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Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

The Lottery Curse

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re looking into the dark side of winning the lottery. It’s hard to imagine anything more exciting than becoming an overnight millionaire, however today’s cases prove that with more money, comes more problems!  Write me: spencer@cultliter.com Spencer Henry PO Box 18149 Long Beach CA 90807  Follow along online: instagram.com/cultliterpodcast Join our patreon: Patreon.com/cultliter Check out my other show OBITCHUARY wherever you’re listening now!  Sources:  https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/25/heres-why-lottery-winners-go-broke.html https://nypost.com/2022/07/29/these-lottery-winners-lost-it-all-after-hitting-the-jackpot/ https://www.the-sun.com/news/4500720/lotttery-winner-new-jersey-now-trailer-park/ https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/moore-dorice.htm https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/theledger/name/abraham-shakespear-obituary?id=21987461 https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/lottery-winner-mysteriously-dies-due-to-natural-causes-a-few-weeks-after-winning-103b28c243a3

Transcript

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0:10.6

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0:12.8

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0:17.1

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0:20.6

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0:50.6

Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader.

0:57.2

I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry and this week we're talking about a few different stories

1:02.1

of people whose lives were changed by the lottery.

1:06.4

Picture it, babes.

1:07.4

You go to your local gas station, you pick up a power ball ticket, thinking, hmm, nothing's

1:12.5

gonna happen, this couldn't be for me or maybe in your head you're already like, how

1:16.6

would I spend the money?

1:17.8

I'm gonna do something really good with it or at least gonna make myself think I'm gonna

1:22.0

do something really good with it because if I have those thoughts, maybe I have a higher

1:26.7

chance of winning, maybe God or whoever's out there will be like, hey, he has good plans

1:31.6

for this money, maybe we should give it to him or her or whoever, but you get your ticket

1:37.5

and then you read the numbers that evening and what do you know you have now become a millionaire

1:44.0

overnight.

1:45.0

So, first move are you gonna quit your job, call your parents, take the lump sum or you

1:50.6

gonna get the yearly payout, you've got a few weeks to decide.

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