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Thirst Aid Kit

Summer Treat #2: What the Foof Wants

Thirst Aid Kit

Slate Podcasts

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

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

If you thought our Thirst Sommelier requests were… well, thirsty, wait until you hear this selection of listener-submitted drabbles. Lauren serves up some heat with Aamir Khan. Stacy gets messy with Tom Hardy. Saija catches eyes with Alex Turner, and Katherine enjoys some very special family time with John Krasinski. Whew! We also answer a frequently-asked question about our own drabbles. We hope you're enjoying these summer treats and that you’re stay calm, cool, and thirsty wherever you are. Stay tuned for more! New York: Join us Wednesday, August 22 at 7pm at Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn. Our next edition of #ThirstyMovies features CREED, starring Michael B. Jordan, as directed by Ryan Coogler-- two thirst objects we can’t get enough of. Purchase your tickets online: https://drafthouse.com/nyc/show/thirsty-movies-creed Do you need help figuring out your next crush? Drop us a line! Leave us a message at (765) 8-THIRST (765-884-4778) with your name and what kind of crush advice you're looking for, and maybe we'll answer your question in an upcoming Thirst Sommelier. Follow us on Twitter @ThirstAidKit. Bim is @bimadew and Nichole is @tnwhiskeywoman. Find show notes, fanfic, and more on our Tumblr. Share your drabbles with us there or email them to us at thirstaidkit@slate.com. Our music is by Tanya Morgan.  For your safety, we recommend that you avoid operating heavy machinery while listening to Thirst Aid Kit.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, Bam. Hello, Nicole. How are you today? Do you know what? I'm feeling great. Yeah. Yeah.

0:16.0

Yeah. It's great. So I advocated for trying going brawlers this year. I'm living my best brawlers life.

0:24.0

Everything's just like moving around and happy. Yeah. So that's me today. I'm just relaxed as fuck. I couldn't even tell. That's my point.

0:33.0

Okay. What do you do? I like parking boobles. I don't like to brag, but it is what it is.

0:41.0

Directly under my chin for life. Yes. All jokes aside. I can't advocate it enough. But yes, that's my contribution to the events of this week.

0:51.0

Nicole, how are you doing today? I'm doing well. I have a nice little, you know, next morning glow. Shall we say? It's good.

1:03.0

Yeah. I'm glad I'm happy to hear it. You look good. Thank you. You do have a glow. I didn't want to kind of like guess it's so.

1:10.0

Thank you. I'm happy that there is a source of this week. Yeah. We're doing a little something, aren't we?

1:17.0

Yeah. We have some little bonus goodies, you know, to the audience or listeners out there. Yeah.

1:22.0

And this week, there is a very special focus on our bonus content. Yes. This week, we are going to read some listener drabble.

1:29.0

Yeah. Our listeners have sent in some incredible, credible pieces of work. Listen. I mean, just we're swooning all over the place over here.

1:38.0

Right. Let's just sit be cupping everything. Somebody just come clean up all of this. It's just like the inbox is filthy.

1:45.0

And like it's like it's got to that stage now where you have to kind of like do that weird window wiping sound so you can do speed through it.

1:52.0

But no, it's nice. It's very steamy in the inbox. There's lots of drabble. Some of them are let's be honest too long.

1:58.0

Oh, yeah. We caution against this because we cannot read a seven page drabble.

2:03.0

Some of the stuff that we get is really sweet though. It's, you know, it's perfect. It's short, sweet.

2:09.0

And it's just get in and get out. It packs a bunch.

2:27.0

So, Nicole, you're going to kick us off. Yes. And this is by Lauren. Yes, Lauren.

2:33.0

And it is about the Indian actor and filmmaker, Amir Khan. It's very handsome.

2:40.0

I've seen the pigs. Yeah. I've seen. He's been blessed. Good face. Good everything.

2:46.0

All right. So here we go. The sweat from my fingers washed away some of the ink from our photographs as I placed them in the fire.

2:55.0

I watched Amir stirring face melt and his furrowed brow disintegrate into embers.

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