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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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00:44:46

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #551: Welcome My Brother,...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2026/03/02

This week, on the show, my brother and I are discussing a RPG system he created based on the world of The Thirteenth Hour. This is a work in progress based on a number of RPGs set in that world that we have already done but also with an eye toward creating your own world. In other words, it's meant to be light on rules and structure, heavy on customizability and individuality. So although you could create games based on the fantasy world in the Thirteenth Hour books, you could also use the

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00:27:50

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #550 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2026/02/23

In today's episode, I'm wrapping up the music that I started in episode 536, what I'm calling the "outdoor" Rocketeer theme for the parts of the Rocketeer vs the Third Reich pixelart game I've been making that takes place outdoors. Since those are sections where Cliff will have his rocketpack and can fly, I wanted to give the music a kind of WW1 flying ace kind of feel. Most of the track was done from last fall, but I ended up adding a few other instruments to round it

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00:23:38

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #549 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2026/02/16

In today's episode, I'm wrapping up the music for the indoors castle sections of the Rocketeer vs the Third Reich pixelart game I've been making. Last week, I based the melody on the Jenny Theme from the Rocketeer soundtrack by James Horner and made a short segment (about 30 sec long), trying to make it sound both regal and ominous. I think the theme in the film plays when Jenny is captured by Neville Sinclair, who is both Hollywood royalty and a secret Nazi spy, so that seems

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00:22:22

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #548 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2026/02/09

In today's episode, I'm discussing some updates I've made in this past week on the pixelart Rocketeer game that I started a number of years ago. I took a break from the programming part to do some work on the art and music for the game. The game starts with a short intro cut scene told in 1-2 pictures + text, like old NES games, so I made a intro montage picture showing Cliff's life after the events of the movie, implying he's still a pilot, the rocketpack was rebuilt, and his

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00:21:53

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #547 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2026/02/02

In today's episode, I'm discussing some progress I've made on the Rocketeer game that I started a number of years ago. This week, I've been working on starting and ending screens, higher contrast backgrounds, as well as more on powerups, including the ability to throw the grenades you pick up - that took a lot of fiddling! https://13thhr.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/the-thirteenth-hour-podcast-547-and-like-a-hood-ornament-90-updates-on-the-rocketeer-vs-the-third-reich-video-game-3/More

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00:30:45

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #546 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2026/01/26

In today's episode, I'm discussing some progress I've made on the Rocketeer game that I started a number of years ago. This week, I've been working on the background, powerups, being able to search enemies, and tutorial elements needed to orient players to the game. More details can be found in this youtube video: https://youtu.be/LSaEPHvzkJ8More to come next week!∞∞∞∞∞∞∞Once Upon a Dream, the second Thirteenth Hour soundtrack, is now out in digital form and on CD! It is out on

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00:23:44

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #545 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2026/01/19

In today's episode, I'm discussing some progress I've made on the Rocketeer game that I started a number of years ago. I was learning to use the program before by making a one level demo game which ended up being the precursor to the story and card game of The Rocketeer vs the Third Reich. But I'd always meant to get back to the actual video game. In the past two weeks, I had to reacquaint myself to the program, Gdevelop5, and pickup where I left off a few years ago. I discuss

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01:34:00

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #544: Creative Corner 1...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2026/01/12

This week's episode was recorded prior to the holidays with two gentlemen who have both been on he show multiple times, Joseph Esch (with a few guest appearances from family members) and Adam Crohn. There was no particular agenda other than catching up with each other and talking about Joe's first experience being a vendor at a toy convention. We ended up commiserating on having tables at similar such conventions and fairs, the pitfalls of generative AI and digital living, especially with

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00:33:02

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #543: Instamorph...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2026/01/05

In today's episode, I wanted to talk about a few techniques I have been experimenting with to make custom action figures. I have, up until now, been using epoxy clay, which you can mold and sculpt until it hardens after about an hour, then sand or file it down until it is the way you want it. It works great, but it creates a hybrid dried clay - plastic figure that while durable to an extent, is still somewhat brittle. I have been looking for a way to create an all-plastic figure for the sake

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00:20:51

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #542 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/12/29

In today's episode, I wanted to continue what I was working on last week, trying to get resin to adhere to a base plastic figure to create an easier way to make custom action figure duplicates. I will be experimenting with a number of methods to create snap on/ snap off molds to see what works best, but today, I'm using a kind of thermoplastic called Instamorph. You heat the pellets in water, they become soft and squishy, allowing you to press something into it to make a mold, like I am

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00:19:18

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #541 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/12/22

In today's episode, I wanted to try something that, frankly, may not work. I wanted to try using a basic figure as the "skeleton" and casting details onto the body instead of sculpting them out of epoxy clay or some other substance. This would allow you do get a figure off the shelf and essentially "plug" it into the molds for the limbs are such and emerge with a "newly clothed" figure. I don't know if it will work since I'm not sure how well the resin

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00:27:09

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #540 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/12/15

In today's episode, I'm continuing what I started in episode 536 and 538 - where I wanted to turn a Rocketeer figurine that I found on eBay in to an articulated action figure. In this episode, I got into finishing up the first casting and adding joints to that one and subsequent duplicates. In the end, I accomplished my goal of seeing if I could turn a static Japanese gashapon Rocketeer figurine that I didn't want to destroy into an articulated resin action figure, giving me new ideas

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01:48:46

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #539: Welcome Brian Funk,...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/12/08

In today's episode, I'm actually joined by my co-host and guest, Brian Funk of The Music Production Podcast. We decided to dual release this conversation, essentially serving as guests on each other's show. We had a really great conversation about not just the ins and outs of aspects of making music but the underlying creative processes that go into formulating ideas, making them real in the world, and some of the traps and hangups that we creative types sometimes find ourselves in. The

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00:21:41

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #538 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/12/01

In today's episode, I'm continuing what I started in episode 536 - where I wanted to turn a Rocketeer figurine that I found on eBay in to an articulated action figure. But in the episode, the silicone I had gotten turned out to be bad, so I had to get some more in order to make a mold. In the past two weeks, I bought a new kind of silicone (Smooth On Mold Star 30) as well as a new kind of resin to try (Smooth Cast 57D). I was successful in making molds of the parts of the figurine. It

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01:56:21

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #537: Welcome Andy Last,...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/11/24

In today's episode, I'm speaking with podcaster Andy Last, host of the Beyond Synth podcast. Andy is one of the few people I have talked with that has been doing this longer than I am - he has been doing his show, discussing synthwave music and the artists that make it, since 2013.We had a great, lengthy conversation about podcasting, the ups and downs of collaboration, the joys of compulsions of solo creative work, and a lot on the nature/pros/cons of generative AI (which, like it or not,

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00:30:49

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #536 and Like A Hood...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/11/17

In today's episode, I was planning to start a new action figure project - attempting to turn a Rocketeer figurine that I found on eBay in to an articulated action figure. A number of years ago, my brother encouraged me to use the social media platform Blue Sky as an alternative to Twitter/X. I did make a profile and processed to do nothing with it other than do what I often do when I find a new platform - I start looking for Rocketeer stuff. One of the first things I posted was the discovery

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01:15:46

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #535: Welcome Richie...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/11/10

In today's episode, I'm speaking with fantasy author and podcaster Richie Billing about his novel, Together We Rise. We had a great conversation about writing, the creative process, fantasy worlds, and even the use of generative AI in music. Together We Rise is a multilayered story of a revolution that takes place in a fantasy world - maybe the equivalent of something that might have occurred in the 1700s in Europe - there are some factories and all the issues that go with those, but

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00:22:17

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #534: Musical Interlude -...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/11/03

In today's episode, I'm continuing what I started last week, working out "The Unicorn Theme" by Tangerine Dream from the Legend soundtrack. I worked out some of the basic notes last week, and this week I'm adding more as well as the left hand chords. Though not recorded in the podcast, while I was wrapping up the mixing of what I'd done, I remembered one of the other verses I'd forgotten. I did most of this in Bandlab, the DAW I've been working to learn this past

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00:18:14

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #533: Musical Interlude -...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/10/27

In today's episode, I'm playing around with some music from one of my favorite soundtracks, Legend, using the score done by Tangerine Dream. There's a piece in there I have always liked, called "The Unicorn Theme" and the same melody and chords get used in the ending song for the theatrical release in a ballad with vocals done by Jon Anderson called "Loved by the Sun" with the Tangerine Dream synths in the background. When I first heard it, I thought it was an odd

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01:26:58

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #532: Mappa Mundi...

The Thirteenth Hour Podcast ·

2025/10/20

In today's episode, my brother and I are wrapping up the role playing adventure we started last week based on a setting in his role playing game, Mappa Mundi. This week picks up after the main character, Axel, has fallen into a deep crevice in the ice. Will he emerge? What will he find in the icy depths below? There were supernatural creatures (below) above the rift - what about within it? Who knows what Axel will find in the depths below?! Thanks for listening! Watch for the compilation

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