Lottery & Medieval Health Hacks

Why should you take the lump sum payout if you win the lottery? Dangerous Dave talks about Publishers Clearinghouse winners that stopped getting payments after their bankruptcy. Plus, medieval health hacks that sound like TikTok hacks.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Stuber in the den with Dangerous Day. If
you win a huge jack potter sweep steakes like the
one point seven billion dollar power ball drawing, Yeah was
not one last night. Up to one point seven billion,
usually have options of accepting regular payments over time. It's
annuity over thirty years, or a small lump sump payment

(00:20):
right away. Well, here's another case for the lump sum.
There's a story making the rounds online about a man
in Oregon who won the Publisher's Clearinghouse in twenty twelve
to pay him five thousand dollars a week forever, technically
two hundred and sixty thousand dollars per year. But this
year check never came, and apparently it never will. This
passed April, Publisher's Clearinghouse filed for bankruptcy, and at least

(00:42):
ten former winners forever prizes are no longer getting their payments.
You might think, well, that sucks, but at least some
of them got their money. This guy says he's having
a hard time finding a job because he's been out
of the workforce so long. He thinks he's going to
lose his home, which he purchased expecting those payments. Would
contain you, and he thought he'd be able to leave
the money to his children someday, but there's nothing for them.

(01:05):
Another winner in his position said, you promised to change
people's lives, and now you messed it up. Some winners
did receive all of their money, those who opted for
the lump some rather than forever payments. I guess it's
unclear if every prize winner had that option, but sounds
like many did. A company bought Publishers clearing House out
of bankruptcy, and they're going to continue running new contests,

(01:25):
but only paying future winners, and winners under the previous
business have been left out in the cold. So I
guess if you do win the one point seven billion dollars,
first of all, take the lump some because if the
lottery goes away sometime in the near future, you might
not get the rest of your money. And number two,
give me a portion because I gave you the tip
deeper in the tip. Well. If crazy TikTok health hacks

(01:49):
are your jam, congratulations. Carrying on century old traditions, somebody
shared a list of medieval health tips. It sounded like
they could be modern day TikTok hacks. Some of them
go back more than a thousand years. For example, a
vinegar mask for glowing skin. Mix vinegar flour oil, rub
it on your face supposed to give you glowing skin.

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No word whether that works or not. The original juice Cleanse,
ancient year long detox plan where people would down different
herb infuse drinks each month, featured a different herb like cinnamon, sage,
ginger to cure all your ills. Barley water This one
actually does pop up on TikTok. Sometimes you basically just
boil a bunch of barley and then strain the water

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and drink it. According to writing from over a thousand
years ago, it helps with digestion. Dead vulture as a
cure all. First of all, you got to catch a vulture.
Good luck with that, then say it a special prayer
while you decapitate it. People claim the vulture skull bones
helped with migraines, eyeballs, could help with sore eyes, and
it would induce labor by tying their feathers around a

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woman's leg. Dead lizards for healthy hair. This one definitely
sounds like a TikTok hack, but is not. A Priest
from the ninth century claims lizard ashes could get give
you lush, flowing locks. You cover your whole head with
a mix of salt, vinegar and a plant called summary savory,
then burned a lizard, mix the ashes with oil and
rub that on there too, and finally, goat poop. A

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health pack from the eleventh century says you dissolve goat
dung in water, filter out the chunks, and drink it.
It's supposed to relieve chest pain. Wow, now, all of
a sudden, the barley water doesn't sound so bad, does it?
To it again for another episode of Deeper in the
Den with Dangerous daved right here.