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.
Show Notes Spooktacular 2026 “Touch of a Black Hand”
In the finale of Spooktacular 2026, we rejoin Vincent Hess on the trail. From New Orleans to Binghamton, he puts the pieces together and doesn’t like the puzzle. He even met some new friends on the way!
Touch by a Black Hand is an original audio drama written, produced and voiced by Dave Bledsoe for the Seltzer Kings podcast network. It draws slightly on the RPG Vampire the Masquerade. (We say that so you don’t need to)
Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense
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12 Oct 2026
Spooktacular 2026: VH Investigations Touched By A Black Hand Part One
Show Notes: Spooktacular 2026 Part One
“VH Investigations: Touched By A Black Hand”
What the HELL Were You Thinking presents Spooktacular 2026, VH Investigations: The Touch of A Black Hand. An original audio drama written, produced and voiced by Dave Bledsoe. Executive Producer Jeremy Balon for the Seltzer Kings Network. Script and contextual consultant Kimberly Steele. Scutwork by Gavin St James. It is a work of original audio fiction and draws lightly on elements in the Whitewolf Gaming World of Darkness RPG Vampire the Masquerade. The story incorporates actual names of historical figures in an alternate history, what we mean is the Mafia is not affiliated with vampires. As far as we know.
Part Two of Spooktacular 2026 drops in two weeks.
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28 Sept 2026
Episode 282-283 "Play Me Some Mountain Madness" Redux
Show Notes Episode 282-283 Play Me Some Mountain Madness Redux
Host Dave Bledsoe INSISTS he is feverishly researching and writing something “truly special” for next month’s Spooktacular. (Which doesn’t square with us finding him at the bar everyday when we come to work.) So here is a treasure from the 2020 Spooktacular (Back when Dave still TRIED, a little). A story about five young men who went missing in Yuba County California in 1978. (And not for the usual reasons: Yuba County sucks). So enjoy this redux, and get ready to get spooky in October!
Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense
The Show on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/whatthehellpodcast.bsky.social
The Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/
The Show on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ
The Show on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatthehellwereyouthinkingpod/
Our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/kHmmrjptrq
Our Website: https://www.whatthehellpodcast.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast
The Show Line: 347 687 9601
Closing Music: https://youtu.be/P6Ia1_4__JI?si=byyqPdKwOzcEmF2A
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Citations Needed:
Out in the Cold: Four mentally disabled men died in woods. But what happened to the fifth?
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article226777394.html
The 'American Dyatlov Pass'. Five young men abandon a warm, safe car and disappear into the night.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/6ni625/the_american_dyatlov_pass_five_young_men_abandon/
How 1,600 People Went Missing from Our Public Lands Without a Trace
https://www.outsideonline.com/2164446/leave-no-trace
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16,633
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
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4.5 / 5
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Podcast Authority Score: 87 / 100
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92
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90
YouTube
72
Engagement
85
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