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Scratchers Isn't a Retirement Plan? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: I'm beginning to think Scratchers isn't a great retirement plan.
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  Speaker 1: It's one more thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm strong and getty one more so. A couple of things.
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  Speaker 2: We've been talking about. Elon Musk bringing back up the
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  Speaker 2: idea of him and Zuckerberg fighting with the interesting wrinkle
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  Speaker 2: of any place, anytime, any rules, which is an added
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  Speaker 2: element to the thing. Hmmm. I don't know if I
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  Speaker 2: would ever make that offer. Here's our rule, no winner
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  Speaker 2: declared until somebody loses at least one eye. You want,
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  Speaker 2: you want to you wanna want to get in that.
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  Speaker 1: Fight, and I are a limb, i'd say, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Elon's a troll. Oh yes, yeah, he's a troll. And
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  Speaker 2: sometimes he trolls at like the highest levels with like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the most valuable car company in the world.
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  Speaker 2: He makes some sort of claim about Stock at four
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  Speaker 2: twenty or something, and he's a poopster, no doubt, and
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  Speaker 2: he gets sued by the government and everything just because
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  Speaker 2: he's such troll. So tatroll at this level is nothing
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  Speaker 2: compared to some of the stock trolls he's done in
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  Speaker 2: the past. Anyway, my kids are out of school like
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  Speaker 2: your kids, because it's summertime, and they play too many
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  Speaker 2: video games, not as much as this guy.
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  Speaker 3: Nigerian man played the mobile game Dream League Soccer twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty three for seventy five consecutive hours, breaking a Guinness
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  Speaker 3: World record, that record most disappointed parents.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was talking to a mom the other day, actually
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  Speaker 2: was asking her just because she seems to have been
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  Speaker 2: fairly successful. And her take was based on her kids
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  Speaker 2: and other kids, is if your kids into not all
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  Speaker 2: kids are into video games, like my oldest is not.
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  Speaker 2: He just doesn't dig it. He's tried a lot of
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  Speaker 2: them and played him some, but just not his thing
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  Speaker 2: where his brother really loves it. And this mom's said
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  Speaker 2: to me, if your kid is into video games, there's
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  Speaker 2: just not that much you can do about it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you can set limits, obviously it's your house, but that's
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  Speaker 2: their thing. They're gonna do it as much as they
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  Speaker 2: can as you allow them to do. And that has
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  Speaker 2: certainly been my experience, you know. And and the limits
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  Speaker 2: are harder. The limits are easy to set, but you
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  Speaker 2: run into the they don't have any other interests. That's
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  Speaker 2: the only thing they talk about. It's their favorite thing
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  Speaker 2: in the world. I did lots of some of the
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  Speaker 2: things I did in the summer outside of exercising. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: exercising is better, but some of the things I did
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  Speaker 2: in the summer, I don't know if they're that much
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  Speaker 2: more productive. I don't know. I don't have the video
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  Speaker 2: game gene. I don't dig video games either.
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  Speaker 1: Having recently spent a fair amount of time in the
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  Speaker 1: company of several twenty something young men and knowing a
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  Speaker 1: couple of others, they all say, so, what do you
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  Speaker 1: do for fun? What do you like to do? Video
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  Speaker 1: gaming is prominence in.
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  Speaker 2: Their list right, And like one of the things my
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  Speaker 2: youngest does is he has some relationships with some of
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  Speaker 2: his friends. They play video games together and I hear
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  Speaker 2: him laughing and joking the whole time, and that sounds
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  Speaker 2: really good, especially for my son, who has not had
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  Speaker 2: the easiest goal of it. Socially, he's doing more laughing
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  Speaker 2: and joking and talking about They talk about all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of other things while they're playing video games.
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  Speaker 4: That was the big transition for video games. I used
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  Speaker 4: to play video games all the time, but they were
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  Speaker 4: online yet, uh huh, so you know, the old school games.
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  Speaker 4: And then when they got online, I noticed I was
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  Speaker 4: playing for an extended period of time, because, like you said,
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  Speaker 4: you're talking to people and all that, so you kind
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  Speaker 4: of lose track.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I hear him doing it, and it makes
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  Speaker 2: my heart happy that he's got, you know, friends that
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  Speaker 2: he's having that kind of fun with. So I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I who knows. They'll tell me in twenty years. It's
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  Speaker 2: a horrible idea. I heard something. He's not outbreaking the law. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's a low bar, Katy.
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  Speaker 1: I gave myself a pretty serious case of tendonitis ones
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  Speaker 1: playing we bowling.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, oh that's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Really snap it off, get some nice dig on the ball. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't forget it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: The one that Henry's into now is the speaking of Zuckerberg,
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  Speaker 2: the his his VR thing, the Oculus and this new
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  Speaker 2: boxing thing that Henry's got, And man, he's been doing
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  Speaker 2: that constantly. He's sore, sore. Yesterday he could hardly do
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  Speaker 2: anything because all his muscles were so sore from doing
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  Speaker 2: the VR boxing game all afternoon the day before.
