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The Thirteenth Hour Podcast

The Thirteenth Hour books are 80s inspired illustrated fairy tale fantasy novels that pay homage to fantasy, sci fi, and teen movies from the 80s as well as the music of that era. This podcast explores aspects of 80s culture as well as a wide variety of influences behind the books. Companion site: http://13thhr.wordpress.com

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00:36:03

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #504 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/04/07

This week, I'm reading the seventeenth chapter of the Peter David penned movie novelization of the 1991 Rocketeer film. This chapter takes place in Neville Sinclair's home, where he's kidnapped her, though she ends up figuring out how to get the upper hand, at least temporarily. I don't remember if I usually fast forwarded through this part as a kid, but I think I usually wanted to since I always through Neville was such a creep (and this scene certainly hits different in 2025),

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00:30:37

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #503 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/03/31

This week, I'm reading the sixteenth chapter of the Peter David penned movie novelization of the 1991 Rocketeer film. This chapter takes place in The South Seas Club, like last chapter, and is great fun. Cliff wreaks absolute chaos on mob boss Eddie Valentine's club (crime doesn't pay, kids!). The full clip is here. The novelization adds a few interesting tidbits that I suspect were artistic license, like the first person that Cliff runs into when he is on the waiter's cart being

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00:46:16

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #502 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/03/24

This week, I'm reading the fifteenth chapter of the Peter David penned movie novelization of the 1991 Rocketeer film. This chapter takes place in The South Seas Club, and has one of my favorite parts of the movie this part where Cliff stands by the table with Neville and Jenny awkwardly and tries to poof up these flowers - which go right back to the way they were before. I don't know why that part always used to crack me up, but it still does :) The full clip is here. Thanks for

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01:00:38

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #501: Welcome My Brother,...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/03/17

This week, my brother and I are watching the 1992 movie, Army of Darkness. Both of us remember the movie poster from comic book ads from the time. (It's still not clear to me what the X shaped belt Ash is wearing if for ... I don't think he wears something like that in the actual film).It was my first time seeing in a few decades and Jeremy's first ever. We watched the director's cut (which you can view online), but after a few minutes, I realized that this version was somewhat

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02:32:50

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #500: Celebration in the...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/03/10

This week on the show, we are celebrating the 500 episode mark with a story! I alluded to some of this in the past few weeks and was inspired by the scene in the 1988 film, Big, where both the young and adult Josh play a CGA text parser style game with a wizard and a cavern. You will be hearing from the following guests in this episode that I am happy to call friends:Shawn Wells and Colin Stewart, hosts of the podcast, I Used to Like This One, who recently hit a milestone of themselves, discussing

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00:18:48

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #499: Creating a New...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/03/03

This week on the show, I wanted to talk through the creation of a character who will not only show up in episode 500 next week but also some subsequent Thirteenth Hour stories. I wanted to explore some of the references, motivations, and conflicts behind the character, who I am calling Faltron, the cloud dragon, kind of a mix between Falkor from the film, The Neverending Story and Voltron from the cartoon, Voltron: Defender of the Universe (you will hear some music from the theme in the show). I

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01:13:50

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #498: Welcome Team...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/02/24

This week, my brother, Jeremy Lesniak from Whistlekick, and I are brainstroming how to turn The Thirteenth Hour workout cards I've discussed here before into an actual analog martial arts game that could also be a training tool for practicing martial artists.The cards were are talking about prior to cutting them out:Some pictures of the "Easy Exercise Plan" I made for my parents as a teenager that my brother refers to in the episode that was a kind of spiritual precursor to the deck above. Check out

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00:19:07

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #497 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/02/17

This week, it's not me reading the next chapter of the Peter David penned movie novelization of the 1991 Rocketeer film. That's because we have a special guest - Billy Campbell, who played the Cliff Secord / the Rocketeer in the 1991 film - is taking point to read Chapter 14! Billy was last on the show in 2022 (follow this link for a preview of an exclusive podcast recorded for people who had supported fundraising efforts for the Hairy Cell Leukemia Foundation in memory of Rocketeer creator, Dave

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00:30:13

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #496: Episode 500...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/02/11

This week on the show, I'm brainstorming ideas for episode 500, coming in a few weeks. I was thinking about doing a group DnD-lite style adventure so anyone who joins can essentially join in on a role playing journey (virtual/theater of the mind style) with the goal of emphasizing cooperative gameplay with a minimum of time spent attending to inventory (maybe you'd have one item), character class, combat, and stats (none). I'd have to design the game in such a way to make it very stripped down,

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00:22:29

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #495 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/02/03

This week, I'm reading the thirteenth chapter of the Peter David penned movie novelization of the 1991 Rocketeer film. This chapter takes place in the legit front for Eddie Valentine's business - The South Seas Club.In preparation for episode 500, coming in a few weeks, I've been toying with some ideas. Let me know if you have thoughts! Ideas for Episode 500: -group draw in (everyone draws or paints something) - could be talking at the same time -DnD one shot set in the Thirteenth

