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 499: The State of the Podcast, Podcast
So, on the show we took a brief moment to talk about ten years and way more than 500 episodes of the podcast.
10 min
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Episode 498: Is It Safe To Go Back In The Water?
On the show this week we talk about the movie that changed how Americans went to the movies and how they went to the beach! We talk about Jaws on its 50th Anniversary!
30 min
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Episode 497: Come, As You Are
On the show this week we examine the music and style that came to define Generation X: Grunge.
28 min
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Episode 496: It's Not TV, It's The Green Channel?
On the show this week we take a look at how boobs and sports changed television forever, we talk about the birth of HBO!
34 min
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Episode 495: The Buck Stops Elsewhere Part 2 o...
On the show this week we take a look at the fallout from the Iran Contra Affair. (Spoiler: No one went to jail.)
35 min
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Episode 494: Ollies Big Idea Part 1 of Iran/Contra
On the show this week we talk about the time the United States did one crime to pay for another crime, we talk Iran Contra!
28 min
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Episode 400-401 Redux Mega-Edition: The Reagan ...
On the show this week, we run a classic Reagan basher!
55 min
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Episode 493: Secret Dealer Man Part 3 of the Cr...
On the show this week we FINALLY conclude the Crack Epidemic and Coke Month with the story of how maybe the CIA did the crack epidemic.
29 min
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Episode 492: You STILL Want A New Drug Part 2 o...
On the show this week we deliver part two of the crack epidemic talking about all the lies told by white people to scare themselves about black people doing crack.
28 min
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Episode 491: You Want A NEW Drug? Part 1
On the show this week we unexpectedly found ourselves tackling a topic way more serious than this dumb show should be allowed, the Crack Epidemic.
25 min
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Episode 490: Miami Vice Vice Baby
On the show this week we head back to the 80’s to talk about a television show that took America from 70’s beige to 80’s neon pastels, Miami Vice!
26 min
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Episode 489: We Built This City on Flake and Blow
On the show this week we head south to a city of sun, sand and billions of dollars worth of cocaine, we talk about the Miami Drug Wars!
29 min
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Episode 488: Coke Is IT!!
On the show this week, we kick off a series of shows about cocaine, the drug that made white people think disco was for them!
26 min
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Cocaine Cowboys
All April we talk Bolivian Marching Powder!
1 min
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Episode 487: Trade You Three Beenz for a Flooz
On the show this week we head back the heady days of the late 90’s when everyone had an internet startup ready to fail, the Dot Com Bubble!
28 min
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Episode 486: It Could Use More Snot
On the show this week we examine the disgusting kids collectible that swept the nation in the mid 1980’s (It was like pervy Pokemon!)
29 min
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Episode 485: Avon, Amway and Tupperware. Oh My!
On the show this week we took a look back at side hustles in the 70’s and 80’s (And maybe buy some Tupperware.)
29 min
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Episode 313: I Would Smoke 500 Miles and I Woul...
On the show this week, we open up that one drawer in the kitchen with all the menus and a phone book from 2001 to see how many Marlboro Miles we can find in there!
32 min
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Episode 484: Thank You For Smoking
On the show this week we look at the nicotine tinted world that existed before we all had to go outside to smoke.
26 min
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Episode 483: Girl...I Want to Take You to a Fer...
On the show this week we wind up Romance Month with the rise and fall of the Fern Bar! (Blame TGI Fridays!)
27 min
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Episode 482: Save The Last Dance For Me
On the show this week we remember the “fun” of high school dances in the 80’s, so grab your ruffles, soak yourself in Aquanet and let’s get ready to slow dance to Bon Jovi!
27 min
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Episode 481: What A Wicked Game to Play
On the show this week we take a look at television matchmaking shows, the good, the bad, the insane!
36 min
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Episode 480: Find Me...Fabio
On the show this week we begin our tribute to Love (Exciting and New) with the man face and body synonymous with romance in the 90’s: Fabio Fanzoni.
30 min
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Love Month Trailer: LOVE! Exciting and New!
Celebrate the most Hallmark of Holidays with four shows about LOVE!
0 min
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Episode 479: One World In Disharmony Winter Ser...
On the show this week the wrap up Winter Series 2025 “Et Tu Y2K?” with a look on the world 25 years after and how it fucked us up.
26 min