The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 172 - America's Worst Lottery Winner

Episode Date: May 12, 2016

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine William "Bud" Post, a man who never should have won the lottery. SOURCESTOUR DATES REDBUBBLE MERCH

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Yes. Great podcast. April 5th, 1939. You just want to say? Nope. I just want to get shouted at. Go ahead. No. Say it. April 9th, 19... Nope. That would be a fun game too. You say the date and two sentences later. Ask me what era we're in. April 5th, 1939. Okay. April 30th, 1978. William Post was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. He had a difficult life. His mom died when he was eight years old. Okay. Most common thing of all the dollars. Always. Parents... you better savor the flavor with your parents. They're gonna be gone by the time you're nine. And instead of caring for him, his dad sent him, his sister Patty, his brothers Ed and Jeffrey off to an orphanage. Cool move.

Well, look, guys, mom's gone, so... Dad's gone too. This concludes our relationship. You know the deal. One goes, the other goes too. Oh man. I would have stuck it out, but then, you know, she didn't make it. So bye-bye, kids. Great to meet you guys. Really good to meet you. Ed, you were nice. You were a good one. I had a lot of hopes for you. My name's Ted. Okay. Bye anyway. Bye. You can name yourself whatever you want. You're starting over in an orphanage. Fuck you. Reset. You know what I mean? Goodbye. The kids kicked around foster homes and juvenile facilities. They were also raised for a little bit of time by their maternal grandparents. Now, known as Bud,

William joined the Army. Then, most of his life, he drifted from dead-ed job to dead-end job. Okay. He worked as a spray painter on pipelines, a laborer, a cook at a carnival. Always fun. I mean, that's... How do you guys like your clown meat? Medium? I'm a clown. Yeah. Yeah, we're serving you. What? Yeah, you guys kind of don't really serve much of a purpose. Happy nipsy the clown. Yeah. See, it's like, people just want to see lions and shit. So we're gonna start grilling you guys. Happy nipsy the clown. Okay. You know what's amazing is how many of you guys I could fit into one ground beef burger. I told you. It's sort of like a clown car. I told you we should join the circus. Never a carnival. That's what Dad said. All right, get on the grill.

At one point, he served a 28-day sentence for passing bad checks, which he said was, quote, to feed my family when I was out of work. Well, that's an excuse that people aren't gonna buy. The closing key he came to a career was running, was a long-running job with a traveling circus. He really just went into that life. Jesus. Slippery slope. I mean, he drove a truck for the carnival all around the country. He was very excited when they gave him a promotion to run the Tilda Whirl. Oh, that is so sad. Because coins would fall out of people's pockets when they were on the ride. Oh, God, how did you make the saddest thing sadder? And that was extra money. He could take home. He got excited about his promotion to the Tilda Whirl because he could

get, like he could ground score change. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Pretty sad. It's pretty fucked up. Also, it's if you're in charge of the Tilda Whirl and your job is to keep people safe, that almost, it bisects a little bit with the idea that you can do whatever you want to get people to shake change. If you have a little control, you can make the thing go 30 minutes and really just like fucking shake it. Yeah. So I think the ride's broken. I my recommendation is to never get on a ride at a carnival. The idea that I've done that many times. I mean, it's just how was anybody alive? How are we alive? But did manage to get married five times. Okay. And crank out 10 kids. Jeez. Nine of those were from one marriage. Oh, he had numerous run ins with the

law. He liked to drink. Okay. By his mid 40s, he was alone and broke. One of his daughters said, quote, he was nobody. He was nothing. That's tombstone material. He lived in Erie. Yeah, not a grave. You're gonna Erie. No, not the bed, not the not the baby. It's not terrible, but it's okay. He lived in a Roche infested apartment for $340 a month, which he got from social security and disability. That seems expensive. Oh, no, wait, he got 340 months in social security. Oh, okay. He lived in Roche infested apartment was like 100. Yeah. In 1987, he received a plaque from the city honoring him for rescuing a three year old boy from a burning building. Okay. So probably drunk. Yeah. He was just looking for whiskey. But the day that

