July 10, 2025 • 38 mins
What would you do with $200 million? It's the ultimate daydream – one that reveals surprising truths about our values, relationships, and what we find most burdensome in daily life.
We discovered that fantasizing about lottery winnings can actually be therapeutic. As one host explains, imagining how she'd distribute newfound wealth helps pull her out of bad moods. It's pure fantasy without the disappointment of reality crashing in.
Beyond the expected luxuries (dream homes with pools and personal chefs), the conversation takes thoughtful turns. They debate the wisdom of lump sum versus annuity payments, strategies for gifting money to family without creating dependency or resentment, and how to maintain friendships when sudden wealth creates imbalance. One particularly clever idea: creating a "girlfriend travel fund" ensuring annual trips with friends who might not otherwise be able to afford them.
What's most revealing are their charitable priorities. Libraries with banned books included, funds ensuring no child misses a school field trip due to family finances, and endowments that continue giving perpetually. These choices reflect deeply held values about education, opportunity, and equity.
Curiously absent from their wish lists: fancy cars, designer clothes, and ostentatious displays of wealth. Instead, their desires center around freedom from daily burdens, meaningful experiences, and positive impact. As one host notes, the chances of winning are infinitesimal – "you're more likely to die in a vending machine accident" – but that doesn't diminish the pleasure of the thought experiment.
What would YOUR lottery list reveal about what matters most to you? Share your thoughts and join us for this delightful conversation that's less about money and more about examining what we truly value.
Amy, Kitty & Stacey
P.S. Isn't our intro music great?! Yah, we think so too. Thank you, Ivy States for "I Got That Wow".
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hello ladies, hello running, get me to the top.
I don't need an invitation.
I'm about to start acelebration.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hello ladies, hello Hi, hello, how is everyone?
Today I'm feeling very relaxed,today Relaxed.
Are you?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
That's good.
Yeah, it's been a nice chillday.
That is good, that's good.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, that's good.
It's been a nice chill day.
That is good, that's good.
Yep, well, we are ThreeCocktails In where we have
addicting conversations betweenthe three friends.
Three.
That's why we're called ThreeCocktails In, kind of we were
Three Cocktails In when we madethe name and we are Three.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Cocktails, and we are three cocktails and we are
three.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
There we go.
Yeah, there you go.
So guess what?
Our topic of the day is this isone of my favorites, I know.
The topic today is what wouldyou do with all the money if you
won the lottery?
Woo-hoo, all right, yeah, it'sfun, amy and.
(01:31):
I may need Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It's fun to just dream sometimes, like the
chances of it happening are mm.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, tiny.
In fact, you're more likely todie in a vending machine
accident than you are to win thelottery, because that would
happen a lot of vending machineaccident.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I don't even know what that would be, but I don't
even buy lottery tickets, butbut I find this activity to be
almost the number one thing todo to get me out of a funk.
Oh, really.
(02:16):
Yep, I find it to be verysoothing, therapeutic.
Soothing therapeutic I don'tknow what it is because I was
having this conversation withsomebody earlier this week
talking about what we're goingto do for the, the podcast, and
they said, well, what would youdo?
And well, first of all, we'regonna have, we're gonna have to
(02:37):
pick a couple parameters,because my list is different.
If I win 1010 million versus$200 million, so I'm just saying
but the first thing that Ialways start with is I give X
amount of dollars to my brother,I give X amount of dollars to
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my sister.
It's a significant amount ofmoney and how they distribute it
to their families is up to them.
So, they're good, and then I getto start going through.
What am I going to, what am Igoing to do with it?
And you know differentcharities that I'm interested in
(03:19):
, different causes that I'minterested in, and you know goes
on and on, so um, so um.
It is a.
For me it just is such a joyfulcelebration and imaginary
celebration of all this crap,ton money that I don't have, but
I like doing it yeah, that's,interesting, yeah, it's good
(03:42):
that it.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
It's good that it makes you happy, rather than
going through that wholeexercise and getting very
detailed about it, because weknow you, amy, I'm sure that the
thought process is verydetailed, but it's good that at
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the end of the exercise youdon't go well, shit, that's
never going to happen.
So right, you're not doing that, so that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I think it's because it's never going to happen.
I don't have to worry aboutthat part of it.
Yeah, it can just be purefantasy and it also does kind of
earmark.
Okay, if I, if I did come intoa little extra money, or maybe
my paycheck is a little bigger,where would I like some of those
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dollars to go, sort of thing.
But mostly it is just one ofthose daydreaming sort of things
.
I don don't, it doesn't happenoften, but I will find that if
I'm in a really crappy mood, itis, it is.
Or if I was on the treadmill orsomething like that, where I
just was, you know not happy.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
She needs something to keep you going.
Yeah right, I have a question.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I find it funny that you're you'reing money for your
brother and sister and youdidn't mention your kids oh,
that's because my kids are given, they're getting a big chunk
right anyway, and and that wassomething that I wanted to talk,
wanted to ask you guys about,so, um, so you know, let's,
(05:23):
let's start with the premise wewon the two, we won, we're
netting out 200 million dollars,so a big chunk probably.
We probably won the power balland that's our takeaway that's
our take home.
yeah, okay, give me like yourtop three things that you're
excited to spend or attributemoney to.
(05:46):
What would those be Detailed?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah Well, top of my list is my dream house, which
I've been thinking about forprobably the last 10 years, and
it's not a big monster, but it'slike Bill and I have a very
specific and a very alignedvision of our dream house, so
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that's top of the list.
A lux, lux, luxury vacation Idon't know where yet or how long
, but it's, uh well, one of the.
I think, when we talked aboutbucket list, one of the things
I've always wanted to stay at,like a St Regis or those types
of places where you've got abutler and yeah.
(06:38):
So yeah, it's, it's thevacation, and so it's the house
and the vacation.
Those are the big things.
And I know that there's going tobe gifting.
I know there's going to begifting Same, that's a given,
yes, but how you actually figurethat out, I think, is a big nut
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to crack.
I did a little research on thisand one of the statistics that
I found was I was curious abouthow many people who have won a
major lottery Did they staymillionaires, and it's a pretty
small number simply because theyoverspend.
They had no financial literacyto begin with, right, they
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didn't.
I mean, it took them from hereto you know there and so poor
investments, bad advice,pressure from family and friends
, so I was kind of taking thosethings into consideration.
How do I make sure I keep it?
Yeah, Use it, but put it into asystem where it can then not
(07:46):
just get yes right, but it can.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, I did the same kind of research and, based on
you know you're going to paywell first, I think you have a
couple of different choices inhow to take the money.
So you can take a lump sumright away, but you pay a
buttload of taxes and you knowfederal and state taxes and
whatever, and you only get thispot, which is okay if you're a
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good money manager and you'regoing to invest it and you know,
not just blow it right away.
Or you can take the annuityroute, where you get it paid
over years and I think it's evenlike I don't know 20 or 30
years.
