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April 8th, 2026: Iran Cease-Fire, Kanye West And Wawa · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is sponsored by my commitment to this podcast after waking up
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  at 5am, working 13 hours, then schlepping a long way home to write and record this.
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  It was a beautiful surprise after an emotional year. Aubrey Plaza on being pregnant
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  with her first baby with Chris Abbott after her husband committed suicide just last year.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Starcast. I give you the news and maybe a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Wernick and it's April 8th, 2026.
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  Happy birthday to the best dad
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  in the entire world and I know right now
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  you're thinking well how does she know my dad
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  she's never even met him anymore why does she think he's the best dad well obviously
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  I'm not talking about your dad I'm talking about my dad Rich he is the best
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  and today he is turning a very young number and he is the best dad because he
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  puts up with me with all my shit,
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  and he puts up with a lot of shit in his life,
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  and I'm really proud to call him my dad.
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  Like, imagine being my parent. Yeah, we'll just leave it at that. So, in real news.
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  So, just last night, the U.S. and Iran agreed to a last-second ceasefire,
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  literally hours after Trump threatened to wipe out Iran's entire civilization.
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  He was like, okay, just LOL, jk on that one standard negotiation tactics start
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  you know with the biggest threat and then just like like just reel it back in
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  and be like actually no that was crazy and.
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  The deal was brokered with help from Pakistan, who basically stepped in like
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  a friend breaking up a bar fight and was just like, everyone take a breath,
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  put the weapons down, and maybe like let's not destroy any countries.
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  Under the agreement, Iran will allow safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz,
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  which is kind of a big deal considering it's one of the most important oil routes
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  in the world and the reason why gas prices are like insanely high right now.
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  Israel's also getting in on this little deal, and they're pausing their strikes,
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  meaning for the next two weeks, everyone is theoretically not attacking each other.
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  The markets immediately reacted to all of this. Oil prices have already dropped,
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  and the stocks jumped too.
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  That said, the strikes were still being reported after the ceasefire was announced.
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  So maybe we'll just give them the benefit of the doubt, and they didn't check
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  their email, that gets over, or they're just being that crazy girl that just
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  keeps going even when they're told to stop.
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  The bottom line is here, we've got a two-week timeout on what was becoming basically World War III.
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  Which is great, but it also feels a little pause on the whole thing.
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  So I don't know if you remember or if you listened, I think it was this past week.
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  I could have even covered it yesterday. I don't know. Sorry.
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  My brain is absolutely fried.
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  But essentially, there was this big music festival happened in London called the Wireless Festival.
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  And Pepsi was the major sponsor. And
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  then when they found out that Kanye West or Ye or
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  whatever he goes by now was headlining they were
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  like oh hell no and pulled out and then like a million other sponsors pulled
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  out and then the head of the whole festival made this whole statement like I
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  guys like we we deserve to give people second chances and I'm Jewish and I'm
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  giving him a second chance and like we all should give him a second chance.
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  Like, dude, are you really willing to tie yourself to Kanye West?
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  Like, you're really going to leave it all out for him? Just put it all out on
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  the line for Kanye West. Okay.
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  But then, plot twist, the UK government just pulled his entry last minute.
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  The reasoning was his presence wasn't conducive to the public good,
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  which is literally them just saying, like, it would be really bad if he came here, obviously.
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  So now the whole festival is canceled, and this head of the festival looks like
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  a freaking idiot, right?
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  Meanwhile, in North Korea, there's a lot of succession planning going on.
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  King Jong-un's daughter, King Jun-ae, has been increasingly showcased at military
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  events, and now South Korea's intelligence agency believes she's being positioned as his successor.
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  It's really giving Mulan fives right now.
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  Like, she's been coming to missile tests, military parades, and now she's been seen in a tank.
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  It's a very curated, look who's next moment.
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  There's been no official confirmation from North Korea, but,
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  I mean, this is speaking a lot.
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  And in a country where literally nothing is accidental, repeated public appearances
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  like this are basically a billboard.
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  This is also a very big deal because North Korea has never had a female leader.
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  I mean, duh. So this will be really big.
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  I mean, at least North Korea is evolving, right?
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  In Lindsay life, as I mentioned, I am back at my parents' right now.
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  I'm down producing on a TV show nearby.
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  So I'm living in Philly where my parents are, and I stopped at Wawa to get a
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  sandwich. I could not believe it was literally $6.
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  That's like the price of like less than half a sandwich in New York. Crazy.
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  Which makes me miss New York so much more, which is so toxic.
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  Things I'm thinking about. How people will let me reintroduce myself to them
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  over and over again, and then let me have the same exact conversation with them over and over again.
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  Cooking tip of the day. You can make string beans for lunch and for dinner,
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  but most definitely not for breakfast.
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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 guys so much for listening if you made it to the end of this.
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  Sorry, it's so chaotic. I am so exhausted, and I promise tomorrow and the rest
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  of this week will be a lot better.