THIRST S1E16: Cutthroat

About this episode

A nature hike turns violent in this episode of The Penumbra Podcast.

You can find early and ad-free episodes, production scripts, commentary tracks, blooper reels, livestreams with the creators, and much more, at The Penumbra Podcast: SPECIAL EDITION . Can't Tear My Eyes From You, Chapter 16: Cutthroat. A nature hike turns violent. Cast: Marge Dunn as Raine Randolph and Mary Amanda Egbu as Georgia Whittaker Josephine Moshiri Elwood as Valentina Ride Tooky Kavanagh as The Algorithm Quinn McKenzie as Capote Whittaker Melody Perera as Anouk Kalhara Stefano Perti as Dennis Lang and Joe Stewart Evan Smith as Taylor Kelley Alexander Stravinski as The Host and Abraham (Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description and at the end of the transcript.) ------- You can find all of our transcripts here . Transcripts will come out along with the public release of the episode and include all required SFX attributions. On staff at the Penumbra: Ginny D'Angelo -- Head of Operations Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team Harley Takagi Kaner -- Co-creator, Head of Episode Development, Director, Sound designer Grahame Turner -- Script editing team Kevin Vibert -- Co-creator, Head of Operations, Lead writer Ryan Vibert -- Composer and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Harley Takagi Kaner, Kevin Vibert

Guests: Marge Dunn, Mary Amanda Egbu, Josephine Moshiri Elwood, Tooky Kavanagh, Quinn McKenzie, Melody Perera, Stefano Perti, Joe Stewart, Evan Smith, Alexander Stravinski

Topics covered

• nature hike
• violence
• trauma
• mind control
• animal cruelty

Keywords

• nature hike
• violence
• trauma
• mind control
• animal cruelty
• Cutthroat
• Penumbra Podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Penumbra Podcast, Can't Tear My Eyes From You, Cutthroat

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