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I've done really well on the scratcher tickets.

 Before I won the million, I'm going to tell you, there was a source of energy that was in the air.

 I've dreamt about winning the lottery so many times.

 Oh my God, the dream was so realistic.

 It happened more than once.

 Before you won the million.

 So you scanned this on your phone.

 Yes.

 And then you saw this message that says, congratulations and big bold print.

 When they take your ID and they really check who you are and then they sit down and like kind of have a little counselor like, well, do you want the lump sum or do you want, you know, the annuity? It was just an amazing feeling, like powerful.

 You can't believe it's happening.

 You know, when it really happens, you're like, oh my god, it's really did happen.

 But yes, you have to manifest it.

 You dream about it.

 You put the energy out there in the world.

 And how do they pay you for a prize like that? Is it like a check or a wire transfer? I'm going to show you.

 Welcome to Lottery Dreams and Fortune! I am so unbelievably excited to be joined here right now with Thomas.

 He actually won the Florida lottery as well as a prize from the Arkansas lottery.

 I believe he won 1 million in 2022.

 His story, his mindset is fantastic.

 Thomas, how are you doing today? I'm doing great, Tim, I'm so happy to be here.

 You've been an inspiration to me and I watched you so many times before and I just felt one day I'm going to be on your show, one day I am going to win a lottery, and I've hit two so far, so it's pretty good.

 They've been second tier prizes only, but still a good amount of money.

 I'll tell you about the first one.

 I was in Arkansas and the day was May 24th, 2020.

 And there was a game that was out there and it was 200 times a scratcher.

 And I've done really well on the scratcher tickets, but the game called to me.

 So I was, you know, you look at different games and I said, this is the game that I like.

 This is the one.

 Anyways, I remember I went to one gas station and I spent about $200 and I didn't win anything, you know, maybe $50 here and there.

 And then the lady said, oh, you're going to waste all your money.

 So I just said, I'm going to another gas station.

 And I did.

 I was the only one in the gas station, spent about another 100 bucks.

 And I scratched all the numbers at top, and then, you scratch, scratch, and then I matched.

 It was number 12, number 12.

 And I started to scratch a little bit.

 I said, uh, five zero.

 I said it's gonna be another 50.

 And I went whoosh.

 And there were three zeros behind the 50.

 And I was like, oh.

 You know what? So I was so excited.

 I was just like, Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.

 You know, I gave the clerk 200 bucks because that's all I had on me.

 And I said yeah, thanks.

 So it was, yeah, a $50,000 winner.

 And I called one of my buddies at the time.

 I started talking stupid because I couldn't talk.

 I was like, oh, I made no sense, it was so funny.

 But yeah, May 24th, 2020.

 It was amazing.

 After taxes, I walked away with $34,700 from that.

 So it wasn't bad, you know, and so that was good.

 But I knew in my heart, I said, you're gonna win again.

 I just said, you're going to win again I don't know when, where, but you're gonna win again.

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 Without further ado, let's get back to the interview.

 I've watched you for many years, and you've been an inspiration.

 I'm born and raised in Florida.

 I am a physician, and I teach at a medical school.

 I'm a DO, which is Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine.

 So yay for the DOs.

 But I traveled from Florida, went out to Washington, spent a year in Tennessee, and then went to Fort Smith, Arkansas.

 That's where I won the $50,000 scratcher.

 Ultimately, ended up getting a job in Doth in Alabama.

 Where I am now and I was able to cross the border and I'm lucky because I can go to Florida and Georgia so I can get lottery both of those places.

 But I was watching you.

 I was scratching away all the scratchers on the YouTube like the lottery scratchers.

 I've even bought some of their coins and if I can I'll give a scratch.

 Shout out there's from Alfred from Florida scratcher, and then scratch away.

 I got his coins scratch scratch life and So these are coins that you're usingto scratch lottery tickets, scratch tickets.

 I use these, but it's just an energy.

 Tim, I feel an energy, I can't explain it.

 I'm very excitable, and I'll tell you, I had my chart read.

 Astrological chart? Astrologal chart read, and the day I was born, the time, where, and when, and they said Jupiter's in my corner, and Jupiter's a lucky sign.

 So I do believe that.

 So I was watching, Nick Scratch and everybody doing the Scratchers and they'd show, look I won $3 million, I won a million dollars and I said, oh man I wonder what that feels like, that's going to be me one day.

 And I'd always look on the Florida lottery, you know, winner, here's this, here's that.

 And when I was younger I would volunteer at the hospital and one of my friends there, she was amazing, I found out she had won the Fantasy 5 in Florida, this was back in the 90s.

 So I think it was, Fantasy 5 was about $500,000 at that time.

 It used to be bigger.

 And so I was like, wow, so okay, I know a lottery winner and stuff like that.

 But I would look at the lottery every day and just look at it, look at, look, at it.

 And it was just amazing.

 I said, one day I'm gonna be there.

 I've dreamt about winning the lottery so many times.

 And it it was so realistic and I'd wake up and I would be in a happy mood then I'd be kind of pissed off.

 Excuse me if I can say that.

