Zack and Griffin's Multiversal Pet Shop

An improv comedy podcast about pets, monsters, and running a small business.

About the show

Zack and Griffin, with their oodles* of podcaster gold, have settled down to the quiet life of owning the single Pet Shop of The Multiversetm. Dragons, Dogs, Dogs for Dragons, these fellas have it all!

*The Technical Term

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Episodes

  • Episode 80: Griff or Groff?

    December 15th, 2021  |  56 mins 5 secs
    dnd, groff, pest mascot, relic sloth, ruin grinder, strixhaven

    Wands? Check. Lunchbox? Check. New source material? Check! Class is in session as Zack and Griff explore the new "Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos" source book in DnD 5e!

  • Episode 79: Sh*tty Pokemon 4: John Stem

    December 1st, 2021  |  1 hr 5 mins
    bidoof, cherubi, chingling, diamond, drifloon, pearl, pokemon, sinnoh

    Under obligations laid out by the Multiversal Board of Directors, this episode of Sh*tty Pokemon is a lot less sh*tty! Open up your Dex and turn that ball cap around, we're going to the Sinnoh region to hype up some of the dumbest Pokemon from Diamond and Pearl!

  • Episode 78: The Lost Episode

    November 17th, 2021  |  1 hr 9 mins

    Shoppers, it's been a good three years of Zacks, Griffins, Multiverses, Pets, and Shops! We thought it would be fun to look back at the episode we recorded on New Year's Eve 2017, to see how far we've come.

    Thank you to everyone who has listened. We love you all!

  • Episode 77: The Breath Boys!

    November 3rd, 2021  |  58 mins 38 secs
    animated breath, dracohydra, dragonblood ooze, fizban's treasury of dragons, liondrake, mr. fizzy's dragon bucket

    Did you know we've like never talked about dragons on this show? Well get ready for more of that, because even though Zack and Griff open the covers of Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, they don't actually talk about any dragons! But what they do talk about is so, so much better.

  • Episode 76: Necromancy 101

    October 20th, 2021  |  56 mins 38 secs
    boneless, halloween, mummy, skeleton, zombie

    Class is in session! Zack and Griffin are here today to give you all the tools you need to summon your very own zombie and/or skeleton, just in time for the spookiest of days! Grab your spellbooks and ink those quills, it's time to get spoopy!

  • Episode 75: It Burbles!

    October 6th, 2021  |  1 hr 3 mins
    brigganock, campestri, dnd, dnd5e, jabberwock, living doll, wild beyond the witchlight

    Pack your torches, cause we're going down the rabbit hole! It's the Wild Beyond the Witchlight! All things fey and fantastic await just around the corner. And some spooky stuff too. We have a quota to fill.

    Content Warning: this episode contains a segment on the Living Doll creature. If you find this content unsettling, please feel free to skip this segment! It begins at 17:20 and ends at 27:05

  • Episode 74: Give It to the Slurge

    September 22nd, 2021  |  57 mins 20 secs
    cypher, jesanthum, monte cook games, ninth world, numenera, odlark, slurge, xacorocax

    Who says you can't have good pets one billion years in the future? That's right, Zack and Griffin return to the Ninth World! And they found a new religion in the process? Take a listen!

  • Episode 73: Itty Bitty Bois 2: Help God Get Rigged!

    September 8th, 2021  |  1 hr 2 mins
    alehouse drake, boloti, emerald eye, kobold press, ratatosk, tome of beasts

    It's the sequel to the spin-off of the critically acclaimed segment of the award winning podcast you've all been waiting for! Join Zack and Griffin as they return to the Tome of Beasts from Kobold Press, and use their magnifying glasses to find some of the smallest friends around!

  • Episode 72: First Krampus, Then Warner Brothers, Then the World

    August 25th, 2021  |  56 mins 36 secs
    caterprism, corpse rook, frog god games, lantern goat, thaumaturmite

    Zack and Griffin emerge from the summer heat with some chilling new friends from Frog God Games' Tome of Horrors! Magic bugs and hostile takeovers abound on this new episode! Don't forget to stop by the gift shop on your way out!

  • Episode 71: Rabble Rousing Rowdy Boys

    August 11th, 2021  |  58 mins 38 secs
    badger mole, flying fishopotamus, tigerdillo, turtle duck

    It's a return to the World of Avatar, which means more hybrid animal friends! Just how many variations of turtle and duck can you make? What's the best application for a badger mole? Join us as we explore more of the beautiful fauna of Avatar!

  • Episode 70: Big Bois 5: Judge Andrenjinyi

    July 28th, 2021  |  1 hr 1 min
    andrenjinyi, gbahali, gug, theullai

    The series that gives on giving, it's BIG BOI TIME! Returning to Kobold Press's Tome of Beasts, we scope out four more of the biggest and baddest bois in town.

  • Episode 69: Pinup Dryads

    July 14th, 2021  |  59 mins 14 secs
    dryad, incubus, merfolk, rakshasa, succubus

    Explicit content warning! Like, for real though!

    It's the NICEST of episodes! Join Zack and Griff on just a wet and wild romp with the sexiest creatures we could find (in one book).

  • Episode 68: SkullFace SpaceEyes

    June 30th, 2021  |  58 mins 32 secs
    cypher system, ebon, jybril, ninth world, numenera, quover, vuraneen

    Another run through the time portal takes the boys back to the wonders of the Ninth World! We've got you covered on all the Nessie news, pop punk songs, and alien biology you could possibly ask for!

  • Episode 67: Sh*tty Pokemon 3: HI-YA

    June 16th, 2021  |  53 mins 54 secs
    illumise, nosepass, numel, plusle

    The dregs of Hoenn await as Zack and Griffin resurface with some more of the worst Pokemon the world has to offer, and make their best Pokemon sounds along the way.

  • Episode 66: What's the V Stand For?

    June 2nd, 2021  |  55 mins 34 secs
    carrion stalker, gallows speaker, gremishka, nosferatu

    Ah ah ah! Zack and Griffin get spooOOooOoOOky with some new DnD 5e source material! And for once, spooky doesn't mean nasty! It's Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft!

  • Episode 65: Infernal Dan

    May 19th, 2021  |  59 mins 15 secs

    Z+G plummet from the heavens to talk a walk through the blasted landscape of the Hells! No more niceness! No more free tours! No more cleaning your dishes in the break room! Come check in with their new devilish co-workers in this week's episode.