What the HELL Were You Thinking?

Show Notes Episode 151: To All the Guns We’ve Loved Before

This week Host Dave Bledsoe gets really emotional about old loves, including his first love whom he never wanted to leave: his Smith and Wesson.38 Police Special. On the show this week we look at how much America loves guns, and not in a negative way. (OK, it’s a LITTLE negative)

Along the way we deconstruct some myths about guns (Turns out, NOT MADE BY GNOMES!) and come at you with the history. We learn a lot more about Dave’s creepily Conservative past than we are comfortable knowing. (He VOTED FOR HW BUSH!) We also learn how to apply for a gun license in New York CIty. (Step One: Be Oprah.) We also FINALLY give it up for our Conservative Sisters and Brothers and admit they are right about one part of gun control (It hurt us a lot to do it.)

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Citations Needed:

In Case Oprah Reads This

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/permits/HandGunLicenseApplicationFormsComplete.pdf

Colonial Liars

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/10/reviews/000910.10willot.html

Revolutionary Liars

http://www.common-place-archives.org/vol-01/no-01/arming/arming-3.shtml

Wild West Liars

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gun-control-old-west-180968013/

Annie’s Got A Gun

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229220/

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Episode 150: “Holding Back the Years”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe invites you to lace up your Chuck Taylors, pull on your Izod shirt, grab you Members Only Jacket and head down to the arcade with him to celebrate One Hundred and Fiftieth Episode and Thee Years of this here low rated podcast! (We don’t know who is a bigger glutton for punishment!)

On this episode we examine what has transpired in the world since we started this show, and want you to know we take NO responsibility for how badly things turned out. (We did NOT elect Trump, not matter what anyone says!) Then we spend rather a lot of time bashing a certain best selling book that is little more than and litany of cliched pop culture references disguise as a novel. (Sounds like a certain podcast on which we write show notes.) We also sincerely doubt whether the movie about to premier based on this novel will be worth watching. Then we remind EVERYONE that the 80’s was only cool and fun if you a white, straight male with access to a fair amount of disposable income. Everyone else kinds thinks they were the worst decade ever. (Which is true.)

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Show Notes Episode 149: “The Kids Are A’ight”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe embraces the youth of today, only to throw his back out and need to spend the rest of the week in bed. On the show this week we think that MAYBE the world is in pretty good hands with these Parkland kids after all. (They made Marco Rubio cry!)

Along the way we point out that our beloved Generation X had it pretty easy when you think about it and you OWE us for putting all that porn on the Internet. (It was hard work, but worth it!) We also explain why GenX was considered such a bunch of slackers. (Dude, we WANTED to do stuff!) Then we dig around in the garbage cans that are Conservative Twitter to come up with a selection of truly batshit crazy conspiracy theories about Parkland. (Emma Gonzalez is an Reptilian! Alex Jones said so!) Then we explain why these kids are so scary to the NRA. (Hint, they are gonna win.)

Our Sponsor this week is Hypocro-C, a prescription antiperspirant for Conservatives. We open the show with the best damn speech we’ve heard in decades and close with Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoff telling us how the kids are doing.

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Citations Needed:

Crazy Eyes

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/parkland-florida-shooting-child-victims-not-always-moral-guides/

Ben, YOU started out in political commentary at EIGHTEEN!

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/students-anti-gun-views/

Going Off the Rails On the Crazy Train

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-internet-s-conspiracy-theorists-turned-parkland-students-crisis-actors-n849921

He Played In Fiddler

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-conspiracy-theories-20180221-story.html

The Student Becomes the Master

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/we-should-all-take-a-lesson-from-the-stoneman-douglas-students.html

A Rich History of Not Taking Any Shit From Adults

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/weve-had-the-same-debate-over-teen-activism-since-the-civil-rights-era.html

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Show Notes Episode 148: Same Shooting, Different Dead

This week Host Dave Bledsoe cannot believe he has to do this shit again. On the show this week, we cannot believe we have to do this shit again. In America, we keep doing this shit again, and no one seems to be able to stop or who is to blame. (WE have some ideas)

Along the way we talk about the show we WANTED to do this week. (We were doing PORN damnit!) Instead we not how you have a kid in school everyone says is going to shoot up the school someday, that kid will probably do exactly that. (Maybe you should tell someone?) We definitely do NOT talk about gun control whatsoever! (We are not allowed!) Then we tell you WHY we can never talk gun control ever again. (Hint: It’s the NRA!)

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Citations Needed:

But, you know, we can never DO it!

http://thehill.com/homenews/360496-poll-majority-of-american-voters-favor-stricter-gun-laws

This fucking guy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlon_Carter#CITEREFPowell2000

A far better podcast

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/637/words-you-cant-say

They’re gonna ban the toy guns and keep the fucking real ones!

http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_983f8a24-0446-11e7-a979-63672c402eea.html

Hard Cold Reality

https://gun-control.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=006094

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Show Notes Episode 147: “Generalissimo Trump’s Tiny Dick-Tator Parade”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe comes to attention, salutes the flag and marches right into the bar next door, because he ain’t gonna study war no more. On the Show this week we ask what if we had a war parade and nobody came? (Kind of like Donnie’s inauguration!)

Along the way we remember what is was like when our military parades actually celebrated a victory in a war and remind you that we’ve been at war seventeen years and still have not won. We also address Post Vietnam Guilt Syndrome and how it was very bad for the Veterans, yet we DID get some kickass movies in the 80’s! (Heroes never die, they just reload!) We also learn about the time Dave was forced to march in a military parade, it was VERY informative! (HE HAD TO WALK BEHIND THE CLOWNS!)

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Citations Needed:

Show Art Image Credit

http://www.malacandra.me/index.php/site/page/good_little_soldiers_betraying_their_country_for_their_dear_leader

Show Music Credit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3peH3ppJKxo

Those Were The Days

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-cbs-news-reported-the-last-national-military-parade-in-1991/

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Show Notes Episode 146: My Devin Just Wrote Me A Letter

This week Host Dave Bledsoe makes an error on his TPS Report cover sheet and claims he never even got that memo! On the show this week we cover a Memo of a different sort, you know one crafted by one corrupt idiot to cover up the crimes of another corrupt idiot. (Imagine how angry we will be when it is actually released!)

Along the way we enlighten you to the utter unimportance of ANY State of the Union Address (The state of our Union is fine, good night everybody). We ponder the mental acuity of your average member of Congress and realize that even THEY think Devin Nunes is a moron. There is some small allusion to the fate of a Fox News talking Nazi Bobblehead when the Revolution comes. (In a purely hypothetical way) Finally we find ourselves in the untenable position of DEFENDING the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Not you Mulder, you’re cool with us!)

Our Sponsor this week is Big Jim’s Memo Hut, if you are thoroughly corrupt, think Big Jim’s Memo Hut! We open the show with the Secret of My Success and close with Youtubers The Late Ones discussing the postal system. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIfzl74RCDQ)

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Citations Needed:

Getting Freaking In Fresno

https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/editorials/article196633904.html

I Mean It’s the FBI!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-31/trump-says-100-percent-after-he-s-asked-to-release-gop-memo

Northern Liberal Commie Plot

http://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/13/archives/mood-of-deep-south-is-against-impeachment-constituents-drop-by.html

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Show Notes Episode 145: “Spanks for the Memories”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe learns that not even his beloved porn is immune to the corruption of the Trump Presidency. On the show this week, we talk about the weather as Stormy Daniels blows in, knocks over a few lawn chairs and then blows back out to sea. (Honestly, this President is a goddamn vampire or something!)

Along we way we learn more than anyone ever wanted to know about the sex life of Donald John Trump--and we are not happy about it. We question the ethics of porn, and conclude porn actors are the real heroes in this situation. (God bless them!) We empathize with the folks at the Wall Street Journal who never once believed they would ever be writing about hush money to porn stars. (It’s SO GAUCHE!) Finally, we ask those without sin to cast the first stone and get hit by a fucking rock thrown by Franklin Graham.

Our Sponsor this week is Hush, when you need it kept quiet, Hush! We open the show with a gleeful Jeanie Moss from CNN and and close with the Lords of Acid.

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Citations Needed:

Nothing suspicious at all

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/18/politics/michael-cohen-stormy-daniels-essential-consultants-llc/index.html

Read it and actually weep

http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/stormy-daniels-full-interview-151788

What an asshole

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/23/tony-perkins-evangelicals-donald-trump-stormy-daniels-216498

Jesus would hate your guts

https://www.christianpost.com/news/franklin-graham-trump-porn-star-allegations-not-president-perfect-214549/

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Show Notes Episode 144: “The Cure Is Worse Than The Aziz”

This week the listeners will find out more about Host Dave Bledsoe’s sex life than they EVER wanted to know. (He likes being spanked with a rolled up copy of Highlights Magazine.) On the show this week we talk about the continuing downfall of men and their eventual replacements with stepladders and cloning technology. (Can’t happen soon enough.)

Along the way we tackle the thorny topics of Aziz Ansari’s bad sex techniques, and how MAYBE he might not want to take sex advice from Pepe Le Pew. Along the way we talk about why men are so tense when reminded they are recipient of an entire society structured for their advancement. (Well, we didn’t ASK for it!) We clean out the litter box of the Cat Person article from the end of last year. (Hey, we are allowed to enjoy the Holidays too!) and make some suggestions on how we might solve the entire consent problem in a single generation. (But we don’t have time for rational solutions.)

Our Sponsor this week is Confirma-Fuck, affirmative consent on your phone! We open the show with Dave Chappelle discussing role models and close with Jizzy Pearl’s take on Bon Jovi’s Magnum Opus. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe8WiyXWfuM)

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Citations Needed:

I Got You Babe

https://babe.net/2018/01/13/aziz-ansari-28355

That’s What He Said

https://babe.net/2018/01/15/aziz-ansari-statement-28407

I Think He Will Be Fine

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/the-humiliation-of-aziz-ansari/550541/

Seriously, He’s Gonna Be OK

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/17/opinions/lets-be-honest-about-aziz-ansari-brawley/index.html

But He Might Read Body Language

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/15/opinion/aziz-ansari-babe-sexual-harassment.html?_r=0

Fear Itself

https://www.thecut.com/2018/01/maybe-men-will-be-scared-for-a-while.html

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Special Edition 10: “Why You Gotta Be So Mean?”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe finally understands what we’ve been trying tell him for years: His kind of a dick. On the show this week, we talk about how big a dick Dave is and why this is so.

There isn’t much more to say other than if you’re gonna punch, always punch up.

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Show Notes Episode 143: “Stephen’s Last Night In Town”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe violates his doctor’s orders and rasps out another show AND mixes painkillers with whiskey, because you can’t tell HIM what to do! On the show this week, we talk about the fire and fury that is consuming the White House with the release of a tell all tale told by ex-friend Steve Bannon! (cuz if you don’t lie then you ain’t no friend of Don’s)

Along the way we talk nuclear dick measuring and make a disgusting mushroom head joke. (Ugh, no!) We examine the familial dynamics of the Trump family and wonder if Tiffany might not be moving up the power rankings real soon? (She’s earned it!) We also ponder what happens to the Pepe’s now that all their gods are dead. (We suggest ritual suicide!)

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Citations Needed:

No one else did either

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html

Fires and Furies

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/donald-trump-russia-steve-bannon-michael-wolff

Bannon? Never heard of the guy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/us/politics/bannon-mercer-trump.html?_r=1

Is this line for Harry Potter?

https://twitter.com/bterris/status/949141543893458946

He’s not well

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/03/trump-25th-amendment-mental-health-322625

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