What the HELL Were You Thinking?
527 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsAll 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 — and not a half-baked marketing campaign whipped up by the wannabe overlords of capitalism! Find us at whatthehellpodcast.com, @thehell_podcast on Twitter, and the show name on Facebook.
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Episode 438: What If Everyone WAS Kung Fu Fighting?
February 19, 2024 10:00 - 37 minutesShow 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...
The Dowers Boys: Karaoke Lovin'
February 12, 2024 12:00 - 46 minutesJerrod 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
Episode 437: The Nip Slip Seen Around the World
February 09, 2024 22:00 - 37 minutesEpisode 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 ...
Episode 279 Expanded Edition: Warning Challenger Jokes Ahead (Update and Redux)
February 05, 2024 10:00 - 40 minutesEpisode 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...
Episode 436: Now You're Just A Leno That I Used to Know the Finale of Winter Series 2024 Late Nite With Dave Bledsoe
January 29, 2024 10:00 - 39 minutesShow 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 ...
Episode 435: From the Home Office in Howard Beach Queens
January 22, 2024 10:00 - 38 minutesShow 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 Dowers Boys Sing Yacht Rock
January 17, 2024 10:00 - 38 minutesThe 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 ...
Episode 434: Johnny Come Lately Part Two of "Late Nite With Dave Bledsoe"
January 15, 2024 10:00 - 36 minutesShow 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 tale...
Episode 433: Waiting For A Paar to Fall Pt 1 of Winter Series 2024 "Late Nite With Dave Bledsoe"
January 06, 2024 05:00 - 31 minutesEpisode 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, w...
Episode 433: Waiting For A Paar to Fall
January 06, 2024 05:00 - 31 minutesEpisode 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, w...
Episode 432: The Whack Heard Around the World
January 01, 2024 10:00 - 35 minutesShow 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...
Episode 431: This Year Was Trouble When It Walked In 2023 Year In Review
December 23, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutesShow 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 thoug...
Episode 430: Carl's Worst Christmas and Other Holiday tales
December 18, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutesShow 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 ...
Dowers Boys: Christmas In A Dive Bar
December 11, 2023 10:00 - 39 minutesDowers 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...
Episode 429: The President Called Me A Lard Ass
December 04, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutesShow 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 played team sports in school. (See the nickname: Fat Ass!) Then w...
Holiday Bonus: Holliest, Jolliest Time of the Year
November 27, 2023 10:00 - 19 minutesShow Notes Holiday Bonus: Holiest Jolliest Time of the Year Yeah, Dave got drunk for Thanksgiving, forced Gavin to work on the holiday to make a clip show. Enjoy. Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/ The Show on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ Our Website: www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreon https://ww...
Episode 428: Black Friday, I've Been Shoved
November 20, 2023 10:00 - 29 minutesShow Notes Episode 428: Black Friday, I’ve Been Shoved This week Host Dave Bledsoe demands 50% off his bar tabs for Black Friday, only to discover Black Eye Friday when the bouncer punches him in the face. (Again.) On the show this week, we prepare you for the Christmas Shopping Season by telling you the True History of Black Friday! Along the way we discover why Dave is afraid to ever step foot in a WalMart again. (He got his ass kicked in the Garden Center like a little bitch! True story!...
Episode 427: The Original Party Animal
November 13, 2023 10:00 - 38 minutesShow Note Episode 427: The Original Party Animal This week Host Dave Bledsoe drunkenly and loudly insists that Spuds MacKenzie wasn’t even Scottish while being physically ejected from a Bottom Brunch in Hell's Kitchen. (Again) On the show this week we head back to 1987 when American kind of wanted to get their freak on with a dog: Spuds MacKenzie. Along the way we learn that Dave grew up with a series of problematically named dogs. (So much bigotry in him!) Then we dive right into our story...
Dowers Boys: Good Songs for Bad Singers
November 06, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutesDOWERS BOYS; GOOD SONGS AND BAD SINGERS Jerrod and Dave drop their slips with the KJ and talk about songs they would LOVE to sing at karaoke but never would because they suck at singing! So drop a dollar in the smoking jar and join them Dowers Boys for another episode only tangentially related to country music! The Dower’s Boys is hosted by Dave Bledsoe and Jerrod Tracht, it is produced in association with the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network, Fast Eddies Podcast Hut and the Beale Drinking Fede...
