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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Episode 87: Thanksgiving In Hell Total Redux
On the show this week we dug deep into the vaults to pull out an ancient but seasonally appropriate show, dusted off some of the references and hope you wouldn’t notice we did it years ago.
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Episode 259: We're Not Gonna Take It (Redux)
On the show this week we travel back to 1985 to examine the Parents Music Resource Council
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Episode 514: Brooks Brothers Riot Daddy-O (Part...
On the show this week we head back to the 2000 Election and the court case that elected a President.
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Episode 513: Ballot With Butterfly Wings (Part ...
On the show this week we turn the clock back twenty five years to the election that broke America. (We could have had a Lockbox!)
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Episode 512: Granny Are You OK? (Part 4 of Spoo...
On the show this week we wrap up Spooktacular 2025 99 Problems But A Witch Ain’t One with America’s own Granny Witches!
25 min
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Episode 511: Something Wiccan This Way Comes (P...
On the show this week we look at the state of modern witchcraft when we talk about the Wiccans.
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Episode 510: Smack My Witch Up Part 2 of Spookt...
On the show this week the Spooktacular takes us to witch panics and trials throughout history. (Modern included)
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Episode 509: "Shaman Me? Shaman You!" Part 1 of...
On the show this week we kick off Spooktacular 2025 with the origins of witches, from the Shaman to the Cunning Folk!
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Episode 284-285 Redux Megamix "The Rendlesham F...
If you haven't heard it, it is new to you!
61 min
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Episode 508: John's Detachable Penis
On the show this week we discuss a similar situation that ended much worse, we talk about John Bobbitt’s detached penis and why Americans thought it was funny!
28 min
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Spooktacular 2025 Trailer: I Got 99 Problems B...
So join us for a month of MORE WITCHES than you could imagine for Spooktacular 2025!
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Episode 507: Tito Get Me Some Tissue
On the show this week take a look at the oddities and eccentricities of the King of Pop . (Yes, we DO talk about THAT, but we do not make any jokes.)
29 min
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Episode 506: Shamone Now
On the show this week it is part one of a two part show about the biggest pop star of the 80s, Michael Bolton. (We kid, we are talking about Michael Jackson!)
25 min
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Episode 505: Thanks For Your Support
On the show this week we look back at that time when America was crazy about low rent Sangria in a bottle, only they called it a wine cooler.
28 min
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Episode 504: We Will Always Have Paris
On the show this week we pick up with Chuck and Diane after their fairy tale wedding and following it to its tragic conclusion of Chuck wishing he were a tampon.
31 min
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Episode 503: Little Ditty About Chuck and Diane
On the show this week we head back to 1981 for the Wedding that captured America’s heart, Luke and Laura! (Kidding, we mean Charles and Diana!)
30 min
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Episode 442-443: Redux Megamix Packing A Purple...
No testicles were removed in the making of these episodes.
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Episode 502: Way Down In Kosovo Pt 4 of Summer ...
On the show this week we finished up the Summer Series with that time the United States bombed the Balkans because the President couldn’t keep his dick in his pants. We talk about 1999’s Operation Allied Force in Kosovo.
29 min
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Episode 501: Operation Just Because Pt 3 of Sum...
On the show this week Summer Series 2025 continues with the Most Expensive Drug Raid in History, the US invasion of Panama in 1989.
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Episode 500(!): Who's Afraid of Grenada Pt 2 of...
On the show this week part two of Summer Series 2025 “You Can Have A Little War, As A Treat” continues with 1983’s Invasion of Grenada.
32 min
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Episode 449.5: Was It Something We Said? Pt 1 o...
On the show this week we kick off Summer Series 2025 “You Can Have A LIttle War, As A Treat” with the prelude of all the little wars, the Iran Hostage Crisis.
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Episode 393/394 Redux Megamix!
We are back next with Summer Series 2025 kicking off, so stay tuned!
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Summer Series 2025: You Can Have A Little War, ...
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Episode 499: The State of the Podcast, Podcast
So, on the show we took a brief moment to talk about ten years and way more than 500 episodes of the podcast.
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Episode 498: Is It Safe To Go Back In The Water?
On the show this week we talk about the movie that changed how Americans went to the movies and how they went to the beach! We talk about Jaws on its 50th Anniversary!
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