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- Episode 160: Domo Arigato, Mister RobotoShow Notes Episode 160: “Domo Arigato, Mister Roboto”This week Host Dave Bledsoe is worried he will be replaced by Artificial Intelligence only to discover no robot can process Jameson as efficiently as he can. (Seriously: Consider Rehab!)On the show this week we head to the Google IO Conference to learn about all the new products designed to replace humanity on the planet Earth. (Can’t happen soon enough for us!) Along the way we learn about Dave’s crippling fear of technology. (His fleshlight malfunctioned and scarred him mentally and physically.)We take a tour through the hellish landscape of customer service phone calls and come out the other side fully convinced humanity does not DESERVE to live. You will also learn all the ways the road to hell is paved with best intentions of people with great ideas. (Think Facebook!) Then we dive deep into the ethics of Artificial Intelligence and come up with the only possible solution to the problem. (Hint: Farting Robots).Our Sponsor this week is Fast Eddie’s Placement Service, all the frustration of an inept digital assistant with the infuriation of an incompetent human assistant. We open the show with Sirius Cybernetics Systems and close with Hot Breakfast telling us they are NOT a robot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIvejoeX1GIShow Music: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-senseThe Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_PodcastThe Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/The Show on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/david-bledsoe-4www.whatthehellpodcast.comGive us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WhatthehellpodcastThe Show Line: 347 687 9601Citations Needed:Real Question.https://twitter.com/StevenLevy/status/994031440462598146The Line Was Five Miles Backhttp://bgr.com/2018/05/09/google-io-2018-duplex-personal-assistant-ai/He Has Ascendedhttps://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/06/stephen-hawking-ai-could-be-worst-event-in-civilization.html
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28 min - Episode 159: Speak of the Pompitous of Trump
Episode 159: “Speak of the Pompitous of Trump” This week Host Dave Bledsoe is fired from his gig speaking at the Spring Lake Heights New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Dinner because he refused to cut the joke about the mayor having carnal relations with an Alpaca. (NO EDITS!) On the show this week we discuss the kerfuffle about a mean lady being mean to all the important people of Washington DC. Along the way we learn why Dave keeps being fired from his jobs. (His drinking.) We continue our fascination with Conservative Humor and why it just isn’t funny. (Mostly, it’s the racism.) We deliver a better Dennis Miller joke than even Dennis could do back when he was sane, relevant and funny. (He really was all three once upon a time.) There is a sidelong plunge into why Sarah Huckabee Sanders being a Lesbian Softball Coach is actually a compliment and urge Sarah to leave her current job and become one immediately. Then we spend an inordinate amount of time explaining why the White House Correspondents Association is a bad thing and should feel bad, and go to a very dark place about a naked man pooping on a table. (Sorry!) Our Sponsor this week is Rent A Hack, when you need a comedian who is both inoffensive AND unfunny: Rent A Hack. We open with Michelle Wolf being mean and close with YouTubers Sure Thing getting his lovin’ on the run. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b6GJa8fDwk)
(Correction--The WHCAD started in 1944 not 94, it was a slip and not in the script)
Show Music: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-sense The Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_Podcast The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/ The Show on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/david-bledsoe-4 www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Citations Needed: Masha Explains Everything https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-michelle-wolf-blasted-open-the-fictions-of-journalism-in-the-age-of-trump?mbid=nl_Daily%20043018&CNDID=37503647&spMailingID=13414616&spUserID=MTMzMTgzODMwODcxS0&spJobID=1382638657&spReportId=MTM4MjYzODY1NwS2&irgwc=1&source=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Skimbit%20Ltd.&mbid=affiliate_impactpmx_12f6tote_desktop_Skimbit%20Ltd.
