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hello welcome to easy english so today i

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want to know what the people of brighton

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would do if they found out they'd

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suddenly want the lottery here we go

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what would you do if you had just won

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the lottery

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um i would immediately quote my job

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and then would go to the furthest place

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away from here and travel my way back

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wow

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but what immediately comes to mind is

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buying um a nice yacht in monte carlo or

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somewhere like that

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a gin palace what would you do if you

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had just won the lottery well

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the difficulty is i don't actually buy

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the lottery ticket

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so that question is could be

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philosophical in the center i touch you

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know if i support the lottery oh what

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would you do if you just found out you

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just won the lottery

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what would i do yeah that is such an

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interesting question because i'm sure

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everybody does that you know whether

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it's in the pub or with your mates it's

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like if i won the lottery um

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i would stop

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stop i would just i wouldn't do anything

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oh like in the moment i would just stop

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and then

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you know you always say i'm going to

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give up my job i'm going to travel the

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world i think i would just pause and

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then wait

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and then

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you know month two months time

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think what i'm going to do

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so tell me uh what would you do if you

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just found out you won the lottery

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i think i'd probably panic

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um

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i have a friend who once walked into a

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shop where they were selling lottery

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tickets

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and he shouted out to everybody it's a

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tax on the stupid

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uh and his view was that essentially

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your statistical chances of winning the

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lottery are so small

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it's a way just of getting money from

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people who have no understanding of

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statistics

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and i think the problem about the

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lottery sometimes is that everyone

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aspires to

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having lots of money overnight

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and

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i think the problem is a lot of people

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just would find the psychological

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adjustment having so much money

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really quite difficult and traumatic and

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i think there's quite a lot of evidence

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that

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people who win the lottery

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really do panic um and it causes such a

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massive change their lifestyle they just

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can't adjust to it

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the i mean it'll probably be like a

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series of things i would do

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okay but the first thing i would do is

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get some security

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i think okay you know i mean that's

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lot of money

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you don't have to announce it though i

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think some people always can say you can

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stay anonymous if you want yeah but i

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mean i mean maybe more as an abstract

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concept i think i would get some

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security

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um

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and

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and then i think the first thing i would

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do is educate myself

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in terms of like how much money i would

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need

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to keep myself safe and healthy

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and secure

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and the people i love health and safety

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and secure

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until the end of our lives so i'd work

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out what that figure would be yeah

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then i would work out how and i'd keep

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that selfishly

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but then i would work out how best to

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spend the money

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that i had left

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and and how best to make a positive

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impact

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using it

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i mean so for a nano second i don't mind

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saying oh i'd do this and i'd do that

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but i don't want to have full-on

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conversations about what i'd buy and

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because i just can't be bothered to get

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there's no point you know it's well

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unfortunately for you we're going to

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have a five-minute conversation

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so what happens because you just said to

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me before that you don't play it right

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yeah but let's say you're walking along

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the undercliff and then you're on the

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bottom of your shoe a bit like charlie

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the chocolate factory yeah you just see

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oh the winning number the winning

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numbers are there

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yeah the winning numbers are there yeah

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i would definitely would you cash it in

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yeah

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well that's a no-brainer okay and how do

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i know they're the winning numbers i

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don't know it's got a few just it's just

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just forget that bit yeah yeah okay

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they're definitely the winning numbers

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so now in your bank account is hundreds

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of millions

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100 million maybe

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you're gonna make me go off now and buy

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a lottery ticket um i would definitely

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help out friends and family

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obviously help my sister and my mom

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because they're skint

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help anyone else close to me that needs

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it depending on obviously how much i

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need needed myself but i mean i think

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once you've got

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a few mil you don't really need any more

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so if you've run a hundred mil

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you can help out quite a few people i'm

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not talking charities you know that's

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i've done my charity work and i'd help

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so it would be how how can i help um our

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family that would be my first what can i

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do to make their life

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easier or

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um

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you know is it buy them a house so they

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never have to worry about renting or you

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know um

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yeah it would be what could i do to help

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them first

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um

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i have no

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major ambitions to travel the world

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and especially at the moment i'm quite

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happy

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i'm quite happy in brighton yeah um i

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don't want to go anywhere but i'm sure

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in two years time or three years time i

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might say i want to go somewhere but no

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definitely pause and think when you say

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you're going to travel your way back is

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this by your own are you going to now

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buy this like one of these mega yachts

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do you know what i mean like what jeff

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bezos has

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parked up in monaco probably not i'd

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still go in the old economy seats on the

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plane and

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maybe maybe maybe because i don't like

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flying i'd probably yeah get a get a

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boat but somebody else yeah not a yacht

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okay i would i would still

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i'm probably not thinking this through

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i'm i'm mega rich and i would still fly

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economy

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yeah but also fine you'd get home like

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within probably the first you get is

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probably within two days i imagine yeah

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so maybe i'd start off staff in new

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zealand go to australia go to japan okay

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okay head back across china russia

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trans liberian railway right huh but in

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a rush or no rush no rush no rush i've

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got that i've got the rest of my life to

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get back here okay so you'd spend

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what like 60

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years getting back to brighton or

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something possibly yeah yeah quite quite

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quite easy i might stop off in uh

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herrera's buy a little buy a little bar

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run at run a sherry bar in her eyes for

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a little bit yeah i take my time so

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you'd actually kind of live quite a

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humble you'd be super mega rich but

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you'd actually kind of live a quite

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humble lifestyle really still i think so

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i mean no notice i've not said i would

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give any of my money away though i mean

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i would i would still keep the money

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good last thought

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how much fifty percent of it

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oh maybe it's hundreds of millions yeah

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i mean i probably would give some to my

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family

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possibly i mean yeah i mean oh yeah if

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i'm going to disappear for the rest of

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my life then yeah they probably do some

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kind of next question actually because

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because because you're not being so

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flash

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my question was gonna be would you tell

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everyone would you let everyone know

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no i wouldn't tell anybody that i'd won

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okay just small like installments to

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your family maybe yeah yeah

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yeah

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yeah i don't have a big family so that's

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fine that would that would work

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it'd be okay brilliant and how big are

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we talking

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humble little sailing yacht or the

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yacht 60 to 90 feet 90 feet

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90 feet with a beautiful deck

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where you could just sit there and while

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away the time with a nice gin and tonic

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and some nice smoked salmon you know

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that kind of thing nice and i'd also

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probably um

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i'd buy myself a nice ferrari

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might give a few bob to charity

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that's it

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you are you you're just suiting that

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monte carlo kind of oh yeah high roller

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lifestyle

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yeah i've not had a bad life i've done

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okay but um that's that would be a

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little bit extra and and how about you

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what would you do um

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well i kind of understand exactly where

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karen's coming from yeah um

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and

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i don't do the lottery either

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and we were just talking earlier about

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how glad we were that we were not stupid

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rich really but um i think what i would

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do if someone said you've got to have

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all this money and we're giving it to

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you is i would

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probably i would spend some on myself

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because i think i would want to live

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right next to the sea

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see i try i try and get myself a place

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live right next to the sea so i can just

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come on out and jump in that water

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whenever i felt like it because i love

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it that is a good point i would do that

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um and somewhere that would be safe to

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grow old in probably because that's one

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of my preoccupations at the moment

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um but other than that i would

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i would um be happy to somehow ensure

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that as many people as possible got

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solar power on their

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roofs that um that the green party was

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well funded to get into government and i

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would support lots of people to be green

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mps

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okay

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uh and um well it depends how much money

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is i suppose really this is a great

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challenge you can put it to good use you

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know

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and yeah and to get homes insulated and

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you know just then all that stuff that's

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what i would do because i think that's

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what we need to do now so there's a

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thing called the effective altruism

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movement

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so i might you know interface with them

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to see

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you know what their suggestions were in

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terms of like having the most impact

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you know with the money yeah sure

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and

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um

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i probably

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i'd almost certainly buy a large wood

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and possibly an island

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oh yeah yeah you know to have a bit of

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autonomy

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that i think is that's the

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if you have independent means as they

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say i think that's the thing it gives

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you it gives you

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autonomy and and that's quite important

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to me you know i'd help friends and

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family

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buy them properties buy them whatever

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they needed like a stability yeah yeah

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i'd definitely buy my sister a house

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because she's not she hasn't got one and

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i don't really know what i'd do for my

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mom because she's quite elderly she

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hasn't really got a lot of time left and

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she wouldn't want to go anywhere but

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i'd probably get her more care or

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something like that like a health

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investment or something yeah something

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yeah okay or you know big pots of caviar

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for her last few days that sort of thing

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just sort of indulge her in

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a word in the swedish language called

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legume

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which means enough

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and it's uh informs quite a lot of the

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way that people in scandinavia think

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about

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wealth

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and possessions

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and it really does

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get to a sort of fundamental

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philosophical point about um how much

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you really need

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and i think the lottery stretches and

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tests the boundary of

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what enough is

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and so i would think that uh for me

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it would make me think quite deeply

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about how much money i really needed and

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how much my family would need

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um

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and i think that's quite a low amount

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really relatively you know 180

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880 million someone won the other day

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yeah yeah the euro millions and i just

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at one level it's obscene

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another level i think it's a curse

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and i think everyone should consider

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this whole issue of legume

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and how much is enough thanks for

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watching this week's episode let us know

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in the comments below what you do if you

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hit the jackpot and we'll see you next

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week bye

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now you've got me in the

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mindset i'm off to get a lottery ticket

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this is your fault are you really gonna

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get one yeah so i'll see you when i buy

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my castle it'll be in the paper

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i look forward to seeing it great

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thank you very much