WEBVTT - McMillions: When Uncle Jerry Rigged the McDonald's Monopoly Game 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.720 Ridiculous crime. It's a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:07.560 Do you a Elizabeth? Why? How are you doing? 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:10.520 I'm good, I'm good. How are you? 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:11.680 How is your heart? 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.920 My heart is full. How's your heart? 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:18.040 It's still kicking. So that's all I ask? 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:19.440 Is running in a pumpin? 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:21.560 Yeah? So I got a question for you other than 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.000 about our cardiovascular health. Yes, sir, do you know it's ridiculous. 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:26.720 I can tell you it's ridiculous. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:27.600 I was counting. 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:30.960 Well, Actually it's not me. It's McKinley at the Bend 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:32.080 Beer Vault. 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:33.560 Okay, is this a friend of yours? 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:35.559 She's a friend of the show, she emailed us. 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:36.360 Oh rude dude. 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.320 Nice, Yeah, total rude dude. Seems like a really cool person, 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.720 she said. Love the show. My boyfriend and I have 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.639 been listening for three years and it's definitely our favorite. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.080 We love having you two join along on our road trips. 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.200 Y'all always bring a smile to our faces. Take care 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:57.959 and stay ridiculous. It's McKinley. So McKenley sent us something, huh, 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.480 and I'm going to tell you it's not a mashup. 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.160 Yes, McKinley, you rock you and your boy She. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.680 Referred to it as a mashup. But it's not a mashup. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.720 It's m Kenley is still rock, She's still rockbous. 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.160 I'm just suspicious of you. 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.920 You should always be, all right, So this You like milkshakes? Yes, 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.119 I mean your milkshake brings all the boys to the art. 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:22.640 I mean you've tasted it. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:27.520 No, the milkshakes you like them? 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:27.920 Yes? 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:29.080 What's your favorite flavor of. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:34.520 Milkshake these days? Yeah, don't laugh, but I'm really into 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:35.280 a vanilla. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:36.200 Oh really, I know. 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.640 It's the flavor nobody nobody respects. Everyone acts like, oh, 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.920 that's so vanilla. But it's actually a really nice flavor. 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:45.880 So I've been really into, like it's not. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.960 Just like milk, like plain nothing flavor. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.760 Favorite My third favorite, thank you for asking, It would 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.800 probably be peach. What about you? I like what's your 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:01.600 third favorite? What's your second favorite? 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:02.520 Chocolate? 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:03.560 What's your first favorite? 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:04.120 Milcha? 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:05.560 Are? Okay? 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:07.440 Well when as coffee one doesn't? 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.359 Right? Right of course? Naturally? 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.800 Yeah that's what I like. I like what I like. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.239 I don't like certain kinds of milkshakes. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.000 What kind is that, Elizabeth? 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:21.680 That would be the ultimate cheese at milkshake? Cheese it. 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:26.560 You didn't partner with anyone. This is cheese It did 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:31.679 this to them, damnselves. It's on the recipes on their website. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.240 And they have other, like, you know, questionable recipes. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:36.079 I'm sure they do. 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.959 But the ultimate cheese At Milkshake saren. Prepare your taste 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:43.919 buds to sip it with this absurdly indulgent milkshake made 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.840 with your favorite cheesy salty snack vanilla shake. Look you 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:52.680 like that? Blended with cheese it crackers and the crushed 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:57.880 cheese it cracker rim and topped with whipped cream, chocolate 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.440 sauce and garnished with a cheese it cracker. Here's a picture. 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.079 We'll have them put that on Instagram. 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.040 I literally shuddered, like my whole body. 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:10.800 Jesus in a vanilla of shake is just that I don't. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.079 I don't like that one bit. 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.840 So it's it's a Cheddar shake. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.280 They have they it's a Cheddar shake, and they have 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.440 other recipes like the non alcoholic cheese a rita. 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.120 Wait, why would I want that? Pour in some brandy? 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.760 I a Seltzer cheese it hot and spicy cracker infused 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.760 simple syrup, lime and pineapple. It's made to spice up 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.720 your dance moves. That's what it says. That's not me 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:37.520 saying that. That's the cheese It. That's you know, the 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:41.440 cheese talking Captain cheese It himself, the founder of cheese 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:45.200 It's I'm just scrolling through here, and it's there's a 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.920 lot of it's a lot of things that explain why 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.800 our society's falling apart that these are acceptable things to 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:57.720 put online. Cheese it's s'mores brownies. Those go with a milkshake. 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.600 So Rome had bread and circuses. We have cheese hikes. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.760 We have cheese it's and milkshakes extra big. Cheese It's 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.640 moores cookies. Make them extra big because you know you 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:07.400 can't get enough. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.280 Zaren the test kitchen a cheese It must be a 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:12.040 wild place. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:17.560 Saron cheese at Lemon Bars. I'll stop, Actually no, I won't. 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:22.520 You'll never stop anyway. That's that's cheese at apple Pie. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:23.400 That's ridiculous. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:30.560 For your restraint, No. 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.520 I have no you know me, I have zero restraint. 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:35.240 I should have been yeah. 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:39.760 Yeah, So anyway, it's ridiculous, ridiculous. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:42.720 Well do you know what else is ridiculous? A lot 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.359 of things go well, okay, I got a question, another 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.040 question for you to start it off. Okay, do you 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:50.240 remember the Monopoly game from McDonald's. I do, Yeah, did 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:50.760 you play it? 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:51.800 Yeah? 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.919 Well, like the semi regular return of the Nick Rib, Elizabeth, 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.520 I got good news for you. McDonald's Monopoly game is back. 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.160 Baby. It was like in the eighties, right, yeah, eighties, nineties. 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.320 I remember that as a kid. 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.680 Yeah, it's wild because, yeah, as you point out, you 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.080 remember when you're a kid, if you know what happened 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.039 back when it was first a popular game to play 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.479 at the Golden Arches. Huh, it's wild that it's coming back. Really, 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.200 And if you don't know, well you're in for a treat, 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:18.800 because that's what I want to tell you about. 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:40.240 I'm about to know today. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:46.440 This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:51.880 hece and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.560 and one hundred percent ridiculous. 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.840 Ridiculous, Elizabeth, ridiculous. 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.680 Yes, what do you know about the story of lotteries? Uh? 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:05.159 Lottery, I don't know. They're old. They're old as heck. 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.119 They did them in the caves pretty close. 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.359 But that was to kill a community member. 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.200 Yes, it's like who survives the winter? 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.520 Well, and that's what is it? The short story of 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:19.960 the lottery. Oh, Shirley Jackson, Sure, there you go. There's that. 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.080 That's a dim, dark lottery. 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.120 Yeah. I was gonna say that's not really a fun one, 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.760 but well, har I'll inform you about the history lottery. 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.640 Still briefly, one of the first lotteries in history took 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.400 place in the Han dynasty in ancient China. Okay, so 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.279 roughly two oh five b c. So not in the caves, 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:39.760 no post caves. The money was raised for this lottery 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.719 by the Han dynasty, and the money that they generated 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.839 from the lottery was used to pay for the construction 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.839 of the Great Wall of China. Great Wall of China 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:49.320 was paid for by gambling. 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.080 They're like, you know, it's for a good cause, guys, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:52.760 it's for the wall. Like how people are like, it's 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.039 for the schools, and that's not why you're buying a 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:55.679 lottery ticket. 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.080 The next time someone says gambling is a degenerate form 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.320 of entertainment, you can tell them, I guess you don't 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.080 like the Great Wall at China, right, because gambling built 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.000 that wonder of the ward. Okay, so My point is 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.800 gambling has been around for a very long time, right, 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.200 and especially the lottery, and it's often been used to 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.480 pay for the running of the government or to fund 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.640 construction of grand endeavors. Of course, this is not always 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:19.560 the case. Sometimes lotteries were designed to curry favor, like 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.240 for instance, in ancient Rome in the time of the Empire, 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:27.680 gambling was permitted only during special occasions like the celebrations 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:31.040 of Saturnalia, which was not sure if you're familiar, I 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.160 didn't know about this exactly, but it was the holiday 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:37.760 time that Christmas would later replace. Oh really, okay, So 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.400 when the Roman Empire adopted Christianity, they're like, well, it's 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.040 just slot that right into Saturnalia and keep it balking. 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.240 Big coincidence, Yeah, birthday. 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:47.960 Well that and also the soul and Victis. But I'll 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:49.840 get to that in a second. So way back in 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.320 the fourth century CE. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.640 Wait, when does memit the second making. 0:07:55.440 --> 0:08:00.280 Appearance not in this episode? Surprisingly, Yeah, okay, So in 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.920 the fourth century CE, or if you prefer ad on 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.120 O Dominus, Yes, Pope Julius, the first issue a decree 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.760 that Christmas, the celebration of the birth of baby Jesus 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.160 was to be celebrated on December twenty fifth. It's thought 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.360 that this was the to replace the pagan gift giving 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.320 of Saturnalia with the new Christian gift giving of Christmas. 