Muckey Landing

Virgil, Harmon and Aloysius hitch a ride all the way above the canal for a long-awaited pig roast that Harmon won on the radio.

When the Yoders, retired New York mobsters Nick and Sal, and Sal's cousins, the Capicolada brothers, all show up at the Market, Diner and Hardware Emporium at the same time to stock the lunch meat counter, war is inevitable, and Harmon and Virgil are00:26:58 caught in the middle! This is the long-awaited conclusion to episodes 4 and 5 — Lox, Socks and Two Smoked Bolognas and The Bologna Connection...

Join Virgil and Harmon to experience the unending excitement that is the annual Muckey Landing Christmas parade! Muckey Landing is an award-winning comedy audiofiction podcast. ***Cast and Crew*** Virgil Slatter - Mike Polo Harmon Truesdale - Bruce Leister Psycho Bob - Dave Crown Doral Bernstein - Patti Gatto Additional voices - Chris Polo, Mike Polo, Bruce Leister Sound Design and Editing - Mike...

After overhearing Muckey Landing's newest residents, Nick Costello and Sal Bambino, discuss an apparent murder plot, Harmon panics when the pair returns unexpectedly to the Market, Diner and Hardware Emporium. When the retired mobsters offer them a shady business deal, Virgil and Harmon are stuck between a rock and a hard place: saying no could mean running afoul of the mob, but saying yes means s...

While Mike and Dixie work on editing our next full-length episode, we hope you enjoy Virgil's little summary of how election day went in Muckey Landing this year.

Bruce Leister and Mike Polo, of course, are regulars in our blooper reels; they're aided in this recording session from "Locks, Socks, and Two Smoked Bolognas by John Zinzi (Nick Costello) and Steve Caporiccio (Sal Bambino).  Be sure to listen for Bruce's explanation of "bass fishing" and how John feels about being the only one stuck behind a curtain while recording!  Music is by the consistently...

When a couple of new Muckey Landing residents show up at the Market, Diner and Hardware Emporium with strange accents and a suspicious shopping list, Harmon jumps to all sorts of conclusions. Cast and Crew Virgil Slatter - Mike Polo Harmon Truesdale - Bruce Leister Nick Costello - John Zinzi Sal Bambino - Steve Caporiccio Mitch Pohunk - Kevin Smith Sound design and editing by Mike Polo Theme song...

As the nor'easter rages outside, we finally find out who -- or what -- has been outside screaming at Harmon all morning. When the intruder traps Harmon in the kitchen, Virgil is forced to call in reinforcements to rid the store of its terrifying visitor! Cast and Crew Virgil Slatter - Mike Polo Harmon Truesdale - Bruce Leister Psycho Bob - Dave Crown Raven - Lisa Vest Doral Bernstein - Patti Gatto...

In celebration of Muckey Landing's second anniversary, Mike Polo (Virgil Slatter, and also Muckey Landing's sound designer and editor), Bruce Leister (Harmon Truesdale) and Chris Polo (Muckey Landing creator/writer/director) sat down and talked about how Muckey Landing came to be. A bourbonized version of Virgil's wood stove coffee was also involved.

The first snowstorm of the season is a real nor’easter, so Harmon and Virgil settle in for a quiet morning at the store with Virgil’s “special” coffee and a fire in the wood stove. The morning is soon complicated by a disturbing noise that has Harmon on edge, disturbing news for Virgil about his sister Vinnie Jean, and disturbing vibes from Virgil’s sexy sister Velma that have Harmon in a tizzy. A...

The east coast blizzard this past weekend derailed all of our recording sessions for our second episode of the season, so Mike put together this bonus episode to give you guys something to listen to and hopefully laugh at. This episode features Mike (Virgil Slatter) and Bruce (Harmon Truesdale) stumbling their way through the first episode of the season, Vinnie Jean Is Not My Lover. Our next full-...

Get to know the folks behind the scenes at Muckey Landing! In this New Year bonus episode, Mike Polo (Virgil Slatter), Bruce Leister (Harmon Truesdale) and Chris Polo (Creator/Writer/Director/etc.) talk with Patti Gatto, who voices Doral Bernstein, Muckey Landing's uber-receptionist with an attitude. Second 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...

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.

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 mucke...

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...

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 Lei...

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,...

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 Ditch...

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

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 pho...

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 Krist...

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...

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.

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.