Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date November 12, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/11/binary-system-podcast-16-bonus-episode-spoil-all-the-things/ You know how we always say in our intro that we're gonna listen to an episode and then "Spoil the hell out of it"? Well consider yourself warned, because on this week's bonus episode we're having a spoileriffic discussion of Th...

Original broadcast date November 5, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/11/binary-system-podcast-15-wtnv-episode-77-a-stranger/ A Stranger is terrorizing the Night Vale Radio Station and the mayor of Night Vale records a heartfelt plea to help Desert Bluffs, and then she eats dirt! No, that's not a figure of speech, she's eating dirt. So it's a pretty regular da...

Original broadcast date October 22, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/10/binary-system-podcast-14-wtnv-episode-76-an-epilogue/ Wow, a lot's been going on in Night Vale over the past few weeks, hasn't it? Just so much exciting stuff and revelations and fallout from big things happening. But Cecil doesn't need to go over the details about The Man in the Tan Jack...

Original broadcast date October 8, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/10/binary-system-podcast-13-wtnv-episode-75-through-the-narrow-place/ Oo, the 13th episode of BSP falling on the first week of October! That's so appropriately creepy, you'd almost think we planned it that way. Fall is here, and so is the Night Vale annual charity marathon: twenty-six miles t...

Original broadcast date September 24, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/09/binary-system-podcast-12-wtnv-episode-74-civic-changes/ We're back, for the second podcast in as many weeks! This time we're listening to a Welcome To Night Vale episode that calls back to a lot of old favorites (The Dog Park, Emergency Press Conferences, the big hole in the vacant lot...

Original broadcast date September 17, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/09/binary-system-podcast-11-wtnv-episode-73-triptych/ We're back from vacation and just a liiiitle bit late on listening to the September 1st WTNV episode. "Triptych" was worth the wait though; the episode heavily features Kevin from Desert Bluffs, with a totally new perspective on the not...

Original broadcast date September 3, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/09/binary-system-podcast-10-zombies-and-bots/ So on recording day we still had two more days to wait for a Welcome To Night Vale episode. Rather than skip a week, we talked about Sense8, The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, World War Z , and Transformers instead. Depending on how the sc...

Original broadcast date August 20, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/08/binary-system-podcast-9-wtnv-episode-72-well-of-night/ It's not always easy to be the new person at a social gathering. Fortunately for Cecil the occult get-togethers at the Old Well are very welcoming. And involuntary. And a lot of fun, although kind of hard to remember. This week the twi...

Original broadcast date August 6, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/08/binary-system-podcast-8-wtnv-episode-71-the-registry-of-middle-school-crushes/ Night Vale is back with regular episodes! This week the twins recap Welcome To Night Vale episode 71 "The Registry of Middle School Crushes" (and how freaking glad we are that such a thing never existed when we w...

Original broadcast date July 23, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/07/binary-system-7-wtnv-bonus-episode-5-excerpt-from-the-novel/ For the WTNV bonus episode this week, the voice of Night Vale himself, Cecil Palmer (Baldwin. Whatever.) read an excerpt from the upcoming novel. We went "EEEEEE!" over how perfectly the novel matches the tone of the podcast, and a...

Original broadcast date July 13, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/07/binary-system-6-night-vale-at-sdcc-2015/ Binary System (plus Kathryn's husband Nathan) were lucky enough to catch the Welcome To Night Vale panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2015; we were almost too late to get a place in line, but in the end we were Spared From the Sphere, and got to listen to H...

Original broadcast date July 9, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/07/binary-system-5-wtnv-bonus-episode-4/ Lotta numbers in that title. Confused yet? God knows we are... The Welcome to Night Vale crew must have known that we're all busy getting ready for San Diego Comic-Con, because the Bonus Episode we recap this week was maybe eight minutes long. Nine minute...

Original broadcast date July 2, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/07/binary-system-4-getting-ready-for-comic-con/ This week we're ditching the formula and just rambling some rambles, since a new Night Vale episode dropped (*checks watch*) yesterday, which didn't leave us enough time to listen to it, record a recap, and post it without the aid of a TARDIS or Ti...

Original broadcast date June 18, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/06/night-vale-recap-episode-70a-and-70b-taking-off-and-review/ That's right, this week's recap is two episodes for the price of one! Cecil had big plans last episode to leave Night Vale for good and move to the Desert Otherworld. The twins both figured that was going to go horribly wrong, and t...

Original broadcast date June 4, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/06/night-vale-recap-episode-69-fashion-week/ It's Fashion Week, which means the same thing in Night Vale as it does everywhere else: lots of people trying to show off how hip they are, lots of interesting outfits, a giant sphere rolling down the street swallowing everyone who isn't fashionable e...

Original broadcast date May 21, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/05/night-vale-recap-episode-68-faceless-old-women/ The Secret Police's hunt for the Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home causes chaos all over town, the owner of Lot 37 is still making trouble for a certain radio announcer, and a silverfish crawls into someone's ear, gaaaaaaah! Cec...

Original broadcast date May 7, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/05/night-vale-recap-episode-67-best-of/ Cecil has left for the Desert Otherworld, so we're given a retrospective of Cecil's best clips. Except, we've never heard any of them before. There's a good chance no one has heard them before. Especially that last one... Join the twins as they recap Welcom...

Original broadcast date April 23, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/04/night-vale-recap-episode-66-worms/ This week Night Vale is dealing with another worm infestation (has it really been twelve years since the last one? How time flies...) but all the destruction and chaos and trees being dropped on cars isn't a big deal compared to the REAL crisis: Cecil is t...

Original broadcast date April 9, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/04/night-vale-recap-episode-65-voicemail/ This week we snuck into Cecil’s office and listened to all his voice mails: a lot of very strange people are trying to reach him. Also Kathryn channels her inner Fey while Elizabeth is looking for her phone. Join the twins as they recap Welcome to Night...

Original broadcast date March 19, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/03/night-vale-recap-episode-64-we-must-give-praise/ This week on Welcome To Night Vale we get an update from the president of the School Board (ALL HAIL THE GLOW CLOUD) and the Sheriff's Secret Police warn us about a couple dangerous fugitives (and in doing so give us the best description of H...

Original broadcast date March 12, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/03/night-vale-recap-live-episode-the-librarian/ Welcome To Night Vale has released a recording of their live show so the twins are braving construction workers, American Express Cards, and creepy postal workers to do a bonus episode this week. Join the twins as they recap Welcome to Night Vale...

Original broadcast date March 5, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/03/night-vale-recap-episode-63-there-is-no-part-1-part-2/ Our story continues with Part Two! (...don't worry, you didn't miss anything, there is no Part One. Confused? Sounds like you're human! Good luck!) This week Cecil picks up where he left off with all the exciting events of significance t...

Original broadcast date February 19, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/02/night-vale-recap-episode-62-hatchets/ Leann Hart of the Night Vale Daily Journal is at it again, throwing hatchets at bloggers to cut down (har) on the competition and...wait a minute. Bloggers? Isn't that what we are? Join the twins as they hide from psychopathic editors and recap Welco...

Original broadcast date February 5, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/02/night-vale-recap-episode-61-briny-depths/ This week Cecil has a fan request: they'd very very much like him to say their favorite phrase, it'd make them so happy, because it's their birthday. And their friend's birthday. And millions of millions of other people's birthdays. And they'd all...

Original broadcast date January 22, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/01/night-vale-recap-episode-60-water-failure/ At Night Vale Radio they report the absolute more important, ground breaking news first: there's no water at the station so nobody can make coffee! Oh, and also there's multiple suns in the sky burning everything to the ground. AND NO COFFEE. Joi...