Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date March 8, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/03/binary-system-podcast-117-the-oscars-american-gods-and-doctor-who/

This week Binary System is talking about the Oscars! Which takes about fifteen minutes because we haven't seen that many of the nominations. We meant to, it's just, there's American Gods and Doctor Who to catch up on, which is what we talked about for the rest of the podcast.

Or tried to talk about anyway, because there was a distinct lack of focus going on, because when Kathryn said Bryan Fisher she meant Bryan Fuller, and when Elizabeth said Dunkirk was a Spielberg film she meant a Nolan film, and when Kathryn said Inception was directed by Nolan she meant...no wait, hang on, that was a Nolan film...uh, what day is it again?

This week's outro music is a clip from Alien Language by Metre. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Metre/Circuit_1731/Alien_Language_1736

Original broadcast date March 1, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/03/binary-system-podcast-116-wtnv-episode-122-a-story-of-love-and-horror-part-2-spire/

Yes, the super-long titles continue on Welcome To Night Vale. (Although this week's title is exactly as long as the last one. We carefully checked in order to confirm. Because reasons.)

In the first half we look in on Night Vale's latest (completely doomed?) relationship. (They could still surprise us, but things aren't looking so good.) After that we touch very briefly on: last season's Doctor Who, Get Out, Oscar-nominated feature-length animation, (and that cool animation in Harry Potter), American Horror Story, Constantine, Hannibal, cosplay pics, and artist commissions. Somehow we got into an incredibly heavy discussion about how much of a jerk does someone have to be where we don't like his stuff anymore, but we finished up on a good note with the new Incredibles 2 trailer. Whew.

This week's outro music is a clip from The Water and the Well by Nihilore. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Nihilore/Broken_Parts/Nihilore_-_Broken_Parts_-_04_The_Water_and_the_Well

The Harry Potter animation we talked about is here https://youtu.be/bN1_h_eGitE, and Ben Hibon's animation site is here. http://www.statelessfilms.com/

We found out how much Stephanie Hans charges for commissions. (Yes it's expensive. And so so pretty.) http://www.statelessfilms.com/

And if you haven't seen it yet, here's the Incredibles 2 trailers. https://youtu.be/X6waHtSgCTc

Original broadcast date February 22, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/02/binary-system-podcast-115-the-oscar-nominated-animated-shorts/

The planets finally aligned (...took them long enough. Get it together, planets...) and Binary System Podcast was able to get Elizabeth, Kathryn, Nathan, and Jada together at the same time to talk about this year's Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts. Spoiler warnings for all the shorts (as well as, randomly, Moana) as we go over our favorites, tell "Stupid Theater People" stories, and discuss whether or not Red Riding Hood and Snow White were a couple. (Though we all agree Red is a total badass.)

We also touched on the nominations for Best Feature-Length Animated Film, of which we've seen exactly none.

This week's outro music is the opening credits for Revolting Rhymes, with music by Ben Locket. http://benlocket.com/portfolio/revolting-rhymes-opening-titles/

Original broadcast date February 15, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/02/binary-system-podcast-114_placeholder_content/

Not sure what's going on lately, but there's a wealth of topics that we could turn into podcasts this month. So many fun things going on: the Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts are playing at theaters, there's a new Welcome to Night Vale episode to recap, we've got the Hannibal series to review, a list of helpful movie/tv sites to compile, and the number of songs we'd like to talk about from the WTNV Weather segment just keep adding up.

...not that we're ready to talk about any of that now of course.

Listen in as we go over all the topics that'll come up in the next few podcasts as soon as we're capable of discussing them, including Night Vale episodes that haven't broadcast yet and movies and TV we haven't finished watching. Plus some random google searches, and Cricket the cat getting bitey because ow ow quit it cat ow ow. In short, a podcast that went off the rails in under nineteen minutes.

This week's outro music is Dragon by Podington Bear. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/none_given_1790/Dragon

Original broadcast date February 8, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/02/binary-system-podcast-113-wtnv-episode-121-a-story-of-love-and-horror-part-1-barks/

This week the twins are recapping the pre-Valentine's Day return of Night Vale, featuring one of Night Vale's newest romantic couples, a pair that is so cute and well-adjusted we're wondering exactly how it's all going to go horribly horribly wrong.

And never being one to stick to a topic, we also talk about hangover cures, Oscar-nominations, cosplay possibilities for the upcoming convention season, and Stephen King books that are not allowed in our homes.

This week's outro music was a clip from "Riches and Wonders" by Eliza Rickman & Jherek Bischoff. You can hear the full song at minute 14:25 on this week's Night Vale episode. https://youtu.be/QS6PXE3JTfA

Kind of a correction except not really: The concept Kathryn was talking about that's related to the Theory of Relativity is called Time Dilation, and there's a fascinating article about it here. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/10/25/einstein-air-miles-do-frequent-fliers-age-at-a-different-rate/#.Wn3jCbiVGi4 It turns out that people in an airplane actually DO age more slowly due to moving faster through space. However, weaker gravity makes you move FASTER in time, and planes travel high enough in the atmosphere that they're at a lower gravity, which cancels out the effects from the speed. Sorry, frequent flyers, you're just as old as the rest of us. Now people traveling on high-speed RAIL however...

Original broadcast date January 25, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/01/binary-system-podcast-112-peaky-blinders-and-transformers-lost-light/

This week the twins prove that they CAN be good at TV, darnit, because they're both caught up on the latest season of Peaky Blinders, only a month after it dropped on Netflix so THERE. (Fair warning, there will be a-spoilers.)

After that they also catch up on what went down in issue 12 of Transformers Lost Light, which is where James Roberts KILLED A LOT OF PEOPLE WE LIKE. So, spoilers for that too.

And, because we're never one to stick to a subject, we also get into the Till All Are One Annual, and the CW vampires, because of Stefan's Hero Hair.

The episode starts with the latest season of Peaky Blinders, and the section on Transformers Lost Light starts at 12:20.

Correction: when we said we were caught up on the most recent issue of Lost Light, that was before issue 13 came out this past Wednesday. Elizabeth reviewed that one here. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/01/review-transformers-lost-light-13/

The issue where James Roberts had Getaway shout "Fake news!" was Lost Light #11, and Elizabeth's review of that is here. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/11/review-transformers-lost-light-11/

The photos from ConDor Convention are here. It is a tiny convention in San Diego, but if you’re tired of the craziness of the big conventions and would like to pick up a few things from local artists and maybe get a few cosplay photos, it’s a good one to drop by. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/01/photo-gallery-condor-convention-2018/

The outro song is a clip from Karliene’s cover of Red Right Hand (the Peaky Blinders theme.) Check out the full song here. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/01/photo-gallery-condor-convention-2018/

(And in Elizabeth's defense, she knows not to leave plastic bags lying around that Cricket can get into, but Cricket was wedging herself into a bag that still had groceries in it, so that's another thing we know not to do.)

Original broadcast date January 18, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/01/binary-system-podcast-111-twin-peaks-the-return-and-hannibal/

Welcome to Night Vale is still being good at a hiatus this January (bless 'em, we think they deserve a break), so we decided it was a good time for another "EEEEEEE!" fangirl-type episode. (Although in the case of Twin Peaks it's less "EEEEEE!" and more "WHAT THE HELL, LYNCH?!")

Spoiler warnings aplenty as the twins review everything they loved and hated about the first four episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return and the first season of Hannibal. (We'll give you this one spoiler about Hannibal for free: nothing bad happens to Will's dogs. Everyone else on the show is fair game, but the dogs are fine. You're welcome.)

The episode starts with Twin Peaks: The Return, and the section on Hannibal starts at 17:35.

The band we liked at the end of the first episode of Twin Peaks: The Return (Elizabeth thought it was the second episode because the plane broke it into two parts) is Chromatics, and they recorded a new video for the song. https://youtu.be/IGUboLZx3Tk

This is an article https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/01/487088946/this-spanish-farm-makes-foie-gras-without-force-feeding about geese that are humanely raised to create pate, or you can watch the Ted Talks where it was first discussed. https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_barber_s_surprising_foie_gras_parable

This is Kathryn's review of Janice Poon's cookbook about the food in Hannibal. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2016/10/review-feeding-hannibal-a-connoisseurs-cookbook/

Today’s outro music was from the final moments of Hannabal, Season 1 episode 7, Sorbet. (Thank you to NitroOnTheRocks for the clip!). https://youtu.be/-FMQhgcoXyI

Original broadcast date January 4, 2018. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2018/01/binary-system-podcast-110_the_one_where_we_actually_plan_something/

It's the first episode of 2018 and we have a plan! And that plan is to fill up 10 minutes talking about our plans for the next few episodes before Elizabeth's voice dies on account of the plague. It's still a plan! Totally counts!

Listen in as we carefully plot out (i.e. randomly mention as soon as it occurs to us) the plan for the next few episodes, which includes (but is not limited to) Star Wars, Twin Peaks, fan fiction, and TV Tropes. Happy New Year!

Today's outro song is a clip from Goto80's Datahell Beta. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Goto80/Digi-Dig/10_-_Datahell_beta

Original broadcast date December 28, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/12/binary-system-podcast-106_wtnv_120-all-smiles-eve/

This week Binary System is going to be on the road for the holidays! They'll be...no, wait, sorry, they're already home. What day is it again? Time is weird. Please enjoy this Welcome To Night Vale Christmas recap that they recorded two weeks ago and in doing so got very caught up and very confused. Hope everybody's holidays were excellent!

Today's outro song is Podington Bear's Chrome. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Party/Chrome_1003

Original broadcast date December 21, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/12/binary-system-podcast-108-the-catch-up-episode/

It's the last podcast before Christmas so let's celebrate with an episode that's...not really about Christmas at all. Ho ho ho?

Okay, so we recorded this two weeks ago and forgot it was the pre-Christmas episode, and in our defense we do manage to mention the Doctor Who Christmas special....last year's Doctor Who Christmas special. (Sometimes we're bad at TV.) But most of the episode is about the Battle Angel trailer (and her stupid, stupid eyes) plus the final episode of Futurama (did we mention we're bad at TV?), The Crown, Twin Peaks The Return, and Let the Right One In, because nothing says Christmas like Swedish vampires.

This week's outro song is a clip from Podington Bear's Back Up The Truck Jam. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Party/BackUptheTruckJam

Correction: Elizabeth said Christoper Waltz is playing Ido in Battle Angel. She meant Christoph. Sorry Chris.