Binary System Podcast Archive

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...

Original broadcast date October 21, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/10/binary-system-podcast-287-wtnv-196-silas-the-thief-part-2-and-lore-olympus/ This week we're recapping a Night Vale episode where Silas the Thief rants about his ex girlfriend, and a Lore Olympus episode where Hermes takes up all the time on the stand. Hang on. We've been here before . htt...

Original broadcast date October 14, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/10/binary-system-podcast-286-wtnv-195-silas-the-thief-and-lore-olympus/ The latest episode of Welcome to Night Vale was definitely interesting, a bit of a departure from their usual style, and OH MY GOD DID YOU SEE WHAT THEY DID AT THE END HOLY COW THIS CHANGES LITERALLY EVERYTHING. (Spoiler...

Original broadcast date October 7, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/10/binary-system-podcast-285-all-ted-lasso-all-the-time/ It's the final 2021 Vacation Edition of the podcast, and since we've spent the last week binging all of Ted Lasso season 1, we had to bring on special guest Hannah Wallace to discuss all the reasons why this ridiculously charming show m...

Original broadcast date September 30, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/binary-system-podcast-284-lore-olympus-and-ted-lasso/ The Vacation Podcast edition continues, this week we're broadcasting from an undisclosed location in the North Carolina Mountains. (Boone. We're vacationing in Boone. Go App State!) But thanks to the internet we're cut off from absol...

Original broadcast date September 23, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/binary-system-podcast-283-wtnv194-the-nearly-infinite-lives-of-frank-chen-and-lore-olympus/ It's the first Vacation Edition of Binary System in over two years! Recording from the same time zone in the same place, this week we planned on a quick recap of the latest episode of Night Vale...

Original broadcast date September 16, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/binary-system-podcast-282-lore-olympus-and-what-were-rewatching-now/ With all of the amazing content that we need to get caught up on, it's no surprise to anybody that we're taking the time to watch TV and movies that we've already seen. Multiple times. But, you know, pandemic, serotoni...

Original broadcast date September 9, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/binary-system-podcast-281-wtnv-193-team-having-fun/ It's a pretty quick recap of Welcome to Night Vale This Week (TL:DR Consultants are annoying even in Night Vale, and Elizabeth can do a very passable imitation of the "You've got a message" sound effect on Slack). And that's good, becau...

Original broadcast date September 2, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/binary-system-podcast-280-board-games-lovecraft-country-star-wars-and-lore-olympus/ If you know us you know that we're always interested in the newest movies and TV shows that have hit the nerd world! We just wait six months or more to watch them. Which is why Elizabeth only just now got...

Original broadcast date August 19, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/08/binary-system-podcast-279-wtnv-192-it-doesnt-hold-up/ You know those dreams, the ones where you're watching a movie you really really love, except your favorite character is played by a different actor, and the plot has changed, and the soundtrack sounds like owls hissing and there's a str...

Original broadcast date August 12, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/08/binary-system-podcast-278-beastars-lore-olympus-and-going-way-too-dark-for-a-thursday/ After the weekly SitRep (vaccination numbers, fish tanks, and mask peer pressure) we jump right into the second season of Beastars. Macho lions and meat-eating deer? A wolf in drag? The hallucination wit...

Original broadcast date August 5, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/08/binary-system-podcast-277-wtnv-191-the-many-many-lives-of-frank-chen/ We may have mentioned this before, but the Binary System Podcast team loves a good time-travel story. We especially enjoy it when the writers use the side-effects of time travel to really mess with longtime fans who know...

Original broadcast date July 29, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/07/binary-system-podcast-276-beastars-lore-olympus-and-one-more-look-at-loki/ We've already talked enough about Loki this month so we don't need to talk about the season finale AHAHAHAHAHA, kidding, of course we do. After a quick SitRep where we talk about our trip to visit family (yay!), the r...