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November 4th, 2026: Election Results, Google's Rules For Schools And Thoughts On The Ballot · The Daily Sarcast

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  Have you ever gotten home, looked in the mirror, and realized that you've been
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  walking around for six hours with spinach in your teeth?
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  Or your fly was down? Or you had a giant piece of toilet paper stuck to your shoe?
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  And you're wondering how many people saw it and decided to just let you live like that?
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  Introducing Someone Should Have Told You, the world's first personal embarrassment
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  prevention service. Here's how it works.
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  Using a discreet AI-powered camera built into a small accessory that goes into
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  your cell phone, Someone Should Have Told You monitors your appearance and sends
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  an alert to your phone whenever something is wrong.
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  If you have food on your face, you'll get a notification. If your fly is down,
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  you'll get a notification.
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  Lipstick on your teeth, notification. If your skirt gets tucked into your underwear,
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  your phone starts ringing because that's an emergency.
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  And the notifications don't stop until you fix the problem, because some situations
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  cannot wait until you finish scrolling.
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  And unlike your friends, who apparently have no problem watching you walk around
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  with an entire salad in your teeth, someone should have told you will actually say something.
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  you when your outfit looks terrible, your breath smells, or you've been talking
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  to someone for 20 minutes who clearly wants to leave.
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  Someone should have told you because apparently everyone saw it and nobody said a fucking word.
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  Someone should have told you may occasionally mistake your personal style for an emergency.
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  The company is not responsible for hurt feelings, public confrontations,
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  or discovering that you've had bad breaths since 2019.
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  That's a separate service. Someone should have told you does not currently detect
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  camel toes, visible nipples, or the fact that your ex is sitting directly behind you.
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  Don't use your Halloween costume to raise awareness of anything other than Halloween,
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  especially when you complete the look with a boyfriend sweater from The Row, okay?
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  Jimmy Kimmel or Martha Stewart dressing up like a homeless person for Halloween.
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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 Barnick and today is November 4th, 2026.
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  We're in that weird time right now where it's like appropriate to be wearing
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  a sweater outside, but also a tank top, but like also a winter coat,
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  like the light winter coats.
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  But then also if you want to wear shorts and a tank top, you'd be okay too.
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  It's so confusing, right?
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  Okay, that's my weather review. So in real news, In-N-Out Burger might be going
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  to three new states, but New York is not one of them.
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  As we all know, In-N-Out is based in California, and they are now considering
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  opening restaurants in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Oklahoma.
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  The owner and president, Lindsay, who spells her name L-Y-N-S-I,
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  announced this during an interview celebrating their 78th anniversary.
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  But however, nothing is confirmed. There are no official locations or opening
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  dates, but the company is like, these states make sense because they're close
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  to the supply routes anyway.
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  In-N-Out already has more than 400 locations across 10 states and they are planning
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  to open in New Mexico in 2027.
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  But if you're on the east coast with me hoping to finally get an In-N-Out,
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  don't get too excited. Lynn C.
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  Says that going to the east coast isn't part of the plan right now.
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  The reason being is that In-N-Out doesn't use freezers or microwaves,
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  and they get their food fresh from warehouses in California and Texas.
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  She also likes that In-N-Out isn't available everywhere because it makes it more special.
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  Which is a very nice way of telling 20 million New Yorkers to go fuck themselves.
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  So if you live in Arkansas, Mississippi, or Oklahoma, lucky you,
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  you may or may not be getting an In-N-Out soon.
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  Meanwhile, over here in New York, we will continue to pay $19 for a burger at Shake Shack.
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  But also, like, aren't you guys paying the same at In-N-Out?
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  Google announced yesterday that schools will now have more control over whether
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  students can use its AI, including Gemini.
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  Except there's a catch with that.
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  If the school is like, we don't want our students using Google's AI,
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  then students will also lose access to Google like as a whole.
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  So yes, Google is literally saying if you don't want our AI,
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  you literally can't have any of it. You cannot have Google at all.
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  So this is what's happening. Earlier this year, Google automatically turned
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  on some of its AI features in classrooms and that upset parents and teachers
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  who are worried that students are just going to use AI to do their homework
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  instead of actually learning anything.
