Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date December 23, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/12/binary-system-podcast-295-wtnv-200-susan-willman-comes-clean-lore-olympus-and-hawkeye/

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 Asspollo from the underworld, and whether or not Persephone is going to become queen of the underworld or just die from shame after accidentally offering to make Hades a baby. NOT LIKE THAT. Well, kind of…

And THEN we bring out ALL the spoilers for episode five of Hawkeye. Yes, episode five. Yes, we know the finale dropped yesterday. We recorded this on Monday, check back next week for us losing our minds about the finale. Listen to this week's episode for us losing our minds about Florence Pugh, she's awesome.

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.

Check out Space Bridge to Nowhere on tumblr for all their hilarious Transformers Christmas gifs. https://tmblr.co/Z1bVhvZSROhSKa01

Here's the list of all the Hugo winners, with links back to all the reviews on the site. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/12/2021-hugo-awards-the-winners/

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Original broadcast date December 16, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/12/binary-system-podcast-294-lore-olympus-and-hawkeye/

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, even if they demonstrate that we are terrible Transformers fans. (Hailee Steinfeld was the lead in Bumblebee HOW DID WE FORGET THAT?)

The outro music this week is a clip from Riviera by Maarten Schellekens.

Correction, well, confirmation anyway: Interview With The Vampire came out in 1976.

If you look at the top comment for this episode of Lore Olympus, https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/s2-episode-184/viewer?title_no=1320&episode_no=189 check out the replies and you'll see the pack of commenters all ready and willing to take out Asspollo.

The writer and author who originally created Pizza Dog was Matt Fraction and David Aja in Hawkeye #1.

You can find our collection of Transformers in Scarves on pinterest. https://www.pinterest.com/llyzabeth/transformers-in-scarves/

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Original broadcast date December 9, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/12/binary-system-podcast-293-wtnv-199-guidelines-for-retrieval-and-lore-olympus/

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 junk they've previously disposed of and take one item back. Anything you want. Anything at all.

Really? You're taking that back? Are you sure?

After recapping this weeks episode (featuring the triumphant return of writer Brie Williams) we have a long discussion about the latest Lore Olympus episode, and try to parse out which secret Apollo is going to spill the beans about, who he's going to spill them to, and exactly how big of a clusterf**k this is going to cause.

We also talk about the "Get Back" Beatles documentary, and Elizabeth wants everyone to watch the first episode of "Raised By Wolves" but she's not going to tell you why.

The outro music this week is a clip from Voyageur by Monkey Warhol.

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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 25, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/11/binary-system-podcast-291-wtnv-198-them-woods-are-a-maze/

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 haven't made it clear, is dangerous.)

It's a fun episode with a sort of big revel towards the end, but what we're really excited about is the developments on the latest episode of Lore Olympus, so we take a few minutes to go OMG DID YOU SEE THAT I CAN'T BELIEVE IT HADES FINALLY KNOWS!

There's also a brief discussion of the Anthony Bourdain documentary and some messed up episodes of "Rick and Morty" (I mean, they're all messed up), but really, this episode is mostly us jumping up and down about having to wait a week to see Hades go to town on someone who desperately deserves it.

The outro music this week is a clip from Despite the Darkness by TeknoAXE.

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Original broadcast date November 11, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/11/binary-system-podcast-290-lore-olympus-and-the-loki-rewatch/

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 the Loki series (which is exactly as good as she thought it was the first time) and discuss the Sylki shippers and the Lokius shippers. (We personally ship Sylki, but do not mess with the Lokius shippers, they're super passionate and they really want a jet ski scene.)

Also for everyone checking in, frequent quest and sister of the podcast Hannah (https://byhannahwallace.wordpress.com/) is still in the hospital, we'll update as we know more, good thoughts are always appreciated and will be sent along.

The outro music this week is a clip from Escape from LV426 by White Bat Audio.

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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 28, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/10/binary-system-podcast-288-the-bananahammer-episode/

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.

The outro music this week is a clip from Zombie Disco by Six Umbrellas. (Which we used waaaay back on episode 99, but in honor of Halloween and Hannah's original discovery of Zombies Run!, we thought it was appropriate.)

A more-or-less complete list of all the pop culture goodies we discussed on this episode:

British podcasts

Movies

TV Shows

Cats (but not the musical)

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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 October 14, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/10/binary-system-podcast-286-wtnv-195-silas-the-thief-and-lore-olympus/

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, where Hermes is being adorable and really long winded; we love ya, Flyboy, but could you please hurry it up?

The outro music this week is a clip from Jeopardy by Metre.

Random, but the sculptor mentioned in this week's Night Vale episode is Louise Bourgeois, and her art is all kinds of delightfully unsettling, maybe even a little Night-Valian. The episode doesn't mention which sculpture Silas's benefactor wanted him to steal; we'd like to think it was this one. https://collections.stormking.org/Detail/objects/6381

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