The man with the lifetime airline pass

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Kalaroga Shark Media man, I made
out on this deal. Back in nineteen

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ninety, he purchased a lifetime companion
pass with United Airlines. We're twenty three

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million miles later. Now, Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news

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stories. He said, what's crazy
as he points out, what are the

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odds that someone took a picture of
my very first United flight? He is

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dubbed the world's most traveled air passenger. He's taken more than twelve thousand flights,

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He's visited more than one hundred counties. I hope he's in group one,

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he said. I bought the pass
for business reasons because I was going

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back and forth to Australia. So
round trip was twenty five thousand dollars a

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person for first class. The two
people's fifty grand. So understand, I've

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been there to Australia four hundred times, so I've gotten my money's worth.

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So back then, the lifetime companion
pass, which they no longer offer,

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cost him five hundred ten thousand dollars
that's in today's dollar is one point two

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million. It allows him and another
person to fly first class around the world

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whenever he wants. He said,
Now listen to this. He said,

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I was scared to death to fly. You know, sometimes people get prepared

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to fly. Well, sometimes I
get real prepared. I mean I got

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nervous, especially when you're delayed with
engine problems. That's all I need to

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hear. Oh, there are other
perks. He avoids, baggage fees and

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skips lines. But the best perk, he says, I can be in

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the air and we're delayed and I'm
gonna miss my flight, and I sit

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back and relax because when I get
on the ground, they've already figured everything

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out. They have the boarding pass
for X flight. They literally will take

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me in a cart or even actually
a Mercedes or Jaguar or whatever it is

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these days, and we'll go on
the tarmac and drive me to my next

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plane. Nice. He's met celebrities
on his flights, like members of Aerosmith

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and comedian Bill Murray. He somehow
convinced Bill Murray to leave his brother a

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voicemail. When Tom got to ten
million miles, United named two of their

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planes after him. I wonder why
too, not just one will live airstop

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fl lying, he says, not
until he reaches twenty five million miles.

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But until then, he's going to
sit back and relax and seat one B.

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You probably knew this, but reading
is good for you. Lenna Wimmer

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is a post doctoral researcher at Germany's
Maximilian University, and she explained that she

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and her colleagues did a study about
fiction's effect on thinking. She tells SI

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Post. Over the last decade,
scholars from several disciplines have claimed far reaching

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benefits but also potential disadvantages of reading
fiction for cognition in the real world.

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I wanted to get an objective,
quantitative overview of the relevant empirical evidence in

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order to decide whether any of these
assumptions is supported by empirical studies. They

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studied eleven thousand participants and found that
reading fiction at a small but statistically significant

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positive effects on subjects cognition. People
that read more fiction seem to better empathize

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with others and understand the way they
thought. So they did another study thirty

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thousand participants that one found positive correlation
between reading fiction and cognitive abilities, especially

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when it came to verbal skills,
reasoning, abstract thinking, and problem solving.

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Wimer threw down the gault said people
read a lot of fiction and better

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cognitive skills than people who read little
or no fiction. All right, good

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news. Kamada Ranch got a land
easement. The local executive director of Land

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Conservacy says it's an incredible landscape filled
with rolling hills, green grass, oak,

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woodlands and really important wildlife habitat.
The land's going to remain privately owned

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by the family, but it will
also be open to nature tourists from the

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public, and most importantly, the
land is now protected against any future development.

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Emily Morrison grew up on the ranch
and said it's almost like a sibling

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because you look after it. We're
borrowing it from our grandchildren. We believe

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we're just a link in the chain. Co owner Felicia says southern California used

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to look like this. There's no
guarantee it'll stay like this unless we protect

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it. Congratulations to Pusatoni Phil and
wife Phyllis. They are the proud parents

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of Sonny and Shadow. Son a
female groundhog, Shadow a male Pocksatani phill.

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In case you haven't figured it out, a groundhog, probably the most

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famous groundhog from Pokxatoni, Pennsylvania,
where you know every year he does the

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groundhog thing Shadows. You've seen the
movie. You know how groundhogs work.

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I will move on. Dan McGinley, who's the vice president of the Pucksatoni

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Groundhog Club, made it clear these
are not his replacements. They're not the

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heir apparent. Sonny and Shadow will
not be part of the ceremony. It

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still fills job. There's still only
one Puckxatoni Phil. I'm not so sure

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about the the I believe the role
of Pucksatoni Phil may or may not be

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performed by different groundhogs over the years
and decades. You know what I'm saying.

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McGinley read from a scroll. Today, the first family of groundhogs has

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grown. Pucksatoni Phil and wife Phyllis
have two kits of their own. If

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that comes up in trivia, apparently
a kit is a young groundhog. Keep

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that in the back of your brain
for a pub Trivia babies were discovered in

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March by a club member who was
feeding fruit and vegetables to Phil and Phillis,

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and they were like, Hey,
what's this all right? I know

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this show is called five Good News
Stories, but technically I think this one

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is bad news. Let me just
tell you. A Canadian city was attempting

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to break the Guinness World Record for
largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs,

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right, I mean, what could
go wrong here? Well? The tourism

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organization for a town of Drumheller,
Alberta said in a Facebook post that the

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cities downtown attracted more than three thousand
people in dinosaur costumes, but they couldn't

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obtain an exact measurement of the participants. Photos and videos from the attempt suggests

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there may have been almost double the
number of three thousand, but an accurate

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count couldn't be obtained because officials were
unprepared for such a massive turnout. Carrie,

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who is the marketing manager for Travel
Dumbheller, says we weren't entirely prepared

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for that many people to come.
Guinness said there were people that they had

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witnessed leaving the area if they'd beenrisbanded, so they weren't following what the volunteers

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had told them by staying in the
space. They had to be all together

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in the area for one solid minute. Therefore, the attempt was disqualified.

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They did not break the record,
which is two hundred and fifty two people.

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The town is hoping to make Jurassic
Jamboree an annual event, and next

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time they go for the record,
they'll be better prepared. They say,

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we're gonna have other processes in place
to really help, and we're gonna prepare

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for at least double the number of
people. And those are your five good

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