0:00 [Music] so there's this dude who uh had won a $340 million Powerball jackpot good for him he's suing the lottery after the games administrators said that their website only showed his numbers as the winning combination by mistake so he didn't win hold on how is it a mistake so he didn't Tech so he technically didn't win so it was a so for him just for context all right uh this was back in January 2023 lost is going on right now all this Washington DC resident his name is John cheeks purchased a Powerball lottery ticket at the center of uh dispute on January 6th although cheeks did not see the Powerball drawing the following day he saw his numbers posted on the DC
0:51 Lottery's website 2 Days Later the digits on his ticket were a combination of family birthdays and other numbers of personal significance so he said I got a little excited but I didn't shout I didn't scream I just politely called a friend I took a picture as he recommended and that was it I went to sleep but then things didn't work out so much cuz when he tried to redeem his tickets court documents alleged that administrators denied cheek's jackpot claim saying in a letter to him petitioner's prize claim was denied because the ticket did not validate as a winner by the O's gaming system as required by o uh regulations cheeks also said that he received an odd request from a claim staffer who allegedly told him hey this ticket's no good just throw it in the trash can why he's like I gave him a stern look I said in the trash can oh yeah just throw it away you're not going to get paid there's a trash can right there oh ████ he didn't discard
1:43 the ticket instead he put in a safe deposit box reached out to an attorney and suit Power Ball wow other defendants named to cheek's lawsuit include the multi-state lottery association game contractor toote Enterprises blah blah blah blah blah so basically what had happened good thing he took a picture of the number on the website like screenshotted it yeah probably screenshot what had happened in the court de declaration uh project manager said the company's quality assurance team was conducting testing of a task involving a changing of time zones for the Powerball website from coordinated universal time to Eastern Standard Time at 12:09 p.m. that day the quality assurance team accidentally posted test Powerball numbers on the game's live website rather than a development Environ Mimi the site but was not viewable to public
2:33 so it was their accident and just throwing random numbers up as like it should have been like on a test splash page typ but it went to the public domain but that's even OD yeah lucky that the winning numbers the guy that had it checked it at the same time that's even harder to do get get more money double yeah damn dude so they're probably not going to pay him out right well that's why they're suing I know but at the end of it what do you guys think was going to happen do you think they will something I think they'll settle I think they'll settle for something yeah they got to get something that's ████ up okay so they added the the test numbers were not the numbers drawn for the January 7th power ball drawing they also could not have been the numbers drawn because the incorrect ones were posted on January 6th a day prior to the drawing on January 8th the incorrect lottery numbers were listed next to the
3:23 actual winning numbers on the DC Lottery website upon realizing the error on January 9th the development team took down the numbers so either way they were up in that very small window of time that he had happened to check for his ticket chances damn now here's a situation that uh makes it interesting there's precedent for this type of situation uh the previous November the Iowa Lottery posted the wrong Powerball numers citing a human reporting error however the Iowa Lottery said that the temporary winners people who had the numbers that issue could keep their prizes which ranged only from $4 to $200 this 340 million oh ████ so if it's precent said that they could keep it so a mistake was admitted by a to buy a contractor and they paid the winning so there's a chance now that's why they took his case gets a
4:14 little spicy what do you guys think he deserves it yeah what's the back story of this guy like do you think he's got a legit legal team cuz what if what if a ████ um Slot Machine Tech came and then he ████ up and then the grand that comes and hits the button gets a jackpot and then the guy goes oh man I ████ up making fixing that yeah like no takeback be a test run yeah no take backs sorry no take backs yeah yeah the only problem is if it's 340 Million jackpot at that time somebody else is probably also going to win that 3 so where's that money going to come from so where does that money they got so much money though people usually don't win but remember how we were just talking about the other day like if somebody doesn't quotequote claim money it usually gets
5:04 given to like the public school system or whatever right so they got to split it then 1 15 150 I don't know man that's crazy and especially if if I'm a lawyer too I'm down for this case because that's a big ass ████ number if I if they settle and give him 10 million that's $10 million case you know what I mean your commission on that is like wild give them some something come on yeah a little something at that point what's like a shut up number to you yeah cuz it can't 340 it it also potentially can't be relative to that specific number that jackpot of $340 million cuz if the money doesn't exist you know what I'm saying cuz it came it went to another like jackpot win or something like that like what is a reasonable settlement between the two parties I
5:55 feel like they have to have ████ up Insurance some of some sort so they don't have the money there Insurance there's got to be some sort Insurance probably isn't going to cover like a 100 million dude that's true it's a lot of money that's a big ass insurance policy 100 Mil it's a lot they got to take it back from the schools then yeah ████ the schools they're getting that much money anyway sell the textbook sell those new computers sell the desk yeah bring it back the other way got a whiteboards only what would you be happy with if you knew you won 3 350 and then they go take backs so here's the problem and you go take back wait that's not fair dude and then you fight what would you be okay with well first of all if it was the if in a sense it was human era based off of the quality assurance testing team I wouldn't just like sue the
6:46 lottery I'd sue the lottery and like their testing team to see how much I could squeeze but the testing team could probably only afford $50,000 then I think in relativity if that's all they can afford take it all huh taking it all damn you're going to shut down a person's business yeah shut them down I wouldn't even deal with these guys down one guy it's 50 Grand if there if they had 10 million to take and I took 10 million that shut them down then I think that's ████ up if it's 50 Grand that's all you have yeah I'm ████ taking the 50 Grand like go make your 50 Grand back you know what I'm saying that must be a new a different kind of torture to really believe that you won the lotto and then have all that time to dream about what you're going to do with it and and be relieved about life's problems and then they just go oh no no no you didn't what if he gets more cuz of the emotional damage so he gets 350 plus another 50
7:37 mil for the emotional damage cuz imagine like how many empty promises he made in between it could have been likey got he know that was medical bills I got it got cover you know hey babe you know law school you know how you're still paying it off for the next 10 years don't worry about it we'll take care of all the ████ that he did like he went to work the next day ████ you ████ you ████ you that's probably why he's like I need this money man already bought a car he got fired took on some loans like crazy right right right yeah dude yeah that's rough man but even just the stress of a legal team too like how hard do you want to fight that and just have a case surrounding your life for that long you know what I mean I would have the lawyers do pro bono I would have been like do you think law I'll pay you out when you guys win I ain't going to pay you out now some lawyers will do
8:27 that is pro bono only if you win the lawyer gets money yeah or they just do it for free either way I don't know uh I think if it's a financial situation like this like I mean it's around Finance it's not like Finance in terms of money to like for your medical bills you know what I mean it's like you're trying to get money for money get money I'm pretty sure that they probably probably going to take some money from that right damn man must sucked to to be this guy I don't like feeling like that or where it's just out of nowhere you have life-changing money and then it gets taken away from you it's like L of people don't like me broke okay would you rather that or would you rather the opposite for that same brief amount of time somebody randomly is like suing you for 340 million and then later they go take back
9:18 yeah i' rather have that but then there's also that moment of like you're feeling the exact opposite you'd rather have that you don't get money at the end than you do yep that's kind of funny how come no that one no that that option is is you're just chilling and someone sues you you're like what the ████ and then they go take back take back and you're like you have zero but the other option is is you think you want money oh and then it goes away okay okay high to low versus low to high okay okay no but it's like high to regular versus low to regular right cuz nothing actually changes but you either had Euphoria and then disappointment nope or like absolute fear and then relief fear and relief fear and relief all day long it'll make you a better
10:08 person yeah cuz you're not going to your job ████ you ████ you this is why I I'll show you I'll show you a graph of why fear and relief is actually happiness so all right imagine this right you go ████ oh Liar's chasing me right oh no I'm about to die as ████ lion ████ ████ and then like poter comes kills the L buying and then you're like relief happiness I love my life I'm grateful whatever okay now you're over here oh ████ my whole family that people don't want their family die oh ████ um yeah I'm a I'm a gazillionaire right my my my my want their family to die I'm a gazillionaire let's say I I'm I'm a I'm a heir to a throne cuz I'm a Japanese
10:58 princess or whatever like there's someone I yeah there's someone that in my family that's passed down their ████ I'm a king of a small country right and then you go up here and you're just like oh my God my life is going to change all this ████ you just think about how ████ Rich you're going to be whatever whatever and then you get there and then you're actually not and then you just there you're you're now you're just you're a slave because they kidnapped you yeah ohly Dam they're supposed to both end back at zero okay okay okay it's like negative 80 that's Thea 100 maybe I'd rather just get chased by the ████ Lions the whole time in both scenarios it got worse it got worse you're right it got worse but the point is high to high to
11:48 medium is terrible you know why high to low sucks cuz you feel like you lost you know why low to high is the best or low to regular is the best is because you feel like I'm I I won something came up on top cuz you got gratitude like shaking into you that's true I agree with the answer the example was very very interesting boom you're a slave you went I went High to lower princess Kimo boom you're slave you want that you want that for yourself irrigation [Music]
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