What The Hell Were You Thinking

Episode 279 Expanded Edition: Warning, Challenger Jokes Ahead(Update and Redux) This week Host Dave Bledsoe volunteers to be the first podcast host in space thinking it might convince people to buy him free drinks.  (It doesn’t.)  On the show this week we are somehow topical and yet entirely outdated as we talk about the Challenger Disaster.  (Yes, sadly, he DOES do the jokes.) Along the way we learn that most of what people SAY they remember about The Day Gen X Died is kinda wrong.  (Kinda like Dave trying to recall last Tuesday!) From there we jump right into the grim and stupid tale of the Shuttle Challenger disaster, mostly gleaned from the Netflix docu-series Challenger: Final Flight.  (We are not afraid to let others do our research for us!)  We learn why someone thought it was a good idea to send an untrained civilian into freaking Space.  (Reagan was doing badly with teachers.)  We meet the starry eyed optimist teacher who erroneously believed no one would be so STUPID as to send an untrained civili