Betting, Predictions & The Simpsons
The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
By now, most people know The Simpsons is the longest-running primetime scripted show in American TV history. And for fans of the show (and those engaged in pop culture generally) there are many examples of the iconic show correctly prediction the future, including the worlds of politics and sports. Today Action Network hosts Chad Millman and Simon Hunter welcome on two entertainment veterans and brother with deep ties to the show. Joel Cohen has worked on the show for decades and has written nearly 40 episodes. His brother Robert Cohen wrote Flaming Moe's, one of the show's most beloved episodes, and is a veteran of many successful Hollywood writers rooms. Together the group discusses the passionate, often ridiculous gambling culture among TV writers, how the show does or does not predict the future, and so much more. #Volume #herd
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Who are the 25 greatest football players to grace the gridiron since the year 2000, |
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| 0:28.4 | Listen to NFL Daily's top 25 players of the last 25 years |
| 0:32.1 | starting on June 30th on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, |
| 0:36.9 | or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:47.9 | Welcome to the favorites, the podcast, part of the volume podcast network. |
| 0:52.7 | I am Chad Milman of the Action Network. Today, I'm joined |
| 0:57.1 | as always by my co-host, my companion, my compadre, my BFF professional better Simon Hunter. |
| 1:04.0 | Hello, Simon. Chad, what a show we have today, brother. |
| 1:07.7 | Dude, we got very special guests for a very special show. |
| 1:15.3 | We like to figure out on this show what is going to happen in the future. |
| 1:23.6 | I don't think any medium has been better at predicting what is going to happen in the future than the Simpsons, |
| 1:37.9 | which not only is it the longest running scripted primetime show in American television history. It has been |
| 1:47.6 | epically successful in predicting the most outrageous things from voting scandals, which one of our |
| 1:58.1 | guests predicted many, many years ago to Olympic curling gold, whether |
| 2:06.2 | it's sports, whether it's politics, whether it's polluted waters and three-eyed fishes. |
| 2:12.9 | The Simpsons have been predicting it for years. |
| 2:17.4 | So I wanted to dig in on how they do it. Here to discuss it. |
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