Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date April 20, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/04/binary-system-podcast-312-the-return-of-lore-olympus/ It wasn't even four months but it felt like forever! That's right, this week we're recapping the triumphant return of Lore Olympus! Chaos in the courtroom! Familiar faces! Tears! Rage! Heartbreak! Was it worth the wait? OF COURSE IT WAS....

Original broadcast date April 21, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/04/binary-system-podcast-311-wtnv-206-the-great-librarian-of-the-western-sands/ "Call me Cecil..." Our favorite podcast is getting all-out literary as this week's episode takes a few pages from Moby Dick and spins a tale about a hunt for a gigantic Librarian roaming the desert, occasionally pa...

Original broadcast date April 14, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/04/binary-system-podcast-310-raised-by-wolves-and-beastars-in-spanish/ Since Lore Olympus and Peaky Blinders aren't back yet and the next issue of Saga doesn't drop till next week, we're going to catch up on Raised By Wolves, finish up some fan art, and watch Beastars with the Spanish audio fo...

Original broadcast date April 7, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/04/binary-system-podcast-309-wtnv-205-the-moon-is-gone/ The title of the episode pretty much says it all. The moon has gone missing (it's always in the last place you look for it), and catching a glimpse of the static-filled hole in the Night Vale sky where it used to be is really unpleasant ....

Original broadcast date March 31, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/03/binary-system-podcast-308-how-bout-them-oscars/ Hey, remember that one year at the Oscars when they screwed up the envelopes and announced La La Land as the winner when it was really Moonlight? Gosh, was that uncomfortable, sure hope we never have to watch something that awkward ever again....

Original broadcast date March 24, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/03/binary-system-podcast-307-wtnv-204-the-audition/ Auditions are open for the Night Vale Community Players production of Our Town , and Cecil is trying out for the part of The Stage Manager. The director's going for more of a traditional interpretation (not like her Tartuff e in the nude, or...

Original broadcast date March 17, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/03/binary-system-podcast-306-the-return-of-saga-killing-eve-and-transformers/ After three years one of our favorite comics is back from hiatus! Massive great big spoiler warnings because we go into all kinds of detail about Saga (both the most recent issues and just about everything before the...

Original broadcast date March 10, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/03/binary-system-podcast-305-wtnv-203-the-kareem-nazari-show-and-angel-heart/ It's another fun, short-story type of Welcome To Night Vale episode this week. This might be another good introductory episode for someone who isn't familiar with Night Vale, even if they don't know who Intern Nazari...

Original broadcast date March 3, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/03/binary-system-podcast-304-animation-episode-oscar-2022-nominations/ So while we'd like to say something glib about the state of the world (global pandemic, political dumpster fire, quickly escalating international conflict) it just doesn't seem like something we can joke about? So we're goin...

Original broadcast date February 24, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/02/binary-system-podcast-303-wtnv-202-the-day-after-the-day-and-raised-by-wolves/ In addition to being a very poetic episode about how human beings process trauma and time, this week's episode of Welcome To Night Vale is also topical. I mean really topical, touching on current events that e...

Original broadcast date February 17, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/02/binary-system-podcast-302-raised-by-wolves-season-1/ "An android, a black hole, and a glass of milk walk into a bar…" This week’s entire episode is about Raised by Wolves! Did we get caught up? Of course not! We managed to finish the first season just in time to be three episodes behind...

Original broadcast date February 10, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/02/binary-system-podcast-301-wtnv-201-the-delivery-man/ “No weather, no war, no man, no illness, and no god may stop me from my duty. All people deserve prompt delivery. And all people eventually get what they deserve.” This week's episode of Welcome To Night Vale is a fascinating little sh...

Original broadcast date February 3, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/02/binary-system-podcast-300-this-time-we-have-a-plan-sort-of/ Happy 300th episode! Holy cow, after 300 episodes of fan art and TV and movies and TV and web comics and podcasts and TV, what should we make the 300th episode about? That’s right, this episode is about spoilers! (Kidding. Except...

