Through The Wind Door

Beyond the Wind Door - Best Media of 2025, Part 4

Good lord! After all this time, we finally discuss Greg's top 12 games of 2025, and we go on for almost 2 hours with no spoilers! Today, I do my best to sell folks on the following games:

• A Space for the Unbound
• Neo Cab
• Metaphor: Refantazio
• If Found
• Date Everything
• Tchia
• Goodbye Volcano High
• Herdling
• Chants of Sennar
• Wanderstop
• Thirsty Suitors

Stay safe in 2026. To survival.

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Intro is "Light Me Up" by Audiorezout of Free Music Archive

Other Music includes:

Select tracks from all the OSTs of the games above, but also, "Miss Claire Remembers" by Enya, and the orchestral Finale of "The Last Jedi".

Outro is "Objects of Desire" by NSP

Beyond the Wind Door - Best Media of 2025, Part 3

The remaining notable movies Toby and I watched in 2025, plus one gaming experience I did not expect. This episode will have us discuss the following (With no spoilers, save for where noted in the episode):

• K-PoP Demon Hunters
• The Roses
• Wake Up Dead Man
• Searching for Sugarman
• Sinners
• James Gunn's Superman 
• Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

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Intro is "Light Me Up" by Audiorezout of Free Music Archive

Other Music includes:

Select tracks from the OSTs of K-Pop Demon Hunters, Wake Up Dead Man, Sinners, Superman (2025), and The Roses
"Happy Together (Instrumental)" - Original by the Turtles, cover by The Piano Guys
"I'll Show You" - K/DA
"Sugar Man" "Climb Up On My Music" - Sixto Rodriguez
"Promises to Keep", and "Resignation"- Kevin McLeod
"Apologize" - The Las Vegas

Outro is "Rise" by Sarah McLahclan

Beyond the Wind Door - Best Media of 2025, Part 2

Tv shows and movies, new and old! And we're not even done! Here's more of the good shit that got me and Toby through 2025. We cover:

• The Residence
• Orphan Black
• Hazbin Hotel Season 2
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• Long Story Short
• Thunderbolts
• GDT's Frankenstein
• A segment of Wolfman (2025)
• Final Destination: Bloodlines

Uzo Aduba - Hannibal Lecter performance: https://youtu.be/QQvPqk-OEFU

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Intro is "Light Me Up" by Audiorezout of Free Music Archive

Other music includes:

"Synthetic Warmth" - Amos Roddy
"King of Pain" - original by The Police, piano cover by Jenny Floor
"Despair and Triumph", "Vanishing", and "Ossuary"- Kevin MacLeod
"The Obvious Child" - Paul Simon
Selected tracks from the OSTs of The Residence, Thunderbolts, Frankenstein 2025 and The Fall of the House of Usher.

Outro is "Hell Again" by Ironmouse

Beyond the Wind Door - Best Media of 2025, Part 1

The best way to deal with the turmoil of 2026 is to look back on the stuff that got us through 2025! In this Episode we discuss:

Games:

Rift of the Necrodancer
Final Fantasy tactics - Ivalice Chronicles
Hades 2
Deltarune Chapters 3+4
Citizen Sleeper 2

Comics:

Walter Simonson's Thor
Saga
Danger and Other Unknown Risks 
The Deep Dark

TV:

King of the Hill
Game Changer and the many shows of Dropout.tv

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Intro is "Light Me Up" by Audiorezout of Free Music Archive

Other music includes:

Select tracks from the OSTs of Rift of the Necrodancer, Final Fantasy Tactics, Hades 2, Deltarune, and Citizen Sleeper 2

"Martian Cowboy, "Thunderbird, "Run Amok"- Kevin McLeod
"Fire" - Alexandra Desplat
"IDK" - Grey
"Dreamers (Instrumental)" - Ruth Radelet
"Baker Street (Instrumental) - Gerry Rafferty

 

Beyond the Wind Door: Citizen(s) Sleeper

Here is the return of your favorite B Team. Kit Chaos, Dr. Stop Motion Skeletons, and your editor Bad Doge. Today we cover both Citizen Sleeper games. Spoilers abound, although you can listen to our show and not have the entire game spoiled for you. I hope it works as a potential encouragement to play, as well as reveal why we love these games. Enjoy.

Citizen Sleeper Lofi background. https://backgrounds.gallery/en/animated/1578650/198042-Lofi%20Background

Citizen Sleeper Soundtrack Retrospective by Amos Roddy:

https://youtu.be/Xy0KklubO4U?si=EfsVGB14pKd0aEd4

All podcast music is by Amos Roddy from the Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2 OSTs, as well as a single track from In Other Waters.

 

Beyond The Wind Door - Severance, Part 2

Part 2 of our first recording on Seasons 1 and 2 of Severance. This will be the end of the crappy audio, promise. Plenty more is coming, but for a while, a break and editing something else in the can.

