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Yeah, that's not in the way. It's Friday night in Chicago and you're listening to Midnight Burger. All right. If you're straggling in the back, there are two seats down here in front of you would like to grab those. Anyone? Three seats. Up. Nailed it. Please now running by the pool. Okay, we all getting situated. Wonderful. Welcome to the first ever Midnight Burger live show ever. We don't know what we're doing. It was always us, right? So, thank you all. The great. Great. Thank you all for being here seriously. For most podcasts, the live show is a money-making endeavor. Thanks. Going back to the we don't know what we're doing, part. For us, for us, we just felt like having a party with our friends. Speaking of our friends, we've got a lot of friends here tonight. As you came in, of course, you saw a test who plays Fiona on the show. Yeah. Tina Case is here who plays Dejara. The amazing Lauren Grace Thompson is here who plays Berkberg to the younger on the show. Yes. Jess Mod is here as you know of Edgy Steve. And of course, the dangerous cat blacker is here. Midnight Burger is something that we are very proud of. But it's only as good as the people who gather around it. So, truly, to all of you, thank you for gathering around us. But I want to move on to the most important thing, which is free shit. That's what we're here. Now, there are some, you may have seen them on the Patreon, the tiny diner, created by the amazing Kiki from our discord. We have tonight four of them to give away. We will be stopping the show intermittently to give away a diner. Okay. Tess will reach into the ticket thingy there. If your number is called, please step to the mic. You must answer one Midnight Burger trivia question correct. Listen, you can get help from the audience. It's fine. It's not jeopardy. Don't worry about it. Yeah. Also this evening, both Jess and Cat have been given coins. Some magical coins that they will be handing out for acts of virtue. Virtue, I've allowed to be defined by them. We cannot be held responsible for that. One of them just fell on the floor. So there's some free stuff involved in the experience tonight. In fact, what we're going to do right now is give away before the show even starts. We're going to give away our first tiny diner. Is there, can you start up the giving away a tiny diner music? All right, Tess is stepping up to the mic. She's going to tell us a number. Everybody look at your tickets, please. Hello. I'm in my F.E. Trinket. If your number is, I'm standing so close. 3,060. You get a tiny diner. 6030060. You're exciting. You get a tiny diner if you get the trivia question right. Please take a moment. You must answer the question. You got this. You got this. You can do it. No point in the answer. You got this. You got this. Hi, how are you? What's your name? Rita. Welcome to the show. You're doing a great job. Your question is, what was Lafes Hacker Aliess? Oh. We just listened to this. Death. Kid? Death is Kid is correct. Tiny diner. Tiny diner. The first tiny diner is a wet. Thank you. All right, it's going to be a little chaotic tonight. Okay, there's a lot of you who have been given some lines. You're going to be part of the show. Okay. If you are people who have been given signs, keep your eye on tests. Test is the actor Wrangler. She will be guiding you towards the mic when it is your time. All right. It's going to be great. Hmm. So, without further ado, midnight burger live. JH JH Hello there. Hello there, Chicago. My name is Casper. And you are listening to... You are listening to WBZ Chicago. Chicago Public Radio. Has everyone two out there? Sorry. So you may be thinking to yourself, who's this guy? Why am I not hearing the usual Yale graduate who greets you on this Public Radio station? Everything's fine. First of all, we want to stress that. The second thing is, we are here at the station, experiencing a small, technical glitch that we have yet to identify. Now, you may have heard the several minutes of noisy static that came before me, and we've gotten that to stop, so that's good. And then there was a bit of a debate as to, you know, hey, should we just have dead air out there? Or should we maybe do things? So we are doing things. Obviously, we have a few more things to figure out here at the station, things like how does a radio station work, things like that? But honestly, how could it be? So to those of you who are a little worried right now, we want to stress that everything is fine, and that the entire staff of WBEZ Chicago has not suddenly disappeared, leaving behind puddles of goo. OK, that is not what's happening at all. So don't worry about something that weird. OK, so hey, it's a pledge drive this week. So call in with your donation to public radio. That's very important. We've got Gloria on the phone lines. Gloria, how are we doing on donations? I have no idea what I'm doing. Fantastic. There is a number to call to make a donation today to WBEZ Chicago. We do not know what that number is. So we'll work on that. Now, we realize that one second, please, all of Chicago. What is it? I'm getting the strong suspicion that this is your first time on the radio, Casper. No. You found me out, Miss Marvel. Miss who? Casper, what we mean to say is, though, this is all a bit haphazard, no harm, and putting on a bit of a show. Yes, Casper. I admire Y'all's desire to keep the show moving. But what's essential to the show going on is the show part of things, Casper. We are a bit out of sorts in most places, Casper, but well, it's a radio station. And here we are, microphone in front of us. Sauce, Casper. It has to be put on. Fine. Sure, sure. OK, whatever. Hey there, Chicago. And now, for your listening enjoyment, Effie and Zebulan Mukhlweins Hour of Power. Cheers. Good day to all who could hear my voice. I'm Zebulan Mukhlwein here with my wife, Effie. Hi, y'all. Effie, do my eyes deceive me or have we found ourselves once again in Chicago? Your eyes are working just fine, dear. We are once again in the city of the big shoulders. The jewel of the middle west. We hope that our voice is fine, you safe and sound. And if not, we aim to leave you more safer and sounder than we found you. You know, Effie, every time we return to this metropolis on Lake Michigan, I can't help but recall one adventure in particular we had in Chicago. I know the one you mean dear. Strangely enough, it was not the time when everything was on fire. Nor was it the time when all that mess occurred on that bridge. We're going to tell you about the time that our friend-life made the Chicago River itself change direction. OK, it may not be the usual programming, but it's better than dead air. Why are we doing this again? Shouldn't we find out what turned the entire WBEZ staff into a slushy? Life and Ava have no idea what happened. And since we can't do that, we're doing this instead. We're just going to take over an entire radio station for a day. Unless you've got a better idea? Lafe, Ava, you guys ready? I guess. So ready. Lafe, I'd love it if you could change your attitude about our little plan. I could be at guaranteed rate field watching the White Socks play the Orioles right now. Yes, or you could be doing your job. Wait, guaranteed rate field? It's a mortgage company. Are we back on the advertising planet? They just let a baseball stadium be called guaranteed rate field. I'm not in the mood for commentary on late-stage capitalism. I just want to watch some baseball. I'm not changing the name of the game itself. You're not watching baseball. You're watching Dorito. Everyone. Please remember my sensitivity to sports references. Look, I've made my piece with it. It's fine. Let's go. Yeah, you sound fine. I've got a microphone in front of me, and I'm excited about it. Gloria, what are we doing? Please say, a long and drawn out analysis of an unsolved murder. I thought we could do science Friday. The two of you just talking about science news. Fine. I guess science is OK. Casper will be in the producer's booth. He'll give you the topics. I don't know how any of this works in here, so it should go fine. Lane. What? Do you know what I'm about to say to you? Yeah. We're going to be talking about Earth and science, and I need you to not go to the mad place, OK? Nothing puts me in a good mood like the scientific advancements of the Earth. I propose we make leave real mad because mad leave equals ratings gold. I'm not watching a baseball game right now, so I'm already mad. See? We're almost there. Guys, we're doing damage control here. An entire radio station where the people has suddenly gone poof. So I really want to hold off on the anti-social behavior from the both of you. Let's try and make this as smooth as possible. Excuse me. Anti-social? Yeah, Eva, if you haven't caught on yet, constantly reminding everyone that you're smarter than they are, is anti-social behavior? Not if it's true. Even if it's true. Who died and made you, Mary Ainsworth? Mary Ainsworth died in 1999, so maybe her? It's not your time to speak right now. To return to my point, be nice. Don't get mad. There may be kids listening. Kids. Think about the kids listening. Let's think about the kids, leave. Hey kids, get a science degree and condemn your life to administrative rollbacks. Oh my god. Hey kids, get a science degree only to get sucked into one of three fields. Weapons, oil exploration, or app development. Guys, where is my award for having to do things like this? Where is my award for having to deal with either one of you? OK. Thank you. Thank you. OK. OK. OK, we'll stop. Come on, it'll be fine. It'll be like sitting in on a first grade class. Here we go. And just like that, we're giving away another tiny diner. Here we are, folks. Test, stepping up. Yay! Stepping up to the mic. What have we got, tests? We've got 3,00016. Yay! Step on up to the microphone. Step on up to the microphone. Becky. Your name, please. Becky. Hello, Becky. Welcome to the show. Hi, Becky. Hi, Becky. Hi, Becky. Becky, you're one step away from a tiny diner, but I have one question for you. Who did Bert Bert go to Earth disguise dance? Julia Roberts. That was correct. Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Congratulations, everybody. Congratulations. Congratulations. Yay! We did it. Amazing. And back to it. And to this day, life gets real mad. The people think it was all because of some fellow named William Bowdenwick. An entire river changing course. How about that? It's turns the soul to behold the things we can achieve together. On that note, y'all, how about we move along this little baton to the world of our achievements? Casper, what awaits us in this modern world of ours? Hello, everyone, and welcome to Science Friday. I'm here with Dr. Ava Maddox. And I... Don't put my name out there. Well, what the hell do you want to do? I'm Jay Harlow. Three-time Mungo rodeo champion. Seriously? You heard me. I didn't know we could do fake names. Oh, can I be Upshnaarth the probability demolition expert? What? No, what does that even mean? Never mind. Anyway, Jay Harlow, three-time Mungo rodeo champion, we've got all kinds of science news to talk about today. Are you ready? I can't wait. It's called Nealia Tianganesis, and it's a brand new space bacteria. China has started to find the infectious bacteria on the outside of its space station. Uh-huh. Rod shaped, makes little spores. Uh, yes. Yeah, that's not a bacteria. What is it? Let's just say you don't want to meet its parents. Great. Science news. Okay. Uh... Here we go, we've just discovered that Saturn has over 200 moons. Yeah, wait until they find out that three of those are fake, and one of them is a mall. Okay, can we... Can we be serious here? I'm being serious. What's the food court like? Could be better, honestly. Okay, trying even out. Dr. Maddox, physicists have built what they're calling a black whole bomb. That sounds terrifying. Sounds amazing. This is the thing they're doing with super radiance, right? Uh, I do see that word here. Yeah. That's neither a black hole nor a bomb. But they're calling it a black hole bomb. They also call fruit loops part of a balanced breakfast. Fruit loops also sound amazing. A rotating, axially symmetrical body that absorbs electromagnetic radiation, like a metal ball or whatever, can exhibit super radiance under the right circumstances. Oh. Okay. And then you surround it with reflectors. Right. So the energy is sent back into the rotating body, and it compounds the energy on itself. That's some pretty amazing output. And then you add a focal chamber, and then boom, right? Huge gun. Why are you talking about a gun now? You definitely destroy your target, you'd also destroy yourself and the fabric of space time. I'm listening. Hey, remember the kids? Science is needed not for making guns. That's true. Kids, guns are bad. Let's take some calls. Okay, they've been able on the air is not the most responsible thing in the world, but it's not dead air. That is true. I can't say they're made for their waves, but they ain't dull. Certainly more adept than our first time out, dear. Oh, my lord. That is true. What a memory. You guys seem to be enjoying yourselves. I will admit it's nice to get back to our roots, Gloria. We had very little know-how, and a radio tower in our field made of scrap wood. So it was legal to just make a radio station back then? Well, no. It most certainly was not, Gloria. But the law enforcement was a little bit lazy back then, and since we were the only ones with enough crazy in us to make ourselves a radio station. We added a little windmill to the top of the tower, so was to throw off the casual observer. The airwaves were a bit wild in those days. You never knew how far your signal was going to fly, though I did hear tell that one time they caught our signal all the way up here in Chicago. Glad to see that there are still places like this, keeping the old dream of ours alive, though we are concerned for what may have happened to all of them. Keeping the lights on around here is certainly a good dig, Gloria, but shouldn't we be setting ourselves to the task of unraveling the mystery of their disappearance? We are. Trust me. We may not know what happened to the staff around here, but I know if we can keep Laif and Eva talking long enough, they'll eventually stumble last backwards into a solution. That's just how they work. I see. Very shrewd, Gloria. That being said, be ready to jump on the air at a moment's notice. This could all go bad any time. We're here with Bales, Gloria. And just like that, we're going to give away another tiny diner here. Let's go. What's the number test? The third recipient is 30021. Yay! Your name, please? Joey. Welcome to the show. This is a tough one. Are you ready? You can do it. What does David name the gun given to him by Tita? Is it Rihanna? Oh my God! You did it. Amazing. Please take good care of it. We think about them all the time. All right. And back to the show. Okay. Let's take another question. Collar, what's your question for our scientists? Hey guys, love the new format. I heard NASA found water on Mars again. Does this actually mean we're closer to finding life there? What do you think, Jay Harlow, three-time mongo rodeo champion? Will we finally get confirmation of life outside our planet? Look, I say aim higher, okay? I hate Mars. Mars is over. I think it was nice a few billion years ago, but now it's a cat box. In my neighborhood, we call Mars a DD, developmental designate. It'll be a better methane farm than a nice place to live. Hey, but don't worry. I'm sure one day we will finally get confirmation that we are not alone in the universe. Let me ask on behalf of the listeners, will we finally get that confirmation of alien life? Will it be in your pants? Don't start. Oh! Oh! Oh! Close encounters of the 69th guy, and I ride everybody! Taking another call. What's your question for our scientists? Hey guys, long time first time. Is time travel actually possible according to Einstein's theories? Kids, listen. I realize that everyone wants to build a time machine so they can go back and sleep with all the right people