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October 7th, 2026: .Meow, October 7th and A Weird Day In NYC · The Daily Sarcast

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  This is the Daily Starcast. I give you the news and made you a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick, and today is October 7th, 2026.
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  God, I hate saying this date so much and I'll get to in a minute,
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  but I'm sorry if this week's sarcasm has been a little bleak.
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  But God, this week's news is like not good. It's just not, it's like not good
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  this week at all. It's so depressing.
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  In real news, France is having a little bit of a situation right now, if you haven't heard.
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  So students, teachers, and parents have been protesting, and yesterday was one
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  of the biggest student protests the country has seen in decades,
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  with more than 250,000 people marching across the country.
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  So these protests actually started back in September in some of the poor suburbs
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  of Paris, and now they have spread out across the country.
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  And everyone's protesting and complaining about some pretty basic things,
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  like overcrowded classrooms, not enough teachers, buildings that desperately
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  need repairs, and schools with problems ranging from water leaks to rat infestations. Ew.
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  So the French government has managed to create the one thing that can make teenagers
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  voluntarily leave their phones and go outside for multiple hours.
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  I hope other countries don't get any ideas here.
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  So more than half of France's high schools were either blockaded or closed yesterday,
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  and some schools have moved classes online.
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  And everyone's also pissed about
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  the school schedule. Like schools there can run from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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  And the students are just asking for longer lunch breaks. Like what the fuck?
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  If you're making a teenager sit in a classroom for 10 hours,
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  at least let them have time to eat a baguette and hang out with their friends during that.
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  But things have gotten a lot more serious than just people marching down the street.
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  Police have used tear gas and water cannons in several cities,
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  and clashes have broken out between protesters and police.
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  More than 700 police officers have been injured, along with at least 250 teens and 85 school staff.
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  And on Monday, a 15-year-old teenager lost his hand after picking up a police
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  grenade during a confrontation.
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  More than 5,000 people have been arrested since the protests began,
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  and more than 1,800 people are now being prosecuted, including almost 1,500 minors.
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  The government says the protests have been hijacked by outside groups and have
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  turned very violent in some places, although other people are accusing the police
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  of being way too aggressive with the minors.
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  The prime minister has now promised to address the students' demands,
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  including replacement absent teachers, reviewing the length of the school day
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  and fixing the school buildings.
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  He wants ministers to come back with their first proposals by the end of October.
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  So these kids might be out of school for like the next month.
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  But the other issue here is that these kids aren't just missing maybe more than
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  a month of school now at least.
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  But also the problem is that France is very much broke.
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  Like they're not technically broke, but the government is struggling with a
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  huge budget deficit and rising costs.
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  So finding the money to actually fix all of this stuff is going to be very difficult for them.
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  And because no international crisis is complete without an American making it
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  about themselves, Donald Trump weighed in and claimed the protests were actually
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  evidence of uncontrolled migration and Islam taking over France.
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  I mean, the students are literally just protesting about rats.
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  It's kind of like your friend who half listens to you complain about your boss
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  for 20 minutes and then goes, yeah, you probably shouldn't go out with that guy again.
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  So hopefully the kids in France go back to school soon.
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  If you think the internet is already a weird place to be, it's about to get a lot weirder.
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  For the first time since 2012, people and companies can apply to create completely
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  new endings for websites.
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  You know, like the little part after the dot, like .com, .org, or .gov?
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  Apparently the internet does not have enough of those.
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  There's more than 1,600 applications that have been submitted for new top-level
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  domains, including .fart, .meow, .fairy, .doge, .ape, dot self dot tree and dot agent.
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  So if you ever wanted to make your website sound like a noise a toddler makes,
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  your moment has now arrived.
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  The organization in charge of all this is called ICANN, which stands for the
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  Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and they take this all very, very seriously.
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  There are 439 pages of rules governing the application process,
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  and applying is not cheap either.
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  One new domain can cost tens of thousands of dollars just to apply for and you
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  don't even have a website then,
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  so a lot of people are keeping their ideas completely secret like one company
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  planning to apply for hundreds of new domains actually had people flying around
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  the world to meet in person because they were so paranoid about their ideas leaking online,
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  and then there's dot meow dot meow is being created by a queer owned foundation as a.
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  And the whole thing started when the founders were genuinely absolutely hammered because, duh,
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  they say that they want to bring back a more fun, weird version of the Internet
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  where people have little personal websites and blogs instead of everything being
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  controlled by giant corporations.
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  I mean, that sounds great, but I don't think that we need to bring back personal
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  websites. I think we all spent enough of our childhoods customizing our MySpace and Facebook pages.
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  I don't think we all need to be responsible for a personal domain page ever again.
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  Some of these companies are actually very serious about this.
