Binary System Podcast Archive

This episode originally broadcast on October 8, the original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/10/binary-system-podcast-526-wtnv-295-the-book-of-dale-and-better-call-saul/On this week's Night Vale recap, Harrison Kip's god Dale has written a book and the Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home doesn't think it's worth much.Yep. That's a legitimate sentence you can write when you're recapping Night Vale.After that we jump into season three episode nine of Better Call Saul, which is a perfect example of how every character is way too good at masking: Jimmy can mask what a rat bastard he is by making an old woman cry; Chuck can mask how much electronics still hurt him while he's threatening to sue his own company into oblivion; and Kim can mask all the effects of burning the candle at both end for weeks. Until she can't. And also YIKES.Plus there's the usual tangents into 2016's Sing, 2023's Nimona, illuminated manuscripts, and why we'd pick Better Call Saul over Breaking Bad for a rewatch any old day.This episode's outro is a clip from Midnight Circuit by 1000 Handz.Correction: Elizabeth said she wanted to watch Sing before it left the theater. She meant before it left Netflix.Correction #2: when discussing the cast of Sing, we thought the guy from Parks and Recreation was Oberman. It is, of course, Offerman. Sorry, Nick.It can be really easy to slip into doom and despair at the state of the world right now, but there are things you can do to help. Check out Stand With Minnesota for links to fundraisers and other ways you can show your support. If we haven't made it abundantly clear where we stand on this, FUCK ICE.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.For updates, fan art, and other randomness, come follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram!

This episode originally broadcast on October 1, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/10/binary-system-podcast-525-backrooms-again-and-better-call-saul/Okay, yes, we know we’ve already talked about the movie Backrooms in a previous episode. But we just watched the video “Everything Must Go” that Kane Parsons put up for free on YouTube, and since that’s something of a prequel then we had to rewatch the movie and then fangirl about all the ways it’s deliciously creepy and unsettling.Then it was time to talk about the Season 3 episode 8 of Better Call Saul and wow, there’s a lot going on in this episode. Nacho’s trying to save his dad, Chuck’s trying to heal himself, Mike’s trying to provide for his family, Kim is trying to boost her career (and possibly save Jimmy), and Jimmy is, well. There’s a reason why the episode’s title is “Slip”. Jimmy is finding all kinds of reasons to slide back into his con-artist persona, and we all know where that is eventually going end.This episode’s outro is a clip from Between by Wrong Project.There’s a lot of people making Backrooms-inspired videos, and we think Vaporama Vision is one of the best. You can find one of our favorites here.It can be really easy to slip into doom and despair at the state of the world right now, but there are things you can do to help. Check out Stand With Minnesota for links to fundraisers and other ways you can show your support. If we haven’t made it abundantly clear where we stand on this, FUCK ICE.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.For updates, fan art, and other randomness, come follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram!

This episode originally broadcast on September 24, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/09/binary-system-podcast-524-wtnv-294-revelations-and-better-call-saul/On this week’s Night Vale recap, modern-day Cecil is back with some divine revelations from a god with a super underwhelming name. (Also the trees are being gross and they can knock that off RIGHT NOW.)After that we get into season 3 episodes 6 and 7 of Better Call Saul, where Jimmy has a really bad day and then it gets worse. Like, exhausting levels of worse. But of course that doesn’t stop him from wheeling and dealing and plotting revenge because Slippin Jimmy is an ANGRY dude.Meanwhile Mike bonds with a really nice woman from the grief therapy group and oh no she’s gonna get fridged isn’t she?And of course we’ve got the usual tangents into bad handwriting, breathing underwater, spilled milk, gory remakes, Transformers T-shirts, and Elizabeth getting certain character names wrong EVERY TIME.This episode’s outro is a clip from Master Key by 1000 Handz.Correction: Rhea Seehorn has won one Emmy out of four career nominations.Clarification: Disney+ announced to their European subscribers that ads will be allowed before and after playback on all tiers. U.S. subscribers haven’t been told that. Yet.Also as near as we can tell the last time we saw Transformers: The Movie in theaters was the Fathom Events one in 2018, which was possibly to drum up excitement for Bumblebee?Check out Hugh and David’s reviews of Resident Evil (2026.)It can be really easy to slip into doom and despair at the state of the world right now, but there are things you can do to help. Check out Stand With Minnesota for links to fundraisers and other ways you can show your support. If we haven’t made it abundantly clear where we stand on this, FUCK ICE.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.For updates, fan art, and other randomness, come follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram!

