He Won $45 Million—Then Dreamt He’d Win Again (John Falcon Interview)

it was the New York Lotto? In: 1999

John Falcon Do, do you still have any money?

Timothy Schultz Yeah, a couple dollars.

John Falcon If you had called, I would have told you to take the annuity.

Timothy Schultz You did take the annuity and most lottery winners, most people that have won the lottery major prizes because in the United States, you have the choice of the annuity. All of it over a period of years or half of it right away. Almost everyone does take the lump sum, but you did choose the annuity. So would you recommend that for somebody else?

John Falcon Yes, anyone under 50, or that's even anyone under 55, should take the annuity because you then have 26 years of checks coming. You can screw up one year and still know that you have a check coming. Plus, when you take the Annuity, you get half. In my case, I won $45 million. By taking the annuity, I got $22,500,000. As opposed to the $9 million if I took the lump sum and yes it has every year you know you're getting money for 26 years it was it was great and you could plan for things because you knew that another check was coming or you could certainly take that to the bank you know to get a mortgage you know on a higher price property. Yeah, it has worked in my favor very well. And you know I got my last check in November.

Timothy Schultz That's right, so the last time you were on this show, you mentioned that you had three more years of checks, and now you have received your last check. I received...

John Falcon I received my last check believe me it was I wore my dark cape with a hood walked, you know, around the city of New York going, ah.

John Falcon Oh, yeah.

John Falcon I'm now haunting the halls of my apartment building. Yes, it was sort of an awakening. Oh, my lord, no more yearly pension just for my existence, just for existing. Yes.

Timothy Schultz Well, are you are you able to say if you invested or what you have?

hat at the same time, we have: 2008

Timothy Schultz And what are your thoughts on the most secure place to invest? Do you have any advice?

John Falcon So far, I think, and I haven't done it yet, I think the most stable, and don't mean stable, because everything fluctuates. There is nothing that exists that's stable, right? Something, you buy something at one price, it either goes up or it goes down. But I think precious metals are what I'm going to invest a few million in. I mean, that's... Just to keep them safe, you know, because otherwise, you know, with the, and I don't want to get political, but otherwise with the way that, you know, the world is going today with the tariffs and everything, that could lead us into a depression. And that means banks close. And it means once banks close, there's no, you're not getting your money back. And so I just want to protect myself from any body else's nonsense somehow. And I think precious metals are where I'm going to go.

Timothy Schultz That's very interesting. And do you know with the annuity itself, one reason why some people don't take the annuity is because the interest rate is so low, but it's also very, very secure. So do you happen to know the rate at which it would increase in value?

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Timothy Schultz So you believe that it's possible to win again?

John Falcon I don't know what I believe. Basically, I'm sort of joshing with you, but the truth is I probably will. If it gets to be $500 million, what is $4? Right? Because I only play twice, because you only need to hit once. So I mean, it's, I play, I have a new set of numbers that, I don't know, will ever come out. And then I make up another set of number. So just how I won before. So I have four bucks a week, four bucks, a game I can play. But I mean I do that only, I'll do that, only when it's over $500,000.

Timothy Schultz Yeah, that makes complete sense.

John Falcon $500 million is what I meant to say. When it's over $500 million, yeah.

Timothy Schultz Yeah, and the first time that you won, you mentioned in the last interview that you had this amalgamation of numbers that came to you, and that you'd had dreams about winning before it happened, or even after it happened I believe, but your grandmother came to you in your dreams. Looking back now, do you believe that that was spiritual guidance?

John Falcon Well, I mean, I don't want to go into all that either. Spirituality, we all have our own spirituality. I'll call it just like witchcraft. There was also the story about the lady in New Orleans with the bone, who gave me the bone and said it was going to bring me good luck and then the next month I won the lottery. What is it? Is it the bone? Is it my grandmother coming to me in my sleep? Is it just dumb luck? Do know what I mean? They're all, you know, it's A, B, C, all of the above. You know, so who knows why I won the last time. But there were things, and I think hindsight is always 20-20. Sometimes it's all, it's 20-25. You know? Like, there's so much hindsight that you start making up things. And, you know, you romanticize on what you think happened. Tonight, yeah. And that certainly could be what that is as well. It could just as easily be done like, you know, is what I'm saying. I mean, if I knew how to do it again, I would have done it again a few times.

