February 4, 2024 • 35 mins
Lexi goes into the Simpsons and everything they have predicted.
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This podcast discusses true crime, whichmay tell violence, and other material intended
for a mature audience. Listener discretionis advised. Hey, it's Kayla and
it's Lexi. It's Lexi Day.It is. And I'm not kidding you
guys when I tell you this episodecame to me in a dream. So
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the thing is, normally my dreamsare nonsensical, and this one was no
exception. But this was actually justhappened to be a really good idea for
an episode. I was like,wait, that's great. So for those
of you that are fans of theshow, and honestly, probably even those
of you that have never seen anepisode, you probably know about Fox's long
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running animated show, The Simpsons,and they have an eerie habit of predicting
the future. So today I'm goingto be going through all of the things
that I at least said I couldfind that The Simpsons have correctly predicted in
one way or another as of Januarytwenty twenty four. Oh, I'm excited.
I woke up from this dream andI was like, I had a
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dream I was writing an episode abouteverything the Simpsons predicted. I was telling
a friend of mine. My friendof mine was like, that's a great
idea for an episode, and Iwas like, no, you're right,
it is. So we're gonna goall the way back to nineteen ninety.
For those of you that don't knowthis show is is where are we at
now? Season like twenty six somethinglike that. It's ridiculous. So I've
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done my best to put everything,all the predictions in order as well,
based on when they aired, notwhen the predictions came true. So the
first Simpsons prediction is equal parts funnyand disturbing. It's a recurring character that
was introduced in season two, episodefour called Blinky, and Blinky was a
three eyed fish discovered in the waterstainted with nuclear waste that's surround the power
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plant in Springfield, which is thetown or the Simpsons live. And he's
a comedic commotation on mister Burns,the wealthy mogal that owns a nuclear power
plant Homer Simpson works at. He'sinfamous for his disregard for environmental regulations and
improper disposal of the nuclear waste atthe plant. So twenty one years,
twenty one years after the episode airedin October twenty eleven, a three eyed
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Wolffish was actually caught by fishermen Julian'smutt while fishing outside of a nuclear plant.
Wow, I should have googled thefish, like, I should probably
put it on the social media.That'd be cool, right, Like I
remember the frogs with multiple legs.Oh yeah, he's kind of messed up,
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looking so oh purry, My badguys. My cat is standing on
my laptop and I just lost myspot. Here we go, so again
in nineteen ninety, and I've groupedeverything based on the year the predictions were
made. So Season two, episodenine features more Simpson, the mom of
the show, writing to a localcable network to cancel a show called Itchy
and Scratchy, which is a sortof extra violent play on Tom and Jerry,
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which features a feuding mouse and catnamed Itchy and Scratchy, respectively.
When Marge attempts to censor the network, the town gets together and takes it
one step further and attempts to censorMichelangelo's famous Statue of David for being nude.
So, in July of twenty sixteen, this actually happened. In Russia,
citizens held a vote to determine ifa copy of the statue of David
should be closed and clothed in orderto censor the nudity. Like, it
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ain't that big anyway, just letit be out. It's art, and
I'm saying this is someone who doesnot particularly enjoy seeing that type of anatomy
anyway. It's just a classic sculpture, you know, just like, don't
look at it. I guess what, how do they get a censor it?
Like, are they gonna give himpants? I like to think it's
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lease they put a leaf on it. I like to think it's like that
episode of SpongeBob where they make thestatue of David but it's actually squidward and
they like put boxers on it orwhatever. Yeah, that's like that's what
I think of. They're just gonnaput boxers on him. So this is
the final one for nineteen ninety.In season two, episode eighteen, ring
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a star of the Beatles, gueststarred himself and answers a fan letter from
Marge Simpson that she wrote as akid in nineteen sixty six. He apologizes
for the lateness of answering the lettersand states that the Beatles have basically been
getting NonStop fan mail since the sixtiesthat I believe they probably get fan mail
to this day and there's only liketwo of them left. Yeah, probably,
so, while not an exact predictionlike the last two, a pair
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in twenty nineteen, Lynn Jeffreys andBarbara Bezant got a fifty year old response
from fan mail sent to Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney included in the response quote
better late than never, unquote doyou think he just saw it on his
desk? Was like, oh shit, better get back to them. Oh
no, waiting fifty years? Ohman, So now we've moved on to
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nineteen ninety two. So the Simpsonshave correctly predicted the Super Bowl winners multiple
times. In Season three, Lisapredicted that the Redskins would beat the Buffalo
Bills for Super Bowl twenty six,which came true a few days after the
episode aired, and it turns outfor Super Bowl twenty eight, the episode
was redubbed to predict the Cowboys wouldwin, and they did, And for
Super Bowl twenty nine, the episodewas again re dubbed and predicted the forty
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nine Ers would win, who didfin fact come out victorious. So that's
not exactly a three year streak.But like pretty close to a three year
streak of correctly predicting the Super Bowl. Yeah. So the next one is,
uh, I wasn't expecting this one. It's a little bizarre. In
Season four, episode six, abillboard to promote the Itchy and Scratchy movie
that spews blood as a part ofits advertising, which drenches a newlywed couple
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in the red goo. So thiscame true in two thousand and three when
a billboard in Auckland, New Zealandfor Kill Bill Volume one, featuring Uma
Thurman with her sword and the iconicyellow jumpsuit, splattered blood onto the streets
as part of advertising. But nonewly weds were caught up in the crossfire
for this one. That would havebeen like icy on the cake if there
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was just a newlywed, I know, just an Auckland walking under the kill
bill anyway, So if you aregetting wedding photos done, just don't walk
under any billboards, just to besafe. You never know. I feel
like that one was probably less ofprediction and more so like Quentin Tarantino saw
that and was like, let's dothis. That's a good idea, guy.
This is a really bloody movie.Let's make this happen. So our
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final one for nineteen ninety two,Season four, episode twenty four finds Homer
Simpson attempting to redeem his brother Herb'slife with a new invention, a baby
translator. So it's just a devicethat translated baby noises and coups into spoken
language. So this prediction it's lesssolid. But there are apps today meant
to translate baby sounds into what theymean, and one such software is called
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Zoundream like soundream but with a Z. And other apps have certainly succeeded in
making these creators wealthy, just asHomer's invention did for his brother. Don't
they also make these for like dogs? I think so. And I didn't
know if they were like satire thingsor what I assumed. It wasn't something
that was exact like you put itto translate your baby, and your baby
just says like, mother, Icrave milk. But I think it'll be
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like that's the hungry sound, orlike that's a tired sound. Same it
talks, mother, I crave violence. Len that's when they're toddlers. So
we've moved on and we're now innineteen ninety three. So In season four,
episode twenty, the show talks aboutWhacking Day, in which the town
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celebrates the culling of snakes in Springfieldto keep the snake population under control,
but the snakes end up ultimately savedby Berry White in the end. So
while Berry White, the Berry Whitepart did not end up happening Florida,
Florida did end up issuing a pythonelimination program in twenty seventeen when invasive Burmese
python numbers reached record highs of threehundred k. Most of the pythons ended
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up in Florida due to being dumpedfrom the pet trade into the Everglades.
And I guess they just thrive.They just get huge. They live forever
and they thrive. M that's kindof sad. Yeah, please be responsible
with your snakes, guys, andjust anything else any other pets. Stop
getting exotic pets and them putting themin the waterways. This is why there's
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rumors of what is it alligators inthe Monongahela. Yeah, that people get
gators and then they can't keep thembecause they get as big as gators get,
and then they just put them inone of the rivers in Pittsburgh,
I don't know if that's real,but part of me hopes it's real.
Part of me absolutely hopes it isnot real, because I've seen so many
drunk people jump into those waters andthe last thing you need is to get
lake placided. You know, we'llhave a repeat of like what the Smiling
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Man of, like of a coupleof years ago in Pittsburgh when men were
I'm missing. Do you remember that? No? How do I not know
that? I feel like I wouldhave been living in Pittsburgh when that happened.
I think you were a couple ofyears ago there. Every so often,
like a man would end up foundup in the river and like they
found like a spray painted smiley facenext to where they were found. So
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there was like this whole conspiracy oflike the Smiling Man or I can't remember
what it was called. Oh that'shorrifying. I don't like that one bit.
Yeah, And I don't know ifit was just like a coincidence that
it was found there, because likePinsburg is full of like yeah, yeah,
yeah, Oh my god, that'sooh, that sounds like a future
episode. So here's the one.The nineteen ninety three predicted what is probably
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the most talked about prediction in recentyears, Episode four, Season twenty one.
That's not correct, I mix thoseup. It is season four,
episode twenty one. Uh So thispredicted the twenty twenty coronavirus pandemic kind of.
So it featured Springfield being infected bysomething dubbed the Osaka flu, which
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was caused by overwork Japanese workers handlinggoods and then being shipped to Springfield.
This ends up infecting the entire townexcept Marge, who is in jail on
a shoplifting charge, and leading tohysteria and medical supply shortages throughout the city.
So this episode also predicted two otherthings. So in one part of
the episode, the mayor of thetown is seen flying out to the Bahamas
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instead of dealing with the crisis athand, which many have pointed out mirrors
Ted Cruz flying out to Mexico whileTexas was under a state of emergency with
a failed electric grid following an icestorm in twenty twenty one in which roughly
eleven people died. Oh yeah,we will not let teg close. Forget
about that heat. So this episodealso has a scene where a crate of
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killer bees is accidentally open in Springfield, introducing the new species into the area,
which similarly mimics the murder Hornets panicof early twenty twenty as well,
in which the Japanese hornets were foundin Washington State. So this episode was
titled Marge in Chains and clearly hada lot going on there. I forgot
about the murder hornets. That wasnot on my twenty bingo card. I
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feel like popped up. I feellike it popped up and then it popped
back down, like really quickly,because like collectively we were just like,
we have enough going on, Like, let's table the murder hornets for another
time. Cue White True one crisisat a time exactly, like kind of
like when the government was like,hey, by the way, aliens exist,
and we were like not now,maybe later, all right, like
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let's let's let's deal with this anothertime. So in season five, episode
ten, mister Burns opened a casinoin Springfield which features a white tiger as
part of a performance. So thistiger actually ends up attacking the performers when
it has a flashback of how itwas captured for the casino. And in
two thousand and three, roughly Mobsiusis nine, ten and three. So
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ten years after this episode aired,a tiger performer named Roy Horn, who
would do performances in Vegas with awhite tiger, was severely mauled by that
white tiger during a live performance inVegas. He did live, but he
discontinued his shows after the incident.I feel like that's an easy prediction to
make, you know what I mean. I feel like, if you eventually
work with tigers, something's gonna something'sgoing to happen. Something's going to happen.
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Yeah, So now we're on.In nineteen ninety four, in season
five, episode fifteen, Homer getsto go to space after NASA decides to
send just like a Joshmo to spacein order to boost popularity of rocket launches.
And in twenty thirteen, the UnitedKingdom actually held a contest to almost
this exact degree, where just averagepeople could compete in physical aptitude tests and
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training at Cape Canaveral to be launchedinto space as astronauts. So I was
expecting that prediction. I thought itwas going to be most recently where they
have what was the what's the nameof it? But I know Jeff Bezos
went to space, so like reallyreally wealthy people can just pay to like
take a civilian leisure flight to spacein like the last five years or so,
but apparently earlier than that, theUK was just like, hey,
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are you bored? Do you wantto be an astronaut? Go to Cape
Canavil and we'll make it happen foryou. So then in season five,
episode nineteen, it surrounds a lunchlady it caught using horse meat to make
lunches for children at Springfield Elementary School. And then in two thousand and three,
the Food Safety Authority of Ireland reportedfinding horse DNA and thirty three percent
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of burgers being sold in supermarkets aspart of ready to eat meals. Oh
my god, does that happen?I have an idea of how that happens,
but it's not good. Uh.Oh, let's hear it. Let's
hear the horse theory. Like,I don't know, they just use horses,
Like I mean, I can't.Yeah, I guess that is the
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theory. The theory is there's horsein there. Oh man. So now
we're on to nineteen ninety five.In season six, episode nineteen, Lisa
visits a fortune teller who allows herto gaze into the future and get a
peak its in futuristic tech, whichincludes a watch that now doubles as a
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cell phone. I don't really needto explain this one. Smartphones, Apple
watches. This is like, likeI have one, you know this This
very much took the world by storm. So this same episode titled Lisa's Wedding,
also predicted video calling via phones,which were introduced. Oh my gosh,
when was FaceTime introduced? Shoot?I forgot to write it down.
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I want to say, like twentytwelve, like writ around that era.
Yeah, ten, yeah, decadeyep. So this episode also predicted something
a little more mundane from the UnitedKingdom, So a large skyscraper is seen
behind Big Ben in a shot ofLondon that didn't exist at the time in
nineteen ninety five as part of theSkyline. So, as it turns out,
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a building called the Shard finished constructionin two thousand and nine, and
it looked very similar to the buildingadded by the Simpsons and was in a
similar location. And finally, thisepisode also predicted robot librarians, which,
while not writ widespread, was somethingcreated by the student robotic team at the
University of Oh Goodness, Gracious giveme one second. I thought I was
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going to be able to pronounce thisfanatically, but I got to think about
this one. I'm going to trythat that sentence again. This episode also
featured robot Librarians, which, whilenot widespread, was something created by the
student robotics team at University of Aberystwythin twenty sixteen. That's the name.
Yes, you seehy. I hadto take a minute to make sure I
was pronouncing that. There is nota lot of There are two vowels in
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that whole word, and it's likea twelve letter word. So now we're
moving on to the predictions made innineteen ninety seven. So in season nine,
episode one, there is a signadvertising city tours which boasts nine dollars
a day to tour the city,with the twin Towers as part of the
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skyline in the background of the advertising. Many people believe the twin towers look
like an eleven placed eerily close tothe nine, so some have speculated that
this was actually a warning about nineto eleven, either intentionally or unintentionally.
I think the coincidence is definitely eerie, but like yes, I would agree
that the twin towers just happened tolook like an eleven. Yeah, it's
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just there're two buildings right next toeach other. Yeah, there's almost so
many ways a building can look exactly. Yeah. So, in season nine,
episode three, Marge gives a bookto Bart titled Curious George and the
Ebola Virus. At the time,the ebolavirus was not widely known about,
but three years after the episode aired, Ebola would first break international headlines following
an outbreak in Uganda and the Republicof Condo Congo, sorry, the Republic
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of Congo, where it killed almostfive hundred people. And then we had
another ebola outbreak. When was thistwenty twelve? I think was another one
in I think West Africa? Ithink so, And I think because I
remember it was during one of theObama presidencies. Yeah, I think I
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was in college. I was atWVU whenever there was another one, So
I think twenty fifteen ish. Okay, oh, you're right, maybe,
because I think it was right beforeI went back to college, and I
went back to college in twenty fifteen, so I think it was probably twenty
fourteen, twenty fifteen. Yeah.So now we're going on to the predictions
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made in nineteen ninety eight. Soin the first episode of season ten,
Homer and Bart discover that Apoo makesa pretty penny selling off used restaurant grease
on the black market, and thetwo of them start to steal the used
grease from the local elementary school tosell themselves. As it turns out,
yellow grease left over from cooking canactually be used to make biodiesel and ten
years after the episode aired in twothousand and eight, Sorry, the episode
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aired in nineteen ninety eight, tenyears later as two thousand and eight,
That is when grease thefts from fastfood restaurants did began to make the news
because people were selling it due tothe economic downturn of two thousand and eight.
