Binary System Podcast Archive

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...

Original broadcast date July 20, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/07/binary-system-podcast-89-night-vale-bonus-tracks-and-san-diego-comic-con/ This week Welcome to Night Vale demonstrated once again that they don’t understand the meaning of the word “hiatus” because they gave us both an excerpt from the upcoming Night Vale book It Devours , AND a teaser for t...

Original broadcast date July 13, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/07/binary-system-podcast-88-the-alice-isnt-dead-catch-up-episode-part-2/ This week Binary System recaps two episodes of Alice Isn't Dead in record time and that's it! We're all caught up with podcasts! And in one week San Diego Comic-Con takes over our lives and we're going to get totally behin...

Original broadcast date July 6, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/07/binary-system-podcast-87-wtnv-episode-110-matryoshka/ This week Binary System is finally caught up with Welcome To Night Vale woo!! Listen in as we recap (and try to pronounce) "Matryoshka." Then there's the Night Vale Bonus Episode "The Tragic Story of Louie Blasko," which we don't recap so...

Original broadcast date June 29, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/06/binary-system-podcast-86-the-alice-isnt-dead-catch-up-episode-part-1/ This week Binary System Podcast is organized and on top of all the things! Hah, kidding, we're still playing catch up. This week we recapped episodes 4 and 5 of the latest season of Alice Isn't Dead , and still had time to...

Original broadcast date June 22, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/06/binary-system-podcast-85-the-night-vale-catch-up-episode-part-1/ Binary System Podcast is back on schedule! Mostly! A little? Okay, not at all, because we're way behind on our Night Vale Recaps. So this week you get two for one! Listen in as we race through Night Vale episodes #108 ("Cal") a...

Original broadcast date June 8, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/06/binary-system-podcast-84-lightning-speed-intermission/ Both branches of Binary System Podcast are once again on the road this week, so we recorded a 7-minute podcast. And still managed to fit in the Sense8 and Till All Are One cancellations, American Gods , how we haven't seen Wonder Woman ye...

Original broadcast date May 25, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/05/binary-system-podcast-83-zombies-run-with-special-guest-hannah/ If you've ever said "the only way I'd go running is if something was chasing me" then you already know one of the reasons we're fans of the Zombies, Run app. This week the twins' sister Hannah Wallace guest stars on the podcast t...

Original broadcast date May 11, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/05/binary-system-podcast-82-alice-isnt-dead-part-2-episode-3-abandoned-places/ This week we tried to recap the latest episode of Alice Isn't Dead , but it's this really atmospheric episode that doesn't do well as a recap (it's like trying to verbally describe an excellent sunset: you kinda had t...

Original broadcast date May 4, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/05/binary-system-podcast-81-wtnv-107-the-missing-sky/ You know how we always open the podcast by saying you should listen to the Welcome To Night Vale episode first? Well this week you REALLY NEED TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE FIRST. This was one of those episodes that's surreal and disjointed and har...

Original broadcast date April 27, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/04/binary-system-podcast-80-alice-isnt-dead-part-2-episode-2-the-mouth-of-the-water/ It's our 80th episode, woo hoo! Enjoy this...completely regular episode. You thought we'd have a plan? Have you met us? Anyway, we recap the latest Alice Isn't Dead episode and wander off into weird tangents l...

Original broadcast date April 20, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/04/binary-system-podcast-79-wtnv-episode-106-filings/ In Night Vale it's illegal to acknowledge the existence of angels, so they're out to change that, and you know what that means: PAPERWORK. Also minor riots, dragons, and rifts in the space-time continuum. It IS Night Vale we're talking abou...

Original broadcast date April 13, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/04/binary-system-podcast-78-season-premiere-of-alice-isnt-dead-season-finale-of-the-walking-dead/ After eight months it’s finally back: this week brought the season premiere of Alice Isn’t Dead , and we’ve got the recap but what we REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT is the season finale of The Walking...