So then you get little pieces.
You get more in total that way,but you just get a little bit.
(08:34):
So that, on the other hand, youknow, might be harder to manage
.
You might not be able to justspend everything you want, you
know all the time if you're justgetting smaller pieces.
So for me, of course, I have tobe practical.
You know I'm not going to gobuy a new car, I'm not going to
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go buy a new house.
I'm going to pay off what Ihave.
You know what I mean.
So I'm looking at it more likeI'm going to pay bills, then I'm
going to travel that would bethe first piece you know and
(09:18):
probably retire and just livethe life, but have a lot of
money.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Okay, so you pay off all your bills.
You just you just won 200million.
You can't have more than what.
I mean, if you were, if youwere like a gambling addict, at
most you'd have $500,000 inbills.
So you have just spent a dropin the bucket.
You have a whisper.
(09:43):
So I think that's funny.
I would well.
Yes, you guys know I love totravel.
But one thing and I've told youguys this before is I would
have the girlfriend travel fund,where I've got money in there
that is making money, so thatyou know there's a good chunk,
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so that once a year all of usget to go on a trip.
Airfare is paid for, whetherwe're in.
You know, lodgings pay for youbring your fun money, but I want
to make sure that we get to goas a group somewhere as a group,
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somewhere.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
yeah, and I've heard that too that, like people that
win giant pots, almost have tojust just know that they need to
bring their friends along.
You know, because they're notgonna your friends, unless you
give them a big chunk, aren'tgoing to be able to keep up with
you unless you just say, yep,I'm taking everybody to this
trip and aren't going to be ableto keep up with you unless you
just say, yep, I'm takingeverybody to this trip and we're
going to go, do this andwhatever, and I'll and I'll pay,
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you know.
Then I wonder how the friendsfeel at the same time, you know,
do you feel like you're takingadvantage of it?
Because that's the issue Nobodyelse is going to be able to
keep up with you.
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Well, you know, and that's I mean.
I'm not saying that we're goingto go on a, you know, a
worldwide cruise every year, butif we wanted to go to dallas
and you know, and visit tricia,let's all go sure, you know, I
mean, and for people who can'ttake multiple trips a year, this
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might be one that they get totake.
That's an extra, you know, sortof thing.
So that's one of them.
You know you were talking aboutgifting.
So this was my idea by givingmy brother a chunk of money and
my sister a chunk of money, alltheir kids go to them.
Their kids don't then come tome.
The kids, they can keep it inthe family.
(11:47):
They can decide how best to usethat money.
Ann and Cole can put parameterson what that money is used for.
That's their deal.
I don't want to get into that.
I don't want them coming to mewhen mom and dad have said no,
keep it in their family, youguys do with it what you will
have.
Said no, keep it in theirfamily, you guys do with it what
you will.
So that's one of those giftingthings that it's passing the
(12:08):
buck, literally and figuratively.
Yeah, so here's my question oh,what other fun things, I would
buy houses.
I would own multiple houses,not necessarily grand houses,
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but they would be, you know, onemaybe in Europe, one maybe
Caribbean, or it could be acondo or something.
But my occasion for that is itneeds to be by airport, with the
goal being that I want my kidsto have an easy time getting
there and enjoying it.
(12:51):
I'm trying to find pockets ofplaces my kids could go easily.
So, again, I don't needsomething grandiose, but you
know, I'll take something in theCaribbean where I can see the
water, and it's probably gotfive bedrooms or something like
that, so every family orwhatever can have a, have a
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bedroom.
But I think that would bereally fun to have.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yes, for sure your vacation.
I don't care about cars, no,and that's what people go out
and like buy a Maserati or a.
I know I agree, no, don't wasteit on the car, yeah, no.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
As long as it's comfortable, I would pay for for
the serious XM subscriptionthat I'm really missing.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Oh, we can, we can all do that now Woo big thunder.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I could pay for $10 a month or whatever it is.
Okay, here's my question aboutyour kids, because we all have
kids.
So do you set it up in a trustwhere they get a lump sum and
you trust them to do with itwhat they will?
Or do you set it up in a trustthat they get a significant
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amount of money at a certain ageand then on a yearly basis?
Or do you do parts and pieces?
And if you have multiplechildren, are you treating any
of them different?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Okay, yeah, those are good.
Well, when you pass, they'regoing to get it all divvied up
anyway, in theory.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
But you can.
But, but even, even, yeah, evenat your passing, you can have
it set to yeah, divvy to themhow you see fit I think, it
depends on the kid, on the kidthat it's going to.
I would would be making somejudgments on, based on what I
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know of this young adult.
What would he or she do withthis?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, yeah, I kind of like giving them some each year
, you know, and starting rightaway, even not waiting, you know
what I mean.
So they can, you know, do whatthey want with it, pay bills,
whatever, whatever they're goingto do, but then they at least
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know what they're getting alongthe way too.
So I don't know, that would bemy first thought.
How about charities?
What I hear is that charitiescome after you when they find
out you won the lottery, youknow.
So how do you decide?
Yes, we'll give it to you knowwhich charities, even locally,
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you know, I've had, I've heardpeople just win, not the
millions, but the you know100,000 jackpot.
People want, people want apiece of it.
You know, I don't know.
That would be rough, I think,to try to determine who you're
going to donate to and whoyou're not not.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I mean, I think it's gotta be.
It's.
It's gotta be something that,for a very specific reason, is
something very meaningful to you.
My parents made a list.
I want to say they had likefour organizations that when
they were putting all of theirfinancials together and, um, you
know, getting everythingdocumented and everything they
have this list.
And so the you know gettingeverything documented and
everything they have this list.
And so the you know the finalwishes were that specific amount
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of money would go to each ofthese.
So I think it's a smart idea tomake a list and then, you know,
maybe kind of narrow it downand it might change over time
too.
So these are, these are goodthings to be thinking about,
just for our own um, having youknow, having things in place,
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should you need to have them inplace, but I don't, and for me I
don't, and for me I don't knowwhat they would be right now.
I don't, I don't know.
So it kind of tells me I shouldprobably think about it and make
a list or get involved withsome or something, because I
don't think I have any on mylist right now.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, yeah, I researched a couple of different
things.
One was what's the most commonnumber that wins, and the first
one said 38, 40, and 44.
However, I looked at someothers and they had big, long
lists of numbers that didn'tinclude 38, 40, and 44.
(17:59):
So again I'm back to I thinkit's random, I don't think
there's any that you know, likethere's not some you know
formula to winning.
It also said people of alleducation and you know current
status.
Yeah, no, no rhyme or reason toany who wins, or the numbers or
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anything reason to any who wins, or the numbers or anything?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Did you, did your research show whether or not
randomly selected numbers winmore than people who select them
, than chosen numbers?
I thought I heard that at somepoint.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Oh, like if you just let it pick your own instead of
you like you do all thebirthdays and the anniversaries
and that kind of thing.
