What the HELL Were You Thinking?

Nov 01 2024 546 ep. 29 mins 79
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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. 

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Episode 469: Reasons to Save America

Nov 01 2024 23 mins  
Show Notes Episode 469: Reasons to Save America This week Host Dave Bledsoe is tired, and he knows you are tired too. It has been a long decade and no amount of funny stories about him doing stupid stuff while he is drunk is going to make it any easier. (I mean we have one story about him pooping his pants because he was too drunk to get up from the bar that we COULD tell!) On the

Episode 468: There's A Light Over at the LaLaurie Place (Spooktacular 2024 Finale)

Oct 28 2024 32 mins  
Show Notes Episode 468: There’s A Light Over at the LaLaurie Place Spooktacular 2024 Finale This week Host Dave Bledsoe drunkenly declares that every day is Mardi Gras while offering strings of beads in exchange for being shown breasts. (The bouncers took the beads, and took Dave’s shirt off while tossing him out.) On the show this week we conclude Spooktacular 2024 with the s

Episode 467: Building A Mystery (House) Part 3 of Spooktacular 2024

Oct 21 2024 30 mins  
Show Notes Episode 467: Building A Mystery (House) Part 3 of Spooktacular 2024 This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets lost trying to find his way to the bathroom in a strange bar and blames “The Spirits” when he got caught pissing in the corner. (Again) On the show this week Spooktacular 2024 continues with the tale of a mansion in California that was haunted for business purposes,

Seltzer Kings Network Seltztacular Special Episode: Bledsoe's Ghost

Oct 17 2024 13 mins  
Bledsoe’s Ghost Dave Bledsoe, the host of What the HELL Were You Thinking, doesn't believe in ghosts. So, clearly, whatever he saw that night could NOT have been a ghost. It was just a spooky old man who appeared out of the fog one night and disappeared during a series of unlikely events which occurred simultaneously without any explanations. Definitely not a ghost. He leaves it

Episode 466: Oh Great, It's Lincoln's Ghost Again (Pt 2 of Spooktacular 2024)

Oct 14 2024 28 mins  
Show Notes Episode 466: Oh Great, Lincoln’s Ghost Again Part 2 of Spooktacular 2024 This week Host Dave Bledsoe experiences the sensation that someone is watching himself while he is sleeping, only to awake to a bouncer dragging him out for passing out on the bar (again). On the show this week we continue Spooktacular 2024 “Is There A Ghost In My House” by asking if Abraham L

Episode 465: Amityville Horrible (Part 1 of Spooktacular 2024)

Oct 07 2024 38 mins  
Episode 465: The Amityville Horrible Part 1 of Spooktacular 2024 “Is There A Ghost In My House?” This week Host Dave Bledsoe insists he is not responsible for this bar tab since it was incurred while he was possessed by demon alcohol. (The bouncers performed a quick and dirty exorcism and he paid right up!) On the show this week we kick off Spooktacular 2024 with the REAL stor

Episode 464: I Ain't Afraid of Reagan's Ghost (WTH Movie Night Ghostbusters)

Sep 30 2024 35 mins  
Show Notes Episode 464: “I Ain’t Afraid of Reagan’s Ghost” WTH Movie Night: Ghostbusters! This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets beaten up and thrown out of a TriBeca firehouse after drunkenly showing up at 3:00 AM insisting he was there to “bust some ghosts”. (The fire fighters busted his nose.) On the show this week it is a WTH Movie Night! This time 1984’s supernatural,

Spooktacular 2024: "Is There A Ghost In My House" Trailer

Sep 28 2024 1 mins  
It’s time, Spooktacular 2024 kicks off with our series, “Is There A Ghost In My House?” All October brings you stories of hauntings that may, or more likely, may NOT be true. So join us for some ghost stories starting October 7th for Spooktacular 2024! (Music by JBJ Music) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 463: Gonna Love Me In My Chevy Van

Sep 23 2024 32 mins  
Episode 463: Gonna Love Me In My Chevy Van This week Host Dave Bledsoe drunkenly climbs into the back of a van and insists the driver take him back to 1986. (The cops closed the doors of the paddy wagon and took him to The Tombs. Again) On 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 Lif

Episode 462: Saga of a Star Wars Rip Off

Sep 16 2024 44 mins  
Show Notes Episode 462: Saga of A Star Wars Rip Off This week Host Dave Bledsoe angrily shouts at Producer Gavin insisting he was NOT playing with his dolls again. (He totally was.) On the show this week we head back to 1978 to talk about a short lived but influential Science Fiction TV show that wasn’t JUST a Star Wars rip off. (But kind of doing that a little) Battlestar Galac