Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date October 1, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/10/binary-system-podcast-236-paranormal-activity/

Here at Binary System Podcast we’re always ready to give you a review of the latest and greatest films. And by that we mean Kathryn finally convinced Elizabeth to watch Paranormal Activity. The FIRST one. Only 11 years later, gotta be a record.

Massive great big spoiler warnings as we break down everything we loved about Paranormal Activity. First up though, we have the highs and lows of the latest SitRep (lows: everything about politics, obviously. Highs: WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE) and afterwards we take a detour into Midsommar, jump scares, and The Good Place.

This week’s outro is a clip from The Completist by Anton Rothschild.

If you want a deeper dive into our favorite horror movies, you can check out episode 98 https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/10/binary-system-podcast-98-horror-movies-with-special-guest-hannah/ with special guest Hannah Wallace, or another big list of movies in episode 193 https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/10/binary-system-podcast-193-more-horror-movies/, or a few specific ones in episode 148 https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/10/binary-system-podcast-148-as-above-so-below-the-cell-and-other-horror-movies-we-like/.

For more on The Haunting of Hill House check out episode 159 (another Hannah episode!) https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/01/binary-system-podcast-159-the-haunting-of-hill-house/

And if you want YOUR website redesigned too, definitely check out Deckard & Company! https://deckardandcompany.com/

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Original broadcast date September 24, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/09/binary-system-podcast-235-welcome-to-night-vale-174-radio-jupiter/

The latest episode of Night Vale features a mysterious voice from Jupiter trying to figure out who she is and what her purpose is, something which I'm sure a lot of us can sympathize with.

After the recap we moved on to our usual SitRep, which this week seems to be more about politics than the pandemic. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg hit us particularly hard, so the main topic of conversation was how ridiculously broken our democracy is right now. (If our political opinions surprise you then you obviously haven't been paying attention.) To cheer ourselves up we then talked about all the movies we want to re-watch….which apparently are mostly horror movies, because it's been that kind of a year.

This week’s outro is a remix by Soularflare of Something Broken Somewhere.

Paul Rudd's Certified Young Person PSA about WEARING A DAMN MASK can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ngNuuPpmj8

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Original broadcast date September 10, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/09/binary-system-podcast-234-welcome-to-night-vale-173-the-hundred-year-play/

First up this week is a quick recap of a very long play, followed by some extensive ranting in the weekly SitRep (just the usual pandemic and things being on fire) and then we lose our minds talking about the season finale of The Mandalorian, the latest Lore Olympus, the Umbrella Academy, and the very surprising Night Vale novel The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home.

This week’s outro is a clip from Mo Mo Modem by Mystery Mammal.

Here's Kathryn's review of The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/09/review-the-faceless-old-woman-who-secretly-lives-in-your-home-a-welcome-to-night-vale-novel/

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Original broadcast date September 3, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/09/binary-system-podcast-233-weekly-roundup/

This was another grab-bag kind of episode, as we start out with the weekly SitRep and a few moments on the passing of Chadwick Boseman.

After that we jump into happier nerd content: heads up for some MEGA spoilers for Lore Olympus, Mandalorian, and Hannibal. (And on that note could the creators of Hannibal and True Blood for crying out loud LEAVE DR. CHILTON AND TARA ALONE?) (I mean we don't even LIKE Chilton…)

This week’s outro is a clip from Edge by Mystery Mammal.

You can indeed buy merchandise for Lore Olympus. The webcomic's online store can be found here. https://shopwebtoon.com/collections/lore-olympus

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Original broadcast date August 27, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/08/binary-system-podcast-232-the-librarian-live-stream-and-lore-olympus/

Night Vale held their second Live Stream Live Performance last week, and it was even more fun than the first one. Listen in as we break down everything we loved about "The Librarian," and then do a super deep dive into the latest episode of Lore Olympus (spoilers ahoy for both, but especially Lore Olympus, because boy howdy are things about to get interesting now that Hera's involved..)

This week’s outro is a clip from Crush by Mystery Mammal.

You can rent the Live Stream episode of The Librarian here. https://noonchorus.com/welcome-to-night-vale/

Our friend Matt's Star Trek podcast "The Starboard Power Coupling" isn't currently updating, but you can catch all four seasons of it here. http://www.vognetwork.com/starboard-power-coupling/

Correction: it happened again at least once - we keep saying Athena when we mean Artemis.

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Original broadcast date August 20, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/08/binary-system-podcast-231-welcome-to-night-vale-172-return-of-the-obelisk/

This week's welcome to Night Vale has an interesting little thought experiment. Say that you could ask - and have answered - any question you want. Anything at all, the sky's the limit. What would you ask?

What? Well jeez, not that, obviously, the heck's the matter with you?

Listen in as the twins break down and carefully analyze every single cool moment of this very cool story. Then we talk about Transformers War For Cybertron: Siege. And by "talk" I of course mean jump up and down and fangirl all over the place while we SPOIL ALL THE THINGS.

This week’s outro is a clip from Mechanical Dust by TeknoAXE

Check out Hannah Wallace's article "How to Stay Fit in the Zombie Apocalypse (And other Virtual Lockdown Workouts). https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/health-and-fitness/2020/08/how-to-stay-fit-in-the-zombie-apocalypse-and-other-virtual-lockdown-workouts?utm_content=136978836&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-67904453544&fbclid=IwAR2rqVAzrB09pR_vKUKTpWCUNiMZ00waodymEDW3M54vS4tKTKGaZ9jbkD0

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Original broadcast date August 13, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/08/binary-system-podcast-230-transformers-war-for-cybertron-siege/

So after the usual SitRep with beers (North Carolina started with a hurricane and ended with an earthquake SO THAT'S PRETTY NORMAL FOR 2020) we touched on bad sports movies and dietary supplement horror stories, and then we jumped straight into Transformers - War For Cybertron: Siege. There's so much about it we like and very few things we dislike. (Pros: Optimus' voice and Jetfire's face. Cons: Megatron's lips.)

And after that we had to go nuts about Lore Olympus and how much Apollo needs to be PUNCHED IN THE FACE, before finishing up with Doctor Who and the upcoming audio drama. (Christopher Eccleston eeeeeeeeee!!)

This week’s outro is a clip from Apollo by Mystery Mammal.

Here's an article talking about Christopher Eccleston and his struggle with depression and anorexia. https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/16/entertainment/christopher-eccleston-dr-who-anorexia-intl-scli-gbr/index.html

Since we enjoy them so much, here's a link to the Worst Foot Forward podcast https://podbay.fm/podcast/1182008770 and The Dream podcast. https://podbay.fm/podcast/1435743296

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Original broadcast date August 6, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/08/binary-system-podcast-228-welcome-to-night-vale-171-go-to-the-mirror/

Finally, a brand new episode of Welcome to Night Vale to recap!

…which takes us about five minutes, since it's something of an experimental episode that doesn't have a plot so much as an overwhelming atmosphere of dread. The recap is notable for the fact that we try to see how many times we can use the word "creepy" in one episode.

Then it's off to the races as we do our usual SitRep, talk about episode four of The Mandalorian, season three of Hannibal (with a quick digression to mention the actor who was a body double for Tom Hiddleston NOT THAT KIND HE DOES HIS OWN BUTT SHOTS), the upcoming season two of His Dark Materials, the San Diego Comic-Con online Art Show, and speaking of selling things have you listened to the podcast The Dream yet? Well you should, and we'll tell you why…

This week’s outro is a clip from He Said, She Said by Mystery Mammal.

The SDCC At Home Art Show can still be found here. https://comicconathome.tumblr.com/tagged/comicconathomeartshow

Here's that iconic photo of Harold Lloyd. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/harold-lloyd-about-harold-lloyd/647/#:~:text=Harold%20Lloyd%20in%20the%20iconic%20clock%20scene%20in%20Safety%20Last!

You can find episodes of The Dream here. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dream/id1435743296 (Especially helpful the next time someone tells you about this great business opportunity selling essential oils…)

Correction: Turns out Kathryn got the origin story for Slenderman wrong. He didn't get his start in Reddit, he was invented in the Something Awful forum. Or WAS he? No, he totally was.

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Original broadcast date July 23, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/07/binary-system-podcast-228-toy-story-4-and-sdcc-home/

We still don't have a Night Vale episode this week and you'd think after 8 years of listening to them we'd know when they did their hiatuses BUT WE DON'T so instead we're talking about San Diego Comic-Con @ Home and how we finally watched Toy Story 4 after a solid year of putting it off. Plus we jumped into some Two Sentence Horror Stories, episode 3 of The Mandalorian, the usual coronavirus sitrep with beers, and some possible Lore Olympus cosplay.

This week’s outro is a clip from There Is Something Wrong by Mystery Mammal.

We mentioned Jenny Parks, one of our favorite artists, you can shop for some of her amazing cat artwork on her Redbubble site. https://www.redbubble.com/people/jennyparks/shop

Here's the San Diego Union-Tribune article about socially distant cosplayers. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/story/2020-07-19/comic-con-2020-all-dressed-up-and-nowhere-to-go

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Original broadcast date July 16, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/07/binary-system-podcast-227-welcome-to-night-vale-livestream-of-the-live-show-condos/

Just like last week we don't have a new episode of Welcome To Night Vale to recap. What we do have to talk about is the Welcome To Night Vale livestream, live performance of their first ever live show, "Condos". Eventually. We got distracted by this week's sitrep and a few other things (The Mandalorian, The Night Manager, Tron Legacy, San Diego ComicCon At Home, and this year's Hugo Awards), but we managed to talk about Condos about halfway through the episode.

This week’s outro is a clip from Synthwave F by TeknoAxe.

The name we were trying to think of, the guy who orchestrated the Tron Legacy soundtrack, is Joseph Trapanese, he collaborated with Daft Punk for two years on the music, and we're really excited that he's currently signed on for the sequel.

The Welcome to Night Vale live stream of Condos was broadcast from noonchorus.com/welcome-to-night-vale/ we can watch it again on our end since we already signed up for it, if you didn't see it live we're assuming you can donate $5 and watch it 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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