What the HELL Were You Thinking‪?‬ Dave Bledsoe

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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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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Show Notes Summer Shorts Volume 1: Toxic Pink Houses
It is Memorial Day Weekend here in the US of Murka and that means that all across the land people are heading out for the traditional start of Summer! That also means Host Dave Bledsoe has retreated to the dankest, darkest, dingiest dive bar he can find, swearing he will not come out until Halloween. (He says this every year, he never lives up to it!) 

That also means the start of our series of minisodes (OK, slightly shorter than normal episodes) so the WTH Team can take some time off. (Dave is making Gavin regrout the WTH Studio Bathroom over the long weekend.  What a dick!) These are episodes with topics we found just a little thin for a full length show but didn’t want to give up on entirely. (Because content is content!) This week we are talking about MTV’s Paint The Mutha Pink contest where they gave away a house to a lucky listener! The catch, the house is on a toxic waste dump! (Yay Capitalism!) 

Our return Sponsor is Davey Beer, the cheap beer with Dave’s face on the can. Please enjoy it responsibly. We open with the winner of the house and close with Amanda Watkins talking real estate.

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Citations Needed:

MTV’s Pink Houses John Cougar Mellencamp Contest Disaster
https://www.ghosttownpod.com/blog/mtvs-pink-houses-john-cougar-mellencamp-contest-disaster/

Neal's Landfill (Bloomington)
https://www.toxicsites.us/site.php?epa_id=IND980614556

Viacom to Buy MTV and Showtime in Deal Worth $667.5 Million
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-08-27-fi-25404-story.html

Pink Houses, Black Lives, And John Mellencamp’s Misunderstood Legacy

https://www.indianapolismonthly.com/news-and-opinion/news/pink-houses-black-lives-and-john-mellencamps-misunderstood-legacy%E2%80%A8/

Pink Houses, Yuppie Scum and Beastie Boy Kidnappings: Relive MTV’s Most Insane Contests
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pink-houses-yuppie-scum-and-beastie-boy-kidnappings-relive-mtvs-most-insane-contests-832009/




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Show Notes Episode 450:”Gloom, Despair and Agony on Me”
This week Host Dave Bledsoe staggers into what he thought was a cornfield drunk out of his gourd on moonshine. Only to be kicked out of the WalMart Garden Department for telling off color jokes to the other shoppers. (again) On the show this week, we celebrate nine years of podcasting by paying tribute to the wellspring of all our humor: Hee Haw!

Along the way we discover why Dave is the uncultured oaf he is. (Don’t blame his Aunt Bonnie, she TRIED!) Then we dive right into the story of Hee Haw, after we explain why Nashville is the heart of Country Music. (Hint: A lot of out of work musicians.) We follow two Canadians who came south to make television and the reasons why they made the greatest comedy variety show of all time in a fake cornfield. (The sets were left over from Green Acres.) We meet the hosts and cast of Hee Haw and then explain why Hee Haw is more than just bad jokes and hillbilly stereotypes. (We mean, there is a LOT of that too!) Finally we explain why Dave chose Hee Haw to celebrate nine years of this show. (He misses his Papaw.)

Our Sponsor this week is the Kornfield Kounty Chamber of Commerce who say “SALUTE” to all the visitors! We open the show with KORN News and close with Pickin and Grinnin’

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense
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The Show Line: 347 687 9601
Closing Music:https://youtu.be/2m7FifTu39I?si=EpIS16ux4R47HOgf
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Citations Needed

Wikipedia: The Nashville Sound
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_sound#:~:text=The%20Nashville%20sound%20is%20a,tempos%22%20associated%20with%20traditional%20pop.

Country Music by Ken Burns: The Nashville Sound
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/country-music/nashville-sound-branches-of-country-music

How Did Nashville Become the Hub of Country Music?
https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/nashville-become-hub-country-music.htm

Wikipedia: Peppiatt and Aylesworth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppiatt_and_Aylesworth

John Aylesworth, a ‘Hee-Haw’ Creator, Dies at 81
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/arts/television/04aylesworth.html

Hee Haw Television Show
https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/hee-haw-television-show/

Wikipedia: Roy Clark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Clark#Career

The Weird History of Hillbilly TV
https://bittersoutherner.com/the-weird-history-of-hillbilly-tv

In praise of Hee Haw’s old-time country laughs – and music
https://troymedia.com/in-the-news/in-praise-of-hee-haws-old-time-country-laughs-and-music/

Reconciliation Blog: How Hee Haw Changed My Life
https://edwardg.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/how-hee-haw-changed-my-life/



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Episode 291: “The Ruror Furor” Redux
This week Host Dave Bledsoe is taking off to recharge his batteries. (Meaning he suddenly came into some money we are unable to find which shitty bar he is currently on a bender within.) So while we waited for him, we thought we would run a companion piece from the archives to last week’s AND next week’s show.  It is one of our favorites and includes the single finest topic segue in podcasting history.  (According to Dave anyway.) So  sit right back and hear a tale about the time CBS canceled every show featuring a pig on their network! It was called “the rural purge”

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Citations Needed:

Rural Purge Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_purge

American Rural Comedies of the Sixties Part Six
http://mercurie.blogspot.com/2013/09/american-rural-comedies-of-sixties-part_23.html

All In the Family Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_in_the_Family

Mobituaries Podcast The Rural Purge: Death of the Country Broadcasting System
https://www.mobituaries.com/the-podcast/the-rural-purge-death-of-the-country-broadcasting-system/



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