this time. But I need you to live in the now, okay? The only reason you're calling them the good old days is because you're not remembering them correctly. Next question. You're not going to expand on that at all. Next question. Okay, geez. Collar, what is your question? Hey there. I spend way too much time worrying about my passwords. They're really complex, but I still don't feel better. In the future, are we really going to have quantum computers that can break all our passwords? Collar, you don't need to wait for a quantum computer. I can tell you right now that all of your passwords are garbage, and I can crack all of them within 10 seconds while simultaneously playing cave story. InfoSec on Earth is like a thundershirt for your dog. You feel better about it, but there's still a typhoon outside, okay? Next, Collar. We're on fire now. Hey guys, I had a question about the principle of fecundity. Boooooooh! Next, Collar! Hey, Bob. Can we get one of those toilet fleshing sounds? No, you can't. Next, Collar, Casper, we're crushing fine. It's Collar. They're not going to answer your question, but why don't you go ahead and ask it anyway. Hey guys, I'm in kind of a jam. My repeller bike just scrapped on me in the middle of nowhere. I don't know what's going on. Can you help me out? I'm sorry. Can you say that again? Yeah, my repeller. I was outside the city, and I lost all of my hover power. I don't know what happened. I was there on a repeller bike. Yeah. Where exactly? I'm just outside of Bumble Fae. Bumble Fae? Yeah. Bumble Fae on Esauks Lucius. Yeah, dude. Esauks Lucius is in Andromeda. Yeah, I know that. Leave what's going on? We appear to be getting a call from another galaxy. Okay. That's weird. Yeah. Look, can you help me or not? What do I do? I guess help them with their bike. Collar, you realize radio waves travel at the speed of light, right? No, but I don't really care about that right now. Okay. Have you checked the carbon packs? Is there any buildup on the trans connector? Hang on. Lave, what's going on? Someone in Andromeda is hearing the show in real time. That's weird. It would take a radio signal two and a half million years to get to Andromeda. Definitely weird. Yeah. Hey, that worked. Thanks for the help, man. Hey, hang on. They hung up. What the hell was that? You see, Gloria, it's like we were saying. When the weather's right, you never know how far your voice will trap. The important thing is that we help. True, dear. That poor soul was stuck in the mud. There may be some things that are a little more important. Casper, put another call through. Okay. Caller, you're on the air. Hey, guys. Thanks for taking my call. I'm on Christopher Kai right now. Do you guys know a good place to get donuts? Donuts. Yeah. On Christopher Kai. Uh-huh. The Kiwi Duckling? Oh, yeah. I forgot about them. Thanks, guys. And Christopher Kai is... It's in Triangulum. Are we... Are we broadcast to get radio show to the entire triad right now? That's impossible. Seems to me, that's what we always say, right, before the thing we say can't happen happen. What? Casper, take another call. Uh, okay. Hey, caller, you're on with, uh, you know, all of us. Oh, hi. Birds? Furnprennors! Furnprennors! Furnprennors! Furnprennors! Furnprennors! Furnprennors! Furnprennors! Furnprennors! Lave, what the fuck is going on right now? What do you mean? What do I mean? The entire triad is apparently getting a little radio show from Earth right now. The triad is always getting radio shows from Earth. The entire triad all at the same time. Right. Uh, yeah, we're noticing that now. Oh, well thanks for noticing what the hell is going on! We're working on it. Oh, we're faster! Just so we're clear, is this a universe where you hate me or a universe where you're kind of okay with me now? The second one doesn't exist. Okay. Uh, okay, I look. I'm sorry, it's annoying, but we'll figure it out, okay? Lave, I'm not calling you because it's annoying. I'm calling you because in case you haven't figured this out either, you are currently sitting on Earth broadcasting your location to the entire triad. Oh, yes. Oh. Yes. Oh, Lave. That's not great. So where do you think every one of your enemies is heading right now? Here, I guess. You think? We need to get out of here. Time to pack your little bag of gadgets, camper. Okay, well, thanks for the call. Uh-huh. How are you doing? Oh, fuck off. Bye, Barbara. She sounds like she's doing great. I love that she checks in. Guys. This is bad. We need to get out of here. We can't get out of here. We haven't figured out the problem yet. Can we just chalk this up as a loss so we can get out of here with our lives? This radio signal acting weird is our first leak today. We have to keep going until we know what's going on. I don't know that we have to. Well, according to BirdBirt, the only one in danger is you. So I'm fine. Casper, take another call. Hey there, Chicago. So I'm sure what you've been listening to for the past several minutes. Sounds like some sort of fun audio performance art. But you know, that's the importance of public radio, folks. It brings you programming that isn't subject to trends and market pressures. What other radio station can say that? With that, we are now going to continue to take calls from outer space now. Caller, what can we do for you today? Life. Life? Is that really you? Hello? You disappeared. And