What the HELL Were You Thinking?
548 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 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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Episode 41 I Can't Spoil What I Have Not Seen
December 30, 2015 23:54 - 22 minutesI guess what I am saying is the new Star Wars movie is more than just a movie, indeed the old Star Wars movies were as well. They touched something in all of us that connects with our deeply troubled childhoods and all the broken and bitter disappointments we feel toward our parents and our lives—when we sit in the theater watching a note for note recreation by JJ Abrams he is not looting our childhood but returning to us the false sense of hope we once held when a young band of plucky rebel...
Episode 40 Go Home 2015 You're Drunk
December 26, 2015 21:08 - 31 minutes2016 will actually be CRAZIER, and probably hotter than 2015. Nothing will change, nothing will be done to fix anything, we will continue to ignore our problems and focus on the inane, the pointless and the self interesting while our country and the world, slowly sinks into a morass of its filth and stupidity, but at least I will have show topics for the podcast. And that is all that is really important isn’t it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 39 A Thousand Christmas Wars
December 19, 2015 01:06 - 20 minutes“Where is the big redemption, that moment where our host wakes up after being visited by the Three Ghosts who show him how much Christmas really means?” you are in for a BIG disappointment. Life is NOT a He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special where even Skeletor learns a valuable lesson? Yeah, you don't get one of those." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 38: I See Your True Colors
December 12, 2015 16:20 - 22 minutesThe bulk of Trump supporters are also under educated, under employed, under served by their government and under the spell of religion. They are the forgotten Americans, a group of people left in the dust of progress like a Palm Pilot in an iPhone age. Imagine what it’s like from their perspective, things LOOK familiar, all the buttons are there, but somehow they just can’t seem to figure out what they all do—that’s America to a Trump supporter: it looks like America, but no matter how m...
Episode 38 - -I See Your True Colors
December 12, 2015 16:20The bulk of Trump supporters are also under educated, under employed, under served by their government and under the spell of religion. They are the forgotten Americans, a group of people left in the dust of progress like a Palm Pilot in an iPhone age. Imagine what it’s like from their perspective, things LOOK familiar, all the buttons are there, but somehow they just can’t seem to figure out what they all do—that’s America to a Trump supporter: it looks like America, but no matter how m...
Episode 37: Ain't That A Shame
December 05, 2015 01:18 - 21 minutesWhen politicians SAY they are praying for the victims of crime like this, chances are they probably aren’t so much praying for the victims as praying to God thanking them for another safety check on the elected office. After all, did not the Human Yeast Infection that is the Republican Front Runner actually Tweet that the shooting would give him a bump in his poll numbers. And while the orange skidmark in our national tighty whites is a heinous excuse for a human being, he is refreshingly h...
Episode 36 - -Worst Episode Ever
November 28, 2015 21:59 - 22 minutesI think it’s ironic that the group of people most likely to be shoved in a locker with our undergarments wedged so far up our asscracks we could taste the fruit on our looms has devolved into the most destructive and vicious group of bullies on the Internet. People who once yearned to be accepted now circle like a pack of angry jocks over a dropped book bag full of Monster Manuals around someone for daring NOT to like something THEY like. Fuck, am I the only one who remembers what it was li...
Episode 35 - -Uncle Dave Is Already Drunk
November 26, 2015 19:45 - 16 minutesBecause we’ve recently learned our show is, for some unexplained reason, slightly more popular in Norway than the rest of the world-- we thought we would take a minute to explain some American Pop Culture References you’ve probably seen on the Internet but do not understand. Sit back, have a lutefisk and let us explain the American Phenomena of the Drunk Uncle! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 34- Stranger In A Strange Land
November 22, 2015 19:34 - 27 minutesvery time a Conservative launches into a tirade about refugees, immigrants or radicals, if you hear the words “People I find scary” you will be exactly right. Conservatism is a culture of fear, and fear breeds hate, and hate breeds more terror in an endless loop. I would rather run the miniscule risk of dying in a terror attack than see the Constitution torn up and used to wipe Trump’s ass so he can appeal to some fucking cretinous dimwits in the Republican Primary, because I understand the...
