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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Talk about feeling sick. You know I have. I think basically,
I've had this kind of dream before where I know
that I've got a winning lottery ticket, but I do
something dumb with it, not specifically like this what this
woman did, but something to the effect of maybe laundering
(00:23):
it while it's in you know, a pair of pants
or jeans or whatever. But this lady in Pennsylvania, and
they say, no good deed goes unpunished. But she did
a good thing. She made a clothing donation to the
Vietnam Veterans of America, and then things backfired. She had
(00:44):
left a lost lottery ticket in the jacket that she donated,
and the winning ticket, that she says is worth two
and a half million dollars. Two and a half million
makes me sick. She claims. She bought the winning ticket
last May at a grocery store. Now, there might be
(01:04):
some holes in this. If you had a two and
a half million dollar winning lottery ticket, would you have
if you bought it in May of twenty four would
you still have said ticket?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
See, I don't think so either, she said. A couple
of weeks later, after she bought this at a grocery store.
She learned the ticket was a winner, but she couldn't
find it. But did you have a picture of it?
Did you write down the numbers? I'm like, wait a minute,
(01:37):
I mean, think about how frantic you would be. Let's
say you did take a picture of it, because you go,
I gotta make sure that I and I can. This
will be easier than But don't you put them all
in the same spot if you're going to store them?
And then you decide. I had a buddy who would
just check every couple of weeks. He would look at
ones that he had bought, and then he would go
(01:59):
over okay, because it was wasn't something that he did
every time there was a drawing. He played every single drawing,
but he wouldn't check them every single drawing. So there
are people who do that. I again, had a buddy
who did that, so I can understand that maybe, but
he kept them all in the same spot for obvious reasons. Yeah,
(02:23):
because then he would go back and go, all right,
I need to check the last six draws to see
if I and he would sit and do it, and
he would dedicate, you know, five ten minutes, and they'd
be like, oh, okay, I want two dollars here, I
want four dollars here, or I want nothing, or that
kind of thing. It's like, well, check my lottery tickets.
I didn't win anything, you know. But he would check
(02:43):
them periodically instead of every draw. Maybe she's one of
those people. But she says she left the ticket in
the jacket that she donated, and they told her, well,
it could be anywhere in the world by now, and
so she's probably not going to get this ticket back.
They go on to talk about in this story.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
But if I had a winning lottery, the first thing
I would do is to write across the top of
the ticket property of Charles Douglas and put my signature
at the top. That's the first thing I do. Second
thing I do as quickly as possible get to a
bank with a safe deposit box until I had made
arrangements to go cash the ticket or establish the trust
(03:25):
or whatever I was going to do. But I would
put my name on it it show something, to show
it's mine, and then I'd worry about all the technicalities
of how to cash it, the most effective way to
cash it, all that kind of stuff. But unless somebody
can show up at the lottery Commission with my ticket
and say yes, I'm Charles Douglas. Here's then they're not
(03:48):
getting my money. I could call the Lottery Commission and say,
my name, my signature is on the front of this ticket,
and it's been lost or stolen or whatever. Wow. I've
always been scared that I'll have one and forget I
have it and go back and check it on like
the one hundred and eighty first day after it's no
longer valid. Go ah, because I forgot to check.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It and it was a winner. I got to be honest.
I only play for the most part when they get
ramped up and they become and I check it literally
the next morning.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, this weekend, the prizes aren't ramped up. The cost
is though. This is when we go to the five
dollars ticket. Ayah, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
How many people are they pricing out?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Probably a lot, probably a lot. You know, you go
in there, you hand them a ten dollar bill, you
get five plays on the power ball right now, the
Mega millions, you go in there tomorrow, you hand them
at ten dollar bill, you get too. That's that's not
working for me. I'm just sorry, I just I think
this is a very bad strategy.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So it goes from starting at twenty million to starting
at fifty million. Correct, Yes, okay, so that's the only
that's the only perk with this from what I understand.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But we'll continue if the number of people drops in half,
because the jackpots are dictated by how much people are
spending on the tickets. Correct, So if the you get
half the people playing, is that fifty million dollars start
going to remain or are they going to have to
adjust that and go, yeah, we're gonna have to go
back to twenty million.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, then they're gonna have to go back to two
dollars too. How many raise your hand? If you know
of any transitory type things related to bumping up the
cost of something, because I'm not familiar with any, please
point them out to me. It seems like every time
we hear something like that, although that wasn't part of
the story, that would seem to be a normal trajectory
(05:40):
if it did. If it went that direction. So, yeah,
they couldn't keep up the fifty million dollars starting jackpot
if they go, well, now we're only selling x amount
of money for these tickets, and you know it's going
to be fifty million for at least the first few
and then would they try to they wouldn't dare leave
(06:02):
it at five and then go, well, we're gonna have
to go back to twenty million. Oh yeah, and it's
gonna stay five dollars. Yeah, no way, I know. Yeah.
Look when it gets up to the seven hundred and
eight hundred million range, six hundred million range, I'm probably
still a guy who, unfortunately, I'll go and give him
twenty bucks and I'll get four plays out of it.
(06:22):
And I'm sad to say, but I'd rather take a
swing like that because I'm spending twenty dollars typically when
it gets up that high anyway, maybe even a little
more depends, and you're just not gonna have as many
chances unfortunately, But I'm still gonna take a swing in.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
What if you did something like a three month lottery,
a quarter lottery four times a year, the jackpot is
one billion dollars one billion dollars, and the tickets are
like twenty bucks, but you've got all that quarter to
buy tickets, so you're gonna get a billion.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Dollars and twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You can buy a couple of tickets a week for
you know, you know, every week for three months before
they actually draw that. I could see, you know, you
want to charge me twenty bucks for a ticket? Okay,
because it's a guaranteed billion dollar jackpot every time. That
might make a little more sense than this to to
more than double the price. I mean, face it, what
(07:25):
else goes up? What is that one hundred and fifty
percent that is?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, that's crazy. It's go to the Legacy Retirement Group
dot com phone lines, George, Welcome to the show, yep.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Mark and Chuck. They're gonna blame that price increase on
the Trump tariff.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I'm sure they'll do that.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Lottery numbers imported from Canada are now costing us more.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Is what it is? You only get half of what
you win in Canada, I guess or something.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I know, And it always tastes like maple.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Right, yeah, I don't know, I mean, sir George, thanks.
That could be they're gonna end up playing it. I
could see where they where The legacy media would be
like and this is because of the Trump tariffs that well,
oh really, because they announced this a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't know if they're solvent again. In Illinois. But
remember it wasn't that long ago. Illinois. They kept running
their lottery to bring in lottery proceeds, but they weren't
paying out. They didn't have the money to pay out,
so what the hell? Yeah, I know that was crazy,
And people kept buying lottery tickets until the lottery commission
was solvent again and they could pay out on the prizes.
(08:34):
But if you bought a you know, winning mega millions
in Illinois, even if you were just traveling through, you
weren't collecting that money.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Hey, so do those new prices start tonight?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So I think it's tomorrow at least my carry out guy, Okay,
he said it's the fifth.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
There was a transgender student that and what I think
happened here is this this guy who is named Marcy,
gender college student. I think this is his way of
being the first to be arrested in history for this
particular area, and he just wanted to be part of
(09:11):
the history books. We all have to have goals. I
guess tranny, tranny, tranny, I don't really care. Nancy is
that Nancy Mace? I think her name? Yeah, yeah, she's
a firecracker man anyway, she he I'm going to call him.
(09:31):
He he informed state lawmakers of his intentions in advance
with the words, I'm here to break the law. So
he walked into a women's restroom at the Florida State
Capitol and then now legal battle and what's believed to
be the first arrest under the law the bathroom restrictions
(09:52):
passed by several states. So again I feel like this
is him doing this going. I will then be in
the record books. I'll be in the history books as
the first person.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
If you will get convicted, get out of jail, have
a nice job with the.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Acou arrested after entering a women's restroom. This was at
Florida State Capitol on March nineteenth, and Florida is one
of the one of at least fourteen states that have
the laws barring transgender women from entering certain women's restrooms,
but is one of just two to criminalize this act.
(10:31):
So he announced his intent to violate the law in
letters sent to all one hundred and sixty Florida lawmakers.
He sent a letter to all one hundred and sixty
Florida lawmakers making sure everybody knew what he was going
to be doing and Tallahassee Democrat. He included a picture
(10:53):
of himself. Make sure you don't you recognize me, that
it's me. I'm the one. It was a selfie, and
it was a recent selfie, to make sure they knew
exactly who it is and who it was. And so
the Capitol police were there waiting on him when he arrived.
They said in parentheses it says, while misgendering him, that
(11:15):
he'd be given a trespass warning if he entered the bathroom. Well,
he walked in, washed his hands, and prayed the rosary,
and was ultimately arrested when he refused to leave. People
are telling me it's a legal test and this is
the first case that's being brought again. That's my take.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Good for him. I disagree with his choices and his
lifestyle and everything else, But you know what, the courage
of your convictions, if you truly believe it, Good for
you standing up to the system. Just be willing to
take whatever repercussions come with it.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, he goes on to say, it's how they test
the law. But I didn't do this to test the law.
You're a liar. You are a liar. You are doing
this to test the law. Look, if you're going to
go this far and give them a picture of you
and give them the date and where you're going, please
stop lying in the rest of your statement. Just say
the truth then and to your point, Chuck, If those
(12:04):
are your convictions, great, fine, but don't lie and say yeah,
I didn't do this to test the law. I did
it because I was upset. I can't have any expectations
for what's going to happen because this has never been
prosecuted before. I'm horrified and scared. Oh really, so going
into this, you didn't think I'm going to be horrified
(12:26):
and scared. Is it really worth it to you being
charged with misdemeanor trespassing facing up to sixty days in jail?
Listen to this. He fears he could be placed in
a men's jail, forced to cut his hair, or prevented
from taking gender affirming hormones.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Well, if you cut something else, maybe you can go
to the women's jail, but otherwise worry about cutting your hair. Yeah,
I'm just I Look, I'm sorry. I don't care how
nice your makeup is, how expensive the dress was. If
you still stand you're a man, there's really no two
ways about that
Talk about feeling sick. You know I have. I think basically,
I've had this kind of dream before where I know
that I've got a winning lottery ticket, but I do
something dumb with it, not specifically like this what this
woman did, but something to the effect of maybe laundering
(00:23):
it while it's in you know, a pair of pants
or jeans or whatever. But this lady in Pennsylvania, and
they say, no good deed goes unpunished. But she did
a good thing. She made a clothing donation to the
Vietnam Veterans of America, and then things backfired. She had
(00:44):
left a lost lottery ticket in the jacket that she donated,
and the winning ticket, that she says is worth two
and a half million dollars. Two and a half million
makes me sick. She claims. She bought the winning ticket
last May at a grocery store. Now, there might be
(01:04):
some holes in this. If you had a two and
a half million dollar winning lottery ticket, would you have
if you bought it in May of twenty four would
you still have said ticket?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
See, I don't think so either, she said. A couple
of weeks later, after she bought this at a grocery store.
She learned the ticket was a winner, but she couldn't
find it. But did you have a picture of it?
Did you write down the numbers? I'm like, wait a minute,
(01:37):
I mean, think about how frantic you would be. Let's
say you did take a picture of it, because you go,
I gotta make sure that I and I can. This
will be easier than But don't you put them all
in the same spot if you're going to store them?
And then you decide. I had a buddy who would
just check every couple of weeks. He would look at
ones that he had bought, and then he would go
(01:59):
over okay, because it was wasn't something that he did
every time there was a drawing. He played every single drawing,
but he wouldn't check them every single drawing. So there
are people who do that. I again, had a buddy
who did that, so I can understand that maybe, but
he kept them all in the same spot for obvious reasons. Yeah,
(02:23):
because then he would go back and go, all right,
I need to check the last six draws to see
if I and he would sit and do it, and
he would dedicate, you know, five ten minutes, and they'd
be like, oh, okay, I want two dollars here, I
want four dollars here, or I want nothing, or that
kind of thing. It's like, well, check my lottery tickets.
I didn't win anything, you know. But he would check
(02:43):
them periodically instead of every draw. Maybe she's one of
those people. But she says she left the ticket in
the jacket that she donated, and they told her, well,
it could be anywhere in the world by now, and
so she's probably not going to get this ticket back.
They go on to talk about in this story.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
But if I had a winning lottery, the first thing
I would do is to write across the top of
the ticket property of Charles Douglas and put my signature
at the top. That's the first thing I do. Second
thing I do as quickly as possible get to a
bank with a safe deposit box until I had made
arrangements to go cash the ticket or establish the trust
(03:25):
or whatever I was going to do. But I would
put my name on it it show something, to show
it's mine, and then I'd worry about all the technicalities
of how to cash it, the most effective way to
cash it, all that kind of stuff. But unless somebody
can show up at the lottery Commission with my ticket
and say yes, I'm Charles Douglas. Here's then they're not
(03:48):
getting my money. I could call the Lottery Commission and say,
my name, my signature is on the front of this ticket,
and it's been lost or stolen or whatever. Wow. I've
always been scared that I'll have one and forget I
have it and go back and check it on like
the one hundred and eighty first day after it's no
longer valid. Go ah, because I forgot to check.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It and it was a winner. I got to be honest.
I only play for the most part when they get
ramped up and they become and I check it literally
the next morning.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well, this weekend, the prizes aren't ramped up. The cost
is though. This is when we go to the five
dollars ticket. Ayah, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
How many people are they pricing out?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Probably a lot, probably a lot. You know, you go
in there, you hand them a ten dollar bill, you
get five plays on the power ball right now, the
Mega millions, you go in there tomorrow, you hand them
at ten dollar bill, you get too. That's that's not
working for me. I'm just sorry, I just I think
this is a very bad strategy.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So it goes from starting at twenty million to starting
at fifty million. Correct, Yes, okay, so that's the only
that's the only perk with this from what I understand.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But we'll continue if the number of people drops in half,
because the jackpots are dictated by how much people are
spending on the tickets. Correct, So if the you get
half the people playing, is that fifty million dollars start
going to remain or are they going to have to
adjust that and go, yeah, we're gonna have to go
back to twenty million.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Well, then they're gonna have to go back to two
dollars too. How many raise your hand? If you know
of any transitory type things related to bumping up the
cost of something, because I'm not familiar with any, please
point them out to me. It seems like every time
we hear something like that, although that wasn't part of
the story, that would seem to be a normal trajectory
(05:40):
if it did. If it went that direction. So, yeah,
they couldn't keep up the fifty million dollars starting jackpot
if they go, well, now we're only selling x amount
of money for these tickets, and you know it's going
to be fifty million for at least the first few
and then would they try to they wouldn't dare leave
(06:02):
it at five and then go, well, we're gonna have
to go back to twenty million. Oh yeah, and it's
gonna stay five dollars. Yeah, no way, I know. Yeah.
Look when it gets up to the seven hundred and
eight hundred million range, six hundred million range, I'm probably
still a guy who, unfortunately, I'll go and give him
twenty bucks and I'll get four plays out of it.
(06:22):
And I'm sad to say, but I'd rather take a
swing like that because I'm spending twenty dollars typically when
it gets up that high anyway, maybe even a little
more depends, and you're just not gonna have as many
chances unfortunately, But I'm still gonna take a swing in.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
What if you did something like a three month lottery,
a quarter lottery four times a year, the jackpot is
one billion dollars one billion dollars, and the tickets are
like twenty bucks, but you've got all that quarter to
buy tickets, so you're gonna get a billion.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Dollars and twenty dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
You can buy a couple of tickets a week for
you know, you know, every week for three months before
they actually draw that. I could see, you know, you
want to charge me twenty bucks for a ticket? Okay,
because it's a guaranteed billion dollar jackpot every time. That
might make a little more sense than this to to
more than double the price. I mean, face it, what
(07:25):
else goes up? What is that one hundred and fifty
percent that is?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, that's crazy. It's go to the Legacy Retirement Group
dot com phone lines, George, Welcome to the show, yep.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Mark and Chuck. They're gonna blame that price increase on
the Trump tariff.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I'm sure they'll do that.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Lottery numbers imported from Canada are now costing us more.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Is what it is? You only get half of what
you win in Canada, I guess or something.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I know, And it always tastes like maple.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Right, yeah, I don't know, I mean, sir George, thanks.
That could be they're gonna end up playing it. I
could see where they where The legacy media would be
like and this is because of the Trump tariffs that well,
oh really, because they announced this a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I don't know if they're solvent again. In Illinois. But
remember it wasn't that long ago. Illinois. They kept running
their lottery to bring in lottery proceeds, but they weren't
paying out. They didn't have the money to pay out,
so what the hell? Yeah, I know that was crazy,
And people kept buying lottery tickets until the lottery commission
was solvent again and they could pay out on the prizes.
(08:34):
But if you bought a you know, winning mega millions
in Illinois, even if you were just traveling through, you
weren't collecting that money.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Hey, so do those new prices start tonight?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So I think it's tomorrow at least my carry out guy, Okay,
he said it's the fifth.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
There was a transgender student that and what I think
happened here is this this guy who is named Marcy,
gender college student. I think this is his way of
being the first to be arrested in history for this
particular area, and he just wanted to be part of
(09:11):
the history books. We all have to have goals. I
guess tranny, tranny, tranny, I don't really care. Nancy is
that Nancy Mace? I think her name? Yeah, yeah, she's
a firecracker man anyway, she he I'm going to call him.
(09:31):
He he informed state lawmakers of his intentions in advance
with the words, I'm here to break the law. So
he walked into a women's restroom at the Florida State
Capitol and then now legal battle and what's believed to
be the first arrest under the law the bathroom restrictions
(09:52):
passed by several states. So again I feel like this
is him doing this going. I will then be in
the record books. I'll be in the history books as
the first person.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
If you will get convicted, get out of jail, have
a nice job with the.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Acou arrested after entering a women's restroom. This was at
Florida State Capitol on March nineteenth, and Florida is one
of the one of at least fourteen states that have
the laws barring transgender women from entering certain women's restrooms,
but is one of just two to criminalize this act.
(10:31):
So he announced his intent to violate the law in
letters sent to all one hundred and sixty Florida lawmakers.
He sent a letter to all one hundred and sixty
Florida lawmakers making sure everybody knew what he was going
to be doing and Tallahassee Democrat. He included a picture
(10:53):
of himself. Make sure you don't you recognize me, that
it's me. I'm the one. It was a selfie, and
it was a recent selfie, to make sure they knew
exactly who it is and who it was. And so
the Capitol police were there waiting on him when he arrived.
They said in parentheses it says, while misgendering him, that
(11:15):
he'd be given a trespass warning if he entered the bathroom. Well,
he walked in, washed his hands, and prayed the rosary,
and was ultimately arrested when he refused to leave. People
are telling me it's a legal test and this is
the first case that's being brought again. That's my take.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Good for him. I disagree with his choices and his
lifestyle and everything else, But you know what, the courage
of your convictions, if you truly believe it, Good for
you standing up to the system. Just be willing to
take whatever repercussions come with it.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, he goes on to say, it's how they test
the law. But I didn't do this to test the law.
You're a liar. You are a liar. You are doing
this to test the law. Look, if you're going to
go this far and give them a picture of you
and give them the date and where you're going, please
stop lying in the rest of your statement. Just say
the truth then and to your point, Chuck, If those
(12:04):
are your convictions, great, fine, but don't lie and say yeah,
I didn't do this to test the law. I did
it because I was upset. I can't have any expectations
for what's going to happen because this has never been
prosecuted before. I'm horrified and scared. Oh really, so going
into this, you didn't think I'm going to be horrified
(12:26):
and scared. Is it really worth it to you being
charged with misdemeanor trespassing facing up to sixty days in jail?
Listen to this. He fears he could be placed in
a men's jail, forced to cut his hair, or prevented
from taking gender affirming hormones.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Well, if you cut something else, maybe you can go
to the women's jail, but otherwise worry about cutting your hair. Yeah,
I'm just I Look, I'm sorry. I don't care how
nice your makeup is, how expensive the dress was. If
you still stand you're a man, there's really no two
ways about that
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