Episode Transcript
In a couple of news headlines this morning, McDonald's is
bringing back the Monopoly game.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So excited.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
The Monopoly game will be back next week for the
first time in ten years. The odds of winning the
Monopoly game at McDonald's aren't fantastic.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
But no, I mean, lottery is really.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
You'll get a free cheeseburger and fries lots of times.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That's about it, which I'd say, that's worth it. That's fine.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
They say it's a one in one hundred and fifty
three million chance that you'd win the seventy seven in
Samsung TV, which is worth three thousand, seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Chance for just even the TV, Yeah, that's what they're saying.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
One in three billion to get the VIP trip for
the Kennedy Space Center, worth ten thousand. A trip for
forty Universal Orlando, which is worth five thousand dollars is
a one in four billion chance.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I'm not going to play.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Then, what's and what's the money prize? Not that's not
fun when you literally have no odds.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But here's the thing, Like, you have a better chance
of winning a Universal or Lando vacation from us, which
we give away every.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Year exactly and way better chance.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I think it's because if I remember from when when
we played back when in the day, you know they
you have to complete the board, uh huh, and they're
only going to make like four boardwalks.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
But here's the thing too, You got to remember one
other variable here. Remember those game pieces are on what
the fries, the sandwiches, off the drinks, And you think
that they would don't They still don't. They serve a
billion burgers or whatever annually something crazy like that. Or
maybe more so, I think your odds aren't so great
because there's so many game pieces out there now.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
I wonder if you could team up with like ten
people from your office and you all try, like collectively
trying to yeah, get all of the piece.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Good, here's the deal. This is what I love. Though.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
McDonald's had the documentary, that Monopoly documentary, mcmillions, which came
out a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I need to watch that, still about it. It's so good.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
The Monopoly game ran from the late eighties through the
early two thousands and promised customers a chance to win
millions of dollars in prizes. Almost all the big prizes
were stolen, not random winners.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
At all.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
This scam was run by Jerome Jacobson nickname Uncle Jerry,
who worked for the company that printed the game pieces.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Insane.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
He slipped winning pieces to friends, family, even mob connections
instead of the public. Winners had to split the prize
money with him, often giving him a big cut. So, oh,
you want a million dollars, Okay, you get three hundred
grand and.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I get the rest. Like I mean, that's like what
he was doing. And how did they catch him? That's Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
The fraud went on for over a decade, with more
than twenty four million dollars in prizes stolen. The FBI
cracked the case in the early two thousands with an
undercover operation secretly recording fake winner meetings in a hotel room.
Shockwaves hit. McDonald's, by the way, had no idea it
was rigged. It wasn't McDonald's fault.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
That's what I was going to say, Like, people are
going to win anyway.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
How did they know that these people had an inside connection?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Like you have to watch that documentary.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I will literally going to go home today totally for
Uncle Jerry.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
And this guy got away with it for ten years.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So it wasn't super obvious.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, Oh, it's on HBO Max, Oh, maybe Hulu.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It was.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
It was an HBO.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You know, I remember it because it came out after
that lady that was trying to do the blood machines.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeahs, you're going to walk just about any cvs, get
your blood tasted, and go along with your day.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
And it doesn't really work, but I'll take ten millions
her voice.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It was so good, too much. And you know what,
I'll still play. I'm going to play Monopoly.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It's just fun to play the same with We're not
going to win the lottery, but we get tickets when
jackpots are big.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And remember you also can get like free parking and
get I'll get that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'll take that. Yeah, where are you going to keep
these pieces? I'm going to play? I'm excited to the board.
Get a little envelope. Somebody's got to win, Chelse. Did
you tell was I the only one that did that?
I taped it. I taped it to the actual board. Yeah,
I did too. I was a young child when this was.
When that comes up
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Early two thousands, your life was less really born then,
all right,
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