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welcome to the good news ride home for Monday, July 13th, 2020.

I'm Jackson Bird.

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and a gift to us from Sir Patrick Stewart on his 80th birthday today.

Here are some cool things from the news today.

If you noticed a lot of people online over the weekend and today making jokes about cake

and about things that are not cake, allow me to explain.

On July 8th, Cooking Outlet Tasty tweeted a compilation video from Tuba Gekyll of Red Rose Cake.

The video showed what appeared to be everyday objects being

cut into and revealed to be cake. Now, I know that doesn't sound that spectacular. We've all seen

a kind of realistic looking fondant cake before. And even when I just saw a few thumbnails,

I was like, eh, whatever. But when I finally watched the video, it did blow my mind a little.

Some of the items featured included a potted aloe vera plant, a push bottle of lotion,

used soap with bubbles, toilet paper, a steak dinner, even a crock, like the shoe.

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