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  Follow Two Vague on… Our website: https://www.twovaguepodcast.com On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/two_vague_podcast On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@twovaguepodcast On X-Twitter: https://twitter.com/TwoVaguePodcast For show appearance and other inquiries, contact us at: [email protected] References and Hashtags: 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/ #Podbean #DIYPodcast #ApplePodcast #VideoGames #Trivia #Comedy #Talkshow #2VP #TwoVaguePodcast #SoulHackers2 #TromboneChamp #HolyWowStudios #DanVecchitto