Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date October 15, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/binary-system-podcast-238-welcome-to-night-vale-live-show-the-sandstorm/ So we waited and waited until we could hear the live performance of one of our favorite Night Vale episodes: The Sandstorm . And then we totally forgot about it until a week later. And then didn't watch it for anothe...

Original broadcast date October 8, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/binary-system-podcast-237-welcome-to-night-vale-17-the-october-monologues/ It's the third of Welcome To Night Vale's Monologue episodes (yes, third, not second, shame on us for forgetting The April Monologues in 2016). Once more we hear musings from Michelle Nguyen at Dark Owl Records, Ste...

Original broadcast date October 1, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/binary-system-podcast-236-paranormal-activity/ Here at Binary System Podcast we’re always ready to give you a review of the latest and greatest films. And by that we mean Kathryn finally convinced Elizabeth to watch Paranormal Activity . The FIRST one. Only 11 years later, gotta be a recor...

Original broadcast date September 24, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/09/binary-system-podcast-235-welcome-to-night-vale-174-radio-jupiter/ "I am adrift in a universe that does not know I exist. But then, you are too." The latest episode of Night Vale features a mysterious voice from Jupiter trying to figure out who she is and what her purpose is, something...

Original broadcast date September 10, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/09/binary-system-podcast-234-welcome-to-night-vale-173-the-hundred-year-play/ First up this week is a quick recap of a very long play, followed by some extensive ranting in the weekly SitRep (just the usual pandemic and things being on fire ) and then we lose our minds talking about the se...

Original broadcast date September 3, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/09/binary-system-podcast-233-weekly-roundup/ This was another grab-bag kind of episode, as we start out with the weekly SitRep and a few moments on the passing of Chadwick Boseman. After that we jump into happier nerd content: heads up for some MEGA spoilers for Lore Olympus, Mandalorian ,...

Original broadcast date August 27, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/08/binary-system-podcast-232-the-librarian-live-stream-and-lore-olympus/ Night Vale held their second Live Stream Live Performance last week, and it was even more fun than the first one. Listen in as we break down everything we loved about "The Librarian," and then do a super deep dive into t...

Original broadcast date August 20, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/08/binary-system-podcast-231-welcome-to-night-vale-172-return-of-the-obelisk/ This week's welcome to Night Vale has an interesting little thought experiment. Say that you could ask - and have answered - any question you want. Anything at all, the sky's the limit. What would you ask? What? Wel...

Original broadcast date August 13, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/08/binary-system-podcast-230-transformers-war-for-cybertron-siege/ So after the usual SitRep with beers (North Carolina started with a hurricane and ended with an earthquake SO THAT'S PRETTY NORMAL FOR 2020) we touched on bad sports movies and dietary supplement horror stories, and then we ju...

Original broadcast date August 6, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/08/binary-system-podcast-228-welcome-to-night-vale-171-go-to-the-mirror/ Finally, a brand new episode of Welcome to Night Vale to recap! …which takes us about five minutes, since it's something of an experimental episode that doesn't have a plot so much as an overwhelming atmosphere of dread....

Original broadcast date July 23, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/07/binary-system-podcast-228-toy-story-4-and-sdcc-home/ We still don't have a Night Vale episode this week and you'd think after 8 years of listening to them we'd know when they did their hiatuses BUT WE DON'T so instead we're talking about San Diego Comic-Con @ Home and how we finally watched...

Original broadcast date July 16, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/07/binary-system-podcast-227-welcome-to-night-vale-livestream-of-the-live-show-condos/ Just like last week we don't have a new episode of Welcome To Night Vale to recap. What we do have to talk about is the Welcome To Night Vale livestream, live performance of their first ever live show, "Condo...

Original broadcast date July 9, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/07/binary-system-podcast-226-disney-backup-plan/ We were all ready to recap the latest episode of Night Vale...until we found out there wasn't an episode this week. We're so flipping prepared. Luckily between Hamilton and the Mandalorian and all the other Disney stuff we're watching and planning...

Original broadcast date July 2, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/07/binary-system-podcast-225-comfort-watching/ Well the news in the real world is a bummer for sure so this week we only have one quick sitrep (short version: we’re all fine!) and then we discuss our go-to comfort shows ( House and Beastars, currently) fangirl all over The Good Place, and make t...

Original broadcast date June 18, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/06/binary-system-podcast-224-wtnv-170-to-the-family-and-friends-plus/ First up this week we're recapping Welcome To Night Vale's 8-year anniversary episode , a story about life and loss and moving on and getting older and death and OKAY let’s move on to the weekly sitrep with the pandemic and a...

Original broadcast date June 4, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/06/binary-system-podcast-223-wtnv-169-whittler/ This week we’re recapping a Night Vale episode full of wood carving and excellent horoscopes, but first we wanted to mention the week’s events. What can you say about the past week? It sucked, obviously. A man was murdered by the police, and since...

Original broadcast date May 21, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/05/binary-system-podcast-222-wtnv-168-secret-blotter-lore-olympus-and-devs/ First up this week is a recap of OUR FAVORITE KIND of Night Vale episode: a stand alone, gloriously strange list of weirdness . (Brie Williams is our favorite guest writer, since she also wrote “ Guidelines For Disposal...

Original broadcast date May 14, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/05/binary-system-podcast-221/ No Night Vale episode to recap, so this week we tried something different. We both said we were going to watch something that's been on our to-do list... and then we watched them . So Kathryn watched the 2007 movie Sunshine https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/ (wri...

Original broadcast date May 7, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/05/binary-system-podcast-220-wtnv-167-echo-part-5-of-5/ First up this week we’re recapping the fifth and final part of Night Vale’s latest story arc, as the telepathic cult from the Desert Otherworld has taken over the town. It’s a real feel-good finale, full of betrayal, mind control, and death!...

Original broadcast date April 30, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/04/binary-system-podcast-219-still-no-plan-social-distancing-edition/ No Night Vale episode this week, so after the usual sitrep (Summary: More ways to say "everyone's fine") we talk about about the Netflix series "Beastars" (Odd bit of trivia, Elizabeth watched the dubbed version and Kathryn...

Original broadcast date April 23, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/04/binary-system-podcast-218-wtnv-166-delta-part-4-of-5/ After a quick coronavirus sitrep from us and the family (short version: everybody's fine, wash your hands!) we switch to a lighter note with a Welcome To Night Vale recap, as the telepathic cult from the Desert Otherworld invades Night V...

Original broadcast date April 9, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/04/binary-system-podcast-217-wtnv-165-charlie-part-3-of-5/ Things are progressing quickly in the five-part story about the missing Delta Flight 18713 and the escaped inmates of the Night Vale asylum. The Desert Otherworld is coming into play, and there's a good chance that a mad pilot who can r...

Original broadcast date March 26, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/03/binary-system-podcast-216-quarantine-watch-party-options/ "We should try that Netflix Watch Party extension !" (https://www.netflixparty.com/) "All of us in three states watching a movie together!" "So what should we watch?" ".......uh...." Thus launching an hour-long conversation between E...

Original broadcast date March 19, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/03/binary-system-podcast-215-wtnv-164-the-faceless-old-woman-live/ It's the Welcome to Night Vale episode that Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor described as "maybe the most upsetting thing we've ever written." Listen in as we recap a one-person show featuring unearthly roommates, really cruel pr...

Original broadcast date March 12, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/03/binary-system-podcast-214/ Let’s face it, the Coronavirus is on everyone’s minds so we have to get that out of the way first. (It mostly involves us saying “WASH YOUR HANDS” a lot, spreading the word on the #ECCConline hashtag, and reminding you that you can’t use expensive vodka in place o...