Episode 426: Interview About the Vampire
October 27, 2023 22:00 - 1 hourShow Notes Episode 426: Interview About the Vampire The Conclusion of Spooktacular 2023 This week Host Dave Bledsoe is joined by Executive Producer Kimberly Steele who is a real person and not at all made up! (He has friends! At least one, anyway.) Together they talk about vampires in pop culture, particularly about Anne Rice’s vampires and then Joss Whedon’s vampires. (We loved him before we knew Joss was the Big Bad all along!) So settle back and spend an hour with a person who knows what...
Episode 425: VH Investigations Part Two
October 23, 2023 09:00 - 30 minutesShow Notes Episode 425: VH Investigations Part Two Part 4 of Spooktacular 2023 This week Host Dave Bledsoe takes off his podcaster mankini and slips into his fiction writer thong for an original audio short story. (If only it was half as horrifying as the mental image of Dave we just gave you!) VH Investigations is a vampire noir audio short story, written and performed by Dave Bledsoe. This is the second part of a two part series, if you haven’t listened to part one you should probably do ...
Episode 424: VH Investigations Part One
October 16, 2023 09:00 - 26 minutesShow Notes Episode 424: VH Investigations Part One Part 3 of Spooktacular 2023 This week Host Dave Bledsoe takes off his podcaster mankini and slips into his fiction writer thong for an original audio short story. (If only it was half as horrifying as the mental image of Dave we just gave you!) VH Investigations is a vampire noir audio short story, written and performed by Dave Bledsoe. This is the first part of a two part series, part two will arrive in your feed one week after this one. ...
Spooktacular 2023 Bonus: We Call Satan to the Witness Stand
October 11, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutesPatreon Bonus Spooktacular 2022: We Call Satan to the Witness Stand In this Patreon Exclusive Host Dave Bledsoe attempts to sue himself, the bar, Jameson Whiskey and the Lord God Himself to get out of these bartabs that were clearly THEIR fault! (He couldn’t find a lawyer to take his case, not even if he represented himself) On the bonus we talk about suing The Devil and why it is a bad idea! (All the lawyers are on his retainer) Along the way we learn about Ralph J Forbes from Arkansas, se...
Spooktuclar 2023 Bonus: We Call Satan to the Witness Stand
October 11, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutesPatreon Bonus Spooktacular 2022: We Call Satan to the Witness Stand In this Patreon Exclusive Host Dave Bledsoe attempts to sue himself, the bar, Jameson Whiskey and the Lord God Himself to get out of these bartabs that were clearly THEIR fault! (He couldn’t find a lawyer to take his case, not even if he represented himself) On the bonus we talk about suing The Devil and why it is a bad idea! (All the lawyers are on his retainer) Along the way we learn about Ralph J Forbes from Arkansas, se...
Episode 423: The Vampire of Sacramento Part Two of Spooktacular 2023
October 09, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutesShow Notes Episode 422: The Vampire of Sacramento Part Two of Spooktacular 2023 “Gavin St James, Vampyre Hunter” This week Host Dave Bledsoe remembered that time when he got drunk in Sacramento and realized Sacramento was a really boring place to get drunk. (Even drunk, Sacramento is really boring) On the show this week we continue Spooktacular 2023 with one of the vilest serial killers in American crime history, Richard Chase, the Vampire of Sacramento. Along the way Dave takes you on an a...
Episode 422: Say Hello to the Night WTH Movie Night The Lost Boys Pt 1 of Spooktacular 2023
October 02, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutesShow Notes Episode 422: Say Hello to the Night WTH Movie Night: The Lost Boys Pt 1 of Spooktacular 2023 This week Host Dave Bledsoe resolves to sleep all day, party all night and never grow old. Only to discover he has grown old and he is sound asleep by 8 PM. (He is SO old!) On the show this week we kick off Spooktacular 2023 “Gavin St James, Vampyre Hunter” with a What the HELL Movie Night, 1987’s The Lost Boys! Along the way we learn that little Davy got so scared reading Stephen King h...
Spooktacular 2023: Gavin St James, Vampyre Hunter Trailer
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Episode 421: Come On In Boy, Have A Cigar
September 25, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutesEpisode 421: Come On In Boy, Have A Cigar This week Host Dave Bledsoe pops the tube a fine imported Cuban Cigar. (He stole it from the coat pocket of a Wall Street guy next to him at the bar.)Then he slits it open, dumps the tobacco and fills it with some sweet kush he’s been smoking. (Great, he has a NEW bad habit!) On the show this week we head back to the mid 1990’s when it seems every asshole you knew suddenly had a smoldering dog turd sticking out of their lips because they thought it m...
Episode 420: I Got Stone and I Missed It
September 18, 2023 09:00 - 40 minutesShow Notes Episode 420: I Got Stoned and I Missed It This week Host Dave Bledsoe decided to give up drinking and take up smoking weed. Only to discover that legal weed dealers will NOT let him run a tab. (Not unlike most neighborhood bars!) On the show this week we experience some kind of hallucination where we think we are talking to a real person instead of shouting angrily as a figment of Dave’s imagination. (Or is it? We’ll never tell!) So we welcome Jerrod Tracht, the co-host of the Hit...
Episode 419: Find A Stranger In the Alps
September 11, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutesShow Notes Episode 419: Find A Stranger In the Alps This week Network boss Jeremy Balon shows up at the studio to wash Dave’s filthy mouth out with soap! (We guess he finally listened to the podcast.) On the show this week we take a look at the strange history of The Bleep and swear words on television. (It is *bleep*ing more interesting than you think!) Along the way we learn that Dave is still afraid of his Mom. (He should be, he is a VERY bad son!) Then we dive right into the history of ...
Episode 418: Zay Zomething Different
September 04, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutesShow Notes Episode 418: Zay Zomething Different This week Host Dave Bledsoe thinks it’s funny to order a Zima from a bartender who wasn’t alive when Zima was a thing. (The bartender did not.) On the show this week we head back to the early 90’s when Coors decided they wanted to toss their hat in the “clear craze” and released a drink that tasted like nothing ever before, because it tasted like nothing: Zima! (Are there WAY too many S’s pronounced with Z’s in this show? Unfortunately, yes.) ...
Episode 417: Segassem Lanimilbus Niatnoc Yam
August 28, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutesShow Notes Episode 417: Segassem Lanimilbus Niatnoc Yam This week Host Dave Bledsoe attempts to get a free drink by briefly holding up a 3x5 Index Card with the words “NO PAY” on it to the bartender hoping to subliminally message him. (The bartender made him choose between eating the card or getting thrown out. He ate it.) On the show this week we head back to 1990 when Judas Priest was sued because someone thought they used subliminal messages to kill their fans. (They weren’t and they didn...
Dowers Boys Episode 10: We Went to Jerrod
August 21, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutesThis week Jerrod and Dave take the stage to sing the songs Jerrod put in for Dave to sing knowing he was drunk enough to try them. (Even though he knew he couldn’t sing them!) So sit back, put a dollar in the smoking jar and get ready to sing with the Dowers Boys! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 416: Milli Vanilli Were Neither A Milli Nor A Vanilli
August 14, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutesShow Notes Episode 416: Milli Vanilli Were Neither A Milli Nor A Vanilli This week Host Dave Bledsoe INSISTS the person who ran up this bar tab was an imposter and he is NOT responsible for paying them! (This did not work.) On the show this week we talk about the scandal that officially ended the 1980’s, even though it happened in 1990: The Milli Vanilli lip sync affair! (Turns out the real bad guy was capitalism!) Along the way we learn that some told Dave he could sing! (They were wrong, ...
Episode 415: Beautiful Downtown Calumet (WTH Movie Night RED DAWN!)
