Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date October 21, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/10/binary-system-podcast-287-wtnv-196-silas-the-thief-part-2-and-lore-olympus/ This week we're recapping a Night Vale episode where Silas the Thief rants about his ex girlfriend, and a Lore Olympus episode where Hermes takes up all the time on the stand. Hang on. We've been here before . htt...

Original broadcast date October 14, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/10/binary-system-podcast-286-wtnv-195-silas-the-thief-and-lore-olympus/ The latest episode of Welcome to Night Vale was definitely interesting, a bit of a departure from their usual style, and OH MY GOD DID YOU SEE WHAT THEY DID AT THE END HOLY COW THIS CHANGES LITERALLY EVERYTHING. (Spoiler...

Original broadcast date October 7, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/10/binary-system-podcast-285-all-ted-lasso-all-the-time/ It's the final 2021 Vacation Edition of the podcast, and since we've spent the last week binging all of Ted Lasso season 1, we had to bring on special guest Hannah Wallace to discuss all the reasons why this ridiculously charming show m...

Original broadcast date September 30, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/binary-system-podcast-284-lore-olympus-and-ted-lasso/ The Vacation Podcast edition continues, this week we're broadcasting from an undisclosed location in the North Carolina Mountains. (Boone. We're vacationing in Boone. Go App State!) But thanks to the internet we're cut off from absol...

Original broadcast date September 23, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/binary-system-podcast-283-wtnv194-the-nearly-infinite-lives-of-frank-chen-and-lore-olympus/ It's the first Vacation Edition of Binary System in over two years! Recording from the same time zone in the same place, this week we planned on a quick recap of the latest episode of Night Vale...

Original broadcast date September 16, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/binary-system-podcast-282-lore-olympus-and-what-were-rewatching-now/ With all of the amazing content that we need to get caught up on, it's no surprise to anybody that we're taking the time to watch TV and movies that we've already seen. Multiple times. But, you know, pandemic, serotoni...

Original broadcast date September 9, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/binary-system-podcast-281-wtnv-193-team-having-fun/ It's a pretty quick recap of Welcome to Night Vale This Week (TL:DR Consultants are annoying even in Night Vale, and Elizabeth can do a very passable imitation of the "You've got a message" sound effect on Slack). And that's good, becau...

Original broadcast date September 2, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/binary-system-podcast-280-board-games-lovecraft-country-star-wars-and-lore-olympus/ If you know us you know that we're always interested in the newest movies and TV shows that have hit the nerd world! We just wait six months or more to watch them. Which is why Elizabeth only just now got...

Original broadcast date August 19, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/08/binary-system-podcast-279-wtnv-192-it-doesnt-hold-up/ You know those dreams, the ones where you're watching a movie you really really love, except your favorite character is played by a different actor, and the plot has changed, and the soundtrack sounds like owls hissing and there's a str...

Original broadcast date August 12, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/08/binary-system-podcast-278-beastars-lore-olympus-and-going-way-too-dark-for-a-thursday/ After the weekly SitRep (vaccination numbers, fish tanks, and mask peer pressure) we jump right into the second season of Beastars. Macho lions and meat-eating deer? A wolf in drag? The hallucination wit...

Original broadcast date August 5, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/08/binary-system-podcast-277-wtnv-191-the-many-many-lives-of-frank-chen/ We may have mentioned this before, but the Binary System Podcast team loves a good time-travel story. We especially enjoy it when the writers use the side-effects of time travel to really mess with longtime fans who know...

Original broadcast date July 29, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/07/binary-system-podcast-276-beastars-lore-olympus-and-one-more-look-at-loki/ We've already talked enough about Loki this month so we don't need to talk about the season finale AHAHAHAHAHA, kidding, of course we do. After a quick SitRep where we talk about our trip to visit family (yay!), the r...

Original broadcast date July 15, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/07/binary-system-podcast-275-world-of-tomorrow-and-loki-and-lore-olympus/ So of course we're going to be talking about Lore Olympus and the latest episode of Loki (not the final episode that just aired yesterday, the one before that.) But we also just watched the third installment of Don Hertzf...

Original broadcast date July 8, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/07/binary-system-podcast-274-loki-and-lore-olympus-again/ Okay let's just admit it; until the Loki series finishes up on the 14th, this is probably going to be the All Loki All The Time podcast. And we're never not going to talk about the latest Lore Olympus episode, with all the lovely art and...

Original broadcast date July 1, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/07/binary-system-podcast-273-loki-and-lore-olympus/ We're only talking about two things this week, and that's Loki and Lore Olympus! And the weekly SitRep. Okay three things. Loki, Lore Olympus, the weekly SitRep, and Mr. Robot. Four things. Maybe five? Oh nevermind. Ack! We forgot to mention ho...

Original broadcast date June 24, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/06/binary-system-podcast-272-welcome-to-night-vale-lore-olympus-and-loki/ This week we're recapping Welcome to Night Vale's 9th Anniversary episode (NINE YEARS holy Glow Cloud where does the time go) which ended up being a celebration not just of Night Vale but of podcasts in general, as over a...

Original broadcast date June 17, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/06/binary-system-podcast-271-lore-olympus-and-the-loki-tv-show/ We haven't had a chance to discuss Lore Olympus for a while, so this week we're devoting the entire episode to a recap of episodes 159-161 and oh who are we kidding LET'S TALK ABOUT LOKI. In all seriousness, we do get around to a s...

Original broadcast date June 10, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/06/binary-system-podcast-270-welcome-to-night-vale-falcon-winter-soldier-and-unfriended/ This week we recap a Night Vale episode that's all about a severed, sentient human hand, and it's not even a little creepy, it's actually very sweet. Later on in the episode we recap a movie about several k...

Original broadcast date June 3, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/06/binary-system-podcast-269-bojack-horseman-series-finale/ Seriously you guys we're not kidding this time, ALL THE SPOILER WARNINGS this episode because we're breaking down the final season of Bojack Horseman and we're going to spoil everything. (...yes okay the final episode dropped a year and...

Original broadcast date May 27, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/05/binary-system-podcast-268-the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-bojack-horseman-and-lore-olympus/ Sure, the final episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier dropped a solid month ago and we're only halfway through the season, but that's better than waiting a solid year like we usually do, right...

Original broadcast date May 20, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/05/binary-system-podcast-267-wtnv-188-listener-questions/ "Why are you pretending you wrote this?" Not gonna lie, the Night Vale folks had us going for a bit when they said they had to change plans for the episode at the last minute and just answer some fan-submitted questions. Being Night Vale,...

Original broadcast date May 13, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/05/binary-system-podcast-266-bojack-horseman-lore-olympus-and-mst3k/ This week we’re just drooling about all the things we want to do once we’re fully vaccinated (haircuts and craft stores, we know how to party) and then we jump into a spoileriffic recap of Bojack Horseman season 5, complete wit...

Original broadcast date May 6, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/05/binary-system-podcast-265-wtnv-187-recap-and-twin-peaks-the-return/ The Night Vale recap is very quick this week, partly because it's a very cerebral episode about life and identity and carving forgotten languages into insanely tall monoliths, but mostly because Elizabeth finally watched all o...

Original broadcast date April 29, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/04/binary-system-podcast-264-the-oscars-sort-of-bojack-horseman-twin-peaks-and-lore-olympus/ If you're looking for a detailed breakdown of this year's Oscar ceremony and all the winning films...this is not the podcast for that. Because we barely saw any of the nominees and we certainly didn't...

Original broadcast date April 22, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/04/binary-system-podcast-263-wtnv-186-the-many-lives-of-frank-chen/ Big news in Night Vale this week! The Secret Police were given one year to provide the life of Frank Chen back to his family, an impossible task that they somehow managed to accomplish way before the deadline! Yes indeed, Fran...