What the HELL Were You Thinking?

If you haven't heard it, it's NEW TO YOU! A "Best" of show because Dave is on vacation and frankly can't bothered to come up with new content. So, take our regards, that is all we are sending this particular day!

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Episode 226: “Nuke You Like A Hurricane”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe has some ideas to avert the apocalypse of paying his bar tabs, mostly involving wearing a hat and hoping the bartender doesn’t recognize him. (He’s tried it before, didn’t work) On the show this week, we look at some of the ideas for saving the planet from Climate Change, ironically enough, involving giant space hats. (Think. Huge. Hats.)

Along the way we take the obligatory excursion to explain for the slow and dimwitted folk who don’t understand science or indeed much of anything why you cannot nuke a hurricane. We also posit that the Jetsons ruined an entire generation, but this is hardly surprising to anyone who's ever watched the Jetsons.

Once we get to the point, we look at all the various ideas to save humanity from its own stupidity when the global thermostat breaks. (Except for, you know, the ideas that would WORK but people find inconvenient.) Every single suggestion detailed in this show is one actual scientists have suggested using to solve the problem. (We cannot attest they were not drunk when they thought of them.) Finally, we wrap up with our highly scientific theory for what will actually be done by humanity to save themselves. We call it the Amity Effect. (Hint: We should have closed the beaches thirty years ago.)

Our Sponsor this week is Andy’s Big Ass Space Mirrors, when you are looking for an impractical solution for a pressing problem, think Andy’s! We open the show with the Sun’s oldest foe and close with a STUNNING performance of a relevant song that will shock you!

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Citations Needed:

Here's What Would Happen if You Nuked a Hurricane

https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-would-happened-if-you-nuked-a-hurricane-like-trump-reportedly-suggested

How A Giant Space Umbrella Could Stop Global Warming

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160425-how-a-giant-space-umbrella-could-stop-global-warming

Reduce Global Warming By Blocking Sunlight

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=370

How Earth-Scale Engineering Can Save the Planet

https://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2005-06/how-earth-scale-engineering-can-save-planet/

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Episode 225: “Everybody Comes and Comes Again”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets Old Time Religion which is an off brand of bourbon that gives him alcohol poisoning. Again. On the show this week, we examine the Chosen One, King of Israel and Tangerine Messiah and why he keeps getting away with it. (Besides Mitch Fucking McConnell.)

Along the way we head to Church to learn a little about why Evangelical Christians are all in on the ungodliest man to be President since William Howard Taft. (Zoroastrian scum!) We discover the origin story of the Second Coming (The big one, not the one you get by popping two Viagra.) We learn how we are living in the End Times thanks to the guy who starred on Barney Miller. (Not Abe Vigoda, the other one.) Then we head to 6th Century BCE Persia to learn how one of the most powerful Emperors of Persia is exactly like Donald J Trump. (Many of his statues are as bronzed as Don!) Finally, we talk about why our friends the Evangelicals are not only fine with all the crazy things our “President” is doing, but actually cheering him all the way in doing them! Turns out, the Apocalypse is really really good for them. Additionally, we include the full list of all of us who will NOT be Raptured and in fact will be minions of the Antichrist. (See Above)

Our Sponsor this week is SecondHand Messiah, second hand prophet store, easy credit terms because we take it on faith. We open the show with Wayne Allen Root explaining the divinity of Donald Trump and close with Delilah Witt inviting us to her dance party.

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Show Notes Episode 224 Parts 1 & 2 “Signed Epstein’s Mom”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets too close to the truth and is cut off by his bartender, who just doesn’t want to hear anymore of his “theories” about Sid and Marty Kroft! (Dope fiends!) On the show this week, we delve into the High Strangeness of the life and death of Jeffrey Epstein. (Shit got weird) This week’s show is massive, so full of THE TRUTH, we had to break into two parts both of which will appear in your feed simultaneously. We recommend you start with Part 1 first, so everything makes sense. But, you know, you do you, we can’t MAKE you do anything you don’t want to do.

In Part 1 we examine the improbable rise of a kid from Coney Island who dropped out of college and found himself in the middle of Wall Street. His unlikely ascendance to wealth and his predilection for girls on the younger side of the law. From there we go through his famous friends and his brush with the law. (It was a very small brush) and wrap up with his arrest in July. Part 2 picks up with the investigation against him, his “unlikely” death and all the reason that some very famous and powerful people might want him dead, and whether or not they “helped”. (They did not.) Finally, we examine the REAL TRUTH behind Epstein’s death and who is responsible. The answers we offer will shock you, but they shouldn’t because they are fucking right out there in the open for everyone to see.The Truth is out there, and it is pretty disappointing.

Our Sponsor this week is Fast Eddie’s For Profit Prisons, you empty your prisons we empty their wallets. We open with another young entrepreneur from Brooklyn and close with a truth teller from Bay City Michigan!

