About this episode

The episode explores how contestants' popularity impacts the game dynamics.

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 19: The Edit A glimpse at what the audience sees. The contestants discover that their popularity affects the game. Cast: Marge Dunn as Raine Randolph 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 Stewart Evan Smith as Taylor Kelley Alexander Stravinski as The Host M Sutherland as Boots Goliath Harley Takagi Kaner as Capote's Dysphoria (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…

People in this episode

Guests: Marge Dunn, Josephine Moshiri Elwood, Tooky Kavanagh, Quinn McKenzie, Melody Perera, Stefano Perti, Evan Smith, Kelley Alexander Stravinski, M Sutherland, Harley Takagi Kaner

Topics covered

• game dynamics
• popularity
• contestants
• audience interaction
• trigger warnings

Keywords

• contestants
• popularity
• game
• audience
• trigger warnings

Mentioned in this episode

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

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