Insane that they found the connection between Natalie and Stottlemeyer but didn't find out that the other winner had been friends with the previous worker for years.
@@mammutMK2 I'm confused, if she's new and a good friend of her's wins and they know the machine is rigged, the tip would suggest Natalie rigged it. The problem is how did they know it was rigged and why are they anonymous? An investigation should have been done in trying to discover the identity of the person who gave the tip, then the investigation should have led to how they knew about this rigging and their ties to the winners. The most obvious suspect was Natalie and the chief, but the other suspects were just as likely given all the information
Considering that they fired an employee (the actual killer and saboteur) who worked for years so easily, imagine how much they tore into Natalie, calling her things Monk would never say to her.
Considering how they treated Monk in the beginning, Natalie was probably the only character who was nice from the start and the only one I liked. It's hard to watch this show from the start due to all the hate towards him. It's also why I can't watch the show, only these clips of the 'best' times.
@@Degenerecy It's not 'hate' at the start, it's frustration, cause at the start of the show he was just getting back on his feet after everything that happened to Trudy. Take season 3, episode 7, when monk can't stop popping the bubblewrap he stood on, Sharona got annoyed yea, what did Stotlemyre do? Picked it up and started popping it with him to help him get through it faster, even pulled in 2 other cops to help out. If anything the portrayals of frustration and annoyance is the most lifelike portrayal of how people who do have to interact regularly with neurodivergent people react to their.... for lack of a better word due to my own ignorance, "quirks". Frustration, annoyance, but they never hold it, not once, against the person. It's human for it to be frustrating and annoying to them, as is the love and support they show and give regardless. People aren't perfect, neither should TV show characters. It is admirable that you do find that treatment towards him unsavory, but if you apply that to everyday interactions in the real world you're going to end up a very lonely person.
And it shows that even though Natalie quit (with good reason of monk being selfish) he never held what happened against her and welcomed her back with open arms
I'm not a sound tech, but I'm reasonably certain this would not work because of the interference the electromagnet would cause the microphone. Everyone would "hear"the electricity.
@@McSmacks If it was, I feel like they'd immediately be stuck to the dome with the balls in it or the first one stuck to the top of the chute instead of rolling down, causing a blockage in the chute.
@@McSmacks Depending on the iron content it might but any magnet strong enough to pull the weight of one of those balls up would be 100% noticeable on any nearby electronics and on a live television set, thats everywhere.
I am a recording engineer. That mic is a hypercardioid dynamic shotgun mic. Dynamic mics are built with a diaphragm that moves a coil in a magnetic field to produce the sound signal. Placing a strong enough magnet to lift a ping-pong ball covered in metal paint would render that mic inoperable at worst, and likely very thin sounding and quiet at best. The boom operator/soundman would have noticed a very weak signal and swapped it out with another mic before going "live". After the show, a tech would have run tests, finding the additional magnet, said "WTF", pulled it out, and asked who did this and either throw it in a box or the trash. In addition, any power to that mic at most would be 48volts max (phantom power) which might be enough to energize the magnet to pickup something a few inches away--maybe up to a foot - but not likely to be enough to pull up the balls. Also, my shotgun mics don't run on phantom power, but require a 9v battery. not nearly enough to power a strong E-magnet.
@@NuclearDeathWalk - only thing I disagree with is the power supply. Except for electrical interference, what he couls as a power supply should be unlimited because he could just duct tape a cord to the mic to run power to the magnet. I doubt anyone would question it because only a very few , like the electrician , would know what the cord was and that it did not belong there. Even then, custom duct tape is always holding odd bits together to get some custom sound or as an emergency repair, so I doubt anyone would question a 220v cable running up a mic stand.
Foi nada,ele estava sentindo ser atacado por milhares de germes mas não podia afasta-la pois ela estava precisando de sua ajuda.Foi realmente deseperador pra ele
Its cos earlier in the episode another cop said "I guess her number just came up" at the crime scene of the dead lotto girl before Randy could and he spent the rest of the episode trying to come up with another one
"Glad you like numbers, Billy. You're gonna be wearing some numbers on your shirt." "Is that right?" "They won't be lottery numbers." "I get it." "'cause you're going to prison." "Yeah, I get it." "You have the right to remain silent." "I will if you will." 😆😆😆😆
I really would have liked to have seen the lottery people's reaction to Monk telling them what happened when he solved the case which I assumed he did. I'm sure some apologies were made to Natalie and Leland that we didn't get to see
Nah, those people seem like the kinds of people who, once they form an opinion of someone, they stick to that opinion till the day they day, EVEN IF proof is shown that their opinion is 100% wrong.
in a situation like that I'd suggest that the captain not only sue the lottery department for false accusation, but do so publicly with a lot of press. suddenly the lottery department doesn't look so appealing.
Except that he wouldn't have much of a case, as they had reasonable belief that he and Natalie had cheated using the magnet due to the "anonymous tip" they received. The best the captain could reasonably expect to receive from them would be a public apology and them dropping the charges.
