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Binary System Podcast
Formerly known as The Night Vale Recap, we now present The Binary System Podcast. Twins Kathryn Adams and Elizabeth Wallace bring you recaps of Welcome To Night Vale, and geek out about any shiny thing that distracts them.
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Binary System Podcast #471 – WTNV #272 “Horoscopes”, and Lower Decks
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…
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Binary System Podcast #470 – Station Eleven Series Finale
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…
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Binary System Podcast #469 – WTNV #271 “The Festival”, and Station Eleven
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…
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Binary System – A conversation about Station Eleven episode 8
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…
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Binary System Podcast #468 – San Diego Comic-Con, GalaxyCon, and Lower Decks
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…
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Binary System Podcast #467 – Station Eleven and Star Trek: Lower Decks
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…
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Binary System Podcast #466 – Station Eleven, Lower Decks, Superman, and “The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel”
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…
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Binary System Podcast #465 – Station Eleven, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Picard
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…
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Binary System Watch Party – Tombstone
It’s the return of the Watch Party! The Players: Elizabeth, Hannah, Kathryn, and Nathan. (With Mom chiming in through Hannah.) ElizabethAll ready here!…
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Binary System Podcast #464 – Station Eleven and Star Trek: Lower Decks
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…
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Binary System Watch Party – 28 Weeks Later
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…
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Binary System Podcast #463 – Station Eleven, The Phoenician Scheme, and 28 Weeks Later
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…
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Binary System Podcast #462 – WTNV #270 “Deeper Than Purpose, Older Than Thought”, Love Death + Robots, and Star Trek: Lower Decks
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…
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Binary System Podcast #461 – WTNV #269 “A Story About Me”, Love Death + Robots, Station Eleven, and Star Trek Lower Decks.
“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…
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Binary System Podcast #460 – Station Eleven series premiere, with special guest Hannah
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…
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Binary System Podcast #459 – Love, Death, and Robots, and Star Trek Lower Decks
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…
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Binary System Podcast #458 – WTNV #268 “Home Office” and Love, Death, and Robots
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…
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Binary System Podcast #457 – Star Trek: Lower Decks and Dark Knights of Steel
“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…
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Binary System Podcast #456 – WTNV #267 “Missed Connections” and more Star Trek: Lower Decks
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…
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Binary System Podcast #455 – WTNV #266 “The Return of Poetry Week” and random trailers
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…
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Binary System Podcast #454 – Black Mirror: USS Callister – Into Infinity
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…
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Binary System Podcast #453 – Star Trek: Lower Decks, Black Mirror, Love Death + Robots, and Godzilla Minus One
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…
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Binary System Podcast #452 – WTNV #265 “Labyrinth”, and Beastars Season 3 Finale (?)
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?…
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Binary System Podcast #451 – Beastars, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and WonderCon 2025
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…
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Binary System Podcast #450 – Beastars and Star Trek: Lower Decks
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…
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Binary System Podcast #449 – WTNV #264 “Duet”, Beastars, and Star Trek Lower Decks
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…
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Binary System Podcast #448 – Beastars and Star Trek: Lower Decks
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…
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Binary System Podcast #447 – WTNV #263 “Hysteria Land”, Beastars, and the Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts
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…
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Binary System Podcast #446 – WTNV #262 “The Man Who Is Not Tall”
“That’s a good question.” “Thank you!” “It’s best to not ask questions. Especially good ones.” If the title to…
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Binary System Fan Art Gallery – Arcane Edition
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…
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Binary System Podcast #445 – Arcane Series Finale
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…
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Binary System Podcast #444 – WTNV #261 “Brought To You By Flakey O’s,” Beastars, and Lower Decks
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…
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Binary System Podcast #443 – Arcane, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Bojack Horseman
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…
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Binary System Podcast #442 – Star Trek: Lower Decks, Beastars, and Bojack Horseman
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…
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Binary System Podcast #441 – Star Trek: Lower Decks, Beastars, and Arcane
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…
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Binary System Podcast #440 – Beastars and Star Trek Lower Decks
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…
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Binary System Podcast #439 – WTNV #260 “The December Monologues”
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…
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Binary System Podcast #438 – Holiday Travel Edition
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…
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Binary System Podcast #437 Arcane Season Two, Beastars Season 3 episode 1
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…
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Binary System Podcast #436 – WTNV #259 “Chrysalis,” and Star Trek: Lower Decks
“…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…
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Binary System Watch Party – Rosemary’s Baby
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…
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Binary System Podcast #435 Arcane Season Two, Episode 3
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…
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Binary System Podcast #434 – WTNV #258 “Swap Meet,” Arcane, and Ren Faires
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…
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Binary System Podcast #433 Arcane Season Two
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…
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Binary System Podcast #432 – WTNV #257 “Traffic”, 2005’s Constantine, and Lower Decks
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…
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Binary System Podcast #431 The Exorcist III
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…
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Binary System Podcast #430 – WTNV #256 “The Book of Lost Things,” and the Mayor of Kingstown season (series?) finale
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…
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Binary System Podcast #429 Return of the Sit-Rep, Take Two!
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…
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Binary System Podcast #428 – WTNV #255 “The John Peters Imaginary Corn Maze Experience,” and more catch-up TV
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…
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Binary System Podcast #427 Return of the Sit-Rep
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…
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Binary System Podcast #426 – The Crown, Kaos, Time Bandits, Better Call Saul, and Star Trek Lower Decks
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…
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Binary System Podcast #425 – WTNV #254 “The Triangle”
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…
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Binary System Podcast #424 – Lower Decks, Mayor of Kingstown, Kaos, and somewhat careless snake people
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…
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Binary System Podcast #423 – WTNV #253 “Instructions for Folding”
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…
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Binary System Podcast #422 – WTNV #252 “Paid Programming,” and Poker Face.
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…
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Binary System Fan Art Gallery – Travel Edition
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…
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Binary System Podcast #421 – Mayor of Kingstown Season 2 and Poker Face
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…
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Binary System Podcast #420 – WTNV #251 “Detours”, plus Logan (finally!)
(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…
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Binary System Podcast #419 – SDCC 2024 and GalaxyCon 2024 Convention Round-Up
The gigantic, internationally-known event has wrapped up, with thousands of people having attended, and the whole world’s talking about the big reveals…