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February 24th, 2026: The Blizzard, Nick Reiner And Central Park · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is sponsored by Ice Cream in Winter. Yum!
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  If I hadn't done that, he wouldn't have been able to save my leg.
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  Lindsey Vonn on saying that she almost lost her leg at the Olympics.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Starcast. I give you the news and
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  maybe a laugh. I'm Lindsey Vrnick and it's February 24th, 2026.
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  Today definitely feels like Monday, but that also means that it'll feel like
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  a shorter week, right? In real news, Mexico's most wanted cartel boss, Al Mencho, is dead.
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  He led the Julesco Nune Generation Cartel in western Mexico.
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  It's one of the most violent and powerful gangs in Mexico. They made billions
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  in revenue and have tens of thousands of members.
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  Authorities tracked him down by following one of his romantic partners,
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  and the U.S. CIA helped too.
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  There were helicopters and heavy gunfire. It was chaos. Al Mencho was wounded and died in transport.
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  There was a ton of violence after all of this. Armed groups blocked highways,
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  burned cars, and set fire to supermarkets and banks.
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  Public transport halted, and hotels told guests to stay inside.
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  The U.S. told Americans to shelter in place.
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  Tragically, 25 members of the Mexican National Guard died in the operation,
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  along with dozens of cartel members and civilians caught in the crossfire.
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  So what's next? Cartels either have a smooth succession plan or a violent power struggle.
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  This cartel is structured to survive leadership changes, so don't expect peace
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  just because the boss is gone.
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  Mexico's government calls this a major win. But who really knows?
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  The Northeast has officially been buried.
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  Monday's blizzard dumped three feet of snow in parts of Rhode Island,
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  stranded over 350 cars in Massachusetts, and basically shut down civilization.
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  Providence hit 33 inches. Warwick hit 36.2.
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  And yeah, the trees didn't survive that wind either. Half a million homes lost power.
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  Cape Cod was 85% in the dark. New York City got nearly 20 inches in Central Park.
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  Momdani threw shovelers an extra $11 an hour.
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  Most subway lines are running again, except the ones that matter.
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  The path is running a little bit. The C train is down.
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  The Staten Island Railway, forget it.
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  New Jersey Transit is still mostly frozen.
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  Basically, your commute is a choose-your-own-adventure called How Much Ice Can You Survive?
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  Food delivery workers were out there braving 60-mile-per-hour winds.
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  Some e-bikes even died mid-delivery.
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  Some workers stayed home, and Grubhub and DoorDash paused.
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  Instacart said, LOL, we're still sending people, and gave them surge pay for $4 per delivery.
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  Because who wouldn't risk their lives for $4?
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  Meanwhile, essential workers and weirdly determined people like nannies,
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  doormen, pizza guys, and security guards showed up.
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  Some people even followed the plows like it was a religious experience.
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  Others made it halfway to their jobs, only to realize their office wasn't even opening.
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  Power is slowly coming back, and streets are slowly getting cleared.
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  People are slowly losing their minds, too, wondering if this winter will ever end.
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  And the homeless population is still trying to figure out whether the subway
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  floor counts as a warning center.
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  Nick Reiner, the youngest son of director Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer Reiner,
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  has pleaded not guilty to stabbing his parents to death in their Brentwood mansion.
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  He waived his right to a speedy trial.
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  Lawyers call it efficiently, delaying the inevitable. The preliminary hearing
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  is scheduled for April 29th.
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  Nick's defense is still figuring itself out after his first lawyer ghosted him.
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  Meanwhile, the prosecutors are deciding whether to throw the death penalty into the mix.
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  No one still knows what the motive was behind this, and the media is locked out of discovery.
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  Stay tuned, because nothing screams family drama like a real-life murder plot twist.
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  In Lindsay Life, yesterday I went to Central Park to check out all the snow
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  and the sledding with my roommate, and we watched all these crazy people snowboard.
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  Check it out on my TikTok. It's like really crazy.
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  Some of the flips and all these crazy things. And there was even a little girl
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  snowboarding. It was so cute.
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  Things I'm thinking about. How I recently sent your type B worker to everyone
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  I know that would love it.
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  And then I realized that those people are all of my previous bosses.
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  Cooking tip of the day. Throw some rice and some eggs and some vegetables and
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  some tofu into a pan, and it's very delicious.
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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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  Thanks so much for listening, and I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.