Show Notes Episode 499.5: “Was It Something We Said?”Part 1 of Summer Series 2025This 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 SenseThe Show on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/whatthehellpodcast.bsky.socialThe Show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatthehellpodcast/The Show on Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjxP5ywpZ-O7qu_MFkLXQUQThe Show on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatthehellwereyouthinkingpod/Our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/kHmmrjptrqOur Website: https://www.whatthehellpodcast.comPatreon:  https://www.patreon.com/WhatthehellpodcastThe Show Line: 347 687 9601Closing Music: https://youtu.be/O_LmLlh_bS4?si=SaOatHy7sjujSJ0kBuy Our Stuff: https://www.seltzerkings.com/shopCitations Needed:Nothing new in the worldhttps://web.archive.org/web/20040915080838/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FI15Ak03.htmlThe Reason Iran Turned Out to Be So Repressivehttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/iran-mahsa-amini-protests-islam-ayatollah-ruhollah-khomeini/671624/Wikipedia Mohammad Reza Pahlavihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_PahlaviThe Iran Hostage Crisishttps://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2021/11/29/the-iran-hostage-crisis/Jimmy Carter and the Iran Hostage Crisishttps://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/jimmy-carter-and-the-iran-hostage-crisisLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices