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Show Notes Episode 412: If You Start Me Up, I’ll Never Stop This week Host Dave Bledsoe finally decides he is in need of an upgrade. (Meaning he started buying liter bottles of Jameson instead of his usual 750ml) On the show this week we head back to the most exciting moment of human history, the launch of Windows 95 (Well that is what Bill Gates TOLD us at the time, in retrospect this might not be exactly true.) Along the way we learn that Dave’s septuagenarian parents are still more tech savvy than he is! (He STILL has to call THEM for help with his computer!) Then we dive into the history of Graphical User Interface. (Which is only slightly more interesting than it sounds.) From there we take a brief look at why the world uses PC’s more than Apples. (All the cool video games were on the PC) Finally we get to what Windows 95 was and why everyone in the world was so amped up about it being released. (The 90’s were pretty boring, really) We explain why Bill Gates and Jay Leno danced to a mid tier Rolling Stones song on stage. (They paid three million dollars for it, that’s why) Finally we talk about the mania that accompanied the midnight release of CD-ROM. Our Sponsor this week is Hewlett Packard 486 DX2, all the computer you will EVER need! We open the show with Microsoft’s promotional video for Windows 95 and close with Christian Porter and a MUCH better song choice for Windows! 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 Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/h63LxKAoSsw We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: Windows 95 Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95 Windows 95: The hype and beyond Nerds wreak their billion-dollar revenge  https://www.theguardian.com/century/1990-1999/Story/0,6051,112728,00.html Windows 95 is 25 years old today https://www.theverge.com/21398999/windows-95-anniversary-release-date-history People were unbelievably excited at the launch of Windows 95\ https://www.businessinsider.com/windows-95-launch-20-years-ago-2015-8 20 years ago, people waited overnight in line for a Microsoft product https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsofts-windows-95-software-turned-192528654.html Windows 95 opens on a waiting world https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995/08/23/windows-95-opens-on-a-waiting-world/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

THE DOWERS BOYS: SANGIN’ ‘BOUT MURKA!!! Jerrod and Dave take the stage to sing their favorite patriotic songs, or at least make fun of them! So grab a song slip from the KJ, a beer from the bar and kick up your heels for another set from The Dowers Boys! Featured Songs this week: Born In the USA    America Proud To Be An American Little Pink Houses This Land Is Your Land Courtesy of the Red White and Blue Independence Day The Dowers Boys are Jerrod Tracht and Dave Bledsoe. Produced by Dave Bledsoe and Gavin St James, a Production of Fast Eddies Podcast Hut Podcast Studios and part of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network. You can find more information and follow them on Facebook by searching for the Dowers Boys. The show is because of, but not affiliated with, Dowers Tavern in Yuba City CA.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show Notes Episode 411: “Dennis Fung Blues” Part 3 of Wheezing the Juice This week Host Dave Bledsoe is called to testify in civil court for an overdue bar tab only to be held in contempt after a very tasteless Johnnie Cochran impression. (Again) On the show this week we wrap our Summer Se ries, Wheezing the Juice, with the trial of OJ Simpson. (Stay tuned for the surprise ending!) Along the way we discover Dave did not enjoy his all expense paid trip to Panama. (The accommodations were terrible) Then we dive right into the criminal trial of OJ Simpson. We meet the Judge (who won’t dance, don’t ask him) , the prosecutors and finally The Dream Team. (Robert Kardashian was barely a lawyer) We take a quick look at the evidence before we head right into why the trial was such a gigantic shit show and what went wrong. (Turns out, people don’t like racist cops!) Then we explain why the OJ Simpson Trial was never going to end any other way than how it ended. (With a made for TV twist!) Our Sponsor this week is Fast Eddie’s Consultants, we can “fix” your jury problem. We open with Peter Jennings on opening remarks and close with the Edgintones who have got a case of the blues.  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 Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/x1l5KdqwX7Y We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: Johnnie Cochran, Famed Defense Lawyer, Is Dead at 67 https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/national/johnnie-cochran-famed-defense-lawyer-is-dead-at-67.html Famous Court Cases : People Vs. Oj Simpson Case https://steemit.com/court/@vsaraf/famous-court-cases-people-vs-oj-simpson-case Dennis Fung https://famous-trials.com/simpson/1841-fung O.J. Simpson Talks Jay-Z’s “The Story Of O.J.”: “He Didn’t Say It Right” https://www.vibe.com/news/entertainment/oj-simpson-talk-jayz-the-story-of-oj-1234749328/ Issue of Racism Erupts in Simpson Trial https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/14/us/issue-of-racism-erupts-in-simpson-trial.html Evaluating the Prosecution’s