What the HELL Were You Thinking?

The 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 podcastch...

Until 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 R...

Hello 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...

It’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...

This 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...

As 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...

Hello 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 Constitutio...

First 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, b...

The 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...

I 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

Naturally, 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...

0.1% 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 ea...

Welcome 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 faili...

People, 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 Defen...

Look 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 peop...

nd 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...

But 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 ar...

Ham 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...

This 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

Hello 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 podcastch...

Meanwhile 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

Is 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 spee...

What 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” eff...

Meanwhile 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...

With 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 hor...