Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date February 23, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/binary-system-podcast-350-wtnv-222-makarov-the-magical-and-umbrella-academy/ Woo hoo, episode 350! We have absolutely no plans for this milestone, and when you get right down to it there's really not much special about the number except that it ends in "0". But still, woo! What IS specia...

Original broadcast date February 19, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/ binary-system-crossover-with-the-mid-life-crisis-task-force / Bonus episode! This is the second of our two-part crossover with the Mid-Life Crisis Task Force podcast. (You can find the first part on the MLC Podcast website or wherever fine podcasts are sold.) We're talking about all the...

Original broadcast date February 16, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/binary-system-podcast-349-lore-olympus-231-and-232/ Episodes 231 and 232 of Lore Olympus are available this week (if you Fast-Pass episode 232) and WE ARE SO HAPPY Seriously you guys, there’s a long-awaited moment between the star-crossed lovers in episode 231 and it’s EVERYTHING THAT WE...

Original broadcast date February 9, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/02/ binary-system-podcast-348-wtnv-218-the-glow-cloud-explained-and-umbrella-academy / “I just wrote ‘Toilets. What’s that all about?'” If you’ve been listening Welcome to Night Vale lately you’ll know why this episode title made us go “that sounds like it’ll be OH NO WAIT AAAAAA!” And if yo...

Original broadcast date February 2, 2023. The original podcast post is here:  Episodes 229 and 230 of Lore Olympus are available this week (if you Fast-Pass episode 230) and WE ARE SO ANGRY. I mean, yes, episode 229 was kind of sweet and surprisingly instructional as Persephone gets much-needed information about fertility goddesses from Metis, who's about as down-to-earth and helpful a Fertil...

Original broadcast date January 26, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/01/ binary-system-podcast-346-glass-onion-and-the-umbrella-academy-season-2 /   Last week Kathryn said she was going to watch Glass Onion this week and finally start the second season of Umbrella Academy . And wonder of all wonders, she did! It’s unheard of! It’s amazing! It’s unbelieva...

Original broadcast date January 19, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/01/ binary-system-podcast-345-lore-olympus-227-and-228 / We're back home after all of our holiday and birthday travels, and on the latest episodes of Lore Olympus we...do NOT get the long-awaited reveal of what Apollo is up to and how his sister Artemis is handling it. But we do get a little...

Original broadcast date January 12, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/01/binary-system-podcast-344-the-birthday-edition-from-mammoth-cave/ It's a Binary System Birthday Edition as we're joined by sister and frequent guest Hannah in the wilds of Kentucky! ("Wilds" meaning "a very nice Vrbo with wiFi and a fireplace." Except we only get Netflix in the upstairs b...

This episode originally broadcast on January 5, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/01/binary-system-podcast-343-lore-olympus-225-and-226/ Happy New Year from the BSP team! We hope you all had a fantastic celebration (or a safe and relatively chill evening at home if that's your jam.) It's a quick Travel-Edition recording this week (we may not have been...

Original broadcast date December 21, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/12/binary-system-podcast-342-lore-olympus-223-and-224 Happy Holidays from the Binary System Podcast team! This year one of our Christmas presents is some very welcome Lore Olympus backstory on Aphrodite (Ares is his own worst enemy, and for Aphrodite’s sake we hope the breakup takes). Eliza...

Original broadcast date December 15, 2022. The original podcast post is here: binary-system-podcast-341-wtnv-219-the-traveling-tarot-reader-and-my-dad-wrote-a-porno-finale We did something different with the Night Vale recap this week, because it's really two stories in one: first we've got to talk about how much we haaaaaate Dr. Janet Lubelle and her stupid smug face, and she better not l...

Original broadcast date December 1, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/?p=184117 This week's Night Vale recap has a lot of fan art requests and T-shirt moments, but it's also us just being flat out amazed that Cecil can get interrupted by his kid every five minutes and it's always stress free. It's not saccharine, it's not annoying, it's not even a little frustratin...

Original broadcast date November 24, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/11/binary-system-podcast-338-thanksgiving-food-special-and-lore-olympus/ Happy Thanksgiving! (Or, if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, Happy Thursday!) Somehow after last week's recording we got on the subject of cookbooks, specifically the "Little House on the Prairie" cookbook that we che...

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...