Dave Bledsoe

What the HELL Were You Thinking?

Comedy EN ↓ 625 episodes

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, @whatthehellpodcast.bsky.social and the show name on Facebook. 

Author

Dave Bledsoe

Category

Comedy

Podcast website

www.whatthehellpodcast.com

Latest episode

Jul 6, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 62 Gorilla Warfare 03.06.2016

This week Host Dave Bledsoe scales the Empire State Building holding a nubile blonde and swatting away attacking bi-planes as he discusses the animals on the Internet. Trust us, they are the less intelligent species. In the show we dig deep into the killing of a gorilla in Cincinnati and how the Internet reacted. Along the way we look in on the Armenian Genocide, why we can’t take Gavin anywhere a...

Episode 61 Own The Media 27.05.2016

Show Notes Episode 61: “Own the Media” This week host Dave Bledsoe does his best Garfield and explains his love of lasagna, hatred of Mondays and unpacks what billionaire Peter Thiel’s funding of lawsuits aimed at Gawker as threats to the freedom of the press in America. We realize that 99% don’t get that joke, because you have actual lives and do not spend your days obsessively consuming news abo...

Episode 60 Bad News About The Unicorn 20.05.2016

Show Notes for Episode 60: Bad News About the Unicorns This week Host Dave Bledsoe administers a high dose of reality straight to the Blood Brain Barrier. Along the way we discuss the strange situation at Nevada Democratic Convention, professional wrestling moves and wonder what the hell happened to Bunk Moreland! We expect that kind of behavior of Jimmy McNulty, but not YOU Bunk! We also talk abo...

Episode 59 Mirror In The Bathroom 13.05.2016

Show Notes for Episode 59: “Mirror In the Bathroom” This week Host Dave Bledsoe steps inside the stall and discovers that North Carolina not only forgot to flush, but has backed up the plumbing. Together we celebrate the return of fleshy homunculus Ted Cruz just when we thought he was out, bathroom laws pulled him back in! Along the way we learn the difference between a Drag Queen and Cross Dresse...

Episode 58 When The House Burned Down 08.05.2016

Show Notes for Episode 58: When the House Burned Down In this late and much abbreviated show for this week, Host Dave Bledsoe is not fucking around. He is talking straight to anyone who is thinking about sitting out this year election because they don’t like their choice of candidates, Democrat AND Republican. He wants you to know that choosing not to choose is still making a choice and that choic...

Episode 57 Going To The End Of The Line 29.04.2016

Show Notes Episode 57: Going to the End of the Line This week, host Dave Bledsoe examines the words of the prophets written on the men’s room stall and comes to conclusion that some bathroom laws ARE needed--this place is disgusting! The subject of the SHOW this week is the looming end of the Republican Primary and how the candidates are reacting to the unpleasant reality of Trump’s inevitable vic...

Episode 56 Waiting For A Reagan Like You 22.04.2016

This week Host Dave Bledsoe distributes soothing gel to all the butthurt Liberals on the Internet in the form of a little history lesson about the God of the Republican Party Ronald Wilson Reagan who came from the ashes of broken people and lead them into glory. Trust us, it will make sense once you hear the episode. Along the way examine the tragic abuses of red headed step children and rented mu...

Episode 55 Governing The Sh - T Out Of America 15.04.2016

Episode 55: Govern the Shit Out of It Edition One year(ish) ago the show you’ve come to know and ignore coalesced into it’s doughy, unappealing form, not unlike its host, and we are here to celebrate! Fifty two(ish) episodes back we discussed the Inevitable Hilly C’s shocking reveal about her presidential ambitions, today we discuss whether or not to endorse her in next week’s primary. Along the w...

Episode 54 : Don't Throw ME In that Briar Patch 08.04.2016

Back from hiatus in our deluxe new studios, which we are tentatively calling The Room Where It Happens because it is in Hamilton Heights and even HINT of that Hamilton money would be gravy! This week we explore these strange feelings host Dave Bledsoe is having for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is definitely NOT running for President, and totally wouldn’t take it, unless you offered it to him. Al...

Episode 53 I Know You Are But What Am I 26.03.2016

This week the show looks at the man children dominating the Republican Presidential Race to the bottom and their Twitter wars insulting each other’s wives. We learn that petulant douchebaggery is an American Political Tradition and that nerds in the 80’s could have used a good database to track their tormenters. God, we could have hacked their iPhones to show their location at all times! So much p...

Episode 52 So Long And Thanks For All The Votes 18.03.2016

This week your host Dave Bledsoe heads out into the flyover and takes long hard look at what has happened to rural white people, and why they are being disrespected by the Republican Establishment. Hint: It’s Orange, Loud and Dangerous. Jumping off from a scathing article in the National Review we talk about how white people were fucked over by the Republicans (OK and the Democrats) with only a ti...

Episode 51 Hard To Say I Am Sorry 12.03.2016

Friday March 11th 2016 “Hard To Say I’m Sorry” Edition: In which your Host Dave Bledsoe admits his predictions on Rubio taking the nomination MAY be premature. We also look at some other broad misconceptions made by the pundit-ocracy, explain “Fucking Delegates, how do the work?” and how the corpse of Ronald Reagan has better chance of winning the general than anyone currently running for the posi...

