Season 1. Episode 5. In the late 1970s, Jimmy Carter tried to convince Americans that they were eating too much red meat. McDonald’s panicked. In response, though, Kroc and Co eventually brought us the greatest innovation in the history of “poultry-ish meals.” We’ve never been the same since. Without the McNugget, Bill Clinton never become President, the Indians win the 1994 World Series and Kurt Cobain becomes a sales executive for an Aberdeen based probiotic supplement company.

Season 1. Episode 4. When she sat on Mr T’s lap and kissed his cheek at the White House Christmas party, was Nancy Reagan confirming something that most of America already knew? That Laurence Turaud, aka Mr T, and not Ronald Reagan, actually had the best year of any American in 1983?

Season 1. Episode 3: Was an over the top power ballad performed by a Welsh bar singer with the most bat shit, inscrutable video ever made really the greatest Pop song in the greatest year in the history of Pop music? Better than Thriller-era MJ? Better than 1999 Prince? Really?

Season 1. Episode 2: In 1980 George Brett missed three innings of a World Series Game to get treated for hemorrhoids. Three years later, he would blow a gasket for getting called out for using a bat with an excessive amount of pine tar. Roughly a quarter century later, Brett would confess that roughly twice a year he would shit his own pants. It seems impossible that these three things are unrelated. Just how traumatic was that game? For Brett? For the players? For all of us?

Season 1. Episode 1: If Tom Cruise is willing and able to do everything that is possible on film, why the fuck can’t he act like an actual decent athlete? Are we sure that Tom Cruise knows how sports are actually played? And, perhaps moreover, why did he spend a quarter century trying to prove to the world that he did?