July 13, 2023

You could stay at the Barbie house PLUS your wife won the beard contest!

You could stay at the Barbie house PLUS your wife won the beard contest!

Naps are good for your health!

A husband and wife compete in a beard competition

The Barbie house is real and you could stay there!

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The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack
with five good news stories, and I'm

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starting today with good news for me. Now, you might find me passed

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out on the couch every afternoon around
four or five. Well, the team

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of scientists has discovered that those who
nap could well be slowing down the process

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of brain aging by between three and
six years. That's right. It helps

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reduce brain shrinkage. Doctor Victoria Garfield
said there's evidence that the post lunch time

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is really good for a nap,
and that evidence comes from previous studies.

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So tell my wife I might have
to nap a little earlier. The reason

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for that is after lunch you may
be feeling a bit tired and you may

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need a sort of boosting energy,
a boosting cognition. Taking a short nap

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around twelve thirty or around two could
help alleviate afternoon drowsyness, while ensuring your

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nap doesn't interfere with nighttime sleep.
Doctor Garfield said, in terms of length,

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nothing more than about thirty minutes.
There's some evidence for sort of five

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to fifteen minutes, but anything up
to thirty minutes is quite beneficial. Anything

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longer is difficult. Then you're sort
of going too that deep sleep and it's

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much much harder to wake up.
A great grandma has revealed her secret to

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a long life. She celebrated her
one hundredth birthday. Irene did not celebrate

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with a glass of champagne. She
doesn't drink. Instead, she had a

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nice cup of tea. She said, I kept thinking I never get to

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one hundred, but I've managed it. I've always kept busy and never been

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idle. Life's been rough and sumbole. You have to keep going. There's

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nothing else for it. There's lots
of people worse offt than me, or

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rather advice. I've always tried to
be kind and people have been kind to

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me in return. I've got a
brilliant family and lots of friends. I've

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got a lot to be thankful for. Good news. If you like Barbie,

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the movie's coming out soon, and
to celebrate the Barbie movie, Airbnb

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has announced that a real life dream
house in Malibu will be available for people

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to stay in for free and it's
pink. Fans can book two one night's

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stays for two guests on July twenty
first and July twenty second. The spokesperson

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said the stay will be free of
charge because Ken couldn't figure out how to

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put a price on Barbie's Malibu dream
house. I am Patty Callahan, Henry,

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I am Mary kay Andrews, I'm
Kristin Harmel, and I'm Kristy Woodson

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If you're an earless dragon, you're
not extinct, but you probably knew

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that. The rest of us didn't
because the last sighting of an earless dragon

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was in nineteen sixty nine. What's
an earless dragon? It's a tiny lizard

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from Australia's Queensland. Once commonly found
on the grasslands west of Melbourne. The

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lizard population took some hits from invasive
predators like foxes and cats. They really

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try to find one of them and
they never succeeded, but now they have.

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Doctor Jenny Gray said the extraordinary rediscovery
of this critically endangered in cryptic lizard

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inspires optimism for the recovery of this
Victorian species. Congratulations eer loss dragons and

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he like beards? A married couple
took part in a beard competition and the

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wife took first place. Oh No, is she like bearded? Aaron and

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Natalie travel the world competing in bearding
contests. Aaron recently placed second in the

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goatee category of the twenty twenty three
World Championships. Natalie also took home first

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place in the realistic Freestyle category for
beards that are not real. You know

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you were wondering, I held that
out for you. Aaron began beard competitions

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in twenty fourteen after watching a TV
show called Whisker Wars. At the time,

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he didn't have a beard. Natalie
said, what's called a whiskey arena.

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In the bearding world. You can
either compete in the realistic full beard

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or the creative full beards. They
could be made of absolutely anything. For

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a realistic beard, I use synthetic
or real hair, but you can make

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them from anything like cutlery or bacon. You didn't think I was gonna say

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bacon. Did you know? It's
not an obvious hobby for a woman to

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have, but I absolutely love it. I see so many women come to

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competitions with their husbands but don't want
to go on stage. What I love

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about is when you put a beard
on your face, you're a whole different

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person. You can just go on
stage and have fun. You get to

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spend the weekend hanging out with the
people you love too. It's just a

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good time. And that is your
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