Episode 103 - Rhythm

Dance teacher Star joins Ben this week to discuss rhythm!  After Ben wishes everyone happy VD, Star talks about the festival where she is performing in a few weeks.  This is not a show about laser tag, so after a brief LARP-er diversion, they drop some sick beats and start the definition portion of the program.  Star tells stories about her vast dancing, choreography, teaching, and art school experiences.  Ben references a Star Trek: TNG episode involving tap dancing, makes Star watch a ballet scene from the movie Top Secret, and shares information about one of his favorite musical artist’s songs.  Rhythm video games discussed this week include: Rock Band, the Club Penguin disco mini-game, Dance Dance Revolution, Nintendo Power Pad games, Just Dance, Beatmania, Taiko no Tatsujin, Space Channel 5, Samba de Amigo, Frequency, Amplitude, and Trombone Champ. 

00:00:21 - Homeschool energy is kinda’ like horse girl energy… it’s been on Star’s mind
00:02:49 - The Jefferson High School Democrats, “ruining the big reveal,” and happy VD!
00:06:15 - Ben just completed Soul Hackers 2, laser tag stress, and it’s actually Funtasticks
00:08:55 - LARPers have homeschool energy, RIP Galactic Battlecruiser, and into the rhythm 
00:12:29 - The question at hand, syncopation, Star’s art of choreography, and dance maps
00:15:36 - Square dancing, Ben is terrible at cursive, and cross it off the bucket list
00:18:49 - Pantomime, dance code, Ben’s game idea, and make a collaboration buddy
00:21:00 - Online Warriors shout out, the business of streaming, and an old man and his cats
00:23:36 - Foot problems, ballet shoes are dumb, no tap dancing at a wedding, and sounds
00:26:08 - Playing your feet, dance solos, ballet trauma, and the “Top Secret” codpieces
00:29:19 - Dance stories, joke delay, Peter Gabriel’s “The Rhythm of the Heat,” and WOMAD
00:32:35 - Jungian Psychology, the Ghanian War Dance, Miami Vice, and the Dead Milkmen
00:34:48 - Music inspired dance, the original question, and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
00:37:28 - Funky again, alt-J, back to the pantomime, sick beats, and Jesse from Cuppocinnos
00:40:04 - Soundcloud rappers, Stanley Tucci, Club Penguin clubbing, dance fingers, and DDR
00:43:53 - The Power Pad, step aerobics, eleven games, Maze Epic Battle, and the Virtual Boy
00:46:34 - F the Manhattan Police clubbers, seal free, and “Come Come Fallen Corpses…”
00:48:39 - Remembering the steps of songs, Dance Dance Revolution masters, and Beatmania
00:50:40 - Just Dance, they tried, the Eye Toy, dancing torsos, Taiko no Tatsujin, and latency 
00:53:36 - More competitive than deserved, real life Mario Kart in Tokyo, and bop all the things
00:56:50 - Less feet, really in to patterns, specialized controllers, and music tracks on tracks 
00:59:15 - Ben thinks Holy Wow Studios’ Trombone Champ is a ridiculously fun “joke game”
01:02:26 - Four trombones play a song badly, up since 5 AM, learning rhythm, and rambling 

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Soul Hackers 2 links
https://soulhackers2.atlus.com/index.html?lang=en
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1777620/Soul_Hackers_2/
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0177-PPSA03743_00-SOULHACKERS00PS5

Check out friends of the pod… Online Warriors Podcast
https://www.onlinewarriorspodcast.com/

Trombone Champ links
https://www.vecchitto.design/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059990/Trombone_Champ/
https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/trombone-champ-switch/

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