What The Hell Were You Thinking

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