Binary System Podcast Archive

This episode originally broadcast on October 8, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/10/binary-system-podcast-526-wtnv-295-the-book-of-dale-and-better-call-saul/ On this week's Night Vale recap, Harrison Kip's god Dale has written a book and the Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home doesn't think it's worth much. Yep. That's a legitimat...

This episode originally broadcast on October 1, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/10/binary-system-podcast-525-backrooms-again-and-better-call-saul/ Okay, yes, we  know  we’ve already talked about the movie Backrooms in a previous episode. But we just watched the video “Everything Must Go” that Kane Parsons put up for free on YouTube, and since that’s somethin...

This episode originally broadcast on September 24, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/09/binary-system-podcast-524-wtnv-294-revelations-and-better-call-saul/ On this week’s Night Vale recap, modern-day Cecil is back with some divine revelations from a god with a super underwhelming name. (Also the trees are being gross and they can knock that off RIGHT NOW.) Af...

This episode originally broadcast on September 17, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/09/binary-system-podcast-523-the-invisible-man-2020/ Special guest star Hannah Wallace was visiting the East Coast branch of Binary System Podcast this week, and to celebrate we watched a movie together, just like we planned! Well, sort of planned. We did  not  watch Jordan Pe...

This episode originally broadcast on September 10, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/09/binary-system-podcast-522-wtnv-293-the-boys-1946-better-call-saul-and-nope/ On this week’s Night Vale recap the radio station is still being run by the late Leonard “Gone But Still Talking” Burton because Cecil is still missing. OR IS HE? No, he is, but not for long… Anyway...

This episode originally broadcast on September 3, 2026. The original podast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/09/binary-system-podcast-521-hugo-awards-better-call-saul-and-in-memoriam/ Yes yes, we know we said we’d have an episode of Welcome to Night Vale to recap this week, but in our defense we are BAD AT COUNTING, and we won’t be able to recap the new Night Vale episode until next we...

This episode originally broadcast on August 28, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/08/binary-system-podcast-520-the-final-two-episodes-of-beastars/ It’s finally here, the last two episodes of the very last season of  Beastars  and……okay, we’re not gonna lie, it’s not great. Spoiler warnings for everything, including the rest of this description, but what the ab...

This episode originally broadcast on August 20, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/08/binary-system-podcast-519-wtnv-292-collectibles-1999-and-beastars/ It’s another flashback episode as Leonard Burton tries to distract us from the fact that Cecil is still missing. This week’s trip to the archives takes us to 1999, where a young Cecil is dipping his toes into t...

This episode originally broadcast on August 13, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/08/binary-system-podcast-518-beastars-and-better-call-saul/ On this week’s recap of  Beastars  season 3 episode 21 (…yes 21, we doublechecked this time it really is 21…) we ask the important questions: will Louis end up with Juno, or pine away for Legoshi? What’s up with the MMA...

This episode originally broadcast on August 6, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/08/binary-system-podcast-517-wtnv-291-mall-madness-1987-and-beastars/ Welcome To Night Vale is back from hiatus! To celebrate (and to cover for the fact that Cecil is missing) guest radio host Leonard Burton is sharing an episode from the archives! So send your Betamax back to the...

This episode originally broadcast on July 30, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/07/binary-system-podcast-516-galaxycon-san-diego-comic-con-and-beastars/ Last weekend Binary System went to ALL THE CONVENTIONS. Well, two of them. But they were big ones! This week we're recapping GalaxyCon in Raleigh and Comic-Con in San Diego, going over the good (Cosplay! C...

This episode originally broadcast on July 23, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/07/binary-system-podcast-515-beastars-and-preview-to-the-odyssey-and-comic-con/ This week's recap of Beastars features multiple instances of the word "weird". Look, we know this is a fantasy show, and it doesn't pay to look too closely into how a society of carniv...