 But Oh my God, the dream was so realistic.

 It happened more than once.

 More than once.

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 Before you won the million? Yes, yes, even before, years before.

 So it was before I hit the $50,000, but I have these dreams.

 Before I won the million, I'm gonna tell you, there was a source of energy that was in the air.

 A month before, you know, I love reading lottery stories.

 To me, it's inspiration and relaxing.

 So a month before I went on Amazon on July 10th and I bought this book.

 This is a Shirley Press, Pressing the Luck.

 And she's a physician.

 On September 11th, she had bought the winning Florida lottery quick pick tickets and she won 59, 57 million, something like that and walked away with 17 million.

 So I read that story and I, you know, I have proof of when I bought this, it was July 10th, 2022.

 I watched you, I read books years, I mean, I read this book.

 Lottery Winner's Guide, wow.

 So that, I read this.

 Okay, there's another lottery book there.

 Life Lessons From the Lottery.

 Don Mcnay.

 And then this is not probably the best one but Death by Lottery.

 Death by Lottery, I don't know about that title, but I'm sure it's a good one.

 But it was just the energy.

 So, again, I had a dream within that two week period and one ticket was my hand for $1 million and the other ticket was $3.

76 million.

 All right, so the new class starts and it was, I think July 29th, it was a Friday and I didn't sleep well that Friday, but I said, there's a little casino in town and I said I'm gonna go to the casino, I'm going to bring $500 with me and I'm gona make sure I have enough money to go buy a whole book of scratch-off tickets.

 So I did.

 How much is that? The whole book, they were $50 tickets, and it was $30 in a pack, so $1,500.

 So I go to the little casino and I play, and I didn't sleep well the night before, but I said, I got up early in the morning, go to casino, take my $500, play the machines.

 I actually got up to about.

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 $5,700, but then I whittled it back down to $1,500.

 So I still made a profit of $1 thousand.

 But I went right to, and this is a Fortune Liquors in Campbellton, Florida, so I went right across the border and I just went in and I said, here's $1 500, please give me a book.

 So they put a little brown paper bag and then he'd leave quickly with it.

 So I came home.

 Sat on my bed, talking to someone on the phone, you know, I had the phone on speaker and I start scratching the tickets.

 Well, at first, you start with 000 and I'm scratching it and I won 100 bucks.

 I said, this is off to a good start.

 And then by the time I got to, so I go through all these tickets and by the way I got to the winning ticket, the big winning ticket it was ticket 021, which was really the 22nd ticket.

 But by then, I was so tired of scratching.

 So all I would do is just scratch the top part and I would scan the ticket.

 Out of the corner of my eye, oh, I'm going to bring this up, out of the corner my eye.

 I was talking to someone on the phone so they didn't know I was doing all this while I was on the phone.

 And this person I was talking to didn't believe in gambling so I wasn't going to tell them what just happened.

 So I just said, oh well, so this is what I saw and it was just absolutely amazing.

 Oh yeah, there's the, it says "congratulations" there on your phone.

 I see the claiming.

 So you scanned this on your phone.

 Yes.

 Right? And then you saw this message that says congratulations and big bold print.

 You are a winner, I believe.

 So how did that feel when you saw that? Did you know how much it was or? Well, I knew it was big and I said, and I knew was a, you know, one of the million dollar prizes, and I don't know if I'm allowed to say a bad word, but I said oh, I got one.

 That's what went right in my head.

 I got one.

 I said, I mean, of all the tickets, you know, that, I picked the right book out of there.

 And I was so excited.

 What I did, you know, I hung up the phone and I was like, oh my gosh, and then the next ticket after I scratched was a hundred dollar winner.

 Could you imagine being that person who just missed on a million dollar? So overall I collected $700 plus the million dollar win, which was really $820,000.

 How does that come to $820,000? Do they? That's if you take the lump sum.

 So if you take the lump sum, they're going to say, okay, this ticket is now worth $820,000.

 If I took the annual payments, I remember this with all that, it would have been about $28,000 a year coming to me.

 But I kind of don't trust if they're not going to stop paying.

 So I said, I'll take the lump sum, please.

 And then with taxes, I mean, You you get the federal tax of 37% and then in Alabama you give another 5% to the pay taxes on it, too for the state taxes.

 So let's say I cleared about almost $475,000 and but it was amazing.

 I mean I attribute it to energy putting manifesting.

 Dream about it.

 Putting it out into the universe.

 I truly believe that.

 And I'm a I, know it sounds weird but I'm a numbers guy.

 Now, you were allowed to stay anonymous in Florida for 90 days but I said it's not like a multi-million, it's like a Powerball or something like that.

 So on August 20, 2022, news broke.

 Dothan man Alabama man wins one million dollars all my students saw it.

 I was the top of the town even still to this day.

 So no matter where I went and I I went up to the core sites where our students do rotations.

 They said you won the lottery.

 You won the lottery.

 A year before this and this is why numbers, dates means something to me.

 August 20th, 2021, I was at Campbellton again, and I said, I want to play the area code of the phone number I grew up in.

 So I picked 954.

 And I did five of them straight and five of them boxed.

 And I didn't for two draws.

 What does that mean, straight or boxed? So straight.

 So if you pick them, they have to come in an exact order, nine, five, four.

 So the next day I look and I'm like, oh my God, am I seeing something? They came in nine, five, four.

 So I ended up winning $2,500 on those and then another $400 because I also had five in the box mode, which means they can come in any order as long as it's a 954.

 So that was on August 20th, 2021.

 And then the news broke out that I won the lottery August 20, 2022.

 Just weird things.

 And before I got the job here where I am now, this is why I believe in numbers.

 April 16, 2016, and I came and we had a little conference and I tried getting a job here and ultimately I did get a job in Alabama.

 But I met my future wife at that little casino.

 She was bringing her mom to play bingo and all that.

 And I met her on April 16th, 2021.

 So I met her, and then we parted ways just because of circumstance, but then we reconvened on December 7th, 2023, and now we're happily married.

 Wow, well, congratulations.

 Congratulations Yeah, but you've got to believe, you've got to manifest it.

 You have to have a positive attitude.

 I had so many people.

 I had emails, and people tell me, you always said you were going to do it.

 You always said, you're going to win.

 And so many peoples said, I've never met a lottery winner before.

 So it was really nice to get that confirmation and things like that.

 Tim, I have been having dreams again.

 I was just recently in Orlando twice.

 I went to two conferences and both times in the conferences I woke up dreaming.

 Now this one is specific.

 Another one, $5.

96 million.

 But twice.

 In Orlando, a month apart.

 My brother also dreamt I re-won the lottery.

 So I know it is coming.

 I don't know when, but I know it's going to come.

 I love it.

 And we are all about dreams on here.

 That's amazing.

 And I want to ask more about your belief in manifestation and that sort of thing and these dreams in a moment.

 But just jumping back a little bit to the biggest win so far in Florida, which is amazing, this million jackpot.

 You mentioned that you had to claim it publicly in Florida.

 Yeah, and so what was the redemption process like for a prize of that size going there and claiming it? And how were you feeling when this happened? Oh my gosh.

 I was.

 So one of my, I won it on a Saturday, July 30th is actually the day I scratched it.

 And so my friend on Sunday, he says, oh, let's go down to Florida.

 I want to go swimming, you know, in these springs near, you, know, Florida.

 And I said, I kept that ticket on me.

 I put that ticket in a Ziploc bag, two of them put them and I lost my coin.

 I had my lucky coin, but I lost it in Colorado Springs.

 At the Broadmoor Hotel.

 So if anybody's out there, it might still be there.

 So I kept that ticket on me, and I kept it in my pocket.

 I did not go anywhere.

 Oh, and it was so hot out there.

 I was sweating.

 And so I waited until Monday rolled around, and I kind of told my bosses.

 I said, listen, I've got to go collect this ticket.

 And when I called the lottery, You know, because I've won $1,000 here and there, and you know, you have to go and fill out the paperwork and wait, but I called him.

 I said, listen, I got this ticket.

 They go, no, you get special treatment.

 You go on a special line for that one.

 So I said all right.

 So one of my students was, I was overseeing him give a lecture, and as soon as he was done, I got in my car and went to Tallahassee.

 It was amazing just driving up there.

 And I.

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 You know, I take pictures, I really do, and because it's amazing.

 But the feeling was just absolutely incredible.

 So here I was, I drove up to the Florida, Tallahassee lottery right there, and you can see the date.

 Oh yeah, and I see the building there in the picture.

 Oh yes.

 And so then you sit in the room, and this is, okay, every, this is when you go on the Florida Lottery website and you see the winners, that's the wall that they stand up and they take the pictures of.

 Yeah, so it's like a stand and repeat, a giant banner with their logo on the back.

 So that did you so you did that? Oh i did that.

 Um and here's my favorite one so there's my shoes that's you can see them and that door that's one of the doors I went into, um I went in back and forth between two doors and they take your id and they really check who you are and then they sit down and like kind of have a little counselor like well do you want the lump sum or do you want, you know, the annuity? I said, no, I want the lump sum.

 It was just what an amazing feeling.

 I pictured myself there again, and that's what I did.

 When I was there, I said, I'll be back.

 And that's how you have to think and believe.

 But it was just an amazing feeling.

 It was powerful.

 And it's like you can't believe it's happening.

 You know, when it really happens, you're like, oh my God, this really did happen.

 So yeah, they took me in the back room, took a couple hours and this and that.

 There was that, so here's what I mean.

 Yeah, so there's your picture there, holding the giant check for one million, and that looks like a million dollar smile right there.

 Oh yeah.

 That is genuine.

 But you know when else I had that smile? When I re-saw my wife and I knew we were going to be married.

 I said That can't replace any kind of money, is the love for her.

 She's amazing.

 But this is genuine, you know, it's so funny.

 You see most lottery people, they're sitting there like this.

 Yeah, there's This was like oh and see Tim.

 I'm telling you I I look at that.

 I took the little video of there's a little room There's one of the rooms.

 Oh, wow.

 So this is a real behind the scenes footage of- Oh, yeah.

 Oh, what was security like? Because you mentioned that they were in there for two hours.

 It was really none.

 I mean, I'm sure there was some people there, but, you know, I didn't feel like, I mean there was nobody there to really protect you or anything.

 Oh, I mean, like, when they check, because they have oftentimes for large prizes like that, they have security that checks and makes sure that you're the person that actually purchased the ticket.

 Yeah, I brought my ID, my social security card, I even brought my passport.

 I just said, here's who I am, and I just wanna make sure so they did all that.

 They saw I was legit, I was who I said I was, and I think they also do a background check just to make sure is, you know, are you the person that really bought this ticket? You know, but that's why it took some time, and I don't know some of the behind the scenes, but yeah, it took a little bit of time.

 And then how do they pay you for a prize like that? Is it like a check or a wire transfer? I'm going to show you, but for dinner I got to show you that.

 On my way back I had to get some Culver's, a little scoopy there.

 Oh, delicious.

 Yeah, do some ice cream.

 I love it.

 Oh yeah.

 Two days later, okay, my favorite thing was here.

 I don't know if you can see it, the Florida lottery they deposited.

 Wow, look at that, right into your.

 Is that was my checking account? Wow.

 So that was a direct deposit.

 Direct deposit.

 And I thought it was going to take weeks, but I looked there and I was there on the 1st and in the morning on the 3rd, it was there.

 And of course that was, I still had to pay more taxes.

 So that, I mean, I wish that was the full amount, but I still ended up having to pay more in taxes and I just, let me see if I can show you this.

 So on that, Just alone, when I won the lottery, they took out.

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 Here, I don't know if you can see that.

 Oh, yeah.

 Taxes, that was just the federal taxes.

 So, yeah, it was $196,800 that they took, you know.

 But, so you don't walk away, unfortunately, with a whole $820,000, 600-some thousand.

 But, Tim, it was an amazing feeling.

 I know it's going to happen again.

 I love it.

 That's amazing.

 And when you actually were paid, well, there's two questions.

 One is, did you get help with anybody behind the scenes or did you feel that wasn't necessary? And the second is, what did you do with the winnings? Are you able to say? I ended up paying off my house.

 You know I was on Fast Track because I was paying the home off and I said I'm going to pay it off by so and so.

 I paid it off that month.

 So that was paid off.

 Paid off my car.

 Paied off some credit cards.

 Gave to my family.

 Gave to charity.

 Things like that.

 So I did make one stupid investment.

 And I regret it because I took a big hit from it.

 I bought a condo in Florida because one of my colleagues had one down there and they said, oh yeah, you know, buy this rental, it's a, you can do an Airbnb and all this and that.

 But I had bought it at the height of the market and it was just, the timing was bad because when I bought it, it was at the end of the season.

 So and then just thinking about when that condo collapsed in Miami and, you you know, that is unfortunate, you know for those people.

 But now all of a sudden they're saying, you know, these new laws are coming that, oh, you have to have a lot of money in reserves, you know, for repairs to condos and all this and that.

 And the insurance was skyrocketing.

 And all the hurricanes that came back to back, you know, I think it was Helene and Milton, you know, that came.

 So I said, oh my gosh, you know, I'm worried about holding onto this condo just in case, you know, everybody's going to be hit with an assessment and all that because Yeah, I mean you win this money but I paid a lot of stuff off and then I invest a lot in the condo so there's not much left over.

 So I took a bad hit on that one.

 So word to the wise, just keep money aside, don't go do something because somebody else bought a condo or this and that, that's for sure.

 But I gave to family, I gave to charity, you know, paid off, and I'm living well.

 So I'm happy and still have those dreams coming in.

 I love it.

 Well, I mean, congratulations.

 It sounds like it's been mostly really positive for you.

 I want to ask about your beliefs and manifestation and so forth, but just following up, how did people react when they found out that you won this prize? Because it's, you know, pretty substantial.

 Not everyone, most people, in fact, hardly anyone wins a million dollar prize.

 And it does happen all the time.

 And so how did people react around you? Shock.

 They were like, oh my gosh, wow.

 It happened to you.

 I will say I had a family member and they were not too happy.

 They're like, why? They said, why does it always happen to, you know, people like you? You know, so some, some are just jealous and, but for the most part they were happy and they're like oh my gosh, wow, and they always said, oh, here rub me for luck, rub me, for luck.

 But yeah, for the some family members, they were a little jealous, and you'll find that.

 You'll find it.

 Some people don't want to see others succeed, and it's a game of chance.

 I mean, I could have bought the whole book, and I've done that before, not win anything.

 You know, you win half your money back, but this was just, it was a feeling that day.

 It was a feeling.

 You talk about manifestations.

 I mean when I was in medical school, we used to go down and watch the game highlight.

 And you'd watch them play, and I liked watching it because it took like 20 minutes per each game.

 So I went up there, and at the last moment, before I put my bet, something came in my head.

 It says, play two, three, seven, and do it as a trifecta box.

 So I did.

 And this is what kind of game? It's called Highlight.

 It's where they had the little ball and the long sestas that they'd throw against the wall.

 It was like 200 miles an hour, and you know, you'd go watch them, but I, so I, I did.

 Trifecta bet on it and it came through.

 So and recently I will tell you this and I always take pictures because people don't believe anything without pictures.

 Back October 13th of 2023 I said something's telling me play my birthday.

 So I went to the cash five and I put my birthday in.

 First number comes up exact second, third, and the fifth, but the fourth number was off.

 And when I buy, I buy always duplicates.

 So I'm not gonna buy one, I'm gonna buy like five.

 So I can hit it a couple times.

 But I was off, had it won, it would've been $125,000, but I was of by one.

 And I took a picture just to see, I said if I was 10 years older, I would've hit it.

 But yes, manifestation.

 You pray about it, you picture it happening, you think about it.

 You build up the energy.

 Okay, when I watch you, I watch the people scratching the tickets online, I look at the lottery, I join the lottery post.

 I'm on the lottery post too, so if you go there you'll see my name under, you know, post your winnings.

 So, you'll say, but yes, you have to manifest it.

 You dream about it.

 You put the energy out there in the world.

 So you have too.

 You have to believe and see yourself.

 You have to picture yourself there.

 And you do this fairly often, and that's how you, I mean, how significant is that? What is your exact routine? How significant is that to your wins, would you say? And what advice would you give to someone else that's hoping to do that? Pick up a book on the lottery.

 Picture yourself on the website when you look at other winners there and say, that's going to be me.

 You know, look at it daily.

 Look at it.

 That's what I was doing, looking at it, daily.

 Read books.

 Listen to your podcasts.

 Hear what other people say and try it.

 Don't knock until you try it and I'm a firm believer in that.

 So that's what i recommend.

 I mean, I still, I watch you all the time.

 I know Richard Lustig.

 I know he won.

 I met Richard Lustig.

 He was the seven-time winner, and I remember in 2014, he had something go on in I think St.

 Pete area, Florida, and went to one of his talks.

 And I remember him saying, how many people here have won $50,000? And raise your hand so you'd look around.

 Of course, I didn't win at that time.

 I'm like, oh my gosh, I want to be like one of these people.

 How many people won this and that and it was just fun being there and talking with him and shaking his hand and I think I even got a signed copy of his book, so, so that that's it just go be around it put that energy out there you know just believe it can happen to you.

 People are like oh I'm not lucky I'm not this and that, you know.

 I I play the same set of numbers now they haven't hit.

 But I mean, I got maybe three out of the four, but I think quick picks are probably a better chance of winning.

 I've almost, the Georgia lottery right across the line, it was $800,000 and I got a quick pick on a free ticket.

 And I had four out of five numbers and their number was 10, I had a nine.

 Had my 9 been a 10, I would have been one of the winners.

 So I do believe in quick picks and free tickets.

 About a month ago, somebody won $43 million in Florida near Destin, Santa Rosa Beach at the Tom Thumb.

 It was off a free ticket.

 So you know, if you get two numbers on the Florida lottery, you get a free tickets.

 So they got a free ticket, hands it in, and I always look to see, well, do they pick their own numbers? It will say yes, no, and this said, Y free? I was like, oh my gosh.

 So you can win.

 So don't think, oh my gosh, it's a free ticket, it's not gonna do anything.

 So that's it, but just believe it.

 And if you have a feeling, if you had a feeling go out and buy a ticket.

 If something's telling you, just go do it.

 So Tim, if I may ask you a couple of questions.

 Yeah, absolutely.

 As I said, I remember watching you and what, you only bought one ticket, correct? Just one ticket when you won and what was something telling you was were they was something in your head saying you gotta buy a ticket right now or were you just like yeah i'm just gonna buy a ticket? What? For me, I had this dream, many people know this, not everyone, but I had this dream about it about 3 months prior that convinced me it was so real that it had already happened.

 And so I started playing after that dream because I was convinced that, I believed that I was going to win.

 This dream was so real.

 And so, I started playing one ticket, usually one ticket at a time.

 And that particular day when I won, I woke up in the morning and kind of maybe this is coincidence, maybe it's not, but I woke up and told myself, this is the day I'm going to win the lottery.

 And then I went off and told all these other people that I was going to win and that moment when I, cause I sold it to myself and cause I was working at a gas station in that moment, I did feel like that was the time to buy it cause that's when I bought it, you know? So yeah, so it was really surreal and really crazy when I told all of these people and believed that it was going to win and then it did, it was like, oh my gosh.

 Am I living in the Matrix or what is happening? Yeah, that, I'm waiting for that big one to happen, like that multi-mills.

 I told my wife and I said, next one we're gonna get multi-mills.

 But wow, that must have been, that's the feeling I'm talking about.

 You just can't, you can't believe it.

 You're staring there and you're like, did this just really happen? And I know, and I'm so looking forward to your book.

 Please let us know because I want to buy a signed copy.

 Oh, thank you so much.

 I really appreciate it.

 Well, we'll give you a, you can just have a signed copy for coming onto the show.

 Yeah, thank so much, yeah, I'm working on a book and it's really, it's almost done.

