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Alternate Realities: Facing the Facts

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4.811.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Episode 3: After a year of waiting, the bet is finally over. Reporter Zach Mack takes stock of his father's predictions and confronts him about the future of the family.

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0:00.0

This message comes from the Dateline original podcast Murder in the Moonlight.

0:04.7

Join Keith Morrison as he tells the story of a couple murdered under a pale moon

0:09.4

and an investigation that includes four suspects and spans three states.

0:14.3

Search Murder in the Moonlight to follow now.

0:18.0

Hey again, I'm Kelly McEvers, and you are listening to the third and final episode in Embedded's

0:23.2

Alternate Reality Series. If you haven't listened to the first two, go back to your feed. All the

0:28.5

episodes are there. Okay, back to the story. Here's episode three. All right. Okay, here we go.

0:36.2

Oh, I should go get my list, right?

0:38.2

Yeah, go get your list.

0:39.5

All right.

0:40.7

After almost a year of waiting, the day had finally arrived.

0:44.1

It was time to close out the bet on Dad's 10 predictions with $10,000 on the line.

0:48.9

I mean, I have everything, but you can go get your list.

0:51.9

Let me just have it too, so I can look at it and see if there's anything I can pretend

0:56.0

happened.

0:57.0

Oh man.

1:00.0

Well, at least so far we're sharing a reality.

1:03.0

Dad and I sat across from each other at the same table we shared countless family dinners growing up.

1:08.0

He pulled out his handwritten list and I had my laptop open to a dock

1:11.8

full of questions and fact checks. I'm just going to go through the list for your 10 predictions

1:16.9

for the year. We'll start with the easy ones. There's four that can easily be grouped together.

1:20.3

And that is Barack Obama will be convicted of treason, Joe Biden will be convicted of treason,

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