like, publicly available information, but then posted it
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  somewhere else, even though that wasn't what the AI was supposed to do.
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  So OpenAI says it's going to resume training when it has additional safeguards
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  in place. I mean, that's reassuring, right?
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  I'm glad that AI is getting its time out when it needs to be.
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  And Lindsay life. I fell down yesterday. I was like dead sober,
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  too. I was like walking in Soho.
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  And yes, I guess the rain was very bad because I tripped and I fell and I like.
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  Just collapsed in the middle of the sidewalk.
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  And I feel like sometimes when I fall down like do you know when you fall down,
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  it feels like you're like watching like a camera like you're watching a show
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  and it's like the camera you know how the camera gets all wobbly and then like
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  falls to the floor I feel like that's what happens when I fall down,
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  but I'm just an alien what do I know.
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  Thing of the week this week are the VMAs. So the VMAs were last night,
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  if you don't know, which is literally just a bunch of musicians just,
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  like, getting together to congratulate each other for making music videos.
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  Taylor Swift is now the most awarded artist in VMA history. I mean,
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  obviously, how is she not?
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  But, like, also, Taylor Swift, she's, like, cool, whatever, but,
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  like, can we, like, talk about somebody else for five minutes?
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  Like this girl doesn't run the fucking world like there are other people there's other musicians,
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  like obviously I'm not a Taylor Swift fan but also just like you can't have
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  like one musician like just rule the world like we need other musicians,
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  it's whatever I'm not going on a whole Taylor Swift rant,
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  I do have to say it is very nice that the VMAs are still happening because that
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  means that music videos are still happening and TikTok hasn't taken over the
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  world do you remember when we used to like watch MTV to play music videos?
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  And now we can just go on our phones and watch a 17 year old explain her skincare
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  routine, a man make pasta on a bathtub, and a music video all within the same 30 seconds.
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  So it's great that we still really do have music videos.
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  Cooking tip of the day. Make sure to clean your air fryer.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, a nice Jewish by looking for a date?
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  Email me at lindsay at thedailystarcast.com. Thank you so much for listening,
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  and I will talk to you guys tomorrow.