Binary System Podcast Archive

Original broadcast date July 6, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/07/binary-system-podcast-87-wtnv-episode-110-matryoshka/

This week Binary System is finally caught up with Welcome To Night Vale woo!! Listen in as we recap (and try to pronounce) "Matryoshka." Then there's the Night Vale Bonus Episode "The Tragic Story of Louie Blasko," which we don't recap so much as point excitedly at the computer yelling "You guys you GUYS you need to listen to this!" Seriously. Right now. It's only ten minutes. Go on, it's okay, we'll wait.

We also go on a tangent about China Mieville's The City and The City, and how there may be a BBC adaptation and what a mind-f*#k that will be, and about Twin Peaks' version of The Weather, and how Cillian Murphy can nail a dead-eyed stare, but with more sexy.

Original broadcast date June 29, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/06/binary-system-podcast-86-the-alice-isnt-dead-catch-up-episode-part-1/

This week Binary System Podcast is organized and on top of all the things! Hah, kidding, we're still playing catch up. This week we recapped episodes 4 and 5 of the latest season of Alice Isn't Dead, and still had time to talk about House of Cards, Iron Fist, Twin Peaks (...seriously, someone tell us, why do dudes think barfing scenes are hilarious?...) Jurassic World, and the totally unnecessary but really pretty boxes they sent with the Comic-Con badges.

Original broadcast date June 22, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/06/binary-system-podcast-85-the-night-vale-catch-up-episode-part-1/

Binary System Podcast is back on schedule! Mostly! A little? Okay, not at all, because we're way behind on our Night Vale Recaps. So this week you get two for one! Listen in as we race through Night Vale episodes #108 ("Cal") and #109 ("A Story about Huntokar") in 20 minutes and still manage to fit in some thoughts on The Originals, American Gods, Moana, and Twin Peaks!

Original broadcast date June 8, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/06/binary-system-podcast-84-lightning-speed-intermission/

Both branches of Binary System Podcast are once again on the road this week, so we recorded a 7-minute podcast. And still managed to fit in the Sense8 and Till All Are One cancellations, American Gods, how we haven't seen Wonder Woman yet, how Elizabeth has seen Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2, and how Kathryn is still trying to get through Iron Fist (it's...not going well.)

EDITED TO ADD: Elizabeth mentions that she didn't understand what was going on in the final panel of the most recent issue of Transformers Lost Light. Well James Roberts himself has tweeted the answer to us, which was awfully nice of him. Minor spoilers though, so if you'd like to see what he said, go here. https://twitter.com/jroberts332/status/872549131696435200

Original broadcast date May 25, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/05/binary-system-podcast-83-zombies-run-with-special-guest-hannah/

If you've ever said "the only way I'd go running is if something was chasing me" then you already know one of the reasons we're fans of the Zombies, Run app. This week the twins' sister Hannah Wallace guest stars on the podcast to talk about all the other reasons we love this post-apocalyptic game/story/activity tracker, where zombies randomly show up to make you run faster while our favorite British voice actors cheer us on.

We also fall down the rabbit hole of podcasts from across the pond, and how Hannah may or may not be stalking actors who perform Shakespeare with soup.

Find Hannah on Twitter at @HannahWallace. https://twitter.com/hannahwallace

The closing song is "I've Heard That Song Before" by Harry James, because it was used in the movie Hannah and Her Sisters.

The Zombies, Run website is here. https://zombiesrungame.com/

Correction from Hannah: I do feel the need to point out (and APOLOGIZE) for I think being really dumb in how I characterized Jamie's accent, which I believe is east London/Multicultural London English. I kind of blew past it with a dumb-oversimplification re: race, and I think I should just say I'm way too uninformed to have gone anywhere near that. I think I made it sound like you could identify race by accent, and obviously I know that's not true.

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Original broadcast date May 11, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/05/binary-system-podcast-82-alice-isnt-dead-part-2-episode-3-abandoned-places/

This week we tried to recap the latest episode of Alice Isn't Dead, but it's this really atmospheric episode that doesn't do well as a recap (it's like trying to verbally describe an excellent sunset: you kinda had to be there.)

So we gave that up and talked about Only Lovers Left Alive (and strategic side-butt), the new trailer for Bladerunner 2049 (and how Jóhann Jóhannsson is doing the music and yes to all that), the upcoming Twin Peaks season and the book The Secret History of Twin Peaks and (*pushes glasses up*) the difference between an epistolary history and an oral one. (*Grins at you over the glasses.*) Heh. We said oral.

The tornado video we talked about is here on Facebook. It hit Uruguay in April 2016. https://www.facebook.com/paulhortontv/videos/vb.1653242841628311/1869431043342822/?type=2&theater

The Jóhann Jóhannsson interview our sister Hannah sent us is here. http://songexploder.net/arrival It's brilliant.

Original broadcast date May 4, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/05/binary-system-podcast-81-wtnv-107-the-missing-sky/

You know how we always open the podcast by saying you should listen to the Welcome To Night Vale episode first? Well this week you REALLY NEED TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE FIRST. This was one of those episodes that's surreal and disjointed and hard to understand and then when you get to the end you realize they were giving you clues about what was really going on THE ENTIRE TIME.

There's also some stuff about Peaky Blinders and M. Night Shyamalan, Transformers Combiner Wars, and the new Transformers Earth Wars game that Kathryn hasn't been able to put down yet.

Original broadcast date April 27, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/04/binary-system-podcast-80-alice-isnt-dead-part-2-episode-2-the-mouth-of-the-water/

It's our 80th episode, woo hoo! Enjoy this...completely regular episode. You thought we'd have a plan? Have you met us?

Anyway, we recap the latest Alice Isn't Dead episode and wander off into weird tangents like Salt Water Taffy vs. Tangy Taffy vs. Laffy Taffy vs. Pixie Sticks vs. Fun Dip vs. Tang (we have opinions) and the movie version of Stephen King's 1408 (not great, except for this one scene...)

Then we figure out whether or not the second season of Broadchurch is going to be worth the inevitable heartbreak and..look, we know we said we weren’t going to talk about Iron Fist, but we’ve got thoughts about Iron Fist, because we totally see what they were going for but man did they miss the mark.

Original broadcast date April 20, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/04/binary-system-podcast-79-wtnv-episode-106-filings/

In Night Vale it's illegal to acknowledge the existence of angels, so they're out to change that, and you know what that means: PAPERWORK. Also minor riots, dragons, and rifts in the space-time continuum. It IS Night Vale we're talking about.

After the twins recap the episode they also get into Mystery Science Theater 3000: the Return (and how delightfully creepy Felicia Day can be), the new Beauty and the Beast movie (and how it's okay if you make a movie that's only for Disney Fans because that's a hell of an army to contend with), the new Iron Fist (about which we'll say very little) and the Hugo Award nominations (about some of which we'll say nothing at all...)

Correction: The gentleman who played LaFou in the new Beauty and the Beast is Josh Gad, and he was fantastic. Also we're pretty sure we should've pronounced it "LaFoo" and not "LaFoe."

Correction the second: Well actually more of a clarification. Intern Kareem left the Night Vale Radio Station in order to take Simone Rigadeau's Earth Sciences course to try to find out, among other things, why no one has heard of Michigan. We didn't mention this on the podcast because apparently two episodes ago is too long to expect us to do stuff like remembering things.

Original broadcast date April 13, 2017. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2017/04/binary-system-podcast-78-season-premiere-of-alice-isnt-dead-season-finale-of-the-walking-dead/

After eight months it’s finally back: this week brought the season premiere of Alice Isn’t Dead, and we’ve got the recap but what we REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT is the season finale of The Walking Dead. Because priorities. So listen in for a quick recap of Keisha’s adventure’s in the desert and then a spoileriffic recap of Sasha’s adventures in a pine box.