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🗓️ 15 August 2024
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This week we had Alice Fraser back on the Frotcast and you can listen to the whole thing on Patreon.
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0:00.0 | All right, but we were talking about breakdancing in Australia, and this is very important. |
0:05.0 | Breakdancing got into the Olympics and there was the breakout star, the Australian lady, |
0:12.0 | Ray Gunn, her dance name. |
0:16.8 | She did such extraordinarily bad breakdancing |
0:19.7 | that it made me realize that all breakdancing |
0:22.0 | is kind of dorky. |
0:23.0 | Yeah, it is kind of wild because like watching it I was like what is this? |
0:30.1 | You know I need a palette cleanser let me watch some real breakdancing and then you watch real breakdancer. |
0:34.7 | You're like, this kind of sucks too. |
0:36.9 | Yeah, she like dismantled the form by virtue of her. Like, I think like this is transcendent art that yeah |
0:45.3 | woman has it's kind of beautiful so her name was incredible B-girl Reagan and I was |
0:51.0 | like I bet her name is actually Reagan but it's actually Rachel Gunn so it is Reagan but in a different way than I was imagining |
0:57.4 | Yeah And I mean it brought me back because I remember when I was like studying abroad in Australia like the orientation |
1:05.5 | one of the things that the guy said that I retained all this time was like don't make fun of the way we dance |
1:11.7 | Australians like the way we dance is we like to we like to pantomime, |
1:15.0 | the lyrics like, ain't no mountain, |
1:17.0 | ha, like that's dancing to us. |
1:21.4 | And then it like held true for the entire time I I was there. I was like oh wow it is true |
1:25.2 | They really can't dance it's like it felt like if they put like someone from the special Olympics in the regular Olympics in the break |
1:34.0 | dancing category kind of. I love that. That is such a specific thing. We're like |
1:40.0 | don't make fun of the way we dance here. We have to pantomime. That's why all of our songs that are hits in Australia are about being on the phone because it's very easy to put our hands on our ears make it look like we're talking on the phone. |
1:55.0 | So essentially it's a manifestation of the British colonial kind of thread that runs |
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