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 503: Little Ditty About Chuck and Diane
On the show this week we head back to 1981 for the Wedding that captured America’s heart, Luke and Laura! (Kidding, we mean Charles and Diana!)
30 min
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Episode 442-443: Redux Megamix Packing A Purple...
No testicles were removed in the making of these episodes.
61 min
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Episode 502: Way Down In Kosovo Pt 4 of Summer ...
On the show this week we finished up the Summer Series with that time the United States bombed the Balkans because the President couldn’t keep his dick in his pants. We talk about 1999’s Operation Allied Force in Kosovo.
29 min
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Episode 501: Operation Just Because Pt 3 of Sum...
On the show this week Summer Series 2025 continues with the Most Expensive Drug Raid in History, the US invasion of Panama in 1989.
34 min
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Episode 500(!): Who's Afraid of Grenada Pt 2 of...
On the show this week part two of Summer Series 2025 “You Can Have A Little War, As A Treat” continues with 1983’s Invasion of Grenada.
32 min
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Episode 449.5: Was It Something We Said? Pt 1 o...
On the show this week we kick off Summer Series 2025 “You Can Have A LIttle War, As A Treat” with the prelude of all the little wars, the Iran Hostage Crisis.
27 min
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Episode 393/394 Redux Megamix!
We are back next with Summer Series 2025 kicking off, so stay tuned!
67 min
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Summer Series 2025: You Can Have A Little War, ...
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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