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October 6th, 2026: The Supreme Courts New Season, Amazon Settlements And Full Circle Moments · The Daily Sarcast

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  Ever wonder if someone is actually busy or just avoiding you?
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  response times, read receipts, social media activity, and other digital evidence
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  After a very quick and accurate analysis, they will shoot you an alert to say,
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  They're busy. 12% chance.
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  will tell you exactly what they're doing instead of responding to you.
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  Are they avoiding me? Because sometimes you don't need reassurance, you need data.
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  and sending a completely unnecessary lol no worries text.
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  Hey everyone, you can dislike me or disagree about what happened without being racist.
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  The amount of racist comments DMs I've received in the last few hours is insane.
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  Lastly, I'm not a cheater or a thief. Coco golf on getting a lot of racist comments
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  after winning at the China Open.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Starcast. I give you the news and
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  me be a laugh. I'm Lindsay Vernick and today is October 6, 2026.
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  In real news, an Irvine real state agent was arrested at LAX yesterday after
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  a federal prosecutor said that she was spying for China.
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  So according to the FBI, this 35-year-old Weining Heather Zhang went to Seattle
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  to watch the son of Taiwan's president. Like, how exciting, right?
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  She and a friend, okay, her co-worker, I call all my co-workers friends,
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  rented a black Nissan Rogue and then waited near this kid's house.
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  They took photos and videos and then sent everything back to the people in China.
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  But she wasn't the world's most mysterious spy.
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  Apparently, she texted one of her friends back in China, again,
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  her co-workers, I gotta stop calling co-workers friends, and said,
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  saw him, young male, it's that young one, which is the exact text that I said
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  to my friend after I see a cute guy.
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  So she was arrested at LAX while she was actually on her way back to China.
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  Bad luck, I guess. So if you're an Irvine relator and your side hustle is international
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  espionage, maybe don't put surveillance under a list of specialties on Zillow.
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  Or maybe you should because then China will reach out to you and you'll make some extra money.
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  The Supreme Court kicked off its new term this week, and already it's facing
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  questions about its legitimacy and the future of the court. Whoa.
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  So the justices are returning with this huge slate of cases involving voting,
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  immigration, guns, and presidential power.
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  And Americans, like, we're all being asked to trust these nine people to make
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  decisions about the country, even though we can all barely collectively agree
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  on whether a restaurant should have a four-star rating.
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  The court has also been dealing with a lot of public confidence.
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  Like, as we all know, everybody hates them.
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  There's like a few good people in there. And people on both sides of the aisle
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  are questioning its decisions and whether or not they're being too influenced
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  by some big orange people.
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  So this is a little awkward, right? I mean, the whole point of the Supreme Court
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  is that it's supposed to be above politics, above the law, above everybody else.
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  It's basically the judicial version of saying, don't worry, I'm completely unbiased,
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  while wearing your favorite candidate's campaign t-shirt.
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  So, this new term is officially underway, so buckle up because this reality
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  show just got renewed for another season.
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  Amazon is giving some Prime customers their money back.
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  So that's great news for everyone who has spent way too much money than they
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  would like to admit with that company.
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  So Amazon is sending out refunds as part of a $2.5 billion settlement with the
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  FCC because the company signed people up for Prime without their consent and
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  made it really hard for them to cancel.
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  So now millions of people are eligible for automatic refunds,
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  with the maximum payout increasing from $51 to $200.
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  So the payment started going out on October 1st through PayPal,
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  Venmo, or a check. And right now, if you're like, wait, am I getting money back?
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  You don't have to fill out a claim or anything to do it. So you might get it
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  back. It's just going to hit your bank account.
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  So, I mean, that's honestly refreshing to hear, right? I mean,
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  usually when someone tells you that you're getting $200, there are like 14 different
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  forums, a password reset, and a captcha asking you to identify literally every
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  traffic light in a photograph that you apparently cannot figure out.
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  And if you already did get your $51 back, you could get another $149, making your total $200.
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  Whoa, guys. So check your PayPal, check your Venmo, check your mailbox.
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  And if you get a message asking you to pay money to receive your Amazon refund, that's a scam.
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  Because even your refund needs a scammer trying to steal it.
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  And Lindsay Life, I just want to shout out to everyone who reached out to me
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  yesterday about speaking up about Title IX on my podcast.
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  I always knew that when I had a platform someday that I was going to talk about
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  how Title IX affected me.
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  And I definitely want to continue to make it a thing because this is such a
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  big deal that this has become such national news. So that's really exciting.
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  And this week has been really full circle for me. I guess, yeah, it's Tuesday. Okay.
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  So the past day has been really full circle for me.
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  I went to Fideye yesterday to see a movie. I saw Verity.
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  If you didn't see the book, don't watch it. It's not good.
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  You only should go see it if you read the book. Anyway, so.
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  I went to Fideye and about five years ago now,
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  I lived in a hotel room with my cousin who was in high school at the time she
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  was taking an acting class
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  and I got fired from my corporate job I was doing marketing for a metal refinery
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  yes I know I can get into that a different day,
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  but anyway so I had no job that summer I was looking I was super lost I like
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  literally didn't know what I was going to do with my life I was doing stand-up
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  back at the time and I was like,
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  I want to do something with comedy but I'm not exactly sure how and this is
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  before I started being like a PA and going on set and all that stuff.
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  So being down there yesterday felt like really full circle as well because I'm
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  like, wow, I finally kind of figured out what I'm doing and,
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  you know, five years later.
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  And yeah, so that felt really cool. And this isn't funny at all,
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  but that's just my Lindsay life update.
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  Lindsay lessons, a lesson by Linz. Don't be surprised when your mom gets upset
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  when you tell her all the little dirty details of your life.
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  She is your mom after all.
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  Cooking tip of the day. You can heat up a bunch of different leftovers to make one full meal.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, a nice Jewish boy looking for a date.
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  Seriously, email me at lindsay at thedailystarcast.com. Thank you guys so much
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  for listening and I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.