When someone wins a lifetime supply of something, what does it mean? Do you get it delivered to you for the rest of your life?

You’ve reached the mountain top of the game-show world: you just won the best prize! You can’t be stopped! Or can you?

In 1974, a violent clash broke out in West Virginia over a proposal about school textbooks. What can we learn, and are the ramifications still playing out today?


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Episode Sources/Go Deeper:
https://www.allaboutadvertisinglaw.com/2012/11/what-does-win-a-lifetime-supply-really-mean-and-other-existential-quandaries.html

https://www.thelist.com/287896/the-truth-about-winning-a-new-car-on-the-price-is-right/

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/taxes/pay-taxes-game-show-winnings

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-man-won-30000-on-wheel-of-fortune-heres-how-much-he-got-to-keep-2016-09-19

https://timeline.com/this-violent-1974-clash-over-textbooks-in-west-virginia-prepped-the-nation-for-a-new-right-movement-a94a2245743f

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