What the HELL Were You Thinking?
545 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 12 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! Find us at whatthehellpodcast.com, @thehell_podcast on Twitter, @whatthehellpodcast.bsky.social and the show name on Facebook.
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Episodes
Episode 452: Subterranean Homesick Alien Autopsy
June 17, 2024 09:00 - 35 minutesShow Notes Episode 452: Subterranean Homesick Alien Autopsy This week Host Dave Bledsoe is back from his tax deductible “research trip” where he was researching a story about a old, fat, drunk man who gets thrown out of bars in a small southeastern Tennessee town screaming “You can’t do this, I was born here!” (He was, and they can.) On the show this week we examine a television show that purported to show an alien autopsy that aired on Fox in 1995. (Fox, bringing the bullshit for over thirty...
Summers Series 2024 "Let's Talk About Sex (Scandals)" Teaser Trailer
June 15, 2024 16:13 - 1 minuteOur Big Summer Series is going to be a HOT one, as Dave digs the dirt on all the scandals that USED to mean the end of a career. Coming in July to a pod feed near you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Seltzer Kings Network Shout Out: The Puzzy Boyz
June 10, 2024 09:00 - 1 hourSeltzer Kings Network Shout Out: Puzzy Boyz Dave is on a “research trip” in the lands of his birth. (He is just visiting his parents, but is claiming he is doing “research” for tax purposes) So we are running one of the other fine podcasts on the Seltzer Kings Network! So please enjoy Episode 33: The Garfield Movie Review! Welcome to PuzzyBoyz, a paw-dcast about four middle-aged men who love their cats. Purr-pare for cute stories, cat product reviews, hot takes, and silly bits as comedians Z...
Episode 451: Blame Old Bumble Butt
June 03, 2024 09:00 - 32 minutesShow Notes Episode 451: Blame Old Bumble Butt This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets into a drunken row with a taxi driver when he claims he should have to pay because he has thumb out and is clearly hitchhiking. (The driver blackened his eye and took his wallet. Again.) On the show this week we look back on the lost art of hitchhiking and why no one does it anymore. (Blame Edmund Kemper) Along the way we discover that Dave had Tiny Bladder Syndrome as a child. (And today as well) Then we dive rig...
What the HELL Were You Thinking Spotify Trailer
May 29, 2024 20:11 - 58 secondsAll 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_p...
Summer Shorts Volume 1: Toxic Pink Houses
May 24, 2024 21:06 - 20 minutesShow Notes Summer Shorts Volume 1: Toxic Pink Houses It is Memorial Day Weekend here in the US of Murka and that means that all across the land people are heading out for the traditional start of Summer! That also means Host Dave Bledsoe has retreated to the dankest, darkest, dingiest dive bar he can find, swearing he will not come out until Halloween. (He says this every year, he never lives up to it!) That also means the start of our series of minisodes (OK, slightly shorter than normal e...
Episode 450: Gloom, Despair and Agony on Me
May 20, 2024 09:00 - 37 minutesShow Notes Episode 450:”Gloom, Despair and Agony on Me” This week Host Dave Bledsoe staggers into what he thought was a cornfield drunk out of his gourd on moonshine. Only to be kicked out of the WalMart Garden Department for telling off color jokes to the other shoppers. (again) On the show this week, we celebrate nine years of podcasting by paying tribute to the wellspring of all our humor: Hee Haw! Along the way we discover why Dave is the uncultured oaf he is. (Don’t blame his Aunt Bonni...
Episode 291: “The Ruror Furor” Redux
May 13, 2024 09:00 - 32 minutesEpisode 291: “The Ruror Furor” Redux This week Host Dave Bledsoe is taking off to recharge his batteries. (Meaning he suddenly came into some money we are unable to find which shitty bar he is currently on a bender within.) So while we waited for him, we thought we would run a companion piece from the archives to last week’s AND next week’s show. It is one of our favorites and includes the single finest topic segue in podcasting history. (According to Dave anyway.) So sit right back and he...
Episode 449: Good Evening From Captain Midnight
May 06, 2024 09:00 - 32 minutesShow 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 ...
Episode 448: Outrageous, Egregious, Preposterous!
April 29, 2024 09:00 - 34 minutesShow 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 whe...
Episode 447: Tell Him About the Twinkie
April 22, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutesShow 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 ...
Episode 446: Many Fools Were Pitied
April 15, 2024 09:00 - 36 minutesShow 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 wears any jewelry. (He is a cheapskate) Then we dive right into h...
Episode 445: What We Are Talking When We Talk Taco Tuesday
April 08, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutesShow 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 not understanding the fundamental nature of “cruising”. Then w...
Episode 444: "Ron, John, and Jodie"
March 29, 2024 18:42 - 35 minutesShow 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 i...
Episode 443: Hale Bopp MmmHmm Hale Bopp (Part Two of Packing A Purple Shroud)
March 25, 2024 09:00 - 34 minutesShow 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 H...
Episode 442: Which Brings Us Back to Doh!
March 18, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutesShow 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 are talking about Heaven's Gate! Along the way we discover th...
Episode 441: "A Few Good Lawyers" (WTH Movie Night A Few Good Men)
March 11, 2024 09:00 - 36 minutesShow 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 natio...
Episode 440: Booze Cruise to the Bermuda Triangle
March 04, 2024 10:00 - 33 minutesShow 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 the 70’s didn’t love their kids enough. (This is a baseless li...
Episode 439: Borked By Blockbuster
February 26, 2024 10:00 - 33 minutesEpisode 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 off the bench.) Along the way Dave goes on Old Man Rant ™ about...
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
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 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 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. ...
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...
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...
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.) ...