Talking Simpsons - SF Sketchfest 2023 Live Show - Simpsons Predicted It?! with Matt Christman

Episode Date: February 8, 2023

It's our first live podcast in THREE YEARS, and we're joined by the amazing Matt Christman from Chapo Trap House (check out the new miniseries Hell on Earth)! Since 2016 in particular, we've all been subjected to countless "Simpsons predicted it" headlines, and we felt that after President Trump, the COVID pandemic, and so much more, it was time to get to the bottom of it. Listen along to learn the history of it, as well as a special video message from Bill Oakley (former Simpsons executive producer/current leader of SteamedHamsSociety.com) as we dig into the show's many predictions! Support this podcast and get dozens of bonus episodes by visiting Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons and becoming a patron! Please follow the official Twitter, @TalkSimpsonsPod! and our Instagram! Also, check out our newest shirts on TeePublic!

Hello everybody, it's Henry here welcoming you to a special episode this week of Talking Simpsons because this is our recorded version of our 8 p.m. January 25th, 2023 San Francisco Sketch Festival live show that we had with our special guest Matt Chrisman where we talked about Simpsons predicted it and the entire media complex built around it these days and how it happened and started up. We had a whole bunch of fun talking about it. The audio, I think, is pretty good, though it was at a venue that did have music playing in the other room that I think might bleed through a couple of times. But otherwise, I think it's good. And Matt Crispin was so funny.

He's always so great. We so appreciate Matt coming out. He flew special to San Francisco just to be on the show with us. We can't thank him enough. Obviously, if you don't know Matt from Twitter, he's at Kush Bomb or is one of the hosts of the amazing Choppo Trap House podcast. You definitely also need to check out the newest miniseries he's been doing with Chris Wade, also a friend of the show hell on earth on the choppo

trap house patreon it is such a great history podcast about the 30 years war martin luther all of this stuff that happened way back when they explain it so well for how it matches up with modern times and also you're going to hear an original video commentary from Bill Oakley, who recorded a special video for us. And you can see the video presentation on Patreon as a free post. Go to patreon.com slash TalkingSimpsons to check it out. But huge thank you to Bill Oakley for recording the intro to our show that night. Please, as he says in there, check out Steamed Ham Society, his awesome new venture going on online.

Please check it all out for yourself we also want to thank sketch fest for having us as well as the venue piano fight and you know obviously me and bob are only able to do this thanks to the support of patreon subscribers at patreon.com slash talking simpsons thanks to those folks were able to do this our first live show in three years and record it and bring it out to you guys and don't worry we'll have a regular episode back next week it's going to be season three separate vocations because we needed to double up season three episodes in a row just to have season three and 13 and at the same time so also look forward to separate vocations next week week after that you're going to hear i am furious yellow and forward and so on and so yes

with a big thank you to matt chrisman bill oakley sf sketch fest piano fight and all the folks who came out that night to both the 8 p.m and 10 p.m shows please enjoy talking simpsons presents simpsons predicted it i heartily endorse this event or product. Ahoy, ahoy, San Francisco. Welcome. Thanks for coming. This is the Talking Simpsons live show, live from SF Sketch Fest 2023. And it's been three years since we've been here. Oh my God, yeah. I cannot believe it's been three years. I don't know, does it feel longer or shorter than that to you guys? It's been a very long time. Yes, of course.

I am Bob Mackey, and my prediction for tonight is that it's splits bill for Delta Burke and Major Dad. And Henry, full introduction from you. Well, yes. And I'm Henry Gilbert. And yeah, I haven't updated my jokes from our delayed 2022 show. So I hope nothing is dated. And let's introduce our special guest for today. Yes, introducing Matt Chrisman from Chapo Trap House

and the new miniseries Hell on Earth. Yay! And of course, Matt Chrisman is here because he can accurately predict the future. Oh, yes. Yeah, if the moon strikes. Well, yes. I mean, if the moon strikes. Well, yes. I mean, in the past, Matt has

especially on Twitter been quite a pontificator. I mean... This is what you will see if you just go to Matt's Twitter account. Yes, yeah. It is. It always is the stupidest day in America. But this one especially, Matt,

you had to admit that you used a magic wish for this one. I just wanted to troll people. Specifically, the people who wrote for The New Inquiry, if anyone knows what that is. It's a very annoying website where everyone is talking about how Kanye West is the greatest genius in human history. I just thought it'd be very funny if he just was like, I'm a Nazi. And then it happened. And you know what?

It was absolutely worth it. And I hope your next one, this recent prediction is true. I'm thinking, I think Taylor Sheridan's vaguely reactionary shows for white guys will prevent the Civil War from happening. At least push it back a few decades. How many future January 6th will be prevented from this? People want representation in their media, and if they don't get it, they'll burn the entire country down.

And now they have it. They have cool, old dudes telling the young people what's what, and now they can watch that and kind of just wait to die. That's true. Oh yeah, there's one more. Yes, yeah, I mean,

of course you knew that Morbius was too intense and disturbing for mainstream audiences. Too cerebral. Yes. That was an easy one, though, obviously. And, yeah, we were going to explain the premise of the live show ourselves, but instead we got a very famous person to do it for us. So here is Simpsons writer Bill Oakley explaining the premise of our live show. Hey, Bill Oakley here, culinary superstar in the world of snack food,

fast food, and groceries. And by the way, if you're interested in those topics, join my Steamed Ham Society, where you and me and the members can discuss that kind of crap to our heart's content, 24 hours a day. Before I got into the food scene, though, I made some cartoons with my partner Josh Weinstein back in the day, and that's what we're here to discuss. The topic today is Simpsons' quote-unquote predictions, and we's what we're here to discuss. The topic today is Simpson's quote unquote predictions, and we're all pretty familiar with those. For me, they break down into roughly three categories.

