Everything To Guppy

A near-daily podcast about the items and lore in the Binding Of Isaac.

About the show

William Hughes (The A.V. Club) and Gary Butterfield (Watch Out for Fireballs!) get together four times a week to talk through every single item, trinket, boss, monster, and, really, everything in Edmund McMillen's "The Binding Of Isaac". New, bite-sized episodes come out every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Episodes

  • Episode 548: Purity

    September 26th, 2020  |  13 mins 20 secs

    What he did know was that any druid who reneged on an I.O.U. of the size of the one he had (presumably) earned would darken his own karma immeasurably, possibly even instantly severing their connection to the all-powerful Badger Force from which they pulled their charms.

  • Episode 547: The D8

    September 24th, 2020  |  10 mins 45 secs

    Stargash could no longer remember why Chud Honeysuckle, Arch-Druid In Residence, owed him a major favor—a clear sign that a Warlock's Contract had been negotiated between the two of them, with the memory itself as the signing cost.

  • Episode 546: GB Bug

    September 22nd, 2020  |  12 mins 57 secs

    For a job this delicate though, Stargash knew he'd need a true technician, a stone-cold master of the dendritic arts.

  • Episode 545: Isaac's Head

    September 20th, 2020  |  17 mins 33 secs

    Whereas Dusty Pringlefield was a useful sociopath—but one whose total anosmia made him a liability on missions where oxygen was in play.

  • Episode 544: Farting Baby

    September 19th, 2020  |  11 mins 45 secs

    Treetit Entgobble, for instance, was ideal for jobs that needed raw physical power, but her ethical flexibility tended to diminish as soon as her Righteous Bear Form emerged.

  • Episode 543: Spider Mod

    September 17th, 2020  |  12 mins 18 secs

    Stargash had always had a talent for picking the right Druid for the wrong job.

  • Episode 542: Chaos

    September 15th, 2020  |  11 mins 41 secs

    Once back in space (and clothed in a fresh Scoundrel's Vest), he began paging through his contacts, eventually settling in the D's—for Druid.

  • Episode 541: The Stain

    September 13th, 2020  |  13 mins 14 secs

    Stargash, meanwhile, was just happy to have a new lease on life, and a little breathing room from his creditors, who'd have to wait for his carefully constructed will to kick in before they could attach his old debts to his new life; meanwhile, he cheerfully ditched "Doug's" clothes, keeping only his "World's Best Daddy" mug to add to his growing collection.

  • Episode 540: Explosivo

    September 12th, 2020  |  11 mins 16 secs

    Those efforts had been stymied, though, when almost all of the opposition membership had been revealed to ALSO be sleeper personalities operating in karmic clones; a sudden flash flood on Skurgassm 4 shunted enough "original" personalities into enough bodies to essentially short-circuit the entire project.

  • Episode 539: Spear Of Destiny

    September 10th, 2020  |  11 mins 39 secs

    It was a common enough occurrence that several galactic hypersenators had attempted to issue space laws against the use of the RRD.

  • Episode 538: Maw Of The Void

    September 8th, 2020  |  14 mins 35 secs

    Doug Wheeling's wife and children were, admittedly, upset to learn that their loving husband and father had been nothing but a sleeper personality installed on the new body's firmware until Stargash's freshly ejected consciousness could occupy it.

  • Episode 537: The Tick

    September 6th, 2020  |  16 mins 28 secs

    One of the benefits of using a Rapid Reincarnation Device came from the fact that the Karmic Web operated on acausal principles, which meant that Stargash's new body—now ready to receive the personality engram encoded in the fatal burst of radiation that had "ended" his life—had actually been born 36 years earlier.

  • Episode 536: God's Flesh

    September 5th, 2020  |  13 mins 11 secs

    But then the spiders began twitching and spasming as the karmic-hacking subroutines of the RRD went to work, re-orienting the web of Stargash's life to shape his new incarnation into the desired shape.

  • Episode 535: Tractor Beam

    September 3rd, 2020  |  13 mins 53 secs

    Instantly, his soul was plunged back into the web of karma, where the spiders who weave fate began to dissect his various decisions in order to judge his next, probably even less pleasant existence.

  • Episode 534: Ventricle Razor

    September 1st, 2020  |  14 mins 34 secs

    Recklessly jamming the device's activation button, Stargash had no time to scream as his body was instantly immolated.

  • Episode 533: The Void

    August 30th, 2020  |  16 mins 47 secs

    Cornered, and on the verge of being literally drowned in debt, Stargash could see only two options: Acceptance, or the activation of the Rapid Reincarnation Device hanging from his neck—and while neither appealed, the latter had the advantage of being extraordinarily irresponsible, as well.