Timothy Schultz And you did show us the bone the last time, I believe, when you were on here. It was quite remarkable. So we can pull that up for people watching this on YouTube today. But some people, I think you just alluded to this, but some people believe that it's possible to manifest a lottery win. Do you think that your belief or your openness because of the dream, do you think that that potentially is there any possibility in your mind that that might have that your energy of believing in it might have attributed to that?

John Falcon Well, you know, who can say yes or no, but you know if you want to talk to me in a phantasmagorical sort of way, sure, maybe that's true and so I'm going to do it again, I'm It's so interesting because the other day, and I don't want to say this as that this is some sort of sign, but the other day I had like, I woke up, and you know how you don't remember your dreams, but I woke up thinking to myself, oh I won the lottery again, that solves everything. You know, I woke up like that with that thought in my mind, like I did it again. Great, now I don't have to worry about, you know, selling my art. Which I bought for this reason, I think I tell you today. I bought the art for my last year, you know, to sell it. But, so the art was always going to be sold. But I woke up with this feeling of, ah, I won again. Good, thank God I don't have to worry about it. So I think that I'm just gonna ride that wave. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. If I win again, I guess we get a part three.

Timothy Schultz Yes yeah well we always love having you back anyway but for anyone watching this that has had a dream because this happened to me this is why i'm asking these questions because I had a dream about it before it happened and so I was just i was Just curious. What you would say to anyone watching or listening today that maybe has had a dream about winning the lottery and they're hoping that that means something? Do you, what would you say to someone like that?

John Falcon We all have dreams, so we have to find out the percentage of people who have had winning the lottery dreams have actually won it and those who haven't won it yet or ever. I mean, I don't think just because you dream about winning the lottery that it's going to happen. I think. For you and I, we had these dreams and they came true. What was your dream that you dreamt of? What was the premise of your dream?

Timothy Schultz Well, I didn't see my grandmother or anyone like that, but I felt, this sounds crazy. I mean, I think it can sound crazy if you haven't experienced something like this, but I felt as if I was in this meditative sleep state and I felt as if I vibrated out of my body and I experienced in this dream that I had already won the lottery. And so. From that time on, I believed that I was going to win and I started playing consistently because the dream was so real. And so, and then I won about three months later. And so, some people think that's a coincidence and a lot of people think that it's not, but regardless, that was what happened. And so I just find it interesting to hear these stories. That's why I was asking.

John Falcon Well, I mean, what's interesting about what you just said is that that's exactly when I had my little dream was in that state that in between sleep and wake up and it was just me waking up and just feeling like relief that I won again and I don't have to do anything regarding my art or selling my apartments or anything like that. And the fact that you said that's exactly what you dreamt. You're in that same state. I'll take that as an omen. Damn it. Gonna win again! Have to get back to New York just so I can start playing because you can't play from Buenos Aires

Timothy Schultz That's right, so you're in Buenos Aires right now. Yeah, and that's, how is it down there for you?

John Falcon Great and Buenos Aires is a surprisingly beautiful city. It has some extraordinary European architecture, just done over the top spectacular.

Timothy Schultz You were mentioning your art or some of the art earlier. I don't know too much about that scene, but if you invest in art, I mean, what kind of, can you give a couple examples of the types of pieces you have and like what kind money are we talking about? You don't have to say the exact amount, but like roughly.

John Falcon Well, I was an art major, so when I first started buying art, you know, I was just so thrilled to be able to own pieces by the artists that I studied. So, and one of them is Alexander Calder, who is like the American Picasso, but the father of mobiles before him, mobiles did not exist. He created the first mobile. You can go into office building lobbies and see these giant mobiles hanging from the ceiling. Most likely, they're Calder. That was the first piece I bought. I bought a Calder gouache in, of all places, Las Vegas. Because at that time, well, one of the hotels had a Pace Wildenstein gallery. And I had just won the money kind of thing. There was this cauldron gouache of a circus. And I bought it, and it was $50,000 then. And now I think it's probably worth hundreds of thousands. So how much depends on how many people want to bid on that piece.

Timothy Schultz Wow, that's remarkable. And you've said in our last interview that we spoke about how money or winning the lottery can magnify a person or who they are and that sort of thing. How would you, first of all, do you agree with that, that it amplifies or magnifies who you already are on the inside? And then how did it, if so, how did it amplify you creatively? Because you have a new album. And a new film and all kinds of things I want to ask about in a second, but how did it amplify you or magnify your personality creatively, would you say?

John Falcon Well, I mean, I think that when I first won the money, the realization that I could travel the world, that happened first. And so that put all of my creative energies in a, you know, I locked them in a little trunk and da-da-da. And, of course, that's not true, you don't, because you get inspired by what you're seeing, you know... When you get to Machu Picchu, you look at Machu Pichu. And I was at Machu Picchu before they closed it down and made it like, because now you can only see Machu Picchu from across the mountain, across from it, where you get a perfect view of the whole Machu Picchu. But when I went, they still had like cardboard walkways and things. And you could walk through it. I mean, I actually took a rock. I shouldn't admit that the Peruvian government is going come after me. And the very idea that I took a rock is exactly why they closed it off to the public now. You have to be an academic to get to the actual spot now, but not when I was there. Like I rented a houseboat in Paris for three months. It cost me a lot of money. What was that like? Spectacular. It was spectacular. And I had friends come and stay with me. It was right, I mean I don't know if anyone knows Paris, but it was across from the Louver. So when I got up in the morning I had a view of the Louvers and if I looked to my left was Pont Neuf and then if I look to my right was the fire department of the Seine River and every morning at about 8 o'clock they would get up in little red Speedos and simultaneously do gymnastics on the top of their boat. So every morning, I would set my alarm, bring my espresso, and sit and watch them do their calisthenics. But anyway, yes, just extraordinary experiences traveling, a million travel stories. But I don't know if that's where you want me to go. But just to say that, when I first won the money, what took up. A good 12, 15 years was just travel...

Timothy Schultz So for anyone that has the ability to do that, or if they win the lottery tomorrow and they are into traveling, where are your top 3 places that, where are the top 3 places someone should visit?

John Falcon I went to Machu Picchu, but on that same trip I went to the Galapagos Islands. You fly into Quito and then you go. Quito, of course, is in Ecuador, it's the capital of Ecuador, and it's a high city, so you're going to have, you may have a little respiratory issues for the first few days. And then from Quito you go to the equator. Where you get the boat that'll take you to cruise around the Galapagos Islands. And the Galápagos islands, they're very restricted. So there are paths you have to walk and you can't stray. And of course, the animals are king. So if there's an animal in front of you, you either climb over it or wait for it to move. And if you haven't seen a blue-footed booby, They are, what's the matter?

Timothy Schultz A blue-footed booby. Booby?

John Falcon Mm-hmm.

Timothy Schultz What is, what is that?

John Falcon You need to look this up. It's a bird, it's a big gangly bird with bright blue feet. They also have an anomaly of their genetic code. There are a few blue-footed boobies that have pink, bright pink feet. And they're just goofy, beautiful birds, and they live in the cliffs of the Galapagos Island, one of the islands of the galapagas island. But I remember we went into a rowboat because we needed to go into a cave for some reason. You know, I'm always like, I'm fine here, I don't need to go to the cave, you know. Okay, let me go. Let me go into the cave and And then you go into the damn cave and he's showing us that there are just millions and millions of bats sleep-hanging from the ceiling. And then as we were going back to the boat, from the rowboat, going back on the row boat to the main boat, we saw an octopus grab a seagull and drag it into the water. It was, of course, none of us had our cameras ready because who knew that was to happen. But that's a sight I'll never forget, you know, because this octopus came out like a big sea monster that you would see in mythology books, Greek mythology books came out and just grabbed the seagull and dragged it under the water and said, oh wow, getting hungry. So I mean travel, I mean that's what travel is, you just experience it. So, if someone says, where should they go, well, I would go to the Galapagos island and then on that same trip, because Galapacos is in Ecuador, and then Machu Picchu is right next door in Peru, and Cuscos is one of the highest cities, that's 11,000 feet above sea level. So, you're really gasping for air there. But they have a thing called, they use cocoa, cacao, cocoa, whatever it is. And it's basically the basis of cocaine. And, but they make a tea out of it. And so I was drinking that tea all day in Cusco because it did make breathing much easier.

