Our colleague Brad Reagan grew up in Texas.
I live in London now, but I'm originally from Texas.
My family's still in Texas.
All my friends, or not all my friends, but a lot of my friends are in Texas.
Brad tracks the news in his home state.
And recently, a story caught his eye.
A heist story.
Yeah, we love a heist story, especially here at the Journal Podcast.
We love it.
Heist stories are my favorite stories.
That's exactly how we were looking at this from the beginning.
And this heist story involved a lottery, the Texas lottery,
specifically a drawing that happened in the spring of 2023.
Get ready to play the Games of Texas for Saturday, April 22nd.
On the night of the drawing,
They do it a little bit after 10 o'clock and it's kind of looks like almost like a cable access show.
Tonight's Lotto Texas jackpot is an estimated $95 million.
There's a woman and she's like standing next to like what this clear ball with basically ping pong balls.
bouncing around like a popcorn machine or something.
The first number is...