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.
Episodes
October 6, 2025 • 26 mins
Episode 509: Shaman Me? Shaman You!
This week Host Dave Bledsoe visited the Old Wise Woman at the edge of the village for herbs that would help him experience enlightenment. (Meaning he bought some weed at an unlicensed dispensary.)
Along the way we learn that Dave was scared by an old lesbian when he was a kid. (Lesbians are nothing to be afraid of!) Then we dive right in by dispelling some myths about the matriarchy. From th...
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September 29, 2025 • 63 mins
Show Notes Episode 284-285 Redux Mega-Mix “The Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident”
We are off this week prepping for Spooktacular 2025 so enjoy this double episode megamix from 2020 about that time in the 80s some Air Force cops lied about seeing a UFO to cover their asses after getting caught fucking around on post.
Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense
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September 22, 2025 • 30 mins
Show Notes Episode 508: “John’s Detachable Penis”
This week Host Dave Bledsoe woke up screaming after a bender to find a red mess and half a weiner on his lap, only to discover he passed out while eating a hot dog. (What kind of monster puts ketchup on a hot dog?) On the show this week we discuss a similar situation that ended much worse, we talk about John Bobbitt’s detached penis and why Americans thought it was funny!
Along th...
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September 18, 2025 • 1 min
Spooktacular 2025 kicks off in October! All month long we talk about Witches! The good ones, the bad ones, the ones who dress all sexy and drive Dave wild! So join us for a month of MORE WITCHES than you could imagine for Spooktacular 2025!
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September 15, 2025 • 31 mins
Show Notes Episode 507; Tito Get Me Some Tissue
This week Host Dave Bledsoe passed out at a petting zoo and woke up making out with a llama. (It was the closest he came to getting laid in years.) On the show this week take a look at the oddities and eccentricities of the King of Pop . (Yes, we DO talk about THAT, but we do not make any jokes.)
Along the way we discover that Dave was not the most bullied kid in school. (Only bec...
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September 8, 2025 • 27 mins
Episode 506: Shamone Now
This week Host Dave Bledsoe won third prize in a “Moonwalking” competition when he lost his balance trying to get up to take a piss and stumbled backward across the stage. (It was a $10 Gift Certificate to Hardees) On the show this week it is part one of a two part show about the biggest pop star of the 80s, Michael Bolton. (We kid, we are talking about Michael Jackson!)
Along the way we find out that Dav...
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September 1, 2025 • 30 mins
Show Notes Episode 505: Thanks For Your Support
This week Host Dave Bledsoe tried to impress an age appropriate woman by telling her he was in a wine cooler commercial, only to have his feelings hurt when she asked if played Bartles or Jaymes. (Ouch!) On the show this week we look back at that time when America was crazy about low rent Sangria in a bottle, only they called it a wine cooler.
Along the way we discover that Dave los...
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August 25, 2025 • 33 mins
Show Notes Episode 504: We Will Always Have Paris
This week Host Dave Bledsoe gate crashed a celebrity event by carrying a camera and claiming he was “with the media” just to get access to the open bar. (The only photo taken was his mugshot. Again.) On the show this week we pick up with Chuck and Diane after their fairy tale wedding and following it to its tragic conclusion of Chuck wishing he were a tampon.
Along the way we disc...
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August 18, 2025 • 32 mins
Show Notes Episode 503: Little Ditty About Chuck and Diane
This week Host Dave Bledsoe found himself officiating a wedding for complete strangers after he showed up drunk dressed as fat Elvis. (This happens more than you might imagine.) 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!)
Along the way we discover why Dave never married bu...
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August 11, 2025 • 64 mins
Summer Series is over, and we have a lot empty spaces to fill before Spooktacular in October. So naturally, Dave is nowhere to be found. (If you see him an Upstate dive bar, please call us!) So we are giving you this redux/megamix of two episodes from 2024 about Heaven's Gate. If you haven't heard it, it's new to you!
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August 4, 2025 • 31 mins
Show Notes Episode 502: Way Down In Kosovo
Part 4 of Summer Series 2025
This week Host Dave Bledsoe was savagely ejected from a bar in the Little Serbia neighborhood of Queens when he ordered a Belgrade Car Bomb. (Yes, there is a Little Serbia in Ridgewood Queens) 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...
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July 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Show Notes Episode 501: Operation Just Because
Pt 3 of Summer Series 2025
This week host Dave Bledsoe drunkenly demands someone liberate him from the tyranny of paying for his own drinks only to find the pee of liberty can only be watered with cash from drunk podcasters. (Again) On the show this week Summer Series 2025 continues with the Most Expensive Drug Raid in History, the US invasion of Panama in 1989.
Along the way we lea...
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July 21, 2025 • 34 mins
Show Notes Episode 500(!): Who's Afraid of Grenada?
Part 2 of Summer Series 2025
This week Host Dave Bledsoe dressed up in his old Air Force dress uniform and staggered into a bar insisting he was there to “liberate” the Jameson. (His invasion was repulsed by an annoyed bouncer) 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.
Along the way we...
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July 14, 2025 • 29 mins
Show Notes Episode 499.5: “Was It Something We Said?”
Part 1 of Summer Series 2025
This week Host Dave Bledsoe attempts to convince the other barflies to stage a coup against the bartender and take over the bar for themselves. (Turns out three old drunks against one bartender lose every time.) 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 ...
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July 4, 2025 • 70 mins
This week Host Dave Bledsoe was overcome with patriotism he was unable to work. (We couldn't figure out what shitty bar he was hiding in, again) So in honor of what is probably our nation's last birthday, we give you a rerun megamix about Desert Storm. The last time American really felt good about itself.
We are back next with Summer Series 2025 kicking off, so stay tuned!
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July 3, 2025 • 41 secs
What the HELL Were You Thinking covers all the Little Wars, so convenient to make a politician LOOK good without killing too many Americans! Join us as we go from the Iran Hostage Crisis all the way to the Balkans as three Presidents wagged the dog for their ratings!
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June 30, 2025 • 13 mins
Show Notes Episode 499: State of the Podcast Podcast
This week Dave sobered, took a look around and discovered what he had been doing for the past decade. (He did NOT like what he discovered) So, on the show we took a brief moment to talk about ten years and way more than 500 episodes of the podcast.
Along the way we learned we could have been spared all of this if Dave had just stuck to the plan. (SIX episodes and OUT!) Then we...
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June 23, 2025 • 32 mins
Show Notes Episode 498: “Is It Safe To Go Back In The Water?”
This week Host Dave Bledsoe got drunk and kicked out of the New York Aquarium for shouting “I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU” at the shark tank. (Again.) 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!
Along the way Dave explains how childhood trauma made him t...
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June 16, 2025 • 30 mins
Show Notes Episode 497:Come As You Are
This week Host Dave Bledsoe was asked by a trendy New Yorker where he thrifted all those “awesome vintage clothes” and told them WalMart in 1997. (Clearly a lie, like he could fit in the size he wore in 1997!) On the show this week we examine the music and style that came to define Generation X: Grunge.
Along the way we discover that Dave has always had terrible taste in music. (He has a Phi...
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June 9, 2025 • 36 mins
Show Notes Episode 496: It’s Not Tv, It’s The Green Channel
This week Host Dave Bledsoe got hammered and spent four hours trying to explain to a bartender how you could see boobs in TV static when he was a kid. (Again.) On the show this week we take a look at how boobs and sports changed television forever, we talk about the birth of HBO!
Along the way we learn that Dave’’s grandparents were too poor to afford more than one tele...
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