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  Speaker 5: That's it would work out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he is poor and sweat.
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  Speaker 4: There are full blown workout routines built into the Oculus
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  Speaker 4: that you can download. It actually has a whole fitness
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  Speaker 4: element to it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if he can get exercise and do that, that's
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  Speaker 2: that's that's awesome. Yeah, oh agreed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm close to getting one of those virtual
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  Speaker 1: reality thingies because I know there are games that I
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  Speaker 1: would enjoy playing.
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  Speaker 2: Which which one? Which which? I don't know?
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  Speaker 1: I really don't know. I just I read the reviews
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  Speaker 1: and they're all roughly the same. This is pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: but surely they'll be able to improve this, that and
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  Speaker 1: the other. I think.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about a generational one, and the Apple one
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  Speaker 2: is very very good, but it's so expensive. Have you
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  Speaker 2: done the demo of that yet?
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  Speaker 1: I recommend I'm fabulously wealthy, so that doesn't stand in
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  Speaker 1: my way.
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  Speaker 2: I recommend everybody do the demo at least of the
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  Speaker 2: things so you know what the capabilities are. It's freaking amazing.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: I mentioned this on the radio show. But you guys,
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you that game bar Fight, that sounds fun. Actually,
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  Speaker 4: I correct myself, it's called drunken bar Fight. Either way,
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  Speaker 4: I mean it is, so it's so much fun and
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  Speaker 4: it's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: They don't doubt it.
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  Speaker 4: You can get drunk and go on an airplane and
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  Speaker 4: just start going nuts.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what a hilarious premise.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there's probably something to do with the decline of
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  Speaker 1: civilization in there, but that does sound really funny.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so you fight not just at the bar, but
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  Speaker 5: you can actually go to other places.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you can go any you can go anywhere that
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  Speaker 4: serves alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever been really drunk, Michael, It's just kind
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  Speaker 2: of a rolling thing throughout your day. You're you're riding
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  Speaker 2: in the back of a car, then you're at a bar,
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  Speaker 2: then you find yourself in a swimming pool. The next
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  Speaker 2: thing you know, here's somewhere else. See you're on an
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  Speaker 2: airplane slapping a storess.
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  Speaker 5: Let's picture picking up a bottle and hitting somebody over
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  Speaker 5: the head with it, you know, at the bar.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's part of it.
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  Speaker 4: If you if you get drunk on the plane, you
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  Speaker 4: can start pulling the luggage out of the overhead content
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  Speaker 4: you bend.
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  Speaker 2: That's not good, that's not good. That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when we used to aspire to to high goals.
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  Speaker 2: This is a monopoly, so that was a game.
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  Speaker 1: Oh goodness sakes, all right, So here's this guy walks
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  Speaker 1: into murphreys Boro, Tennessee convenience store and buys two twenty
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  Speaker 1: diamond and gold lottery tickets from the twenty three year
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  Speaker 1: old clerk. And some lottery players do this. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to scratch off all the you know, the pots
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  Speaker 1: of gold or sham rocks or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I hate the process of scratching those things. I'd
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  Speaker 2: probably do more scratchers if I didn't hate the scratching
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  Speaker 2: bar so much. Well, right, you don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: The clerk just has to scratch off the bar code
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  Speaker 1: cover at the bottom left or whatever and then read
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  Speaker 1: the bar code.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like the little the goo or whatever, the
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  Speaker 2: leavings of the scratching off they get in my car
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  Speaker 2: or on my pants. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You probably causes cancer or something like that. They'll figure
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  Speaker 1: out that that scratcher crap is what's causing so many
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  Speaker 1: of humanity's ills, right dimension Parkinson's cancer. Whatever. Anyway, So
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  Speaker 1: this guy buys two twenty dollars scratchers, and to save time,
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  Speaker 1: he says, yeah, just scratch it and read the bar
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  Speaker 1: codes for me, and the clerk says, yeah, yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: one's a loser, and this one says.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, Jimmy. Then obvious problem with that plan right there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, except one of them was a million dollar winner.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't slip a different one in. The guy who
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  Speaker 2: worked there, here's here's yours. As you see, you lost,
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  Speaker 2: this is mine.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the guy doesn't have the bar code reader the customer.
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  Speaker 1: He's trusting the clerk to tell him what the bar
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  Speaker 1: code says.
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  Speaker 2: Right, that's what I mean the clerk. I wondered, if
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't able to slip out, slip one out for
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  Speaker 2: the other one.
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  Speaker 1: Why bother because you know, he said they're both losers. Jim, sorry, buddy, good.
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  Speaker 2: Life probably shuck him. I assumed the end of this
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  Speaker 2: story was he didn't get away with it. I was
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  Speaker 2: thinking of a way to get away with it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, well, master criminal Jack there uh
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  Speaker 1: he threw it on top of the trash as the
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  Speaker 1: gentleman look. He laughed. He took the trash out. On camera,
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  Speaker 1: you can see him grab the ticket and put it
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  Speaker 1: in his pocket. Not long after, he decided to try
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  Speaker 1: and claim the cash prize. Went to the lottery Commission
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  Speaker 1: to claim the ticket as his own, but there were
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  Speaker 1: red flags and they held onto the ticket.
