What if Marvel didn’t survive 1997?

In this alternate timeline, a federal judge orders the full liquidation of Marvel Entertainment. Spider-Man, the X-Men, and thousands of heroes are auctioned off—scattered across rival studios, their universe dismembered before it ever assembled. There is no Marvel Studios. No Avengers. Just fragments.

As pop culture splinters, a generation grows up without a shared mythology. A father tells stories that no longer exist in print. A child plays with a forgotten hero no one recognizes.

“Marvel Liquidates” explores the quiet cultural fallout of a mythos unraveled—how its absence reshaped film, fandom, family, and the stories we pass down when the world forgets them.

What if the Dodgers never left Brooklyn?

In this alternate timeline, a single signature in 1955 rewrites the fate of a city. The Brooklyn Dodgers remain at home beneath the world’s first domed stadium, transforming the borough into a cradle of pride, defiance, and cultural reinvention. But salvation has a cost. Families are displaced. Communities fracture. And across the country, Los Angeles is left searching for a team—and an identity.

Spanning decades of urban change, generational memory, and contested loyalty, this is the story of a city that refused to let go—and what it took to hold on.

Listen to “Brooklyn Forever,” episode Delta-35 of Not This Time.

What if Kurt Cobain lived?

In April 1994, one paramedic’s instinct changes music history. But the ripples don’t stop there. Cobain Lives: The Echo Echo Years traces the messy, decades-long legacy of a rock icon who never became a martyr—only a man trying to stay alive. As grief gives way to redemption, an entire generation finds new footing: fans choose recovery over ritual, veterans cling to lyrics that kept them breathing, and a movement once rooted in rage learns how to heal.

Not This Time presents Delta-34, a recovered timeline where one survival reshaped a culture.

What if the E.T. video game hadn’t destroyed Atari—but saved it? In this recovered timeline, a last-minute rewrite turns disaster into destiny, launching a golden age of interactive entertainment that reshapes childhood, education, and even warfare. Follow the life of one girl—from her 1982 Christmas morning to her career as a game designer, mother, and finally grandmother—through a world where digital play never stopped expanding. But behind the nostalgia lies a question: when play becomes everything, what gets left behind?

Not This Time presents Delta-33: Atari Triumphs—a haunting, immersive journey through a culture rewired by a single cartridge.

What if Star Wars never made it to theaters?

In April 1975, George Lucas’s ambitious space opera is rejected at the final pitch meeting. Without it, there’s no Luke Skywalker, no Jedi, no galaxy far, far away. Instead, a generation turns to arcades, comic books, and Saturday morning cartoons to fill the mythic void. Star Trek survives. NASA becomes the main vessel of wonder. But the cultural supernova never comes.

This episode traces the shockwave of a missing saga—from Reagan’s rhetoric to the Challenger disaster, from VHS aisles to the rise of the Marvel age. Through one canceled film, an entire emotional landscape is redrawn.

Delta-32: Star Wars Shelved explores a world that reached for the stars—and never quite left Earth.

What happens when the show about nothing… never airs at all?

In this recovered timeline, a single memo in May 1990 cancels Seinfeld after one low-rated pilot—erasing the rise of sarcastic, observational comedy before it ever takes hold. Without its cultural gravity, network television retreats into sweetness and safety, avoiding the edge that once defined a generation. From altered writing rooms to forgotten slang and late-night silence, this episode traces the quiet cultural flattening that followed—and the laughter that never came.

Delta-31: Seinfeld Shelved is a haunting reminder that even the most irreverent revolutions can be smothered in a single boardroom decision.

Listen now to Not This Time—the alternate history podcast that recovers the timelines we were never meant to remember.

What if the U.S. government confirmed alien contact in 1947—on live radio?

In this gripping alternate timeline, President Truman reveals the truth about the Roswell crash to a stunned world, igniting decades of wonder, secrecy, and transformation. Follow one boy's journey from desert stargazer to aerospace pioneer as humanity grapples with the enormity of the cosmos. From Cold War paranoia to moon landings, funeral salutes to Martian dreams, Roswell Revealed is a sweeping emotional epic about truth, legacy, and the cost of looking up.

Delta-30. A world that never looked away.

What if the iPhone never launched?

In December 2006, Apple cancels its secret smartphone project just days before unveiling. Without the iPhone, the mobile revolution stalls for nearly a decade. BlackBerry thrives, apps vanish, and childhoods remain blissfully unplugged. But when the future finally arrives, it comes all at once—and hits harder. In this haunting alternate timeline, families grow up slower, society adapts differently, and one man quietly wonders if the price of progress was worth the delay.

Dial‑Tone Future rewinds the world to a single corporate decision that reshaped the rhythm of modern life.

In this episode of Not This Time, history takes flight from a different runway.

In the 1984 NBA draft, the Portland Trail Blazers shock the world by selecting Michael Jordan second overall—redirecting the rise of Nike, the legacy of Chicago, and the global culture of basketball. What follows is a reshaped world where Portland becomes the epicenter of a dynasty, and Chicago spends decades haunted by what might have been.

From street murals and sneaker riots to vanished championship parades and rewritten childhoods, this is the story of how a single draft pick reshaped cities, economies, and lives.

Delta-28: Air Jordan Grounded explores what happens when greatness lands somewhere else.

What if America chose imagination over experience—fairy tale over firebrand?

In this haunting installment of Not This Time, the Archivist recovers a timeline in which Walt Disney is drafted as the Democratic nominee in 1964, sweeping into the presidency on a wave of televised charm and national grief. But the dreams he sells come with consequences: monorails glide through model cities while napalm rains in Southeast Asia. Civil rights are honored with gestures, but justice comes late and wrapped in sentiment.

This episode doesn’t ask whether Walt Disney was a good president—it asks what happens when a nation mistakes comfort for clarity, nostalgia for progress, and myth for memory.

Delta 27. Disney in the White House. The fable was real. The cost was, too.