changed his life came when he had $2.46 in his bank account. He pawned one of his wedding or engagement rings he'd gotten back for $60. And then he bought $60 worth of Pennsylvania lottery tickets. Oh, dear. He must have made some sort of deal on rent because he gave his landlady and karpik $20 worth of tickets and kept the other 40 tickets for himself. Okay. So he paid his rent and lottery tickets or bought time from getting kicked out. Okay. One or the other. Right. Yeah, no, they pro rate lottery tickets. Normally. That's how it works. I don't have the rent, but I do have four jacks or wilds for you, man. One of his was a winning lottery ticket. The jackpot was worth more than $32 million. What? At the time, it was the second highest jackpot in state

history. But he had to split it with another lottery winner, which turned out to be a group of employees from the Westinghouse Electric Bettis atomic power lab laboratory in Pittsburgh. So Bud's total would be $16.2 million, which he would receive in 26 annual payments of $497,593. He had $3 in the bank. Yeah. And now he's got a half a million. Okay. He called his daughter drunk so many times. It'd be nothing to nobody. He called his daughter drunk so many times over the years and complained about life that when he called her and told her he had won the lottery, she thought he had been institutionalized. Put the doctor on, dad. Put the man in the white coat on. Now I'm a millionaire. All right, daddy. I love you so much. Please put the doctor on.

I love that. That's the jump. Yeah. Not that like he's crazy. He's in institutionalized. He threw himself a party at a fancy restaurant. Oh, man, did he? And ordered giant platters of seafood to show off. Well, this money's gone. What do you mean? This money's going away. He called himself the black sheep of the family and wanted to show them all that he was somebody now. It is it is so fucked up that money is that important that that can make you be like from one day be like, see, I'm somebody. You said I couldn't do it. And I bought a magic ticket. You said I wouldn't be anything. And I went and bought a magic ticket. And now I'm somebody. God damn it. Come on. Eat the crab. Eat the crab. Dig into these shrimp, guys. At the restaurant,

his landlady. I bought a magic ticket. Like that you like that took any thought on your end. I mean, the only thing you had to do is go, I'm going to buy it. No, you did nothing except being so broke that you were like, fuck it. Maybe this Hail Mary, Hail Mary. At the restaurant, his landlady and a carpet said to one of his daughters, quote, I hope your dad is going to do something for my children with this money. I should be getting half of it. Whoa. It's a bad sign, right? Yeah. It's not not what you want to hear at a fucking launch party. But moved out of his house and into a fancy hotel. Then he went on a shopping spree. This is just not good. What? It's just that it's not good. I mean, moving moving into a hotel is questionable. Buy some

fucking property. He did live in a roach infested place. So yeah, but it's not your options aren't hotel or shithole. Okay, that's fair. Go buy go buy a place. Have a fix up the roach motel. Yeah, like redo the hotel you're staying in the hotel. No, the roach infested place he was staying. Fix that up. Well, that's better than renting it. I'm trying to keep this dude's money. Good luck with that. Yeah. But moved out of right. But when I was housing to the fancy hotel, then he goes on a shopping spree. His lawyer said, quote, he would go to every imaginable store and buy every imaginable thing you could see. Oh boy. Not good. Not good. I'm somebody. You see, I did it. I'm somebody. They said I wouldn't, but they said I was an idiot. I'll take all those Ottomans. It's like,

it's like if like a guy in the desert who hasn't had water for a week and he sees water, he gets a gallon of water and he decides to drink a little and shower. He bought an 18 wheeler, a twin engine airplane, even though he had no idea to fly. He bought tractors, a backhoe, and a bulldozer and farms. He bought around 35 Cadillacs, two of which were limousines, and he bought motorcycles. Oh my God. Oh my God. He bought 35 Cadillacs. It's like he's writing a book called What Not To Do. How I Lost It In Three Hours. 35 Cadillacs. He invested in a liquor license and got a lease for a restaurant in Florida. What is he doing? Just chill. He bought a 31 foot tall sailboat boat that slept six. Oh my God. I mean, he's essentially like buying like everything, every mode of

transportation. Yeah. I mean, one of them 35 modes of transportation, two limous. He set his brother up and bought for him a used car lot and a fleet of cars to go with it. He blew through $300,000 just on gifts. Within three months, he was $500,000 in debt. Okay, so he spent a million dollars, that means. Yes. Fast. So he's already spent next year's money. Yeah. Five months later, he married his sixth wife. She was a waitress named Connie. They had been dating before he won the lottery and she signed a prenup that would give her 50k a year if they divorced. That's a lot of money. That's a shit lot of money. Like why would you give, why would you give that's 10% of you. Yeah. That's a great deal. That's a terrible prenup.

