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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jackpots for the Mega millions in Powerball reached one billion
dollars thirteen times in history. Will one point seven for
Saturday actually reach two billion? Is one thing that we
were kind of pondering and Alex Stone ABC News is
joining us now and Alex it reads here you want
(00:22):
to know.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
How would I spend one point seven billion?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yes, how would you spend it? Well, we talked about
this a few times, kind of.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well on, so I put some thought into this, and
I've done it a couple of different times, and as
far as thinking about it, and I still arrive at
the same kind of answer. For you know, some of
the money, a little chunk of the money it would
be for I have a pinshant for dogs. I love dogs,
I love doggies, and so it would be humane society,
(00:55):
humane services type things I would I would invest in
a couple of big, huge ones that would be at
least statewide here, and I would be doing stuff for,
you know, for dogs. And it seems like, you know,
you see all these stories that are heartbreaking with regard
to dogs, and I don't want to try to bring
the segment down talking about how you see dogs get
(01:17):
euthanized and all that. But man, they're just dogs, you know,
and so I love them big small. My preference is
small because that's what I've owned. But I love them all.
And man, dogs are better than people. They just are you.
You never wonder if they like you or not. You know,
they're always they wear their hearts on their sleeves, you know,
(01:39):
and sometimes to a fault, but look, you always know
where you're staying with them.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And I just love them. They're pure, They're pure of heart. Dogs.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You're a good human, I think. So where your money
would go, that's great.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Some of it. Yeah, if I got dogs, I get
like fifty chuawas.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Just let them like wash over you like see.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah, Lupa could like say, okay, here's how we roll
around here. Dogs now listen, and Lupa could train them
all right, and yeah, they'd all be little lupas.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh he has a chihuala Alex loupah is a.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I believe dogs do that, believe it or not. I
think the older dogs, if you get a new pup,
the older dogs training the new pup. Here's here's all
they do. Here's the signal. When he does this, you
do this. I really think that dogs communicate like that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So Alex, you're the you know, you're the really smart
guy that works for the national like ABC.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You know, and what would you do?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I mean, tell us something that's just gonna bowl us over,
knock our socks off and go, man, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
He's gonna win for sure. I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I I mean, did you want something that you're gonna
be like, Man, we did not know that about that guy,
that that's what he would be into.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Maybe just as long.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
As it doesn't involve like a chamber and whips and
I don't really want to know aboutie.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
No, no, no, no, no, none of that.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
No, okay, good.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
No, I don't. I don't think it would be all
that crazy. I mean I think it would be like
an immediate trip to somewhere. Sure, you're just like we're
pulling the kids out of school and we're done tonight.
You know, they we're going off to to somewherehere.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Do you have do you have to divulge that in California?
Because I was reading there's a big chunk of these
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
There's a big article public record. Is it okay?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So no, it is in some places.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I wondered if California.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Do if you win Now I'm googling if you win
lottery California.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
So edwin Castro Altadena was the two point four billion, right,
that's the number one, that's the largest prize. Let's see
Theodorus Struck of California purchased one point seventy three.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, y'all got a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
But then again, we've talked about this because you have Yeah,
it's a big population.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Million people. But yes, according to AI, we are legally
required to divulge your name. We're gonna know if it's
a stoic record at that point.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Then see that Theodorus. The first thing that Theodora spent
money on was a lawyer to change that name.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That you could you could be onto something there.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I think that's why everybody's you know, takes a lot
of time to come forward, because there's been a few
here in California where it's been just months and months
and where they start to put out the warnings of
like it's going to expire and then they come in
at the last minute. That to me would be the
hardest part. That you know, you won, and you know
they always tell you to get your affairs in order
and to get a financial advisor and a lawyer and
(04:30):
all that, and people wait like six, seven, eight months
before they turn it in. I think that would be
really hard. You can not just run out to be
like give me my money. No, yeah, you can get
my bus in six or seven months? Do it fast?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Do you do? You know us?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
See I was reading I want to I even made
a note on one of these.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I was like, I gotta ask Alex about this.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
There was one where somebody had won and it was
going to be It was somewhere near like where I
think you live, and I was going to go, do
you know the play where this was purchased Chino Hills?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Chino Hills.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, that that is where what they is considered the
luckiest seven eleven in the world is because they want
somebody won one point six billion dollars there. And I
actually covered that that night. We were I was going
to be part of the team that was going to
be dispatched twenty sixteen to wherever in the US. It
was that night and we actually were on a company
plane waiting to go because it was going to be overnight.
