What the HELL Were You Thinking?

SHOW NOTES EPISODE 134: Unfriending Facebook

This week Host Dave Bledsoe tries to Friend himself on Facebook only to be told to fuck off and get blocked. (Sound thinking) On the show this week we talk Russians and social media and why it was so easy to fuck up the election. (Hint: Americans are not very bright.)

Along the way we address the terror attack in Manhattan (Fuck that guy, we ain’t scared) and all the dickless wonders trying to “politicize the tragedy”. (Assholes) We giggle happily at the fall of House Manafort and wonder how the guy from Webster got mixed up in all this? (Mister seemed so nice!) We savagely take down the social media networks while simultaneously admitting they are our relationship with a certain cowboy. (Unquittable.)

In some of our asides we discuss Dave’s tragic history in Russia. (She seemed so nice!) and why you are depressed every time you log off Facebook. (Hint: Because you were just ON Facebook.) We explain Twitter’s Nazi Rapist problem and why Dave sees so many ads for Ukrainian Bridges. (Typos live forever in the Algorithm) Finally we present a simple, straight forward solution to the problem of Russian propaganda that no one will heed.

Our Wayback this week takes us back to 1835 and the origins of Fake News. Our sponsor this week is Vlad, Friend You Know! We open our show this week with The Social Network and close with a pretty, pretty, pretty good song about unfriending people. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZeIQnKUDTw )

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Citations Needed:

Russia! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/facebook-google-twitter-russian-interference-hearings.html

Moar Russia!

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html

Twitter Finally #1

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj7vam/why-twitter-is-the-best-social-media-platform-for-disinformation

Et Tu Google?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/technology/google-russian-ads.html

Facebook New Feature

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2017/10/02/facebook-and-google-still-have-a-fake-news-problem-las-vegas-shooting-reveals/#e0f592d7138f

Now I Know Why I Am Sad

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/what-mentally-strong-people-dont-do/201603/science-explains-how-facebook-makes-you-sad

It Shines For All

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_(New_York_City)

The Moon!

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

The Great Moon Hoax!

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_great_moon_hoax

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SHOW NOTES EPISODE 133: “Screaming In the Night”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe’s unmanly shrieks of terror ring through the studio, informing us he’s caught his penis in his zipper. Again. On the show this week we have Part Two of our Annual Halloween Spooktacular, ghosts, ghouls and evil entities. (This is our name for debt collectors.)

Presented for your consideration, these tales of horror spun from the minds of the women and men of the United States Military, who’ve faced down death and unidentifiable liquors to keep America free. (Ish). Along the way we learn the Fine Art of Bullshitting. (It’s completely different than lying). Valuable lessons on waste disposal are imparted and we learn it is all about the Bedouins. Also, we pass along the wisdom of Dave’s Grandmother who told him two things, don’t take moonshine from strange men in the woods and Fear the Wampus!

Our Wayback this Week takes us back long before the White Man came to these lands and killed everyone. Our sponsor this week is Spectral Rehabilitations, we fix you or YOU DIE! We open the show with Tangina Barrons and close with YouTuber Gregory James Reigle nocturnal cries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBKiPFpn3Xs

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Citations Needed:

There are DOZENS of us, DOZENS!

http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/05/what-americans-dont-understand-about-their-own-military/112042/

USS Minneapolis-St. Paul

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Minneapolis%E2%80%93Saint_Paul_(SSN-708)

Finally, something we cannot blame on White Dudes

http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0200/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0200/stories/0201_0122.html

Sure, sounds...plausible

https://www.rockymountainparanormal.com/warren.html

Fear the WAMPUS!!!

http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/08/the_wampus_cat.html

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Episode #132: “Little Green Dudes”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe discovers the Truth Is Out There, but he refuses to believe it. On the show this week it is the first of a kinda sort two-part episode for Halloween, and we are talking Space Invaders. (We sucked at that game.) From the mysteries of UFO’s to government cover-ups of alien technology we tell it like it is! (Suck it Men In Black!) Come back NEXT week for all the ghost stories we refused to believe either.

Along the way touch on the mental properties of Pumpkin Spice (It must flow!) and plumb the mysteries of the Human Ass. (Wear a glove.) We talk about stoned old dudes in the desert and sleepy young dudes on flightlines. We seek answers in the art of Renaissance Masters and in the pages of pulp magazines. (We did not find them.) We put two and two together and uncover a vast government conspiracy to deprive YOU of the truth. (Sadly, that truth is there are no aliens. Surprise!) Our wayback this week takes us back to October 21st 1967 in a stunning connection crossing decades!

Our sponsor this week is Galaxxor and Galaxxor Doctors of Proctology, probing butts for better butt health! We open the show with Fox Mulder and close with a visit to the cosmos.

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It’s the Arts:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ufos-in-renaissance-art_us_5679991de4b014efe0d7044b

The Truth IS Out There

http://www.nicap.org/docs/671021blytheville_docs.pdf

Not JUST a Bad 70’s TV Show

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

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SHOW NOTES EPISODE 131: “Harvey Danger”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe goes all Hollywood, unfortunately that means he passed out drunk in an abandoned Hollywood Video store. Again. On the show this week we talk about Horny Harvey Weinstein the handiest rapist in Hollywood! (Allegedly)

Along the way we meander around such topics as where to find succor in these painful days. (Hint: Might want to avoid the Confession booth) and how Hollywood has become so much of American culture. (Not to mention the source of so many problems.) We also ponder the rise of such luminaries as a guy who became famous with dick and fart jokes. (And why WE can’t get famous for them?) We also roundly deny knowing about any sex scandals in our office mostly because we find Gavin handsome enough but his voice really annoys.

Our Wayback this week takes all the back to the Golden Age of Hollywood to the man who probably killed Superman. (He had a pocket full of Kryptonite--sorry, wrong 90’s band) Our sponsor is Virile Vinnie’s Casting Agency, we can make you internet famous, if you don’t mind taking your shirt off. We open the show this week what might be Harvey Weinstein’s biography and close with Youtuber Jordi Rosen singing what Harv might be saying now. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7VaPDeJlO8)

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Citations Needed

Hard to imagine this happening?

https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/why-the-weinstein-sexual-harassment-allegations-came-out-now.html

Honry Harvey

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories

The People Who Make the Movies

https://www.mpaa.org/jobs-economy/

The People Who Appear in the Movies

https://hollywoodsapien.com/2012/07/05/how-many-actors-are-in-l-a/

No really, people knew

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html

Rose is PISSED

http://www.eonline.com/ca/news/885903/rose-mcgowan-calls-out-matt-damon-russell-crowe-ben-and-casey-affleck-in-latest-harvey-weinstein-tweets

It Happened Before

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2003/04/mgm200304

Eddie Will Fix It

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

Well, Him and Howard

http://classicmoviechat.com/stars-of-the-week-eddie-mannix-howard-strickling/

DAWSON!!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-van-der-beek-recounts-sexual-harassment-by-older-powerful-men-1048032

A Far Better Podcast

http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/youmustrememberthispodcastblog/2015/11/2/mgm-stories-part-eight-eddie-mannix

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SHOW NOTES EPISODE 130: “Better Dead Than LegislaTED”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe let Jesus take the wheel only to find Jesus doesn’t even have a license. On the show the week we talk (What else?) the shooting in Las Vegas and reach the same conclusion as always: nothing means nothing, but it’s free.

Along the way we ask how many guns are too many guns. (Irrational Numbers) We activate the National Mass Shooting Matrix to make sure all the steps are correctly followed. Then delve the possible motives of the shooter only to arrive at the same conclusion we always do. (Think: White Dude)

Not to worry, there are patriotic songs and reactions from the Right, we are nothing if we are not fair and balanced. (Just like Fox News!) In our Wayback this week, we look at a movement that ACTUALLY got shit done in America, even when America did not want shit to be done. (And we hated that woman like a fat kid hates lettuce for doing so!)

We would also like to remind everyone on both sides of the issues that no matter what we say or think, absolutely nothing will be done! So relax gun owners, your precious pistols are safe! Sorry gun grabbing libtards, you are just going to have to take a bullet for freedom! #AMERICA

Our sponsor this week is Kenny’s House of Kevlar, fashion and protection for all your anti-ballistic needs! We open the show with stirring words about freedom in front of bunch of people about to die and close the show with Tom Petty. Because dude, Tom Petty!