 It's like 99% done and we need a cover designer, but it's getting close.

 So yes, Thomas we'll definitely get you a signed copy.

 Thank you so for your kind words about that.

 You mentioned that after you won, some couple people were like, why does this always happen to you or people like you? Have you always been considered lucky? Do things kind of go your way? And what are your thoughts on luck? What actually is luck in your opinion? I do believe I've had luck.

 Again, so just one of my buddies, he had his friend who reads charts and all that, he actually did a detailed analysis of my astrological chart.

 So I gave him the day I was born, the time I was born, where I was and he said, you have Jupiter on your side, the planet Jupiter.

 And again, I don't know any of this, but he said that means you always will have luck on your side.

 Now, there's times when things go in retrograde and things don't go as planned and then times when the things all line up and it's like, you can't lose because I've had losing streaks.

 I mean, there is no question about that where no matter what ticket I bought, I can't win.

 So when I go down to the store, sometimes I hit.

 Five hundred tickets dollar tickets back-to-back and you know so it it happens and uh.

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 But sometimes I don't but i do feel i am luckier than most I, I do uh.

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 I go to the casinos but I don't care for as much my my true love and passion is the lottery but I'll, I'll go play that but I've hit jackpot on the casino I went after uh.

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 After I won the lottery I went to Vegas and, and I went and I hit a jackpot of $13,500.

 I was at the Aria and i was doing on a smaller yes slot machine one dollar minimum bet twenty five well, one dollar denomination $25 minimum bet and I hit that one of the $12,500 orbs fell was on dragon link and i said oh well ,so i got six of those I won $13,500.

 But, yeah, I do.

 My true passion is lottery, but yes, I feel I am luckier than most.

 My wife told me, you are luckier the most, and friends have told me that, too.

 I'm just, I just am.

 Now, you know what the weird thing is? The Arkansas Lottery, when I hit that, it was the $50,000.

 There was only one $50 thousand prize, just one.

 There was four $500 thousand prizes.

 So if you do the odds.

 I was the only one to hit the $50,000, because there was only one of them.

 So yes, I just feel lucky, I don't know, that's it.

 I've had a good life, I've, you know, I had some things go on in my life, but overall I think I've been blessed and overall, I think, I'm pretty lucky and overall I'm very happy and I think I have a very good life, you know, so but that's it.

 So any advice you have for me in going forward and any thoughts you think would help hit another jackpot or something? Oh, to hit another one? I'm just curious if you have any thoughts or.

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 Well, my advice, I think, is definitely A, play responsibly.

 Never spend more than you can afford to lose.

 I tell that to everybody, because I think that's very, very important.

 But second to that, and have fun, because that's also important.

 And dream big.

 You're already doing all of these things, I'm sure.

 But I think that, for me, I am a firm believer in intuition and that sort of thing.

 And I think why would that be excluded from the lottery? I just don't believe that.

 I believe in our intuition personally and if anyone that does not, I respect them, but I personally believe in intuition.

 I have experiences quite frequently and always have about things where you think about somebody and all of a sudden they pop up in your life.

 You haven't heard from them in years.

 Yes! That sort of thing and then I I hope one day Tim to meet you in person and I am praying for that and come on the show again with another big win.

 Oh, absolutely, and we definitely look forward to that.

 But what, speaking of advice, you know, for anyone watching or listening to this today, if they win a one million jackpot in, well, anywhere in the world, really, but let's just say theoretically in the U.

S.

 And it's a very similar situation to you, what is your advice to them? Don't tell anybody.

 Don't tell anybody.

 And just plan out what you're gonna do.

 Make sure you put at least half of it away.

 Half of it.

 Don't touch it.

 Put it away in CDs.

 Buy some gold, this and that.

 Pay off any bills.

 Give to charity.

 Prepare for your life.

 Because you never know what's coming up.

 That's what I'm going to say.

 At least keep half of it.

 Don't tell anybody.

 Pay off your bills.

 Put a little bit back in.

 Maybe a little back in, but that's it.

 That's, that's what i would say.

 Yeah, that sounds like really sound advice and to, especially I love the investment part and the, you know, don't tell anyone seems smart too, but what if you're in a situation like you're in or were in where they take a photo publicly or your name is announced publicly, different states have different rules.

 Then how do you, I mean, I have my own experience with it, but how do handle that sort of thing? LLC.

 Get a trust, LLC.

 That's you know, what I would do.

 I mean cuz like I mean, I'm just gonna say I mean when I took that I mean I put a lot in my house and the car this and that so I said, you know and paid off bills, So it's like, and I gave to family and you know charity and all that, but Something to just put a trust or an LLC.

 That's that's what I say to do.

 Do that.

 And somebody comes to say, hey, can I have some? I say, no, it's already gone.

 It's already been spent.

 I had this and that and that to pay off.

 That's all you say? No, it all been accounted for.

 So I apologize.

 Because you're going to get peoplethat say, yeah, hey.

 And I had somebody come and ask me for a $30,000 loan.

 And I said, I'm sorry, I can't do that.

 Yeah, and how do you deal with that? Because I've dealt with that a lot over the years and loans and that sort of thing.