This episode originally broadcast on July 16, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/07/binary-system-podcast-514-beastars-and-r-i-p-sam-neill/ Our plan tonight was to recap episode 17 of the final season of Beastars (you call THAT a "disguise", Louis? Really?? Also, we're really hoping Juno gets a happily ever after, but man alive it doesn't look...

This episode originally broadcast on July 9, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/07/binary-system-podcast-513-beastars-godzilla-minus-one-and-the-amazing-digital-circus/ Yes, we know we said on the previous episode that we would have a Welcome to Night Vale recap this week. But there wasn't a new episode posted, because Welcome to Night Vale is on hiatus in...

This episode originally broadcast on June 25, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/06/binary-system-podcast-512-the-amazing-digital-circus-the-last-act-with-all-the-spoilers/ It's been a wild ride for the Binary System Podcast team as we binged The Amazing Digital Circus over the last two and a half months. Kudos to everyone who's been following this abso...

This episode originally broadcast on June 18, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/06/binary-system-podcast-511-backrooms-and-wtnv-290-a-solution/ We're so glad we actually went to see Backrooms while it was still in the theater, partly because it's exactly the kind of horror movie we like: scary, light on the gore, smart, just enough jump scares, and mos...

This episode originally broadcast on June 11, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/06/binary-system-podcast-510-pluribus-episode-9-season-finale/ What do you know, we actually managed to finish watching a season of TV less than six months late! And wow, what a season. Pluribus has had some amazing episodes, with a story that's been both delightful and heartbr...

This episode originally broadcast on June 4, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/06/binary-system-podcast-509-wtnv-289-the-collection-plate-and-pluribus-episode8/ On this week's Night Vale recap, Jalen is being awfully understanding about being in jail for a murder his dead doppelganger (probably) committed. But a secret ally is sending clues that could help...

This episode originally broadcast on May 28, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/05/binary-system-podcast-508-wtnv-288-doubles-anonymous-and-pluribus-episode-7/ The investigation into the murder of Marcus Vanston is moving ahead at breakneck speed. And for this week only, Cecil's covering the latest developments in a hard-boiled, film noir style that only ge...

This episode originally broadcast on May 21, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/05/binary-system-podcast-507-the-amazing-digital-circus-episodes-6-7-and-8/ If we had to recap the last three episodes of The Amazing Digital Circus VERY quickly, we'd say episode 6 is delightfully violent, episode 7 is a kick in the heart, and episode 8 is terrifying. We mentio...

This episode originally broadcast on May 15, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/05/binary-system-podcast-506-wtnv-286-hey-does-anyone-hear-that-sound-behind-the-sky-and-the-amazing-digital-circus/ "Does anyone hear that sound behind the sky?" (Get used to hearing that question if you listen to this week's Welcome To Night Vale, because Cecil asks...

This episode originally broadcast on May 7, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/05/binary-system-podcast-505-new-york-2026-and-the-amazing-digital-circus/ It took ten years, but both the East Coast and West Coast branches of the podcast got to meet up in Manhattan once again for a weekend of museums, comic book shops, subway ficus, fancy islands, sidewalk cockta...

This episode originally broadcast on April 30, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/04/binary-system-podcast-504-pluribus-episode-6/ We've really got to hand it to the creators of Pluribus. This episode took a dark turn; the Hive Mind may be the vanguard of an alien invasion that's either very efficient, or very much not efficient at all. Either way, step...

This episode originally broadcast on April 23, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/04/binary-system-podcast-593-wtnv-285-our-ice-cream-truck-of-infinite-sorrows-and-pluribus/ On this week’s Night Vale recap, when the creepy ice cream truck appeared we thought it was one of those awful stories about creepy ice cream guys preying on people. It’s not. IT’S SO MUCH...

This episode originally broadcast on April 16, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/04/binary-system-podcast-502-pluribus-episode-4/ This week Pluribus continues to break our hearts while also expanding on the  impossible  situation Carol finds herself in. There are some hard choices made and quite a lot of betrayal (although does it count as betrayal if you’re t...