I do not.
I don't know that.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I'm pretty sure I heard that a number of years ago
that you're better off lettingthe system choose your numbers.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Pick instead of you picking the same ones all the
time Could be yeah, yeah, whoknows there was a when the
Powerball got really big.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I don't know, this was probably a year ago.
We will rarely go and buy alottery ticket and it's usually
one of those.
You're seeing it over and overon the news, you know, and then
the day goes by and nobody won.
And then it's on the news againnobody wins.
And then Bill and I look ateach other.
We're like, should we buy aticket?
So one time?
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So I went, and it was the nightof the drawing.
I went up to the quick trip upon 212 and there was a line of
people at the register.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I mean not a hundred people.
There was like maybe 10 peoplestanding in line and we all kind
of looked at each other.
Everybody's just kind of doingtheir own thing.
But we're pretty sure thateverybody was there to buy a
lottery ticket.
It was, you know, 10 o'clock atnight or 9.30 at night or
whatever, and so we're all justkind of looking at each other.
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That one guy turned around andhe goes hey, you can't win if
you don't play.
And we were all like yep,that's better.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
It's true.
Exactly right, it's true.
So there was a little bondingwith people that you know, and
so there, we each buy ourlottery ticket and off we go and
never saw each other ever againand none of us won and none of
you won.
Yeah, the largest pot was likeover 2 billion, just over $2
(20:42):
billion.
Two billion, just over twobillion dollars by and a guy in
california won it.
It's like, wow, that would behuge.
Um, there was some math tryingto figure out what he really got
you know one billion at least.
So yeah, huge there's, there's alarge based on the other
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billionaires go ahead.
Yeah, based on how bigbillionaire there's a large
unclaimed one.
Based on the other billionaires.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah, based on the other billionaires, he probably
got it all.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Oh, sorry.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Maybe.
How big is the one that's been?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
unclaimed yeah, unclaimed A little more than a
million by someone bought it inIllinois.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
That was probably my grandma, and she's since passed
away.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
She held on to it and didn't claim it Maybe.
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Do you remember the movie with Nicolas Cage and
Bridget Fonda where he's the cop, she's the diner cat waitress
and he didn't have any money to?
I love that movie.
He didn't have any money to tipher, so he said you know, I'll
split my, I'll split my winningswith you.
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And he won and his wife wentbananas.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
That's right.
Is that Marissa Tomei?
Was she the wife?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
No, oh, was that Marissa Tomei?
I don't remember who his wifewas.
Yeah, that was a fun.
That was a good movie.
Yeah, that was.
Do you remember what it wascalled?
No, I'm sure the interwebscould tell you, nicolas.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Cage Bridget.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Fonda.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, who did you think it was Bridget Fonda?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Well, she's the waitress.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
She's the waitress, yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
That was before Nicolas Cage went off the deep
end, or he hid the deep end alot better.
Stacey, you said you'd retire.
Kitty, would you retire?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I probably would have to, because we'd be traveling
and my business isn't verytravel friendly.
So yeah, yeah, I would I know?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I would too.
Yeah, of of course, I couldhave my nights and weekends yes,
okay, it's called.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It could happen to you a 1994 movie, it could
happen to you.
There you go, nicholas cage,and yeah, good movie.
Um, I don't know what it says.
Was it rosie?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
for a while Was it Rosie Perez.
For a while she played.
Rosie Perez is the wife.
There we go.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yes, yes, interesting .
There you go.
There's an old one, if you canfind it.
Was it based on a true story?
Is based on a true story.
There you go, oh, okay, yeah,and Yonkers, that's on Netflix
is based on a true story.
There you go.
Oh, okay, yeah, and Yonkers,that's on Netflix.
Right?
Here's a recommendation foreverybody.
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If you want to watch somebodyelse win in the lottery, yeah,
okay, what else do you have?
Is there any other weird thingsthat you'd spend money on that
you don't today?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
that you'd spend money on that.
You don't today.
Part of my charitable givingharkens back to my childhood and
how much I loved the librarieswhen I was in elementary school.
I would be setting up funds forschools to have really good
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libraries, well-stockedlibraries and a librarian there,
and the precursor to gettingthe money is banned books are
included.
You cannot take anything offthe shelf.
If you want any money, allbooks, anything off the shelf.
If you want all of, if you wantany money, all books are on the
shelf.
(24:49):
Um, just because the more weread, the more we know, and you
know and I want every bookshould be free.
I get that people like audibleand whatever, but there's
something so enjoyable and sotactile about diving into a book
.
That's something that is very,very important to me.
And the other thing that Ireally would love to make sure
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happens through schools is thatevery kid who wants to go on who
field trip gets to go, likethese trips to DC that kids do
in eighth grade.
My kids didn't go, it was.
It was like $1,200 for threedays.
I'm not I.
How do you come up with that?
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And?
And so some kids got to go andother kids stayed, and that to
me is crap.
Yeah, either everybody goes ornobody goes.
So, you know, to have that fieldtrip fund sort of thing, um, to
earmark some some schools andobviously it could be a bunch of
schools with with that sort ofthing but you know you should
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never feel bad because your momand dad don't have money.
Yeah, you know, a second grader, a fifth grader, an eighth
grader, they can't make money togo.
Do that.
Not everybody's got mom or dador grandparents to help foot
that bill.
So those are the type of thingsthat give me a lot of joy when
I sit and think about how Iwould distribute funds.
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That makes me really happy tothink of those things.
Yeah, food shelves, you knowsome of those things.
Yeah, you know food shelves,you know some of those things.
And to set up some, you know,even if it's at colleges or
something, to set up someendowments.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So they just keep going perpetually letting you
know some certain students in,oh yeah well I think there's a
lot of things locally,especially with the school, you
could set up and fund.
I think that'd be a good idea.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Like Prince, who lived here, donated money to the
local elementary school thatwas near him for their music
program.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, that's a good idea yeah near him for their
music program?
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Yeah, very, very nice and lucky.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
I would pay somebody to come into my house and take
care of my plants so they'd live, because they all have some
sort of pest on them right nowand it's making me, infuriating
me.
Where would that come fromExactly?
I don't know.
You bring a new plant in thatyou haven't quarantined and
haven't taken care of, andsuddenly they're all sick.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Oh, there you go.
Is that a tip?
Quarantine your plants for awhile, quarantine your plants.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Never thought about that.
So, Kitty, at one point you putout a a poll that said would
you rather have somebody to cookfor you every day or clean for
you every day?
Are you gonna hire somebody todo both?
Would you suddenly have like alive-in?
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
house man?
I would.
Yes, I would have a live-in.
Would you have staff?
I don't know about staff, butyes, I would have a live-in.
Would you have staff?
I don't know about staff, butyes, I would have someone cook.
I would definitely have someonecook for us.
Yeah, absolutely yeah.
And not that I don't like tocook.