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Citations Needed:

This fucking guy https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/10/03/new-details-emerge-about-las-vegas-shooter-stephen-paddock-and-girlfriend-marilou-danley/?utm_term=.ca1039114a42

But THIS FUCKING IS WORSE!

https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2017/10/03/yes-freedom-dangerous-willing-accept-risks/

Your Guns Are Safe, We Are Not

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/10/more-killings-more-guns/541905/?utm_source=atltw

Oh, She MADD https://www.biography.com/people/candy-lightner-21173669

That’s the FACTS Jack https://report.nih.gov/nihfactsheets/ViewFactSheet.aspx?csid=24

Morons https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/10/fantasyland-book-excerpt-the-nra-won-the-gun-rights-debate-and-made-americans-fear-their-own-government.html

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SHOW NOTES EPISODE 129: KNEEL BEFORE TRUMPZOD

This week Host Dave Bledsoe screams “Put me in coach” only to be kicked out another stranger’s lamaze class. On the show this week we tackle the NFL Protests only to get called for roughing the Producer. (Could be worse, it could be illegal use of hands.)

Along the way we ponder alternate names for the show, and decide the one we have is obtuse enough. Additionally we discuss everything we know about football, (Very little) and everything we know about capitalism. (Still very little.) We ask the burning questions “Does Jet Magazine still exist? What about Ebony?” Finally we drill down into the Flag Code and discover several violations that ought to be felonies! (Fat dudes in American Flag thongs should be a crime against humanity.) This week’s Wayback is the Greatest That Ever Was, the subject, not the Wayback, it’s pretty average.

Our Sponsor this week is Frank’s Flag Shack, show your respect for the flag for which heroes died by draping it around your disgusting body! We open the show with Bill Hicks explaining how we can get the world to rally around the flag and close with Skerryvore explaining the way it is. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10NvL7ZWolw)

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Citations Needed:

White People Be Angry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10NvL7ZWolw

All About Flags https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/RL30243.pdf

Mom, Apple Pie and Baseball

https://www.digipo.io/wiki/commons/when-did-we-begin-standing-for-the-national-anthem.htm

Sign Up and Die! http://www.post-gazette.com/news/nation/2015/11/06/Department-of-Defense-paid-53-million-to-pro-sports-for-military-tributes-report-says/stories/201511060140

Long list is long

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

All About Ali http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring05/Shaffer/clay.html

More About Ali https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/04/muhammad-ali-key-chaptershttps://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/04/muhammad-ali-key-chapters

Even More! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-kreissman/muhammad-alis-rebellion-matters-today-part-3_b_5940494.html

Good Man Does Good https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/09/15/colin-kaepernick-nflpa-charity-community-mvp

Nothing Nice and Easy

https://soundcloud.com/ariel-king-200667737/nothing-nice-and-easy-3a?fb_action_ids=10214600850996586&fb_action_types=soundcloud%3Apublish

Not MY King

https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/public-perspective/ppscan/62/62011.pdf

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Show Notes Episode 128: “Delayed Onset Adulthood”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe goes in search of his lost childhood only to find wasn’t lost but living in Central America under an assumed name. On the show this week look at a study about the kids of today which reveals just how BORING they are. (No surprises there.)

Along the way we learn the benefits of early teen nerdhood (plausible deniability) and that a certain podcast host’s teenage years were fairly embarrassing. We ponder why the youth of today are reading books instead of using them to hide their stash. (Turns out you can’t put weed in an iPhone cover.) We dig into the necessity of teens getting jobs and discover a dark conspiracy. (Conform, Consume, Obey) In this week’s Wayback the History of Teenagers is uncovered, where they came from, what they did and why they were invented. (Hint: To buy stuff.) Also, weed branding is the end of society!

Our sponsor this week is Uncle Charlie, your older uncle who buys you beer and kind creeps out the girls by hanging at the party when he really is too old to be there. We open the show with McLovin and close with YouTuber Jay Bovino lamenting the passage of time. (https://youtu.be/nMW6tdRfiSM)

Citations Needed: SCIENCE!, Lame, Wimps, Get a JOB!, The Birth of a Demographic, Rebels Seeking Causes,

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Show Notes Episode #127: “What’s Happening”

This week host Dave Bledsoe dives into Hillary Clinton’s new book only find out Rerun appears nowhere in the text. On the show this week we discuss not Hillary’s book itself but the backlash to the book even existing. (It’s like people don’t LIKE Hillary Clinton!) Additionally we admit even we are sick and tired of talking about the 2016 election. (We are, apparently, a minority.)

Along the way we ponder why women be like always told to keep quiet, like they aren’t allowed to have opinions or something. (We think it might be that men, are dicks) We examine the Stink Palm Parable in gender dynamics and strongly suggest you not shake hands with people who practice said parable. In the wayback this week we talk about another woman who just wouldn’t go away and be quiet, and the childish man who loved her so much he quit a job he never wanted in the first place to be with her.

Our sponsor this week is the Compliance Project, instilling decency, dignity and respect in young women with a rod no thicker than a thumb. We open the show with another woman who won’t be ignored and close with YouTuber Danny McEvoy covering Dave Edmunds. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezCkNMcD2gs)

Citations Needed: Dick, Super Dick, Total Dick, Pretty Dickish, Dickhead, You’re Cool, At the Wallis, Mrs Simpson If You’re Nasty, This Guy is GOOD!, Paul is the Biggest Dick of All.

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SHOW NOTES EPISODE 126: “Aww, Look What You Made Me Do!”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe orders up some Pumpkin Spice Lattes and has his Ugg boots dry cleaned because it Fall BITCHES! On the show the week we talk Taylor Swift’s new album Reputation! (Wait, WHAT??!?) We dish all the hot takes on Tay Tay’s latest and ponder what is new for the Squad! (So confused right now…). Get ready Stans because we are GOING THERE! If by going there you mean examining whether or not Taylor Swift’s feminism is nothing more than a branding move and does it really matter if Tay is Republican? (Oh thank God!)

Along the way we dig into the history of Miss Swift and the many iterations along her career path. There are poetic waxings on the joys of Lesbian Folk Music (#TeamAmy AND #TeamEmily 4Ever) In this week’s Wayback we fearlessly explore the history of Basic Becky’s all the way back to the beginning. (Eve: Totally A Becky). Then we dig around in the vaults of Rock History and come to realize you can’t REALLY judge a generation by it’s music. (Except for the Greatest Generation, as always they were the best!)

Our Sponsor this week is Bob’s Build a Band, forget the music and focus on the Brand. We open the show with High Fidelity’s Customer Service and close with a German take on 80’s pop. (Flash Forward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDW6Z4__gSU)

Citations Needed: Worst of the Worst, Beefs, White Girl Power, 5 Becky’s, Miss Sharp if you're nasty, Is Becky racist?

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SHOW NOTES EPISODE 125: “THE PATHOS OF THE NERDS”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe makes his Saving Throw vs. Despair and hits a Nat 20. On the show this week we talk about what it means to Nerd! (Hint: The tape on the glasses is over!)

Along the way we hit the highlights of the Game of Thrones season finale because the SEO on this search term is through the ROOF! Then we check in on all our X-Files Shippers and see how they are doing these days. We also conceive of the most horrifying X-Files Slash ever. (We are still vomiting in the writer’s room.) We ponder whether or not George will ever finish The Winds of Winter. (Survey Says: Not Very Likely) For some reason you will also learn everything you never wanted to know about combat with a Death Slaad. (Honestly, don’t ask.) Our Wayback this week takes back to 1937 and Origins of All Things Nerd. (We can honestly say what came next did, indeed, surprise us.) We apologize in advance for all the incest.

Our Sponsor this week is Neurotic Comics, fuck you posers! We open the show with The Dead Ale Wives and close with Jason Derulo Nerd Anthem. Also, props to Associate Producer Kimberly Steele for all the comic info. (What a HUGE nerd!)

Citations Needed: The truth is in there, Even Duane Barry?, Brought to you by Proctor and Gamble, Previously on All My Children, The Return of Pepe.

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