 

Why Milchick’s Story Hurts So Much: Black Survival in White Workplaces 

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Intro is "Light Me Up" by Audiorezout of Free Music Archive

Other works include:

Tracks from the Severance OST
Tracks from the Memento OST

"Private Reflection" "Wounded" "Resignation" - Kevin Mcleod
"Love's Recovery (Instrumental)" Song by Indigo Girls, instrumental by Jen Msumba

Beyond The Wind Door - Severance, Part 1

One man and two PHDs cover the first two seasons of the Apple TV show Severance. Yes, it is that good, but it's also a Lot, especially now. Full spoilers, so only listen if caught up.

Lumon is Listening.

https://youtu.be/mlBkUeqNRS4?si=zS7vSCK4tQf7Temq - Severance and the Poetics of Science Fiction 

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Intro is "Light Me Up" by Audiorezout of Free Music Archive

Other works include:

Tracks from the Severance OST
Tracks from the Memento OST
"Colorless Aura", "Dark Times", "Touching Moments",  and "Sovereign" by Kevin Macleod
"Winter Song (Instrumental)" - Sarah Bareilles, Ingrid Michaelson
"A playlist for Exploring Liminal Spaces" by Nobody

Beyond the Wind Door - God of War: Ragnarok - The Conclusion

The last of our very long discussion on God of War, Ragnarok and otherwise. As before, much thanks to Orion Richardson for joining us. Fimbulwinter lingers in the real world... but we have hope.

Fat Brett-  Atreus, The Making Of A Hero part 2: https://youtu.be/a6mPzKl3-Bg?si=w3ULDUoAmLg0B3wr

Jacob Gellar - Why God of War Challenged Fate, Then Did It Again:
https://youtu.be/zJk-a0Zqwvo?si=TxdHVEGtUDf6JG8R

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Intro is "Light Me Up" by Audiorezout of Free Music Archive

Midroll includes various tracks from God of War 2018 and God of War: Ragnarok OSTs

"Miss Clare Remembers" - Enya

"Private Reflection" and "Resignation" by Kevin McLeod

Outro is "To Be Better" by Miracle of Sound.

Beyond the Wind Door - Greg Is Afraid: Stopmotion (2023)

It's horror time, and the invention of a brand new sub show to talk about horror! Today's show is on the 2023 movie "Stopmotion" by Robert Morgan! And yes, there is stop-motion in Stopmotion, so make all the Xibit jokes you want, because Toby is gonna tell us all about it. Full spoilers as always, plus minor potentially triggering stuff in the discussion as well as some sharing by me. But it will be a gay old time, promise

Stop motion references:

"The Hand" by Jiri Trnka - https://youtu.be/wFAoLHXou4s?si=jFC67DfBwZqlC3Y6

"Bobby Yeah" by Richard Morgan - https://youtu.be/d3W3fHaLHD4?si=TpyWFbhRcJkFbwev

"Dog" - https://youtu.be/GtETK2beufA?si=ric16XllbXn4folQ

Excerpts from "Daddy's Little Bit of Dresden China" - https://youtu.be/04Nu7T850WE?si=lmCtt2LSlwVBqXj3

"Saturn Devouring His Son" by Francisco d Goya - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son

 

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Intro is "Haunted Shores" by Evgeny Teilor of Free Music Archive

Other music:

"Evil Intentions" by Audiorezout of Free Music Archive

"Violations", "Respond in Silence", "Mind Unveiled", "Comatone" by The Oscillation, "Crypt" by Hudd and "Stopmotion Movie Score Suite" by Shaun Duncan and Daniel Woodward from the Stopmotion soundtrack

"Sledgehammer"  by Peter Gabriel

"The Cyclops" from the 7th Voyage of Sinbad soundtrack

"Sounds of Silence Instrumental" by Brooklyn Duo

"Shake it Out (Instrumental)" by Florence and the Machine

"I Heard it Through The Grapevine (Intrumental)" by Marvin Gaye

Outro is "Self-Love" by Metro Boomin and Coi Leray

Beyond the Wind Door - God of War: Ragnarok - Part 2

Now we get into the meat of the game itself. It's themes, its characters, its goddamn amazing music, and all the emotions they bring.

Fat Brett - Essay on Brok: https://youtu.be/kxgZyDzZvJI?si=yrWPfYBLb6T_pPaP

Fat Brett - Essay on Magni and Modi: https://youtu.be/1agbhCi-w1Q?si=5RBhlYg_5C3s_aK7

 

The Fireside Alliance Podcast Network: 

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Intro is "Light Me Up" by Audiorezout of Free Music Archive

Midroll includes:

Tracks from the God of War (2018), and God of War:Ragnarok OSTs.

Carrickfergus (Instrumental) - https://youtu.be/dx7v9KxO--Q?si=W0wz62eoyGI00k9e

Beowulf Main Theme by Alan Silvestri

'Prologue' from the Horizon: Zero Dawn OST

Outro is "Blood On The Snow" by Hozier and Bear McCreary