Show Notes Episode 370: The Wicked King Wicker Part 1 of the Summer of Sam This week Host Dave Bledsoe decided to take his beloved out to a popular make out spot for a little heavy petting.(Meaning he is sitting in the park alone drinking Jameson out of a brown paper bag, again.) On the show this week, we continue our series about NYC in the 1970’s with part one of The Summer of Sam! Along the way we discover that all the adults in Dave’s young life thought it was hilarious the way he freaked out over people getting violently killed in movies. (He peed himself!!)Then we dive right into the murders committed by one David Berkowitz, AKA Beelzebub, AKA The Wicked King Wicker, AKA The Chubby Behemoth.You know him best as The Son of Sam!From his first kill in the Bronx to the last in Brooklyn we give you the Just the Facts.(The good stuff comes next week in part two!) Our Sponsor this week is Dave, do you have a Dave in your life?If you do, you know how great Dave’s are, unlike David’s who SUCK!We open the show with the women of New York telling it like it is and close with Amir Darzi who just wants to be your everything! Show Theme: 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 Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/dmlvYRobtZI We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: Son of Sam fires into a car, killing a woman sitting next to her boyfriend https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/son-sam-kills-woman-sitting-boyfriend-article-1.3351723 Son of Sam shoots and kills couple sitting in parked car in the Bronx https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/son-sam-killer-murders-couple-bronx-1977-article-1.3065668 How David Berkowitz Terrorized 1970s New York City As The Demonic ‘Son Of Sam’ Killer https://allthatsinteresting.com/son-of-sam-david-berkowitz Uncited Additional Reading: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/28/archives/profiles-of-psychopaths-victims-donna-lauria-jody-valenti-carl.html https://www.decades.com/articles/magazine-covers-july-1976 http://www.crimemagazine.com/son-sam https://nypost.com/2016/07/17/i-survived-son-of-sams-murder-spree/ https://pix11.com/news/local-news/where-were-you-on-august-10-1977-when-son-of-sam-was-captured/ https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/berkowitz-victims.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berkowitz https://www.biography.com/news/son-of-sam-murder-timeline https://nymag.com/news/crimelaw/20327/ https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a28747088/son-of-sam-mindhunter-true-story-now/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Show Notes Episode 369: We Really Had A Blackout This week Host Dave Bledsoe tries to remember if he paid the ConEd bill or if he is about to experience his own mini-blackout.(Again) On the show this week we head back forty five years to 1977 and that time ConEd decided to turn all the fucking lights out in New York City. (Again.) Along the way we learn how Dave used to live in the kinds of places where the power goes on the regular.(Turns out, you DO have to pay that electric bill!) Then we dive right into the night of July 13th 1977 in New York City.(The Met sucked as always) and how the gross failure of the Consolidated Edison caused all the lights to go out for 24 hours.When that happened, things got…exciting? (In the OH MY GOD WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE! Kind of way) NEXT WEEK get ready for the Chubby Behemoth: we kick off a two-parter on the Son of Sam! Our Sponsor this week is The Flashlight In the Kitchen Drawer, who wants you to know it won’t be IGNORED!We open the show with a little audio documentary of the blackout and close with Danny Vaugh trying to cope with memory loss. Show Theme: 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 Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/PuQN8BmMEFk We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: THE BLACKOUT OF 2003: THE PAST; The Blackouts of '65 and '77 Became Defining Moments in the City's History https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/15/us/blackout-2003-past-blackouts-65-77-became-defining-moments-city-s-history.html When riots raged amid the New York City blackout of 1977 https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/riots-raged-new-york-city-blackout-1977-article-1.816190 Why the 1977 Blackout Was One of New York’s Darkest Hours https://time.com/3949986/1977-blackout-new-york-history/ Was the 1977 New York City Blackout a Catalyst for Hip-Hop’s Growth? http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/10/16/roman_mars_99_percent_invisible_was_the_1977_nyc_wide_blackout_a_catalyst.html Uncited Additional Reading: https://www.space.com/16577-milky-way-galaxy-nyc-blackout.html https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/04/14/blackout-1977-here-comes-the-neighborhood/ https://medium.com/new-york-voice/the-real-story-of-the-new-york-city-blackout-of-1977-9fb8628e4e92 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977 https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/08/30/resources-new-york-city-1977-blackout https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/impact-77.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_1965 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Show Noted Episode 368: Welcome to Fear City This week Host Dave Bledsoe issues a dire warning that New York City is on the verge of slipping into a hellscape dystopia all because of this unreasonable demand he settle these bartabs.(The Bartenders told him to “Drop Dead”) On the show this week we kick off a month of shows about the Greatest Goddamn City in the World during The Worst Decade Ever, NYC in the 1970’s! Along the way we learn how Dave earnestly believed that Oklahoma City Oklahoma was a booming metropolis and the height of urban life. (He was ten years old so we guess we can excuse it.)From there we dive right into the history of how the Big Apple rotted during the late 60’s and got all wormy in the 1970’s!(It’s all just protein people!) From the crime wave to the economic collapse we lay out just where things went and how no one was willing to do a damn thing about it!(Baghdad wasn’t the first city Donald Rumsfeld had a pivotal role in destroying!) Then we discover that as bad as things were, New York City in the 70’s was still the Center of the Universe for all the Cool People! Our sponsor this week is The Bad Old Days, the tool for the politician needing a quick distraction from all the shit they are supposed to be fixing!We open with people on the streets of Fear City and close with LB Cooper dreaming of the Big Apple! Show Theme: 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 Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/fNzm0fAaWEc We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: Full text of "Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide for Visitors to the City of New York" https://archive.org/stream/welcome-to-fear-city/welcome-to-fear-city_djvu.txt 'Welcome to Fear City' – the inside story of New York's civil war, 40 years on https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/18/welcome-to-fear-city-the-inside-story-of-new-yorks-civil-war-40-years-on Splendor in the Grit https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/06/seventies-nyc200906 Uncited Additional Reading: https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/a-crisis-without-keynes-the-1975-new-york-city-fiscal-crisis-revisited https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/blackout-gallery/ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/t-magazine/1970s-new-york-history.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_York_City_(1946%E2%80%931977)#1970s https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/09/what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-70s-new-york.html https://genius.com/Cashman-and-west-american-city-suite-lyrics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Show Notes Episode 367: Who Could’ve Seen It Coming This week Host Dave Bledsoe would like to turn the show over to a woman and let her say what needs to be said, but all the women he knows either hate him or are too busy doing important shit to talk on some dumb podcast.(Mostly they just hate him.) On the show this week we keep it really simple, we talk about the people who worked so hard to take your right away in the history of anti-abortion. (You think we are gonna talk about Canadian Tuxedos after THIS week?) We are keeping the notes simple this week.Our Sponsor is My Mailbox, in a Blue State, and it is here to be YOUR mailbox if you need something you can’t have sent to your actual mailbox.We open with theBill Hicks tossing his hat in the political ring and close with Brass Against Taking The Power Back. Show Theme: 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 Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/-yMlW9YkpmA We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: Abolishing Abortion: The History of the Pro-Life Movement in America https://www.oah.org/tah/issues/2016/november/abolishing-abortion-the-history-of-the-pro-life-movement-in-america/ United States anti-abortion movement Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_anti-abortion_movement#Christian_groups Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation Ronald Fucking Reagan https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=2212&context=tcl This Peanuts Strip Offers a Window Into Ronald Reagan’s Changing Views on Abortion https://time.com/6047987/peanuts-history-reagan-abortion/ RONALD REAGAN AND ABORTION https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271966500_RONALD_REAGAN_AND_ABORTION Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Show Notes Episode 366: Full Metal Lunch Box This week Host Dave Bledsoe is brown bagging it for lunch, meaning he is drinking cheap scotch out of a brown paper bag in the park. (Again)On the show this week we tell you about the Ultimate Status Symbol of the 1970’s School House: the lunch box! Along the way we learn that young Dave had a very disturbing lunch box when he lived in the Deep South. (Though he denies it, he definitely had a Klan Lunch Box) Then we dive right into that most American of Americana, the Lunch Pails that built America! From their humble beginnings as a container for carcinogens and cookies to their heyday as a metal masters of a growing nation, men carried a god damn lunch pail and it was filled with love! (And strong black coffee!) Then we explain how the Baby Boom built a lucrative market for a kerosene lamp subsidiary to make millions from all those privileged children.(Boomers had it all!) Finally we talk about all the wonderful things on our lunch boxes when we were kids and why you had such cheap plastic crap.(Hint:Capitalism!)We also do some thinly veiled allegory that is relevant to life in today’s United States. Our Sponsor this week is Seltzer Kings Branded Lunch Boxes, all your favorite podcast hosts so long as they are Dave and you don’t expect them to be a real thing.We open with a museum full of 70’s nostalgia and close with Tim Tymo issuing a warning to all bullies. Show Theme: 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 Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/U9xbJo3k-xk We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: SPEAKING PERSONALLY; THERE'S MORE THAN NOURISHMENT IN A LUNCH PAIL https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/19/nyregion/speaking-personally-there-s-more-than-nourishment-in-a-lunch-pail.html The History of the Lunch Box https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-history-of-the-lunch-box-98329938/#:~:text=Around%20the%201880s%2C%20school%20children,children%2C%20came%20out%20in%201902 Beyond The Pail: NPR Unpacks The History Of The Lunch Box https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/31/495218823/beyond-the-pail-npr-unpacks-the-history-of-the-lunch-box Metal Lunchbox History http://theinventors.org/library/inventors/bllunchbox.htm#:~:text=Metal%20lunchboxes%20were%20banned%20in,head%20injuries%20were%20being%20reported Were Metal Lunch Boxes Really Banned? https://www.mashed.com/369759/were-metal-lunch-boxes-really-banned/ Uncited Additional Reading https://groovyhistory.com/sixties-tv-themed-lunchboxes-that-all-the-cool-kids-had https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69230/vintage-1970s-lunch-boxes-revisited-when-pop-culture-ruled-playground https://www.workandmoney.com/s/valuable-lunch-boxes-1d5ea8d287444f7f https://www.lunchbox.com/pages/a-brief-history-of-the-lunch-box https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunchbox#In_the_United_States https://blog.ciachef.edu/the-lunch-box-remembered-the-history-of-the-lunch-box/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Show Notes Episode 365: The Last Barman Poet This week Host Dave Bledsoe struggles with the reality he will never own his own bar, and the best he will ever have is a tab at one. (Which will be constantly overdue) On the show this week take a look at a Tom Cruise movie that had American flipping bottles and breaking glasses all over their basement bars:1988’s Cocktail.(Why?There is no why.) Along the way we learned that instead of using an unexpected financial windfall to better his life, Dave just spent it all on booze. (Same as it ever was.) Then we dive right into the backstory of a movie that no one thought was very good but everyone watched anyway.We learn how a gritty commentary on capitalism and consumer culture was “Disneyfied” into a banal Reagan era blockbuster.Finally we explain why everyone loved the move and how the soundtrack is an abomination and deserves a trial in the Hague for crimes against humanity.(Kind of like this podcast) Our Sponsor this week is The Slippery Nipple, the bar that only served naughty named cocktails.We open the show with Brian Flanagan orating from his bartop and close with Bill Dahl, his powerful karaoke voice. Show Theme: 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 Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/VKSQVYM69QA We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: Cocktail Is Tom Cruise's Poorest-Reviewed Movie. The Guy Who Wrote It Might Get Redemption. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a25942288/cocktail-tom-cruise-sequel-heywood-gould/ Toss up a bottle for the author of 'Cocktail' https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-xpm-2013-03-21-ct-mov-0322-chicago-closeup-20130322-story.html Cocktail https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1800046081/weekend/ 10 Stirring Facts About Cocktail https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87223/10-stirring-facts-about-cocktail Mike Love of The Beach Boys https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/mike-love-of-the-beach-boys Uncited Additional Reading: https://groovyhistory.com/how-tom-cruise-made-cocktail-a-100-million-movie https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/chasing-kokomo-the-secretly-dark-cocktail/ https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/87223/10-stirring-facts-about-cocktail https://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2021/05/23/touchstone-and-beyond-a-history-of-disneys-cocktail/ https://punchdrink.com/articles/cocktail-movie-brad-thomas-parsons-on-harpoon-eddies/ https://www.eightieskids.com/25-things-you-never-knew-about-cocktail/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_(1988_film) https://web.archive.org/web/20170820074802/http://tablematters.com/2013/07/05/cocktails-and-dreams/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 364: We Were Too Damn Cool to Buy the 8 Track Tapes This week Host Dave Bledsoe drops a quarter in the jukebox to play the sad country songs from his youth, only to be kicked out of the diner for sobbing at the counter.(Again) On the show this week we take a look at the long lost and justifiably detested technology that somehow made Foghat even worse, the 8 Track Tape. (Yeah, who knew that was even possible?) Along the way we discover that Dave is no better at keeping a car than he is at keeping a girlfriend.Then we dive right into the life of Bill Lear, the man who made owning a private jet available for just millionaires instead of billionaires.He also ruined America by creating the 8 Track tape. Then we learn the long history of continuous loop tape, which we swear is relevant to the story.(So few things in this show ever truly are!)Then we talk about why the 8 Track was just a blip on our cultural radar compared to other forms of recorded music.(Spoiler Alert: It is because they sucked.) Our Sponsor this week in the Weltron 2001 Spaceball, an absurd player for an absurd format.We open with a Radio Shack Commercial for Tandy 8 Track Players and close with Brian Setzer whose woman has left him.(Again) Show Theme: 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 Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/1AxWuuhcU4Q We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: Wikipedia 8-Track Tape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_tape 8-Track Tapes Belong In A Museum https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2011/02/17/133692586/8-track-tapes-belong-in-a-museum Some Help From Debussy For the Hassled Driver https://www.nytimes.com/1976/01/25/archives/some-help-from-debussy-for-the-hassled-driver.html The Eight-Track Miracle: 8 Reasons It Failed https://flashbak.com/the-eight-track-miracle-8-reasons-it-failed-2034/ Wikipedia John Lear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lear Uncited Additional Reading: https://hackbackpages.com/2018/05/04/damn-that-8-track-it-takes-me-way-back/ https://bestclassicbands.com/8-track-tape-introduction-9-15-155/ https://www.easytechjunkie.com/what-are-8-track-tapes.htm https://www.goldminemag.com/collector-resources/collectors-corner-the-history-of-the-eight-track-tape https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/04/archives/bill-lear-thinks-hell-have-the-last-laugh.html https://www.nytimes.com/1976/01/25/archives/some-help-from-debussy-for-the-hassled-driver.html https://bestclassicbands.com/8-track-tape-introduction-9-15-155/ http://www.8trackheaven.com/archive/80s.html https://www.goldminemag.com/articles/coolness-8-track https://www.culturesonar.com/the-magical-mystery-8-track-tape-adventure/ https://www.antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=193139 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Dowers Boy Sing: The Watermelon Crawl This month Jerrod and Dave do their own version of the watermelon crawl, meaning they claw their way across the patio to puke in the bushes instead of by the BBQ grill where everyone is trying to eat!We also cover Tracy Byrd’s 1994 hit “Watermelon Crawl” about a small town watermelon festival, a watermelon that catches on fire because it is 99% Everclear. (Though that was cut from the music video) The Dowers Boys is a 90’s country music podcast about songs two dudes sang drunk at a karaoke bar in Northern California back in the 1990’s and is part of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network.(Though they tried REAL hard to keep us out) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Show Notes: Special Edition “It’s Later Than You Think” In the aftermath of the shootings, we will not be running our usual show.This Special Edition talks frankly about what happened, where we are and where it looks like we are going.It is presented without music or drops, and without our usual dick and fart humor.We will not be running a show for next week, a Dowers Boys will run in the feed for Monday morning.Hopefully we will return the following week with a show about 8 Track Tapes, which to date have never been used to senselessly murder 19 children in their classroom. We understand if you skip this one, we didn’t want to do it either. Thank you for putting up us with while we try to come to grips with this fucked up country. Show Theme: 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 Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQ www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Show Noted Episode 363: “Highway to the Reagan Zone” This week Host Dave Bledsoe tries to get a free drink by strongly implying to the bartender that he was “kinda the Air Force version of Maverick from Top Gun”.(Just as when he used it in the 80’s, he crashed and burned)On the show this week we tell the tale of the original Top Gun and how it was pure propaganda for Reagan’s America and not just hot, sweaty, homoerotic volleyball. (HOT!) Along the way we hear one of Dave’s pick up lines from back in the day and wonder how he ever got laid.(Mostly bad liquor and women with the worst taste in men) Then we dive right into the origins of Top Gun in a magazine article with prose so purple you could stomp it to make wine. (Too sweet, very tannic) Then we meet Don and Jerry who took one look at this badly written article and saw millions of dollars at the box office.We explain how and why the Pentagon got involved (free tickets for the Generals!) and how America primed to get their...