Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / Live Two Years Longer Doing This Simple Thing (2 Pretty Cool Things)
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- 0:01Speaker 1: I need to tell you two.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Cents Cosine's two pretty cool things. So a woman in
- 0:08Speaker 2: Italy won a million euro lottery prize but mistakenly discarded
- 0:13Speaker 2: her winning ticket Christine. But she thought it was invalid
- 0:16Speaker 2: because the ticket had been deemed non payable by a
- 0:19Speaker 2: machine at a store.
- 0:20Speaker 1: Huh.
- 0:21Speaker 2: But then she realized it was an error, and after
- 0:24Speaker 2: realizing her era, she contacted her waste management service, which
- 0:28Speaker 2: then sifted through trash for hours to locate the ticket.
- 0:33Speaker 2: And then I mentioned why she You know, the ticket
- 0:35Speaker 2: had been deemed non payable by a machine at a store.
- 0:37Speaker 2: That's a common issue for smaller retailers, which are unable
- 0:41Speaker 2: to process large winnings.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Wow.
- 0:43Speaker 2: So after a family member recognized that the numbers matched,
- 0:46Speaker 2: the woman quickly reached out for help. And that's when
- 0:48Speaker 2: all the trash people were looking for the ticket. Yeah,
- 0:50Speaker 2: and they found it, and the woman said she will
- 0:54Speaker 2: reimburse reimburse the waste management service for its efforts.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Wow. So oh wow, I'm so glad that they found it.
- 1:01Speaker 2: Oh my god.
- 1:01Speaker 1: I just this is why, like, I hang on to them,
- 1:04Speaker 1: even if I think I didn't win, I hang on
- 1:06Speaker 1: to them forever.
- 1:07Speaker 2: They're in your glove box, justin gays in between the seeds.
- 1:10Speaker 2: Me too, I did too. What's your cool thing?
- 1:13Speaker 1: Well, it's about reading, which a lot of us love
- 1:15Speaker 1: to do. I find I'm not doing as much because
- 1:17Speaker 1: I'm addicted to my phone. So let me go back
- 1:19Speaker 1: to reading books. Because it turns out that you can
- 1:23Speaker 1: live up to two years longer if you simply read
- 1:28Speaker 1: as little as thirty minutes a day. There's a twenty
- 1:31Speaker 1: percent reduction immortality risk. Researchers found this boost and long
- 1:35Speaker 1: longevity only works with books, not newspapers or magazines. The
- 1:40Speaker 1: study authors suggest that deep reading holds a complex narrative
- 1:45Speaker 1: in your mind over many days. It exercises the brain
- 1:47Speaker 1: in ways that quick skimming can't match. So get into
- 1:51Speaker 1: a book again.
- 1:51Speaker 2: That's good to know. You know. I don't read long
- 1:53Speaker 2: form books, but I've been reading more now that I
- 1:56Speaker 2: have kids. I wonder if that helps. Like when I read,
- 1:59Speaker 2: like a couple of chapters is of a.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Small story you're reading books allowed to them has to have.
- 2:02Speaker 2: Big font though on that age always like Naomi, make
- 2:07Speaker 2: sure that the fonts are big on this book. Here