Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date January 26, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/01/binary-system-podcast-346-glass-onion-and-the-umbrella-academy-season-2/ 

Last week Kathryn said she was going to watch Glass Onion this week and finally start the second season of Umbrella Academy. And wonder of all wonders, she did! It’s unheard of! It’s amazing! It’s unbelievable!! (It’s laying it on a bit thick is what it is. – Kathryn) (Hee. – Elizabeth)

(AIRHORN NOISE) Massive spoiler warnings ahoy! With the help of the IMDB Trivia Section (all hail the IMDB Trivia Section) we go over every plot point from Glass Onion we can remember, and give away the ending to every mystery in the whole movie, not to mention spoiling the entire season 2 premiere of Umbrella Academy. (Side note: Klaus is the BEST.)

Of course there are the usual tangents as well, this week featuring Bourne Legacy, No Time To Die, Elon Musk bros, the pandemic in movies and comic books, Comfort Blanket Podcast, and the very bittersweet connection between Narnia and Doctor Who.

This week’s outro is a clip from In the Club by Anthem of Rain.

Here’s a link to the Comfort Blanket Podcast for your daily dose of something comforting.

And here’s a link to Elizabeth’s review of Saga #61 (the heartbreak hasn’t started yet, but it’s teased for sure.)

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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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This episode originally broadcast on January 5, 2023. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2023/01/binary-system-podcast-343-lore-olympus-225-and-226/

Happy New Year from the BSP team! We hope you all had a fantastic celebration (or a safe and relatively chill evening at home if that's your jam.)

It's a quick Travel-Edition recording this week (we may not have been at home when we recorded this, but we're definitely back home now, or if we're not home we've got Ninja-trained pet sitters watching the door TAKE THAT, IMAGINARY BURGLARS!) as we get some back story on Hephestus and Aphrodite (he gave her a love cannon awww NO NOT LIKE THAT) and the tiniest reassurance that at least some people are still keeping an eye on Apollo.

This week's outro is a clip from Live 4 2 Day by TeknoAXE

Update: As of Tuesday evening Jeremy Renner is posting to Instagram (with help), and thankful for everyone's kind words, so here's hoping he gets well soon.

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Original broadcast date December 21, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/12/binary-system-podcast-342-lore-olympus-223-and-224

Happy Holidays from the Binary System Podcast team! This year one of our Christmas presents is some very welcome Lore Olympus backstory on Aphrodite (Ares is his own worst enemy, and for Aphrodite’s sake we hope the breakup takes).

Elizabeth is also happy to report that the latest season of The Crown is well worth a watch (and this led to a digression about the current royal family and why we think the sheer rage directed at one of its members is…weird.)

Meanwhile Kathryn is happy to report that she’s still enjoying the rewatch of the Hawkeye series and some older episodes of Red Letter Media instead of…all the other things she could be catching up on. We still haven’t seen the new Avatar movie, so we’re gonna have to get on that. Later. When the crowds aren’t so awful. (PSA: Please be kind to the movie theater employees. And Avatar doesn’t have a post-credits scene. You’re welcome. Go home.)

One day we may find a better Christmas outro than Christmas on Mars by spinningmerkaba, but today is not that day!

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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.)

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 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.

Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a castle in Scotland? Look no further! You can support the restoration of Dunan's castle, legally call yourself Lady or Laird, AND if you use http://www.scottishlaird.co.uk/#_a_2gk to get there, you can support this podcast 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

The article Elizabeth was talking about is Heidi And Her Cheese. https://topographickitchens.substack.com/p/heidi-and-her-cheese

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Original broadcast date November 17, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/11/binary-system-podcast-337-wtnv-217-salmon-burger-and-sandman/

This week was one of those Night Vale recaps where we took way too many notes and got dangerously close to just repeating the episode word for word because it was so, freaking, CLEVER. (Station Management's memo to Cecil about the stupid basement is the best.) We managed to stick to the highlights, but we went on frequent tangents about fish recipes, office blunders, replyallpocalypses, and the hive mind of the fan artists.

After that we talked about The School For Good and Evil (meh?), Stephen Fry as Fiddler's Green (yay!), Christopher Walken in The Prophecy (skip past everything but him. And the coroner. Love a good coroner scene), dueling Black Panther reviews, and the Dragonfall Drawing Challenge.

This week's outro is a clip from Black Lotus by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.

Lily Fox's painting of Cecil (https://www.deviantart.com/lily-fox/art/On-the-air-with-Cecil-Baldwin-399517173) was the first Night Vale fan art we saw (and indirectly responsible for us listening to Night Vale in the first place) and is a pretty good example of the Fan Art Hive Mind's idea of Cecil.

Hugh's review of Wakanda Forever is here https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/11/review-black-panther-wakanda-forever/, and David's is here https://letterboxd.com/leninhawk/film/black-panther-wakanda-forever/, both ends of the spectrum!

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. https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/dragonfalldrawingchallenge/

Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a castle in Scotland? Look no further! You can support the restoration of Dunan's castle, legally call yourself Lady or Laird, AND if you use http://www.scottishlaird.co.uk/#_a_2gk to get there, you can support this podcast too!

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Original broadcast date November 10, 2022. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2022/11/binary-system-podcast-336-lore-olympus-and-more-random-reviews/

Episodes 217 and 218 of Lore Olympus didn't answer a ton of questions, and by that I mean we STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT APOLLO IS UP TO.

Okay, yes, we got some good information about how Kronos was able to take over the Underworld. And we find out what happened to get Thanatos AND Thetis banished to the Mortal Realm (short answer: Zeus is a predictable jerk, and Thetis is kidding herself if she thinks this was anything other than getting dumped by the ruler of Olympus). But darn it, Apollo is either plotting something or seething about Persephone's new status as Queen of the Underworld, possibly both, but we don't know because WE HAVEN'T SEEN HIM SINCE MAY.

Elizabeth's also watched all of Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (can't really recommend), and Kathryn went to the Carolina Renaissance Festival outside of Charlotte last week (so pretty!). Oh, and we have a standing appointment to have boba tea the next time we're both in San Diego because Kathryn doesn't trust chunky drinks and Elizabeth thinks that's just wrong.

This week's outro is a clip from Waypoint W by TeknoAXE.

The song Elizabeth was talking about is It Costs That Much and artists of all types should probably stand to memorize all of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGR20B2cEBQ

Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a castle in Scotland? Look no further! You can support the restoration of Dunan's castle, legally call yourself Lady or Laird, AND if you use http://www.scottishlaird.co.uk/#_a_2gk to get there, you can support this podcast too!

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