 And I know, I kind of know, but how did you deal with that? I just said, I apologize, but I can't.

 That's all I said.

 No, no is no.

 You know, I have that earmark for something else and I apologize.

 I said no.

 I said, no, you have to protect yourself.

 You really have to protect yourself.

 I mean, most people are really supportive, it sounds like.

 Oh yeah, most are.

 For the couple of people that were jealous or so forth, I mean how do you mentally deal with that? I say to myself, if I had asked them for money to go buy my tickets, would they have given it to me? And I say to myself, I took the risk.

 I was the one that took the chance.

 So what I choose to do with this is up to me.

 Because you don't owe anybody an explanation.

 The only person I owe an explanation to is my wife.

 That is it.

 That's who I answer to, and we're together as one.

 Now, I won this before I met her.

 I mean, I met her, but we were not together at the time, and God, I wish we were.

 I wish I had been, you know? She would have kept me from buying the condo.

 But she's the only person that I would listen to.

 You need that one person in your life that you can trust and depend on.

 Yeah, that's beautiful.

 I'm so glad that you have her in your life.

 With anyone watching that does play the lottery, whether it's scratch tickets or draw games or anything like that, do you have any hot tips? What's your advice? I always look to see how many top prizes are left and how many second tier prizes are left and go on that.

 Here's the thing.

 I used to think, oh, you got to play this number.

 I've read books on you have to put this here and do that.

 To me, I think more quick pick is better unless you have a gut feeling on certain numbers.

 So let's say this.

 And I met someone that won the Florida Fantasy 5, like two or three times just recently when I was out here.

 And he would pick four numbers, because there's five of them.

 So he'd pick four core numbers and play them.

 And then let's say it was four, five, six, okay? Four, five six, seven.

 So then he'd play one, four, five six seven, two, four five six seven, three, four or five six.

 So he would spend whatever amount of money it would be like 35 bucks to buy a whole set like that.

 But he would do maybe spend $750 a week.

 But he hit it twice.

 So that's something you can do if you think that way.

 But I'm finding more and more, it's gonna be quick picks.

 Just, and if I do get quick picks, I'm gonna just maybe play them for a series of time.

 Like okay, I'm going to buy five Florida lottery quick picks but I'm playing for five draws.

 So that, that's what I do.

 And I do put the double play and extra on it just in case you get a second tier prize or you have the extra drawing.

 And same with Powerball.

 If I buy Powerball, I'm gonna do the double play and the power play.

 Why not? Not all states offer that, but I would do that.

 So that multiplies a prize that's not the jackpot.

 If you were to get all numbers but one, you would multiply the prize.

 Is that right? Yes, that is correct.

 So I mean, I would do that.

 I put the extra on it.

 Some people don't.

 But for me, and just hearing your story, I'm just doing quick picks.

 I'm not gonna waste my time trying to calculate this and that.

 And you'll know, you'll have a feeling if something good's gonna happen.

 You will.

 And what do you tell yourself or how do you think, what's your mindset when you play and then you don't win? There's always another drawing.

 That's it, because it's not like, oh my gosh, this is the last drawing in the whole wide world I'm gonna miss out.

 I've come to that realization.

 And you don't have to throw a bunch of money into it.

 Like you say, play with a budget, have this set amount, this what I'm going to play with, and sometimes maybe if the Powerball gets larger, then I'll play it.

 Same with the Florida Lottery, but.

 Unfortunately, I I'm committed to these four numbers I picked because I've been playing them for about 30 years now.

 Yeah, yeah, I started on this one set and I'm like Well, sometimes those play out.

 Were those from a dream? Because I do want to ask how your dreams compare to the actual wins.

 No, my dreams have been more like just in general, like you're gonna win something.

 I wish I had dreamt the numbers, but I play my parents' birthdays.

 They've both passed away.

 I play mine and my siblings' birthdays, and I play, my wife's, her mom, and my birthday.

 So those are the, and then one other set I've just played forever.

 So those were the four sets I play throughout.

 So it costs.

 With the double play nine, $3 a ticket, so that's 12 bucks minimum a draw, so $24 a week.

 I can afford that, so I play that.

 Oh, and one time you don't play it, they're gonna pop up.

 And I do have one more story to tell you.

 When I used to work down in Florida, I was in Bradenton, Florida, and the security guy, I mean, we'd always talk about this.

 I mean lottery's always been a dream of mine.

 Dreamt the numbers for the New York Lottery.

 His wife did not go to get the tickets and he played those numbers religiously and it popped up and yes, she did not buy them.

 Oh, he was so upset.

 But isn't that something, yes, so now I'm stuck playing those sets of numbers.

 Yeah, that's, I mean, how heartbreaking would that be? I've met and interviewed someone in a similar situation, but to have all the numbers, and I've seen stories in media too, of people, one person, there's this couple, I think it was in the UK that was playing, I think, it was EuroMillions.

 I'm not, don't quote me on the name of the game, but they had this automatic payment for these specific numbers, I believe, for their tickets and the numbers came up, but for some reason the automatic payment didn't go through like they need I don't remember what the issue was but, so they didn't actually win even though their numbers came up so.