Category one is what I call junk predictions. That is represented by this enormous bag of plain-laze chips. I don't like these very much. I don't consider them very good, although they are America's best-selling chips. If you like them, just imagine they are some sort of generic expired crappy brand of chips, and there's a ton of them, okay? This category represents things the Simpsons

didn't even appear on the Simpsons, things that are photoshopped, like did the Simpsons predict January 6th, for example? No, that frame didn't even appear on the Simpsons. Someone photoshopped it, and authors of clickbait all around the world are trying to get you to click on it to see whether The Simpsons really predicted January 6th. And of course, they didn't. The frame didn't even appear on the show, and that is a junk prediction, much like these chips I don't like very much. Category 2 is a smaller and superior grade of prediction,

represented by this smaller bag of these superior potato chips. Now in this category there are two subcategories. The first being things that appeared on The Simpsons that were referencing historical events that most people hadn't just heard of. Example being the Hong Kong flu of the 1960s and 70s that we were referencing and the Osaka flu episode. People thought that we had predicted the pandemic when in fact we were just writing about stuff that had occurred when we were kids. A lot of the stuff that we refer to in the show is referencing historical things and now because the show is so old, younger people may not have heard of them. The first time they've ever heard

of this type of thing was on The Simpsons. So we didn't predict it, but history repeats itself, so we were just referencing it. The second subcategory is what I would call the social satire category. In many cases, the people of Springfield were supposed to be incredibly stupid. So we were always like, what would a really stupid mob of people do in this situation? Well, for instance, they would riot when given a statue of Jimmy Carter. Now, these days, that sounds kind of believable, doesn't it? I can think of a lot of towns where people would riot if the statue of Jimmy Carter was brought up. So what happened was we were like extrapolating what's the stupidest possible thing that could happen.

Now, the stupidest possible thing that could happen is pretty commonplace. So it's much harder to satirize American society when people are constantly doing the stupid possible thing, and many times in large groups. The final category is the real McCoy, the things that Simpsons really did predict. And there aren't very many of them, and they are pretty impressive. Like, for instance, this teeny tiny little bag of chips from a small potato chip maker in Gaithersburg, Maryland. There are barely any chips in the bag, but they're amazing. Okay.

I think probably everyone in this room is familiar with some of the things The Simpsons actually predicted that actually came true. As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump. Now, in that case, Dan Grady, who wrote that, said that President Trump was a logical last step before finally hitting rock bottom, which I think it kind of was. So, again, it was more of an extrapolation of what's the stupidest possible thing that could happen. And then it happened. Three categories, three types of predictions. Before I go, I just want to say, if you want some unflavored potato chips, come to Portland and get these fast before they go in the compost.

And lastly, join the Steamed Ham Society. And also, lastly, enjoy the show. Well, that basically sums it up, everybody. Have a good night. Good night. Now, you know, Bill Oakley kind of spoiled a part of the show, but we love him. But no, that was, you know, Steamed Ham Society. If you're not

yet a member go to it but yeah i mean that does pretty much sum it up the i think we pissed off the lays condition in the audience yes yeah i mean i'm i'm tempted to drive up to portland for that just uh i can book a flight pretty the video was recorded four days ago there's about two inches of compost on top of those chips you know i, I've eaten some stale lays. They've been okay. But I mean, yes, yeah. As Bill mentioned, there are many junk predictions in the history of Simpsons lately. And part of it, I think, just is the clickbait system. Like, you just have to feed the beast over and over again. I mean, Henry and I came from that world.

And we know if you want to earn $30 in a few years, you write one article. And then once the website goes out of business, you get a class action lawsuit check, uh, you know, many, many months later. So just because the show's been on forever, you could do that.

People be like, really? Because they haven't watched it in 20 years. Since there's like 500 episodes, most people haven't seen that. If there's a fake thing that says, Oh, this happened.

And they're like, well, I guess it did. I must have missed that. I'm not going to watch that show. Yeah. Are you kidding me? Oh, we like it.

Like recent ones. Bill talked about it here. Like this one. This is from Estonia, which is like, come on. Well, number one, that's the major problem here. Yeah. But that is just not a scene in the show. It's just full on fake. Poorly poorly dressed up clip art he only has one eye

then you as a writer have to go like no this isn't real did the simpsons predict january 16th no they did or january 6th no they didn't they did predict predict jan January 16th, though. Set your calendars for next year. Bad stuff's coming. Or also, they think this one scene from an episode is parodying a mostly forgotten film, especially to... Not by me. Maybe you children. In the 80s, they showed this all the time on network television.

It was Orson Welles' voice documentary about Nostradamus called The Man Who Saw Tomorrow. And it had a lot of cool shit in it, including a prediction about a nuclear war caused by a dude in a turbine in the Middle East sometime in the mid-90s. And so I was genuinely

a little scared. I was like, shit, this guy really knew what was happening. They were going to bring out the red pig and then he dropped it and it was the black one after all uh but culturally illiterate swine though looking at this like oh no respect for the masters or people see a scene where homer pours gas into his trunk and they say like oh that's about the gas hoarding thing. Which you can tell this is petrol in the sun, so this

is also a British prediction, making it even less worth it. Elvis Simpson is filling up his lorry, isn't he? We don't trust the British or Estonians when it comes to these things. And even jerks like Elon Musk get into it. He says, oh, did simpsons predict

this and it's just a scene of lisa feeding a birdhouse that's all it is and he screenshot like did it predict it and so once elon musk starts saying did simpsons predict it like then it's just over like it's done he guest voiced it on the later seasons, though, didn't he? Yeah, back when he was like an Iron Man. Oh, yeah. Sorry, he was always full of shit. I know there's a lot of people claiming that, oh, I always thought he was full of it. Nope, you're both lying.