(05:25):
So they said we're all going to go to wherever
it is and then the winner came in and it
was Chino Hills, which is part of LA We were
so disappointed that we're on like our one chance to
fly private and uh. And then we had to get
off the plane and get in our own cars and
drive to Chino Hills. But that was at that seven
eleven where they now considered the luckiest in the world.
This lady is at that seven eleven buying a ticket.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I guess we've heard the hype about, you know, just
how lucky the store is.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
So we were driving by and I told her, make
a U turn, let's go try our luck. Okay, but
here's my thought. If a store has somebody has won
one point six billion dollars, that same store is not
going to have a winner at one point seven billion.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, because lightning strike twice.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
That used to sell winning tickets all the lasted time
they changed ownership. I haven't heard about them since.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
But it was small, but it was probably like ten
scratch mega millions and stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I mean they sold. They had some million dollar winners
coming out of there too.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
There's one around the corner for me, Alex in Sunbury. Here.
The town is Sunbury and it's not very far from
where I live, and uh, like, you know, ten minutes, twelve,
fifteen minutes this place and it's a little small place.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But they sold a.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Two hundred and thirty five million dollar It was either
a Mega or power ball. Yeah, so that was that
was pretty cool. But yeah, nothing like you know one
point six or whatever you just said.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It will go higher, but how high it's going to go?
You know, if we're going to stick it at one
point seven real quickly, just one of it. But powerball, folks,
the jackpot odds, it's this. The odds of winning the
grand prize jackpot are one and two hundred and ninety
two million. Yeah, of course, the odds of winning any
prize are about one in twenty five. That's like two bucks,
four bucks, you know, so they count that I.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Won, that I won, that you congratulated.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I think I got four bucks as well. Hey, all right,
we're winners together.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, I respect my privacy at this time.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Please I will not I'm going to disclose it. If
you're not right now, I am going to disclose.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, this is uh, this is big time, man. You know.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Saturday night is when we're all college footballed out, and uh,
we'll be going, Man, I hope my ticket's the winner,
you know, kind of a thing.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So, did we determine you're going to take the lump
sum of seven hundred and seventy million instead of fifty
eight million a year for twenty nine years? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yes, I'm taking the lump Alex, I'm fifty six. We've
talked about this. I'm like, I don't know that I'm
going to be here twenty.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Seve half a billion dollars cash after everything washes out.
If you cannot turn that into general weight, generational wealthy,
you're too stupid.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It already is money, it already is generating.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, I mean it's kind of getting the life destroying amounts.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, you get to a certain point and like, you
can't how much good? What are you to do with
that amount it?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
There are some people saying, with that much money, I
don't know that I'll make it twenty six minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You know, let forget.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
About twenty six years, because they'll be like, it's about
to get stupid. You know.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Could you imagine getting every one of those numbers and
reaching for Hello, Uber Eats.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I mean, seriously, I'm about to grub.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Pizza people in this town would be so worn out
by the time I got done with him.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
That's so funny, man.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Oh, you know, I actually started the traffic bed and
I didn't even realize you did you have anything else?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Stone?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Oh, you go to traffic you know me. Let me
tell you. It's really heavy on the turnpike right now.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Fun to talk about and think about, for sure. Man,
no question about that, Alex Stone, ABC News. Good luck
to you, and I'll be looking for the ten dollars
you're gonna give me.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
If you win it.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
See them at
Jackpots for the Mega millions in Powerball reached one billion
dollars thirteen times in history. Will one point seven for
Saturday actually reach two billion? Is one thing that we
were kind of pondering and Alex Stone ABC News is
joining us now and Alex it reads here you want
(00:22):
to know.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
How would I spend one point seven billion?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yes, how would you spend it? Well, we talked about
this a few times, kind of.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Well on, so I put some thought into this, and
I've done it a couple of different times, and as
far as thinking about it, and I still arrive at
the same kind of answer. For you know, some of
the money, a little chunk of the money it would
be for I have a pinshant for dogs. I love dogs,
I love doggies, and so it would be humane society,
(00:55):
humane services type things I would I would invest in
a couple of big, huge ones that would be at
least statewide here, and I would be doing stuff for,
you know, for dogs. And it seems like, you know,
you see all these stories that are heartbreaking with regard
to dogs, and I don't want to try to bring
the segment down talking about how you see dogs get
(01:17):
euthanized and all that. But man, they're just dogs, you know,
and so I love them big small. My preference is
small because that's what I've owned. But I love them all.
And man, dogs are better than people. They just are you.
You never wonder if they like you or not. You know,
they're always they wear their hearts on their sleeves, you know,
(01:39):
and sometimes to a fault, but look, you always know
where you're staying with them.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
And I just love them. They're pure, They're pure of heart. Dogs.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
You're a good human, I think. So where your money
would go, that's great.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Some of it. Yeah, if I got dogs, I get
like fifty chuawas.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Just let them like wash over you like see.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah, Lupa could like say, okay, here's how we roll
around here. Dogs now listen, and Lupa could train them
all right, and yeah, they'd all be little lupas.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Oh he has a chihuala Alex loupah is a.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I believe dogs do that, believe it or not. I
think the older dogs, if you get a new pup,
the older dogs training the new pup. Here's here's all
they do. Here's the signal. When he does this, you
do this. I really think that dogs communicate like that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So Alex, you're the you know, you're the really smart
guy that works for the national like ABC.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You know, and what would you do?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I mean, tell us something that's just gonna bowl us over,
knock our socks off and go, man, that's crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
He's gonna win for sure. I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I I mean, did you want something that you're gonna
be like, Man, we did not know that about that guy,
that that's what he would be into.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Maybe just as long.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
As it doesn't involve like a chamber and whips and
I don't really want to know aboutie.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
No, no, no, no, no, none of that.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
No, okay, good.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
No, I don't. I don't think it would be all
that crazy. I mean I think it would be like
an immediate trip to somewhere. Sure, you're just like we're
pulling the kids out of school and we're done tonight.
You know, they we're going off to to somewherehere.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Do you have do you have to divulge that in California?
Because I was reading there's a big chunk of these
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
There's a big article public record. Is it okay?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So no, it is in some places.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I wondered if California.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Do if you win Now I'm googling if you win
lottery California.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
So edwin Castro Altadena was the two point four billion, right,
that's the number one, that's the largest prize. Let's see
Theodorus Struck of California purchased one point seventy three.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, y'all got a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
But then again, we've talked about this because you have Yeah,
it's a big population.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Million people. But yes, according to AI, we are legally
required to divulge your name. We're gonna know if it's
a stoic record at that point.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Then see that Theodorus. The first thing that Theodora spent
money on was a lawyer to change that name.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That you could you could be onto something there.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I think that's why everybody's you know, takes a lot
of time to come forward, because there's been a few
here in California where it's been just months and months
and where they start to put out the warnings of
like it's going to expire and then they come in
at the last minute. That to me would be the
hardest part. That you know, you won, and you know
they always tell you to get your affairs in order
and to get a financial advisor and a lawyer and
(04:30):
all that, and people wait like six, seven, eight months
before they turn it in. I think that would be
really hard. You can not just run out to be
like give me my money. No, yeah, you can get
my bus in six or seven months? Do it fast?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Do you do? You know us?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
See I was reading I want to I even made
a note on one of these.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I was like, I gotta ask Alex about this.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
There was one where somebody had won and it was
going to be It was somewhere near like where I
think you live, and I was going to go, do
you know the play where this was purchased Chino Hills?