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  Like Salesforce is applying for .salesforce.
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  And there's this other company called Link Freedom Group. And they're applying
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  for 316 different domains, including .fart.
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  Like there's going to be a person with a job title who is literally head of fart.
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  The applications are being revealed today. So we're going to find out exactly
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  what everyone has been secretly fighting over. And it sounds like it's .meow.
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  Finally, as we all know, today marks three years since October 7th,
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  2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages into Gaza.
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  Wow, I didn't realize it would be so hard to say that out loud.
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  Three years later, Israel and the rest of the world were all still dealing with the aftermath.
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  This week, there's memorials happening all over Israel, including at the Nova
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  Music Festival site, where hundreds of people, literally people just like you
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  and me, were killed or abducted.
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  But this anniversary is different from the last two. All of the remaining hostages
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  are now out of Gaza, either alive or dead. I mean, that's amazing.
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  For the families and friends who spent years waiting for them,
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  that means that they finally have an answer, even when it's so devastating.
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  So here's an update on some of the hostages and where they are now.
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  Emily Damari was kidnapped from her home in a kibbutz. She was hurt during the
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  attack and she spent months in captivity before being released.
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  And now she's married and she started a clothing line.
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  Eli Shabari lost his wife, his daughters, and his brother on October 7th,
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  and he spent 491 days in captivity, and he's now helping other families dealing with the trauma.
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  The impact of October 7th didn't stop at Israel's borders. For Jewish people
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  around the world, it changed the feeling of safety, too.
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  People who had never experienced anything like this suddenly found themselves
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  looking at their synagogues, schools, community centers, and Jewish neighborhoods differently.
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  For a lot of people, including myself, being visibly Jewish,
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  started carrying a different weight.
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  And while Israel is marking October 7th for memorials and stories about the
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  people who were lost, Gaza is still dealing with the consequences of the war
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  that followed, as we all know.
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  The Israeli strikes have continued, and more than 1,400 Palestinians have been
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  killed since last year's ceasefire.
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  So three years later, October 7th isn't really just a date anymore.
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  It's really a before October 7th and after.
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  For Israelis, it's the day their sense of safety was shattered.
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  And for Jewish people around the world, it changed what safety feels like, too.
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  And for all the innocent people living in Gaza, it's the day that set off a
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  war that destroyed homes, communities, and lives.
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  Three years later, everyone who was affected is still living somewhere in the aftermath.
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  And today isn't about who's right and who's wrong and whose side you should be on.
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  It's about remembering everyone who was killed, the people who were taken,
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  the families who are still grieving, and the millions of people whose lives
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  were changed by what happened next.
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  October 7th was one of the darkest days in humanity.
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  And I can only hope that three years later, the rest of the world can still remember that.
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  Okay, now let's get back to regular daily sarcastic tone.
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  In Lindsay life, yesterday, yesterday was a weird day in New York City like
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  it was a weird vibe I don't know there was a lot of weirdos out just kind of
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  like bopping around it was really freaking me out,
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  like typically I live off the Q train and it's like super quiet and it's like
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  just like a nice little train
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  but there was like a lot of weirdos bopping around on it yesterday and just
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  like people just like making noises like every time I walked around somewhere
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  like somebody was just making a noise to themselves. It was just very strange.
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  And then I go to Capital One Cafe, and it's just like super quiet in there.
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  And this guy across from me decides to get on a Zoom call, like at a communal table.
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  Okay. He gets on this call, and he tells this person he's on the Zoom with,
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  it's clearly a work call,
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  and he tells this guy about traveling through Cambodia, but he doesn't really
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  like Cambodia and his relationship with his girlfriend and how it's going well.
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  And now they have 33 roommates in Crown Heights because he's moving to the West
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  Village soon. And I know way too much information about this man.
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  Anyway, so he gives him a whole sales pitch for this guy to talk on his podcast
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  or something because like what else are people selling anymore?
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  And there's like a lot of other people who might sign up. And I wanted to stop
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  the guy and be like, dude, Right there, you lost him.
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  And then sure enough, he didn't get the sale. I literally was so close to stopping
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  him after the call. I'm like, hey, I have no...
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  I just work in television, but can I give you a little advice? Because you clearly...
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  Like, why are you taking sales calls in the middle of a coffee shop and then,
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  like, not being convincing? And I don't know. It was just really weird and awkward.
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  But also, like, so is my life. Things I'm thinking about.
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  The homeless people walking around the street aimlessly sometimes with,
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  like, no shoes on, just, like, looking so schleppy, not knowing where they're
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  going. Sometimes they could not be more relatable.
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  but it's delicious or maybe it is just really weird feedback comments questions
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  thank you so much for listening and i'll talk to you guys tomorrow.