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28 min - Episode 158: Have You Heard About the Lonesome LoserEpisode 158: Have You Heard About the Lonesome Losers?This week Host Dave Bledsoe sits down with Chad and Stacy at the cool kids table only to discover they only want him there because he is old enough to buy beer. On the show this week we take a walk on the sad side with all the sweaty, semen soaked denizens of the “Incel” culture. (It is just as pathetic as it sounds.)Along the way, and against our will, we take a course on Dave’s sexual history. (It’s a remedial class.) We stretch our metaphors to the breaking point finding new ways to insult the Manosphere which is a real thing and real stupid. There is a pointless detour into dictionary definitions and one really stinging Your Mom joke which we personally feel is goes to far. (Just like your Mom on the first date!) Finally, we deliver frank and useful advice to all the sad pathetic idiots pouting in their basements, raging over their perpetual virginity! (Hint: Start with taking a SHOWER!)Also, we encourage you to head to our Patreon Page www.patreon.com/whatthehellpodcast for new exclusive content for our Patreon donors. (It’s roughly .78 cents of entertainment for your $1.00 donation!)Our Sponsor this week is Sir Spanks-A-Lot Spank Boxes, monthly shipments of autoerotic accoutrement for the chronic mastusrbators in your life. We open the show with John Hughes’ examination of pubescent societal structures in the 1980’s and close with a German band called The Diamond doing a cover that may be better than the original.. (https://youtu.be/LdF_Vo4B6Ms?t=12s)Show Music: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-senseThe Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_PodcastThe Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/The Show on Soundcloudwww.whatthehellpodcast.comGive us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WhatthehellpodcastThe Show Line: 347 687 9601Citations Needed:Dan Savage keeping it savagely realhttps://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/04/25/26093525/on-sexual-deprivation-sex-workers-incels-and-violenceGoing where no man should want to gohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/05/27/inside-the-manosphere-that-inspired-santa-barbara-shooter-elliot-rodger/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.dc23bf177a5aThe man who started Incels was a womanhttps://www.elle.com/culture/news/a34512/woman-who-started-incel-movement/No “can’t” but “don’t”https://www.elle.com/life-love/sex-relationships/a33782/involuntary-celibacy/
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32 min - Patreon Wayback 1 Drugs In The 70s With SuperfriendsHere's is a just a taste, just a LITTLE taste of the kind of things you could be listening to for your dollar on our Patreon page! https://www.patreon.com/whatthehellpodcast.Just try it out, maybe share it with your friends, and we will see you on the come back!
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2 min - Episode 157: Quiet Numbskulls I'm BroadcastingShow Notes Episode 157: “Quiet Numbskulls I’m Broadcasting”This week Host Dave Bledsoe goes on the hunt for the video that killed the radio star, to discover all he can hear is Radio Gaga, only to then find himself the morning DJ on W.O.L.D. On the show the show this week we Turn Up the Radio, because we want some music, got to hear us some more. (We don’t know what songs he is referencing either.)Along the way we bid a bittersweet farewell to some radio legends, Art Bell and Carl Kasell, two men who influenced radio in completely different ways. (Though Carl did record a answering message for a Time Traveler from 2083, we heard it on Art Bell.)Then WE travel through the days of yesteryear to hear the voices of all the Disc Jockeys who made music radio! (Including the Casey Kasem rant that EVERYONE plays any time these kind of things are referenced. So original!)We get raw with the rise and fall of the Shock Jocks from Stern to Opie and Anthony. (Yes, yes, Baba Booey) Then we take a turn into the darker side of the dial, away from the wholesome family fun of objectifying women and into the Christian Family Fun of hating women and minorities. (Don’t touch that dial!) Finally, we explain how Facebook has gone wrong by basically being Facebook--trust us it makes sense in context. (As much anything ever makes sense on this dumb show.)Our Sponsor this week is KBDF 69.9 FM, your station from your imagination, featuring Jimmy Cafferty and a dubiously named sidekick we would all rather forget about in hindsight. We open the show with Art Bell and the Antichrist. (Or Art IS the antichrist we aren’t sure) and close with YouTuber Michael Bosley turning us on the radio. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vm22iatO-IShow Music: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-senseThe Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_PodcastThe Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/The Show on Soundcloudwww.whatthehellpodcast.comGive us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WhatthehellpodcastThe Show Line: 347 687 9601Citations Needed:There IS Something Wrong With the Radiohttps://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/radio-shock-jocks-howard-stern
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33 min - Episode 156: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt CheapEpisode 156: “Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap”This week Host Dave Bledsoe goes in search of legal counsel to press his case against TGI Fridays in Penn Station for emotional damages after being banned from the premises last week. (His pain is very real and very lucrative) On the show this week, we talk about a very naughty lawyer who is in deep, deep trouble: Michael Cohen. (Soon to be Inmate #577791)We learn all about Mikey’s checkered past, his associations with all the The Worst People (Don, Don Jr, Eric, Ivanka) and where he fits in on the Trump Org Chart. (Above Tiffany) Along the way we discover that Mikey has some interesting associations outside the Trump family, most of whom (Entirely coincidentally we are sure) have Russian last names. (He is a big fan of borscht) We gab on the rankings of universities within the confines of the District of Columbia and why you shouldn’t even admit your awareness of American University. (Gavin went there!) We step inside the Wayback Machine and head back to the heady days of Disco, drugs, and Studio 54 to learn all about the first guy who had Michael Cohen’s job and the depths of Donny’s gratitude. (You won’t get your feet wet, that’s for sure.)Our Sponsor this week is Vinnie Scarpaci, Esquire, Attorney at Law, the Lawyer’s Lawyer, who want to remind you “When you call up Vinnie, you can always take the Plea!”. We open the show with Lincoln Lawyer and close with Hayseed Dixie and low rate criminality.Show Music: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-senseThe Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_PodcastThe Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/The Show on Soundcloudwww.whatthehellpodcast.comGive us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WhatthehellpodcastThe Show Line: 347 687 9601Citations Needed:A Safety School’s Safety Schoolhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Michigan_University_Cooley_Law_School/Threadhttps://twitter.com/adamdavidson/status/983671870967992321Sooooo Many Russianshttps://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michael-cohens-ties-to-russia-crime-and-trump-w518941THE LAWhttps://www.justice.gov/usam/usam-9-13000-obtaining-evidence#9-13.420NOT, the Lawhttps://www.thewrap.com/donald-trumps-lawyer-threatens-to-take-daily-beast-reporter-for-every-penny-over-ivana-trumps-rape-comments/Scumbag, Meet Scumbaghttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship
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29 min - Episode 155: You Got to Change Your Evil Ways, BezosEpisode 155: “You Got To Change Your Evil Ways, Bezos”This week Host Dave Bledsoe insists his bar tab is part of his “Prime Membership” and is banned from drinking at the TGI Fridays in Penn Station. (Again)On the show this week we think hard questions deserve hard answers, which explains why we still had to solve the problem on the chalkboard even if we sported a hardon. (We’re flattering ourselves) We tackle the ethics of Amazon only discover we inadvertently ordered a textbook of the same name for an MBA class. Along the way we take a tour of Dave’s hometown circa 1975. (Not impressed) We learn the real reason 12 year old boys took the Sears Catalog into the bathroom. (I am looking at SPORTING GOODS MOM!) And ask why President Spanky is so very angry at Jeff Bezos. (Hint: President Spanky is a moron.) Finally, we play a stirring round of 25,000 Pyramid with Dave’s childhood traumas. (Dave loses)Our Sponsor this week is the Sears Catalog you OWE us, so how about shopping here once in a while? We open the show this week with the competition by America’s mayors for Amazon's Headquarters 2 and close with the Evil Ways Band imploring Jeff Bezos to change. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P20frVIGNYw)Show Music: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-senseThe Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_PodcastThe Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/The Show on Soundcloudwww.whatthehellpodcast.comGive us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WhatthehellpodcastThe Show Line: 347 687 9601Citations Needed:Pepperidge Farm Remembershttp://www.chattanoogan.com/2003/8/10/39615/Remembering-Redford-s-5-Cents-To-A.aspxWe read the article in Forbeshttps://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2017/09/13/the-10-companies-with-the-best-csr-reputations-in-2017/#701e106b546bYes, to bothhttps://gizmodo.com/is-amazon-evil-and-am-i-evil-for-using-it-1824070880Maybe just A job first?https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/about-usReminder: Gawker was goodhttp://gawker.com/working-at-amazon-is-a-soul-crushing-experience-1573522379We LOVE Amazon!https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/27/16552614/amazon-popularity-user-survey-prime-echo-trust
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29 min - Episode 154: Special Collectors Edition Foil CoverEpisode 154: “Special Collector’s Edition Foil Cover”This week Host Dave Bledsoe slips into his spandex suit, dons his cape and promptly gets kicked out of Toys-R-Us. (Can a man not just have this ONE moment before it’s gone?) On the show this week we head back to those heady days of yesteryear when comics were king and women were not allowed in the comic book store. (They frighten us!)We delve into the rise and fall of the House Marvel and House DC and how they found a way to make some very nerdy people into damn rock stars. (Hint: Money.) Along the way, we discover the next big prestige television show you didn’t know you were waiting for. (Call us Netflix!) We ask some penetrating questions about the wisdom of speculative bubbles, like how the hell do people think these thing are worth ANYTHING! (Hint: Humans are stupid.) There are even copious references to Dungeons and Dragons and all the other role-playing games of Dave’s youth. (And middle age.)Our Sponsor this week is the Baseball Cards Collectors of America, yeah some of our stuff is valuable, just not what YOU have. We open the show with a commentary on the rise and fall of collectible comics and close with YouTuber Bethany Beach Bound and some unrequited love for a fictional character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAkvqGR0X0cShow Music: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-senseThe Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_PodcastThe Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/The Show on Soundcloudwww.whatthehellpodcast.comGive us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WhatthehellpodcastThe Show Line: 347 687 9601Citations NeededWe Read a BOOK This Week!https://www.amazon.com/Slugfest-Inside-50-year-Battle-between/dp/0306825465First Person Accountshttp://comicbooked.com/revisiting-the-90s-speculative-boom-that-nearly-ended-the-comic-book-industry-part-2/
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27 min - Episode 153: The Devil's RejectsEpisode 153: “The Devil’s Rejects”This week Host Dave Bledsoe makes a deal with the devil for his soul, only to find out his soul already repossessed to pay his bar tab at the Nancy Whiskey Pub in 2009. On the show this week we enjoy the misery of America’s worst citizens, not the Kardashians, the other ones.Along the way we examine the travails of trailer park life (and remind you that your Host used to live in a trailer!) and why it is probably bad to bang your stepmother in law. (Solid advice) Also, we say to hell with the Devil and the Devil says “Thanks, but no thanks” to Nazis. (Even the Devil has SOME limits.) We also have some questions about whether or not modern Satanists are TRULY committed to the Dark Lord Satan or are just doing this to piss off their parents. (Hint: It’s the parents)Also, Dave is apparently VERY upset about Noah Hathaway’s stellar performance as Boxey on the original Battlestar Galactica. This seems to us very hyperbolic when the REAL sin against Science Fiction was the monkey in the Daggit costume. (What the hell is a Daggit anyway?)Our Sponsor this week is the Dark Lord Satan who wants you to know Nazis are not welcome in Hell. We open the show with a salute to Spring in the Reich and close with Morrissey whose political views are overshadowing his music.Show Music: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-senseThe Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_PodcastThe Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/The Show on Soundcloudwww.whatthehellpodcast.comGive us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WhatthehellpodcastThe Show Line: 347 687 9601Citations Needed:Trailer Park Lovin’https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x75vg/the-most-prominent-hate-group-in-america-may-collapse-because-of-an-affair-vgtrnThese folks are the Master Race?https://www.thedailybeast.com/matthew-heimbachs-traditional-workers-party-implodes-over-love-triangle-turned-trailer-brawl?ref=scrollWe Won!https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/13/twp-chief-matthew-heimbach-arrested-battery-after-affair-top-spokesmans-wifeThe Number of the Beasthttps://www.thedailybeast.com/satanism-drama-is-tearing-apart-the-murderous-neo-nazi-group-atomwaffen?ref=homeHallowed Be Thy Namehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Nine_Angles
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25 min - Episode 152 "Spaaaaaaace Force"Show Notes Episode 152: Spaaaaaaaace Force!This week Host Dave Bledsoe turns his eyes to the Heavens and wonders if he really is alone in the Universe, and then his taxi finally arrives and he heads home from the bar. On the show this week we talk about the bold new plan for America’s future military envisioned by Spaceball President Trump: The SPAAAAAAACE FORCE!Along the way we bid goodbye to Big Rex as he shoots for the Moon in his next career. We further discover that we HAVE a whole command that does space RIGHT NOW! But they do NOT have laser pistols. (Not even a Blaster Pistol!) We even surprised ourselves by learning the idea of a Space Force is not quite as crazy as it sounds. (I mean, it’s STILL pretty crazy.) Finally, we take a good hard look at what serving in a Trump lead Space Force might actually be like. (Think more revealing uniforms than those worn by the lovely Colonel Wilma Deering.)Our Sponsor this week is The Spaaaaaaaace Force, who want to know if YOU ARE READY TO DEFEND HUMANITY? We open the show with the Space Patrol and close with the anthem of the Trump’s new Spaaaaaaaaace Force! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMDvCdrtc)Show Music: https://www.jamendo.com/track/421668/prelude-to-common-senseThe Show on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheHell_PodcastThe Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/The Show on Soundcloudwww.whatthehellpodcast.comGive us your money on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WhatthehellpodcastThe Show Line: 347 687 9601Citations NeededExplaining the Inexplicablehttps://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/5/15905018/space-force-trump-congress-russia-chinaThis Looks Like A Job For THE SPAAAAAAACE FORCE!https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/12/politics/unidentified-aircraft-navy/index.htmlIt’s no Federation Charterhttps://www.state.gov/t/isn/5181.htmYou would think Military dot com wouldn’t so snarkyhttps://www.military.com/undertheradar/2018/03/14/sound-are-you-ready-join-space-force.htmlDa, We Go to Marshttp://www.newsweek.com/russia-will-beat-nasa-mars-and-find-water-moon-says-putin-845988With this guy defending idea who needs detractors?https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2018/03/14/trumps-embrace-of-space-force-could-transform-how-america-wages-war/#dd9b9422bb7d
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About What the HELL Were You Thinking?
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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, @whatthehellpodcast.bsky.social and the show name on Facebook.