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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.