Well, I'm all caught up on this pod, including their Patreon commentary tracks, so... Let's talk about Midnight Burger @midnightburgerpod ! Midnight Burger is a dimension spanning, dark comedy, strangely insightful, fiction podcast about a diner that functions more like a...space ship...kind of? (Like Peri's lighthouse in The Far Meridian, except with food, and more physics). Listen, no one quite knows how the diner works, but when it sets down for the day, the shift begins, and either A. someone will come in and eat and/or have a problem that needs solving, or B. something will try to kill them (nature abhors a things that defies the known laws of physics...🤔). So who staffs the diner, well you've got Gloria, she's the new gal who just got hired(?); Casper, who's potentially been there the longest--though he can't remember how long that is; Leif, the short order cook, who also appears to have a certain set of skills--are we sure he's just a cook??; Ava, who is a cocky (think Dr. Sally Grissom from Ars Paradoxica) multi-doctorated physicist who desperately wants to unlock the mysteries of the diner; and Effie and Zebulon Mucklewain, who are ol' timey southern radio preachers (for all that they are surprisingly good and forward thinking people(?)) "bringing the holy to the holler"--but also, they appear to live in the radio, talk to you through it, and also, kind of, sometimes are able to steer or influence the diner's direction? sometimes? And most shocking of all, they sometimes even play secular music 😱. Funny, sweet, sad, insightful, and even sometimes inciteful, Midnight Burger will pull you in because at the end of the day, they make you care about the characters and their found family dynamic. You totally see why it's a 2021 Audioverse Awards finalist. So if you like dimension spanning problem solvers--The Far Meridian, Quantum Leap, Sliders, etc.; Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy vibes, with a dash of philosophy, then Midnight Burger is for you!
