What You Missed When You Didn't Exist

What You Missed When You Didn't Exist

By Corbett & Lucy KirkleyComedyHistoryKids & Family
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What You Missed When You Didn't Exist episodes

  • The Ma Bell Breakup

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    Everyone loves phones, though phones thirty years ago and phones now are two different animals.  Lucy and Corbett take on the monopoly breakup of the phone company of the 1970's and 1980's and follow it up with what we are doing in the future.

    20 min
  • Lawrence Welk

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    Wonderful, wonderful!  We are starting off the new year and being fancy, by talking about The Lawrence Welk Show and Champagne Music.   We find out how soap can make you dirty and the secrets of Tic Tok.  It is a fun ride of being fancy, so sit back and give it a listen.

    21 min
  • Y2K

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    As we all know the world ended 25 years ago, which is why we are going to talk about it now.  That's right, Y2K panic was all over the headlines.  When the clock struck midnight, planes would fall out of the sky, everyone would be forced to move to Canada, money would have no meaning, and dogs and cats would be living together... MASS HISTERIA!!  Bit of a spoiler, the world just kept happening and we are all still here.  Hooray for boring stuff!

    21 min
  • Cabbage Patch Kids

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    The Eighties were dark times, filled with bright neon colors and roving bands of people in jeeps, but there was a moment during the holidays when peoples hearts are filled with love.  So much love that they must show it by hurting other people in order to get the doll they so rightly deserve.  This episode we talk about the dolls that nearly destroyed Christmas in 1983.  Merry Christmas!

    26 min
  • Satanic Panic

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    With a special guest host, Mike Stewart from the Save for Half Podcast, we are talking about Satan, and how everyone got really religious way back when.  As it turns out, Satan apparently needs a hobby, because all he has been doing has been corrupting the young.   

    24 min
  • Going to the Movies

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    Just a simple discussion about going to the movies.  We find how how many drive-in theaters there are still left, and that the oldest one of those is still in operation.  We all get to learn about the best way to sneak in food too!  

    21 min
  • The Oil Crisis

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    Just Lucy and Corbett remembering when gas was so expensive it was fifty-five cents a gallon.  Outrageous!  Can gas prices affect Sunday football?  Does Corbett really like road-tripping, or is Lucy going to rat him out.  Grab your gas can, get in line,  and tune in for a few reminders of a pivotal moment that really drove the world. (Yeah, we went there.)

    20 min
  • The Breakfast Club

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    Time for Lucy and Corbett to sit down and talk about the real problems in life, detention.  Talking about The Breakfast Club, another review of the John Hughes film and the characters that it revolves around.  Will Lucy and Corbett figure out some deep rooted problems with the world, or will they just give you a few minutes to think about other things.  Give it a listen and find out for yourself.

    27 min
  • Disco

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    Get up and get down!   Corbett and Lucy are talking about Disco, the music, the era, and the style.  We learn that it is just too hard to stop dancing and Disco Duck is an acquired taste.  So sit back and listen in for a generational discussion about one of the most despised music genres.

    20 min
  • Tiananmen Square 1989

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    Lucy and Corbett discuss what happened when the students of China demonstrated the need for freedom and the government answered with a tank brigade.  Not a happy-go-lucky episode, but definitely one that needed to be covered. 

    19 min

About What You Missed When You Didn't Exist

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