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July 8th, 2026: Dove Isn't Soap, The Declaration Of Independence Is Found And Love Island · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is sponsored by The Snooze Button, turning one alarm into six since 1956.
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  It is impossible to review the events of the last decade and conclude that it
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  is anything other than divine providence that Donald J.
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  Trump is the President of the United States on the year of America 250, July 4, 2026.
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  The White House Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller.
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  Insert theme song here this is the daily star cast i give you the news and maybe
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  a laugh i'm lindsey bernick and today is july 8th 2026,
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  i don't know how it sounds on your end but every day that i read the date i
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  feel like i sound surprised about what it is like i don't know that we're in july 8th,
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  but yet i actually don't i'm like shocking myself i'm like whoa that's the date today.
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  Okay, in real news, a new internet debate has people questioning everything
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  that they thought they knew about the stuff sitting in their shower.
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  So it turns out Dove isn't technically soap.
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  Despite generations of people calling it a bar of soap, Dove has always labeled
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  it its original product as a beauty bar, not soap.
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  It's super exciting and not boring at all, but it's all about how it's made.
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  Traditional soap is made by combining fats or oils with this thing through a
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  process called saponification.
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  Say that five times fast or even once.
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  Dove, on the other hand, is primarily made with synthetic cleansing ingredients,
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  making it what's known as a syndet or synthetic detergent bar.
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  Because of that, it doesn't meet the technical definition of soap.
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  While this has shocked the internet, dermatologists say it's actually one of
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  the reasons Dove has such a loyal following.
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  SYNDEP bars are designed to be gentler on the skin and help maintain the skin's
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  natural moisture barrier instead of stripping away oils like traditional soap can.
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  That's why Dove beauty bars are often recommended for people with dry,
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  sensitive skin, and even for some people with eczema, particularly the fragrance-free,
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  sensitive skin version.
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  The craziest part about all this is that this isn't like some corporate cover-up.
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  Dove has never claimed that they made soap.
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  The words beauty bar have been printed on the packaging for decades.
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  So the real surprise isn't that Dove isn't technically soap,
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  it's that millions of us showered with it for years without ever reading the label.
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  One of the oldest pieces of cell phone technology is finally hanging up.
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  T-Mobile has announced it will officially shut down its 2G network on August
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  3rd, ending a wireless service that's been around for about 35 years.
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  This marks the final chapter in the company's transition away from older cellular
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  technology as it continues expanding its 4G and 5G networks.
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  And if you're thinking, who is still using 2G? Surprisingly,
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  more people than you expect.
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  The network is still used by some older flip phones, legacy devices,
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  certain alarm systems, vehicle trackers, and other devices.
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  T-Mobile says it's kept the network running years longer than competitors like
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  AT&T and Verizon have to give customers, business partners, and even international
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  travelers older phones plenty of time to upgrade.
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  Like burn AT&T and Verizon. in.
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  The company says anyone still relying on 2G has already been notified and should
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  switch to a newer device before this big shutdown.
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  Once this network goes dark, those devices are just not going to really work anymore.
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  So this is officially the end of an era. We're officially done with 2G networks.
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  So if you're somehow still rocking a flip phone from high school,
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  congratulations, your phone actually qualifies as a historical artifact.
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  Okay, so there's this volunteer at the UK's National Archives and somehow uncovered
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  an extremely rare copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence that had been
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  sitting unnoticed for almost 250 years.
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  This discovery was made by a retired insurance executive who spent the last
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  11 years volunteering at the archives.
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  So he was cataloging a box of 18th century Royal Navy records because,
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  you know, who doesn't do that?
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  And then he came across a document that was literally just labeled another paper.
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  And when he unfolded the paper, he saw the word declaration across the top.
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  So then it got identified as an Exeter Declaration, which is an early printing
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  produced in Exeter, New Hampshire. I hope that's how you pronounce the name of the city.
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  And it was printed between July 16th and July 19th, 1776, just days after America
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  declared independence.
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  These copies were quickly printed and distributed throughout the colonies to
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  spread the news, and only 11 are known to survive, and this is the only known
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  copy outside the United States.
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  They believe the document was being carried aboard the American ship,
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  the Dalton, when it was captured by the British Royal Navy off the coast of
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  Portugal on Christmas Eve 1776 after a seven-hour a chase.
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  This paperwork came from the capture, shipped, and then was archived,
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  but the declaration itself was misfiled as just another paper where it remained hidden for centuries.
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  The timing of this is a little bit ironic, though.
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  It literally comes as we just celebrated our 250th anniversary,
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  proving that even after two and a half centuries, history and paper can still
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  get very much lost, and Nicolas Cage just felt a little disturbance.
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  In Lindsay life. Okay. I'm not really going to say much, but I am working on
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  a new dating show this summer. I'm so, so excited.
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  And I am like trying to get accustomed to the format of it because I haven't
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  worked on that many, but dating shows are my favorite types of shows to work on.
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  If you're just tuning in now, I know my sister literally hates when I repeat
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  this over and over again.
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  But I work and I'm a producer for reality TV.
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  So my project this summer is a dating show again.
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  And to like kind of figure out like what we're going to be doing for the show,
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  I have to watch Love Island.
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  And I know I say that like it's such a bad thing.
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  But like I'm living every other girl's dream like, oh, you have to watch Love Island for work.
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  That sucks. But I'm like, this is I have my thoughts on it but I'm actually
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  getting really into the season with Leah on it she's so cute anyway,
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  yeah but I'm literally the only girl in the world who would like dread watching this tv show,
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  things I'm thinking about how I love to play Farmville instead of scrolling
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  TikTok or Instagram and I'm not sure if that's for better or for worse so back in 2021.
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  Or 22 I was filming ultimatum I was a producer on that show and I was talking
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  to one of the contestants,
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  and she was like it was the right in the beginning of it and she was like I'm so bummed,
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  we just had our phones taken away from us like I just want to go on Instagram
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  and scroll and I was like girl I feel you,
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  I would not know what I wouldn't do without my phone all my cows and farm bill
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  would literally die I would be so sad she was like wait you're kidding right
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  and I was like no like do you want to see my farm right now.
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  Like, no, this is my thing. I don't care about social media.
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  I fucking love Farmville.
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  Cooking tip of the day, the $13 dinner from Whole Foods is the perfect single
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  girls dinner without having to cook.
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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.
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  Thanks so much for listening. Talk to you guys tomorrow.