Can you just like repurpose it,you know what I mean? Like,
if you can repurpose the grease,just let people take it. Get
your fear is just gonna toss it, you know, Yeah, I don't
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get waste. I guess they considerit's stealing, but like you're stealing garbage,
yeah exactly, like you're dumpster diving, which is like I don't even
know why that's a crime. IfI'm being honest, Like, let people
take the grease. So in seasonten, episode two, Homer sides become
an inventor by cooking up strange andcomical objects like the automatic hammer and the
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Everything's Okay alarm, among others.And in one scene, Homer is scene
working on a complex equation on ablackboard that some people have claimed the equation
on the board appears very similar tothe one that was used to discover the
weight of the Higgs Boson particle intwenty twelve. So technically, the Higgs
Boson particle, also called the Godparticle, was first theorized in nineteen sixty
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four and it is a subatomic particle, but it was not confirmed until a
new until it was discovered by scientistsworking with the Large Hadron Collider in twenty
twelve, and that was when theywere like, hey, we discovered a
new sub particle and it's weight.And then in twenty thirteen May, the
Higgs Boson particle was formally determined anddiscovered and named. I remember that I
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remember the Higgs Boson because that wasright after high school. Was when they
actually like announced that I have neverheard of it, really, Okay,
I hung out with a whole bunchof like stem dorks. You know at
the time, I was a stemmajor when I first went to I guess
I still technically it, but likeI was a stem major when I first
went to college. So like everybodywas talking about the Higgs Boson, all
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right. So then in season ten, episode five, Homer has a movie
screenplay pitched to twentieth Century Fox,only for there to be a scene where
they approached the twentieth Century Fox officeand there's a sign outside the company office
that says a division of Walt DisneyCompany. Disney would in fact buy twentieth
Century Fox in twenty eighteen. Again, easy prediction to make. I think
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eventually Disney is just gonna buy Idon't know everyone else I didn't know Disney
bought. I don't know they boughtthem. I'm not really surprised because Disney's
like a black hole, just kindof absorbs everything it touches. There's like
six companies in the US that owneverything. Yeah, I can't remember them
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all, but I do know thatDisney is one of them. So now
we're moving on to nineteen ninety nine. In season ten, episode ten,
a stolen Stanley Cup hockey not theones being raped about on TikTok right now
is found in the Vegas hotel roomwhere Homer Simpson and Ned Flanders find themselves
after a night of gambling, andthat year, the Vegas Golden Knights did
actually end up beating the Saint LouisBlues to take home the Stanley Cup,
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even though the odds were not intheir favor. So then again, in
season ten, episode twenty two,Homer Simpson has a theory that the universe
has shaped like a doughnut, towhich Stephen Hawking replies, quote, I
may have to steal it unquote regardinghis theory, I've seen donut universe theory.
I didn't realize it was so.In twenty twenty one, an astrophysics
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team produced a legitimate theory that theuniverse may actually be kind of a donut
shape. They said, like aoh, a large tube blooping on itself.
I'm like, that's a donut.It's donut shape. Homer Simpson and
his love of donuts, has predictedwhat might be the shape of the universe,
which is a doughnut. Don't gettechnical with it. A tube is
just exactly don't get technical. It'sdonut donut. It's like flat earth theory.
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We have donut universe theory. Whatabout donut earth theory. Yeah,
we're the donut hole. We're thewhole. Sorry, there's so much cat
hair all over my laptop right now. So now we're going into two thousand.
In season eleven, episode seventeen,Bart gets a glimpse of his future
where Lisa becomes president, but acomment is made about how she has to
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deal with a budgeting issue caused bythe prior president, Donald Trump. So
the year the Simpsons had technically predictedTrump would come into presidency would be twenty
twenty four, and while Trump isrunning again for the twenty twenty four election,
year twenty sixteen was his initial presidency. Man, they got close.
Yeah, like it was too closefor comfort, I know, I know,
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And I wonder, I wonder ifmaybe they picked him just because they
were like, oh my god,how ridiculous would it be if Trump was
actually president, and like he's sucha megalomanimac of course, like he would
have gone for it if offered tohim, and then he actually did it.
You know. I think when heran, so many people were like
okay, kind of like when Kanyeannounced he was running it's like okay,
and then he was president and wewere like, oh shit, that happened.
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Although the same thing happened with RonaldReagan, so I can't be surprised.
Reagan was an actor before he gotinto politics. People don't talk about
that enough. So in the sameepisode, Lisa federally legalizes marijuana at their
request of Bart. Hell yeah,team work. So while marijuana is not
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yet federally legal in the US,more and more states are fully legalizing marijuana,
and the push for federal legalization ison the horizon. I'm going to
be shocked if federallyation is not somethingthat is sort of determined or revisited within
the next like five to ten years. So now we have two thousand and
two. In season twenty two,episode thirteen, Springfield's mafia boss is found
to be gluing cotton balls onto ferretsand selling them as expensive toy poodles.
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Hilariously, this actually happened to anArgentinian man in twenty thirteen when he took
his pair of expensive toy poodles tothe vet, only to discover it they
were ferrets who were given steroids anda convincing grooming job to resemble pools.
Oh my god, Like I couldn'timagine, because like ferrets are long,
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they're cat noodles, Like how doyou get a poodle out of that?
They look nothing like dogs? Whichis what kills me about this story,
Like I want to see a pictureof the toy poodle ferrets. Like can
you imagine someone brings their dog infor a vet appointment and and they just
bring a ferret in and you haveto be the one to be like sir,
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I don't how to tell you that, you don't have to talk.
Their legs are half an inch long. There's so many somebody tells there's so
many things. So uh. Somethingelse that gets me is we had so
I love like typos in vet records. We had we had someone bring in
an animal named d D, youknow, like like from Dexter's Laboratory,
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d D. And there was atypo when it got scanned into the record
and they put the name in abefore they corrupted it as Pepe. I
wouldn't put it past someone and nametheir animal Pepe though I know. And
the worst part is is the reasonthat like they put it in like that
is because people really do just nametheir animals things like that. Like some
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amazing names I've encountered in my inmy time working with animals include lotion,
but hoole, chilupa batman, somany good ones. So like if you
were like, yeah, this ismy cat Peep, I'd be like,
okay, we had won. Thiscat is like twenty years old. His
name was Booby. I'd like godslog. I'm like, I need the
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owner for Booby please. It's likethis middle aged man. It's like,
Hi, it's me and my cat'sname is Boob. I love that.
We had an own her one time, bringing his dog named Brock, and
my coworker complimented. She's like,I like that name, Brock is good
for a German shepherd and he goesthanks. My toddler named him. His
full name is Broccoli. I can'ttalk. I have a cat named him
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Perator Periosa. Yes, she's namedafter Mad Max oh Man. So moving
on from the Ferret poodles, wenow jump up to two thousand and seven.
So the Simpsons movie was released intwo thousand and seven, which features
Tom Hanks making a PSA for theUS government about improving the US government's credibility
following the disaster events that take placein Springfield and the movie causing it to
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be sealed in a large dome.So in twenty twenty two, Tom Hanks
did actually star in a commercial thatdiscussed overcoming the hardships from the twenty twenty
coronavirus pandemic. And in the samemovie, Lisa expressed concerns of government spying,
which are dismissed by her mother Marge, as she says something to the
effect of it's not like the governmentis listening to everyone's conversations. Of course,
the movie turns out they are,and in twenty thirteen, whistleblower Edward
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Snowden provided evidence to the American publicjust how widespread the government surveillance on communication
apps and mediums by the NSA NationalSecurity Agency was in a post nine to
eleven United States. Again, Iremember that too because I was I would
have been right out of high school. It not happened. This is the
reason why we all make the jokesabout our personal FBI agents tracking our Google
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searches. It's this. So intwo thousand and eight, we have one
Prediction, Season twenty, episode four, we see a frustrated Homer Simpson attempting
to cast a vote for Barack Obama, only to have the voting machine select
John McCain. No matter how manytimes Homer tried to remedy the issue,
turns out the following election cycle intwenty twelve, this was an actual issue
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reported by multiple voters during that yearfor federal elections, where people would attempt
to select Obama on the electronic votingmachines, but the machines would falter and
select Mitt Romney instead. Huh.I remember that happening because that was the
first federal election I voted in,So I remember seeing like video evidence online
of people being like, this ishappening at the things. If this happens,
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report it, they'll give you paperballot, blah blah blah whatever.
But I do remember that specifically remindsme of a do you watch Parks and
rec I've seen like a handful ofepisodes Leslie Nope was running for an office
and like if you would have votefor it, like are you sure?
Are you positive? Oh my god, and then it would just like make
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you vote for the other person.I gotta watch that show. So in
twenty ten, we have season twentyone, episode twelve, where Homer and
Marge end up in the Olympics forcurling, only to take home the gold
against Sweden, and eight years later, Team USA did actually beat Sweden in
kurling and win the gold in thetwenty eighteen Winter Olympics, even though that
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was not predicted. I feel likethe Nordic countries should just be better than
US at ice sports, you knowwhat I mean? Makes sense? So
I'm like shocked that that happened.So in season twenty two, episode one,
Lisa and a few of her friendsdecide to bet on Nobel Prize winners,
and Milhouse decides to bet on anMIT economics professor Professor Banked R.
Holmstrom, who ended up losing inthe episode, but six years later,
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Holmstrom would go on to win theNobel Prize in Economics for his contributions to
something called contract theory. What aniche thing to predict the Nobel Prize winner
in economics. I didn't know thatwas a Nobel Prize category, and then
either So now we're on to twentytwelve. So in season twenty three,
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episode ten, a cable news bulletand can be seen with the headline Europe
puts Greece on eBay. So intwenty fifteen, Greece had a major economic
downturn after or they failed to payback three separate bailout checks from you know,
European bailout funds and then suffered amajor issue from there. And I
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don't remember it very well because Idon't understand economics very well, but I
remember a lot of the memes aroundthe time were akin to like Grease scene
at used car dealership and stuff likethat. I vaguely remember like the country
being like something. I don't understandwhat happened at the time, but I
remember watching on the news like theywere so basically broke. Yeah, just
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in major economic turmoil. Yeah yeah. So in season twenty three, episode
twenty two, Lady Gaga is shownperforming at the Super Bowl halftime show while
suspended in the air and then followingit up with a ballad solo performance on
the piano. So five years later, in twenty seventeen, she did just
that, performed at the Super Bowlhalftime show with part of her performance suspended
above the crowd and singing A MillionReasons with only herself playing piano as an
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accompaniment. Again that one might beinspired Lady Gaga might have seen that episode
and been like, wait, that'sa great idea play the super Bowl.
I was gonna say, I feellike somebody z Episs, where like people
are just watching the show and they'relike, you know what I should do
that one day, right, Ithink it's yeah, I should counterfeits Ferrets,
I should play the super Bowl exactly, Quentin Tarantine. I was like
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blood spewing from a billboard. Absolutely. So then we go on to,
oh no, I just realized thatI put one out of order, and
we're actually jumping back to two thousandand six. I'm so sorry. So
in season seventeen, episode ten,Homer Simpson hops into a small recreational underwater
submersible with Mason Fairbanks to explore shipwreck. Homer ends up getting stuck and running
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out of oxygen, but ultimately rescuesbut is ultimately rescued and recovers after three
day coma. The shipwreck they exploreis called the Piso Mohato, which I'm
pretty sure means wet floor in Spanish. I don't need to say it.
This story very clearly mirrors the oceanGate incident that occurred just a couple of
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months ago. At the time ofthis episode recording where a recreational submersible was
being used to explore a train wreckand then the submersible failed and was,
my understanding, crushed to death withina fraction of a second. Yeah,
yeah, it imploded on itself.Floated, that's the word I'm thinking.
I think that's why I put thatlast, even though it was predicted in
twenty sixteen, because that was themost recent incident that the Simpsons predicted.
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They predicted oceangate. I wonder ifthey just have like a seer in the
back of the crystal ball, it'sjust like, all right, give us
like our next episode, right that, or they just have like a really
skilled astrologer, you know, andthey're just like, well, this might
happen, and they're like done,take it. So in twenty fifteen,
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we have season twenty five, episodesixteen. Homer Simpson is refereeing at the
FIFA Soccer World Cup in Brazil,where he's bribed by gangsters to impact the
game, but he ultimately turns downbecause he doesn't want to lose his daughter's
respect. In reverence because the onlyreason that he's doing this is because Lisa
did a report on the FEIFO WorldCup. And also he doesn't care that
much about soccer. He's not goingto take a bribe. So only a
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year later, Fife officials were actuallyarrested in Zurich on multiple charges of corruption,
which included wirefraud and money landering moneylaundering, money laundering. I don't
know what money landering is money laundering. In conclusion, the Simpsons can't stop
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predicting things. This is a fivepage script, single spaced and bullet format.
I know it wasn't a long episode, but damn, the script itself
was long. Yeah No, thatwas impressive, both the script and the
show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I think there's been a
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lot of conspiracies about some of theirpredictions, namely like nine to eleven,
the coronavirus pandemic, Donald Trump.But honestly, the show's also been going
for what do we at, seasontwenty like twenty five plus seasons now,
and it talks about I mean currentsocio socioeconomic issues. I mean, the
show is pretty much the original adultanimation satire that talks about things like current
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events. So they're bound to getstuff right here and there, you know.
Yeah, it's just as many coincidences. It's kind of crazy, especially
some of them. The ferret.I'm going to get over the ferret.
Like some of the things. It'slike, imagine if it was like a
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Freemason or somebody of like the NewWorld Order, like working working in the
Simpsons. They're like, you knowwhat, we're just gonna like this little
chaos here. They're writing from thetunnels in the Denver Airport. They're like,
you know, we're just this isgonna happen anyway. Let's just make
it seem like the Simpsons predicted it, like funny. Some of them are
like easy, you know, like, oh, they predicted fifo World Cup
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cort like duh, duh. There'scorruption in like worldwide sports. That's like
saying there's corruption in the art world, like yeah, obviously, just waiting
for someone to reveal it. Andthe Super Bowls, I mean, you
got a fifty to fifty chance ofguessing which one wins. Yeah, that
is true. That's just a seriesof three very lucky coin tosses. Yeah.
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Oh man, Well that that's whatI have. That is all I
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pump out next week, because it'salways a surprise, even to us.
Even to us, we never knowwhat we're gonna do. Nope, it
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comes to It comes to us indreams now, just like Twilight and Star
Wars exactly. Okay, Twilight Iknew about I didn't realize Star Wars.
Yeah, I think Star Wars wasa dream. That's amazing. Oh man,
I'm gonna say that was futuristically wicked. I would say that was that
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was comically wicked.
This podcast discusses true crime, whichmay tell violence, and other material intended
for a mature audience. Listener discretionis advised. Hey, it's Kayla and
it's Lexi. It's Lexi Day.It is. And I'm not kidding you
guys when I tell you this episodecame to me in a dream. So
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the thing is, normally my dreamsare nonsensical, and this one was no
exception. But this was actually justhappened to be a really good idea for
an episode. I was like,wait, that's great. So for those
of you that are fans of theshow, and honestly, probably even those
of you that have never seen anepisode, you probably know about Fox's long
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running animated show, The Simpsons,and they have an eerie habit of predicting
the future. So today I'm goingto be going through all of the things
that I at least said I couldfind that The Simpsons have correctly predicted in
one way or another as of Januarytwenty twenty four. Oh, I'm excited.
I woke up from this dream andI was like, I had a
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dream I was writing an episode abouteverything the Simpsons predicted. I was telling
a friend of mine. My friendof mine was like, that's a great
idea for an episode, and Iwas like, no, you're right,
it is. So we're gonna goall the way back to nineteen ninety.
For those of you that don't knowthis show is is where are we at
now? Season like twenty six somethinglike that. It's ridiculous. So I've
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done my best to put everything,all the predictions in order as well,
based on when they aired, notwhen the predictions came true. So the
first Simpsons prediction is equal parts funnyand disturbing. It's a recurring character that
was introduced in season two, episodefour called Blinky, and Blinky was a
three eyed fish discovered in the waterstainted with nuclear waste that's surround the power
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plant in Springfield, which is thetown or the Simpsons live. And he's
a comedic commotation on mister Burns,the wealthy mogal that owns a nuclear power
plant Homer Simpson works at. He'sinfamous for his disregard for environmental regulations and
improper disposal of the nuclear waste atthe plant. So twenty one years,
twenty one years after the episode airedin October twenty eleven, a three eyed
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Wolffish was actually caught by fishermen Julian'smutt while fishing outside of a nuclear plant.
Wow, I should have googled thefish, like, I should probably
put it on the social media.That'd be cool, right, Like I
remember the frogs with multiple legs.Oh yeah, he's kind of messed up,
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looking so oh purry, My badguys. My cat is standing on
my laptop and I just lost myspot. Here we go, so again
in nineteen ninety, and I've groupedeverything based on the year the predictions were
made. So Season two, episodenine features more Simpson, the mom of
the show, writing to a localcable network to cancel a show called Itchy
and Scratchy, which is a sortof extra violent play on Tom and Jerry,
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which features a feuding mouse and catnamed Itchy and Scratchy, respectively.
When Marge attempts to censor the network, the town gets together and takes it
one step further and attempts to censorMichelangelo's famous Statue of David for being nude.
So, in July of twenty sixteen, this actually happened. In Russia,
citizens held a vote to determine ifa copy of the statue of David
should be closed and clothed in orderto censor the nudity. Like, it
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ain't that big anyway, just letit be out. It's art, and
I'm saying this is someone who doesnot particularly enjoy seeing that type of anatomy
anyway. It's just a classic sculpture, you know, just like, don't
look at it. I guess what, how do they get a censor it?
Like, are they gonna give himpants? I like to think it's
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lease they put a leaf on it. I like to think it's like that
episode of SpongeBob where they make thestatue of David but it's actually squidward and
they like put boxers on it orwhatever. Yeah, that's like that's what
I think of. They're just gonnaput boxers on him. So this is
the final one for nineteen ninety.In season two, episode eighteen, ring
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a star of the Beatles, gueststarred himself and answers a fan letter from
Marge Simpson that she wrote as akid in nineteen sixty six. He apologizes
for the lateness of answering the lettersand states that the Beatles have basically been
getting NonStop fan mail since the sixtiesthat I believe they probably get fan mail
to this day and there's only liketwo of them left. Yeah, probably,
so, while not an exact predictionlike the last two, a pair
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in twenty nineteen, Lynn Jeffreys andBarbara Bezant got a fifty year old response
from fan mail sent to Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney included in the response quote
better late than never, unquote doyou think he just saw it on his
desk? Was like, oh shit, better get back to them. Oh
no, waiting fifty years? Ohman, So now we've moved on to
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nineteen ninety two. So the Simpsonshave correctly predicted the Super Bowl winners multiple
times. In Season three, Lisapredicted that the Redskins would beat the Buffalo
Bills for Super Bowl twenty six,which came true a few days after the
episode aired, and it turns outfor Super Bowl twenty eight, the episode
was redubbed to predict the Cowboys wouldwin, and they did, And for
Super Bowl twenty nine, the episodewas again re dubbed and predicted the forty
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nine Ers would win, who didfin fact come out victorious. So that's
not exactly a three year streak.But like pretty close to a three year
streak of correctly predicting the Super Bowl. Yeah. So the next one is,
uh, I wasn't expecting this one. It's a little bizarre. In
Season four, episode six, abillboard to promote the Itchy and Scratchy movie
that spews blood as a part ofits advertising, which drenches a newlywed couple
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in the red goo. So thiscame true in two thousand and three when
a billboard in Auckland, New Zealandfor Kill Bill Volume one, featuring Uma
Thurman with her sword and the iconicyellow jumpsuit, splattered blood onto the streets
as part of advertising. But nonewly weds were caught up in the crossfire
for this one. That would havebeen like icy on the cake if there
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was just a newlywed, I know, just an Auckland walking under the kill
bill anyway, So if you aregetting wedding photos done, just don't walk
under any billboards, just to besafe. You never know. I feel
like that one was probably less ofprediction and more so like Quentin Tarantino saw
that and was like, let's dothis. That's a good idea, guy.
This is a really bloody movie.Let's make this happen. So our
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final one for nineteen ninety two,Season four, episode twenty four finds Homer
Simpson attempting to redeem his brother Herb'slife with a new invention, a baby
translator. So it's just a devicethat translated baby noises and coups into spoken
language. So this prediction it's lesssolid. But there are apps today meant
to translate baby sounds into what theymean, and one such software is called
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Zoundream like soundream but with a Z. And other apps have certainly succeeded in
making these creators wealthy, just asHomer's invention did for his brother. Don't
they also make these for like dogs? I think so. And I didn't
know if they were like satire thingsor what I assumed. It wasn't something
that was exact like you put itto translate your baby, and your baby
just says like, mother, Icrave milk. But I think it'll be
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like that's the hungry sound, orlike that's a tired sound. Same it
talks, mother, I crave violence. Len that's when they're toddlers. So
we've moved on and we're now innineteen ninety three. So In season four,
episode twenty, the show talks aboutWhacking Day, in which the town
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celebrates the culling of snakes in Springfieldto keep the snake population under control,
but the snakes end up ultimately savedby Berry White in the end. So
while Berry White, the Berry Whitepart did not end up happening Florida,
Florida did end up issuing a pythonelimination program in twenty seventeen when invasive Burmese
python numbers reached record highs of threehundred k. Most of the pythons ended
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up in Florida due to being dumpedfrom the pet trade into the Everglades.
And I guess they just thrive.They just get huge. They live forever
and they thrive. M that's kindof sad. Yeah, please be responsible
with your snakes, guys, andjust anything else any other pets. Stop
getting exotic pets and them putting themin the waterways. This is why there's
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rumors of what is it alligators inthe Monongahela. Yeah, that people get
gators and then they can't keep thembecause they get as big as gators get,
and then they just put them inone of the rivers in Pittsburgh,
I don't know if that's real,but part of me hopes it's real.
Part of me absolutely hopes it isnot real, because I've seen so many
drunk people jump into those waters andthe last thing you need is to get
lake placided. You know, we'llhave a repeat of like what the Smiling
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Man of, like of a coupleof years ago in Pittsburgh when men were
I'm missing. Do you remember that? No? How do I not know
that? I feel like I wouldhave been living in Pittsburgh when that happened.
I think you were a couple ofyears ago there. Every so often,
like a man would end up foundup in the river and like they
found like a spray painted smiley facenext to where they were found. So
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there was like this whole conspiracy oflike the Smiling Man or I can't remember
what it was called. Oh that'shorrifying. I don't like that one bit.
Yeah, And I don't know ifit was just like a coincidence that
it was found there, because likePinsburg is full of like yeah, yeah,
yeah, Oh my god, that'sooh, that sounds like a future
episode. So here's the one.The nineteen ninety three predicted what is probably
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the most talked about prediction in recentyears, Episode four, Season twenty one.
That's not correct, I mix thoseup. It is season four,
episode twenty one. Uh So thispredicted the twenty twenty coronavirus pandemic kind of.
So it featured Springfield being infected bysomething dubbed the Osaka flu, which
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was caused by overwork Japanese workers handlinggoods and then being shipped to Springfield.
This ends up infecting the entire townexcept Marge, who is in jail on
a shoplifting charge, and leading tohysteria and medical supply shortages throughout the city.
So this episode also predicted two otherthings. So in one part of
the episode, the mayor of thetown is seen flying out to the Bahamas
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instead of dealing with the crisis athand, which many have pointed out mirrors
Ted Cruz flying out to Mexico whileTexas was under a state of emergency with
a failed electric grid following an icestorm in twenty twenty one in which roughly
eleven people died. Oh yeah,we will not let teg close. Forget
about that heat. So this episodealso has a scene where a crate of
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killer bees is accidentally open in Springfield, introducing the new species into the area,
which similarly mimics the murder Hornets panicof early twenty twenty as well,
in which the Japanese hornets were foundin Washington State. So this episode was
titled Marge in Chains and clearly hada lot going on there. I forgot
about the murder hornets. That wasnot on my twenty bingo card. I
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feel like popped up. I feellike it popped up and then it popped
back down, like really quickly,because like collectively we were just like,
we have enough going on, Like, let's table the murder hornets for another
time. Cue White True one crisisat a time exactly, like kind of
like when the government was like,hey, by the way, aliens exist,
and we were like not now,maybe later, all right, like
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let's let's let's deal with this anothertime. So in season five, episode
ten, mister Burns opened a casinoin Springfield which features a white tiger as
part of a performance. So thistiger actually ends up attacking the performers when
it has a flashback of how itwas captured for the casino. And in
two thousand and three, roughly Mobsiusis nine, ten and three. So
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ten years after this episode aired,a tiger performer named Roy Horn, who
would do performances in Vegas with awhite tiger, was severely mauled by that
white tiger during a live performance inVegas. He did live, but he
discontinued his shows after the incident.I feel like that's an easy prediction to
make, you know what I mean. I feel like, if you eventually
work with tigers, something's gonna something'sgoing to happen. Something's going to happen.
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Yeah, So now we're on.In nineteen ninety four, in season
five, episode fifteen, Homer getsto go to space after NASA decides to
send just like a Joshmo to spacein order to boost popularity of rocket launches.
And in twenty thirteen, the UnitedKingdom actually held a contest to almost
this exact degree, where just averagepeople could compete in physical aptitude tests and
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training at Cape Canaveral to be launchedinto space as astronauts. So I was
expecting that prediction. I thought itwas going to be most recently where they
have what was the what's the nameof it? But I know Jeff Bezos
went to space, so like reallyreally wealthy people can just pay to like
take a civilian leisure flight to spacein like the last five years or so,
but apparently earlier than that, theUK was just like, hey,
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are you bored? Do you wantto be an astronaut? Go to Cape
Canavil and we'll make it happen foryou. So then in season five,
episode nineteen, it surrounds a lunchlady it caught using horse meat to make
lunches for children at Springfield Elementary School. And then in two thousand and three,
the Food Safety Authority of Ireland reportedfinding horse DNA and thirty three percent
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of burgers being sold in supermarkets aspart of ready to eat meals. Oh
my god, does that happen?I have an idea of how that happens,
but it's not good. Uh.Oh, let's hear it. Let's
hear the horse theory. Like,I don't know, they just use horses,
Like I mean, I can't.Yeah, I guess that is the
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theory. The theory is there's horsein there. Oh man. So now
we're on to nineteen ninety five.In season six, episode nineteen, Lisa
visits a fortune teller who allows herto gaze into the future and get a
peak its in futuristic tech, whichincludes a watch that now doubles as a
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cell phone. I don't really needto explain this one. Smartphones, Apple
watches. This is like, likeI have one, you know this This
very much took the world by storm. So this same episode titled Lisa's Wedding,
also predicted video calling via phones,which were introduced. Oh my gosh,
when was FaceTime introduced? Shoot?I forgot to write it down.
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I want to say, like twentytwelve, like writ around that era.
Yeah, ten, yeah, decadeyep. So this episode also predicted something
a little more mundane from the UnitedKingdom, So a large skyscraper is seen
behind Big Ben in a shot ofLondon that didn't exist at the time in
nineteen ninety five as part of theSkyline. So, as it turns out,
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a building called the Shard finished constructionin two thousand and nine, and
it looked very similar to the buildingadded by the Simpsons and was in a
similar location. And finally, thisepisode also predicted robot librarians, which,
while not writ widespread, was somethingcreated by the student robotic team at the
University of Oh Goodness, Gracious giveme one second. I thought I was
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going to be able to pronounce thisfanatically, but I got to think about
this one. I'm going to trythat that sentence again. This episode also
featured robot Librarians, which, whilenot widespread, was something created by the
student robotics team at University of Aberystwythin twenty sixteen. That's the name.
Yes, you seehy. I hadto take a minute to make sure I
was pronouncing that. There is nota lot of There are two vowels in
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that whole word, and it's likea twelve letter word. So now we're
moving on to the predictions made innineteen ninety seven. So in season nine,
episode one, there is a signadvertising city tours which boasts nine dollars
a day to tour the city,with the twin Towers as part of the
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skyline in the background of the advertising. Many people believe the twin towers look
like an eleven placed eerily close tothe nine, so some have speculated that
this was actually a warning about nineto eleven, either intentionally or unintentionally.
I think the coincidence is definitely eerie, but like yes, I would agree
that the twin towers just happened tolook like an eleven. Yeah, it's
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just there're two buildings right next toeach other. Yeah, there's almost so
many ways a building can look exactly. Yeah. So, in season nine,
episode three, Marge gives a bookto Bart titled Curious George and the
Ebola Virus. At the time,the ebolavirus was not widely known about,
but three years after the episode aired, Ebola would first break international headlines following
an outbreak in Uganda and the Republicof Condo Congo, sorry, the Republic
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of Congo, where it killed almostfive hundred people. And then we had
another ebola outbreak. When was thistwenty twelve? I think was another one
in I think West Africa? Ithink so, And I think because I
remember it was during one of theObama presidencies. Yeah, I think I
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was in college. I was atWVU whenever there was another one, So
I think twenty fifteen ish. Okay, oh, you're right, maybe,
because I think it was right beforeI went back to college, and I
went back to college in twenty fifteen, so I think it was probably twenty
fourteen, twenty fifteen. Yeah.So now we're going on to the predictions
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made in nineteen ninety eight. Soin the first episode of season ten,
Homer and Bart discover that Apoo makesa pretty penny selling off used restaurant grease
on the black market, and thetwo of them start to steal the used
grease from the local elementary school tosell themselves. As it turns out,
yellow grease left over from cooking canactually be used to make biodiesel and ten
years after the episode aired in twothousand and eight, Sorry, the episode
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aired in nineteen ninety eight, tenyears later as two thousand and eight,
That is when grease thefts from fastfood restaurants did began to make the news
because people were selling it due tothe economic downturn of two thousand and eight.
Can you just like repurpose it,you know what I mean? Like,
if you can repurpose the grease,just let people take it. Get
your fear is just gonna toss it, you know, Yeah, I don't
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get waste. I guess they considerit's stealing, but like you're stealing garbage,
yeah exactly, like you're dumpster diving, which is like I don't even
know why that's a crime. IfI'm being honest, Like, let people
take the grease. So in seasonten, episode two, Homer sides become
an inventor by cooking up strange andcomical objects like the automatic hammer and the
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Everything's Okay alarm, among others.And in one scene, Homer is scene
working on a complex equation on ablackboard that some people have claimed the equation
on the board appears very similar tothe one that was used to discover the
weight of the Higgs Boson particle intwenty twelve. So technically, the Higgs
Boson particle, also called the Godparticle, was first theorized in nineteen sixty
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four and it is a subatomic particle, but it was not confirmed until a
new until it was discovered by scientistsworking with the Large Hadron Collider in twenty
twelve, and that was when theywere like, hey, we discovered a
new sub particle and it's weight.And then in twenty thirteen May, the
Higgs Boson particle was formally determined anddiscovered and named. I remember that I
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remember the Higgs Boson because that wasright after high school. Was when they
actually like announced that I have neverheard of it, really, Okay,
I hung out with a whole bunchof like stem dorks. You know at
the time, I was a stemmajor when I first went to I guess
I still technically it, but likeI was a stem major when I first
went to college. So like everybodywas talking about the Higgs Boson, all
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right. So then in season ten, episode five, Homer has a movie
screenplay pitched to twentieth Century Fox,only for there to be a scene where
they approached the twentieth Century Fox officeand there's a sign outside the company office
that says a division of Walt DisneyCompany. Disney would in fact buy twentieth
Century Fox in twenty eighteen. Again, easy prediction to make. I think
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eventually Disney is just gonna buy Idon't know everyone else I didn't know Disney
bought. I don't know they boughtthem. I'm not really surprised because Disney's
like a black hole, just kindof absorbs everything it touches. There's like
six companies in the US that owneverything. Yeah, I can't remember them
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all, but I do know thatDisney is one of them. So now
we're moving on to nineteen ninety nine. In season ten, episode ten,
a stolen Stanley Cup hockey not theones being raped about on TikTok right now
is found in the Vegas hotel roomwhere Homer Simpson and Ned Flanders find themselves
after a night of gambling, andthat year, the Vegas Golden Knights did
actually end up beating the Saint LouisBlues to take home the Stanley Cup,
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even though the odds were not intheir favor. So then again, in
season ten, episode twenty two,Homer Simpson has a theory that the universe
has shaped like a doughnut, towhich Stephen Hawking replies, quote, I
may have to steal it unquote regardinghis theory, I've seen donut universe theory.
I didn't realize it was so.In twenty twenty one, an astrophysics
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team produced a legitimate theory that theuniverse may actually be kind of a donut
shape. They said, like aoh, a large tube blooping on itself.
I'm like, that's a donut.It's donut shape. Homer Simpson and
his love of donuts, has predictedwhat might be the shape of the universe,
which is a doughnut. Don't gettechnical with it. A tube is
just exactly don't get technical. It'sdonut donut. It's like flat earth theory.
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We have donut universe theory. Whatabout donut earth theory. Yeah,
we're the donut hole. We're thewhole. Sorry, there's so much cat
hair all over my laptop right now. So now we're going into two thousand.
In season eleven, episode seventeen,Bart gets a glimpse of his future
where Lisa becomes president, but acomment is made about how she has to
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deal with a budgeting issue caused bythe prior president, Donald Trump. So
the year the Simpsons had technically predictedTrump would come into presidency would be twenty
twenty four, and while Trump isrunning again for the twenty twenty four election,
year twenty sixteen was his initial presidency. Man, they got close.
Yeah, like it was too closefor comfort, I know, I know,
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And I wonder, I wonder ifmaybe they picked him just because they
were like, oh my god,how ridiculous would it be if Trump was
actually president, and like he's sucha megalomanimac of course, like he would
have gone for it if offered tohim, and then he actually did it.
You know. I think when heran, so many people were like
okay, kind of like when Kanyeannounced he was running it's like okay,
and then he was president and wewere like, oh shit, that happened.
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Although the same thing happened with RonaldReagan, so I can't be surprised.
Reagan was an actor before he gotinto politics. People don't talk about
that enough. So in the sameepisode, Lisa federally legalizes marijuana at their
request of Bart. Hell yeah,team work. So while marijuana is not
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yet federally legal in the US,more and more states are fully legalizing marijuana,
and the push for federal legalization ison the horizon. I'm going to
be shocked if federallyation is not somethingthat is sort of determined or revisited within
the next like five to ten years. So now we have two thousand and
two. In season twenty two,episode thirteen, Springfield's mafia boss is found
to be gluing cotton balls onto ferretsand selling them as expensive toy poodles.
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Hilariously, this actually happened to anArgentinian man in twenty thirteen when he took
his pair of expensive toy poodles tothe vet, only to discover it they
were ferrets who were given steroids anda convincing grooming job to resemble pools.
Oh my god, Like I couldn'timagine, because like ferrets are long,
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they're cat noodles, Like how doyou get a poodle out of that?
They look nothing like dogs? Whichis what kills me about this story,
Like I want to see a pictureof the toy poodle ferrets. Like can
you imagine someone brings their dog infor a vet appointment and and they just
bring a ferret in and you haveto be the one to be like sir,
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I don't how to tell you that, you don't have to talk.
Their legs are half an inch long. There's so many somebody tells there's so
many things. So uh. Somethingelse that gets me is we had so
I love like typos in vet records. We had we had someone bring in
an animal named d D, youknow, like like from Dexter's Laboratory,
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d D. And there was atypo when it got scanned into the record
and they put the name in abefore they corrupted it as Pepe. I
wouldn't put it past someone and nametheir animal Pepe though I know. And
the worst part is is the reasonthat like they put it in like that
is because people really do just nametheir animals things like that. Like some
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amazing names I've encountered in my inmy time working with animals include lotion,
but hoole, chilupa batman, somany good ones. So like if you
were like, yeah, this ismy cat Peep, I'd be like,
okay, we had won. Thiscat is like twenty years old. His
name was Booby. I'd like godslog. I'm like, I need the
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owner for Booby please. It's likethis middle aged man. It's like,
Hi, it's me and my cat'sname is Boob. I love that.
We had an own her one time, bringing his dog named Brock, and
my coworker complimented. She's like,I like that name, Brock is good
for a German shepherd and he goesthanks. My toddler named him. His
full name is Broccoli. I can'ttalk. I have a cat named him
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Perator Periosa. Yes, she's namedafter Mad Max oh Man. So moving
on from the Ferret poodles, wenow jump up to two thousand and seven.
