THIRST S1E1: Icebreaker
The Penumbra Podcast
Harley Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert
4.9 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Can't Tear My Eyes From You, Chapter 1: Icebreaker.
Hoping to win a grand prize that promises safety and security in frightening times, a young couple prepares to join a reality TV competition.
Cast:
Marge Dunn as Raine Randolph and Claudia
Amanda Egbu as Georgia Whittaker
Eleanore Cho Fellerhoff as Holliday Murdock and Lydia
Joshua Ilon as Dennis Cruz
Quinn McKenzie as Capote Whittaker and Dave
Melody Perera as Anouk Kalhara
Stefano Perti as Dennis Lang and Bill
Marc Pierre as Sergeant Murdock and the “Confess Your Crimes” host
Alexander Stravinski as The Host and Marcus
(Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description and at the end of the transcript.)
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On staff at the Penumbra:
Ginny D'Angelo -- Head of Merchandise and Outreach
Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team
Harley Takagi Kaner -- Co-creator, Head of Episode Development, Director, Sound designer
Joelle Kross -- Transcriptionist
Noah Simes -- Production manager
Grahame Turner -- Script editing team
Kevin Vibert -- Co-creator, Head of Operations, Lead writer
Ryan Vibert -- Composer and performer of original music
Jeff Wright -- Graphic designer
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The triggers below may be relevant to episode 1 of Thirst or to the series as a whole. It is not comprehensive, but we will include a more specific list of triggers with every episode. Please consider these as you decide whether Thirst is right for you:
- Climate disaster/climate horror
- Apocalyptic scenarios
- Sudden loud noises
- Violence and threats of violence
- Abuse of power
- Dictatorship, fascism
- Characters speaking in ways that suggest prejudice of most kinds: homophobia, sexism, transphobia, racism, ableism, etc.
- Body horror and gore
- Violence towards animals
- Illness, starvation, malnutrition, dehydration, etc.
- Public humiliation
- Depictions and descriptions of intense military violence
- Coercion and manipulation
- Sexual scenarios
- Profanity
- Unwanted sexual advances
- Exploitation of people in need
- Isolation and abandonment
- Gaslighting/propaganda/organized attempts to misrepresent reality
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Transcript
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| 0:38.6 | Hello, this is Harley Takagi Caner, one of the creators of the Penumbra podcast. |
| 0:44.7 | If you're just checking out the feed for the first time, welcome. |
| 0:48.3 | If you've been a listener of the Juno Steel or Second Citadel series, welcome back. |
| 0:53.5 | We are so excited to share our new story, Thirst, |
| 0:57.3 | with all of you. If you are familiar with our previous work, I do want to let you know that |
| 1:02.6 | thirst is much more explicit and a lot darker than our other series, so I would not recommend it |
| 1:08.2 | for children. If you have concerns about potential triggers, |
| 1:12.3 | those will always be listed at the end of the transcript and in the show notes. |
| 1:16.3 | And here in the series premiere, |
| 1:18.2 | we have also included a more comprehensive list |
| 1:20.8 | so that you can decide whether or not the show as a whole is right for you. |
| 1:25.2 | I do hope you decide to stick around, though. |
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