Binary System Podcast Archive

This episode originally broadcast on February 29, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-400-start-from-the-beginning/ Happy 400th episode! Time flies, right? About ten years ago we started recording our Night Vale discussions because we're giant nerds and nerds gotta podcast. But here's the thing: we started with the Night Vale epi...

This episode originally broadcast on February 22, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-399-wtnv-242-the-new-branch-and-the-oscar-nominated-animated-shorts/ On the latest episode of Night Vale the Librarians broke out of their cages but some heroes saved the day andnoweverythingisfineTheEnd SO! HOW ABOUT THOSE OSCAR ANIMATED SHORTS? (Kiddi...

This episode originally broadcast on February 15 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-398-lore-olympus-episode-264-and-265/ In the latest Lore Olympus episodes we’ve read, Demeter revealed a little more about Persephone’s history as a Fertility Goddess (namely, that she definitely  is  one, and that someone else in Demeter’s generation us...

This episode originally broadcast on February 8, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-397-wtnv-241-he-is-still-holding-a-knife/ When we last heard from Night Vale in December, Cecil was being held hostage by a strange boy with a large knife, and this week's episode picks up right where we left off. It's another Brie Williams story...

This episode originally broacast on February 2, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/02/binary-system-podcast-396-lore-olympus-episode-262-and-263-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-and-the-oscar-nominations/ Episodes 262 and 263 feature a Persephone who’s dealing with the uncomfortable reality that the Mortal Realm is dying and it may possibly be all her fault. But f...

This episode originally broadcast on January 25, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-395-doctor-who-taken-nice-house-on-the-lake-and-the-hugos/ You’re not going to believe this, but we said we were going to watch the third David Tennant Doctor Who episode this week AND WE DID. Next thing you know we’ll be watching movies the weekend they...

This episode originally broadcast on January 18, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-394-lore-olympus-episode-259-and-260-and-the-menu/ It's an extra-long episode this week, although not because of Lore Olympus. The recap for episodes 259 and 260 went pretty quickly, with a little more of Demeter's backstory revealed and one hell...

This episode originally broadcast on January 11, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-393-wtnv-240-he-is-holding-a-knife-and-doctor-who/ "Fenslaw. Coliss. Brate. Gilvane. Stond." The latest episode of Night Vale before they went on hiatus (they're always on hiatus in January and we will never remember that) was delightfully...

This episode originally broadcast on January 4, 2024. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2024/01/binary-system-podcast-392-lore-olympus-episode-258-and-259/ Happy New Year everyone! We hope all our listeners' holidays were fantastic, and that the return to work wasn't too much of a shock to the system. To ease you back into the work week, have a quick recap of the...

This originally broadcast on December 28, 2023, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-391-christmas-recap-and-yes-were-watching-skibidi-toilet/ Happy last-podcast-of-2023! Recorded on location in the wilds of Western Florida (aka our parents' house) we start out this episode with a quick breakdown of Christmas, including successful hospital...

This episode broadcast on Wednesday December 20, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-390-lore-olympus-episode-256-and-257-designercon-and-doctor-who/ Happy last-podcast-before-Christmas! On this week’s Lore Olympus recap we were absolutely gobsmacked that a certain someone gave Apollo a verbal smack upside the head because it was the LAST pers...

This episode originally broadcast on December 14, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-389-wtnv-239-sister-cities-vermillion-falls/ This week's Night Vale episode is a perfect example of distilled weirdness, full of deadly nature walks, supermarket bonfires, and would you PLEASE stop PETTING THE WOLFMEN. GEORGE. After the recap we dis...

This episode originally broadcast on December 7, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/12/binary-system-podcast-388-lore-olympus-episode-254-and-255-and-the-doctor-who-60th-anniversary/ Okay, not gonna lie, the latest two episodes of Lore Olympus that the Binary System Podcast team recaps are causing  quite a lot of anxiety.  Apollo’s plot to take over as ruler of...

This episode originally broadcast on November 30, 2023, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/11/binary-system-podcast-387-wtnv-238-the-big-dig/ On this week's Night Vale recap, the Museum of Natural History has made an amazing discovery, the Tomb of the Ancestors! Mummified remains in traditional Soft Meat Crowns (tm) in a perfectly harmless limestone cube that jus...

This episode originally broadcast on November 23, 2023, you can find the original podcast post here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/11/binary-system-podcast-386-lore-olympus-back-from-hiatus-episode-253/ This week the Binary System Podcast team celebrates the triumphant return of Lore Olympus by recapping a brand new episode! To us. Episodes 251, 252, and 253 have been available for FastPass since...

This episode originally broadcast on November 16, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/11/binary-system-podcast-385-the-loki-season-2-finale/ The second season of  Loki  had its highs (that fourth episode good googaly moogaly) and lows (the bonkers pacing, that weird hot chocolate scene) and for a while there we were worried the series might go out with a thud in...

This episode originally broadcast on November 9, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/11/binary-system-podcast-384-wtnv-237-frown-night-and-more-loki/ This week's episode of Welcome to Night Vale features the surprise return of Kevin from Desert Bluffs! AND Lauren, who's sporting a fashionable set of priestess robes and a permanent frown tattoo, courtesy...

Original broadcast date November 2, 2023. The original podcast post is here:  https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/11/binary-system-podcast-383-loki-season-2-episode-4/ Fall is well and truly here, and all we want to do is curl up with a scary movie or TV show, which is why we were delighted to get an episode like Loki season two, episode four. Never mind our quibbles about the bonkers pacing, clunky di...

Original broadcast date October 26, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/10/binary-system-podcast-382-wtnv-236-truck-touchers-and-loki-season-2/ We had to skip another recording last week since somebody failed a saving throw versus a rock (we'll explain later) so we've got a lot of catching up to do. First up this week, Cecil is covering Night Vale's...

Original broadcast date October 5, 2023. The original podcast post is here: The Binary System Podcast team loves the entire idea of a book club, so this week's episode is a surefire winner. Cecil has started a book club with Tamika Flynn, and their first book is Les Miserables , the original version with time travel and improv comedy troops. After recapping a bit of an adventure involving a bo...

Original broadcast date September 28, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/09/binary-system-podcast-380-good-omens-and-mandalorian-finales-plus-2020s-host/ That's right, brace yourselves, this week we're going to recap the Good Omens season 2 finale! Spoiler warning, because we remember all the cool scenes and all of them IN THE COMPLETELY WRONG ORDER. Se...

Original broadcast date September 21, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/09/binary-system-podcast-379-wtnv-234-the-boy/ SURRENDER THE ANGLE! This week's Night Vale episode is a straightforward story about a boy appearing in town who doesn't seem to remember his name, or the concept of food, or anything earlier than his appearance in Grove Park earlier t...

Original broadcast date September 14, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/09/binary-system-podcast-378-good-omens-mandalorian-and-thoughts-on-burning-man/ Once again there's no Lore Olympus this week ( heavy SIGH ) but wonder of all wonders we took the time to catch up on some things! Current things! Less than a year old and everthing! First up we're rec...

Rationalization is one of man’s most clever and most dangerous inventions. Night Vale has a vampire in town. Well, had, anyway. In this week's episode Cecil talks about Luca and his long, long life. It's a story about mistaking "comfortable" for "happy". It's about being okay with getting older, and learning to love the life we can have if we can just get the courag...

Original broadcast date August 31, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/08/binary-system-podcast-376-good-omens-mandalorian-and-the-guardians-of-the-galaxy-holiday-special/ With no Night Vale or Lore Olympus this week (T-minus 73 days till the next free episode of Lore Olympus YES WE'RE OBSESSED WE'RE NOT SORRY) we actually took the time to catch up on ou...