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.