SURVEY_PROGRAM: A podcast about DELTARUNE

Kate and Sophia talk about their experiences going to Undertale: The Determination Symphony, including talk about the business of special symphony shows, thoughts on the arrangement, and re-experiencing Undertale.Topics: Colorado’s crazy-ass local politics. GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra. The Canadian Rockies. Cosplayers. Crowd-favorite characters and cheering etiquette. The arrangements. Undertale still hits! We talk about Papyrus, finally, including Knight discussion. Undertale’s comedic forebears in gaming are underdiscussed. Some brief discussion of Vivian in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and other Mario RPGs. The player on the symphony video background was so bad. Determination is a cosmo and Bravery is non-alcoholic. Cocktail diversion. Blind bags and gambling. Funko Field. Birdbrain.Check out Sophia’s Cerebus podcast “Swords Against Cerebus” and Star Wars podcast “We Have to Talk About Dash Rendar”Join the Shrike Winter Reading Program.Support SURVEY_PROGRAM’s Green Room for bonus episodes!Join the SURVEY_PROGRAM Discord or follow on Bluesky.Check out show musician hywell on Bandcamp!Subscribe on YouTube / Spotify / Apple Podcasts / RSS.

Valerie and Jackie discuss Kris and the Knight as T-for-Teen analogues of modern media about school shootings, troubled teens and problem children. (Featuring a lot of discussion of Matt Johnson’s The Dirties.)Topics: Seriously looking at dark worlds. Kris brings a weapon to school! Dess as a bad influence. Deltarune’s use of humor to couch serious topics. The Roaring. The sword route as a Doom level of Hometown. The power of violence and play. Susie’s role in this. Satanic Panic. The Weird Route and suicidal imagery. Noelle’s derealization. Abuse is a product of circumstances. The normal route might be worse! More Suselle pessimism on SURVEY_PROGRAM podcast. Personal stories about small town life. The ending. Can Kris be forgiven?Sources: The Dirties. Baldur’s Tumblr analysis of Kris and Card Kingdom.Join the Shrike Winter Reading Program.Music: Hywell’s Black Knife remix and

Shadow of Roserade returns to talk to Kate about Deltarune’s flowers and how they’ve changed the world of talking about Undertale humans, as well as post-demo updates from Undertale: Cooking with Kindness. At the end of the episode, we get an exclusive preview of a new Cooking with Kindness NPC.Check out the Undertale: Cooking with Kindness soundtrack on Bandcamp, or previous Shadow of Roserade episodes.Topics: SLEEPY_PROGRAM. Weather talk. Materia Collective. A24 and the SCP Foundation. Kate still hasn’t played UTY. Metroid Dread and Kirby and the Forgotten Land diversions. Playing Smash with Sakurai. Green vs. Sunny vs. Wile E. Coyote. Coyote/Roadrunner yaoi. Diversity of body types and communciation styles in UT/DR. What is going on with Susie and humans? Flowey’s transgender themes. Blue/Yellow. Everyone’s secrets. Aqua and flowers’ subversion of their soul traits. More Earthbound talk. “Good artists copy, great artists steal, and the best artists steal and make them transgender.” Then we take some listener questions.Support SURVEY_PROGRAM’s Green Room for bonus episodes!Join the SURVEY_PROGRAM Discord or follow on Bluesky.Check out show musician hywell on Bandcamp!Subscribe on YouTube / Spotify / Apple Podcasts / RSS.

Nillin and Serena talk about Kingdom Hearts and what we can get out of viewing Deltarune through its lens, plus what makes it such a weird, unique and enduring story.Topics: Forgetting about Disney. The pervasive aesthetic influence of KH on 2000s youths. Light-dark duality across fiction. Mickey Mouse is here. The world without adults. There’s so many of these games dude. Sora gets shot with a gun. KH1 has a gonermaker sequence. Twilight Town and Hometown. Inexplicable mechanics. Soul/heart mechanics…does this remind you of anything? Is Gaster DiZ? Yoko Shimomura arranged Megalovania. Riku is the most susceptible to cartoon villains of all time. Kris-Riku parallels. The Only Girl and other weird gender stuff. The force of protagonism. Theorybait all the time.Support SURVEY_PROGRAM’s Green Room for bonus episodes!Join the SURVEY_PROGRAM Discord or follow on Bluesky.Check out show musician hywell on Bandcamp!Subscribe on YouTube / Spotify / Apple Podcasts / RSS.

BQ’s blind playthrough series continues with Chapter 3. Kate asks them about being the only person on Earth who has played Ch 3 but not Ch 4, and how it stands on its own. Check out BQ’s past episodes in the blind playthrough series. Topics: Huge tone shift. Actual Spamtenna discussion on SURVEY_PROGRAM. Doing taxes while drunk. Kate briefly forgets the name of the podcast. The overall plot. The omegaverse, again. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. 30 Rock. Is Chapter 3 even good without Sword Route? Ramb. Learning more about Dess’s shadow. Ralsei and darkners’ self-conception. IMAGE_FRIEND. Listener questions about Susie, Tenna, The Amazing Digital Circus and more.Follow BQ on Bluesky.Support SURVEY_PROGRAM’s Green Room for bonus episodes!Join the SURVEY_PROGRAM Discord or follow on Bluesky.Check out show musician hywell on Bandcamp!Subscribe on YouTube / Spotify / Apple Podcasts / RSS.