Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date January 14, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/01/binary-system-podcast-250-six-years-in-still-no-plan/ Happy 250th episode! Way back in June of 2014 we were getting ready to listen to the latest episode of Night Vale and then talk about it over Skype, and we thought "hey, maybe we should record this?" Six and a half years later and the...

Original broadcast date January 7, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/01/binary-system-podcast-249-welcome-to-night-vale-180-u-view/ So, look, FOR THE RECORD we recorded this last Sunday night. We said that we had no idea how the congressional debate was going to turn out. We even called the proceedings so far a dumpster fire. WE CLEARLY HAD NO IDEA what was ab...

Original broadcast date December 31, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/12/binary-system-podcast-248-welcome-to-night-vale-live-show-all-smiles-eve-a-bloodstone-carol/ It's New Years Eve! Hope everyone's celebrating in their own fashion knowing that 2021 is going to be an amazing year. It WILL. There aren't any other options. We're not kidding around here. ANYW...

Original broadcast date December 24, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/12/binary-system-podcast-247-the-mandalorian-season-finale-and-lore-olympus/ When it comes to the season two finale of The Mandalorian, we really don't have a choice: we're going to have to geek out about it for fifteen minutes. We know, we know, it's a tough job but somebody's gotta do it....

Original broadcast date December 17, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/12/binary-system-podcast-246-lore-olympus-the-mandalorian-and-black-mirror/ There's no new Welcome to Night Vale episode to recap quite yet, so once again we go back to the well that is The Mandalorian and the webcomic Lore Olympus, with the addition this week of Black Mirror, and we've got...

Original broadcast date December 10, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/12/binary-system-podcast-245-welcome-to-night-vale-179-first-snow/ Oh the weather outside is frightful (it's 59 degrees in San Diego) but inside it's just delightful (yes please stay inside we would like this pandemic to be OVER NOW) and since we've no place to go (because shutdowns!) let i...

Original broadcast date December 3, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/12/binary-system-podcast-244-lore-olympus-and-the-mandalorian/ We managed to miscalculate once again, so this week we do not have a new Night Vale episode. Instead, we'll talk about our two latest obsessions, The Mandalorian and the webcomic Lore Olympus. Spoilers are, of course, a given, so...

Original broadcast date November 26, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/11/binary-system-podcast-243-happy-thanksgiving/ We're grateful for a lot of things this week: big important things like our family staying safe during the *gestures wildly in all directions* and little things like web comics about Greek gods and TV shows with speeder bike chases in canyons...

Original broadcast date November 19, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/11/binary-system-podcast-242-welcome-to-night-vale-178-rattlesnake-rest/ Of course we recap a deliciously creepy Night Vale episode, full of cemeteries and time loops and the worst-case scenario when it comes to hermit crabs. Of course we geek out over badass Mandalorians and adorable frog...

Original broadcast date October 4, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/binary-system-podcast-bonus-episode-interview-with-rob-shinno-of-hemisphere/ Elizabeth here: I've known my friend Rob Shinno for almost 20 years, but I had no idea until recently that he's a professional musician, and his band Hemisphere has just released a brand new album, America...

Original broadcast date November 12, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/11/binary-system-podcast-241-welcome-to-night-vale-177-bloody-laws-bloody-claws-the-murder-of-frank-chen/ Cecil's been neglecting Night Vale Radio a bit in order to dip his toes in the glitzy world of True Crime Podcasts lately (he's already on episode 722 of his latest venture, my how time...

Original broadcast date October 29, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/binary-system-podcast-240-whats-getting-us-through-the-week/ What with, you know, THE WORLD, sometimes you have to take the time to watch some movie or read some book that either makes you happy or just makes for a nice distraction FOR LIKE FIVE MINUTES, HONESTLY 2020 KNOCK IT OFF. So aft...

