Binary System Podcast: Recent Episodes
Elizabeth Wallace, Kathryn Adams
Formerly known as The Night Vale Recap, we now present The Binary System Podcast. Twins Kathryn Adams and Elizabeth Wallace bring you recaps of Welcome To Night Vale, and geek out about any shiny thing that distracts them.
Welcome To Night Vale is back from hiatus! To celebrate (and to cover for the fact that Cecil is missing) guest radio host Leonard Burton is sharing an episode from the archives! So send your Betamax back to the store, grab yourself an Orange Julius, and make sure you have your credit card handy for...
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Last weekend Binary System went to ALL THE CONVENTIONS. Well, two of them. But they were big ones! This week we’re recapping GalaxyCon in Raleigh and Comic-Con in San Diego, going over the good (Cosplay! Cute merch! Famous artists! Amazing Digital Circus meetup!!) the bad (ugh it was hot in San Diego) (oh like 79...
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This week’s recap of Beastars features multiple instances of the word “weird”. Look, we know this is a fantasy show, and it doesn’t pay to look too closely into how a society of carnivores living side-by-side with potential food would actually work. But Bill the Tiger found a baby chick in his ramen, and him...
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Our plan tonight was to recap episode 17 of the final season of Beastars (you call THAT a “disguise”, Louis? Really?? Also, we’re really hoping Juno gets a happily ever after, but man alive it doesn’t look good), and we do, but first we had to talk about the passing of Sam Neill. He was...
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Yes, we know we said on the previous episode that we would have a Welcome to Night Vale recap this week. But there wasn’t a new episode posted, because Welcome to Night Vale is on hiatus in July. Welcome to Night Vale is always on hiatus in July. Twelve years on and you’d think we’d...
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It’s been a wild ride for the Binary System Podcast team as we binged The Amazing Digital Circus over the last two and a half months. Kudos to everyone who’s been following this absolutely stunning animated series for, what, two and a half years? I think everyone can agree that the final episode was worth...
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We’re so glad we actually went to see Backrooms while it was still in the theater, partly because it’s exactly the kind of horror movie we like: scary, light on the gore, smart, just enough jump scares, and most of all intensely WEIRD. It’s deliciously unsettling and we could just marinate in that uncanny anti-nostalgia...
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What do you know, we actually managed to finish watching a season of TV less than six months late! And wow, what a season. Pluribus has had some amazing episodes, with a story that’s been both delightful and heartbreaking and which never went where we were expecting. So it really means something to say that...
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On this week’s Night Vale recap, Jalen is being awfully understanding about being in jail for a murder his dead doppelganger (probably) committed. But a secret ally is sending clues that could help Cecil solve the case, if Cecil can stop obsessing about his stapler long enough to figure it out. And if they don’t...
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The investigation into the murder of Marcus Vanston is moving ahead at breakneck speed. And for this week only, Cecil’s covering the latest developments in a hard-boiled, film noir style that only gets weirder (and more fun) when you add Night Vale’s tendency to mess with metaphors (we WILL be trying to work “the hornet’s...
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If we had to recap the last three episodes of The Amazing Digital Circus VERY quickly, we’d say episode 6 is delightfully violent, episode 7 is a kick in the heart, and episode 8 is terrifying. We mention at the beginning of the episode that there’s no need to recap all three point by point....
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“Does anyone hear that sound behind the sky?” (Get used to hearing that question if you listen to this week’s Welcome To Night Vale, because Cecil asks it a lot.) There are some updates on the Marcus Vanston murder investigation, cooking tips involving mud, and the Philosophical Society is gonna get you to break your...
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It took ten years, but both the East Coast and West Coast branches of the podcast got to meet up in Manhattan once again for a weekend of museums, comic book shops, subway ficus, fancy islands, sidewalk cocktails, surprise concerts, private hot pot rooms, and treehouses. We also watched three episodes of The Amazing Digital...
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We’ve really got to hand it to the creators of Pluribus. This episode took a dark turn; the Hive Mind may be the vanguard of an alien invasion that’s either very efficient, or very much not efficient at all. Either way, steps have been taken to try to keep all seven point something billion hosts...
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On this week’s Night Vale recap, when the creepy ice cream truck appeared we thought it was one of those awful stories about creepy ice cream guys preying on people. It’s not. IT’S SO MUCH WORSE. After that we have a spoiler-filled recap of Pluribus episode 5: how did the Hive Mind react to Carol’s...
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This week Pluribus continues to break our hearts while also expanding on the impossible situation Carol finds herself in. There are some hard choices made and quite a lot of betrayal (although does it count as betrayal if you’re trying to fix the entire human race? And who exactly gets to make the choice about...
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On this week’s Night Vale recap we spend a lot of time wondering why April Fools has to be so freaking MEAN. Scaring people, embarrassing people, setting up entire fake Arborist Day Parades with floats and hundreds of attendees…okay that last one is just Cecil BUT STILL. After that we recap another episode of Beastars,...
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We never actually pictured getting here, but Binary System Podcast has recorded five hundred episodes! (More or less. Minus some text-only episodes. And of course we had quite a few Welcome To Night Vale recap episodes before we started calling ourselves Binary System…look, it’s too complicated to get into, and we’d really rather celebrate and...
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On this week’s Pluribus recap, episode three starts with Carol stuck in the memory of one more time when she didn’t try harder to make Helen happy. (For the record, Carol, we get it, we don’t like being cold either, but OH MY GOD that ice hotel looks SO COOL.) (Pun not intended.) From there,...
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Cecil and Night Vale Radio both get a break this week (aside from a couple of Station ID’s and a long list of “supporters”). Instead, we hear the soothing tones of Harrison Kip as he gives the listeners a little taste of his weird religion with a not-really-well-defined god, and some oddly specific commandments. (Look,...
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Friend of the Podcast Hannah has been after us for a bit to give Pluribus a shot and after watching the first two episodes WE DEFINITELY GET THE APPEAL. This show is not at all what we expected, and keeps surprising us at every turn. And Rhea Seehorn is one of very few people who...
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A sandstorm in Night Vale means low visibility, accidental mudslides, and murderous doppelgängers roaming the streets. But it also means Cecil and Carlos can work from home today and spend time teaching their adorable spell-casting son how to not tamper with the laws of nature. (No, Esteban, stop it, the avocado tree is already too...
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Wonder of all wonders, we actually watched what we said we were going to watch, and before the Oscars too! KPop Demon Hunters is gorgeous, funny, and powerful, and almost definitely aimed at an audience much much younger than us. We still got a kick out of it. (Derpy Cat and the Magpie are the...
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The investigation into the murder of Marcus Vanston is on the back burner this week, because Cecil is laser-focused on a very important issue. It doesn’t get a lot of discussion usually, which is a shame because there are people suffering. The issue is “Not Liking The Popular TV Show That Everyone Else Is Watching...
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It only took us a year this time (year and a half, tops) but we finally watched Transformers One. And you know what? We have no excuses for why it took us this long, especially since it’s so freaking good. Spoiler warnings ahead, though we’re not spoiling the plot so much as fangirling over everything...
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This week in Night Vale, Dana Cardinal’s investigation into the murder of Marcus Vanston is finally making progress: a witness has come forward! Actually four witnesses. And not one of them has any useful information. We don’t know yet if people are being made to forget what they’ve seen, or are being prevented from saying...
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It’s a good thing Kathryn watched the Star Trek Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover this week, mostly because now we can talk about how awesome it is that the actors who voiced the animated characters got to play the live-action versions in an episode that was equal parts heartwarming and freaking hilarious. But it’s also...
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“Hee. Moriarty throwing a paper airplane at a very angsty Hawkeye. I’ll be in my bunk.” Yay, we actually watched something we planned to watch! What…no, not Weapons. And not Nosferatu either. This week we finally sat down and watched the latest Knives Out movie, and we loved it. This movie has everything: amazing actors...
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The last two episodes of the final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks had everything: fantastic stunt casting, a squad of Harry Kims, mountains of technobabble, a version of Mariner who knows very little about jailbreaks, and Jack Quaid doing his best freaked-out screams. We LOVED it. Listen in as we spoil everything, miss most...
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It’s finally here! Four years of gang wars and prison riots, backroom deals and family ties, unbreakable loyalty and horrific betrayal, and it all brings us to the final episode of Mayor of Kingstown, where… …hang on, what’s that? So this isn’t the final season? Well, we can’t say we’re all that surprised, because while...
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Happy New Year everybody! Hope your holiday is fun and your 2026 better than you hoped! This week we’re sitting down with special guest Hannah Wallace to discuss 2022’s epic Christmas musical, Spirited, which we really should’ve watched before now because it’s all kinds of fun. Play the Podcast Below | Download the MP3 |...
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Okay you guys, this is a really weird episode to drop on a holiday: the latest chapter of Mayor of Kingstown (possibly the second-to-last episode ever?) bombarded us for 47 solid minutes with death, torture, plot twists, betrayal, and excrement MERRY CHRISTMAS. Seriously, this was hands down our favorite episode of the season, but maybe...
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So a scheduling snafu meant we couldn’t record a recap this week, but we COULD have Messenger conversation about season 4 episode 8 of Mayor of Kingstown because WE ARE NOT HAPPY AND WE HAVE A LOT TO SAY. GIANT GREAT BIG SPOILERS OF COURSE. We start with a quick recap of a very sweet episode...
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This week’s episode of Mayor of Kingstown was slightly less stressful than last week’s, but everyone is still in a hell of a lot of peril. There are some incredibly dangerous characters in this show, and it’s a toss up who’s going to be attacked by their worst enemy first. (It’s gonna be Kevin, isn’t...
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On this week’s Night Vale recap, Cecil and Dana are still trying to figure out who in town has murdered two people (that we know of.) (And we’re not talking about Tabitha because she’s the town founder so have some respect. Also she’s just eating people. Totally different M.O.) After that we’ve got a MASSIVELY...
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The theme of this week’s episode of Mayor of Kingstown is paranoia. Is Frank Moses playing a long game and setting Bunny up for failure? Is the Warden playing an even longer game and hoping her secret connections will protect her? Is Mike’s new friend/lover/it’s complicated Cindy getting close to Mike for her own nefarious...
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On this week’s Night Vale recap THERE’S BEEN A MURDER. It’s the same murder we heard about last week, but as Cecil points out it’s still true, and it’s a heck of a hook for a radio program. Here’s hoping the WikiHow article can show Cecil how to solve it before someone else gets murdered...
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This week we’re recapping episode 3 of the last season of Mayor of Kingstown, where pretty much everything is spiraling out of Mike’s control. Rival gang members are murdering each other and setting their hangouts on fire, Kyle’s falling under the influence of a dangerous inmate, Robert is a drunk time bomb ready to explode,...
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This week’s Night Vale is the kind of murder mystery that can only happen in this weird little town, with dead angels, no suspects, surprise bats, and an autopsy report that’s just the coroner stabbing the notebook with a pencil while yelling “IT’S FULL OF STARS.” After the recap we jump right into the second...
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In our continuing series “Elizabeth And Kathryn Watch Things That Are Less Than A Year Old”, this week we watched 2024’s Heretic (came out last November, just under a year, still counts!) It’s a brilliantly creepy, slow burn of a film, Hugh Grant somehow manages to be charming and terrifying at the same time, and...
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It’s a short episode this week because we decided we weren’t going to spoil the ending of Night Vale’s latest episode: it’s such a quiet, subtle story, perfect for an autumn day, and you really should give it a listen. We still manage to fit in some random ramblings of course, including Wednesday (surprisingly good),...
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Yep, you read that right. This week in complete defiance of our usual routine we made a plan – watch Sinners – and then we actually followed the plan and watched a movie less than six months after it came out! And oh boy, what a movie! In just one film you’ve got vampire horror,...
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On this week’s Welcome to Night Vale episode Cecil is determined to tell you all about his date night at this awesome little bee-filled restaurant, but his producer wishes we could stick to the Top. Story. CECIL. (Seeing as how the top story is Tabitha the Town Founder stomping around town EATING PEOPLE, his producer...
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There’s a new Homeowners’ Association trying to muscle its way into Night Vale, and the residents of the Desert Grove neighborhood have a lot of questions. Will the new HOA have rules against owning more than 36 iguanas? Are abandoned cruise ships on the front lawn still allowed? And for crying out loud, what are...
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It’s a travel edition this week, featuring the return of special guest Hannah Wallace! Listen in as we discuss (accompanied by tree frogs and crickets) the life and work of Robert Redford, specifically The Sting since we all sat down to watch it in his memory. Of course we also wander off into some tangents,...
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As longtime Welcome To Night Vale fans and two people who love horror movies and are always accepting recommendations (with some terms and conditions*), the latest episode could not be more perfect. Not only does Cecil share some of his favorite horror movies, he also passes along suggestions from other familiar Night Vale citizens. Come...
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“We’re not talking Uncanny Valley, we’re talking Uncanny Grand Canyon.” In this week’s Star Trek: Lower Decks recap we discuss Dr. Migleemo’s attempt to cook for two food critics from Klowahka (…geddit? Cloaca? Bird butts? Cause they’re birds? It is a very silly episode) while Mariner tries to get her Klingon buddy Ma’ah’s captaincy back...
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Well if you know us you know we love some Night Vale horoscopes, except for the fact that Capricorn is ALWAYS getting the shaft. Luckily this week Capricorn made it out fairly unscathed, other than that whole accidental bear mauling thing. That’s just LIFE, man. After the recap we jump into the third episode of...
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We watched the series finale of Station Eleven this week, only three and a half years late, that’s a record for us! (Except for when we watched Mayor of Kingstown season three the same month it was released. Or Love Death and Robots the same week it came out. We’re bad at TV except when...
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Welcome To Night Vale is back from hiatus, and they’ve brought us the perfect summer episode! The description of a mysterious festival in the desert made us nostalgic for Dead & Company shows, and the description of just how horribly, HORRIBLY the festival goes wrong made us nostalgic for when Fyre Festival was an entertaining...
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Elizabeth managed to pick up the Con Crud™ at Comic-Con, and doesn’t have much voice to speak of, so this week’s “episode” is a text messenger conversation about Station Eleven episode 8. ElizabethAlmost ready, was just rewatching the last five minutes KathrynI just skimmed a couple more recaps ElizabethDone, ready any time you are! KathrynReady...
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This week we’ve got recaps of ALL the Conventions. And by all we mean two. But they’re big ones! The West Coast branch of the podcast was at San Diego Comic-Con, while the East Coast branch was at GalaxyCon Raleigh. We spent the weekend taking cosplay photos, checking out the latest merch on the sales...
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The Station Eleven episode we recap this week is number 7, “Goodbye My Damaged Home”, and oh boy. If you’re watching this show then you know why this one just knocked our socks off. (And if you’re not, well, you really should, what are you waiting for?) We finally get the backstory for why Kirsten...
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It’s a bonus-sized (and spoileriffic!) episode this week because we’ve got a lot to go over. Another episode of Station Eleven of course, with gorgeous cinematography, excellent music, and a lot of questions: are the child-bombing psychos from the Museum, the Prophet, or the Red Bandanas? (Or all three, we have no idea who’s side...
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First up this week we start with a spoileriffic recap of the Station Eleven bottle episode “The Severn City Airport,” where we find out how the Prophet became so intensely creepy, tho we’re still not sure how he ended up with The Book. Then we jump to an equally spoileriffic recap of the second-to-last episode...
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It’s the return of the Watch Party! The Players: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kathryn, and Nathan. (With Mom chiming in through Hannah.) ElizabethAll ready here! HannahHere too! KathrynAlmost ready!Stupid adsFinally ready! HannahShall we go? KathrynYep, playing! HannahPlaying KathrynI’ve obviously seen this recently (we had to select start over) How about everyone else? HannahNever NathanRobert Mitchum with the...
