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The magic word for this week’s episode is “creepy”. I don’t know if you’ve seen any of those “Liminal Spaces” pictures, but all those abandoned malls and eerily empty high schools can be super unsettling. Cecil’s niece Janice really likes them, so in this week’s episode they’re going to watch a four hour video compilation.... The post Binary System…

Remember how we said Lore Olympus episode 232 was the moment we’ve been waiting for? Scratch that: episode 234 is what we were waiting for and it was SO WORTH THE WAIT. (No, it’s not Asspollo getting his just desserts. It’s better.) Massive great big spoiler warnings of course, because episode 234 is currently only... The post Binary System Podcast…

There’s big news for Cecil to report in Night Vale this week. After extensive renovations, Big Rico’s is having their grand reopening as “Big Rico’s Pizza and Entertainment Zone”! They’ve got two ball pits (with and without snakes), lots of games, and an animatronic band, The Table Scraps. Hang on, we’re getting reports from the... The post Binary …

Since we’ve still got a few days till the return of Lore Olympus (and you better believe we’re going into withdrawal aaaaaaa) this week Kathryn finished up season 2 of Umbrella Academy and boy howdy do we have some things to discuss. This is less of a recap than a deep dive into everything we... The post Binary System Podcast #351: Umbrella Academy…

Woo hoo, episode 350! We have absolutely no plans for this milestone, and when you get right down to it there’s really not much special about the number except that it ends in “0”. But still, woo! What IS special about this episode is that it’s our first foray into using Discord for the podcast.... The post Binary System Podcast #350: WTNV #222 “Ma…

Bonus episode! This is the second of our two-part crossover with the Mid-Life Crisis Task Force podcast. (You can find the first part on the MLC Podcast website or wherever fine podcasts are sold.) We’re talking about all the Marvel TV shows and movies that are coming in the next three years, and asking ourselves... The post Binary System Crossover…

Episodes 231 and 232 of Lore Olympus are available this week (if you Fast-Pass episode 232) and WE ARE SO HAPPY Seriously you guys, there’s a long-awaited moment between the star-crossed lovers in episode 231 and it’s EVERYTHING THAT WE WANTED. The music (yes, there’s music in this episode, but it only works in the... The post Binary System Podcast…

“I just wrote ‘Toilets. What’s that all about?'” If you’ve been listening Welcome to Night Vale lately you’ll know why this episode title made us go “that sounds like it’ll be OH NO WAIT AAAAAA!” And if you don’t know, you can listen to us explain why we’re emotionally invested in a FREAKING CLOUD. After... The post Binary System Podcast #348: WTNV…

Episodes 229 and 230 of Lore Olympus are available this week (if you Fast-Pass episode 230) and WE ARE SO ANGRY. I mean, yes, episode 229 was kind of sweet and surprisingly instructional as Persephone gets much-needed information about fertility goddesses from Metis, who’s about as down-to-earth and helpful a Fertility Goddess as you’d want... The …

Last week Kathryn said she was going to watch Glass Onion this week and finally start the second season of Umbrella Academy. And wonder of all wonders, she did! It’s unheard of! It’s amazing! It’s unbelievable!! (It’s laying it on a bit thick is what it is. – Kathryn) (Hee. – Elizabeth) (AIRHORN NOISE) Massive... The post Binary System Podcast #346…

We’re back home after all of our holiday and birthday travels, and on the latest episodes of Lore Olympus we…do NOT get the long-awaited reveal of what Apollo is up to and how his sister Artemis is handling it. But we do get a little bit of the origin story for Psyche. As a treat.... The post Binary System Podcast #345 – Lore Olympus #227 and #228 …

It’s a Binary System Birthday Edition as we’re joined by sister and frequent guest Hannah in the wilds of Kentucky! (“Wilds” meaning “a very nice Vrbo with wiFi and a fireplace.” Except we only get Netflix in the upstairs bedroom. Like SAVAGES.) Listen in as we discuss our first trip back to Mammoth Cave in... The post Binary System Podcast #344 – …

Happy New Year from the BSP team! We hope you all had a fantastic celebration (or a safe and relatively chill evening at home if that’s your jam.) It’s a quick Travel-Edition recording this week (we may not have been at home when we recorded this, but we’re definitely back home now, or if we’re... The post Binary System Podcast #343 – Lore Olympus …

