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October 22nd, 2026: The New iPhone Duo, Samantha The American Girl Doll And Things I Overheard From My Bedroom · The Daily Sarcast

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  Oh no you were a misbehavior we have worked with each other kira knightley on forgetting her co-star,
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  insert theme song here this is the daily sarcast i give you the news and made
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  you laugh i'm lindsey vernic and today is october,
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  so in real news okay so meta has been ordered to pay 25 billion dollars in a
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  new mexico case because of consumer protection and online safety regulations.
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  Okay, just to begin, like $25 billion is a lot of money.
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  Like that's enough to buy 25 billion things that cost a dollar.
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  And 25 billion things are like a lot, a lot, a lot of things.
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  Yeah, I don't really know how many things that would be. I guess,
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  yeah, that would be 25 billion things. But like visually, I don't really know
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  how you would say that. Anyway, it's a lot.
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  That's Lindsay math for you right
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  there. Okay, so what happened was New Mexico, the state, sued Meta in,
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  2021 because they were like, you guys are misleading everybody about the safety
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  of Instagram and Facebook, and you're putting a lot of kids at risk.
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  But also, like, not even just at risk anymore. Like, a lot of kids have unfortunately
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  committed suicide because of what's been happening on social media.
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  So New Mexico is like, you guys suck at handling this stuff.
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  And, like, it's not safe for young kids to be on it and you're not making it any better for them.
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  So this past March, a jury found Meta liable for violating New Mexico's consumer protection law.
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  And the jury found almost 43.9 million violations i don't know why they didn't
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  just round up to 44 million i don't know how you violate 0.9 of a violation but okay,
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  and then they told them that they owe the state 375 million dollars as a punishment,
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  but then in like a different part of the case the court was like oh by the way
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  guys you also owe us 25 billion dollars just because like you guys fucked up
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  and that's what you owe us.
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  And Metta, of course, is like, no, we don't. And they're going to appeal this case.
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  Kind of reminds me a lot like of me appealing my unemployment cases or my warranty claim on my mattress.
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  That's just literal lunch money to Zuckerberg. And Meta has been like,
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  we have really invested in safety measures.
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  And they were like, guys, like, we are doing everything that we can to protect
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  young kids. I don't know why you're saying that we're not.
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  And like $25 billion is a lot of money. Will that bankrupt Zuckerberg?
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  No, because doesn't he have like trillions of dollars? I don't know. He has a lot of money.
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  But this company, though, does have a lot of information on us.
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  Like, they're listening. They're literally listening to me right now.
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  They're listening to you. Listen to this.
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  They know what you're watching. They know what you're doing.
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  They know who you're following. They know what you like. They know what you don't like.
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  And they know, like, what you're going to do before you know what you're going to do.
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  Like, Meta knows everything about all of us, except how to actually fix our
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  lives, which would probably be more helpful.
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  And now they have to pay $25 billion to New Mexico.
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  They should just pay for everybody's therapy instead. Probably be more worth it.
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  Apple is about to launch their foldable phone. It is called the iPhone Duo,
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  and it is the first folding iPhone.
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  It goes on sale October 23rd, tomorrow, and the starting price is $1,999. $1,999.
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  Yeah, our phones are still technically not $2,000 yet.
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  So now you can spend $1,999 on a phone that folds in half.
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  So when the phone is closed, it has like this screen that's like five inches.
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  But when you open it up, you get like seven inches, almost eight inches,
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  which is what he said. I'm sorry I had to say that.
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  So basically the phone has turned into a mini tablet.
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  It's basically an iPad at this point. And Apple is like, okay,
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  so the bigger screen is for watching videos and gaming and like multitasking.
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  So now you can like watch Netflix and scroll Instagram on your phone at the same time.
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  So we can, my ADHD is going to pay off here so much.
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  And now this iPhone has two batteries.
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  And Apple says that it has up to 31 hours of video playback.
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  Like that's enough battery life to watch an entire TV series,
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  text your friends, and still have enough battery life to stalk your ex.
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  But the reviews on this phone are like not that good.
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  Wired said the phone is a 7 out of 10. It was like it has a really nice design.
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  It's smooth and like has great battery life.
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  However, they're saying that the phone is super heavy and some apps still haven't
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  been like optimized yet. So they like look really weird on a big screen.
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  And also the camera isn't that good yet.
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  And also there's like some software features that are weird and you need like
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  the Apple Pencil for, but Apple said that they're not going to add it till later this year.
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  So you can buy the iPhone Duo for $1,999. You can also buy a protective case
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  for $79 or a case with a kickstand for $129.
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  And because you're spending basically $2,000 on a phone, what's another $129 to protect it?
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  But this new iPhone is kind of raising a really important question here.
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  Like, do we need a bigger iPhone that can do more and like we can multitask
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  on? Like, have we become so addicted to our phones that we have to like be on
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  Instagram and working at the same time?
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  Do we actually need this? Maybe we do. Or maybe we can go backwards a little
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  bit and have like less of a screen. Maybe we don't need to be on our phones this much.
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  I know I definitely don't need to oh my god actually that is a reminder I do
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  need to check my Farmville I haven't checked it in a couple days my cows are probably starving.
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  Okay anyway so if you are a girl you probably grew up playing with American
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  Girl dolls like me okay ready get this Samantha is back remember she was like one of the top,
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  big like American Girl dolls like you had to have.
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  Well, she's back. It's like a whole thing.
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  So now she's 25 years old. She's fighting for her inheritance,
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  and she's working on a department store, and she's dating two people.
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  Yeah, so Samantha has this new adult novel called Samantha, The Next Chapter.
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  It kind of sounds very sex in the city, but it's American Girl Doll.
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  And it's by one of the authors, Fiona Davis, who wrote the books before like
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  this is so exciting for like little lindsey like you know american girl dolls are back,
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  and like i'm also kind of relieved i'm actually very relieved that i probably
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  have way too much in common with this girl and i'm not going to say why but you can probably guess,
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  so the book actually came out like last week because it's the 40th anniversary
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  american girls and it takes samantha who originally lived with her wealthy grandmother
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  in this town of mount Bedford, New York, it's a fictional town,
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  and puts her into the 1920s as a young suffragist trying to reclaim her inheritance
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  while working at this department store.
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  So Samantha went from playing with a doll-sized T-set to fighting for women's
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  rights and financial independence.
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  Meanwhile, I went from playing with a doll-sized T-set fighting for financial dependence.
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  So this book also talks a lot about women and their roles and all the cultural
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  stuff back then and how things are so similar between today and the 1920s.
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  This book is also connected to American Girl's 2026 Girl of the Year,
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  Raquel Reyes, who was Samantha's great-great-granddaughter, which makes me feel how old I am,
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  and she discovers Samantha's diary at a family celebration.
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  And do you remember the American Girl place at Rockefeller Center?
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  Way back when, you used to go out for tea and, like, maybe get a doll if you were lucky.
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  Okay, maybe that was just me. It always seemed like everybody was coming back with dolls.
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  Well, they're doing still very, very well there. It's a 40,000 square foot store
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  and it has a hair salon, a cafe,
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  and now you can buy $20 bag charms and a $265 bunk bed for your doll.
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  I remember when my sister, she broke the doll's leg and like we had to go up
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  to New York City from Philly to get the doll's leg fixed.
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  And she like had to go on crutches and it was, I don't even want to know how
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  much my parents. I mean, back then, it wasn't like, you know,
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  I mean, now it probably wasn't that expensive.
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  But like today, I can't even imagine how much it was. But like back then,
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  it was probably like 50 bucks or something. And my parents were like,
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  what the fuck? Like, that's so insane.
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  And then like today, it's probably like $150. And parents are still probably
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  like, what the fuck? That's insane.
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  In Lindsay life. So yesterday I was sitting at a cafe down in the West Village
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  and like doing some work on my computer.
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  And these two girls sat down next to me and they were, they were pretty young.
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  And then it turned out that they were actually very young, the more and more that they talked.
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  And I was pretending not to eavesdrop and being like very invested in my computer,
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  but like they were wild girls.
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  Like we were sitting outside and their first thing I could tell that they were
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  from out of town because they were watching dogs go walk by and the one turns
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  together and was like can you believe how many dogs are in the city and then they probably like,
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  get into like these people's beds at night like that's so gross like they're
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  walking around new york city ew,
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  and i was like oh boy here we go now i have to listen so it turns out these
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  girls are like in their early 20s they both like just got married they're from
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  like north or south carolina,
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  and they're like in New York.
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  They wanted to like figure out where the best cookie stores were.
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  Juan heard that the East Village was like super exciting and they had to go
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  check it out. Anyway, it was it was really cute.
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  Things I hear from my bedroom window that's right on the sidewalk of New York City.
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  Mom, it's like really hard to get a boyfriend in New York. I'm just really trying
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  to prioritize myself right now. All of the apps suck.
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  And this was an adult woman to a bunch of kids. Now I know that you might not
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  like them all, but we're about to see them in a second.
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  And to make friends, you have to wave.
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  So make sure when we're walking by right now that you wave at them.
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  He lives in Brooklyn with 30 roommates. Cooking tip of the day.
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  If your kale is about to go bad just put it in the air fryer with like some
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  salt and olive oil and now you have kale chips yum,
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  feedback comments questions a nice jewish boy looking for a date email me at
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  lindsay at the daily starcast.com thank you so much for listening and i'll talk to you guys tomorrow.