Binary System Podcast Archive

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,...

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...