Binary System Podcast Archive

This episode originally broadcast on April 9, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/04/binary-system-podcast-501-wtnv-285-april-fools-beastars-and-the-amazing-digital-circus/ On this week’s Night Vale recap we spend a lot of time wondering why April Fools has to be so freaking MEAN. Scaring people, embarrassing people, setting up entire fake Arborist Day Parades w...

This episode originally broadcast on April 2, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/04/binary-system-podcast-500-still-no-plan/ We never actually pictured getting here, but Binary System Podcast has recorded five hundred episodes! (More or less. Minus some text-only episodes. And of course we had quite a few Welcome To Night Vale recap episodes before we started c...

This episode originally broadcast on March 26, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/03/binary-system-podcast-499-pluribus-episode-3/ On this week’s  Pluribus  recap, episode three starts with Carol stuck in the memory of one more time when she didn’t try harder to make Helen happy. (For the record, Carol, we get it, we don’t like being cold either, but OH MY GOD that i...

This episode originally broadcast on March 19, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/03/binary-system-podcast-498-wtnv-284-harrison-kips-twilight-gospel-hour/ Cecil and Night Vale Radio both get a break this week (aside from a couple of Station ID's and a long list of "supporters"). Instead, we hear the soothing tones of Harrison Kip as he gives the listen...

This episode originally broadcast on March 12, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/03/binary-system-podcast-497-pluribus-episodes-1-and-2/ Friend of the Podcast Hannah has been after us for a bit to give Pluribus a shot and after watching the first two episodes WE DEFINITELY GET THE APPEAL. This show is not at all what we expected, and keeps surprising us at eve...

This episode originally broadcast on March 5, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/03/binary-system-podcast-496-wtnv-283-work-from-home/ A sandstorm in Night Vale means low visibility, accidental mudslides, and murderous doppelgängers roaming the streets. But it  also  means Cecil and Carlos can work from home today and spend time teaching their adorable spell-ca...

This episode originally broadcast on February 26, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/02/binary-system-podcast-495-kpop-demon-hunters-and-everything-were-not-watching/ https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/02/binary-system-podcast-495-kpop-demon-hunters-and-everything-were-not-watching/ Wonder of all wonders, we actually watched what we said we were going to watch, and...

This episode originally broadcast on February 19, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/02/binary-system-podcast-494-wtnv-282-antler-cove/ The investigation into the murder of Marcus Vanston is on the back burner this week, because Cecil is laser-focused on a very important issue. It doesn’t get a lot of discussion usually, which is a shame because there are peopl...

This episode originally broadcast on February 12, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/02/binary-system-podcast-493-transformers-one/ lt only took us a year this time (year and a half, tops) but we finally watched Transformers One. And you know what? We have no excuses for why it took us this long, especially since it's so freaking good . Spoiler warnings ahe...

This episode originally broadcast on February 5, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/02/binary-system-podcast-492-wtnv-281-witnesses/ This week in Night Vale, Dana Cardinal's investigation into the murder of Marcus Vanston is finally making progress: a witness has come forward! Actually four witnesses. And not one of them has any useful information. We don&#...

This episode originally broadcast on January 29, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/01/binary-system-podcast-491-strange-new-worlds-lower-decks-crossover/ It's a good thing Kathryn watched the Star Trek Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover this week, mostly because now we can talk about how awesome it is that the actors who voiced the animated character...

This episode originally broadcast on January 22, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/01/binary-system-podcast-490-wake-up-dead-man-a-knives-out-mystery/ "Hee. Moriarty throwing a paper airplane at a very angsty Hawkeye. I'll be in my bunk." Yay, we actually watched something we planned to watch! What...no, not Weapons. And not Nosferatu either. Thi...

This episode originally broadcast on January 15, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/01/binary-system-podcast-489-star-trek-lower-decks-the-final-two-episodes/ The last two episodes of the final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks had everything: fantastic stunt casting, a squad of Harry Kims, mountains of technobabble, a version of Mariner who knows very little ab...

This episode originally broadcast on January 8, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/01/binary-system-podcast-488-mayor-of-kingstown-season-4-finale/ It's finally here! Four years of gang wars and prison riots, backroom deals and family ties, unbreakable loyalty and horrific betrayal, and it all brings us to the final episode of Mayor of Kingstown, where... ....

This episode originally broadcast on January 1, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/01/binary-system-podcast-487-2022s-christmas-musical-spirited/ Happy New Year everybody! Hope your holiday is fun and your 2026 better than you hoped! This week we're sitting down with special guest Hannah Wallace to discuss 2022's epic Christmas musical, Spirited, which...

This episode originally broadcast on December 25, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/12/binary-system-podcast-486-mayor-of-kingstown-season-4-episode-9-teeth-and-tissue/ Okay you guys, this is a really weird episode to drop on a holiday: the latest chapter of  Mayor of Kingstown  (possibly the second-to-last episode ever?) bombarded us for 47 solid minutes with...

This episode originally broadcast on December 11, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/12/binary-system-podcast-485-mayor-of-kingstown-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ his week's episode of Mayor of Kingstown was slightly less stressful than last week's, but everyone is still in a hell of a lot of peril. There are some incredibly dangerous characters in this sh...

This episode originally broadcast on December 4, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/12/binary-system-podcast-484-wtnv-279-jaccuse-and-mayor-of-kingstown/ On this week's Night Vale recap, Cecil and Dana are still trying to figure out who in town has murdered two people (that we know of.) (And we're not talking about Tabitha because she's the town fou...

This episode originally broadcast on November 20, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/11/binary-system-podcast-482-wtnv-278-how-to-solve-a-murder-and-mayor-of-kingstown/ On this week's Night Vale recap THERE'S BEEN A MURDER. It's the same murder we heard about last week, but as Cecil points out it's still true, and it's a heck of a hook for a...

This episode originally broadcast on November 13, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/11/binary-system-podcast-481-mayor-of-kingstown-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ This week we're recapping episode 3 of the last season of Mayor of Kingstown, where pretty much everything is spiraling out of Mike's control. Rival gang members are murdering each other and sett...

This episode originally broadcast on November 6, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/11/binary-system-podcast-480-wtnv-277-the-big-game-and-mayor-of-kingstown/ This week's Night Vale is the kind of murder mystery that can only happen in this weird little town, with dead angels, no suspects, surprise bats, and an autopsy report that's just the coroner sta...

This episode originally broadcast on October 30, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/10/binary-system-podcast-479-we-watched-heretic-and-mayor-of-kingstown/ In our continuing series "Elizabeth And Kathryn Watch Things That Are Less Than A Year Old", this week we watched 2024's Heretic (came out last November, just under a year, still counts!) It&#3...

This episode originally broadcast on October 23, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/10/binary-system-podcast-478-wtnv-276-the-big-game-wednesday-and-random-horror/ It's a short episode this week because we decided we weren't going to spoil the ending of Night Vale's latest episode: it's such a quiet, subtle story, perfect for an autumn day, and...

This episode originally broadcast on October 16, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/10/binary-system-podcast-477-we-watched-sinners/ Yep, you read that right. This week in complete defiance of our usual routine we made a plan – watch Sinners – and then we actually followed the plan and watched a movie less than six months after it came out! And oh boy,  what  a...

This episode originally broadcast on October 9, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/10/binary-system-podcast-476-wtnv-275-date-night-lower-decks-and-wednesday/ On this week’s Welcome to Night Vale episode Cecil is determined to tell you all about his date night at this awesome little bee-filled restaurant, but his producer wishes we could stick to the Top. Story...