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 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!)
20 min
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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.
29 min
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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.
27 min
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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.)
25 min
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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.)
35 min
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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)
33 min
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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.
42 min
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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.
26 min
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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.)
29 min
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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.
34 min
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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.)
32 min
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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.)
23 min
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Episode 370-371 Mega-Mix The Summer of Sam Redux
This week Host Dave Bledsoe takes a “well deserved” rest after “working so hard” on the Summer Series. (All he did was show up in the studio and slur drunkenly into a microphone.)
73 min
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Episode 457: When You Wish Upon A Starr Pt 2 Bi...
On the show this week we wrap up Summer Series 2024 and the story of Bill Clinton with the Sex Scandal that defined the 90’s.
30 min
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Episode 456: "Stand By Your Man" Part 4 of Summ...
On the show this week we kick off the finale of Summer Series 2024 with part one of a two part show about the many peccadillos of William Jefferson Clinton! (A very horny man!)
30 min
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Episode 455: We Have Clearance Clarence Pt 3 of...
On the show week we talk about the horniest Supreme Court Justice nominee since Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Horny Clarence Thomas! (Check your coke cans for pubes folks!)
29 min
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Episode 454: “Where The F**K Did I Say Build A...
On the show this week we turn back to the pulpit with the story of a man who loved God so much, he just HAD to build him a theme park. (And also stealing millions for himself) Reverend Jim Bakker.
33 min
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Episode 453: "I Have Sinned Against You" Pt 1 o...
On the show this week we kick off Summer Series 2024 Let’s Talk About (Scandals) with part one, the story of a pious man who loved to “minister” to the sex workers just a little too much: Reverend Jimmy Swaggart.
33 min
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Summer Short 2 Cause of Death: POP ROCKS!
On the show this week, it’s a Summer Short, smaller episodes we do to give our writers a break during the Summer. This week, the tragic death of Life Cereal’s Mikey by Pop Rock consumption. (Hint: It didn’t happen.)
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Episode 452: Subterranean Homesick Alien Autopsy
On the show this week we examine a television show that purported to show an alien autopsy that aired on Fox in 1995. (Fox, bringing the bullshit for over thirty years!)
33 min
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Summers Series 2024 "Let's Talk About Sex (Scan...
Coming July 8th!
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Seltzer Kings Network Shout Out: The Puzzy Boyz
With Dave on vacation, we are running a network show. Don't like it more than our show!
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