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 Sec...
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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