Original broadcast date January 27, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/01/binary-system-podcast-299-spider-man-far-from-home-and-raised-by-wolves/ First up this week we’ve gotta talk about Spider-Man, because we just watched Far From Home! No, not No Way Home. Far From Home. Yes, three years after it came out. We have no excuses. But we sure did love it. Listen...

Original broadcast date January 20, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/01/binary-system-podcast-298-lore-olympus-and-the-black-widow-movie-again/ Kathryn FINALLY finished watching Black Widow (I was only a week behind you, doofus - Kathryn) (SO SLOW. - Elizabeth) so we've got to dive into all the reasons why it was, if not perfect, still really, really fun. Fir...

Original broadcast date January 13, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/01/binary-system-podcast-297-lore-olympus-and-the-black-widow-movie/ Okay, when we say we're talking about the Black Widow movie, we mean we're talking about the first forty-five minutes, because Elizabeth was juuust a little better at movies this week and Kathryn still needs to catch up. Fi...

Original broadcast date December 30, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/12/binary-system-podcast-296-lore-olympus-and-the-hawkeye-season-finale/ It's the last episode of 2021! Here's hoping 2022 behaves itself a little better. This week we recap one of the last few Lore Olympus episodes before their four-month hiatus, where Zeus is playing dumb, Ares is poking...

Original broadcast date December 23, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/12/binary-system-podcast-295-wtnv-200-susan-willman-comes-clean-lore-olympus-and-hawkeye/ This week we’re recapping the TWO HUNDREDTH episode of Welcome To Night Vale, where the moon is closed for renovations, a star is powering the football stadium, and an ancient god is trying to get equa...

Original broadcast date December 16, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/12/binary-system-podcast-294-lore-olympus-and-hawkeye/ After a weekly SitRep that's equal parts bummer and bonus (Covid is still scary, but Omicron is possibly mild, we lost Anne Rice this week, but sister Hannah is on the mend) we jump into Lore Olympus (WE ARE ALL THE BLUSHING CHICKEN) an...

Original broadcast date December 9, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/12/binary-system-podcast-293-wtnv-199-guidelines-for-retrieval-and-lore-olympus/ The days are getting shorter, and the nights are getting longer, and soon winter will be upon us. Night Vale citizens will need to hoard everything they can to survive (yes, even that box of stale Flavoroos on t...

Original broadcast date December 2, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/12/binary-system-podcast-292-lore-olympus-hades-knows/ If you've been reading Lore Olympus (and if you're not you really should) you know that everybody's been waiting over two years for Hades to find out a certain piece of information, and how he'd react when he did. We found out this week,...

Original broadcast date November 25, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/11/binary-system-podcast-291-wtnv-198-them-woods-are-a-maze/ Happy Thanksgiving everyone! (Or if you don't celebrate, happy Thursday.) Everybody needs a night off, so Cecil and Carlos have hired a babysitter and set off with their friend Larry Leroy to Night Vale's new art gallery. It's in...

Original broadcast date November 11, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/11/binary-system-podcast-290-lore-olympus-and-the-loki-rewatch/ This week we're discussing the latest Lore Olympus, where Hermes and Thanatos and that bitch Thetis are finally done talking, and now Hades is going to make sure that Persephone gets a word in edgewise or so help him he will ST...

Original broadcast date November 4, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/11/binary-system-podcast-289-wtnv-197-the-life-of-frank-chen/ Well, we had " The Many Lives of Frank Chen ", " The Many Many Lives of Frank Chen ", and " The Nearly Infinite Lives of Frank Chen ". It makes sense that the saga of Night Vale's most famous dearly-departed would wrap up with "Th...

Original broadcast date October 28, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/10/binary-system-podcast-288-the-bananahammer-episode/ Frequent guest Hannah Wallace is going to have some downtime for a few weeks, so we decided this week's podcast is a celebration of all things Hannah: from British podcasts to murder musicals and everything in between (including lots of...