What the HELL Were You Thinking?
by Dave Bledsoe
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News, politics, pop culture, life, religion, whiskey, jokes, you know the stuff in my head...and things you will probably be very angry indeed over.
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- Episode 534: Charles and Charlie · 32 min · Episode 531Show Notes Episode 534: Charles and Charlie This week Host Dave Bledsoe found himself sitting next to a middle aged dude with his childhood stuffed tiger toy at the bar and just…
- Spooktacular 2026: Touch of a Black Hand Part Two · 39 minShow Notes Spooktacular 2026 “Touch of a Black Hand” In the finale of Spooktacular 2026, we rejoin Vincent Hess on the trail. From New Orleans to Binghamton, he puts the pieces…
- Spooktacular 2026: VH Investigations Touched By A Black Hand Part One · 33 minShow Notes: Spooktacular 2026 Part One “VH Investigations: Touched By A Black Hand” What the HELL Were You Thinking presents Spooktacular 2026, VH Investigations: The Touch of…
- Episode 282-283 "Play Me Some Mountain Madness" Redux · 50 minShow Notes Episode 282-283 Play Me Some Mountain Madness Redux Host Dave Bledsoe INSISTS he is feverishly researching and writing something “truly special” for next month’s…
- Episode 533: Space--The Syndicated Frontier · 36 min · Episode 533Show Note Episode 533: Space: The Syndicated Frontier This week Host Dave Bledsoe was ejected from a Star Trek cosplay contest because his Trill Symbiont was deemed to be…
- Episode 532: The Great Bird of the Galaxy · 33 min · Episode 532Show Notes Episode 532: Great Bird of the Galaxy This week Host Dave Bledsoe told us he was going on an Away Mission and might be gone for a while, when he was just really…
- Episode 531: By The Time We Left From Woodstock · 33 min · Episode 531Episode 531: By The Time We Left From Woodstock This week host Dave Bledsoe got wasted at a concert and was thrown out for aggressive moshing in front of the stage and is now…
- Episode 530: Charles Isn't In Charge Anymore · 35 minShow Notes Episode 530: Charles Isn’t In Charge Anymore This week Host Dave Bledsoe finally mans up to get a tattoo of the most important thing in his life (a bottle of Irish…
- Episode 529: Bugliosi's Big Break · 32 min · Episode 528Show Notes Episode 529: Bugliosi’s Big Break This week Host Dave Bledsoe found himself needing legal representation when he was served with a lawsuit over something he is…
- Episode 528: Healter Skelter · 33 min · Episode 528Show Notes Episode 528: “Healter Skelter!” This week Host Dave Bledsoe was trespassed from a children’s playground (again) for screaming at a four year old “When you get to the…
- Special Presentation: The Spirit of 76 · 28 minShow Note Special Presentation: Spirit of ‘76 This week Host Dave Bledsoe is celebrating 250 years of America by dressing as Uncle Sam and getting piss drunk at a cookout. (It…
- Episode 527: When You're Here, You're Family · 31 min · Episode 526Show Notes Episode 527: When You’re Here, You’re Family This week Host Dave Bledsoe was kicked out of Sunrise of Mountain Lakes in Parsippany New Jersey for recruiting the old…
- Episode 526: Going Through the Big D · 40 min · Episode 525Show Episode 526: Going Through the Big D This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets thrown out of a country bar after gravely misunderstanding what “Ho-Down” meant. (He pushed a woman…
- Episode 525: On Second Thought, Let's Not Go to Camelot · 31 min · Episode 525Show Notes Episode 525: On Second Thought, Let’s Not Go to Camelot This week host Dave Bledsoe ruined a bar trivia night by drunkenly shouting “wasn’t in the form of a question”…
- Episode 524: Hey Joe? Where You Going With That Son In Your Hand? · 31 min · Episode 524Show Notes Episode 524: Hey Joe, Where You Going With That Son In Your Hand? This week Host Dave Bledsoe climbed on a bar stool and shouted “Ask not why I should pay this bar…
- Episode 523: If You're Going to San Francisco · 30 min · Episode 523Show Notes Episode 523: If You’re Going to San Francisco This week Host Dave Bledsoe proclaims he is all about peace, love and understanding as he is bodily ejected from a…
