Full disclosure: I have exactly zero credibility as a psychic.
Let me count the ways. I’m the guy, who early in my broadcast career (around 1980) was interviewed about the future of a new venture called “cable television.” I laughed it off. “Nobody will ever PAY to watch television,” I said. “I mean, come on, it’s free!”
Also in the 1980s, I predicted that Pat Sajak would stop spinning his wheel, and would replace Johnny Carson as America’s top late night talk show host. (Eventually he did try to compete with Carson, and failed miserably. Last I heard, he is still making a good living selling vowels.)
There is also video evidence of me in 1987 predicting that then-Senator Al Gore Jr. of Tennessee would be elected president. Well, technically I got this right, sort of. Thirteen years later, he got more popular votes than George W….
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