Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date February 15, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/02/binary-system-podcast-114_placeholder_content/ Not sure what's going on lately, but there's a wealth of topics that we could turn into podcasts this month. So many fun things going on: the Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts are playing at theaters, there's a new Welcome to Night Vale episod...

Original broadcast date February 8, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/02/binary-system-podcast-113-wtnv-episode-121-a-story-of-love-and-horror-part-1-barks/ This week the twins are recapping the pre-Valentine's Day return of Night Vale, featuring one of Night Vale's newest romantic couples, a pair that is so cute and well-adjusted we're wondering exactly how i...

Original broadcast date January 25, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/01/binary-system-podcast-112-peaky-blinders-and-transformers-lost-light/ This week the twins prove that they CAN be good at TV, darnit, because they're both caught up on the latest season of Peaky Blinders, only a month after it dropped on Netflix so THERE. (Fair warning, there will be a-spo...

Original broadcast date January 18, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/01/binary-system-podcast-111-twin-peaks-the-return-and-hannibal/ Welcome to Night Vale is still being good at a hiatus this January (bless 'em, we think they deserve a break), so we decided it was a good time for another "EEEEEEE!" fangirl-type episode. (Although in the case of Twin Peaks it...

Original broadcast date January 4, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/01/binary-system-podcast-110_the_one_where_we_actually_plan_something/ It's the first episode of 2018 and we have a plan! And that plan is to fill up 10 minutes talking about our plans for the next few episodes before Elizabeth's voice dies on account of the plague. It's still a plan! Totally...

Original broadcast date December 28, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/12/binary-system-podcast-106_wtnv_120-all-smiles-eve/ This week Binary System is going to be on the road for the holidays! They'll be...no, wait, sorry, they're already home. What day is it again? Time is weird. Please enjoy this Welcome To Night Vale Christmas recap that they recorded two...

Original broadcast date December 21, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/12/binary-system-podcast-108-the-catch-up-episode/ It's the last podcast before Christmas so let's celebrate with an episode that's...not really about Christmas at all. Ho ho ho? Okay, so we recorded this two weeks ago and forgot it was the pre-Christmas episode, and in our defense we do ma...

Original broadcast date December 14, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/12/binary-system-podcast-107-thor-ragnarok-and-stranger-things-season-2/ This is the second of two episodes we actually recorded last week (because time is weird) just to make sure the holiday travel time didn't throw off our oh-so-carefully-prepared schedule (and if you believe we're that...

Original broadcast date December 7, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/12/binary-system-podcast-106_wtnv_119_egemony_part_3_a_story_of_love_and_horror/ Yep, it's definitely not our imagination: these titles are getting longer. Balancing out that extra-long title is a short podcast this week as the twins recap an episode of Welcome To Night Vale where...nothing...

Original broadcast date November 23, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/11/binary-system-podcast-105-wtnv-118-egemony-part-2-the-cave-lands/ Happy Thanksgiving everyone! To celebrate, here's a podcast where we don't mention Thanksgiving EVEN ONE TIME. Yes, all right, we forgot this episode drops on Thanksgiving. But we are grateful for a lot of things, in addit...

Original broadcast date November 16, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/11/binary-system-podcast-104-all-the-conventions-well-two-of-them-anyway/ That's right, this past weekend Binary System went to ALL the conventions! And by all we mean some. Well, two. But they were really good ones! Listen in as we debrief on the awesome cosplay and panels at NC Comicon: B...

Original broadcast date November 9, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/11/binary-system-podcast-103-blair-witch-2016-and-wtnv-117-recap/ This week we're throwing the format out the window! That's right, instead of recapping Welcome to Night Vale and then talking about a movie, we're talking about a movie first! Then the recap! Madness! Total chaos! Ahem. Anyway...

Original broadcast date November 2, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/11/binary-system-podcast-102-wonder-woman-and-blade-runner-2049/ The Binary Podcast team may not see the latest blockbusters on opening night. Or opening week. Or the week after that... Okay, so maybe it takes us a while to get around to things. But we make up for it with almost an hour of f...

