HSP Presents: The Timekeeper Ep. 1 "It's Just a Game."

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

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🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Episode 1 of 4 17-year-old Charlie (JUDAH LEWIS) shows up to his job at Funland to find his co-worker, Blake, dead and the building on fire with an ominous message scratched into the break room door: Tick Tock. Believing the message may be connected to the 13 Keys video game Blake was playing, Charlie tries to learn more about Jacob Fairchild, the game’s creator. He and Gama (Arjun Athalye) discover a copy of 13 Keys on Blake’s computer. Charlie chooses to play, against Gama’s wishes, starting the clock and giving him 24 hours to find the 13 keys hidden in the game. If he fails? The Timekeeper comes. The Timekeeper, Episode one features Judah Lewis as Charlie, Chandler Kinney as Zoe, and Arjun Athalye as Gama The Timekeeper was created, written, and directed by Matthew A Brown Sound Design, Scoring and Mix by Jeff Schmidt Original Score composed by Joshua Zimmerman Additional dialog editing by Marika Perlmutter Executive Produced by Matthew A Brown, Kaelyn Moore, and Judah Lewis The Timekeeper is a production from Heart Starts Pounding For more from Heart Starts Pounding: Subscribe on⁠ Patreon⁠ to become a member of our Rogue Detecting Society and enjoy ad-free listening, monthly bonus content, merch discounts and more. Members of our High Council on Patreon also have access to our weekly after-show, Footnotes, where I share my case file with our producer, Matt. You can also enjoy many of these same perks, including ad-free listening and bonus content when you subscribe on Apple Podcasts . Follow on⁠ Tik Tok⁠ and⁠ Instagram⁠ for a daily dose of horror. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.6	abholing. Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero.
0:50.3	See you tomorrow, folks, and remember it's always a fun time at Funland.
0:59.0	It's a Fun Time at Funland.
1:01.0	It's a Fun Time at Funland.
1:03.0	Hey, Blake, did you lock up the go-carts?
1:07.0	Come on, Storm's almost here. I've got to go. I'm taking out the trash, then I'm done. It wasn't always a fun time at Funland. That's something I'd learned since starting work there two summers ago.
1:17.6	Not that work is supposed to be fun.
1:21.6	My dad always reminded me of that, but most of the time it didn't look like anyone was having fun.
1:26.6	Not the kids yelling at the crane machine that didn't give of the time it didn't look like anyone was having fun.
1:28.1	Not the kids yelling at the crane machine that didn't give them the toy they wanted.
1:32.3	Are my classmates eating cold fries and waiting to sneak free refills of off-brand Coca-Cola?
1:37.3	And definitely not the parents digging through their pockets for quarters every 45 seconds,
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