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 477: Incubus

    May 26th, 2020  |  12 mins 25 secs

    The hunter was just about to shatter the groaning silence when he was beaten to the beating by a tiny, whining sound, as though a small but heroic mouse was suddenly driving toward him on a very small motorcycle, or some other simile of similar force.

  • Episode 476: Chapter 4.5

    May 24th, 2020  |  19 mins 41 secs

    Their two orders had long had a professional understanding between them; hunters needed monsters to be birthed, and Midwives needed them to be slain, maintaining the whims of the dark deity Supplyanddemond.

  • Episode 475: 8-Inch Nails

    May 23rd, 2020  |  13 mins 5 secs

    As she scraped the more scrapable of the mucouses from her garment, the two stood before the long road winding its way up to the hainted manor, both harboring suspicions as to why the other might be there.

  • Episode 474: The Wiz

    May 21st, 2020  |  13 mins 58 secs

    He turned, though, in sudden shock, as a wo-manhole near him suddenly shifted; he watched and stood mute, with a mixture of horror and professional courtesy, as a Secret Midwife, resplendent in battle robes and humongous with slimes, dragged herself out of the darkness below.

  • Episode 473: Box Of Friends

    May 19th, 2020  |  15 mins 3 secs

    Bloodied and weary—despite the night still being in its grim and collicky infancy—the hunter nevertheless felt his soul lighten ever so slightly as he trudged up the street and came, at last, to the elaborate and foreboding gate of Harkhark Hoose.

  • Episode 472: Dangle

    May 17th, 2020  |  15 mins 36 secs

    Expelling the gremlin with the last drops of blesséd engine oil hidden in the thimble around his neck, Harvey gunned the bike's instantly restored engine, streaming his way through the night…like a mouse out of heaven.

  • Episode 471: Car Battery

    May 16th, 2020  |  13 mins 16 secs

    Harvey knew, better than most, that that level of clustered evil would violate the safety standards issued by the Celestial Fire Marshall, triggering a visit from The Holy Auditors; and while he had no idea WHY the forces of Umageddon wished to lure in the high heavens' hangriest bureaucrats, he knew it could bode no good.

  • Episode 470: Mom's Pearls

    May 14th, 2020  |  13 mins 20 secs

    But then he realized that the unquiet spirits were queued, in a line stretching a billions sins deep, to enter the manor over the hill.

  • Episode 469: Crack Jacks

    May 12th, 2020  |  14 mins 12 secs

    At first, he felt the slightest relief, seeing that their attention, knife-eyed and malingering, was not focused on his adorable but whiskered body.

  • Episode 468: A Missing Page

    May 10th, 2020  |  17 mins 56 secs

    Even with his training, Harvey's tiny brain reeled as a million horngry ghosts suddenly appeared above him, floating in the stomach-pale sky over the hideously infested town.

  • Episode 467: Bomber Boy

    May 9th, 2020  |  13 mins 1 sec

    For any mind that had not been taught to withstand the brunt of the psychic onslaught by the Silent Masters Of The Cheddar Monastery, the shock would have meant instant mental vaporization.

  • Episode 466: Glass Cannon

    May 7th, 2020  |  14 mins 29 secs

    Fearing the coming darkness, Harvey slammed on the brakes…but was horrified to realize that the Gremlin's mageick had not closed the device's filters into the Eleventh World, but opened them even further.

  • Episode 465: Mega Bean

    May 5th, 2020  |  15 mins 21 secs

    Leering with homicidal emoluments, the Gremlin reached a transparent hand up and passed it over Harvey's goggles, infecting them instantly with its salubrious glitching.

  • Episode 464: Sheol

    May 3rd, 2020  |  17 mins 1 sec

    He watched with revulsion as the sickly green brain sloshed back and forth within the transparent cranium of the creature possessing, and poisoning, his beloved bike: A Skullless Gremlin, most lethal and relentless of Heck's Mechanical Docents.

  • Episode 463: Toxic Shock

    May 2nd, 2020  |  14 mins 36 secs

    Flipping the lever that moved his protective goggles into their Third Eyeball Perception Filter, Harvey risked a look downward, his stomach weeping at the hibeous sight.

  • Episode 462: Wooden Nickel

    April 30th, 2020  |  12 mins 22 secs

    Said effort made it doubly upsetting when the bike suddenly hitched beneath him, and its exhaust began to cough, wheeze, and whisper obscure but guttural racial slurs.