I feel like then you could kindof meal plan and they could
take care of all the baloney youknow what I mean and just have
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it done when you get home.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
And you could probably eat something different
than the eight things.
You are exactly, yes, okay sothis is another thing.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
So this is taking us on a little bit of a tangent,
but, um, I did want to sharethis, so I'm you know, I'm doing
this course on AI and becauseof that, like everything now
that shows up in Instagram andFacebook is about AI.
So I put a prompt in this weekbecause we are stuck in the same
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meals.
We have eaten the same mealsfor the last 20 years, and so
the prompt that I put into chatGPT was give me seven meals
using these, and I think Ipicked 15 ingredients, seven
meals.
These are the ingredients.
Each meal has to be completelydifferent, and so I picked
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chicken, ground beef, steak,shrimp, and then the specific
vegetables that we like, and Ipicked rice and sweet potatoes,
and spices don't count, but youknow, figure in spices, but
those don't count as theingredients, right, and it gave
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me back seven meals and they'reall great and they're all great
so how many have you tried?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
how many have you tried we're?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
having our first one tomorrow night oh cool, that'll
be fun and it kind of we wereactually just talking about this
this this past week and I saidI would love and I love to cook
too but I need somebody to thinkthrough.
What is a well-balanced meal?
(30:15):
How can we eat healthier, right?
How can I mean?
There's no wonder that all ofthe uber rich people in the
world are fit.
They've got a personal chefthat's creating great meals for
them, right?
I would love love.
I would love that If I had topick between the two, I'd pick
(30:36):
the chef.
I can clean my house, but Iwould pick the chef.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Well, you're going to have your new house, that you
can just have it all you know.
Perfect, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So yeah, you can have a chef,yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I would too.
I like to dream about that.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
And you'd have a driver.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I would have a driver .
A driver would be awesome.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Driver, that's not Bill Correct, correct.
You can have Bill and then fauxbill.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah nice, what would you pick, amy?
Speaker 4 (31:18):
uh, definitely somebody cleaned.
My house cannot stand cleaningand I would like to have all
this stuff behind me dusted morethan like I don't know.
I can leave notes on thatcounter in the dust for myself
instead of paper.
So definitely somebody to clean.
Um, I don't, I don't mind doinglaundry and I have no problem
(31:41):
folding it right as it comes outand putting it away.
I, I don't iron, so I wouldlove to have somebody like, do
the iron?
I would buy different clothesif I had somebody who could iron
for me.
Otherwise it's all t-shirts.
Um, I think, if I'm, I mean,yes, if I have $200 million,
yeah, I'm going to have somebodycook for me.
Actually, have somebody groceryshop.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Meal planning shop and and make it, yeah, yeah, the
whole deal.
Yeah, yeah, I think so coolwhat else funny things?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
so let's talk about this dream.
Well, stacy, you're not doing adream house at this point.
Maybe other houses.
But, kitty, are you gonna havea pool?
I'm, I'm gonna have a pool.
More than one of my homes willhave a pool and somebody to take
okay, yeah, I suppose, sincewe're talking about I mean this
is dreaming large.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Yeah, of course, like why wouldn't you?
Because of course you hadresale value, exactly I mean
that's okay, gotta tell youpools not a good resale value.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Exactly, I mean that's the only reason.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Okay, got to tell you pool's not a good resale value
unless you're in, you know,california.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah, not here, but somewhere she's going to, you
know, build her dream house, whoknows where Some really fancy
location.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Yeah Cool, I would definitely have a uh, a carriage
house so when we would haveguests come, that they would
have their own um they didn'thave to be in we are so happy
(33:20):
you're here please.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Please stay on the other side.
Please go to the other building.
Oh, my gosh, oh, but it's anice, it's a beautiful carriage
house.
Yes, I'm sure, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Adjacent to the pool.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
There you go.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Oh funny.
Well, we live to dream, that'sfor sure.
But yes, we need to like buy aticket occasionally so we have a
chance, yeah, instead of youknow, a teeny, weeny, weeny
percent chance instead of zero,right.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Well, except that for every one you buy, doesn't I
mean, aren't your chances justthe same Because there's you're
not buying?
10 doesn't increase yourchances because they put 10 more
in to the pot.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I mean you just need to buy one.
It only you can win with oneticket.
Yeah, it's not like pull tabs,no, it's not like that.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
When there's a finite number of winners in there, you
can do the math.
No, it's not like that.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
You just need one.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
You just there.
You can do the math like that.
You just need one, just need tobuy one.
I'm still living off the highof us at girls weekend winning a
400 pull tab on a friday night.
Let's just say that paid forthe alcohol for the weekend for
like eight of us.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
That was good it did.
That was a good one.
That's been a while.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Yeah, yes it has.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
So how cool, what does?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
anyone happen to have a shot for this episode?
Well, I think I gave.
I think my using ChatGPT tocreate the to create your menus
was mine.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
That is a good one.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
We'll all all try that, that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Stace, do you have a shot?
Oh gosh, no, not really I don't.
I was gonna say you know, it'dbe nice if we'd win the lotto
here really quick, because amyand I are off to italy this week
so we may need to win when weget back if we spend too much
money.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Well, I can only spend up to a certain point and
then I feel really guilty.
Yeah, I would like to win thelottery so that that guilt
number goes up.
That's true.
Yes, that would be good and Icould actually go buy what I
want to wear because, also, Iwouldn't be working and I could
go during the day and actuallytry them on, instead of doing
the old mail them to me and sendthem back.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Mail send, mail send.
Yeah, yeah, there would be alot of perks to winning,
obviously, yeah, there would.
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
I don't have a shot.
I've been working my fanny offand haven't watched anything
good on TV lately.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, you've been busy All to get ready for travel
.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
All to wrap some stuff up.
Okay, well, you guys have safetravels, thank you.
Thank you, and are you going todo a?
Did you do a live last timefrom there, or did you just do a
video, did you?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
do a live.
I don't think we did a live, Ithink we just did videos and
post them.
So we'll work on that.
We'll do some more and then ournext episode we will record
about our trip, so you can lookforward to that Awesome Sound.
Good, okay, we will recordabout our trip, so you can look
forward to that Awesome Soundgood, okay, all right, all right
(36:52):
, arrivederci, you two.
Thank you, bonjour.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
I can't hear.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
No, we're not going there, prego.
Prego, I don't know what thatis either.
I don't know.
See, this is the things welearn on the plane going there.
Prego, I don't know what thatis either.
I don't know.
See, this is the things welearn on the plane ride there.
We'll have plenty of time, butwe'll go over our please and
thank yous and good evening,good night, all these kind of
things.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yeah, We'll kind of we'll be about this repair.
Yeah, our preparation will beabout that much.
But whatever, yeah, ourpreparation will be about that
much, but whatever.
Okay, well, thank you, exactlyAll right.
All right, see you next time.
Bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, allright.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
I got that.
Wow, who wants some heads rightnow?
We got that.
Turn it up.
I know you're wondering how Igot that.
Wow, who wants some heads upright now?
We got that.
Turn it up loud.
I know you're wondering how Igot that.
Wow, here I go.
Here I go, coming.
I can't ever stop.
I'm a tour de force running.
Get me to the top.
I don't need an invitation.
I'm about to start acelebration.
Let me in.
Brought a good time for somefriends.
Turn it up loud.
(38:01):
Past 10.
Turning up the crowd when I hithim.
Hello ladies, hello running, get me to the top.
I don't need an invitation.
I'm about to start acelebration.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hello ladies, hello Hi, hello, how is everyone?
Today I'm feeling very relaxed,today Relaxed.
Are you?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
That's good.
Yeah, it's been a nice chillday.
That is good, that's good.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, that's good.
It's been a nice chill day.
That is good, that's good.
Yep, well, we are ThreeCocktails In where we have
addicting conversations betweenthe three friends.
Three.
That's why we're called ThreeCocktails In, kind of we were
Three Cocktails In when we madethe name and we are Three.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Cocktails, and we are three cocktails and we are
three.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
There we go.
Yeah, there you go.
So guess what?
Our topic of the day is this isone of my favorites, I know.
The topic today is what wouldyou do with all the money if you
won the lottery?
Woo-hoo, all right, yeah, it'sfun, amy and.
(01:31):
I may need Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It's fun to just dream sometimes, like the
chances of it happening are mm.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, tiny.
In fact, you're more likely todie in a vending machine
accident than you are to win thelottery, because that would
happen a lot of vending machineaccident.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I don't even know what that would be, but I don't
even buy lottery tickets, butbut I find this activity to be
almost the number one thing todo to get me out of a funk.
Oh, really.
(02:16):
Yep, I find it to be verysoothing, therapeutic.
Soothing therapeutic I don'tknow what it is because I was
having this conversation withsomebody earlier this week
talking about what we're goingto do for the, the podcast, and
they said, well, what would youdo?
And well, first of all, we'regonna have, we're gonna have to
(02:37):
pick a couple parameters,because my list is different.
If I win 1010 million versus$200 million, so I'm just saying
but the first thing that Ialways start with is I give X
amount of dollars to my brother,I give X amount of dollars to
(02:58):
my sister.
It's a significant amount ofmoney and how they distribute it
to their families is up to them.
So, they're good, and then I getto start going through.
What am I going to, what am Igoing to do with it?
And you know differentcharities that I'm interested in
(03:19):
, different causes that I'minterested in, and you know goes
on and on, so um, so um.
It is a.
For me it just is such a joyfulcelebration and imaginary
celebration of all this crap,ton money that I don't have, but
I like doing it yeah, that's,interesting, yeah, it's good
(03:42):
that it.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
It's good that it makes you happy, rather than
going through that wholeexercise and getting very
detailed about it, because weknow you, amy, I'm sure that the
thought process is verydetailed, but it's good that at
(04:03):
the end of the exercise youdon't go well, shit, that's
never going to happen.
So right, you're not doing that, so that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I think it's because it's never going to happen.
I don't have to worry aboutthat part of it.
Yeah, it can just be purefantasy and it also does kind of
earmark.
Okay, if I, if I did come intoa little extra money, or maybe
my paycheck is a little bigger,where would I like some of those
(04:35):
dollars to go, sort of thing.
But mostly it is just one ofthose daydreaming sort of things
.
I don don't, it doesn't happenoften, but I will find that if
I'm in a really crappy mood, itis, it is.
Or if I was on the treadmill orsomething like that, where I
just was, you know not happy.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
She needs something to keep you going.
Yeah right, I have a question.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I find it funny that you're you'reing money for your
brother and sister and youdidn't mention your kids oh,
that's because my kids are given, they're getting a big chunk
right anyway, and and that wassomething that I wanted to talk,
wanted to ask you guys about,so, um, so you know, let's,
(05:23):
let's start with the premise wewon the two, we won, we're
netting out 200 million dollars,so a big chunk probably.
We probably won the power balland that's our takeaway that's
our take home.
yeah, okay, give me like yourtop three things that you're
excited to spend or attributemoney to.
(05:46):
What would those be Detailed?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah Well, top of my list is my dream house, which
I've been thinking about forprobably the last 10 years, and
it's not a big monster, but it'slike Bill and I have a very
specific and a very alignedvision of our dream house, so
(06:14):
that's top of the list.
A lux, lux, luxury vacation Idon't know where yet or how long
, but it's, uh well, one of the.
I think, when we talked aboutbucket list, one of the things
I've always wanted to stay at,like a St Regis or those types
of places where you've got abutler and yeah.
(06:38):
So yeah, it's, it's thevacation, and so it's the house
and the vacation.
Those are the big things.
And I know that there's going tobe gifting.
I know there's going to begifting Same, that's a given,
yes, but how you actually figurethat out, I think, is a big nut
(06:58):
to crack.
I did a little research on thisand one of the statistics that
I found was I was curious abouthow many people who have won a
major lottery Did they staymillionaires, and it's a pretty
small number simply because theyoverspend.
They had no financial literacyto begin with, right, they
(07:23):
didn't.
I mean, it took them from hereto you know there and so poor
investments, bad advice,pressure from family and friends
, so I was kind of taking thosethings into consideration.
How do I make sure I keep it?
Yeah, Use it, but put it into asystem where it can then not
(07:46):
just get yes right, but it can.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, I did the same kind of research and, based on
you know you're going to paywell first, I think you have a
couple of different choices inhow to take the money.
So you can take a lump sumright away, but you pay a
buttload of taxes and you knowfederal and state taxes and
whatever, and you only get thispot, which is okay if you're a
(08:14):
good money manager and you'regoing to invest it and you know,
not just blow it right away.
Or you can take the annuityroute, where you get it paid
over years and I think it's evenlike I don't know 20 or 30
years.
So then you get little pieces.
You get more in total that way,but you just get a little bit.
(08:34):
So that, on the other hand, youknow, might be harder to manage
.
You might not be able to justspend everything you want, you
know all the time if you're justgetting smaller pieces.
So for me, of course, I have tobe practical.
You know I'm not going to gobuy a new car, I'm not going to
(08:56):
go buy a new house.
I'm going to pay off what Ihave.
You know what I mean.
So I'm looking at it more likeI'm going to pay bills, then I'm
going to travel that would bethe first piece you know and
(09:18):
probably retire and just livethe life, but have a lot of
money.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Okay, so you pay off all your bills.
You just you just won 200million.
You can't have more than what.
I mean, if you were, if youwere like a gambling addict, at
most you'd have $500,000 inbills.
So you have just spent a dropin the bucket.
You have a whisper.
(09:43):
So I think that's funny.
I would well.
Yes, you guys know I love totravel.
But one thing and I've told youguys this before is I would
have the girlfriend travel fund,where I've got money in there
that is making money, so thatyou know there's a good chunk,
(10:05):
so that once a year all of usget to go on a trip.
