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March 3rd, 2026: The Blood Moon, Live Nation And An Aggressive Monday · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is brought to you by people who blast bad music on the subway
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  because they have absolutely no awareness.
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  The wedding has already happened. You missed it.
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  Zendaya's stylist on her and Tom Holland getting married.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Starcast. I give you the news and maybe a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick and it's March 3rd, 2026. i
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  don't know about you but it feels like we can't
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  go within like an hour without having to hear
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  about the news and it just feels so so heavy right
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  now i was complaining to my girlfriend last night
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  on the train like we cannot escape the news and
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  she was like lindsey you literally run a
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  news podcast and i was like shit as
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  i go back to look at my phone where i'm writing about the
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  news so yeah we can't escape it
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  so i'm gonna try to keep the sad like not
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  fun stuff short and sweet today that being
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  said in real news the u.s is officially expanding its military presence in the
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  middle east as the war with iran escalates trump says this could possibly last
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  four to five weeks maybe longer secretary of state marco rubio chimed in to
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  let us know the hardest hits are still coming.
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  So if we thought this was the dramatic climax, nope, we're apparently still in the opening credits.
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  Thousands of airstrikes have already hit Iran over the past few days.
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  Hundreds are dead, including senior Iranian military leaders and even the Ayatollah.
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  Iran has responded by firing drones and missiles at Israel and U.S.
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  Bases across the region.
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  At least six American service members have now been killed. Two more were confirmed this week.
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  The Pentagon says more fighter jets and troops are on the way.
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  The chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dan Kane, said they expect additional losses.
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  Which means a lot more people are going to die.
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  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insists this won't become another endless war,
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  which is exactly what every administration says right before everyone starts
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  Googling, how long was Iraq again?
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  Also, a little minor detail, three U.S.
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  Fighter jets were accidentally shot down by Kuwait in a friendly fighter incident.
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  I think shot down and friendly are a bit of oxymorons in the same sentence,
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  but luckily everyone survived, which is great.
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  But it's also a reminder that when things get this crowded in the sky, there's a lot of chaos.
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  The State Department is not urging Americans to leave 14 Middle Eastern countries
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  immediately due to serious safety risks.
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  So yes this is officially unofficial and
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  here's the real tension they're saying it won't be long they're
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  saying it won't be endless but they're also sending more troops more jets and
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  preparing the country for more casualties so the question becomes what does
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  mission accomplished even look like here destroying missile capabilities is
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  one thing stabilizing the aftermath is another.
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  And history has a very, very long memory.
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  Anyway, so that's where we are with that. If you're listening to this early
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  Tuesday morning and you happen to be awake before sunrise, congratulations and good morning.
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  You either have discipline or a lot of anxiety.
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  Either way, you should look up. And
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  if you're listening to this after the sunrise, good morning to you too.
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  A total lunar eclipse is happening right now.
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  So Earth is sliding directly between the sun and the moon, and it's casting
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  a shadow that will slowly turn the moon a deep copper red.
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  That is what's known as a blood moon, which sounds like the start of a prophecy,
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  but it's actually just basic science.
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  According to NASA, the eclipse began around 3.44 a.m. Eastern.
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  Totality, when the moon is fully inside Earth's darkest shadow and glowing red, starts at 6.04 a.m.
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  And lasts for about 59 minutes exactly.
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  So if you're on the East Coast, sunrise might interrupt the full view,
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  but West Coast listeners get a better view of the main event.
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  So why does it turn red, you may ask? Because Earth's atmosphere filters out
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  blue light and lets red light pass through.
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  It's basically the same reason sunsets look dramatic. the
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  moon is just borrowing our aesthetic and if
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  you miss it which there's a 99.9 percent
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  chance that you did the next partial lunar eclipse
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  is in august and the next total lunar eclipse isn't until 2028 it's for once
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  something dramatic happening in the sky that doesn't involve politics live nation
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  the company that owns literally everything from big arenas to your Ticketmaster Guilt Trips is on trial.
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  The Justice Department says it's a monopoly, squeezing artists,
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  venues, and fans for profit.
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  Live Nation says, nope, we're fine, calling the case a molehill pretending to be a melon.
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  The trial kicked off in Manhattan yesterday, and the CEO, Michael Rapinoe, will testify.
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  Kid Rock might show up too. He hates the system but still uses it.
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  The government isn't chasing the whole empire, just the juicy hits.
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  Exclusive venue deals and forcing artists to play by Live Nation's rules if
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  they want the big stages.
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  So smaller venues are screwed, and competitors like SeatGeek are pushed out.
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  Like, example, Barclays Center ditched Ticketmaster once, and Live Nation allegedly
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  punished them by rerouting shows.
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  And Live Nation obviously denies all this.
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  This all traces back to a 2010 merger that regulators said was, okay, play nice.
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  But obviously they didn't, and now the Justice Department is seeing if they
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  can finally make the music giant behave, or fans will keep paying $500 for a
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  decent seat forever. In Lindsay life.
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  So yesterday I was like out of town down in the Lower East Side and I was talking
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  to these two boys and I thought one was super cute so I'm chatting them up.
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  I show them my podcast. They tell me they're gonna listen to it on their plane ride to Bulgaria.
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  It was all great and the guy that
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  I like leaves so I say to his friend like is
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  your friend Jewish and he was like I have no idea
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  but I think you're really cute and I'm Christian
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  is that okay and I was like oh my god you're so cute but
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  like not really no but you can try emailing me and he told me he definitely
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  will so is the one guy who's about to ask me for a date to my email who I'm
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  explicitly asking to be Jewish not be Jewish kill me now Lindsay lessons, a lesson by lens.
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  A guy knows you're flirting with him when you make eye contact with him directly
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  when he talks about deleting on stage during his stand-up set,
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  and definitely will know that you're flirting with him when you start heckling him,
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  asking him what other dating apps he's been on, and then it won't even come
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  to fruition because he's 26 years old.
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  Cooking tip of the day. Always keep a protein shake on you.
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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. Thanks so much for listening and
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  I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.