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Show Notes Episode 426: Interview About the Vampire The Conclusion of Spooktacular 2023 This week Host Dave Bledsoe is joined by Executive Producer Kimberly Steele who is a real person and not at all made up! (He has friends!At least one, anyway.) Together they talk about vampires in pop culture, particularly about Anne Rice’s vampires and then Joss Whedon’s vampires. (We loved him before we knew Joss was the Big Bad all along!) So settle back and spend an hour with a person who knows what they are talking about and Dave, who doesn’t.Finally we close out Spooktacular 2023 in the scariest way we could think of, so stay through the credits for a jump scare that will leaveyou screaming. We’ll be back on our regular bullshit…NEXT WEEEEEEK! Show Theme: Hypnostate 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 Our Website: www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show Notes Episode 425: VH Investigations Part Two Part 4 of Spooktacular 2023 This week Host Dave Bledsoe takes off his podcaster mankini and slips into his fiction writer thong for an original audio short story. (If only it was half as horrifying as the mental image of Dave we just gave you!) VH Investigations is a vampire noir audio short story, written and performed by Dave Bledsoe.This is the second part of a two part series, if you haven’t listened to part one you should probably do that first. Show Theme: Hypnostate 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 Our Website: www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Show Music: Noches de Insomnio We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show Notes Episode 424: VH Investigations Part One Part 3 of Spooktacular 2023 This week Host Dave Bledsoe takes off his podcaster mankini and slips into his fiction writer thong for an original audio short story. (If only it was half as horrifying as the mental image of Dave we just gave you!) VH Investigations is a vampire noir audio short story, written and performed by Dave Bledsoe.This is the first part of a two part series, part two will arrive in your feed one week after this one. Show Theme: Hypnostate 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 Our Website: www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Show Music: Noches de Insomnio We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Patreon Bonus Spooktacular 2022: We Call Satan to the Witness Stand In this Patreon Exclusive Host Dave Bledsoe attempts to sue himself, the bar, Jameson Whiskey and the Lord God Himself to get out of these bartabs that were clearly THEIR fault! (He couldn’t find a lawyer to take his case, not even if he represented himself) On the bonus we talk about suing The Devil and why it is a bad idea! (All the lawyers are on his retainer) Along the way we learn about Ralph J Forbes from Arkansas, self avowed Nazi, Senate candidate and general pain in the ass and his attempt to sue the Devil.(This guy would have a Trump Rally for him these days!) Then we learn aboutGerald Mayo, who sued the Devil for making him such a loser. (The Devil denied any involvement citing never having anything to do with a loser like Mayo) and then wrapped up with a law professor's guide to suing the Devil! Our Sponsor this week is Agamemnon and Associates Attorneys at Law, when you need a helluva good lawyer, call Agamemnon!We open with Lucifer in the People’s Court and close with Gareth Heesom asking for a little compassion! Show Theme: Hypnostate 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/Q1xhqBVu7ME We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: 1986: When A Former Nazi Sued Satan In The Name Of Jesus Christ https://groovyhistory.com/halloween-lawsuit-against-satan-nazi-ralph-forbes Wikipedia: United States ex rel. Gerald Mayo v. Satan and His Staff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_ex_rel._Gerald_Mayo_v._Satan_and_His_Staff Charles M. Yablon https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/charles-m-yablon#:~:text=Yablon%20was%20an%20associate%20at,involving%20two%20and%20more%20companies. Suing the Devil: A Guide for Practitioners https://www.jstor.org/stable/1073956 Suing Yourself - Is it Possible? https://donotpay.com/learn/suing-yourself-is-it-possible Bagley v. Bagley https://law.justia.com/cases/utah/supreme-court/2016/20150182.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show Notes Episode 422: The Vampire of Sacramento Part Two of Spooktacular 2023 “Gavin St James, Vampyre Hunter” This week Host Dave Bledsoe remembered that time when he got drunk in Sacramento and realized Sacramento was a really boring place to get drunk. (Even drunk, Sacramento is really boring) On the show this week we continue Spooktacular 2023 with one of the vilest serial killers in American crime history, Richard Chase, the Vampire of Sacramento. Along the way Dave takes you on an audio tour of the Big Tomato (That really IS what they call Sacramento) it only takes thirty seconds because there is so little to see. Then we dive right into why Sacramento has SO MANY serial killers. (See the part about how boring it is) After that it is straight into the backstory of Richard Trenton Chase, a regular kid growing up in regular life in the 1950s with regular 1950’s kid hobbies, like torturing and killing small animals. (You want a trigger warning? On a show about a serial killer?You didn't infer that from the topic?) We will meet Richard's family, who were not loving, in fact they had a LOT to do with what Richard became. (Well that and Richard’s peep being on the fritz) We learn how Richard mixed his own smoothies at home with all natural farm fresh ingredients. (Seriously, this is a sick dude and this is a SICK topic!) Then we discover how Richard moved from small furry creatures to hairless hominids in order to replenish his delusion blood problem. (We TRIED to keep the WORST of the detail out, but what we left in fucking horrifying!) Finally, we pin the blame on the real villain responsible for Richard’s crimes and so many other California killers in the 70’s and 80’s (It is exactly who you think it is!) Our Sponsor this week is the Blood Bank of Sacramento, who need you to know they are not a cafeteria and you are not a real vampire.We open with some people who knew Richard Chase and close with the Middle of Road singing the praises of Sacramento. Show Theme: Hypnostate 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 Our Website: www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music:https://youtu.be/sW8574GA06A?si=nQpukSit-iccxMBL We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: SERIAL KILLERS IN SACRAMENTO–WHY HERE? https://jamesletoile.com/2019/04/07/serial-killers-in-sacramento-why-here/ The Vampire of Sacramento – The True Story of Richard Chase https://truecrimeseven.com/the-vampire-of-sacramento-the-true-story-of-richard-chase/ Richard Trenton CHASE https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/chase-richard.htm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show Notes Episode 422: Say Hello to the Night WTH Movie Night: The Lost Boys Pt 1 of Spooktacular 2023 This week Host Dave Bledsoe resolves to sleep all day, party all night and never grow old.Only to discover he has grown old and he is sound asleep by 8 PM. (He is SO old!) On the show this week we kick off Spooktacular 2023 “Gavin St James, Vampyre Hunter” with a What the HELL Movie Night, 1987’s The Lost Boys! Along the way we learn that little Davy got so scared reading Stephen King he made his Mommy buy him a crucifix. (What a pussy!) Then we dive right into how two novice screenwriters wrote the Goonies but with vampires and how it became a MUCH better movie than that.We learn how the guy who made Danny Glover too old for this shit, passed on the movie and gave it to the Director who would make a classic vampire movie for Generation X. (And also snuck in a LOT of gay subtext!) Do we mention Sexy Saxophone Man?(See what we just said about gay subtext.)Finally we ask the hard question: is it scary? (Yes, and no.) Our Sponsor this week is the Santa Clara Tourism Board who wants you to know the murder rate isn’t THAT bad! We open with the trailer to the movie and close with Tailgunner who would like to introduce you to their friend “The Night”. Show Theme: Hypnostate 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 Our Website: www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music:https://youtu.be/67k5T1lcZOk?si=QbJwWKkHo3i55vzS We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: AFI CATALOG OF FEATURE FILMS THE FIRST 100 YEARS 1893–1993 https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/67055 The Lost Boys: Joel Schumacher On Making The Coolest Vampire Movie Of All Time https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/lost-boys-joel-schumacher-making-of-interview-feature/ The True Story of The Lost Boys' Sax Man https://gizmodo.com/the-true-story-of-the-lost-boys-sax-man-1842774832 The Lost Boys, 35 years later: 'Everything was still firing on all cylinders and it was a f---ing madhouse' https://ew.com/movies/lost-boys-35-years-later-interview/ 30 Years Ago, The Lost Boys Introduced Me to Queer Cinema https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/12/01/30-years-ago-lost-boys-introduced-queer-cinema/ “The Lost Boys” was horror for an overlooked audience https://thespool.net/features/the-lost-boys-review-fotm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Episode 421: Come On In Boy, Have A Cigar This week Host Dave Bledsoe pops the tube a fine imported Cuban Cigar. (He stole it from the coat pocket of a Wall Street guy next to him at the bar.)Then he slits it open, dumps the tobacco and fills it with some sweet kush he’s been smoking. (Great, he has a NEW bad habit!) On the show this week we head back to the mid 1990’s when it seems every asshole you knew suddenly had a smoldering dog turd sticking out of their lips because they thought it made them look “cool” (It didn’t and it doesn’t) Along the way we learn that Dave’s Dad has far better taste than his son could ever dream of. (Honestly, he must wonder what happened to his boy!) Then we dive right into the history of tobacco, from the snuff box to the cigarette! (You get cancer and YOU get cancer!) We discover how Christopher Columbus stole the idea of smoking cigars from the native Cuban islanders. (Then he stole their food, their land and eventually them!) We followed along as cigar smoking became the affectation of choice for rich pricks and just pricks that WISHED they were rich! Then we get right into why everyone was suddenly pretending they were smoking these nasty things in 1995 and why just as suddenly, everyone stopped. (Do we talk about the Bill Clinton thing?Come ON!Of course we do!) Our Sponsor this week is Caca de Perro Cubano, the genuine Havana rolled premium cigar from Fast Eddie’s Hothouse Humidors! We open with George Carlin explaining Freudian theory and close with Corey Heuvel who urges you to smoke them if you got them. Show Theme: Hypnostate 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 Our Website: www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music:https://youtu.be/lgjUv7AQkuM?si=_Bc4lQQJ80M0-1hF We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: THE PERFECT COMBINATION: BUSINESS AND CIGARS https://tabanerocigars.com/blogs/tabanero-blog/the-perfect-combination-business-and-cigars The Cigar Boom of the 1990s https://www.holts.com/clubhouse/cigar-culture/cigar-boom-1990s Remembering The Cigar Boom – A David Garofalo Editorial https://thecigarauthority.com/remembering-the-cigar-boom-a-david-garofalo-editorial/ As a Prop for the 90's, the Cigar Flourishes https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/30/us/as-a-prop-for-the-90-s-the-cigar-flourishes.html A Decade to Remember https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/a-decade-to-remember-8281 Narrative Pt. III: Continued Sexual Encounters https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/icreport/6narritiii.htm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show Notes Episode 420: I Got Stoned and I Missed It This week Host Dave Bledsoe decided to give up drinking and take up smoking weed. Only to discover that legal weed dealers will NOT let him run a tab. (Not unlike most neighborhood bars!) On the show this week we experience some kind of hallucination where we think we are talking to a real person instead of shouting angrily as a figment of Dave’s imagination. (Or is it? We’ll never tell!) So we welcome Jerrod Tracht, the co-host of the Hit Podcast The Dowers Boys, on the show to chat with Dave about weed. (Honestly “hit” is a stronger word than we would choose, but Dave made us say it!) Along the way Jerrod gives Dave some advice on how to be a better pot smoker and the two of them share some highly improbable tales of their adventures with the Devil’s Lettuce! Our Sponsor this week is Sweet Sticky Icky, the weed that takes all the worry out of weed.We open the show with a regretful pot smoker and close with Dr Hook lamenting the impacts of weed on their lives. Show Theme: Hypnostate 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 Our Website: www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/g3EOF76paWk?si=UXNTRxD_QIPNEYr4 We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show Notes Episode 419: Find A Stranger In the Alps This week Network boss Jeremy Balon shows up at the studio to wash Dave’s filthy mouth out with soap! (We guess he finally listened to the podcast.) On the show this week we take a look at the strange history of The Bleep and swear words on television. (It is *bleep*ing more interesting than you think!) Along the way we learn that Dave is still afraid of his Mom. (He should be, he is a VERY bad son!) Then we dive right into the history of censorship in these United States. (Blame the Puritans, natch!) From there we follow along as technology makes hearing potty mouths more common. We see how early TV broadcasts found ways to keep bad words off the airwaves. (Mostly by hoping no one heard them.) Then we talk about the Bleep and how it became an American Icon. Finally we learn how and why for reasons never adequately explained, we all had to see Dennis Franz’s hairy naked ass on ABC in the late 1990’s. (Blame HBO!) Our Sponsor this week is Swearing Soap, specially formulated to get dirty mouths clean!We open the show with Carlin’s famous Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Say on Television and close with The P(Bleep)cat Dolls who censor their song for effect. Show Theme: Hypnostate 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 Our Website: www.whatthehellpodcast.com Give us your money on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/1r9ghI7YcL0?si=NGG-R5Fw1W2oJpmO We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: Cursing and swearing: an Englishman’s birthright? https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/cursing-and-swearing-an-englishman%E2%80%99s-birthright/#:~:text=Lickorous%20glutton%2C%20freckled%20bittor%2C%20jobbernol,words%20in%20the%20seventeenth%20century. Profanity https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1143/profanity Radio Act of 1927 (1927) https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1091/radio-act-of-1927 Jerry Springer and the history of that [bleeping] bleep sound https://theconversation.com/jerry-springer-and-the-history-of-that-bleeping-bleep-sound-204669 CURSES! THE BIRTH OF THE BLEEP AND MODERN AMERICAN CENSORSHIP https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/27/4545388/curses-the-birth-of-the-bleep-and-modern-american-censorship Go Bleep Yourself! Why Censorship is Funny https://www.academia.edu/79850481/Go_Bleep_Yourself_Why_Censorship_is_Funny Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices