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August 11th, 2026: The Tupac Trial, New Vaccine Rules And An Exhausting Travel Update From Chicago · The Daily Sarcast

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  Are you tired? Not, I stayed up late tired.
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  Exhaustion is for people who are tired from being tired.
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  Do you wake up exhausted? Go to bed exhausted? Feel exhausted while actively doing nothing?
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  Then ask your doctor about exhaustion.
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  Exhaustion is clinically proven to make you say things like,
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  I literally cannot. I'll do it tomorrow.
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  And I need to lie down.
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  Possible side effects include forgetting why you walked into a room,
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  staring blankly at your phone for 20 minutes, cancelling plans that you made
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  yourself, and becoming irrationally angry when someone says,
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  Can I ask you a quick question?
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  Exhaustion may also cause you to mistake basic human interaction for an overwhelming task.
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  Do not take exhaustion if you are already tired. Actually, never mind. You already are.
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  Exhaustion. Because you can never get enough sleep.
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  Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is Steve Martin.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Starcast. I give you the news and made you laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick, and today is August 11, 2026.
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  Okay, so if you can't tell, I'm literally exhausted. I'm going to get into it
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  more on my Lindsay Life update, but I wanted to make sure that I got a pod out
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  for today because, again, this is the last week of the podcast for like a month
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  or so, so I wanted to make sure that I did one.
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  But I do have to admit, this isn't my best work by far, so I understand if you're disappointed.
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  But you will also understand if you when you learn about what i've just been through.
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  So in real news okay so trump just signed an executive order yesterday directing
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  the government to narrow its recommended childhood vaccine schedule to 11 routine immunizations,
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  so the government says the goal is to give children what trump called gold standard protection,
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  while aligning the u.s more closely with countries that recommend fewer vaccines,
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  this new approach would chain recommendations around vaccines including hepatitis B, COVID, and flu.
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  And gold standards is a very much Trump phase.
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  Everything has to be the best, right? We have gold standard protection with
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  him, gold standard economy, a gold standard golf course.
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  I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if you call it a parking ticket,
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  a gold standard parking ticket.
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  But this one is obviously a lot more serious than that. Medical organizations
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  have obviously pushed back on these changes, and the debate is now putting childhood
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  vaccination policy right in the middle of the administration's broader fight over public health.
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  So basically, if you were hoping for a calm, boring office, wrong administration.
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  Nearly 30 years after Tupac was killed in Las Vegas, the trial of Dwayne Keith
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  D. Davis has finally begun.
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  Davis, who is now 63, is accused of orchestrating the 1996 drive-by shooting
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  that killed Tupac. He is pleaded not guilty.
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  Prosecutors say that Davis helped organize the attack and supplied the gun,
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  but they're not saying that he personally pulled the trigger.
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  The case was revived after Davis publicly discussed his involvement and described
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  the event in his 2019 memoir.
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  The trial could last up to five weeks and may include testimony from former
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  death row records head Suge Knight, who was in the car with Tupac when the shooting
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  happened, which means we're now potentially getting Suge Knight testimony in a courtroom in,
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  2026 about something that happened in 1996.
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  That's literally a Netflix limited series with a $40 million budget.
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  And I genuinely cannot believe we're finally getting to the point where the
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  Tupac murder is being litigated in court.
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  Like, Tupac was 25 when he died, and now there are people involved in this case
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  who spent more time discussing the murder than he was alive.
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  This whole thing is a bizarre time capsule of the East Coast,
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  West Coast rap feud, death row records bad boy records and 1990s las vegas but
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  after almost three decades everyone is still trying to answer the same question
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  who actually pulled the trigger.
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  Okay, so now AI is now like an HOA problem? So the AI revolution has hit its
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  most American obstacle yet.
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  People don't want a giant data center living next door to them.
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  Across the country, communities are pushing back across massive AI data center
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  projects because of concerns over electricity, water usage, noise,
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  and the impact on local infrastructure.
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  They're saying that at least 75 projects worth around $130 billion faced local
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  opposition in the first quarter of this year.
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  Banks are now paying closer attention to that opposition before financing new facilities.
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  Like, obviously, we understand where these people are coming from.
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  We were told AI was going to make our lives easier.
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  And now AI needs an enormous amount of electricity, enormous amounts of water,
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  and enormous warehouses full of computers.
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  So the future of technology looks a lot less like the Jetsons and more like
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  an industrial park behind your condo.
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  This is going to become one of the funniest unintended consequences of the AI boom.
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  Everyone loves AI until the AI needs substantia, and suddenly everyone are very
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  interested in zoning laws.
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  And it's also really funny that one of the biggest.
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  Technological revolutions in human history may eventually be defeated by a group
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  of suburban residents saying, not on my block, the final boss of artificial
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  intelligence is not another AI.
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  It's the homeowners associations in Lindsay life okay so I was supposed to go
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  scout which means like check out this filming location for where we're going
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  for yesterday and I was supposed to get
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  on a flight at like one o'clock on Monday and everything was supposed to be
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  really easy I was gonna wake up and go to the gym and then like head to the
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  airport that's like 10 minutes away for me no big deal.
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  But then I get a call at like 11 o'clock on Sunday night,
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  and I'm usually sleeping by then but I was like out late like seeing some friends
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  and I was hanging out with my roommate because I never get to see her and I
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  get the call hey can you get on a flight first thing in the morning and I was
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  like oh my god of course like no problem
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  let me just like pack and go to sleep in the next like five hours like literally only had five hours,
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  so I wake up at like 5 a.m.
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  To get on my flight, but I checked my email to see that my flight on United
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  got canceled. Then I got put on a Southwest flight that was supposed to leave
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  at nine, but that got delayed until 11.
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  So luckily I did go back to sleep for a few hours, but then I get on the plane
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  to Chicago and I had to like run around Chicago. I got, I got to take a tour
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  of Wrigley Field, which was so cool. Cause we'll be filming there.
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  And I got to put my hand through the scoreboard. It was so much fun.
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  That was the best part of my day. And then like.
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  I had to hang out with everybody after because it's like such like a social
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  thing and it's like weird if I like go home and go to bed, right?
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  So that is why I'm exhausted and you probably got even more exhausted listening to that and I'm sorry.
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  Lindsay lessons, a lesson by Lindsay. If you have a daily news podcast and you
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  know you're going to be exhausted by the end of the day,
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  maybe think about that earlier on in the day instead of like right before dinner
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  time when you're starving and haven't eaten all day.
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  Cooking tip of the day are eggs.
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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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  Thank you so much for listening. If you got to this point, oh my god,
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  I give you a lot of credit.
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  Don't forget to sign up for the summer residency too.
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  So I'll talk to you guys tomorrow and I'll be in a lot better shape. Don't worry.