Timothy Schultz That sounds amazing. And you have done quite a bit of traveling, which sounds just extraordinary. Would you say that also after winning the lottery that, I mean, obviously it freed up time. You didn't have to work the job that you had before. So how would you say that it eventually affected or didn't affect or inspire your creative endeavors because you have now produced some music i believe you're working on another album right now you actually have a short film as well that happened because of covid.

John Falcon Up until COVID, I was still, I mean, to be fair, even before COVID I was still keeping up with my singing and going to my coach three times a week and doing all of that, but with no, with an idea that one day I was going to do an album.

John Falcon That would score to shame If I ever leave you

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Timothy Schultz Yeah, TikTok seems to give views pretty easy, I would say. Yes.

John Falcon So that things can, your viewership gets so much quicker. I mean, 350,000 for the Catch Me video. I'll send that to you when we get off the phone.

Timothy Schultz Yeah, and we would love to link to it in the description. If you're watching this on YouTube or in the show notes, if you're listening to this today, but you also have a short film that I've seen the poster art for this. So what is this and where can people find this?

John Falcon We just finished it. This film took us two years and it's only 15 minutes. So I don't know how they did Gone with the Wind. I mean, it took, you know, the Godfather or whatever. It's just, it's, it two years just for this little film. And it hasn't, we haven't done anything with it yet, so I don't want to say too much about it until, you know we get it out to our first film festival, which hopefully I'm going to try to find out it's not necessary in Sundance for a movie short to be a premiere. It is, if you're doing a full length movie, Sundance only wants premieres. But not with movie shorts. So I want to find out if our chances are better if we give them a premiere. So I'm going to try calling and making a pain in the ass of myself and that's a good way to get them to know who you are and the goal is Sundance but you know if we can do other Music uh music uh festival a short movie festival so for which there are hundreds uh, if not thousands um you know we'll start sending it out when I get back to New York. I get to back to New York the first week of June.

Timothy Schultz Amazing. Well, I certainly am excited to see it whenever it's released. And so you have done so many incredible things with all the traveling and your creative endeavors and your voice is spectacular. We'd love to put that into this interview if possible. But I'm curious, what are your thoughts on money and happiness? Do you think there's a correlation

John Falcon Like what? Or, I-I-

Timothy Schultz I did, yeah.

John Falcon This is my philosophy, take it or leave it. Money does buy happiness. I think people who are unhappy, who have money, are gonna be happy. We're just basically going to be unhappy anyway, whether they have money or no money. But for me, my life, when I won the money, when I, I don't know about you, we'll have to ask you the same question. But I mean, when I won the the money and I got that first check, my life has been thrilling and happy for the last 26 years. There's been, you know, my parents died and all that, but all of that was made easier because of the money. I mean, that would have happened whether I had money or no money, and it would have been much more difficult if I didn't have any money to deal with, because they lived in Florida. If I had any money, I could stay at a hotel for three months, do you know what I mean? And be there for them, I wouldn't have been able to do that. Without money they would probably have to buy me tickets to come down because I would have had some crap job and have to pay rent and didn't have extra money for airfares or hotels or anything. So I mean the fact that I had money made those really tough times in my life easier to deal with. They were less, they weren't less tough, they were just easier to manage. So money, to me, yes, it brings happiness. And people who say that it doesn't, da-da-da, they're just doing it wrong. And what about you?

Timothy Schultz I mean, I think for me at least, I definitely resonate with everything that you're saying. I think, for me, I feel like it's been a blessing. I'm so unbelievably grateful. It's one of the biggest, I didn't win quite a $45 million jackpot, but it was still extremely life-changing and I'm grateful and I feel it's, money it can provide time which is invaluable. Time and opportunities, positive opportunities. I mean, there's so many things that could be positive. It can really enhance your quality of life in so many ways. And on the other hand, if you are, there are some people that are very wealthy that are extremely unhappy because we see these stories in the media with celebrities and different people that are in the spotlight. And so, with that.