That's not a prenup. That's the worst prenup ever. That's what the prenup she would give you. What do you think? They moved into a mansion in oil city, Pennsylvania. In oil city. Yeah. All righty. That they bought for $395,000 and immediately went about upgrading it. I thought you're going to say that they bought with 30 Cadillacs. I mean, we'll give you 30 Cadillacs of the house. How about, how about I give you this boat for the house? Huh? Huh? You want a jet boat? You want a bulldozer? Twin engine? I got planes. You a tractor? I got an elephant. Take this back home. And I'm not talking to my new wife. I've decided I'm addressing you. Take this back home. Not take this back home. No, honey. No.

So the mansion had a beautiful circular staircase, a giant pool in the backyard, a bathtub bigger than most jacuzzi's with 18 karat gold faucets. Oh, Jesus. What? I mean, you're getting only getting water. It's like shit that you should never have. There's no reason to ever have that. It's like MC Hammers, your financial planner. Oh, fuck, yes. This is straight up MC Hammers shit. It was known by the neighbors as the hamburger house, because the previous owners also own McDonald's. Okay. So they're clever in the neighborhood. Neighbors are cool. Neighbors are great. We called it the hamburger house. Why? We're the worst. Okay, that's why. Meet the worst. After he burnt his money well before the year was over,

the next year came along and another half million came. Oh, boy, and that has just got to be kind of spend and he went. Oh, God. But things were still not great. Buddy was a drinker and he fought with his wife a lot. Oh, dear. Someone's getting 50k a year. Right? Yeah. Bud's daughter, Gladys, said, quote, he constantly changes phone number because people would call him. As soon as they would find out his new number, they'd call him and ask for money. He got crazy. He'd sit and stare at the surveillance cameras to be sure somebody, to be sure nobody was sneaking up to his house. Sounds like Steve Martin and the jerk. Oh, yeah. At this point. It really does. It's just like, I mean, it has to, it does have to be its own. I mean, that's why you hear so many stories about

people who just lose their money on the lottery because it's how do you, like, how can you, you can't almost wrap your mind around a middle ground because you've lived like such by a lower standard most likely for so much time that when you get money, no matter how you tell yourself, like, I'm not going to burn through this. You're going to burn through. It's just your mind functions in a realm where it never has before. Unless you already have like a decent house and you can go, okay, I'll pay off my mortgage and I'll just stay here and I won't, like, don't buy new stuff and I'll just live my life comfortably now. But I do believe, studies say, the majority of people who win the lottery are more unhappy than before. No, because,

because like the truth is that it's, it's, your stress level is always like the same in a way. Like there's times when you're more stressed out, there's times when you're less stressed out, but a portion of your brain specifically is always going to be like donated to your stress. So when you get yourself in this world, the stresses are just, I mean, there's just even more implications. They're larger. They're just the other really bad thing about it is, I think there's only like 10 states that say that you don't have to come out to the public. But most states make you come out to the public, which makes your life hell. That means everybody is calling you all the time. And what you what you would really need to do, I mean,

is you need to, yeah, if it's, and even if it's private, you have to like figure out and out of your real life delicately. You don't fucking not show up to work the next day. You show up to work, you go, you believe some son of a bitch, all that money for nothing, prick. I've been thinking about the Bahamas lately, you know, slowly milk it, slowly get in there, put in another four months at the office. Terrible. But I had 14 TVs in his bedroom. I'll see you, Dave. Six of which were close circuited cameras on his property. That means eight were not. That means eight were for watching all at once. Yeah. Well, one's the weather channel, one's CNN, one's DSPN. Did you see the taxi where a lockup got a wall full of TVs? I must have at some point. The pressure started getting to him.

He would get manic when he thought people were trying to cheat him. He would just sit and stare at the surveillance cameras all day. In 1984, a handyman came to the mansion to collect an overdue invoice. The guy came in through the garage and he was pissed. Oh boy. And Bud was pissed too. Oh boy. This had been building for some time. Bud shot over his head with a shotgun. Whoa. Turns out the guy was actually a stepdaughter's boyfriend. Oh, what? Bud was arrested and convicted of assault. The police came and confiscated 12 rifles and all as ammunition. When they left, Bud said 4,000 was missing as well. He then sued the police department. Oh boy. You know what, you let it go. Let it go. You got fucking 16 minutes. Well, now 15. 14 and a half. Yeah. Relax.

Bud now needed a judge's approval before leaving Venango County. He never repaired the shotgun damaged to the garage wall. Sure. Are you surprised he didn't fill it with silver? Bud's brother was also not happy. Bud had bought his family a car dealership and a restaurant from $470,000. But that wasn't enough for Bud's brother, Jeffrey. He seemed to believe Bud was going to give him some of the money when he won the lottery. But as the years went by, it became obvious this wasn't going to happen. I'm sure this happens all the time. Yeah. People get, get furiated with you that you haven't given them money. Yep. So Jeffrey felt like he was getting erupt off. And he hired a hit man to kill Bud this way. Jesus Christ. What? Can I borrow some money,

Bob? No, I, I got, it's mostly wrapped up in stuff. And I also, I bought you the car, bought you the car lot in the restaurant. I need a little money. Why buy you the car lot in the restaurant? I need a little money. Right. So you, five grand. I'm going to hire a hit man. What? I need to borrow five grand. No, this is a, you shouldn't tell me that number one. But number two, I get $170,000 I spent on you. It's good. I need five grand to get the rest, though. What the fuck does that even mean? I need to borrow $5,000. I'm getting a hit man. Hey, we're, stop saying that. I'm getting a hit man. Okay. Jeffrey was arrested for committing solicitation of murder in the first degree

and possession of and selling cocaine. Okay. Well, I think that they're, they're going, our logic's there. I can't believe he was on cocaine. I'm shocked. I was just going on cocaine. You know, I was doing so grounded the time when I was going to hire a hit man to kill my millionaire brother. I'll be honest. I was doing a little coke, but Jeffrey received pearl. Okay. Because he was dying of AIDS. Oh my God. Dave, these are, these are negative details that keep leaking out. If you're dying and someone's giving you $170,000 in businesses, what's the one thing you do? Kill your brother. As a dying man. You kill your, you kill your brother. You kill your brother. Because at the point of dying, it's when you really start to evaluate life

and what it truly has meaning and what doesn't. Yeah. And the things that truly have meaning are killing family members. Cocaine and killing siblings. Who gets AIDS and does coke? I don't know. I can't imagine. I, but I'm betting that's part of the reason he had AIDS. Let's see. It's a very, it's a very tangled web. But Jeffrey was ordered to have no contact with but no, but no more killing your brother. Thank you. Alrighty. Buddy was convinced his brother Ed and sister Patty were also in on it. And so he cut them out of the will and eliminated eliminated them from the lottery beneficiary statement. Patty was informed of this by the Pittsburgh Gazette. So a reporter came

and said that bud thought she was in on the contracted killer thing quote. So buddy no longer is going to have anything to do with the family. That's the greatest news I've heard all week. Buddy is full of it. He blames everyone else for his problems. He's a goddamn liar. You can quote me on that. We will, ma'am. We're going to do that. We plan on doing that. This is quoted kind of why we came here for actually like this. This is great. Turns out Patty had taken buddy in the year before when he had separated from his wife for the umpteenth time quote. I fed him. I took care of him. He paid me back by drinking a case of Budweiser a day, running up $2,000 in phone bills and then paid me with a check that bouts.

