Would You Go To Work If You Won $150 Million?

It's the question on most Australian's lips today: why did the guy who won $150 million dollars in Powerball go to work and would you if you won it?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Big tram for the driver on tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
There's a few fleeting seconds last night where everyone thought
it could be me.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Yes, with one hundred and fifty million.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Dollars, I forgot to put money in.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
So I found out when I got home. We bought
a ticket, did you, Yes, Paul had bought a ticket. Awesome,
So which is good for me because I didn't have
to make a pack with you guys, because I didn't
know the only one that's.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
So eager to make it pack with you two numpties.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
You must be the nicest.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, oh, you know, are really nice. You're nicer than me.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
So the Adelaide guy, he's one hundred and fifty million
dollar rich and he went to work today, went to work.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
What a loser.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Now he wants to buy a house, he wants to
help out some family and friends, and he wants to
travel the world.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Oh god, I'm pretty sure he's.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Going to have more family and friends that he knows
what to do with after today. Would you have gone
to work if you'd won one hundred and fifty million
dollars last night?

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
What?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Why?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Because I like coming to work, like.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Actually, probably would have come to work too. Yeah, I
wonder what he does the Adelaide guy.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Probably I reckon he's a storman. Yeah, he's just a
normal top typical bloke. Like he works in like a
furniture store or something like that. Yeah, well, and he's
like works at the back.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah. He lives in a pretty working class area.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
And yeah okay, yeah he's rent out of the bungle. Yeah, yeah,
just lives from paycheck to paycheck.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Okay. Does he have a mustache?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Ah? No, gray gray, stubble gray everything. Really he's a
bit weathered.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
He's weathered, old shoes with holes in the no matching socksrodden, yeah, single,
clearly he's singing anymore, though not today.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Finally, Ryl for the Counts is going to make that move.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
He goes down the other end behind the street.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh okay, but yeah, all right, we want to know
if you'd won one hundred and fifty million dollars last night,
would you have turned up to work today. It was
quite a shock that he went to work, and we've
given him quite the description into sounds like a treat.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
I'd come to work my Lamborghini parts, no sidewards.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Does it take for you to get lotto money? Well,
that's it.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I don't I reckon, I'd work and live my life
as normal until I see the zeros. Yes, otherwise I
just wouldn't believe it.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, and if you have one lotto how long does
it take to get to your account? Because would you
could you go out and buy something today? Like is
it like a debit card?

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Now?

Speaker 3 (02:24):
I think it'd be like there'd be like a month
or and then they'd have to They wouldn't go, they
wouldn't put it in your savings again, I'm so here.
If it's six five four.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Nine ESB zero one four too too far, I found
a tremor.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Must have done the wrong account number.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Oh no, I'm going to have to Oh we're going
to have to reverse that.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Hopefully they send it back. It's not for them.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, well figure, they're nice people.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Would you have gone to work if you won one
hundred and fifty million dollars?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Said?

Speaker 3 (03:00):
I obviously did served to win it.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
If I could go to work, then I'd go to
work and I would wait.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Till the money was in the bank, and then I
would spend two weeks telling people what I really.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
All right, like a victory luck.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
I hate you and you and you're all right.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yes, that's great, Sarah, Well, better luck next time.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Kelly from Reedy Creek. Would you have gone to work
if you won one hundred and fifty mil one.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Hundred and sixty million percent?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
No, what would you have done? Probably blown my parents
or my in laws up, look after the three kids
and help them on.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Playing somewhere with my husband, so work out what we're
going to do with all that money. Who cares where
you go?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
You could end up in de Laca, which is a
lovely country town. I've been there. Excellent.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Isn't that what you put on paint?

Speaker 1 (04:01):
It smells like that.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Where would you go anywhere in the world? What was
the one place where you go to all your thinking?

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Sweden?

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Sweden?

Speaker 1 (04:09):
That's definitely yeah, that's a great place to make a decision.
I like that. Beautiful to thinking.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Tom on the way there, beautiful people while you're there.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
On your kel Next time, let's go gold Coasters. It's
Moira and big tread on one on tomato.