Happy Holidays from the Binary System Podcast team! This year one of our Christmas presents is some very welcome Lore Olympus backstory on Aphrodite (Ares is his own worst enemy, and for Aphrodite’s sake we hope the breakup takes). Elizabeth is also happy to report that the latest season of The Crown is well worth... The post Binary System Podcast …

“We are, I hope, together somewhere else, somewhere flowers can’t reach us.” # Available Now: YOU FEEL IT JUST BELOW THE RIBS (a novel) by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson Music: Mary Epworth, maryepworth.com The voice of Elena Jimenez is April Ortiz. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson. Director: Janina Matthewson Producer: Jeffrey…

We did something different with the Night Vale recap this week, because it’s really two stories in one: first we’ve got to talk about how much we haaaaaate Dr. Janet Lubelle and her stupid smug face, and she better not lay a finger on Carlos because we WILL riot. Then go over the weird tarot... The post Binary System Podcast #341: WTNV #219 “The Tr…

What are we but the influence we have on other people? # Available Now: YOU FEEL IT JUST BELOW THE RIBS (a novel) by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson Music: Mary Epworth, maryepworth.com The voice of Elena Jimenez is April Ortiz. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson. Director: Janina Matthewson Producer: Jeffrey Cranor Within the Wir…

Okay we’re gonna rocket through the recap of episodes 221 and 222 of Lore Olympus in record time, just over ten minutes, because there’s STILL NOTHING HAPPENING. I kid, I kid. EXCEPT NOT REALLY. We love this webcomic to bits, the artwork is top notch, and the relationship between Hades and Persephone is the most... The post Binary System Podcast #3…

"The city is full of the ghost of me." # Available Now: YOU FEEL IT JUST BELOW THE RIBS (a novel) by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson Music: Mary Epworth, maryepworth.com The voice of Elena Jimenez is April Ortiz. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson. Director: Janina Matthewson Producer: Jeffrey Cranor Within the Wires T-Shirts & Po…

This week’s Night Vale recap has a lot of fan art requests and T-shirt moments, but it’s also us just being flat out amazed that Cecil can get interrupted by his kid every five minutes and it’s always stress free. It’s not saccharine, it’s not annoying, it’s not even a little frustrating; Cecil Baldwin just... The post Binary System Podcast #339: W…

"All places are storied, of course. You just have to find someone who remembers the stories." # Available Now: YOU FEEL IT JUST BELOW THE RIBS (a novel) by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson Music: Mary Epworth, maryepworth.com The voice of Elena Jimenez is April Ortiz. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson. Director: Janina Matthewson …

Happy Thanksgiving! (Or, if you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving, Happy Thursday!) Somehow after last week’s recording we got on the subject of cookbooks, specifically the “Little House on the Prairie” cookbook that we checked out from the library a dozen times before we got smart and bought our own copies. And that led to a discussion... The post Bina…

"...beneath my feet the feel of eels’ debris..." # Available Now: YOU FEEL IT JUST BELOW THE RIBS (a novel) by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson Music: Mary Epworth, maryepworth.com The voice of Elena Jimenez is April Ortiz. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson. Director: Janina Matthewson Producer: Jeffrey Cranor Within the Wires T-S…

This week was one of those Night Vale recaps where we took way too many notes and got dangerously close to just repeating the episode word for word because it was so, freaking, CLEVER. (Station Management’s memo to Cecil about the stupid basement is the best.) We managed to stick to the highlights, but we... The post Binary System Podcast #337: WTN…

“I searched for the name of God in the ruins of Adelaide.” # Available Now: YOU FEEL IT JUST BELOW THE RIBS (a novel) by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson Music: Mary Epworth, maryepworth.com The voice of Elena Jimenez is April Ortiz. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson. Director: Janina Matthewson Producer: Jeffrey Cranor Within the…

Episodes 217 and 218 of Lore Olympus didn’t answer a ton of questions, and by that I mean we STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT APOLLO IS UP TO. Okay, yes, we got some good information about how Kronos was able to take over the Underworld. And we find out what happened to get Thanatos AND Thetis... The post Binary System Podcast #336 – Lore Olympus and more ran…

Hey Within the Wires listeners, so I, Jeffrey Cranor, and Joseph Fink have a brand new fiction podcast. It's the first we've made together since Welcome to Night Vale. It's called UNLICENSED, and here is episode 1: "The Detective of Citrus Avenue." All episodes of Season 1 are available right now at audible.com/unlicensed. So if you sign up for the…

“We need some weight, or we’d float beyond the stratosphere.” # Available Now: YOU FEEL IT JUST BELOW THE RIBS (a novel) by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson Music: Mary Epworth, maryepworth.com The voice of Elena Jimenez is April Ortiz. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson. Director: Janina Matthewson Producer: Jeffrey Cranor Within …

"You simply sit in its light and let it be." # Available Now: YOU FEEL IT JUST BELOW THE RIBS (a novel) by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson Music: Mary Epworth, maryepworth.com The voice of Elena Jimenez is April Ortiz. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson. Director: Janina Matthewson Producer: Jeffrey Cranor Within the Wires T-Shirt…

We joke about how Lore Olympus moves at a glacial pace, but we sometimes forget that the story jumped forward TEN ENTIRE YEARS and now the pieces need to be filled in. So, minor spoiler warnings for episodes 215 and 216, because we got a lot of backstory for Kronos and Thanatos, but we still... The post Binary System Podcast #335 – Lore Olympus and…

"Listen, Anita. I’m going to ask something of you. It’s a lot." # Available Now: YOU FEEL IT JUST BELOW THE RIBS (a novel) by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson Music: Mary Epworth, maryepworth.com The voice of Elena Jimenez is April Ortiz. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson. Director: Janina Matthewson Producer: Jeffrey Cranor Withi…

Ten years ago we loved it every time Cecil on Welcome to Night Vale ranted about how much he hated his stupid brother-in-law STEVE CARLSBERG. If you’d told us back then that, come 2022, we’d be 100% on Steve’s side, we’d have told you that’s about as likely as Hollywood greenlighting a Sandman series. Funny... The post Binary System Podcast #334: W…

"Listen, Anita. I’m going to ask something of you. It’s a lot." # Available Now: YOU FEEL IT JUST BELOW THE RIBS (a novel) by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson Music: Mary Epworth, maryepworth.com The voice of Elena Jimenez is April Ortiz. Written by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson. Director: Janina Matthewson Producer: Jeffrey Cranor Withi…

So what’s Apollo up to? How is Demeter going to mess things up for Hades and Persephone? Did Aphrodite get married to Hephaestus when she threw over Ares, or someone else? And where’s Psyche been this entire time that the mortal realm was cut off from Olympus? You’d think we’d be happy with the story... The post Binary System Podcast #333 – Lore Ol…

“There’s so much pathos here about a ROCK.” The only thing we’ve got to say about this week’s Night Vale episode is Doctor Lubelle MUST BE STOPPED. (Also watch out for the murals. They’re probably fine. But let’s just evacuate the area anyway.) After we finish spoiling the heck out of that episode, we switch... The post Binary System Podcast #332: …

…and she was one of those women where you wake up the next morning and your TV and your stereo and your bag of magic sand is gone. So Kathryn has finally watched another episode of The Sandman (Elizabeth: I’ve watched a bunch more.) (Kathryn: Yeah, thanks, I know that.) so this week we’re going... The post Binary System Podcast #331 – Lore Olympus …

This week we’re spoiling all the things about Lore Olympus episodes 209 and 210, but if you want the short non-spoiler version: Hades and Persephone are freaking adorable. You already knew that. When are they not adorable? Also if we could please find out what Demeter’s going to do to mess it up that’d be... The post Binary System Podcast #330 – Lo…

It’s no secret that the Binary System Podcast team is always finding moments that would be perfect for fan art (we do love us some fan art). This week’s episode felt like the Welcome To Night Vale writers were throwing down multiple challenges to fan artists. Listen in as we recap the City Council’s latest... The post Binary System Podcast #329: WT…

We’re back with an actual audio episode this week as Kathryn’s on the mend from the “NOT COVID Thank You Very Much But Still Pretty Annoying” Plague, and thank goodness, because we’ve got to talk about the first two episodes of the third (and final!) season of Lore Olympus. Will Hades and Persephone figure out... The post Binary System Podcast #328…