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 451: Blame Old Bumble Butt
On the show this week we look back on the lost art of hitchhiking and why no one does it anymore. (Blame Edmund Kemper)
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What the HELL Were You Thinking Spotify Trailer
Just a quick promo for the show, which if you are…
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Summer Shorts Volume 1: Toxic Pink Houses
These are episodes with topics we found just a little thin for a full length show but didn’t want to give up on entirely. (Because content is content!) This week we are talking about MTV’s Paint The Mutha Pink contest where they gave away a house to a lucky listener!
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Episode 450: Gloom, Despair and Agony on Me
On the show this week, we celebrate nine years of podcasting by paying tribute to the wellspring of all our humor: Hee Haw!
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Episode 291: “The Ruror Furor” Redux
This week Host Dave Bledsoe is taking off to recharge his batteries. (Meaning he suddenly came into some money we are unable to find which shitty bar he is currently on a bender within.)
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Episode 449: Good Evening From Captain Midnight
On the show this week we travel back to the golden age of satellite dishes when millions of Americans had a big ass dish in the front of their trailer homes.
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Episode 448: Outrageous, Egregious, Preposterous!
On the show this week we talk about that time that McDonald’s burned an old lady’s vay jay jay and refused to pay!
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Episode 447: Tell Him About the Twinkie
On the show this week we examine how a snack cake entered the lexicon of American jurisprudence. (Hint: It was the media.)
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Episode 446: Many Fools Were Pitied
On the show this week we examine life and career or 80’s pop culture phenom Laurence Tereaud. You know him as Mr. T.
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Episode 445: What We Are Talking When We Talk T...
On the show this week talk tacos, specifically we are talking out the origins of Taco Tuesday! (Who doesn’t love tacos, right?)
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Episode 444: "Ron, John, and Jodie"
On the show this week we head back to 1981 when John Hinckley Jr had his shot at greatness and missed. (A very fine line is being walked)
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Episode 443: Hale Bopp MmmHmm Hale Bopp (Part T...
On the show this week we finish our story about the Heaven’s Gate Cult. (Trigger Warning, balls are cut off)
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Episode 442: Which Brings Us Back to Doh!
On the show this week we turn back to 1997 when a group of religious enthusiasts made big news for their unorthodox travel plans! We are talking about Heaven's Gate!
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Episode 441: "A Few Good Lawyers" (WTH Movie Ni...
On the show this week, it is What the HELL Movie Night, we are talking about 1992’s “A Few Good Men”
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Episode 440: Booze Cruise to the Bermuda Triangle
On the show this week we examine the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. (We mean why people in the 1970’s suddenly got so into the idea of the Bermuda Triangle. The other stuff is easily explained.)
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Episode 439: Borked By Blockbuster
On the show this week we tell you about the time a Supreme Court nominee’s video rental records gave us a whole new law! (But had nothing to do with keeping Bork off the bench.)
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Episode 438: What If Everyone WAS Kung Fu Fight...
On the show this week talk about that time in the 1970’s when everyone was doing karate kicks on the disco floor and hurting each other: we are talking the Kung Fu Craze of the 1970’s
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Episode 437: The Nip Slip Seen Around the World
On the show this week we travel back 20 years ago this month to a more innocent time, when a half second of barely bar boob scandalized America. (Well, a small portion of it, the rest of American wanted to see more.) We are talking about The Wardrobe Malfunction and Nipplegate! (Game on!)
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Episode 279 Expanded Edition: Warning Challenge...
This week we update a classic with new information we learned just this week!
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Episode 436: Now You're Just A Leno That I Used...
On the show this week we conclude our Winter Series for 2024 with the true tale of how Jay Leno ratfucked everyone he ever met. (Pointy chin motherfucker!)
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Episode 435: From the Home Office in Howard Bea...
On the show this week we talk about the man who was hand picked to succeed Johnny Carson only to get screwed by The Chin, David Letterman.
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Episode 434: Johnny Come Lately Part Two of "La...
On the show this week we tell you about the King of Late Night, that guy who made those Girls Gone Wild Tapes. (Kidding, we mean Johnny Carson!)
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Episode 433: Waiting For A Paar to Fall Pt 1 of...
On the show this week we kick off our Winter Series for 2024 with the B.C. era of late night TV talk. (Before Carson)
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Episode 432: The Whack Heard Around the World
On the show this week we got thirty years the week of release to the time a group of bumbling idiots lightly bruised a figure skater’s leg. (morons, all of them)
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Episode 431: This Year Was Trouble When It Walk...
On the show this week it is our Annual Year in Review when we look back at the year that was and tell you how it went. (Hint: Not Great)
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