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5 Good Things: Mahjong: It’s Not Just Your Grandma’s Game Anymore

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A new generation is falling in love with a centuries-old game. These women 65 and older clean local ponds by diving for trash (and have a blast doing it). She lost her dad in the Twin Towers – but the FDNY made sure he was still part of her wedding day. A doctor was told he would die, but he found a treatment for his disease everyone else had missed. Plus, the music program that teaches kids jazz and so much more.  Sign up for the CNN 5 Good Things newsletter here.  Host/Producer: Krista Bo  Producers: Eryn Mathewson and Leying Tang  Showrunner: Felicia Patinkin  Special Thanks: Nadia Kounang  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey there, welcome, welcome. I hope you're having a good day. I know this week was pretty tough,

0:04.9

so let's jump right into the good stuff. We come back from a dive, and people on the shore say,

0:11.0

what are they smoking? I want what they've got. These women are redefining what it means to make a

0:16.4

splash after age 65, and firefighters kept a bride's late father's memory alive on her big day.

0:23.4

Plus, how many hidden cures are just sitting in there that we're using them for this disease or

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that disease, but they could also use for that disease and that disease?

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He was a med student with a terminal prognosis until he found a cure hiding in plain sight,

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and now he's on a mission to find more.

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From CNN, I'm Christoboe. And this is five good things. Stick with us. We'll be right back.

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When the game of Mahjong comes up, I think of my grandma, or Queen Anne, as we used to call her.

1:29.9

She passed away a few years ago, but my cousins and I have been wanting to learn the game that she loved so much.

1:35.6

And turns out, we'd have plenty of people to play with, because Mahjong is having a major resurgence.

1:42.9

I'm absolutely addicted.

1:45.0

I play any chance I get.

1:46.0

You're using your brain power.

1:48.0

There's strategy involved.

1:50.0

People get all decked out.

1:52.0

People wear their mahjong gear, their earrings, and, you know...

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