The Rita Minute 4: 4Ever Love

It's Forever-Love Day and Rita doesn't have a date! Can she, Jet, the Ruby 7, and an uncaring and manipulative dating app prove love is real in twenty-five minutes or less?

(Trigger warnings can be found at the bottom of this episode description and at the end of the transcript.)

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You can find all of our transcripts here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1bnWLw5dTW4l9A0bmOMzEiy6XqqsXHHi_ Transcripts will come out along with the public release of the episode.

On staff at the Penumbra:

Kat Buckingham -- Head of Merchandise and Outreach

Alice Chuang -- Head of Design

Melissa DeJesus -- Script editing team

Harley Takagi Kaner -- Co-creator, Head of Episode Development, Director, Sound designer

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

Recorded by Jimmy Corbett at The Bridge Sound & Stage

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Attribution:

reCreation by airtone (c) copyright 2019 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/59721 circus man by Jeris (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/VJ_Memes/37243 Ft: A.M. mews by MommaLuv SKyTower “Hot Spring 2.wav” by Greencouch https://freesound.org/people/Greencouch/sounds/103562/ “Bottle cork in and out 2012-1-4.wav” by Kyster https://freesound.org/people/Kyster/sounds/140615/ “[Remix] hot tub loop” by AnLorenzo https://freesound.org/people/AnLorenzo/sounds/339514/https://freesound.org/people/AnLorenzo/sounds/33951 Bossa Antigua Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Trigger warnings:

- Enclosed/claustrophobic spaces

- Violence and threats of violence

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