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Citations Needed:

Thank GOD for Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein’s Rolodex: A Guide to His Famous Friends and Acquaintances

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epsteins-rolodex-famous-friends-and-acquaintances.html

Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/

Cops worked to put serial sex abuser in prison. Prosecutors worked to cut him a break

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article214210674.html

Jeffrey Epstein jail 'a gulag' in lower Manhattan

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49323320

'Toilet Waste And Feces Were All Over The Floors': Federal Jail Where Epstein Died Is Still A 'Dangerous' Place

https://gothamist.com/2019/08/13/epstein_mcc_conditions.php

Thirty-Two Short Stories About Death in Prison

These stories don’t mention Jeffrey Epstein, but they are about him.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/thirty-two-stories-jeffrey-epstein-prison-death/596029/

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Show Notes Episode 224 Parts 1 & 2 “Signed Epstein’s Mom”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets too close to the truth and is cut off by his bartender, who just doesn’t want to hear anymore of his “theories” about Sid and Marty Kroft! (Dope fiends!) On the show this week, we delve into the High Strangeness of the life and death of Jeffrey Epstein. (Shit got weird) This week’s show is massive, so full of THE TRUTH, we had to break into two parts both of which will appear in your feed simultaneously. We recommend you start with Part 1 first, so everything makes sense. But, you know, you do you, we can’t MAKE you do anything you don’t want to do.

In Part 1 we examine the improbable rise of a kid from Coney Island who dropped out of college and found himself in the middle of Wall Street. His unlikely ascendance to wealth and his predilection for girls on the younger side of the law. From there we go through his famous friends and his brush with the law. (It was a very small brush) and wrap up with his arrest in July. Part 2 picks up with the investigation against him, his “unlikely” death and all the reason that some very famous and powerful people might want him dead, and whether or not they “helped”. (They did not.) Finally, we examine the REAL TRUTH behind Epstein’s death and who is responsible. The answers we offer will shock you, but they shouldn’t because they are fucking right out there in the open for everyone to see.The Truth is out there, and it is pretty disappointing.

Our Sponsor this week is Fast Eddie’s For Profit Prisons, you empty your prisons we empty their wallets. We open with another young entrepreneur from Brooklyn and close with a truth teller from Bay City Michigan!

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Closing Music:https://youtu.be/zFQz34H66l0

Citations Needed:

Thank GOD for Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

Jeffrey Epstein’s Rolodex: A Guide to His Famous Friends and Acquaintances

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/jeffrey-epsteins-rolodex-famous-friends-and-acquaintances.html

Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/

Cops worked to put serial sex abuser in prison. Prosecutors worked to cut him a break

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article214210674.html

Jeffrey Epstein jail 'a gulag' in lower Manhattan

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49323320

'Toilet Waste And Feces Were All Over The Floors': Federal Jail Where Epstein Died Is Still A 'Dangerous' Place

https://gothamist.com/2019/08/13/epstein_mcc_conditions.php

Thirty-Two Short Stories About Death in Prison

These stories don’t mention Jeffrey Epstein, but they are about him.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/thirty-two-stories-jeffrey-epstein-prison-death/596029/

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Show Notes Episode 223: Perfectly Good White Boys

This week Host Dave Bledsoe just really misses his Dad. On the show this week we talk about all the angry young white boys out there and why they keep doing the things they do. (Hint: it’s because they are really angry)

Along the way we examine the social rot that causes men in America to just be so fucking stupid all the time. (It isn’t the penis...at least not entirely) We find out what it took to be a man and why all the things that made us “men” also made really BAD people. We talk about what it means to be a man today and why it is so HARD for many men. (Because no one teaches them how?) Then we offer a simple suggestion on how to make things better. (Cry, cry baby, CRY!)

Our Sponsor this week is Jacob, the most popular boy’s name in 2001, who has some issues with the world we’ve given him. We open the show with Lane Meyer and close with Mike Massé and Jeff Hall.

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Show Notes Episode 222: “Uh Oh, It’s Magick!”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe wants you to know that tricks are something whores do for money. Or cocaine. On the show this week, we discuss how Marianne Williamson is using the forces of the occult to control our minds. (But she’s doing it for LOVE!)

Along the way we get to learn all about the spookily youthful looking 67 year old spiritual guru and her rise to prominence. (Thanks Oprah.) We don’t learn anything about her policies or plans because there is magick and then there are miracles and it would take divine intervention for her to win. (I mean, unless it was just her and Bill DeBlasio, then we would vote for her. Out of spite.) Reality, or whatever passes for it these days, we go on a deep dive into the arcane arts of Chaos Magick and how people are using to it influence our elections. (And you thought the Russians talking to your parents on Facebook was bad!) Finally, we reveal the awesome power of the most powerful Chaos Magician in all of human history: Donald J Trump.

Our sponsor this week is Theodora’s House of Thaumaturgy, dark money, plus dark arts, equal victory for your campaign! We open the show Marianne performing a ritual and close with Amphibious’ version of a magical little number from the 80’s.

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Citations Needed:

COVER STORY : The Power, the Glory, the Glitz : Marianne Williamson, an ex-nightclub singer, has attracted many in Hollywood with her blend of new-time religion and self-help--and alienated more than a few

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-02-16-ca-4649-story.html

Marianne Wikipedia Page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Williamson

Marianne Williamson’s fans made her the ‘orb queen’ of the 2020 campaign

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-marianne-williamsons-fans-made-her-the-orb-queen-of-the-2020-campaign/2019/07/30/93535272-a25d-11e9-b8c8-75dae2607e60_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e3efb8cdb701

Chaos Magic in a Nutshell

http://www.specularium.org/wizardry

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Show Notes Episode 221: “What ME Worry?”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe wants you to know ANY resemblance between him and a certain humor magazine mascot is entirely fictional and you shouldn’t believe your lying damn eyes. (OMG! Look at him! He totally looks like Alfred E Nueman!) On the show this week, we mourn the passing of an American institution, the venerable and influential Mad Magazine.

Along the way we learn the very first thing the Internet supplanted in it’s march to cultural dominance. (Uncles, not just for being kinda creepy!) We also discover how a kids humor magazine is essentially responsible for everything that happens on this podcast. (Except for the Host’s drinking problem, that is TOTALLY on him!) We go back to the beginning of Mad to learn how a bunch of busy body do gooders worried that comic books were destroying the moral fiber of America were key to creating the humor magazine responsible for destroying the moral fiber of America. (It was the like Tipper Gore before she was even born!) Finally, we learn how irony killed Mad Magazine.

Our Sponsor this week is Crud Magazine, our mascot it totally not a rip-off, he’s blonde! We open the show with Bart and Homer bonding and close with Alfred E Neuman and

& The Furshlugginer Five!

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Show Notes Episode 220: “Walking On, Walking On the Moon”

Part Two of the Moon Shot Spectacular!

This week Host Dave Bledsoe uses special effects to prove he is functional and healthy and still can’t convince anyone it's true. (All the magic in Hollywood can’t help him there!) On the show this week, it is Part Two of our Moon Shot Spectacular, and we are asking if we even WENT to the damn Moon. (Hint: We TOTALLY did!)

Along the way we meet the Moon Truthers who were just asking questions. (Despite the answers being extremely obvious!) We look at some of the reasons WHY people think and thought we never went to the Moon. (Mostly because of idiocy.) We learn how Archimedes got it wrong and for fourteen bucks they will prove it to you. (Save your money, they didn’t) Then we look at some of the cultural conditions that made so many people believe in the Moon Hoax. (Fucking Dick Nixon) Finally, we express some real sympathy for those who want to believe so badly that humanity never left Earth.

Our Sponsor this week is Fast Eddie House of Effects, when you don’t care if it looks real! We open with Capricorn 1 and close with Derik Nelson in space.

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Citations Needed:

Billy Kaysing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kaysing

Why Do So Many Americans Believe the Moon Landing Was Fake?

https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/moon-landing-fake-american-conspiracy-why.html

Extended Reading:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Moon_landing_hoax

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/how-moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-spread-before-the-1835483705?_ga=2.100839429.581969139.1563194381-296287710.1555448614

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/science/moon-landing-hoax-conspiracy-theory.html

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/6/24/18692080/moon-landing-50th-anniversary-steph-curry-conspiracy-theory-hoax

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Show Notes Episode 219: “Whitey’s On the Moon”

(Part 1 of the Moon Shot Spectacular)

This week Host Dave Bledsoe invites everyone to play the Moon Shot game with him, meaning the listener takes a shot whenever he uses profanity. (It’s a game you play to lose.) On the show this week we take you through the history of the Space Program from Nazi’s to Apollo 11, and ask if it was worth all the money we spent?

Along the way we learn the secrets NASA (Never a straight answer) doesn’t WANT you to know about why we had a space race. (Surprise, it was the Russians!) and why JFK wanted us to go to the Moon. (He heard there were hot Moon chicks!) We talk Wernher Von Braun and why we don’t have Moon Bases after FIFTY FREAKING YEARS! (Turns out, no hot Moon Chicks!) Part One of the Moon Shot is all about how we went to the Moon, Part Two is all about us asking “But did we?” (Spoiler Alert: We Did) But that is NEXT WEEK!

Our Sponsor this week is The Luna, Luxury Living on the Moon! We open the show with Dana Gould explaining why no one goes back to the Moon and close with Gil Scot Heron tallying the cost of the Space Race.

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