Binary System Podcast Archive

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...

This episode originally broadcast on October 2, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/10/binary-system-podcast-475-wtnv-274-the-hoa/ There’s a new Homeowners’ Association trying to muscle its way into Night Vale, and the residents of the Desert Grove neighborhood have a  lot  of questions. Will the new HOA have rules against owning more than 36 iguanas? Are abando...

This episode originally broadcast on September 25, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/09/binary-system-podcast-474-robert-redford-and-the-sting/ It's a travel edition this week, featuring the return of special guest Hannah Wallace ! Listen in as we discuss (accompanied by tree frogs and crickets) the life and work of Robert Redford, specifically The Sting s...

This episode originally broadcast on September 11, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/09/binary-system-podcast-473-wtnv-273-horror-recs/ As longtime Welcome To Night Vale fans  and  two people who love horror movies and are always accepting recommendations (with some terms and conditions*), the latest episode could not be more perfect. Not only does Cecil share...

This episode originally broadcast on September 4, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/09/binary-system-podcast-472-star-trek-lower-decks-and-wednesday-season-2-premiere/ “We’re not talking Uncanny Valley, we’re talking Uncanny Grand Canyon.” In this week’s  Star Trek: Lower Decks  recap we discuss Dr. Migleemo’s attempt to cook for two food critics from Klowahka...

This episode originally broadcast on August 28, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/08/binary-system-podcast-471-wtnv-272-horoscopes-and-lower-decks/ Well if you know us you know we love some Night Vale horoscopes, except for the fact that Capricorn is ALWAYS getting the shaft. Luckily this week Capricorn made it out fairly unscathed, other than that whole accid...

This episode originally broadcast on August 21, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/08/binary-system-podcast-470-station-eleven-series-finale/ We watched the series finale of  Station Eleven  this week, only three and a half years late, that’s a record for us! (Except for when we watched  Mayor of Kingstown  season three the same month it was released. Or  Love...

This episode originally broadcast on August 14, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/08/binary-system-podcast-469-wtnv-271-the-festival-and-station-eleven/ Welcome To Night Vale is back from hiatus, and they’ve brought us the perfect summer episode! The description of a mysterious festival in the desert made us nostalgic for Dead & Company shows, and the desc...

This episode originally broadcast on July 31, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/07/binary-system-podcast-468-san-diego-comic-con-galaxycon-and-lower-decks/ This week we've got recaps of ALL the Conventions. And by all we mean two. But they're big ones! The West Coast branch of the podcast was at San Diego Comic-Con, while the East Coast branch was at G...

This episode originally broadcast on July 24, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/07/binary-system-podcast-467-station-eleven-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ The Station Eleven episode we recap this week is number 7, "Goodbye My Damaged Home", and oh boy. If you're watching this show then you know why this one just knocked our socks off. (And if you're not, well, you...

This episode originally broadcast on July 17, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/07/binary-system-podcast-466-station-eleven-lower-decks-superman-and-the-spectacular-failure-of-the-star-wars-hotel/ It's a bonus-sized (and spoileriffic!) episode this week because we've got a lot to go over. Another episode of Station Eleven of course, with gorgeous cinem...

This episode originally broadcast on July 19, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/07/binary-system-podcast-465-station-eleven-star-trek-lower-decks-and-picard/ First up this week we start with a spoileriffic recap of the  Station Eleven  bottle episode “The Severn City Airport,” where we find out how the Prophet became so  intensely creepy,  tho we’re still not...

This episode originally broadcast on July 3, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/07/binary-system-podcast-464-station-eleven-and-star-trek-lower-decks/ Our journey through a post-pandemic world continues this week as we discuss the fourth episode of Station Eleven. The lines are being drawn between the people still mourning the world that existed before the pand...

This episode originally broadcast on June 26, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/06/binary-system-podcast-463-station-eleven-the-phoenician-scheme-and-28-weeks-later/ We've clearly been kidnapped by aliens and replaced with clones who are much better at watching movies, because this week we caught up on a show that's only four years old, and watched a m...