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.
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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.
Episode 449.5: Was It Something We Said? Pt 1 of Summer Series 2025
What the HELL Were You Thinking?
29 minutes
3 months ago
Episode 449.5: Was It Something We Said? Pt 1 of Summer Series 2025
Show Notes Episode 499.5: “Was It Something We Said?”
Part 1 of Summer Series 2025
This week Host Dave Bledsoe attempts to convince the other barflies to stage a coup against the bartender and take over the bar for themselves. (Turns out three old drunks against one bartender lose every time.) On the show this week we kick off Summer Series 2025 “You Can Have A LIttle War, As A Treat” with the prelude of all the little wars, the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Along the way we discover that Dave is not one to hold a grudge. (A lot of time he can’t remember why he was even mad, mostly because he blacked out. Again.) Then we dive into the long history of Iran, from the Persian Empire to the Islamic Republic. We discover that Iranians have some pretty good reasons for not liking America. (Sorry about that coup thing) Then we dip into how a deposed king dying of cancer led to Ronald Reagan getting elected and four decades of increasingly bad relations with Iran. FInally we draw a tenuous connection between Iran and the topic of our Summer Series.
Our Sponsor this week is The Special Relationship, even when it is a really bad idea, we stand together. We open our show with news coverage of the storming of the US Embassy in Tehran and close Vince Vance offering foreign policy advice.
Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense
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Citations Needed:
Nothing new in the world
https://web.archive.org/web/20040915080838/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FI15Ak03.html
The Reason Iran Turned Out to Be So Repressive
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/iran-mahsa-amini-protests-islam-ayatollah-ruhollah-khomeini/671624/
Wikipedia Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi
The Iran Hostage Crisis
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2021/11/29/the-iran-hostage-crisis/
Jimmy Carter and the Iran Hostage Crisis
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/jimmy-carter-and-the-iran-hostage-crisis
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What the HELL Were You Thinking?
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.
