Miserable Retail Slave

The weather and the "cold shoulders"/ Mansplain (3:05)/ Tommy went to a daddy - daughter dance (3:35)/ Tomish/ Episode 200 and the 6 year old anniversary (6:00)/ The Unwritable Rant (Juliette Miranda and David the Producer) comes to Miserable Retail Slave! (10:00)/ Nicholas Paste (13:00)/ Juliette Miranda's writing adventures (13:45)/ Getting paid for something you love doing (15:48)/ Winger (16:00)/ David the Producer's bass playing (17:00)/ Meeting Blackie Lawless (18:30)/ Best or worst band name that David was a member of/ Tommy's first paying gig was with Penis Philbin (22:35)/ "I'm a little Hemingway over here (25:00)/ Juliette Miranda and David the Producer ask us questions (25:30)/ Juliette loves Tusk (26:19)/ Best episodes, how podcasts go wrong, and telling personal stories (30:00)/ Juliette's favorite episode of The Unwritable Rant (32:18)/ Online dating nonsense (33:00)/ How Juliette and David met (34:00)/ Phrendly - just pure flirting (35:15)/ What Juliette and David like about Miserable Retail Slave (37:13)/ The Church of the Carpenter Jeans (38:30)/ Juliette's writing process (40:59)/ Juliette hates technology (42:30)/ Livestream for the Cure bribes for donations (44:45)/ The Unwritable Rant web series? (48:10)/ Crazytown (48:30)/ technical difficulties (49:56)/ The Kanye West of Podcasts (50:38)/ Juliette Miranda and David the Producer bought tickets to Tommy's standup show (52:30)/ Kickables (57:00)/ The coolest celeb that Juliette and David has ever met (59:21)/ David met Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger (1:00:00)/ Tommy's friend, Dave Landau, is the 3rd mic on The Artie and Anthony Show now (1:03:58)/ Juliette Miranda wants Bill Burr on the show (1:12:00)/ Missed Connections/ A missed connection finally responded/ "Can you give me the jest?" (1:18:30)/ A Chicago-style deep dish missed connection (1:20:30)/ David the Producer ran into Chad Kroeger wearing a Nickelback shirt (1:22:00)/ Thank you shout outs (Armchair Producer Doug Goodwin, Andrea, The Couch Party Crew (HAB), Jake and Tom Conquer the World, Heather D and TRB from Welcome to Rantyville, Grant and Matty F from Let Me Tell Ya, Cassi and Mandy from the Mixed Feelings Podcast, Let's Get Drunk and Talk Comics, Dr. Penrose)

Believing in honesty/ social media stunts/ social media celebrities/ is success in the social media age being on "Ellen"?/ Clickbait Faces/ Advice for people who want to be on GMA/ "this is weird...this is weird..."/ Tommy was shocked and flabbergasted because he remembered an old email address/ "More me, less you"/ a fatal disease called breathing/ Tommy is emo now/ a 3/4 life crisis/ Make time/ Talking I'm subliminal song lyrics/ Spring has sprung/ Tommy went to the bar instead of the gym/ if Bob Ross was painting you, he'd say "here's a happy little drunk"/ "Wingmen of West Michigan" podcast/ the return of The Convenience Nurse/ hating people when they walk/ Tommy scolds a bum/ an awkward game of social chicken/ Quality Question/ does your tattoo artist own your copyright to your body?/ Thunderdome: man in plastic bag disguise robs GameStop/ Man survives bear and shark attacks/ Batman vs the shark/ Batman '66/ shark kick/ missed Connections/ Trail Hearts/ late night bike trail wanderings/ Pop Rocks/ who came first, me or my mom?

Promo: Livestream for the Cure 2.0

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Meet the voices behind all of the idiocy.

Randy juggles two jobs and is the miserable retail slave of the two. He lives outside beautiful Flint, MI, USA and struggles with being a lazy, yet overworked dreamer and a struggling, but barely trying writer.

Tommy also lives outside Flint, MI with The Beloved and his two step daughters. He's a stand up comedian and a man of questionable common sense. Check out his stand up dates and plan a trip to throw tomatoes at http://tomethompson.com

Blindly, Stupidly Happy/ This mystical thing called 'free time'/ Day dreams, Jack White, and Freedom from Cell phones

Sunday Truthers (3:51) / Comedy is being like a street rat (5:21)/ A case of the Mondays (6:23)/ "I'm painting a toilet picture, Bob Ross" (8:35)/ Search for The Offender (15:45)/ Tommy and Randy went to the bar and ornery Tommy (18:34)/ The Wide Eyed Waitress (20:10)/ The Biker Gang at the other bar (21:18)/ Welcome to Thunderdome: woman blames the cocaine in her purse on the wind (22:15)/ Men use spaghetti sauce to try to burn down a house (25:49)/ Format change - getting to the bottom of creativity (30:09)/ Charles Bukowski - what makes him tick? (32:29)/ Tommy and The Beloved went to dinner and had an encounter (34:20)/ Livestream for the Cure 2.0 promo (37:00)/ "The laureate of American Lowlife" Charles Bukowski (42:00)/ Poets (50:25)/ Bukowski's works (52:55)/ "I found little meaning in life…" Finding hard and crazy women (55:00)/ Bukowski - fueled by alcohol (56:36)/ The Big Takeaway - it's never too late (1:00:00)/ Tommy the Hipster and Hipster Be Squared (1:01:16)/ Fat neck problems (1:04:10)/ How do you hit on a girl in real life? (1:04:53)/ Tommy's 'joking' pick up line (1:09:29)/ Online dating shallow problems (1:11:48)/ a different kind of Offender (1:13:00)/ Always Google your potential online dates (1:16:00)/ An old school ode to Tommy, a gathering of the buddies, March of the Penguins, Revelation Boyz (1:18:00)

Promo: Livestream for the Cure 2.0

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Meet the voices behind all of the idiocy.

Randy juggles two jobs and is the miserable retail slave of the two. He lives outside beautiful Flint, MI, USA and struggles with being a lazy, yet overworked dreamer and a struggling, but barely trying writer.

Tommy also lives outside Flint, MI with The Beloved and his two step daughters. He's a stand up comedian and a man of questionable common sense. Check out his stand up dates and plan a trip to throw tomatoes at http://tomethompson.com

(Episode 196)

Thinking about death/ Tommy uses his degree like Captain America's shield/ how you lose an argument/ No Footnotes Needed/ Putting your mind into a robot body/ would you upgrade your body? Personality?/ Premonitions Only/ The brand of Tommy/ Alcohol plug ins/ the problem with robot bodies/ the one time Tommy got in a fight/ Street Tough Tommy and his fisticuff ways/ Dokken IV/ ETDs (electronically transmitted diseases)/ your consciousness uploaded to the Internet and becoming spam/ Rainy Days/ Not mom approved/ Randy's new punk rock song/ Narc Fist/ NSFW/ take an acronym class/ Eye Doctor facts/ He was in THE CONE ZONE/ What level is Tommy/ the best way to mark the passage of time: the number of sighs your eye doctor gives/ Ruining the life of The Culligan Man/ the mystical growth hormone of life/ needing a day job to be creative/ Randy's Career Fair/ Becoming a DJ/EDM star/ Tommy's magic eye face/ Teach me how to be lit, Dr Strange/ We need weird music/ Brit and JT and me/ EDM artists look like super villains/ Politics/ Livestream for the Cure…Miserable Retail Slave will be a part of it!!!!/ No more carps, where do you put your hammer/ Life is ruined by one strap of fabric/ herbal viagra/ Talking about that Gerald's Game/ Online dating nonsense/ An esteemed loser/ The wisdom of Mr Rogers/ Throw you into a field of banana peels/ everyone should pronounce "Jeremy" like Eddie Vedder/ Missed Connections/ one solitary balloon/ Life is like Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!/ smoking cloves/ a senior citizen watches Hostel and Hostel 2/ Internet Movie Blobbers/ shoot your shot is a common thing/ playing music for other people is the weirdest thing/ Randy Pathetic, the Missed Connections Poet

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(Episode 196)

Gum smacking/ Constable Thompson/ The Gum Factor revisited/ Pessimistic Jam/ bizarro gum factor/ the man with loudest gum chew/ "cool leather jacket"/ Tommy lectures Randy over physical stores/ loud food noises/ Advice for The Gum Man/ the continuing tale of Nathan, the best has attendant in the world/ an eye gone AWOL/ fixing lazy eyes/ butterfinger beebee eyes/ The Shimpsons/ passive aggressive playground flirtation/ you have a good day now/ People hate lines/ St Patty's Day/ becoming an honorary Irish/ a pickled and fermented soul/ another addition to the glossary of neck tattoos/ Grateful Dead Superman/ the dirt brothers/ Quality Question: Hey there, Delilah/ adult contemporary radio stations/ Robotic froyo workers/ transmissions from the future/ a human ant/ give me the fattest fat/ Movie Pitch Game: Bill Murray eats a pepper that's so hot that he can hear the future/ you like a Bill Murray?/ Generation Share/ screaming over The Beatles/ Tommy headlined The Blind Squirrel

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(Episode 195)

This episode, we review the 1st episode of British sci-fi show, Black Mirror. Find out what we thought of the interesting concept of the first episode.

The (Almost) (Week) Daily MRS

Presenting shorter bits of new Miserable Retail Slave content almost every week day!

