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What You Missed When You Didn"t Exist

Corbett & Lucy Kirkley

Corbett (age 54) and Lucy (age 24) discuss events in pop culture, history, and anything that happened between 1971 and 2001.

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17:51

The Bicentennial and beyond

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2026/03/31

Send us Fan Mail Lucy and Corbett talk about the 200th and 250th birthday for the United States and all the problems that come with getting older. Lots of talk about what is appropriate to wear and burn.

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20:43

Dorothy Hamill

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2026/03/15

Send a text Corbett and Lucy are talking about the 1976 Olympic Gold winning Dorothy Hamill. Dorothy may have been the most popular Hamill of the 70's... maybe, I guess time will tell. Lots of talk about figure skating and how little we know about it. But we get to really talk about the most important thing, the Dorothy Hamill hair, because you have to have priorities.

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28:18

Space Shuttle Disaster

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2026/03/01

Send a text Lucy and Corbett talk about the space shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, and a lot about what space travel has become. Was leaving the planet a good idea or just something to do for the weekend.

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27:42

SCTV

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2026/02/15

Send a text What show was the Canadian counter to Saturday Night Live? SCTV has a cast of character actors that would last for decades to come: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, Joe Flaherty, Dave Thomas, and Andrea Martin. Lucy and Corbett talk about SCTV origins and were it all went. They even go so far as talking about the differences in British, American, and Canadian humor, because everyone loves talking around humor instead of...

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15:31

Video Dating

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2026/01/31

Send us a text It is that time of year, when peoples hearts turn to thoughts of love. Lucy and Corbett are talking about Video Dating and comparing it to "swiping". Finding love is no easy trick, but maybe these two can help navigate through it, or you can get a few laughs and not have to think about it.

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15:12

The Macarena

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2026/01/15

Send us a text Lucy and Corbett talking about the dance that took on the world in 1996, The Macarena. Long before we "Shook it off" but after "The Twist", the Macarena stood tall as one of the fads to engulf the world. We also find out if Taylor Swift is a Doctor or not, spoiler... she isn't.

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26:12

Seatbelts

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2025/12/31

Send us a text Lucy and Corbett discuss what the world was like before seatbelts were put into laws. Some of it was wild and others were wild as well. Lets face it, sometimes a little restraint can be a lifesaver.

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17:44

Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year

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2025/12/15

Send us a text Lucy and Corbett are talking about Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve, the party that spanned a continent. Memories of the 1979 New Years and a little talk on what Blondie and the Village People were all about. Happy New Year!

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22:46

Exxon Valdez

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2025/11/29

Send us a text Have you ever spilled your drink and made a mess on the kitchen table. Well, imagine that your drink is fifty million gallons of crude oil and the kitchen table is Alaska. Lucy and Corbett talk about one of the more notable oil spills in the last thirty years, and yet it doesn't even register in the top ten of all oil spill disasters. That is just crazy.

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18:53

Geraldo

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2025/11/15

Send us a text Nothing like a good fight after a big meal. Corbett and Lucy are talking about the Geraldo show fight in 1988. What happens when you put two polar opposite sides in the same room, someone throws a chair. With Thanksgiving on the way it is time to put on the gloves and get ready for a traditional family get together. TV was never this crazy, or maybe it was exactly this crazy.

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19:25

The Boombox

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2025/10/31

Send us a text Everyone loves a good party, and when you have a suitcase full of sound the party travels with you. Lucy and Corbett are talking about the magic music box that brings a whole neighborhood to life.

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11:25

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

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2025/10/15

Send us a text We have seen the rise and fall of many walls. This time around, Lucy and Corbett are talking about the fall of the Berlin Wall that happened in 1989 and some of the things that led up to it and happened after. We get to learn how the division of people bring them all back together. Keep it together everyone.

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14:28

Tylenol scare of 1982

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2025/09/30

Send us a text Lucy and Corbett talk about the scare of 1982, that made everyone not trust their medicines and candys. The Tylenol scare was a a pretty big scare of the time, but we made it out and now we seal everything with love and fear. Happy Halloween!

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16:25

Evel Knievel

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2025/09/15

Send us a text Anyone with a bike has tried to jump some small hole or use a ramp, because we all gotta live a little. In this episode we talk about one of the classic daredevils of the time, Evel Knievel! Lucy and Corbett go into details about the Snake River Canyon jump in 1974 and a lot of little details surrounding the motorcycle jump of the century.

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18:55

Uncle Buck

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2025/08/31

Send us a text Lucy and Corbett review Uncle Buck and talk about babysitting, parenting, and big pancakes. Yes, another John Hughes film to review, it seems like they just defined a whole era... at least for suburb family's in Chicago, in the 80's.

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20:48

MTV

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2025/08/15

Send us a text Corbett and Lucy cut loose and talk about MTV and everything that comes along with that. Favorite music videos and love for music in general is a must. Or is it a commercial for Spotify in disguise. We will leave it up to you to decide.

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19:14

Going Postal

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2025/07/31

Send us a text Talking about mail. Getting it, sending it, and reading it, but also talking about the post office shootings of the eighties. Also, the Samantha Smith letter that calmed nuclear hostilities in the early eighties.

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13:34

Max Headroom

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2025/07/14

Send us a text Lucy gets a lesson in what AI was in 1985 and how it affected the world... at least for a short time. Corbett gets to talk and talk about the sensation that is, or was, Max Headroom. Was he an AI, maybe. Did he take over the world, kind of. Will there be super secret things to learn, meh. Buckle up and enjoy the show.

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18:26

Mount St. Helens Eruption

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2025/06/30

Send us a text Don't blow your top, it is a new episode for those of you that want to know what happened the day that America got a continental volcano. Is it weird and was it bad, yes to both. It was just another day in 1980 when part of Washington State blew up and covered a large part of the United States in an ash cloud for a few months. Corbett gets to tell Lucy all about it and you get to listen in, so enjoy!

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16:10

8 Track Players

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2025/06/14

Send us a text Lucy and Corbett talk about the true way to listen to music, in a cassette with eight tracks. Why is an eight track only four tracks? How can you be the main character in your life? What songs really annoy Lucy? Listen in and find out.

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