The Penumbra Podcast

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Can't Tear My Eyes From You, Chapter 3: Love Is a Four-Letter Word. The first game is revealed. Cast: Ginny D'Angelo as Siobhan Marge Dunn as Raine Randolph Josephine Moshiri Elwood as Valentina Ride Amanda Egbu as Georgia Whittaker Eleanore Cho Fellerhoff as Holliday Murdock Joshua Ilon as Dennis Cruz Tooky Kavanagh as The Algorithm Quinn McKenzie as Capote Whittaker Jamie McGonagill as Megumi Me...

Can't Tear My Eyes From You, Chapter 2: Behind Closed Doors. An interlude before the real fun begins. What are couples really like in private? Cast: Marge Dunn as Raine Randolph and Wet-Park Announcer Amanda Egbu as Georgia Whittaker Eleanore Cho Fellerhoff as Holliday Murdock and Scientist 2 Joshua Ilon as Dennis Cruz and Bored Teenage Wet-Park Worker Tooky Kavanagh as The Algorithm Quinn McKenzi...

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 M...

This trailer is best viewed in its video form on any of our social media accounts: Instagram , Tiktok , Facebook , or Bluesky . Episode 1 of THIRST is now available ad-free for early access subscribers over on The Penumbra Podcast: Special Edition , along with our large backlog of bonus content. (We offer the same rewards on our Patreon , but if you have the option we request that you support the...

What would you do for love, $100,000,000, and a house far away from the sea? Original music by Harrison M. Beck. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Listen to Desert Skies here or anywhere you get your podcasts. For early and ad-free episodes, production scripts, commentary tracks, blooper reels, livestreams with the creators, and much more, you can find The Penumbra Podcast: SPECIAL EDITION at: https://thepenumbrapodcast.supercast.com(In old episodes, you will often hear us mention Patreon, which was our old platform and is no longer live. Pl...

Enjoy episode 2 of the audiobook for If Memory Serves: A Juno Steel Mystery , and if you want to join us for our post-audiobook livestream Q&A on April 5th at 7 PM EST, you can subscribe for 15% off now at thepenumbrapodcast.supercast.com ! ----- Juno reconnects with an old friend. On the trail of a development in his new case--or is it an old case?--he does some espionage and meets an unappet...

Hello, travelers! Harley Takagi Kaner here with an update about some upcoming events we’re hosting over on The Penumbra Podcast: Special Edition. We’ve got our first ever Drag Bingo event at 5 PM Eastern on February 16th for our supporters at the The Penumbra Podcast: Special Edition! We’ve been looking for ways to bring our community together during this hiatus, and we can’t wait to hang out with...

This is a short, pretty spoiler-free preview of our Juno Steel novel If Memory Serves . If you want access to the audiobook AND to give us the funding to make sure our next podcast Thirst happens, you just have to pledge at any level over at thepenumbrapodcast.supercast.com . Nearly four hours of young Juno are waiting for you there! For early and ad-free episodes, production scripts, commentary t...

Hi all! Part 1 of If Memory Serves  is finished over on The Penumbra: Special Edition, so what are you waiting around here for? Just head over to thepenumbrapodcast.supercast.com and take in Juno's first case EVER as a PI! Notes from this announcement: 1) Part 1 is over! It's a complete case and a perfect time to catch up on If Memory Serves . 2) To celebrate the end of Part 1, Harley and...

A young Juno Steel, new to being a private eye and intensely depressed after explosively losing his job at the HCPD, is deep under the spell of a street drug that allows him to relive his past. Encouraged by his trusty secretary, he takes on a strange case. Part 1, Ch. 1-4. You can find a transcript for this episode  here . If you'd like access to the rest of the audiobook episodes as they com...

When Kevin and Harley decided to go full-time as podcasters and artists, they knew it was a big risk. Independent media by queer creators doesn't generally pull in the big bucks, but it’s important to them to make the most beautiful and heartfelt work possible and always pay the cast and crew a competitive rate. That’s why we are so grateful to you for considering signing up for The Penumbra P...

Harley and Kevin answer Patreon subscribers' questions LIVE (hence the sub-par audio) with help from Joshua Ilon and Melissa DeJesus. IF MEMORY SERVES will be released starting in October on our new paid platform. Details can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/big-news-from-q-111733218 THIRST will begin release summer 2025 on our public podcast feed. For early and ad-free episodes, p...

Hi travelers, Harley here. I wanted to make sure that you knew about our upcoming series Q&A happening on Patreon this Sunday, September 8th, at 3:00 PM Eastern, for all of our Patreon supporters. Kevin and I will be answering questions live from those who attend, so make sure to come prepared with everything you’re still dying to know! The Q&A will be co-hosted by Joshua Ilon, who voices...

Home is what you make it. Thank you for joining us at The Penumbra, dear Traveler. We hope you've enjoyed your stay. (Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description and at the end of the transcript.) ------- You can find all of our transcripts here:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OLddnnYamZuglgZc8pM2gqToPOwEBccM?usp=sharing Transcripts will come out along wit...

Well, Juno Steel. Time's up. It's time to answer the question: Who will you be next? Welcome to the Penumbra, dear Traveler. We hope you enjoy your stay. (Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description and at the end of the transcript.) ------- You can find all of our transcripts here:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OLddnnYamZuglgZc8pM2gqToPOwEBccM?usp=sh...

Given but one short and precious life, what world will you bring to bear? Welcome to the Penumbra, dear Traveler. We hope you enjoy your stay. (Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description and at the end of the transcript.) ------- You can find all of our transcripts here:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OLddnnYamZuglgZc8pM2gqToPOwEBccM?usp=sharing Transcripts w...

Above, a cataclysmic war to determine the fate of the Universe; below, an adventure deep into the bowels beneath an undersea palace; all while a traitor leads the enemy onward... and forces our heroes to make a terrible choice. Welcome to the Penumbra, dear Traveler. We hope you enjoy your stay. (Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description and at the end of the transcri...

The center of the Universe, mere hours before the battle that will determine its final fate. This is a war that not all will survive. Welcome to the Penumbra, dear Traveler. We hope you enjoy your stay. (Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description and at the end of the transcript.) ------- You can find all of our transcripts here:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders...

BEGIN LIFEUPGRADE? Welcome to the Penumbra, dear Traveler. We hope you enjoy your stay. (Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description and at the end of the transcript.) ------- You can find all of our transcripts here:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OLddnnYamZuglgZc8pM2gqToPOwEBccM?usp=sharing Transcripts will come out along with the public release of the episo...

It's difficult to stay sane while you're in two simultaneous life-or-death situations, but Juno Steel is doing his best. With the Ruby 7 psychically splitting his attention between two places -- one where he is imprisoned and experimented on by Dokana executives; another where Nureyev must argue to save Juno's life -- things are looking pretty grim. And with each passing day, the execu...

The Second Citadel has stood, tall and proud, in the Northern Wilds for centuries. It is the bastion of humanity in the region, a settlement carved out from an unforgiving land. No matter what happens, you must remember this: there are people who call it home, people who love it, people who have never known anything but it. Welcome to the Penumbra, dear Traveler. We hope you enjoy your stay. (Trig...

Sir Galahad the Great is a popular man in what remains of Silvershore. Some people want to kill him; some want to ask him a favor; some want to reward him for his good work in reducing the beautiful city to dust and rubble. But who ever would have guessed that it's the last of these three visitors he has to worry about? Welcome to the Penumbra, dear Traveler. We hope you enjoy your stay. (Trig...