Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date July 9, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/07/binary-system-podcast-226-disney-backup-plan/

We were all ready to recap the latest episode of Night Vale...until we found out there wasn't an episode this week. We're so flipping prepared. Luckily between Hamilton and the Mandalorian and all the other Disney stuff we're watching and planning to watch, we've got lots of stuff to geek out about.

This week’s outro is a clip from lady dancer by Devil Music. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Devil_Music/Go_1986/lady_dancer

Elizabeth was sure that Florida couldn't be higher than 6th on the list of states with the most coronavirus cases. Turns out they're third, just behind California. Oops. You can check the San Diego Union-Tribune's page to find out where your state falls. Good luck. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/story/2020-04-08/tracking-covid-19-cases-in-the-u-s

The SDCC At Home Art Show hasn't posted any information yet, but you can keep an eye on this page for updates. https://www.comic-con.org/cci/art-show

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 July 2, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/07/binary-system-podcast-225-comfort-watching/

Well the news in the real world is a bummer for sure so this week we only have one quick sitrep (short version: we’re all fine!) and then we discuss our go-to comfort shows (House and Beastars, currently) fangirl all over The Good Place, and make terribly inappropriate comments about Hannibal's Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, and Gillian Anderson because they’re all so, so pretty.

This week’s outro is a clip from Zen Glitch by TeknoAXE. https://youtu.be/rvJfzj6kfaA

Original broadcast date June 18, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/06/binary-system-podcast-224-wtnv-170-to-the-family-and-friends-plus/

First up this week we're recapping Welcome To Night Vale's 8-year anniversary episode, a story about life and loss and moving on and getting older and death and OKAY let’s move on to the weekly sitrep with the pandemic and armed idiots protecting racist statues and YES THAT’S ENOUGH OF THAT let’s talk about The Good Place (spoilers for season one!) and Hannibal, and finish up with some GIANT SPOILERS for the season finale of Lore Olympus.

This week’s outro is a clip from The People Instrumental by Ryan Cullinane.

We talked all about Hannibal back in episode 111 and episode 118, and Kathryn also reviewed Janice Poon's gorgeous Hannibal cookbook. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/10/review-feeding-hannibal-a-connoisseurs-cookbook/

Original broadcast date June 4, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/06/binary-system-podcast-223-wtnv-169-whittler/

This week we’re recapping a Night Vale episode full of wood carving and excellent horoscopes, but first we wanted to mention the week’s events.

What can you say about the past week? It sucked, obviously. A man was murdered by the police, and since nobody wanted to listen when someone took a knee, now things are much, much louder. Binary System is on the side of the protesters (and we believe the looting is the fault of instigators who have no loyalty to the Black Lives Matter movement) and supports the end of systematic racism in this country. (Head to this post to see ways you can help.)

But if you’re looking to mentally escape from **gestures wildly and emphatically at everything** we also talk about Lore Olympus, The Shining, comfort TV, and conspiracy theories that are more fun than scary.

This week’s outro is a clip from Black Love by The Easton Ellises. (Yes the title's a little on the nose for this week, but we liked the song, and the sentiment stands.) https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Easton_Ellises/Black_Love/03_the_easton_ellises_-_black_love__instrumental

Original broadcast date May 21, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/05/binary-system-podcast-222-wtnv-168-secret-blotter-lore-olympus-and-devs/

First up this week is a recap of OUR FAVORITE KIND of Night Vale episode: a stand alone, gloriously strange list of weirdness. (Brie Williams is our favorite guest writer, since she also wrote “Guidelines For Disposal,” another wonderfully weird list episode.)

After that we fangirl some more about Lore Olympus (the artwork is BEAUTIFUL the story is AMAZING and Apollo is a JERK) before doing a spoileriffic deep dive into Devs. Seriously, if you were confused about the ending to the series…well, this is probably not going to help much, but we do unpack a few of the concepts anyway.

This week’s outro is a clip from No Quarter by Tekno Axe. https://youtu.be/tnIX1mhvc_k

Original broadcast date May 14, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/05/binary-system-podcast-221/

No Night Vale episode to recap, so this week we tried something different. We both said we were going to watch something that's been on our to-do list...and then we watched them.

So Kathryn watched the 2007 movie Sunshine https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/ (written by Alex Garland) and Elizabeth watched the first episode of Devs (written and directed by Alex Garland, can you see a theme here?), and we took some digressions to mention the TV shows Lucifer and Deadwood and fangirled all over the place about a webcomic Elizabeth found called Lore Olympus. https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lore-olympus/episode-1/viewer?title_no=1320&episode_no=1

This week’s outro music is a clip from Runner by Six Umbrellas (which we used waaaay back on episode 105, but we like it so we're using it again.) https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Six_Umbrellas/The_Psychadelic_And/1_Six_Umbrellas_-_Runner

Correction: the guy we were trying to think of in the Devs show is, of course, Nick Offerman, who played the meat-loving Ron Swanson in Parks and Recreation, which is why it's so hilarious to see him chowing down on a salad in Devs. https://youtu.be/r1kP93U3unk

Original broadcast date May 7, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/05/binary-system-podcast-220-wtnv-167-echo-part-5-of-5/

First up this week we’re recapping the fifth and final part of Night Vale’s latest story arc, as the telepathic cult from the Desert Otherworld has taken over the town. It’s a real feel-good finale, full of betrayal, mind control, and death! Yay!

After that it’s the weekly sitrep, and what we’re watching while we stay at home (if you haven’t checked out the “Irish People Try” https://youtu.be/VAJI16Mc8jc Youtube channel, you really should) and speculate on the upcoming animated Transformers movie. (By “speculate” we mean saying “please be good please be good” a lot.)

This week’s outro is a clip from Cue 3 - Dark Dance by Soularflair. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Soularflair/CUES_for_film_TV_games_etc_DARK/Cue_3_-_Dark_dance-_more_pumping_Pulse

If you're a crafty person in the San Diego area, the Convention Center downtown needs your homemade masks to help with the homeless outreach (they need a lot more things too, but we talked about masks on the podcast.) Here's the link to the form for donating masks, https://getitdone.force.com/sdneedvolunteer?type=equipment&id=a4ct0000000PmcaAAC and here's the page that lists all the other items they need. https://getitdone.force.com/EmergencyHome (They contacted Elizabeth with instructions on how to drop off donations, but if you're wanting to donate and you're not in the area or don't feel safe doing a drop off, you might ask them about mailing in donations.)

Kathryn's church in Raleigh believes in social distancing during the pandemic, they're streaming their services online to anyone who would like a safe Sunday service. They also donate to the Farmworkers Ministry, helping the migrant workers who harvest so much of our food, so if all that sounds like something you'd like to support, here's their donation page. https://graceclayton.org/donate-to-grace-clayton?fbclid=IwAR3jGg5IdOabWfXrfLdV8vfjsV8S4e0WxwpRhQvcDm1Lx7QOZ-Q1VJXcZdY

Original broadcast date April 30, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/04/binary-system-podcast-219-still-no-plan-social-distancing-edition/

No Night Vale episode this week, so after the usual sitrep (Summary: More ways to say "everyone's fine") we talk about about the Netflix series "Beastars" (Odd bit of trivia, Elizabeth watched the dubbed version and Kathryn watched it with the Japanese-language track. Both are excellent, but the difference in voice actors really made a difference in how much we liked some of the characters.)

We've also got information on the freebies you can get by signing up to be Patreons for Adam Warren and Megatokyo. And we may be doing some research to see if Chris Evans looked as good in 2007 as he does in last year's movie Knives Out. (It's a tough job, but we do this for you, listeners. All five of you.)

Ursula Vernon's twitter handle is @UrsulaV, and someone helpfully compiled her insanely entertaining Swiss Family Robinson live-tweets here. https://twitter.com/i/events/901828894952538113

This week’s outro music is a clip from Technopop 7b by TeknoAxe.  https://youtu.be/ja9nTdQpA7s

Original broadcast date April 23, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/04/binary-system-podcast-218-wtnv-166-delta-part-4-of-5/

After a quick coronavirus sitrep from us and the family (short version: everybody's fine, wash your hands!) we switch to a lighter note with a Welcome To Night Vale recap, as the telepathic cult from the Desert Otherworld invades Night Vale and promises to kill anybody who can't hear the Pilot's voice in their brains. So, uh, maybe not that light?

For real though, we go way lighter after that, with a quick discussion of Star Trek: Discovery (so good!), Devs (so surreal!), Ozark (so irritating!) and Beastars (so weird! But beautiful! But weird! The bit with the eggs!)

This week’s outro is a clip from Apex by Bio Unit. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Bio_Unit/Malfunction/Apex_1252

Correction: Elizabeth said she was done with the first season of Star Trek: Discovery. Turns out, she thought the season finale was episode 8, when really it's episode 15, because she didn't click the "show more" button on the episode list. What a noob.

Original broadcast date April 9, 2020. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2020/04/binary-system-podcast-217-wtnv-165-charlie-part-3-of-5/

Things are progressing quickly in the five-part story about the missing Delta Flight 18713 and the escaped inmates of the Night Vale asylum. The Desert Otherworld is coming into play, and there's a good chance that a mad pilot who can read minds is trying to cross over to our world so he can take over the town.

It's a surprisingly complex story that for some reason we didn't need much time to cover (seriously, ten minutes tops). After that we talked about the Netflix anime Beastars (messed up in an intriguing way and quite gorgeous to look at), Picard (meh), Discovery (much better than Picard), and the Youtube channel Overly Sarcastic Productions (utterly hilarious).

And then of course we have the weekly update about the COVID-19 status in California, Florida, and North Carolina, including some discussion about what isn't a violation of the First Amendment, and our adventures in getting groceries delivered during a pandemic.

(tl;dr: Everyone's fine.)

This week’s outro is a clip from Living Room Dance Party by Tekno Axe. https://youtu.be/k0s547JOSZs