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 307: HIS NAME IS BUM FARTO Redux
On the show this week we go to Island Time as we head back to the era of the Cocaine Cowboys and learn the true tale of an American Hero: Bum Farto. (That IS his real name!)
29 min
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Episode 379: I Talk Funny Sometimes
On the show this week we try to play off that this is mostly a rerun show by tossing a few clips of unheard content that wasn’t good enough to make the show when it was created.
41 min
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Episode 378: Watch It Jiggle, See It Wiggle
On the show this week we turn back to the magical time in television history when we were not afraid to admit we were there for the boobs! (And it was glorious!)
31 min
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Episode 377: New Coke! Catch the Pepsi!
On the show this week we tell you what REALLY happened when Coca Cola changed its formula back in the 80’s (Spoiler Alert: It didn’t go well)
36 min
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Episode 376: M-M-Max Headroom
On the show this week we are talking about the faux CGI charmer that wowed the world for about eleven minutes, Max Headroom.
31 min
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Episode 375: A Tandy Company
On the show this week we tell the tale of the early tech giant you probably bought your first cell phone from in the early 2000’s. (It is Nokia ringtone time!)
30 min
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Episode 374: When You Comin Back Red Rocker?
On the show this week we tell you how Sammy replaced Dave, then Dave replaced Sammy and some guy named Gary replaced Dave and then Sammy came back but left again. (Van Halen was a FUN band to work in!)
31 min
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Episode 373: David and Eddie Had Had It Alread...
On the show this week we tell you the tale of one great band and two massive egos: David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen. (You all know how THAT ended.)
37 min
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Episode 372: Video Home System Killed the Betam...
On the show this week we tell the tale of the most brutal conflict of the 1980’s, the war between VHS and Beta (So…Much…Blood)
29 min
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Episode 371: The Dog's Name Was Harvey (Pt 2 of...
On the show this week we wrap up the Summer of Sam with part two, the arrest, confession and trial of David Berkowitz. Then we get to the good stuff about the Devil! (Satan insists he would NEVER hang out with a loser like Berkowitz.)
38 min
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Episode 370: The Wicked King Wicker Pt 1 of the...
On the show this week, we continue our series about NYC in the 1970’s with part one of The Summer of Sam!
36 min
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Episode 369: We Really Had A Blackout
On the show this week we head back forty five years to 1977 and that time ConEd decided to turn all the fucking lights out in New York City. (Again.)
30 min
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Episode 368: Welcome to Fear City
On the show this week we kick off a month of shows about the Greatest Goddamn City in the World during The Worst Decade Ever, NYC in the 1970’s!
31 min
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Episode 367: Who Could've Seen This Coming?
On the show this week we keep it really simple, we talk about the people who worked so hard to take your right away in the history of anti-abortion. (You think we are gonna talk about Canadian Tuxedos after THIS week?)
31 min
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Episode 366: Full Metal Lunchbox
On the show this week we tell you about the Ultimate Status Symbol of the 1970’s School House: the lunch box!
24 min
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Episode 365: The Last Barman Poet
On the show this week take a look at a Tom Cruise movie that had American flipping bottles and breaking glasses all over their basement bars: 1988’s Cocktail. (Why? There is no why.)
27 min
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Episode 364: Too Damn Cool to Buy the 8-Track Tape
On the show this week we take a look at the long lost and justifiably detested technology that somehow made Foghat even worse, the 8 Track Tape. (Yeah, who knew that was even possible?)
27 min
168
Special Edition: It's Later Than You Think
In the aftermath of the shootings, we will not be running our usual show. This Special Edition talks frankly about what happened, where we are and where it looks like we are going.
17 min
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Episode 363: Highway to the Reagan Zone
On the show this week we tell the tale of the original Top Gun and how it was pure propaganda for Reagan’s America and not just hot, sweaty, homoerotic volleyball. (HOT!)
28 min
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Episode 362: I Did Not Sea Monkey That Coming
On the show this week we tell you the truly messed up tale of the guy who invented Sea-Monkeys. (No spoilers, but he was a Jewish Nazi!)
26 min
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Episode 361: The Night They Drove Old Disco Down
On the show this week we head back to The Night Disco Died when a bunch of drunk white dudes got real, real mad about some music they didn’t like. (But liked the people who made the music even less)
35 min
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Episode 360: Here's Some Money, Go Buy Yourself...
On the show this week we talk about the time Ronald Reagan got really excited about a movie and cost the taxpayers 30 billion dollars for his own personal Death Star!
33 min
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Episode 359: Sleeping In the Wet Spot On Your W...
On the show this week we break out our leak kits and patch up the story of America’s moment of sleeping on vinyl bags filled with water. (The story has a lot of holes! Get it?)
27 min
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Episode 358: I Simply Cannot Drive, Fifty Five
On the show this week we take you back to 1974 when America had to step on the brakes, at least if there was a cop around, because the National Speed Limit was now Fifty Five Miles Per Hour.
27 min
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Episode 357: Oh Yes, They Call Him the Streak
On the show this week we head back to the hirsute days of the early 1970’s when a generation of Boomers took up jogging in their birthday suits for some reason no one really understands. (Except maybe for this on Professor we quote extensively in the show.)
28 min