Dancing With Ourselves: A Totally RAD 80's Podcast

80s kids Jimmy, Eric, Josh, Kane & Jeremy are celebrating the greatest decade of all time! The party includes: A PLETHORA of guests, storytelling, totally RAD events, and much more. Join us on this epic 80s adventure!

Dancing With Ourselves: A Totally RAD 80's Podcast is a society podcast hosted by D.W.O, with 147 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

D.W.O hosts Dancing With Ourselves: A Totally RAD 80's Podcast, a society show with 147 episodes published.

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  Episode #147

  #147 — Why the Hell Is Everything Sealed? | How Gen X Watched America Get Safer

  Oct 2, 20262h 26m

  Why the hell is everything sealed now? On September 29, 1982, the Chicago Tylenol murders began—and American consumers would never look at an unopened bottle quite the same way again. In Episode 147 of Dancing With Ourselves, Jimmy, Jeremy, Josh, and Kane use the Tylenol crisis as the starting point for a much bigger Gen X conversation: we didn’t just grow up in a world that seemed more dangerous—we grew up while the modern safety world was being built around us. Lawn darts. BB guns. Fireworks. Homemade bike ramps. Kids disappearing into the woods for hours. Riding around without seat belts. Playground equipment seemingly designed by people who hated children. Halloween candy inspections. Warning labels. Tamper-resistant packaging. Stranger danger. And parents who often had absolutely no idea where we were until dinner. Some of those changes unquestionably made life safer. But did something else change with them? The guys dig into the classic Gen X claim that “we survived,” the survivorship bias hiding inside it, and the difference between eliminating genuine hazards and eliminating the kinds of manageable risks that once taught kids independence and judgment. Then, because this is DWO, the conversation escapes containment. The discussion expands into how social media changed the visibility—and perhaps the incentives—around bad behavior, whether young people today are actually more violent or whether we simply witness more of it, IRL streamers turning chaos into content, technology progressively removing human attention from everyday tasks, and the rapidly approaching world of personal AI systems. Maybe the real story isn’t that Gen X grew up before safety. Maybe Gen X grew up during the transition—from a world where individuals were expected to recognize and manage much of their own risk to one where packaging, engineering, warning labels, laws, technology, and institutions increasingly manage it for us. So what did we gain? What did we lose? And what dangerous thing did your parents routinely let YOU do that would get them absolutely destroyed on social media today? Featured Auditory Ecstasy outro: “Know Your History” “Know Your History” is an unreleased Auditory Ecstasy track featured in this episode. Dancing With Ourselves — A Totally Rad 80’s Podcast Gen X memories, 1980s culture, music, movies, technology, history, questionable childhood decisions, and four guys trying to figure out how the hell we got from there to here. Support the show Follow us on: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Check out our Totally RAD Merch Store!

