Muckey Landing

Let Virgil Slatter, co-owner of the Muckey Landing Market, Diner and Hardware Emporium, introduce you to a few of the quirky inhabitants of his sleepy little hometown.  Muckey Landing — a scripted comedy podcast. Not as sleepy as it looks.

We meet Virgil Slatter and Harmon Truesdale, proprietors of the Muckey Landing Market, Diner and Hardware Emporium. Virgil adopts Aloysius, the world’s ugliest dog. Local artist Myrtle Myrkle invites Harmon to dinner, and Police Chief Neville Cheefe shares conspiracy theories about the fire at the DuPlant chicken nugget plant.

Virgil tries not to lose his temper about Harmon being late for work every morning, to disastrous effect. Salesman Dickie Butz stops in and sells Virgil some highly effective merchandise from Japan.

Virgil Slatter and Harmon Truesdale, co-owners of the Muckey Landing Market, Diner and Hardware Emporium, attempt to advise you about staying safe while shopping at their store. Muckey Landing: sort of like Lum and Abner, but with profanity.

With the town of Muckey Landing still in quarantine, Virgil and Harmon discuss what they want to discuss without coming to much of a conclusion.

Still quarantined, Virgil attempts to forge ahead with recording a history of Muckey Landing for Mitch Pohunk to play on the radio, while Harmon is getting tired of Joe Biden constantly calling him up to talk about nothing. Virgil Slatter - Mike Polo Harmon Truesdale - Bruce Leister Muckey Landing - a Sort of a Podcast was named Outstanding Comedy Fiction Podcast at the 2021 New Jersey Web Fest and is a Gold Listening Selection of the 2021 Hear Now Festival.

Still quarantined, Virgil attempts yet again to make a serious recording, this time highlighting the travails of Muckey Landing business owners, but has to reckon with Harmon, who has just gotten a new smartphone.

Harmon drops the tape recorder in the kitchen and breaks it, but assures Virgil that he’s fixed it. The guys go on to record a sincere but fairly dubious history of Muckey Landing and the state of Delaware, touching on pirate ships, casinos, and Natalie Wood. At least, they think they do. We listen as Mitch Pohunk broadcasts the unfortunate result on the radio.

Harmon does battle with a batch of sticky buns, Virgil spars with his old nemesis Doral when she calls the store asking for Harmon, Harmon and Doral get personal, and embarrassing secrets are revealed.

It's Bologna Week, Harmon's annual tribute to the joys of baking with bologna, and he's pulling out all the stops at the lunch counter! Stopping by to inquire about the feast are Radio RMUK station manager Mitch Pohunk, who's taken up a new hobby to help him keep from blowing a gasket or a heart valve; Sammy Fraudiddler, Youth Minister at the Flames of Fire and Grace Right Primitive Baptist Church; and the guys' old enemy Doral, who phones in an order and quickly gets under everybody's skin. Featuring Mike Polo as Virgil Slatter, Bruce Leister as Harmon Truesdale, Kevin P. Smith as Mitch Pohunk,  Andrew Hertzberg as Sammy Fraudiddler, and Patti Gatto as Doral Bernstein. Sound design and engineering by Mike Polo. Music by the politely infraggable Jim Rezac. Written and directed by Chris Polo. Muckey Landing is a Mucked Up Production. 

It promises to be an exciting weekend in Muckey Landing: Virgil's sister, Velma, is reopening her gentleman's club, The T&G, for the first time since she closed on account of the pandemic, and Virgil couldn't ask for a better venue to celebrate Harmon's upcoming birthday. What could possibly go wrong, besides everything? Our Cast: Mike Polo as Virgil Slatter Bruce Leister as Harmon Truesdale Kristen Garramone as Velma Bellazamboni Patti Gatto as Doral Bernstein

In this episode, uber-receptionist Doral has landed yet another new job, this time at the local radio station, where she ends up interviewing Myrtle Myrkle in place of Mitch, who’s sleeping off his most recent bender on the floor of his office. Harmon explains his totally perplexing and utterly exhausting relationship with Myrtle to Virgil, Booty Sheets and his BVDs stop by the store to make a phone call, and Velma invites Harmon to dinner, much to Harmon’s consternation. Our website: muckeylanding.com Our cast: Mike Polo - Virgil Slatter Bruce Leister - Harmon Truesdale Patti Gatto - Doral Bernstein Gina Shuck - Myrtle Myrkle Kevin Smith - Mitch Pohunk Chris Polo - Mrs. Pucker/Host Darin Dell - Booty Sheets Dave Crown - Psycho Bob Kristin Garramone - Velma Bellazamboni Music by Jim Rezac Sound by Mike Polo

It’s nearly Christmas, and Harmon and Virgil work on their entry in the Christmas poem contest put on by the local radio station. Starring Mike Polo as Virgil Slatter  Bruce Leister as Harmon Truesdale  Original music arrangements by Jim Rezac Sound design by Mike Polo. Visit us at muckeylanding.com

Doral's finding out that being the morning deejay at RMUK, the local radio station, isn't exactly what it was cracked up to be, and Harmon's in a panic because he just remembered Myrtle Myrkle never gave him the painting she painted of the two of them "in flagrante erecto." Psycho Bob pops in to see Harmon, and Mabel Sprout stops by with alarming news about Myrtle's upcoming art show down in Ditchwater. Our website: muckeylanding.com Enjoying the show? You can help us out with a small donation on our Buy Me a Coffee page: www.buymeacoffee.com/muckeylanding --  we guarantee Harmon will use it to buy bologna for the lunch counter. Our cast: Mike Polo - Virgil Slatter Bruce Leister - Harmon Truesdale Patti Gatto - Doral Bernstein Gina Shuck - Mabel Sprout Dave Crown - Psycho Bob Theme song by Jim Rezac Sound by Mike Polo  