then suddenly I hear your voice everywhere. What's the meaning of this? No way. No way. Oh my. Oh Lord. Who's this? Majoral? We were patrolled. Suddenly disappeared. Oh God. And then I'm told you're a pirate. You're not a pirate, are you? No. Not right now. Is there a woman there with you? No. I can't believe this. Do you have any idea how embarrassing this is for my family? Go! But you'll let's listen. There is simply no way I can describe to you what's happening right now. Well that's simply what do my love? You must explain yourself. My love? Who's that? How many women are there with you right now? But Joelins? But Joelins? Listen. I am in a lot of danger right now. And I don't have time to explain. You'd better back show in a lot of danger. My father is furious. Please listen. He has shed three layers of feathers late. Three? Lay us. Three layers sounds like a law. Please don't make it worse. And who is that? Are you sitting there with your other pirate friends making fun of me? There are no pirates here. Yar, what do you mean? We're all brothers under the jolly Roger. The girl! This one needs some fresh newspaper in the cage dear. Perhaps a cob of corn did you want? Is the joke here that she's a bird person? Everybody shut up for a second. But Joelins listen. I'm not with another woman. I'm not with pirates. I'm here with some friends. And we may be in a lot of trouble, okay? Send me your location. I have a send-in ship immediately. All I've been doing is broadcasting my location. That's the problem. I'm so confused. I know that. I owe you a very long and complicated conversation. But I can't do that right now. I really have to go. This is absolutely unacceptable. Please hang up. Okay. You know, it really is amazing how birds can mimic human speech like them. Can we be done? Please? No. Why? Because you two haven't figured out how to bring back the staff of WBEZ yet. We're still waiting for you to have an idea. Do you have an idea yet? No. I feel like I'm on the brink of one. I think the only solution is to take more calls. I agree. This sucks. Relax. It'll just be another alien with car trouble. They can't all be your ex. What if you're not taking part in the next part? What if you're taking part in the next part? What if you're taking part in the next part? What if you're taking part in the next part? What if you're taking part in the next part? that now? I actually have a question about sharks. Sharks? Yeah, sharks. Dead eyes, lots of teeth, y'all have an entire week dedicated to them. You're familiar, sure. Well, is it true they have to keep swimming or they die? Well, we don't have a marine biologist here today, but I'm pretty sure that's that's the case. Yes. So they have to keep swimming all the time, always moving. Yes. Even if they like where they are, even if they found a nice spot in the ocean, they have to keep going. They die otherwise. Well, that sounds like a pretty desperate lifestyle, but tell them the other hand, sharks don't strike me as having a deep and unrequited desires in the first place. Which is probably why they feel comfortable, constantly tearing a path of destruction across the entire ocean. They feel nothing, which shouldn't make the feelings of others irrelevant, because they can't understand them. This is an oddly intense call about shark behavior. Not all of them have to keep swimming. Some of them have learned to live on the ocean floor. Mmm, the bottom feeders. Yes. The two-plus ones. I don't know what's the point of that. You know, the teeth are the fun part of being a shark I would imagine. Why give all that up? Maybe it feels good to know they're not hurting anyone. Mmm. And how do you explain that to all the shark attack victims out there? I wonder. You may be toothless at the bottom of the scene now, but that doesn't heal any of those scars out there. Except maybe you're all. I get the distinct sense that they are not discussing ocean life. Definitely. I myself am looking forward to hearing the doubles behind these on Tondras. Anyway, just a thought I was having out here in the ocean. Love the show. Hope it doesn't get you killed. Okay. Thank you for that very awkward conversation about sharks. Yes. Leave. You okay? I'm just going to put my head down on the table for a second. Color? You're on with whatever this show is now. What can we do for you? Lave? Sera's up? Björ. I thought that was you, who I was hearing. How are you? AHHH! I'm good. This is so ooo ooo funny. I was just thinking about you, Awu. Nothing bad. I hope. I- I don't think I can take much more of that today. No. ooo ooo ooo, Lave. I'm back on AworbusNOW and I'm sharing my story with the others. Your name came up a few times. What's Go-O-Wo-Wing on? You're giving the try at a little show-wo-wo right now, all right? Yeah. It's been a pretty weird day. Yeah. Yeah. I see you're doing that thing again, where you will get mad, and everybody hates you. Woo-woo-woo-woo. Yeah. I'm really good at that. Well, try not to get down, wo-wo-wo-wo-wo-wo, no, you're so... Remember what I always said? This is the only version of me, so it's the best version. Right. The problem with that is I keep running into other versions of myself. I'm sure, but you woo-woo-woo-no, wo-wo-wo. That's not the point. I know. Such a silly goo-woo-woo-wo-wo-wo-wo. LAUGHTER I know. How are things on Orbus? Oh, well, you know wo-wo-wo-wo. Just flow wo-wo-wo-wo-wing through it. You know wo-wo-wo-wo. I've been thinking about your problem. Which one? Some people have gone missing? Yeah. And also, wo wo your broadcast is covering an impah wo wassable distance? Yes. The two who must be related, right? I don't know. You know wo. Here on the O'Owerbis, we believe that every reality is, in fact, layers of Poin layers of reality, wo wo ven into a tapestry. And then when wo one thread of the tapestry becomes damaged, we can find our world being amplified, or nullified, in myriad ways. I like where your head's at, orb. Keep talking. LAUGHTER Imagine if you will, a large painting, but you are standing only inches away. You wouldn't see the painting. What if those who wo wo have disappeared are there, but their reality has been stretched to wo such an extreme size that you can no longer be seen? What would a symptom of that be? A radio signal being stretched out so much that it can span three galaxies. Yes. What if your missing friends are not low-ost, but are struggling to wo be seen by the rest of their reality? I love it. And the radio signal, because it's a wave, can be heard by us, but the missing people can't be seen or heard. Because of their physical affiliations. Which means we can use the radio signal to bring this reality back into a symmetric state. Leave. The orb is dope. LAUGHTER CHEERING I don't understand any of this. Leave, let's go. We need to generate some antiparticles. What's that going to do? Trust me. OK. Hey, Susan. Thank you so much. Of course, Lave. It's good to hear your voice. I'll listen in to you see how well it all ends. OK. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Wow. Even Eva have now left the studio, which I guess that means the show is over. They have, of course, forgotten that there is still a broadcast going on. I'm now sitting here holding the bag while they try and go save the day. And if I had a dollar for every time that's happened, OK? Gloria, what should I do here? Don't worry. The muclewades have got it. LAUGHTER CHEERING Welcome back to Not Too Late. This is Dr. Barbara. CHEERING Frank, I've said it once. I've said it a thousand times. Sage. Sage, sage, sage. LAUGHTER I'll go to my grave saying it. Sage is important. Our personal environments are so essential and so overlooked, Frank. Where is your temple? Where is your foundation? You know, I finally have that meditation pool in my backyard. And finally, I can really commune with the universe. And when I do, when I'm out there in the evening or the morning, surrounded by sage, Frank. Sounds real nice, Doc. You want to know a little secret? I got sage in my tea right now. You are lousy with sage, Doc. I am, I really am, Frank. Let's take some calls. Who we got out there? Doc, we've got Lizzie R calling in from Madison, Wisconsin. Hey, Dr. Barbara. I'm the only one in my friend group who's still single. How do I enjoy their couple-focused gatherings without feeling like a third wheel? Oh, this is such an important question, Lizzie. Thank you so much for calling in. You know, I talked to Frank about this all the time. I have been single all my life. But I have many lovers. LAUGHTER It's true. LAUGHTER My lovers and I, we are on a journey together. We laugh together, we cry together. We travel together, Frank. And core watt one time. You know, Lizzie, at one point I had to admit to myself that I contain multitudes. In fact, my multitudes contain multitudes. And yes, there may be all those voices out there saying that one should find their soul mate, but I'm sorry. There are just too many beautiful souls out there. Isn't that right, Frank? Like a pin station of romance. Pin station, Frank. You are too much. Lizzie, there are so many romantic voyages out there of all shapes and sizes. I simply do not know why some silly goof decided that they should all look alike. What do you see for yourself? But more importantly, what do I see for you? LAUGHTER Lizzie, for whatever reason, I hear your voice and I think, tiera del fuego. Whatever that means to you, let's take another call, Frank. APPLAUSE Doc, up next we've got Sylvie calling from Toronto. Whoa, hey, they're Sylvie. Hey, Dr. Barbara. I'm 28 and I feel like everyone around me has their life figured out while I'm still trying to find a my purpose. How do I stop comparing myself to others and find my purpose in life? Thank you so much, Sylvie. A heavy question, Frank. APPLAUSE Can you feel the weight of it right now? Like a medicine ball. Mmm. Absolutely. You know, Sylvie, it may shock you to hear this, but Dr. Barbara didn't spring right up out of the ground like a dandelion. No, no, no, no. It wasn't until I had spent about 30 years on this lovely planet of art that I decided it was time to get my doctorate in chakra and energetic healing from the University of Universality in Barbados. It was there that I met my mentor and spirit guide, Professor Thaddeus Knookham's the eighth. There I was. Just a babe in the woods. And the professor looked me in the eye and he said to me, are you here? Or are you here? Why is words? I was shaken, Frank. Shaken. And that's the question I'll pose to you. Sylvie, are you here? Or are you here? Goosebumps, Doc. Let's take another call, Frank. Doc, up next, we've got Dave B, who is getting sick of being the designated driver. Uh-oh. Hey, Dr. Barbara. I'm gonna tell you. I'm tired of always being the designated