What The Hell Were You Thinking

Show Notes Episode 291: The Ruror Furor This week Host Dave Bledsoe tries to recreate his Grandpa’s White Lightening recipe only to get arrested by the NYPD for trying to set up a still in Central Park. (Again) On the show this week are talking about the Rural Purge, which has nothing to do with the myriad election lawsuits and everything to do with Beverly Hillbillies. (You are welcome!) Along the way we learn what the early pioneers of television dreamed of their new creation being and how that was NEVER going to happen. Then we take a tour through the early history of television shows, from their origins selling cigarettes in the 1940’s through their adolescence selling cigarettes in the 1950’s and 60’s to the end of it’s selling cigarettes in the 1970’s. Are we saying that banning TV cigarettes ads in what became known as the Rural Purge? (We don’t THINK not being able to sell cigarettes ads for TV actually caused the Rural Purge, but we are not ruling it out!) Finally, we look at the shows the Purge mad