 And how about when tickets expire? Can you imagine that? I've seen Powerball tickets and like $60 million expire.

 Even like $45 million for a Florida lottery, because I always look on the like who won and it says ticket expired.

 Could you imagine looking at your ticket and say, oh my God, I just missed it by one day.

 Yeah, and there's no leniency there.

 If you don't turn it in by the deadline, then they just don't.

 No.

 And there's billions like with a B of worth of prizes that go unclaimed and probably one of the main reasons is that.

 Yeah, and when you have won the lottery because you've won I mean who knows how many you know tons of smaller prizes, but then you've won these significant larger prizes including this million prize, so when this when this has happened, how does that compare because you believe in manifestation, you believe in visualization, you have dreams about it before it happens, how does it compare that feeling of you believe you're going to win to actually winning? It validates you.

 It validates your thoughts all along.

 It makes you realize I wasn't crazy.

 I knew I would do it and here's the proof.

 So it validated it and it just says keep plugging along.

 Again, play with what you can afford, but don't give up.

 I don't care what anybody else thinks.

 What is important is what I feel and what I think.

 And that's what it did.

 It validated my thoughts.

 Just to get the email that says you always said you were going to do it and you finally did it.

 I still have that email from that person.

 Yeah, that has to feel good.

 So you've been telling, so you tell people, you've told people that this was going to happen before it did? Yes, oh yeah, I have, and there are a lot of people, are you wasting your time, this and that, and well, if you put this away, I said no, but to me, it's exciting.

 To me, it's what I believe in and what I feel.

 So I'm gonna do that.

 If I did not go buy that book that day, somebody else would have.

 And then I always think, when I buy all the bad tickets that don't win, I'm just moving them out of the way to get the winner of the cup.

 That's it.

 But the next one, I really would like to see myself win on a draw game.

 That's the next I want to see.

 Well, maybe that can be for our second interview.

 I would love that.

 I would like that for sure.

 And what's the most important or powerful or helpful strategy or when it comes to manifestation or visualization or belief for you personally that you think attributes to your win or wins? I prayed, I'm not going to lie, I prayed for my wife, got my hands and knees and I prayed please send me the woman of my dreams and it happened and I pray and I keep visualizing what's your life going to look like, what is it going to feel like when you walk into the lottery store, you know, what what is it gonna feel like when you? Oh, I forgot to even tell you this.

 I went, and sometimes you don't go without even expecting.

 I have two videos, but I went to the, again, the Fortune Liquors in Campbellton, then the one across the street, two weeks apart.

 And I bought these little payday tickets.

 They were $10 a piece, so I spent $200.

 Scratch it, no winner.

 I wasn't even, I was just scanning them, scratch them, and then all of a sudden, Bam, $5,000.

 Wow.

 Yes, and then two weeks later, go back to Campbellton.

 I bought the $250 tickets.

 First one, nothing.

 Second one, $5,000.

 Yeah, so just don't have any negative thoughts.

 Just go in there, be happy, and go, today's gonna be a great day.

 Dream about it.

 See yourself winning.

 That's it, pray for it.

 I know it sounds terrible, but pray for.

 No, it doesn't sound terrible at all.

 I'm all about prayer and meditation, and some people.

 But if you visualize it and pray and visualize it, see yourself.

 I saw myself up there.

 I want to see myself one day on that Florida lottery website.

 I want see my name up there, and it happened.

 Wow.

 Congratulations again, Thomas.

 Yeah, it is so exciting.

 I love your mindset.

 I really do.

 And I love you story.

 It's so inspiring.

 And I'm so happy for you.

 And I really am excited for a round two for a future interview.

 But anyone watching or listening to this, of course, play responsibly.

 Never spend more than you can afford to lose and have fun.

 But hey, anything is possible.

 And Thomas, I'm, so happy for you.

 But, is there anything that you want to say today that I didn't ask or I don't know enough to ask or that you just want to say? No, just, be appreciative of being alive, be with your loved ones.

 Nobody can replace a life, that's all I'm gonna say.

 So money can't replace all that.

 Play responsibly, have a good outlook on life.

 Just be happy, be grateful, manifest yourself winning.

 That's what I'm gonna say.

 That's beautiful.

 Thomas, thank you so much.

 I really, really appreciate your time and it's really like a true pleasure to meet you.

 So thank you, so much.

 Thank you, Tim.

 Thank you.

 See you in the future.

 And the big jump is if you can go from that 9th word to complete a 10th word, you get the jackpot, $750,000, three quarters of a million.

 So I'm scratching it off, I see the U, I see the N, I see the D, I seen the O, and then I let it out a scream.

 I have my windows up in my car, and I scream, ah! I whip it out, and scan the ticket, and it says, you're a winner, $750,000.

 Please file a claim.

 So at that moment, then this exhalation, like an adrenaline rush, it just rushed through me and it's just kind of euphoric, you don't even know, it just hits you like a sledgehammer.

 Did you ever think that you would win a jackpot like this before it happened? Oh, absolutely.