Metra: A Climate Revolution with Songs

This week, we're excited to introduce you to Windfall, by Rogue Dialogue!
This is Season 1, Episode 1, "Bottom Feeder" -- Find all episodes here!

About the Show:
Ever since the castle first appeared in the sky above the city of Windfall, its residents have been building upward. Now the city consists of towers where the wealthiest residents live at the top while the poor eke out a living on the ground. Our podcast follows Cas, Shaima, and Argus, three brothers who live with their Uncle Vern after being orphaned during the grounder rebellion twenty years earlier. They find themselves drifting apart as Argus, the youngest, falls hopelessly in love with the much-older Helina, a foreign merchant haunted by her past; Cas, the middle brother, works in secret for the local crime boss; and Shaima, the oldest, struggles to keep their uncle’s scrap shop from going under. When Cas’s best friend, Kendall, is offered a position with the Wolfpac, Windfall’s military cult that acts as the city’s police, Cas is forced to decide where his loyalties lie. Meanwhile, something sinister looms over the city itself, threatening the lives of all who live in Windfall, from the wealthiest residents to the ground-level poor.

Episode 1:
Brothers Cas, Argus, and Shaima hunt for dinner in the sewers. Helina pays a visit to her favorite bartender, Gert. Queen Wanda meets with Captain Root to discuss the upcoming Contact Day Festival. Meanwhile, Kendall runs into trouble with the Wolfpac.

Produced by Rogue Dialogue Productions
Written and directed by Bob Raymonda and Christie Donato
Sound design and score by Adam Raymonda
Logo by Sam Twardy (www.samtwardy.com)

More info at roguedialogue.com/windfall, and follow @WindfallPodcast on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes adult language and depictions of physical violence.

Songs:
"The Myth of Erysicthon Part 3"
"Ceres' Curse"
"Famine"

Your mission (especially if you live in New York in the U.S.!) -- On April 29 and 30, 2026 -- Call the NYS Assembly and Senate and urge them not to gut the state's landmark climate law!

If you're not in New York, call anyway! Let them know the eyes of the world are on the state.

Assembly Speaker Heastie: 518-455-3791 (If you can’t get through on his Albany line, call his district office: 718-654-6539).

Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins: 518-455-2585 (district office: 914-423-4031).

Senator Pete Harckham: 518-455-2340 (district office: 914-241-4600, and email [email protected]).

Find your Assembly Member here (or call the NYS Assembly Switchboard: 518-455-4100).

Find your Senator here (or call the NYS Senate Switchboard: 518-455-2800).

Sample script: "Hi, I'm ________ and I'm calling to urge ________ to stand strong against Governor Hochul's proposed rollbacks to the climate law. Now more than ever, we need clean and renewable energy to protect New Yorkers from volatile fossil fuel prices and the worst impacts of climate change. Loopholes and accounting tricks won't drive good energy policy that we desperately need."

Provide your zip code if asked and thank them for taking your message.

Why this is important:
The New York Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), passed in 2019, is one of the nation's most ambitious climate laws. The Act sets the goals to reduce emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and then to 85% below 1990 levels by 2050. The law forces shifts to renewable energy, energy efficiency standards, and green construction.

Now, Hochul is using the budget process to destroy a law that New Yorkers voted for.

Please call!

Emily & Ned Hartford sit down to talk about the origins of Metra, adapting the show from a stage musical to an audio drama, and how they approached shaping a story about climate liberation while living in our dumpster fire of a time.
(We'll be back soon with more re-mastered songs from the upcoming cast album!)
Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something

Support Metra at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical

Metra is Written by Emily and Ned Hartford
Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford
Dialogue Directed by Emily Hartford
Produced by MythMakers Media

Sound Editing and Design; Instrumentation Arranged and Performed; Vocals Arranged; and all Audio Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by Ned Hartford

Follow the show:
https://pod.link/1843713183
IG and Bluesky:  @metrathemusical (DM us and maybe we'll send you some stickers!)
metrathemusical.com

This is a big favorite of ours, from our friends at Gideon Media!
Find all episodes of Give Me Away, and more info here. 
They call the spaceship that crashed in the Nevada desert “The Ghosthouse” because it screams—the screams of thousands of extraterrestrial political prisoners uploaded into its horrific mainframe. The only way to free them... is to transfer them into the bodies of humans willing to share their minds with an alien second consciousness. But who would volunteer for that? Graham Shapiro, divorced and adrift at age 50, is one of the first to raise his hand. Give Me Away follows Graham’s journey into a world of radical hospitality, one which will touch everything—and everyone—in his life.
Season 1, Episode 5 - Your Body is My Body:
The story of Brooke before Deirdre and Riley before it all went bad. 
Featuring Ato Essandoh, Lori Elizabeth Parquet, Hennessy Winkler, Rebecca Comtois, Alba Ponce de León, Jorge Cordova, Christopher Wilson, and Brian Silliman. Written by Mac Rogers, directed by Jordana Williams, sound designed by Bart Fasbender, music composed by Adam Blau, assistant directed by Marty McGuire, and produced by Cara Ehlenfeldt. Transcripts are available at www.gideon-media.com/transcripts. Gideon Media crafts gripping productions that explore human grace and darkness through popular genre forms. Learn more at www.gideon-media.com and follow us on Twitter @mediagideon, Instagram @gideonaudio, and Facebook @gideonaudio.

Later this spring, MythMakers Media will release Metra - The Cast Album!

Support the creation of the album, and get access to upcoming bonus materials, at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical 

In the meantime, you can be the first to hear the newly remixed and remastered songs, from the comfort of your podcast feed. We're sharing them as they're finished--here's batch 2!

Songs:
“Welcome MythMakers”
“The Myth of Erysicthon Part 1”
“Sam Introduces Aggy”
“Metra’s Mother”
“The Myth of Erysicthon Part 2”
“The Sweet Old Woman’s Theme”

Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford
Produced by MythMakers Media
Featuring: Jeannette Bayardelle, Cherrye J. Davis, Fred Inkley, Corinna Schulenburg, Alia Munsch, Cristina Obando Sanchez, Sierra Rein

Sound Editing and Design; Instrumentation Arranged and Performed; Vocals Arranged; and all Audio Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by Ned Hartford

Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something

Look out this spring for info on the Bandcamp release, including special bonus features.

Happy Listening!