Who has the best state fair? PLUS a 95 year old man is first to dance at new club

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The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack
with five good news stories. This first

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story is not a commercial. I
just saw it and thought it was cool,

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and it's good news. If you
like state fairs. Windham Hotels are

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offering a gig to become the American
Inn state Fair Family. They're searching for

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one adventurous family to travel across the
Midwest in search of the best things each

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state fair has to offer. Best
of all, the job comes with a

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fifteen thousand dollars to help with travel
from Iowa, Illinois. The winning state

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Fair family will have the enviable task
of visiting three iconic state fairs over the

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course of a week and sharing your
pro tips and tricks via social media.

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In exchange for your hard work of
sampling powdered, sugar covered confections and adrenaline

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inducing rides, you'll be given seven
paid nights at American Inn Hotels, a

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ten thousand dollars travel stipend, and
five thousand dollars cash. All right,

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Johnny Mack, what do you got
to do? Well? Before July twenty

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five, submit a written or video
application over email where by visiting americ in

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so americi nn dot com, slash
fair family. You have to demonstrate an

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under one minute or three hundred words
what makes your family the ideal candidate for

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the role. That's fun. By
the way, if you like travel,

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I host a pretty casual travel podcast. It's called Travel Is Back. And

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what I do is I do travel
a lot. When I go somewhere,

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I take up my portable recorder and
I tell you where I am. So

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Season three kicked off with Key West
and I'm about to do some episodes about

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ann Arbor, Michigan. Travel Is
Back is the name of that podcast.

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A man in Kentucky recently found a
buried cash of gold coins from the Civil

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War period. They might be worth
millions of dollars. The coins consists of

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nearly seven hundred one dollars, ten
dollars and twenty dollar gold dollars issued by

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the US Mint between eighteen forty and
eighteen sixty three. It's being called the

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Great's Kentucky Ward. Archaeologist Ryan McNutt
said many wealthy Kentuckians rumored to have buried

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large quantities of gold and silver in
advance of the Civil War. He said,

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given the time period in the location
in Kentucky, which was usual at

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the time, It's entirely possible this
was buried in advance of Confederate John Hunt

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Morgan's June July eighteen sixty three raid. Apparently, one of the rarest items

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is the eighteen sixty three dash P
twenty dollar one ounce gold liberty coin that

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can go for six figures at an
auction. There were eighteen in the ward.

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Good news for Mutu the leopard,
A twenty five year old man was

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driving his motorbike. He found the
juvenile leopard lying unconscious in the corner of

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his field. He observed the leopard
for a bit and concluded it wasn't well

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and summed up his courage. He
decided to intervene face to face with the

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leopard. He realized it was too
exhausted to move, so he brought it

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back to the village on his motorbike. His neighbors called the four Service and

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they got Mutu to veterinary care.
Local officials said the leopard is about nine

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months old, must have straightened into
the village seeking food, which led to

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dehydration. Our staff members have given
him advice and what needs to be done

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about noticing wild creatures in the area. A massive municipal park, over twenty

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years in the making, is finally
underway in the city of Irvine. The

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Great Park of Irvine is expected to
dwarf Central Park by more than five hundred

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acres. It'll take another ten years
to complete, and the park will span

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thirteen hundred acres and include several museums
and amphitheater at Veterans Memorial Gordon and Aquatic

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Center of Sports complex and not one
but two lakes. Where'd all this land

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come from? It was a military
base, so the first thing they have

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to do is demolish in clear away
seventy seven old military buildings. But they're

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leaving the Eltoro Air Traffic Control tower
that'll be leased by the FAA. A

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portion of the Irvine Great Park is
already open. You'll find a soccer pitch

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and some other amenities, including the
tethered balloon to take visitors up into the

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streaming platform. A ninety five year
old veteran became the first person to dance

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at a newly reopened nightclub seventy four
years after meeting his wife there. Kevin

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Topham to the dance floor with his
caregiver when Club X reopened after more than

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a decade. He met his wife, Molly, back in the nineteen forties

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when it was known as the Corn
Exchange and it was a hot spot for

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serviceman. Kevin noticed in the newspaper
that the venue was being reopened, and

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he asked his part time caregiver,
Donna, if she would take him dancing.

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He was warned there's gonna be booming
music and strobe lights and eighteen year

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olds and eating care. But Donna
had a better plan. She asked the

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club owner if they could come in
early. The club owner said, sure,

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you could pick the music. Kevin
was the first person to dance at

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the reopened club. His song Shat
a Newgacucho by the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

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