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Our journey through a post-pandemic world continues this week as we discuss the fourth episode of Station Eleven. The lines are being drawn between the people still mourning the world that existed before the pandemic, and the people born after the pandemic who will never understand how bad it was and wish people would just...
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It’s the return of the Watch Party! With 28 Years Later in theaters now we thought it was high time to sit down and watch 28 Weeks Later. (Only 18 years late, how about that?) The Players: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kathryn, and Nathan. (With Mom chiming in through Hannah.) ElizabethConfirming it is 28 WEEKS later we’re...
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We’ve clearly been kidnapped by aliens and replaced with clones who are much better at watching movies, because this week we caught up on a show that’s only four years old, and watched a movie that’s still in the theater. (Then of course we watched a movie 18 years after it came out, so maybe...
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The Welcome To Night Vale writers decided to prepare for the July hiatus by wrapping up two storylines this episode. And we can thank good-natured, heart-of-the-podcast Steve Carlsburg for both of them. The mysterious Labyrinth corporation will no longer be sending Night Vale citizens to perform illicit deeds in the desert, and the supply chain...
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“My GOD the way this show delivers information…” We’ve got a lot to cover this week, starting with what’s quickly becoming our favorite kind of Night Vale episode: a Steve Carlsberg story! (Seriously, ten years ago we loved to hate him as much as Cecil did, now we think he’s practically the heart of Night...
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The Binary System Podcast team has been getting a little better at TV lately, but we’re still three years late in watching Station Eleven (based on the best-selling book that Kathryn reviewed way back in 2014). Fortunately, younger sister Hannah was visiting last weekend and we needed a topic to discuss so she could do...
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This week we watched three whole episodes of the new season of Love, Death + Robots (yes we want pats on the head for that thank you) and while there’s a lot to discuss regarding Robert Valley’s amazing animation, a possible origin story for “Three Robots”, and voice actors we’ve gotten to interview, what we...
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In this week’s recap, Steve Carlsberg is fitting into his job at Labyrinth as well as can be expected. By which we mean he’s working himself to death, losing connection with his family, and his attempts at corporate team-building are not appreciated. It’s a grim state of affairs, and don’t even get us started on...
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“ALL the Cali-class ships ALL OF THEM.” Kathryn watched three episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks this week, and Elizabeth rewatched two of them, so she can contribute something helpful. (For once – Kathryn.) (Yes ALL RIGHT. – Elizabeth) Anyway, the final two episodes of season three solve the mystery of Rutherford, bring T’Lyn to...
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This week in Night Vale, Cecil’s starting a new segment: Missed Connections. I’m sure you’re all familiar with the concept, where you throw all of your longing and regret into the public forum in the hopes that one person (or in the case here, one car, one planet, one train, or one very untrustworthy partner...
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It’s poetry week in Night Vale! Let’s all pull together and submit at least a couple hundred poems each, and this time could we please not have any incidents with the menacing obelisk in the Dog Park and oh come on WHAT DID I JUST SAY? After the recap we’ve gotta talk about some amazing...
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We actually DO have a Welcome to Night Vale episode to recap…but we also watched an episode of the latest season of Black Mirror. Believe it or not this is actually what we said we were gonna do, so of course we have to post a recap right away. After a quick discussion of some...
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It’s beautiful. It’s really intensely weird, but it’s beautiful. So like the title says, this week we’re talking about Star Trek: Lower Decks, Godzilla Minus One, and the newest seasons of Black Mirror and Love Death + Robots. SOME of which we’ve actually watched. (Okay it’s Star Trek and Godzilla. LD+R isn’t out yet and...
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Okay, we need to address that (?) in the episode title. Raise your hands, how many of you out there knew that Beastars Season 3 was going to be in TWO PARTS? Wow, that many of you? Okay, well we’d ask everybody to check back for updates on when the second part will be released,...
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FIrst up this week we do a quick breakdown of WonderCon 2025, discussing everything from the amazing cosplay to low-frills motels, with some quick tangents into Cowboy Bebop (gotta love the anime rooms at Con) and Skibidi Toilet (finally saw some Skibidi merch in the wild!) After that we jump into the second-to-last episode of...
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Episode 450! That’s…kind of a milestone, right? To celebrate, let’s do the same thing we’ve been doing for a few weeks now! First up, Beastars Season 3, episode 10. This episode merits a trigger warning, since we finally get to see what led to Legoshi’s mother’s death, and it’s pretty heartbreaking. There’s also a brief...
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On this week’s Night Vale we got to hear from Cecil’s former boss Leonard Burton, who’s much more than just a radio host. He’s also dead! After the recap we jump into episode 9 of the final season of Beastars, where they’d like us to believe that someone got un-alived but they’ve pulled that stunt...
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The episode of Beastars that we recapped this week isn’t quite as unsettling as last week’s episode. That civet cat is still off-putting and weird, but my goodness do the animators do an excellent job with Yaya’s animation. The team that animated that zebra in the noodle shop, however, can go sit in a corner...
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On tonight’s recap of Welcome to Night Vale we learn that Night Vale’s newest attraction, Hysteria Land, is not an amusement park, it’s a theme park. And the theme is “amusement.” We’d argue that the theme is also “existential dread” and “impossibly frightening.” Arms inside the ride, kids, watch out for the dead animals. After...
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“That’s a good question.” “Thank you!” “It’s best to not ask questions. Especially good ones.” If the title to the Welcome to Night Vale episode sounds familiar, we’re seeing the return of a harrowing duo from Night Vale’s past: The Man Who Is Not Tall, and The Man Who Is Not Short. And unfortunately The...
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Since this week we were guests on an episode of Mid-Life Crisis Task Force, our usual “episode” will be a fan art post, this time featuring some beautiful pieces in honor of the series finale of Arcane! Jinx by mimimaru on Instagram Jinx by MyDesignWorld Jinx by Hazel V0 on imprint Piltover: Mel, by BurningArtist...
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It took two, maybe two-and-a-half months longer than everyone else, but the Binary System Podcast team finally watched the final episode (ever?) of Arcane: League of Legends. Ten out of ten. No notes. Of course it takes us an entire episode to go into detail about why we think this episode was the perfect way...
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Welcome to Night Vale is back from hiatus this week so we’ve gotta talk about the Flakey-O’s employees as they celebrate their return from a Season of Unstoppable Churning Death. (Otherwise known as corporate takeover.) Totally understandable that they’d want to cut loose for a bit, and what’s a little grave robbing among friends? After...
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Wow, we’ve got a real rhythm going with these posts! We’re back again this week to discuss the second-to-last episode (ever!) of Arcane. What can we say about this show that we haven’t said before? It’s beautiful, it’s terrifying, it’s powerful, it’s violent. We finally get the backstory on what’s been happening with Mel, but...
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Second verse, same as the first: we’re back this week to talk about Star Trek: Lower Decks (the Star Trek future is the best future: good hearted and occasionally sexy!) and Beastars (okay but WHY did Louis say he was a virgin, does having sex with Haru not count? Did they actually HAVE sex?), and...
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This week it’s thirty minutes and three topics as the Binary System Podcast team does an in-depth recap of…okay, so the first two topics are gonna be kinda fast. Kathryn watched Season 2 Episode 6 of Star Trek: Lower Decks (foley artists, take a bow), and Elizabeth and Kathryn both watched Season 3 Episode 3...
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Wonder of all wonders we actually managed to watch another episode of Beastars season 3. Never mind the fact that Elizabeth only finished watching it five minutes before the recording, it got done and that’s what counts. (Keep telling yourself that, slacker. ~ Kathryn) (Oy! ~ Elizabeth) After recapping the various Beastars heartbreaks (poor Juno...
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Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone’s 2025 is already shaping up to be calm and stress-free and completely absent of any kind of drama. This week’s recap is actually way late, but we’ve got to get through a whole month of Welcome To Night Vale being on hiatus, so why not wait until January to...
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Hope everybody is having safe and happy holidays! This week’s episode is super short because one: at time of recording we were on the road, and two: we haven’t caught up with much In the way of TV, movie, and books this week. Elizabeth’s only finished the second to last episode of Star Trek Lower...
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Happy Holidays from the Binary System Podcast team! Our present to everyone this year is an extra-long episode, because there is just so much content. The final season of Beastars dropped while we were looking the other way, so we have to talk about the first episode and how this season seems to be tackling...
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“…the chrysalis is showing signs that it may soon open…” It’s Night Vale, so that could either mean Steve Carlsberg leaving his old life for a new one, or it could be the VERY LITERAL chrysalis with a monster inside. Obviously, it’s both, but between the thing in the cocoon and Steve’s employers, maybe we...
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It’s the return of the Watch Party! We all sat down to watch Rosemary’s Baby, complete with chocolate mousse (though without the chalky undertaste.) This was actually recorded before Halloween, Elizabeth just didn’t have her flim-flam act together to post it till now. The Players: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kathryn, and Mom. KathrynI will be typing slower...
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The first arc of Arcane Season 2 wraps up with a glorious one-on-one battle between Vi and Jinx (well, one-one-one, if you don’t count Caitlyn and Sevika fighting it out in the wings, and the Orphan Moppet who’s latched on to Jinx just generally getting in the way.) Many things are happening simultaneously in this...
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Night Vale’s holding its first-ever Swap Meet this week, and the Sanitation Department wants to make sure you follow all the rules: there’s no money of any kind allowed, tangible and intangible swaps are encouraged, and Faustian Deals that cost you your immortal soul? Those are perfectly acceptable, go talk to the demons in the...
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This week the Binary System Podcast team watched the first episode of Arcane: League of Legends season 2. That’s it, that’s all you need to know; we watched it and it’s amazing. Okay, yes, we also talked a little bit about what we’re also watching (Dario Argento and the original run of Frasier) and what...
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On this week’s Night Vale recap we’re taking about the brand new innovation the venture capitalists have come up with: a ride share where a bunch of people take the same big car, and it goes around to different places and some people get on and some get off (…the bus, they’ve reinvented the bus....
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Happy Halloween! We’re officially in the middle of spooky movie season, so this week we’re talking about a classic horror film. It’s the Exorcist…Three! Not a perfect film by any means; you can see the heavy hand of the producers who insisted on changing the name from William Blatty’s Legion in order to capitalize on...
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The head of Night Vale’s new Unnamed Religion Seriously Nobody Ever Says What It Is They All Avoid Telling You The Name That’s Not Suspicious At All is in Cecil’s broadcast studio, discussing sheep, rudeness, and all the things you’ve lost in your life, tangible or intangible. It’s a lovely selection of Weird Things (that’s...
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We didn’t actually plan to do a second sit-rep episode so soon. Unfortunately another gigantic event hit the US in the last week, causing a lot of uproar and basically making everyone’s lives harder. That’s right, Netflix cancelled KAOS after only one season. It’s an unacceptable state of affairs and we demand to speak with...
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The air’s getting cooler and the nights are getting longer, so Night Vale is celebrating with a corn maze and all the fun things that go along with it: caramel apples, pumpkins, laughing, screaming, zombies, acid-filled sharks, and existential dread. Ooo and cider! As soon as we escaped the rusty chainsaws and applied corn-silk tourniquets...
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The next Night Vale episode didn’t drop early enough for us to do a recap this week, and there’s been enough stuff going on that we figured it was a good time to bring back the Sit Rep (With Beers!) The good news is that Elizabeth is newly-employed and feeling very relieved and grateful (unemployment...
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This week’s episode features the triumphant return of special guest Hannah Wallace, as she and the East Coast branch of the podcast fight their way through the wilds of Gatlinburg. (But really, they saw a bear and everything!) As they fill in Elizabeth on their adventures, everybody gets a chance to talk about what we’ve...
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Alejandra Nuñez, Ronnie Sharma, and Nanako Barnes of Mr. Prescott’s 5th Period AP English Class – the protectors of Night Vale otherwise known as the Library Tweens – have decided that they DON’T want to be known as the Library Tweens anymore. They need a new name, something with a little more staying power. This...
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Okay in some respects it’s just business as usual around here: Kathryn and Elizabeth have both been watching season 1 of Star Trek: Lower Decks, four years after it first came out, that tracks. But Kathryn just watched the first episode of Mayor of Kingstown season 3, only three months late, what the heck? And...
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Surprise! Due to travel delays, lack of any Lore Olympus updates (mournful sigh), and time (and scheduling) just generally being weird, we’re doing two Welcome To Night Vale recap episodes in a row! This week we’re getting crafty, so prepare your sunniest room (no windows allowed), grab your best implement (stolen is preferred) and your...
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We knew as soon as we saw the title that this week’s Night Vale would feature the return of Deb the Sentient Patch of Haze. But we assumed she’d be hawking several things, instead of just two: a spray that may or may not repel Librarians, and a teleporter that may or not make people...
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The East Coast branch of the podcast is traveling along with the official Podcast Photographer (otherwise known as her husband Nathan) so this week we’ve got another fan art gallery full of amazing images, featuring Transformers, Lore Olympus, Saga, Loki, and Arcane!
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The Binary System Podcast teams appears to be on a bit of a roll lately. Just this week Kathryn finished season 2 of Mayor of Kingstown, and both Kathryn and Elizabeth have watched all but the last episode of Poker Face. That’s two TV series where we’re now less than a year and a half...
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(Heh. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.) Night Vale has come up with this amazing “ride share” program, and it even has driverless cars! Of course, the ride doesn’t take you anywhere near where you wanted to go, and the cars are only “driverless” because ghosts don’t count. Or do they? Doors are locked for...
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The gigantic, internationally-known event has wrapped up, with thousands of people having attended, and the whole world’s talking about the big reveals and celebrity appearances. That’s right, GalaxyCon 2024 in Raleigh North Carolina was a blast. In all seriousness, while the East Coast branch of Binary System Podcast was going to GalaxyCon, the West Coast...
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So, we’re bad at TV and movies. …oh, you were expecting a “but” there weren’t you? No, we’re absolutely horrible at TV and movies, which is why this week we’re catching up on Poker Face episode one, which only came out a year and a half ago. Before you congratulate us, you should know Kathryn’s...
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In the latest installment of our ongoing series “We’re Bad At Movies But We Have A Lot Of Enthusiasm”, this week we decided to finally watch the 2014 movie John Wick. And we loved it. It’s an absolute symphony of beautifully-choreographed violence that takes the ridiculously improbable storyline of “Terrifying former hitman goes on a...
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So what with travel logistics and laptop weirdness and blah blah blah excuses, we didn’t get a chance to record again this week, but we DID have time to discuss season one of Mayor of Kingstown. GIANT GREAT BIG SPOILERS OF COURSE. Mostly for episode 8, which is hands down the high water mark of...
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Happy 4th of July! Or if you don’t celebrate that, happy Thursday. It’s time once again for a super quick Travel Edition because we’re so busy being crazy jet setters! Either that or we’re all celebrating our Mom’s birthday and we lost track of time and had to record at the last minute. YOU DECIDE....
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Lore Olympus may have had its final episode, but fan art lives forever!
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It’s a short recap this week, since the action for the latest episode episode of Welcome to Night Vale can basically be summed up with “And then there was a battle.” We get a weird glimpse into the past (future?) of Kevin from Desert Bluffs, the Library Tweens need to, well, not learn to respect...
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Mother Lauren is sponsoring a citywide cleansing of Night Vale and yes that’s exactly as scary as it sounds. Self care is still important, so don’t forget to check into the Maximum Security Spa for a few hours. Or days. Years? Whatever, the good word of the day is TEETH. After the recap, Kathryn just...
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The wildly popular webcomic Lore Olympus wraps up with episode 280! We were a little worried that there were so many unresolved plot threads left for the final episode, but Rachel Smythe managed to tie everything together in a pretty little bow. No spoilers, but if you have any questions about how it all ended...
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There is nothing wrong with your radio, Night Vale, do not attempt to adjust the dial. Mother Lauren is controlling the transmission. And she is pissed. This week’s Night Vale recap features nightmare images of a clawed monster Freddy Krugering her way down the street, but also asks the age-old question: is a hot dog...
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Only three episodes left of Lore Olympus, and there is a lot going on. We’re not sure how many of the unresolved plot threads are gonna get wrapped up in the series finale (Eros and Psyche? Zeus’s millennia of betrayal? Leto finally getting her comeuppance?), but in the two episodes we’re recapping this week we...
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It’s another Travel Edition this week as we brave the wilds of Southeast North America (otherwise known as our parents’ place in Bradenton.) First up is a lightning quick recap of Night Vale as Cecil revisits a very strange kids show and correctly answers the daily puzzle. (It’s entropy. The answer is always entropy.) After...
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Okay everybody GIANT SPOILER WARNINGS DANGER DANGER THIS IS NOT A DRILL. So, way back on August 2, 2018 the 24th episode of Lore Olympus was released. Apollo let himself into Persephone’s bedroom and what happened next set in motion a series of events that changed the story forever and made a lot of people...
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We didn’t have time to recap the latest Night Vale this week, and we won’t be fast passing the latest episode of Lore Olympus for another few days, so it’s time for another Watch Party! Chiming in from three different states, this time we’re watching the very fun and often bonkers pre-Code musical Gold Diggers...
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The Lore Olympus comic tackles a lot of issues about abuse: spousal, parental, generational. The latest two episodes are no exception, but they also don’t really need trigger warnings because the focus here is the response to that abuse. Rachel Smythe gives a balanced look at how abuse victims can overcome the feeling of guilt...
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On this week’s Night Vale recap we discuss Abby’s DEEP SEATED RESENTMENT towards Cecil. Some of it is unfair (it’s not Cecil’s fault that Abby had to be the de facto parent because their actual parents sucked) but some of it is valid (let’s face it, Cecil was horrible to Abby’s husband Steve, on the...
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You know how we’ve mentioned for a while that Rachel can be very, let’s say, judicious, with her plot reveals? Some of the commenters have been complaining that it can take quite a long time for anything to happen in the Lore Olympus comic. Hopefully everyone’s happier now, because a lot happened in the most...
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On this week’s Night Vale recap, Carlos and Cecil hold an exclusive Art Show (ie: a family dinner so they can show off Estaban’s drawing on the fridge) and we get some of our favorite horror tropes: unreliable narrators, creepy jumps in time, and pictures that change when you’re not looking at them. Or do...
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The first half of Lore Olympus episode 270 is light on dialog. Baby Dionysus starts the most adorable Hero’s Journey ever as he sets off to rescue Hades and Persephone. The cuteness balances out the second half of the episode, with images of Hades dealing with his worst nightmare: being a child at the mercy...
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On the latest episode of Welcome to Night Vale, Kevin the Younger is determined to kill Kevin the Older, so he’s used Carlos’ lab to open a portal to the Desert Otherworld. Cecil wants to tell the story, Tamika wants to stop the bloodshed, and Carlos wants everyone to PLEASE be careful of the beakers...
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There’s a great big ceremony that happens every year, you may have heard of it? The Oscars? Anyway, the Binary System Podcast didn’t watch it, but they do have lots of opinions about the winners. (And some of the ones that didn’t win. You guys, have you seen Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse?) And of course...
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On this week’s Night Vale episode, we highly approve of Cecil devoting an entire broadcast to Lost and Found submissions, because writer Brie Williams is very good with lists of random weirdness, unexpected sweetness, and things with TEETH. From there we jump into three more Oscar nominated films we finally watched, namely Oppenheimer (brilliant but...
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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 episode that’d just been released, “Renovations,” number 48 in the series. We’ve discussed every episode since then, but not once...
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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? (Kidding, it was a fun episode of Night Vale, we’re just really excited to talk about cartoons.) Anyway, massive spoiler warnings as we discuss our favorite Oscar-nominated...
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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 used to be, not sure who). That was episode 264, and the theme of 265 can be summed up even more briefly:...
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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 so you know there’s going to be delightful lists of really weird things. Knives! Trapper Keepers! Field...
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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 for the Binary System Podcast team, that calamity pales in comparison to the fact that Apollo is being a gigantic jerk and it’s stressing us out. The...
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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 come out. (Hahahah, kidding, obviously.) Anyway, our hearts are still intact after the episode, which was for the...
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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 of a lot of personal growth. Seriously, we figured Rachel included the bit with Demeter snapping at Hera because otherwise we wouldn’t...
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“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 creepy in a way we didn’t see coming at all, what a fantastic surprise. We can’t say more, because spoilers. (This episode of VagueCast is brought to you by...
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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 latest two episodes of Lore Olympus, which can be briefly summed up as “sexy...
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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 trips (spoilers: we were NOT stealing babies) and geeky presents, but it all goes by really fast because we’ve gotta talk about “Skibidi Toilet.” Seriously you...
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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 person we expected. Merry Christmas to us! We finished up with a spoiler-free squee about Doctor Who (Elizabeth’s not caught up yet but Kathryn said the...
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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 discuss the latest Doctor Who episodes: not that we’ve watched them but we’ve heard they’re doing well. (Other than one news article that...
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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 Olympus is proving once again that Apollo will hurt anyone in order to get what he wants, and it’s stressful to imagine...
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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 ™ in a perfectly harmless limestone cube that just appeared in the Sand Wastes. Nevermind the floating apparitions that can melt your face off, it’s the scientific...
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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 July, but we wanted to wait until episode 252 (which we already discussed before the hiatus) was available for free on WebToon...
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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 instead of a bang. But in the end they brought together all the threads and...
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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 of an angry mob that was at least partly Kevin’s fault. The two frenemies spend the episode telling the story of Frown...
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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 dialogue, and stupid hot chocolate; we got a...
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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 first Truck Toucher contest: 72 hours in, and it’s down to the last four contestants, not...
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It’s the return of the Watch Party! Chiming in on instant messenger from North Carolina, Florida, and California, we’re celebrating the 45th (arrgh our bones just turned to dust!) anniversary of the UK release of Watership Down. That’s right, this gorgeously animated film has been traumatizing a generation of kids for 45 years! The Players:...
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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...
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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. Seriously, we cannot get one thing right in the timeline, but we do know that David Tennant is one lanky dude,...
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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 that day. The episode had some interesting and fun bits (the advertisement for SPOONS, or...
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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 recapping the fourth episode of Good Omens season 2, a story filled with magic, zombie nazis, terrible puns,...
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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...
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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 our backlog of nerd content instead of rewatching Arcane and the Try Channel. (…okay we caught up on nerd content...
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There was a car crash on Buellton Avenue… Okay, you know what? We’re not exactly sure who this week’s recap is for. If you want a twisty, creepy, very-close-to-horror story with a sting in its tail then you really need to go listen to the latest Night Vale episode so we don’t give away the...
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With no Lore Olympus or Night Vale this week, it was a perfect opportunity to get caught up on Star Wars, Marvel, and Good Omens. We of course did none of that and watched a horror movie from last year instead. NO ONE IS SURPRISED. Heads up for great big spoilers as we discuss M3GAN,...
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Hooray, everything’s back to “normal” in Night Vale! Science is legal again, the Weather is back, Dr. Janet Lubelle is…not technically gone from the city, but it’s fine. Since so many people are thinking about celebrating with a vacation, Night Vale has now opened their first international airport, the Randy Newman Memorial Terminal! (Yes, Randy...
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Lately it feels like everything we love is on hiatus: Night Vale, Lore Olympus, Saga, it’s all on break. So that means we’ve got time to go watch some of the amazing movies that’ve come out lately, right? AHAHAHA no of course not, we’re terrible at movies. Instead we’re wading through Book of Boba Fett...
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It’s a short episode this week, since Elizabeth had a great time at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con and she’s really tired. And also Kathryn is still bad at TV and is only averaging one new episode of anything per week. Listen in as Elizabeth gives the details on her time at SDCC: the best...
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So here’s the thing you guys: Lore Olympus is on hiatus. Right now. There will be no free episodes for four months. There are a few fast-pass episodes though. The forward-thinking, grown up, delayed gratification thing to do would be to wait till Thanksgiving to read them when they’re free and AHAHAHAHAH. Lordy no. We...
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Well since Welcome to Night Vale is on hiatus for July and Lore Olympus is about to go on hiatus for FOUR MONTHS AAAAAA (take all the time you need Rachel Smythe your health is the most important thing but still) AAAAAAA, sorry, anyway, please enjoy this week’s fan art gallery, Transformers style!
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Fair warning, the second episode of Lore Olympus that we review this week ends in a cliffhanger. It’s not one that made us rush to fast-pass more episodes though, since it only involves Kronos. We’ve got our priorities, and the mad former tyrant is gonna have to take a back seat to finding out if...
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Welcome to the first Vacation Edition of 2023! Recording on location in a tropical resort (otherwise known as our sister’s old room in our parents’ place) with state of the art equipment (Elizabeth’s phone balanced on a pillow) and atmospheric sound effects (paper rustling, squeaky chairs, and the cat jumping on the bed), it’s nothing...
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Hey you know what we don’t say often enough on this podcast? SPOILER WARNING. I mean, it’s implied that when you’re recapping something you’re going to spoil some things, but just in case, GIANT GREAT BIG SPOILER WARNINGS for episodes 247 and 248 of Lore Olympus because holy cow things are happening. Basically we get...
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The Welcome To Night Vale writers have occasionally been known to subtly reference current events. This week subtlety is completely out the window as the entire Night Vale community has allowed their fear and rage to be written into law. A new ordinance has all kinds of nasty, unintended consequences, some of which directly affect...
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“I really hope this is not just his dad pretending to be a nice person….oh. You’re…not saying anything, I can see it in your face.”“My face is blank I’m not saying anything with my face.” Massive even-bigger-than-usual spoiler warnings this week because the latest two episodes of Lore Olympus gave us some forward momentum in...
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To the surprise of absolutely no one, we’ve mixed up the dates again and we have a week with no new Welcome to Night Vale or Lore Olympus. While we wait for the next episodes to drop, we decided to actually tackle our backlog of movies and watch Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. (Can...
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In the latest couple episodes of Lore Olympus we get to see everybody set lots of healthy boundaries. And by “everybody” we mean Hades and Persephone, because Aries can and will crash all the parties and Zeus is still a giant jerk. (He’s definitely lying about Semele, right? Cause he’s certainly been lying about EVERYTHING...
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Things are changing fast in Night Vale. Dr. Lubelle and the University of What It Is took out The Weather last week (shock!), and this week they’ve wiped out Invisible Corn (sacrilege!) The doctor’s now set her sights on the local shape-shifter (Josh, run!) and unfortunately Tamika Flynn’s proposed solution might be just as damaging...
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Okay, here’s the Lore Olympus recap: Hades spends two episodes moping because Persephone is avoiding him. Done! That’ll wrap us up for the week, make sure to check out pixelatedgeek.com… KIDDING. There’s more to it than that. (But seriously, two whole episodes of moping.) In addition to all the sulking we meet Hades’ new assistant...
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Let’s see, in previous episodes Dr. Lubelle from the University of What It Is has managed to “explain” (ie: murder) Sarah Sultan (Fist-Sized River-Rock), The Glow Cloud (all hail), and Station Management (has anyone checked on City Council to see if they’re okay?) In this week’s episode she’s added to the body count by taking...
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On this week’s Lore Olympus recap, we had two episodes of Persephone in the dream realm that gave us more questions than answers: WHAT will Erebus take from Persephone? WHY isn’t she telling Hades what she saw? And WHEN will we see more of the whole Apollo situation come ooooooonn we just want to see...
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It’s no fun being the new Station Management for Night Vale Radio, as Cecil’s finding out in this week’s episode. Apparently Station Management was relying on being an eldritch horror to avoid paying bills, and now the chickens have come home to roost. And by “chickens” we mean “creditors”, and by “roost” we mean “repossess...
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On our last Lore Olympus recap Elizabeth said she didn’t care if the Apollo story got put on the back burner, so long as we get to see Demeter hit rock bottom. So of course in the latest episode we didn’t see Demeter at all but we FINALLY saw someone call out Apollo on his...
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Aaaa! Did you hear the news? No, not that Cecil is scheduled to renegotiate his contract with the Night Vale Radio. He’s hoping the process this year will involve more raises and less spectral kidnappings, but that’s not important. You guys, Station Management and City Council are still dating. And here I’d thought they’d broken...
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Massive spoiler warnings as usual this week because we take a long lingering look at Hades and Persephone’s wedding night and…okay maybe not that long and lingering because Rachel decided against being too graphic (…darnit..) but while we didn’t get to see the actual sex there was a lot of implied nookie for sure. And...
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The magic word for this week’s episode is “creepy”. I don’t know if you’ve seen any of those “Liminal Spaces” pictures, but all those abandoned malls and eerily empty high schools can be super unsettling. Cecil’s niece Janice really likes them, so in this week’s episode they’re going to watch a four hour video compilation....
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Remember how we said Lore Olympus episode 232 was the moment we’ve been waiting for? Scratch that: episode 234 is what we were waiting for and it was SO WORTH THE WAIT. (No, it’s not Asspollo getting his just desserts. It’s better.) Massive great big spoiler warnings of course because episode 234 is currently only...
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There’s big news for Cecil to report in Night Vale this week. After extensive renovations, Big Rico’s is having their grand reopening as “Big Rico’s Pizza and Entertainment Zone”! They’ve got two ball pits (with and without snakes), lots of games, and an animatronic band, The Table Scraps. Hang on, we’re getting reports from the...
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Original broadcast date March 2, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/03/binary-system-podcast-351-umbrella-academy-season-2-finale-and-oscar-opinions/
Since we've still got a few days till the return of Lore Olympus (and you better believe we're going into withdrawal aaaaaaa) this week Kathryn finished up season 2 of Umbrella Academy and boy howdy do we have some things to discuss.
This is less of a recap than a deep dive into everything we loved about the finale, with frequent pauses to wonder if they're playing fast and loose with Five's time-traveling powers, and whether or not the "new" Ben is going to be a jerk. (Elizabeth, who's watched season three, isn't saying a word, nuh uh.)
After that Elizabeth admits that season two of The Hunters is better than season one so she'll stop hate-watching it and start actually watching it. And they both approve of using The Last Bookstore as a filming location.
Finally they wrap up with a quick look at the distressingly few Oscar-nominated films they've seen: Wakanda Forever (cried within the first six minutes), Everything, Everywhere All At Once (anybody calling it "Oscar Bait" has clearly missed the weaponized butt-plugs) and Blonde (Ana de Armas does a good job, but seriously, eff that movie.)
This week's outro is a clip from Drive by Alex Productions.
Apologies for the background hum in some sections, Elizabeth's house-sitting this week and hadn't realized how very loud their freezer is.
Correction: Lila in Umbrella Academy doesn't really absorb or counter people's powers, she mimics them, but yes, only one at a time.
Correction #2 - Unbreakable didn't film at The House Of Secrets in Burbank (it was actually Ontario Street Comic Book shop in Pennsylvania) and Leland says most of the movies that shoot in the comic shop annex are student films, but the comic shop you see in BIg Bang Theory was based on House of Secrets.
Ted Lasso season 3 starts March 15. (Hurry up, Kathryn! - Elizabeth) (I'm going I'm going! - Kathryn)
Here's links to the Saga #62 review and the Red Letter Media Best of the Worst episode.
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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 special about this episode is that it's our first foray into using Discord for the podcast. So while we recap a Welcome To Night Vale episode involving a magic show and Cecil trying (and failing) to punch someone, and also recap an Umbrella Academy episode involving quite a bit of death (y'all, Five is scary), you can also hear the stops, starts, and occasional cut-outs when Discord decided we didn't really need to hear everything at the correct volume. We also had to call in Tech Support (ie: Nathan) to figure out why Craig wouldn't stop recording, so we've included close to two minutes of flailing in the outro. You're welcome.
This week's outro is a clip from Dance Electro by Lite Saturation.
Correction: We somehow missed that the Glow Cloud's child is "they". Sorry about that.
The 95th Academy Awards presentation (otherwise known as the Oscar Ceremony) will take place on March 12.
You can find the DC discussion with the Mid-Life Crisis Taskforce here, and the MCU discussion here.
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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 Marvel TV shows and movies that are coming in the next three years, and asking ourselves...
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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 WANTED. The music (yes, there’s music in this episode, but it only works in the phone app for WebToons), the dialog, the friggin’ ARTWORK. Rachel Smythe absolutely knocked it out of the park. It almost makes up for the fact that Demeter shows her true colors in episode 232, so now THAT’S something that has to be dealt with.
After Lore Olympus, Kathryn recaps everything that went on in Season 2 episodes 5 and 6 of The Umbrella Academy (tldr: Klaus is an endearing jerk, the origin of the chimpanzee Pogo was surprisingly touching, I don’t know why anyone thinks a meeting with Reginald Hargreeves is going to go well, and the scene with Klaus, Alison, and Vanya getting drunk in a beauty parlor is one of my favorites in the series so far).
This week’s outro is a clip from City Lanes by TeknoAXE
You can find the crossover episode with Mid-Life Crisis Taskforce here, or anywhere you get your podcasts. https://mlctaskforce.com/2023/02/13/the-new-slate-of-dc-universe-movies-tv-shows-with-binary-system-podcast/
There may be some noise in the background of this week’s episode. Kathryn and Nathan’s new kitten, Jones, has a lot of energy. The snippets at the end are a small sample of the interruptions that happened throughout the recording.
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“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 you don’t know, you can listen to us explain why we’re emotionally invested in a FREAKING CLOUD. After...
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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 Fertility Goddess as you'd want to meet. But episode 230 features the long-dreaded reveal of exactly what Demeter is willing to do in order to get Persephone to give up her dreams, and it's awful. Kudos to Rachel Smythe for not flinching away from showing exactly what it looks like when a person is willing to bully, guilt-trip, and emotionally abuse someone and claim they're doing all of it out of love.
The recap takes up the first half of the episode (with a digression to discuss the correct definition of "gaslighting" which Demeter's actions DEFINITELY ARE). After that we discuss S2Ep2 of The Umbrella Academy, the first three episodes of The Hunters, and a couple of things that Kathryn's finished up recently and has no idea what to think about them.
This week's outro is a clip from Square Sheep by TeknoAXE
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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 unbelievable!! (It’s laying it on a bit thick is what it is. – Kathryn) (Hee. – Elizabeth) (AIRHORN NOISE) Massive...
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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 bit of the origin story for Psyche. As a treat.
It's another edition of the Accidental Tangent podcast as we digress during our recap to discuss Persephone's extremely healthy ideas about the concept of virginity (can everyone please just stop defining women based on how many sexual partners they've had, kthxbye), and then during Elizabeth's recommendations about the Glass Onion movie she digressed to discuss motion-smoothing. (Did you know you can turn that off? You can totally turn that off.)
Kathryn meanwhile has completely failed to watch either Glass Onion or any more episodes of The Umbrella Academy, but she did watch a 2013 movie called Coherence, so the project to catch up on things is technically only ten years behind.
This week's outro is a clip from Dance of the Proton by TeknoAXE
Elizabeth's essay about how problematic it is to call Black Widow a slut is titled, appropriately, Well, Why Shouldn't We Call Black Widow A Slut?, and it's well worth a read. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/05/well-why-shouldnt-we-call-black-widow-a-slut/
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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 bedroom. Like SAVAGES.)
Listen in as we discuss our first trip back to Mammoth Cave in over ~~redacted~~ decades, and how caverns feel super weird when you're from Florida. We also go over the creepy-ass hunting road nearby, Christmas presents we’re enjoying, ICU hallucinations, stupid British comedy, and a somewhat shameful case of “Marvel Fatigue.”
This week's outro is a clip from Scorched Orbit by Modern Monster.
If you haven't already checked out Hannah's article on her near death experience in the ICU, it's definitely worth a read. https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/health-and-fitness/2022/09/what-its-like-to-have-a-near-death-experience?utm_content=220801063&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-109298731
Kathryn's friend David's review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is here. https://letterboxd.com/leninhawk/film/indiana-jones-and-the-kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull/
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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 at home when we recorded this, but we’re definitely back home now, or if we’re...
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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). Elizabeth is also happy to report that the latest season of The Crown is well worth...
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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 lay a finger on Carlos because we WILL riot.
Then go over the weird tarot cards that Cecil pulls from the deck and, seriously, have we mentioned how much we like tarot cards? We're not sure we believe they can tell the future, but man alive are they cool. So many interesting images, and they make the best Fan Art Bait.
Finally, we can't let it go by without making a fuss: this week marked the end of the My Dad Wrote a Porno podcast, eight years of hilariously awful, um, "erotic literature." We're sad of course, but they went out with a bang, and we've got some speculations about what they're up to next.
(Plus look out for random tangents into the Hawkeye series, the latest season of The Crown, and an update on LA Comic Con photos.)
This week's outro is a clip from Drifting by Midival Punditz.
You can find the Dragonfall Drawing Challenge pics on instagram at @FandragonAdams or @Llyzabeth, or you can look up the #DragonfallDrawingChallenge hashtag to see several other artists in the last few years too.
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Okay we’re gonna rocket through the recap of episodes 221 and 222 of Lore Olympus in record time, just over ten minutes, because there’s STILL NOTHING HAPPENING. I kid, I kid. EXCEPT NOT REALLY. We love this webcomic to bits, the artwork is top notch, and the relationship between Hades and Persephone is the most...
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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 frustrating; Cecil Baldwin just...
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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 frustrating; Cecil Baldwin just nails the right tone every single time. (But seriously, if the fan artists could do something with those awful children's books Cecil's reading to Esteban, that'd be swell.)
After the recap we touched on the first few episodes of Wednesday (spooky and kooky, as expected), went over the "Playing House" episode of Sandman (Morpheus is quickly becoming a big ol jerk) and wrapped up with a spoiler-free discussion of the final book in the Scholomance trilogy; look out for a spoiler-full discussion soon because we're going to have to TALK SOME MORE ABOUT ALL THAT BY GOD.
This week's outro is a song by our friend Fred Smith called "Wednesday's Lullaby" which he performed on his 8-string mandocello. https://www.instagram.com/cockandbullgame/
You can find the Dragonfall Drawing Challenge pics on instagram at @FandragonAdams or @Llyzabeth, or you can look up the #DragonfallDrawingChallenge hashtag to see several other artists in the last few years too.
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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 checked out from the library a dozen times before we got smart and bought our own copies. And that led to a discussion about the best food in the Little House books, which led to the best food in all our favorite books, which led to us wondering why the heck we weren't recording this!?
Just in time for Thanksgiving, please enjoy a selection of our favorite foods from our favorite books (content warnings for any non-meat eaters out there, 'cause vegetarian this ain't), followed by a quick recap of Lore Olympus 219 and 220, because we're gonna stay on our arbitrarily determined schedule goshdarnit!
This week's outro is a clip from Electronic Sunrise by TeknoAXE.
If you're curious, here's a rundown of all the books we mention, and occasionally read passages from:
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Dune - Frank Herbert
Dragonsinger - Anne McCaffrey
The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
The Night Circus and The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Personal Darkness - Tanith Lee
Crystal Singer and Killashandra - Anne McCaffrey
Heidi - Johhanna Spyri
Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss
Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
The Darkangel Trilogy - Meredith Ann Pierce
In The Night Garden - Catherynne Valente
The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien
Perelandra - C.S. Lewis
Dragonlance Series - Laura and Tracy Hickman
Little House On The Prairie Series - Laura Ingalls Wilder
The article Elizabeth was talking about is Heidi And Her Cheese. https://topographickitchens.substack.com/p/heidi-and-her-cheese
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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 the stupid basement is the best.) We managed to stick to the highlights, but we...
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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 Underworld. And we find out what happened to get Thanatos AND Thetis...
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We’ve been promising to do this for a while, check out some of the amazing fan art we’ve found for Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb series (Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth.)
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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 we got a lot of backstory for Kronos and Thanatos, but we still...
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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...
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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 mortal realm was cut off from Olympus? You’d think we’d be happy with the story...
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“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 evacuate the area anyway.) After we finish spoiling the heck out of that episode, we switch...
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…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 (Elizabeth: I’ve watched a bunch more.) (Kathryn: Yeah, thanks, I know that.) so this week we’re going...
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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 adorable? Also if we could please find out what Demeter’s going to do to mess it up that’d be...
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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 to fan artists. Listen in as we recap the City Council’s latest...
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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 episodes of the third (and final!) season of Lore Olympus. Will Hades and Persephone figure out exactly what they are to each other? Will Zeus leave them alone? Is this the calm before the storm? WHAT IS APOLLO UP TO YOU KNOW IT'S SOMETHING.
(Major spoilers for episodes 207 and 208, obv.)
After that it's even more spoilers for The Sandman, because we've both watched episode two and we love everything they're doing EXCEPT FOR THIS ONE THING. NEIL.
This week's outro is a clip from Relay by Psychadelik Pedestrian.
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ElizabethHeh, it’s so tempting to start this the way all the episodes start KathrynYep, with you saying “Recording” and me saying “Recording!” ElizabethThree, two, one.. Kathrynthree, two, one… Hi everyone, this is Kathryn Adams! ElizabethAnd Elizabeth Wallace! And you’re listening to no hang on it doesn’t work… KathrynHee ElizabethWelcome to the special text-only edition of...
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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 like we usually do. Probably not necessary to say, but SPOILERS for both episode one and...
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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 we discuss the 2020 sci-fi sleeper Archive...
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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 and omg who are we kidding IT’S TIME FOR THE SEASON FINALE OF...
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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 doing AS USUAL) before spoiling all the things about the Peaky Blinders finale and Russian Doll season one....
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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 glad that Persephone is facing down a stupefyingly powerful insane god...
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Congratulations to Arcane for their Emmy nomination for Best Animated Series! To celebrate, here’s a gallery of Arcane fan art, including some excellent cosplay!
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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 three. First up we’re recapping Lore Olympus episode 201 and 202 (spoiler warnings ahoy, but basically that...
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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...
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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 the final episode of Arcane (so pretty and VIOLENT) and the second episode of Peaky Blinders season...
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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 adversary, and Cecil soon finds himself on the Crooked Path to the Narrow Place to meet a...
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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 (only available with the fast pass) and long story short, Ares is a sex pest, Zeus is...
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SPOILER WARNING, WARNING FOR SPOILERS, SPOILING ALL THE THINGS 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 Multiverse of Madness” is one heck of a ride,...
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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 that we set out to recap the “Three Robots” episode of Love, Death +...
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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 other Big City, the one with Middle Park, and...
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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. Then we jump into two episodes of Lore Olympus, one of which (episode 194) doesn’t come out till...
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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, three months of saying we were going to? And boy, do we have a lot...
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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.
(Short version: Zeus is a jerk and we can't wait for the CONSEQUENCES.)
And we splurged on the Fast Pass (you knew we would) so giant great big spoiler warnings for both Episode 191, which dropped on April 23, and Episode 192, which drops for the non-fast-pass people on April 30. (We'll give you a big spoiler warning before we talk about 192, promise.)
This week's outro is a clip from Shot in the Dark by Beat Doctor.
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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. (Short version: Zeus is a jerk and we can’t wait for the CONSEQUENCES.) And we...
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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 pausing to reflect about the wisdom of accepting others as we learn to accept ourselves and...
...OMG, you guys? They didn't play the intro music this episode! And Cecil never said "Welcome to Night Vale"! What does it all mean?! (It doesn't mean anything. OR DOES IT.)
We also talk about the Netflix animated series "Arcane", because we're all about the pretty. And our loyal listeners will get to peer behind the curtain as we discover some news about "Spider-Man: No Way Home", mid-recording.
This week's outro is a clip from Darkest Before Dawn by TeknoAXE
Correction: The adaptation of "Murder On The Orient Express" that Kathryn saw was released in the 1970's, not the 1960's. And the new movie "Death on the Nile" is in fact made by the same people who made the 2017 adaptation of "Murder On The Orient Express", which we really should have already known because they're both starring AND directed by Kenneth Branagh.
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“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 pausing to reflect about the wisdom of accepting others as we learn to accept ourselves and… …OMG, you guys?...
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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 for funsies, how’s that sound to you? Play the Podcast Below | Download the...
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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.
But do you know what other Earth-shattering events have happened? For the first time in two years, Kathryn was able to go to a live Welcome To Night Vale show, and Elizabeth was able to go to WonderCon! We've got the deets on cosplay, panels, last-minute cast changes, and a motel in LA that, honest, was nicer than it looked.
This week's outro is a clip from Free Fall by Nul Tiel Records.
Correction: Lauren's friend who photographed for us at WonderCon is ROBERT, not Roger. Sorry, Robert.
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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. But do you know what other Earth-shattering events have...
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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.
OH NO. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-03-29/will-smith-slaps-chris-rock-at-oscars-2022-aftermath
Listen in as we break down the nominees and winners of the 2022 Oscars, our delight at Windshield Wiper winning Best Animated Short, our approval at a happy film like CODA getting the Oscar and OH YEAH WILL SMITH SLAPPED CHRIS ROCK.
After we finish calling the both of them a bunch of names, we move on to more fun subjects, like the latest issue of Saga, the travel plans for WonderCon, and the April return of Lore Olympus yaaaaaay!
This week's outro is a clip from There Ain't Nothin by HoliznaCC0.
Our list of all the Oscar nominees and winners, along with links to all the reviews we had on the site, is right here. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/02/oscar-2022-nominations-announced/
You can watch the Oscar Award-winning animated short The Windshield Wiper on youtube. https://youtu.be/i8MQl7vCkMQ (It is NOT completely safe for work, but so pretty.)
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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. OH NO. Listen in as we break down the nominees and winners...
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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 Tartuffe in the nude, or The Iceman Cometh in space). But after growing up inside and adjacent to the theater, we can pretty much say that any live performance of a classic - even a really weird interpretation - counts to us as a "traditional" theater experience.
Except Cecil's interpretation of Equus. Good God. No, Cecil, Equus is not just a story about "a little boy who likes horsies", the heck is the matter with you?
The theater-centric episode lets us wander off into tangents like Kurosawa's Throne of Blood and Lin Manuel Miranda's In the Heights. Elizabeth's also seen all of season 2 of Raised By Wolves, and we have to talk for a bit about the endless creativity of Transformers fan artists. (Mermaid variants are optional, crossovers with Gargoyles are fairly common, smut is pretty much mandatory.)
This week's outro is a clip from notchpeak v2 by Tea K Pea.
The artist doing the Bumblebee/Charlie artwork is YoukaiYume and can be found here. https://twitter.com/YoukaiYume_Art/status/1168357992942559232?s=20&t=flKC8D6Ry5M_7RcCtl44tw
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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 Tartuffe in the nude, or The Iceman Cometh in space). But after growing up inside and adjacent to...
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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 hiatus) and why this comic ripped our hearts out. Aaaaaand it looks like it’s going to continue...
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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 is, or what this conspiracy theory is about the moon not being real, or why people seem to have trouble pronouncing the word "Michigan".
But what we really want to talk about is the 1987 horror movie "Angel Heart", which Elizabeth watched this week for the first time in a long while, and which just so happened to turn 35 years old last Sunday. Listen in as we absolutely fail to give a coherent recap of this film, and instead talk about all the bits we liked and all the random digressions we wander off to as soon as we get distracted.
(Not kidding about the digressions, this episode shows a pretty good cross-section of our brains as we discuss (among other things): the NFL concussion scandal, an off-the-grid city in the Sonoran Desert, the temperature of the water at California beaches versus Florida beaches, that time we watched Gone With The Wind in history class, and some of the horror movies we watched a few decades ago in Elizabeth's apartment in Asheville.)
This week's outro is a clip from Curious Satellite by Frau Holle
The Instagrammer who's doing whole series of Lore Olympus Hiatus Fan Art Challenges is AprilSketcho, and you can find the challenges here.
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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 is, or what this conspiracy theory is about the moon not being real, or why people seem to have...
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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 going to go watch some cartoons instead. Between the two of us we’ve seen all the Oscar-nominated animated shorts, and...
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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 everyone in the world is following right now. And by that, I of course mean Wordle. If you’re looking...
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“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 in the second season. And we still have a...
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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 short story about Night Vale's newest character: The Delivery Man. If there's one thing we've learned from the pandemic, it's that we all love getting a package delivered. Even if it's being delivered by a mysteriously threatening figure with a drawn-on face, ground-down teeth, and a weird habit of counting his steps. ("Goooood old five...")
After the recap we read aloud a Binary System Podcast super-fan's letter about how to love a series with some disappointing episodes and a toxic fanbase, and how to keep loving a series when the creator turns out to be a pretty rotten human being.
We also talk (again) about some of the movies and TV shows we really need to catch up on, with a plan to finish at least one of them in time for next week's podcast. Really. We mean it this time.
This week's outro is a clip from Borderland (Frau Holle Remix) by Holle Mangler.
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“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 short story about Night Vale’s newest character: The Delivery Man. If there’s one...
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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 not really, because man alive are we going to spoil some plot points on...
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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, and it was everything we'd hoped for. (Obviously, MAJOR SPOILERS AHOY in this episode.)
And after the recap we plan our catch-up watch list, including the Hawkeye series and Spider-Man: Far From Home. (No, not No Way Home. We still haven't watched Far From Home YES we know, we're bad at movies, but that's beyond the pale, honestly.)
And for everyone who's been checking in, friend and sister of the podcast Hannah Wallace is home from the hospital following her surgery and she's doing way better.
The outro music this week is a clip from Hachimantai Snow by Maarten Schellekens.
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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 "The Life of Frank Chen."
It's a quiet, weirdly heartwarming story that's very satisfying (other than the fact that we still don't know what's going on with Hiram McDaniels). After the recap we discuss the latest two episodes of Lore Olympus (I hope the characters are all cozy under that BUS everyone keeps throwing each other under), and take an odd tangent into a medical drama series from the 1980's and wonder if we're just imagining that streaming services are chopping bits out of our favorite old TV shows FOR NO REASON.
The outro music this week is a clip from Monster Stomp by TeknoAXE.
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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. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/10/binary-system-podcast-286-wtnv-195-silas-the-thief-and-lore-olympus/
But yes, first we discuss the Night Vale news that gives us A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT OUTLOOK on one of the main characters, and then we talk about Lore Olympus and how we hope Thanatos is okay following the Daphne situation, but not too okay because he really is a narc.
And then every time we start to close out the episode we think of something new, including but not limited to: Under the Skin (Meh), the T'challa episode of What If (yay!), Chris Pratt and John Mulaney and para-social relationships, Y The Last Man, Saga, Terry Moore, rewatching Loki, and taking Transformers off our pull list WE DON'T KNOW WHO WE ARE ANYMORE.
The outro music this week is a clip from Arcadia by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.
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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, serotonin, comfort watching. So Elizabeth's rewatching Peaky Blinders and Kathryn rewatched Sunshine, but we did at least catch the new Hawkeye trailer, and Kathryn saw the first episode of Marvel's What If.
AND of course we read the latest Lore Olympus, which is mostly Hades being sweet and nurturing and spinning fantasies for Persephone about apartments with heated floors because he knows what she likes.
(Also we're looking for board game recommendations for our family trip to the mountains. Tabletop fans, go nuts.)
The outro music this week is a clip from Sol Aestas by TeknoAXE.
Correction: we said we read Lore Olympus #171 this week. We meant #172.
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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, because we needed to devote a lot of time to a very in-depth discussion of the latest episode of Lore Olympus, which has the fallout from Daphne's confrontation with Apollo. A quick summary. Ahem.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
The outro music this week is a clip from Before The Countdown, by Maarten Schellekens.
Here's the IGN review of The Witcher that Elizabeth mentioned. https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/12/23/netflixs-the-witcher-season-1-review-full-spoilers
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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 rising COVID numbers (boo!) and the second season of Love Death + Robots (..meh?) we fangirl one more time over the Loki season in general and the final episode in particular. (ALL the spoiler warnings for this one.)
After that we touch on Beastars, SDCC announcements, Limetown, My Dad Wrote a Porno, and the recent developments in Lore Olympus (we know who that bird is IT'S ON NOW.)
The outro for this week's episode is a clip from Human Among Us by Tekno AXE.
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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 in as we talk about the things we loved, the stuff that maybe...
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Original broadcast date April 29, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/04/binary-system-podcast-264-the-oscars-sort-of-bojack-horseman-twin-peaks-and-lore-olympus/
If you're looking for a detailed breakdown of this year's Oscar ceremony and all the winning films...this is not the podcast for that. Because we barely saw any of the nominees and we certainly didn't watch the ceremony. Not that it stops us from having opinions!
So after what we laughingly call a recap, we jump into Bojack Horseman season 4 (all the spoilers!), Twin Peaks the Return (more spoilers!) and the latest chapter of Lore Olympus (even more spoilers well okay just a few, there wasn't as much to spoil this week?)
The outro this week is a clip from "Square Boy Shuffle" by TeknoAxe.
If you want a podcast that actually does watch the movies and the ceremony, we've mentioned the Best Pick Podcast several times, you can find them here. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-best-pick-movie-podcast/id1333513250
The post with all the links to all of this year's Oscar-nominated movie reviews is here. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/03/oscar-2021-nominations-announced/
If you've never listened to My Dad Wrote a Porno and you have a good sense of humor (and occasionally a strong stomach) you can find them here. https://www.mydadwroteaporno.com/ (NOT. SAFE. FOR WORK.) New episodes coming in May!
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Original broadcast date April 15, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/04/binary-system-podcast-262-lore-olympus-bojack-horseman-and-the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier/
After this week's SitRep on the vaccine situation (Mom, Dad, and Nathan are 2 for 2, Kathryn and Hannah are 1 for 2, and Elizabeth's 0 for 2.) (Hurry up Elizabeth! - Kathryn) (I'M WORKING ON IT. - Elizabeth) we jump right into Lore Olympus because holy hell did you see what happened to Minthe??
After that, massive great big spoiler warnings for the last two episodes of Bojack Horseman season 3. If you've never watched the show, these episodes were kind of a big deal. (If you have watched the show you know exactly what we're talking about. Wow. WOW.)
Then we go over the first episode of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (it's mostly us going "All the Sam Flying Scenes, ALL OF THEM"), plan our assembly of the Flame Toys Windblade, and ask our listeners for transcription app recommendations.
The outro this week is a clip from "This is a Terrible Song" by TeknoAxe. (It was his April Fools Day song, it's actually very good.)
We mentioned them on the podcast, here's where you can find Natalie and Tara Try Stuff. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgLib_DNj3uS3wRC3PMGzhg
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Original broadcast date April 8, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/04/binary-system-podcast-261-wtnv-185-fair/
It's a beautiful day in Night Vale, and it's time once again to run around in circles and PANIC because the Librarians have escaped their cages. Fortunately, heroic teen militia leader Tamika Flynn is here to save the day by...helping the Librarians get their paperwork sent in so they can form a union. And she does it with a minimum of violence, and a few well-deserved pokes at the idea that anyone deserves a terrible working environment or to be arrested when they're not doing anything wrong, HET HEM, current political climate.
After the recap we had to discuss Bojack Horseman again, since Kathryn just watched the fan-favorite Season Three episode "A Fish Out Of Water". We also continue our general sense of bafflement at the the way some people behave lately (ie: people who get mad about mask mandates and then get angry when COVID cases rise, private landowners who do nothing about the risk of radioactive wastewater flooding part of Florida FOR YEARS, and authors who build up a loyal fanbase, and then decide to treat some of them like crap FOR NO REASON.)
The outro this week is a clip from the soundtrack of "A Fish Out Of Water", composed by Jesse Novak.
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Original broadcast date March 4, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/03/binary-system-podcast-257-wtnv-183-the-nephilim/
Okay, so according to the latest Night Vale episode Director's Notes (which you can get if you sign up to their Patreon, hint hint), Kathryn may have misspoken a little. The episode wasn't "weird for weird's sake", but it still doesn't have any deep, hidden meaning. It's also appropriate that Elizabeth was so taken with the way Cecil announced the town's visitors because it turns out that the language used was entirely the point.
And if you're wondering, Cecil pronounces it "NephaLEEM", and on Supernatural they say "NEPHalem", and no we don't know which one is right.
If the weird episode wasn't enough weirdness for one week, after the recap we talk about WandaVision and Lore Olympus, answer a viewer question about where we want to go as soon as public spaces are an option again, and then discuss the theory that Mr. Potatohead with the gender removed is one step closer to being an angelic being and is also JUST A TOY.
This week's outro is a clip from Chatterbox by TeknoAxe
Correction: the bar we want to go to after the pandemic is the Whistle Hop, not Whistle Stop. https://whistlehop.com/
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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. First up though, we’ve got the weekly SitRep, and our opinions on the recent Joss Whedon...
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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. (Also, the mid-credits scene: eeeeeeeeeee!)
Before that we have our weekly SitRep-With-Beers which, because it's Christmas, is going to stay positive YES IT IS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD THERE WILL BE NO COMPLAINING AT CHRISTMAS. And afterwards we break down everything that happened in the latest chapter of Lore Olympus. Which was both a lot, and not as much as we wanted. (Somebody needs to talk to Hades and Artemis about Persephone and they need to do it four chapters ago...)
This week's outro clip: one of these years we're going to find a sci-fi Christmas song we love more than spinningmerkaba's Christmas on Mars. But this is not that year.
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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. First though we have to talk about two episodes of Lore Olympus, one of which happens to...
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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, because those things are awesome.
Listen in as we discuss politics and pandemics over beers, then jump straight into The Mandalorian and Lore Olympus, with frequent detours into Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and Love, Death and Robots.
This week's outro is a clip from November Zen by TeknoAXE.
If you'd like an even deeper dive into Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, you can check out episode 189 from 2019.
Check out the San Diego Food Bank site, and maybe chip in a couple bucks to help the hungry. https://sandiegofoodbank.org/
Over on the East Coast, you can also donate to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina https://secure.foodbankcenc.org/site/Donation2?df_id=10523&mfc_pref=T&10523.donation=form1&chosen=60&s_src=headerbutton&s_subsrc=website, or the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle. https://www.foodshuttle.org/
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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 the bear, and Demeter is going to lose her frigging mind. After that (Spoiler warning!) we fangirl...
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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, Steve Carlsberg, and The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home.
The theme for our SitRep this week is mostly us going "OMG did you hear who ELSE has caught COVID-19?!" So we lightened the tone to talk about the other things we're watching and which we HIGHLY RECOMMEND (the "How To Drink" youtube channel, "The Good Place" Season 4, and of course "The Haunting" and the "Haunting of Hill House", because it's October and we've got to have the horror.)
This week’s outro is Michelle Nguyen's current favorite song Karma Police by Radiohead. Well, part of it anyway; Michelle thinks anything after the first 26 seconds of a song is just padding.
The "How To Drink" youtube Pop Culture Playlist can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLp0E61wf5A&list=PL0Ve02cCRWLZGuFZ-giZmYlzRCgg_MTZo
You can get the free "Your Hour" app on Google Play here. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mindefy.phoneaddiction.mobilepe&hl=en_US≷=US
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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 equal time on the radio. After that we jump into Lore Olympus and discuss the real reason why Hades banned...
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Original broadcast date July 9, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/07/binary-system-podcast-226-disney-backup-plan/
We were all ready to recap the latest episode of Night Vale...until we found out there wasn't an episode this week. We're so flipping prepared. Luckily between Hamilton and the Mandalorian and all the other Disney stuff we're watching and planning to watch, we've got lots of stuff to geek out about.
This week’s outro is a clip from lady dancer by Devil Music. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Devil_Music/Go_1986/lady_dancer
Elizabeth was sure that Florida couldn't be higher than 6th on the list of states with the most coronavirus cases. Turns out they're third, just behind California. Oops. You can check the San Diego Union-Tribune's page to find out where your state falls. Good luck. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/story/2020-04-08/tracking-covid-19-cases-in-the-u-s
The SDCC At Home Art Show hasn't posted any information yet, but you can keep an eye on this page for updates. https://www.comic-con.org/cci/art-show
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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) and discuss how the first two episodes of Hawkeye are very fun,...
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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 the counter.) To help out, the Night Vale Sanitation Department is allowing everyone to comb through the...
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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, and it was everything we’d hoped for. (Obviously, MAJOR SPOILERS AHOY...
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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 the middle of the Whispering Forest, so here’s hoping everyone survives (Night Vale, if 198 episodes...
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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 STRANGLE ZEUS WITH HIS TIE. After that we move on to Kathryn’s rewatch of...
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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 “The Life of Frank Chen.” It’s a quiet, weirdly heartwarming story that’s very satisfying (other...
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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 love for Sam Neill of course), please enjoy our first ever BananaHammer episode. Play the...
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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. But yes, first we discuss the Night Vale news that gives us A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT OUTLOOK on...
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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. (Spoilers ahoy, obviously.) After that we jump into the latest couple of episodes of Lore Olympus,...
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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 makes for perfect pandemic watching, and how it relates to Hannah’s current favorite...
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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 absolutely none of the things we love, and we found out what the Lore Olympus Fast Pass people were freaking...
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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 (the Sherif’s Secret Police is never going to get this Frank Chen thing right, mostly because he dead)...
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Original broadcast date May 21, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/05/binary-system-podcast-222-wtnv-168-secret-blotter-lore-olympus-and-devs/
First up this week is a recap of OUR FAVORITE KIND of Night Vale episode: a stand alone, gloriously strange list of weirdness. (Brie Williams is our favorite guest writer, since she also wrote “Guidelines For Disposal,” another wonderfully weird list episode.)
After that we fangirl some more about Lore Olympus (the artwork is BEAUTIFUL the story is AMAZING and Apollo is a JERK) before doing a spoileriffic deep dive into Devs. Seriously, if you were confused about the ending to the series…well, this is probably not going to help much, but we do unpack a few of the concepts anyway.
This week’s outro is a clip from No Quarter by Tekno Axe. https://youtu.be/tnIX1mhvc_k
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, serotonin, comfort watching. So Elizabeth’s rewatching Peaky Blinders and Kathryn rewatched Sunshine, but we did at...
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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, because we needed to devote a lot of time to a very in-depth discussion...
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Original broadcast date May 14, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/05/binary-system-podcast-221/
No Night Vale episode to recap, so this week we tried something different. We both said we were going to watch something that's been on our to-do list...and then we watched them.
So Kathryn watched the 2007 movie Sunshine https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/ (written by Alex Garland) and Elizabeth watched the first episode of Devs (written and directed by Alex Garland, can you see a theme here?), and we took some digressions to mention the TV shows Lucifer and Deadwood and fangirled all over the place about a webcomic Elizabeth found called Lore Olympus. https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/episode-1/viewer?title_no=1320&episode_no=1
This week’s outro music is a clip from Runner by Six Umbrellas (which we used waaaay back on episode 105, but we like it so we're using it again.) https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Six_Umbrellas/The_Psychadelic_And/1_Six_Umbrellas_-_Runner
Correction: the guy we were trying to think of in the Devs show is, of course, Nick Offerman, who played the meat-loving Ron Swanson in Parks and Recreation, which is why it's so hilarious to see him chowing down on a salad in Devs. https://youtu.be/r1kP93U3unk
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 around to watching the first episode of Lovecraft Country, and instead of watching current...
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Original broadcast date April 23, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/04/binary-system-podcast-218-wtnv-166-delta-part-4-of-5/
After a quick coronavirus sitrep from us and the family (short version: everybody's fine, wash your hands!) we switch to a lighter note with a Welcome To Night Vale recap, as the telepathic cult from the Desert Otherworld invades Night Vale and promises to kill anybody who can't hear the Pilot's voice in their brains. So, uh, maybe not that light?
For real though, we go way lighter after that, with a quick discussion of Star Trek: Discovery (so good!), Devs (so surreal!), Ozark (so irritating!) and Beastars (so weird! But beautiful! But weird! The bit with the eggs!)
This week’s outro is a clip from Apex by Bio Unit. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Bio_Unit/Malfunction/Apex_1252
Correction: Elizabeth said she was done with the first season of Star Trek: Discovery. Turns out, she thought the season finale was episode 8, when really it's episode 15, because she didn't click the "show more" button on the episode list. What a noob.
Original broadcast date April 9, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/04/binary-system-podcast-217-wtnv-165-charlie-part-3-of-5/
Things are progressing quickly in the five-part story about the missing Delta Flight 18713 and the escaped inmates of the Night Vale asylum. The Desert Otherworld is coming into play, and there's a good chance that a mad pilot who can read minds is trying to cross over to our world so he can take over the town.
It's a surprisingly complex story that for some reason we didn't need much time to cover (seriously, ten minutes tops). After that we talked about the Netflix anime Beastars (messed up in an intriguing way and quite gorgeous to look at), Picard (meh), Discovery (much better than Picard), and the Youtube channel Overly Sarcastic Productions (utterly hilarious).
And then of course we have the weekly update about the COVID-19 status in California, Florida, and North Carolina, including some discussion about what isn't a violation of the First Amendment, and our adventures in getting groceries delivered during a pandemic.
(tl;dr: Everyone's fine.)
This week’s outro is a clip from Living Room Dance Party by Tekno Axe. https://youtu.be/k0s547JOSZs
Original broadcast date March 19, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/03/binary-system-podcast-215-wtnv-164-the-faceless-old-woman-live/
It's the Welcome to Night Vale episode that Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor described as "maybe the most upsetting thing we've ever written." Listen in as we recap a one-person show featuring unearthly roommates, really cruel pranks, and something called "the tarantula incident".
After that we talk a little more about the ongoing COVID-19 situation, Devs, Altered Carbon, Picard...hang on, didn't we talk about all of those things last week? Just to mix things up, we also discuss Highlander, cancelled conventions, and some of the things you can do to help. (We'll give you this one for free, HELPING DOESN'T INVOLVE HOARDING HAND SANITIZER AND TOILET PAPER.)
This week’s outro is a clip from Blue Scorpion by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3451-blue-scorpion
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The vendor list for the Carolina Fiber Fest can be found here. https://www.carolinafiberfest.org/shopping
The tea company Elizabeth was talking about is the Friday Afternoon Tea Company. https://fridaytea.com/
Here's the link to the toilet paper earrings we mentioned, made by Licia Beads. They're currently unavailable because the post about them went....viral...
https://www.etsy.com/listing/98510834/toilet-paper-earrings-on-sterling-silver?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=anchored_listing&bes=1
Original broadcast date February 27, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/02/binary-system-podcast-212-parasite-comic-books-and-random-sci-fi/
So the plan was to have a quick talk about an Oscar-winning film and a debriefing on the events of last weekend. It spun out of control within the first fifteen minutes, of course.
Listen in as we go over Parasite (many many spoilers), Snowpiercer, Inception, the trailer for the upcoming Netflix Transformers series, the firing of Didio, the books we’re reading, the conventions we’re getting ready for, twitter's dumpster fire Windblade “discussion,” and more made-up stories about our sponsor.
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This week’s outro is a clip from Mirrors by Superhumanoids from their Parasite Paradise album. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Superhumanoids/Parasite_Paradise/02_-_Superhumanoids_-_Mirrors
Correction: the dish cooked in Parasite was called Ramdon, and it's a real thing (combination of Ramen and Udon) and you can find the recipe and a lot of cool information about it here. https://uproxx.com/life/ram-don-recipe-parasite-movie/
Correction the second: Windblade is Flame Toys' first attempt at a female transformer model, they haven't tried an Arcee. (Yet.)
Correction the third: yes there is a ton of information about lightsaber crystals and most of it seems to be perfectly canon, we should've checked out Wookiepedia first. https://uproxx.com/life/ram-don-recipe-parasite-movie/
And a clarification: Kathryn mentioned needing to pick up bondo before NC Comicon in March. We probably should have mentioned it's for the EmojiBot helmet, we went into more detail in last week's episode. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/02/binary-system-podcast-211-wtnv-162-alpha/
Since there's a lot going on in this episode, here's a breakdown of the timeline:
Snowpiercer at 12:20
Inception at 14:32
Netflix Transformers Trailer 17:15
Wildblade model twitter dumpster fire 18:50
Dan Didio and DC stuff 31:50
Andrew Hunter Murray’s The Last Day 34:04
T. Kingfisher’s latest book 35:43
Character based on our sponsor, and general Star Wars 36:50
Update on the Emojibot cosplay creation and convention plan updates 41:30
Original broadcast date February 20, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/02/binary-system-podcast-211-wtnv-162-alpha/
This week’s Night Vale recap is full of ambitious moms, genius daughters, mysterious voices, missing planes and REALLY STARTLING WEATHER. Plus Kathryn wants to rewatch Snowpiercer (because Parasite) and Elizabeth rewatched Looper (because Knives Out) and we're both finishing up Bojack Horseman, The Crown, Great British Bake Off, and the latest EmojiBot cosplay incarnation.
Most importantly, live on the recording we brainstorm a new Doctor Who regeneration, companion, and adventure! (Spoilers: the Doctor's Tom Hiddleston. I mean come on, this is us, it's either going to be Tom or it's going to be a Transformer.) (....) (sound of frantic scribbling of notes for later)
This week’s outro is a clip from Humanizer by Tekno Axe. https://youtu.be/yf59GKMdlb8
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Original broadcast date January 16, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/01/binary-system-podcast-206-playing-catch-up/
The holidays are over, and convention season doesn't get geared up for a few weeks, so now's the time for us to get caught up on all the things we've been meaning to watch because we are so, so bad at TV and movies.
Listen in as we set up our homework for the next month, including the Mandalorian, Fleabag, Toy Story 4, Frozen II, Ad Astra, Parasite, Devs, Doctor Who, and the Repair Shop from the BBC, plus some random comments on Reylo fan art, Great British Bake Off, 3D printers, and the Harleen series. (We also mention Joker and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, both of which we know we should watch, but we're just not feeling it, so we probably won't. Is that bad?)
This week's outro music is a clip from Love Is Not by Broke For Free. https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Petal/Broke_For_Free_-_Petal_-_10_Love_Is_Not
Original broadcast date November 28, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/11/binary-system-podcast-201-wtnv-158-the-war-for-time/
The three-part Night Vale story of cryogenics and robots comes to a close this week, with an ending that was surprising, abrupt, and intensely creepy. We loved it. (Probably goes without saying but just in case SPOILERS AHOY!)
After the recap we debriefed on this year's DesignerCon, and the final few days of Kathryn's #DragonFall drawing challenge.
This week's outro music is a clip from Asset House by Six Umbrellas. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Six_Umbrellas/Private_Ark/07_Six_Umbrellas_-_Asset_House
The first DesignerCon 2019 photo gallery by Elizabeth is here https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/11/designercon-2019-photo-gallery-1/, and the second photo gallery by Stephanie is here. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/11/designercon-2019-photo-gallery-2/
You can find the info on Kathryn's #Dragonfall drawing challenge here! https://www.instagram.com/p/B4TH9MnhrvT/
Original broadcast date October 31, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/10/binary-system-podcast-197-halloween-week/
As the well-organized podcast we are, seeing as how this episode drops on Halloween, we recorded an episode all about our favorite Halloween traditions. HA. Kidding. We totally forgot what day it would be posted until the end of the episode.
Instead, we talked about the one "unforgivably cheesy" moment in Stranger Things; about how 90s nostalgia is 80s nostalgia with a hangover; about how "Polly just can't have nice things" on Peaky Blinders (SPOILERS); the 1930s movie Freaks being a genre to itself; clever Halloween costumes; and how we recently tried to outdo each other with scary youtube clips AND NOW WE'RE HIDING UNDER THE BED.
This week's outro music is a clip from Retro Future Nights by TeknoAXE. https://youtu.be/D_jQLR6zq30
Disturbing content warning! The Selfie From Hell short film we mentioned is here https://youtu.be/EhAFyaObY6U, and the Nun trailer is here https://youtu.be/pzD9zGcUNrw, and the Robin Williams One Hour Photo clip is here https://youtu.be/EHUTjlhF6QQ. (The Selfie one and One Hour Photo one are possibly not safe for work on account of being disturbing. The One Hour Photo one has a LOT of gore.)
Correction: Regarding Peaky Blinders, at one point we referred to Thomas Shelby as Polly Grey's brother; he's actually her nephew, which honestly makes him arranging Polly's marriage even more strange.
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 strange figure glaring at you in the background of every single shot? Cecil experiences something...
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Original broadcast date August 29, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/08/binary-system-podcast-189-black-mirror-bandersnatch/
Yes we finally did it! We...what? Oh, no we didn't watch How To Train Your Dragon 3. We watched the Black Mirror episode Bandersnatch, which has technically been out longer so at least we're going in order? Yay?
Heads up: ALL the spoilers for this one, since this episode was so much weirder than we thought it'd be, and we thought it'd be weird.
After that we talk about our trip to the NC mountains, and discuss which is the best Old Tyme Photo place in Gatlinburg. (Hint: it's not the one where the photographer was hungover.)
This week's outro music is a clip from Nebula Rush by Florian Decros. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Florian_Decros/Ab_absurdo/Florian_Decros_-_Ab_absurdo_-_04_Nebula_Rush
The Forbes article "Can You Actually 'Win' Black Mirror's 'Bandersnatch' With A Good Ending" has a lot of great insights on the episode. https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2018/12/30/so-can-you-actually-win-black-mirrors-bandersnatch-with-a-good-ending/#7009c0ed5afe
Original broadcast date July 18, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/07/binary-system-podcast-184-the-blair-witch-project-20th-anniversary/
After 20 years we know everybody has already said just about everything that can be said about this movie. And that certainly isn't going to stop us from fangirling all over it some more. (I mean, that never stopped us before, right? Does anything stop us from fangirling all over the place? Don't answer that.)
Listen in as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Blair Witch Project and go over all the tidbits we turned up in our research ("research" meaning the director's commentary and the imdb trivia) about the ultimate (as far as we're concerned) shaky-cam movie.
And because we never can stay on topic for very long, we also touch on: the first episode of Stranger Things season 3, the first three episodes of Jessica Jones season 2, The Great British Bake-Off, The Crown, The Wicked and the Divine, Motor Girl, and Starscream in gym shorts.
This week's outro music is a clip from Invading the 80s by TeknoAXE. https://youtu.be/mEXKWV6xHME
The Starscream Gym-Rat fanart by Sara Pitre-Durocher we mentioned is here. It's glorious. https://twitter.com/SaraLePew/status/885194669864497158
Original broadcast date June 6, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/06/binary-system-podcast-179-wtnv-149-the-general/
On this week's Night Vale recap we talk about lost loves who start to reconnect, about fate and destiny and having to go to every living creature in the universe one by one by yourself in order to save existence and exactly how long that might take and OKAY THAT'S ENOUGH OF THAT WE'RE HIDING UNDER THE BED AGAIN.
After that we fangirl about Good Omens and how we'd happily watch David Tennant read the phone book if he's also mugging for the camera in his demon contact lenses, and then we touch on the new Terminator: Dark Fate trailer, before finishing up with Snowpiercer because it only took Elizabeth five years to watch that one.
This week's outro music is a clip from Synthetic Stratosphere by TeknoAXE. https://youtu.be/qcPfOuQvqy4
Yes iTunes as we know it is going away, but Apple will have a podcast app to replace it, which we're sure will include Binary System episodes automatically. (crosses fingers) But just in case, you can also find us on acast, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, our RSS feed, and podcatchers like podbay and Player FM.
Original broadcast date May 9, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/05/binary-system-podcast-176-wtnv-147-the-protester/
We now know why the internet was kind of going crazy after the latest Night Vale episode dropped.
It wasn't just the very on-the-nose metaphor for what veterans go through when coming back from active duty, or the blistering take on the military industrial complex, and how leaders can only convince the population that they're "winning" the war if the war never stops. No, this episode is particularly dark because Night Vale's Blood Space War involves time travel, and now some very important people are being wiped from existence.
After the recap we talked about some of the Hugo Awards nominees like Paper Girls, Saga, and Monstress. And we also talked about Avengers: Endgame. Because of course we did. (Minor spoiler about Spider-Man being in Endgame.)(But you probably already knew that).
This week's outro music is a clip from The Robots Have Spoken by TeknoAXE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-epXefxZYIE&list=LLTLISidXZNOcw-O8EN9m4EA&index=2&t=0s
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 with the moth?? We’re very confused, but we do know the homoerotic subtext is text and goes to a really dark place. After...
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Original broadcast date March 7, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/03/binary-system-podcast-167-welcome-to-night-vale-143-pioneer-days/
It's time for Pioneer Days in Night Vale again! Wow, has it already been a year since the last festival? The answer is: no, it hasn't, because Pioneer Days happen at random times whenever the Night Vale Utilities company shuts off all the power and water in the town, leaving everyone to sit in the dark while all the food in their refrigerators spoils. It's festive.
Listen in as the Binary System Podcast talks this week about the Night Vale festival with time-traveler photographs, an Interactive Boardwalk in the desert, and a truly horrifying recipe for Cherries Jubilee. Plus, we'll ramble for a bit about fever dreams, photo exhibits, cosplay issues, and our very favorite podcasts (other than this one, naturally).
This week's outro music is a clip from This Guy Is Falling by Sebon http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sebon/Featuring_The_Advocates/Sebon_-_Featuring_The_Advocates_-_05_This_Guy_Is_Falling?fbclid=IwAR1vF99W1beNEoTR5-VpnY6GYKP3nlNmu4hXkAD_yZBmqmtIgLRuDQ9JSKw
Here's links to some of the podcasts we're currently obsessed with (75% of which were suggested by Hannah): https://www.facebook.com/BananaHammer/
Worst Foot Forward https://www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com/
No Such Thing As A Fish https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com/
Swindled http://swindledpodcast.com/
My Dad Wrote a Porno http://www.mydadwroteaporno.com/
Original broadcast date February 21, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/02/binary-system-podcast-165-the-oscar-nominated-animated-shorts/
In what's quickly becoming an annual tradition, the Binary System Podcast (with special guest Nathan Adams) watched the Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts at our favorite cinemas, and we're here to give you the details. Which short do we think will win? Which short would we like to win? Which short wasn't our favorite, and which "Highly Commended" short was absolutely robbed, ROBBED, through no fault of its own? (We're assuming it was for something that wasn't the creators' fault. Problematic Russian politics aside, there's no reason we can see why "Tweet Tweet" shouldn't have blown the competition away.)
This week's outro music is a clip from "Goodbye Outer Space" by Cairo Braga http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Cairo_Braga/Qualquer_Arte_Ruim__Melhor_Que_Arte_Nenhuma/07_Goodbye_Outer_Space?fbclid=IwAR3gX5GKKrV1ycLz1xoSh-y3L0l9MjspNIfjsfSUGwXEqLCCKWlWHLg6vlY
The entertainingly bizarre video we mentioned (witches flying through a city) is Jan Kounen Gisele Kerozene.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0XuE9DtBzM&list=WL&index=10&t=0s
The article Elizabeth mentioned, about some of 2018's best animated shorts not getting nominated, is at cartoonbrew.com. https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/oscar-shortlist-for-animated-shorts-snubbed-most-of-2018s-best-shorts-167961.html
Original broadcast date December 27, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/12/binary-system-podcast-158-wtnv-140-a-blood-stone-carol/
Last week was our Christmas episode so of course Night Vale released a Christmas episode for us to recap the next day. But seeing as how it was a downer of a story about mortality and terror, it's probably good we waited until after Christmas to recap it. And to cheer ourselves up, we also talked about Penguin's father on Gotham, Klaus' predicament after season three of The Originals, and the city of pirate ships in China Mieville's The Scar.
A very happy new year to everybody!
This week's outro music is a clip from disparition's theme at the end of episode 140 of Welcome to Night Vale, if you want to hear the whole thing you can find it here. https://youtu.be/h0YeaqlD6K8
Correction (or clarification) - we guessed right: when Cecil talked about the radio station being hijacked this time last year, he was talking about Kevin and “All Smile’s Eve,” one year ago to the day. https://youtu.be/8nwpPXbDzOM
Original broadcast date November 8, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/11/binary-system-podcast-151-wtnv-137-the-mudstone-abyss-part-3/
It's the third (and final?) part of the Mudstone Abyss arc, people are speaking gibberish, there's protests and riots and radio hosts being burned in effigy and, most disturbing of all....Kevin is being...nice?
After the recap there's also information on our latest TV obsessions; hat tip to Hannah for recommending The Haunting of Hill House, and Kathryn thinks the resolution to the Phoenix Stone storyline on The Vampire Diaries comes out of freakin' nowhere.
This week's outro music is a clip from Rock Stone II by Yan Terrien. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Yan_Terrien/2018052032512943/05_RockStoneII
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 that none of what’s happening is normal. (Sheriff Pamela Winchel? Michelle Nguyen is marrying Sara Sultan, the...
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Original broadcast date June 21, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/06/binary-system-podcast-132-welcome-to-night-vale-129-a-story-about-us/
Night Vale ditches the multi-part episode theme (this week, anyway) to bring us a callback episode featuring a couple of familiar villains. (If you're not sure what's going on, listen to the episodes "A Story About You" and "A Story About Them". You still won't know what's going on after that, but those are pretty good episodes.)
After that we do the usual potpourri of topics, jumping from Twin Peaks to Patrick Melrose, to our minor connection to a Hollywood screenwriter, to Vampire Diaries' version of "The Red Wedding," and then a couple quick thoughts on the series finale of Sense8. (Which Elizabeth didn't like, but she understands that some of the fans really, really did.)
This week's outro music is a clip from Solitude by Broke For Free. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Petal/Broke_For_Free_-_Petal_-_11_Solitude
Original broadcast date May 3, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/05/binary-system-podcast-125-alice-isnt-dead-part-3-chapter-1-and-other-things/
Alice isn’t Dead returns for its final season! While recapping the first chapter of Part 3 we also wander into some brief thoughts on gun ownership (spoilers: we do not want them to take your guns away) and then we jump right into American Gods: how the show is really different from the book and how much we LOVE IT.
Then it’s on to the San Diego Book Crawl, last weekend’s Transformers Earth Wars “Victorion” event, Gregory McGuire, Phillip Pullman, and a little bit about Pokemon Go that segued into Zombies Run. No, we don’t know either.
(Also we don’t have much new news on the IDW Transformers situation, but we’re always up for some rampant speculation.)
The outro music this week is a clip from "Roll Out" by Mount Holly, which they wrote for the Transformers Earth Wars trailer. Listen to the whole song on the Hasbro youtube feed. https://youtu.be/_GPmZyHJzX0
Correction: the one bookstore Elizabeth missed when mentioning the book crawl was Mysterious Galaxy, which is also a very cool shop. https://www.mystgalaxy.com/
Original broadcast date March 22, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/03/binary-system-podcast-119-wtnv-two-fer/
OMG. You guys. You know when we warn everyone that we're about to spoil the hell out of the latest Welcome To Night Vale episode? Well you better take us seriously this week, because the final episode of "A Story Of Love And Horror" was hands down the most depressing Night Vale episode ever and we're going to spoil the hell out of it.
After that we scrape ourselves off the floor long enough to recap the next Night Vale episode "A Door Ajar Part 1," and debrief on North Carolina Comicon and American Gods, but seriously you guys, that Love and Horror episode left us a little traumatized. And angry.
The outro music this week is a clip from Payload by Metre. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Metre/Circuit_1731/Payload_1125
Original broadcast date February 15, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/02/binary-system-podcast-114_placeholder_content/
Not sure what's going on lately, but there's a wealth of topics that we could turn into podcasts this month. So many fun things going on: the Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts are playing at theaters, there's a new Welcome to Night Vale episode to recap, we've got the Hannibal series to review, a list of helpful movie/tv sites to compile, and the number of songs we'd like to talk about from the WTNV Weather segment just keep adding up.
...not that we're ready to talk about any of that now of course.
Listen in as we go over all the topics that'll come up in the next few podcasts as soon as we're capable of discussing them, including Night Vale episodes that haven't broadcast yet and movies and TV we haven't finished watching. Plus some random google searches, and Cricket the cat getting bitey because ow ow quit it cat ow ow. In short, a podcast that went off the rails in under nineteen minutes.
This week's outro music is Dragon by Podington Bear. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/none_given_1790/Dragon
Original broadcast date November 2, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/11/binary-system-podcast-102-wonder-woman-and-blade-runner-2049/
The Binary Podcast team may not see the latest blockbusters on opening night. Or opening week. Or the week after that...
Okay, so maybe it takes us a while to get around to things. But we make up for it with almost an hour of fangirling.
Listen in as we spoil all the things and talk about Wonder Woman and Blade Runner 2049. Sure we discuss Amazon warriors and angsty replicants, but then we wander down tangents like American Horror Story, San Diego versus Los Angeles when it comes to the “Who’s Going To Turn Into A Garbage Dump First?” question, CGI super jumps, eating bugs voluntarily, and existentialism regarding existence after death and pragmatism versus faith. No, really, we do. But we also talk about pretty superheroes having sex, so there’s a balance.
Outro song this week is 60 seconds of the Wonder Woman theme, because we couldn't resist.
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 rising COVID numbers (boo!) and the second season of Love Death + Robots (..meh?) we fangirl...
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Original broadcast date June 8, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/06/binary-system-podcast-84-lightning-speed-intermission/
Both branches of Binary System Podcast are once again on the road this week, so we recorded a 7-minute podcast. And still managed to fit in the Sense8 and Till All Are One cancellations, American Gods, how we haven't seen Wonder Woman yet, how Elizabeth has seen Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, and how Kathryn is still trying to get through Iron Fist (it's...not going well.)
EDITED TO ADD: Elizabeth mentions that she didn't understand what was going on in the final panel of the most recent issue of Transformers Lost Light. Well James Roberts himself has tweeted the answer to us, which was awfully nice of him. Minor spoilers though, so if you'd like to see what he said, go here. https://twitter.com/jroberts332/status/872549131696435200
Original broadcast date May 4, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/05/binary-system-podcast-81-wtnv-107-the-missing-sky/
You know how we always open the podcast by saying you should listen to the Welcome To Night Vale episode first? Well this week you REALLY NEED TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE FIRST. This was one of those episodes that's surreal and disjointed and hard to understand and then when you get to the end you realize they were giving you clues about what was really going on THE ENTIRE TIME.
There's also some stuff about Peaky Blinders and M. Night Shyamalan, Transformers Combiner Wars, and the new Transformers Earth Wars game that Kathryn hasn't been able to put down yet.
Original broadcast date March 2, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/03/binary-system-podcast-72-oscar-reactions/
This week the twins discuss the Oscars, and by "discuss" we mean "do a full body cringe at the awkwardness of watching them give Best Picture to the wrong movie."
But we get around to mentioning which movies won what and which ones we wished won (say THAT five times fast.) And later Kathryn explains why the show Lucifer is pretty ridiculous and why she's completely unable to stop watching it.
Correction: We'd mentioned the filmmaker behind The White Helmets didn't attend the Oscars as a protest against the Travel Ban. Actually that was Asghar Farhadi, the director of The Salesman, which won for Best Foreign Language film, who didn't attend as a protest and "out of respect for the people of my country." Khaled Khatib, the cinematographer for The White Helmets, COULDN'T attend the Oscars because, according to CNN and Fox (we aim to be impartial here) his visa was canceled by the Syrian regime. (We think. Early reports said the US blocked him from entering, but apparently they blocked him because he didn't have a visa, because it was canceled.) So that's what's going on there.
Correction the second: Turns out the dates mentioned for the Oak City Comic Con were also incorrect; it actually takes place on March 18-19, not 17-18. Because why would we verify things BEFORE we mention them on the podcast?
Original broadcast date October 27, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/10/binary-system-podcast-56-the-walking-dead-season-7-premiere/
So, The Walking Dead, huh? How about that episode? Lots of important character development there. The cinematography was pretty good, and the lighting director really had to...oh who am I kidding? That episode was brutal and we're still mad!
Sit back for a half hour of the twins going AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
We've also got a look at the brand new book Feeding Hannibal, because it wouldn't be a Halloween episode if we didn't talk Walkers AND cannibals.
Original broadcast date October 20, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/10/binary-system-podcast-55-wtnv-episode-96-negotiations/
Things are a little tense in Night Vale right now. Mayor Cardinal has opened negotiations with Hiram McDaniel's sister Hadassah, who's acting as representative of The Five-Headed Dragon world. The Mayor wants Hiram to face the consequences of attempted assassination of a head of state; Hadassah wants Hiram extradited back to their own world for punishment (said punishment consists of getting a sticker that says "I Overthrew!", since that's how government works dontcha know).
So after we discussed dragons and destruction and strange spaceships that don't seem to have a point, we also talked about Looper, Penny Dreadful, and Luke Cage. Ah, Luke Cage. We're a little worried we might catch some flak for this one. Listen in to find out why.
Original broadcast date September 29, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/09/binary-system-podcast-52-ramble-some-more-ramblings/
No Welcome To Night Vale recap this week, since the Binary System Podcast duo has been traveling all over time and space this month. Well, all over space anyway. Okay, we each spent a week in Florida visiting the 'rents. The point is, we're tired.
Not too tired, since we were able to read the latest issues of Tranformers MTMTE and Marvel's Civil War II (warning: massive spoilers and speculations on our part to follow), and then watch The Night Manager series, the last season of Hannibal, a tiny bit of X-Men: Apocalypse, and the first two episodes of season two of Broadchurch (ouch, not sure how much more of that we can watch.)
And then Netflix had to go release the next seasons of Luther and Penny Dreadful, so now we've got even more to catch up on so we can talk about it on this podcast. It's a tough job blah blah somebody's got to blah blah so on and so forth.
(Sorry for some audio weirdness, Elizabeth was trying a new thing with the editing software. Totally didn't work! Won't be doing again! Moving right along!)
So of course we’re going to be talking about Lore Olympus and the latest episode of Loki (not the final episode that just aired yesterday, the one before that.) But we also just watched the third installment of Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow series, “The Absent Destinations of David Prime” and we have opinions. Spoilers...
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Original broadcast date August 11, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/08/binary-system-podcast-47-wtnv-91-the-1237/
If all the news stories about travel delays are getting you down, you'll be happy to hear that the 12:37 to Night Vale has arrived right on time! Well, one hundred years late. On tracks that don't exist anymore. At a station that was torn down and turned into a baseball field decades ago. Oh, and no one who goes inside has been heard from since. All aboard!
Listen in as the twins dissect the latest episode of Welcome To Night Vale, then ramble some rambles about Stranger Things, Suicide Squad, Zootopia, Batman v Superman, Inception, Niagara Falls, fan art, and maybe just a little bit of Pokemon Go, and how to pretend that's not what you're doing with your phone.
Also the day after recording Kathryn found this amazing Huntokarr fan art by hisclockworkservants on tumblr.
You can listen to episodes of Welcome To Night Vale here. http://podbay.fm/show/536258179
Original broadcast date June 23, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/06/binary-system-podcast-41-wtnv-90-whos-a-good-boy-part-2/
The chaos in Night Vale comes to a crashing finale as the whole town joins in the battle. In the end, what happened? We can't tell you. Seriously. We have no idea. Lots of opinions though.
After the recap we were all over the place, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Civil War II, Saga, Cowboy Bebop, Lucifer, the Fall, and any other distraction we could fit in a half hour.
Original broadcast date May 26, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/05/binary-system-podcast-38-alice-isnt-dead-6-sylvia/
Short episode this week, but two important things: we recapped the latest episode of Alice Isn't Dead, and we think (maybe) we might (quite possibly) have come up with our cosplay for New York Comic-Con. Unless you can think of something better. We dare you!
Original broadcast date February 1, 2016. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/02/oscars-2016-animation-shorts/
This week Jada and Elizabeth had a chance to see all of the films that have been nominated for Best Animated Short, and they recorded the post-viewing debriefing as a bonus podcast, part of a month of Oscars® coverage from PixelatedGeek.com.
Listen in as Jada and Elizabeth discuss their choices for Best Animated Short!
Edited to add: and it's official, Bear Story wins for Best Animated Short!
The intro and outro music is Beethoven's 5th Symphony, 4th movement: ABC used it in their promos last year, and it was easier to get ahold of than the Imagine Dragons song they're using this year.
Original broadcast date December 17, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/12/binary-system-podcast-19-all-star-wars-all-the-time/
To give everybody a break from all the hype surrounding a certain movie that comes out at midnight tonight, the twins will spend today's podcast talking instead about Existentialism in literature, and the differences between Solipsism and subjective relativism.
(pause)
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Just kidding, we're going to talk about Star Wars.
Edit: yes it's been pointed out to us that The Clone Wars cartoon also introduced non-human characters who can wield the Force. We....haven't watched that one either. But we will, we promise!
Returning to Jedi can be found on vimeo here. https://vimeo.com/36474256
We mentioned looking for the cover artist to Crystal Star. It's Drew Struzan. http://www.drewstruzan.com/illustrated/
We also mentioned the director of Return of the Jedi. It's Richard Marquand.
Binary System Podcast's instagram is here. https://www.instagram.com/binarysystempod/
Okay let’s just admit it; until the Loki series finishes up on the 14th, this is probably going to be the All Loki All The Time podcast. And we’re never not going to talk about the latest Lore Olympus episode, with all the lovely art and compelling story and darn it when is Hades going...
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Original broadcast date August 6, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/08/binary-system-podcast-8-wtnv-episode-71-the-registry-of-middle-school-crushes/
Night Vale is back with regular episodes! This week the twins recap Welcome To Night Vale episode 71 "The Registry of Middle School Crushes" (and how freaking glad we are that such a thing never existed when we were in Middle School) and then talk some Walking Dead, Sense8, Transformers, and Danger Mouse!
Welcome To Night Vale's main website is here.
Prefer your podcast in youtube form? You're in luck!
https://youtu.be/fx2JCvUECYw
Original broadcast date June 18, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/06/night-vale-recap-episode-70a-and-70b-taking-off-and-review/
That's right, this week's recap is two episodes for the price of one!
Cecil had big plans last episode to leave Night Vale for good and move to the Desert Otherworld. The twins both figured that was going to go horribly wrong, and they had a million theories as to how. None of them right. And that's amazing.
Join the twins as they recap Welcome To Night Vale episode 70A "Taking Off" and 70B "Review." And hey! We're now Binary System Podcast! Coming soon to an iTunes channel and a new url!
And also, Happy One Year Anniversary of Night Vale Recaps! Thanks for listening!
Prefer your podcasts in youtube form? You're in luck!
https://youtu.be/AvXq63_6DUM
Welcome to Night Vale's main website is here.
Original broadcast date April 9, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/04/night-vale-recap-episode-65-voicemail/
This week we snuck into Cecil’s office and listened to all his voice mails: a lot of very strange people are trying to reach him. Also Kathryn channels her inner Fey while Elizabeth is looking for her phone.
Join the twins as they recap Welcome to Night Vale episode 65, “Voicemail.”
Welcome to Night Vale's main website is here.
Original broadcast date January 8, 2015. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2015/01/night-vale-recap-episode-59-antiques/
Breaking news, Night Vale listeners: the Antiques have escaped! (...or did they...) Packs of feral antiques are now roaming the streets, and you know how dangerous and unpredictable they are. Oh, and Carlos makes a visit, but he’s non-corporeal, so probably safe.
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Kathryn found a beautiful piece of fanart by tumblr user carlos-the-scientist, you can see it here.
Welcome to Night Vale's main website is here.
Original broadcast date September 11, 2014. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2014/09/night-vale-recap-episode-53-the-september-monologues/
This week our favorite, weird little show treated us to some eerie viewpoints from three of Night Vale's residents. Join the twins as they recap Welcome to Night Vale Episode 53, "The September Monologues." Who is in the house with The Faceless Old Woman, can you get in and out of Dark Owl Records with your sanity intact, and what is Steve Carlsberg looking at that nobody else sees?
Special bonus this episode! Traffic noise! Elizabeth is trying out a new microphone! It picks up everything.
Tumblr artist inkscintillian has a creepy and adorable picture of Janice (and why she can't walk) right here.
The wonderful Supernatural / Welcome To Night Vale fan art we found is here, courtesy of stardustmote on tumblr.
Listener Nathan found us a dark and beautiful piece of fan art by Abigail Larson on deviantart, called "Pretend To Sleep."
You can listen to Episode 53 of Welcome To Night Vale for free right here or find them on iTunes.
Welcome to Night Vale's main website is here.
Original broadcast date June 19, 2014. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2014/06/night-vale-recap-episode-49-old-oak-doors-part-a/
Once again Kathryn and Elizabeth recorded their Sunday Night Skype as they recapped episode 49 of Welcome to Night Vale, "Old Oak Doors Part A" which is also the live, two-year anniversary of this strange, awesome show.
Spoilers! Lots and lots of spoilers! Both for this episode and any episode that came before, as the revolt against StrexCorp continues, and we break down this show into tiny, weird pieces.
Welcome to Night Vale's main website is here.
We’re only talking about two things this week, and that’s Loki and Lore Olympus! And the weekly SitRep. Okay three things. Loki, Lore Olympus, the weekly SitRep, and Mr. Robot. Four things. Maybe five? Oh nevermind. Play the Podcast Below | Download the MP3 | Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | RSS Feed You can also...
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This week we’re recapping Welcome to Night Vale’s 9th Anniversary episode (NINE YEARS holy Glow Cloud where does the time go) which ended up being a celebration not just of Night Vale but of podcasts in general, as over a dozen shows contributed to the Night Vale universe. But first up we’ve got the weekly...
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We haven’t had a chance to discuss Lore Olympus for a while, so this week we’re devoting the entire episode to a recap of episodes 159-161 and oh who are we kidding LET’S TALK ABOUT LOKI. In all seriousness, we do get around to a spoilerrific discussion of some really fantastic episodes of Lore Olympus...
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This week we recap a Night Vale episode that’s all about a severed, sentient human hand, and it’s not even a little creepy, it’s actually very sweet. Later on in the episode we recap a movie about several kids chatting together on social media, and it’s not even a little sweet, it’s actually very creepy....
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Seriously you guys we’re not kidding this time, ALL THE SPOILER WARNINGS this episode because we’re breaking down the final season of Bojack Horseman and we’re going to spoil everything. (…yes okay the final episode dropped a year and a half ago but it’s entirely possible there’s people out there who are even worse at...
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Sure, the final episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier dropped a solid month ago and we’re only halfway through the season, but that’s better than waiting a solid year like we usually do, right? Progress! After the weekly SitRep (vaccine cards, hockey games, and stupid injuries) we go nuts about the fourth episode...
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“Why are you pretending you wrote this?” Not gonna lie, the Night Vale folks had us going for a bit when they said they had to change plans for the episode at the last minute and just answer some fan-submitted questions. Being Night Vale, things get a lot more complicated, very fast. This one’s up...
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This week we’re just drooling about all the things we want to do once we’re fully vaccinated (haircuts and craft stores, we know how to party) and then we jump into a spoileriffic recap of Bojack Horseman season 5, complete with our favorite stunt casting! The Bojack Horseman bit ended up going on a little...
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The Night Vale recap is very quick this week, partly because it’s a very cerebral episode about life and identity and carving forgotten languages into insanely tall monoliths, but mostly because Elizabeth finally watched all of 2017’s Twin Peaks: the Return AND HAS SOME QUESTIONS. SPOILERS AHOY. Listen in as we go over our favorite...
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If you’re looking for a detailed breakdown of this year’s Oscar ceremony and all the winning films…this is not the podcast for that. Because we barely saw any of the nominees and we certainly didn’t watch the ceremony. Not that it stops us from having opinions! So after what we laughingly call a recap, we...
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Big news in Night Vale this week! The Secret Police were given one year to provide the life of Frank Chen back to his family, an impossible task that they somehow managed to accomplish way before the deadline! Yes indeed, Frank Chen, good as new, exactly as he was before, no need to look too...
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After this week’s SitRep on the vaccine situation (Mom, Dad, and Nathan are 2 for 2, Kathryn and Hannah are 1 for 2, and Elizabeth’s 0 for 2.) (Hurry up Elizabeth! – Kathryn) (I’M WORKING ON IT. – Elizabeth) we jump right into Lore Olympus because holy hell did you see what happened to Minthe??...
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It’s a beautiful day in Night Vale, and it’s time once again to run around in circles and PANIC because the Librarians have escaped their cages. Fortunately, heroic teen militia leader Tamika Flynn is here to save the day by…helping the Librarians get their paperwork sent in so they can form a union. And she...
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As we slooooowly (dear lord so slowly) move out of the pandemic (KNOCK WOOD) other, less horrific news is taking its place in the weekly SitRep. In this episode the news is about a certain ship that got stuck in a canal and our hearts, about Marvel kicking Diamond Distributors to the curb (including what...
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Raise a glass, or a can (of beer), or a cup (of hot cider), because the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA is officially one year old. To distract us from this grim milestone we have a new Night Vale episode (featuring Deb, the Sentient Patch of Haze) and TWO Lore Olympus episodes to recap. And...
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WandaVision wrapped up last week and we have thoughts. ALL THE SPOILER WARNINGS for the entire season, plus bits of Infinity War and Endgame too of course. But first up is the weekly SitRep over beers (some people in our family have been vaccinated eeeeeeeeeeee) and while going over everything we loved about WandaVision we...
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Okay, so according to the latest Night Vale episode Director’s Notes (which you can get if you sign up to their Patreon, hint hint), Kathryn may have misspoken a little. The episode wasn’t “weird for weird’s sake”, but it still doesn’t have any deep, hidden meaning. It’s also appropriate that Elizabeth was so taken with...
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That’s right, we actually got completely caught up with WandaVision! And now we have to wait an entire week before the next episode. Seven days to get new content what is this the stone ages? #firstworldproblems ANYWAY, we’re recapping episodes five, six, and seven of WandaVision SPOILERS AHOY. But first we’ve got the weekly SitRep...
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Over in Night Vale, Cecil and Carlos are (probably) suffering from a little cabin fever, so this week they decided to take their young son Esteban to go hiking! It was a wonderful trip, they made so many good memories. It’s just a shame that Cecil is having trouble actually, you know, remembering them. But...
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Yes, you’re reading it right: we’re actually watching a TV show that isn’t three years old or cancelled! Of course we’re at least four episodes behind everybody else but that’s not important right now. So first up we jump into the first two episodes of WandaVision and geek out about how much fun everybody’s having....
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Okay you need to count the number of asterisks in the title, because it’s not the word you think it is. (Unless we’re the only ones who went there? We listen to a lot of off-color Brit podcasts and they use that word more than we do!) ANYWAY, after recapping Night Vale’s attempt at legalizing...
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In typical, timely, “we are so on top of pop culture” fashion, we started watching Legion. A year and a half after the final episode aired. (We’d say that’s a record for us, but we’re sure you know it isn’t.) There’s so much about this show we love, from the beautiful and creepy special effects,...
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Since Kathryn finally finished the last season of The Good Place (only a year late! Gotta be a record!) we decided to break down everything we loved about it. Massive spoiler warnings of course! Plus we talk about the last two chapters of Lore Olympus, and also decide that since its final episode was a...
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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 podcast has grown into a well organized machine that...
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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 about to happen. Anyway, bear that in mind when you listen...
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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. ANYWAY, we finally watched the Welcome To Night Vale live show from, what, two weeks ago? It was delightfully upsetting in true...
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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. (Also, the mid-credits scene: eeeeeeeeeee!) Before that we have our weekly SitRep-With-Beers which,...
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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 some questions. What exactly was the face-scan on the latest episode of The Mandalorian...
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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 it snow let it snow let it snow (unless it’s the snow in Welcome To...
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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 check out this episode if you want to find out about a certain person’s name...
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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, because those things are awesome. Listen in as we discuss politics and pandemics...
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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 women. And of course we debate paying the extra money to read Lore Olympus early because we want...
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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 flies). Tonight just might be his last episode since Judge Chaplin is about to deliver the verdict in the case...
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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 after the weekly SitRep with beers, we’re talking about rewatching Midsommar and...
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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 that Cecil somehow completely fails to notice. Listen in as the twins recap the episode, talk about new...
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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 another week after that. YES, WE KNOW. We’d like to blame the pandemic but this is...
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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, Steve Carlsberg, and The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home. The theme for our SitRep this...
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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, American Dreams. So I sat down with him on October 1st (the album’s release date) so we could talk all...
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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 record. Massive great big spoiler warnings as we break down everything we loved...
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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 which I’m sure a lot of us can sympathize with. After the recap...
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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 season finale of The Mandalorian, the latest Lore Olympus, the Umbrella Academy, and the very...
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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, and Hannibal. (And on that note could the creators of Hannibal and...
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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 the latest episode of Lore Olympus (spoilers ahoy for both, but especially Lore Olympus,...
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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? Well jeez, not that, obviously, the heck’s the matter with you? Listen in as the twins break...
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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 jumped straight into Transformers – War For Cybertron: Siege. There’s so much about it we like and...
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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. The recap is notable for the fact that we try to see how many times we can...
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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 Toy Story 4 after a solid year of putting it...
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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, “Condos”. Eventually. We got distracted by this week’s sitrep and a few other things (The Mandalorian,...
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We were all ready to recap the latest episode of Night Vale…until we found out there wasn’t an episode this week. We’re so flipping prepared. Luckily between Hamilton and the Mandalorian and all the other Disney stuff we’re watching and planning to watch, we’ve got lots of stuff to geek out about. Play the Podcast...
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You can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Well the news in the real world is a bummer for sure so this week we only have one quick sitrep (short version: we’re all fine!) and then we discuss our go-to comfort shows (House and Beastars, currently) fangirl all...
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You can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! First up this week we’re recapping Welcome To Night Vale’s 8-year anniversary episode, a story about life and loss and moving on and getting older and death and OKAY let’s move on to the weekly sitrep with the pandemic and...
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You can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week we’re recapping a Night Vale episode full of wood carving and excellent horoscopes, but first we wanted to mention the week’s events. What can you say about the past week? It sucked, obviously. A man was murdered by...
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You can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! First up this week is a recap of OUR FAVORITE KIND of Night Vale episode: a stand alone, gloriously strange list of weirdness. (Brie Williams is our favorite guest writer, since she also wrote “Guidelines For Disposal,” another wonderfully weird...
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You can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! No Night Vale episode to recap, so this week we tried something different. We both said we were going to watch something that’s been on our to-do list…and then we watched them. So Kathryn watched the 2007 movie Sunshine (written...
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You can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! First up this week we’re recapping the fifth and final part of Night Vale’s latest story arc, as the telepathic cult from the Desert Otherworld has taken over the town. It’s a real feel-good finale, full of betrayal, mind control,...
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You can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! No Night Vale episode this week, so after the usual sitrep (Summary: More ways to say “everyone’s fine”) we talk about about the Netflix series “Beastars” (Odd bit of trivia, Elizabeth watched the dubbed version and Kathryn watched it with...
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You can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! After a quick coronavirus sitrep from us and the family (short version: everybody’s fine, wash your hands!) we switch to a lighter note with a Welcome To Night Vale recap, as the telepathic cult from the Desert Otherworld invades Night...
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You can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Things are progressing quickly in the five-part story about the missing Delta Flight 18713 and the escaped inmates of the Night Vale asylum. The Desert Otherworld is coming into play, and there’s a good chance that a mad pilot who...
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You can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! “We should try that Netflix Watch Party extension!” “All of us in three states watching a movie together!” “So what should we watch?” “…….uh….” Thus launching an hour-long conversation between Elizabeth, Kathryn, Nathan and Hannah, trying to figure out, among...
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You can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! It’s the Welcome to Night Vale episode that Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor described as “maybe the most upsetting thing we’ve ever written.” Listen in as we recap a one-person show featuring unearthly roommates, really cruel pranks, and something called...
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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Let’s face it, the Coronavirus is on everyone’s minds so we have to get that out of the way first. (It mostly involves us saying “WASH YOUR HANDS” a lot, spreading the word on the #ECCConline hashtag, and reminding you that...
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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! On this week’s Night Vale recap we discuss theater etiquette when attending a show at an insane asylum, and then move on to cosplay problems, adventures in 3D printing, and whether or not the pretty, pretty effects in Picard outweigh all...
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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! So the plan was to have a quick talk about an Oscar-winning film and a debriefing on the events of last weekend. It spun out of control within the first fifteen minutes, of course. Listen in as we go over Parasite...
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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! This week’s Night Vale recap is full of ambitious moms, genius daughters, mysterious voices, missing planes and REALLY STARTLING WEATHER. Plus Kathryn wants to rewatch Snowpiercer (because Parasite) and Elizabeth rewatched Looper (because Knives Out) and we’re both finishing up Bojack...
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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The 2020 Oscars have come and gone and Binary System has the complete recap! Well, mostly complete; Kathryn’s got the attention span of a magpie and kept leaving the room when she got bored. And Elizabeth still has the heebie jeebies...
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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Welcome to Night Vale returns! Listen in as we recap Night Vale’s centuries-long quest to slap the bejeezus out of the moon, give shout outs to two listeners, and basically make stuff up about people we’ve never met. Play the Podcast...
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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Special guest Hannah Wallace returns this week as we break down everything we loved about Fleabag! Massive spoiler warnings of course, because we can’t talk about all the fourth-wall breaks, the horrible Godmother, the sex, and most definitely the Hot Priest...
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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Last week we made a plan for catching up on all the amazing content out there, and this week? We got caught up! KIDDING. Of course we didn’t, but we watched some things, and liked them a lot. Listen in as...
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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The holidays are over, and convention season doesn’t get geared up for a few weeks, so now’s the time for us to get caught up on all the things we’ve been meaning to watch because we are so, so bad at...
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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Okay this is disconcerting: we actually managed to watch a major motion picture within three weeks of the release date, instead of waiting three months (or years. Sometimes it’s years.) Have we turned over a new leaf or have we been...
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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! It took us a month to finally watch the How To Train Your Dragon holiday special, but since it took us the better part of a year to watch the final movie, that’s, like, practically on time for us. Yes? No?...
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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! We knew this was going to be a crazy episode of Welcome to Night Vale when Cecil said he was going to take us to the weather…and then he talked about the weather! ISN’T THAT CRAZY? (And don’t even get us...
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You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Night Vale’s annual Cat Show is here and there’s really no competition because everybody knows Khoshekh is THE BEST CAT EVER. (Though one of the competitors is named Dumpster and we’ve gotta admit that’s a cool name for a cat.) Listen...
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