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5 Good Things: Why Saying No Brings Eva Longoria Joy

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The host of CNN’s "Searching for Spain" shares why Americans should try to live life like the Spaniards do. A rare record collector reunites a woman with a Voice-o-Graph she recorded 70 years ago. How this record-setting rodent is saving lives with his sense of smell. From deception to acceptance, a female magician's decades-long journey into the world's most prestigious magic club. Plus, scientists may have found the first signs of life on a planet outside our solar system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Last year, Amazon was the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable energy.

0:07.0

We need more and more of our energy comes from wind farms like this one.

0:14.0

Guys, what happened to recording at the solar farm?

0:18.0

To learn more, visit about Amazon.com at UK forward slash sustainability.

0:30.7

Hey there, if you want to go back in time seven decades and 124 light years away in 15 minutes or less, then you're in the right place.

0:39.8

I was searching for fun and I found it. My God, if anybody in the world knows how to have fun,

0:44.8

it's the Spaniards. A special guest joins the podcast today to talk about the things that make us all

0:49.8

happy, food and family. Plus, we'll tell you about a female magician's ultimate vanishing act

0:55.8

and an even better comeback. From CNN, I'm Krista Bow, and this is Five Good Things.

1:04.8

I know that's kind of hard to hear, but that's because this one-minute birthday message was recorded 70 years ago near the top of the Empire State Building.

1:18.2

And this talking postcard was just returned to its sender after record collector Joel D.ath stumbled upon it in a dusty warehouse.

1:26.0

We have lots of voices from people in the 50s.

1:28.6

We have royalty and we have these politicians.

1:30.9

But here we had, just for a moment, a little slice of her life.

1:36.0

It tells a little story.

1:37.2

And it survived.

1:38.6

This vinyl called a voicograph was recorded in 1955 by Valerie Standard, who now goes by McBean when she was 20 years old.

1:47.2

She was visiting America for the first time from a small London suburb.

1:51.0

I'm speaking from the top of the Empire's building, it must be the coldish building in the world.

1:57.6

And was excited to see the tallest building in the world at the time.

2:01.2

Valerie meant to send it to her parents back home, but obviously it never got to them.

2:05.2

For me, the most exciting thing was that it was still within the original envelope with the address.

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