That 80s Show
Shoulder pads, Rubik’s cubes, luminous clothes, angsty movies... and of course loads of factoids. Paulo and Dori are living in the past - and loving it!
Back To The Ridgeley | Nationwide RickRoll | '80s Mall Gangs | Who's The Mermaid?
The first episode of 2024 - which is certainly NOT 24 years away from the '80s. We recap Wham!'s rise to Number 1, wonder if Andrew Ridgeley is a time traveller, and rue not being RickRolled by Rick himself. Paulo and Dori watched so many '80s things over the holidays…
Wham!ageddon Wipe Out | '80s Xmas Shopping | A Barry Man-i-hole
What if you could take out 7000 Wham!ageddon-playing heathens with the click of 1 play button? DJ Matty did... and he deserves a Knighthood! We visit the Wham! online store and put together our Xmas list, Dori reminds Paulo of the movie 'Falling Down', Paulo warns Dori against watching 'Elves',…
Reverse Wham!Ageddon | Hall and Oates Private Lies | Out of Context Paulo - The Action Figure
Your favourite '80s podcast brings you the rules of Reverse Wham!Ageddon - don't even bother playing, Paulo will beat you. Who would win in a fight between Wham! and The Pet Shop Boys? Who will win in the fight between Hall and Oates and who would you back if Calvin…
80s Baldies | Elton John FC | MacGyver's MacLegacy
Power Station likes it hot, Paulo and Dori do not! We needed Richard Dean Anderson to help us MacGyver our aircon, maybe we should have called him by his first name. Paulo compiles a list of his favourite 80s baldies, Dori takes on the 80s Movie Quote Quiz - like…
Rick Astley runs around with dessert spoons | Not a Porno | Manimal and the Highway Man
Rick Astley Rick Rolls misheard lyrics once and for all with a charity version of 'Never Gonna Give You Up' to tackle the stigma around hearing loss... proving once again that he is the most lovely man ever. Paulo revisits the odd final two seasons of 'Who's the Boss?', but…
That 80s Show meets Dr Phil Joffe from Body Beat
You wake up in the late '80s or early '90s - you hear some shuffling in your parents' bedroom... thankfully they're just getting into some Body Beat. It was the exercise sensation of our childhoods with the soundtrack that has burrowed into our brains, and the man behind it all…
I just called to say I ban you | Dori Dom D**s
Paulo and Dori remember a time when ads were just ads - not dirty little stalkers trying to get you to drink beer. We look back at the '80s sitcoms Matthew Perry guest starred in, and are now convinced that we missed a whole season of 'Who's the Boss?'. Dori…
We pity the fool who plays with matches | Demi Moore and a chainsaw-wielding horse | What's in George Michael's pockets?
If you were a kid in the 80s and ignored safety advice from Michael J. Fox and both Batemans - did you have the guts to ignore the A-Team? Has a sitcom spin-off ever worked? We find two that definitely didn't. Plus more from randy John Stamos and his steamy…
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Park | John Stamos and a sex duvet | You’re Gene, go Wilder | F-Hoff Becky
OMG we're going to see OMD... and we're a Dilly Dias and a Dilly Dori! Dori and Paulo both have an outrageous tale to tell - one that involves John Stamos and a sex duvet the other, a killer kiss that led to someone Kevin Baconing, Jason Bateman. We find…
Cabbage Patch Lawsuit | Van Damme of the Universe | Hooked on Vampires
Call Corbin Bernsen... That '80s Show is getting into the legal shenanigans behind the Cabbage Patch Kids. Paulo passes out at the thought of Jean-Claude Van Damme in a He-Man movie, and Dori is hooked on podcasts in this week's entertainment recommendation. And against all odds we find out who…
Andrew Read-geley | Reboots no one wanted | Olivia Newton's Bomb
Paulo loved George and Me, until he had to read it like a peasant. People keep making 80s reboots, no one wants them, not even a Short Circuit one - unless they rectify 'that' issue. Dori has a viewing recommendation that's hilariously criminal, while Paulo explores a John Travolta and…
Where the spheres have no name | Body Beat beats Richard Simmons | Garbage Pail Kids were Communistic
'80s legends U2 had a bloody good Sunday when they opened the Las Vegas Sphere, but Dori is still mad at them for having the audacity to give her an album for free. Richard Simmons was only big in the States because they didn't have Body Beat. Now we have…
What Paulo and Germany have in common | The best foreign movies of the 80s | The Burt Reynolds love-in continues
Paulo convinces Dori to love Italo-Disco via Germany, it kind of works. We then take a look at the best foreign films of the 80s - Paulo is let down by Kiss of the Spider Woman and Dori has seen most of them. We get excited about upcoming '80s documentaries…
Freddie Mercury's garden door upset Brian May | New Order and a floppy disk | Burt Reynolds kept making the same movie
Hopefully it's a better week for That '80s Show than it's been for That '70s Show and appropriately Dori takes us to the '90s. We talk about '80s things selling for a lot of money, '80s things that lost a lot of money, a movie that may or may not…
Hate Biff Tannen, Love Tom Wilson | A Neverending Tik Tok | Bardcore from the (14)80s
Paulo is back in the bedroom - after his nightmare about Jamie Lee Curtis, this week he has a problem with a Delorean bed. How does Tom Wilson - the guy who played uber-bully, Biff Tannen - handle all the questions about BTTF? Through song. When we called ourselves That…
Why does Paulo hate Jamie Lee Curtis? | The Chevy Chase rap album | Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Paulo hates talking about dreams - but he has to tell you about his vendetta against an 80s scream queen. Chevy Chase is on everyone's hate list and he just cemented his place in ours after we discovered his album of (s)hits. Terrible movie recommendations that include Andrew Dice Clay…
Pee Wee's Hoff House | Zepotha got us | Fritz the Cat and a rabbit hole | Luke Combs has a Fast Car
Paul Reuben passes away and Paulo links it to the Hoff - and honestly, truth is stranger than the fictional reality show we created. Tik Tok has been duped by Zepotha, we're just here for the promise of Synth-Wave. Dori visits the Costa Del Sol and finds a Town Called…
Paulo quizzes The Quizmaster | Ryan Reynolds reboots ALF | Club Tropicana and the drinks aren't free
Due to no fault of his own, Paulo did not win an '80s quiz evening. He conducts an internal audit. We examine the many reasons why Paulo and Ryan Reynolds would be best friends, a shared love of ALF is one of them. Dori has a very witchy movie review,…
That 80s Show meets Simon Halfon
We just wanted to talk to someone involved in the Wham! documentary. Instead we found Simon Halfon, a man who has played such a unique role in iconic albums from The Style Council, The Jam, Kim Wilde, Oasis and George Michael. He tells us how he got involved in designing album covers, his…
When Rob Lowe says '80s... | It happened on Number 150! | '80s Cow-Reoke
****BEFORE YOU READ THAT READ THIS**** We've been nominated in the Best Music Podcast in the APVA Awards. Please vote for us here, just scroll down to music: https://awards.apva.africa/vote-now/ Mr T, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore and a shirtless George Michael all in the opening few minutes - that's why we're…