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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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Harvey. Friends in Fiction is led
by four longtime friends, the four of

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us, with more than seventy five
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conversations and interviews, we discussed the
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stories behind the stories, offer writing
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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
five Good News stories for today. Follow

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