I wish i could’ve seen the faces of the lotto commissioners when they saw they were wrong. They should’ve put in a scene where they apologized to them both and televised their apologies
That magnet was far, far, far too distant for the field to have any effect on the balls. Further, other balls could randomly be chosen in between as normal - there's no mechanism for preventing that.
How many gauss? The pressure was lowered in the stir bowl so no balls bounced quite high enough to get into the sucker; the magnet helped the rigged balls get just enough higher that they would be engaged by the sucker. It took some careful tuning and they managed to do it so it completely didn't look like that was happening but hey, teevee puts on ten pounds.
Not only that, why would a ball with magnetic paint first travel downwards, away from the magnet, to get to the bottom of the exit tube when it is far more likely to rise to the top amongst all the other balls around the tube and never get picked?
@@h.a.s.7612 My guess, they got their apology, but since the game was rigged, it wouldn't be legal to pay out the winnings as the actual element of chance has been removed - regardless of whether any players knew about it. The difference between a completely random series of numbers, and a predetermined series.
@@BrazenBard Also, the ticket numbers that stottlemiere had were planted. He never bought a ticket with those lottery numbers. The bad guy here slipped a ticket in with his group of other lottery tickets.
@@BrazenBard But they settled with the real criminal, cause they thought Stottlemiere rigged it. So by that logic he could settle an agreement as well. Quiet technically everyone who bought a lottery ticket could sue them, since they paid for something and had no chance to win. So and apology would not have been enough :D But its a tv show :D its fine :D
Washington State Lotto machine has a 'trap' built into the tubes that carry balls from the tumbler to the 'winners circle'. Balls come up through a tube in plan sight, but just before they are 'locked in' to be declared winners, they are hidden by part of the frame. This frame is more than wide enough to hide a pre-selected 'winner'; the balls pass through the tubes so fast the numbers are a blur on camera! I played Lotto for years, then I watched a drawing in person...never playing again.
It is well known the balls on the screen are a fiction and there are physical mechanism to select pre-seeded balls. The real numbers are pre-selected via a well-vetted process and the balls are replaced to represent that answer.
It doesn't need much, just one fixed ball in that location will do, and let the other balls be random. For example if the machine is designed to use 6 balls as the winner. Secretly one ball is in place. The first random ball pops up, and the hidden ball is dispensed. The second random ball pops up, and the first is dispensed. Third pops up, second is dispensed aso. When #6 pops up, #5 is dispensed, and the machine is turned off allowing for #6 to fall back down.
@@hankkingsley9300 Nah more like numbers that haven't shown up often. There's a reason some people got banned from lotto because when they figured out the formula for selecting numbers. They won like three times in a row before being barred from playing again. It's a mathematical algorithm that chooses the wins. And since that was found out, they have to write up a new one every few months in order to prevent people from cracking the code again.
Cute, but that little magnet would barely attract a ball with magnetic paint if they were in direct contact. It's not pulling anything from 2-3 feet away; even if it was a superconductor hooked up to the power grid, the chute works by capturing a ball at the _lowest_ point, not highest, so the attracted balls would just be resting against the top of the dome where the field would be strongest.
Everything is wrong with this, there is no way that there could be enough metal in the painted numbers for a magnet of any strength to pull them up. There is nothing to prevent an unpainted ball being legitimately being blown through... and did anyone else notice that not only were the same six balls pulled out by the magnet but the magnet was so finely tuned that it even pulled them out in the same order every time. 🤣
@@pengwin_ the microphone there is a small diaphragm condenser microphone, which uses electric fields, not magnetic ones. Therefore, it is pretty resistant against a constant magnetic field, because that does not induce current into the wires and cannot interfere with the electric field. If it were a moving coil microphone, still, a stationary field might stop it from working alltogether (because the coil is locked in place by the magnetic field) but would not induce interference - because its the changes in the field that make up the signal, not the field per se. The mic would have terrible sound though with its main opening blocked by the magnet.
I'm sure the Lotteries hire a few people who come up with ways to cheat the system, so they can make sure it doesn't happen. I.e. the winning balls travel along a track, and there is a magnet to the side to grab any magnetic balls, a fully-transparent tube so people can see there isn't a hidden ball, scales along the path to make sure the ball is the right weight, aso. Of course the easy one is to make sure you don't leave behind a hat with a recognizable logo on it.
5 steps that would definitely not work. That coil would ruin the microphone it's attached to, be incredibly hot, and drag in nearby magnetic objects trying to pull on such an incredibly small amount of metal. They'd discover it while trying to replace the microphone.
Fun fact(s)... no matter how much metal is in the paint it is an extremely thin layer and thus not a lot of material for a magnet to pull against, so it's not going to experience any noticeable magnetic attraction at a distance of 2+ feet to an electromagnet that small because the attraction decreases with the cube of the distance, making for a force so minuscule as to be effectively non-existent from that range. Makes for a good show trick, but doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
I love how this guy goes out of his way to frame a police captain and the lotto girl, When a simpler solution was to bring a third collaborator In who could turn the magnet off for him. Then they would double cross the third person by poisoning them. Maybe he framed them out of spite.
@@gregjenkinson7512 It wasn't shown here, but the killer bought a winning ticket (since he knew it would win) and switched it with the captain's ticket in his locker at the police station.
