Kate and Goomy are joined by first-time guest Ana for a discussion on their papers “Who Is Carol Holiday?” and “DELTARUNE: Life Advice” plus more discussion about the Knight, Carol, the main narrative thrust of Deltarune, and more.
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Episode 36: Thaaaaaat's Politics
Political organizer Samuel Lipson joins Kate for questions about the politics and government of Hometown and a perspective from outside the fandom.
Episode 35: I'm Milklooker
Okay it’s not actually a Milklooker episode. It’s a filler episode. Xtine returns to terrorize Kate for an hour of somewhat Deltarune-related talk. I dunno guys. This one got out of control.
Episode 34: Chapter 2, The City of the Shining
SURVEY_PROGRAM looks back again to a past chapter as Kate hears BQ’s reactions to playing Chapter 2 for the first time in 2026, including the first new Chapter 2-era theories in a long time.
Episode 33: Prison is Now Only for Dads!
Kate and Sophia talk dads, dads and more dads: Asgore, Rudy, Gerson, King, and even Mr. Cattenheimer. They break down the role of fatherhood in the story, and the ways dads fail across the story. (This is a sequel to Episode 3, on moms.)
Episode 32: (Drag me down somewhere no one is supposed to go.)
Kate and Jackie reconvene for a follow-up on new advancements in the Chapter 5 weird route, and the complicated feelings playing it surfaces.
Episode 31: THIS IS YOUR BODY. DO YOU ACCEPT IT?
Kate and Valerie reconvene for a Chapter 5 update on what Deltarune is saying about gender in what is the trans-est chapter yet.
Episode 30: The Flower Man
Kate and Elsie kick off Season 2 with their first reactions to Chapter 5. Full spoilers ahead!
Episode 29: A Parade, Perhaps?
Substitute Games Month is brought to a shuddering halt by the arrival of Chapter 5. But, before the drought ends, Kate and Lucretia gab about ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies, the controversial sort-of successor to Disco Elysium.
Episode 28: The Estate of a Fairy
It’s SUBSTITUTE GAMES MONTH, where SURVEY_PROGRAM talks about new games that aren’t Deltarune before Chapter 5 snipes us!
Kate and Nillin kick off festivities by breaking down AP Thomson’s Titanium Court, modern fae stories, and metatexuality. Within, Kate grapples with the question: can you love a game to death?
Episode 27: Chapter 1, the March of the Dark King
BQ rejoins the show after discussing playing Undertale but not Deltarune in Episode 19 to react to playing Chapter 1 for the first time. Reactions include gonermaker, religious ska, gender, Greenster, divorce, school experience, the symbolism in the Dark World, and first encounters with every new character, and checking back in with Undertale favorites, immediately picking up on Kris-player dichotomy, and more.
Episode 26: The COOKING CHANNEL!
Kate interviews Shadow of Roserade about Undertale: Cooking with Kindness, a new Undertale fangame about the green Kindness soul, with cooking minigame mechanics. Can you make the greatest restaurant the Underground has ever seen?
Episode 25: The Pen Was Lying There for Them to Pick Up
Kate and Valerie discuss Undertale and Deltarune as art made by a millennial and ask “what defines millennial art?” For this, they define what a generation means as an analytic context, what experiences millennials share that go into their art, and the indie game as the modern equivalent to the personal film.
Episode 24: Your MOTHER on the other hand...! Whoo!
Jackie tells Kate about playing Earthbound for the first time in 2026. They discuss the game’s influence on Undertale, Deltarune and the genre at large.
Episode 23: PODISM 1999: A Podcast about YIIK
PODISM 1999 is back with our 23rd episode about YIIK: A Postmodern RPG! In our latest deep dive into the defining indie RPG of this era, Kate asks Lucretia the most important YIIK question yet: What kind of ska would Alex Eggleston listen to?
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Episode 22: [[Number 1 Rated Salesman1997]]
Kate and Goomy finally discuss the spammy little mailman and ask YOU for help defining the difference between a blorbo and a tumblr sexyman. At the end, we get an EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE of the all-new Black Knife remix by Hywell.
Episode 21: The Physical Challenge!!!
Kate and Nillin make a pitch: Deltarune needs sports spinoffs.
Episode 20: It's Kind of Like Dragon Blazers!
Griever introduces Kate to the influences the Final Fantasy series has had on Deltarune, and the characters across the series that parallel the main cast. We discuss a variety of — Wait, there’s a DR. GAST???
Episode 19: It's Not Actually "Finished", Yet
Kate has one friend that’s played Undertale but not Deltarune, and another friend that’s played Deltarune but not Undertale. Let’s experiment on them for content.
Episode 18: One Baseball, Please!!!
NowIOnlyWantATriumph joins Kate and Valerie for the first ever UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE BASEBALL DRAFT! Each of us put together a team of 19 Undertale and Deltarune characters to take the field, and it’s up to YOU to decide who wins!