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Lifechanging Euromillions Jackpot for UK Winner · Mark and Pete

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  Life changing EuroMillions jackpot for UK winner.
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  This is Mark and P2 blokes with half an opinion.
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  Now here's our first thought. In it to win it or simply bin it
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  with lucky, lucky numbers that help you win.
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  Your chin will grin and head could spin.
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  Unless you commit the mortal sin and forget to put your entry in.
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  Yes. Did you actually win the
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  EuroMillions? Oh Mr. Pete, did you even put in
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  a ticket? Well, a ticket holder has won a
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  staggering £180 million euro jackpot.
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  It's one of the largest that has ever been seen in this country,
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  in fact in throughout Europe. Now Mr. Pete, I would say that
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  this is an astronomical amount of money for one individual or
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  even consortium. This is life changing and would
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  not normally be something that one individual would ever earn
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  in a lifetime. I say to you, would you think
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  that maybe it's time that the EuroMillions, as well as other
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  jackpot winners should be capped, or really, do you think
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  it should remain unlimited? Well, I have a slightly
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  different view, a different take on the, on these particular
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  types of competitions. I don't think they should have
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  them at all because of the odds that we have that you have on
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  winning and that the, the vast attraction of the, the large
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  amounts like this, in this case 181,000,000 lbs.
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  People will end up spending money that they don't have
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  because of the lure of the big win, even though they're very,
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  very unlikely to win it. They're more likely, you know,
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  to get struck by lightning five times on the way to collect the
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  ticket. Shocking.
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  That's not an strict calculation, but it's very,
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  very, very unlikely. I used to when they first
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  introduced the this, this into the UK and what was it called to
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  start with? It wasn't, it wasn't a Euro
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  millions lottery was it was. Just well, they had a yes, the
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  the UK lottery, which. Is the original UK lottery when
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  I was introduced and I saw people buying it, I always
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  thought, well, you should just have put above it, you know,
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  taxation for being stupid or something like that.
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  Because I, I just, I know there's some sort of
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  entertainment element to it and if you can spare the money,
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  fine. But I the, in all lotteries
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  where they've been statistics, you know, I challenge people to
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  find one when this is not the case.
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  It's skews such that the people with who can least afford it are
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  the ones who spend the most on it.
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  Generally speaking. Of course, there are some
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  syndicates which try and cleverly go for the win, but
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  generally that's true. So I would say, yeah, one
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  person, it's £181 million richer and lots and lots of people who
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  took part are that little bit poorer.
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  Well, indeed. And that's a good point because
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  as we all know, it's not just in the United Kingdom, but
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  throughout Europe and in fact, in fact the world.
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  You know, many people are suffering.
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  You know, costs are rising, people's, you know, dollar,
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  pound, euro in their pocket is diminishing and and that is a
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  concern. So for one individual to get
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  such an astronomical amount of money, I mean, pretty much they
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  could buy almost anything that they want from grand mansions,
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  land, cars, many, many other different things.
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  The riches are almost limitless. But here's the, here's the other
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  thing that as you say, I think many people like that allure of
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  the, the dream of winning it because let's be honest, even
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  though that obviously the odds of you individually winning it
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  are very limited, the fact is that somebody does win it and
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  it's extraordinary. So one thing to note here,
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  because I know that you'll be sort of delving into the back of
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  the couch and anywhere else, the numbers are all really rather
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  crucial, which is 12142744 and 50.
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  Plus of course, the 2 lucky stars, 4:00 and 12:00 numbers
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  mean a lot, don't they, Mr. Pete?
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  And I guess that if you're, if you were to meet such a certain
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  person who wins that kind of sort of money, what would your
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  guidance be to them? Would you, would you sort of
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  offer any advice on on what they should do with that money?
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  Yeah, well the the first bit of advice if this hasn't been
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  already handled for before you've done it.
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  He's don't tell him what it may be publicly announced who you
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  are, but if you get away with it, don't turn them on.
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  Yes, because they have the right to anonymity, but it's not
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  always easy. Yeah, yeah, until you've decided
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  what to do with it and then you can have a proper plan.
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  Obviously, you can have somebody, I'm just going to buy
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  a few items that I've always needed or always wanted, but
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  then have a proper plan for investment, including charitable
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  causes as well and people you may want to give money to.
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  But just keep, keep, keep, keep yourself back and then have a
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  proper plan for spending. That's what I would say as far
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  as possible. Don't tell anyone.
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  If that's not possible, at least, you know, say, well, I'm
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  going to have a proper plan, not spend any money.
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  Maybe don't spend money other than a few essential items for a
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  year. Well, I agree with the charity
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  option and I'm almost certain that somebody would do that, but
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  I'm going to sort of play a little bit of a devil's
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  advocates here. If you were to have won such an
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  amount of money, what kind of luxury, what single luxury item
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  would you spend money on? It's whether you've got it now
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  in your pocket, there it. Is yes, yes, I wanted.
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  Oh no, no, it wasn't me. As I said, I'm not telling.
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  Well, I'm not telling you. One wouldn't tell anyone even if
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  it was me. Yeah, yeah.
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  Not. Even our listeners.
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  Not even our 33 listeners. I would obviously week it out to
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  the Mark and Pete Studio, just just get some.
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  There you go. Not that we need it with the
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  state-of-the-art stuff we have it.
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  But yeah, I the using the the can with a bit of string has
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  always seemed a bit odd to me. Yeah, I, I think, I don't think
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  there's anything particular. I might buy a new car.
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  That's about it, I think. Oh, here we go.
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  It's now ramping up. OK, a car that sounds expensive.
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  Well, nothing depends. You've just, you know, maybe a
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  Bugatti or. Why not each?
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  So we'll look, what would you do, listeners with this size of
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  money and basically to that UK ticket holder, why not come on
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  the market, Peacho and show your generosity?