driver. I mean, I don't drink that much, so my friends think that just because I don't drive and they never offer gas or money or even say thank you anymore. How can I get my friends to stop taking advantage of me? I can hear the frustration in your voice, Dave. I want you to know that I hear that. And I'm right there with you. I myself don't enjoy alcohol. LAUGHTER It doesn't my senses and takes me away from the present moment. And that's a shame that your friends are taking advantage of that. Here's a little tip from me to you. These days, I found that I like to enjoy a gathering after I've had at least two grams of psilocybin mushrooms. LAUGHTER APPLAUSE The right amount of mushrooms at the right gathering and you can really raise the roof on that place. I mean, literally. I mean, you will see the roof literally rise off the top of the building. It's wonderful. Now, some may ask you why you're doing this. Some may ask you to share, but you know what? They're not asking you to do, Frank. They're not asking you to drive. That's correct. LAUGHTER APPLAUSE You are not driving that night. No one is going to ask you to drive them home if you're not even on the same plane of existence, Dave. That's a tip from me to you. All right. Well, that was a hoot. Those callers. It's time for me to refill the sage T of mine and for us to take a little break. We'll be right back after this. And we're good at getting another time of day of the wedding. APPLAUSE Jess, if you could please mix up the tickets. Give us a good number. The last teeny tiny diner is going to 3-0-0-0-3-3. I might have said to you. Please, wait. OK. APPLAUSE Hello, your name, please. Claire. Hello, Claire. Welcome to the show. Here is your question. It's not really a question. It's more of a challenge. In one try, say the word extrajudicialy. LAUGHTER Extrajudicialy. Yes! APPLAUSE That's cold, man. That's rough. Excellent. Congratulations on your tiny diner. Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Extrajudicialy. APPLAUSE And here we go. Back again. OK, Gloria, we're on the roof and we're about to turn the thing on. Do I want to know what you're turning on or does it matter? Honestly, even I don't understand it. This is an avothang. Gloria, think of it like you're zoomed in too close to a photo. The photo is still there, but you're too close to see it. The WBEZ staff is still here. We just can't see them because their level of reality is spread too thin. That's why the radio signal is allowed to stretch across three galaxies. As soon as Leaf starts sending out this altered signal, there's going to be a lot of confused employees walking around. OK, let me know when you're ready. Are the muccawain still going? No, Dr. Barbara said she had an appointment for an aura peel. LAUGHTER No idea what that is, so it's just Casper now. Oh God, what is he doing? Honestly, he's kind of crushing it. OK, folks, we're back. Once again, my name is Casper and I will be answering all of your DMV related questions. LAUGHTER CHEERING CHEERING Let's take another. Collar, how can I help you out today? Hey, I had some fines to pay off, but when I went in to pay them off, this told me I was day late, and my license was suspended. Now I have to pay another fee to get my license unsuspended, just so I can pay the fees on it. I don't have that kind of money. This is a very important issue. I'm glad you called in. Folks, administrative bodies are blunt instruments. They're not lasers, OK? So what you want to do in this situation is use that to your advantage. This guy, the DMV, is telling you that your license is suspended, but it's not really suspended. It's going to be suspended. Suspension takes time. What you want to do is find a DMV with a nighttime document drop. Your due date may have been yesterday, but they only check the night drop on Mondays. As far as they know, you turned in your payment on time, and they'll be none the wiser, OK? Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Hi, Chicago. And several other states and galaxies. Hi. Gloria is the one that keeps the trains running on time around here. Without her, we would be dead or frozen in some sort of block of ice. We've taken questions on all sorts of things today. Maybe it's time for Gloria to answer a question. Folks, does anyone out there have questions on how to run a restaurant? No, we don't have to do that. No, it's not. So it'll be fun. Here we go. Collar, what is your question for Gloria? Hey, Gloria. I'm finally opening the restaurant on my dreams. And I'm trying to hire a chef. What's your advice for finding a chef that isn't for lack of a better word, insane? Yeah. That's a good question. I don't know what it is about chefs. I mean, thank God, kitchens exist because they'd be pretty intolerable in pretty much any other walk of life. I've had chefs scream at me. I had one arrested for throwing a bottle of wine at me. And there was this one guy, though. He had all sorts of OCD stuff going on. He was the kind of guy who couldn't concentrate until he counted all the tiles on the ceiling, that kind of stuff. It was pretty hard to work around. But you know what? His weekly inventory was flawless. And I'd never seen a cleaner kitchen. Every blessing is a curse and vice versa, I guess. Just try and remember that you're creating a home for people. Maybe it's only a home for about 45 minutes, but it's still a home. And making a home is hard. And that's probably why there's so many bad ones. Okay, guys, we're ready. Time to wrap it up. Muggle Wayne, you kicked this whole thing off, so how about you to wrap it up? Y'all, it has been an honor and a privilege to spend time with you here today. I don't mind saying that it brought up a pleasant memory or two from a husband of me. It truly did, dear. You see, it may seem hard to believe, but Effie and myself bore witness to the very first radio broadcast in the history of Arkansas. Harvey Couch was the owner of the Light and Power Company. And while on a trip to Pennsylvania, he had a tour of KDKA, one of the very first radio stations in the world. Old Harvey decided what was good enough for Pennsylvania was good enough for us down Yonder, and he built himself a radio station. Our local library had a radio, and Effie had it in her mind that we should go down there and hear this new world take shape right before our eyes. I'll admit my ignorance on the topic. I had yet to understand the use of all this radio nonsense. What was it I said to you, dear? If I were wanted to speak to someone afar, I'd feel the rage in him up for us to do just fine. Yes. Learn my lesson that day, didn't I? You were good to humor me, dear. Sometimes our partners in life will go out on a wild one, and it's in our list of duties to just hold their hand without much understanding and just wait to see how it all turns out on the other end. So there we waited at the library. To kill time, I walked amongst the stacks. They just received a new translation of Campanella's City of the Sun, which I quickly tucked into my arm. Folks began to file in that had not once set foot inside of a library, looking up and about like it were a cathedral. The radio began to crackle, and we all gathered around in hushed anticipation. And then, like an angelic visitation, a man all the way over in Pinebluff was reading us the weather report like he was sitting in the next room. It was a simple message. Nothing portentous. And yet with that simple message, I suddenly thought, all the words lost souls. All those trapped in the crevasses of an intractable world, the ones who you know you'll never reach, the ones you can feel out there in the darkness. And we could reach them now. We could let them know that they hadn't been forgotten. And Abby took my hand in a way she never had before. The look on her face was as though she was granted a vision of the future. I hope you can all have that feeling I had that day. The feeling of seeing the one you love be granted with purpose. The broadcast was over, as suddenly as it had begun, and Effie darted here and there throughout the library for a good hour afterwards, exiting the building with every book they could furnish about radios and waves and free time. And I've had many a magical day in my life, I tell you. But all I need is that one. Y'all, as we end our broadcast today, we want to say a hearty thank you to all who've tuned in. To be in service to you is a service done for us. So with that we say, thanks for listening to Midnight Burger Y'all. Cheers! Be sure and tune in next time for more adventures in the vastness. And if time entide Royal U2 harshly or diurnal courses leave you with no safe havens, just remember, we're out there somewhere looking for you. We open it six! Oh, right everyone. Okay, so now listen, it's the end of an episode of Midnight Burger and that usually means that I recite a list of names before. Oh no, no. But here's what we're going to do. There's a microphone right there. We're going to start with the front row. All of you are going to file out and as you pass the microphone, say your name. Every single one of you. Joe's revenge! Are you ready? Midnight Burger is brought to you in part by all of these people. And their names are. So, into the microphone. Hello, fish cat. Jen. Cloud. Dusty. Cass. Go to lie love. Ramsey. Jerslicks. Alex. Zebulan's acupuncture. It's cryptic kids. Allison. Cat jump. Midnight Marty. Colorado Bikki Burr. Marnie. Gina. Yay. Sorstike. Alice Malice. Yeah! Jasper, aka Trick One's treats. Yee-ee. Matt, aka, Epic Five's Easy. Rita Juanita. Writtwords. Lauren Grace. Carter. Marie. Yeah, excellent. Chuck. Anomalous Vandal. Excellent. Tony, Tony, Tony. Fantastic. Everyone's doing a great job. Scotty. Jesse Wolf. Claire. Mary. Mary. Catley. Roland Tumbleberger. Yes. Aint those? Yeah. Excellent. Lithian. Annelise. Annelise. Angelo. Yeah. Mackenzie Dina.! Spiders are cut by us. Alex, I can see my house from here. Yay! Gus. Thank you, Viteki. Mel. Peace Rue. Little Stevie Pie. Yay! Tony Fikarski. Tess. Karen. Laramie. Needs more Guinness. Liz from Earth 616, aka Liz Wisdom. Yes, that's my last name. We're doing so well. Luckily. Peechee says, what? Shiny Fields. Amy. Aaron Good enough. Juliet, aka Spucliet. Andrew. Bri. Tamara Oliver. Also known as Auntie Sugar. Edgy Timber. Yay! All right, one more row here. One more row here. Here we go. Why not? Cat Blackbird. Yay! Jessica Mudd. Tina Case. Amazing. Deligus 89. Jesse and Potion Maestro. Potion Maestro. Oh my god, we did it. Oh my god, we did it. We did it. Oh my god, we did it. We did it. Thank you very much, everyone. There's still food and everybody go have a drink now. We did it. Yay! You guys are all the best. Thank you so much. All right. All right. The Fabel & Falling Network. We're Fiction Producers Flourish.