Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date October 7, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/10/binary-system-podcast-285-all-ted-lasso-all-the-time/

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 series: Scrubs.

The outro music this week is a clip from the Ted Lasso Theme by Marcus Mumford and Tom Hove.

Fake Doctors, Real Friends is the Scrubs recap podcast with Zach Braff and Donald Faison that Hannah mentioned. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fake-doctors-real-friends-with-zach-and-donald/id1503559501

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Original broadcast date September 30, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/binary-system-podcast-284-lore-olympus-and-ted-lasso/

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 out about three weeks ago ("MY WIFE!!") so we've gotta unpack all of that.

And our sister Hannah has got the whole family watching Ted Lasso, so we have a semi-spoileriffic discussion of the first two episodes.

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

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Original broadcast date September 23, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/binary-system-podcast-283-wtnv194-the-nearly-infinite-lives-of-frank-chen-and-lore-olympus/

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) and Lore Olympus (we LIVE for the day that Hades finds out what Apollo did, it's going to be APOCALYPTIC).

So of course we also crammed in a talk about 2007's Sunshine (Cillian Murphy is very pretty but Elizabeth calls shenanigans on the choice of bad guy), Gail Simone's #MovieCheers hashtag, the new Matrix trailer, Mission Impossible: Fallout, and Jeremy Renner's CGI arms.

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

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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

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 September 2, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/09/binary-system-podcast-280-board-games-lovecraft-country-star-wars-and-lore-olympus/

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 movies she's rewatching Rise of Skywalker. And she doesn't even LIKE Rise of Skywalker.

Kathryn at least is doing better, in that she and her friends played a subscription game that's much newer: Hunt a Killer: Blair Witch. https://www.huntakiller.com/horror So we talk about that and collaborative puzzle games and how there's no shame in being the team member who's bad at puzzles and just takes notes instead.

And of course we wrap up with Lore Olympus, which is back after a two-week hiatus and dear lord the wait to find out what happens to Daphne is going to kill us. Also: GET BENT, APOLLO, GOD.

The outro music this week is a clip from Radiant Gift by Nolan Čapek.

The Avery Brewing Co. beer that Elizabeth and Wade tried was Liliko'i Kepolo. https://www.averybrewing.com/beers/liliko-i-kepolo

Update: Elizabeth's friends in New Orleans are without power and AC, but their house is still standing and they're safe from floodwaters and alligators.

Correction: while Lovecraft Country does technically take place after World War 2, it's in the 1950s and the main character just got back from the Korean War. And Lovecraft Country is available with a premium subscriptions to Hulu, Prime, YouTube, and HBO Max.

The link to our most recent fan art gallery is here, it's got a little bit of everything this time. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/08/binary-system-fan-art-gallery-beastars-transformers-lore-olympus-and-more/

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 August 19, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/08/binary-system-podcast-279-wtnv-192-it-doesnt-hold-up/

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 like that in this week's episode of Welcome to Night Vale, except the owls sound like hydraulic lifts. And he's pretty sure the man in the background is his dad.

There's no new Lore Olympus or Beastars this week, so it'll be a short episode because we'll only be discussing Welcome To Night Vale. And the weekly SitRep of course. And Only Lovers Left Alive since it showed up on Prime Video. And Dead Man. And The Usual Suspects. And Witness for the Prosecution. And Breakfast at Tiffany's. And Cloud Atlas. Okay, so maybe not that short.

The outro music this week is a clip from Salt Lake Swerve, by Maarten Schellekens.

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Original broadcast date August 12, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/08/binary-system-podcast-278-beastars-lore-olympus-and-going-way-too-dark-for-a-thursday/

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 that we talk about the latest episode of Lore Olympus and how it's going to freaking kill us to wait three weeks to find out what happens, but going by the look on Daphne's face, it's nothing good.

So if all that wasn't dark enough, a discussion about helicopters segues into a talk about death, dismemberment, and illegal organ "procurement" that was so hilariously horrifying we stuck in a content warning just in case you want to skip it.

(It's not that we're sorry we went so dark, we're just sorry we didn't wait for October. Now we'll have to dig up something even more horrible for Halloween, goshdarnit...)

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

The really dark and disturbing part of the episode is from roughly 38:26 to 43:15, in case you'd like to jump past it.

Here's some photos Capn Slack got of his and Kathryn's new fish tank setup with the AT-AT. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSXVhkInEZf/

Here's the article on CBR.com we mentioned that has a few tidbits on the making of Beastars. https://www.cbr.com/netflix-beastars-making-anime-facts-trivia/

Here's the preview pages for the Lore Olympus book. https://twitter.com/used_bandaid/status/1420866672311738371?s=20

This is the link to the Tri-State Crematory Scandal article on wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Crematory_scandal

And this is the Swindled Podcast episode that talks about both the Crematory Scandal and the illegal organ harvesting. It's a fascinating episode, but not for the faint of heart. https://swindledpodcast.com/podcasts/season-2/26-the-body-snatcher/

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Original broadcast date August 5, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/08/binary-system-podcast-277-wtnv-191-the-many-many-lives-of-frank-chen/

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 fist-sized river rock? Cecil likes Steve Carlsberg's scones?)

After we recap the wibbly-wobbly, timey wimey story of poor doomed Frank Chen we move on to the weekly SitRep which is, well, the news of the world could honestly be a little better. (The sounds of sirens and the helicopter life-flights coming from the hospital near Elizabeth's apartment were particularly active this week which seems PRETTY DARN APPROPRIATE.)

To distract ourselves from all of THAT, we discussed Lore Olympus for a little while, along with a bit of Penny Dreadful, a smidge of John Varley, and Kathryn's "meh" review of the space horror movie "High Life". The bulk of the episode was devoted to episodes 1-7 of Beastars Season 2, and if you're not caught up then you probably better skip from minute 19:00 to 35:54 because we spoil ALL THE THINGS.

The outro music this week is a clip from Finally Free by Linn Friberg.

Corrections: According to the transcript http://www.nightvalepresents.com/welcome-to-night-vale-transcripts/2021/8/1/191-the-many-many-lives-of-frank-chen for this week's Night Vale episode, Frank Chen traveled to Constantinople in the year 600, not 1600. He also traveled to the year 2121, not 2021. Hi, we're bad at time.

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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.

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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