Part 8: The Other Massachusetts Miracle
Scratch & Win
GBH News
5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Most lottery games follow a predictable life cycle: a burst of interest followed by a long decline. But something else happened with the scratch ticket, and it changed how every lottery in the country operates.
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Credits:
Host and scriptwriter: Ian Coss
Executive Producer: Devin Maverick Robins
Producers: Isabel Hibbard and Ian Coss
Story Editor: Lacy Roberts
Editorial Advisor: Jen McKim
Fact Checkers: Ryan Alderman and Isabel Hibbard
Scoring and Music Supervision: Ian Coss
Project Manager: Meiqian He
Graphic Design: Bill Miller
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| 0:00.0 | Do you want to know what it's like to hang out with MS-13, El Salvador, |
| 0:03.7 | or how the Russian mafia fought battles all over Brooklyn in the 1990s? |
| 0:07.2 | What about that time I got lost in the Burmese jungle hunting the world's biggest meth lab? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Sean Williams. |
| 0:12.2 | And I'm Danny Gold. |
| 0:13.4 | And we're the host of the Underworld podcast. |
| 0:15.7 | We're journalists that have traveled all over, reporting on dangerous people and places. And every week will be bringing you a new story about organized crime from all over the world. |
| 0:23.7 | Available wherever you get your podcasts. Support for Scratch and Win comes from M. Steiner and Sons, |
| 0:30.7 | celebrating the anniversary of Steinway and Sons throughout March with special offers on new Steinway and Steinway designed Boston and Essex Pianos. |
| 0:40.9 | Learn more at M.steiner.com. |
| 0:45.1 | Okay, so lottery tickets right here. |
| 0:46.9 | Ooh. |
| 0:47.7 | What are we looking at here? |
| 0:49.3 | FedEx now. |
| 0:50.9 | Used to be UPS. |
| 0:52.8 | You might remember back in episode one, we met a convenience store owner named Glenn |
| 0:58.2 | Maiet. He was behind the counter on day one of the scratch ticket era when customers |
| 1:03.7 | lined up to try the new instant game. That same store, Maets, is now run by his daughter, Tracy Mayette. |
| 1:12.3 | Can you say what we're looking at here? |
| 1:13.9 | You're looking at my delivery of scratch tickets. |
| 1:16.8 | This box you just got is small enough to hold under one arm. |
| 1:20.6 | But Tracy shows me a receipt listing the total value, and it's a pretty big number. |
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