You thought he was cool. He was Mr. Electric Car. Electric Car is going to save the world. For a minute. Not even a minute. Fuck that guy. Well, you know, this is an SF comedy show. If we say his name too many times,

he may show up and waste our time and then pretend that he's not being booed. Yeah. It even gets as esoteric as, did it pretend, because there's fuzzy balls? Is this the video game Fall Guys? The Simpsons invented round things, apparently. Those look more like the Among Us guys.

Yeah, actually. But yeah, and not only that, it has gotten so mainstream that Disney is making money off of it now. The bastards. They have an entire The Simpsons predicted section of it, including

9-11. We'll get to it later, but they even have that right there. What did Homer know? When did he know it? I guess the question is, is that the only 9-11 reference on Disney+, or is there a finale of even Stevens I don't know about?

Well, you saw those Why I'm Patriotic videos that got shared around again recently for Disney Channel. Okay, wait a minute. So Disney owns Fox, right? Yes. Well, then the question arises. Do they have the first episode of The Lone Gunman?

Does anyone remember this show? Yeah. It was a spinoff of The X-Files, and its premiere episode, much hyped, is, oh, you guys like X-Files? This is the guys from X-Files. It is about a government conspiracy to crash planes into buildings

that is thwarted at the last minute by the lone gunman. So if that's on there, then yes, there is stuff literally predicting 9-11 on the Disney Plus webpage. What other secrets could be held there? You got to sign up for Disney Plus to be sure. It sounds like it's more for the Pluto TV crowd to me. I didn't put it in this other video, but that Lady Gaga one is just like,

oh, Lady Gaga, did this predict her Super Bowl thing? And all of this, like, she performed hanging from, you know, wires with sparklers shooting out. Like, who could have predicted she'd do that in a show ever? But yes, they even have gone and done it on the show themselves in an episode just a few months ago. What's his name?

Number 8. I mean, Santa's little helper. Greetings, lame wads from the past. I have come back in time to reveal the events of the future so that you can amaze the world with your uncannily accurate predictions.

Less yelling, more foretelling. My first shocking prediction is, in 2016, the Nobel Prize in Economics will go to... Vector Holmstrom! Why would anyone care if we predicted that? I don't know, but they will. Do you have anything a little more...

impressive? Donald Trump is going to be president. Ah! Less impressive! Less impressive! The danger of that clip is that they show that they can animate the show like how it used to look, but they refuse to. It upsets us.

No, it's got to look sleeker as the years go on, like what they did with the Taco Bells. How every Taco Bells. Now every Taco Bell looks like a bank. I think Future Bart should have said, in 10 years, a girl named Billie Eilish will be born. And in 10 more years, you'll be working with her. It'll be great.

You guys don't watch the Disney Plus shorts? They're great. Lisa loves Billie Eilish. Yeah. Now that, I mean, God, the image with like, they actually have like the cell shadow and everything on that. I guess since they mention it there, that is the, that's the big one we should start with, with did Simpsons predict it or not.

Right. As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump. How bad is it, Secretary? To me, I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear. Yeah, that happened. I remember. I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully.

Hey, wait. You were there. Well, I wasn't at the thing. I was in the area. Yeah. I was in the metro zone. I was periscoping it. Remember that website?

Right. But yes, that season 11 episode, Bart to the Future, has the line, President Trump. You nailed that one. No, I think, I mean, honestly, I think that's really why

we're in the Simpsons predicted it era ever since. Like, I'm sure we heard things like, did Simpsons predict this or that? But it was Trump that really did it. Yeah, it sent people on a search for more, I think. Yeah. Well, as you guys, the headline that we had up there, that was from March 2016. So that was them talking about it beforehand of saying like, boy, I hope this doesn't happen. It's a warning.

It's not going to happen. And, you know, I wonder if, if Hillary Clinton had, you know, campaigned a little more in Wisconsin, would we even be having this as the subject of the show? Oh man, it'd be bad for us. Yeah. We need to do topic.

But if you see the full scene in context, everyone plays that one little clip, but if you see the full scene, there's some other stuff they like missed in the prediction that nobody talks about. As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump. How bad is it, Secretary Van Houten? We're broke. The country is broke?

How can that be? Well, remember when the last administration decided to invest in our nation's children? Big mistake. The balanced breakfast program just created a generation of ultra-strong super criminals. And midnight basketball taught them to function without sleep. So people didn't watch beyond the President Trump joke, it seems. Despite what it predicted, the preceding administration, Trump, didn't invest all that much in children or social programs. I'm just wondering, anybody who's like 30 or under,

when they say midnight basketball, what do you think that means? The older folks in the audience will know this, but midnight basketball was a huge culture war flashpoint in the clinton administration it was one of those programs that damn government was spending money on your hard-earned tax money uh instead of you know more uh more spaceships whatever the fuck i don't know uh and it was it was a it was part of like youth outreach for like inner city kids. They'd have them, instead of being out in the streets,

they'd be playing basketball into the late night. So that's what midnight basketball was. So now you know what that meant. So then the joke is that you should be more afraid of inner city kids then. Yeah, I mean, there's a reason that they pick basketball as a sport. It's the classic Lee Atwater deal. Right, right, right. Now you get it.

Also, it ties into the very West Wing fear of the deficit, the deficit. The entire rest of the episode is they have borrowed too much money from other countries and America's getting called on their what they owe, which is... That's adorable.

How many nukes do they have? America's getting called on their, what they owe, which is... That's adorable. Yes. How many nukes do they have? But of course, too, another thing that's not mentioned in the predicting Trump thing is that by 2000, Donald Trump had been talking about being president for a long time. Yes, yes. In that very year, 2000, he toyed with running on the Reform Party ticket. And he actually had a bit of a power struggle with Pat Buchanan over the nomination before he kind of just gave up on it. It was easier for him to get the Republican nomination for president in 2016 than it was to get the

Reform Party nomination in 2000. That's progress. But I mean, yeah, he was saying it even earlier than that, too too this sounds like political presidential talk to me and I know people have talked to you about whether or not you want to run would you would you ever probably not but I I do get tired of seeing the country ripped why would you not I just don't think I really have the inclination to do it I love what I'm doing I really like it also it doesn't pay as well. No, it doesn't. You know, notably, that was recorded after he shot George McFly. That's what happened there. Is that 1988?

That's 88. Yeah, and later if the clip played on, he'd be talking about what he thinks of the two candidates running that year. So, even in 88, he's getting headlines of like, maybe I'll run for president. I don't know.

So yeah, I mean, Dan Grady pulling out like, oh, President Trump actually happened. He didn't just pull it out of thin air. Yeah, there was an SNL sketch in 2000 about it was him versus Jesse Ventura. And they were like pitching themselves as the Reform Party nominee.

And Daryl Hammond, he's showing the White House and of course it's a big casino now. Hilarious. One more thing unfortunately complicates the entire prediction thing too. Everybody thinks that, well you see tweets like these

around that really bug me. It's what Matt said about how people don't want to watch it, just assume that this has happened in the show. Yeah, so this was on election, and there were many like this. People thought that in 2000, they predicted Trump going down the escalator, the entire thing. And I understand why people didn't know that, because this is all from a short a lot of people didn't watch.

The Trump-tastic voyage. And here I will try to keep this limited, guys. Hey, hey, hey. Oh, it's so wispy. It's a gravity-defying comb-over. I can't believe it. God is ass. Wait a minute, what the fuck is that?

That's a great question. They're owning Trump via a fantastic... No, but I mean, what is it? What is ass. Wait a minute, what the fuck is that? That's a great question. They're owning Trump via a fantastic... No, but I mean, what is it? Like, what is it, from an episode? No, no, no. It's a... Before they were doing shorts to promote, like, Andrea Bocelli and Billie Eilish, they were doing political shorts,

and that was one of them. Where did they run them? The internet. Yeah, yeah. Okay, you two. Just a three-minute short called The Trump-tastic Voyage that aired July 2015. Oh, Latter-day Simpsons. It's just each episode is so packed with great jokes that just they got leftovers.

Like, wouldn't you at this point want to concentrate on actually nailing an episode of the show first? Well, you know, I think it is a quarantine thing. Like, they put their Trump stuff in these shorts. They're not in the right place. They didn't want to contaminate the show. How about you just don't do that? How about you show some fucking dignity? But these jokes are so hot and fresh

that they gotta get out there, you know? Yeah, Trump's hair is so silly. Has anyone commented on this? I don't think so. I think I did see one of these now that you mentioned it and it was him singing trump was singing and he was all orange and his yeah with the uh give me a tummy ache yeah oh boy yeah no i mean sadly you're gonna be seeing that one a lot more lately because at the end there you saw in the background there was a sign that said trump

2016 trump 2020 trump 2024 so now that's making the rounds of, did Simpsons predict Trump 2024? Which the joke is just, he's never going to stop running because they assumed he's going to lose. I mean, this also, I think, shows you that Hollywood writers maybe weren't entirely prepared for what Trump was. Yeah, the joke is unintelligible now, but what you see up front is people with the paid signs,

and the joke, I guess, is nobody could like this guy. Yeah, you'd only pay for people to cheer him at this thing. I can understand not wanting to believe there'd be people who'd like Donald Trump, but it happens. But yeah, so unfortunately, you're going to see a lot more of that in the future. And there's one, oh yes, and one last bit from this that came out of 2021. Did Simpsons predict Kamala Harris's Inauguration Day fashion? Well, I can see one thing that's wrong. She's not the president.

Yes, yeah. Also, that's not a pearl necklace. That's an entirely, oh no, I'm sorry. That's not a turtleneck. Yeah, it's also. And that's the wrong color too. Yes, everything is wrong everything is different uh i mean they had to reach for some i do wonder though if kamala did try to dress like

that to get a viral she's never watched a television show in her life i think he's right though you know is is that more or less sad than elizabeth Warren fans saying like, you know what? They predict Trump's going to be president. And Lisa comes after that. And Lisa and Liz, basically the same name. Swing and a miss. That's just the start of it with Trump. But that's only one of the things.

Yes, we're starting with all the feel good topics. Coming up next, COVID. Have you folks heard of that? Well, there's been some predictions based on it the dreaded Osaka flu has hit Springfield with over 300 cases now reported that's what we're fighting

what do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared? I say that you're a terrible reporter the American people are looking for answers and they're looking for hope you can't get enough it's still funny reporter. That's what I said. The American people are looking for answers, and they're looking for hope. You can't get enough. It's still funny after all this time.

He got more laughs than us, and we're the performers at a comedy show. We can't outdo the Diamond and Silk funeral performance. Set at 15 to 20 minutes. Doesn't feel like that's been 15 to 20 minutes. But yes, as COVID

broke out, people felt that the season four episode predicted it with the Osaka flu. That's so fucking stupid. There are flus. There's things all the time. All the time. Yes. I think Matt will need medical attention before the show. Do people remember the swine flu?

Remember that? Yeah. I mean, there was bird flu. Bird flu? Yeah. SARS? Yeah. Yes.

There's a billion fucking flus. COVID isn't even a flu. It's a coronavirus. But yeah, I mean, in the show, they did have some things right about people freaking out. Oh, my juice loosener's never going to come. Hey, Dad, this came for you in the mail. Woo-hoo!

Ah! Mother, get an extra special hug ready. I bought you a new juicer. Good Lord. Flu germs entering every orifice in my head! Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Ah! What the... I remember when that happened.

Osaka Flu has hit Springfield with over 300 cases now reported. They did predict police would shoot indiscriminately. Nailed it. We didn't see who was behind the cloud of Osaka Flu. You know, based on his vantage point, I guess he shot the hot dog vendor. He was right there.

He was turning into a monster. As Bill said in the clip, both come from this idea of an evil disease that's going to come from overseas. This is satirizing that same fear, though, of course, in 1993 when that aired, we were scared of the Japanese, not the Chinese then. So different different people we were afraid of. This one reminds me of the thing where people think that Biggie Smalls predicted 9-11 because there's a song where he goes blown up like World Trade.

And that's because nobody remembers the 1994 World Trade Center bombing that he was referencing. Yeah, because they're fucking idiots. remembers the 1994 World Trade Center bombing that he was referencing. Yeah. Because they're fucking idiots. And they should shut the fuck up if they don't know what they're talking about. That was the itchy and scratchy and friends hours of terrorist attacks. Disgruntled imam.

Oh, it was a shake. Shit. Sorry. But yeah, they did have a couple other things right in that episode. Now for an emergency announcement from the mayor. People of Springfield, because of the epidemic, I have canceled my vacation to the Bahamas. I shall not leave the city. Hey, you, get that steel drum out of the mayor's office.

Sorry, mon. ...or water, Texas Senator Ted Cruz jetted off to sunny Cancun with his family. Cameras catching him at the airport, those pictures making headlines in his storm-ravaged state. Senator Ted Cruz. Some California Assembly members are facing criticism for being among other lawmakers and lobbyists that are at a four-day conference at this luxury hotel in Maui, as the state urges residents to avoid non-essential out-of-state travel because of rising COVID numbers. I mean, yeah, they nailed that one once again. Again, how hard?

How hard does that? I mean, gruesome Gavin as well. We missed that. French laundry. French laundry. Yeah missed that. French Laundry. French Laundry. Yeah, yeah. Ask God. Peached.

That was the most expensive dinner of all time. He weathered the storm, though. He'll be a... Well, until he's president, he'll be governor here for... No, he'll just become president of California after the United States breaks up. All right. Nice to meet some optimists in the audience. breaks up. Alright. Nice to meet some optimists in the audience.

Yeah, that's going to work well. California, independent state. Water? What's that? As well, they had predictions about the very rich. Smithers, this plague doesn't scare me. I've constructed a germ-free chamber for myself.

Not a single microbe can get in or out. Who the devil are you? Don't panic. Just come up with a good story. My name is Mr. Burns. No! You know, David

Geffen is aging into Mr. Burns. Yeah, he's becoming Mr. Burns, David Geffen is aging into Mr. Burns. Yeah, he's becoming Mr. Burns, David Geffen. No, he's... Obviously, Burns should have been buying a super yacht. Not kidding. Though, of course, Burns could have gone worse, though. Imagine there's no hell It's easy if you try.

No hell below us. Wait a minute, what happens next? You're going to have to head over to YouTube yourself. We could kill eight minutes. Yeah. When I watched it, I was like, who's the three funniest? But it's just not, I gotta start with Gal.

Like, she is the funniest. Her smile at the start of that is so good. Yeah, because you watch the first time you see it, you're like, oh, what is this? And then, oh, no. But yeah, Mr. Burns, he did sequester himself. He did not sing Imagine

as a very rich man. No hoagie either. Though they did get one thing wrong about how people would react to it. We need a cure! We need a cure! Ho ho ho ho ho! Why, the only cure is bed rest. Anything I give you would only be a placebo.

Where do we get these placebos? Maybe there's some in this truck. I'm cured. I mean, ouch. There is risk. There must be choice. Thousands rallying on the National Mall for the Defeat the Mandates protest, featuring some of the nation's most prominent anti-vaxxers. It was the reverse. People wanted a cure, and the doctors were like, we don't got one, I'd give you a fake one.

Instead, the doctors give the real ones, and everybody wants to say it's fake. Those vaccine mandate people, they won. There aren't vaccine mandates anywhere. They actually did get what they want. Yeah, I guess they could not imagine in 2020 people would be denying anything and pushing away placebos, not eating

killer bees. You gotta figure at least one person did eat a bee to try see if it would work. Saw it on a website or something. Oh, I'm sure, yes. That was probably during the washing rice era. Or like, the

bees would be attracted to the smell of ivermectin in your mouth. The apple smell would naturally fly in there. I feel bad for making of ivermectin in your mouth. The apple smell will naturally fly in there. I feel bad for making an ivermectin joke. I'm sorry. But yeah, I guess that's all the COVID stuff. There are some other things they got right over time.

The actual real predictions. Yes, and they're important because you can win money. It's based on gambling. Yes. Here's the handoff. Please, please, please. Touchdown. Slip fork in this one and it's done. The Washington Redskins with Super Bowl XXVI. The Redskins are the world champion.

Once again, the final score of Super Bowl XXVI is Washington. Yeah, we really should have blurred out that caricature. Yeah, I guess so. What are they now, the Washington Gentlemen? Should be. Warriors? They're the Commanders. Commanders, okay. The name they picked on purpose as a passive-aggressive attack.

Like, oh yeah, you don't want that name? Well, guess what? Now they're the Commanders. That sucks. But yeah, literally weeks, like two, no, the week of the Super Bowl, That name will guess what? Now they're the commanders. That sucks. But yeah, literally weeks like two. No, the week of the Super Bowl, the Simpsons did predict correctly that who would win the game.

Oh, wow. They went against the Bills. Genius. That took amazing foresight. But then they re-recorded the other team's name in the next two years for reruns. Yeah, that's the thing. The Simpsons were right three years in a row. Though, when you watch this scene... When you really care about someone, you shout it from the mountaintops.

So on behalf of Desjardins Insurance, I'm standing 20,000 feet above sea level to tell our clients that we really care about you. Home and auto insurance personalized to your needs. Weird, I don't remember saying that part. Visit Desjardins.com slash care and get insurance that's really big on care. Did I mention that we care? Just imagine the first team you hear Lisa say is the Washington Cowboys, or the Dallas Cowboys. We do a Simpsons podcast.

Yeah, look. Bet the farm on Buffalo. Lisa, do me a favor. Complete this sentence. Daddy should bet all his money on... I don't know. If I still love you, Washington. If I don't, Buffalo. Yeah still love you, Washington. If I don't,

Buffalo. Yeah, it just happened, as Matt said, the real secret is Buffalo just lost four times in a row. It was just easier for them to not change Lisa's loser team picked Buffalo so they could keep losing over and over again. But there's no mention of

the spread, right? Yeah, no, they don't predict scores, unfortunately. Well, then what good is that for me? I'm not going to bet the muddy line like a schmuck. Though that is, Simpson's correctly predicting something three years in a row. And then Al Jean,

who was the showrunner of those episodes, he lost every year because he did not follow Lisa. And he was like, I thought the Buffaloes were due every year. The Buffaloes. The Buffaloes. The Buffaloes, yeah. Good Lord.

Now we have some actual legit predictions of very obvious things, right? Oh, yes, yeah. One, lots of people saw a cupping. I mean, yeah, that was one of the most easily predicted things in human history. Oh, shit, is this a video of him? We were going to lock the doors and show you the footage. Yes, no.

I wouldn't have shown it anyway, but it has its own lost media page of like, technically it was filmed because they filmed every event, but the casino kept that very private. There's no public footage. It's next to the Timothy Treadwell audio. But yes, I mean, who wouldn't have seen that coming that they'd attack? They were wrong that it was Siegfried and Roy. It was just Roy. Just Roy.

Well, realistically, you've got to pick one. If you really want to get in there. Otherwise, you're just going to get swiping at both of them and like, okay. You've been waiting a long time. You've been storing up. You want to really make it count. You've got to dial in on one guy, because eventually they're going to bring in the trank guns and stuff.

You've got to make every second count. Manticore didn't wait for their hit show, Father of the Pride, to finish airing or even start airing before this attack. It was very rude of Manticore. Manticore ruined their show. They had lots of animals in their show, and you've got to give it to the Simpsons. They correctly predicted it was a white tiger that attacked them, not just anything. But that's just the start of the quick hits here.

It would have been funny if it was the rabbit from The Hat that mauled Siegfried and not the tiger that they used in their show every night. Well, we predicted that they're in hell, which is also tiger heaven. So every day they're being mauled. Hello, I'm Tom Hanks. The U.S. government has lost its credibility, so it's borrowing some of mine. Don't so long here, Mr. Hanks. Sure thing, son. On this day, we saw the inauguration of our 46th president, Joseph R. Biden Jr.

This is a good one. This is a good one. And at the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in our nation's secured capital city. Patriots are in control. Yeah, that was two weeks after January 6th. And it looks like in his current state in that video clip, below the line, people are getting ready to swaddle him with blankets as soon as the

cameras turn off. He looks very cold. It was pretty cold a couple years ago. They lost their credibility, and they literally just went, who is the most beloved man in America? They're going to see him and be like, oh, Mr. Tom Hanks, hello. Maybe I was wrong about Joe Biden eating children.

What's that? Oh, no. Tom Hanks also eats children? Never mind. Because that's the funny thing. They bring Hanks out here unifying national presence, but by that point, he's now another partisan sicko lib who is eating children and part of the cabal

yeah yeah i think the fat suit pushed people over the line that was the best part of that movie and i'm not kidding it made him seem dishonest he was awesome in that uh his face is melting though yes he needs to be as grotesque as possible uh but uh there was another one, too. There's no audio for it, but yes, that they, in season 11. ...Hulu, and we'll add shows like The Simpsons. And classic films like The Sound of Music to Disney's library. Yes, the unbiased ABC network saying, it's good that this happened. All your shows in one place. Better sign up for Hulu right now.

Yeah, that was from Good Morning America from the Disney-owned ABC. Yes, yeah. But I always assume that joke from this season 10 episode, when you dish upon a star, it was just because the AOL-Time Warner merger had just happened, and they're like, oh, everybody's murdered.

And they're correct. They were right. It's going to be Disney that eats them all eventually, I think. I think they're going to get Warner Brothers next. That's my prediction. They're going to buy that in the next year. They could not have predicted how obsequious they would be to the Disney Corporation, though.

Yes, we are very sick of the constant winking at the fact that Disney owns them, and they're doing it a lot lately. Lisa's a Disney princess. You hear that, Bob? You hear this? This is news. But yes, moving on from the Disney. Ow!

Hey, watch those virtual darts. I'm trying to play virtual pool. Ow! Hey, hey! No fighting in my bar! Ow! Ow! You know, Fox turned into a hardcore sex channel so gradually,

I didn't even notice. Oof. Yes, season six of Lisa's Wedding was full of predictions. Yes, for the far-off year of 2010. Yes, yeah. And they were right that VR would come, and that, you know, now you can just stream porn from your phone to your TV.

You don't need Fox for hardcore sex. And we never got those weird rectangles on the shirts that they did to show that it's futuristic. Or even like the little rings on the sides, like George Jetson style rings on the sleeves. Or like the pointy epaulettes like in Futurama. We've got no futuristic clothing at all. It sucks. And I think that was the dream of Metaverse. It's like, if you're

having a meeting, your boss could just hit that button and have you fall to the floor. Stop that virtual pool right there. Though, I think the thing they got most right in Lisa's wedding was this. Oh, don't worry, honey. I guarantee your father will behave.

Mom, it's a picture phone. This? No, I just got a touch of the room it is. Oh. Mom, picture phone. Speaking of breaking out, according to press reports, at some point, Toobin engages in an intimate act of self-gratification, seemingly unaware that his Zoom camera is on.

For his part... Jeffrey tube out. Wait a minute. I don't remember Marge doing that. No, she didn't tube. She didn't do the tube. She wasn't tubing. What we're doing now is an act of self-gratification, though. Yes, that's right.

But yeah, they did predict the boomers wouldn't know how to deal with Zoom videos. But Marge, they wouldn't know how to deal with Zoom videos. That's true. But Marge, they wouldn't know how bad it would be because Marge has a tripod. She's framed properly. The camera is not just getting the top of her forehead. Yes, yeah.

There's another one that really bugs me. I'm sick of it. So now we're seeing a few that are not correct yet or completely wrong. 1994. Before you could even play Snake on the gray little box phone, they predicted that autocorrect will happen on your phone. Are you kidding me?

Didn't happen until 2007. How innovative. I like it. Hey, Dolph, take a memo on your Newton. Beat up Martin. But a Newton was a real thing. The Newton was an actual device you could buy in a store.

What the fuck are you talking about? Newton is personal. Newton is magic. Newton is as powerful as a computer. Newton is as simple as a piece of paper. Newton is intelligent. Newton learns about... You could take your Newton to midnight basketball.

Yeah, that one drives me crazy crazy i've seen it many times that was professional dope pat mcafee saying it on there just like no you see i predicted before 2007 like no they're making fun of the newton being like crappy and having bad handwriting recognition about a 1994 product in a 1995 cartoon. That's it. And that very smart man has like 2 million subscribers, I noticed, when we ripped that video. Yeah, I mean, hey, he kicked very well in the NFL, and that makes you a podcast superstar.

I'm signing up now. I want to get a Newton and tape a Zune to the back of it. It'd be all the functionality you need there. Also, there's sometimes people try to make a prediction come true. Who was playing with the London Symphony Orchestra? Come on, people. Somebody order the London Symphony Orchestra.

Possibly while high. Cypress Hill, I'm looking in your direction. Hey, man, did we order? They really did. They tried to make it work. Cypress Hill, it looking in your direction Hey man They really did They tried to make it work Cypress Hill it's definitely in the works With the London Symphony Orchestra They tried but it didn't happen

It's been five years six years since that Yeah the 2010s were really the era of entertainment In which we thought we could vote on things Like once Betty White got into SNL It went to our heads But I blame The London Symphony Orchestra being boring. I think they're not cool. Yeah, that's true.

Yeah. I mean, I don't think they could do it for a whole concert, but just record, just do Insane and Membrane there. That's all you had to do. And here's one that I was only reminded about thanks to Matt talking about it on a podcast recently. To make good on this drunken boast, about thanks to Matt talking about it on a podcast recently. To make good on this drunken boast,

Truman authorized the one-time printing of the largest denomination currency ever, a trillion dollar bill. Ooh, a trillion dollar bill. That's a spicy meatball. Is there a magic bullet to solve the crisis? Try a magic coin. Some economists,

legal scholars, and now even a congressman are suggesting a $1 trillion platinum coin could be minted and the government could use that to pay the debt, avoid default, and preempt the debt ceiling crisis. It hasn't happened yet,

but... Well, also, it's not the same thing. I mean, that was a bill to be circulated. They were giving it to Europe, right? This is essentially an accounting trick. Like, they wouldn't even actually have to mint it. They could just say they did. Really? They don't even have to have an existing bill? I mean, they have to,

but it would just be fulfilling a formality. And they're not going to do it anyway. Fucking nerds love this shit. Oh, they're going to epically own the Republicans with this clever maneuver. Yeah, okay, wake me when that ever fucking happens once. Oh, there's sure going to be,

there's going to be egg on their face when they wake up and they've been to the Dag Coin. Oh, yeah, they're always getting owned. You are always being validated in your faith in these people. the Dag coin. Oh, yeah. They're always getting owned. You are always being validated in your faith in these people. I believe in Biden. Obama didn't do it. I believe Biden.

No. I mean, Biden's more likely to just because he cares less because he's going to die sooner. Let's mint the craziest coins we can. So we're going to start the show. So we're going to start the show. So we're going to end the show the same way America ended, with a bang, by talking about 9-11. That's my little joke about a tragedy.

But yes, as we saw up front, there were some predictions about 9-11 in the show, and we'll see them here. We could all go with the bus company's special super sitter fare. There it is. My books. This one's on me. Great. the bus company's special super sitter fair there it is my books this one's on me great that's the most tasteful news clip to indicate 9-11 yeah yeah i mean we we talked about this before but uh people see the nine, they see the Twin Towers.

We've talked to the writers of the show a bunch, and we analyzed these jokes a bunch, and we thought about it. And the answer is they sat in a room for three hours and decided nine is the funniest number. Ten would be boring. Eight. Yeah, even numbers aren't funny. Yeah, that is true. I got the circle on the top, I guess. You guys ever hear about the thing? There's a very similar story about the band Supertramp,

who had a 1980s album called Breakfast in America. And it features on it in the place. It's a shot of downtown Manhattan and New York Harbor from the cockpit of an airplane. And there's a diner waitress in the place of the Statue of Liberty. And she's holding a big glass of orange juice. And it kind of looks like a knot.

Oh, I see. And then there's this 11 in the name of the thing. And you flip it around. And it looks like the World Trade Center. We should put it up here. It's pretty cool. I'm not really explaining it right. Look on your phones. That'll be for the 10 p.m. show.

Super Tramp Breakfast in America image. You'll see what I'm talking about. Buy tickets to the 10 p.m. show. We'll show it. I feel like too like everybody if you were drawing a skyline to indicate new york before that was the place you put the two guys yeah well also it i remember two guys and a bunch of pizza places didn't they uh i feel like it was time or newsweek their one right after uh their 9-11 issue like they used the

towers exploding to indicate 11. Like they had a nine and then the two towers next to each other. It was, it seems in poor taste to me now. But yeah, so people spotlighted that one

and just were thought like, I have one of the fake headlines, or not, this is a real headline. This is it. But yeah, it's a insane coincidence says the Simpsons showrunner

well what else could it have been yes well i i did is he gonna admit culpability were they on the email chain with fucking muhammad atal yeah bill oakley was not taken to a black site after this episode. No, actually, no. One of us has got minority report level precognition. We just decided not to tell anyone. Oh. Hey, when you're done with that, I got something up here you can bite off.

And why don't you be polite, you stinking pussbag. Pal, you got to call that number on a boot. Sorry about that, guy. They stick all the jerks in Tower One. That's it. I'm coming over there. Yeah, why don't you come over here? I got some for you. Shut up, you bouts of you.

Again, I don't think that actually happened. Well, it was the jerks in Tower One that got hit first. A friend told me that the jerks were told not to come into work that day. The jerks all got the call. Also, watching it there, it's hard to not see it outside of the context after. Yeah, it's just the World Trade Center. It was a place that existed. Well, I think it was like Bill and Josh, they loved boring

crap from the 80s and the 70s. That was the boringest crap of that entire decade. Everyone hated it when it was built. It's just like two boxes. Yeah. It's very boring. But what the episode people don't talk about them predicting is how many people try to drive on their boots.

You know, the real one isn't as fun. No. I think they just make boots cheaper now. They're not buying the good... I gotta say, they have definitely cut budget. Budget cuts have hit that. Because yes, they are smaller than they used to be. And they have also, in some places, replaced the boot. Has anyone seen this?

With a boot-esque thing where it is a giant glued pad that is put over the windshield. And it's like, we won't be able to see through your windshield until you pay your fine. But people are very easily able to just pull it off. I mean, that one is way easier than doing that. But yeah, they clearly are cutting costs and getting rid of the cool big devices and doohickeys. Is that up to Pete Buttigieg to fix? They're saying fund the police all the time.

They're not funding the boots. No boots. No money for boots. Though, you know, if we leave you with one thing about Simpsons predicting 9-11, there's a big one that people in the content mills miss about Simpsons predicting 9-11. Like, that's the easy one. But 198 days before September 11th, they did this on the show. We've only got a few minutes.

Uh-oh. Everybody okay? Yeah, I'm fine. I actually feel better. If only we had known. Yes, everybody's fine after that. No, yeah, on New Kids on the Black, they destroy, they bomb a building

in the middle of Manhattan. It's shocking to see that that was like right beforehand. It gave them the idea, actually. Well, since that was shot in the episode, it's shot from a Navy cruiser, that would mean it was fake. It wasn't really, it was all planned by the government then.

I mean, do your own research, but that's what we leave you with. The evidence is right in front of your face. You know, if we weren't also mad about NSYNC appearing in that episode, we would know that having a building blown up around you makes you feel better. Yes. See, it must be NSYNC

dazzles everybody. They forget that this ends with skyscraper exploding in the middle of downtown Manhattan. Though, in this case, the non-existent Mad Magazine building. They had like two floors of an office in downtown. And now it's mostly a storage.

Yes, yeah. Now they shut it all down and sent everybody to Burbank. When it comes to Simpsons-picking stuff, I feel like it's just pretty much either just luck or satire outstripping reality. Yes, Bill Oakley said it best, I think. Yes, yeah, yeah. I mean, Matt, as a predictor yourself, do you think it usually just ends up being satire?

No, I think that they have a precog-type mutant that they keep strapped in a vat in the basement of their offices but they only use its predictions to vaguely allude to things in the episodes because they think it's funny. It makes me laugh. And that man is John Swartzwelder.

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Thank you so much. Good night everybody. Good night. Can we come back next year, Dad? We'll see, honey. We'll see. Start spreading the news.

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