John Falcon They would have been unhappy anyway. In other words, no amount of money can cure your core character. I mean, only you can cure you own character. Only you can decide to approach things differently. There's a great line from, I am now going to quote, prior to Caribbean there's a great you know not Shakespeare, not, you know, the Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain Jack, where he says, you know the problem isn't the problem here, it's your approach to the problem that's the problem here. And that is usually most people's issue, is not the problem, but their approach to the problem is the problem. So, and that's from, and, that's, from, you, know, Pirates of the Caribbean. Ha ha ha!

Timothy Schultz Well, it's wisdom, that is.

John Falcon Yeah, wasn't his name Jack Black, was it Jack Black? Captain Jack. That's Captain Jack Wisdom. Or whoever wrote the script.

Timothy Schultz Yeah, absolutely. And in your, I don't know what you think about this, but your perception of how you, I mean it's kind of the same thing, but how you perceive it. If the glass is half full, the glass is half empty, is your problem. I mean, oftentimes it's up in your head.

John Falcon Yeah, absolutely. I don't think it's ever the money's problem. It's how the person processes it in their mind. I processed it as an opportunity to see the world, to meet people, by the way. I have friends all over the Earth. I mean, I've only been here since January, and I have friends here, and we go to dinner, and go to jazz once, because Buenos Aires is very friendly. It all depends on how you... approach your money, you know, use it for betterment.

Timothy Schultz And do people know that you, I mean, obviously you have a lot of friends, but do you, do people that you won the lottery or is it? And do you openly just tell them that or, or do you keep it a secret?

John Falcon No, people always wonder why it is I'm staying at the best hotel and why am I going to the best restaurants, the Michelin star restaurants, why I am traveling first class, blah, blah. Blah, blah, and you know, their first thought is drugs, that I'm a drug pusher. A drug fiend, El Chapo, at their first thought, John Chapo. And it's not like I scream out what I want. I have to know that this person is worthy, that we're actually going to be friends. And eventually they ask, you know, John, how are you affording all this?

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John Falcon Even today that happens and you know, no is the, becomes your best friend. Even family, even you know cousins and you know what I call the peripheral family. You saw them on holidays but the rest of the year you never saw them. So just that peripheral, you know they were the first ones to ask. My family, my sister, my niece and nephew and all that, yes, of course, I mean I sent my niece to, she went to SMU to study acting and my nephew I helped get through law school. He's a Marine, so I believe he had money from being a vet. Him going to school meant he couldn't work, so he needed to supplement his wife's income. So I would monthly give them a certain amount of money so they could... So for those relatives, yes, but the other relatives, find out if they weren't, they didn't care who you were before, you know, all my cousins who asked for money, that was a no, as if we haven't seen you in 10 years. Go away!

Timothy Schultz Yeah, that I completely understand. And how do you, did you have any problem doing that or were you just?

John Falcon No! I'm a New Yorker! I live for that! I mean, that's one of the great things about growing up in New York is that you learn how to set your boundaries really quick because everyone is trying to, everyone gets too close to kiss, you know, everyone, you stand there and don't ask for my money and no. And of course, I think I said it the last time too, I'm going to repeat it, charities are also on that list. Because charities never stop asking. They're always hungry and they never stop asking. You decide what charity, if you want to give, and that's if you want to gift a charity, but let's even put that in there. But if you want to give to charity, pick the charities that you want to give to, and then that's it, don't. Stray, don't go, because everyone has a charity, there's a charity for everyone. You pick the charities that you want to give to, and even if you want a new charity, see if there's an old charity you can get rid of so that you can give to the new charity. Don't keep on adding charities that all built up. But I'm not saying don't give to charity, but pick the charity that means something to you.

Timothy Schultz Did you work with a financial advisor or anyone to tell you how much to give to charities or did you just kind of?

