Midnight Burger
When Gloria took a waitressing job at a diner outside of Phoenix, she didn't realize she was now an employee of Midnight Burger, a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner. Every day Midnight Burger appears somewhere new in the cosmos along with it's staff: a galactic drifter, a rogue theoretical physicist, a sentient old-timey radio, and some guy named Caspar. No one knows who built Midnight Burger or how it works, but when it appears there's always someone around who could really use a cup of coffee. "When the waves of the universe crash unrelentingly, when the stars seem indifferent to your plight, suddenly there is a diner." We open at 6.
Episodes
October 27, 2020 • 37 mins
Now jobless in the pandemic era, Gloria takes a job interview at a lonely diner outside of Phoenix. What could possibly go wrong?
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Written and Directed by Joe Fisher
Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson
Music:
What a Friend We Have in Jesus - Stanley and Bu...
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December 14, 2020 • 27 mins
It's Gloria's first official shift at everyone's favorite space, time, and dimension traversing diner and the staff finds themselves setting down on a dense, forested planet, teeming with life. I'm SURE everything on this planet is nice and benevolent. Right guys?... Guys?...
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - T...
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January 4, 2021 • 30 mins
You'd think working a busy shift in a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner in 1934 Harlan County, Kentucky would keep you from being confronted by your past relationships. That's what you get for thinking.
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Guest Star: Camille Smicker as "The Ex"
Written and Di...
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February 9, 2021 • 34 mins
We've all been there... your sentient old-timey radio stops talking to you and suddenly your diner is hurtling toward a supermassive black hole, right guys?! Whom amongst us?
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon - Neal Starbid
Effie - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Written and Directed by Joe Fisher
Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson
Durangs Hornpipe and Little Brown Jug -...
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March 15, 2021 • 48 mins
Oh no, this time the diner has found itself in a dystopian Earth where the ads are LITERALLY stuck in your head. That's right, it's the worst dystopia of all. No mohawks, no zombies, no improvised weaponry... just more ads.
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Guest Starring:
Benjamin Burdick as Offi...
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April 14, 2021 • 52 mins
You may be done with the past, but the past isn't done with you. Also the future would like to have a word...
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Written and Directed by Joe Fisher
Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson
Music:
Sweeter as the Years Go By - Criterion Quartette
Swing Low Sweet Ch...
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May 12, 2021 • 56 mins
There's a joke I'm trying to think of... A robot walks into a diner something something something humanity is subjective. Anybody know that one?
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Guest Starring:
Ian Furguson as Boofar
Written and Directed by Joe Fisher
Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson
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June 15, 2021 • 51 mins
Things can keep for a long time when they're frozen: Chicken, fish, broccoli, reminders of the futility of our actions. Be careful when you defrost...
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Guest Starring:
Jason Lambert as Vladimir
Written and Directed by Joe Fisher
Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay St...
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July 19, 2021 • 57 mins
Don't you hate it when you throw a party at the end of the last great Ice Age and your friend just HAS to be the center of attention?
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Written and Directed by Joe Fisher
Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson
Music:
Life's Railway to Heaven - Smith's Sacred S...
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August 16, 2021 • 48 mins
SEASON ONE FINALE!! Remember: When faced with a dark and mysterious force in the sky, try throwing a scientists at it. Literally.
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Written and Directed by Joe Fisher
Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson
Carry me Back to Tennessee - Carroll C Clark
Preguntal...
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September 28, 2021 • 3 mins
You've come this far with us, now help us take Midnight Burger to the next level. Early access to shows starting with our Season 2 premiere on November 15th! Access to the "Midnight Server" Discord! Access to "Shift Notes", our monthly behind the scenes podcast! Access to all scripts! Shout outs! Eternal Gratitude! Just go to https://www.patreon.com/midnightburger for more info!
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November 29, 2021 • 61 mins
It's Season 2! Midnight Burger is down a man but that doesn't stop the doors from opening at 6. Hey, are we in Arkansas?
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Guest Starring:
Lauren LeBlanc as Dru
Written and Directed by Joe Fisher
Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson
Music:
Nearer My God to ...
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December 29, 2021 • 47 mins
Somewhere in deep space is the unhappiest man in the multiverse...
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Guest starring:
Bejamin Burdick as Ted
Jessica Morris as The Voice
Camille Smicker as The Ex
Written and Directed by Joe Fisher
Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson
Music:
Lo Son Titania...
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January 31, 2022 • 52 mins
This club has everything: Robots, overt threats, uncomfortable conversations about sexuality, space lawyers...
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Guest Starring:
Camille Smicker as The Ex
Jason Lambert as Minsky
Music:
Missouri Hoedown - Carl Myles and The California Haylofters.
Written and Direc...
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February 28, 2022 • 58 mins
New friends, new enemies, and Reid's paradox of rapid plant migration...
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Guest starring:
Newt Schottelkotte as Shel
Melody Bridges as Låfftrax the Pirate
Music:
Tennessee Moon - The Heidelburg Quintette
Jesus, My All - Olive Klein
Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore -...
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March 28, 2022 • 47 mins
For sale: One old west town. Never used.
Cast:
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Leif - Tom Moorman
Guest Starring:
Camille Smicker as The Ex
Ian Ferguson as Bart-43, Bart-13, Bart-7, Bart-57, Bart-2, Bart-3, Bart-6, Bart Prime, and Mr. Undersignal.
Newt Schottelkotte as Anna-11, Anna-77, and Anna-99
Jessica Morris as The Voice
Music:
Nothin' Left Blues - Peter Crosby
Come on Home - Miss Patricola
Written and Directed by Joe Fisher
Produced...
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April 25, 2022 • 49 mins
And Gloria said unto them, "Show me your plate, and I'll tell you a sad, sad story."
-The Book of Mucklewain
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Guest Starring:
Newt Schottelkotte as Shel
Written and Directed by Joe Fisher
Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson
Music:
The Valley of Peace - Metropolitan Quartet
V...
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May 30, 2022 • 45 mins
Let's save BertBert!
Cast:
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Even Older Leif - Tom Moorman
Guest starring:
Jessica Morris as BertBert
Tomi Zandshtein AKA Tomix as Harsteen
Camille Smicker as The Ex
Written and Directed by Joe Fisher
Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson
Music:
Ball and Chain Blues - Peter Crosby
Gallant 7th - John Philip Sousa
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June 27, 2022 • 62 mins
Home...
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Guest starring:
Camille Smicker as The Ex
Benjamin Burdick as Ted
Melody Bridges as Låfftrax
Newt Schottelkotte as Shel
Written and Directed by Joe Fisher
Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson
Music:
Where the River Shannon Flows - Columbia Stella...
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July 25, 2022 • 57 mins
Welcome back, Caspar! We're all screwed!
Cast:
Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez
Caspar - Joe Fisher
Ava - Finlay Stevenson
Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird
Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird
Leif - Tom Moorman
Guest Starring:
Camille Smicker as The Ex
Newt Schottelkotte as Shel
Jessica Morris as BertBert
Benjamin Burdick as Ted
Melody Bridges as Låfftrax
Written and Directed by Joe Fisher
Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stev...
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