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Get Rich Quick: The American Lottery
['Rund Abdelfatah Ramtin Arablouei Lawrence Wu Julie Caine Casey Miner Devin Katayama Cristina Kim Anya Steinberg Irene Noguchi', 'Rund Abdelfatah', 'Ramtin Arablouei', 'Lawrence Wu', 'Julie Caine', 'Casey Miner', 'Devin Katayama', 'Cristina Kim', 'Anya Steinberg', 'Irene Noguchi']
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Get Rich Quick: The American Lottery Right now, Americans spend over $100 billion, yes billion, every year on lottery tickets. Today on the show, in collaboration with Scratch and Win from WGBH, how the mafia, Sputnik, medical equipment, and the electoral college led to American's obsession with playing the numbers.