{"id":28739,"date":"2020-05-06T00:19:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=28739"},"modified":"2020-05-06T00:19:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:19:47","slug":"nerd-music-meltdown-50-mariachi-entertainment-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/nerd-music-meltdown-50-mariachi-entertainment-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Music Meltdown #50: Mariachi Entertainment System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Can you believe we made it to FIFTY episodes of our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nmmpodcast.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nerd Music Meltdown<\/a>&nbsp;podcast? We did it and we celebrate and have a special guest: the founder of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mariachimes.com\/\">Mariachi Entertainment System<\/a>, David Ortiz.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MES is the brainchild of David and a collective of longtime Texas-based mariachi players with a mission to take mariachi to the masses by combining it with beloved video game music to create some incredible arrangements. We talk about that,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VAlUqPuYMzE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">playing at MAGFest<\/a>&nbsp;with David Wise,&nbsp;<em>Mega Man<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Final Fantasy VII<\/em>, and David&#8217;s thoughts on Cinco de Mayo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before that, Kent kicks off by reminiscing about this podcast and what it&#8217;s accomplished, and gives thoughts on current events with COVID-19 and how it&#8217;s going to change events once it&#8217;s okay to go to them, including what&#8217;s going on with Ongaku Overdrive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get more Mariachi Entertainment System at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mariachimes.com\/\">mariachimes.com<\/a>. Want to get new episodes of Nerd Music Meltdown before anyone else? Subscribe on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ongakuoverdrive\">patreon.com\/ongakuoverdrive<\/a>.<br><br>&#8220;The Meltdown&#8221; theme by RoboRob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/14282612\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you believe we made it to FIFTY episodes of our&nbsp;Nerd Music Meltdown&nbsp;podcast? We did it and we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28740,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28739\/revisions\/28740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}