Binary System Podcast Archive

This episode originally broadcast on December 25, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/12/binary-system-podcast-486-mayor-of-kingstown-season-4-episode-9-teeth-and-tissue/

Okay you guys, this is a really weird episode to drop on a holiday: the latest chapter of Mayor of Kingstown (possibly the second-to-last episode ever?) bombarded us for 47 solid minutes with death, torture, plot twists, betrayal, and excrement MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Seriously, this was hands down our favorite episode of the season, but maybe don’t drink a cup of coffee before watching it, that’s gotta be bad for your heart.

One day we will stop using spinningmerkaba’s Christmas On Mars as the outro at Christmas, but today is not…yeah, you know us better than that, we’re never gonna stop using this.

Here's our conversation about episode 8 we mentioned, giant GIANT spoiler warnings for that one.

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This episode originally broadcast on December 11, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/12/binary-system-podcast-485-mayor-of-kingstown-and-star-trek-lower-decks/

his week's episode of Mayor of Kingstown was slightly less stressful than last week's, but everyone is still in a hell of a lot of peril. There are some incredibly dangerous characters in this show, and it's a toss up who's going to be attacked by their worst enemy first. (It's gonna be Kevin, isn't it? Kevin is somehow on everybody's bad side.) Mike and Cindy-the-Guard are still adorable together, but it's hard to root for them when you know Mike has the worst luck in the world with relationships. (Anyone remember Iris? Does Mike even remember Iris? Sure thought that storyline would have come up before now...)

In much lighter fare, Kathryn watched another episode of the last season of Star Trek: Lower Decks. This one mixes things up a little by devoting an entire episode to the secondary characters. Meaning the command crew. (Yes, we know this was an homage to the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Lower Decks." Well, we know that now.) And we've got the usual tangents to all the other things we're watching lately. (For anyone who wants to see a live performance of "The Waverly Gallery", no you don't.)

This episode's outro is a clip from Robo Disco by TeknoAXE.

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This episode originally broadcast on December 4, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/12/binary-system-podcast-484-wtnv-279-jaccuse-and-mayor-of-kingstown/

On this week's Night Vale recap, Cecil and Dana are still trying to figure out who in town has murdered two people (that we know of.) (And we're not talking about Tabitha because she's the town founder so have some respect. Also she's just eating people. Totally different M.O.)

After that we've got a MASSIVELY SPOILERIFFIC review of the 6th episode of the final season of Mayor of Kingstown. Seriously, you guys, we're actually glad we can't binge all these episodes at once because it is SO TENSE waiting for something awful to happen, we need a little break in between. Trigger warnings for the usual death and violence, but this week they've also got sexual assault, yaaaaaaay.

This episode's outro is a clip from Going Rogue by Grumplefunk.

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This episode originally broadcast on November 20, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/11/binary-system-podcast-482-wtnv-278-how-to-solve-a-murder-and-mayor-of-kingstown/

On this week's Night Vale recap THERE'S BEEN A MURDER. It's the same murder we heard about last week, but as Cecil points out it's still true, and it's a heck of a hook for a radio program. Here's hoping the WikiHow article can show Cecil how to solve it before someone else gets murdered hahahah. Ha ha. Ha. Um. Anyway...

Meanwhile over on Mayor of Kingsdown, Mike seems to be in the healthiest relationship we've seen in the past four years. Hope she doesn't die! Kyle's wife Tracy had her kitchen broken into, but Mike's got the cops looking after her. Hope she doesn't die! We had a GIANT jump scare that ends with someone in the hospital, but they're looking better now. Hope they don't die!

(Next week we'll switch it up and talk about who we hope DOES die. LOOKING AT YOU, WARDEN. YOU TOO, ROBERT.)

This episode's outro is a clip from Cure Remedy by Joseph Sacco.

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This episode originally broadcast on November 13, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/11/binary-system-podcast-481-mayor-of-kingstown-and-star-trek-lower-decks/

This week we're recapping episode 3 of the last season of Mayor of Kingstown, where pretty much everything is spiraling out of Mike's control. Rival gang members are murdering each other and setting their hangouts on fire, Kyle's falling under the influence of a dangerous inmate, Robert is a drunk time bomb ready to explode, and both Bunny's new friend and the new Warden are playing a dangerous game of "I'm the most powerful person here" and also "I really didn't take all the variables into account." But, y'know, that hot young rookie guard seems to have won Mike over by being nice to him, so hopefully she won't die.

After that, Kathryn watched episode 6 of the final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks, which continues to be hilarious and freaking good-hearted. We also went off on a couple of tangents in this episode to rant about annoying AI recaps, and ads, and good god people, flogging a $400 gourmet lobster dinner delivery while people are trying to figure out how to feed their family do you really think this is the time and aaaarrrrgggh, why is Capitalism??

