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.
Episodes
April 22, 2024 • 33 mins
Show Notes Episode 447: Tell Him About the Twinkie
This week Host Dave Bledsoe insists he cannot be legally responsible for this bar tab because he was drunk when the charges were incurred! (The bartender dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning the bouncers threw him in the dumpster out back. Again.) On the show this week we examine how a snack cake entered the lexicon of American jurisprudence. (Hint: It was the media.)
Alon...
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April 15, 2024 • 36 mins
Show Notes Episode 446: Many Fools Were Pitied
This week Host Dave Bledsoe is kicked out of a bar for bar tab he claimed he did not commit and is desperately searching for the A-Team to help. (The A-Team in this case is asking Gavin to loan him fifty bucks until Friday.) On the show this week we examine life and career or 80’s pop culture phenom Laurence Tereaud. You know him as Mr. T.
Along the way we discover why Dave never wea...
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April 8, 2024 • 31 mins
Show Notes Episode 445: “What We’re Talking When We’re Talking Taco Tuesday”
This week Host Dave Bledsoe passes out face down in a Big Beef Burrito Supreme and is kicked out of Taco Bell. (Again) On the show this week talk tacos, specifically we are talking out the origins of Taco Tuesday! (Who doesn’t love tacos, right?)
Along the way we discover that Dave probably missed out on his once chance for a meaningful relationship but...
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March 29, 2024 • 35 mins
Show Notes Episode 444: “Ron, John and Jodie”
This week Host Dave Bledsoe asks the bartender “You talking to me, are YOU talking to me?” when they ask him to pay for his drinks. (The bartender replied that he must be since he didn’t see any other deadbeat drunks around there.) 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)
Along the way we ...
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March 25, 2024 • 34 mins
Show Notes Episode 443: Hale Bopp, Mmmmhmm, Hale Bopp
Part Two of Packing a Purple Shroud
This week Host Dave Bledsoe drunkenly gets into a white panel van thinking it was an Uber and spent three days in a UFO Cult before they kicked him out for being an asshole. (Again) On the show this week we finish our story about the Heaven’s Gate Cult. (Trigger Warning, balls are cut off)
Along the way we discover Dave was quite the connois...
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March 18, 2024 • 33 mins
Show Notes Episode 442: “Which Brings Us Back to DOH!”
Part One of Packing a Purple Shroud
This week Host Dave Bledsoe asks the bartender to float him one last drink because later he will be leaving to join a Mothership located near Uranus. (He was still giggling when the bouncer dragged him out.) 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 ...
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March 11, 2024 • 36 mins
Show Notes Episode 441: “A Few Good Lawyers”
Movie Night: A Few Good Men
This week Host Dave Bledsoe angrily insists the bartender “can’t handle the truth” when asked when he might be paying his bar tab. (They dragged Dave outside while screaming: “You WANT me at that bar, you NEED me at this bar” Again.) On the show this week, it is What the HELL Movie Night, we are talking about 1992’s “A Few Good Men”
Along the way we disco...
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March 4, 2024 • 33 mins
Show Notes Episode 440: Booze Cruise to the Bermuda Triangle
This week Host Dave Bledsoe goes to a Tiki Bar in Teaneck and gets lost on the way to the bathroom. (Again) 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.)
Along the way we learn that Dave is like he is because parents in...
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February 26, 2024 • 33 mins
Episode 439: Borked by Blockbuster
This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets in a drunken row with a fellow barfly on the artistic merits of “Jiggly Juggs Volume 7” versus “Jiggly Juggs Volume 8” insisting 8 was repetitive trash until the bartender tossed them both out. (Again) 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 o...
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February 19, 2024 • 37 mins
Show Notes Episode 438: What If Everyone WAS Kung Fu Fighting?
This week Host Dave Bledsoe loudly proclaims he knows “Drunk Fu” as the bouncers haul him toward the exit. (Drunk Fu is mostly just screaming and crying while struggling weakly against stronger men). 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 o...
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February 9, 2024 • 37 mins
Episode 437: The Nip Slip Seen Around the World
This week Host Dave Bledsoe loudly is very excited because he gets to talk about his favorite subject: Boobs. (Unfortunately he keeps insisting on talking about them to women at the bar, who do NOT want to hear it.) 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 o...
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February 5, 2024 • 40 mins
Episode 279 Expanded Edition: Warning, Challenger Jokes Ahead(Update and Redux)
This week Host Dave Bledsoe volunteers to be the first podcast host in space thinking it might convince people to buy him free drinks. (It doesn’t.) On the show this week we are somehow topical and yet entirely outdated as we talk about the Challenger Disaster. (Yes, sadly, he DOES do the jokes.)
Along the way we learn that most of what people SAY ...
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Show Notes Episode 436: Now You’re Just A Leno That I Used to Know
Finale of Winter Series 2024 “Late Nite with Dave Bledsoe”
This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets into a bitter feud with his agent over whose round of drinks it is. (Dave doesn’t have an agent, he was arguing with an old drunk lady in Port Authority. Again.) On the show this week we conclude our Winter Series for 2024 with the true tale of how Jay Leno ratfucked everyo...
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January 22, 2024 • 38 mins
Show Notes Episode 435: From the Home Office In Howard Beach Queens
Part Three of Winter Series 2024 “Late Nite With Dave Bledsoe”
This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets into a blazing row with the network on whether or not he can submit bar tabs on his expense account, claiming them as a “vital research expense”. (Jeremy laughed him out of the office.) On the show this week we talk about the man who was hand picked to succeed Johnny C...
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January 15, 2024 • 36 mins
Show Notes Episode 434: Johnny Come Lately
Part Two of “Late Nite with Dave Bledsoe
This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets banned from the Bronx Zoo after being found drunkenly screaming and throwing his own feces at a monkey who “will never work in show business again!”. (Just another Tuesday for Dave) 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 John...
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January 6, 2024 • 31 mins
Episode 433: “Waiting for a Paar to Fall”
Part 1 of Winter Series 2024: “Late Night With Dave Bledsoe”
This week Host Dave Bledsoe drunkenly stumbles out of the studio bathroom shouting “Heeeeere's Davey!” with his pants around his ankles as a joke. (Again) 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)
Along the way we are forced to listen to an old man wax...
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January 1, 2024 • 35 mins
Show Notes Episode 432: The Whack Heard Around the World
This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets into a drunken row with Fast Eddie because Fast Eddie won’t have one of his guys “do something about his Joe Rogan problem”. (His problem is he liked Joe Rogan on Newsradio and wants to know what happened to that Joe Rogan.) On the show this week we go back thirty years from the week of release to the time a group of bumbling idiots lightly ...
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December 23, 2023 • 36 mins
Show Notes Episode 431: This Year Was Trouble When it Walked In
2023 Year In Review
Dave wraps up 2023 the same way he started the year, bloodied, drunk and crying behind a bar in Bay Ridge. (It’s tradition) 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) We cull the endless news cycles to bring the stories that truly shaped events in the pa...
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December 18, 2023 • 30 mins
Show Notes Episode 430: Carl’s Worst Christmas Ever and Other Holiday Tales
This week Host Dave Bledsoe tries some amazing eggnog some guy’s brother made with lighter fluid and starts telling stories. (Again) For our annual “Jesus, is it Christmas already?” episode, we dig into the vaults of Dave’s Brain to bring you lurid tales of Christmas’ gone wrong in every way possible. Be they marital infidelity, public masturbation or a s...
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December 4, 2023 • 37 mins
Show Notes Episode 429: The President Called Me A Lard Ass
This week Host Dave Bledsoe relives his youthful trauma when some vicious preteens inadvertently call him a long forgotten childhood nickname. (Fat Ass, it was Fat 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.)
Along the way we discover why Dave never pl...
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