Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date May 6, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/05/binary-system-podcast-265-wtnv-187-recap-and-twin-peaks-the-return/

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 and least favorite moments (seriously, what the absolute hell, Lynch?) of this weird, weird show. Shout out in the comments if you've got any Twin Peaks theories! The weirder the better!

The outro this week is a clip from the Twin Peaks ending theme by Angelo Badalamenti.

And to the surprise of absolutely no one, recording yourself speaking backwards in order to play it forwards is a lot harder than it looks. Kathryn found this site https://spea.cc/backwards/?fbclid=IwAR3-7_sblMqsrAxtbr3n4ziyfa2DJgEtEEpox3ICU2U4UlIt6T6git4NGKk where you can type in what you want to say and it'll break down the backwards version phonetically.

We talked about the first four episodes of Twin Peaks the Return on this episode back in 2018. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/01/binary-system-podcast-111-twin-peaks-the-return-and-hannibal/

Here's the link to Kathryn's review of Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier, which Mark Frost wrote to accompany the season. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/12/review-twin-peaks-the-final-dossier/

And here's a link to Kathryn's review of The Secret History of Twin Peaks, which is a little drier, but still a lot of good info. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/05/review-the-secret-history-of-twin-peaks/

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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 22, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/04/binary-system-podcast-263-wtnv-186-the-many-lives-of-frank-chen/

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 closely. Or ask questions. Or...

You're not buying this, are you? That's okay, neither is the family of Frank Chen...

In other news, and wow was there a lot of news on the day we recorded this episode. In one day we got the spectacular trailers for Love, Death, and Robots and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the reveal that Olivia Coleman is joining the MCU (or as some will say, the MCU is now joining Olivia Colman's universe), David Tenant's birthday, Christoper Eccleston answering fan's questions and being delightfully prickly, and SOMEBODY finally got her first vaccination shot.

The outro this week is a clip from Hello Robo by TeknoAxe.

The podcast that the Welcome to Night Vale crew recommended is Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's. It looks weird as heck. http://www.pizzaatmcdonalds.com/

Correction: Blockbusters apparently did NOT censor or otherwise edit videos. They just refused to carry movies that didn't fit their "family friendly" atmosphere, thus convincing producers that it would behoove them to provide tepid, watered-down alternate versions of unrated or NC-17 films. Vulture has a great article about this and other shady practices, Guys, Blockbuster Wasn't That Great. https://www.vulture.com/2019/08/guys-blockbuster-wasnt-that-great.html

Correction the second: Elizabeth somehow got the idea that the Oscars were this Friday. They're actually on Sunday. They're ALWAYS on a Sunday.

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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 April 1, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/04/binary-system-podcast-260-comic-con-diamond-bojack-horseman-and-lore-olympus/

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 https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374438210315513864?s=20, about Marvel kicking Diamond Distributors https://www.thenewestrant.com/2021/03/marvel-leaves-diamond-for-penguin.html to the curb (including what one comic retailer https://www.artoffiction.com/HouseOfSecrets/ thinks about it) and how San Diego Comic-Con is planning a convention. This year. On Thanksgiving weekend https://twitter.com/BinarySystemPod/status/1376237664110714883?s=20. Folks are Not Pleased.

After that, since Kathryn's finished season two of Bojack Horseman, we have to jump right into that wonderful weirdness, before wrapping up with the most recent two episodes of Lore Olympus. (It's been great to get some backstory on Minthe, but here's hoping next episode we find out what the heck's going on with Artemis?)

This week's outro is a clip from Electronic Evolution by TeknoAXE.

Here's the US Vaccine Tracker on Twitter that we mentioned. https://twitter.com/USVaccineCount

Here's last week's WandaVision fanart gallery. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/03/binary-system-fan-art-gallery-wandavision/

And here's the Welcome To Night Vale twitter feed, they're always fun. And weird. And fun. https://twitter.com/NightValeRadio

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Original broadcast date March 18, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/03/binary-system-podcast-259-wtnv-184-the-fog/

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 they were all...surprisingly sweet! (Well, the second episode of Lore Olympus was sweet anyway. God, Apollo, go AWAY.)

And if a big dose of us fangirlling over Lore Olympus isn't enough, we also talk about Lackadaisy Cats, which is another one of our favorite webcomics and the test animations for its upcoming short film look amazing.

This week's outro is Live Stream Theme by Fred Smith. He hasn't got his music up on YouTube yet, but he's the creator of the Cock and Bull pub game, which is very fun and you should check out the site! https://www.cocknbull.org//

The hysterical Twitter war Kathryn mentioned was between publishers Melville House and Penguin Random House (well, between the people running their Twitter feeds). Buzzfeed did a write up about it here. https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomnamako/two-book-publishers-got-an-epic-twitter-spat

The character from the Lackadaisy Cats http://lackadaisycats.com/ webcomic Elizabeth was talking about is Ivy Pepper, and the Welcome To Night Vale weather Elizabeth mentioned is Closer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACklp8tksyQ by The Tiny (and yes, this would work perfectly with Ivy as the singer.)

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Original broadcast date March 11, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/03/binary-system-podcast-258-wandavision-season-finale/

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 also have some tangents into the DC universe (...Far Sector is good anyway..) and we have to bag on Joss Whedon for a bit. Because he's a jerk. And he ruined Clintasha. (Aren't you over that yet? - Kathryn) (NO I'M REALLY NOT - Elizabeth)

This week's outro is a clip from the WandaVision end credits music by Christopher Beck.

And here's the cartoon about Marvel and DC's approach to building a cinematic universe. https://www.deviantart.com/jollyjack/art/Cinematic-Universes-600853193

Here's the link to the GoFundMe Texas Winter Storm Relief hub, money donated here will go to several charities working in Texas, including some to help people pay some disastrously high power bills. https://www.gofundme.com/f/texaswinterstormrelief

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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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Original broadcast date February 25, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/02/binary-system-podcast-256-wandavision-and-lore-olympus-again/

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 and our thoughts on people who think wind turbines are responsible for people freezing to death. And after the WandaVision recap we jump into Lore Olympus so we can talk about fertility goddesses and whether or not Apollo is still Zeus' son if Hera isn't Zeus' sister. It's complicated.

This week's outro is a clip from Traveller by Crowander.

Correction 1: Okay, we said one of the WandaVision intros was like Family House. We meant Family Ties. We got it mixed up with Full House. Same decade!

Correction 2: The character Wanda's son is dressed like is Wiccan from Young Avengers.

The god that Demeter mentions is Ouranos, which is the non-anglicized version of Uranus.

We're kind of glad that the Yo-Magic commercial wasn't necessarily some obvious callback to a comic book or movie, lots of people have been puzzled by that one. Eman's Movie Reviews has a really good theory. https://youtu.be/KFMPh3vshGE

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