Powerball Goes Global! Can You Be Trusted With That Much Money?
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Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible, so we can walk away with peace and perspective. There's new headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day. Today, Powerball is going global. Here's what's going on. The Powerball is this lottery. It's available in 45 states across the country. It's not available in Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah. So Alabama and Utah, they don't have a state lottery because there's religious states who don't want it. Nevada doesn't have a state lottery because the casinos don't want the competition. Hawaii thinks it'll hurt their tourism and their image and stuff.
And Alaska's got oil revenues. They don't think a lottery is necessary for what they got going on there. I remember when the lottery was first pitched in Tennessee and they said, oh, it'll be in this day. I'm sure they do this in every state. It'll be so good for the schools. So you had this once, at least once, religious population. It was firmly against, like, obviously we're not going to have a state lottery.
What is the news about Powerball going global and where is it available now?
That's crazy. And they said, oh, no, it'll be great for the schools. It's for the children. I have never in my life ever heard anyone say, oh, thank goodness we have the lottery. The schools are doing so great because of it. So we had the Powerball in America, and now the Powerball is going global. First starting in England. I'm sure it'll be all in Europe soon. England's thrilled. I guess gamblers in England are happy. The largest jackpot that we've ever had in the Powerball in America is $2 billion back in 2022.
Why do some U.S. states still refuse to run state lotteries?
Euro millions, like their version, it's in nine different countries in Europe. Their largest they've ever had is $285 million. A paltry sum. A paltry jackpot. So if you're a British person right now who plays the lottery, the biggest jackpot just went up 7x. So you're like, geez, everything is bigger in America. So what's broken about this story? I don't know. Gambling? Now, I've been thinking about gambling because the wife and I are about to go to Las Vegas. We leave tomorrow. Steph is meeting a friend there for a show, so I'm tagging along for the day. I'll be with her husband for the day and night, and it'll be great. We'll have fun together, whatever we're doing. I should say wherever we are, but as someone who doesn't drink or gamble or cheat on his wife, I don't really know what to do in Vegas.
And I also don't like loud music or large crowds or pools full of strangers. The pool things are pretty. From a secular perspective, my biggest stance is the pool with strangers. I don't like any of the things I just mentioned, but pool pools with strangers. Man, that's gross. I could sit at a pool, and I don't do this scientifically, but you just sit in a pool and you look around at the number of people, okay? I don't know where these people have been. Okay, fine. You can put that aside, I guess. But then you just kind of like look at the bathroom. There's not enough people going to it. think about how many trips you would expect to see. Not even close. It's not even close. And then you think Vegas has a lot of beverages being consumed.
So you'd think maybe more trips than a usual pool. No. There could be no bathroom there. I don't think anyone would really know. So I didn't do it. But that's just me. So I brought this up on the radio yesterday and people gave some good advice on things to do in Vegas, but almost all the ideas were not in Vegas. People were like, go to the Hoover Dam, go to Valley of Fire State Park, Lake Mead, like all these really fun things. All the best things to do in Vegas were outside of Vegas. Now, to be fair, I did remove a lot of stipulations. No loud music, no large crowd, no gambling. So I removed a lot of the sin. I've been to Vegas in a long time, 15 years maybe. I remember not liking it, but I'm 15 years more mature and cynical.
No, maybe not cynical. 15 years more mature and I think it's having standards of beauty and meaning, and I think I'm not going to like Vegas because it's all fake, right?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–1:15
2
What is the news about Powerball going global and where is it available now?
1:15–1:50
3
Why do some U.S. states still refuse to run state lotteries?
1:50–5:59
4
How will Powerball expansion affect European lotteries like EuroMillions?
5:59–8:06
5
What concerns does the host have about gambling culture and Las Vegas?
8:06–16:04
Speakers
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