John Falcon I did. When I first won the money, I had a great group of wealthy friends, some passed away, I have passed on. They gave me their tax attorney, that was one of the most important things. And they gave me the accountant and I had my own bookkeeper because I had a shop. And I have to say that I missed those two because they passed away. So when they they passed away within... I mean, it was like 15, 16 years into my winning and then they passed away and they kind of left me. I felt like a motherless child, you know, because they were both, we had become friends, so they both took such good care of me and were so creative in the way that they approached things and now, I mean I don't want to say anything wrong with current accountant, but I mean he's or anything because I like them too, but they're just it's just not as creative as the other two were you know and so I mean when they passed when they past it was that was a real sort of like holy crap they left me here alone. What am I gonna do? But I found my bookkeeper, who I had when I had a shop, so I've known her since the 80s, found a new accountant that knew everything. But I don't have the same relationship with them that I did with the other two.

Timothy Schultz And, but you would say that that's important? How important would you say that is or isn't if you win a major lottery jackpot to have a financial advisor?

John Falcon A financial advisor is different than an accountant, a bookkeeper, and a tax attorney. If you have a good tax attorney and a good accountant and a book keeper, you don't really need to worry about a financial advisor. Somebody there is going to know someone, that's going to ask for you questions, you know. And this is why I say I felt rudderless when they passed away, because they were the one who were guiding me, the tax attorney along with the ... I don't know if you know this, but if you take the annuity and you pass away, like let's say I won the $45 million dollars, and I took the annuity. And if I had passed away 10 years into that and I left it to my sister, let's say, or whoever I was going out with, although I wouldn't do something so stupid, but if I left it to sister or something, she would have to pay tax on the entire, even though I was getting it in an annuity, she had to pay a death tax on entire amount left, even even though I was getting it yearly. Because in their minds she's making 12 million dollars or whatever. So they would tax her on the 12 million even though she's not getting 12 million dollars with that first check because they would give her this to keep on with the annuity. So what I had to do is set up a trust with enough money in it to pay the taxes in case I die. For my sister and her family when they inherited the, if I should die, they inherit the lottery thing. So there was, and every year I had to, they had to take out a dollar. They had to sign something. It was so crazy, kooky thing. And then unfortunately I didn't die. And so now I feel I wasted about 10 million dollars just on that. He or she can also set up trusts for children's education. So money that is saved specifically for the child when that child grows up and wants to go to higher education. You can set up a trust for that as well. It's money non-taxed that the child can use for education.

Timothy Schultz That is really wonderful. And then just to clarify that, so if you are taxed on that, so theoretically if someone passes away and they have the annuity and someone inherits it and they have this giant tax, that's all at once?

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Timothy Schultz Well, you look fantastic for 68. You look like you're half your age.

John Falcon Thank you. I'll take it. Thank you so much. I'm going to dance around the house later. You said that to me. It's just my basic immaturity. When I think, because when I turned 68, I was fine, 60, 61, 62, 63, all of them, I was fine. But when I turn 68, it just turned to me that I'm... I'm 12 years from 80, 12 years from 80? How could I be 12 years from 80. I mean, I got 26 years of checks and that's over. That went in a blink of an eye. Imagine 12 years.

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John Falcon That's a very interesting question. There are things that I would do differently. And I think I have money saved, but I would have saved more. I would've somehow prepared the end of the checks 10 years ago if I had prepared putting get into an index fund or something like that.

Timothy Schultz Would you say that that knowing, that inner voice, would you call, would you, do you think your intuition has anything to do with that, or you just think that you're just a smart guy? Because you are a smart guy, but.

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Timothy Schultz Well, I was just asking about intuition and...

John Falcon Intuition and intelligence, yes. I mean, I think they're one and the same and I think I've always had good intuition about people. Here's just an interesting thing. Being an observer of life is much more beneficial than being a participant in life. And that sounds awful and it's not what I mean. What I mean is if you can walk into the room and and observe the drama, but not be part of the drama. You're a hundred times ahead of everyone else, right? Because the people who are having the drama that depending on their ages, you know, are being ridiculous and nonsensical and if there's shouting and screaming and you know if they just shut up and listen to each other and they probably wouldn't have the drama they're having now. But to not be a participant in the drama and being an observer of the drama is a much more interesting place to be. And I think that's why I've made such good friends is because I always go to, I go into a room and I look for the ones who are observing, not the ones that are participating. And those are the people that I say hi to, or... They say hi to me because they notice that I'm observing as well. And it's a different kind of person. It's a different way of – and that doesn't mean they don't participate in life because the majority of my friends have wonderful jobs and are creative in their own right. But they're just not going to get into the minutia of everyday life with everyday people. So they just stand back and they watch. And if I walk into a party that's or a room people I don't know, that's intuitively who I'm looking for. Who also is observing and not being, not on the dance floor. And that doesn't mean that we don't go on the dance floor, it just means that we go on on the dance floor with the right people. Did that make any sense whatsoever?

Timothy Schultz Yeah, that does make sense. So you observe and take it in and learn, Yes, which is how I want to travel as well. Yeah, that makes complete sense. For anyone, I know we don't have tons of more time, but if anyone that's watching or listening to this today that plays the lottery, they're hoping for their big break, they are hoping that it will come to them, they're, you know, dreaming big. What would you say to them?

John Falcon I mean, in other words, they haven't won the lottery yet?

Timothy Schultz Right.

John Falcon I mean, it's a game, and it's game of chance. As long as you're not spending $100 a week on tickets, I would say just take your $10 or $5, in my case $2, and pick numbers and then play them and enjoy it, but don't... You can't depend on that, you know. If it were so easy to win the lottery, everyone would be delivering the lottery. And I would have won the lottery again 10 years ago, you know, so if anyone knew how to do it, it would be done, although there were people who win three or four times. And I know about this manifest thing that you said, because it's people who believe that they manifest themselves into winning the lottery. And from that dream that I had the other day, I just said, yeah, I'm just going to proceed as if I'm going to win the lottery, and the worst that will happen is it was a nice delusion.

Timothy Schultz Well, we'd love to have you back on this show. We'd love it to have you back here if and when, when that happens. Anything's possible. Oh, well, yeah. Play responsibly, which I'm sure you are. I only do two dollars.

John Falcon I still only do $2.

Timothy Schultz That's all it takes.

John Falcon Do you play, do you play a still as well?

Timothy Schultz Once in a while, if something inspires me, I'll buy a ticket, but usually it's just one ticket.

John Falcon Yes. I mean, a billion dollars, which has happened, what, three or four times. I think that's inspiring. Yeah, I'll play it up. I could do $2 for that. I may even spend $5 or $6.

Timothy Schultz Yeah, I completely understand and get that. But with people that are watching or listening to this today, I know a lot of people are very interested in your music and your film, your short film that's still in the process of being produced that you're gonna be entering into Sundance and some other festivals. So where can people find more about this? Where can they find your music? Where can the find this film when it's out?

John Falcon Well, I do have a Squarespace page.

Timothy Schultz We will definitely link to it. If you don't know the link, that's perfectly fine, but we will link to if you're listening to this. We'll put it in the show notes. If you're watching this, we'll put in the description of this video. So we'll definitely link it. And also you're on social media, at least Instagram, I believe.

John Falcon I am on knick-knack, I am Instagram if you want to see my private life, I'm on Facebook and I do have a professional page on Facebook and I have a personal page on YouTube and and also a personal page on YouTube. On YouTube, both of them have my...

Timothy Schultz Well, your voice is stunning. And I was really impressed with what I've heard. It's really stunning. And so the new album is called Flashback. The new film, the poster, of 8 millimeter abandoned memories. We will put links to them. And we're definitely going to get above 20 copies. Hopefully, well, not hopefully. I know anyone watching or listening to this, check out John's music. It is fantastic. His voice is incredible. It's stunning. And I'm very grateful for your time today. You as well. And I cannot wait to, for the next interview because you just had the dream, so anything is possible.

John Falcon That's it. I just had the dream. You know what? I have to write a song. I'm writing songs now too. I need to write a song called I Just Had the Dream.

John Falcon That's right.

John Falcon But I'm gonna, I'm going to, I am going to ride the crest of that dream. Yes, finally, I won again. Okay, let's move on.

Timothy Schultz Well, thank you. Thank you so much, John.