Binary System Podcast

Binary System Podcast #503 – WTNV #285 “Our Ice Cream Truck of Infinite Sorrows”, and Pluribus

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:55:00 +0000

On this week’s Night Vale recap, when the creepy ice cream truck appeared we thought it was one of those awful stories about creepy ice cream guys preying on people. It’s not. IT’S SO MUCH WORSE. After that we have a spoiler-filled recap of Pluribus episode 5: how did the Hive Mind react to Carol’s...

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Binary System Podcast #502 – Pluribus episode 4

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:55:00 +0000

This week Pluribus continues to break our hearts while also expanding on the impossible situation Carol finds herself in. There are some hard choices made and quite a lot of betrayal (although does it count as betrayal if you’re trying to fix the entire human race? And who exactly gets to make the choice about...

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Binary System Podcast #501 – WTNV #285 “April Fools”, Beastars, and The Amazing Digital Circus

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:55:00 +0000

On this week’s Night Vale recap we spend a lot of time wondering why April Fools has to be so freaking MEAN. Scaring people, embarrassing people, setting up entire fake Arborist Day Parades with floats and hundreds of attendees…okay that last one is just Cecil BUT STILL. After that we recap another episode of Beastars,...

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Binary System Podcast #500 – Still No Plan!

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:55:00 +0000

We never actually pictured getting here, but Binary System Podcast has recorded five hundred episodes! (More or less. Minus some text-only episodes. And of course we had quite a few Welcome To Night Vale recap episodes before we started calling ourselves Binary System…look, it’s too complicated to get into, and we’d really rather celebrate and...

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Binary System Podcast #499 – Pluribus episode 3

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:55:00 +0000

On this week’s Pluribus recap, episode three starts with Carol stuck in the memory of one more time when she didn’t try harder to make Helen happy. (For the record, Carol, we get it, we don’t like being cold either, but OH MY GOD that ice hotel looks SO COOL.) (Pun not intended.) From there,...

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Binary System Podcast #498 – WTNV #284 “Harrison Kip’s Twilight Gospel Hour”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:55:00 +0000

Cecil and Night Vale Radio both get a break this week (aside from a couple of Station ID’s and a long list of “supporters”). Instead, we hear the soothing tones of Harrison Kip as he gives the listeners a little taste of his weird religion with a not-really-well-defined god, and some oddly specific commandments. (Look,...

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Binary System Podcast #497 – Pluribus episodes 1 and 2

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:55:00 +0000

Friend of the Podcast Hannah has been after us for a bit to give Pluribus a shot and after watching the first two episodes WE DEFINITELY GET THE APPEAL. This show is not at all what we expected, and keeps surprising us at every turn. And Rhea Seehorn is one of very few people who...

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Binary System Podcast #496 – WTNV #283 “Work From Home”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:55:00 +0000

A sandstorm in Night Vale means low visibility, accidental mudslides, and murderous doppelgängers roaming the streets. But it also means Cecil and Carlos can work from home today and spend time teaching their adorable spell-casting son how to not tamper with the laws of nature. (No, Esteban, stop it, the avocado tree is already too...

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Binary System Podcast #495 – KPop Demon Hunters, and everything we’re not watching

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:55:00 +0000

Wonder of all wonders, we actually watched what we said we were going to watch, and before the Oscars too! KPop Demon Hunters is gorgeous, funny, and powerful, and almost definitely aimed at an audience much much younger than us. We still got a kick out of it. (Derpy Cat and the Magpie are the...

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Binary System Podcast #494 – WTNV #282 “Antler Cove”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:55:00 +0000

The investigation into the murder of Marcus Vanston is on the back burner this week, because Cecil is laser-focused on a very important issue. It doesn’t get a lot of discussion usually, which is a shame because there are people suffering. The issue is “Not Liking The Popular TV Show That Everyone Else Is Watching...

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Binary System Podcast #493 – Transformers One

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:55:00 +0000

It only took us a year this time (year and a half, tops) but we finally watched Transformers One. And you know what? We have no excuses for why it took us this long, especially since it’s so freaking good. Spoiler warnings ahead, though we’re not spoiling the plot so much as fangirling over everything...

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Binary System Podcast #492 – WTNV #281 “Witnesses”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:55:00 +0000

This week in Night Vale, Dana Cardinal’s investigation into the murder of Marcus Vanston is finally making progress: a witness has come forward! Actually four witnesses. And not one of them has any useful information. We don’t know yet if people are being made to forget what they’ve seen, or are being prevented from saying...

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Binary System Podcast #491 – Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:55:00 +0000

It’s a good thing Kathryn watched the Star Trek Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover this week, mostly because now we can talk about how awesome it is that the actors who voiced the animated characters got to play the live-action versions in an episode that was equal parts heartwarming and freaking hilarious. But it’s also...

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Binary System Podcast #490 – Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:55:00 +0000

“Hee. Moriarty throwing a paper airplane at a very angsty Hawkeye. I’ll be in my bunk.” Yay, we actually watched something we planned to watch! What…no, not Weapons. And not Nosferatu either. This week we finally sat down and watched the latest Knives Out movie, and we loved it. This movie has everything: amazing actors...

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Binary System Podcast #489 – Star Trek: Lower Decks, the final two episodes

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:55:00 +0000

The last two episodes of the final season of Star Trek: Lower Decks had everything: fantastic stunt casting, a squad of Harry Kims, mountains of technobabble, a version of Mariner who knows very little about jailbreaks, and Jack Quaid doing his best freaked-out screams. We LOVED it. Listen in as we spoil everything, miss most...

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Binary System Podcast #488 – Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 Finale

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:55:00 +0000

It’s finally here! Four years of gang wars and prison riots, backroom deals and family ties, unbreakable loyalty and horrific betrayal, and it all brings us to the final episode of Mayor of Kingstown, where… …hang on, what’s that? So this isn’t the final season? Well, we can’t say we’re all that surprised, because while...

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Binary System Podcast #487 – 2022’s Christmas musical “Spirited.”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:55:00 +0000

Happy New Year everybody! Hope your holiday is fun and your 2026 better than you hoped! This week we’re sitting down with special guest Hannah Wallace to discuss 2022’s epic Christmas musical, Spirited, which we really should’ve watched before now because it’s all kinds of fun. Play the Podcast Below | Download the MP3 |...

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Binary System Podcast #486 – Mayor of Kingstown season 4 episode 9 “Teeth and Tissue”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 13:55:00 +0000

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...

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A Conversation about Night Vale, and Mayor of Kingstown Season 4 episode 8 “Belleville”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:55:00 +0000

So a scheduling snafu meant we couldn’t record a recap this week, but we COULD have Messenger conversation about season 4 episode 8 of Mayor of Kingstown because WE ARE NOT HAPPY AND WE HAVE A LOT TO SAY. GIANT GREAT BIG SPOILERS OF COURSE. We start with a quick recap of a very sweet episode...

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Binary System Podcast #485 – Mayor of Kingstown and Star Trek: Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:55:00 +0000

This 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...

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Binary System Podcast #484 – WTNV #279 “J’Accuse!”, and Mayor of Kingstown

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:55:00 +0000

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...

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Binary System Podcast #483 – Mayor of Kingstown and Star Trek: Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:55:00 +0000

The theme of this week’s episode of Mayor of Kingstown is paranoia. Is Frank Moses playing a long game and setting Bunny up for failure? Is the Warden playing an even longer game and hoping her secret connections will protect her? Is Mike’s new friend/lover/it’s complicated Cindy getting close to Mike for her own nefarious...

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Binary System Podcast #482 – WTNV #278 “How to Solve a Murder”, and Mayor of Kingstown

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:55:00 +0000

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...

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Binary System Podcast #481 – Mayor of Kingstown and Star Trek: Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:55:00 +0000

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,...

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Binary System Podcast #480 – WTNV #277 “The Big Game”, and Mayor of Kingstown

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:55:00 +0000

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...

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Binary System Podcast #479 – We watched Heretic (and Mayor of Kingstown)

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:55:00 +0000

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...

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Binary System Podcast #478 – WTNV #276 “The Big Game”, Wednesday, and random horror

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:55:00 +0000

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),...

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Binary System Podcast #477 – We watched Sinners

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:55:00 +0000

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,...

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Binary System Podcast #476 – WTNV #275 “Date Night”, Lower Decks, and Wednesday

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:55:00 +0000

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...

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Binary System Podcast #475 – WTNV #274 “The HOA”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:55:00 +0000

There’s a new Homeowners’ Association trying to muscle its way into Night Vale, and the residents of the Desert Grove neighborhood have a lot of questions. Will the new HOA have rules against owning more than 36 iguanas? Are abandoned cruise ships on the front lawn still allowed? And for crying out loud, what are...

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Binary System Podcast #474 – Robert Redford and “The Sting.”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:55:00 +0000

It’s a travel edition this week, featuring the return of special guest Hannah Wallace! Listen in as we discuss (accompanied by tree frogs and crickets) the life and work of Robert Redford, specifically The Sting since we all sat down to watch it in his memory. Of course we also wander off into some tangents,...

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Binary System Podcast #473 – WTNV #273 “Horror Recs”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:55:00 +0000

As longtime Welcome To Night Vale fans and two people who love horror movies and are always accepting recommendations (with some terms and conditions*), the latest episode could not be more perfect. Not only does Cecil share some of his favorite horror movies, he also passes along suggestions from other familiar Night Vale citizens. Come...

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Binary System Podcast #472 – Star Trek: Lower Decks and Wednesday season 2 premiere

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:55:00 +0000

“We’re not talking Uncanny Valley, we’re talking Uncanny Grand Canyon.” In this week’s Star Trek: Lower Decks recap we discuss Dr. Migleemo’s attempt to cook for two food critics from Klowahka (…geddit? Cloaca? Bird butts? Cause they’re birds? It is a very silly episode) while Mariner tries to get her Klingon buddy Ma’ah’s captaincy back...

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Binary System Podcast #471 – WTNV #272 “Horoscopes”, and Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:55:00 +0000

Well if you know us you know we love some Night Vale horoscopes, except for the fact that Capricorn is ALWAYS getting the shaft. Luckily this week Capricorn made it out fairly unscathed, other than that whole accidental bear mauling thing. That’s just LIFE, man. After the recap we jump into the third episode of...

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Binary System Podcast #470 – Station Eleven Series Finale

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:55:00 +0000

We watched the series finale of Station Eleven this week, only three and a half years late, that’s a record for us! (Except for when we watched Mayor of Kingstown season three the same month it was released. Or Love Death and Robots the same week it came out. We’re bad at TV except when...

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Binary System Podcast #469 – WTNV #271 “The Festival”, and Station Eleven

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:55:00 +0000

Welcome To Night Vale is back from hiatus, and they’ve brought us the perfect summer episode! The description of a mysterious festival in the desert made us nostalgic for Dead & Company shows, and the description of just how horribly, HORRIBLY the festival goes wrong made us nostalgic for when Fyre Festival was an entertaining...

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Binary System – A conversation about Station Eleven episode 8

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:55:00 +0000

Elizabeth managed to pick up the Con Crud™ at Comic-Con, and doesn’t have much voice to speak of, so this week’s “episode” is a text messenger conversation about Station Eleven episode 8. ElizabethAlmost ready, was just rewatching the last five minutes KathrynI just skimmed a couple more recaps ElizabethDone, ready any time you are! KathrynReady...

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Binary System Podcast #468 – San Diego Comic-Con, GalaxyCon, and Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:55:00 +0000

This week we’ve got recaps of ALL the Conventions. And by all we mean two. But they’re big ones! The West Coast branch of the podcast was at San Diego Comic-Con, while the East Coast branch was at GalaxyCon Raleigh. We spent the weekend taking cosplay photos, checking out the latest merch on the sales...

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Binary System Podcast #467 – Station Eleven and Star Trek: Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:55:00 +0000

The Station Eleven episode we recap this week is number 7, “Goodbye My Damaged Home”, and oh boy. If you’re watching this show then you know why this one just knocked our socks off. (And if you’re not, well, you really should, what are you waiting for?) We finally get the backstory for why Kirsten...

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Binary System Podcast #466 – Station Eleven, Lower Decks, Superman, and “The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:55:00 +0000

It’s a bonus-sized (and spoileriffic!) episode this week because we’ve got a lot to go over. Another episode of Station Eleven of course, with gorgeous cinematography, excellent music, and a lot of questions: are the child-bombing psychos from the Museum, the Prophet, or the Red Bandanas? (Or all three, we have no idea who’s side...

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Binary System Podcast #465 – Station Eleven, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Picard

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:55:00 +0000

First up this week we start with a spoileriffic recap of the Station Eleven bottle episode “The Severn City Airport,” where we find out how the Prophet became so intensely creepy, tho we’re still not sure how he ended up with The Book. Then we jump to an equally spoileriffic recap of the second-to-last episode...

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Binary System Watch Party – Tombstone

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 19:05:18 +0000

It’s the return of the Watch Party! The Players: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kathryn, and Nathan. (With Mom chiming in through Hannah.) ElizabethAll ready here! HannahHere too! KathrynAlmost ready!Stupid adsFinally ready! HannahShall we go? KathrynYep, playing! HannahPlaying KathrynI’ve obviously seen this recently (we had to select start over) How about everyone else? HannahNever NathanRobert Mitchum with the...

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Binary System Podcast #464 – Station Eleven and Star Trek: Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:55:00 +0000

Our journey through a post-pandemic world continues this week as we discuss the fourth episode of Station Eleven. The lines are being drawn between the people still mourning the world that existed before the pandemic, and the people born after the pandemic who will never understand how bad it was and wish people would just...

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Binary System Watch Party – 28 Weeks Later

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:55:00 +0000

It’s the return of the Watch Party! With 28 Years Later in theaters now we thought it was high time to sit down and watch 28 Weeks Later. (Only 18 years late, how about that?) The Players: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kathryn, and Nathan. (With Mom chiming in through Hannah.) ElizabethConfirming it is 28 WEEKS later we’re...

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Binary System Podcast #463 – Station Eleven, The Phoenician Scheme, and 28 Weeks Later

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:55:00 +0000

We’ve clearly been kidnapped by aliens and replaced with clones who are much better at watching movies, because this week we caught up on a show that’s only four years old, and watched a movie that’s still in the theater. (Then of course we watched a movie 18 years after it came out, so maybe...

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Binary System Podcast #462 – WTNV #270 “Deeper Than Purpose, Older Than Thought”, Love Death + Robots, and Star Trek: Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 13:55:00 +0000

The Welcome To Night Vale writers decided to prepare for the July hiatus by wrapping up two storylines this episode. And we can thank good-natured, heart-of-the-podcast Steve Carlsburg for both of them. The mysterious Labyrinth corporation will no longer be sending Night Vale citizens to perform illicit deeds in the desert, and the supply chain...

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Binary System Podcast #461 – WTNV #269 “A Story About Me”, Love Death + Robots, Station Eleven, and Star Trek Lower Decks.

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:55:00 +0000

“My GOD the way this show delivers information…” We’ve got a lot to cover this week, starting with what’s quickly becoming our favorite kind of Night Vale episode: a Steve Carlsberg story! (Seriously, ten years ago we loved to hate him as much as Cecil did, now we think he’s practically the heart of Night...

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Binary System Podcast #460 – Station Eleven series premiere, with special guest Hannah

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:55:00 +0000

The Binary System Podcast team has been getting a little better at TV lately, but we’re still three years late in watching Station Eleven (based on the best-selling book that Kathryn reviewed way back in 2014). Fortunately, younger sister Hannah was visiting last weekend and we needed a topic to discuss so she could do...

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Binary System Podcast #459 – Love, Death, and Robots, and Star Trek Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 29 May 2025 12:55:00 +0000

This week we watched three whole episodes of the new season of Love, Death + Robots (yes we want pats on the head for that thank you) and while there’s a lot to discuss regarding Robert Valley’s amazing animation, a possible origin story for “Three Robots”, and voice actors we’ve gotten to interview, what we...

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Binary System Podcast #458 – WTNV #268 “Home Office” and Love, Death, and Robots

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:55:00 +0000

In this week’s recap, Steve Carlsberg is fitting into his job at Labyrinth as well as can be expected. By which we mean he’s working himself to death, losing connection with his family, and his attempts at corporate team-building are not appreciated. It’s a grim state of affairs, and don’t even get us started on...

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Binary System Podcast #457 – Star Trek: Lower Decks and Dark Knights of Steel

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:55:00 +0000

“ALL the Cali-class ships ALL OF THEM.” Kathryn watched three episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks this week, and Elizabeth rewatched two of them, so she can contribute something helpful. (For once – Kathryn.) (Yes ALL RIGHT. – Elizabeth) Anyway, the final two episodes of season three solve the mystery of Rutherford, bring T’Lyn to...

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Binary System Podcast #456 – WTNV #267 “Missed Connections” and more Star Trek: Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 08 May 2025 13:55:00 +0000

This week in Night Vale, Cecil’s starting a new segment: Missed Connections. I’m sure you’re all familiar with the concept, where you throw all of your longing and regret into the public forum in the hopes that one person (or in the case here, one car, one planet, one train, or one very untrustworthy partner...

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Binary System Podcast #455 – WTNV #266 “The Return of Poetry Week” and random trailers

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 01 May 2025 12:55:00 +0000

It’s poetry week in Night Vale! Let’s all pull together and submit at least a couple hundred poems each, and this time could we please not have any incidents with the menacing obelisk in the Dog Park and oh come on WHAT DID I JUST SAY? After the recap we’ve gotta talk about some amazing...

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Binary System Podcast #454 – Black Mirror: USS Callister – Into Infinity

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:55:00 +0000

We actually DO have a Welcome to Night Vale episode to recap…but we also watched an episode of the latest season of Black Mirror. Believe it or not this is actually what we said we were gonna do, so of course we have to post a recap right away. After a quick discussion of some...

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Binary System Podcast #453 – Star Trek: Lower Decks, Black Mirror, Love Death + Robots, and Godzilla Minus One

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:55:00 +0000

It’s beautiful. It’s really intensely weird, but it’s beautiful. So like the title says, this week we’re talking about Star Trek: Lower Decks, Godzilla Minus One, and the newest seasons of Black Mirror and Love Death + Robots. SOME of which we’ve actually watched. (Okay it’s Star Trek and Godzilla. LD+R isn’t out yet and...

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Binary System Podcast #452 – WTNV #265 “Labyrinth”, and Beastars Season 3 Finale (?)

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:55:00 +0000

Okay, we need to address that (?) in the episode title. Raise your hands, how many of you out there knew that Beastars Season 3 was going to be in TWO PARTS? Wow, that many of you? Okay, well we’d ask everybody to check back for updates on when the second part will be released,...

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Binary System Podcast #451 – Beastars, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and WonderCon 2025

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:55:00 +0000

FIrst up this week we do a quick breakdown of WonderCon 2025, discussing everything from the amazing cosplay to low-frills motels, with some quick tangents into Cowboy Bebop (gotta love the anime rooms at Con) and Skibidi Toilet (finally saw some Skibidi merch in the wild!) After that we jump into the second-to-last episode of...

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Binary System Podcast #450 – Beastars and Star Trek: Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:55:00 +0000

Episode 450! That’s…kind of a milestone, right? To celebrate, let’s do the same thing we’ve been doing for a few weeks now! First up, Beastars Season 3, episode 10. This episode merits a trigger warning, since we finally get to see what led to Legoshi’s mother’s death, and it’s pretty heartbreaking. There’s also a brief...

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Binary System Podcast #449 – WTNV #264 “Duet”, Beastars, and Star Trek Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:55:00 +0000

On this week’s Night Vale we got to hear from Cecil’s former boss Leonard Burton, who’s much more than just a radio host. He’s also dead! After the recap we jump into episode 9 of the final season of Beastars, where they’d like us to believe that someone got un-alived but they’ve pulled that stunt...

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Binary System Podcast #448 – Beastars and Star Trek: Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:55:00 +0000

The episode of Beastars that we recapped this week isn’t quite as unsettling as last week’s episode. That civet cat is still off-putting and weird, but my goodness do the animators do an excellent job with Yaya’s animation. The team that animated that zebra in the noodle shop, however, can go sit in a corner...

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Binary System Podcast #447 – WTNV #263 “Hysteria Land”, Beastars, and the Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:55:00 +0000

On tonight’s recap of Welcome to Night Vale we learn that Night Vale’s newest attraction, Hysteria Land, is not an amusement park, it’s a theme park. And the theme is “amusement.” We’d argue that the theme is also “existential dread” and “impossibly frightening.” Arms inside the ride, kids, watch out for the dead animals. After...

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Binary System Podcast #446 – WTNV #262 “The Man Who Is Not Tall”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:55:00 +0000

“That’s a good question.” “Thank you!” “It’s best to not ask questions. Especially good ones.” If the title to the Welcome to Night Vale episode sounds familiar, we’re seeing the return of a harrowing duo from Night Vale’s past: The Man Who Is Not Tall, and The Man Who Is Not Short. And unfortunately The...

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Binary System Fan Art Gallery – Arcane Edition

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:00:38 +0000

Since this week we were guests on an episode of Mid-Life Crisis Task Force, our usual “episode” will be a fan art post, this time featuring some beautiful pieces in honor of the series finale of Arcane! Jinx by mimimaru on Instagram Jinx by MyDesignWorld Jinx by Hazel V0 on imprint Piltover: Mel, by BurningArtist...

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Binary System Podcast #445 – Arcane Series Finale

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:55:00 +0000

It took two, maybe two-and-a-half months longer than everyone else, but the Binary System Podcast team finally watched the final episode (ever?) of Arcane: League of Legends. Ten out of ten. No notes. Of course it takes us an entire episode to go into detail about why we think this episode was the perfect way...

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Binary System Podcast #444 – WTNV #261 “Brought To You By Flakey O’s,” Beastars, and Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 13:55:00 +0000

Welcome to Night Vale is back from hiatus this week so we’ve gotta talk about the Flakey-O’s employees as they celebrate their return from a Season of Unstoppable Churning Death. (Otherwise known as corporate takeover.) Totally understandable that they’d want to cut loose for a bit, and what’s a little grave robbing among friends? After...

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Binary System Podcast #443 – Arcane, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Bojack Horseman

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:55:00 +0000

Wow, we’ve got a real rhythm going with these posts! We’re back again this week to discuss the second-to-last episode (ever!) of Arcane. What can we say about this show that we haven’t said before? It’s beautiful, it’s terrifying, it’s powerful, it’s violent. We finally get the backstory on what’s been happening with Mel, but...

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Binary System Podcast #442 – Star Trek: Lower Decks, Beastars, and Bojack Horseman

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:55:00 +0000

Second verse, same as the first: we’re back this week to talk about Star Trek: Lower Decks (the Star Trek future is the best future: good hearted and occasionally sexy!) and Beastars (okay but WHY did Louis say he was a virgin, does having sex with Haru not count? Did they actually HAVE sex?), and...

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Binary System Podcast #441 – Star Trek: Lower Decks, Beastars, and Arcane

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:55:00 +0000

This week it’s thirty minutes and three topics as the Binary System Podcast team does an in-depth recap of…okay, so the first two topics are gonna be kinda fast. Kathryn watched Season 2 Episode 6 of Star Trek: Lower Decks (foley artists, take a bow), and Elizabeth and Kathryn both watched Season 3 Episode 3...

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Binary System Podcast #440 – Beastars and Star Trek Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:55:00 +0000

Wonder of all wonders we actually managed to watch another episode of Beastars season 3. Never mind the fact that Elizabeth only finished watching it five minutes before the recording, it got done and that’s what counts. (Keep telling yourself that, slacker. ~ Kathryn) (Oy! ~ Elizabeth) After recapping the various Beastars heartbreaks (poor Juno...

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Binary System Podcast #439 – WTNV #260 “The December Monologues”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:55:00 +0000

Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone’s 2025 is already shaping up to be calm and stress-free and completely absent of any kind of drama. This week’s recap is actually way late, but we’ve got to get through a whole month of Welcome To Night Vale being on hiatus, so why not wait until January to...

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Binary System Podcast #438 – Holiday Travel Edition

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 13:55:00 +0000

Hope everybody is having safe and happy holidays! This week’s episode is super short because one: at time of recording we were on the road, and two: we haven’t caught up with much In the way of TV, movie, and books this week. Elizabeth’s only finished the second to last episode of Star Trek Lower...

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Binary System Podcast #437 Arcane Season Two, Beastars Season 3 episode 1

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:55:00 +0000

Happy Holidays from the Binary System Podcast team! Our present to everyone this year is an extra-long episode, because there is just so much content. The final season of Beastars dropped while we were looking the other way, so we have to talk about the first episode and how this season seems to be tackling...

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Binary System Podcast #436 – WTNV #259 “Chrysalis,” and Star Trek: Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:55:00 +0000

“…the chrysalis is showing signs that it may soon open…” It’s Night Vale, so that could either mean Steve Carlsberg leaving his old life for a new one, or it could be the VERY LITERAL chrysalis with a monster inside. Obviously, it’s both, but between the thing in the cocoon and Steve’s employers, maybe we...

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Binary System Watch Party – Rosemary’s Baby

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:02:53 +0000

It’s the return of the Watch Party! We all sat down to watch Rosemary’s Baby, complete with chocolate mousse (though without the chalky undertaste.) This was actually recorded before Halloween, Elizabeth just didn’t have her flim-flam act together to post it till now. The Players: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kathryn, and Mom. KathrynI will be typing slower...

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Binary System Podcast #435 Arcane Season Two, Episode 3

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 14:55:00 +0000

The first arc of Arcane Season 2 wraps up with a glorious one-on-one battle between Vi and Jinx (well, one-one-one, if you don’t count Caitlyn and Sevika fighting it out in the wings, and the Orphan Moppet who’s latched on to Jinx just generally getting in the way.) Many things are happening simultaneously in this...

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Binary System Podcast #434 – WTNV #258 “Swap Meet,” Arcane, and Ren Faires

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:55:00 +0000

Night Vale’s holding its first-ever Swap Meet this week, and the Sanitation Department wants to make sure you follow all the rules: there’s no money of any kind allowed, tangible and intangible swaps are encouraged, and Faustian Deals that cost you your immortal soul? Those are perfectly acceptable, go talk to the demons in the...

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Binary System Podcast #433 Arcane Season Two

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:55:00 +0000

This week the Binary System Podcast team watched the first episode of Arcane: League of Legends season 2. That’s it, that’s all you need to know; we watched it and it’s amazing. Okay, yes, we also talked a little bit about what we’re also watching (Dario Argento and the original run of Frasier) and what...

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Binary System Podcast #432 – WTNV #257 “Traffic”, 2005’s Constantine, and Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:55:00 +0000

On this week’s Night Vale recap we’re taking about the brand new innovation the venture capitalists have come up with: a ride share where a bunch of people take the same big car, and it goes around to different places and some people get on and some get off (…the bus, they’ve reinvented the bus....

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Binary System Podcast #431 The Exorcist III

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:55:00 +0000

Happy Halloween! We’re officially in the middle of spooky movie season, so this week we’re talking about a classic horror film. It’s the Exorcist…Three! Not a perfect film by any means; you can see the heavy hand of the producers who insisted on changing the name from William Blatty’s Legion in order to capitalize on...

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Binary System Podcast #430 – WTNV #256 “The Book of Lost Things,” and the Mayor of Kingstown season (series?) finale

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:55:00 +0000

The head of Night Vale’s new Unnamed Religion Seriously Nobody Ever Says What It Is They All Avoid Telling You The Name That’s Not Suspicious At All is in Cecil’s broadcast studio, discussing sheep, rudeness, and all the things you’ve lost in your life, tangible or intangible. It’s a lovely selection of Weird Things (that’s...

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Binary System Podcast #429 Return of the Sit-Rep, Take Two!

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 12:55:00 +0000

We didn’t actually plan to do a second sit-rep episode so soon. Unfortunately another gigantic event hit the US in the last week, causing a lot of uproar and basically making everyone’s lives harder. That’s right, Netflix cancelled KAOS after only one season. It’s an unacceptable state of affairs and we demand to speak with...

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Binary System Podcast #428 – WTNV #255 “The John Peters Imaginary Corn Maze Experience,” and more catch-up TV

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 12:55:00 +0000

The air’s getting cooler and the nights are getting longer, so Night Vale is celebrating with a corn maze and all the fun things that go along with it: caramel apples, pumpkins, laughing, screaming, zombies, acid-filled sharks, and existential dread. Ooo and cider! As soon as we escaped the rusty chainsaws and applied corn-silk tourniquets...

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Binary System Podcast #427 Return of the Sit-Rep

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:55:00 +0000

The next Night Vale episode didn’t drop early enough for us to do a recap this week, and there’s been enough stuff going on that we figured it was a good time to bring back the Sit Rep (With Beers!) The good news is that Elizabeth is newly-employed and feeling very relieved and grateful (unemployment...

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Binary System Podcast #426 – The Crown, Kaos, Time Bandits, Better Call Saul, and Star Trek Lower Decks

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:55:00 +0000

This week’s episode features the triumphant return of special guest Hannah Wallace, as she and the East Coast branch of the podcast fight their way through the wilds of Gatlinburg. (But really, they saw a bear and everything!) As they fill in Elizabeth on their adventures, everybody gets a chance to talk about what we’ve...

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Binary System Podcast #425 – WTNV #254 “The Triangle”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:55:00 +0000

Alejandra Nuñez, Ronnie Sharma, and Nanako Barnes of Mr. Prescott’s 5th Period AP English Class – the protectors of Night Vale otherwise known as the Library Tweens – have decided that they DON’T want to be known as the Library Tweens anymore. They need a new name, something with a little more staying power. This...

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Binary System Podcast #424 – Lower Decks, Mayor of Kingstown, Kaos, and somewhat careless snake people

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:55:00 +0000

Okay in some respects it’s just business as usual around here: Kathryn and Elizabeth have both been watching season 1 of Star Trek: Lower Decks, four years after it first came out, that tracks. But Kathryn just watched the first episode of Mayor of Kingstown season 3, only three months late, what the heck? And...

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Binary System Podcast #423 – WTNV #253 “Instructions for Folding”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:55:00 +0000

Surprise! Due to travel delays, lack of any Lore Olympus updates (mournful sigh), and time (and scheduling) just generally being weird, we’re doing two Welcome To Night Vale recap episodes in a row! This week we’re getting crafty, so prepare your sunniest room (no windows allowed), grab your best implement (stolen is preferred) and your...

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Binary System Podcast #422 – WTNV #252 “Paid Programming,” and Poker Face.

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:55:00 +0000

We knew as soon as we saw the title that this week’s Night Vale would feature the return of Deb the Sentient Patch of Haze. But we assumed she’d be hawking several things, instead of just two: a spray that may or may not repel Librarians, and a teleporter that may or not make people...

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Binary System Fan Art Gallery – Travel Edition

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:55:00 +0000

The East Coast branch of the podcast is traveling along with the official Podcast Photographer (otherwise known as her husband Nathan) so this week we’ve got another fan art gallery full of amazing images, featuring Transformers, Lore Olympus, Saga, Loki, and Arcane!

