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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: A'd be let me ask you this, how much wealth

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Speaker 2: do you reckon? Is just the right amount of wealth?

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Speaker 2: How rich is too rich? It's funny. I had a

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Speaker 2: like a successful businessman friend of mine tell me once

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Speaker 2: that the Goldilocks zone for wealth is a mortgage free

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Speaker 2: home and then five to ten million dollars in the bank,

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Speaker 2: no more any more than that. He reckoned. And you

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Speaker 2: can't trust people, not even your family. But I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe this is me just exposing myself as a bit

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Speaker 2: of a grubby money lover. But I reckon I could

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Speaker 2: do fifty million. You see, the first step in winning

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Speaker 2: Powerball would be the hardest, but I reckon arguably the

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Speaker 2: most important. You would have to decide who to tell.

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Speaker 2: I think it's just inconceivable that you could win fifty

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Speaker 2: million dollars and they're not tell anyone. You would have

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Speaker 2: to tell someone, But tell too many people and you

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Speaker 2: would ruin your life, right, So who to tell? Well,

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Speaker 2: if it were me, I'd go mom and dad, the

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Speaker 2: parents in law, siblings as well. I trust them, of course,

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Speaker 2: But already that pool of people is getting kind of big.

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Speaker 2: Maybe the rule should be that you only tell people

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Speaker 2: with whom you're willing to share some of your winnings.

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Speaker 2: And maybe the rule with family is that you pay

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Speaker 2: off everyone's mortgage, and then that's that. Personally, I'm not

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Speaker 2: a big splurger, but I might be tempted to buy

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Speaker 2: a couple of little bits and pieces. As much as

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Speaker 2: I love the Corolla, I would probably shout out for

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Speaker 2: a new car, nothing crazy, nothing ostentatious. I couldn't. I

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Speaker 2: absolutely could never show my face driving a Ferrari in public.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I would just be so embarrassed. But

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Speaker 2: maybe something a bit newer, something that isn't thirteen years old,

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Speaker 2: something with a few more earbags, cruise control. Maybe I'd

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Speaker 2: pay off my mortgage, and I would probably splurge on

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Speaker 2: Central Air. But for now, at least I would keep

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Speaker 2: our family home, at least until the trees go back. Right.

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Speaker 2: But as well as our home, I've always dreamed of

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Speaker 2: a retreat somewhere, like a house or a batch, somewhere

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Speaker 2: kind of remote. Again, nothing ostentatious, but a place that's

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Speaker 2: buried in native bush, on a pristine beach somewhere. Ideally

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Speaker 2: it's a surf beach. Then I would wake each morning

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Speaker 2: to the sound of native birds in between the crashing waves.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I could win that kind of money

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Speaker 2: and not give a big slab of it away. And

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Speaker 2: you want to be really thoughtful about choosing charities and causes.

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Speaker 2: That would be difficult, But I reckon the way to

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Speaker 2: do it would be to give some big slab, so

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Speaker 2: like a few million dollars a pop to a couple

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Speaker 2: of charities or causes, and then some smaller parcels of

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Speaker 2: donations one hundred thousand dollars each to a whole heap.

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Speaker 2: Would I work? Ah, look easy to say it now,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, I think I would. I love my job.

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Speaker 2: That being said, Remember Trevor, that guy who was working

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Speaker 2: as a checkout operator at a supermarket in Huntley who

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Speaker 2: won like twenty seven million dollars. Remember that, after initially

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Speaker 2: insisting he would be back at work, he decided, Yeah, nah,

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Speaker 2: maybe I would be the same. I just I don't

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Speaker 2: think you can say with certainty until you know with certainty.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I'll just do this show. Maybe I just do

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Speaker 2: this show and lose the Monday to Friday. I would

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Speaker 2: love to travel more. I would love to read more.

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Speaker 2: I would love to really spend some time learning languages.

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Speaker 2: I would love to use a fifty million dollar windfall

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Speaker 2: to buy time as much as I could. But I mean,

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Speaker 2: all of this is hypothetical because I haven't actually bought

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Speaker 2: a lotto ticket. I never have. I've never bought a

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Speaker 2: lotto ticket. I wouldn't even know what to do. Well,

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Speaker 2: is it do you call it a triple dip these days?

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Speaker 2: Is that a thing? A triple dip? I wouldn't know

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Speaker 2: what to ask when I got to the front of

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Speaker 2: the line. Perhaps I'm just too rational, too emotionless and rational.

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Speaker 2: Even as I watched the jackpot roll over onto fifty

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Speaker 2: million dollars this week, the equal highest ever in New Zealand,

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Speaker 2: I couldn't help but think, well, a record draw means

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Speaker 2: that there'll probably be record numbers of people buying lotto tickets.

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Speaker 2: Record numbers of people buying lotto tickets probably actually reduces

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Speaker 2: my chances that much more of winning fifty million dollars

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Speaker 2: all to myself. Statistically speaking, the chances of having Powerball

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Speaker 2: by yourself, you and you alone, are actually becoming even slimmer,

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Speaker 2: aren't they. I get it, though, Look, I get it.

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Speaker 2: I get it why people have a punt. Buying a

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Speaker 2: lotto ticket isn't so much a ticket to win fifty

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Speaker 2: million dollars. It's a ticket to dream. This morning, though,

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Speaker 2: I reckon I've done that for free.

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