What the HELL Were You Thinking‪?‬ Dave Bledsoe

Show Notes Summer Short #2: Cause of Death: Pop Rocks
This week Host Dave Bledsoe tries to impress an old drunk lady at the bar by offering to demonstrate the size of his Eructation, and gets tasered before she learned it meant burps. (She tasered him again after she did learn it) On the show this week, it’s a Summer Short, smaller episodes we do to give our writers a break during the Summer.  This week, the tragic death of Life Cereal’s Mikey by Pop Rock consumption. (Hint: It didn’t happen.)
Along the way we learn that Dave ‘s poor life choices are part of a long history with him. (Ask his parents) Then we move right into an abbreviated history of all things carbonated candy. We meet the inventors and companies that shepherded this life changing product to store shelves.(For a little while) Then comes the tragic story of how Coke took the life of an American icon. (The soda, not the nose candy.) Finally we expose the REAL TRUTH ™ behind the story of Pop Rocks. (Hint: It wasn’t exploding kids.)
Our Returning Sponsor this week is The Year 1983, 1983, we gave you Nintendo and took everything else you loved  in exchange!  We open the show with a 1979 commercial for the Death Candy and close with Steven DeLio who has some thoughts on things that go “pop”. 

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Citations Needed:

When Pop Rocks Exploded In the 1970s
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/646469/pop-rocks-candy-explosion-1970s

Did Pop Rocks and Soda Kill 'Little Mikey'?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pop-rocks-soda/

M I K E Y : A N   I N V E S T I G A T I O N .
https://web.archive.org/web/20070610224045/http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2002/10/07mikey.html

How the Explosive 'Pop Rocks and Coke' Legend Destroyed an Iconic Candy Brand
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/pop-rocks-urban-legend-mikey-death

Pop Rocks - The Candy that Killed a Child T.V. Star
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pop-rocks-candy-killed-child-tv-star-gregory-farrell-pqole

Wikipedia: Pop Rocks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Rocks

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Show Notes Episode 452: Subterranean Homesick Alien Autopsy
This week Host Dave Bledsoe is back from his tax deductible “research trip” where he was researching a story about a old, fat, drunk man who gets thrown out of bars in a small southeastern Tennessee town screaming “You can’t do this, I was born here!” (He was, and they can.) On the show this week we examine a television show that purported to show an alien autopsy that aired on Fox in 1995. (Fox, bringing the bullshit for over thirty years!)

Along the way we learn that Dave saw a UFO on his flight, or at least what he thought was one. (It wasn’t. He was drunk.) Then we dive right into why Americans Wanted To Believe in UFOs back in the mid 90’s. (It was more that they wanted to have a threesome with Scully and Mulder.) We meet the “brains” behind Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction and ask the question, was Jonathan Frakes having money troubles when he did this? From there we introduce you to the English record producer who “accidentally” discovered footage proving that life exists on other planets and were visiting Earth for decades. (They aren’t and he didn’t.) Finally, we discuss WHY people believed it was real. (people are very stupid.)

Our returning Sponsor is Morley Cigarettes, America Smokes a Morely.  We open with the Fox Special and close with Warrenmusic who met a friend on the subway.

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Closing Music:https://youtu.be/uZpDRZMWyM4?si=aPWV555CD--CE3rK
We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/
Citations Needed:

The Last Time There Was a Craze About UFOs and Aliens
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-last-time-there-was-a-craze-about-ufos-and-aliens

E.T. or B.S.? When Fox Aired Its Infamous 'Alien Autopsy' in 1995
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/fox-1995-alien-autopsy-hoax

AUTOPSY OR FRAUD-TOPSY?
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,983764,00.html

Santill's Controversial Autopsy Movie
http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/kjeff396.html

Man behind infamous ‘alien autopsy’ video finally reveals the whole truth behind it
https://metro.co.uk/2017/09/25/man-behind-infamous-alien-autopsy-video-finally-reveals-the-whole-truth-behind-it-6954667/



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Our Big Summer Series is going to be a HOT one, as Dave digs the dirt on all the scandals that USED to mean the end of a career. Coming in July to a pod feed near you!
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Seltzer Kings Network Shout Out: Puzzy Boyz
Dave is on a “research trip” in the lands of his birth. (He is just visiting his parents, but is claiming he is doing “research” for tax purposes) So we are running one of the other fine podcasts on the Seltzer Kings Network!  So please enjoy Episode 33: The Garfield Movie Review!
Welcome to PuzzyBoyz, a paw-dcast about four middle-aged men who love their cats. Purr-pare for cute stories, cat product reviews, hot takes, and silly bits as comedians Zach Broussard, Nick Maritato, Adam Newman, and Danny Solomon ME-WOW you into thinking it's cool to be a cat guy. Email: PuzzyBoyzPod@gmail.com IG: PuzzyBoyzPod


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Show Notes Episode 451: Blame Old Bumble Butt
This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets into a drunken row with a taxi driver when he claims he should have to pay because he has thumb out and is clearly hitchhiking. (The driver blackened his eye and took his wallet. Again.) On the show this week we look back on the lost art of hitchhiking and why no one does it anymore. (Blame Edmund Kemper)

Along the way we discover that Dave had Tiny Bladder Syndrome as a child. (And today as well) Then we dive right into the long history of thumbing a ride from strangers on the side of the road. (Along with a VERY dubious Chaucer quote.) Then we move along to hitching in America from Depression era necessity to flower children wearing flowers in their hair right up until the murders started.  Then we debunk all that nonsense about the murders.  Finally, we wrap up with the REAL reason we don’t hitch anymore. (Did Dave find a way to blame technology? He did indeed!)

Our Sponsor this week is the Electronic Thumb, taking the fun out of hitchhiking but leaving all the risks! We open the show with Kai’s colorful interview and close with some Canadian Cold Water Review picking up hot chicks on the highway.

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense
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The Show Line: 347 687 9601
Closing Music:https://youtu.be/uZpDRZMWyM4?si=aPWV555CD--CE3rK
We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/
Citations Needed:

Hitchhiker's guide - what you should know?
https://myluggage.io/en/blog/article/hitchhiker-s-guide-what-you-should-know

Looking At America Through A Hitchhiking Lens
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/04/08/hitchhiking-america-jack-reid

HITCHHIKING: a ’60s & ’70s Form of Transportation, Real Human Social Networking, and Fearless Fun!
https://00individual.wordpress.com/2019/12/11/hitchhiking-a-60s-70s-form-of-transportation-real-human-social-networking-and-fearless-fun/

Wikipedia: Edmund Kemper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kemper#:~:text=Between%20May%201972%20and%20April,%2C%20smother%2C%20or%20strangle%20them.

Thumbs Down: America and the Decline of Hitchhiking
https://digitalcollections.wesleyan.edu/_flysystem/fedora/2023-03/23377-Original%20File.pdf

Thumbs Up, Then And Now: Hitchhiking Stories From The Road
https://www.npr.org/2015/08/09/430079847/thumbs-up-then-and-now-hitchhiking-stories-from-the-road

Hitchhiking’s Dead End (repost from ’88)
https://davemargulius.com/hitchhikings-dead-end-repost-from-88/

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