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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,

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Episode 449: Good Evening From Captain Midnight

What the HELL Were You Thinking? ·

2024/05/06

Show Notes Episode 449: “Good Evening From Captain Midnight” This week Host Dave Bledsoe was found trapped on the 8th floor fire escape of his building after drunkenly trying to install an illegal cable hook up.(Which is odd since he doesn’t own a TV, but again, he was drunk at the time.) On the show this week we travel back to the golden age of satellite dishes when millions of Americans had a big ass dish in the front of their trailer homes. Along the way we discover that Dave’s parents TRIED

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Episode 448: Outrageous, Egregious, Preposterous!

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2024/04/29

Show Notes Episode 448: Outrageous, Egregious, Preposterous!This week Host Dave Bledsoe angrily insists he should NOT have to pay for the drink that he drunkenly spilled all over himself because the bartender clearly knew he was too drunk to lift it! (The case was settled out of court when the bouncers appealed to his sense of self preservation) On the show this week we talk about that time that McDonald’s burned an old lady’s vay jay jay and refused to pay! Along the way we discovered where

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Episode 447: Tell Him About the Twinkie

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2024/04/22

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.) Along the way we learn why Dave was such a fat little boy! (Little

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Episode 444: "Ron, John, and Jodie"

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2024/03/29

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 discover why Dave is the sad lonely old man he is today. (He is

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Episode 443: Hale Bopp MmmHmm Hale Bopp (Part Two of...

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2024/03/25

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 connoisseur of uncomfortable ways to fly. Then we pick back up with Herff

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Episode 441: "A Few Good Lawyers" (WTH Movie Night A...

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2024/03/11

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 discover that Dave has opinions about the women and men in our nation’s

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Episode 439: Borked By Blockbuster

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2024/02/26

Episode 439: Borked by BlockbusterThis 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 off the bench.) Along the way Dave goes on Old Man Rant ™ about how

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37:43

Episode 438: What If Everyone WAS Kung Fu Fighting?

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2024/02/19

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 of the 1970’s Along the way we learn exactly what kind of nerd Dave

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The Dowers Boys: Karaoke Lovin'

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2024/02/12

Jerrod and Dave talk about the Grammy's, Toby Keith and all the songs they sang on stage to make women want to have sex with them. (It worked for 50% of them, and it wasn't Dave) So hand your song slips into the KJ, put a dollar in the smoking jar and get ready to get sexy with the Dowers Boys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Episode 437: The Nip Slip Seen Around the World

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2024/02/09

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 of it, the rest of American wanted to see more.) We are talking about

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Episode 279 Expanded Edition: Warning Challenger...

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2024/02/05

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 they remember about The Day Gen X Died is kinda wrong. (Kinda like

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Episode 436: Now You're Just A Leno That I Used to...

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2024/01/29

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 everyone he ever met. (Pointy chin motherfucker!) Along the way we

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Episode 435: From the Home Office in Howard Beach Queens

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2024/01/22

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 Carson only to get screwed by The Chin, David Letterman. Along the

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The Dowers Boys Sing Yacht Rock

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2024/01/17

The Dowers Boys Sing Yacht Rock This month host Jerrod and Dave take the stage with a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! The Dowers Boys are going out on their own starting in February! We got Seltzer Kings good and drunk and took them out to sing karaoke in Brooklyn, and by the end of the night they gave us our own feed! The Dowers Boys is an official Spin Off and is now our own show! Then we head on down the marina and talk about Yacht Rock! How does Yacht Rock relate to an ostensibly country music

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Episode 434: Johnny Come Lately Part Two of "Late...

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2024/01/15

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 Johnny Carson!) Along the way we discover that the real radio talent in

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Episode 433: Waiting For A Paar to Fall Pt 1 of...

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2024/01/06

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 nostalgic about TV sign-offs from his childhood. (Honestly, we are

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Episode 432: The Whack Heard Around the World

What the HELL Were You Thinking? ·

2024/01/01

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 bruised a figure skater’s leg. (morons, all of them) Along the way

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Episode 431: This Year Was Trouble When It Walked In...

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2023/12/23

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 past year. (And some stuff about George Santos because we thought it

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Episode 430: Carl's Worst Christmas and Other Holiday...

What the HELL Were You Thinking? ·

2023/12/18

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 singularly misfortunate ornament mishap, someone is not having a happy

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Dowers Boys: Christmas In A Dive Bar

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2023/12/11

Dowers Boys: Christmas In A Dive Bar Join Jerrod and Dave as they spend Christmas Eve singing karaoke in a dive bar! They join three drunk Mall Santa’s drinking off their stress, a newly divorced dad who won’t be seeing their kids in the morning, six college aged kids escaping their parent’s and that one drunk chick at the end of the bar who will probably go home with Dave. (Hey Maggie!) So, get your slips into the KJ, order up a pitcher and drop a dollar in the smoking jar, you’re singing with

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