Binary System Podcast

You can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm!

“We should try that Netflix Watch Party extension!”

“All of us in three states watching a movie together!”

“So what should we watch?”

“…….uh….”

Thus launching an hour-long conversation between Elizabeth, Kathryn, Nathan and Hannah, trying to figure out, among all the movies on Netflix and Amazon, what we could all watch with Mom and Dad. When you take into account what everyone likes and hates and what everybody’s already seen recently and what we can actually get our hands on, we need to have one of those rooms with the post-it notes and strings tied everywhere to figure it out. 

We edited the hell out of this conversation to take out all the times we were just scrolling through award lists and going “hmm……let’s seeee…”

Play the Podcast Below | Download the MP3 | Subscribe via iTunes | RSS Feed

kofiwidget2.init('Buy Us a Coffee', '#0f75bc', 'A5303J1P');kofiwidget2.draw();

 

This week’s outro is a clip from Nocturnia by Psychadelik Pedestrian. (We used that one back on episode 120, but we like it so we’re using it again.)

 

Here’s the list of movies! (Mostly!)

Possible movies and shows for the whole family to watch (some we’ve never seen, and some that some of us have seen, but we’d like to see again with everybody):

Schitt’s Creek

Hidden Figures

Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy (both the movie and the original mini series)

Back to the Future

Raiders of the Lost Ark

O Brother Where Art Thou

The Big Sick

Call the Midwife

Knives Out

Brick

The original True Grit

The ORIGINAL Wicker Man

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

Parasite (maybe?)

Last Temptation of Christ (maybe?)

The Shining

MST3K (Starcrash or Gunslinger)

 

Movies we like that also got a mention (but we’ve either watched recently or didn’t think Mom and Dad would like):

The Apartment

Finding Bobby Fisher

Arrival

Tag

Into the Spider-Verse

Black Panther

Mad Max Fury Road

Moonlight

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Inception

Snowpiercer

All About Eve

Barry Lyndon

What Did Jack Do

Sling Blade

As Good As It Gets

The King’s Speech

BBC Sherlock (but only the first two seasons)

Happy Face

 

Movies actively ruled out:

Disney’s Animated Robin Hood (Dad doesn’t like cartoons)

The Irishman (Dad is interested but he can watch that ON HIS OWN)

Black Panther (Mom and Dad aren’t really into Superhero movies

The Lobster (“Fuck off you stupid movie” – Elizabeth)

The Guy Pearce Time Machine (meh, except for Orlando Jones)

Cabin in the Woods (not really a Mom and Dad movie)

Haunting of Hill House (We’ve all seen it. And Mom HATED it)

We Speak Geek

We Speak Geek

You can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm!

It’s the Welcome to Night Vale episode that Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor described as “maybe the most upsetting thing we’ve ever written.” Listen in as we recap a one-person show featuring unearthly roommates, really cruel pranks, and something called “the tarantula incident”.

After that we talk a little more about the ongoing COVID-19 situation, Devs, Altered Carbon, Picard...hang on, didn’t we talk about all of those things last week? Just to mix things up, we also discuss Highlander, cancelled conventions, and some of the things you can do to help. (We’ll give you this one for free, HELPING DOESN’T INVOLVE HOARDING HAND SANITIZER AND TOILET PAPER.)

Play the Podcast Below | Download the MP3 | Subscribe via iTunes | RSS Feed

kofiwidget2.init('Buy Us a Coffee', '#0f75bc', 'A5303J1P');kofiwidget2.draw();

 

This week’s outro is a clip from Blue Scorpion by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3451-blue-scorpion

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

 

The vendor list for the Carolina Fiber Fest can be found here.

The tea company Elizabeth was talking about is the Friday Afternoon Tea Company.

Here’s the link to the toilet paper earrings we mentioned, made by Licia Beads. They’re currently unavailable because the post about them went….viral…

Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a castle in Scotland? Look no further! You can support the restoration of Dunan’s castle, legally call yourself Lady or Laird, AND if you use this link to get there, you can support this podcast too! ScottishLaird.co.uk.

 

If you want to follow along with Fanart Fridays, check us out on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram!

 

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm!

Let’s face it, the Coronavirus is on everyone’s minds so we have to get that out of the way first. (It mostly involves us saying “WASH YOUR HANDS” a lot, spreading the word on the #ECCConline hashtag, and reminding you that you can’t use expensive vodka in place of hand sanitizer. Please drink it instead.) (Vodka we mean, not hand sanitizer.)

But after that we decompress with the usual nerd news: Kathryn is enjoying Devs and James May Our Man in Japan, and Elizabeth is underwhelmed by Picard and Altered Carbon.

Play the Podcast Below | Download the MP3 | Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | RSS Feed

kofiwidget2.init('Buy Us a Coffee', '#0f75bc', 'A5303J1P');kofiwidget2.draw();

 

This week’s outro is a clip from Antiquee by Cursed.

There are a a lot of clever remixes of the handwashing tutorial, but our favorite is the Dune “Litany Against Fear” version.

(The earliest version we can find of this was posted by Taylor R. Genovese on March 4th, but if anyone knows the creator we’d love to give them credit.)

Correction: we mentioned that Emerald City Comic Con was cancelled, it’s actually been postponed to September. But as of right now you can jump on the #ECCConline hashtag on twitter to see the amazing stuff posted by artists in their online shops.

Addition: as of today, WonderCon is also postponed.

 

Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a castle in Scotland? Look no further! You can support the restoration of Dunan’s castle, legally call yourself Lady or Laird, AND if you use this link to get there, you can support this podcast too! ScottishLaird.co.uk.

 

If you want to follow along with Fanart Fridays, check us out on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram!

 

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm!

On this week’s Night Vale recap we discuss theater etiquette when attending a show at an insane asylum, and then move on to cosplay problems, adventures in 3D printing, and whether or not the pretty, pretty effects in Picard outweigh all the talking. (They do so far, but we’re only three episodes in.)

Play the Podcast Below | Download the MP3 | Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | RSS Feed

kofiwidget2.init('Buy Us a Coffee', '#0f75bc', 'A5303J1P');kofiwidget2.draw();

 

This week’s outro is a clip from Electron by TeknoAxe.

Kathryn mentioned Thingiverse, a site for 3-D Printer patterns and more, you can find them here. The Oddish planter she printed out can be downloaded here.

 

Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a castle in Scotland? Look no further! You can support the restoration of Dunan’s castle, legally call yourself Lady or Laird, AND if you use this link to get there, you can support this podcast too! ScottishLaird.co.uk.

 

If you want to follow along with Fanart Fridays, check us out on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram!

 

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm!

So the plan was to have a quick talk about an Oscar-winning film and a debriefing on the events of last weekend. It spun out of control  within the first fifteen minutes, of course.

Listen in as we go over Parasite (many many spoilers), Snowpiercer, Inception, the trailer for the upcoming Netflix Transformers series, the firing of Didio, the books we’re reading, the conventions we’re getting ready for, twitter’s dumpster fire Windblade “discussion,” and more made-up stories about our sponsor.

Play the Podcast Below | Download the MP3 | Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | RSS Feed

kofiwidget2.init('Buy Us a Coffee', '#0f75bc', 'A5303J1P');kofiwidget2.draw();

 

Prefer your podcasts in YouTube form? You’re in luck!

 

This week’s outro is a clip from Mirrors by Superhumanoids from their Parasite Paradise album.

Correction: the dish cooked in Parasite was called Ramdon, and it’s a real thing (combination of Ramen and Udon) and you can find the recipe and a lot of cool information about it here.

Correction the second: Windblade is Flame Toys’ first attempt at a female transformer model, they haven’t tried an Arcee. (Yet.) 

Correction the third: yes there is a ton of information about lightsaber crystals and most of it seems to be perfectly canon, we should’ve checked out Wookiepedia first.

And a clarification: Kathryn mentioned needing to pick up bondo before NC Comicon in March. We probably should have mentioned it’s for the EmojiBot helmet, we went into more detail in last week’s episode.

