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October 29th, 2026: Apple's New MacBook, Google's Genie 4 And Things I Did This Week · The Daily Sarcast

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  Are you a grown adult who has absolutely no idea what you're doing?
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  Did you just get a medical bill that you don't understand?
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  Are you not sure why your laundry machine is making that weird noise again?
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  Do you need to know how to ask your boss for a raise? Introducing Adult Teen
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  Customer Service, the 24-7 hotline for people who are legally adults but actually
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  have no idea what they're doing.
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  Their trained professionals can help you navigate life's most confusing situations.
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  Not sure how to understand that medical bill? They'll put you on hold while
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  they Google what a deductible is.
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  Don't know if your chicken went bad? Describe the smell to their representative.
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  If they say it's probably fine, that's legally binding. Probably.
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  Can't figure out a recent charge on your credit card statement?
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  They'll review your recent transactions and gently remind you that ordering
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  delivery four times a week is, in fact, expensive.
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  And if you've received a letter from the IRS, they'll transfer you to their
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  senior specialist, who has been avoiding their taxes for years.
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  Adulting Customer Service. We're here to help you navigate adulthood because
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  nobody else knows what they're doing either.
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  Adulting Customer Service is available Monday through Friday,
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  9 to 5, because they're adults too and have absolutely no intention of working through lunch.
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  They're not responsible for late fees, bad decisions, or any consequences resulting
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  from you ignoring a letter for three months because it was stressful.
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  They cannot guarantee that your chicken is safe to eat, that you understand
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  your own health insurance, or that life will get any more together after speaking with them.
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  And please allow 5-7 business days for a response because they're currently
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  on hold with unemployment themselves.
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  I barely want to do this. The campaign slogan of a Canadian man running for city council.
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  His campaign bio says, Do I enjoy politics? No. Do I know what I'm doing? No.
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  But am I qualified? Also no.
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  Insert theme song here this is the daily sarcast i gave you the news and made
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  me a laugh i'm lindsey vernick and today is october 29th 2026.
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  In real news apple has officially done something that you would have never thought
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  would have happened they made a touchscreen macbook which is different than an ipad obviously,
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  So after years of resisting the idea, Apple finally decided that maybe people
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  want to touch their computer screens. Like, how revolutionary.
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  Someone get them a Nobel Prize. So yesterday, Apple announced their new MacBook
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  Pro, and it has a touchscreen, a new display, and a bunch of other upgrades.
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  You can scroll through their websites, pinch to zoom, literally everything that
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  you can do on your iPad and your cell phone.
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  But here's the best price about it.
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  The 14-inch starts at $2,900, and then the 16-inch is $3,400.
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  And if you want the M5, you're looking at $4,500.
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  Or you can get the 16-inch set for $4,800.
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  And then you can totally max out the computer with all of the memory and storage,
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  and it could be literally $14,000 for a laptop.
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  Like, for that price, your MacBook should be able to answer emails for you.
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  They are saying that this new one, though, has a lot better brightness,
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  contrast, and color. Fascinating.
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  Oh, and it can last the battery up to 24 hours, which is actually really helpful.
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  This one is made for people doing things like video editing,
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  graphic design, music production, and other professional things like that.
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  You can order this computer now, and they start shipping and getting into stores around November 6.
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  It's crazy because Steve Jobs
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  famously argued that reaching up to touch a vertical screen was terrible.
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  And now it's terrible for everyone except people willing to spend $2,900 on a computer.
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  And they did make a lot of really big improvements for this computer but they
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  also made some big improvements on how to make a computer screen touchable and then priced it,
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  like a small apartment in New York City and if you're like oh maybe I need one
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  of these my advice is that if your laptop works fine or even just like maybe
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  kind of fine maybe don't take out a second mortgage just because you can now touch it.
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  In a lot more serious news, Spain is in mourning after there was a horrible
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  collision involving two high-speed trains near Madrid.
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  So as of last night, the police said that at least 68 people died and more than
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  dozens of people were injured.
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  The crash happened yesterday morning right before 9 a.m along this like high-speed railway.
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  It connects Madrid and southern Spain so one of the trains that were involved
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  was owned is owned by Spain's state-owned railway company and then the other
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  was operated by IRO it's this like private rail company,
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  and both of the trains were going from Madrid to Seville and there were exactly
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  544 four people aboard two of the trains combined together.
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  So apparently the IRO, the private train, stopped on the tracks.
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  And then the Spain train then like hit it from behind, which caused the IRO
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  train to like spring forward. And that's how the crash happened.
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  Some of the cars went down on an embankment.
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  And that also made it really hard for rescue operations to happen.
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  Right now, they're still trying to figure out why this crash happened.
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  The transport minister of Spain isn't really sure why the rail control center
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  allowed the Spain-operated state train to go after there was already some sort of system failure.
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  Like this Spain state train, Spain state trains say that time five times fast.
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  They should not have been allowed to proceed in the way that it did when they
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  literally had a stop sign.
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  But they're also super fast to say that the drivers of the train should not be blamed.
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  This is also the country's second major fatal high-speed rail accident this year.
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  If you remember, there was a really big one back in January.
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  Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, has promised that he's going to do a
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  full investigation for any negligence or safety system failures,
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  and they will be addressed.
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  The government has also announced that there's going to be three days of official
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  mourning from October 29th through October 31st.
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  So Google is continuing to make advancements with AI, obviously,
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  and they're working on this kind of AI that can create entire interactive worlds.
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  So Google DeepMind announced this new AI called Genie 4, and it can make these
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  realistic environments that people can like go into and change in real time.
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  It's kind of like an AI that doesn't just generate a picture of a beach.
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  It can literally build an interactive environment with like movement and sound
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  and people and things happening all around.
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  You can give it a prompt and put something in motion and then watch it all kind
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  of like happen before your eyes like a movie.
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  Like if you want to change the weather, you describe the change and you can
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  add in a person or an object.
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  And it's not just about the visuals either. Genie 4 can also make music,
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  including like environmental sounds and interactive dialogue.
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  So the world that this AI creates can literally look and sound like a place
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  with like characters that react to events and instructions, literally like your own movie.
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  AI says that this could help with creating new gaming experiences to building
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  environments where AI can actually practice things before attempting them in the real world.
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  So if you're imagining something, you can literally just make it into this AI
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  environment and you don't have to worry about building anything physical anymore.
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  And now before you're like, wait, it could literally now just generate an entire
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  movie and like get rid of the cast and replace the production crew.
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  Like there are some really big limitations here. Like it's still an experimental research model.
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  And Google just started rolling it out to a limited group of trusted testers.
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  And also it's like not working that great yet either but you know right now
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  it's not working that great but you know you know.
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  What's also interesting is they're adding this thing called SynthID.
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  It's this like watermark technology to generate video and audio to help identify
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  what is AI and what's not.
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  I mean, that's a really, really good idea because we're pretty much in a world
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  now where we see something online and we have no idea if it's AI or not, right?
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  What I'm wondering, though, is like, could I generate a version of myself who
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  has her entire life together?
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  Like if this can simulate realistic physics and movement and sound and dialogue
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  surely it can simulate a woman who has answered all of her texts and made all
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  of her doctor's appointments,
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  but like let's be realistic here that might be the most advanced AI problem of all,
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  in Lindsay life okay I did a confidence webinar the other day and I literally
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  thought this woman was talking to me.
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  She literally her example for what the first thing was like talking about like
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  having confidence and like imagine if you're a stand-up comedian and you go on stage and like,
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  people heckle you like obviously you're not going to have any confidence right
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  or like if you do really well and everyone's laughing at your jokes then like
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  you're going to feel really good and I was like oh is she talking to me,
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  and then she moves on to talk about how like nobody cares about you.
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  Like nobody's thinking about you more than you're thinking about you.
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  Like she's really trying to drill that whole idea into your head.
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  And then she goes, nobody cares. Nobody is like waiting on your every move.
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  Nobody wants to know what you're thinking. Nobody's waiting for the next episode.
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  And I literally was like, but yeah, no, like some people are waiting for the next episode.
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  I guess you don't know that you're talking to somebody who runs a daily comedy
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  news podcast where I talk about my life in every single episode and I need a
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  new Lindsay Life update.
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  Yeah, so that confidence webinar went real, real well.
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  Things I did this week instead of having a job. I spent two hours getting to Brooklyn.
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  It is a 45 minute trip that literally took two hours.
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  I took my little leather wallet to get repaired at this place down the street,
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  but then I had to go on this whole side quest to get a new chain for it,
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  and I had to go to like two or three stores.
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  And somehow I walked into a jewelry store and the guy me gave me a free chain free chain,
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  like I told him I was looking for a chain and he went to the back and like rumbled
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  around and then like handed it to me and then like looked back down at the watch
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  he was working on and was like okay thanks and he was like yeah yeah like,
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  take it like come back like take it take it so I like awkwardly like walked out and then like,
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  walked to the back to the leather man like this Russian old Russian Jewish guy
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  who's like fixing my wallet and he was like
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  where did you get this chain how much did you pay for this I'm like I don't
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  know like the jeweler just handed it to me he was like no seriously like tell
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  me how much you pay I was like seriously like he literally just handed me this
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  chain like I don't know what to tell you I'm just as confused as you are.
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  And so the guy was so confused, but now he's fixing my wallet, which is very exciting.
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  Those are the things that I get into on random Tuesdays.
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  I spent hours on the phone with unemployment. Like, I've worked more hours trying
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  to get unemployment than I would at an actual job.
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  I took a midday nap and watched a movie in the middle of the afternoon.
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  I mean, that sounds really relaxing, right? Until you realize that it's Wednesday
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  and you've absolutely nothing to show for it, except your phone is fully charged and maybe so are you.
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  I wrote, produced, and released a daily podcast that gets about 20 downloads
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  a day, like literally 20 people.
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  I mean, it's technically an audience, but also like less than like a regularly sized party.
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  So basically, I'm working a full-time job this week. The only difference is
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  that I'm not getting paid.
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  My commute is horrendous for no reason, and my boss is me, and unfortunately,
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  I can't file an unemployment claim against myself.
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  Cooking tip of the day. Having leftovers allows you to not cook your next meal.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, a nice Jewish boy looking for a date?
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  Email me at lindsay at thedailystarcast.com. Thank you so much for listening,
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  and I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.