Blister and Muck

Is your family hungry for a little mystery? This all-new story time podcast tails two hungry mismatched rats who must bamboozle a mad scientist capturing animals with some shocking traps. 

Blister, a Tuff Tail street rat, scores a fresh apple while besting his rival Scab and her rat pack, Spit, Grime, Gag, Scum, and Snot. Blister must then save a timid Silver Whisker rat from wicked alley cats. McCallister, or Muck, reveals a dangerous electric rattrap lurking in the city of Blaakrust’s streets.

Blister leaves Muck to fend for himself. At home in the bell tower of an abandoned cathedral, Blister confesses a secret to his pet spider, Spindle: he must bend his strict One for One and None for All credo in order to eat. He will help the animal rescue opeRATives in exchange for food.

Blister travels to the opeRATive headquarters in the ancient chambers beneath X.S. Capital Bank. Some rats give him a lukewarm welcome. Nonetheless, their leader, the legendary Madam Putreska, offers him a one-time job. A shrew at the harbor will have all the information Blister needs to carry out his assignment.

En route to the harbor, Blister catches two secret agent spy pigeons deliberately splatter-painting passersby. He promises not to report them to the head of their order so long as they do him a favor. They must investigate the strange electric rattraps known as Dr. van Sangfreud’s Incredible IncarceRATors.

Blister reaches the docks and gathers details about his assignment from Madam Putreska. He must rescue a Siberian bear shipped to Blaakrust and sold on the black market to a cruel whip-cracker. Blister then discovers Muck entangled with a gang of gambling bilge rats and their gargantuan leader, Bile.

Muck accompanies Blister on the bear rescue mission. In Oddvine Park, they find the creature forced to perform while her handler, Vexler Q. Drummal panhandles the crowd for money. With time whittling down, the rats must trick Vexler, free the bear, and smuggle it on a train that will soon depart.

Clashing personalities slow Blister and Muck’s efforts to get the bear named GRRR aboard a train with opeRATives waiting to escort her to a new wilderness home. Meanwhile, a mysterious person with a steals a Westinghouse electric generator which has just arrived on a nearby platform.

After Muck makes an astonishing confession, Blister’s fantasies of raiding the Furbanks family's overstocked pantry evaporate. Instead, the rats rush to reach the bell tower before sunset awakens the wolfish wharf rats that prowl nighttime streets eating anything or anyone.

Inside the cathedral, Muck has his first encounter with a pet spider. Muck then confesses how his luxurious home and his family were destroyed in a fire he might have accidentally started. The two rats have differing opinions on how long Muck can reside in the bell tower.

Muck disappears without a goodbye or thank you to his host. Blister dodges Dr. van Sangfreud rattraps, on his way to Madam Putreska’s caverns. He discovers Ooze, an opeRATive, has been zapped senseless. Blister needs to guide her to the caverns, but he is also being tailed by two sneaky cats.

Putreska rewards Blister for his services. She warns him that many creatures are disappearing because of the new rattraps. Homeward bound, Blister encounters a mysterious woman who offers him food if he will take part in what she calls a scientific animal study.

After Muck is found hiding in the bell tower, Blister decides to teach the Silver Whisker how to survive in the city. Muck flounders in his attempts to adopt new skills. He causes several uproars out on the streets. Blister’s goals to rid himself of the needy nuisance are dashed.

Days pass while Blister continues to coach Muck. The city’s new electric power grid suffers inexplicable outages. One of the secret agent spy pigeons, Seltzer, surfaces to report a catastrophe. While investigating the electric rattraps, his partner, Horchata, was captured.

To find Secret Agent Horchata, Blister, Muck, and Seltzer take to the sewers. OpeRATives beat them to the task. Like Ooze, Horchata has been electrocuted into a silent stupor. While Madam Putreska devises a plan to expose the rogue setting the traps, the opeRATives receive an urgent distress signal.

Muck volunteers to help Madam Putreska decode the distress message, which is written in a foreign language he knows. As thanks, Putreska promises to train him in martial arts. Blister stuffs his simmering jealousy and sets off to find Jana, the woman who claims her scientific animal studies will make the world a better place.

