All right, so I haven't looked at my numbers yet, but it's possible that I won a million dollars last night.

It's possible.

No one won the jackpot of the Mega Millions drawing, so it goes to $750,000. million dollars probably more than that by the time the

drawing takes place on Friday night the 15th of January 2021 but there were nine winners in the

you know in the lower drawings of the mega millions and one of the one million

dollar winners was from Texas so I'm afraid to look at my numbers to see if I was one of them, but it's possible.

Now, I could use a million, as I'm sure you could. No problem. Now tonight the Powerball drawing for those of you

listening live on the 13th of January 2021 is worth 550 million dollars for the jackpot.

So I still have that.

You know, I still got these two to hope for, right?

We still have hope.

As long as we have the lottery, there's hope left in America.

You know I'm right.

Welcome to Chewing the fact.

speaking of hope though, this story fewer than four in ten Americans have enough money set aside to cover an unexpected $1,000 expense. Wow, so the nationwide poll conducted in December by Bank Rate that was released this week illustrates

which sure does the the widespread economic insecurity following the coronavirus pandemic,

which, you know, has magnified the rise in inequality.

The provider of financial advice for consumers found that 39% of respondents

could handle a surprise bill for $1000, while 38% would have to borrow the money

through credit cards, family, and other means.

So I mean that is not a good place to be.

The emergency savings has been further set back by the pandemic and if it's a big unplanned expense for

...