So the Simpsons movie was released intwo thousand and seven, which features
Tom Hanks making a PSA for theUS government about improving the US government's credibility
following the disaster events that take placein Springfield and the movie causing it to
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be sealed in a large dome.So in twenty twenty two, Tom Hanks
did actually star in a commercial thatdiscussed overcoming the hardships from the twenty twenty
coronavirus pandemic. And in the samemovie, Lisa expressed concerns of government spying,
which are dismissed by her mother Marge, as she says something to the
effect of it's not like the governmentis listening to everyone's conversations. Of course,
the movie turns out they are,and in twenty thirteen, whistleblower Edward
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Snowden provided evidence to the American publicjust how widespread the government surveillance on communication
apps and mediums by the NSA NationalSecurity Agency was in a post nine to
eleven United States. Again, Iremember that too because I was I would
have been right out of high school. It not happened. This is the
reason why we all make the jokesabout our personal FBI agents tracking our Google
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searches. It's this. So intwo thousand and eight, we have one
Prediction, Season twenty, episode four, we see a frustrated Homer Simpson attempting
to cast a vote for Barack Obama, only to have the voting machine select
John McCain. No matter how manytimes Homer tried to remedy the issue,
turns out the following election cycle intwenty twelve, this was an actual issue
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reported by multiple voters during that yearfor federal elections, where people would attempt
to select Obama on the electronic votingmachines, but the machines would falter and
select Mitt Romney instead. Huh.I remember that happening because that was the
first federal election I voted in,So I remember seeing like video evidence online
of people being like, this ishappening at the things. If this happens,
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report it, they'll give you paperballot, blah blah blah whatever.
But I do remember that specifically remindsme of a do you watch Parks and
rec I've seen like a handful ofepisodes Leslie Nope was running for an office
and like if you would have votefor it, like are you sure?
Are you positive? Oh my god, and then it would just like make
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you vote for the other person.I gotta watch that show. So in
twenty ten, we have season twentyone, episode twelve, where Homer and
Marge end up in the Olympics forcurling, only to take home the gold
against Sweden, and eight years later, Team USA did actually beat Sweden in
kurling and win the gold in thetwenty eighteen Winter Olympics, even though that
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was not predicted. I feel likethe Nordic countries should just be better than
US at ice sports, you knowwhat I mean? Makes sense? So
I'm like shocked that that happened.So in season twenty two, episode one,
Lisa and a few of her friendsdecide to bet on Nobel Prize winners,
and Milhouse decides to bet on anMIT economics professor Professor Banked R.
Holmstrom, who ended up losing inthe episode, but six years later,
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Holmstrom would go on to win theNobel Prize in Economics for his contributions to
something called contract theory. What aniche thing to predict the Nobel Prize winner
in economics. I didn't know thatwas a Nobel Prize category, and then
either So now we're on to twentytwelve. So in season twenty three,
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episode ten, a cable news bulletand can be seen with the headline Europe
puts Greece on eBay. So intwenty fifteen, Greece had a major economic
downturn after or they failed to payback three separate bailout checks from you know,
European bailout funds and then suffered amajor issue from there. And I
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don't remember it very well because Idon't understand economics very well, but I
remember a lot of the memes aroundthe time were akin to like Grease scene
at used car dealership and stuff likethat. I vaguely remember like the country
being like something. I don't understandwhat happened at the time, but I
remember watching on the news like theywere so basically broke. Yeah, just
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in major economic turmoil. Yeah yeah. So in season twenty three, episode
twenty two, Lady Gaga is shownperforming at the Super Bowl halftime show while
suspended in the air and then followingit up with a ballad solo performance on
the piano. So five years later, in twenty seventeen, she did just
that, performed at the Super Bowlhalftime show with part of her performance suspended
above the crowd and singing A MillionReasons with only herself playing piano as an
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accompaniment. Again that one might beinspired Lady Gaga might have seen that episode
and been like, wait, that'sa great idea play the super Bowl.
I was gonna say, I feellike somebody z Episs, where like people
are just watching the show and they'relike, you know what I should do
that one day, right, Ithink it's yeah, I should counterfeits Ferrets,
I should play the super Bowl exactly, Quentin Tarantine. I was like
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blood spewing from a billboard. Absolutely. So then we go on to,
oh no, I just realized thatI put one out of order, and
we're actually jumping back to two thousandand six. I'm so sorry. So
in season seventeen, episode ten,Homer Simpson hops into a small recreational underwater
submersible with Mason Fairbanks to explore shipwreck. Homer ends up getting stuck and running
(30:37):
out of oxygen, but ultimately rescuesbut is ultimately rescued and recovers after three
day coma. The shipwreck they exploreis called the Piso Mohato, which I'm
pretty sure means wet floor in Spanish. I don't need to say it.
This story very clearly mirrors the oceanGate incident that occurred just a couple of
(30:59):
months ago. At the time ofthis episode recording where a recreational submersible was
being used to explore a train wreckand then the submersible failed and was,
my understanding, crushed to death withina fraction of a second. Yeah,
yeah, it imploded on itself.Floated, that's the word I'm thinking.
I think that's why I put thatlast, even though it was predicted in
twenty sixteen, because that was themost recent incident that the Simpsons predicted.
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They predicted oceangate. I wonder ifthey just have like a seer in the
back of the crystal ball, it'sjust like, all right, give us
like our next episode, right that, or they just have like a really
skilled astrologer, you know, andthey're just like, well, this might
happen, and they're like done,take it. So in twenty fifteen,
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we have season twenty five, episodesixteen. Homer Simpson is refereeing at the
FIFA Soccer World Cup in Brazil,where he's bribed by gangsters to impact the
game, but he ultimately turns downbecause he doesn't want to lose his daughter's
respect. In reverence because the onlyreason that he's doing this is because Lisa
did a report on the FEIFO WorldCup. And also he doesn't care that
much about soccer. He's not goingto take a bribe. So only a
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year later, Fife officials were actuallyarrested in Zurich on multiple charges of corruption,
which included wirefraud and money landering moneylaundering, money laundering. I don't
know what money landering is money laundering. In conclusion, the Simpsons can't stop
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predicting things. This is a fivepage script, single spaced and bullet format.
I know it wasn't a long episode, but damn, the script itself
was long. Yeah No, thatwas impressive, both the script and the
show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think I think there's been a
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lot of conspiracies about some of theirpredictions, namely like nine to eleven,
the coronavirus pandemic, Donald Trump.But honestly, the show's also been going
for what do we at, seasontwenty like twenty five plus seasons now,
and it talks about I mean currentsocio socioeconomic issues. I mean, the
show is pretty much the original adultanimation satire that talks about things like current
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events. So they're bound to getstuff right here and there, you know.
Yeah, it's just as many coincidences. It's kind of crazy, especially
some of them. The ferret.I'm going to get over the ferret.
Like some of the things. It'slike, imagine if it was like a
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Freemason or somebody of like the NewWorld Order, like working working in the
Simpsons. They're like, you knowwhat, we're just gonna like this little
chaos here. They're writing from thetunnels in the Denver Airport. They're like,
you know, we're just this isgonna happen anyway. Let's just make
it seem like the Simpsons predicted it, like funny. Some of them are
like easy, you know, like, oh, they predicted fifo World Cup
(33:59):
cort like duh, duh. There'scorruption in like worldwide sports. That's like
saying there's corruption in the art world, like yeah, obviously, just waiting
for someone to reveal it. Andthe Super Bowls, I mean, you
got a fifty to fifty chance ofguessing which one wins. Yeah, that
is true. That's just a seriesof three very lucky coin tosses. Yeah.
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Oh man, Well that that's whatI have. That is all I
have for you guys. That isall their predictions that I could find currently.
And so if you want more ofus. We are on TikTok YouTube,
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(34:45):
actually about to record right after this, and you get to vote on the
content of those episodes. So ifyou enjoyed the whiplash of us going from
a nuclear disaster and a conspiracy tothe Simpsons, stay tuned for whatever we
pump out next week, because it'salways a surprise, even to us.
Even to us, we never knowwhat we're gonna do. Nope, it
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comes to It comes to us indreams now, just like Twilight and Star
Wars exactly. Okay, Twilight Iknew about I didn't realize Star Wars.
Yeah, I think Star Wars wasa dream. That's amazing. Oh man,
I'm gonna say that was futuristically wicked. I would say that was that
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was comically wicked.
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