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.880 It was also intended to combine celebrations. There was the 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.960 Saturnalia and then also, as they said, the birthday celebration 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.400 of Soul Invictus, who was the son god of the 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:33.000 Roman Empire. His birthday was honored on when December twenty fifth. 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:33.600 Nice. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.800 Yeah, So anyway back to Saturnalia as it plays out, 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:40.480 The earliest European lotteries date back to Saturnalia the Roman Empire. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.640 So wealthy families they would hold these extravagant dinner parties 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.160 and there's a lot of role reversal, like where the 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.400 slaves get to be the master and that kind of stuff, 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.040 and so rich people would invite all their friends over. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.120 Then they would try to like curry favor by then 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.480 helding a lottery and everybody, guess, would all be given 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.120 a lottery ticket when they entered the dinner party or whatever, 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.320 and each ticket holder would win a gift, and some 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.560 of the gifts were more lavish than others, and that 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.720 was like the beginning of the lottery. This idea is 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:11.320 then expanded upon by the first Great Roman Emperor, Augustus Caesar. 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.680 He switched up the game by selling tickets for prizes 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.079 and to the public instead of at like a dinner party, 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:20.079 and some of the gifts that he was giving out 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.160 were more spectacular than others. The funds that were generated 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.800 he used those to rebuild the aging city of Rome. 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.280 So Rome was also built on lottery win not in 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.400 a day, well yeah, not in a day, or I 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:35.160 guess lottery funds. Anyway, fast forward to colonial America, you 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.240 could argue that the colonies were also built off the 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:42.839 funds generated by gambling. Oh really, because oh my goodness, yes, 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.400 tons liket like hundreds of them. Back in sixteen twelve, 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.960 King James of England, King James the First he allowed 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.080 the Virginia Company to offer a lottery in England to 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.680 raise money for the struggling settlement because like they you know, 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.600 post James Stower Jamestown's founding, They're like, this is not 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.880 going well. These rich kids are not doing what we 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.000 thought they would do. You mean to raise some money. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.240 So they do. And so from that very first English 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:09.160 settlement aka Jamestown gambling has been part of America's story. Now, 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.640 this holds true all the way through colonial times. Lotteries 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.880 were used to raise money to build roads, canals, bridges. 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.199 You want to build a church, let's hold a lottery. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.319 You want a library, Let's hold a lottery. And then 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:23.720 the first universities in America, so like the earliest ones, 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.000 not Harvard, but Princeton and Columbia, were both paid for 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:31.239 with money generated from lotteriesday same for the University of Pennsylvania. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.720 So nearly half of the Ivy League was paid for 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.400 off of gambling profits. That's what I mean by say 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.760 America has always been cozy with gambling, so you know, 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.120 enjoy that crypto anyway, When you have so much money 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:46.080 generated by a lottery, some folks obviously will do what cheat? Yes, 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.760 and then fraud follows, which is why in eighteen ninety 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.840 in the United States, lotteries were officially pretty much banned 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:54.920 in all but two states. You want to guess which 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:56.880 two states are? Like, nope, we're keeping this. This is 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:02.840 really good. Eighteen ninety Yes, obviously there's no Utah, Arizona exists, 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:10.640 New Jersey, good guess. No, think of more corrupt than 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.840 New Jersey more corrupt. Yeah Jersey not like you know 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:19.679 a movie. Pennsylvania close, Delaware the home of the corporation. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:20.800 Yeah right. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.280 Louisiana, well that's its own thing. 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.040 Like, yes, Louisian especially New Orleans. No Orleans like a 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.760 city state in America, and Louisiana is like, we are 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.600 different than New Orleans. You're still corrupt anyway. Once lotteries 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.360 were banned, folks conspired to find new ways to gamble. 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.560 They're like, okay, well we'll keep this rock and so 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:44.080 thus the era of the sweep steaks was born. Difference, 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.000 so the sweep The difference between lottery and a sweep 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.200 sticks is that a sweep stakes it doesn't require the 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.920 gambler to purchase the tickets. You've heard all your life, no. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.560 Purchase, purchase necessary, Okay, So. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.800 Instead the gambling tickets are part of a giveaway for 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.200 like a product or a person can even also end 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:01.959 in a request for a free ticket to place and 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:03.640 self a dress stack? 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.679 Isn't it like where it will be on like product packaging? 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:08.880 But it's just nope. But like so you can like 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:12.199 ask for a thing without buying exactly, but no one 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:12.600 ever does. 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.800 Yeah, so with sweepstakes. Sometimes the prize is a product, 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.120 or sometimes it's a service like oh, get a free 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:18.960 massage or whatever. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:19.240 Right. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:23.160 Other times it's a big cash prize aka gambling. Yeah, 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.680 So sweepscakes. They become a very popular way for a 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.120 business to drive traffic to come in and buy their whatever. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:31.520 My grandpa loved those. 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:32.040 Really. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.360 If he could send in a ticket for a sweepstakes, 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.480 he would, and he would send in multiples with variations 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:41.920 on spellings on everyone's name in the household. Interesting and 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:44.079 so like when I was a little kid, they had 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:50.120 a Tony the Tiger baseball sweepstakes with what was that, yeah, 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.840 frosted flakes. No one in the house ate frosted flakes. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.280 He went out and he bought a bunch of boxes 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.280 of frosted flakes, and then he filled all of them out, 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.920 and all of us had like variations on our names. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:06.840 You know, it was like Elizabeth Button and oh yeah. 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.760 And so it's like because it was like one per household, 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.600 one for whatever it was. So he sent all of 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.720 these in and then we got inundated with Tony the 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.800 Tiger baseballs. We got so many of them. 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.080 Do you won baseball? 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.760 We won baseballs. And then what was kind of cool 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.240 is like later on, like after he passed away, about 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.560 a month later, I got a puzzle book in the 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.199 mail and his name m H that he had won 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:32.240 in a sweepstakes. 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:33.600 Do you still have it? 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.480 Yeah? And it's like I love puzzles, and I was 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.920 just like, this is incredible, like you know, still still 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:40.560 raking it in. 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:46.240 Well, you know who else loves sweepstakes? No fast food companies? 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.559 Oh yeah, Well that's what we were talking about. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.120 Just like a lottery, the winner selected at random, and 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.120 just like a lottery, sweepstakes become this theater for fraud 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.760 and abuse because you can get to say a ticket 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:00.920 or whatever the product is dan and you can win 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:05.079 possibly a big cash prize, sometimes millions of dollars. Yeah, 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:06.880 that's what I want to tell you about. The Great 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.840 Monopoly scam for McDonald's. It's one of the most famous 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.640 sweepsticks aside from Publishers clearing House. It's just like all 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.040 true sweepstakes, it was a no purchase necessary form of gambling. 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.680 Oh yeah, Now do you remember the Monopoly game for McDonald's. 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.600 Did you ever play it? I mean, like we know 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.040 how it worked on the title. 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.160 Because you would get and I feel like you had 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.760 to go inside and there was like the police mat 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.800 on the tray, was the board or maybe they gave 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.120 you the board. I don't remember how it works, but 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:34.560 they was like the monopoly board. 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.080 Yes. So there was the early forms, yes, and then 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.600 later on you just have to basically collect the like 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.400 say the colors of a property on Monopoly. 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:45.320 So you had to have the board so you knew 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.120 like how many collector the only. 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.840 Did you need to win, like say like like three, say, 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.920 like you know, if you pick like Baltic Avenue, you 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.120 only need the other light blue ones. I think Baltic 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.000 Avenue is black, but anyway, and then if you have 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:01.040 park Place on Boardwalk and you have those bright blue ones, right, yeah, 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.520 that's all you need, just those two, you would win 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:04.680 a million dollars. 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.520 Right, But like the lesser ones you would collect and 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:08.760 it was like, oh, you got some. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.800 Fries, yeah, well exactly you've been like yeah, free happy 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:13.640 meal or you got some large. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.520 Fries yeah, Marvin Gardens ext. 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.560 So this new Monopoly game for McDonald's was announced in 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.480 September of this year, and it starts on October sixth, 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.200 and as always, it's available for a limited time only. 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.640 Now for the new rebooted version, there are still the 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.160 same peeloy stickers that you would find on the cups 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.120 and the fries, and those are the game pieces, just 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.520 like it used to be. But now it's an app 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.520 based game you play on your smartphone. 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.320 Oh to scan the yes, exactly. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:41.960 It kind of ruins some of the fun for me 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:43.560 because but you still get to peel them off, and 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.960 then you scan onto your phone. Then it keeps track 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:46.640 of them for you. 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:51.120 But I saw a Reddit post where someone ordered McDonald's 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:55.160 through like door dash or something, and the guy who 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.480 delivered it had peeled the stickers off and it arrived 0:15:58.640 --> 0:15:59.800 denuded of its. 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:00.920 That's amazing. 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.360 You don't have to collect those little, tiny little things. 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:03.600 Yeah. 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.920 I loved collecting those. I mean back when cars had ashtrays, 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.360 we kept all the McDonald's Monopoly pieces and. 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:12.920 It was like we would use it as like, come on, 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.040 we got Grandma. We're so close, yeah, so close to 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.800 getting this Pennsylvania. I swear to god, you cannot have 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:19.760 any more. Come on. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.120 So back to the new app. You still get the 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.760 same game pieces as we said, and then you scan them, 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.440 but then you also have to get the McDonald's app, right, 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.720 and you have to join the McDonald's loyalty program, which 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.520 I'm never gonna do, so I guess I'm just not 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.640 going to play this time around anyway. If you do 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.800 have the app, you collect all your digital game pieces. 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.640 Just like with Monopoly, if you collect the properties of 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.600 the color coded neighborhood boom, you can win prizes, so 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.000 like for now, this time you can win a brand 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:47.000 new Jeep Grand Cherokee, and for one lucky winner there'll 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.040 be a big cash prize of one million dollars, which 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:51.480 is what it used to be. Of course, a million 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:56.280 dollars is a lot more money back when, totally like, 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.360 do you know, do you remember the first McDonald's Monopoly game? 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.400 Do you want to guess what year that first iteration 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:03.280 came out? 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:07.040 To see? Eighty five? 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.959 Close? Really good? Eighty seven? Eighty seven April of nineteen 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.880 eighty seven to be exact, okay, which coincidentally is also 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:15.960 the same year as a Big Wall Street crash. 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:16.960 Oh yeah, right? 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.400 In October, right, you have the Black Monday or Black Tuesday, 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.000 depending on which one has both names. Did you know 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:24.840 that Black Monday and Black Tuesday? I always I keep 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:26.760 it as Black Monday, but I looked it up on 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:30.160 Wikipedia both. Yeah, because people are like, well, I really 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.119 lost more money the next day, so we call it 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:33.160 black Tuesday here. I guess. 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.320 I totally thought it was earlier than that. That's funny. 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.960 Yeah, So anyway, do you want to guess the last 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.840 year the McDonald's offered its monopoly game before bringing you back? 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:42.480 Nineties? Right? 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:43.560 Twenty fourteen? 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.600 Twenty fourteen? Yeah, I don't really keep up with McDonald 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.840 I haven't kept up with McDonald since I was a child. 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.280 I know you haven't. Now you may be thinking that, 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:53.879 you know, what does this have to do with crime? 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.480 Great question, Elizabeth, because I'm about to tell you about 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.800 that question. But the McDonald's Monopoly game, you know it 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:03.280 was revealed to be rigged earlier than twenty fourteen. It 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.800 was back in two thousand and one. Oh really, that's 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:09.240 when the revelation came about, right, And it's hard of 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.120 them limped along until twenty fourteen when it finally fizzled 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.320 out as a promotion. So what happened back in two 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:15.000 thousand and one? 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:15.479 I don't know. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.520 Great question, Elizabeth, And after this break, I will tell 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:40.159 you excellent, Elizabeth. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:40.640 There. 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.760 So McDonald's Monopoly you were telling me about that. 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:45.520 Yeah, I was telling you all there was Okay, so 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.040 here's what you need to know. So there was fraud, 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.200 and it started in two thousand and. 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:53.240 One, and I got revealed in two thousand and one, 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:53.840 and it was. 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:58.240 Spoke, it was revealed. You know, I don't know words. 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:01.120 So nineteen eighty seven, it starts right now. You want 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:05.440 to guess what year the insider fraud started. No, two 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.480 years later. It took two years. Nineteen eighty nine is 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.200 when our crime story begins. 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.520 Only two It only went two beautiful years. 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:14.399 Totally before someone's like, I can rig there. 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:15.240 I got an idea. 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.240