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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast Josh Clark Chuck Bryant. Stuff you should Know?

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Speaker 1: You think? It does not sound like a current affair

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Speaker 1: one of those tabloid shows hard copy? Remember that? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Are they still around? I think some of them are, Thankfully,

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Speaker 1: I don't watch television at four thirty pm. No, you

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Speaker 1: have a job. I wouldn't know. Yeah. Here in Georgia,

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Speaker 1: we had this thing called the Hope Grant. I think

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Speaker 1: we still do. I think so. We're like, if you

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Speaker 1: keep a B plus average or more uh in high school,

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Speaker 1: if you graduate with the B plus average and you

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Speaker 1: can maintain it through college, you get a free ride

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Speaker 1: to a state school and it's funded by the lountry. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: That came along after I was there. It was it

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Speaker 1: was it started actually when I went to college. I

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Speaker 1: think it was the first year. UM, and they there

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Speaker 1: have been tons and tons of studies done on who's

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Speaker 1: going to college, and it's generally white, upper middle class

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Speaker 1: kids who are benefiting from the Hope scholarship. And then

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Speaker 1: it's poor minorities who are playing the lotto in effect

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Speaker 1: putting um white kids through college who who whose parents

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Speaker 1: could otherwise pay for it. Yeah. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: have called the attacks on the poor and definitely the

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Speaker 1: ant the anti robin hood take from the poor and

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Speaker 1: give to the rich. Should we talk about some stats?

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Speaker 1: Should get that out of the way. Yeah, I've got

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Speaker 1: a few for you, josh Um. There is one study

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Speaker 1: in California where they have shown that the racial and

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Speaker 1: household income lines match up with how how California is divided.

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Speaker 1: So sure has that been disputed at all? Yeah? People

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Speaker 1: are saying they're cooking the books. They'll last questions like

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Speaker 1: have you played the lottery in the last month, But

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Speaker 1: they don't say have you bought fifteen scratch off tickets

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Speaker 1: per day? Yeah, that's a good point, so they don't

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Speaker 1: really dive in there. I was reading a story I

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Speaker 1: think from CBS News Texas in two thousand and seven.

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Speaker 1: They found that um blacks and Hispanics play the lottery

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Speaker 1: twice as much as whites do, regardless of class. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and scratch off tickets are apparently the crack cocaine of

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Speaker 1: lottery in Texas is the first state to offer a

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Speaker 1: fifty dollar scratch off ticket. Holy cow, you pay fifty

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Speaker 1: bucks to buy this thing. Have you ever gone on

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Speaker 1: like a little scratch off bender? I have before, And

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Speaker 1: when you get into the grips of it, you might

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Speaker 1: as well be huffing ether. There's no way out. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's Massachusetts. One third of the calls to the gambling

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Speaker 1: play it. I'm surprised it's just a third. Actually. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's like um, alcoholism and beer. You can buy beer,

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Speaker 1: you can buy liquor, and in a lot of states

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Speaker 1: you have to buy it from a state store. This

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Speaker 1: is the same thing. These are state run vice operations, basically, yeah,

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Speaker 1: pretty much, and their people have a real problem with them.

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Speaker 1: But you know, the states just making so much cash

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Speaker 1: Before we get on with just what the lottery is,

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Speaker 1: we should talk about a little more mouthfeasance. Apparently not

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Speaker 1: twelve education. Oh yeah, most lotteries go towards education. That's

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Speaker 1: how the college. Yeah, it's all going to college. They

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Speaker 1: And the other hinky thing is they they sell it

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Speaker 1: to you as a as a benefit for education, like

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Speaker 1: all over the marketing, but the legislation now many states

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Speaker 1: I think it was like was supposed to go towards education,

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Speaker 1: and now it's like thirty and they use it for

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Speaker 1: Law's grim. That's really grim, especially when you consider all

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Speaker 1: the people who are just blowing cash on scratch off

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Speaker 1: tickets or lotto tickets and have like real gambling problems. Huh.

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Speaker 1: So that's the controversy. Uh. And actually this problem goes

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Speaker 1: deferenze you want to say, uh, And that was again

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Speaker 1: And Princeton and Columbia Universities were built on a lot

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Speaker 1: but the crest for Princeton it translates to Daddy needs

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Speaker 1: I know. If you have fifteen grand you can go

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Speaker 1: of fell out of favor I imagine probably in part

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Speaker 1: and then in the twentieth century. But the mid twentieth

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Speaker 1: the lottery honestly? Mm hmm. And if so, what's what's

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Speaker 1: from Venezuela, right exactly. Well, I guess it's possible this

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Speaker 1: general out of trouble via email. Um So, Chuck, I

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Speaker 1: right yeah. And that's an excellent point too, because if

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Speaker 1: scratch off fiend. Not true. Yeah, So all right, dude,

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Speaker 1: about how lotteries work. Yes, Josh, if you are playing

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Speaker 1: a game with fifty balls, let's say fifty ping pong balls,

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Speaker 1: real reason I don't play that is a fantastic calculation.

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Speaker 1: And you just did there. But and I don't mean

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