Binary System Podcast #263: WTNV #186 "The Many Lives of Frank Chen"

<p>Original broadcast date April 22, 2021. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/04/binary-system-podcast-263-wtnv-186-the-many-lives-of-frank-chen/</p> <p>Big news in Night Vale this week! The Secret Police were given one year to provide the life of Frank Chen back to his family, an impossible task that they somehow managed to accomplish way before the deadline! Yes indeed, Frank Chen, good as new, exactly as he was before, no need to look too closely. Or ask questions. Or...</p> <p>You're not buying this, are you? That's okay, neither is the family of Frank Chen...</p> <p>In other news, and<strong> </strong><em>wow </em>was there a lot of news on the day we recorded this episode. In one day we got the spectacular trailers for <a href="https://pixelatedgeek.com/2021/04/trailer-release-date-and-credits-for-love-death-and-robots-vol-2/">Love, Death, and Robots</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPjz6LoiQQo">Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings</a>, the reveal that Olivia Coleman is joining the MCU (or as some will say, the MCU is now joining Olivia Colman's universe), David Tenant's birthday, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhMJOGG_1fw">Christoper Eccleston</a> answering fan's questions and being delightfully prickly, and SOMEBODY finally got her first vaccination shot.</p> <p>The outro this week is a clip from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzAIyvPbLIk">Hello Robo</a> by TeknoAxe.</p> <p>The podcast that the Welcome to Night Vale crew recommended is <a href="http://www.pizzaatmcdonalds.com/">Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's</a>. It looks weird as heck. http://www.pizzaatmcdonalds.com/</p> <p><em>Correction: Blockbusters apparently did NOT censor or otherwise edit videos. They just refused to carry movies that didn't fit their "family friendly" atmosphere, thus convincing producers that it would behoove them to provide tepid, watered-down alternate versions of unrated or NC-17 films. Vulture has a great article about this and other shady pra