This episode's outro is a clip from Millenia from Karl Casey @ White Bat.

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This episode originally broadcast on November 6, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/11/binary-system-podcast-480-wtnv-277-the-big-game-and-mayor-of-kingstown/

This week's Night Vale is the kind of murder mystery that can only happen in this weird little town, with dead angels, no suspects, surprise bats, and an autopsy report that's just the coroner stabbing the notebook with a pencil while yelling "IT'S FULL OF STARS."

After the recap we jump right into the second episode of the final season of Mayor of Kingstown. Massive spoiler warnings, because stuff happens and we've gotta talk about it. Props to the writers, the action in this episode doesn't let up for a second. We loved it.

This episode's outro is a clip from 1000 Years by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio.

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This episode originally broadcast on October 30, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/10/binary-system-podcast-479-we-watched-heretic-and-mayor-of-kingstown/

In our continuing series "Elizabeth And Kathryn Watch Things That Are Less Than A Year Old", this week we watched 2024's Heretic (came out last November, just under a year, still counts!) It's a brilliantly creepy, slow burn of a film, Hugh Grant somehow manages to be charming and terrifying at the same time, and the plot is...well we're not going to spoil the plot because you really need to see this one.

What we are going to spoil is everything that happened in the Season 4 premiere of Mayor of Kingstown. And oh boy, this season is gonna be brutal. Kyle's going to prison, Bunny's best friend is looking down the barrel of a prison war, there's a new gang leader executing rival gang members with a train, and Evelyn looks like she's realized how much she actually cares about Mike right as Mike kicks her out of his life. And since this is the last season you just know that pretty much every character has a giant target on them.

Oh, and Mike still doesn't know what happened to Iris. Wonder how well THAT'S going to go over.

This episode's outro is a clip from Move It Forward by TeknoAXE.

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This episode originally broadcast on October 23, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/10/binary-system-podcast-478-wtnv-276-the-big-game-wednesday-and-random-horror/

It's a short episode this week because we decided we weren't going to spoil the ending of Night Vale's latest episode: it's such a quiet, subtle story, perfect for an autumn day, and you really should give it a listen.

We still manage to fit in some random ramblings of course, including Wednesday (surprisingly good), Angel Heart (“..that movie is like a soft warm blanket with nightmares in it..”), Sinners coming to IMAX (oh we are SO THERE), Mayor of Kingstown, the AWS outage, the lack of director's commentaries, the Dragonfall Drawing Challenge, and Kathryn and Nathan's new roommate.

This episode's outro is a clip from Forever by HappyWorldWithMochi.

Correction: we called it an AWS Attack. Apparently nothing was attacked. Supposedly.

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This episode originally broadcast on October 16, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/10/binary-system-podcast-477-we-watched-sinners/

Yep, you read that right. This week in complete defiance of our usual routine we made a plan – watch Sinners – and then we actually followed the plan and watched a movie less than six months after it came out!

And oh boy, what a movie! In just one film you’ve got vampire horror, a period drama, a celebration of music and culture in a way we’ve never seen a film do before, and, in case you missed that the first time, vampires! That are scary. We loved the effects, we adored the music, and we’re just gobsmacked by the acting talent, which includes Michael B. Jordan playing two roles and doing it so well that we kept forgetting that was what was happening. Listen in as we basically go squeeeeee for about twenty minutes, with a brief tangent to discuss Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a film that is way more enjoyable than you probably remember.

This episode’s outro is a clip from Electronic Crystals by Joseph Sacco.

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This episode originally broadcast on October 9, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/10/binary-system-podcast-476-wtnv-275-date-night-lower-decks-and-wednesday/

On this week’s Welcome to Night Vale episode Cecil is determined to tell you all about his date night at this awesome little bee-filled restaurant, but his producer wishes we could stick to the Top. Story. CECIL.

(Seeing as how the top story is Tabitha the Town Founder stomping around town EATING PEOPLE, his producer may have a point.)

After the recap we jump into Star Trek: Lower Decks season 5 episode 5, “Starbase 80?!”, which is full of corn dogs and zombies licking things, and man alive the animators on that show never miss a trick.

Then we wrap up with a quick word about Wednesday season 2, because that show has some impressive stunt casting that we can’t talk about because spoilers. But we do go off on a lot of tangents like ranch dressing, horror movie plans, and Chat GPT getting its poor fee fees hurt GET OVER YOURSELF, Open AI, at this point you’re just three ponzi schemes in a trench coat.

This episode’s outro is a clip from Work it Out by 1000 Handz.

This is Sag-Aftra’s statement about Tilly Norwood the AI “actress” and how its creators can go jump in a lake.

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