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Chino Hills.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, that that is where what they is considered the
luckiest seven eleven in the world is because they want
somebody won one point six billion dollars there. And I
actually covered that that night. We were I was going
to be part of the team that was going to
be dispatched twenty sixteen to wherever in the US. It
was that night and we actually were on a company
plane waiting to go because it was going to be overnight.
(05:25):
So they said we're all going to go to wherever
it is and then the winner came in and it
was Chino Hills, which is part of LA We were
so disappointed that we're on like our one chance to
fly private and uh. And then we had to get
off the plane and get in our own cars and
drive to Chino Hills. But that was at that seven
eleven where they now considered the luckiest in the world.
This lady is at that seven eleven buying a ticket.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I guess we've heard the hype about, you know, just
how lucky the store is.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
So we were driving by and I told her, make
a U turn, let's go try our luck. Okay, but
here's my thought. If a store has somebody has won
one point six billion dollars, that same store is not
going to have a winner at one point seven billion.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, because lightning strike twice.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
That used to sell winning tickets all the lasted time
they changed ownership. I haven't heard about them since.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
But it was small, but it was probably like ten
scratch mega millions and stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I mean they sold. They had some million dollar winners
coming out of there too.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
There's one around the corner for me, Alex in Sunbury. Here.
The town is Sunbury and it's not very far from
where I live, and uh, like, you know, ten minutes, twelve,
fifteen minutes this place and it's a little small place.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But they sold a.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Two hundred and thirty five million dollar It was either
a Mega or power ball. Yeah, so that was that
was pretty cool. But yeah, nothing like you know one
point six or whatever you just said.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It will go higher, but how high it's going to go?
You know, if we're going to stick it at one
point seven real quickly, just one of it. But powerball, folks,
the jackpot odds, it's this. The odds of winning the
grand prize jackpot are one and two hundred and ninety
two million. Yeah, of course, the odds of winning any
prize are about one in twenty five. That's like two bucks,
four bucks, you know, so they count that I.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Won, that I won, that you congratulated.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I think I got four bucks as well. Hey, all right,
we're winners together.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Yeah, I respect my privacy at this time.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Please I will not I'm going to disclose it. If
you're not right now, I am going to disclose.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, this is uh, this is big time, man. You know.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Saturday night is when we're all college footballed out, and uh,
we'll be going, Man, I hope my ticket's the winner,
you know, kind of a thing.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So, did we determine you're going to take the lump
sum of seven hundred and seventy million instead of fifty
eight million a year for twenty nine years? Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yes, I'm taking the lump Alex, I'm fifty six. We've
talked about this. I'm like, I don't know that I'm
going to be here twenty.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Seve half a billion dollars cash after everything washes out.
If you cannot turn that into general weight, generational wealthy,
you're too stupid.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It already is money, it already is generating.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, I mean it's kind of getting the life destroying amounts.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Yeah, you get to a certain point and like, you
can't how much good? What are you to do with
that amount it?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
There are some people saying, with that much money, I
don't know that I'll make it twenty six minutes.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
You know, let forget.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
About twenty six years, because they'll be like, it's about
to get stupid. You know.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Could you imagine getting every one of those numbers and
reaching for Hello, Uber Eats.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I mean, seriously, I'm about to grub.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Pizza people in this town would be so worn out
by the time I got done with him.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
That's so funny, man.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Oh, you know, I actually started the traffic bed and
I didn't even realize you did you have anything else?
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Stone?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Oh, you go to traffic you know me. Let me
tell you. It's really heavy on the turnpike right now.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Fun to talk about and think about, for sure. Man,
no question about that, Alex Stone, ABC News. Good luck
to you, and I'll be looking for the ten dollars
you're gonna give me.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
If you win it.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
You got it.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
See them at
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