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oh god kitchen toast and coffee
welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for every single
time
stephen king predicted the future
hi georgie i read one of your local
papers right here don't leave this guy
he's just getting warmed up
god i love you for this list we're
looking at all of the events and
inventions that author stephen king
seems to have predicted with uncanny
accuracy
these occurrences might have come to
pass in real life but all the same
we are adding a spoiler alert what's
your favorite stephen king tale let us
know in the comments below
number 7 toxic fandom misery
king's 1987 novel focused on a real
problem for many creatives and
celebrities
toxic fandom i love you paul
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your mind your creativity
that's that's all i meant while stalking
isn't new
the effects of fans so obsessed that
they become frighteningly possessive of
a property or person
is a particularly modern phenomenon
often linked to the reach of social
media
i feed you i clean you i dress you and
what thanks do i get
oh you bought the wrong paper annie i
can't write on this paper annie
well i'll get your stupid paper but you
just better start showing me a little
more appreciation around here mr man
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annie wilkes becomes so obsessed with
the story of misery chastain
that she feels she's entitled to dictate
the story itself
in real life we've seen fans attack
actors writers and directors when their
beloved stories don't go the way they
want
campaigning aggressively to get their
way hobbling innovation and careers in
their wake
god i love you number six the rise of
the machines
trucks honey come on over here sugar
buns
this machine just called me an [ __ ]
every year there seems to be a new
gadget to make our lives easier
and every year we hear new lamentations
about how much better and simpler life
was without them
alexa how tall is mount everest mount
everest's height is
thousand twenty nine feet eight thousand
eight hundred forty eight meters how can
it know so much it's so small
it updates using the cloud that's also
how it gets its answers
just read that off the box huh do we
own things or do things own us in king's
short story trucks
this is taken to literal extremes a
mysterious event gives machines
a kind of vicious sentience
with this new-found self-agency the gas
guzzlers set about putting people in
their place
humans are forced to keep the engines
running with their every move watched
carefully by the trucks
an uncomfortable number of everyday
appliances keep an eye on us today
though luckily we are still in control
right so what could devices monitor
well pretty much everything how often
your family eats dinner together
how much power you use even keeping an
eye on your children
number five pandemic and social upheaval
sleeping beauties in 2020 coveted 19
turned all of our lives upside down
now we have something that indeed turned
out to be
my worst nightmare in 2017 king
co-authored a novel with his son owen
called sleeping beauties
in which a mysterious sickness spreads
across the world oh god
oh god no
no it causes women to fall asleep inside
cocoons
and when awakened they fly into a rage
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while in the cocoons they find
themselves in a parallel dimension
with the chance to rebuild a new better
society
obviously this is not a symptom of
covid19
but the book's themes do strike other
chords with 2020
when frustrations with systemic
inequalities led to widespread protests
and calls for large-scale reforms the
death of george floyd sparked
outrage and condemnation across the u.s
and
in many other countries protesters say
they've had enough of decades of racism
and repression
and brutality by those who are supposed
to protect and serve
number four clown sightings it
hi georgie
what a nice boat
back when we thought that 2016 was going
to be the weirdest year for a while
the whole clown show that closed out the
decade was kicked off with
clowns the first sighting was later
discovered to be a stunt to promote a
horror film
but it grew into an international
phenomenon
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clowns were spotted lurking in wooded
and secluded areas
and eventually more public spaces like
schools according to deputies there have
been several reports of suspicious
characters dressed like clowns
white face paint and all flashing green
lasers and enticing kids with large
amounts of money
frighteningly one boy reported a pair of
clowns attempting to lure him away
fortunately he did not go with them and
no clowns have been held responsible for
eating any children
at least not to the best of our
knowledge see you in your dreams
oh come back anytime bring your friends
number three reality tv the running man
you believe this [ __ ] 24 hours a day
seven days a week when stephen king
first published the running man
under the pseudonym richard bachman in
1982 the modern concept of reality tv
was still
years off set in a dystopian future the
book is about a game show in which
contestants are hunted down and
killed if caught let's get out of here
come on wise
come on go
the idea of following real individuals
over multiple episodes as they overcome
challenges would only come to fruition a
decade after king published his novel
so kevin what are we talking about i
don't know
yourself i'm so glad i like all y'all so
far yeah
it's not gonna really suck or something
okay although he wasn't the first one
who predicted it
the idea that screens would fill public
spaces and that our appliances would be
voice
activated was pretty spot-on too
oh god kitchen coffee
number two a populist demagogue becomes
president
the dead zone i've had a vision that i
am going to be
president of the united states someday
and i have accepted that responsibility
and nobody i mean nobody
gonna stop me in this 1979 novel
greg stilson is an ego maniacal
businessman who runs a real estate
company
entering politics he's viewed as a joke
until
he rises to the highest office by
holding rallies where he makes bombastic
speeches
filled with anti-establishment rhetoric
and dubious claims
i read in one of your local papers right
here believe this guy
he's just getting warmed up sound
familiar the similarities between the
fictional character
and the 45th president of the united
states have been recognized by many
including the author himself king has
said that at the time of writing he had
real concerns that someone like stillson
would come to power
given the right conditions i can't be
sorry because
there was a character that i wrote it
was a boogie man of mine
and i never wanted to see him actually
on the american political scene but
we do seem to have a greg stilson as
president of the united states
a writer's job is to observe people and
the world and in this case he was right
on the money
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number one global pandemic the stand
things are weird
people are really scared about this
captain trips thing the radio here says
it's just bull
radio here says the hospitals are
filling up with sick people
and some of them are dying look people
are dying of the flu
in the stand a deadly influenza sweeps
the globe and decimates global
populations
while covet 19 is not man-made nor as
harrowingly catastrophic as project blue
aka captain trips
it is still a deadly virus that has
divided people sharply along lines of
belief
i think what the virus has done has been
to pull the veil
back uh from over some real problems in
this country some real divisions
class divisions cultural divisions
racial divisions religious divisions you
name it in king's 1978 novel
and the mini-series adaptations this
divide is taken to extremes
with the few survivors banding together
in dual locations to prepare for the
final battle between good
and evil do you know how totally damn
crazy that sounds
fortunately the real world has not come
to that but it has felt very apocalyptic
at times
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