This episode originally broadcast on August 14, 2025. The original podcast post is here: https://pixelatedgeek.com/2025/08/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 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 dumpster fire, instead of…whatever that Fyre Festival 2 attempt was. (Come on, McFarland, if you’re gonna fail then at least make it an interesting failure.)

After that we’ve got the penultimate episode of Station Eleven, where we finally find out what happened to Jeevan after he disappeared from Kirsten’s life. This show absolutely never goes where we expect it to, but what you’re guaranteed to have is amazing music, heartbreakingly real characters, and the two of us having an amazing amount of trouble remembering people’s names. (Hat tip to “The Doctor”, and “The Lady Who Shot Jeevan”.)

This week’s outro is a clip from Electro is not Dead by TeknoAXE.

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