THIRST S1E18: The Man Behind Me
The Penumbra Podcast
Harley Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
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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.)
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TRIGGER WARNINGS:
-Death
-References to torture and assault
-Sexism, racism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia
-Situations evoking grooming and sexual assault
-Gaslighting and manipulation
-Sudden loud noises
-Mentions of gun violence and death
-Gore and body horror
-Self-harm
-Stalking
-Child death (referenced, not shown)
-Child abuse
-Social ostracization
-Financial abuse
-Mass death and suicide
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Can't tear my eyes from you. Chapter 18. |
| 0:06.0 | The man behind me. |
| 0:09.0 | Is there like a plan for this or... |
| 0:25.2 | It's not brain surgery, Taylor. |
| 0:27.4 | No, it's really more like what happens when the brain surgeon makes an oopsie. |
| 0:31.9 | Dennis, stop talking. Someone else start talking. |
| 0:35.4 | Of course, we pick the one cold day to stand around outside and have a... Cold? In what world is 79 degrees cold? Nobody's buying the tough girl bullshit, Valentina. I feel like I'm full of ice water. If you're really that sick, maybe you should... For the last time, we are not using that word. Stop it! Please. Just... This is only going to work |
| 0:55.2 | if we treat it with respect. |
| 0:57.1 | This was your idea, Anuk. |
| 0:58.7 | You didn't have someone in mind to take the lead? |
| 1:00.5 | I... |
| 1:01.6 | Well, no. |
| 1:02.5 | I thought we could all just contribute freely and... |
| 1:06.5 | It's sweet, Anook. |
| 1:07.6 | I just don't really get it. |
| 1:10.8 | Like, it isn't much of a funeral if we don't have a body. Well, if your favorite computer wasn't hiding them all. I think we're just a little lost, that's all. Not to mention everyone who'd know how to run one of these things is, like, who we're here to bury that really like holiday probably knew the |
| 1:27.6 | last rights by heart cruz could have bullshitted his way into something fun at least g i jesus |
| 1:31.9 | saw plenty of death hell caused plenty of death in georgia well you can't fake class i'll say that |
| 1:37.4 | she had her shows and everything she could have put together something nice i had shows |
| 1:41.5 | mm-hmm cool so we're going to see these four off with roadkill Thuagra and a story about them all mud wrestling in hell. |
| 1:47.8 | You can't fake class. |
| 1:50.9 | Georgia really could have done it. She. She. |
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