Zenobia Darling's Midnight Meltdown

🦇 Hosted by award-winning drag rockstar and comedian Zenobia Darling, Zenobia Darling’s Midnight Meltdown is a nocturnal transmission from the haunted edges of Baltimore exploring pop culture, the paranormal, reality TV, beauty culture, queer nightlife, underground art, cryptids, celebrity scandals, and the beautiful chaos of modern life.

👻 Part late-night rant, part paranormal field guide, and part cultural commentary roast, the show dives into everything from Bravo meltdowns and haunted locations to internet decay, drag culture, local legends, celebrity absurdity, beauty and hair, and the strange theater of modern existence.

📻 Whether flying solo or joined by artists, outsiders, and other creatively feral humans, Zenobia serves up dark humor, sharp observations, punk attitude, and a healthy disrespect for taking anything too seriously—treating ghosts, glamour, celebrity meltdowns, and cultural collapse with roughly the same level of importance because they're probably more connected than we'd like to admit and absolutely deserve some major shade.

🩸 Sometimes insightful. Sometimes unhinged. Always after dark.

This is late-night radio with a haunted frequency. A comedy show with a paranormal obsession. A place where glamour meets the grotesquely unhinged, gossip meets the supernatural, and absolutely nothing is safe from a little shade.

The coffee break is dead.

The meltdown begins at midnight.

🦇 New episodes begin broadcasting Halloween 2026.

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Zenobia Darling's Midnight Meltdown

I Dont Dream of Labor (Part 1)

March 14, 2024 • Mallory Kimmel • Season 1 • Episode 23

0:00 | 48:49

For this two-part Coffee Break, I beamed down at CCBC (Community College of Baltimore County) in Essex, Maryland to have a chat with Mallory Kimmel. Mallory is an artist, social sculptor, and curator of a new art exhibition titled "I Don't Dream of Labor" at The Galleries at CCBC. For part one, we go into why she is curating this fabulous and intellectually provocative art show, with the nefarious nature of our hyper-capitalistic work hustle culture, as well as her upbringing in Montgomery County, Maryland and undergraduate schooling at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania, with Bigfoot and a wild paranormal tale in there as well. ENJOY!!

Part two will drop next Tuesday, 3/19, so make sure you subscribe to the podcast feed, so you don’t miss it!!

Cover Art

"Mallory Doesn't Dream of Labor" featuring the artwork of Shirin Towfiq, featured in the "I Don't Dream of Labor" art exhibition at The Galleries at CCBC.

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Zenobia Darling’s Midnight Meltdown is currently lurking between seasons, darlings. 🌙⚡🦇

Until then, expect rogue transmissions from the midnight void: paranormal chaos, reality TV psychosis, pop culture meltdowns, emotionally unstable glamour, vampiric bitching, and absolutely zero adult supervision. 🛸🩸

🦇 Season Three rises from the dead Halloween 2026.

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