What the HELL Were You Thinking?
All the things that made the world the way it is now.
Welcome to the podcast takes your nostalgia, tells you the history behind it and makes you ask What the HELL Were You Thinking. Host Dave Bledsoe takes the history, politics and pop culture of the past fifty years and explains what it was like to live through it and why it is still ruining the world today. So join Dave, his hapless Producer Gavin St James every Monday for time capsule of truth! Find us at whatthehellpodcast.com, @whatthehellpodcast.bsky.social and the show name on Facebook.
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Winter Series 2025 Trailer: Et Tu Y2K?
Join us in our Y2K Bunker as we talk about the reality but mostly about panic over the Year 2000! Starting January 6th on the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network and wherever you get your pods!
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Episode 475: 2024 Year In Review "So THAT Happe...
On the show this week we look back horror, disgust and disappointment at the year that was 2024
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Episode 343: Frosty the Snow Ho (Redux)
We are on Christmas Break, and Dave is on his Christmas Bender. Please enjoy this show from 2021 about weird Christmas Specials.
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Episode 470: Danger Zone Part 1-Able Archer '83
On the show this week we kicked off a two parter about nuclear war in the 80’s (You know, to lighten the mood!) with the story of Able Archer ‘83 and how it almost started a nuclear war.
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Episode 474: Santa Went to Sears
On the show this week we celebrate the True Meaning of Christmas™: The annual Sears Wishbook Catalog.
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Episode 473: IT'S THE KILLER BEES!
On the show this week we examine a moment in our history when Americans were convinced their country was being overrun on our southern border, but with bees. Killer bees.
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Black Friday Special: The Life and Afterlife of...
On the show this week we rerun our 2021 shows (with new stuff!) about Elvis!
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Episode 339 Redux: As God As My Witness I Thoug...
Gather around the radio and listen to a "classic" WTH Thanksgiving Special!
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Episode 472: Are You Threatening Me?!
On the show this week we took a look at the cultural high water mark of 90’s television: Beavis and Butthead.
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Episode 471: Danger Zone Part 2-The Day After
On the show this week it is a WTH Movie Night, we talk about the movie that scared the shit of Generation X: 1983’s The Day After.
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Episode 469: Reasons to Save America
On the show this week, with just days to go before the 2024 election we give you some cool things about America and why you should vote for Kamala Harris so we keep on having a country. That’s it. That’s the show. Go out and vote. (Unless you are voting for someone else then by all means, stay home!)
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Episode 468: There's A Light Over at the LaLaur...
On the show this week we conclude Spooktacular 2024 with the story of the most haunted house in the most haunted city in America: The LaLaurie Mansion.
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Episode 467: Building A Mystery (House) Part 3 ...
On the show this week Spooktacular 2024 continues with the tale of a mansion in California that was haunted for business purposes, the Winchester Mystery House.
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Seltzer Kings Network Seltztacular Special Epis...
The Seltzer Kings Network is bringing you special episodes from our shows for Spookly Season!
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Episode 466: Oh Great, It's Lincoln's Ghost Aga...
On the show this week we continue Spooktacular 2024 “Is There A Ghost In My House” by asking if Abraham Lincoln’s ghost (among others) haunts the White House. (Hint: Definitely not.)
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Episode 465: Amityville Horrible (Part 1 of Spo...
On the show this week we kick off Spooktacular 2024 with the REAL story behind The Amityville Horror. (Hint: It was all for the money.)
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Episode 464: I Ain't Afraid of Reagan's Ghost (...
On the show this week it is a WTH Movie Night! This time 1984’s supernatural, super right wing, super box office hit, Ghostbusters. (Yep, Dave is gonna ruin the movie for you)
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Spooktacular 2024: "Is There A Ghost In My Hous...
Spooktacular 2024 starts October 7th
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Episode 463: Gonna Love Me In My Chevy Van
n the show this week we go back to the 1970’s when the vans all airbrushed murals on the sides and waterbeds in the back! We talk about Van Life in the 70s!
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Episode 462: Saga of a Star Wars Rip Off
On the show this week we head back to 1978 to talk about a short lived but influential Science Fiction TV show that wasn’t JUST a Star Wars rip off. (But kind of doing that a little) Battlestar Galactica.
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Episode 461: Life Is A Highway
On the show this week we scrape the bottom of the barrel for content and talk about how Dave’s family entertained him driving across the country in the 80’s.
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Episode 460: A Beef With Oprah
On the show this week we talk about that time in the 90’s when the cattle industry bit off more than they could chew by suing Oprah. (Bad idea.)
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Episode 459: I Can Call You Geraldo and You Can...
On the show this week we talk about that time Geraldo Rivera knocked down a wall in Chicago on live TV because someone lied about Al Capne having a vault there.
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Episode 458: How We Stopped Worrying and Learne...
On the show this week we tell you about that time in 1971 when the Emergency Broadcast System told everyone the end was nigh! (But it wasn’t nigh, someone had a fucked up very, very, badly.)
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Summer Short: Don't Page Me Bro!
On the show this week we are doing a Summer Short about that time in the late 80’s when every kid with the beeper in America was slinging smack. (They weren’t and it was racist moral panic thing.)
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