By James Thurber

by james thurber

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I actually like that all media is now created to be thoughtlessly consumed within a single alloted month before it's destroyed by business guys whose stated favourite book is a dingy unread copy of The Art of War they left on their bedside to "reference". it's cool that everything is just one middling budget twelve episode season and half of it is dropped all at once directly onto streaming services so you have to sit down for six miserable hours to watch it in the most antisocial way possible. this is probably how art was meant to be consumed. this is how humans best process things, like death.

hi, matt, what's the work of audio fiction you'd recommend to get someone excited about the medium?

Hey, thanks for asking! Making me narrow it down to one is cruel but sharpening. THE one I'll go for is

Midnight Burger

a series about a time travelling, dimension spanning diner staffed by misfits who help people and fix damage to the fabric of spacetime

because

I'd recommend it to anyone (other strong recs like Unwell are brilliant but not for everyone, but I think everyone can get something out of Midnight Burger)

I want to talk to everyone about the characters (I identify strongly with Leif's drive not to be Just One Guy)

the dialogue makes me want to span my spectacles in half from how good it is

it's doing things that would have ruled it out from ever getting made before the current resurgence in audio drama (unlike another go-to rec, Wooden Overcoats, which is an extremely good sitcom that I could imagine being broadcast on the radio)

it teaches me complex things about physics while also making me tear up, and it's not a 'despite' thing, it's often the physics that causes the emotional reaction

I snuck a couple of bonus recs in there but I feel good about the main choice. Midnight Burger is nearly at the end of season 3, so there's just about time to binge up to speed!

WELCOME TO MIDNIGHT BURGER

WELCOME TO MIDNIGHT BURGER

When Gloria took a waitressing job at Midnight Burger outside of Phoenix, she didn’t realize she was now an employee of a time-traveling, di

Of The Sword is a daily sword-based, micro-fiction anthology podcast running in September 2023.