Chapter 22: The Maul of America.

"What are we to think of a woman's suffering a broken leg when another crowd of 1,000 turned violent after waiting eight hours to get into a Zayre store in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.? Departmental Manager William Shigo could provide no explanation either. He armed himself with a baseball bat to defend his position behind the counter. Said he: 'Get back, you're breaking my legs.'"-Time Magazine, September 12th, 1983. Cast Gloria - Siouxsie Suarez Caspar - Joe Fisher Ava - Finlay Stevenson Zebulon Mucklewain - Neal Starbird Effie Mucklewain - Julie Cowden-Starbird Leif - Tom Moorman Guest Starring Nhea Durousseau as Tamara Lauren LeBlanc as Clementine Written and Directed by Joe Fisher Produced by Joe Fisher and Finlay Stevenson Music: Limehouse Blues - Fry's Million Dollar Pier Orchestra The One I Love Belong to Someone Else - Ted Lewis and his Band Sérénade Mephistopheles - Feodor Chaliapin Mall Music by Trio Leo Visit us online: www.weopenatsix.com Support the show by Subscribing!   Subscribe on Patreon (The one with the bells and whistles): https://www.patreon.com/midnightburger   Subscribe with Supporting Cast (The simple one): https://midnightburger.supportingcast.fm/   Subscribe on Apple Podcasts (The Apple one): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/midnight-burger/id1537653218   How about some merch? https://www.midnightburgermerch.com   Sign up for our newsletter: https://weopenatsix.beehiiv.com   For our social media and everything else: https://linktr.ee/midnightburger   For more information on our sponsors go to https://fableandfolly.com/partners/   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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"A must-listen indie podcast." - The Guardian "A beautiful, kind, wonderful story." - BBC Radio 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. At the nexus of all things, there is a diner. We open at 6.