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  Episode #146

  #146 — How the Hell Did This Hit No. 1? The Worst No. 1 Hits of the ’80s

  Sep 25, 20262h 13m

  How did some of these songs actually become No. 1 hits? Jimmy, Jeremy, Josh and Kane put the Billboard charts of the 1980s on trial in Episode 146 of Dancing With Ourselves: A Totally RAD 80s Podcast . The mission sounds simple: take one questionable No. 1 hit from each year, examine the evidence, and decide whether the song deserved its place at the top—or whether America collectively lost its mind for a week. But this is DWO, so before the musical court comes to order there are Chewbacca cake pans, vintage collectibles, windshield-wiper warfare, toddlers, technology, radio memories and the usual collection of conversational rabbit holes. Then the prosecution begins. Captain & Tennille bring “Do That to Me One More Time.” Stars on 45 turns Beatles songs into an early-’80s mashup experiment. Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder face questioning over “Ebony and Ivory.” Patti Austin and James Ingram defend “Baby, Come to Me.” Stevie Wonder returns with “I Just Called to Say I Love You.” And then comes the prosecution’s star witness: Starship — “We Built This City.” From there the guys move through “Rock Me Amadeus,” “Shake You Down,” “Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley,” “Hangin’ Tough,” and finally cross the decade line into 1990 with “Ice Ice Baby.” Along the way, the conversation becomes bigger than bad songs. What actually made a record No. 1 in the 1980s? How much came from record sales, radio airplay, promotion, movies, MTV and the machinery of the music business? Can an overplayed song still be great? Can a bad song create an incredible memory? And how much does nostalgia change the verdict forty years later? Jeremy brings the music-history ammunition, Josh and Kane dig through the chart evidence, and Jimmy keeps asking the question that started the whole thing: Was it actually a bad song—or are we remembering it wrong? The episode closes by turning the question around and asking which No. 1 songs from the decade actually deserve to be remembered among the best. Jeremy immediately goes to a-ha’s “Take On Me,” while the conversation expands into Bon Jovi, Whitney Houston, The Police and other records that still survive the test of time. DWO_EP146_How_The_Hell_Did_This… Recorded: September 22, 2026 Featuring: Jimmy, Jeremy, Josh & Kane Episode Outro: “Saxual Intelligence” — Auditory Ecstasy A NeuroWave Metal / Psy-Jazz / electronic fusion track closing out a show devoted to what makes music memorable, strange, successful—or impossible to explain. So what’s your verdict? What ’80s No. 1 hit never deserved the top spot—and what supposedly “bad” song will you defend forever? Dancing With Ourselves — A Totally RAD 80s Podcast. The actual episode explicitly establishes this “song on trial” framework and then repeatedly tests whether chart placement really represented lasting quality. Support the show Follow us on: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Check out our Totally RAD Merch Store!

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  Episode #145

  #145 — Nostalgia Is a Beautiful Liar: Ryan Reynolds, Gen X & Were the ’80s Really Better?

  Sep 18, 20262h 29m

  Was the 1980s really better—or were we just younger? Dancing With Ourselves EP145 puts Gen X nostalgia on the witness stand after Ryan Reynolds sparked a fresh debate over how people remember the ’80s. Are we remembering the decade that actually happened, or the edited highlight reel that survived in our heads? Jimmy, Jeremy, Josh and Kane start with Reynolds, Top Gun and the idea that nostalgia naturally preserves the things we loved while pushing the fear, boredom and ugly parts of history toward the background. From there, the conversation goes exactly where a DWO conversation should go. We get into Transformers and the toys we suddenly want back now that we have adult money, MTV and the arrival of cable culture, Weird Al and misheard lyrics, music as a memory machine, Randy Johnson, the Miracle on Ice, Live Aid, New Coke, the early AIDS crisis, Challenger, Chernobyl, the Berlin Wall and the strange way major events become fused to wherever we were when we first experienced them. And that leads to the bigger question: Do we really miss the ’80s—or do we miss who we were in the ’80s? Maybe nostalgia does lie about some of the details. Maybe it deletes the boring parts. Maybe it turns fear into stories, junk into collectibles and ordinary childhood moments into sacred artifacts. But maybe that doesn't make the memories false. Maybe nostalgia isn't trying to preserve history. Maybe it's trying to preserve meaning. So dear listener: what are you nostalgic for? ️ Dancing With Ourselves — A Totally Rad ’80s Podcast Featuring: Jimmy Jeremy Josh Kane Recorded: September 15, 2026 Episode Outro: “Timelines & Hooks” — Auditory Ecstasy Explicit language. Gen X opinions. Rabbit holes guaranteed. #DancingWithOurselves #DWO #GenX #GenXPodcast #1980s #80s #80sNostalgia #Nostalgia #80sKids #80sMusic #80sPopCulture #MTV #TopGun #Transformers #RyanReynolds #AuditoryEcstasy Support the show Follow us on: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Check out our Totally RAD Merch Store!