I love the way Monk let's Natalie hug him, considering he more than likely has a mild case of haphephobia (fear or discomfort of being touched). Shows he truly cares for her😊
Monk actually has according to what I can gather over 300+ different phobias as well as OCD. Even with all that he is able to solve cases with his genius IQ purely cause his caring and compassion overrides his fears.
"you cheated!! we found a cheating device!!" ok you found evidence SOMEONE cheated, wheres the evidence she put that devide there "....." yeah if i was natalie id get myself a lawyer and get another lottery winning out of them
Ridiculous to think that the investigator would bring over the suspects to the scene on the crime and spill his guts about all the evidence they have against them.
And do it so smugly too, whilst also being all like "yeah the other guy promised not to sue us if we settled, so you're definitely going to jail over this *Mr Policeman!"*
he didn't, it was planted on him. The whole thing was a scam to pin the 'cheating' on someone else, someone Natalie knew, and to get the lawsuit money.
The ticket was a plan B to get rid of Natalie and have her framed for the Fraud and Kessler’s murder. Because he got Fired a few days before the Super Jackpot drawing.
I really liked this show but I would have liked it better if they showed the aftermath of the arrest, such as the lottery people apologizing, and whether stottlemeyer got any of the prize or even a settlement.
So shouldn't the lottery people now be worried about being sued by the Captain and Natale of accusing them of cheating, threatened with jail, and the fact someone else who actually did the cheating was going to be given a settlement?
So, they think "After a thorough investigation, we found out this random blonde girl we just hired has a connection to one of the winners! She also had access to the equipment! She must be guilty!" but never stopped to think "Does this random blonde girl we hired even know HOW to rig up an electromagnet? Or has the skill needed to paint the balls PERFECTLY so no one noticed? If she still had access to the studio, why didn't she turn off the electromagnet? How did NO ONE see the new hostess we hired tinkering with the equipment, as it would take A WHILE to rig all that up?"
2 winners. 2 suspects - A truck driver and a highly decorated Police Officer. Truck driver: I'LL SUE YOU! Investigators - "Yeah, lets leave him alone. He's _DEFINITELY_ innocent. Guess it must have been the highly decorated Police officer who did it then!"
It's revealed that the six lucky numbers had metallic paint rather than acrylic paint which resulted in them being always pulled. While the investigators zero in on who they consider to be the obvious suspects, leave it to the Magic Monk to point out that the original lotto girl had metallic paint on her fingers.
Just a thought, if the magnet was strong enough to pull the balls up the tube, wouldn't they fly out of the hole in the other tube to then cling to the magnet?
My thought is even if it only pulled those up, wouldn't there still be a chance other numbers came up? Nothing stopped them so even if it increased the chances of those numbers there still should have been other numbers.
I must be missing something. How did he "frame" the cop? How did he arrange for the cop to buy a ticket with those numbers? EDIT: Oh, and, once such cheating was discovered NEITHER player could collect the winnings, since the drawing was not legitimate. That would be a tough break for the "honest person," but they could hardly give that person all that money, over all the other players, just because he lucked out on getting the numbers the "real cheater" used. No way can they do anything other than invalidate that drawing.
badguy planted the ticket on him the good guy was a loto buyer so he buys a lot of tickets and didnt notice one more slipped in then the bad guy gave a anonymous tip the bad guys settled out of court as the loto dosent want it known someone cheated there game to avoid a bad reputation
@@alfonsoalonzo Should have honestly got the money, cashed it, then got the HELL out. Somewhere like Argentina. He wouldn't have much time, but he would have enough to book a 1 day flight in somewhere like nevada had he started traveling instantly. Especially if he booked like three flights at different times, in different areas. Force the police to guess.
I hate the trope in tv/movies where characters are told to turn on the news and , when they do, it’s always magically at the beginning of the report. It’s not mid-sentence, it’s not mid-report. It’s always just at the beginning where no info has been missed. I hate that plot convenience.
This is stupid. They could easily verify where were sold winning tickets. Stottlemeyer had 10 tickets and wasn´t strange that one was sold on different location?
Massive plot hole: how did you fake a second winning lottery ticket to frame someone? If it's so easy to fake a second winning ticket, just fake one for yourself.
How did Natalie get in Monk’s house but shouldn’t you knock even if you know each other? No writer thought this through 1:26 yeah you messed up and was selfish but now you are crawing back 😌
You'd think that, talking to the police chief, they'd take the time to think things out enough to realize that someone having tampered with the machine still isn't any proof as to who did. Strong motive, sure, but awfully little to convict someone on.
Insane that they found the connection between Natalie and Stottlemeyer but didn't find out that the other winner had been friends with the previous worker for years.
Because of the ol' anonymous phone call tipoff.
Natalie being new, than the win goes to a good friend of her, the tip...in that moment it looks pretty obvious
@@mammutMK2 I'm confused, if she's new and a good friend of her's wins and they know the machine is rigged, the tip would suggest Natalie rigged it. The problem is how did they know it was rigged and why are they anonymous? An investigation should have been done in trying to discover the identity of the person who gave the tip, then the investigation should have led to how they knew about this rigging and their ties to the winners. The most obvious suspect was Natalie and the chief, but the other suspects were just as likely given all the information
The anonymous tip pointed the evidence to natalie and the captain... they weren't looking for other suspects
It wasn't in the script
"Looks like you painted yourself into a corner" was actually a pretty good one.
