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, @thehell_podcast on Twitter, @whatthehellpodcast.bsky.social and the show name on Facebook.
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Episode 424: VH Investigations Part One
VH Investigations is a vampire noir audio short story, written and performed by Dave Bledsoe.
24 min
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Spooktacular 2023 Bonus: We Call Satan to the W...
On the bonus we talk about suing The Devil and why it is a bad idea! (All the lawyers are on his retainer)
28 min
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Episode 423: The Vampire of Sacramento Part Two...
On the show this week we continue Spooktacular 2023 with one of the vilest serial killers in American crime history, Richard Chase, the Vampire of Sacramento.
34 min
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Episode 422: Say Hello to the Night WTH Movie N...
On the show this week we kick off Spooktacular 2023 “Gavin St James, Vampyre Hunter” with a What the HELL Movie Night, 1987’s The Lost Boys!
36 min
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Spooktacular 2023: Gavin St James, Vampyre Hunt...
Count Von Dave-ula teases what is in store next month!
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Episode 421: Come On In Boy, Have A Cigar
On the show this week we head back to the mid 1990’s when it seems every asshole you knew suddenly had a smoldering dog turd sticking out of their lips because they thought it made them look “cool” (It didn’t and it doesn’t)
35 min
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Episode 420: I Got Stone and I Missed It
On the show this week we experience some kind of hallucination where we think we are talking to a real person instead of shouting angrily as a figment of Dave’s imagination. (Or is it? We’ll never tell!)
39 min
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Episode 419: Find A Stranger In the Alps
On the show this week we take a look at the strange history of The Bleep and swear words on television. (It is *bleep*ing more interesting than you think!)
32 min
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Episode 418: Zay Zomething Different
On the show this week we head back to the early 90’s when Coors decided they wanted to toss their hat in the “clear craze” and released a drink that tasted like nothing ever before, because it tasted like nothing: Zima! (Are there WAY too many S’s pronounced with Z’s in this show? Unfortunately, yes.)
34 min
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Episode 417: Segassem Lanimilbus Niatnoc Yam
On the show this week we head back to 1990 when Judas Priest was sued because someone thought they used subliminal messages to kill their fans. (They weren’t and they didn’t)
42 min
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Episode 416: Milli Vanilli Were Neither A Mill...
On the show this week we talk about the scandal that officially ended the 1980’s, even though it happened in 1990: The Milli Vanilli lip sync affair! (Turns out the real bad guy was capitalism!)
31 min
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Episode 415: Beautiful Downtown Calumet (WTH Mo...
On the show this week we fire up the popcorn for a What the Hell Movie Night, when we take a classic 80’s movie and ruin it for everyone! This time in the VCR: Red Dawn! (The original, not the shitty
36 min
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Episode 219-220 Reprise: "Murka and the Moon"
So sit back and enjoy a cleaned up, De-Trump and somewhat pertinent reprise of a show we did four years ago about that time America went to the Moon with the help of a Nazi
40 min
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Episode 414: "Admiral, It Is the Enterprise!"
On the show this week we open hailing frequencies and tell you about the time nerds convinced the President to name a space shuttle after a TV show (Dr Quinn Medicine Woman).
32 min
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Episode 413: Skylab Fallout
On the show this week we turn back to July of 1979 when NASA’s abandoned space station plummeted back to Earth like a GOP Presidential Primary candidate’s poll numbers. (Looking at you Ron DeSantis) We are talking about Skylab!
33 min
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Episode 412: If You Start Me Up, I Will NEVER Stop
On the show this week we head back to the most exciting moment of human history, the launch of Windows 95 (Well that is what Bill Gates TOLD us at the time, in retrospect this might not be exactly true.)
33 min
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Episode 411: Dennis Fung Blues Pt 3 of Wheezing...
On the show this week we wrap our Summer Se ries, Wheezing the Juice, with the trial of OJ Simpson. (Stay tuned for the surprise ending!)
40 min
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Episode 410: Everything's Coming Up Kato! (Pt 2...
This week we continue our Summer Series “Wheezing the Juice” (Again, we apologize for that name, it was NOT our idea) with the sensation that swept the nation in 1994, OJ Simpson!
35 min
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Episode 409: Everybody Knows (OJ Did It) Pt 1 o...
On the show this week we kick off our Summer Series with Part One of “Wheezing the Juice” (We tried to convince him NOT to name it that!) talking about The Juice and all the things that led up to the Events of 1994.
34 min
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Episode 408: Yet ANOTHER Trial of the Century
On the show this week, we ramp up our Summer Series with a show about some “Trials of the Century” which happen roughly every eight or nine years.
26 min
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Summer Series 2023 Teaser: Wheezing The Juice
This Summer: get ready to go back to the halcyon days of 1994
2 min
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Episode 407: Rock Against Drugs
We are talking about the ill fated and barely remembered time that rock and roll told us NOT to do drugs. (So there would be more drugs for them to do!)
32 min
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Episode 406: Ladies and Gentlemen, Rock and Roll
On the show this week we take you back to the origins of the music video and the channel they created. (VH-1!)
36 min
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Support the WGA
Dave explains why it matters the Writers Guild is on Strike
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Episode 405: Juuuuuust A Bit Outside
On the show this week it is a What the HELL Movie Night where we talk about Major League!
28 min