Episode 50 Deep Dark Truthful Mirror 05.03.2016

Friday, March 04, 2016 “Deep Dark Truthful Mirror” Edition Host Dave Bledsoe asks the Republicans: when you said this Trump thing could never happen, what the HELL were you thinking? This week we stare into the darkness that is the Trump supporter, who they are, why the like him and what it means for America. In short, we stare deep into the darkness, and do not like what we see. Our research monk...

80 Proof Prediction Super Tuesday 27.02.2016

All week the pundit-ocracy have been saying Super Tuesday is pretty much it if they are going to Stop the Tiny Orange Penis of the Republican Party from becoming a grower instead of a shower, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 49 Useless As An Asshole On An Elbow 27.02.2016

Of course, the America Hating, Communist Freeloader Republican Senators, who feel they should be paid without doing any work for the money are saying THEY are the ones standing up for the American people—just the sort of thing a Communist Sympathizer WOULD say—by refusing to consider ANY nominee for the Supreme Court until AFTER the election in November. Comrade McConnell along with Comrade Grassl...

Trump And Dread Cthulhu 21.02.2016

We are rapidly nearing the point where I have no choice but to conclude that his has sworn some kind of pact with the Great Old Ones and is actively working to rouse Dread Cthulhu from his slumber I Donald J Trump can tell you that is not dead, which eternal lie, but in strange eons, even death may die--ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn means Make America Great Again--I will build...

80 Proof Post Primary 1 21.02.2016

The Tiny Penis of the Republican Party said things that ostensibly should have had him run out of the state on a rail, or hung from a palmetto bug--and still he won. We are rapidly nearing the point where I have no choice but to conclude that his has sworn some kind of pact with the Great Old Ones and is actively working to rouse Dread Cthulhu from his slumber: Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...

Episode 48 Please Clap 20.02.2016

n no way do I expect people to stop jumping on Jim J Bullocks 90 Day Juice Cleanse—is that guy even still alive?—or trying Tia Tequila’s new Six Exciting New Kegel Clenches, but this a person who has publicly said the Earth is flat and that fat people deserve to die but also she is a Super Soldier created by Nazi’s—so maybe you shouldn’t listen to her when she mentions anything about vaccines. If...

Special Edition 3 - -If You Can't Say Something Nice 15.02.2016

A lot of Lefties have the fire right now for a dick swinging Liberal firebrand to take Scalia’s place on the Court. Someone who would go in and just kick over every Conservative apple cart that comes before the court the same way Scalia did to us. Except, they are wrong. The BIGGEST insult to Scalia’s legacy in a moderate justice who would take a nuanced view on the issues and vote the merits of t...

Episode 47 I'm Afraid Of Americans 13.02.2016

FDR told us the only thing we had to fear to is fear itself, and here we are 80 years later terrified of it—because I cannot see why people are so fucking afraid. Crime is still down, the economy is stable, and terrorism is a legitimate threat but not an imminent one. If we are not at “peace” we are also not engaged in multiple wars with hundreds of thousands of troops deployed. Inflation is nomin...

80 Proof Prediction Superb Owl Fiddy 07.02.2016

We who do not care for the activities of millionaires who received preferential treatment all their lives due to an enhanced ability to carry a ball across a field, an activity so pointless it defies explanation. Could we not simply decide which end of the field we want the ball to be on, and leave it there? A lot of people are getting hurt trying to move a ball, and no one has even thought to che...

Jameson 80 Proof Prediction New Hamshire 06.02.2016

Stay tuned for the Jameson 80 Proof Prediction sadly NOT brought to you Jameson’s Irish whiskey, the official drink of the What the HELL Were You Thinking Podcast. Every time we slur, you’re hearing Jameson! Naturally the big story in the coming week is the New Hampshire Primary, when the people of New Hampshire all climb out of the snow caves and syruping shacks and head down to the nearest build...

Epsiode 46: I Know What Boys Like 06.02.2016

Now, to say that my friends are split on the Hillary Bernie issue is something of an understatement. All of us are godless libtards pinko bastards sekert muslin terrorist sharia sympathizing Democrats. But we are heavily divided between HOW we want to oppress the God Fear Good Christian People of America! The Clinton Wing would prefer a graduated approach, incrementally stripping away people’s gun...

Special Edition 2 - -Election Day 31.01.2016

And if you are fan of or reality or just a decent human, these next two weeks are going to really hard for you. That’s why I am doing this Special Edition. Between tomorrow and next Tuesday, you are going to have really bad week because I am making the Jameson 80 Proof Prediction, I think Trump is going to win Iowa and New Hampshire Hold on hold on, wait, it gets worse, because I bet he wins South...

Episode 45 - -Blame Iowa 30.01.2016

Iowa is too small, too rural and too white to even come close to reflecting the America these jackoffs running for office are even PRETENDING to represent. Hell, the Iowa Caucus doesn’t accurately represent IOWA! The voters, well not voters but the delegate representatives, must be physically present to be counted, no absentee ballots, so if you have a night job, or the tractor broke down on the b...

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