Case https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/oj/themes/prosecution.html The Murder Trial of OJ Simpson Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_trial_of_O._J._Simpson#Verdict Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show Notes Episode 410: “Everything’s Coming Up Kato!” Part 2 of Wheezing the Juice This week Host Dave Bledsoe wakes up in what he thought was the pool house of a D List celebrity with a brutal hangover and pair of shoes three sizes too big with some kind of red liquid on them only to realize he has passed out on a Wendy’s ketchup dispenser. (Again) This week we continue our Summer Series “Wheezing the Juice” (Again, we apologize for that name, it was NOT our idea) with the sensation that swept the nation in 1994, OJ Simpson! We pick up with the infamous Bronco Chase that 95 MILLION Americans watch live and jump from that insanity to the even bigger madness that followed. From the initial feed frenzy in the news to the long trudge toward trial. (You think this show is long, you should have been around for the period between his arrest and the trial!) We check in with all the characters who would go on to take center stage, be they Howard Stern, racist Broadway dancers in judicial robes, Jay Leno’s terrible jokes, and of course white people in blackface. (It never gets old does it America?) Then we meet the players, from Al Cowlings, to Faye Resnick, to Johnny Cochrane and of course the only one who came out ahead in all of this: Brian Gerard Kaelin! (You know him better as Kato!) So grab you OJ Pogs, and get ready to get disgusted as we talk about OJ Mania! Our Sponsor this week is Roomies, finding roommates for people who no one would ever want to live with. We open with new reports from the night of OJ’s Last Run and close with the glorious Ethel Merman!  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 Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/aGyiuFZ7cs8 We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: ‘The Juice is loose’: How the O.J. Simpson white Bronco chase mesmerized the world https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-oj-simpson-white-bronco-chase-timeline-20190617-story.html Officers recall night spent chasing O.J. Simpson and a white Ford Bronco https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/officers-recall-night-spent-chasing-o-j-simpson-and-a-white-ford-bronco A Year in O.J.: How Popular Culture Responded to the Trial of the Century https://www.vulture.com/2016/01/oj-simpson-how-popular-culture-responded.html Apocalypse Later: CD-ROMs 1991 to mid-1994 http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/anniversary/flashback.machine/flashback1.html O.J. Simpson Masks a Macabre Halloween Sensation : Costumes: Store operators say wigs, football jerseys and other items are selling briskly. Sociologists call sales trend disturbing. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-08-mn-47798-story.html Judge in Simpson Trial Allows TV Camera in Courtroom https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/08/us/judge-in-simpson-trial-allows-tv-camera-in-courtroom.html How O. J. Simpson Killed Popular Culture https://www.vanityfair.com/style/society/2014/06/oj-simpson-trial-reality-tv-pop-culture Frontline: The OJ Verdict https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/oj/themes/media.html Juice-o-nomics: The economic value of the O.J. Simpson trial https://financialpost.com/news/juice-o-nomics-the-economic-value-of-the-o-j-simpson-trial THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Simpson Case Gives Cable An Edge on the Networks https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/20/business/the-media-business-simpson-case-gives-cable-an-edge-on-the-networks.html Squeeze the Juice (1995) https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7283/squeeze-juice Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show Notes Episode 409: Everybody Knows (OJ Did It) Part 1 of “Wheezing the Juice” This week Host Dave Bledsoe sprints through the bar toward the exit with a Jameson in hand one step ahead of the bouncers, just like OJ through the airport. (If OJ were a fat, white, middle aged drunk dude) On the show this week we kick off our Summer Series with Part One of “Wheezing the Juice” (We tried to convince him NOT to name it that!) talking about The Juice and all the things that led up to the Events of 1994. Along the way we learn that Dave thinks he was very “progressive” for adhering to the basic tenets of criminal procedure. (Honestly, we kinda have to give him this one) Then we dive right into the backstory of Orenthal James Simpson. (Relax, we keep it pertinent). From there we explain why White America loved OJ! (He was one of the ”Good Ones”) and why OJ thought he could get away with murder. (He DID play Norberg on Police Squad!) Finally, we do as best we can to discuss the crime without being excessively childish. (He BARELY pulls it off.) Our Sponsor this week is Murder-abelia dot com, your source for murder related sports collectibles. We open with OJ pontification on the art of acting and close with Eydrey explaining how we all KNOW who did it.  