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April 10th, 2026: Endangered Penguins, Natasha Lyonne And Being Home · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is sponsored by sleeping in your
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  own bed it's literally the best thing i
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  think you know i blame it all on my mom because she
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  told me don't talk with your mouth full the ceo of mcdonald's excuse on why
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  his bite was so tiny in that viral video of him trying a new big mac insert
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  theme song here this is the daily sarcast i give you the news and maybe a laugh
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  i'm lindsey Vernick and it's April 10th, 2026.
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  As I'm saying this, I'm like, why does April 10th sound so familiar?
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  And then I just remembered that that's the day my eggs go bad.
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  So I guess I'm making a pretty big omelet this morning.
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  Well, anyways, in real news, if you were wondering, the emperor penguin is now
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  officially endangered, which is honestly shocking, right?
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  I mean, we're so worried about wars and shitty presidents and the government.
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  We forgot about the penguins.
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  Scientists say it's because climate change is melting the sea ice,
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  and they need that to survive, obviously.
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  These penguins rely on the ice for literally everything. I mean,
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  breeding, resting, not freezing to death, just like little details there.
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  And it's not just a slow decline. Some colonies have dropped over 30% in just a few years.
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  I mean, that's huge. Some would say that's not great, and others would say it's pretty bad.
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  Also, joining in on this panic,
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  Antarctic fur seals are now endangered, and southern elephant seals,
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  if you didn't know that was a thing, got hit with a disease outbreak that wiped
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  out a lot of their population.
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  So the entire Antarctic ecosystem is basically hanging on by a thread,
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  while we're all up here wondering what our president is going to say and threaten today.
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  Scientists are saying this is the clearest large-scale evidence yet that climate
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  change is actively wrecking ecosystems in real time.
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  Love that for us. So if you were looking for a sign that global warming does
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  exist, the penguins are literally disappearing.
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  Natasha Lyonne was reportedly escorted off a Delta Airlines flight yesterday,
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  just hours after attending the Euphoria Season 3 premiere, which is the most
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  I went out on a Thursday and now I'm paying for it story I've ever heard.
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  According to reports, she was sitting in first class on a red eye from LA to
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  New York and she wasn't responding to flight attendants when she was just like
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  asked to do her seat belt and open her eyes.
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  Again, this is all allegedly because then Natasha went on to X and responded
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  in the most Natasha way possible, basically saying, I miss the Drew Barrymore show.
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  Shout out to unpaid TSA agents and also who owns page six, the New York Post again.
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  So she's not denying it, but she's also not confirming it.
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  She's just saying that she didn't get on her flight, and questioning who owns the post.
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  Honestly, that's how I want to handle all my problems moving forward.
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  But the bigger headline here is that TSHNs were working unpaid during a partial
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  government shutdown, which feels like something that we should maybe care about
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  more than whether someone didn't buckle their seatbelt in first class or not.
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  But sure, let's focus on the woman who may or may not have simply disassociated
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  like the rest of us want to every day.
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  Okay so there's new research and it's
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  basically forcing doctors to admit they might not
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  fully know who's actually conscious like when
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  somebody's laying in a hospital bed patients who are diagnosed as being in a
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  vegetative state studies are now showing that about one in four might actually
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  be aware of what's going on they're just unable to move or respond which just
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  confirms that i already thought when doctors say,
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  you can still talk to them. They can hear you.
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  They're there, even though I know and you know that they're not there.
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  It's just to make you feel better and that you're getting everything that you
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  want to say out to them. Cool. Cool, cool, cool.
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  Scientists call it covert consciousness, which sounds like a spy movie,
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  but is actually just your brain working while your body doesn't.
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  And the problem is hospitals don't routinely test for it.
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  The Technology does exist for this, but it's very expensive where I'm mostly
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  used in research, not real life care.
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  So families are being asked to make life or death decisions without really knowing
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  if their loved one is aware of what's going on.
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  And it gets a lot worse.
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  Misdiagnosis rates for vegetative states can be as high as 40%. 40%.
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  So there's a non-zero chance someone is lying there, aware, while being treated
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  like they're not even there.
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  And doctors aren't necessarily wrong, the science just hasn't caught up to reality
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  yet, which leaves a lot of families stuck in this brutal gray area.
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  So do you keep someone alive just in case they're in there, or let them go,
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  not knowing if they can hear you or not?
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  And there's literally no right answer here.
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  Can you believe we're in 2026 and we still don't know this stuff?
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  In Lindsay Life, I'm back in New York City for the weekend, and I'm hitting
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  all of the open mics, and I'm hitting on all of the Jewish boys.
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  Thing of the week this week is ube. It's a food that's popular not because it
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  tastes good and not because it's necessarily that good for you but because it's trendy.
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  It's this aggressive purple substance that looks like it was invented by a highlighter
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  and now it's just in lattes.
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  Ube is actually a Filipino yam that's been around forever but now it's only
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  blowing up in the states because, and this is scientific, it's purple.
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  That's it. That's the whole thing.
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  Food companies are not choosing flavors based on whether they are social media
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  gorgeous, which is actually a real phrase.
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  So it's not about taste, and it's not about culture. It's not even about what's
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  really good for you or not.
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  It's about whether it'll get you viral on TikTok.
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  And sure, yeah, sometimes ube does taste good. It's very subtle,
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  it's sweet, a little vanilla-y, but that's not why it's here.
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  It's here because it looks like you shouldn't be eating it.
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  Also, a lot of these ube products don't even use real ube.
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  They're just flavored to taste like it. So now we're just eating fake versions
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  of a real food because the color is aesthetically pleasing.
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  But also, I mean, are we really going to pretend to be surprised by this one?
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  And quick reminder, it's Filipino, which a shocking number of people don't know.
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  So now we've successfully turned someone's cultural staple
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  into our new vibe incredible work
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  everyone anyway enjoy your purple latte it's not
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  food cooking tip of the day if it's
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  not real you probably shouldn't be making or eating it however i am saying this
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  as i eat a peep that's left over from easter sunday feedback comments questions
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  a nice jewish boy looking for a date email me at lindsay at the daily starcast.com
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  thank you guys so much for listening Have a great weekend.
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