August 07, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutesShow Notes Episode 415: Beautiful Downtown Calumet WTH Movie Night: Red Dawn This week Host Dave Bledsoe drunkenly climbs on the bar and shouts Wolverines as the bouncers tackle him from all sides. (Again) On the show this week we fire up the popcorn for a What the Hell Movie Night, when we take a classic 80’s movie and ruin it for everyone! This time in the VCR: Red Dawn! (The original, not the shitty remake that we don’t acknowledge as even existing!) Along the way we learned that Dave pr...
Episode 219-220 Reprise: "Murka and the Moon"
July 31, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutesShow Notes Episode 219 & 220 Reprise: “Murka and the Moon” This week Host Dave Bledsoe didn’t feel like writing so we kludged up a couple of old scripts into a newish show (He DID record it, because he likes the part where he gets drunk) So sit back and enjoy a cleaned up, De-Trump and somewhat pertinent reprise of a show we did four years ago about that time America went to the Moon with the help of a Nazi. (It all comes back to Nazis!) If you have heard it, the jokes will be new to you, an...
Episode 414: "Admiral, It Is the Enterprise!"
July 24, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutesShow Notes Episode 414: “Admiral, It is the Enterprise!” This week Host Dave Bledsoe boldly goes where he has never gone before! (Meaning a bar in Bayonne New Jersey where he hopes they’ve never heard of him!) On the show this week we open hailing frequencies and tell you about the time nerds convinced the President to name a space shuttle after a TV show (Dr Quinn Medicine Woman). Along the way we learn about Dave’s fantasies. (Thank god we are talking about his CHILDHOOD fantasies not the...
Episode 413: Skylab Fallout
July 17, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutesShow Notes Episode 413: Skylab Fallout This week Host Dave Bledsoe orders up a mixed drink so powerful it can strip the varnish off the bar top. (The last time we saw him, he was passed out in a bathroom stall) On the show this week we turn back to July of 1979 when NASA’s abandoned space station plummeted back to Earth like a GOP Presidential Primary candidate’s poll numbers. (Looking at you Ron DeSantis) We are talking about Skylab! Along the way we learn how Dave spent a Summer digging a...
Episode 412: If You Start Me Up, I Will NEVER Stop
July 10, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutesShow Notes Episode 412: If You Start Me Up, I’ll Never Stop This week Host Dave Bledsoe finally decides he is in need of an upgrade. (Meaning he started buying liter bottles of Jameson instead of his usual 750ml) On the show this week we head back to the most exciting moment of human history, the launch of Windows 95 (Well that is what Bill Gates TOLD us at the time, in retrospect this might not be exactly true.) Along the way we learn that Dave’s septuagenarian parents are still more tech ...
Dowers Boys: Sangin' 'Bout Murka
July 03, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutesTHE DOWERS BOYS: SANGIN’ ‘BOUT MURKA!!! Jerrod and Dave take the stage to sing their favorite patriotic songs, or at least make fun of them! So grab a song slip from the KJ, a beer from the bar and kick up your heels for another set from The Dowers Boys! Featured Songs this week: Born In the USA America Proud To Be An American Little Pink Houses This Land Is Your Land Courtesy of the Red White and Blue Independence Day The Dowers Boys are Jerrod Tracht and Dave Bledsoe. Produced by Dave...
Episode 411: Dennis Fung Blues Pt 3 of Wheezing the Juice
June 26, 2023 09:00 - 43 minutesShow Notes Episode 411: “Dennis Fung Blues” Part 3 of Wheezing the Juice This week Host Dave Bledsoe is called to testify in civil court for an overdue bar tab only to be held in contempt after a very tasteless Johnnie Cochran impression. (Again) On the show this week we wrap our Summer Se ries, Wheezing the Juice, with the trial of OJ Simpson. (Stay tuned for the surprise ending!) Along the way we discover Dave did not enjoy his all expense paid trip to Panama. (The accommodations were terr...
Episode 410: Everything's Coming Up Kato! (Pt 2 of Wheezing the Juice)
June 17, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutesShow Notes Episode 410: “Everything’s Coming Up Kato!” Part 2 of Wheezing the Juice This week Host Dave Bledsoe wakes up in what he thought was the pool house of a D List celebrity with a brutal hangover and pair of shoes three sizes too big with some kind of red liquid on them only to realize he has passed out on a Wendy’s ketchup dispenser. (Again) This week we continue our Summer Series “Wheezing the Juice” (Again, we apologize for that name, it was NOT our idea) with the sensation that s...