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  So Google was like, okay, like I see you guys and announced that next year schools
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  will have to actively choose whether to allow them using AI from them.
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  And the reason that they wouldn't be able to use Google as a whole is because
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  Google has now built AI directly into its search engine, and schools that ban
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  AI altogether won't be able to use just like regular Google search because that
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  doesn't even exist anymore.
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  So basically, you can get with the times and get into 2026, 2027 almost,
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  and accept AI, or just go all the way back to 1997 without Google.
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  Google is now also making something called guided learning, where instead of
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  just giving the kids answers, AI will actually walk them through the problem step by step.
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  I mean, I think the kids are going to be pretty mad when they ask AI to write
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  their essay and it responds by asking them to help them do it.
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  I mean, I would be pissed off in this day and age, too.
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  Remember when Google was just a place where you could just look up the capital
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  of Nebraska and that was pretty much it and maybe just do like a little Google image search on there?
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  Yesterday was election day, as I'm sure you know, and I don't know why I'm saying that, but it was.
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  So I waited until the absolute last second to put this podcast out because still
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  not all the results in yet, and they won't be enough for a little bit,
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  but here is what I currently know as of the recording of this podcast.
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  So all 435 seats in the House of Representatives were up for grabs,
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  along with 35 Senate seats and 36 governorships.
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  So here's what's happening as I currently know. So in North Carolina,
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  former Governor Roy Cooper, who's a Democrat, defeated Republican Michael Watley.
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  So they flipped the Senate seat from Republican to Democrat.
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  Georgia reelected their Democratic senator.
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  And in New Hampshire, Democrat Chris Pappas made history by becoming the first
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  openly gay man ever elected to the U.S. Senate.
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  But also, to be clear, he's not the first openly gay senator.
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  That was Tommy Baldwin, who was elected in Wisconsin back in 2012.
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  But Papas is the first openly gay man.
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  I mean, that's a pretty big deal, right? Especially considering it's 2026 and
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  we're still somehow having firsts like this.
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  And down in Florida, obviously Republicans held onto their Senate seat,
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  and another Republican was elected governor.
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  And one of the biggest deals from Election Day is former Atlanta Mayor Keisha
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  Lance Bottoms won the governor's race, and she has now become the first Black
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  woman ever elected governor of a U.S. state.
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  That's another big historic first in the year of 2026.
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  And now the big question remains, who is going to control Congress?
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  Obviously, Republicans went in hoping to stay in control of both the House and
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  the Senate, and Democrats are like, no, we want it.
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  So hopefully by the time you're listening to this, you have more updates than I do for you right now.
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  And if we don't, I will continue doing what I've been doing all night,
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  which is refreshing election results and pretending that I understand every number on the screen.
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  In Lindsay life, yesterday I worked so hard.
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  I finally passed a level on Candy Crush I've been working on for weeks now.
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  I feel, honestly, I hate to say it, but I feel way too accomplished than I probably should.
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  Things I'm thinking about. Okay, can we talk about those special questions on the ballot yesterday?
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  Like, one question was like, should we make it easier to approve wheelchair rams?
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  Like, why are you asking us that? Like, yes, we should make it easier to approve
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  wheelchair and brands. Like, shouldn't that be obvious?
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  The other one was like, should we speed up construction around here?
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  Like, no, we want our city to be under construction, like the same building
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  to be under construction for like the next 10 years.
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  Like, why are you asking? That's like my landlord asking, like,
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  should we turn on the heat for you this winter?
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  Duh, why are you even asking these questions? Like, if we're going to be voting
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  on stuff like this, can we at least put something more useful on there?
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  Like, I don't know, can we make the subways more safer, more reliable?
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  Could we do more to help the homeless people? Like, let's use these election
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  days wisely and actually put some reasonable questions on there, I think.
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  I don't know, that's just what I'm thinking about.
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  Cooking tip of the day. If you don't feel like cooking, then don't.
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  Feedback, comments, questions, and it's Jewish by looking for an ape?
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  Email me at lindsay at thedailystarcast.com. Thank you so much for listening,
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  and I will talk to you guys tomorrow.
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  Oh, also check out my TikTok. I've been posting some fun videos on there,
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  and Instagram and Facebook, I guess, if you still use that.