What the HELL Were You Thinking?

Show Notes: Black Friday Special The Life and Afterlife of Elvis MEGA-EDITION! Thanksgiving is over and that can only mean one thing! Host Dave Bledsoe is drunk in a bar demanding the “Black Friday Deal” for his bar tab.  (He usually gets the black and blue deal from the bouncers.) On the show this week we are here to help you face The Malaise! (The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas when NO...

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Show Notes Episode 472: “Are You Threatening Me?!” This week Host Dave Bledsoe got blasted on Espresso Martinis when he gatecrashed a charity fundraiser and was ejected after screaming he needed “TP for his bunghole” (Just an average Tuesday afternoon.) On the show this week we took a look at the cultural high water mark of 90’s television: Beavis and Butthead. Along the way we discovered that Dav...

Show Notes Episode 471: Danger Zone Part 2-The Day After WTH Movie Night: The Day After This week Host Dave Bledsoe hit the bottle because he was terrified by the memories of something he saw on television as a kid. (Sigmund and Sea Monsters, Sid and Marty Kroft were FREAKY!) On the show this week it is a WTH Movie Night, we talk about the movie that scared the shit of Generation X: 1983’s The Day...

Show Notes Episode 469: Reasons to Save America This week Host Dave Bledsoe is tired, and he knows  you are tired too.  It has been a long decade and no amount of funny stories about him doing stupid stuff while he is drunk is going to make it any easier. (I mean we have one story about him pooping his pants because he was too drunk to get up from the bar that we COULD tell!) On the show this week...

Show Notes Episode 468: There’s A Light Over at the LaLaurie Place Spooktacular 2024 Finale This week Host Dave Bledsoe drunkenly declares that every day is Mardi Gras while offering strings of beads in exchange for being shown breasts. (The bouncers took the beads, and took Dave’s shirt off while tossing him out.) On the show this week we conclude Spooktacular 2024 with the story of the most haun...

Show Notes Episode 467: Building A Mystery (House) Part 3 of Spooktacular 2024 This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets lost trying to find his way to the bathroom in a strange bar and blames “The Spirits” when he got caught pissing in the corner. (Again) On the show this week Spooktacular 2024 continues with the tale of a mansion in California that was haunted for business purposes, the Winchester Myster...

Bledsoe’s Ghost Dave Bledsoe, the host of What the HELL Were You Thinking, doesn't believe in ghosts.  So, clearly, whatever he saw that night could NOT have been a ghost.  It was just a spooky old man who appeared out of the fog one night and disappeared during a series of unlikely events which occurred simultaneously without any explanations.  Definitely not a ghost. He leaves it to the listener...

Show Notes Episode 466: Oh Great, Lincoln’s Ghost Again Part 2 of Spooktacular 2024 This week Host Dave Bledsoe experiences the sensation that someone is watching himself while he is sleeping, only to awake to a bouncer dragging him out for passing out on the bar (again).  On the show this week we continue Spooktacular 2024 “Is There A Ghost In My House” by asking if Abraham Lincoln’s ghost (among...

Episode 465: The Amityville Horrible Part 1 of Spooktacular 2024 “Is There A Ghost In My House?” This week Host Dave Bledsoe insists he is not responsible for this bar tab since it was incurred while he was possessed by demon alcohol. (The bouncers performed a quick and dirty exorcism and he paid right up!) On the show this week we kick off Spooktacular 2024 with the REAL story behind The Amityvil...

Show Notes Episode 464: “I Ain’t Afraid of Reagan’s Ghost” WTH Movie Night: Ghostbusters! This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets beaten up and thrown out of a TriBeca firehouse after drunkenly showing up at 3:00 AM insisting he was there to “bust some ghosts”. (The fire fighters busted his nose.) On the show this week it is a WTH Movie Night! This time 1984’s supernatural, super right wing,  super box o...

It’s time, Spooktacular 2024 kicks off with our series, “Is There A Ghost In My House?” All October brings you stories of hauntings  that may, or more likely, may NOT be true. So join us for some ghost stories starting October 7th for Spooktacular 2024! (Music by JBJ Music) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 463: Gonna Love Me In My Chevy Van This week Host Dave Bledsoe drunkenly climbs into the back of a van and insists the driver take him back to 1986. (The cops closed the doors of the paddy wagon and took him to The Tombs. Again) On the show this week we go back to the 1970’s when the vans all airbrushed murals on the sides and waterbeds in the back! We talk about Van Life in the 70s! Along...

Show Notes Episode 462: Saga of A Star Wars Rip Off This week Host Dave Bledsoe angrily shouts at Producer Gavin insisting he was NOT playing with his dolls again. (He totally was.) On the show this week we head back to 1978 to talk about a short lived but influential Science Fiction TV show that wasn’t JUST a Star Wars rip off. (But kind of  doing that a little) Battlestar Galactica. Along the wa...

Episode 461: Life Is A Highway This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets drunk at an East Village dive bar and takes a cab home and calls it his “Summer Road Trip”. On the show this week we scrape the bottom of the barrel for content and talk about how Dave’s family entertained him driving across the country in the 80’s. (Yeah, he really phoned it in. Again.) Along the way we learn about Dave’s “adult” tri...

Show Notes Episode 460: A Beef With Oprah This week host Dave Bledsoe is thrown out of the cookout when the other attendees realize no one there actually knew him. (Happens a lot.) On the show this week we talk about that time in the 90’s when the cattle industry bit off more than they could chew by suing Oprah. (Bad idea.) Along the way we discover that Dave will eat anything so long as it is mos...

Show Notes Episode 459: “I Can Call You Geraldo, and You Can Call Me Al Capone This week Host Dave Bledsoe goes searching for buried treasure (meaning he dug through his Winter coats looking for money to buy booze.) On the show this week we talk about that time Geraldo Rivera knocked down a wall in Chicago on live TV because someone lied about Al Capne having a vault there. Along the way we discov...

Show Notes Episode 458: How We Learned Not to Worry and Ignore the Bomb This week Host Dave Bledsoe slams half a bottle of tequila, jumps on the bar and screams “AIR RAID WARNING” before stage diving into the mosh pit. (It wasn’t a mosh pit, it was a wedding reception, in which he had crashed. They were doing the chicken dance and he was arrested. Again.) On the show this week we tell you about th...

Show Notes Summer Short: “Don’t Page Me, Bro!” This week Host Dave Bledsoe slaps an old beeper he found in a box in the basement on the bar and asks if “doctors drank for free” (They don’t and he isn’t one.)  On the show this week we are doing a Summer Short about that time in the late 80’s when every kid with the beeper in America was slinging smack. (They weren’t and it was racist moral panic th...

Show Notes Episode 370-371 Mega-Mix The Summer of Sam Redux This week Host Dave Bledsoe takes a “well deserved” rest after “working so hard” on the Summer Series. (All he did was show up in the studio and slur drunkenly into a microphone.) So while he “rests” (If by resting you mean squats in a dimly lit dive bar arguing with the bartender over how many rounds he’s ordered).  So while he “refreshe...

Show Notes Episode 457: When You Wish Upon A Starr Part Two of Bill Clinton and Summer Series 2024 Finale  This week Host Dave Bledsoe parses the definition of the term “owed” in relation to a bar tab. (It depends on what the word “owed” means.) On the show this week we wrap up Summer Series 2024 and the story of Bill Clinton with the Sex Scandal that defined the 90’s. (There are ZERO Monica jokes...

Show Notes Episode 456: “Stand By Your Man” Part 4 of Summer Series 2024 This week Host Dave Bledsoe finds himself in ethical hot water when he gets drunk and starts confessing to things he really ought to keep to himself. (Like literally! It happens in the first ten minutes of this episode.) On the show this week we kick off the finale of Summer Series 2024 with part one of a two part show about...

Show Notes Episode 455: We Have Clearance Clarence Part Three of Summer Series 2024 This week Host Dave Bledsoe stumbles in a butch lesbian bar and finds himself among people who will FINALLY buy him drinks. (They found him so harmless they adopted him!) On the show week we talk about the horniest Supreme Court Justice nominee since Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Horny Clarence Thomas! (Check your cok...

Show Notes Episode 454: “Where The F**K Did I Say Build A Waterslide?” Part Two of Summer Series 2024 This week Host Dave Bledsoe finds himself in a situation of over promising and under delivering vis-à-vie paying for the staggering amounts of drinks he has consumed. (The bouncers were not at all interested in the timeshare opportunity he offered in recompense.) On the show this week we turn back...

Show Notes Episode 453: I Have Sinned Against You  Part 1 of Summer Series 2024 This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets religion as he fervently prays for absolution of his bar tab. (Prayer is always the last refuge of a scoundrel and a deadbeat.) On the show this week we kick off Summer Series 2024 Let’s Talk About (Scandals) with part one, the story of a pious man who loved to “minister” to the sex wor...