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. 

Comedy
History
TV & Film
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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!
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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.
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Episode 478: Jesus Was Supposed To BE HERE By N...
On the show this week talk about the folks who thought Y2K meant whatever crazy religious thing they believed was about to happen.
30 min
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Episode 477: There's Got To Be A Morning After ...
On the show this week Winter Series 2025 continues when we tell you all about the Y2k Prepper Movement. (Which wasn’t called that until 9/11)
34 min
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Episode 476: The Final Countdown Part 1 of Wint...
On the show this week we kick off the Winter Series 2025 “Et Tu Y2K?” by explaining what the Y2K Bug was and what would happen if it wasn’t fixed.(Everyone would fall apart, kind of like what is going to happen this year!)
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Winter Series 2025 Trailer: Et Tu Y2K?
Join us in our Y2K Bunker as we talk about the reality but mostly about panic over the Year 2000! Starting January 6th on the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network and wherever you get your pods!
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Episode 475: 2024 Year In Review "So THAT Happe...
On the show this week we look back horror, disgust and disappointment at the year that was 2024
33 min
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Episode 343: Frosty the Snow Ho (Redux)
We are on Christmas Break, and Dave is on his Christmas Bender. Please enjoy this show from 2021 about weird Christmas Specials.
29 min
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Episode 470: Danger Zone Part 1-Able Archer '83
On the show this week we kicked off a two parter about nuclear war in the 80’s (You know, to lighten the mood!) with the story of Able Archer ‘83 and how it almost started a nuclear war.
26 min
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Episode 474: Santa Went to Sears
On the show this week we celebrate the True Meaning of Christmas™: The annual Sears Wishbook Catalog.
25 min
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Episode 473: IT'S THE KILLER BEES!
On the show this week we examine a moment in our history when Americans were convinced their country was being overrun on our southern border, but with bees. Killer bees.
28 min
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Black Friday Special: The Life and Afterlife of...
On the show this week we rerun our 2021 shows (with new stuff!) about Elvis!
59 min
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Episode 339 Redux: As God As My Witness I Thoug...
Gather around the radio and listen to a "classic" WTH Thanksgiving Special!
28 min
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Episode 472: Are You Threatening Me?!
On the show this week we took a look at the cultural high water mark of 90’s television: Beavis and Butthead.
31 min
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Episode 471: Danger Zone Part 2-The Day After
On the show this week it is a WTH Movie Night, we talk about the movie that scared the shit of Generation X: 1983’s The Day After.
38 min
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Episode 469: Reasons to Save America
On the show this week, with just days to go before the 2024 election we give you some cool things about America and why you should vote for Kamala Harris so we keep on having a country. That’s it. That’s the show. Go out and vote. (Unless you are voting for someone else then by all means, stay home!)
20 min
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Episode 468: There's A Light Over at the LaLaur...
On the show this week we conclude Spooktacular 2024 with the story of the most haunted house in the most haunted city in America: The LaLaurie Mansion.
29 min
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Episode 467: Building A Mystery (House) Part 3 ...
On the show this week Spooktacular 2024 continues with the tale of a mansion in California that was haunted for business purposes, the Winchester Mystery House.
27 min
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Seltzer Kings Network Seltztacular Special Epis...
The Seltzer Kings Network is bringing you special episodes from our shows for Spookly Season!
12 min
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Episode 466: Oh Great, It's Lincoln's Ghost Aga...
On the show this week we continue Spooktacular 2024 “Is There A Ghost In My House” by asking if Abraham Lincoln’s ghost (among others) haunts the White House. (Hint: Definitely not.)
25 min
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Episode 465: Amityville Horrible (Part 1 of Spo...
On the show this week we kick off Spooktacular 2024 with the REAL story behind The Amityville Horror. (Hint: It was all for the money.)
35 min
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Episode 464: I Ain't Afraid of Reagan's Ghost (...
On the show this week it is a WTH Movie Night! This time 1984’s supernatural, super right wing, super box office hit, Ghostbusters. (Yep, Dave is gonna ruin the movie for you)
33 min
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Spooktacular 2024: "Is There A Ghost In My Hous...
Spooktacular 2024 starts October 7th
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Episode 463: Gonna Love Me In My Chevy Van
n the show this week we go back to the 1970’s when the vans all airbrushed murals on the sides and waterbeds in the back! We talk about Van Life in the 70s!
30 min