Speaker 1: Hey, there are folks. It is Sunday, September the seventh.
Speaker 1: We have a winner. Actually, we have two powerball winners,
Speaker 1: and one of them is coming out considerably better than
Speaker 1: the other. Welcome to this. Unfortunate that we still have
Speaker 1: to do edition of Amy and TJ. We were hoping
Speaker 1: to have retired last evening after the powerball drawing. It
Speaker 1: wasn't to be for us. You're looking for our ticket? Yeah, okay, yes,
Speaker 1: here is our ticket. We only did five now, of
Speaker 1: all the numbers, the winning numbers eleven, twenty three, forty four,
Speaker 1: sixty one, sixty two. The power ball was seventeen. We,
Speaker 1: as far as I could tell, only out one of
Speaker 1: any of those numbers sixty two anywhere on the ticket.
Speaker 2: Yes, does that mean we won anything?
Speaker 1: Maybe two dollars, so we didn't even break even. Wow
Speaker 1: this situation. But really, folks, I said those numbers, you
Speaker 1: might not have won the jackpot, but you need to
Speaker 1: check those numbers. Still, they're urging people to do so
Speaker 1: because last night there were a ton of winners. Actually,
Speaker 1: they say nine point nine million tickets won something wow,
Speaker 1: one something that's amazing in some way. And then they
Speaker 1: got two hundred and thirty two tickets floating around out
Speaker 1: there that won fifty thousand dollars. Another ninety tickets out
Speaker 1: there that won one hundred thousand dollars. So don't think
Speaker 1: just because you didn't win the jackpot, ah, throw this away.
Speaker 1: You could match certain amount of numbers and the powerball
Speaker 1: still and pick up some money.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what, see my favorite number, seventeen. I
Speaker 3: definitely would have picked that for the powerball on one
Speaker 3: of them. See, I got a hand pick this. We
Speaker 3: did the thing that we weren't going to do, which
Speaker 3: was the quick pick.
Speaker 1: Okay, well what was eleven? Okay, here's the powerball numbers.
Speaker 2: Two eleven is one of the numbers I would have picked.
Speaker 2: Forty four, twenty three, No, probably not.
Speaker 1: I mean nothing to you. Okay, we'll about sixty one
Speaker 1: and sixty two.
Speaker 3: No, but forty four, eleven, and seventeen were absolutely numbers
Speaker 3: that I would have picked.
Speaker 1: Y had his works, Folks, she won time.
Speaker 3: How much would I have won if I'd gotten two
Speaker 3: of the regular numbers and a power ball.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but a lot.
Speaker 2: I'll give you more than two dollars exactly.
Speaker 1: Anyway, folks, we're hopping back on here on Sunday, because yes,
Speaker 1: the somebody won somebody's one. Ultimately, the jackpot was worth
Speaker 1: this one point seven eight seven billion dollars. It's the
Speaker 1: second largest jackpot in US history. This would put the
Speaker 1: cash amount at eight hundred and twenty point six million
Speaker 1: dollars if you choose to go cash now, Ropes, those
Speaker 1: numbers are actually a little lower than the initial estimates.
Speaker 1: They say one point eight and I think the cash
Speaker 1: option was eight hundred and forty six, so it came
Speaker 1: down a little bit.
Speaker 2: But it's still nothing to snub your nose at.
Speaker 1: Let's just say, of course, but now here's the thing.
Speaker 1: They have to split it. Don't get me wrong, they're
Speaker 1: still doing well. But we don't have one, but we
Speaker 1: have two winners ropes.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny about that?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 3: I feel like this is always the case when you
Speaker 3: finally decide on a house or an apartment and you
Speaker 3: put down your offer and it could have been on
Speaker 3: the market for months, and the day you do it,
Speaker 3: someone else does too, and suddenly now you're in a
Speaker 3: bidding war. I feel like the same thing happens with this,
Speaker 3: where you wait months and months and months, there's no
Speaker 3: winner and all of a sudden, when you have one,
Speaker 3: you got too.
Speaker 2: What are the chances of that?
Speaker 1: Okay, what are the chances of they're being two? When
Speaker 1: they tell us the chances of their just being one
Speaker 1: is one in two hundred and ninety something million, right,
Speaker 1: what are the chances of two? I don't. I can't compute.
Speaker 2: I can't either that.
Speaker 3: But that blows my mind and it makes me suspicious,
Speaker 3: because I'm always especially even like you know, we're suspicious
Speaker 3: of the realistic agents who tell us, oh, sorry, we
Speaker 3: just got another bid, and you're like, really, after all
Speaker 3: this time, as soon as we put it in, now
Speaker 3: there's another bid. I feel like it's a similar Scratch
Speaker 3: your head, How does that work?
Speaker 2: What are the chances?
Speaker 1: And it feels awfully personal over there to you right now,
Speaker 1: But let's stick to who won. They won in two
Speaker 1: particular states, the state up Texas and the state of Missouri.
Speaker 1: Now robes one point seven eight seven billion dollars. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of money, and if you split it in half,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of money. So if they had to
Speaker 1: split it in half, that would mean they would get
Speaker 1: eight hundred and ninety three million, five hundred thousand dollars apiece. Again,
Speaker 1: that's only if they take the thirty year option. Most
Speaker 1: who does that?
Speaker 2: Who does that?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: I don't know anyone. Someone who doesn't trust themselves with
Speaker 2: the money, I guess.
Speaker 1: Or financially speaking, if you're looking in, if you play
Speaker 1: in the long game, it is the better way to go.
Speaker 1: So the cash option, they now have to split it.
Speaker 1: So the cash option is eight hundred and twenty plus
Speaker 1: million dollars. They split it. So now robes, these two
Speaker 1: people who are part of this record breaking jackpot are
Speaker 1: going to take home four hundred and ten million, three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars each. But before taxes. How does that
Speaker 1: sound before we even get to the taxes part.
Speaker 2: I mean, I would be so fine with that.
Speaker 3: Yes, that sounds amazing actually, And then of course the
Speaker 3: feds take here, we go thirty seven percent because you're
Speaker 3: at the highest tax bracket now, and so that's you
Speaker 3: have to subtract what one hundred and fifty one million,
Speaker 3: eight hundred and eleven thousand, So then your payout after
Speaker 3: federal taxes alone is two hundred and fifty eight million,
Speaker 3: four hundred and eighty nine dollars basically, So yeah.
Speaker 1: You're going around two hundred and fifty two hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty million dollars four hundred and ten million to two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty eight million. Your numbers keep getting smaller.
Speaker 1: And this is how now the winner in California is
Speaker 1: coming out better than the winner in Missouri because California
Speaker 1: does not tax lottery winnings. Of course they are a
Speaker 1: high tax state, but they don't tax your lottery winnings.
Speaker 1: I applaud them for joints. I do too.
Speaker 3: Yes, So if you so, the Missouri winner is going
Speaker 3: to take them two hundred and thirty nine million and
Speaker 3: some change, and the California winner is going to take
Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty eight million and some change. So basically,
Speaker 3: the California winner gets twenty million dollars more.
Speaker 2: Than the Missouri winner. That's wild when you think about
Speaker 2: it in those terms. Twenty million dollars.
Speaker 1: That is real money.
Speaker 3: You know what, to live in California, you might need
Speaker 3: twenty million dollars more than you do if you live
Speaker 3: in Missouri.
Speaker 2: Having lived in Missouri myself, well that's.
Speaker 1: Twenty million dollars. And again this is after tax money.
Speaker 1: This is twenty million just gone that you could have
Speaker 1: had cash, and because you live where you live, you
Speaker 1: are getting twenty million less than the same person living
Speaker 1: in another state.
Speaker 3: Wow, all right, Well, I still think if you're in
Speaker 3: Missouri and you have two hundred and thirty nine million,
Speaker 3: two hundred and four thousand, nine hundred dollars, you're going
Speaker 3: to be just fine.
Speaker 1: Just is there something do you find though, that feels
Speaker 1: when we talk about a reg to say one point
Speaker 1: eight billion dollars, that you can go from one point
Speaker 1: eight billion down to taking home four hundred and five
Speaker 1: hundred million. To think that taxes in this country, yes,
Speaker 1: they are actually getting a billion plus of a billion. Wow,
Speaker 1: one point eight billion.
Speaker 3: What does the government do with tax lottery earnings? I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm sure they do such good work with it, so
Speaker 3: at least we can rest assured that our lawmakers are
Speaker 3: putting that money to good use. I'm sorry, I couldn't
Speaker 3: even continue the sarcasm you.
Speaker 1: Are on, you are on some other stuff. We were
Speaker 1: trying to have a good time and enjoy.
Speaker 2: At least they pave the roads here, you know, in
Speaker 2: New York.
Speaker 3: So I feel like when I pay my taxes, I
Speaker 3: just feel good about that.
Speaker 1: Goodness. What are you on today. But hey, here here's
Speaker 1: the thing, folks, there's a reason we keep telling you
Speaker 1: do not do not throw away those tickets. Need to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on them and check the numbers. We
Speaker 1: will tell you in fact, just how many more winners
Speaker 1: there were last night. Yes, folks, we got a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of folks waking up today calling themselves millionaires. Continuing, now, folks,
Speaker 1: congratulations to the folks in but Missouri and in Texas
Speaker 1: who have now this morning woken up and found out
Speaker 1: that they are going to split the record jackpot, the
Speaker 1: one point seven eight seven billion dollar powerball jackpot last night.
Speaker 1: I see you looking through there, trying to confute it's Texas.
Speaker 1: It's Texas. Yes, yes, yes, the note yes, they don't
Speaker 1: tax it in California. That was my mistake. It's it'sas.
Speaker 1: Texas doesn't have income tax, so yes, Texas. All the
Speaker 1: numbers still apply correct. But yes, the winners were in
Speaker 1: Missio and Texas, as we said at the top, not
Speaker 1: in California. Missouri and Texas is where the two folks.
Speaker 1: But yes, the one in Texas is going to come
Speaker 1: out better. We do know it was sold in Frederick Fredericksburg, Texas,
Speaker 1: which is just about seventy miles outside of San Antonio
Speaker 1: at a big convenience store.
Speaker 3: Nice And I love that the convenience stores or wherever
Speaker 3: those winning lottery tickets are sold, they always do a
Speaker 3: nod to those stores who sold the winning tickets.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of cool.
Speaker 3: Not just the lottery winner or the person who bought
Speaker 3: the ticket wins, but the whole convenience store does, so
Speaker 3: it's always cool.
Speaker 1: I don't have that number. It's something is it a
Speaker 1: flat fee or is it a percentage that I don't know,
Speaker 1: I can't remember where. Some of them come out really
Speaker 1: really well having sold the winning ticket. They are very excited.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've done this at some point along in
Speaker 1: your career, where there's a lottery winning ticket sold somewhere
Speaker 1: nearby and we run out and we interview the convenience
Speaker 1: store work.
Speaker 3: Oh. I have done many a live shot outside of
Speaker 3: a convenience store or a gas station where a big
Speaker 3: lottery winner has one. So they say, typically for major jackpots,
Speaker 3: it's one percent one percent of the prize, and that
Speaker 3: money doesn't come out of the winnings from the person
Speaker 3: who bought the ticket, but actually the state actually pays
Speaker 3: it out from the taxes that they.
Speaker 2: Get from it. Yeah, one percent, they say, that's typical one.
Speaker 1: Percent of a ticket that's worth four hundred million.
Speaker 3: They put caps on it usually, so Ohio, for example,
Speaker 3: pays up to one hundred thousand dollars, so they put
Speaker 3: a cap on it.
Speaker 2: Whatever. And different states have different.
Speaker 1: Caps because I want to say this convenience store.
Speaker 2: No, it's it's usually with a cap.
Speaker 1: Okay, lad just said that. All right. We had some
Speaker 1: other winners though last night, and a bunch of states,
Speaker 1: actually robes, Kansas and Texas had two winners of two
Speaker 1: million dollars. That's awesome, That is awesome. But we had
Speaker 1: eighteen one million dollar winners last night, and a bunch
Speaker 1: on a bunch of states, one of them New York,
Speaker 1: well two of them in New York, neither one of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we looked all want anyone in New York, anyone
Speaker 3: in New York. Yeah, California had two winners, Colorado, Florida,
Speaker 3: Illinois had two winners, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New
Speaker 3: York had two, as you mentioned, Ohio had two, Texas
Speaker 3: had two, and then West Virginia.
Speaker 2: That's pretty awesome.
Speaker 1: So that's why they say, always check those tickets. You know,
Speaker 1: we talk about the million, all the winners, but to
Speaker 1: think ninety tickets out there won one hundred grand, anybody
Speaker 1: would take that.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Two hundred and thirty two tickets out there with fifty grand,
Speaker 1: anybody would take that.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: But do I think there are about ten million tickets
Speaker 1: out there that somebody wants on them?
Speaker 3: It makes me want to go out and buy a
Speaker 3: lottery tickets every week because maybe what if I mean
Speaker 3: just getting anything like that, you know, ten grand.
Speaker 2: But that's exciting.
Speaker 3: Every time I scratch off, we always give lottery tickets
Speaker 3: to the kids for Christmas. It's just fun and it's exciting.
Speaker 3: And if there's a powerball drawing, we will get that too.
Speaker 3: And nobody has ever. I've never scratch offs, nothing, nothing,
Speaker 3: but one day. I believe, one day there'll be something,
Speaker 3: even if it's ten dollars, it'll be something.
Speaker 1: So now this thing resets. It was a record. It
Speaker 1: had gone forty two consecutive times. I believe without a winner.
Speaker 1: It goes back to May thirty first, and now it
Speaker 1: resets at twenty million dollars up for grabs starting on
Speaker 1: Monday now, so Monday, Wednesday, Saturday are the drawings that
Speaker 1: we're starting this thing all over. But congrats. Oh, we
Speaker 1: might or might not let me. I'm trying to remember
Speaker 1: the rules in these two states. One of them requires
Speaker 1: that they say who the winners are, and I think
Speaker 1: the other one doesn't, and I'm getting them mixed up
Speaker 1: right now. I think, what is it? Missouri? I think
Speaker 1: protects the anonymity.
Speaker 2: So I've got it.
Speaker 1: I've got it.
Speaker 3: So anonymous lottery stays twenty twenty five, so if you yes,
Speaker 3: would be the yes to the anonymous. So California, no,
Speaker 3: you have to have to say it, but Texas you can.
Speaker 3: So in California you have to say who you are.
Speaker 3: In Texas you can remain anonymous. Missouri you can remain anonymous.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I went back to California again, Missouri in Texas,
Speaker 3: and then.
Speaker 2: I was trying to say in New York, I was
Speaker 2: just checking for us.
Speaker 3: Now, New York, you you can't remain anonymous, so if
Speaker 3: we won, we'd have to say it was us.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how I usually feel about things like that,
Speaker 1: and I know people have ways around it, and they
Speaker 1: put it in trust and some things, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think I would ever want anybody to know
Speaker 1: I would. I don't think I would tell anybody around
Speaker 1: us that we had won jackpot.
Speaker 3: I don't think that we would escape. I don't think
Speaker 3: we would be able to, like, because we'd have to
Speaker 3: register our names if we won.
Speaker 1: Around it. Really, we put it in somebody else's name.
Speaker 1: Might we really trust? Yeah, we figured it like our daughters.
Speaker 2: No, it's too close.
Speaker 1: Only one of the three of them, do I really trust?
Speaker 2: That's very funny.
Speaker 1: Beans, not one of them.
Speaker 2: That's funny. It's too tempting, too tempting.
Speaker 1: All right, So that was fun We started again. I
Speaker 1: don't even know where Mega Millions is right now. So
Speaker 1: congrats to the folks in Missouri, Texas. Maybe we'll find
Speaker 1: out who they are, maybe we won't, but congrats. This
Speaker 1: is life changing, really your entire bloodline changing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, congrats to yes, congrats, and thank you by the
Speaker 3: way for listening to us on this Sunday. I MADEI
Speaker 3: Robach along with TJ. Holmes, and we will talk to
Speaker 3: you very soon.