THIRST S1E18: The Man Behind Me

About this episode

The living contestants finally get the chance to grieve as Anouk remembers her childhood.

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 18: The Man Behind Me. The living contestants finally get the chance to grieve. Anouk remembers her childhood. Cast: Marge Dunn as Raine Randolph Josephine Moshiri Elwood as Valentina Ride Joshua Ilon as "Dennis Cruz" Tooky Kavanagh as The Algorithm Quinn McKenzie as Capote Whittaker Jamie McGonagill as Ms. Vasquez Melody Perera as Anouk Kalhara Stefano Perti as Dennis Lang Brandon M. Reeves as the Lots and Lots of Guns Announcer Stewart Evan Smith as Taylor Kelley Alexander Stravinski as The Host (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…

People in this episode

Guests: Marge Dunn, Josephine Moshiri Elwood, Joshua Ilon, Tooky Kavanagh, Quinn McKenzie, Jamie McGonagill, Melody Perera, Kalhara Stefano Perti, Brandon M. Reeves, Stewart Evan Smith, Alexander Stravinski

Topics covered

• grief
• childhood memories
• contestants
• algorithm
• death
• social issues

Keywords

• grief
• algorithm
• contestants
• childhood
• death
• social issues
• Penumbra Podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Penumbra Podcast, Can't Tear My Eyes From You, Chapter 18: The Man Behind Me

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