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Welcome to Keep off the Borderlands. Initially a podcast documenting my return to table top roleplay gaming following a thirty-year hiatus. Currently searching for excuses for why I haven't GM'd yet. You can leave me an audio message here or via Speakpipe at https://www.speakpipe.com/KeepOffTheBorderlands Email me at spencer.freethrall@gmail.com You can also follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/FreeThrall and join the podcast Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/FreeThrall/

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  • Movie Monday: The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) (E315)
    Feb 23 2026

    For February’s Movie Monday, we watched The Golden Voyage of Sinbad from 1973, a fantasy adventure directed by Gordon Hessler and featuring stop-motion effects of Ray Harryhausen.

    This episode features contributions from:

    (in order of appearance)

    Jason Connerley of Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast (podcast)

    Goblin’s henchman (podcast, blog) and the UmberBulk of the Southwest Sofa Crew

    Joe Richter of Hindsighless (podcast)

    James Knight, Tyranner the Dwarf, and Ellen the Elf of the Southwest London Sofa Gang

    Find the Movie Monday Letterboxd list here https://letterboxd.com/the39thman/list/movie-monday-1/

    The movie for March is The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension from 1984, directed by W. D. Richter and starring Peter Weller. That episode will air on March 30th, so please send in your submissions by the 28th if you’d like to be included in the show.

    Also, be sure not to miss the new podcast I’m involved with, entitled With Wife and I. My wife, Isla, suggested we take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts.

    “Warning” by Lieren of Updates From the Middle of Nowhere

    Leave me an audio message via ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/KeepOffTheBorderlands

    You can email me at ⁠spencer.freethrall@gmail.com⁠ or look me up on Discord as FreeThrall.

    You can find me in a bunch of other places here ⁠https://freethrall.carrd.co⁠



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit freethrall.substack.com
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    1 Std. und 10 Min.
  • Games, Books, Movies & Improv (Cloud Empress) (E314)
    Feb 15 2026

    This is an off-the-cuff episode, wherein I cover a variety of things.

    Free PDFs:

    Cairn: Barebones Edition by Yochai Gal https://yochaigal.itch.io/cairn-barebones-edition

    Intergalactic Bastionland: Beyond Into The Odd: Playtest by Chris McDowall https://open.substack.com/pub/bastionland/p/bastionland-goes-intergalactic?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

    Books:

    Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science by Xavier Aldana Reyes for British Library Tales of the Weird

    The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud

    It Was All A Dream: An Anthology of Bad Horror Tropes Done Right by Brandon Applegate

    Films:

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) dir. Rouben Mamoulian

    The Black Cat (1934) dir. Edgar G. Ulmer

    Black Pit of Dr. M (1959) dir. Fernando Mendez

    The Plague of the Zombies (1966) dir. John Gilling

    Theatre of Blood (1973) dir. Douglas Hickox

    Frightmare (1974) dir. Pete Walker

    Messiah of Evil (1974) dir. Willard Huych, Gloria Katz

    Phantasm (1979) dir. Don Coscarelli

    Weapons (2025) dir. Zach Cregger

    RPG Material:

    Cosmic Dark by Graham Walmsley

    The No-Prep Gamemaster: Train Your Brain to Run Tabletop Roleplayng Games Second Edition by Matt Davids https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/524180/the-no-prep-gamemaster-train-your-brain-to-run-tabletop-roleplaying-games

    Cloud Empress Core Boxed Set by Watts

    Honourable Mentions:

    Dave Aldridge of dPercantile (podcast)

    Weird Studies podcast Episode 86: On E.T.A. Hoffmann's “The Sandman” https://open.spotify.com/episode/5LwYzcmq29EJXXa9C5SSH4?si=vDE7gzUfQQay5i-gWK8uXQ&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A7MtLPVWIcFbl5XPsMiF9f8

    Scott Doward of The Good Friends of Jackson Elias (podcast)

    Andy Goodman of Grizzly Peaks Radio (podcast)

    Jen Fridy at GrimHumor https://www.jenfridy.com/

    Find the Movie Monday Letterboxd list here https://letterboxd.com/the39thman/list/movie-monday-1/

    This month’s Movie Monday is The Golden Voyage of Sinbad from 1973. Directed by Gordon Hessler and featuring stop-motion effects of Ray Harryhausen. That episode will air on February 23rd, so please send in your submissions by the 21st if you’d like to be included in the show.

    Also, be sure not to miss the new podcast I’m involved with, entitled With Wife and I. My wife, Isla, suggested we take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts.

    “Warning” by Lieren of Updates From the Middle of Nowhere

    Leave me an audio message via ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/KeepOffTheBorderlands

    You can email me at spencer.freethrall@gmail.com, follow me on BlueSky @freethrall.bsky.social, or look me up on Discord by searching for freethrall

    You can also hear me in actual plays on Grizzly Peaks Radio and find me in a bunch of other places here ⁠https://freethrall.carrd.co⁠



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit freethrall.substack.com
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    33 Min.
  • Between the Borderlands: The Gordon Child... of NIMH (E313)
    Feb 6 2026

    I begin this episode by talking about two Kickstarters I recently backed.

    Tanya Flocker’s The Thunder Perfect Mind (ending February 10th) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/floaker/the-thunder-perfect-mind?ref=discovery&term=the%20thunder%20perfect%20mind&total_hits=1&category_id=34

    Three Sail Studio’s Gallows Corner - A Peasants’ Revolt RPG https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/threesailsstudios/gallows-corner-a-peasants-revolt-rpg?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=gallows%20corner&total_hits=1

    This is followed by some Movie Monday feedback from Evil Jeff of Minions & Musings (podcast), Joe Richter of Hindsighless (podcast), and Mirke of Mirke the Meek (podcast).

    Find the Movie Monday Letterboxd list here https://letterboxd.com/the39thman/list/movie-monday-1/

    This month’s Movie Monday is The Golden Voyage of Sinbad from 1973. Directed by Gordon Hessler and featuring stop-motion effects of Ray Harryhausen. That episode will air on February 23rd, so please send in your submissions by the 21st if you’d like to be included in the show.

    Also, be sure not to miss the new podcast I’m involved with, entitled With Wife and I. My wife, Isla, suggested we take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts.

    Leave me an audio message via ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/KeepOffTheBorderlands

    You can email me at ⁠spencer.freethrall@gmail.com⁠ or look me up on Discord as FreeThrall

    You can find me in a bunch of other places here ⁠https://freethrall.carrd.co⁠



    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit freethrall.substack.com
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    19 Min.
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