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  Episode #142

  #142 — AI Was Already Here | From Cybernetics to ChatGPT

  Aug 21, 20261h 55m

  Artificial intelligence feels like it exploded into our lives overnight. But did it? In DWO EP142 — AI Was Already Here , Jimmy, Jeremy, Josh and Kane go digging through the history of artificial intelligence and discover that the machines have been creeping into our lives for a hell of a lot longer than ChatGPT would have you believe. The trail runs from 1940s cybernetics and artificial-neuron research , through Alan Turing, the 1956 Dartmouth AI project, early machine learning, ELIZA, DARPA-funded research, expert systems, computer chess, game opponents, search engines, fraud detection, GPS, recommendation algorithms, Siri and Alexa—all the way to modern generative AI. And then there’s 1973 . A Super Friends episode called “Professor Goodfellow’s G.E.E.C.” warned kids about a giant computer designed to eliminate human labor, brainwork and responsibility. More than fifty years later, we’re still having essentially the same argument. So what actually changed? Was AI invented recently—or did it finally become powerful, conversational and visible enough that ordinary people could no longer ignore it? The guys get into the AI Effect , the difference between automation and intelligence, whether Pac-Man ghosts count as AI, why computers beating humans at chess stopped impressing us, what Gen X was already living with before anybody called it artificial intelligence, and the bigger human question underneath all of it: If the machine is willing to do our thinking for us, how much thinking are we willing to give away? Plus: August 18th 1980s stumpers, Gen X detours, arguments over what actually counts as intelligence, and the usual DWO rabbit holes. Featured cover co-host: Jeremy Episode outro: “Mark Me Human” — Auditory Ecstasy Because maybe the question isn’t whether machines become human. Maybe it’s what happens when humans decide they’d rather become more like the machine. Support the show Follow us on: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Check out our Totally RAD Merch Store!

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  Episode #141

  #EP141: Waiting Was an Actual Part of Life

  Aug 7, 20262h 15m

  Before streaming, smartphones, instant messaging, same-day delivery, and live tracking, waiting wasn't a malfunction in life. Waiting was an actual part of life. In DWO EP141, Jimmy, Kane, and Jeremy go back to the Gen X world where you took pictures and waited days to find out whether they were any good, sat beside the family telephone hoping somebody would call, hovered over a cassette recorder waiting for the right song to hit the radio, and sometimes waited months—or years—for a movie to finally make its way from the theater to television. We get into mail-order catalogs, packages that disappeared into the postal void, concert and ticket lines, checks that had to clear, appointment television, video-store scarcity, and those endless stretches when there was genuinely nothing to do . And that leads to the real question of the episode: Did all that waiting actually make Gen X more patient—or did it simply make us better at functioning while frustrated? We talk delayed gratification, anticipation, boredom, uncertainty, and whether modern technology eliminated waiting or just trained us to become furious whenever anything still takes longer than five minutes. Then we finish the conversation DWO-style with our August 4 trivia round: 15 hard stumpers pulled from August 4 events across 1980–1990, followed by five easier shots at redemption. Tonight's Auditory Ecstasy outro: “When The Ship Don’t Come” — Auditory Ecstasy The track couldn't fit this episode much better: a song built around anticipation, holding position, waiting for the promised thing to arrive—and confronting what happens when it doesn't. Listen to When The Ship Don’t Come : SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/auditory-ecstasy/when-the-ship-dont-come Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3HdzeWXWlCbax6xMnHcd9D?si=GC_v1K_oQBmV25rTCH3uAw YouTube: https://youtu.be/-zRoRko63Po?si=MRbfTZyBhi7NoGVu Audience question: What did you routinely have to wait for growing up that people today would absolutely refuse to tolerate? Dancing With Ourselves — A Totally Rad 80's Podcast Gen X memories. 80s culture. Real conversation. No filter. Search / Discovery Keyword Bank: Gen X, Generation X, 1980s nostalgia, 80s podcast, Gen X podcast, waiting, patience, delayed gratification, analog life, life before smartphones, landline telephone, family phone, cassette tapes, recording songs from radio, 80s radio, film photography, Fotomat, photo development, mail order catalogs, Sears catalog, packages before tracking, concert ticket lines, appointment television, video rental stores, boredom, pre-internet life, analog childhood, 1980s childhood, Gen X memories, instant gratification, nostalgia podcast Support the show Follow us on: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube Check out our Totally RAD Merch Store!

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