Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date April 20, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/08/binary-system-podcast-325-lore-olympus-205-and-206/ The Binary System Podcast team is taking it easy this week, talking about finishing up the most recent season of Star Trek: Picard (meh), and a couple of upcoming books we're looking forward to, and a little about the SDCC photo galleries...

Original broadcast date July 28, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/07/binary-system-podcast-324-peaky-blinders-russian-doll-and-the-return-of-sdcc/ It's been a long three years, but San Diego Comic-Con is back! This episode we do a quick recap (masking was good, cosplay was light, Marvel was interesting, IDW was innovative, and DC is copying what Marvel's doin...

Original broadcast date July 21, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/07/binary-system-podcast-323-and-getting-ready-for-sdcc/ It's a short-ish episode this week since we're mostly talking about episodes 203 and 204 of Lore Olympus and the pace is moving fast. No spoilers, but one of our predictions at the end of the last episode was right, and we're both very gl...

Original broadcast date July 7, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/07/binary-system-podcast-322-lore-olympus-peaky-blinders-stranger-things-and-more/ Welcome to Night Vale is on hiatus this month, so now's our chance to get caught up on everything else!* *Disclaimer: by "caught up" we mean "a couple episodes" and by "everything else" we mean two shows. Maybe th...

Pop the champagne and throw the confetti, Welcome to Night Vale celebrated their ten year anniversary...two weeks ago. Two weeks and a day, actually. *tiny noisemaker sound* Yay? We started out the podcast this week with a discussion of the recent Supreme Court decision (if you don't know where the Binary System Podcast falls on this issue after more than three hundred episodes then you haven't be...

Original broadcast date June 23, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/06/binary-system-podcast-320-lore-olympus-arcane-and-peaky-blinders/ We're back on schedule this week, talking about Lore Olympus episodes 199 (nobody's buying the crap you're selling, Zeus) and 200 (for the fast-pass folks only, but wow, "runt of the litter?" Really?) After that we squee about...

Original broadcast date June 16, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/06/binary-system-podcast-319-wtnv-209-the-black-coat-and-peaky-blinders-season-six/ Let's start out this podcast by wishing Welcome To Night Vale a very happy ten year anniversary! One day late! 'Cause that's how we roll. The episode that came out before the anniversary is bringing back an old...

Original broadcast date June 9, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/06/binary-system-podcast-318-lore-olympus-stranger-things-board-games-and-roller-coasters/ Hey look at that, we're back on schedule! Let's see how long that lasts JUST KIDDING we know it won't last long. First up we're spoiling all the spoilers for Lore Olympus episodes 197 (out now) and 198 (on...

Original broadcast date June 2, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/06/binary-system-podcast-317-doctor-strange-in-the-multiverse-of-madness/ Yes, the Binary System Podcast team has done the unthinkable , we've watched a new movie while it's still in the theaters , so there's a chance that a spoiler warning might actually be necessary. "Doctor Strange: In the Mu...

Original broadcast date May 26, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/05/binary-system-podcast-316-lore-olympus-love-death-robots-arcane-and-more/ For once we had a plan! We talked about the latest two episodes of Lore Olympus, and asked the important questions: WHAT is happening to the ruling gods, and HOW is it all Zeus' fault? (Because you know it is.) After th...

Original broadcast date May 19, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/05/binary-system-podcast-315-wtnv-208-cecil-in-the-big-city/ It's been a long time since Cecil and Carlos have been able to take a vacation (I'm sure we all know what that's like) so this week they dropped Esteban off with Cecil's sister and headed off to the Big City! No, not New York, the othe...

Original broadcast date May 12, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/05/binary-system-podcast-314-wtnv-207-lost-cat-plus-lore-olympus-and-doctor-who/ First up we're recapping the latest Night Vale episode, as Cecil searches for the lost cat ("...cat? Probably a cat.") Khoshekh, with the help of a pet psychic and random people who say vague and upsetting things. T...

Original broadcast date May 5, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/05/binary-system-podcast-313-spider-man-no-way-home-finally/ Yep, you read that right. We'd usually be recapping the latest episode of Welcome To Night Vale at this point, but instead we decided to spend an entire episode discussing Spider-Man: No Way Home which we FINALLY watched after, what, th...

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...