Agreed
That one was good.
That's exactly what I said. Even though that's not a real phrase, but it should be.
"You have a right to remain silent."
"*I* will if *you* will!"
I don't usually like villain/criminal quotes, but this one made me laugh!
I agree, that was just perfect.
Sidenote: punctuation marks are still counted as part of a word/phrase to get *bolded.* Same for -strikethrough- and _italics_
A crook shut Randy up? Brilliant someone other then Stottlemeyer to do it
I love randy so much, he brings a different kind of humor to the show, very underrated - well written and performed :)
haha XD homicide is so funny, i love this and how lighthearted it treats murderers haha xD 😆
"You have the right to remain silent." "I will if you will." Classic!
Randy never shuts up.
In America, everyone has the right to remain silent. And so few do.
Unfortunately, now that he started, Randy is legally required to list off the entire Miranda rights start to finish.
Shut up Billy. (Punches him in the balls)
Gets accused of murder, "you think I rigged the jackpot?". Man's definitely got his priorities straight.
Shafting the gambling networks usually has worse consequences than killing a random bozo
LMAO THIS IS A TV SHOW...........THEY ARE ACTORS.......GET OVER IT
@jamedlock83 Says the man without even an ounce of whimsy.
Considering that they fired an employee (the actual killer and saboteur) who worked for years so easily, imagine how much they tore into Natalie, calling her things Monk would never say to her.
Natalie made the right choice coming back
Natalie made the right choice coming back
Love that smile on Monks face at 4:27 because he figured it out.
I wanted to see the look on the commissioners faces when they were wrong.
I loved how Mr. Monk was immediately concerned by the look on Natalie's face! He is a really annoying but nonetheless a good friend to have!
Considering how they treated Monk in the beginning, Natalie was probably the only character who was nice from the start and the only one I liked. It's hard to watch this show from the start due to all the hate towards him. It's also why I can't watch the show, only these clips of the 'best' times.
@@Degenerecy It's not 'hate' at the start, it's frustration, cause at the start of the show he was just getting back on his feet after everything that happened to Trudy.
Take season 3, episode 7, when monk can't stop popping the bubblewrap he stood on, Sharona got annoyed yea, what did Stotlemyre do? Picked it up and started popping it with him to help him get through it faster, even pulled in 2 other cops to help out.
If anything the portrayals of frustration and annoyance is the most lifelike portrayal of how people who do have to interact regularly with neurodivergent people react to their.... for lack of a better word due to my own ignorance, "quirks". Frustration, annoyance, but they never hold it, not once, against the person.
It's human for it to be frustrating and annoying to them, as is the love and support they show and give regardless.
People aren't perfect, neither should TV show characters.
It is admirable that you do find that treatment towards him unsavory, but if you apply that to everyday interactions in the real world you're going to end up a very lonely person.
And it shows that even though Natalie quit (with good reason of monk being selfish) he never held what happened against her and welcomed her back with open arms
@@satmtca Definitely open arms, he couldn't bring himself to close them around her.
A good friend to have? You mean, if you're a character on the show?
"You have the right to remain silent"
"I will if you will"
LMAO!
I love Randy and his bad puns, but that was a helluva comeback!
I'm not a sound tech, but I'm reasonably certain this would not work because of the interference the electromagnet would cause the microphone. Everyone would "hear"the electricity.
And I don't think metallic paint contains enough metal to cause the balls to go up the chute.
@@McSmacks If it was, I feel like they'd immediately be stuck to the dome with the balls in it or the first one stuck to the top of the chute instead of rolling down, causing a blockage in the chute.
@@McSmacks Depending on the iron content it might but any magnet strong enough to pull the weight of one of those balls up would be 100% noticeable on any nearby electronics and on a live television set, thats everywhere.
I am a recording engineer. That mic is a hypercardioid dynamic shotgun mic. Dynamic mics are built with a diaphragm that moves a coil in a magnetic field to produce the sound signal. Placing a strong enough magnet to lift a ping-pong ball covered in metal paint would render that mic inoperable at worst, and likely very thin sounding and quiet at best. The boom operator/soundman would have noticed a very weak signal and swapped it out with another mic before going "live". After the show, a tech would have run tests, finding the additional magnet, said "WTF", pulled it out, and asked who did this and either throw it in a box or the trash.
In addition, any power to that mic at most would be 48volts max (phantom power) which might be enough to energize the magnet to pickup something a few inches away--maybe up to a foot - but not likely to be enough to pull up the balls. Also, my shotgun mics don't run on phantom power, but require a 9v battery. not nearly enough to power a strong E-magnet.
@@NuclearDeathWalk - only thing I disagree with is the power supply. Except for electrical interference, what he couls as a power supply should be unlimited because he could just duct tape a cord to the mic to run power to the magnet. I doubt anyone would question it because only a very few , like the electrician , would know what the cord was and that it did not belong there. Even then, custom duct tape is always holding odd bits together to get some custom sound or as an emergency repair, so I doubt anyone would question a 220v cable running up a mic stand.
Monk trying to succumb to Natalie's hug is everything 😆😆
I'd be just like Monk was since I have a touch discomfort as well
It's a pretty low hug, so that probably made it worse.
Foi nada,ele estava sentindo ser atacado por milhares de germes mas não podia afasta-la pois ela estava precisando de sua ajuda.Foi realmente deseperador pra ele
That smirk Monk gives with the "Im sure he did" just kills me man
I love how Randy keeps popping out puns.
Its cos earlier in the episode another cop said "I guess her number just came up" at the crime scene of the dead lotto girl before Randy could and he spent the rest of the episode trying to come up with another one
I praise Stottlemeyer for putting up with Randy but mostly when Monk has his phobia moments
Randy wants to play with the other kids in the sandbox and struggles to bring something to the table.
Disher's so stupid he reminds me of me!
More like *dishing* out puns.
Cause he's a Disher.
A Randy Disher.
"Glad you like numbers, Billy. You're gonna be wearing some numbers on your shirt."
"Is that right?"
"They won't be lottery numbers."
"I get it."
"'cause you're going to prison."
"Yeah, I get it."
"You have the right to remain silent."
"I will if you will."
😆😆😆😆
Randy was always good for saying things
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I've never seen this show.
I thought that was Chandler Bing
I really would have liked to have seen the lottery people's reaction to Monk telling them what happened when he solved the case which I assumed he did. I'm sure some apologies were made to Natalie and Leland that we didn't get to see
Yeah because they didn’t even check everything like Monk did
Nah, those people seem like the kinds of people who, once they form an opinion of someone, they stick to that opinion till the day they day, EVEN IF proof is shown that their opinion is 100% wrong.
in a situation like that I'd suggest that the captain not only sue the lottery department for false accusation, but do so publicly with a lot of press.
suddenly the lottery department doesn't look so appealing.
Except that he wouldn't have much of a case, as they had reasonable belief that he and Natalie had cheated using the magnet due to the "anonymous tip" they received. The best the captain could reasonably expect to receive from them would be a public apology and them dropping the charges.
I wish i could’ve seen the faces of the lotto commissioners when they saw they were wrong. They should’ve put in a scene where they apologized to them both and televised their apologies
I think they’ll have been ordered to drop the charges with the threat of dishonourable redundancy and legal action.
Oh no... I opened a Monk video. Now I have to spend the whole week watching clips of this show...again.
I feel your pain 😊
It's worse for me. I have to find the full length episodes...clips won't satisfy the craving!
@@justsad-1392just don't watch the movie, whatever you do
behind his madness, always remember, Adrian Monk always cared for his friends.
He hated that she was hugging him, but he didn't make her stop.
@@myrixica4222 More than that, he kept trying to hug her back, but couldn't
Its not madness its OCD massively intencifed by the trumatic murder of his wife
Also remember that Natalie agreed to work with him only after he saved her daughter's goldfish despite his aversion to such things.
@@myrixica4222 That is probably a phobia to germs and dirt which he developed after his wife was killed.
0:13 is very much the lead up to "Monk Solves 9-11"
Lowkey Stottlemeyer had the funniest lines in the series
he's my darling .
“After four or five times somebody would have noticed!”
LOL
"Don't insult us!"
She says as she actively insults them.
Obviously any sane person would blame Natalie and the captain because of the evidence. But her attitude makes me cringe.
Very common in real-life and fictional portrayals; so nice to see pompous pricks identify themselves.
Randy trying to defend the captain but actually obliterating him is everything 🤣🤣
That magnet was far, far, far too distant for the field to have any effect on the balls. Further, other balls could randomly be chosen in between as normal - there's no mechanism for preventing that.
How many gauss?
The pressure was lowered in the stir bowl so no balls bounced quite high enough to get into the sucker; the magnet helped the rigged balls get just enough higher that they would be engaged by the sucker. It took some careful tuning and they managed to do it so it completely didn't look like that was happening but hey, teevee puts on ten pounds.
Not only that, why would a ball with magnetic paint first travel downwards, away from the magnet, to get to the bottom of the exit tube when it is far more likely to rise to the top amongst all the other balls around the tube and never get picked?
I'm guessing that despite Stottlemeyer not having a thing to do with the rigging, he didn't get to keep any of the money?
That Was my question to. That, and did he and Natalie get a formal apology?
@@h.a.s.7612 My guess, they got their apology, but since the game was rigged, it wouldn't be legal to pay out the winnings as the actual element of chance has been removed - regardless of whether any players knew about it. The difference between a completely random series of numbers, and a predetermined series.
@@BrazenBard Also, the ticket numbers that stottlemiere had were planted. He never bought a ticket with those lottery numbers. The bad guy here slipped a ticket in with his group of other lottery tickets.
