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This the episode, now to hear the strange songs. New time for your listening with Professor Tom.

Special thanks for this episode goes out to:

• Fellow VGM podcaster Jameson of barSILENCE podcast for contributing cover art. You can and should find barSILENCE wherever you download podcasts, and check out his website at barSILENCE.com.
• My lovely waifu and darling children for their honest testimonials about the benefits of Chocobo milk.
• BokiBokiPixelArt for the show logo. You can find him on Twitter @BokiPixelart.

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During the show, I mentioned Sega composer Takenobu Mitsuyoshi’s infectiously happy performance of the Daytona USA songs. You can see some videos of him in action at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J9ffRgADRU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nskok6WhqeI.

Also during the show, I mentioned the Four Job Fiesta summer event that sees people play through Final Fantasy V with randomly-assigned jobs. You can check it out at https://www.fourjobfiesta.com/ and let me know how your playthrough goes.

Track Listing:

00:00 - Show Tagline

00:06 - Fire Emblem Fates (3DS) - Left to Heaven (composers: Renka, Maiko Sugiyama, Miho Komatsu, Mei Mishina, Yumiko Morooka, and Aya Hoashi)

01:07 - Talk Segment 1

05:07 - We Love Katamari (PS2) - Katamari on the Swing (composers: Yuu Miyake and Yoshihito Yano)

09:47 - TOBAL No. 1 (PSX) - Toridon!! (composer: Yasuhiro Kawakami)

13:09 - Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster (multiplatform) - Techno de Chocobo (composers: Nobuo Uematsu with Hirosato Noda)

16:05 - Unlimited SaGa - Tale on a Hilltop (composer: Masashi Hamauzu)

16:41 - X-Men (arcade) - Fake Dance (Name Entry) (composers: Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, A. Hashimoto)

18:17 - Talk Segment 2

22:56 - LocoRoco - Title Song 6 (composer: Noboyuki Shimizu / lyrics: Tsutomu Kouno)

25:33 - Blue Dragon (Xbox 360) - Mysterious Village (composer: Nobuo Uematsu)

27:16 - Daytona USA (Arcade) - Pounding Pavement (composer: Takenobu Mitsuyoshi)

30:55 - Earthbound (SNES) - Battle Against a Weird Opponent (composers: Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka)

32:19 - Xenogears (PSX) - Solaris ~ Eden of Heaven (composer: Yasunori Mitsuda)

35:46 - Final Fantasy V - Critter Tripper Fritter (composer: Nobuo Uematsu)

37:11 - Jack Bros. (Virtual Boy) - Opening (composer: Hiroyuki Yanada)

37:54 - Outro Talk Segment

40:36 - Persona 4 Dancing All Night - Shadow World (DE DE MOUSE shadow swing mix) (composer: Shoji Meguro; remixed by DE DE MOUSE)