Airfare is paid for, whetherwe're in.
You know, lodgings pay for youbring your fun money, but I want
to make sure that we get to goas a group somewhere as a group,
(10:30):
somewhere.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
yeah, and I've heard that too that, like people that
win giant pots, almost have tojust just know that they need to
bring their friends along.
You know, because they're notgonna your friends, unless you
give them a big chunk, aren'tgoing to be able to keep up with
you unless you just say, yep,I'm taking everybody to this
trip and aren't going to be ableto keep up with you unless you
just say, yep, I'm takingeverybody to this trip and we're
going to go, do this andwhatever, and I'll and I'll pay,
(10:51):
you know.
Then I wonder how the friendsfeel at the same time, you know,
do you feel like you're takingadvantage of it?
Because that's the issue Nobodyelse is going to be able to
keep up with you.
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Well, you know, and that's I mean.
I'm not saying that we're goingto go on a, you know, a
worldwide cruise every year, butif we wanted to go to dallas
and you know, and visit tricia,let's all go sure, you know, I
mean, and for people who can'ttake multiple trips a year, this
(11:25):
might be one that they get totake.
That's an extra, you know, sortof thing.
So that's one of them.
You know you were talking aboutgifting.
So this was my idea by givingmy brother a chunk of money and
my sister a chunk of money, alltheir kids go to them.
Their kids don't then come tome.
The kids, they can keep it inthe family.
(11:47):
They can decide how best to usethat money.
Ann and Cole can put parameterson what that money is used for.
That's their deal.
I don't want to get into that.
I don't want them coming to mewhen mom and dad have said no,
keep it in their family, youguys do with it what you will
have.
Said no, keep it in theirfamily, you guys do with it what
you will.
So that's one of those giftingthings that it's passing the
(12:08):
buck, literally and figuratively.
Yeah, so here's my question oh,what other fun things, I would
buy houses.
I would own multiple houses,not necessarily grand houses,
(12:31):
but they would be, you know, onemaybe in Europe, one maybe
Caribbean, or it could be acondo or something.
But my occasion for that is itneeds to be by airport, with the
goal being that I want my kidsto have an easy time getting
there and enjoying it.
(12:51):
I'm trying to find pockets ofplaces my kids could go easily.
So, again, I don't needsomething grandiose, but you
know, I'll take something in theCaribbean where I can see the
water, and it's probably gotfive bedrooms or something like
that, so every family orwhatever can have a, have a
(13:14):
bedroom.
But I think that would bereally fun to have.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yes, for sure your vacation.
I don't care about cars, no,and that's what people go out
and like buy a Maserati or a.
I know I agree, no, don't wasteit on the car, yeah, no.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
As long as it's comfortable, I would pay for for
the serious XM subscriptionthat I'm really missing.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Oh, we can, we can all do that now Woo big thunder.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
I could pay for $10 a month or whatever it is.
Okay, here's my question aboutyour kids, because we all have
kids.
So do you set it up in a trustwhere they get a lump sum and
you trust them to do with itwhat they will?
Or do you set it up in a trustthat they get a significant
(14:13):
amount of money at a certain ageand then on a yearly basis?
Or do you do parts and pieces?
And if you have multiplechildren, are you treating any
of them different?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Okay, yeah, those are good.
Well, when you pass, they'regoing to get it all divvied up
anyway, in theory.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
But you can.
But, but even, even, yeah, evenat your passing, you can have
it set to yeah, divvy to themhow you see fit I think, it
depends on the kid, on the kidthat it's going to.
I would would be making somejudgments on, based on what I
(15:07):
know of this young adult.
What would he or she do withthis?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, yeah, I kind of like giving them some each year
, you know, and starting rightaway, even not waiting, you know
what I mean.
So they can, you know, do whatthey want with it, pay bills,
whatever, whatever they're goingto do, but then they at least
(15:36):
know what they're getting alongthe way too.
So I don't know, that would bemy first thought.
How about charities?
What I hear is that charitiescome after you when they find
out you won the lottery, youknow.
So how do you decide?
Yes, we'll give it to you knowwhich charities, even locally,
(16:02):
you know, I've had, I've heardpeople just win, not the
millions, but the you know100,000 jackpot.
People want, people want apiece of it.
You know, I don't know.
That would be rough, I think,to try to determine who you're
going to donate to and whoyou're not not.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
I mean, I think it's gotta be.
It's.
It's gotta be something that,for a very specific reason, is
something very meaningful to you.
My parents made a list.
I want to say they had likefour organizations that when
they were putting all of theirfinancials together and, um, you
know, getting everythingdocumented and everything they
have this list.
And so the you know gettingeverything documented and
everything they have this list.
And so the you know the finalwishes were that specific amount
(16:53):
of money would go to each ofthese.
So I think it's a smart idea tomake a list and then, you know,
maybe kind of narrow it downand it might change over time
too.
So these are, these are goodthings to be thinking about,
just for our own um, having youknow, having things in place,
(17:16):
should you need to have them inplace, but I don't, and for me I
don't, and for me I don't knowwhat they would be right now.
I don't, I don't know.
So it kind of tells me I shouldprobably think about it and make
a list or get involved withsome or something, because I
don't think I have any on mylist right now.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, yeah, I researched a couple of different
things.
One was what's the most commonnumber that wins, and the first
one said 38, 40, and 44.
However, I looked at someothers and they had big, long
lists of numbers that didn'tinclude 38, 40, and 44.
(17:59):
So again I'm back to I thinkit's random, I don't think
there's any that you know, likethere's not some you know
formula to winning.
It also said people of alleducation and you know current
status.
Yeah, no, no rhyme or reason toany who wins, or the numbers or
(18:23):
anything reason to any who wins, or the numbers or anything?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Did you, did your research show whether or not
randomly selected numbers winmore than people who select them
, than chosen numbers?
I thought I heard that at somepoint.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Oh, like if you just let it pick your own instead of
you like you do all thebirthdays and the anniversaries
and that kind of thing.
I do not.
I don't know that.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I'm pretty sure I heard that a number of years ago
that you're better off lettingthe system choose your numbers.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Pick instead of you picking the same ones all the
time Could be yeah, yeah, whoknows there was a when the
Powerball got really big.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I don't know, this was probably a year ago.
We will rarely go and buy alottery ticket and it's usually
one of those.
You're seeing it over and overon the news, you know, and then
the day goes by and nobody won.
And then it's on the news againnobody wins.
And then Bill and I look ateach other.
We're like, should we buy aticket?
So one time?
(19:40):
So I went, and it was the nightof the drawing.
I went up to the quick trip upon 212 and there was a line of
people at the register.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I mean not a hundred people.
There was like maybe 10 peoplestanding in line and we all kind
of looked at each other.
Everybody's just kind of doingtheir own thing.
But we're pretty sure thateverybody was there to buy a
lottery ticket.
It was, you know, 10 o'clock atnight or 9.30 at night or
whatever, and so we're all justkind of looking at each other.
(20:12):
That one guy turned around andhe goes hey, you can't win if
you don't play.
And we were all like yep,that's better.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
It's true.
Exactly right, it's true.
So there was a little bondingwith people that you know, and
so there, we each buy ourlottery ticket and off we go and
never saw each other ever againand none of us won and none of
you won.
Yeah, the largest pot was likeover 2 billion, just over $2
(20:42):
billion.
Two billion, just over twobillion dollars by and a guy in
california won it.
It's like, wow, that would behuge.
Um, there was some math tryingto figure out what he really got
you know one billion at least.
So yeah, huge there's, there's alarge based on the other
(21:02):
billionaires go ahead.
Yeah, based on how bigbillionaire there's a large
unclaimed one.
Based on the other billionaires.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Yeah, based on the other billionaires, he probably
got it all.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Oh, sorry.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Maybe.
How big is the one that's been?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
unclaimed yeah, unclaimed A little more than a
million by someone bought it inIllinois.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
That was probably my grandma, and she's since passed
away.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
She held on to it and didn't claim it Maybe.
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Do you remember the movie with Nicolas Cage and
Bridget Fonda where he's the cop, she's the diner cat waitress
and he didn't have any money to?
I love that movie.
He didn't have any money to tipher, so he said you know, I'll
split my, I'll split my winningswith you.
(21:59):
And he won and his wife wentbananas.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
That's right.
Is that Marissa Tomei?
Was she the wife?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
No, oh, was that Marissa Tomei?
I don't remember who his wifewas.
Yeah, that was a fun.
That was a good movie.
Yeah, that was.
Do you remember what it wascalled?
No, I'm sure the interwebscould tell you, nicolas.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Cage Bridget.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Fonda.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, who did you think it was Bridget Fonda?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Well, she's the waitress.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
She's the waitress, yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
That was before Nicolas Cage went off the deep
end, or he hid the deep end alot better.
Stacey, you said you'd retire.
Kitty, would you retire?
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I probably would have to, because we'd be traveling
and my business isn't verytravel friendly.
So yeah, yeah, I would I know?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I would too.
Yeah, of of course, I couldhave my nights and weekends yes,
okay, it's called.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It could happen to you a 1994 movie, it could
happen to you.
There you go, nicholas cage,and yeah, good movie.
Um, I don't know what it says.
Was it rosie?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
for a while Was it Rosie Perez.
For a while she played.
Rosie Perez is the wife.
There we go.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yes, yes, interesting .
There you go.
There's an old one, if you canfind it.
Was it based on a true story?
Is based on a true story.
There you go, oh, okay, yeah,and Yonkers, that's on Netflix
is based on a true story.
There you go.
Oh, okay, yeah, and Yonkers,that's on Netflix.
Right?
Here's a recommendation foreverybody.
(23:53):
If you want to watch somebodyelse win in the lottery, yeah,
okay, what else do you have?
Is there any other weird thingsthat you'd spend money on that
you don't today?
Speaker 4 (24:04):
that you'd spend money on that.
You don't today.
Part of my charitable givingharkens back to my childhood and
how much I loved the librarieswhen I was in elementary school.
I would be setting up funds forschools to have really good
(24:29):
libraries, well-stockedlibraries and a librarian there,
and the precursor to gettingthe money is banned books are
included.
You cannot take anything offthe shelf.
If you want any money, allbooks, anything off the shelf.
If you want all of, if you wantany money, all books are on the
shelf.
(24:49):
Um, just because the more weread, the more we know, and you
know and I want every bookshould be free.
I get that people like audibleand whatever, but there's
something so enjoyable and sotactile about diving into a book
.
That's something that is very,very important to me.
And the other thing that Ireally would love to make sure
(25:13):
happens through schools is thatevery kid who wants to go on who
field trip gets to go, likethese trips to DC that kids do
in eighth grade.
My kids didn't go, it was.
It was like $1,200 for threedays.
I'm not I.
How do you come up with that?
(25:34):
And?
And so some kids got to go andother kids stayed, and that to
me is crap.
Yeah, either everybody goes ornobody goes.
So, you know, to have that fieldtrip fund sort of thing, um, to
earmark some some schools andobviously it could be a bunch of
schools with with that sort ofthing but you know you should
(25:56):
never feel bad because your momand dad don't have money.
Yeah, you know, a second grader, a fifth grader, an eighth
grader, they can't make money togo.
Do that.
Not everybody's got mom or dador grandparents to help foot
that bill.
So those are the type of thingsthat give me a lot of joy when
I sit and think about how Iwould distribute funds.
(26:17):
That makes me really happy tothink of those things.
Yeah, food shelves, you knowsome of those things.
Yeah, you know food shelves,you know some of those things.
And to set up some, you know,even if it's at colleges or
something, to set up someendowments.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So they just keep going perpetually letting you
know some certain students in,oh yeah well I think there's a
lot of things locally,especially with the school, you
could set up and fund.
I think that'd be a good idea.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Like Prince, who lived here, donated money to the
local elementary school thatwas near him for their music
program.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, that's a good idea yeah near him for their
music program?
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Yeah, very, very nice and lucky.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
I would pay somebody to come into my house and take
care of my plants so they'd live, because they all have some
sort of pest on them right nowand it's making me, infuriating
me.
Where would that come fromExactly?
I don't know.
You bring a new plant in thatyou haven't quarantined and
haven't taken care of, andsuddenly they're all sick.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Oh, there you go.
Is that a tip?
Quarantine your plants for awhile, quarantine your plants.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Never thought about that.
So, Kitty, at one point you putout a a poll that said would
you rather have somebody to cookfor you every day or clean for
you every day?
Are you gonna hire somebody todo both?
Would you suddenly have like alive-in?
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
house man?
I would.
Yes, I would have a live-in.
Would you have staff?
I don't know about staff, butyes, I would have a live-in.
Would you have staff?
I don't know about staff, butyes, I would have someone cook.
I would definitely have someonecook for us.
Yeah, absolutely yeah.
And not that I don't like tocook.
I feel like then you could kindof meal plan and they could
take care of all the baloney youknow what I mean and just have
(28:21):
it done when you get home.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
And you could probably eat something different
than the eight things.
You are exactly, yes, okay sothis is another thing.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
So this is taking us on a little bit of a tangent,
but, um, I did want to sharethis, so I'm you know, I'm doing
this course on AI and becauseof that, like everything now
that shows up in Instagram andFacebook is about AI.
So I put a prompt in this weekbecause we are stuck in the same
(29:00):
meals.
We have eaten the same mealsfor the last 20 years, and so
the prompt that I put into chatGPT was give me seven meals
using these, and I think Ipicked 15 ingredients, seven
meals.
These are the ingredients.