Daily dose of vitamins/ Modern Drunkard book/ 10th drunkest state/ Flint Town/ That time Hulk Hogan slammed Andre the Giant/ Andre the Giant's legendary drinking habit/ that time Andre sold his championship/ Virgil/ The Mount Everest of Inebriation/ Hulk Hogan, the beer b-/ the most you've drank/ the short, stubby Andre the Giant/ Irish car bombs/ Tommy's touchdown glory days/ The hopeless ones

Oblivious people bumbling through life/ Another entry for the glossary of neck tattoos/ Godsmack and voodoo/ People Watcher - the next great social media idea/ capturing a fool/ Tranq 'em and Tag 'em/ Lifted trucks/ "We're not dealing with that guy...that's Brad!"/ People and their "specialty" dinners/Suffering movie trauma/ using an acorn to whistle/ being at the age where the next time you see a person might be the last/ locker partners/ Taking a nasty spill on the ice/ getting hit by one of the Smash Brothers/ what happens when your smart phone gets dementia?/ Alexa laughs at you/ "Apes vs Robots, it's coming"/ Big Man Alexa/ the ever-shifting cool cycle/ young rappers/ Comics Sans, the literary rapper/ The Great Beard Awakening/ The Movie Pitch game/ Arachno-homophobia/ Harrison Ford, the street magician/ The GIF, Ted/ Pure emoji-nation/ the world's most dangerous sound/ Hip hop implosion/ Tommy is visiting Shawshank/ Hulk Tears/ Headlining The Blind Squirrel/ the motion lights turning off in the bathroom/ Charlie's magic carpet/ Paper bag head/ Ol' Bag Head Dan/ The Tripods/ Watch out for Barncat44/ Tommy was on "One Crazy Story"/online dating nonsense/ Pterodactyls/ Stay gold.

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(Episode 194)

Beef and Podwar with Nick from Epic Film Guys/ Double standards/ Makeup for men/ crushing on Brad Pitt/ Taking that rejection punishment/ Clownshoes, The god of Salty Tears and Butthurt/ Skull Polish/ using time travel the right way: to grocery shop/ the nasty twist to time travel/ "I am the Grand Cheese of the World"/ Tommy's someone husband/ an Umbrella Baby/ I'm glad the Internet exists to call people out/ Tommy is reading The War of Art/ Tommy writes from the stage/ When the Internet first came out/ Napster/ a teenage rebel ballad/ Tommy Obey!/ more online dating talk/ Remembering Hot or Not/ Tommy the 6.5/ a midlife crisis on Hot or Not/ Sharkangels/ an online dating message/ "Hello. My name is Marlena and my entire identity is Harry Potter."/ being defined by your career/ straight talk vs real talk/ Tommy's Wranglers/ a game of gender chicken/ bend your bills, no flats/ Quality Question: what are women's white tank tops called?/ hey, Tomb Raider. Hey./ Tacos vs Pizza/ Nintendo issues a statement saying Mario is still a plumber/ it's sad that Mario still needs a day job/ Mario's tedious life/ Super Mario Flask/ "your princess is in another castle"/ that slimeball Luigi/ the worst prank callers ever/ a savage Condescending Wonka meme/ Talking about Rampage the game and movie/ Dwayne "The Fraggle Rock" Johnson/ The Movie Pitch/ iKitty/ 9 nines and 3G/ Bored Ben Affleck/ Kurt Russel vs The Blogger/ plugs for the podcasts Underwater Sunshine and Bunny Ears

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(Episode 193)

Sticker beer/ 4 color vulgar words/ flag/ don't trust the man that doesn't swear/ the first time Randy and Tommy hung out/ winners and losers/ living out the lyrics of a song/ the shock of hearing swearing in public/ white trash camouflage/ the missing link/ crashing a library book club/ a library flasher/ you can't go home again/ Tommy was french kissed by Satan/ Tommy gives up/ A tar pit of happiness/ Creating a soundtrack to your life/ Become Ear Bud Man/ The Important Philosophies of Sammy Hagar/ reacting to the trailer for "Flint Town" on Netflix/ Bum, Thugs, and Harmony/ "Like some kind of alien"/ The Sadness of Daryl Van Halen/ National Pancake Day/ "What's a Boy gotta do to get some hash browns up in this mug?"/ Tommy hates pancakes, not an egg fan/ Super diet mode: Tommy's foods/ The Taste Buds #1: pancakes and syrup Peeps/ serving size: 4 chicks/ updates on HGW/ Tommy's show in Chicago/ Happy Baby/ The Uber Man/ Road comic problems/ New arch enemy, El Silencio has a missed connection/ a mortar-cycle/ "we're like online cupids/ "had to give her some busy balls"/ Speedway Nachos/ Honey Bunny Boogie Bear/ Tommy is going to be on "One Crazy Story"/ "This song reminds me of when I still had hope"

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