Original broadcast date October 26, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/10/binary-system-podcast-101-wtnv-116-council-member-flynn-part-3/ Binary System Podcast is back on schedule this week (meaning we're a week behind with our recaps. "Running behind" is the new "on schedule," all the cool kids say it's so.) Listen in as we discuss crime and finances in Night...

Original broadcast date October 19, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/10/binary-system-podcast-100-one-hundred-episodes-of-randomness/ Binary System Podcast is celebrating 100 episodes! Well, not counting 20 or so recorded before we started calling them Binary System, plus some bonus episodes here and there, the odd fan art collections...you know what, it's no...

Original broadcast date Octobetr 12, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/10/binary-system-podcast-99-wtnv-114-and-115-council-member-flynn/ After hurricanes and cross country trips we managed to catch up in one fell swoop by recapping Welcome To Night Vale episodes 114 AND 115, and still managed to fit in thoughts on Wonder Woman, Blade Runner, Mad Max, Train To...

Original broadcast date October 5, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/10/binary-system-podcast-98-horror-movies-with-special-guest-hannah/ The nights are longer, the air is cooler, there's pumpkin spice everywhere , so you know what that means? Time to break out our favorite horror movies and scare ourselves silly. (Hey, could you leave the light on in the hall...

Original broadcast date September 28, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/09/binary-system-podcast-97-friday-the-13th-the-series-the-fangirling/ Thirty years ago today, a little TV show called Friday the 13th the Series aired for the first time (...in Canada, it didn't show up in the US till October 3.) It was scandalously gory and violent for network TV at the...

Original broadcast date September 14, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/09/binary-system-podcast-96-the-kitchen-sink-episode/ Since there's no Night Vale to recap this week we figured we'd just talk about everything else , starting with our family in the path of Hurricane Irma (spoilers: they're fine ) and upcoming travel plans that are making our recording sc...

Original broadcast date September 7, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/09/binary-system-podcast-94-eclipse-recap-and-wtnv-112-citizen-spotlight-2/ It’s a nice rambly podcast this week, first with a Night Vale recap where Cecil talks about eclipses you can’t see from this planet and then gets stuck in his own recording booth. And then Elizabeth drags the podcas...

Original broadcast date August 24, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/08/binary-system-podcast-94-eclipse-recap-and-wtnv-112-citizen-spotlight/ First off this week is a recap of The Great American Eclipse because SCIENCE. Then we're looking at Night Vale's first Citizen Spotlight, featuring a character who is entirely fictional. More so than usual we mean. Afte...

Original broadcast date August 17, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/08/binary-system-podcast-93-alice-isnt-dead-10-why-am-i-alive/ Time for the season finale of Alice Isn't Dead! As you can tell from the title, things get a little introspective and quickly turn very grim. We got to hear how Kesha met Alice (randomly), how they fell in love (quirkily and sweet...

Original broadcast date August 10, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/08/binary-system-podcast-92-wtnv-111-summer-2017-night-vale-usa/ This week's episode of Night Vale was less of an episode and more of a little present for everybody who's been a fan of the show since the beginning. We got the Dog Park, Dana Cardinal, Khoshekh, the lights above the Arby's, Car...

Original broadcast date August 3, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/08/binary-system-podcast-91-alice-isnt-dead-8-and-9/ So SDCC didn't throw us as far behind as we were afraid (thanks for the hiatus, Welcome to Night Vale!) but we still have two episodes of Alice Isn't Dead to catch up on: "Absent Family" (we never did figure out the title) and "Prey" (we mos...

Original broadcast date July 31, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/07/binary-system-podcast-90-better-late-than-flat-on-the-ground-passed-out-in-a-post-comic-con-coma/ It’s the San Diego Comic-Con 2017 wrap up! And we’re TIRED. Join the twins and Official Binary System Photographer Captain Slack (otherwise known as Kathryn’s husband Nathan) as we kick back the...