Sneak Peek – 1980s Now – E138

We're off this week since Tristan's getting married, but we're giving you a sneak peek of next week's show with Will Padilla of 1980s Now.

You can find links to the 1980s Now website and podcast below, so give a few episodes a listen before our interview next Wednesday.

The 1980s are alive and well, and be sure you share today's sneak peek with anyone hoping to find a great podcast discussing the decade.

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Give 1980’s Now a listen on your favorite podcast platform:

– Listen ⁠on Spotify⁠

– Listen ⁠on Apple Podcasts⁠

– Visit ⁠the Showpage⁠

– Meet the ⁠Hosts⁠

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About 1980s Now:

1980s Now is a weekly examination of the importance of 80s pop culture and its continued influence today. We demonstrate that nostalgia alone doesn’t account for the contemporary fascination with our favorite decade. Instead, we share personal experiences and interview experts--including icons from 80s music, movies and TV--to demonstrate the “era of greed” bore the greatest moments in movies, music, television and sports. The show is equally entertaining and informative. (80s is aka '80s.)

About Will Padilla:

On an unseasonably warm day in 1971, somewhere in Jersey City, NJ, Will was born with a fake mustache and a convincing Australian accent. This may have been the start of his life-long interest in performing. • His fascination with music began with five unforgettable notes from Close Encounters, which he plunked out on his Schroeder-sized piano. Years later, he created music and soundscapes for Off-Broadway productions and performances at The Juilliard School. In 2020, Will completed the immersive sound design for an audio production of Macbeth (starring Tamara Tunie of Law and Order and Derek Wilson of Future Man and Preacher).• Stunned in the 1980s that a single actor could portray Superman and star in Death Trap, Will later studied acting at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey (as a company member alongside Peter Dinklage, future star of Game of Thrones), at Bill Esper Studios and with Olympia Dukakis. • Having watched hours of Monty Python on UHF as a child, Will later adapted John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost into a dark comedy, which was produced at HERE (New York). Will also wrote and performed with Those Lazy Bastards (New York) a sketch comedy group that he founded with Yuri Lowenthal (voice of Ben-10, PS4’s Spiderman). • And while he couldn’t dance a single step to a slow jam, Will learned to break on a piece of cardboard on the streets of his hometown. • With a passion for 1980s pop culture, and amazing enunciation, Will is the perfect host of the weekly podcast that defends the best decade for media.

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80’s Movies You Might Have Missed: 

- Death Trap (1982) — on ⁠Tubi⁠

- My Bodyguard (1980) — ⁠Rent on VOD⁠

- The Hidden (1987) — ⁠Rent on VOD⁠

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