We're celebrating our first anniversary, so this episode has details about how to enter our celebration giveaway and win cool Muckey Landing stuff! Harmon's all in a lather about tonight's planned heist of Myrtle Myrkle's erotic painting from the Fuzzy Duck Gallery, but first, he and Virgil have to get through a regular workday. When six cans of ScrappyTime Scrapple Whip go missing from the store, Harmon swings into action to catch a suspected shoplifter, enlisting the help of Buck Firken, Muckey Landing's highly enthusiastic but impossibly dim rookie firefighter. Throw the Yoders, Flames of Fire and Grace Right Primitive Baptist youth minister Sammy Fraudiddler, Psycho Bob, and Doral into the mix, and it's a wonder Virgil still has his sanity! Our Cast: Mike Polo as Virgil Slatter Bruce Leister as Harmon Truesdale Will McVay as Luke Yoder Claude Warnick as Uncle Yoder Jeff Bellon as Buck Firken Andrew Hertzberg as Sammy Fraudiddler Dave Crown as Psycho Bob Patti Gatto as Doral Bernstein Muckey Landing theme is written and performed by Jim Rezac Sound design is by Mike Polo Produced by Chris Polo Visit muckeylanding.com for info about the show!  

Harmon and Virgil rendezvous at the store and then head out under cover of darkness to boost Myrtle's erotic painting from the Fuzzy Duck gallery in Ditchwater. When Harmon gets cold feet on the way down, Virgil butchers a lot of Latin while explaining why what they're doing is perfectly legal. Will they really go through with it?  And can they stay out of jail if they do? CAST and CREW: Bruce Leister as Harmon Truesdale Mike Polo as Virgil Slatter Muckey Landing theme song and incidental music is written and performed by Jim Rezac Sound design and editing by Mike Polo SFX from Pond 5 Visit us at muckeylanding.com and enter our first anniversary giveaway to win cool Muckey Landing merch!    

In the final episode of Season 1, the fire crew cleans up as Virgil and Harmon hash out how they've come to find themselves under arrest in the back seat of Jenny Pilsner's police car. Meanwhile, police chief Cheefe and volunteer fire chief Bunny Slatter mull over possibilities; while their theories about the cause range from contrails to terrorists to spontaneous combustion, officer Jenny Pilsner believes there’s a more mundane explanation for the mysterious fires that have recently plagued the Muckey Landing-Ditchwater Lesser Metropolitan Area. *Muckey Landing is a Gold Selection of the 2021 Hear Now Festival* Our Cast and Crew Mike Polo as Virgil Slatter Bruce Leister as Harmon Truesdale Mike Barko as Ruger Codger John Hulse as Floyd Grimes Kane Mowrey as Lt. Jenny Pilsner Will McVay as Fire Chief Bunny Slatter Dick Pack as Chief Neville Cheefe Gina Shuck as Mabel Sprout Erin Rich as Mama Slatter Muckey Landing theme song and incidental music is written and performed by Jim Rezac Sound design and editing by Mike Polo Visit us at muckeylanding.com! Muckey Landing - a Sort of a Podcast was named Outstanding Comedy Fiction Podcast at the 2021 New Jersey Web Fest and is a Gold Listening Selection of the 2021 Hear Now Festival.

Announcing Season 2 of Muckey Landing! We’ve been on hiatus for a while, but we’re back in production with Virgil, Harmon, and everybody else in Muckey Landing. We’re not sure if this is a trailer or a bonus episode, but we hope you enjoy it. Watch for future episodes! ** Gold Selection - 2021 Hear Now Festival**  ** Outstanding Comedy Fiction Podcast — 2021 New Jersey WebFest ** Visit us at muckeylanding.com Our Cast: Virgil Slatter - Mike Polo Harmon Truesdale - Bruce Leister Psycho Bob - Dave Crown Raven Yoder - Lisa Vest Editing and sound design by Mike Polo Written and directed by Chris Polo    

Get to know the folks behind the scenes at Muckey Landing! Mike Polo (Virgil Slatter), Bruce Leister (Harmon Truesdale) and Chris Polo (Creator/Writer/Director/etc.) talk with music director Jim Rezac, who wrote and performed our award-winning Muckey Landing theme song. First in a series.

Season 2 of Muckey Landing is finally here!   In our season opener, Harmon makes himself pretty for Vinnie Jean, Virgil's sexy little sister, who's coming to work at the store as part of her probation for whomping her ex-boyfriend upside the head with a frozen pork loin. While they await her arrival, Virgil and Harmon discuss Charles Berlitz, the biblical origins of  modern language, the wisdom of buying cologne on the internet, and past mistakes. The unexpected appearance of an old nemesis sends both guys into a tailspin, while Vinnie Jean's arrival isn't everything Harmon had it cracked up to be.   Our Cast and Crew:   Mike Polo as Virgil Slatter   Bruce Leister as Harmon Truesdale   Patti Gatto as Doral Bernstein   Shelby Bradford as Vinnie Jean Slatter   Sound design is by Mike Polo   Theme song and incidental music are composed and performed by Jim Rezac of JimRezacMusic.com   Sound effects provided by SoundIdeasCom and applehillstudio/ Pond5 Muckey Landing - a Sort of a Podcast was named Outstanding Comedy Fiction Podcast at the 2021 New Jersey Web Fest and is a Gold Listening Selection of the 2021 Hear Now Festival.