Lottery winner. I just I don't even where do you even start? How is a lottery winner living like a guy with no money? Like that's a guy. That's the guy in the family that has no money. Yeah. Yep. This is going well at this point. Only people on the only people in the lottery beneficiary statement were two of his 10 kids. Okay. So he cut everybody out and now Bud was spooked. His daughter said he put in even more television monitors with close circuit cameras around the house. You know, I realized the problem. I don't, I don't have enough TVs in the bedroom. I need nine more. He was drinking constantly. One of his legs terrible start shook all the time. He and his wife were fighting constantly and when Bud has guns, he liked to pull them out during

fights. He once shot through her purse when she was holding it during a fight. Wow. That's pretty a shot. Yeah, that's a statement. Which was, which was the final draw seems to be when he shot the radiator of her 1989 Pontiac Firebird. Let's go get another one from the garage. It was too much for Bud's wife. I will say on this show, I Pontiac, Pontiacs are mentioned a good amount. Yeah, no, no. Yeah, it's for sure. It's it's it's it's the funny about the Pontiac Firebird is the car of our people. Yeah, it's like it's like it's the car like not everyone who drives a Pontiac is a psychopath. But for the most part, every psychopath is a Pontiac. Are you crazy? Pontiac, we're still in business somewhere apparently. And everybody's nuts.

So it's too much for Bud's wife. She moves out filing for divorce in 1991. Then things got a lot worse. Oh, I was just going to say things can't get any better for this guy. His former landlady and sued him for half the lottery winnings. Oh boy. This is like years later. I can't believe she's suing me. That's how to buy another TV. Bud. She said they had agreed to split the winnings and that they had been lovers. Now, if you saw a picture of this woman, that's the most offensive thing that's happened. She's like a stump, like just a big stump of a person. It's not. Some people like to stump fuck.

Bud was adamant that they had never agreed to split the money. It was always that he would give her 20 tickets and the rest were his. That was the agreement. Right. And offered to settle, but Bud wouldn't because it wasn't right. And the judge ruled for her. The judge based that number. Yeah. There's nothing in writing. The judge based it on the fact that Bud had bought the tickets and kept 40 and given her 20. So under that reasoning, he said he owed her 33 percent. Doesn't that? Okay. It's stupidest judge in the world. That reasoning clearly says to you they had an agreement of like you get 20 and you get 40. Right. Otherwise why wouldn't each keep 30? Well, then you would just keep them all and

scratch them all off. Yeah. Or split them. Or like you could. The point is having a number that is different for each one of them receiving the tickets tells you that there was a ticket agreement over a financial settlement. Right. Yeah. It's fucking insane. Yeah. So the stupidest judge in the world makes them split the, split the amount. So he. All rise. The honorable judge stupid is entering the courtroom. Right here, judge. Right here, your honor. Sit down, your honor. Sit down, your honor. Don't say hi to them. Yeah, yeah. Order in the court. Say order 33 percent. Order in the court. All right. Judge stupid has made his verdict. All right. There we go. Wheel him back. Wheel him back into the room. Wheel him back there. So she gets 5.3

million in annual payouts. Wow. What? Bud's broke again. He was spending more than he brought in. He had no money in the bank. 5.3 in annual payouts. Yeah. Because it's annual payouts, right? Yeah. But he was only getting like hundreds of thousands a year. He's getting 500,000 a year. No, she's not getting 5.3 million a year. She's getting 5.3 million over. Over years. Gotcha. So he has no money in the bank. He only has bills. He was worrying about not having money all the time. His brother Ed said that Bud had had continual money problems since he won the lottery because he buys hell high and sells low. Oh, God. Quote from his daughter. He wanted me to come down. I got to his house. It was a total wreck. There were moldy dishes and empty beer cans everywhere.

It was disgusting. He was getting vascular cluster headaches that were extremely painful and he found they came when he wore his false teeth. So now he was rarely wearing them. Why didn't you want to go visit him? I can't believe this guy worked in a carnival. He stayed at home most of the time. He sold his furniture off and other possessions to pay his debts. So he's just going to eventually live in an empty house with beer cans and no teeth? If that's what he's living in. He sold all his furniture because he's a lottery winner who gets $500,000. He's still getting $500,000 a year and he's selling his furniture. Yeah. How fucking incompetent? Like that's beyond the beyond. It's insane.

