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When I was in college we had a tradition where we would scratch a lot of tickets and then go to breakfast. Sunday breakfast at place

Go the big tomato in Pekipsi shout out and I never really won on scratch a lot

I would occasionally get like a dollar maybe two dollars

I think was the most I won really a free ticket but one time I scratched off and I had won a thousand dollars and at the time

I was like a starving college student on financial aid and all that and I'm starving. No, no

I was at breakfast in fact that's a bad figure of speech. I think that's an offensive that should be offensive

You should we cancel it? I think we should cancel canceled. I just didn't whatever. I didn't have that much money

And so I was really excited and for 30 seconds I

I thought I had won and then I showed somebody the ticket and they were like what are you talking about you didn't get three of the

Cherries, you know, you only got two and both I just read it wrong

But it was a lesson in not you know setting yourself up to fail. No, what was the lesson the lesson? Oh, you're full of pearls

Let's get more of them. Okay, here we go

Life could be a dream. Life could be a dream

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You're listening to life short. I'm your wise. So just in long

And with me as always is um my brother Christian who

I feel like you've won money in the lottery no in the lottery

Then the lottery scratch lottery you would know if I won the lottery I would tell you yeah

Why don't you just been sitting on that I've never won the lottery. I don't think I've won a lot in the scratch offs

You know like five dollars here or there. I'm trying to remember what I still remember it's very exciting to win

So that 30 seconds where you thought you won must have been a great experience

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