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Binary System Podcast #421 – Mayor of Kingstown Season 2 and Poker Face

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:55:00 +0000

The Binary System Podcast team appears to be on a bit of a roll lately. Just this week Kathryn finished season 2 of Mayor of Kingstown, and both Kathryn and Elizabeth have watched all but the last episode of Poker Face. That’s two TV series where we’re now less than a year and a half...

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Binary System Podcast #420 – WTNV #251 “Detours”, plus Logan (finally!)

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 12:55:00 +0000

(Heh. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.) Night Vale has come up with this amazing “ride share” program, and it even has driverless cars! Of course, the ride doesn’t take you anywhere near where you wanted to go, and the cars are only “driverless” because ghosts don’t count. Or do they? Doors are locked for...

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Binary System Podcast #419 – SDCC 2024 and GalaxyCon 2024 Convention Round-Up

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:55:00 +0000

The gigantic, internationally-known event has wrapped up, with thousands of people having attended, and the whole world’s talking about the big reveals and celebrity appearances. That’s right, GalaxyCon 2024 in Raleigh North Carolina was a blast. In all seriousness, while the East Coast branch of Binary System Podcast was going to GalaxyCon, the West Coast...

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Binary System Podcast #418 – Poker Face and other TV and movie catch-up

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:55:00 +0000

So, we’re bad at TV and movies. …oh, you were expecting a “but” there weren’t you? No, we’re absolutely horrible at TV and movies, which is why this week we’re catching up on Poker Face episode one, which only came out a year and a half ago. Before you congratulate us, you should know Kathryn’s...

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Binary System Podcast #417 – We watched John Wick (yes, the first one)

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:55:00 +0000

In the latest installment of our ongoing series “We’re Bad At Movies But We Have A Lot Of Enthusiasm”, this week we decided to finally watch the 2014 movie John Wick. And we loved it. It’s an absolute symphony of beautifully-choreographed violence that takes the ridiculously improbable storyline of “Terrifying former hitman goes on a...

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A Conversation about Mayor of Kingstown Season 1

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 08:37:25 +0000

So what with travel logistics and laptop weirdness and blah blah blah excuses, we didn’t get a chance to record again this week, but we DID have time to discuss season one of Mayor of Kingstown. GIANT GREAT BIG SPOILERS OF COURSE. Mostly for episode 8, which is hands down the high water mark of...

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Binary System Podcast #416 – Light Speed Travel Edition

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:55:00 +0000

Happy 4th of July! Or if you don’t celebrate that, happy Thursday. It’s time once again for a super quick Travel Edition because we’re so busy being crazy jet setters! Either that or we’re all celebrating our Mom’s birthday and we lost track of time and had to record at the last minute. YOU DECIDE....

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Binary System Podcast #415 – WTNV #250 “Father Kevin”

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:55:00 +0000

It’s a short recap this week, since the action for the latest episode episode of Welcome to Night Vale can basically be summed up with “And then there was a battle.” We get a weird glimpse into the past (future?) of Kevin from Desert Bluffs, the Library Tweens need to, well, not learn to respect...

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Binary System Podcast #414 – WTNV #249 “Rifts”, and Mayor of Kingstown

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:55:00 +0000

Mother Lauren is sponsoring a citywide cleansing of Night Vale and yes that’s exactly as scary as it sounds. Self care is still important, so don’t forget to check into the Maximum Security Spa for a few hours. Or days. Years? Whatever, the good word of the day is TEETH. After the recap, Kathryn just...

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Binary System Podcast #413 – Lore Olympus episode 280 SERIES FINALE

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 13:55:00 +0000

The wildly popular webcomic Lore Olympus wraps up with episode 280! We were a little worried that there were so many unresolved plot threads left for the final episode, but Rachel Smythe managed to tie everything together in a pretty little bow. No spoilers, but if you have any questions about how it all ended...

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Binary System Podcast #412 – WTNV #248 “Mother Lauren”, and Mayor of Kingstown

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 30 May 2024 12:55:00 +0000

There is nothing wrong with your radio, Night Vale, do not attempt to adjust the dial. Mother Lauren is controlling the transmission. And she is pissed. This week’s Night Vale recap features nightmare images of a clawed monster Freddy Kruegering her way down the street, but also asks the age-old question: is a hot dog...

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Binary System Podcast #411 – Lore Olympus episode 278 and 279

pods@pixelatedgeek.com (Pixelated Geek) — Thu, 23 May 2024 13:55:00 +0000

Only three episodes left of Lore Olympus, and there is a lot going on. We’re not sure how many of the unresolved plot threads are gonna get wrapped up in the series finale (Eros and Psyche? Zeus’s millennia of betrayal? Leto finally getting her comeuppance?), but in the two episodes we’re recapping this week we...

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