- Episode 522: Are You Experienced? · 31 min · Episode 522Show Notes Episode 522: Are You Experienced? This week host Dave Bledsoe thought he had a psychedelic experience when he started seeing strange shapes and colors only to…
- Episode 521: I Trip, Ergot I Am · 32 min · Episode 521Episode 521: I Trip, Ergot I Am This week host Dave Bledsoe got into a batch of Rye and woke up the next day convinced he had ergotism. (Turns out his body was rejecting top…
- Episode 520: Insert Beatles Song Here · 33 min · Episode 518Episode 520: Insert Beatles Song Here This week host Dave Bledsoe woke up, got out of bed and dragged a comb across his head. (At roughly 3 PM because he slept off his hangover…
- Episode 519: Future So Bright, Gotta Wear Shades · 37 min · Episode 519Show Notes Episode 519: Future’s So Bright, Gotta Wear Shades This week Host Dave Bledsoe passed out in a Waymo Taxi and woke up in Albany owing $1700. (He charged to the…
- Episode 518: Crazy About A Mercury · 32 min · Episode 519Show Notes Episode 518: Crazy About A Mercury This week Host Dave Bledsoe attempted to join a small group of elite performers dedicated to pushing the boundaries of human…
- Episode 517: Atom Bomb Baby · 40 min · Episode 517Show Notes Episode 517: Atom Bomb Baby This week Host Dave Bledsoe goes into his laboratory to work on his experiments. (His lab is a bar and he is mixing toxic cocktails to…
- Episode 516: Red, Red Whine · 34 minEpisode 516: Red, Red Whine This week Host Dave Bledsoe woke up brutally hungover behind a trash dumpster in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia meaning a whole New Year has…
- Episode 430: Carl's Worst Xmas Redux · 30 minShow 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…
- Episode 343: Frosty the Snow Ho Redux · 31 minShow Notes Episode 343: Frosty the Snow Ho (Redux) This week, Host Dave Bledsoe is basically phoning it in so he can get on with the business of his Christmas Bender. (You…
- Episode 515: Sodas In Spaaaaace! · 32 min · Episode 515Show Notes Episode 515: Sodas In Spaaaaace! This week Host Dave Bledsoe got liquored up on orange flavored Metamucil and vodka and got kicked out of a retirement village bingo…
- Episode 340: Wall to Wall and Tree Top Tall Redux · 33 minShow Notes Episode 340: We’re Wall to Wall and Tree Top Tall This week Host Dave Bledsoe is coming down out of Hog Town in a Thirteen Letter Shit Spreader hauling Go-Go Girls on…
- Episode 87: Thanksgiving In Hell Total Redux · 22 min · Episode 87Show Notes Episode 87: Thanksgiving In Hell Total Redux This week host Dave Bledsoe found himself in Federal Custody after getting shitfaced in an Irish bar and loudly demanding…
- Episode 259: We're Not Gonna Take It (Redux) · 32 min · Episode 260Show Notes Episode 259: “We’re Not Gonna Take It” This week Host Dave Bledsoe puts a Twisted Sister pin on his uniform and drunkenly shouts at himself in the bathroom mirror…
- Episode 514: Brooks Brothers Riot Daddy-O (Part 2 of the 2000 Election) · 33 min · Episode 514Show Notes Episode 514: Brooks Brothers Riot, Daddy O Part 2 of the 2000 Election This week Host Dave Bledsoe tried crashing a corporate mixer for the open bar only to be…
- Episode 513: Ballot With Butterfly Wings (Part 1 of the 2000 Election) · 31 min · Episode 513Episode 513: Ballot With Butterfly Wings Part 1 of the 2020 Election This week host Dave Bledsoe got kicked out of an Andrew Cuomo election rally for constantly drunkenly…
- Episode 512: Granny Are You OK? (Part 4 of Spooktacular 2025) · 28 min · Episode 512Show Notes Episode 512: Granny Are You OK? Part 4 of Spooktacular 2025 This week Host Dave Bledsoe was arrested for setting up a moonshine still next to the Loch in Central…
- Episode 511: Something Wiccan This Way Comes (Part 3 of Spooktacular 2025) · 29 min · Episode 511Show Notes Episode 511: Something Wiccan This Way Comes Part 3 of Spooktacular 2025 This week Host Dave Bledsoe was arrested at the Lizard Lounge in Bohemia for getting…
- Episode 510: Smack My Witch Up Part 2 of Spooktacular 2025 · 36 min · Episode 510Show Notes Episode 510: “Smack My Witch Up” Part Two of Spooktacular 2025 This week Host Dave Bledsoe got drunk and lost in a Haunted Corn Maze and terrified an entire Church…
- Episode 509: "Shaman Me? Shaman You!" Part 1 of Spooktacular 2025 · 26 min · Episode 507Episode 509: Shaman Me? Shaman You! This week Host Dave Bledsoe visited the Old Wise Woman at the edge of the village for herbs that would help him experience enlightenment…
- Episode 284-285 Redux Megamix "The Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident" · 1 h 3 minShow Notes Episode 284-285 Redux Mega-Mix “The Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident” We are off this week prepping for Spooktacular 2025 so enjoy this double episode megamix from 2020…
- Episode 508: John's Detachable Penis · 31 min · Episode 506Show Notes Episode 508: “John’s Detachable Penis” This week Host Dave Bledsoe woke up screaming after a bender to find a red mess and half a weiner on his lap, only to discover…
- Spooktacular 2025 Trailer: I Got 99 Problems But A Witch Ain't One! · 2 minSpooktacular 2025 kicks off in October! All month long we talk about Witches! The good ones, the bad ones, the ones who dress all sexy and drive Dave wild! So join us for a month…
- Episode 507: Tito Get Me Some Tissue · 31 min · Episode 507Show Notes Episode 507; Tito Get Me Some Tissue This week Host Dave Bledsoe passed out at a petting zoo and woke up making out with a llama. (It was the closest he came to…
- Episode 506: Shamone Now · 28 min · Episode 505Episode 506: Shamone Now This week Host Dave Bledsoe won third prize in a “Moonwalking” competition when he lost his balance trying to get up to take a piss and stumbled…
- Episode 505: Thanks For Your Support · 31 min · Episode 505Show Notes Episode 505: Thanks For Your Support This week Host Dave Bledsoe tried to impress an age appropriate woman by telling her he was in a wine cooler commercial, only to…
- Episode 504: We Will Always Have Paris · 33 min · Episode 504Show Notes Episode 504: We Will Always Have Paris This week Host Dave Bledsoe gate crashed a celebrity event by carrying a camera and claiming he was “with the media” just to…
- Episode 503: Little Ditty About Chuck and Diane · 33 min · Episode 501Show Notes Episode 503: Little Ditty About Chuck and Diane This week Host Dave Bledsoe found himself officiating a wedding for complete strangers after he showed up drunk…
- Episode 442-443: Redux Megamix Packing A Purple Shroud · 1 h 4 minSummer Series is over, and we have a lot empty spaces to fill before Spooktacular in October. So naturally, Dave is nowhere to be found. (If you see him an Upstate dive bar…
- Episode 502: Way Down In Kosovo Pt 4 of Summer Series 2025 · 32 min · Episode 502Show Notes Episode 502: Way Down In Kosovo Part 4 of Summer Series 2025 This week Host Dave Bledsoe was savagely ejected from a bar in the Little Serbia neighborhood of Queens…
- Episode 501: Operation Just Because Pt 3 of Summer Series 2025 · 37 min · Episode 501Show Notes Episode 501: Operation Just Because Pt 3 of Summer Series 2025 This week host Dave Bledsoe drunkenly demands someone liberate him from the tyranny of paying for his…
- Episode 500(!): Who's Afraid of Grenada Pt 2 of Summer Series 2025 · 35 min · Episode 500Show Notes Episode 500(!): Who's Afraid of Grenada? Part 2 of Summer Series 2025 This week Host Dave Bledsoe dressed up in his old Air Force dress uniform and staggered into a…
- Episode 449.5: Was It Something We Said? Pt 1 of Summer Series 2025 · 30 min · Episode 499Show Notes Episode 499.5: “Was It Something We Said?” Part 1 of Summer Series 2025 This week Host Dave Bledsoe attempts to convince the other barflies to stage a coup against…
- Episode 393/394 Redux Megamix! · 1 h 10 minThis week Host Dave Bledsoe was overcome with patriotism he was unable to work. (We couldn't figure out what shitty bar he was hiding in, again) So in honor of what is probably…
- Summer Series 2025: You Can Have A Little War, As A Treat! · 1 minWhat the HELL Were You Thinking covers all the Little Wars, so convenient to make a politician LOOK good without killing too many Americans! Join us as we go from the Iran…