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  Speaker 2: How did you get caught.
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  Speaker 1: What Patel didn't know that's the perpetrator is that lottery
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  Speaker 1: officials vet all big winners, and that includes checking security
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  Speaker 1: video of the tickets purchased in evidence, just to make
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  Speaker 1: sure everything was on the up and up and shows
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  Speaker 1: the ticket was clearly stolen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm surprised it's not a rule that people who work
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  Speaker 2: at a store can't play just to avoid any problems.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think probably the security video check
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  Speaker 1: is insurance enough.
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  Speaker 2: But outside of the clerk screw and you know what
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  Speaker 2: would be the other things you need the video for,
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  Speaker 2: like to show that you're the one who bought it
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  Speaker 2: so you didn't take it from somebody, or yeah, sure, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and there's there.
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  Speaker 4: There was actually a story last week about a woman
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  Speaker 4: who bought a ticket with her son or something, but
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  Speaker 4: her son, I guess, stayed in the car and now
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  Speaker 4: they're in like a big money dispute and she's like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm the one that bought the ticket, and they went
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  Speaker 4: back and viewed the camera.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's how they squashed the whole thing. You know, hey,
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  Speaker 2: how about you get a job son, right. One of
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  Speaker 2: the reasons I'm anti playing the lottery is, uh, well,
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  Speaker 2: there's a couple of reasons. One, whenever I'm at the
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  Speaker 2: convenience store, you know, the people that are playing the scratchers,
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  Speaker 2: the people that are scratching it off on the herd
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  Speaker 2: of their beat up car, don't look like their lives
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  Speaker 2: are going very well. I mean they just But I know,
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  Speaker 2: for me personally, when the only period of my life
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  Speaker 2: where I ever bought lottery tickets and was thinking about
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  Speaker 2: the lottery is when I was not doing well. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I was in a bad spot with my finances and
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  Speaker 2: my career hopes and everything like that, and wasting any
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  Speaker 2: energy on dreaming about the lottery was as unproductive as
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  Speaker 2: anything could freaking be. And it's it is horrifies me
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  Speaker 2: that I spent any time thinking about that as opposed
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  Speaker 2: to only working on a plan to get out of
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  Speaker 2: my situation of my own making. And I just wonder
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  Speaker 2: how many people do that?
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  Speaker 1: Hmmm. The yeah, I saw lottery tickets is an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to get out of my career of checking park car's
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  Speaker 1: handles to see if they're a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I have, but I have dreamed of the idea, if
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  Speaker 2: you get the really really big winning ticket, what it
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  Speaker 2: would be like to have in your hand, like a
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  Speaker 2: billion dollar bill. You've got in your hand a billion
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  Speaker 2: dollar bill. I would just be so paranode, like the
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  Speaker 2: wind is gonna come up all of a sudden, my
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  Speaker 2: dog is gonna run in and eat it, or just
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  Speaker 2: I would get into freaky paranoid mode. Get everybody, back off.
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? Dad? Back off, Get away
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  Speaker 2: from me. I'm backing towards the door. I don't I
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  Speaker 2: gotta hold it tight, but not too tight. I might
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  Speaker 2: tear it. Not that tight, not that loose right tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Am I gonna get in my car and risk somebody
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  Speaker 2: running into me? My car burst into flames and it's gone.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, no, what what are you doing it? Have
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  Speaker 2: you seen those that like my precious engine and crawl
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  Speaker 2: on my hands and knees to a lottery place to
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  Speaker 2: turn it in? Well, we had a suitcase.
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  Speaker 4: Have you guys seen the uh the prank scratchers that
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  Speaker 4: people give out where they're like twenty five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 4: winning tickets and they're they're not they're not real.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's so cruel. Oh my gosh. No, the videos
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  Speaker 2: see Jack taking advantage of people. Can't do math for
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  Speaker 2: your enjoyment. Oh, it's just awful.
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  Speaker 4: These videos have gone around where you know a sun
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  Speaker 4: will give you know, Grandma scratcher, that's just one five
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  Speaker 4: thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've changed your mind, have you, mister Kruel Captain Cruel.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm on the side of not pranking Grandma. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Grandma is one of those losers you're describing. She likes
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  Speaker 2: to do this scratch is now and again. But you
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  Speaker 2: told her she was stupid. Wow, flip flopping.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible.
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  Speaker 2: It's horrible. Your buddy Jim, you drink beer with and
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  Speaker 2: you do that with. I'll give you that's one thing.
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  Speaker 2: But Grandma, come on, pick aside, Jack.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe Grandma needs a kick in the ass, get
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  Speaker 1: her life together. Huh yeah, Actually might be a mean
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  Speaker 1: old lady.
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  Speaker 2: Change your decisions, right, flip flopper.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if I want a billion dollars, i'd purchase
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  Speaker 5: some weekend programming and just play PSA's back to back.
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  Speaker 2: It's a dream, it's a dream.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I guess that's it.