Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date February 18, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/02/binary-system-podcast-255-wtnv-182-it-sticks-with-you-and-many-other-things/

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 it's not just the regular Welcome To Night Vale recap this week, oh no. We also have the Welcome To Night Vale Live Show ("The Investigators"), the weekly SitRep, Lore Olympus, and episodes 3 and 4 of WandaVision to talk about (spoilers ahoy). It's a lot to pack into one episode, so much so that we brought out our startling car-alarm sound-effect to try to keep us to a schedule. Which we promptly ignored. Several times. But you know, we're trying.

This week's outro is a clip from Arena by TeknoAxe

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Original broadcast date April 20, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/02/binary-system-podcast-254-wandavision-and-lore-olympus/

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. From there we segue into the weekly SitRep (stiiiilll waiting on those vaccines) and then into a recap of the last two weeks of Lore Olympus. (GET BENT, APOLLO, GOD.)

This week's outro is a clip from Ladybird's Theme by Crowander

We mentioned the Refrigerator Monologues https://www.amazon.com/Refrigerator-Monologues-Catherynne-M-Valente/dp/1481459341 and Overly Sarcastic Productions https://youtu.be/V2_XThp3dxM this week, both are definitely worth a look.

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Original broadcast date February 4, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/02/binary-system-podcast-253-wtnv-181-cs-and-the-wicked-the-divine/

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 that thing NO IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK, we have the weekly SitRep with beers, before diving into The Wicked and the Divine, the comic book series that confused and upset and shocked the hell out of us and we loved every minute. Spoiler warnings ahoy! We stay spoiler free for maybe seven minutes before getting down to the good stuff, but we give you plenty of time to bail if you'd rather just go read it yourself AND YOU REALLY SHOULD.

This week's outro is a clip from Human Intelligence by Marc Burt.

The Stacey Abrams documentary Elizabeth was talking about is All In: The Fight For Democracy. https://www.amazon.com/All-Fight-Democracy-Stacey-Abrams/dp/B08FRV55VB/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=all+in&qid=1612405327&sr=8-1 Watch if you want to get mad and then DO something about it.

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 January 28, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/01/binary-system-podcast-252-legion-and-the-return-of-the-sitrep/

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, to the completely unreliable narrator, to the dance number (the dance number!) and all the pretty, pretty people.

First though we've got to do the weekly SitRep over beers, and afterwards we wander from the perplexing editing of Æon Flux on CBS All Access, to Tamsyn Muir's beautiful and messed up novella, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MDDH8LV/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 to a last-minute ramble about Love, Death and Robots.

This week's outro is a clip from Walk Into Tomorrow by TeknoAXE.

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 January 21, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/01/binary-system-podcast-251-the-good-place-series-finale/

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 year and a half ago, it's probably about time we watched Legion.

First, though, we tackle the subject we put off for two weeks: the riot at the capitol, and our thoughts on the last few weeks of the Trump administration. Fair warning, it turns into a rant pretty quickly, because what the frigging hell?!

(If you're trying to avoid The Good Place spoilers, we finish up with that at 28:27.)

You can find a transcript of this podcast here! https://pixelatedgeek.com/transcript-for-binary-system-podcast-episode-251/

This week's outro is a clip from Changes by Jim Hall.

Turns out, you CAN de-marbleize a Janet. https://thegoodplace.fandom.com/wiki/Marbleization

Also, that awesome-looking clock from the series finale of The Good Place is based on a real clock! (Minus the three or four extra hands). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt6wA9iPiGU&feature=youtu.be

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 January 14, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/01/binary-system-podcast-250-six-years-in-still-no-plan/

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 HAHAHAHA, sorry, kidding. The podcast is where we go to ramble about the best nerd stuff we can find, and we have fun recording every episode.

How did we want to celebrate? By cramming an episode full of things we love! Listen in as we go through a random collection of podcasts, books, comic books, TV and movies that make us happy, in absolutely no kind of order, trying to fit in as many as we can before the alarm on the timer startles the hell out of us.

Thank you to all the guests we've had on the podcast in the last six years, and thank you for listening in. Whether you’ve heard 250 or just the one, we’re glad you’re here!

(We mostly leave the TV and movies we talk about unspoiled, but if you've been meaning to catch up on Dexter, Breaking Bad, and How To Train Your Dragon, we spoil the heck out of those.)

You can find a transcript of this podcast here! https://pixelatedgeek.com/transcript-for-binary-system-podcast-episode-250/

This week's outro is a clip from Beachclub by Michett (we used it for our 150th episode too, we just liked it so much we thought 100 episodes later we could bring it back.)

Here's where you can find Ewan MacGregor's It's Shite Being Scottish rant. https://youtu.be/29-LRuuqFT0

Here's where you can find all our Tri-State Watch Party conversations. https://pixelatedgeek.com/tag/watch-party/

More of our favorite horror movies are in Episode 193, 148, and 98. Plus Paranormal Activity and The Haunting of Hill House.

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 January 7, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/01/binary-system-podcast-249-welcome-to-night-vale-180-u-view/

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 to us talking about birthdays, Night Vale, horoscopes, boring movies, adorable Lore Olympus chapters, and handy tips for doing searches on Twitter. It all seems a little off topic now, but things were different back then. Last Sunday. Four days ago? Holy cow time is weird...

This week's outro is a clip from Explosions in the Sky by Jim Hall.

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 December 31, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/12/binary-system-podcast-248-welcome-to-night-vale-live-show-all-smiles-eve-a-bloodstone-carol/

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 Night Vale fashion. After recapping that we have the weekly SitRep (otherwise known here as "What we did for Christmas"), the usual discussion of Lore Olympus, and Elizabeth finished up all fifteen seasons of Supernatural and she has GREAT BIG SPOILERS for how it all ended.

(As a treat this week we're letting listeners hear a little of the background discussion that we usually cut from the final edit. Some people would call this "pulling back the curtain". We're calling it "too funny to leave out".)

This week's outro is a clip from TeknoAxe's song Bright Future Ahead. From your lips to God's ears, dude.

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 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.

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! 

Original broadcast date December 17, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/12/binary-system-podcast-246-lore-olympus-the-mandalorian-and-black-mirror/

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 supposed to accomplish? Why did Hades and Zeus freeze and look like they both knew they went too far in the latest issue of Lore Olympus? And who actually did murder the TV reporter in the Black Mirror episode "Black Museum" if it wasn't the executed criminal?

We've got the answers to exactly none of these questions, but we do have a spoilerrific discussion of all of them. We also have the weekly SitRep with beer, and we talk about vaccines and politics (and the politics of vaccines), and the ethics of singling people out for abuse on the internet. Then we jump up and down in excitement at the new trailer for the Loki TV show, because EEEEEEEEEE!

This week's outro is a clip from Jack Frost Incorporated by TeknoAXE.

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!