Lady Jana corrals Blister in a dilapidated castle she calls her laboratory. Nonetheless, she cuts a glamorous, eccentric figure. She uses her wealth to promote equality not just between men and women, but also between humans and animals. Blister’s doubts prevail when he happens upon a room full of wind-up toys and taxidermy animal specimens.

Still trapped inside the Lady Jana’s castle, Blister encounters a barmy old chap in rags who roams the dreary rooms. Jana explains how she will turn Blister’s thoughts into tangible proof of animal intelligence. She will use the evidence to knock mankind off the animal kingdom’s throne, thereby restoring balance. Blister doubts her plan, but celebrates her promise to pay him amply with food.

Tempers flare when Blister discovers Muck opened the bell tower as an overflow refuge to creatures cramped in Madam Putreska’s caverns. Spindle finds the new guests especially frightening. When Blister lies to Muck about his upcoming role in the Lady Jana’s revolution, the rats’ budding connection cracks.

Lady Jana constructs a contraption to capture Blister’s thoughts. Blister spies strange delivery trucks arriving at the creepy castle. Meanwhile, Muck receives an unexpected letter from afar.

Jana’s experiments almost yield results. She rewards Blister with a smorgasbord. Blister cons Muck and Seltzer so he can break the bell tower’s number one rule.

Blister and Muck hijack a sailboat and take up piracy. Meanwhile, a circus arrives in Blaakrust. Madam Putreska hatches a plan to rescue its captive animals.

OpeRATives infiltrate the circus. While acting as spies, Blister, Muck, and Madam Putreska encounter three beasts capable of unraveling their animal rescue operation.

Dr. van Sangfreud arrives at the circus. To prevent him from abducting any animals, Blister, Muck, and the opeRATives enact a hasty scheme. Unluckily, a hard-of-hearing elephant slows them down.

Dr. van Sangfreud deploys a cat cadre to restrain Blister, Muck, and the opeRATives. Henchman Vexler Q. Drummal absconds with the circus panther. Before departing, the doctor reveals some of his sinister motives.

Blister and Muck battle cats, animal handlers, and more to seize the stolen panther from Dr. van Sangfreud. Their efforts take some unexpected turns when they enlist help from a chimpanzee troupe. Meanwhile, the circus elephants misunderstand Gorgeous George’s instructions and carry out a show-stopping finale!

Award-winning poet and professional merrimaker, V.B. Price, shares poems from his latest book! Join the entire Blister and Muck crew as we warm up and ward off any 2020-holidays-are-not-normal blues.

Blister attempts to resume his scientific experiments with the Lady Jana. Before he can track her down, he encounters Dr. van Sangfreud. Or…someone who looks a lot like the wicked animal zapper.

Back in the bell tower, Muck and the pigeons have a surprise in store for Blister. While games and revelry ensue upstairs, menacing invaders infest the cathedral.  

Muck and Seltzer are at loggerheads. Muck demands Blister’s help on a quest to investigate evidence which suggests his family may be alive. However, Seltzer wants to interrogate Blister about the treats that lured the wharf rats into the bell tower.

At a Christmas Eve gathering, Blister, Muck, Spindle, Seltzer, Horchata, Rip and Gorgeous George argue about whether or not Santa Claus exists. Not even Madam Putreska can quash the quarrel. Everything changes with the arrival of an unexpected, yet gifted guest.

Muck discovers he is not the sole survivor of the fire that wrecked his posh country home. Overjoyed, he drags Blister out of Blaakrust on journey to be reunited with his whole family.

After Spindle delivers Blister’s note, Madam Putreska realizes Muck is the missing member of the Furbanks family she helped relocate to Europe. She dispatches a telegram to them before intercepting the rats at the Furbanks’ former residence. There, she shines light on the fire’s true source.

The rhinoceros is stolen from the Blaakrust Zoo. At the same time, opeRATives discover Dr. van Sangfreud is no longer dealing in rattrap devices. Meanwhile, Blister resolves to dissuade Muck from reuniting with his family in Europe.

Blister and Madam Putreska investigate the rhino theft at the Blaakrust Zoo. While there, Blister reunites with some familiar faces. And, Orville Whitmore reveals his ties to Dr. van Sangfreud.

Orville Whitmore shares an unfathomable fact about Dr. van Sangfreud. Blister makes a mistake and Fleet enters into a bad agreement.

Blister tries and fails to corner Dr. van Sangfreud. His frustrations spill over on Muck. Before he can make amends, he has a face-to-fang confrontation with the escaped circus panther.

Blister struggles with opeRATive life when Madam Putreska takes the team to the beach for martial training. At the same time, Muck rises to a new level of prestige. And, two of the addled animals resume speaking.

The long-awaited telegram from Muck’s family arrives. Blister takes steps to conceal the message from Muck. Meanwhile, Rip loses control of his killer instincts.

It's the third and final season! What's in store for Blister, Muck, Spindle, and the rest of the motley creature crew? Can anybody solve this unsolvable mystery and stop Dr. van Sangfreud once and for all? 

While opeRATives tangle with Dr. van Sangfreud's cats, Blister and Pus stowaway on a delivery truck transporting trapped animals. They hope to discover the doctor's secret laboratory, but all too soon, Blister realizes the truck is headed to an even worse location.

Just when Blister, Muck, and the opeRATives think they've missed Dr. van Sangfreud's secret meeting, a blackout spurs a flurry of suspicious activities. 

Blister's schemes to upend Dr. van Sangfreud's covert conclave falter when an unexpected speaker takes center stage.

Blister warns Lady Jana that all her assistants and supporters are secretly in cahoots with Dr. van Sangfreud. When she does not heed the warning, they both wind up in the mad imposter's lab.

While locked in an Incredible IncarceRATor trap, Blister confronts the awful truth about the real Dr. van Sangfreud.

When Blister's escape from Dr. van Sangfreud's trap is blocked, he is hooked to the dreaded animal-addling contraption. Extracting his memories is crucial to the mad scientist's wicked plot.

Blister and the trapped animals skirmish with the evil doctor's army recruits. Meanwhile, Dr. van Sangfreud escapes with Blister's electric memories, plus the route to the opeRATives' headquarters.

Blister is caught in a lie so much worse than the hidden pastries that lured wharf rats into the bell tower.

Muck and Spindle attempt to sneak Rip into Madama Putreska's caverns at the very moment when Dr. van Sangfreud's ORBS army fans across Blaakrust on a panther hunt. 

A chance-encounter with an egg salad sandwich launches Blister into an unexpected partnership with Scab, her rat pack, and Bile the bilge rat.

Blister labors to keep Scab and Bile committed to rescuing Muck, Rip, and Spindle. At the same time, he enlists help from zoo director Orville Whitmore and singing elephant Gorgeous George.

Determine to topple Dr. van Sangfreud once and for all, Blister sets out to recruit bloodthirsty wharf rats to his ragtag battalion. Can he reveal the one secret that would secure their allegiance before they gobble him up?

The plan to recruit reinforcements fumbles on all fronts. Only Orville Whitmore has successfully enlisted helpers to defeat Dr. van Sangfreud. Will this ragtag crew suffice?

Nothing goes to plan when Blister's motley rescue crew invades Dr. van Sangfreud's junk castle. 

In a bid to rescue Muck, Spindle, and Rip, Blister's crew faces unexpected obstacles. Meanwhile, Dr. van Sangfreud's meganimal serum induces monstrous side-effects.

Blister discovers a secret weapon in the junk castle library. Orville and Bartie make some unexpected alliances. Meanwhile, Dr. van Sangfreud loses control of the monstrous meganimal hounds.  

In a gambit to save Spindle, Orville loses his disguise, triggering a monster hound attack. Meanwhile, Jana wrangles Muck into a terrible meganimal experiment.

Muck's schemes skew the results of Dr. van Sangfreud's mind-zapping experiment. Meanwhile, Blister embraces his inner villain.

As the opposing forces commence battle, an unexpected battalion descends on the tower library. Meanwhile, to stop Dr. van Sangfreud's meganimal transformation, Blister and Muck put their friendship to an unthinkable test.

The bell tower welcomes new residents and gets a makeover. The future finally touches the city of Blaakrust. Muck bids farewell to all friends before departing for Europe.