Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date November 17, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/11/binary-system-podcast-337-wtnv-217-salmon-burger-and-sandman/ This week was one of those Night Vale recaps where we took way too many notes and got dangerously close to just repeating the episode word for word because it was so, freaking, CLEVER. (Station Management's memo to Cecil about...

Original broadcast date November 10, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/11/binary-system-podcast-336-lore-olympus-and-more-random-reviews/ Episodes 217 and 218 of Lore Olympus didn't answer a ton of questions, and by that I mean we STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT APOLLO IS UP TO. Okay, yes, we got some good information about how Kronos was able to take over the Underworl...

Original broadcast date October 27, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/10/binary-system-podcast-335-lore-olympus-and-random-reviews/ We joke about how Lore Olympus moves at a glacial pace, but we sometimes forget that the story jumped forward TEN ENTIRE YEARS and now the pieces need to be filled in. So, minor spoiler warnings for episodes 215 and 216, because w...

Original broadcast date October 20, 2022. The original podcast post is here:  Ten years ago we loved it every time Cecil on Welcome to Night Vale ranted about how much he hated his stupid brother-in-law STEVE CARLSBERG. If you’d told us back then that, come 2022, we’d be 100% on Steve’s side, we’d have told you that’s about as likely as Hollywood greenlighting a Sandman series. Funny thing… L...

Original broadcast date October 13, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/10/binary-system-podcast-333-lore-olympus-and-the-sandman-episode-4/ So what's Apollo up to? How is Demeter going to mess things up for Hades and Persephone? Did Aphrodite get married to Hephaestus when she threw over Ares, or someone else? And where's Psyche been this entire time that the m...

Original broadcast date October 6, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/10/binary-system-podcast-332-wtnv-215-sarah-sultan-explained-and-sandman/ "There's so much pathos here about a ROCK." The only thing we've got to say about this week's Night Vale episode is Doctor Lubelle MUST BE STOPPED. (Also watch out for the murals. They're probably fine. But let's just e...

Original broadcast date September 29, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/09/binary-system-podcast-331-lore-olympus-and-the-sandman-episode-3/ ...and she was one of those women where you wake up the next morning and your TV and your stereo and your bag of magic sand is gone. So Kathryn has finally watched another episode of The Sandman (E lizabeth: I've watched...

Original broadcast date September 15, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/09/binary-system-podcast-330-lore-olympus-and-an-update-on-loki-season-2/ This week we're spoiling all the things about Lore Olympus episodes 209 and 210, but if you want the short non-spoiler version: Hades and Persephone are freaking adorable. You already knew that. When are they not ado...

Original broadcast date September 8, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/09/binary-system-podcast-329-wtnv-213-murals/ It's no secret that the Binary System Podcast team is always finding moments that would be perfect for fan art (we do love us some fan art). This week's episode felt like the Welcome To Night Vale writers were throwing down multiple challenges t...

Original broadcast date September 1, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/09/binary-system-podcast-328-lore-olympus-and-the-sandman-episode-2/ We're back with an actual audio episode this week as Kathryn's on the mend from the "NOT COVID Thank You Very Much But Still Pretty Annoying" Plague, and thank goodness, because we've got to talk about the first two episod...

Original broadcast date August 18, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/08/binary-system-podcast-327-the-sandman-and-trainwreck-woodstock-99/ No Lore Olympus this week while the webcomic is on a brief hiatus, but fortunately there's a little show out there called "The Sandman", and we've both watched the first episode already instead of waiting for a few months l...

Original broadcast date August 11, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/08/binary-system-podcast-326-wtnv-211-howl/ Welcome to Night Vale returns this week, and you know what? Until now we never knew how much we wanted a romance between a cartoon dog and a sentient patch of haze. (Yes we can and will ship just about anything and no one is surprised. ) After that...

Original broadcast date April 20, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/08/binary-system-podcast-325-lore-olympus-205-and-206/ The Binary System Podcast team is taking it easy this week, talking about finishing up the most recent season of Star Trek: Picard (meh), and a couple of upcoming books we're looking forward to, and a little about the SDCC photo galleries...

Original broadcast date July 28, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/07/binary-system-podcast-324-peaky-blinders-russian-doll-and-the-return-of-sdcc/ It's been a long three years, but San Diego Comic-Con is back! This episode we do a quick recap (masking was good, cosplay was light, Marvel was interesting, IDW was innovative, and DC is copying what Marvel's doin...

Original broadcast date July 21, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/07/binary-system-podcast-323-and-getting-ready-for-sdcc/ It's a short-ish episode this week since we're mostly talking about episodes 203 and 204 of Lore Olympus and the pace is moving fast. No spoilers, but one of our predictions at the end of the last episode was right, and we're both very gl...

Original broadcast date July 7, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/07/binary-system-podcast-322-lore-olympus-peaky-blinders-stranger-things-and-more/ Welcome to Night Vale is on hiatus this month, so now's our chance to get caught up on everything else!* *Disclaimer: by "caught up" we mean "a couple episodes" and by "everything else" we mean two shows. Maybe th...

Pop the champagne and throw the confetti, Welcome to Night Vale celebrated their ten year anniversary...two weeks ago. Two weeks and a day, actually. *tiny noisemaker sound* Yay? We started out the podcast this week with a discussion of the recent Supreme Court decision (if you don't know where the Binary System Podcast falls on this issue after more than three hundred episodes then you haven't be...

Original broadcast date June 23, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/06/binary-system-podcast-320-lore-olympus-arcane-and-peaky-blinders/ We're back on schedule this week, talking about Lore Olympus episodes 199 (nobody's buying the crap you're selling, Zeus) and 200 (for the fast-pass folks only, but wow, "runt of the litter?" Really?) After that we squee about...

Original broadcast date June 16, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/06/binary-system-podcast-319-wtnv-209-the-black-coat-and-peaky-blinders-season-six/ Let's start out this podcast by wishing Welcome To Night Vale a very happy ten year anniversary! One day late! 'Cause that's how we roll. The episode that came out before the anniversary is bringing back an old...

Original broadcast date June 9, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/06/binary-system-podcast-318-lore-olympus-stranger-things-board-games-and-roller-coasters/ Hey look at that, we're back on schedule! Let's see how long that lasts JUST KIDDING we know it won't last long. First up we're spoiling all the spoilers for Lore Olympus episodes 197 (out now) and 198 (on...

Original broadcast date June 2, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/06/binary-system-podcast-317-doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness/ Yes, the Binary System Podcast team has done the unthinkable , we've watched a new movie while it's still in the theaters , so there's a chance that a spoiler warning might actually be necessary. "Doctor Strange: In the Mu...

Original broadcast date May 26, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/05/binary-system-podcast-316-lore-olympus-love-death-robots-arcane-and-more/ For once we had a plan! We talked about the latest two episodes of Lore Olympus, and asked the important questions: WHAT is happening to the ruling gods, and HOW is it all Zeus' fault? (Because you know it is.) After th...

Original broadcast date May 19, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/05/binary-system-podcast-315-wtnv-208-cecil-in-the-big-city/ It's been a long time since Cecil and Carlos have been able to take a vacation (I'm sure we all know what that's like) so this week they dropped Esteban off with Cecil's sister and headed off to the Big City! No, not New York, the othe...

Original broadcast date May 12, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/05/binary-system-podcast-314-wtnv-207-lost-cat-plus-lore-olympus-and-doctor-who/ First up we're recapping the latest Night Vale episode, as Cecil searches for the lost cat ("...cat? Probably a cat.") Khoshekh, with the help of a pet psychic and random people who say vague and upsetting things. T...

Original broadcast date May 5, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/05/binary-system-podcast-313-spider-man-no-way-home-finally/ Yep, you read that right. We'd usually be recapping the latest episode of Welcome To Night Vale at this point, but instead we decided to spend an entire episode discussing Spider-Man: No Way Home which we FINALLY watched after, what, th...