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00:35:04

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #494 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/01/27

This week, I'm reading the twelfth chapter of the Peter David penned movie novelization of the 1991 Rocketeer film. This chapter has a scene that for some reason always cracked my brother and I up as kids - the big bad guy, Lothar, picks up Cliff and shaves him through the ceiling headfirst a few times. It's so cartoonish - like something out of a Looney Tunes cartoon - that I still can't help it, though adult me (who tends to smack his head on lots of things always kind of winces). This

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01:46:49

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #493: Welcome Back Paul...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/01/20

This week, Paul Korman, who was last on the show in 2021 (episode 298), rejoins the show to discuss The Phantom Fellows, the pixelart adventure game he recently completed. This was a really fun episode to record (even though we needed to do it twice - more on that in the intro), and it was a fun one to prepare for, since it involved playing the game Paul had discussed back in episode 298. It is really something - not only was it a very enjoyable experience - but he did the programming, art,

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00:40:48

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #492: Welcome My Brother,...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/01/13

This week, my brother and I chatting in a rare, in-person meeting and, using my homebrew Rocketeer game demo as an example, talk about what makes video games enjoyable. When I started making this game a few years ago, my initial goal was not actually to make much of a game. It was it learn how to use the game making software I am using (GDevelop5). But once I got past the animations, story, and sprites, I kind of ran out of steam. This is what used to happen when I tried to make games back in

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00:48:23

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #491: Welcome My Brother,...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/01/06

Happy 2025! This week, my brother and I are watching the 1990 movie, Darkman.This is our first time watching it, though we'd both heard of it, having grown up seeing ads in Nintendo Power for the video game. Just like Dick Tracy, which we did a number of episodes back and also had not seen, it has a certain pulpy, tongue in cheek vibe. In fact, it reminds me a little of the first Robocop. Check out Jeremy's work over at Pixel Grotto, CBR.com, and Classic Batman Panels on IG. If you are of the

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00:29:48

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #490 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2024/12/30

This week, I’m reading the eleventh chapter of the Peter David penned movie novelization of the 1991 Rocketeer film. This chapter is when the Rocketeer flies off after his debut flight and tries to get the hang of the Cirrus X-3 without killing himself. We also get a sense of all the different players that want it. Thanks for listening! As always, thanks for listening! ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Signup for the mailing list for a free special edition podcast, a demo copy of The Thirteenth Hour, and access

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00:35:08

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #489 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2024/12/29

This week, I'm reading the tenth chapter of the Peter David penned movie novelization of the 1991 Rocketeer film. This chapter is when the Rocketeer makes his debut! This is one of the few part of the comic the plays out on the big screen, as Cliff in the comic also goes airborne for the first time to save Malcolm, a former WW1 flier who hangs out at the airfield. Click on the picture of Cliff taking off to watch the scene in the film. The James Horner score really completes the scene. As

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00:34:14

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #488 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2024/12/16

This week, I'm reading the ninth chapter of the Peter David penned movie novelization of the 1991 Rocketeer film. This chapter introduces us to the Laughing Bandit, the role the villain Neville Sinclair is playing probably inspired by Errol Flynn swashbucklers from the era. There were also some cameos in the novelization (not in the film) with famous actors and films being made at the time Clark Gable (Gone with the Wind), George Reeves (Gone with the Wind, later famous for Superman), Mae West,

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00:29:12

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #487 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2024/12/09

This week, I'm reading the eighth chapter of the Peter David penned movie novelization of the 1991 Rocketeer film. This chapter introduces us to the Bulldog Cafe and tells us why Jenny's phone number is written on the wall next to the pay phone. I always wondered about that and figured it was either a reference to the Tommy Tutone single from the 80s ("867-5309 / Jenny") or maybe the guys at the airfield had put her number up there to get a rise out of Cliff ("for a good time, call Jenny!"). The

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00:27:36

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #486 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2024/12/02

This week, I'm reading the seventh chapter of the Peter David penned movie novelization of the 1991 Rocketeer film. This chapter introduces Jenny Blake, Cliff's girlfriend (called Betty in Dave Stevens' original comic as an ode to pin up icon Bettie Paige). That part, in the film, went to Jennifer Connelly, who you may also remember from 1986's Labyrinth. When I was a teen, I had VHS copies of Labyrinth, Howard the Duck, Some Kind of Wonderful, Sixteen Candles, and The Rocketeer taped off the

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00:30:42

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #485 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2024/11/25

This week, I'm reading the sixth chapter of the Peter David penned movie novelization of the 1991 Rocketeer film. This chapter introduces Eddie Valentine, the gangster doing the heavy lifting for Hollywood spy Neville Sinclair. We get some backstory about Eddie that was not in the film as well as an early preview of Neville secret room where he sends encoded messages to his Nazi colleagues who want the rocketpack for themselves. This is also the scene where Cliff and Peevy strap the rocketpack

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