Episode 33 Let This Be Your Last
November 14, 2015 01:23 - 31 minutesI’ve noted before certain aspect of the PC Culture worked wonders, and thinking about the words you say and the things you do as the impact others is ALWAYS the right thing. But intolerance for the sake of tolerance is the opposite of tolerance it’s hypocrisy. No one expects you to LIKE bigots, racists, Republicans and NASCAR fans--you can say terrible things about them in a podcast until your heart's content! Do you think I have a podcast because people find me entertaining, or really enj...
Episode 32- The Lonesome Loser
November 07, 2015 16:52 - 29 minutesOff year elections rarely go well for the party in the White House, but since the election of 2008 the Democrats have lost 900 State Legislature seats, 12 governorships, 69 house seats and 13 Senate Seats, that is not mention all the dog catchers and sewer commissionerships that turned over. When you look at a map of the country and overlay the electoral composition of their governments it looks like the Kool Aid Man tried to break through a Titanium Wall. Learn more about your ad choices. V...
Episode 31 If I Could Turn Back Time
October 24, 2015 20:00 - 20 minutesHistory is not just a class I got stoned in during high school, it’s important because it reminds of the stupid shit we’ve already done, so that MAYBE we don’t do it again. This is exactly the same reason I keep this inflatable Margaret Thatcher Sex Doll autographed by Reagan I bought on ebay one night while shitfaced. If you keep it sitting there next to the computer, you might slow down a second before hitting the submit button on that bid, or you know launching cruise missiles against a...
Episode 30- Then I Got High
October 16, 2015 22:56 - 25 minutesHell, I am not even talking about pot arrests, come on arresting someone for selling pot is like arresting someone for selling Girl Scout Cookies! Mean spirited and pointless because Edna in accounting buys thirty boxes and is always willing to help you score! Edna has the been Samoan, tell her Dave sent you, she will hook you UP! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 29: America's Stupidest Home Citizens
October 10, 2015 18:00 - 27 minutesThe What the Hell Were You Thinking Podcast is brought to you this week by Reality Check. Reality Check is a simple service that sends a Sixth Grade Science Teacher, Dolores Krutheimer to the homes people who believe in things proven wrong and whacks them with a ruler. Dolores, a retired teacher from Sioux Falls South Dakota has irrefutably proven the truth of such things a Climate Change, Evolution, the efficacy of vaccines, and how the Earth i cannot simply NOT be six thousand years old. ...
Episode 28 Metal Health
October 03, 2015 20:42 - 22 minutesThe thing is mental illness is not a uniquely American thing, you want to know what IS an uniquely American thing? Deep fried fucking Oreos, the rest of world thinks that shit is disgusting--oh, yeah, and mass shootings, we’re pretty much on the industrialized country in the world that does that too. Given my druthers, I would eat the fucking oreo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Special Edition 2 - Sorry Seems To Be
September 27, 2015 19:37 - 18 minutesUntil then, the Republican Party is holding on to singularly vicious and VERY poisonous snake which has no problems killing the hand that feeds it. Boehner held on for five years, sadly there was no friendly mongoose to save him. He may just be the first to fall. I am left to wonder at what price this will place out. It cost them presidency in 2012, it will likely cost them again in 2016, if the Republicans don’t root out the extremist in their party, they will cease to exist as a viable ...
Episode 27: Doctor, Doctor, You're In the News
September 25, 2015 23:14 - 30 minutesHello and welcome to the podcast that asks a simple question, when you said a mediocre health care bill was worse than SLAVERY: what the HELL were you thinking? I am your host Dave Bledsoe and this is the Friday September 25th 2015 “Doctor Doctor You’re In the News” Edition of the show where we talk about Ben Carson and if his problems are the lord, the lunatic or the liar!. Stay tuned! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 26- Seasons Dont Fear The Reaper
September 19, 2015 23:17 - 25 minutesIt’s not just bombs, dear listeners, here is a short list of things Americans of are afraid of: Terrorism: in the past 15 years just over 3,000 civilians died in terrorist incidents in the world, and 2,689 of THOSE were on 9/11. Just for a little perspective, 33,000 people a year, every year, die from gun related deaths. And yes, guns are kind of sort of on the list, Americans are afraid of being killed in a mass shooting, even though the odds of that happening are basically zero compared ...
Episode 25: "19th Nervous Shutdown"
September 12, 2015 22:37 - 27 minutesThis latest faux outrage, well the outrage is real enough, it is always real, that’s the problem, but the problem causing the outrage is faux is perhaps even more spurious the 999th attempt to repeal Obamacare. Conservative despise Planned Parenthood with a peculiar fury because they made it just about the only place to get a safe, legal abortion in huge swathes of the country. They also have the temerity to dispense low cost slut pill prescriptions to women who otherwise would be docile, ob...
Episode 24: A Elmo Like Boobies
September 06, 2015 19:41 - 20 minutesAs a New Yorker, and having survived this City for a decade I am now legally allowed to call myself a New Yorker, or at least that is story I am sticking with, nearly naked women are the LEAST offensive thing IN Times Square. In descending order from most to least: Tourists with Selfie Sticks, Tourists with maps, Just Plain Tourists, Costumes Characters, CD Vendors, Tour Bus Leaflet Wavers, Comedy Show Guy, Smelly Ellie the Homeless Lady at 44th and 7th whom you can sniff at least three blo...
Episode 24 Your Own Personal Jesus
September 04, 2015 23:00 - 31 minutesHello and welcome to the podcast episode that asks a simple question: Kim Davis, what the HELL were you thinking? This week we talk about Rowan County Clerk currently in jail for contempt of court after defying a court order to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. Davis refused on the grounds it violated her religious principles. Lying to God when she took an oath to uphold the Constitution apparently falls under the “I had my fingers crossed” exemption cited by St, Paul in Thessa...
Episode 23 Who Is Cheating Who
August 29, 2015 16:35 - 22 minutesFirst of all, who uses a website to cheat? Honestly? I know I am going to come across like an Old, but whatever happened to heading down the lounge of the Holiday Inn and seeing what happens? Do we NEED a personality profile and an algorithm to find someone to fuck outside our relationship? All I need just the right mix of anger, frustration, horniess and alcohol and it’s done! I could be wrong, but I think that is what it takes for most people. Still, it’s the 21st Century, so natch th...
Episode 22 MY Baby Is American Made
August 22, 2015 21:50 - 27 minutesThe What the Hell Were You Thinking Podcast is brought to you by the Native American Casino Owners Association of America, taking it back one trailer home at a time. Are you an indigenous American who lives in rural, Southern locale? Have you considered a casino? White people show up and give you money, and if you give THEM booze they will give you deeds to their trailers, pink slips and mother’s jewelry right off her person. The Native American Casino Owners Association of America, recla...
Episiode 21 Weekend At Bernies
August 15, 2015 15:28 - 26 minutesI don’t believe Bernie Sanders has it IN him to do what Obama has done, I’ve never seen a hint of it. I respect and admire the man, I LOVE his politics, I would love to live in a world where he COULD be President. I don’t, I live in this one, and this one is utter shit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 21 A Local Edition " I Have A Big Butt And Cannot Lie"
August 09, 2015 21:15 - 19 minutesNaturally, fashion and New York City go together like bulimia and runway models, so shopping here is going to be a bit different than running down the Mall in Waddletown or whatever backwater bourgeoise berg you call home...sorry, got a little to Dennis Miller there. This the home of the fashion in the United States, if someone wore it on a red carpet it probably was designed by a flamboyantly gay man or emaciated woman right here in the Big Apple. So naturally, there are different standards...
Episode 20 Even I Hate The Poor Now
August 07, 2015 21:52 - 25 minutes0.1% of the people in America have basically as much money as 90% of the rest of America--now that is kind of hard to grasp as a real number so let me put it another way. You and the family decide you are going to have some delicious Kentucky Fried Chicken for dinner tonight and you send your cousin Big Teddy out to pick up a ten piece bucket and sides. And Big Teddy gets the dinner and fucking eats that shit in the car on the way, all the sides, the dinner rolls and nine out of the ten pie...
Story Time 1: Jesus Is Open in the End Zone
August 03, 2015 20:13 - 14 minutesWelcome to Storytime, factual fictions and fictional facts about growing up in the South in the 1970’s, from the creator of the What the HELL Were You Thinking Podcast. Storytime features recollection, remembrance and artificial realities drawn from the memory of an expatriate Southerner trying to find just one thing he can talk about and not make his Momma disappointed in him...and probably failing. Y’all stay tuned now, yah hear! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/...
Ep 19 Schooled In Scandal
July 30, 2015 02:55 - 26 minutesPeople, many of the same people that believe that every black man in the world is at least potentially a serial rapist, can’t believe Bill Cosby could EVER do something like this. These women are all gold diggers, going after Bill’s money, they say. All their stories match up too closely to not be rehearsed! They took him money, you know they were blackmailing him! This is the standard Cosby Defense, engaged in by Cosby, his lawyer and his ardent defenders. The playbook is as old as tim...
Ep 18 Deja Vu All Over Again (Gun Violence)
July 26, 2015 01:12 - 25 minutesLook I don’t know any other way to say this, but it isn’t the total number of people being murdered, it’s how they are being murdered and with what. I mean people go to see and an Amy Schumer movies should NOT be worried about some whack job walking in and shooting up the goddamn theater! People shouldn’t be gunned down in a prayer meeting because some simple fucking redneck didn’t like black people. Recruiters should not need to die in a fucking strip mall because some jackoff with a god ha...
Episode 17 - Was That Wrong
July 23, 2015 01:02 - 23 minutesnd there is the flaw in modern media structures, if everything and everyone are fair game for the news then where is the difference between “news” and talking shit about someone? If there were a real traffic cop over at Gawker, you know a senior person with years of experience as journalist, an understanding of ethics and the wisdom to look at a turd and call it a turd rather than a controversial take on the issue, this story would’ve been flushed leaving only a lingering smell. Instead, ev...
Episode 16: I Talk the Law in the Law One
July 23, 2015 00:59 - 23 minutesBut jury duty, that is the worst of the worst, or so I’ve been told. I mean I’ve seen the poor bastards trapped in their box, drool forming in the corners of their mouth, eyes glazed and expression blank as they try to keep awake through hours of lawyers arguing infinitesimally small details in arcane languages none of which are relevant to reality---it’s lot like listening to anyone talk about argue fantasy sports! Only, somehow, even MORE boring! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit p...
Episode 15 - -The Passion Of The Trump
July 11, 2015 00:00 - 23 minutesHam Hair has maintained that look of smug, self satisfied egomania that only someone running for political office who has no intention of winning can do while saying the most horrible things CAN possess. What he said about Mexican Immigrants, though he would predicate that he meant ILLEGAL immigrants, is what a some of the rabid, redneck racists that comprise the GOP, though, some of you I assume are good people, THINK about Mexicans, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.co...
Episode 14 - -Them Durn Duke Boys
July 03, 2015 22:57 - 23 minutesThis weeks show looks at why people are still clinging to the Confederate Flag and laments the loss of that Southern Cultural Icon, the Dukes of Hazzard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 13 You Mad Bro?
June 28, 2015 00:07 - 23 minutesHello and welcome to the podcast that asks a simple question: When you said you would set yourself on fire if gay marriage became legal, and didn’t what the HELL were you thinking? This is the Saturday June 27th 2015 “You Mad Bro?” edition of the picking apart the highly entertaining reactions to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on gay marriage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Special Edition 1: 14th Amendment F**CK YEAH!
June 26, 2015 19:45 - 9 minutesMeanwhile back on Planet Earth, the only thing that has changed is people who were once deprived of their rights are no longer. Today is a day when freedom grew, and that is day everyone should celebrate. I assure you, in the REAL world, your hetero marriage is just as good and strong or bad and weak as it was 24 hours ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 12: Colt Python In Your Pocket
June 21, 2015 00:30 - 24 minutesIs there EVER a situation so bad, so fucked up, that a comment from some jack off in the NRA can’t make it infinitely worse? It doesn’t matter how high the body count, how horrible the crime, how young the victims, someone will say something so hideous that in a decently run universe we would brick their yap holes shut and shove them off the deck of a fishing boat in the Marianas Trench. Free speech is a double edged sword, I get that, and Charles L Cotton has every RIGHT to say something so...
Episode 11A- If You Can't Take A Joke
June 14, 2015 21:47 - 19 minutesWhat do Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry the Cable Guy have in common? Besides being considered long past their sell by date fame wise? They are on a short but notable list of of comedians who eschew performing on college campuses, and not for the reasons you think: namely being too old to have a shot at sleeping with the women at the shows, or even the “Wait, bro, who are these old dudes” effect. No, they are not playing colleges because of political correctness. Learn more about ...
Episode 11 Frilly Lab Coat
June 12, 2015 19:22 - 21 minutesMeanwhile the physics labs, the astronomy departments, the tech departments are filled with dude who looked as though they were rejected from a casting call for the Big Bang Theory for being a bit TOO realistic. God, the number of neck beards and fedoras...the horror, the horror. (Don’t even get me started on that show and it’s portrayal of women in science.) They are the few remaining places men can go and be around other men. It makes certain kind of men feel safe, a place where their litt...
Episode 10- 19 Candidates And Counting
June 05, 2015 22:20 - 18 minutesWith just 17 months left to go before election day 2016 the Grand Old Party could not be more awash in choices if they were an unsinkable ship who just clipped and iceberg! By the count of the I am certainly highly reputable and thoroughly fact checked 2016 republican candidates dot org, there are no fewer than 31 (as of this recording) Republicans either declared, exploring or flirting like a horny sailor in the Pusan Pussy Palace with running. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit pod...
Episode 9 My Lost Pillar Of Salt
May 30, 2015 18:09 - 24 minutesI fire up on is the parents and the people who covered this up, the network that promoted this travesty and the politicians who continue to cling to this reprehensible family as though they are the paragons of Christian virtue in a godless world. You know Mike Huckabee just because incest was in the Bible doesn’t make it godly. Let’s unpack this express shipment of shit and see if we can find a pony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 8A- Strip Clubs And Nail Salons
May 26, 2015 20:58 - 15 minutesou can’t look in the window of a nail salon and not see it. And I have. There is something deeply jarring about seeing Asian women basically kneeling over white women working on their feet that SHOULD strike you as wrong, maybe it is because I’ve BEEN to Asia and seen the inequality built around the culture (admittedly this was a long time ago) but I’ve always had the nagging feeling this was off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 8: From the Home Office In Sioux City Iowa Edtion
May 24, 2015 00:03 - 19 minutesWe slackers of the Meh Generation watched Letterman’s departure with sort of grim ennui we see in our lives. Just like our lives, we know Dave got the short of the stick. Saying goodbye to Dave is also like saying goodbye to that last little dab of hope left over from our youth that maybe Dad might buy us that car when we head off to college only to hear he needs the money to pay for braces for Michael and Jessica, and your step-mother really wants to go to Barbados this year, but hey, we a...
Episode 7: Time to Put Grandpa In The Home
May 17, 2015 00:53 - 21 minutesThis is the Saturday May 16th 2015 edition of the show and we are talking Seymour Hersh’s (onion belt drop) story in the London Review of Books or, as we call it “Time to put grandpa in the home edition”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 6 Messing With Texas
May 09, 2015 23:08 - 19 minutesThis weeks episode talks about Jade Helm 2015, so you probably shouldn't listen if you are from Texas, served in the National Guard, or the Texas State Guard, wear a cowboy hat, like high school football, or you are Chuck Norris... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 5 The N Word
May 01, 2015 22:39 - 16 minutesthing going for us when it comes to talking about race in the America and that word is naive. Some people actually believe we live in a post racial America. What is a post racial America? Did we all wake up the same shade of blue this morning, are we all Smurfs? And trust me, even if we DID, someone is still going to be a racist because Joze Smurf doesn’t Smurf with the smurfiness as Leopold Smurfington the Third, whose family came over on the Smurf Flower. Learn more about your ad cho...
Episode 4 Outside Amy Schumer
April 25, 2015 15:54 - 15 minutesThis is the Friday, April 24th 2015 edition of the show, and we will be talking the Outside of Amy Schumer and why some idiots think it is related to her comedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 3A: The Middle Finger of the MTA
April 18, 2015 03:24 - 16 minutesIn this local edition of the podcast, we examine how NYC relates to the subway and why it is like an uncle who molests us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Episode 3: The Unbreakable Hilly C
April 16, 2015 23:24 - 13 minutes"What the Hell Were You Thinking?" for Friday April 17th 2015 asks are we sure if we want an unopposed candidate, is 2.5 billion dollars really enough for an election and can we have Uncle Joe be her Veep for 8 more years of great Onion stories. Into music by Hypnostate, you can find their work on Jamendo,com, drops from Dennis Quaid's angry rants, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and of course The Onion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices