Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date December 14, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/12/binary-system-podcast-107-thor-ragnarok-and-stranger-things-season-2/

This is the second of two episodes we actually recorded last week (because time is weird) just to make sure the holiday travel time didn't throw off our oh-so-carefully-prepared schedule (and if you believe we're that organized we've got a bridge we can sell ya too. ANYWAY.) This week we're talking about two things we've both finally seen: Thor Ragnarok and Stranger Things Season 2. (Fair warning, we're gonna spoil all the things.)

And because we never did learn to focus, we also get into Twin Peaks and writing book reviews when the authors are going to actually read them.

This week's outro song is a clip from Little Glass Men's Waiting for Gyrotron. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Little_Glass_Men/Future_Shapes/Waiting_for_Gyrotron

Original broadcast date December 7, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/12/binary-system-podcast-106_wtnv_119_egemony_part_3_a_story_of_love_and_horror/

Yep, it's definitely not our imagination: these titles are getting longer.

Balancing out that extra-long title is a short podcast this week as the twins recap an episode of Welcome To Night Vale where...nothing happens. Well okay, things happen, but we get the idea that the things that happen aren't quite the earth-shattering story-resolving things that Cecil thinks they are.

Today's outro song is David Szesztay's Swing Party. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Szesztay/20170730112627341/Swing_Party

Aaron Alexovich's Serenity Rose http://www.heartshapedskull.com/serenity-rose/ is a free web comic and you should definitely check it out. (Or if you want to buy the giant collected volume you can do that too.) http://heartshapedskull.bigcartel.com/product/serenity-rose-10-awkward-years-signed-hardcover

Original broadcast date November 23, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/11/binary-system-podcast-105-wtnv-118-egemony-part-2-the-cave-lands/

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! To celebrate, here's a podcast where we don't mention Thanksgiving EVEN ONE TIME.

Yes, all right, we forgot this episode drops on Thanksgiving. But we are grateful for a lot of things, in addition to family and friends and happiness and health: for a Night Vale episode that did this folding-in-on-itself thing with the plot, for Neil Gaiman and American Gods, for Thor Ragnarok and Tom Hiddleston, for Twin Peaks, Let the Right One In, Stranger Things, and for you because you read this whole description. You rock.

Today's outro song is a clip from Runner by Six Umbrellas. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Six_Umbrellas/The_Psychadelic_And/1_Six_Umbrellas_-_Runner

For anyone keeping track at home, Kathryn needs to watch: Thor-Ragnarok, American Gods, Stranger Things Season 2, and the last of The Defenders. Elizabeth needs to watch Twin Peaks, Let the Right One In, and Mr Robot season 2 and three.

Original broadcast date November 16, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/11/binary-system-podcast-104-all-the-conventions-well-two-of-them-anyway/

That's right, this past weekend Binary System went to ALL the conventions! And by all we mean some. Well, two. But they were really good ones!

Listen in as we debrief on the awesome cosplay and panels at NC Comicon: Bull City http://nccomicon.com/bull-city/, and the fantastic art at DesignerCon 2017! https://www.designercon.com/

The NC Comiccon: Bull City photo gallery is here. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/11/photo-gallery-nc-comicon-bull-city/

The DesignerCon 2017 photo gallery is here. https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/11/photo-gallery-designercon-2017/

The panelists who ran the cosplay foam construction panel at NC Comicon are @cazcosplays https://www.instagram.com/cazcosplays/, @jenna_say_what https://www.instagram.com/jenna_say_what/ and @daybeforetheconcosplay. https://www.instagram.com/daybeforetheconcosplay/

The panelists who ran the podcasting panel at NC Comiccon are Name Redacted http://nameredactedpodcast.com/ and Joy of Gaming (or Joy of Geek) https://thejoyofgaming.podbean.com/ podcasts.

Gmonik was the designer who made the amazing collage/assemblage piece. https://www.instagram.com/gmonikart/

James DeRosso is the artist who made the hilarious little monster figures at DesignerCon. http://www.monster8all.com/

The guy Elizabeth always buys magnets from at DesignerCon is Human Tree Robot. http://www.humantreerobot.com/

It wasn't rawztoys, it's rawrztoys, who makes the little foxes. https://www.instagram.com/rawrztoys/

The stick person gif we were giggling about is here. (NSFW!) https://tenor.com/view/fuck-this-shit-angry-stickman-table-flip-mad-gif-16607806

Correction: Rats, fandom fail. Not only did I mispronounce the Instagram name for @daybeforetheconcosplay, https://www.instagram.com/daybeforetheconcosplay/ I also COMPLETELY misidentified the Captain America costume he was wearing. After a quick google image search I can confirm that the one he had on for NC Comicon was the one from Avengers: Age of Ultron, NOT the WWII costume from Captain America:The First Avenger.

Original broadcast date November 9, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/11/binary-system-podcast-103-blair-witch-2016-and-wtnv-117-recap/

This week we're throwing the format out the window! That's right, instead of recapping Welcome to Night Vale and then talking about a movie, we're talking about a movie first! Then the recap! Madness! Total chaos!

Ahem. Anyway. Listen in as we look at the 2016 Blair Witch sequel (which isn't nearly as bad as you think) and then recap Welcome To Night Vale #116 "eGemony, Part 1: Canadian Club." Which absolutely does not star Hugh Jackman.

This week's outro song is from the 2016 Blair Witch trailer, it's definitely a cover of "Every Breath You Take" by the Police, but it looks to have been made specifically for the movie and we haven't found a credit for the singer or arranger, but you can find the full copy here. https://youtu.be/DMWbSDFq6tM

Correction: during the Blair Witch recap, Elizabeth mentions Natalia. She meant Talia. Kathryn mentions Jason. She meant James. If we can mix up any more character names, we will certainly do so.

Correction the Second: Well, not really a correction so much as something we would have found if we'd bothered to do a Google search BEFORE recording the episode. Apparently someone already found the map. http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3420150/hidden-blair-witch-easter-egg-found-weve-got-screengrab/

Original broadcast date November 2, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/11/binary-system-podcast-102-wonder-woman-and-blade-runner-2049/

The Binary Podcast team may not see the latest blockbusters on opening night. Or opening week. Or the week after that...

Okay, so maybe it takes us a while to get around to things. But we make up for it with almost an hour of fangirling.

Listen in as we spoil all the things and talk about Wonder Woman and Blade Runner 2049. Sure we discuss Amazon warriors and angsty replicants, but then we wander down tangents like American Horror Story, San Diego versus Los Angeles when it comes to the “Who’s Going To Turn Into A Garbage Dump First?” question, CGI super jumps, eating bugs voluntarily, and existentialism regarding existence after death and pragmatism versus faith. No, really, we do. But we also talk about pretty superheroes having sex, so there’s a balance.

Outro song this week is 60 seconds of the Wonder Woman theme, because we couldn't resist.

Original broadcast date October 26, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/10/binary-system-podcast-101-wtnv-116-council-member-flynn-part-3/

Binary System Podcast is back on schedule this week (meaning we're a week behind with our recaps. "Running behind" is the new "on schedule," all the cool kids say it's so.) Listen in as we discuss crime and finances in Night Vale, and wonder what exactly are the rules for Naked Uno. (Probably the same rules as Naked Anything Else.)

Also tune in next week for a spoileriffic podcast as we talk all about Wonder Woman and Blade Runner 2049!

Outro song this week is 60 seconds of Animal Skin by Bryan Dunn. https://bryandunn.bandcamp.com/track/animal-skin

Original broadcast date October 19, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/10/binary-system-podcast-100-one-hundred-episodes-of-randomness/

Binary System Podcast is celebrating 100 episodes! Well, not counting 20 or so recorded before we started calling them Binary System, plus some bonus episodes here and there, the odd fan art collections...you know what, it's not important, happy one hundredth episode!

The plan was to record a retrospective of our favorite moments of the last one hundred (..or so..) episodes, starting with our favorite Night Vale episodes, our favorite Weather music, and our favorite fangirl "eeeeeee" episodes like Arrival, Sherlock, and Star Wars (plus a few "arrgh!" moments with Walking Dead.) But of course there were tangents into Blade Runner 2049, Wonder Woman, Friday the 13th the Series, American Horror Story, Saga, and Transformers, because of COURSE Transformers.

Thanks for listening in! And if you've got a plan for what our next 100 episodes could be about...you're more organized than we are!

Outro song this week is a clip from Neon Twin by Phillip Gross. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Phillip_Gross/Katzenmusik/Band_PHILLIP_GROSS_-_02_-_Song_Neon_Twin

The Alice Isn’t Dead episode with the amazing Disparition song is here. (starts at 36:29) http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Phillip_Gross/Katzenmusik/Band_PHILLIP_GROSS_-_02_-_Song_Neon_Twin

You can see Gabriel Royal playing Remember Us here. https://youtu.be/cEjYmO5-dLk

You can see him playing On Again Off Again Friend here. https://youtu.be/-kWVHzpAD0g

Shearwater Music’s Quiet Americans is here. https://soundcloud.com/subpop/shearwater-quiet-americans?in=shearwaterband/sets/sampler#t=0:00

Their song Red Sea, Black Sea is here. https://soundcloud.com/shearwaterband/red-sea-black-sea?in=shearwaterband/sets/sampler

Their cover of Fucked Up Life is here. https://soundcloud.com/subpop/fucked-up-life?in=shearwaterband/sets/sampler#t=0:00

Elizabeth’s “Thirteen of Antiques” Tarot Card is here. https://llyzabeth.deviantart.com/art/Tiny-Tarot-Card-Thirteen-of-Antiques-709662710

The artist we were thinking of when we heard the Alice Isn’t Dead “Factory By the Sea episode” is kolja7t on deviant art. https://kolja7t.deviantart.com/art/Sea-Gallery-33345277

Original broadcast date Octobetr 12, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/10/binary-system-podcast-99-wtnv-114-and-115-council-member-flynn/

After hurricanes and cross country trips we managed to catch up in one fell swoop by recapping Welcome To Night Vale episodes 114 AND 115, and still managed to fit in thoughts on Wonder Woman, Blade Runner, Mad Max, Train To Busan, World War Z, and that guy who cosplayed as a building.

Outro song this week is 90 seconds of Zombie Disco by Six Umbrellas. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Six_Umbrellas/The_Psychadelic_And/6_Six_Umbrellas_-_Zombie_Disco

Here's the original photo by @franksquatch we mentioned, https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ9Kh00FtUD/?taken-by=franksquatch reposting it got us a lot of views so please help us thank him giving him a like.

Original broadcast date October 5, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/10/binary-system-podcast-98-horror-movies-with-special-guest-hannah/

The nights are longer, the air is cooler, there's pumpkin spice everywhere, so you know what that means? Time to break out our favorite horror movies and scare ourselves silly. (Hey, could you leave the light on in the hallway tonight? Why? Um, no reason...)

Special guest Hannah Wallace joins Binary System as we put flashlights under our faces and discuss our favorite horror movies: it was supposed to be one apiece, but that plan went out the window fast as we touched on (*deep breath*) In the Mouth of Madness, Blair Witch Project, The Ring, Event Horizon, Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Warriors, What Lies Beneath, and The Descent.

We also talked about a few of the gorier films (Saw, Drag Me to Hell, Silent Night Deadly Night) and why the hell we watched them, and then we finished up with moments from Snap Judgement "Spooked," The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air (well, the one bit that we actually liked, starts right at 17 minutes), two sentence horror stories, Texts From a Jack O'Lantern, The Black Pumpkin, and a cartoon Hannah remembers that had gargoyles in it. No, not that one, a different one.

http://snapjudgment.org/All-Spooked-Episodes

http://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/force-cdn/highwinds/orbitinghumancircus/The_Orbiting_Human_Circus_Season_One_Episode_1.mp3

https://thoughtcatalog.com/michael-koh/2013/07/40-freaking-creepy-ass-two-sentence-stories/

http://the-toast.net/2013/10/30/text-messages-jack-o-lantern/

http://ihorror.com/5-scary-stories-read-dark/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Halloween_Tree_(film)

Outro song this week is 90 seconds of John Carpenter and Jim Lang's theme for In the Mouth of Madness.

Correction the first: more of a clarification really, the “jump into a pool of hypodermic needles” scene was from Saw II. Which we haven’t watched. Partly because of the “jump into a pool of hypodermic needles” scene.