Each meal has to be completelydifferent, and so I picked
(29:24):
chicken, ground beef, steak,shrimp, and then the specific
vegetables that we like, and Ipicked rice and sweet potatoes,
and spices don't count, but youknow, figure in spices, but
those don't count as theingredients, right, and it gave
(29:44):
me back seven meals and they'reall great and they're all great
so how many have you tried?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
how many have you tried we're?
Speaker 3 (29:55):
having our first one tomorrow night oh cool, that'll
be fun and it kind of we wereactually just talking about this
this this past week and I saidI would love and I love to cook
too but I need somebody to thinkthrough.
What is a well-balanced meal?
(30:15):
How can we eat healthier, right?
How can I mean?
There's no wonder that all ofthe uber rich people in the
world are fit.
They've got a personal chefthat's creating great meals for
them, right?
I would love love.
I would love that If I had topick between the two, I'd pick
(30:36):
the chef.
I can clean my house, but Iwould pick the chef.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Well, you're going to have your new house, that you
can just have it all you know.
Perfect, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So yeah, you can have a chef,yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
I would too.
I like to dream about that.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
And you'd have a driver.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
I would have a driver .
A driver would be awesome.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Driver, that's not Bill Correct, correct.
You can have Bill and then fauxbill.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah nice, what would you pick, amy?
Speaker 4 (31:18):
uh, definitely somebody cleaned.
My house cannot stand cleaningand I would like to have all
this stuff behind me dusted morethan like I don't know.
I can leave notes on thatcounter in the dust for myself
instead of paper.
So definitely somebody to clean.
Um, I don't, I don't mind doinglaundry and I have no problem
(31:41):
folding it right as it comes outand putting it away.
I, I don't iron, so I wouldlove to have somebody like, do
the iron?
I would buy different clothesif I had somebody who could iron
for me.
Otherwise it's all t-shirts.
Um, I think, if I'm, I mean,yes, if I have $200 million,
yeah, I'm going to have somebodycook for me.
Actually, have somebody groceryshop.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Meal planning shop and and make it, yeah, yeah, the
whole deal.
Yeah, yeah, I think so coolwhat else funny things?
Speaker 4 (32:15):
so let's talk about this dream.
Well, stacy, you're not doing adream house at this point.
Maybe other houses.
But, kitty, are you gonna havea pool?
I'm, I'm gonna have a pool.
More than one of my homes willhave a pool and somebody to take
okay, yeah, I suppose, sincewe're talking about I mean this
is dreaming large.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Yeah, of course, like why wouldn't you?
Because of course you hadresale value, exactly I mean
that's okay, gotta tell youpools not a good resale value.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Exactly, I mean that's the only reason.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Okay, got to tell you pool's not a good resale value
unless you're in, you know,california.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah, not here, but somewhere she's going to, you
know, build her dream house, whoknows where Some really fancy
location.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
Yeah Cool, I would definitely have a uh, a carriage
house so when we would haveguests come, that they would
have their own um they didn'thave to be in we are so happy
(33:20):
you're here please.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Please stay on the other side.
Please go to the other building.
Oh, my gosh, oh, but it's anice, it's a beautiful carriage
house.
Yes, I'm sure, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Adjacent to the pool.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
There you go.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
That makes sense.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Oh funny.
Well, we live to dream, that'sfor sure.
But yes, we need to like buy aticket occasionally so we have a
chance, yeah, instead of youknow, a teeny, weeny, weeny
percent chance instead of zero,right.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Well, except that for every one you buy, doesn't I
mean, aren't your chances justthe same Because there's you're
not buying?
10 doesn't increase yourchances because they put 10 more
in to the pot.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I mean you just need to buy one.
It only you can win with oneticket.
Yeah, it's not like pull tabs,no, it's not like that.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
When there's a finite number of winners in there, you
can do the math.
No, it's not like that.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
You just need one.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
You just there.
You can do the math like that.
You just need one, just need tobuy one.
I'm still living off the highof us at girls weekend winning a
400 pull tab on a friday night.
Let's just say that paid forthe alcohol for the weekend for
like eight of us.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
That was good it did.
That was a good one.
That's been a while.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Yeah, yes it has.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
So how cool, what does?
Speaker 3 (34:54):
anyone happen to have a shot for this episode?
Well, I think I gave.
I think my using ChatGPT tocreate the to create your menus
was mine.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
That is a good one.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
We'll all all try that, that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Stace, do you have a shot?
Oh gosh, no, not really I don't.
I was gonna say you know, it'dbe nice if we'd win the lotto
here really quick, because amyand I are off to italy this week
so we may need to win when weget back if we spend too much
money.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
Well, I can only spend up to a certain point and
then I feel really guilty.
Yeah, I would like to win thelottery so that that guilt
number goes up.
That's true.
Yes, that would be good and Icould actually go buy what I
want to wear because, also, Iwouldn't be working and I could
go during the day and actuallytry them on, instead of doing
the old mail them to me and sendthem back.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Mail send, mail send.
Yeah, yeah, there would be alot of perks to winning,
obviously, yeah, there would.
Awesome.
Speaker 4 (36:01):
I don't have a shot.
I've been working my fanny offand haven't watched anything
good on TV lately.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Yeah, you've been busy All to get ready for travel
.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
All to wrap some stuff up.
Okay, well, you guys have safetravels, thank you.
Thank you, and are you going todo a?
Did you do a live last timefrom there, or did you just do a
video, did you?
Speaker 2 (36:30):
do a live.
I don't think we did a live, Ithink we just did videos and
post them.
So we'll work on that.
We'll do some more and then ournext episode we will record
about our trip, so you can lookforward to that Awesome Sound.
Good, okay, we will recordabout our trip, so you can look
forward to that Awesome Soundgood, okay, all right, all right
(36:52):
, arrivederci, you two.
Thank you, bonjour.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
I can't hear.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
No, we're not going there, prego.
Prego, I don't know what thatis either.
I don't know.
See, this is the things welearn on the plane going there.
Prego, I don't know what thatis either.
I don't know.
See, this is the things welearn on the plane ride there.
We'll have plenty of time, butwe'll go over our please and
thank yous and good evening,good night, all these kind of
things.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Yeah, We'll kind of we'll be about this repair.
Yeah, our preparation will beabout that much.
But whatever, yeah, ourpreparation will be about that
much, but whatever.
Okay, well, thank you, exactlyAll right.
All right, see you next time.
Bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, allright.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
I got that.
Wow, who wants some heads rightnow?
We got that.
Turn it up.
I know you're wondering how Igot that.
Wow, who wants some heads upright now?
We got that.
Turn it up loud.
I know you're wondering how Igot that.
Wow, here I go.
Here I go, coming.
I can't ever stop.
I'm a tour de force running.
Get me to the top.
I don't need an invitation.
I'm about to start acelebration.
Let me in.
Brought a good time for somefriends.
Turn it up loud.
(38:01):
Past 10.
Turning up the crowd when I hithim.
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