Binary System Podcast

This past weekend, for the very first time, both the East and West Coast branches of the Binary System Podcast met in Anaheim for WonderCon! And we finally got to wear our cosplay! And we couldn’t see or walk! And it was amazing!

This week’s episode is all about WonderCon 2019, as we break down everything we learned about our first big cosplay attempt, the amazing people we met, the panels we saw, and still have time to mention Transformers, because when do we not mention Transformers?Read OnBinary System Podcast #171 – WonderCon 2019

What’s the Binary System topic for the week? Is it a cartoon from the 80s? No. Is it a vampire TV show from two years ago? No. That’s right, we’re talking about a movie that’s STILL IN THE THEATER.

Listen in as we geek all the heck out about Captain Marvel: the kickass fight scenes, the gorgeous special effects, and Goose the cat! We also discuss whether or not digital editing can go too far, Stan Lee’s cameo, and how sometimes we don’t see a plot point coming even when it was telegraphed and WE’RE OKAY WITH THAT because it means we enjoyed being surprised, so there.Read OnBinary System Podcast #170 – Captain Marvel

Hey, you know those specialty brownie pans? The ones that have a funky shape so every single brownie is an “edge” brownie? Does anyone out there like those? Because honestly, we’ve always liked the center brownies better.

What? Oh, right, the Night Vale episode. This one was, as usual, entertainingly odd: Pamela Winchell continuing to defy physics, mandatory PTA bake sales, and volunteers(?) of the Blood Space War doing that whole timey-wimey thing with cause and effect.

Elizabeth’s also got some recommendations for excellent TV shows, and Kathryn’s cosplay order STILL HASN’T ARRIVED. (Yeah, we know that international shipping takes a while. BUT TWO MONTHS?)Read OnBinary System Podcast #169 – Welcome to Night Vale #144 “The Dreamer”

Here at Binary System Podcast we’re all about recapping the latest and most recent pop-culture phenomenon. And by that we mean a vampire TV show that wrapped up two years ago this month. We’ll get to Captain Marvel soon, we promise. (And by soon you mean early next year? ~ Elizabeth) (Quiet, you. ~ Kathryn.)

Listen in this week as we spoil ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING about the final few episodes of The Vampire Diaries. The doppelgängers, the callbacks, the wedding toasts, the brothers trying to out-selfless each other, the Bennett Witches, the last human standing, the epic love stories, the sunken ships, and the freaking Cure For Vampirism Musical Chairs; it may have been an over-the-top CW show about teenage vampires, but we loved it and we wouldn’t change a thing.Read OnBinary System Podcast #168 – The Vampire Diaries Finale

It’s time for Pioneer Days in Night Vale again! Wow, has it already been a year since the last festival? The answer is: no, it hasn’t, because Pioneer Days happen at random times whenever the Night Vale Utilities company shuts off all the power and water in the town, leaving everyone to sit in the dark while all the food in their refrigerators spoils. It’s festive.

Listen in as the Binary System Podcast talks this week about the Night Vale festival with time-traveler photographs, an Interactive Boardwalk in the desert, and a truly horrifying recipe for Cherries Jubilee. Plus, we’ll ramble for a bit about fever dreams, photo exhibits, cosplay issues, and our very favorite podcasts (other than this one, naturally).Read OnBinary System Podcast #167 – Welcome to Night Vale #143 “Pioneer Days”

While this week’s Night Vale recap had a lot of UFOs, shape-changing trees, and french fries, it also had a lot to say about life and loss and grief. So to switch gears we talked about some of the Oscar Nominated shorts, one of which is also about life and loss and grief. Right. So we pitched the recaps out the window and talked about Vampire Diaries instead, because if we’re going to talk about death we’d like there to be vampires, thank you.Read OnBinary System Podcast #166 – WTNV #142 “UFO Sighting Reports”

In what’s quickly becoming an annual tradition, the Binary System Podcast (with special guest Nathan Adams) watched the Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts at our favorite cinemas, and we’re here to give you the details. Which short do we think will win? Which short would we like to win? Which short wasn’t our favorite, and which “Highly Commended” short was absolutely robbed, ROBBED, through no fault of its own? (We’re assuming it was for something that wasn’t the creators’ fault. Problematic Russian politics aside, there’s no reason we can see why “Tweet Tweet” shouldn’t have blown the competition away.)Read OnBinary System Podcast #165 – The Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts

Technically this podcast is about websites that help you watch movies, but aside from the RunPee app (and what a glorious invention that is) it’s mostly about sites that can give you a heads up about triggers in movies.

Here at Binary System we’ve never been sure what to think of trigger warnings, but we’re fascinated by websites that categorize movies by every potentially traumatizing thing you can think of: snakes, bugs, car crashes, clowns, damaged teeth; you name it, there’s a site that can tell you if a movie has it. So this week we’re going over some of our favorite finds (including the RunPee app, which counts if you think being super uncomfortable for the last twenty minutes of a movie is traumatic, which we do.)Read OnBinary System Podcast #164 – Websites that…help you watch movies?

Yay, Welcome to Night Vale is back from hiatus! To celebrate, Night Vale is having a party this week at Dark Owl Records!

Well, it’s more of a fundraiser than a party (the new music store in town, Burger Barn Gladtown Records Express, is affecting sales at Dark Owl Records and owner Michelle Nguyen HAS OPINIONS ABOUT THAT.) Plus, the host of the party really hates parties, and there may be a shambling horror from underneath the store about to slaughter all the guests. But there’s plenty of cake and iced coffee, so come on over and dig for the latest records! Through the dirt. With your bare hands.Read OnBinary System Podcast #163 – WTNV #141 Save Dark Owl Records

Can we just say for the record that if you’ve attended a convention and been bitterly disappointed, you have our sympathies. THAT BEING SAID, grab some popcorn, because in the wake of the Fyre Festival documentaries (which we adored) we’re going to talk about a bunch more conventions that imploded due to inexperience, egos, financial shenanigans, downright mental incompetence, or all of the above. (We don’t know why we love Convention Disaster Stories, but we really, really do.)

Listen in as we go over what we know about TanaCon, Dashcon, Nerdcon, RainFurrest, and Universal FanCon, not to mention a bunch of geeking out about Fyre Festival because holy cow that crapfest makes for a great story.Read OnBinary System Podcast #162 – Convention Disaster Stories