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June 8th, 2026: Meet The Press, Strike On Israel And Dinner With My Ex · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is sponsored by always being too hot or too cold and never just right.
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  Why do you think it is your parents want you to work? The leader of an exclusive
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  retreat for the world's richest kids collectively worth $7 billion where they
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  try how to learn how to be a regular person.
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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 Lindsay Vernick and today is June 8th, 2026.
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  It really is summer, which is like so crazy, right? Do you feel it yet?
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  I feel like I'm just starting to.
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  Anyways, in real news, today the Knicks are getting ready for Game 3 of the NBA Finals at MSG,
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  but fans are being told to leave their bags at home, arrive two hours early,
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  and prepare for TSA-style security screenings because President Trump is going to be there.
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  The NYPD also canceled the usual watch party outside MSG because of security concerns.
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  I mean, things got pretty wild on Friday night there.
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  So after waiting decades for the Knicks to return to the finals,
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  fans will celebrate the occasion the New York way, standing in a very long line
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  and being told to take everything out of their pockets.
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  Honestly, if the Knicks win, the security is going to be the safest place to be.
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  Speaking of President Trump, yesterday he walked out of a taped interview with
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  NBC's Meet the Press after things got a little too heated with Kristen Welker
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  over his continued claims about the 2020 election and the January 6th Capitol riot.
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  During the interview, Welker questioned Trump about a proposed $1.8 billion
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  compensation fund for people he says were victims of politically motivated prosecutions.
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  When asked whether people who pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers during
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  the January 6th attack could receive compensation, Trump declined to rule that out.
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  Also repeated claims that the 2020 election and California's recent primary election were rigged.
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  Welker pushed back on this one, saying that there is no evidence to support those claims.
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  When Trump argued that extended ballot counting was proof something was wrong,
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  Welker responded, but that's not evidence.
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  And that's when things went really sideways.
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  Trump began criticizing NBC and other networks before saying,
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  let's call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling.
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  Have a good time. He then unclipped his microphone, stood up, and walked off set.
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  The interview was recorded inside a barn in Wisconsin ahead of a roundtable
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  event with farmers, and throughout the interview, you can hear rain pounding on the roof.
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  Trump later said that the weather was the main reason for his frustration,
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  telling the audience, because it was raining, I got a little bit angry at them.
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  Yes, the rain made you angry, not the fact that someone just tried to get you
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  to admit that you helped the rioters from January 6 and claim that all elections
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  are rigged. But yeah, that rain's going to get you.
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  Either way, it's not every day that a presidential interview ends with someone
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  saying, I'm done with this conversation, and then physically walking out of the barn.
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  That's just reserved for family dinners.
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  This guy from Houston is facing felony charges after he snuck onto a United
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  Airlines flight to LA using a fake boarding pass.
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  So this 25-year-old repeatedly tried to board flights at Houston's airport on
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  May 18th, but was turned away each time when his boarding pass wouldn't scan.
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  So eventually he just waited until the gate agents were distracted and he just
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  walked down the jet bridge onto the L.A. flight.
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  So you would think he's in the clear, right? Wrong. Once he got on, things got even worse.
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  So he gets onto the plane and then like immediately disappears into the bathroom.
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  He comes back to find the actual passenger assigned to that seat he had sat in before.
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  And then he just kept trying to go to the bathroom while the plane was trying to depart.
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  So as he kept trying to go, like, just hang out in the bathroom,
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  flight attendants were like, hey, dude, like, who are you?
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  And he said that he was Mr. Lopez.
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  The problem was that there was no Mr. Lopez on the flight manifest.
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  So then the plane had to return to the gate, and everyone had to get off the
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  plane, and police had to search the plane with K-9 units, and the flight was
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  delayed for about three hours.
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  But the cops are still trying to figure out how the boarding pass was able to scan into the flight.
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  So on Friday, the 25-year-old was arrested, and now he's charged with impairing
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  or interrupting a critical infrastructure facility.
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  Look, I've never tried to sneak onto a plane, but I feel like step one should
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  be having a seat assignment.
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  Step two should probably not be introducing yourself as a guy who doesn't exist.
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  In Lindsay life, so this weekend, my ex took me out to dinner,
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  which is already a sentence that I will have to unpack with my therapist at a later date.
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  But the dinner could have gone one of two days, one of two ways.
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  We could have either gotten back together for the third or fourth time,
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  or we could have just had a normal nice dinner as best friends. And that's what we did.
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  While we were having dinner, I told him that I wish we could have just gotten married.
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  Like things would have just been so much easier because we're best friends.
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  And they say you should marry your best friends.
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  However, we're just not compatible in like a marriage way, which I guess is pretty important.
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  So yeah, I'm happy we decided not to get back together for the third or fourth time.
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  Yeah, I love him in like a brother type of way and I really do wish I could marry him.
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  But then you also have to remember that you need chemistry is kind of important
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  if you are going to marry somebody.
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  Thing of this week is the concept of a ceasefire.
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  Not an actual ceasefire, just the concept of it, the idea, the dream,
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  the Pinterest board version of a ceasefire.
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  Just yesterday, Iran launched missiles at Israel for the first time since the
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  April ceasefire, after Israel carried out a strike in Beirut earlier in the day.
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  At this point, calling something a ceasefire feels a little optimistic.
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  It's kind of like when a couple post a relationship announcement after breaking
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  up six times. Technically, they're together, but nobody's expecting a wedding anytime soon.
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  Israel intercepted the missiles and has warned of further military action.
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  Iran says the strikes were warning and threatened broader attacks of Israeli operations continue.
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  Meanwhile, Trump reportedly plans to call Netanyahu and encourage him not to
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  retaliate. So that's where we are right now.
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  Everybody is calling everybody, telling them not to do the thing that they're
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  already halfway through doing.
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  I wish there could be a week where the biggest international story is that one
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  of the world leaders got caught using chat to write a letter to one of the other
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  ones, but we all know that's not happening.
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  Instead, we have to wake up every morning, open the news, and discover that
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  stability is apparently not a real thing.
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  So a thing of this week is ceasefires. Not because they're working,
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  but because we'd all really like to actually see one someday.
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  Cooking tip of the day. I think going to Whole Foods on Tuesdays is the best
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  because it's quiet, and I think those are the best deals on those days.
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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. Thanks so much for listening.
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  Talk to you guys tomorrow.