Original broadcast date October 22, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/binary-system-podcast-239-welcome-to-night-vale-176-the-autumn-specter/ It's a spooky Halloween episode of Welcome to Night Vale, with radio host Cecil telling three spooky stories (with a twist ending: they're not very spooky at all) while the new radio station intern does spooky things...

Original broadcast date October 15, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/binary-system-podcast-238-welcome-to-night-vale-live-show-the-sandstorm/ So we waited and waited until we could hear the live performance of one of our favorite Night Vale episodes: The Sandstorm . And then we totally forgot about it until a week later. And then didn't watch it for anothe...

Original broadcast date October 8, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/binary-system-podcast-237-welcome-to-night-vale-17-the-october-monologues/ It's the third of Welcome To Night Vale's Monologue episodes (yes, third, not second, shame on us for forgetting The April Monologues in 2016). Once more we hear musings from Michelle Nguyen at Dark Owl Records, Ste...

Original broadcast date October 1, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/binary-system-podcast-236-paranormal-activity/ Here at Binary System Podcast we’re always ready to give you a review of the latest and greatest films. And by that we mean Kathryn finally convinced Elizabeth to watch Paranormal Activity . The FIRST one. Only 11 years later, gotta be a recor...

Original broadcast date September 24, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/09/binary-system-podcast-235-welcome-to-night-vale-174-radio-jupiter/ "I am adrift in a universe that does not know I exist. But then, you are too." The latest episode of Night Vale features a mysterious voice from Jupiter trying to figure out who she is and what her purpose is, something...

Original broadcast date September 10, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/09/binary-system-podcast-234-welcome-to-night-vale-173-the-hundred-year-play/ First up this week is a quick recap of a very long play, followed by some extensive ranting in the weekly SitRep (just the usual pandemic and things being on fire ) and then we lose our minds talking about the se...

Original broadcast date September 3, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/09/binary-system-podcast-233-weekly-roundup/ This was another grab-bag kind of episode, as we start out with the weekly SitRep and a few moments on the passing of Chadwick Boseman. After that we jump into happier nerd content: heads up for some MEGA spoilers for Lore Olympus, Mandalorian ,...

Original broadcast date August 27, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/08/binary-system-podcast-232-the-librarian-live-stream-and-lore-olympus/ Night Vale held their second Live Stream Live Performance last week, and it was even more fun than the first one. Listen in as we break down everything we loved about "The Librarian," and then do a super deep dive into t...

Original broadcast date August 20, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/08/binary-system-podcast-231-welcome-to-night-vale-172-return-of-the-obelisk/ This week's welcome to Night Vale has an interesting little thought experiment. Say that you could ask - and have answered - any question you want. Anything at all, the sky's the limit. What would you ask? What? Wel...

Original broadcast date August 13, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/08/binary-system-podcast-230-transformers-war-for-cybertron-siege/ So after the usual SitRep with beers (North Carolina started with a hurricane and ended with an earthquake SO THAT'S PRETTY NORMAL FOR 2020) we touched on bad sports movies and dietary supplement horror stories, and then we ju...

Original broadcast date August 6, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/08/binary-system-podcast-228-welcome-to-night-vale-171-go-to-the-mirror/ Finally, a brand new episode of Welcome to Night Vale to recap! …which takes us about five minutes, since it's something of an experimental episode that doesn't have a plot so much as an overwhelming atmosphere of dread....

Original broadcast date July 23, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/07/binary-system-podcast-228-toy-story-4-and-sdcc-home/ We still don't have a Night Vale episode this week and you'd think after 8 years of listening to them we'd know when they did their hiatuses BUT WE DON'T so instead we're talking about San Diego Comic-Con @ Home and how we finally watched...

Original broadcast date July 16, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/07/binary-system-podcast-227-welcome-to-night-vale-livestream-of-the-live-show-condos/ Just like last week we don't have a new episode of Welcome To Night Vale to recap. What we do have to talk about is the Welcome To Night Vale livestream, live performance of their first ever live show, "Condo...