Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date June 16, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/06/binary-system-podcast-40-wtnv-89-whos-a-good-boy-part-1/ "Who's a good boy?" Not really a question that you'd expect to strike fear in the hearts of podcast listeners. But it does. Once we shook off the Welcome To Night Vale heebie-jeebies we talked about Daredevil and The Fall , and then ab...

Original broadcast date June 9, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/06/binary-system-podcast-39-alice-isnt-dead-6-lets-break-into-a-police-station/ This week we recap the latest episode of Alice Isn't Dead and ask the question: if you're not a criminal mastermind, how do you break into a police station? (Answer: loudly. Before you can change your mind.) We also...

Original broadcast date May 26, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/05/binary-system-podcast-38-alice-isnt-dead-6-sylvia/ Short episode this week, but two important things: we recapped the latest episode of Alice Isn't Dead, and we think (maybe) we might (quite possibly) have come up with our cosplay for New York Comic-Con. Unless you can think of something bett...

Original broadcast date May 19, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/05/binary-system-podcast-37-wtnv-88-things-fall-apart/ The title to this week's Welcome To Night Vale episode sums it up: things in Night Vale are falling apart. It's bad enough that the gas, electricity, and water is out, but now the surveillance cameras aren't working? Everybody panic! (Quietl...

Original broadcast date May 12, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/05/binary-system-podcast-36-alice-isnt-dead-chapter-5-signs-and-wonders/ On this week's episode we're discussing Captain America: Civil War (don't worry, no spoilers,) Daredevil (nope, no spoilers here either,) High-Rise (still no spoilers) and recap the latest episode of Alice Isn't Dead . ( Lo...

Original broadcast date May 5, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/05/binary-system-podcast-35-wtnv-87-the-trial-of-hiram-mcdaniels/ The long awaited trial of Hiram McDaniels has finally arrived. Aaaand now it's done. That was fast. We didn't get to see much of the trial (Mayor Cardinal took the charge to "Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the tru...

Original broadcast date April 28, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/04/binary-system-podcast-34-alice-isnt-dead-4-factory-by-the-sea/ This week's episode of Alice Isn't Dead was like a Ray Bradbury short story; it was beautiful and surreal and oh so creepy. If the writers keep this up then we're looking forward to many more chapters in this very odd story. (An...

Original broadcast date April 21, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/04/binary-system-podcast-33-wtnv-86-standing-and-breathing/ In this week's Night Vale episode we got to see a lot more of these Strangers that aren't doing much, except standing there...and breathing... andthensuddenlyappearingrightnexttoyouwithoutmoving YIPE! After that we talked about what w...

Original broadcast date April 14, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/04/binary-system-podcast-32-alice-isnt-dead-3-nothing-to-see/ This week we're recapping the latest episode of Alice Isn't Dead and then we talk about the things that, on a deep and primitive level, scare the hell out of us. Then we cheer ourselves up with some Zootopia and Daredevil , freak ou...

Original broadcast date March 31, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/03/binary-system-podcast-30-alice-isnt-dead-2-alice/ On the latest episode of "Alice Isn't Dead", things are getting creepier for our narrator (who's name we still don't know), and we learn a few more pieces of important information about her (other than minor details, like, y'know, her name)....

Original broadcast date March 24, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/03/binary-system-podcast-29-wtnv-episode-84-past-time/ Springtime! The days are getting longer, the weather's getting warmer, and everyone's flocking to the Little League tryouts. At the Haunted Baseball Field. With a youth coach who died at least a century ago and who talks like Dracula. Play...

Original broadcast date March 17, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/03/binary-system-podcast-28-recapping-alice-isnt-dead-the-omelet/ Joseph Fink of Welcome To Night Vale has started a new podcast (no he hasn't quit the old one, the man apparently doesn't sleep) so of course the twins had to recap it. Listen in as they break down the first episode of Alice Isn...

Original broadcast date March 10, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/03/binary-system-podcast-27-wtnv-episode-83-one-normal-town/ Dude! Did you hear the news? Desert Bluffs is no more! I don't even know how to process this information, I think I need to lie down... When we've recovered, this week the twins recap the latest developments in Night Vale. We also ta...

Original broadcast date March 3, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/03/binary-system-podcast-26-ramble-all-the-ramblings/ Normally we'd be recording a Welcome To Night Vale recap tonight (that pesky three-hour time difference between East and West coast means Sundays and Mondays are the best days for recording), but Leap Year pushed March 1 back to a Tuesday, s...

Original broadcast date February 18, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/02/binary-system-podcast-25-wtnv-82-skating-rink/ What do horrifying growls, unexplained power-outages, and two collections of indescribable figures coming together mean? Why it must be the grand opening of the new Skating Rink at the Desert Flower Bowling Alley and Arcade Fun Complex! And...

Original broadcast date April 20, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/02/binary-system-podcast-24-wtnv-episode-81-after-3327/ There's a really interesting lecture going on at Night Vale's Museum of Forbidden Technologies (which Elizabeth and Kathryn will now refer to as "MOFT", because we're easy to amuse.) Unfortunately the lecturer has removed his burlap sack...

Original broadcast date February 1, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/02/oscars-2016-animation-shorts/ This week Jada and Elizabeth had a chance to see all of the films that have been nominated for Best Animated Short, and they recorded the post-viewing debriefing as a bonus podcast, part of a month of Oscars® coverage from PixelatedGeek.com. Listen in as Jada...

Original broadcast date February 22, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/02/academy-awards-2016-spotlight/ Elizabeth and I watched Spotlight , which is nominated in six different categories: Best Picture, Directing, Writing (Original Screenplay) and Film Editing. Mark Ruffalo is nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Rachel McAdams is nominated for Be...

Original broadcast date January 28, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/01/binary-system-podcast-23-return-of-the-x-files/ It's another week and still no Night Vale, but that's okay because we've got X-Files! The twins break down the first episode of the new X-Files series, with all the conspiracies, explosions, and the complete lack of anybody making out with a...

Original broadcast date January 14, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/01/binary-system-podcast-22-spoilerific-star-wars-and-sherlock/ The twins have both finally seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens and SPOILERS! Holy cow the SPOILERS ALL OVER THE PLACE. For this and for Sherlock: The Abominable Bride . (Hey, if you're gonna spoil things, spoil all the things.) S...

Original broadcast date January 7, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/01/binary-system-podcast-21-new-year-out-of-control-already/ Without a Night Vale episode this week, we set off to do a short podcast about what we've got coming up for January. It quickly spiraled into a discussion about X-Files, book authors, spoiler warnings, fan fiction, Warehouse 13, Mis...

Original broadcast date December 24, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/12/binary-system-podcast-20-wtnv-episode-80-a-new-sheriff-in-town/ Happy Christmas Eve, y'all! Don't forget to say Merry Christmas to the government agents running 24-hour surveillance on your business and home. (But avoid saying their name out loud when you're on the radio. That's just rud...

Original broadcast date December 17, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/12/binary-system-podcast-19-all-star-wars-all-the-time/ To give everybody a break from all the hype surrounding a certain movie that comes out at midnight tonight, the twins will spend today's podcast talking instead about Existentialism in literature, and the differences between Solipsism...

Original broadcast date December 3, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/12/binary-system-podcast-18-wtnv-episode-79-lost-in-the-mail/ This week the twins help celebrate Remembrance Day in Night Vale, which involves the usual parades, speeches, Emissaries from the Blood Space War, and fidelipac cartridges. Also there's some Walking Dead, Doctor Who, and Star Wars...

Original broadcast date November 19, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/11/binary-system-podcast-17-wtnv-episode-78-cooking-stuff/ Winter Halloween is almost here, but first there's the little matter of Thanksgiving. Cecil's guest tonight is Tourniquet sou chef Earl Harlan, here to walk you through all the steps to cooking the perfect Thanksgiving turkey: Kill,...