--- title: Powerball Lottery: Reporter Asks Man How He Will Spend It description: Reporter asks how man would spend Powerball Lottery winnings. canonical: https://time.com/4173538/powerball-lottery-reporter/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-08T21:48:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:30.076Z og:title: Powerball Lottery: Reporter Asks Man How He Will Spend It og:description: Reporter asks how man would spend Powerball Lottery winnings. og:url: https://time.com/4173538/powerball-lottery-reporter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Powerball Lottery: Reporter Asks Man How He Will Spend It twitter:description: Reporter asks how man would spend Powerball Lottery winnings. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Reporter Stunned by Powerball Player's Answer to How He'd Spend the Money  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 8, 2016 9:48 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jan 8, 2016 9:48 PM CUT As the [Powerball Lottery](http://time.com/money/4172923/powerball-ticket-sales/ "undefined") jackpot keeps growing, it’s natural to wonder what could be done with the grand prize of at least $800 million. So when a reporter decided to ask an unsuspecting ticket buyer on live TV how he’d spend the winnings, one customer decided to troll her and give the most inappropriate answer possible. In this clip, a man in Primm, Nevada, tells Fox 5 Las Vegas reporter Ophelia Young that he would use the prize money to buy “hookers and cocaine.” Young couldn’t stop giggling. [On Twitter](https://twitter.com/OpheliaFox5LV/with%5Freplies "undefined"), she wrote, “I even told everyone in line I’d choose someone at random and to think about their answer.” (h/t [_Maxim_](http://maxim.com/news/powerball-honest-answer-2016-01 "undefined")) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4173538/powerball-lottery-reporter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4173538/powerball-lottery-reporter/"},"headline":"Reporter Stunned by Powerball Player's Answer to How He'd Spend the Money","datePublished":"2016-01-08T21:48:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:30.076Z","description":"Hint: It's wildly inappropriate","url":"https://time.com/4173538/powerball-lottery-reporter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4173538/powerball-lottery-reporter/","name":"Reporter Stunned by Powerball Player's Answer to How He'd Spend the Money"}}]}] ```