Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date May 18, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/05/binary-system-podcast-362-wtnv-228-diplomacy/ Things are changing fast in Night Vale. Dr. Lubelle and the University of What It Is took out The Weather last week (shock!), and this week they've wiped out Invisible Corn (sacrilege!) The doctor's now set her sights on the local shape-sh...

Original broadcast date May 11, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/05/binary-system-podcast-361-lore-olympus-241-and-242-and-dungeons-dragons/ Okay, here's the Lore Olympus recap: Hades spends two episodes moping because Persephone is avoiding him. Done! That'll wrap us up for the week, make sure to check out pixelatedgeek.com... KIDDING. There's mo...

Original broadcast date May 4, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/05/binary-system-podcast-360-wtnv-227-a-word-with-dr-jones/ Let's see, in previous episodes Dr. Lubelle from the University of What It Is has managed to "explain" (ie: murder) Sarah Sultan (Fist-Sized River-Rock), The Glow Cloud (all hail), and Station Management (has anyone checked...

Original broadcast date April 27, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/04/binary-system-podcast-359-lore-olympus-239-and-240/ On this week’s  Lore Olympus  recap, we had two episodes of Persephone in the dream realm that gave us more questions than answers: WHAT will Erebus take from Persephone? WHY isn’t she telling Hades what she saw? And WHEN will we see more...

Original broadcast date April 20, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/04/binary-system-podcast-358-wtnv-226-creditors/ It's no fun being the new Station Management for Night Vale Radio, as Cecil's finding out in this week's episode. Apparently Station Management was relying on being an eldritch horror to avoid paying bills, and now the chickens have...

Original broadcast date April 13, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/04/binary-system-podcast-357-lore-olympus-237-and-238/ On our last Lore Olympus recap Elizabeth said she didn't care if the Apollo story got put on the back burner, so long as we get to see Demeter hit rock bottom. So of course in the latest episode we didn't see Demeter at all but we...

Aaaa! Did you hear the news? No, not that Cecil is scheduled to renegotiate his contract with the Night Vale Radio. He's hoping the process this year will involve more raises and less spectral kidnappings, but that's not important. You guys, Station Management and City Council are still dating. And here I'd thought they'd broken up years ago. It's so romantic, apparently they&#...

Original broadcast date March 30, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/03/binary-system-podcast-355-lore-olympus-235-and-236/ Massive spoiler warnings as usual this week because we take a long lingering look at Hades and Persephone's wedding night and...okay maybe not that long and lingering because Rachel decided against being too graphic (...darnit..) but w...

Original broadcast date March 23, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/03/binary-system-podcast-354-wtnv-224-liminal-spaces/ The magic word for this week's episode is "creepy". I don't know if you've seen any of those "Liminal Spaces" pictures, but all those abandoned malls and eerily empty high schools can be super unsettling. Cec...

Original broadcast date March 16, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/03/binary-system-podcast-353-lore-olympus-233-and-234/ Remember how we said Lore Olympus episode 232 was the moment we’ve been waiting for? Scratch that: episode 234 is what we were waiting for and it was SO WORTH THE WAIT. (No, it’s not Asspollo getting his just desserts. It’s better .) Massi...

Original broadcast date March 9, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/03/binary-system-podcast-352-wtnv-223-big-ricos-pizza-band/ There’s big news for Cecil to report in Night Vale this week. After extensive renovations, Big Rico’s is having their grand reopening as “Big Rico’s Pizza and Entertainment Zone”! They’ve got two ball pits (with and without snakes), lo...

Original broadcast date March 2, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/03/ binary-system-podcast-351-umbrella-academy-season-2-finale-and-oscar-opinions / Since we've still got a few days till the return of Lore Olympus (and you better believe we're going into withdrawal aaaaaaa) this week Kathryn finished up season 2 of Umbrella Academy and boy howdy do we have s...

Original broadcast date February 23, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/binary-system-podcast-350-wtnv-222-makarov-the-magical-and-umbrella-academy/ Woo hoo, episode 350! We have absolutely no plans for this milestone, and when you get right down to it there's really not much special about the number except that it ends in "0". But still, woo! What IS specia...

Original broadcast date February 19, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/ binary-system-crossover-with-the-mid-life-crisis-task-force / Bonus episode! This is the second of our two-part crossover with the Mid-Life Crisis Task Force podcast. (You can find the first part on the MLC Podcast website or wherever fine podcasts are sold.) We're talking about all the...

Original broadcast date February 16, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/binary-system-podcast-349-lore-olympus-231-and-232/ Episodes 231 and 232 of Lore Olympus are available this week (if you Fast-Pass episode 232) and WE ARE SO HAPPY Seriously you guys, there’s a long-awaited moment between the star-crossed lovers in episode 231 and it’s EVERYTHING THAT WE...

Original broadcast date February 9, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/ binary-system-podcast-348-wtnv-218-the-glow-cloud-explained-and-umbrella-academy / “I just wrote ‘Toilets. What’s that all about?'” If you’ve been listening Welcome to Night Vale lately you’ll know why this episode title made us go “that sounds like it’ll be OH NO WAIT AAAAAA!” And if yo...

Original broadcast date February 2, 2023. The original podcast post is here:  Episodes 229 and 230 of Lore Olympus are available this week (if you Fast-Pass episode 230) and WE ARE SO ANGRY. I mean, yes, episode 229 was kind of sweet and surprisingly instructional as Persephone gets much-needed information about fertility goddesses from Metis, who's about as down-to-earth and helpful a Fertil...

Original broadcast date January 26, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/01/ binary-system-podcast-346-glass-onion-and-the-umbrella-academy-season-2 /   Last week Kathryn said she was going to watch Glass Onion this week and finally start the second season of Umbrella Academy . And wonder of all wonders, she did! It’s unheard of! It’s amazing! It’s unbelieva...

Original broadcast date January 19, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/01/ binary-system-podcast-345-lore-olympus-227-and-228 / We're back home after all of our holiday and birthday travels, and on the latest episodes of Lore Olympus we...do NOT get the long-awaited reveal of what Apollo is up to and how his sister Artemis is handling it. But we do get a little...

Original broadcast date January 12, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/01/binary-system-podcast-344-the-birthday-edition-from-mammoth-cave/ It's a Binary System Birthday Edition as we're joined by sister and frequent guest Hannah in the wilds of Kentucky! ("Wilds" meaning "a very nice Vrbo with wiFi and a fireplace." Except we only get Netflix in the upstairs b...

This episode originally broadcast on January 5, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/01/binary-system-podcast-343-lore-olympus-225-and-226/ Happy New Year from the BSP team! We hope you all had a fantastic celebration (or a safe and relatively chill evening at home if that's your jam.) It's a quick Travel-Edition recording this week (we may not have been...

Original broadcast date December 21, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/12/binary-system-podcast-342-lore-olympus-223-and-224 Happy Holidays from the Binary System Podcast team! This year one of our Christmas presents is some very welcome Lore Olympus backstory on Aphrodite (Ares is his own worst enemy, and for Aphrodite’s sake we hope the breakup takes). Eliza...

Original broadcast date December 15, 2022. The original podcast post is here: binary-system-podcast-341-wtnv-219-the-traveling-tarot-reader-and-my-dad-wrote-a-porno-finale We did something different with the Night Vale recap this week, because it's really two stories in one: first we've got to talk about how much we haaaaaate Dr. Janet Lubelle and her stupid smug face, and she better not l...

Original broadcast date December 1, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/?p=184117 This week's Night Vale recap has a lot of fan art requests and T-shirt moments, but it's also us just being flat out amazed that Cecil can get interrupted by his kid every five minutes and it's always stress free. It's not saccharine, it's not annoying, it's not even a little frustratin...

Original broadcast date November 24, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/11/binary-system-podcast-338-thanksgiving-food-special-and-lore-olympus/ Happy Thanksgiving! (Or, if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, Happy Thursday!) Somehow after last week's recording we got on the subject of cookbooks, specifically the "Little House on the Prairie" cookbook that we che...