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 406: Ladies and Gentlemen, Rock and Roll
On the show this week we take you back to the origins of the music video and the channel they created. (VH-1!)
36 min
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Support the WGA
Dave explains why it matters the Writers Guild is on Strike
6 min
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Episode 405: Juuuuuust A Bit Outside
On the show this week it is a What the HELL Movie Night where we talk about Major League!
28 min
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Episode 404: Cheap Nightly Rates
On the show this week we report on yet another of the long and bloody wars we fought in the 80’s and 90’s, this time, the brutal Long Distance Wars!
31 min
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Episode 403: Not Today, Not On Rex Manning Day
On the show this week we celebrate Rex Manning Day by taking you back to the glory days of the record store!
31 min
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Episode 402: Gene, Gene the Dancing MACHINE
On the show this week we are talking about one of the most influential TV shows of all time. (For certain Gen X podcast hosts anyway): The Gong Show.
36 min
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Episode 401: It's Morning Again In America Pt 2...
On the show this week talk about Reagan the President and his long lasting impact on America. (He broke it, so we bought it.)
31 min
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Episode 400: Win One for the Gipper Pt 1 of Reagan
On the show this week we FINALLY get around to talking about the Bête Noire of the show, Ronald Reagan! (Insert Peter Griffin shouting “He Said It!”)
25 min
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Bonus Episodes: Friends Going to Low Places
Host Dave Bledsoe asked his friends to give him their thoughts on 400 episodes of this dumb podcast.
13 min
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Episode 100 Redux: What the HELL Was I Thinking
We replay our 100th Episode as we are preparing our 400th!
29 min
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Episode 399: Waco Me Up Before You Go-Go Pt 2 o...
On the show this week we wrap up our two-parter on the Waco Siege with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (who sounds like a real fun bunch, but aren’t) and how the screwed up pretty much EVERYTHING!
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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.
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