It's a good thing he didn't get a lump sum. This has got the boat. Yeah, so he's got his boat. Most of the rooms in his house were empty. Plastic garbage cans collected rainwater from the leaky ceiling. Jesus. There was just a hole from where the person who bought the jacuzzi had taken it. At what point does this not a mansion anymore? Breaking bad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what it is. He just got a hole. I put a TV over it. Any hole I just basically put a TV over. See, that's where the couch used to be. I just put a TV there. Okay, now this is the worst thing. Oh boy. The broken security system would beep six times every 60 seconds. Bud said he couldn't afford to get it fixed. No. No. Six times every

60 seconds. Every 10 seconds. Beep, beep. He's just sitting there staring at the TVs. Beep, beep. Beep, beep. Why would he just, but he was so freaked out about getting robbed. He's got nothing that he didn't disconnect it. Just unplug it. There's nothing to take from him anymore. I know. The only thing they could possibly take is the beep, beep. Maybe he's worried they're going to steal this hole. I'm worried they're going to steal the hole that the tub used to be in. Beep, beep. The front yard was filled with weeds because he had given his lawnmower away to a stepdaughter. The backyard pool was filled with dirt and weeds. Two unkept trailers sat outside in the yard. Eight brick pedestals that used old statues

were now empty. This is what I picture Larry the Cable Guy's house looking like. But that's how he wants it. Yeah. But it was then forced to declare bankruptcy. It was eight years after winning $16 million. Bud asked the court if he could auction off his remaining lottery winnings for $2 million to pay his debts and then have some left over. So he's in such dire straits. But that is so terrible. Well, he's in such dire straits that he has a guaranteed $8 million and he's going to sell it for $2 million. But that is the most fucked up. I'm just getting money. Would you like to buy it? It's crazy. In a world where he's lost all of his money so fast, the idea that he's found a new way to sort of step it up, like,

you know, I figured out a way to, I'm actually, I'm what I'm doing right now is I'm selling $6 million for two. That's my latest plan. It's going great. I'm out of money. The court allowed him to auction off his winnings. That left him after paying his debts one million in cash. That money is gone. It's a decent amount that someone can live on. Yes, for sure. I can't wait. I can't wait to see what candy he bought. Fortunately, this is Bud. Oh, God. Bud then came to the conclusion completely on his own that if he spent all his money, he would get some sort of tax deduction. Well, I love how you just put the mic down and take

a big sip because you know that's the craziest shit you've ever said. What? With no... If he spends all his money, he'll get a tax break. But that's so stupid. And he said he had 38 days to do it. That arbitrarily he's just come up with? This is all totally arbitrary. So like he's got like a beer can as a as his accountant right now. Just like, come on, Bud. The beer can't do it in 38. 36 is what it said. His lawyer told him this was a very, very bad idea and it didn't make any sense. It makes no sense. The idea that you're like, you have the money and you're like, I figured out it.

I mean, he's found it another way to lose a lot of his money and get a little bit back. Right. Right. How does he keep doing it? I'm not getting any kind of tax break. He's just spending money. Right. But even in his world of warped lodging. He's going to end up owing taxes on the million dollars. Yeah, they tax me real heavy on that million. I don't know what a tax break is. So Bud went on a spending spree. He bought tools for a business he never started. He bought an uninsured boat that quickly caught on fire.

In a year, he was completely out of money. He was now living on social security and disability and he was incredibly happy. That's great. He said what was important to him was peace of mind. He no longer had the stress of worrying about people coming to get money from him or to steal from him. He no longer had the surveillance cameras. He was much more relaxed. But he still lives with the beep beep. He still lives with the beep beep. I want to move the beep beep. The only thing he kept was the alarm. He died of respiratory failure on July 26, 2006. He left behind his latest wife, which was the seventh, and eight children.

Gladys said of her dad, quote, my dad got so much happier when he had nothing. After the money was gone, he realized what was important. You know, they say that for his burial, he was only buried two feet deep but paid for six. Wow, that's crazy. Right? Yeah, it's nuts. I mean, but it is. There is just something. It's so bizarre how the lottery is this portal into your true self almost. The fucking stories, man. I know. If you really get into the stories, holy fuck. No, I just heard this one about this guy named Bud, who he had like this.

He had $3 in his bank account. And then, oh, no, no, we just did this. Sorry. That's the one I'm thinking of. Oh, we just did. Right. That's right. Alrighty. All right. Well, we signed another day. Another dollop. We signed cars. Yeah.