Since there’s a lot going on in this episode, here’s a breakdown of the timeline:

Snowpiercer at 12:20

Inception at 14:32

Netflix Transformers Trailer 17:15

Wildblade model twitter dumpster fire 18:50

Dan Didio and DC stuff 31:50

Andrew Hunter Murray’s The Last Day 34:04

T. Kingfisher’s latest book 35:43

Character based on our sponsor, and general Star Wars 36:50

Update on the Emojibot cosplay creation and convention plan updates 41:30

 

Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a castle in Scotland? Look no further! You can support the restoration of Dunan’s castle, legally call yourself Lady or Laird, AND if you use this link to get there, you can support this podcast too! ScottishLaird.co.uk.

 

If you want to follow along with Fanart Fridays, check us out on

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm!

This week’s Night Vale recap is full of ambitious moms, genius daughters, mysterious voices, missing planes and REALLY STARTLING WEATHER. Plus Kathryn wants to rewatch Snowpiercer (because Parasite) and Elizabeth rewatched Looper (because Knives Out) and we’re both finishing up Bojack Horseman, The Crown, Great British Bake Off, and the latest EmojiBot cosplay incarnation.

Most importantly, live on the recording we brainstorm a new Doctor Who regeneration, companion, and adventure! (Spoilers: the Doctor’s Tom Hiddleston. I mean come on, this is us, it’s either going to be Tom or it’s going to be a Transformer.) (….) (*sound of frantic scribbling of notes for later*)

Play the Podcast Below | Download the MP3 | Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | RSS Feed

kofiwidget2.init('Buy Us a Coffee', '#0f75bc', 'A5303J1P');kofiwidget2.draw();

 

This week’s outro is a clip from Humanizer by Tekno Axe.

Prefer your podcasts in YouTube form? You’re in luck!

 

 

Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a castle in Scotland? Look no further! You can support the restoration of Dunan’s castle, legally call yourself Lady or Laird, AND if you use this link to get there, you can support this podcast too! ScottishLaird.co.uk.

 

 

If you want to follow along with Fanart Fridays, check us out on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram!

 

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm!

The 2020 Oscars have come and gone and Binary System has the complete recap! Well, mostly complete; Kathryn’s got the attention span of a magpie and kept leaving the room when she got bored. And Elizabeth still has the heebie jeebies from the year they screwed up the Best Picture envelope so she only “watches” the Oscars on twitter. And neither of them saw more than a handful of the movies and…look, let’s start again. 

The 2020 Oscars have come and gone and Binary System has the half-assed, fly-by-night, mostly vague opinions based on random tweets, recap!

Play the Podcast Below | Download the MP3 | Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | RSS Feed

kofiwidget2.init('Buy Us a Coffee', '#0f75bc', 'A5303J1P');kofiwidget2.draw();

 

Prefer your podcasts in youtube form? You’re in luck!

 

 

Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a castle in Scotland? Look no further! You can support the restoration of Dunan’s castle, legally call yourself Lady or Laird, AND if you use this link to get there, you can support this podcast too! ScottishLaird.co.uk.

This week’s outro music is a clip from Melt by Broke For Free.

Here’s the full list of Oscar nominees and winners, complete with links to all our reviews!

 

If you want to follow along with Fanart Fridays, check us out on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram!

 

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm!

Welcome to Night Vale returns! Listen in as we recap Night Vale’s centuries-long quest to slap the bejeezus out of the moon, give shout outs to two listeners, and basically make stuff up about people we’ve never met.

Play the Podcast Below | Download the MP3 | Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | RSS Feed

kofiwidget2.init('Buy Us a Coffee', '#0f75bc', 'A5303J1P');kofiwidget2.draw();

 

Prefer your podcasts in youtube form? You’re in luck!

 

Looking for a present for that hard-to-shop-for person? Want to buy them (or yourself) a square foot of a castle in Scotland? Look no further! You can support the restoration of Dunan’s castle, legally call yourself Lady or Laird, AND if you use this link to get there, you can support this podcast too! ScottishLaird.co.uk.

 

 

This week’s outro music is a clip from +32 (Remix) by Steve Combs.

 

 

If you want to follow along with Fanart Fridays, check us out on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram!