You can date Taylor Swift...but she's cardboard PLUS the real life Ted Lasso pub!

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The Shark Deck. I'm Jenny Mack
with five good news stories. Hey,

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good news. If you want to
take Taylor Swift on a date, but

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you know, maybe she won't say
yes to you, or maybe you're afraid

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she'll write a song about you if
the date goes poorly, well there's an

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option. Now, why don't you
go out with a cardboard cutout of Taylor

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Swift. That's what happened to Greg
Dick. Apparently he lost a wager in

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his fantasy soccer league and he had
to take a cardboard cut out of Taylor

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Swift at dinner. After coming in
last, Greg and cardboard Taylor went to

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a local restaurant. The waitress greeted
them, smiled, and then a couple

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of sorts joined his friends for a
pint in the pub. Hey good news.

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If you like chocolate and you hate
jet lag, I've got a combination

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for you. Chocolate has been named
one of the quote key elements for beating

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jet lag on long haul flights.
Great Quantas did this study, which is

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convenient because Quantis is the Australian airline
and most of their flights are like eighteen

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hours long, So sure they're going
to convince you no what jet lag.

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Actually, I flew to Melbourne out
of Los Angeles and I was fine when

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we hit the ground. And I
don't recall eating any chocolate on the plane,

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but perhaps I did. I digress. Quantus has been trying out all

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kinds of things, different lightings,
sleep schedules, meal times. See what

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happens. There's a points all this
projects. Sunrise will see direct roots from

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London to Sydney. That's got to
be like an eighteen hour flight in itself,

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if not more. The research is
trying to align the body clock by

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using specific menu items including fish and
chicken, paired with fast acting carbohydrates and

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comfort foods like soups and milk based
desserts. Doctor Deborah Lee, well,

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she's no fun. She recommends cutting
back on alcohol and caffeine if you've got

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a long flight. She says alcohol
suppresses the production of melatonin, so disturbing

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circadian rhythms and may initially make you
feel sleepy, but alcohol is broken down

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into the body into stimulants. Caffeine
is a psychoactive stimulant, which means it

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induces wakefulness and is often used to
fight sleep and those who need to stay

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awake. Good news for eighty two
year old Paul Callahan. He's been adopted

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by a family. Sharine and Wilson
met Paul when Wilson was working on their

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new home and Paul offered him a
ladder to work on. Didn't take long

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for them to become friends. Six
months later, Paul's wife passed away,

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so they've taken him in. They
now see each other every other day,

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inviting him to all the family cookouts. They spend every holiday together. Sharine

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asked Paul what drew him to them, and he said he was a very

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social person, that he grew up
around lots of kids. Shrane says,

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that's how I grew up. My
house was always where everybody hung out.

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And poor Paul is the last of
his siblings. So nice job by Sharine

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and Wilson. A couple who had
reared a one day old duckling before releasing

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her back to the wild, Well
the duck is back six months later and

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brought a few family members. While
back, Phil had taken the duck under

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his wing no pun Well punned after
finding her abandoned on a fishing lake.

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They named the duck Frieda and partially
potty trained the duck using towels after she

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came to live with them inside their
three bedroom house. The couple even took

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turns sleeping near the manding bird's bed. It was freezing cold that day.

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There was no sign of the mother
ducks, so we brought her home and

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then thought, well, what do
you do with a day old duckling.

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They let Freed to roam around their
living room, kitchen, and garden,

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allowed to swim in a pond they've
created for goldfish. Wasn't long before she

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formed a bond with her rescuers.
She'd sit on my shoulder and on my

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table when I was doing my computer
work. She was that loving. They

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eventually released Frieda into the wild.
It was a bit sad when Freda first

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went, but at the same time
it was a bit of relief because she

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was hard work. Well. Freed's
back with some ducklings. Phil said,

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going from one duckling to eleven was
chaos. He was like, what do

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you do with this lot? They're
now eight inches long and as fat as

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butter, fluffy, very fluffy.
They need to swim, they need to

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wash themselves. We've got subs everywhere. The garden looks like a bomb side,

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but I'm not bothered. We allow
them in the fish pond in the

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front garden, but we've dug a
separate pond in the back and we feed

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them cornmeal, worms and maggots.
We expect her to fly off and go

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back to where she was before,
and the ducklings will just follow and do

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their own thing. I am Patty
Callahan, Henry, I am Mary kay

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Andrews, I'm Kristin Harmel, and
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You can listen to friends and fiction on

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any major streaming platform. Hey good
news. If you like ted Lasso,

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you can go to the actual ted
Lasso pub in Richmond in the UK.

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Reese Kent is the manager of the
Prince's Head Pub. During filming, the

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pub is turned into the Crown An
Anchor, but it's whereabouts are still well

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known. Reese says it's now a
tourist hotspot for ted Lasso lovers visiting the

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UK. He says it's great for
the business. It's not just about the

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pub though, but about Richmond as
a whole. The pub is just at

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the heart of the community here.
We've had people from Brazil, Canada,

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Australia, Germany. It's been quite
a surprised how many people want to come.

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Actually, a lady does a whole
ted Lasso tour around Richmond and they

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end up on the bench on the
green. Tourists always want to come in

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and have a chat after. You
can even tell when the tour is finished.

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They all have an AFC Richmond shirt
on and that is your five good

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