Is the Universe Random or Not?

The idea of whether the universe is random or not was something that sort of came up recently in the last 100 or 200 years, right? I mean, after Newton, people figured that the universe was pretty mechanical. But then came quantum mechanics who said, well, maybe things are not that predictable. And so then to pull the rug out from underneath that and say, actually know at the heart of all of it, there might be something unpredictable, some process which determines the outcome but isn't determined by the past is fundamentally random. That was a crazy big new idea. We just need like a parallel podcast or something. Maybe we need the multi-world podcast where we take every possible branch