Binary System Podcast Archive

This episode originally broadcast May 30, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/05/binary-system-podcast-412-wtnv-248-mother-lauren-and-mayor-of-kingstown/ There is nothing wrong with your radio, Night Vale, do not attempt to adjust the dial. Mother Lauren is controlling the transmission. And she is pissed. This week's Night Vale recap features nightmare image...

This episode originally broadcast on May 23, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/05/binary-system-podcast-411-lore-olympus-episode-278-and-279/ Only three episodes left of Lore Olympus, and there is a lot going on. We're not sure how many of the unresolved plot threads are gonna get wrapped up in the series finale (Eros and Psyche? Zeus's millennia of be...

This episode originally broadcast on May 16, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/05/binary-system-podcast-410-wtnv-247-rerun/ It's another Travel Edition this week as we brave the wilds of Southeast North America (otherwise known as our parents' place in Bradenton.) First up is a lightning quick recap of Night Vale as Cecil revisits a very strange kids s...

This episode broacast on May 9, 2024, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/05/binary-system-podcast-409-lore-olympus-episode-276-and-277/ Okay everybody GIANT SPOILER WARNINGS DANGER DANGER THIS IS NOT A DRILL. So, way back on August 2, 2018 the 24th episode of Lore Olympus was released. Apollo let himself into Persephone’s bedroom and what happened next set in motion...

This episode originally broadcast on April 25, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/04/binary-system-podcast-408-lore-olympus-episode-274-and-275/ The Lore Olympus comic tackles a lot of issues about abuse: spousal, parental, generational. The latest two episodes are no exception, but they also don't really need trigger warnings because the focus here is the...

This episode originally broadcast on April 18, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/04/binary-system-podcast-407-wtnv-246-a-story-about-him-and-dune-part-two/ https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/04/binary-system-podcast-407-wtnv-246-a-story-about-him-and-dune-part-two/ On this week's Night Vale recap we discuss Abby's DEEP SEATED RESENTMENT towards Cecil. Some...

This episode originally broadcast on April 11, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/04/binary-system-podcast-406-lore-olympus-episode-272-and-273/ You know how we've mentioned for a while that Rachel can be very, let's say, judicious , with her plot reveals? Some of the commenters have been complaining that it can take quite a long time for anything to ha...

This episode originally broadcast on April 4, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/04/binary-system-podcast-405-wtnv-245-fridge-worthy/ On this week's Night Vale recap, Carlos and Cecil hold an exclusive Art Show (ie: a family dinner so they can show off Estaban's drawing on the fridge) and we get some of our favorite horror tropes: unreliable narrators,...

Originally broadcast on March 28, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/03/binary-system-podcast-404-lore-olympus-episode-270-and-271/ The first half of Lore Olympus episode 270 is light on dialog. Baby Dionysus starts the most adorable Hero's Journey ever as he sets off to rescue Hades and Persephone. The cuteness balances out the second half of the episode,...

This episode originally broadcast on March 21, 2024, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/03/binary-system-podcast-403-wtnv-244-a-multiplicity-of-kevin/ On the latest episode of Welcome to Night Vale, Kevin the Younger is determined to kill Kevin the Older, so he’s used Carlos’ lab to open a portal to the Desert Otherworld. Cecil wants to tell the story, Tamika wants t...

This episode originally broadcast on March 14, 2024, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/03/binary-system-podcast-402-lore-olympus-episode-268-and-269-spider-verse-and-the-2024-oscars/ There's a great big ceremony that happens every year, you may have heard of it? The Oscars? Anyway, the Binary System Podcast didn't watch it, but they do have lots of opinions...

Originally broadcast on March 7, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/03/binary-system-podcast-401-wtnv-243-lost-and-found-and-more-of-the-oscar-nominations/ On this week's Night Vale episode, we highly approve of Cecil devoting an entire broadcast to Lost and Found submissions, because writer Brie Williams is very good with lists of random weirdness, unexpec...

This episode originally broadcast on February 29, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-400-start-from-the-beginning/ Happy 400th episode! Time flies, right? About ten years ago we started recording our Night Vale discussions because we're giant nerds and nerds gotta podcast. But here's the thing: we started with the Night Vale epi...

This episode originally broadcast on February 22, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-399-wtnv-242-the-new-branch-and-the-oscar-nominated-animated-shorts/ On the latest episode of Night Vale the Librarians broke out of their cages but some heroes saved the day andnoweverythingisfineTheEnd SO! HOW ABOUT THOSE OSCAR ANIMATED SHORTS? (Kiddi...

This episode originally broadcast on February 15 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-398-lore-olympus-episode-264-and-265/ In the latest Lore Olympus episodes we’ve read, Demeter revealed a little more about Persephone’s history as a Fertility Goddess (namely, that she definitely  is  one, and that someone else in Demeter’s generation us...

This episode originally broadcast on February 8, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-397-wtnv-241-he-is-still-holding-a-knife/ When we last heard from Night Vale in December, Cecil was being held hostage by a strange boy with a large knife, and this week's episode picks up right where we left off. It's another Brie Williams story...

This episode originally broacast on February 2, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-396-lore-olympus-episode-262-and-263-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-and-the-oscar-nominations/ Episodes 262 and 263 feature a Persephone who’s dealing with the uncomfortable reality that the Mortal Realm is dying and it may possibly be all her fault. But f...

This episode originally broadcast on January 25, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-395-doctor-who-taken-nice-house-on-the-lake-and-the-hugos/ You’re not going to believe this, but we said we were going to watch the third David Tennant Doctor Who episode this week AND WE DID. Next thing you know we’ll be watching movies the weekend they...

This episode originally broadcast on January 18, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-394-lore-olympus-episode-259-and-260-and-the-menu/ It's an extra-long episode this week, although not because of Lore Olympus. The recap for episodes 259 and 260 went pretty quickly, with a little more of Demeter's backstory revealed and one hell...

This episode originally broadcast on January 11, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-393-wtnv-240-he-is-holding-a-knife-and-doctor-who/ "Fenslaw. Coliss. Brate. Gilvane. Stond." The latest episode of Night Vale before they went on hiatus (they're always on hiatus in January and we will never remember that) was delightfully...

This episode originally broadcast on January 4, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-392-lore-olympus-episode-258-and-259/ Happy New Year everyone! We hope all our listeners' holidays were fantastic, and that the return to work wasn't too much of a shock to the system. To ease you back into the work week, have a quick recap of the...

This originally broadcast on December 28, 2023, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-391-christmas-recap-and-yes-were-watching-skibidi-toilet/ Happy last-podcast-of-2023! Recorded on location in the wilds of Western Florida (aka our parents' house) we start out this episode with a quick breakdown of Christmas, including successful hospital...

This episode broadcast on Wednesday December 20, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-390-lore-olympus-episode-256-and-257-designercon-and-doctor-who/ Happy last-podcast-before-Christmas! On this week’s Lore Olympus recap we were absolutely gobsmacked that a certain someone gave Apollo a verbal smack upside the head because it was the LAST pers...

This episode originally broadcast on December 14, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-389-wtnv-239-sister-cities-vermillion-falls/ This week's Night Vale episode is a perfect example of distilled weirdness, full of deadly nature walks, supermarket bonfires, and would you PLEASE stop PETTING THE WOLFMEN. GEORGE. After the recap we dis...

This episode originally broadcast on December 7, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-388-lore-olympus-episode-254-and-255-and-the-doctor-who-60th-anniversary/ Okay, not gonna lie, the latest two episodes of Lore Olympus that the Binary System Podcast team recaps are causing  quite a lot of anxiety.  Apollo’s plot to take over as ruler of...