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 Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/YxjMs8r4vhc We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: Before trial, Simpson charmed America https://www.espn.com/sportscentury/features/00016472.html Ranking every 'Monday Night Football' announcer ever, from O.J. Simpson to Howard Cosell https://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/09/best-worst-monday-night-football-announcers-rankings-espn-abc The Hollywood Career OJ Simpson Left Behind https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-hollywoods-oj-simpson-before-the-white-bronco-20140612-story.html The Sage of OJ’s Last Lost Pilot https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-may-08-ca-27673-story.html Does OJ Simpson's First Wife Think He's Guilty? Marguerite Whitley Has Kept To Herself https://www.romper.com/p/does-oj-simpsons-first-wife-think-hes-guilty-marguerite-whitley-has-kept-to-herself-5275 No Reports of Violence By Simpson's First Wife https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/29/us/no-reports-of-violence-by-simpson-s-first-wife.html Inside the Short, Tragic Life of Nicole Brown Simpson and Her Hopeful Final Days https://www.eonline.com/news/1048564/inside-the-short-tragic-life-of-nicole-brown-simpson-and-her-hopeful-final-days Dreams of Better Days Died That Night : Nicole Simpson: A strong woman, she was on a quest to find her identity. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-03-mn-11579-story.html NICOLE AND O.J.: SCENES FROM A VOLATILE RELATIONSHIP https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/06/24/nicole-and-oj-scenes-from-a-volatile-relationship/0ec96c2a-f916-4e35-b10d-5882b1cb43fa/ Details Emerge of Close LAPD Ties to Simpson https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-02-02-mn-27324-story.html Victim Thrived On Life in the Fast Lane His Friend Recall https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-oj-anniv-goldman-story.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show Notes Episode 408: Yet ANOTHER Trial of the Century This week Host Dave Bledsoe files suit for his overdue bartabs in something he is calling the “Drinker’s Court” demanding a brokered settlement and injunctive relief from the court. (The court ruled he lacks standing because it doesn't actually exist.) On the show this week, we ramp up our Summer Series with a show about some “Trials of the Century” which happen roughly every eight or nine years. Along the way we discover just how many times Dave has been inside a courtroom over the years and some of the reasons why. (Far fewer public intoxication charges than we expected.) Then we dive right into what it takes to be the “Trial of the Century”! (Turns out, just someone saying in a newspaper that it’s one.) Then we examine just a few of the cases that happened within the last half decade. (Because that is how long Dave has been alive, he’s old). From the Manson to the Menendez’s we peek under the hood of what made Americans so compelled to read about and then watch them so obsessively. (Probably because we are an emotionally bankrupt nation.) Finally, we reveal our Big Summer Series for 2023, so climb in your white Ford Bronco and hit the road with us! Our Sponsor this week is Robo Lawyer, an AI lawyer trained not in the law, but television scripts about court cases! We open the show with SNL’s take on a Trial of the Century and close with Pigmeat Markham announcing the arrival of the presiding trial authority.  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 Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/DvMBxlu62c0 We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: (The Last) Trial of the Century! https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/trial010499.htm The Manson Family murders, and their complicated legacy, explained https://www.vox.com/2019/8/7/20695284/charles-manson-family-what-is-helter-skelter-explained Problem Of a Fair Trial for Manson https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/09/archives/problem-of-a-fair-trial-for-manson.html Confessions of a Court TV Addict https://ew.com/article/1993/11/12/confessions-court-tv-addict/ How the Menendez Brothers’ Trial Changed America https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/how-the-menendez-brothers-trial-changed-america-2-190861/ MEDIA GIVES DAHMER TRIAL MILD COVERAGE https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-02-02-9201100558-story.html English criminal court case broadcast on TV for first time https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/english-criminal-court-case-broadcast-tv-first-time-2022-07-28/ Uncited Additional Reading: https://www.crschools.net/blog/20-trials-of-the-century/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_the_century https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75184/15-trials-century-and-media-frenzies-accompanied-them Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Each Summer we do a deep dive series on a topic and this year we go back 29 years (give or take) for the tale of the Summer of OJ! Will this podcast break any new ground? No. Will it treat the subject with the respect it deserved, sadly, also, no. Will you learn something? We wouldn't bet on it. But you MIGHT be entertained. (Maybe, no promises.) Summer Series 2023 kicks off Monday, June 5th with the OJ shows starting one week late. See you on the Freeway! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Jerrod and Dave crank up the DowersTron 5000, an AI trained on 30 years of Dower's karaoke request slips and let IT choose the songs they will talk about! ' So sang along with them Dowers Boys as they talk about some country songs! And maybe some Taylor Swift Songs! https://www.facebook.com/DowersTavern/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show Notes Episode 407: Rock Against Drugs This week Host Dave Bledsoe records a public service announcement as part of his probation agreements because he was caught pissing behind a dumpster. (Again) On the show this week we head back to the 1980’s when Nancy Reagan was harshing everyone's buzz because she could never handle her high! (We could have told her never to smoke up with Caspar Weinberger!) We are talking about the ill fated and barely remembered time that rock and roll told us NOT to do drugs. (So there would be more drugs for them to do!) Along the way we learned that Dave lied to his mother about drinking and doing drugs. (Still does) Then we dive right into Just Say No and how it failed in every conceivable fashion. (Damn near killed Willis!) Then we explain the rationale behind MTV running commercials where rock stars actually had the balls to tell the kids not to do drugs. (Come on, Vince Neil, really?) Then we close out by explaining the REAL reasons kids did drugs. (It made us look cool.) Our Sponsor this week is Dave Bledsoe, who has a very important message the courts want you to know. We open with Sam Kinison explaining why RAD was so dumb and close with Travis Gidney explaining why he was late for a job interview.  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 Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music https://youtu.be/Sk1Hn14OFWk We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: Bon Jovi admits to drug dealing past https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/51035/Bon-Jovi-admits-to-drug-dealing-past#:~:text=BAD%20BOY%3A%20Bon%20Jovi%20has,growing%20up%20in%20New%20Jersey. Robert Cox, Man Behind the ‘Just Say No’ Antidrug Campaign, Dies at 78 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/business/media/robert-cox-man-behind-the-just-say-no-antidrug-campaign-dies-at-78.html JUST SAY NO, OR ELSE: CELEBRITIES AS CULTURAL ADVOCATES IN THE WAR ON DRUGS https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/68025/PDF/1/play/ To Reach Teens: Rock Stars Speak Against Drugs https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-14-op-7154-story.html Gene Simmons Doesn’t Drink or Do Drugs Because of His Mother https://ultimateclassicrock.com/gene-simmons-drugs/ SAYING YES TO LIFE https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-12-07-8604010612-story.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show Notes Episode 406: Ladies and Gentlemen, Rock and Roll This week Host Dave Bledsoe attempts to convince a Gen Z bartender he was one of the original MTV VJs only to learn the bartender has never heard of MTV. (Is that like a Tik Tok thing?) On the show this week we take you back to the origins of the music video and the channel they created. (VH-1!) Along the way we discover that Dave wasn’t there when MTV debuted because he was not allowed to up past his bedtime. (Things haven’t changed really, he usually passed out around 7 PM.) Then we dive right into the long association of music and moving pictures, even when the moving pictures had no sound. Then we take on the long and winding road that leads to August of 1981 and the music video network that had very, very few music videos. (There were a LOT of Flock of Seagulls videos on repeat in the early days.) Finally we explain the incredible impact the genre of music videos themselves had on a generation and the music industry. (Turns out the record companies could make a lot of money showing half naked women dancing in front of a stage!) Our Sponsor this week is Dave TV the only all music video channel left on television, not affiliated with David Lee Roth and available in limited markets, mainly northern New Jersey. We open the show with the first few minutes of MTV and close with Lucy May Walker testifying in a brutal true crime story.  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 Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Whatthehellpodcast The Show Line: 347 687 9601 Closing Music: https://youtu.be/-6WWO6c7ud8 We are a proud member of the Seltzer Kings Podcast Network! http://seltzerkings.com/ Citations Needed: AP WAS THERE: The Beatles invade America in 1964 https://apnews.com/article/80fd83172d9a4535a8a4e75874a9a1d9 Wikipedia: American Bandstand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bandstand Wikipedia: Burt Sugarman’s Midnight Special https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Special_(TV_series) The Music Video, Before Music Television https://www.history.com/news/the-music-video-before-music-television The Creation of MTV: How Do You Market a Brand New Medium? https://bettermarketing.pub/the-creation-of-mtv-how-do-you-market-a-brand-new-medium-98045afed23b Michael Jackson and His ‘Billie Jean’ Music Video Changed MTV https://twobees.org/michael-jackson-billie-jean-changed-mtv/ Pretenders interview: the magic of songwriting and how MTV killed rock'n'roll https://www.loudersound.com/features/pretenders-interview-the-magic-of-songwriting-and-how-mtv-killed-rocknroll Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices