That 80s Show SA

We start in the 90s as Paulo recaps the 100% Retro concert. Trust us, no Jam was left Unpumped!! It got us wondering which 80s bands were still touring, and some really shouldn’t be.  On the back of the new Beverly Hills Cop we ask, ‘’Which 80s sequels do you want to see?’’. Dori has a lethal movie recommendation while Paulo brings us a John Ritter movie, and some other movies to keep it company....

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 - one of which reminded Paulo of the ''gang'' which terrorised his local mall. Finally some factoids we've been accumulating since our l...

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'' and we remedy the lack of regular Barry Manilow updates.

Your favourite 80s podcasts 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 took on Hobbs? Plus, The Guardian ranked the Top 20 Stock Aitken Waterman songs of the 80s and 90s and number one will spin you...

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 Telly Fun Quiz but without a duck - The Karate Kid won't go away and the Stranger Things ''kids'' need to retire.

Rick Astley Rick Rolls misheard lyrics once and for all with a charity version of, ''Never Gonna give you up'' to tackle stigmas 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 Dori still doesn't remember watching them. A surprise mention of The Smiths before Pau...

You wake up in the late 80s or early 90s - you hear some shuffling in your parent's bedroom - thankfully they're are 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 was Dr. Phil Joffe. We got hold of the Doc to find out the story behind the lycra, how there was a link between...

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 watched a doccie and blamed it on the rain, the 1980s SABC blamed it on Stevie Wonder, Andrew Ridgeley blamed it on Björn...

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 memoire, what would you find if you rummaged through George Michael's pockets and subscribe now to get our interview with Phil Joffe f...

OMG we’re going to see OMD and we'er 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 more reasons to hate 80s studio execs before wondering how the world went so wrong seeing that we were raised by Michael Knight.   Everythin...

Call Corbin Bernsen - That 80s Show are 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 was the voice of the 80s. Everything we discuss on this show can be found on That 80s Show SA on Face...

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 Olivia Newton bomb. The Hoff has a new show and an even better play on his name. Everything...

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 a new mission: reunite Body Beat. Finally, communistic chewing gum cards provoke Paulo into a Public Service Announcment. Everything you hear...

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 and Paulo imagines a Cabbage Patch kid in Madonna's birth canal.

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 have been broadcast on Red Nose Day, Burt Reynolds being inappropriate with Loni Anderson and how Priscilla Presley inspired Depeche Mode. Everything we discu...

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 BBTF? Through song. When we called ourselves That 80s Show, we didn't specify the 1980s as we go back a few hundred years to discover Bardcore and Dori deciphers your personal...

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 includes Andrew Dice Clay and Alyssa Milano and another round of Two 80s Truths and a Lie. Everything we discuss in this show can be found...

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 Malice, Paulo heads down a Fritz the Cat rabbit hole - which wasn't part of the sequel - and our new favourite song about a...

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, we stalk Andrew Ridgeley AGAIN and we track down the real Club Tropicana...the reviews are mixed. Everything we discuss in this show can be found on...

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 friendship with Wham!, George Michael as an artist and how lunch with Andrew Ridgeley lead to the Netflix doc...

****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 were one of the best podcasts in Africa! It was bound to happen, and it happened on our 150th m...

****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/ In the latest edition of That Wham! Show we find out that Wham! may come back as holograms, Andrew Ridgeley wants to do the cha cha cha and how a trip to China ended with George Michael being called a...

With so much Wham! content around, Paulo and Dori have grabbed those teets and are milking George and Andrew for all they're worth. Admit that we've all had that dream atleast once. We also explore the finest in 80s Sci-Fi satire which may or may not include a lost Bee Gee brother. More Wham! as we close out the show plus a look at the Shaka Zulu mini-series from the 80s which ends with a...

It's Wham! Week and Paulo is angry with Fall Out Boy. They remade a Billy Joel song, and didn't even have the decency to do it in chronological order. We have an intellectual conversation about Wham! on Netflix before Paulo brings Dori a story about Bud Spencer so ridiculous that he didn't even bother playing Two 80s Truths and a lie, because fact is stranger than fiction. On that note...

So much Glastonbury, so little time. The biggest event of 2023 gives Paulo and Dori a chance to go back to the 80s to talk about Blondie, The Pretenders, Guns n Roses, Elton John and Rick Astley. But most importantly, is Slash bald under his hat? Movie recommendations get creepy and musical and we bring you offensive songs from the 80. Everything we discuss in this show can be found on @That80sSho...