What The Hell Were You Thinking

Episode 386: Family In Front, Bomb In the Back This week Host Dave Bledsoe sustains painful burns in a sensitive area while attempting to light his farts as part of his “research” for this episode. (Again) On the show this week, we tell you the True Story of The Little Carefree Car, which turned out to need a LOT of care indeed, the Ford Pinto! (Big Badda Boom) Along the way, Dave tells the same damn story he always tells when cars come up about his dream car that turned out to be a real POS. (Much like every poor woman who dated Dave naively thinking he was their dream guy) Then we dive right into the story how Ford created a little car that could go boom because of the Nazis. (Technically, they were just West Germans by then) From there we dig into the details behind the design flaws that made the Pinto so flammable and the lawsuit that demonstrated how little the Ford Motor Company valued a human life. (Less than eleven dollars) Then we cover the debunking that wasn’t exactly a debunking, but more like la