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The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack
with five good news stories. How would

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you like to go around the world
in eighty days? Well, what if

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you were in your eighties? That
shouldn't stop you. It's not stopping eighty

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one year olds Sandy and Ellie.
They're off on a mission to see all

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seven continents, nine wonders of the
world, and visit eighteen countries in just

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over two and a half months.
They're off to a great start. They've

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already set foot in Antarctica and flew
over Mount Everest via plane. All right,

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those are two pretty big ones.
It's gonna get easier from here,

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right, What do you have to
see? Like the Eiffel Tower? Sandy

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said, Hey, Ellie, don't
you They could be fun for us to

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go around the world in eighty days
at age eighty. Ellie was like,

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what are you talking about, Sandy? And then they were like sure.

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Then there was that Besky pandemic,
so it got delayed a little bit,

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but they have finally gotten underway,
packing light, traveling cheaply to see as

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much as possible. Sandy says,
we don't travel first class and so on.

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Other ladies will say, oh,
I'd love to travel with you two.

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And the first thing I always do
is look at their hands. If

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they're well manicured, they don't want
to travel with us. I love this,

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Sandy said. My daughter's not too
concerned. She just says, well,

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if mom falls out of a hot
air balloon in Egypt or off the

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mountain, that's fine. She's living
the life she wanted to live, and

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I'm happy for her. You know
how these two became friends. They met

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twenty years ago on a trip in
Zambia and they just clicked. Great advice

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from Sandy, She says, don't
sit in that chair and waste away.

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If you don't use it, you
lose it. Hey, who's not down

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with a cruelty free circus? The
Circus Theater run Cally in Germany has figured

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out a way to do this holograms. Yes, they have holographic elephants custom

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built for the circus using three D
animations, photography and virtual rending. They

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have eleven digital laser projectors positioned around
the stage. Those flash animations onto a

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circular net hoisted up for each performance. There's still actual acrobats, clowns and

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dancers, and you can just look
at a light show where the elephants used

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to be kind of cool. Good
news for Scotland's forest. You see,

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a thousand years ago, twenty percent
of Scotland's land was covered by forest.

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By the middle of the eighteenth century
that number was down to four percent.

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But they jumped on this way back
when and started to reforest. Well.

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Now after two centuries the forest covers
almost back to where it was a thousand

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years ago. So it can be
done. It just takes a minute.

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Speaking of olden times, a seventeenth
century golden ring is estimated to fetch at

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least twelve thousand dollars at a British
auction. It was found by retired school

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teacher in his backyard. The ring
is from sixteen twenty. Richard found it

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while he was planting a shrub.
It was about ten inches deep on the

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grounds of his sixteenth century English farmhouse. Nigel Mills is a consultant to the

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auction house and says dates from sixteen
twenty very likely belonged to Humphrey Cockerham of

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Collumpton in Devon. The ring bears
a seal with the coat of arms of

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the Cochrham family and the initials H. C. Behind Humphrey was recorded as

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the head of the family in sixteen
twenty and lived at Hillsden Manor in the

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early seventeenth century, which is forty
two miles east of where the ring was

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found. The family were great patrons
of the church and their name comes from

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Old English kockin, which means dweller
by the stream. Richard said he was

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amazed when he heard how much it
was worth, and he's planning to use

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the proceeds from the sale to help
his children. I am Patty Callahan Henry,

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platform. I don't know what it is

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about this podcast, but there's a
lot of McDonald's stories. Here's another one

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in the headline. My colleague churche
guests for food at her wedding. I

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got McDonald's instead. See, a
woman wants her wedding and she was kind

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of annoyed to find out the guests
had to pay for their meals, so

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she left and grabbed McDonald's. Yeah. Apparently, one bride was trying to

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offset costs for her wedding and made
her guest page for the food. They

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were gonna have to pay about fifty
dollars for a stake. The guest in

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question explained that the bride was a
coworker and she'd be told before the wedding

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she needed to have to pay anything
to tend, but that turned out not

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to be the case, and she
was like, no, I'm not having

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any of this and went over to
McDonald's. She asked the bride if it

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was cool, well, if you
know, in mind if I stepped out

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and grab some Mickey D's. The
bride was fuming at that suggestion and even

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branded her colleague cheap for refusing to
eat at the wedding. So how do

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we sort this out as friends?
We take this to Reddit, of course,

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and they McDonald's fan said, reasonly, my colleague invited me to her

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wedding, which happened yesterday. I
was super excited and happy for her.

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Just in case, I asked her
if there were any guest fees and she

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said, nah, you don't need
to pay me anything. On the day

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itself. Everything went well until the
reception and my shock, I was presented

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with a wedding menu that had prices
on it. For example, steak fifty

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dollars. Everything was ridiculously expensive,
including the vegetarian options. First, I

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wanted to question her because she lied
to me they n't have to pay for

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anything, dude, it was her
wedding day. But it was her wedding

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and I didn't want to spoil her
day by embarrassing her in front of everyone

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good choice, However, the only
other option was to simply not eat,

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as I didn't bring enough money for
both the meal and to ride back.

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But that was completely unfavorable. So
i'd to get my lunch to safe space

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for the wedding meal and was pretty
hungry. Suddenly I remembered that I saw

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McDonald's about five minutes away from the
hotel. As tectfully as it could.

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I asked the bride if I could
make a quick stop at McDonald's as I

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didn't bring enough money for the reception
meal. I said i'd be back in

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time for the gift ceremony and cake. I thought she'd agree, but to

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my horror, she got really upset. She said she'd put so much effort

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to get this Michelin Star restaurants service. Yet I still wasn't ant that I

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was trying to bring her down by
saying that I'd rather eat McDonald's. Bride

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said it was the woman's fault for
not bringing enough money, and she claimed

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that when she said the women to
have to pay, she only meant there

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was no attendance fee. Are their
usual cover fees at weddings. What furious

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the bride seld the guest to leave
the wedding, and she did, grabbing

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McDonald's on her way home. Oh
wait, there's more. Back at home,

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I told my boyfriend everything. He
thought it was a funny story.

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You're right, boyfriend, but said
I was an a hole finding of the

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money. I could always pay her
back later, and his exact words is

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it chose the wrong time to be
stingy. My other friends agree as well,

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saying it was not tactfully of me
for doing that at the wedding and

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although she lied, I should have
just brushed it off instead of tambra or

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happy spirits. After hearing their opinions, I feel quite guilty and embarrassed.

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That was fun. That's your five
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