@@BrazenBard But they settled with the real criminal, cause they thought Stottlemiere rigged it. So by that logic he could settle an agreement as well. Quiet technically everyone who bought a lottery ticket could sue them, since they paid for something and had no chance to win. So and apology would not have been enough :D But its a tv show :D its fine :D
Thank you for the asnwers, guys. Yes it's a show but also nice for me ,who's not from the US, to know a bit about lottery
Washington State Lotto machine has a 'trap' built into the tubes that carry balls from the tumbler to the 'winners circle'.
Balls come up through a tube in plan sight, but just before they are 'locked in' to be declared winners, they are hidden by part of the frame.
This frame is more than wide enough to hide a pre-selected 'winner'; the balls pass through the tubes so fast the numbers are a blur on camera!
I played Lotto for years, then I watched a drawing in person...never playing again.
It is well known the balls on the screen are a fiction and there are physical mechanism to select pre-seeded balls. The real numbers are pre-selected via a well-vetted process and the balls are replaced to represent that answer.
Do you know what your odds of actually winning lotto are?
Let's just say you are *far* more likely to get hit by lightning...
It doesn't need much, just one fixed ball in that location will do, and let the other balls be random. For example if the machine is designed to use 6 balls as the winner. Secretly one ball is in place. The first random ball pops up, and the hidden ball is dispensed. The second random ball pops up, and the first is dispensed. Third pops up, second is dispensed aso. When #6 pops up, #5 is dispensed, and the machine is turned off allowing for #6 to fall back down.
@@afuzzycreature8387 by well vetted you mean they run the numbers and pick a combination that nobody else did
@@hankkingsley9300 Nah more like numbers that haven't shown up often. There's a reason some people got banned from lotto because when they figured out the formula for selecting numbers. They won like three times in a row before being barred from playing again. It's a mathematical algorithm that chooses the wins. And since that was found out, they have to write up a new one every few months in order to prevent people from cracking the code again.
Stottlemeyer and Natalie could sue them for exactly what the other guys claimed to have happened to them
Monk was such an underrated show.
Cute, but that little magnet would barely attract a ball with magnetic paint if they were in direct contact. It's not pulling anything from 2-3 feet away; even if it was a superconductor hooked up to the power grid, the chute works by capturing a ball at the _lowest_ point, not highest, so the attracted balls would just be resting against the top of the dome where the field would be strongest.
not only that, but i bet a magnet that powerful would interfere with the mic
@@pengwin_ Haha yeah, also anything else metal or electronic nearby, which is a lot of stuff in a TV studio. It's a really dumb twist.
Everything is wrong with this, there is no way that there could be enough metal in the painted numbers for a magnet of any strength to pull them up. There is nothing to prevent an unpainted ball being legitimately being blown through... and did anyone else notice that not only were the same six balls pulled out by the magnet but the magnet was so finely tuned that it even pulled them out in the same order every time. 🤣
@@pengwin_ the microphone there is a small diaphragm condenser microphone, which uses electric fields, not magnetic ones. Therefore, it is pretty resistant against a constant magnetic field, because that does not induce current into the wires and cannot interfere with the electric field.
If it were a moving coil microphone, still, a stationary field might stop it from working alltogether (because the coil is locked in place by the magnetic field) but would not induce interference - because its the changes in the field that make up the signal, not the field per se.
The mic would have terrible sound though with its main opening blocked by the magnet.
@@andrewholdaway813 They only came out in the same order this time. They did say that during their tests they came up in different orders.
Lol Randy didn't get a pair of shades, but everyone else is wearing them:) "You're going to be wearing some numbers"
its entertaining watching randy trying to come up with a catchphrase
MONK: Teaching you to rig a lottery in... 5 complicated steps.
I'm sure the Lotteries hire a few people who come up with ways to cheat the system, so they can make sure it doesn't happen. I.e. the winning balls travel along a track, and there is a magnet to the side to grab any magnetic balls, a fully-transparent tube so people can see there isn't a hidden ball, scales along the path to make sure the ball is the right weight, aso.
Of course the easy one is to make sure you don't leave behind a hat with a recognizable logo on it.
5 steps that would definitely not work. That coil would ruin the microphone it's attached to, be incredibly hot, and drag in nearby magnetic objects trying to pull on such an incredibly small amount of metal. They'd discover it while trying to replace the microphone.
That last line was perfect "you have the right to remain silent. I will if you will" lmao
He's been looking at a sad little picture of a boat on a wall 🤣
For 11 years
His wife left him
And his girl is in prison
I like this. You set up the beginning mystery and shows the ending. Good times
Fun fact(s)... no matter how much metal is in the paint it is an extremely thin layer and thus not a lot of material for a magnet to pull against, so it's not going to experience any noticeable magnetic attraction at a distance of 2+ feet to an electromagnet that small because the attraction decreases with the cube of the distance, making for a force so minuscule as to be effectively non-existent from that range.
Makes for a good show trick, but doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
"Looks like you painted yourself into a corner."
"Randy!"
I love how this guy goes out of his way to frame a police captain and the lotto girl, When a simpler solution was to bring a third collaborator In who could turn the magnet off for him. Then they would double cross the third person by poisoning them. Maybe he framed them out of spite.
Of course it was for spite; Natalie got him fired
Just curious did they explain how they framed the captain and Natalie?
@@gregjenkinson7512 I don't think so.
@@gregjenkinson7512 It wasn't shown here, but the killer bought a winning ticket (since he knew it would win) and switched it with the captain's ticket in his locker at the police station.
I love the way Monk let's Natalie hug him, considering he more than likely has a mild case of haphephobia (fear or discomfort of being touched). Shows he truly cares for her😊
Yeah. Like the way he would catch her if she tripped. He's not a monster.
@@vancemccarthy2554 He's a good man, just a little twisted in the head. But I say he gets a pass on it, given what he's been through
Monk actually has according to what I can gather over 300+ different phobias as well as OCD. Even with all that he is able to solve cases with his genius IQ purely cause his caring and compassion overrides his fears.
@@therabbits69 Actually, a lot of times, he's able to solve the crimes BECAUSE of his OCD
@@kittenclysm116 I know. I was just mentioning how many different phobias he has.
5:42 What makes these scenes for me is the sunglasses. Why doesn't Randy get one?
"I guess he doesn't have the balls."
I noticed he wears at the beginning and then he takes them off 😾
Probably because a lot of what he does, being stupid and confused, he does with facial expressions.
"You really showed a lot of balls, Billy."
"you cheated!! we found a cheating device!!"
ok you found evidence SOMEONE cheated, wheres the evidence she put that devide there
"....."
yeah if i was natalie id get myself a lawyer and get another lottery winning out of them
Ridiculous to think that the investigator would bring over the suspects to the scene on the crime and spill his guts about all the evidence they have against them.
This is basic hollywood logic
And do it so smugly too, whilst also being all like "yeah the other guy promised not to sue us if we settled, so you're definitely going to jail over this *Mr Policeman!"*
Lol in movies, tv shows, or video games, the tv news is always timed so conveniently 😂
so technically the captain could sue the lottery guys for the full amount
Shouldn't Leland sue the show for their employee doing this to him?
You painted yourself into a corner. Good one Randy
4:50 The one who stood up is a total stunner
Lord have mercy
Right
So wait, Leland legit picked the numbers drawn but didn't get the money? What a bite.
No, he didn't choose them. The ticket was planted on him.
he didn't, it was planted on him. The whole thing was a scam to pin the 'cheating' on someone else, someone Natalie knew, and to get the lawsuit money.
The ticket was a plan B to get rid of Natalie and have her framed for the Fraud and Kessler’s murder.
Because he got Fired a few days before the Super Jackpot drawing.
Poor Billy didn’t even have the chance to show the girls his ‘Oh Face’.
God I love Randy lmao "We got your numbers... number. We got your number. Numbers?"
"Looks like you painted yourself in to a corner."
"Randy..."
I really liked this show but I would have liked it better if they showed the aftermath of the arrest, such as the lottery people apologizing, and whether stottlemeyer got any of the prize or even a settlement.
So shouldn't the lottery people now be worried about being sued by the Captain and Natale of accusing them of cheating, threatened with jail, and the fact someone else who actually did the cheating was going to be given a settlement?
No; because, as all one-off characters do, after the episode ended the lottery people ceased to exist.
"You have the right to remain silent..."
"I will if you will..."
🤣🤣🤣
2:17 Examined the WHAT?! 😂😂😂
im glad to see this show getting popular again. was so fun
4:52 as the girl in pink gets up and leave watch the detective and captain both stare at her rear. Good subtle bit staying in character lol
4:25 i just love that smile.
It's so funny how Natalie says to turn on the news to any channel on a video uploaded today of all days
On 9/11 I called home from work which I never do. I told the wife, just turn the TV on, what channel? any channel.
@@j.dragon651 the same thing my child’s dad told me. It was definitely on any channel
Since the invention of the television detective, actors can turn on a television and it will automatically display the correct, related scene.
7:06 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 get him Stottlemeyer
So, they think "After a thorough investigation, we found out this random blonde girl we just hired has a connection to one of the winners! She also had access to the equipment! She must be guilty!" but never stopped to think "Does this random blonde girl we hired even know HOW to rig up an electromagnet? Or has the skill needed to paint the balls PERFECTLY so no one noticed? If she still had access to the studio, why didn't she turn off the electromagnet? How did NO ONE see the new hostess we hired tinkering with the equipment, as it would take A WHILE to rig all that up?"
The actor portraying the lottery official is also on Blue Bloods.
Leland with 200million dollar haha I wonder what he'd do with it
Ah yes, the old "turn on the news" trope. Exactly what you need to see will currently be showing on the television
2 winners. 2 suspects - A truck driver and a highly decorated Police Officer.
Truck driver: I'LL SUE YOU!
Investigators - "Yeah, lets leave him alone. He's _DEFINITELY_ innocent. Guess it must have been the highly decorated Police officer who did it then!"
Perfomance doesn't get much better than acting like you don't like hugging Traylor Howard :)
It's revealed that the six lucky numbers had metallic paint rather than acrylic paint which resulted in them being always pulled. While the investigators zero in on who they consider to be the obvious suspects, leave it to the Magic Monk to point out that the original lotto girl had metallic paint on her fingers.
I, too, watched the video.
Billy will be willing to talk after a 5 minutes in the squad car with Randy.
I love monk !
I remember binge watching durn covid show was hilarious, smart & touching & sometimes not touching 😂
! Great great show 10/10
Just a thought, if the magnet was strong enough to pull the balls up the tube, wouldn't they fly out of the hole in the other tube to then cling to the magnet?
No because it was just enough to pull them up when they were being bounced around by the air. No air jets = not enough pull.
Or if they had just lowered the microphone so the six balls came up to the top of the tumbler.
The whole setup was writers-room imagination that had multiple flaws with the logic.
Hey shhhhh 🤫
My thought is even if it only pulled those up, wouldn't there still be a chance other numbers came up? Nothing stopped them so even if it increased the chances of those numbers there still should have been other numbers.
3:46 Natalie isn’t even that smart enough to build that. She is an assistant
I must be missing something. How did he "frame" the cop? How did he arrange for the cop to buy a ticket with those numbers? EDIT: Oh, and, once such cheating was discovered NEITHER player could collect the winnings, since the drawing was not legitimate. That would be a tough break for the "honest person," but they could hardly give that person all that money, over all the other players, just because he lucked out on getting the numbers the "real cheater" used. No way can they do anything other than invalidate that drawing.
badguy planted the ticket on him the good guy was a loto buyer so he buys a lot of tickets and didnt notice one more slipped in then the bad guy gave a anonymous tip the bad guys settled out of court as the loto dosent want it known someone cheated there game to avoid a bad reputation
@@alfonsoalonzo Should have honestly got the money, cashed it, then got the HELL out. Somewhere like Argentina. He wouldn't have much time, but he would have enough to book a 1 day flight in somewhere like nevada had he started traveling instantly. Especially if he booked like three flights at different times, in different areas. Force the police to guess.
@@roetemeteor my guy this comment is almost a year old
I think Natalie changed after this. She was less obsessed with money and pestering Monk about her pay.
Don't know if demanding to get paid for your services should be called "pestering"
@@txxxx0 it would be if you march in on a crime scene to demand for your pay.
TBF he's super cheap, and he wasn't covering her work expenses.
And on Monk paints his masterpiece Natalie refused to receive $2K for a painting she didn't like
Randy puns was the best. 😂
Monk vs Buffalo bill.
Who'd win and how'd awkward would it be?
Mono surprisingly looks classy with sunglasses
Imagine his luck that his rigging of the numbers fell on the exact number sequence he wanted.
Happy Birthday, Tony Shalhoub! :)
Hey the guy who rigged the lottery bslls is the actor who plays the "Oh-face" coworker in the movie Office Space. Dude is funny.
I can't believe this was the first rigged Lotto case. The first case of that I saw was in Castle.
randy & natalie needed to start a detective agency together call it dumb and dumberer 😂
You have the right to remain silent
I will if you will
Epic line
Natalie just walked into Monk's house and Monk didn't hear her enter 😖
I hate the trope in tv/movies where characters are told to turn on the news and , when they do, it’s always magically at the beginning of the report. It’s not mid-sentence, it’s not mid-report. It’s always just at the beginning where no info has been missed. I hate that plot convenience.
"any channel". imagine if monk had turned it to a cooking channel.
Monk is so on a hit list for shoveing the rigged lotto
Billy was just wanted to show his "O-face" one last time but it all fell apart.
Oh mate 😂 you and your cats are so funny, ours are just as weird and cute too ❤
This is stupid. They could easily verify where were sold winning tickets. Stottlemeyer had 10 tickets and wasn´t strange that one was sold on different location?
like my darling Leland tells sharona when they go to penthouse " I'm married not dead 😂
0:03 Did Monk actually throw what would now be trash on the floor, or is there a garbage container just off frame?
Who cares
I’m sure there a trash can JUST out of frame 😊
You can see at 0:00-0:01 that there is one.
Massive plot hole: how did you fake a second winning lottery ticket to frame someone? If it's so easy to fake a second winning ticket, just fake one for yourself.
I like how he wipe his mouth even when he hasn't actually eaten anything.
How did Natalie get in Monk’s house but shouldn’t you knock even if you know each other? No writer thought this through 1:26 yeah you messed up and was selfish but now you are crawing back 😌
Standard TV. Knocking and answering the door takes time away from the plot.
Plot twist: Natalie rigged the door so she could open it even when locked.
She probably has a key. But sure, make a nonsense comment like this.
@@blackguyofthesouth2161 exactly
She wouldn't have to know to come in my house. My door is never locked.
You'd think that, talking to the police chief, they'd take the time to think things out enough to realize that someone having tampered with the machine still isn't any proof as to who did.
Strong motive, sure, but awfully little to convict someone on.
At 4:27: Mr. Monk is a detective, lady. See that look on his face? That means he has solved another case.
Script....they're all just following their parts of the script. Chill.
when the police say "we've investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing"
I seriously didn’t realize Tim Heidecker was on this show
I haven’t seen the show myself, but did they ever explain how the balls would come up in the same order every time?