Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date May 9, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/05/binary-system-podcast-176-wtnv-147-the-protester/

We now know why the internet was kind of going crazy after the latest Night Vale episode dropped.

It wasn't just the very on-the-nose metaphor for what veterans go through when coming back from active duty, or the blistering take on the military industrial complex, and how leaders can only convince the population that they're "winning" the war if the war never stops. No, this episode is particularly dark because Night Vale's Blood Space War involves time travel, and now some very important people are being wiped from existence.

After the recap we talked about some of the Hugo Awards nominees like Paper Girls, Saga, and Monstress. And we also talked about Avengers: Endgame. Because of course we did. (Minor spoiler about Spider-Man being in Endgame.)(But you probably already knew that).

This week's outro music is a clip from The Robots Have Spoken by TeknoAXE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-epXefxZYIE&list=LLTLISidXZNOcw-O8EN9m4EA&index=2&t=0s

Original broadcast date May 2, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/05/binary-system-podcast-175-avengers-endgame/

Both the East and West Coast branches of the podcast have seen Avengers: Endgame, during opening week no less. And we have some thoughts. (Understatement of the year right there. If you know us and you know who our favorite characters are, we have a lot of things to unpack.)

SPOILER WARNINGS. Seriously, we start spoiling all the things within the first two minutes of the recording, so if you haven't seen the movie yet, you'll really want to come back to this one later.

This week's outro music is a clip of the two of us being goofballs.

Correction: The elevator line in Winter Soldier is actually "Before we get started, does anyone want to get out?" Obviously, Elizabeth hasn't seen Winter Solider in a while. She's going to go fix that...

Original broadcast date April 25, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/04/binary-system-podcast-174-we-didnt-do-our-homework/

Yeeeeaaaah, so none of that happened. We didn't get caught up on shows, we didn't finish any books, and you know it'll be two weeks before we go see a Marvel movie. Oh, and Elizabeth's tea is awful.

Okay fine, we did some things. Kathryn watched one more episode of Russian Doll and The Good Place. Elizabeth read a few more pages of the Limetown novel. So we talk about those, plus weird New York performance art, Frankenstein collaborations, and how the Alamo Drafthouse is militant about not talking during the movie, which is part of why we love them.

This week's outro music is a clip from Piccolo and a Cane by TeknoAxe. https://youtu.be/8Gz-9QICa38

Correction: no, the second season isn’t the last season of The Good Place that exists, a third season is ALREADY DONE. Lordy we’re bad at TV.

Correction: Elizabeth isn't going to the Used Bookstore Crawl, it's the Independent Bookstore Crawl (so it's new books too!) http://www.libraryshopsd.org/events/ibd2019

Original broadcast date April 18, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/04/binary-system-podcast-173-welcome-to-night-vale-146-the-birthday-of-lee-marvin/

On this week's Night Vale recap it’s time to grab a plate of imaginary corn with some theoretical butter and celebrate the birthday of Lee Marvin and...wait, hang on....we've been here before... https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/12/binary-system-podcast-156-wtnv-139-the-birthday-of-lee-marvin/

Yes it's Lee Marvin's birthday again. Every day is Lee Marvin's birthday. The sun may go cold and the forests of the dark planet go silent and Lee Marvin will still sit in his house and have the same number of cornflakes for breakfast every day forever.

('Scuse us, we've freaked ourselves out and now we're going to go hide under the bed.)

To cheer ourselves up, we also talk about the new Star Wars trailer and the ReyLo shippers (bless you guys: we don't ship Rey and Kylo Ren but you sure have some nice fanart https://twitter.com/BinarySystemPod/status/1116884721886085121), and then mention The Good Place, Russian Doll, Umbrella Academy, Doctor Who, Narcos Mexico, and all the other shows that one or both of us really need to finish watching.

This week's outro music is a clip from The Day I Die (Simplified) by TeknoAxe. https://youtu.be/3Xeas8WHA3s

Correction: the creator of the Mountain Goats who is featured on the podcast I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats is John Darnielle. (We may not want to listen to an hour-long discussion about Sicilian Crest, but we did like the song.) https://youtu.be/3Xeas8WHA3s

Original broadcast date April 11, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/04/binary-system-podcast-172-welcome-to-night-vale-145-the-veterans/

We learn a little more about an ongoing conflict rocketing across time and space in this week's episode, as Night Vale welcomes home several returning soldiers from the Blood Space War. Among other things, we find out that the attackers are the Polonians from star system Lakaia 9352, our allies are Beings of Astonishing Structure from Battle Station Wolfgang, and John Peters (you know, the farmer) and his brother Jim had a father who was awesome.

Fair warning, the creators of Night Vale drew some parallels in this episode with our own country's treatment of veterans and it's NOT SUBTLE. It's also not wrong.

In order to lighten things up after the recap we switched over to (deep breath): the Hugo Nominees https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/04/2019-hugo-awards-the-finalists/#more-151731 (Catherynne Valente and Lindsay Ellis, yay!), an idea for a work of team fiction, the movie Annihilation, the Zero Punctuation video game reviews, photo galleries from Wondercon, and catching a cold at Wondercon. Cough.

This week's outro music is a clip from Transition by Six Umbrellas http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Six_Umbrellas/Private_Ark/02_Six_Umbrellas_-_Transition?fbclid=IwAR2wbLNeF3K2RN-_xvy0duFOYtAEKBIMrz3dKMvWfX1moOpBa-i4odIWafY

The first part of Lindsay Ellis's Hobbit duology (in three parts) can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTRUQ-RKfUs&t=471s

Original broadcast date April 4, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/04/binary-system-podcast-171-wondercon-2019/

This past weekend, for the very first time, both the East and West Coast branches of the Binary System Podcast met in Anaheim for WonderCon! And we finally got to wear our cosplay! And we couldn't see or walk! And it was amazing!

This week's episode is all about WonderCon 2019, as we break down everything we learned about our first big cosplay attempt, the amazing people we met, the panels we saw, and still have time to mention Transformers, because when do we not mention Transformers?

This week's outro music is a clip from Rewind by Little Glass Men. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Little_Glass_Men/Future_Shapes/Rewind

The WonderCon photo galleries have begun! Stephanie Agnes has one here https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/04/wondercon-2019-photo-gallery-1/ and here https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/04/wondercon-2019-photo-gallery-3/, and Leland has one here https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/04/wondercon-2019-photo-gallery-2/. EDIT - And now Nathan has one here too! https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/04/wondercon-2019-photo-gallery-4/

Correction: our apologies to Angel Hernandez and Cachet Whitman for not remembering their names, they're the artists for the first few issues of the brand new IDW Transformers comic.

Original broadcast date March 28, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/03/binary-system-podcast-170-captain-marvel/

What's the Binary System topic for the week? Is it a cartoon from the 80s? No. Is it a vampire TV show from two years ago? No. That's right, we're talking about a movie that's STILL IN THE THEATER.

Listen in as we geek all the heck out about Captain Marvel: the kickass fight scenes, the gorgeous special effects, and Goose the cat! We also discuss whether or not digital editing can go too far, Stan Lee's cameo, and how sometimes we don’t see a plot point coming even when it was telegraphed and WE’RE OKAY WITH THAT because it means we enjoyed being surprised, so there.

This week's outro music is a clip from the Captain Marvel theme by Pinar Toprak. https://youtu.be/KNxOirM9ZFI

Correction: well, clarification, we really need to mention that while Kelly Sue DeConnick was responsible for much of the Captain Marvel character as she exists now, her look (specifically the flight suit design) in the comics was Jamie McKelvie’s creation (and he was apparently very happy with the transition of the design to the movie.) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154664/trivia?item=tr4320357

Original broadcast date March 21, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/03/binary-system-podcast-169-welcome-to-night-vale-144-the-dreamer/

Hey, you know those specialty brownie pans? The ones that have a funky shape so every single brownie is an "edge" brownie? Does anyone out there like those? Because honestly, we've always liked the center brownies better.

What? Oh, right, the Night Vale episode. This one was, as usual, entertainingly odd: Pamela Winchell continuing to defy physics, mandatory PTA bake sales, and volunteers(?) of the Blood Space War doing that whole timey-wimey thing with cause and effect.

Elizabeth's also got some recommendations for excellent TV shows, and Kathryn's cosplay order STILL HASN'T ARRIVED. (Yeah, we know that international shipping takes a while. BUT TWO MONTHS?)

(Apologies for the siren interruption. We could have just cut that out, but we're not gonna.)

This week's outro music is a clip from Reprogrammed Reality by TeknoAXE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFwpB2UILZI&list=LLTLISidXZNOcw-O8EN9m4EA&index=9&t=0s

Original broadcast date March 14, 2019. The original podcast post is here:

Here at Binary System Podcast we're all about recapping the latest and most recent pop-culture phenomenon. And by that we mean a vampire TV show that wrapped up two years ago this month. We'll get to Captain Marvel soon, we promise. (And by soon you mean early next year? ~ Elizabeth) (Quiet, you. ~ Kathryn.)

Listen in this week as we spoil ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING about the final few episodes of The Vampire Diaries. The doppelgängers, the callbacks, the wedding toasts, the brothers trying to out-selfless each other, the Bennett Witches, the last human standing, the epic love stories, the sunken ships, and the freaking Cure For Vampirism Musical Chairs; it may have been an over-the-top CW show about teenage vampires, but we loved it and we wouldn't change a thing.

This week's outro music is a clip from Here Comes Danger by Little Glass Men. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Little_Glass_Men/Future_Shapes/Here_Comes_Danger

Original broadcast date March 7, 2019. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2019/03/binary-system-podcast-167-welcome-to-night-vale-143-pioneer-days/

It's time for Pioneer Days in Night Vale again! Wow, has it already been a year since the last festival? The answer is: no, it hasn't, because Pioneer Days happen at random times whenever the Night Vale Utilities company shuts off all the power and water in the town, leaving everyone to sit in the dark while all the food in their refrigerators spoils. It's festive.

Listen in as the Binary System Podcast talks this week about the Night Vale festival with time-traveler photographs, an Interactive Boardwalk in the desert, and a truly horrifying recipe for Cherries Jubilee. Plus, we'll ramble for a bit about fever dreams, photo exhibits, cosplay issues, and our very favorite podcasts (other than this one, naturally).

This week's outro music is a clip from This Guy Is Falling by Sebon http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sebon/Featuring_The_Advocates/Sebon_-_Featuring_The_Advocates_-_05_This_Guy_Is_Falling?fbclid=IwAR1vF99W1beNEoTR5-VpnY6GYKP3nlNmu4hXkAD_yZBmqmtIgLRuDQ9JSKw

Here's links to some of the podcasts we're currently obsessed with (75% of which were suggested by Hannah): https://www.facebook.com/BananaHammer/

Worst Foot Forward https://www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com/

No Such Thing As A Fish https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com/

Swindled http://swindledpodcast.com/

My Dad Wrote a Porno http://www.mydadwroteaporno.com/