Tom Segura Tells Joe Rogan About the McMillions Scam

HBO signs off on a lot of outrageous ideas. Only they know what they're doing. I mean, they made Game of Thrones, so they're probably like, well, we know it. We got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're the shit. Well, they hit a home run for sure. Every cycle of shows, they always have one that goes, oh my God. Did you watch The Outsider? No. That's great. I watched McMillions. That was fantastic. I didn't see that. Oh, that's the McDonald's one? Is that HBO as well? It's HBO, yeah. Good. My cousin made that. It's great. Really? Your cousin made it? Cousin made it. No shit. Yeah, it's fantastic. It is such a cool fucking story. The whole scope of that scam is... It will fucking blow your mind. What is the scam? So it was a lottery thing or something like that? From... So you obviously remember the Monopoly game that you would play, right? I don't. So, oh yeah, you're kind of healthy. But back... I don't eat that shit. So, but it was humongous. So what happened was they would do it like maybe like twice a year where they would go the Monopoly McDonald's game. And what would happen is you go to McDonald's and you would buy a Happy Meal or Big Mac and on like the fries and the drink would be like a peel-off thing and you could win prizes. So you pull off a thing and you like you could win... It could be something as small as like you want free fries. So you could be like, okay, I got, you know, I won another order of fries or a Coke or a jet ski or a car and then there were cash prizes, million-dollar prizes. So by playing the game, which was essentially buy something, buy a meal and it would drive up sales obviously, right? Like sales would go way up because people were wanting to win these prizes. Well, everybody that won for this... I want to say, I forget now, but like 15 year period or something, they were all in on a scam. They were all fake winners. A guy was stealing pieces and giving them to people connected to him. It was all a lie. Nobody was legitimately willing. How did he do that? That's the whole, that's the series, man. It's fucking fascinating because at one point there's this, this guy's giving it to, you know, people he knows and they're talking about it in the series, like people connected to him. They're like, after a while, it's like, it's weird that, you know, 10 winners have won in like this 300-mile radius and eight of them are Italian. We're like, we got to branch out a little bit here because no one's like tipped off. Yeah, because the guy was, you know, Italian. He was going to like friends and family. Yeah, it was really fucking crazy. And then... It's amazing. They kept their mouth shut. They kept their mouth shut and they would have gotten away with it. I mean, they were getting away with it. It was just, it was, they got tipped off. FBI got tipped off and then this whole investigation, that's what the series, it's a six-part series. That's what it reveals is just the scale and the scope of this incredible scam. It was a scam, man. Did this guy work for McDonald's? No. There's all these different characters in it, but basically McDonald's had to hire a company that would oversee the game, like the security of the game. And they would also have to hire another company to print, you know, like the game pieces and all that. And within those companies, the corruption lied. McDonald's didn't know. Wow. And it, but the story is fascinating and the characters are outrageous too. I mean, the Colombo family is part of it, you know, the crime family. I got to watch it. It's good, man. It's really good. There's so many of those multi-series or multi-show documentaries now that are fascinating. Oh, yeah. Like Wild Wild Country, like that kind of shit. Were you just like, what? And when these networks get behind something like that, like this Tiger King thing too, you're like, man, you know, that's why you need that platform, right? Like an HBO or Netflix to be like, tell us the whole story. Show it. It's fucking awesome. Yeah. Or Wild Country, right? Wild Country, yeah. You need something that's going to play out for five or six episodes. You have to. Or three episodes in, you're like, how the fuck did I not know about this? What was that one? Do you remember the one a couple of years ago? Was it the staircase? Something like that about the... Yeah, I never saw that one. That was fucking good too. Was someone killed, his ex-wife or something like that? Yes, dude. You just cannot believe some of the twists and turns of something like this. And then there was like, part of that, I mean, I'm jumping around and the owl theory where they're like, maybe an owl came, an attacker. What? Yes, dude. An owl? Yes. And they were like, there were owls in that area. 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