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Robert Smith

The jackpot for Wednesday's Powerball will be more than $1.5 billion. On today's show, the story of Queen Elizabeth's 1567 lottery. (It didn't go well.) Also the story of a man who has won multiple jackpots. (Luck had nothing to do with it.)

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