Ellis and Bradley On The Poweball And Scratch Off Dreams Monday February 25, 2025

So the latest Powerball winner went for the lump sum. He's 79, that's why, right? Plus, Bill dropped $10 on a scratch off card over the weekend. Wound up out 10 bucks and the 10 "silver fingers of shame". 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Elloss and Bradley in the Best Life of But you
can give them to the present.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I need money money. So we learned over the weekend
that the last big power Ball winner was a man
from Beaverton, Oregon, who bought his winning ticket at a
grocery store. Uh, three hundred and twenty eight million was
the was the cash in. He took the lump sum
of one hundred and forty six because he's seventy nine.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Yeah, I've been getting that money now. I'd be like, yes, please, Yeah,
that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
At what age do you go for the annuity?

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I mean, I guess when.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
You're maybe twenty five thirty, maybe the annuity because you
actually save.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
On taxiou you know, you gotta get to that have money, you.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Want to get it now, especially when you're seventy nine.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
It's like yeah, because the kids would be super nice.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yes they will.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Their grandkids will love use. By the way, Tonight's Powerball
jackpot is two hundred and thirty million. Tomorrow Night's Make
a Million's one hundred and eighty one million. I bought
a scratch off card at the Sphinx in Sinson, sp.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'll buy the tenors every once in a while Payday
and all you get nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
No, I don't even know why I felt like such
a loser. I was getting gasoline and I went in
because I wanted to get a drink, and I thought, yeah,
give me a number six, A.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Number six, here's the deal.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
I bought three of these ten dollar tickets and and
two of them in winners, and one of them you're
get hook yeah, and one of them was not. So
I think you're but yeah, they'll spend the money.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
I think if you I had this strategy years ago
when the I think the cash five when first came out.
This is twenty years ago, and I found it. I
buy my strategy. If I buy three at a time,
I'm going to get a winner, about three. At that
time they were five bucks, seats five, five, five, fifteen dollars.
Then I might win twenty Yeah I want twenty bucks. No,

(02:00):
you won five, because your right. But I'm sitting there.
I got it home and I laid it on the table,
like when did I buy this thing? And then I'm
sitting there going scratch, cutch, cutch, cutch, cutch cutsch cutch bill.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
It's the education lottery.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
It's for the kids.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I got the kids for their kids, and people getting
your education.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
And then you got the silver fingers of shame.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know which ain't got is ten bucks? Which ain't got?
D Ellison Bradley Show.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Listening to y'all.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
D Ellison Bradley Show.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Y'all just make me laugh so hard