Episode 409: Everybody Knows (OJ Did It) Pt 1 of Wheezing the Juice
June 12, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutesShow Notes Episode 409: Everybody Knows (OJ Did It) Part 1 of “Wheezing the Juice” This week Host Dave Bledsoe sprints through the bar toward the exit with a Jameson in hand one step ahead of the bouncers, just like OJ through the airport. (If OJ were a fat, white, middle aged drunk dude) On the show this week we kick off our Summer Series with Part One of “Wheezing the Juice” (We tried to convince him NOT to name it that!) talking about The Juice and all the things that led up to the Events ...
Episode 408: Yet ANOTHER Trial of the Century
June 05, 2023 09:00 - 27 minutesShow Notes Episode 408: Yet ANOTHER Trial of the Century This week Host Dave Bledsoe files suit for his overdue bartabs in something he is calling the “Drinker’s Court” demanding a brokered settlement and injunctive relief from the court. (The court ruled he lacks standing because it doesn't actually exist.) On the show this week, we ramp up our Summer Series with a show about some “Trials of the Century” which happen roughly every eight or nine years. Along the way we discover just how many...
Summer Series 2023 Teaser: Wheezing The Juice
June 03, 2023 17:20 - 2 minutesEach Summer we do a deep dive series on a topic and this year we go back 29 years (give or take) for the tale of the Summer of OJ! Will this podcast break any new ground? No. Will it treat the subject with the respect it deserved, sadly, also, no. Will you learn something? We wouldn't bet on it. But you MIGHT be entertained. (Maybe, no promises.) Summer Series 2023 kicks off Monday, June 5th with the OJ shows starting one week late. See you on the Freeway! Learn more about your ad cho...
The Dowers Boys Episode 8: More Wheel of Country
May 29, 2023 10:37 - 31 minutesThis week Jerrod and Dave crank up the DowersTron 5000, an AI trained on 30 years of Dower's karaoke request slips and let IT choose the songs they will talk about! ' So sang along with them Dowers Boys as they talk about some country songs! And maybe some Taylor Swift Songs! https://www.facebook.com/DowersTavern/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 407: Rock Against Drugs
May 22, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutesShow Notes Episode 407: Rock Against Drugs This week Host Dave Bledsoe records a public service announcement as part of his probation agreements because he was caught pissing behind a dumpster. (Again) On the show this week we head back to the 1980’s when Nancy Reagan was harshing everyone's buzz because she could never handle her high! (We could have told her never to smoke up with Caspar Weinberger!) We are talking about the ill fated and barely remembered time that rock and roll told us NO...
Episode 406: Ladies and Gentlemen, Rock and Roll
May 15, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutesShow Notes Episode 406: Ladies and Gentlemen, Rock and Roll This week Host Dave Bledsoe attempts to convince a Gen Z bartender he was one of the original MTV VJs only to learn the bartender has never heard of MTV. (Is that like a Tik Tok thing?) On the show this week we take you back to the origins of the music video and the channel they created. (VH-1!) Along the way we discover that Dave wasn’t there when MTV debuted because he was not allowed to up past his bedtime. (Things haven’t change...
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May 04, 2023 17:00 - 6 minutesThe show is quasi-dark this week to show support for the Writers Guild Strike. We aren't in the Union, but we stand with the Union. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 405: Juuuuuust A Bit Outside
May 01, 2023 09:00 - 29 minutesShow Notes Episode 405: Juuuuuust A Bit Outside What the HELL Movie Night Watches Major League This week Host Dave Bledsoe demands his drinks be free or he will release the Wrath of Jobu on this establishment. (The bartender booted his ass out for cultural appropriation) On the show this week it is a What the HELL Movie Night where we talk about Major League! Along the way we discover that Dave was as bad at baseball as he was/is everything else in life. (Swung on and missed is basically h...