This episode originally broadcast on September 17, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/09/binary-system-podcast-523-the-invisible-man-2020/Special guest star Hannah Wallace was visiting the East Coast branch of Binary System Podcast this week, and to celebrate we watched a movie together, just like we planned! Well, sort of planned. We did not watch Jordan Peel’s movie Us, but we did watch the 2020 film The Invisible Man, something Hannah’s been trying to get us to watch for a while now.Listen in as we have a spoilerrific discussion of a surprisingly intense film (seriously, Elizabeth had to take frequent breaks because the tension stays high for most of the movie), with digressions to the other versions of H.G. Wells’s 1897 book, some of which do sound intriguing. (Not Hollow Man, tho’.) We also talked about Season 3 Episode 6 of Better Call Saul, except not really because Elizabeth hasn’t finished it yet.This episode’s outro is a clip from The Freakazoid Race by TeknoAXE.It can be really easy to slip into doom and despair at the state of the world right now, but there are things you can do to help. Check out Stand With Minnesota for links to fundraisers and other ways you can show your support. If we haven’t made it abundantly clear where we stand on this, FUCK ICE.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.For updates, fan art, and other randomness, come follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram!

This episode originally broadcast on September 10, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/09/binary-system-podcast-522-wtnv-293-the-boys-1946-better-call-saul-and-nope/On this week’s Night Vale recap the radio station is still being run by the late Leonard “Gone But Still Talking” Burton because Cecil is still missing. OR IS HE? No, he is, but not for long…Anyway, Leonard gives us an episode from 1946 where the Boys have come home from the Great War. Are they a little weird? Sure! Are they destroying property? You bet! Have the horrors of war turned them into shambling creatures bent on destroying reality as we know it? Absolutely! But everybody processes trauma differently, and who doesn’t need to do a little heroin to cope?Speaking of trauma, we also recap season 3 episode 5 of Better Call Saul, which can be summed up with “Jimmy will do anything in his power to break Chuck on the witness stand, and he’s very good at it.”Finally, on Kathryn’s recommendation Elizabeth watched 2022’s Nope and HOLY COW THAT WAS WEIRD. But good! It rides the edge of almost being too much in terms of gore, but never takes it too far. Props to the designers: the alien and the way it moves is so menacing and unpleasantly organic, we loved it.This episode’s outro is a clip from Night Drive by 1000 Handz.It can be really easy to slip into doom and despair at the state of the world right now, but there are things you can do to help. Check out Stand With Minnesota for links to fundraisers and other ways you can show your support. If we haven’t made it abundantly clear where we stand on this, FUCK ICE.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.For updates, fan art, and other randomness, come follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram!

This episode originally broadcast on September 3, 2026. The original podast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/09/binary-system-podcast-521-hugo-awards-better-call-saul-and-in-memoriam/Yes yes, we know we said we’d have an episode of Welcome to Night Vale to recap this week, but in our defense we are BAD AT COUNTING, and we won’t be able to recap the new Night Vale episode until next week.At least we have a few other things to discuss. The good: Hugo Awards (with a brief mention of Ursula Vernon’s Fabulous Hat). The not so good, or at the very least the sad: we lost Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen last week and we are not okay.Finally, we watched another episode of Season 3 of Better Call Saul, a show which keeps getting better and better and which we probably should have gotten around to watching a long time ago. (Brief spoilers for Breaking Bad, or at least how the story of Gus Fring wrapped up, and wasn’t that amazing?)Play the Podcast Below | Download the MP3 | Subscribe via Apple Podcasts | RSS FeedYou can also listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel on Spotify!This episode’s outro is a clip from 909 Problems by Grumplefunk.Check out all the Hugo Award Winners, Nominees, and the reviews!If you’re curious about that last outtake clip in this episode…*sigh*. Look, GarageBand, we talked about this. You promised not to cut off the end of my recordings anymore, and I heavily implied that I wouldn’t throw you into a Microsoft Windows 95 floppy disk and run you through an industrial paper shredder. Let’s try not to have this discussion again, okay?It can be really easy to slip into doom and despair at the state of the world right now, but there are things you can do to help. Check out Stand With Minnesota for links to fundraisers and other ways you can show your support. If we haven’t made it abundantly clear where we stand on this, FUCK ICE.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.For updates, fan art, and other randomness, come follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram!

This episode originally broadcast on August 28, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/08/binary-system-podcast-520-the-final-two-episodes-of-beastars/It’s finally here, the last two episodes of the very last season of Beastars and……okay, we’re not gonna lie, it’s not great. Spoiler warnings for everything, including the rest of this description, but what the absolute hell.Why reveal the (super shocking and out of nowhere) truth about the artificial meat if you’re not going to do anything with it? Why waste time with the MMA rabbit fighter or Riz when you could’ve shown the drama club play they’ve been working on all season? What the hell was up with the lizard tail and the bomb? Who won the Black Market Turf War? Why give us all these gorgeous animated sequences only to throw Melon’s Mom to the C-Team animators? And why give Juno a measly 15 seconds at the end of the series and ONLY SHOW THE BACK OF HER HEAD?We also have a tangent into Ted Lasso and Lore Olympus only because they’re guilty of the same Telling Instead Of Showing nonsense that could’ve been from time constraints but is probably because they were too chicken to write the difficult scenes.This episode’s outro is a clip from Phonk House Hybrid by Alex Morgan.It can be really easy to slip into doom and despair at the state of the world right now, but there are things you can do to help. Check out Stand With Minnesota for links to fundraisers and other ways you can show your support. If we haven’t made it abundantly clear where we stand on this, FUCK ICE.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.For updates, fan art, and other randomness, come follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram!

This episode originally broadcast on August 20, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/08/binary-system-podcast-519-wtnv-292-collectibles-1999-and-beastars/It’s another flashback episode as Leonard Burton tries to distract us from the fact that Cecil is still missing. This week’s trip to the archives takes us to 1999, where a young Cecil is dipping his toes into the information superhighway and spending way too much on Beanie Babies from the brand-new online auction site: eBay. Ahhh, remember when eBay was new, and the experience of finding just that right bit of ephemera was still fresh, and upper executives of the company weren’t spending months terrorizing journalists for saying mean things about them? (Okay, that last bit has nothing to do with tonight’s episode, but dear Lord, have you read about that whole mess?)Anyway, this being Night Vale, the Beanie Babies are alive, the DJ’s are surprisingly nurturing, the secret police force is useless and not paying attention, and the local pastor is trying to stop young people from being, well, young.In other news, Legoshi in Beastars is still being impulsive and we say the phrase “Shi-Shi Gumi” a lot. We’re also catching up on Better Call Saul, and Jordan Peel’s film Nope is weird scary fun.This episode’s outro is a clip from Yet Another Analog Dance Track by TeknoAXE.It can be really easy to slip into doom and despair at the state of the world right now, but there are things you can do to help. Check out Stand With Minnesota for links to fundraisers and other ways you can show your support. If we haven’t made it abundantly clear where we stand on this, FUCK ICE.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.For updates, fan art, and other randomness, come follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram!

This episode originally broadcast on August 13, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/08/binary-system-podcast-518-beastars-and-better-call-saul/On this week’s recap of Beastars season 3 episode 21 (…yes 21, we doublechecked this time it really is 21…) we ask the important questions: will Louis end up with Juno, or pine away for Legoshi? What’s up with the MMA rabbit woman? Why do the A-Team animators always handle the bits with the rats? And what the ABSOLUTE HELL IS GOING ON WITH LEGOSHI’S GRANDMOTHER? Seriously, the bit with the venom and her “thoughtfulness” made NO sense, WHY are the women on this show so dumb?After that we have some random tangents into Murder Drones, Raised by Wolves, Kathryn’s thoughts on season four of Better Call Saul, and the fact that when Elizabeth said she’d finished season one of Better Call Saul she actually meant season two because SHE IS BAD AT COUNTING.This episode’s outro is a clip from Mixed Salad by Grumplefunk.It can be really easy to slip into doom and despair at the state of the world right now, but there are things you can do to help. Check out Stand With Minnesota for links to fundraisers and other ways you can show your support. If we haven’t made it abundantly clear where we stand on this, FUCK ICE.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.For updates, fan art, and other randomness, come follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram!

This episode originally broadcast on August 6, 2026. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2026/08/binary-system-podcast-517-wtnv-291-mall-madness-1987-and-beastars/Welcome To Night Vale is back from hiatus! To celebrate (and to cover for the fact that Cecil is missing) guest radio host Leonard Burton is sharing an episode from the archives! So send your Betamax back to the store, grab yourself an Orange Julius, and make sure you have your credit card handy for all those late-night 1-900 calls, because we're going back to August 1st 1987!It's the grand opening of the new Night Vale Mall, and while certain things haven't been finished yet (like "stores" or "ceilings" or "floors") we can still wander past the freestanding escalators and reminisce about some of the ways the 80's were just weird. (Our favorite things about the Hickory Farm store in the DeSoto Square Mall were the strawberry candies and the frozen yogurt, and we will not be taking questions at this time.)Then we recap episode 20 (yes we know we said 19, we are bad with numbers) of the final season of Beastars where Legoshi is having the worst luck, and then talk a little about Better Call Saul and last weekend's GenCon (sorry you had to deal with a tornado, folks. We're glad nobody died.)This episode's outro is a clip from Analogue Restart by TeknoAXE.It can be really easy to slip into doom and despair at the state of the world right now, but there are things you can do to help. Check out Stand With Minnesota for links to fundraisers and other ways you can show your support. If we haven't made it abundantly clear where we stand on this, FUCK ICE.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.For updates, fan art, and other randomness, come follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram!