I predicted that Cassette Tapes will make a comeback in 2029.

During college 1996-2000, I predicted that cannabis will become legal in our lifetime.

A few years ago I got done with apretty nasty divorce and about 6 months after the divorce my dad passed away I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere in Nevada, you could call it bat country and I really needed a place to stay to have my animals and I needed a car bad. So,I just kept praying and envisioning a white pickup truck that I would be driving around town and a small place with the little yard for my Basset Hound, Judy and my Tuxedo Cat, Vester. I meditated every single day of a white pickup truck. I just knew once I got the truck everything would fsll in place. A buddy came into the store two days after Christmas and asked him if he had a truck to sell and he trued to sell me the Suburban I said that was too expensive for me and hegoes well I do have this little white pickup truck it’s kind of a bad condition for $500 and I jumped on it, fixed up the truck that’s what I drive around today. A couple weeks after that I was close to having to move out on the streets with my animals. The truck turned into this RV park, the landlady was walking down the drive, I stopped and asked if there is a new place opening up that allowed animals? This is one of those towns that you have to know somebody in order to get anything and when she saw me she goes hey that’s Joshua from the bowling alley, we bowled league together. She had a place that just opened up and one of tge only places with a fenced in yard. It was the biggest godsend ever and every day when I drive my truck I have my Hound my cat my place I just always remember that I kept dreaming about this and it came true.

I think the most relevant prediction I have ever made was in the 4th grade. We were told to write a short essay about what we wanted to be when we grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a nurse because I enjoyed helping people. I actually had no clue what I wanted to be. My teacher gave me a C and wrote REALLY at the top of the page. I was a bad kid and could not stay out of trouble. Im a retired nurse now and didn’t even remember writing that until a young nurse I was training asked if I had ever wanted to be anything else. I said I thought it was it was my destiny. I wish I had that 4th grade clarity now.

I was living in the west indies, on Antigua, when I was in my late teens. So, I had a bit of a heads up on the Reggae and Calypso scene. I knew Bob Marley and Peter Tosh’s music as well calypsonians Lord Shortshirt, The Mighty Sparrow and others. When I visited my friends and family in Illinois, around 1974 or 75, I Shot The Sheriff was a pretty big hit by Eric Clapton. I told everyone that it was actually a song written by Bob Marley and the Wailers, a Jamaican reggae rasta band. The reaction I got was, ‘a what’, ‘who’. I explained who they were and said every one would soon enough know who Bob Marley was. Well, the rest is history. But, Bob and Peter really didn’t need my prediction. They were already on their way.

Like many 12 year olds in 1994 I was a Ken Griffey Jr. superfan. The Mariners had some away games scheduled in my hometown of Kansas City in early August. Since it was a few days before the 1994 MLB strike was scheduled to start, all of the tickets were general admission open seating. I predicted it would be my best chance to see The Kid up close. I got my dad on-board and we showed up early to stand in line. When the gates opened I sprinted to a seat directly behind the away team dugout. I got to see Junior hit a home run, snapped a few blurry pictures of him entering and exiting the dugout, and collected autographs from a few players (to this day I don’t know who they were) as they got on the bus after the game. It was one of the greatest days of my childhood.

Also just want to say that I’m looking forward to seeing the Dirtbombs TWICE this weekend at Mosswood Meltdown!

10 year old at Tennis camp. Strong premonition that the Andre Agassi Tennis racket was going to be mine because I would win the last day of camp raffle. I did and that neon yellow beauty was all mine. I possible should have predicted that my Brother was jealous and “accidentally” broke it a few months later…

Fantastic album. I was blown away

The “best” thing that I predicted was in 2014 at Austin City Limits festival. When some friends and I couldn’t get tickets to see Tyler the Creator because they didn’t release enough tickets, I told them, “They should release more tickets. There’s plenty of room for more people. Watch … people are going to end up rushing the great and starting a riot.” Well wouldn’t you know it, people stormed the gate and Tyler got arrested for inciting a riot, lol. I knew it was going to happen. I could just feel it in the air …

The “best” thing I ever predicted is also kinda horrible. I was at work and the news reported a tornado had been on the ground in the vicinity of my house. I just knew my house was destroyed. I just knew it. I’m a nurse, we kinda can’t just leave work…so…After I don’t know how long, showing news footage near my house to my boss, they finally let me leave. It was horrible of course because my house was destroyed but here’s the “BEST” part!!! A huge tree had fallen into one of our bathrooms and snapped the gas line. So what was left of the house was completely filled with gas. My dogs and my hedgehog were in there!!! We don’t have children, our pets are our children. If I didn’t “know” my house was destroyed and demanded to leave work, my dogs, and hedgehog would have died from carbon monoxide poisoning. So it was my BEST premonition because it saved my pets lives.
—Ben,
Thanks again for taking the time to chat with us on our 25 year wedding anniversary yesterday. You really made our anniversary special. We should have gotten a picture or gotten you to sign the copy of the book we were getting, but you were so nice and easy to talk to, we didn’t even think about it. We can only hope that we will be lucky enough to cross paths again. Because as you know, we will be back to TMR. And we will be there to say hey to you😉.
💙💙💙Rachel & Jason F.💙💙💙

I’d say the pinnacle of my predictions, on top of all the job site times I’ve said “that’s not gonna work or you’re gonna hurt yourself doing that”, would be seeing GWAR at riot fest in ‘18 and telling my uniniateted friend you’re gonna get blood sprayed on you from the dismembered corpse of Donald Trump. 45 minutes later we were reveling in it! What a show! Happy Bastille Day! ~ William G.