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 398: Your Own, Personal, Vernon (Pt 1 o...
On the show this week we introduce you to Vernon Wayne Howell, a high school drop out with a predilection for young girls and Jesus! (You probably know him best by his later name, David Koresh)
29 min
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Episode 397: All Bun, No Beef
On the show this week we head back to 1984 when America had our hearts stolen by a crank octogenarian demanding to know where the beef was kept! That’s right, we talk Clara Peller and Where’s the Beef!
30 min
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Episode 396: Balloons! Menace from Above!
. On the show this week we examine the existential threat of the most dangerous flying object ever devised: The Balloon! (Someone tell the Montgolfier Brothers they finally made it!)
31 min
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Episode 395: America Onthropocene
On the show this week are talking about how America went online with a little dial up service called Q-Link! You might know it better by its later name: American Onlione. (Or, just AOL)
39 min
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Episode 394: Bomb In the Bathroom Window Part 2...
On the show this week we come back with Part Two of Operation Desert, the shooty part! Don’t worry we would never glorify violence, in fact we find it entirely disturbing. (Except on television, that is cool.)
34 min
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Episode 393: A Feel Good War! (Part 1 of Desert...
On the show this week we talk about the time America got its mojo back by going to war! (That isn’t very specific, we mean the FIRST Gulf War!)
36 min
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Episode 392: Your Parent's Old Polaroids
On the show this week talk about how the Apple of the 1970’s revolutionized photography and changed how we all took pictures: Polaroid.
26 min
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Episode 391: Did She F**k That Duck?
On the show this week, we talk about the second worst movie George Lucas ever produced after Phantom Menace: Howard the Duck.
32 min
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Episode 390: A Boxing Day Miracle! (2022 Year I...
On the show this week, it is our annual year in review where we talk about all the stupid shit that happened in 2022!
25 min
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Episode 389: Don't Throw ME in that Cabbage Pat...
On the show this week, we head down to the toy store to beat the shit out of a mother of four who grabbed the last Cabbage Patch Doll before us. (She had it coming!)
28 min
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Episode 240 Redux: Dave Saves Christmas (Again)
On the show this week we look at the Dark Side of Christmas, and we don’t mean WalMart just before closing on Christmas Eve.
30 min
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Episode 388: As Seen On TV
On the show this week we take a look back at the origins of every late night bad decision in your life that did not involve a fellow bar patron with one eye and prison tattoo on their forehead, the infomercial.
32 min
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Episode 387: Dumb Dave was SO DUMB! (How Dumb W...
On the show this week we talk about the raunchiest drinking party that ever pretended to be a game show in history, the Match Game.
31 min
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Bonus Episode: A Yam for Katta (Redux)
For Thanksgiving we replay the most wholesome content we have ever created on this podcast.
18 min
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Episode 386: Family in the Front, Bomb in the Back
On the show this week, we tell you the True Story of The Little Carefree Car, which turned out to need a LOT of care indeed, the Ford Pinto! (Big Badda Boom)
28 min
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Episode 385: They Were Dueling Dalton at the Do...
On the show this week we talk about one of the greatest movies of the 1980’s, it has everything, fighting, boobies, booze, boobies, monster trucks, boobies and a dude’s throat being ripped out: Road House!
29 min
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Episode 384: The Devil and Caleb Black
On the show this week tell you the story of a bad man and his deal with the Devil. (Not Dave, and the devil isn’t real)
28 min
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Episode 383: I Didn't Go to Satanic Medical Sch...
Part 4 of Spooktacular 2022: On the show this week we introduce you to the man who made Satanism modern and cool, Howard Stanton Levey! (He preferred Dr. Anton Szandor LeVay)
34 min
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Spooktacular 2022 Bonus: The Depot
Last year's Patron exclusive is yours for free, but give us a dollar!
20 min
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Episode 382: So, You SAY You Love Satan
On the show this week Spooktacular 2022 continues with Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker and how he said he loved Satan. (Satan never thought much of Richie)
30 min
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Spooktacular 2022 Bonus: Haunted Dolls
Someone should just burn these monstrosities....enjoy!
19 min
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Episode 381: SHOUT! SHOUT! Shout with the Devil...
On the show this week we head back to the Glory Days of Heavy Metal when Satan reigned supreme and everyone was worried the kids were practicing the Dark Arts. (This was before Satan got into producing Boy Bands)
42 min
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Spooktacular 2022 Bonus: The Candy Man Can
This asshole is the reason your parents got the first shot of all the good candy before you could even touch it!
17 min
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Episode 380: The Devil Goes Hollywood
On the show this week we kick off the Spooktacular with the true tale of the scariest movie of all time and how it might have started the Satanic Panic! (No, not Mazes and Monsters! The Exorcist!)
35 min
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Spooktacular 2022 Teaser Trailer The Devil Inside!
This month we've got The Devil Inside Us!
1 min