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The Penumbra Podcast

THIRST S1E18: The Man Behind Me

The Penumbra Podcast

Harley Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert

Penumbra, Second Citadel, Audio Drama, Comedy, The Penumbra Podcast, Fiction, Performing Arts, Rusty Quill, Horror, Arts, Thirst, Scifi, Thirst Podcast, Audio Fiction, Science Fiction, Juno Steel

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

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 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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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 -- Co-creator, Head of Operations, Lead writer

Ryan Vibert -- Composer and performer of original music

Jeff Wright -- Graphic designer


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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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