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Thirst Aid Kit

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Thirst Aid Kit

Slate Podcasts

News, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Entertainment News

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Krutika Mallikarjuna, features editor at TV Guide, joins us to lust after superheroes and comic book baes. We also talk about our experiences at this year's New York Comic Con, where we talked to fans and artists about cosplay, first crushes, and how to draw sexy. Also in this episode: SUPERHERO SEX. Thanks to everyone who spoke to us at the Comic Con Artist Alley, including Amy Reeder, Tee Franklin, Kieron Gillen, Fabrice Sapolsky, Gail Simone, Brian Stelfreeze, and Juan Ferreyra. We didn't meet Kevin Wada at Comic Con but we lust after his art a bunch in this episode. Find their work and more on our Tumblr. Follow us on Twitter for thirsty GIFs. Bim is @bimadew and Nichole is @tnwhiskeywoman. Our music is by Tanya Morgan and Fleslit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Holy first bucket, Nicole.

0:03.4

Hi, Bill.

0:04.6

Welcome to Best Date Kid.

0:09.0

You may have guessed from my euthanistic opening greeting, but this week we are thrilled

0:22.1

to be delving into a very specifically powered world.

0:27.0

Yes, we are talking about superheroes and comic books and films and all that good stuff.

0:33.0

Yeah.

0:34.0

So you are going to hear all of our time at New York Comic Con last month.

0:39.2

That was Nicole's first time.

0:41.0

Yeah.

0:42.0

You're going to hear from some of the amazing fans that we met there because there is nothing

0:46.5

like a collection of fans only in one place and they were very, very accommodating.

0:50.9

We basically stuck a microphone in their faces and said, hey, tell us about the superheroes

0:54.7

you first and after.

0:55.9

And they were more than happy to go and tell us all their love, a little first crush

1:00.4

stories.

1:01.4

I think my first crush was actually Zina, which is weird that I dress like her.

1:06.7

I think I was like nine or ten when the show came out so that was when I was like, oh,

1:10.4

I love her.

1:12.0

And then we also have a guest this week, don't we?

1:14.0

Yeah, we're going to speak to TV Guide Features Editor, Critica Marley Cargina, an expert

1:18.6

in all things comics and superheroes and pop culture.

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