cost him almost $12000.00. and after a 12 person congar ride down the water slide the fireworks begin. the 10 minute spectacle cost $8000.00. 5 years after winning david and erica have stuck to their promise. they've stayed true to their roots however there are plenty of temptations for a lottery winner and the money can disappear all too quickly. on an almost daily basis jack does a full 18 holes on his favorite course good shot. i never.

you can't handle the pressure you can't handle the pressure that jack has now turned 50 and can live the kind of charmed life that used to be the stuff of dreams . my name is jack stressing from buffalo new york and we won the lottery 4 years ago $1000.00 a day for life and it never ends until i die so i have nothing to worry about anymore and this is what i do on my days off. for jack did win less than a herrick's but he now has a constant supply of cash keep his parents and his brother one cash for life $365000.00 a year until they die which they divide between them so every year jack jeff and jack sr are wired $120000.00 regardless jack quit his job as a nurse immediately. right down the middle. and now he's making the most of his early retirement. since winning the lottery

jack's life is like one big vacation after golf he heads out shopping. 0 0 buffalo is in the western new york state it has a fair share of skyscrapers and office buildings but by american standards this is a city of average size with close 230-0000 residents. it's one of the oldest ports in the eastern u.s. and proud of its industrial past jack has lived here all his life as have some of his oldest friends this afternoon he's going to flex his bank card with joey somebody oh it's through a new car let's go do it jack sets off to buy himself a new car. and started a little tighter. joy he has been through a lot with jack and especially during his somewhat turbulent professional career 1st he was a nurse then moved on to stock trading before losing everything i know you used to

work for him. he wasn't as much fun but he was that he was fun. it was nice to have more time to do fun things it's less stress. right there. while i used to be kind of rich before what i used to trade stocks that's what they like me and then when i had that when i became 4 they said they don't want to hang out with me anymore i had to move home for a year so they used to make fun of me and jack is now earning $10000.00 a month by doing absolutely nothing. today he's picking up his new toy a $50000.00 state of the art s.u.v. . for this monterey winner temptation is never far away. that is pretty sweet as. the new one. it's only $60000.00 that's not lost. maybe that's my next one. let's go.

this former nurse has absolutely no regrets and would never have been able to afford this kind of car before. it's fast. it's 3 in the afternoon midweek and this young retiree seems to have a lot of friends everyone's here jack's winnings unable to him to move to a quiet suburban neighborhood quiet everywhere except jack's place. says some crazy person drawl this car. is parked for a hereford. he bought this spacious house and as you'll see it became party central in the neighborhood but his friends haven't come to enjoy his bachelor stylish interiors and golf trophies put brings jack's friends around and more importantly

his female friends is found right behind the store. shelves go down back here. every afternoon even when he isn't home his yard becomes a kind of spring break destination these young people don't even wait for him to get home before starting the party. sorry. but. what's not being. jack is a veteran partier and knows all the bars in buffalo thanks to his motoring winnings his house is now the place to be. it's open bar for all the women even if none of them are his girlfriend. who knows i'll call snacks i supply the pool the music and the waterfall in the sunshine. damn i company that's the most important part. did he know all of them before winning the lottery all of them

all of those are friends for 10 years or so those are my bard thunder. are they out of work later on at night so they got on board by myself in the day so i need friends to come over the total cost for all this oh i don't know. not a lot. not a lot not only when you win the lottery it's not ok i'll jump off a waterfall for you guys. jack has built his own personal paradise on this 300000 dollar estate there's just one tiny thing missing from his otherwise perfect life. more socks. more for that i'm going to slow. real. real true with

real. jack is constantly surrounded by distinctly younger women but is still single a life without financial worry and largely comprising rest and recreation. but his parents who have a share in the winnings 2 aren't happy with his lifestyle they live just 5 minutes away. from the door. you. do in your story. both 73 year old jack sr and his wife sharon one thier son to find a wife and are concerned about his lax lifestyle more and they don't hesitate to remind him every time he visits i mean i wouldn't mind if he got. a lot they want to be a little cleaner on the south. bay lazy fun

that's the amount lazy i just don't feel like work and i got a golfing was hard today it was hot out. golfing pool parties it's darts never invite us over for a view to use your pool and go over now to morrow became a tomorrow's bikini sundays. with tapas 32 or topless tuesday is tuesday tuesday there is a way every year that are not very hesitant own your. check sr and sharon are a lot wiser with their winnings their only luxury this 370 square meter house with a sizeable yard for their sheets to put pita to roam around. dad was a steelworker while mom stayed home to take care of the family the couple always had to work hard to get by and they still haven't gotten used to living in such luxury this is my kids. have a beautiful microwave and a beautiful fridge or

a there. i do all my cooking here i even have a dishwasher which i never had in my whole life. do you use it no i use a day at thanksgiving and christmas. sharon and jack sr would have never been able to afford all this with their pension which is must then a $1000.00 a month. jack finally got to buy himself something he'd always dreamed of having welcome to my basement. the best about the house was my man cave basement where men can be man. this is his pride and joy with a movie lounge and a blown up poster of the ticket that changed his life. they all came out it was our birthdays. the numbers 48172021 they come out exactly sister way i put on

the ticket. before hitting the jackpot the lives of both sons and his family seem to be already mapped out with small and poorly paid jobs and long years of hard work. i mean you're going to get the kids spending money they always they were a boy for boys why sure is yes station or 14 years old yeah. earn their own money you know or you know where there were only when where they go not anymore the law or i don't have to work that's why organs as leverage you can't get rid of so he's no longer stuck in the eat work sleep routine now jack is a poster boy for the lottery and in the us the lottery is a huge business to encourage americans to keep playing and betting the jackpots keep growing and those who do win make the front pages and become famous overnight

. welcome california's latest millionaire. it seems people can't get enough of these lucky winners mavs some have even been featured in reality t.v. shows or anybody at all or as you. like this one where the host helps them find their new dream home happy winners who are more than willing to show the world their new lifestyle after striking gold. we're now in denver colorado at the foot of the rocky mountains. this smoke looking building his home to the state lottery commission contrary to popular belief lottery industry is run by big. business but by public authority. i mean how are you today. i think i just won something k.

is a real estate agent she has 5 out of 6 numbers in the latest powerball. yeah yeah i think they won 30000 on this tidy sum will allow her to enter the winner's club of those the lottery chooses to feature in its populous city a very bad 30000. yeah happiest place on earth. case photo will be a mediately posted on the moderation website where she will join the winners in america having money is certainly not frowned upon and when people when they're eager to make it public. it's really important that people seem real coloradans where you know when they see someone like a they know ok so it really wasn't. the colorado lottery makes the most of the winners elation and the winner seem happy to tell the whole world. filming the

reaction of people when they find out how much they won makes for great advertising . and we're about to surprise diego b. with a huge check for a quarter of a $1000000.00 a diego good. deal something is for you i think your christmas just got a whole lot better just once you're in. you. know. you just want to give you. the lottery arranged everything beforehand with diego's family. man that's a quarter of a $1000000.00 means it changes the lives of everyone around. her. whether surprising people at work or a. home the message is the same this could happen to anyone anytime anywhere all

you have to do is play. under siege. but there is also a dark side to the lottery. what winners do not get along with their check is advice about financial issues awaiting them for some winning the jackpot can be the start of a nightmare. in canada just across the border from the majestic niagara falls daniel became a victim of his own success. he's a member of niagara united a counseling group that helped him get back on track. here but there. he was just 23 years old when he won

a jackpot worth $5000000.00. i felt like i was on top of the world and that you know that this money would just never run out is almost like i was living a life as a rock star i was just goal party and within 2 years to june to me richard roth $1000000.00 was gone and that businesses. and the rest also went down the drain over the next 2 years due to substance abuse a habit initially funded by the lottery when i was or is heavily addicted and. and. i had to resort to song drugs is right back up you know $45600.00 a day he eventually ended up in prison where he spent 2 and a half years for dealing drugs ironically this is what saved him he had to get clean. that's where i've been that's some of the stuff that has helped me get to

where i am today. and. daniel is far from an isolated case one 3rd of winners ultimately end up losing everything it's a phenomenon known as the curse of the modern. daniel's father jed and his sister naomi watched helplessly as he fell from riches to rags. oh i almost cried if i don't look at makes it right i have it's a glass on. me to. daniel is now back on the straight and narrow but at the age of 40 this former millionaire is penniless and had to return to live with his parents in this relatively modest house. there is. a general guise of

a degree. a man who believed he was on top of the world while spending up to a $1000.00 a day on drugs now works as a car mechanic daniel is still recovering the lottery almost broke him and his entire family. was just after the water he went. in kind of see my eyes you can tell us quickly they're all dark around the edges and from not sleeping much. it's been the worst thing ever to have only took him down arrow. all of us we basically lost him we tried so many different times to you know get him to stop doing what he was doing trying to minute by no knocks leave me alone sleep me alone. as soon as the check was cashed jed and naomi saw fake friends crooked investors and other scammers descending on daniel like vultures to get the claws into a deep and. it was kind of irreversible well when he hit rock bottom that was

a colleague and he came to us and asked if we could come home we gave him this bit of rules no more no more of that. and we always looked at him conditionally. right. daniels' $5000000.00 when essentially ruined 15 years of his life he's never bought a lottery ticket since for all winners managing millions of dollars without any preparation can be a struggle. one of them decided to launch a campaign against these easy money traps. timothy scholtz is one of the youngest powerball winners ever in the u.s.

. prior to hitting the jackpot he worked at a gas station like this one. tim was $21.00 and broke when he won a track for $14000000.00. so my father woke me up. i was sleeping banged on the door and he basically said to him somebody won the powerball see he knew that i played once was it and i looked at the numbers in the newspaper because the surreal is like is this it felt like a dream and then we literally started hugging each other like to you know grown people in it it's your kids in a candy store that's what it felt like. the young gas station attendant from rural iowa sold himself his own winning ticket he became rich and famous overnight . and so i couldn't go anywhere i couldn't go to the grocery store without people recognizing. people ask me for my autograph 2 decades later he's back to being

anonymous as a girl on a good one powerball ticket was. he still plays the lottery every week hoping to win again. just holding that circuit is like i mean i know the power that comes with this if you happen to win. the emotional thrill is still there but his fortune has plummeted from 14 down to just $5000000.00 a big fan of cinema tim put some of his winnings toward organizing festivals and producing his own animated films all of which. he decided to go online to prevent other moderate winners from making the same mistakes he did his you tube channel provides winners with a product form to share their stories whether positive or negative. says the 1st lottery winner i'm actually going to be interviewing in person so this is going

to be funny. today he's meeting denise who lives in an upscale suburban neighborhood in meant california. i didn't hear you say how are you good have a good. this is a beautiful home thank you you spotted denise in a real estate lottery winner show in which she won $785000.00. ready for this wow. she now lives in this beautiful villa with 2 of her 8 children before the big when she was working 3 jobs and had just lost her home to live there she lives there my grandson lives here his mother lives there and the sister would see it i said it's hotel motel is all it is. really for all my daughters because. in case there are men or. assholes they

could always count all the time that's why the loving mother didn't spend her cash on luxury cruises or a big car she invested everything in this house to give her family a home and set herself up for retirement she wants to send out a message on tim's channel sit down where all this focus. if you do win the lottery you need to learn how to resist temptation people want to live their life why they travel why you acts like a man and you know that's all get it into. your temperature. tim received hundreds of letters from strangers asking for money. working winners also need to learn how to say no even to friends and family it's one of the most important lessons i had to learn because it's really tough especially what struck it all that i love fight gave everyone what they wanted i would have them broke a long time ago. to how leagues in nebraska have so far managed to avoid these

traps that more naive winners fall victim to they were quick to learn how to manage their $62000000.00 driving their beefy pickup truck with golf cart in tow the couple are headed out to their latest major investment. and our away from their mansion they've bought 400 hectares of land forests and ponds right in the middle of nebraska farming country. the herrick's are effectively the new lords of oto county. although it is as such more davids a state. and when asked if she likes the farm erica says no to

gird that's too dirty. david has gotten into farming. ready. to rent some of the land out to local farmers and cash in on a percentage of their profits. the rest is for him a $300.00 hectare private estate for hunting and fishing a dream come true for david even if not so much for erica. that's pretty serious. this all the land altogether was 2 and a half $1000000.00 so you know you can't go wrong anywhere and take care of it so that's the biggest thing but the last erica doesn't really see the point of this huge investment despite being multi-millionaires they still try to remember the value of money. you got to always be aware of what you're spending because it goes

quick while big or small your budget is you got a budget and their monthly budget is about $25.00 grand a month so who's the big spender. he buys big things cars trucks so my little $20.00 purchases versus his. $30000.00 car erica is more cautious but the couple could easily move like royalty the interest alone generated from their fortune turns them $500000.00 a year oh boy it is toys david could chill out at home all day but this isn't that kind of family. for us at our age being young and retired. and you still have to do something you can't just i'm tired cetera all. right with everything. david enjoys his newly families your time before the lottery he barely had time to

see his family between his 2 jobs but since winning he's been able to realize a childhood dream and become a volunteer firefighter it's a commitment that also enables him to keep his feet on the ground. it's nice to have people record being recognized like that for more than just the lottery. because i mean the lottery was one quick moment. but i'm still the same person i got to be i got to be true to myself still and i try to do that you're my service to the community. dave can now take the wheel of the kind of truck some boys dream of. he'll be taking it out around gretna for the national holiday every 4th of july locals pay tribute to their firefighters who watch over the city voluntarily.

go he's going to have a cause or purpose always have some get out of bed for. 3040 or 40 years figure out a way of life has changed well. since winning he's donated almost $150000.00 to local charities he's become grutness big benefactor. it's part of his lottery winners recipe for success being appreciated for who you are not what you hand. over in buffalo jack is less selfless with what he spends he prefers to make the most of his money in the moment. then charity and. the life of a young and rich. retiring. ladies on most nights you'll find him partying with friends and their girlfriends. back i'll never live in the buff murray 3 chairs service law. thanks to his laundry winnings jack can revel in all day parties

like this while other americans continue to dream of hitting the jackpot. to own. or not too well. what about assuring economy instead. of a change in thinking is changing the economy to create something the. economics magazine 3 years in germany. and 30 minutes w. . conflicts you don't hear

a lot about it in europe these days but some more than 2 months focus area compulsed financial corruption and the government demonstrations my guest this week from sofia just beneath us such a minister from social policy by the she continued just such an adjustment it's mistreated its most vulnerable people they should it's human rights over again conflicts so for. claiming. the mohawk and emigrants. they know the police will stop the. road is the solution and their flight could be fatal but going back is not an option. it's mother i'm a. and are stuck in the spanish border area they're there waiting for a chance that will probably never come shattered dreams starts january 18th on t.w.

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