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, @thehell_podcast on Twitter, @whatthehellpodcast.bsky.social and the show name on Facebook.
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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.)
30 min
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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.
33 min
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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?)
28 min
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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)
32 min
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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)
32 min
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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!
31 min
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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”
34 min
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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.)
31 min
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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.)
30 min
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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
35 min
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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!)
34 min
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Episode 279 Expanded Edition: Warning Challenge...
This week we update a classic with new information we learned just this week!
37 min
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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!)
37 min
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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.
36 min
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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!)
34 min
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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)
29 min
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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)
33 min
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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)
33 min
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Episode 430: Carl's Worst Christmas and Other H...
So gather your family around the fire (I mean the adult family, leave kids watching their Youtube or whatever) pour yourselves something from a bottle being passed around and get ready for stories of people having a MUCH worse Christmas than you are!
27 min
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Episode 429: The President Called Me A Lard Ass
On the show this week we take a look back at the annual childhood trauma that was the Presidential Fitness Test. (You will want a box of tissues for this one.)
35 min
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Holiday Bonus: Holliest, Jolliest Time of the Year
Yeah, Dave got drunk for Thanksgiving, forced Gavin to work on the holiday to make a clip show. Enjoy.
17 min
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Episode 428: Black Friday, I've Been Shoved
On the show this week, we prepare you for the Christmas Shopping Season by telling you the True History of Black Friday!
27 min
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Episode 427: The Original Party Animal
On the show this week we head back to 1987 when American kind of wanted to get their freak on with a dog: Spuds MacKenzie.
37 min
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Episode 426: Interview About the Vampire
This week Host Dave Bledsoe is joined by Executive Producer Kimberly Steele who is a real person and not at all made up!
62 min
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Episode 425: VH Investigations Part Two
This is the second part of a two part series, if you haven’t listened to part one you should probably do that first.
28 min