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Miserable Retail Slave

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Miserable Retail Slave is a big, dumb comedy show that looks at life, love, and the odd daily occurrences that keep life interesting.
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Episodes

272. Niagara Falls All Over Your Face

This time, we interview comedian Cliff Cash about his new album “Halfway There” coming out on January 8!! We talk about van life, the end of the world, surfing, selling photographs, having side hustles as a comedian, Tommy as a Step Son of Anarchy, and whether or not the entertainment world will rebound. It's a fun conversation! Also: Adulting problems/ I saw a man get shooed/ Tommy the floormeister/ Cat Problems/ Tommy problems/ Merkin Face/ men want to look so old/ Niagara Falls all over your ...

Jan 06, 20211 hr 24 minSeason 8Ep. 272

271. The Origin of Karen - The History of Unimportant Things 1

This podcast wants to speak to your manager. It's a new feature to MRS - The History of Unimportant Things (The HUT), in which we look at the history behind the weirdest and irrelevant things in pop culture and beyond. You'll learn so many useless facts...you'll be such a savage the next time you go to pub trivia. The history of Unimportant things explained/ the Karen meme is like Lil Jon/ knowing Karen’s in their natural habitats/ is the Karen haircut an evolutionary trait/ the can I speak to y...

Jan 03, 202154 minSeason 8Ep. 271

269. Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter

At ease, maggots. This time, Sgt Slaughter becomes our patron saint! He's a real American hero and followed us on twitter, so this eppy is dedicated to him. Plus, Eve 6 puts our tender heart in a blender with their endlessly fascinating Twitter account. Welcome to the Miserable Retail Slave Show! Watch your words/ my jaw hurts/ supple/ Epiphany/ Vaping/ Joe Camel weeps/ living embodiments of our own vices/ why do people want us to try foods that they don’t like?/ A Christmas Story and sticking y...

Dec 31, 202056 minSeason 8Ep. 269

267. The Die Hard Holiday

Snake oil salesman/ a hellable offense/ Uncle Snake Oil/ gas stations are the new Snake oil/ Yellowjackets/ gas station pizza/ spray hard/ The Lighthouse of Florida/ Tommy picks up a hitchhiker/ Lost in the memories of old VCRs/ no limits to gas station blessings/ Tweakers/ Letterkenny talk/ Dead to Me/ The Christmas Episode/ Randy misses retail/ Santa is the ultimate checks and balances for the under 10 crowd/ Headphone talk/ empowered no more/ Where is Fabio?/ Tether Claus/ we write a Die Hard...

Dec 22, 20201 hr 11 minSeason 8Ep. 267

265. Jimmy Olsen

Tommy talks to the Toys/ a brief history of Jimmy Olsen/ Tommy’s epic life/ Management material?/ Hands free!/ Howard Stern resigned with Sirius XM/ Bob Dylan sold his songs for $300 million, Jacob Dylan weeps/ actor and model is default career choice for celebrity offspring/ “we talk about men in their 60s”/ stop bullying Bob Dylan!/ Headline This: iron crotch Kung fu/ Always Justified/ the military men and their show of freedom/ how do you train for iron crotch Kung fu/ Tommy isn’t an improv a...

Dec 14, 20201 hr 4 minSeason 8Ep. 265

263. Song of the Hermit Crab

The CONVENIENCE STORE lives up to its name/ The Deadliest Vice/ Adult Magazines/ Porny Claus/ Brand Redneck/ Larry the Cable Guy/ Have You heard of Godzilla Your Face/ Tommy's Jeopardy memories and RIP Alex Trebeck/ Network TV is the New Indie Underground/ Getting into TikTok/ Magnum PI and Tom Selleck's life story/ Mustache Duel/ Pure Magnum, All the Time/ Owning Hermit Crabs is a Chore/ We Pitch a Movie - VAMPIRE LOBSTERS/ Midwestern Accents that Newscasters use/ April O'Neil's sex life and Ca...

Dec 04, 202057 minSeason 8Ep. 263

262. Sexy Vocal Cricket

Ruiner of worlds/ masked men/ who’s tossing cod/ the white trash lottery/ honkers/ The Masked Singer/ Take My Breath Away/ what’s the difference between a David Blaine and a David Copperfield?/ Heart Attack Cupid/ A Brief History of Brian Austin Green/ I don’t need a Fox in the hen house/ Tommy hates cake/ Tommy and Lee Good Feet/ A Foot Artist/ people are insufferable/ Cold and Fool Season/ Dirty Carl/ Counting cigarettes/ The Boston Public/ Black Betty/ MY mechanic/ No holds barred Grease Monk...

Nov 26, 20201 hr 21 minSeason 8Ep. 262

261. Miserable Retail Slave...NO MORE

Patty Cake/ The West Virginia Phil Collins/ Our Duty as Entertainers/ The Great Glitter Reckoning/ Dandy British Grocery Stores/ Propaganda from BIG MASK/ Glitter - the ultimate Narc/ Don’t Save the Whales, Save the Tuttis!/ Election Night/ Waving a Tony Danza flag/ Shirtless men are weird/ “Don’t lose weight”/ Driveway beers/ Turning 39/ “I’d break your limb and sign your cast”/ Running through the woods/ Manager John ruined the election/ Shout out to Jason and his retail rant/ Someone else sh_...

Nov 08, 20201 hr 10 minSeason 8Ep. 261

260. The Doomsday Draft

Killer Mosquitoes (3:30)/ NASA found Life on Venus? (4:57)/ The Doomsday Draft (7:00)/ Draft rules (7:44)/ attack of the cloned sheep (9:54)/ carnivorous giraffes (11:20)/ heil storm (13:15)/ Leonard Bernstein (14:10)/ announce your diseases (18:00)/ the talking bully virus (19:40)/ Retail Robot Apocalypse and the Time Allen origin story (21:30)/ Chopping Mall (25:00)/ The ghost of your least favorite grade school teacher haunts you (26:00)/ ouija boards (27:24)/ Tommy is retired (28:50)/ The Si...

Sep 30, 202053 minSeason 8Ep. 260

259. You Can Do It

Everyone could use a Rob Schneider on their shoulder/ droopy masks and face diapers (3:15)/ mystery shoppers in retail and the story of Holy Holly (7:22)/ the NEW Miserable Retail Slave (19:00)/ Tommy the floor master (20:22)/ Tommy gets harassed at a bar (22:00)/ if you got a face tattoo, what would it be? (24:00)/ Sitcoms are the new punk rock (26:10)/ Very Special Episodes (28:50)/ Punky Brewster (30:00) The Battle of Unimportant Things (The But) - TGIF theme songs (33:17)/ awkward or nah: wh...

Sep 24, 20201 hr 13 minSeason 8Ep. 259

258. Elvis and the Catdaddy

Fretting about this weird world (2:47)/ Freddy Covid the great boogeyman of our time (4:17)/ bringing back the Lil Jon (6:40)/ reckless Randy and shady pasts (8:00)/ the birth of Benny Punchline (9:30)/ Randy couldn’t be president (10:30)/ The Batman Card Kingpin (11:48)/ Tommy the canceled comedian (19:00)/ Tommy is taking real estate classes (21:00)/ The Ghost of McKinley Road (26:35)/ Big Boss Realtor (35:00)/ an awkward gas station encounter (36:30)/ Taco Bell’s Mt Dew Mysticism (39:30)/ Bre...

Aug 31, 20201 hr 2 minSeason 8Ep. 258

257. Seinfeld's 23 Hours to Kill

The Comedy Show! This time we review Jerry Seinfeld's new Netflix special, 23 Hours to Kill Tommy’s perfect/ Comedian (4:30)/ Seinfeld the show (5:10)/ Seeing Seinfeld live (8:35)/ Comedians in Cars Having Coffee (12:00)/ the charming arrogance of Seinfeld (13:44)/ 23 Hours to Kill (20:00)

May 25, 202051 minSeason 7Ep. 257

256. Call Your Bluff

Hot Boy Summer/ the stairs (2:00)/ “drilling all the bits” (3:14)/ waking up on the wrong side of the bed (4:20)/ my last nerve and the great kerfuffle (5:00)/ UNBELIEVABLE - a Retail worker’s tale (6:10)/ the irony of going back to work (12:30)/ the great social media philosophies of folks you went to high school with aka Microsoft Death (13:20)/ Tommy’s affairs with Mistress Alcohol (19:35)/ Tommy was on Jake Shane’s Shane Train podcast. Poor Jake! (21:53)/ face mask humor (24:05)/ Earring lan...

May 18, 202049 minSeason 7Ep. 256

255. Greg Giraldo's Midlife Vices

THE COMEDY SHOW This time we talk about Greg Giraldo's stand-up special/comedy album "Midlife Vices" The type of comedy that we like (2:50)/ “celebrity golf” by Mike Birbiglia (4:00)/ Ghost in the d-pic (5:56)/ interview with Dennis Miller on The Anthony Cumia Show (8:00)/ Midlife Vices by Greg Giraldo (15:45)/ the Comedy Central roasts (18:30)/ the secret origin of Larry the Cable Guy (19:26)/ the delivery of comedians (21:30)/ making fun of a subject without actually making fun of something re...

May 11, 202041 minSeason 7Ep. 255

254. Starter Jacket Wars

High pitched/ Tommy’s secret life as a dancing thespian (0:35)/ Tommy had his voice dubbed (1:35)/ the King of the Mooners (3:17)/ the 70s were sepia toned (5:00)/ Last Dance with Michael Jordan (7:13)/ Starter Jacket Wars (9:35)/ A conversation with a kid who doesn’t know Michael Jordan (11:05)/ life is weird right now - watching Tony Hawk do a 900 (17:08)/ The art of skateboarding (19:45)/ People are weirder than ever (20:14)/ Tommy is into aerobics now (22:22)/ Tommy designed new merch (23:56...

May 05, 20201 hr 2 minSeason 7Ep. 254

253. Cuddle Brothel

“All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You” song analysis/ how bad are things? (1:25)/ Fletching (3:26)/ the ending to the song (6:00)/ online dating in the time of corona (8:20)/ cuddle brothel (11:14)/ Indiana Jones discussion (12:56)/ the one corner of Walmart (15:00)/ ice cream “parlor” (18:13)/ black market haircuts and Tommy wants a perm (19:16)/ wearing a retail mask (22:13)/ Xena Warrior Princess gives panic attacks and mints take them away (23:13)/ Tommy doesn’t matter (28:00)/ Zoom Meetings a...

Apr 22, 202059 minSeason 7Ep. 253

252. Polterguest

I want to be haunted by a ghost/ “now hear me out” (1:24)/ a mail order ghost company (1:53)/ ghost dads (2:23)/ Tommy won’t use a ouija board because it works (3:50)/ Richie Rich vs Poverty Joe (5:00)/ ghost camouflage and how long do you have to be in a house until you know it’s haunted (6:45)/ how to stir up ghosts, according to Tommy (8:45)/ Randy’s tale of college Calculus (12:34)/ The Corolla (16:15)/ Coronavirus Cop (18:30)/ Tommy cries about stand up (19:30)/ living in an insulated bubbl...

Apr 08, 20201 hr 4 minSeason 7Ep. 252

251. Big Quarantine Fun

Tommy’s peanut butter eating spoon/ Paranormal overload (1:05)/ existential crisis Bigfoot and Squatch’s Lament (2:00)/ demon deer (4:30)/ big Quarantine fun (5:50)/ Ted Talks 2 Much (11:46)/ our corona rules (13:09)/ Social Distance Warrior (14:29)/ the private hell of close talkers (15:00)/ the social distance dance (16:00)/ Essential Retail Slave (18:58)/ Treat Tommy’s facts as the Onion (21:00)/ Following the rules (24:48)/ Retail madness (26:50)/ Chuck Norris Action Jeans (28:18)/ Mortal Ko...

Mar 30, 20201 hr 8 minSeason 7Ep. 251

250. Tomfoolery

Tommy wakes up afraid/ a scary story and a format change/ counting sheep (2:30)/ the grandfather clock tolls and a mind poet (3:50)/ who rings the doorbell (5:05)/ the wet Willy is a knockout punch (7:00)/ teens have video games that they need to watch someone else play (9:30)/ chili (10:50)/ look to the little things (12:00)/ the era of social distancing (16:12)/ Tommy’s Minnesota Adventures (16:45)/ Pookie and getting sad for green beer (19:25)/ being ghosted in the nicest way possible, using ...

Mar 20, 20201 hr 20 minSeason 7Ep. 250

S07E21. The C Word

Full Body Condom/ your hands are deadly weapons (0:34)/ Aquaman’s 60-minute rule (1:48)/ that bubble boy life and bubble boy pick-up lines (3:05)/ what about the Miserable Retail Slaves? (4:41)/ identifying those who don’t wash their hands (5:30)/ The Great Toilet Paper Raid of 2020 - fear and loathing in the TP aisle (6:14)/ the grand lost art of teepeeing (7:12)/ never talk to your parents (8:14)/ Toilet Paper Masks (8:54)/ Things are serious with coronavirus, but let’s laugh (9:22)/ the real ...

Mar 13, 202032 minSeason 7Ep. 21

S07E20. Voyeuristic Sponge

Fake Facebook profiles/ Miserable Retail Short (2:50)/ the dots above my I (5:53)/ a lady walks into a quilt store (6:31)/ grandmas gone wild (7:45)/ the death smell of horse (8:30)/ burying a dead horse (9:25)/ a perfect time for revenge (10:02)/ pour one out for your fallen horsey (10:50)/ stink worries (11:30)/ the story of the worst cut down I’ve ever heard (11:59)/ our own personal Pig Pen (14:30)/ Livestream for the Cure 4/ what is the worst smell you’ve ever dealt with (18:25) (Episode 24...

Feb 24, 202021 minSeason 7Ep. 20

S07E19. Glory Cheese

Emotional support animals/ Tommy’s expiration date (1:10)/ “people food” (2:00)/ constipated with glory (4:30)/ glory cheese (5:00)/ universal humor (7:42)/ the origins of Rand-eh (10:40)/ emotional support poo (12:00)/ Tommy’s went through weiners (14:00)/ emotional support bald eagles (16:50)/ have you all recovered from the Halftime show yet (25:34)/ Shakira riding a bald eagle (26:00)/ Adam Levine’s tattoos (28:00)/ Party lines filter controls (33:50)/ Miserable Internment Camp Show (35:30)/...

Feb 10, 20201 hr 7 minSeason 7Ep. 19

S07E18. Friendship Bracelet

Higher/ This podcast is abstract art (4:00)/ Return of the segment - Is it offensive or NOT? (4:51)/ Stephen King is NOT a pennyWISE man (8:10)/ Tommy becomes cancelled (18:00)/ The 5th season in Michigan - Daniel Radcliffe Season (19:10)/ Stopped by a train (24:00)/ Quality question: Would you go into battle with the tattoos on your body as weapons? (26:00)/ People watching at the Tommy comedy show (27:57)/ Give me a simple ah - wealth affects pronunciation (29:00)/ Why are people allowed to dr...

Jan 27, 20201 hr 1 minSeason 7Ep. 18

S07E17. Can You Spare a Square?

Time is a valuable resource/ Seinfeld love (1:26)/ Toilet paper and time is the same thing (2:12)/ What is love? (4:46)/ Reaching nap age (8:50)/ The Trump 2020 dollar bill (10:49)/ Tommy the wordsmith and another Tommy poem, The Pledge of Allegiance (14:06)/ New online dating terms: Paperclipping (18:02)/ Using NBA Jam terms to describe your life, Tommy was on TV (20:50)/ As Seen on TV (26:55)/ Randy’s Career Fair: Russian Slap Fighting and Xarm (27:32)/ The Walking Oxymoron (29:30)/ Slap Duels...

Jan 21, 202047 minSeason 7Ep. 17

S07E16. For Richard Stan

The Power Stance/ Leather bound journals (1:15)/ Tommy, the nostalgic reader (2:20)/ The United Steaks of America and being a dumb kid (3:30)/ American Pie Myths and what would you call your plane (5:20)/ Learning from Jeopardy (7:15)/ Totally 1998 (9:25)/ Unleashing a dad sigh (11:10)/ Instruction Manual Dads (12:19)/ All for the Love of Shinedown (13:30)/ How are your cigarette withdrawals going 18-20 year olds?(20:00)/ Tommy the substitute teacher (21:00)/ Tommy reads some of his poetry: Bill...

Jan 12, 20201 hr 1 minSeason 7Ep. 16

S07E15. Rebel Flag of Poverty

No rules apply in a Michigan winter/ high school football in small towns (0:55)/ The Michigan Winter Left Town (2:35)/ I’m sick of people who think they can do whatever they want (5:38)/ snow blades on trucks (8:30)/ the Mouth of Michigan (12:05)/ Tommy’s a vampire and his tattoos (13:45)/ Randy’s birthday (15:15)/ “Randy’s Negative Yelp Reviews” (17:00)/ an awkward situation brings humans together (19:50)/ Rebel Flag of Poverty (22:15)/ workplace problems (23:19)/ The eyes of Zuckerberg (27:00)...

Nov 19, 201958 minSeason 7Ep. 15

S07E14. Crisp Waters

Nose as a time machine/ Smells that remind you of grandma (1:00)/ Crisp Waters (3:10)/ The Ultimate Trust Fall Experience (9:40)/ Name Sayings (10:00)/ Tommy dyes his clothes (10:50)/ A real life MySpace Top 8 (13:52)/ Minors buying alcohol becomes a social media event (16:55)/ Stunted (21:20)/ A “hey mister” (22:46)/ A “Wife Guy” (23:40)/ Borat (26:21)/ Tommy and Dave Landau (28:00)/ Bikers and drama (30:02)/ Post Malone (38:41)/ Jared Leto has a cult (44:44)/ The Joker (50:23)/ Obama talks abo...

Nov 11, 20191 hr 4 minSeason 7Ep. 14

S07E13. The Hype of the Summer

Encountering characters in the world/ Tommy’s dumb concession stand volunteer story (0:40)/ The nexus of all the walking trash (3:20)/ personal checks are time machines (5:06)/ a one man conversation (6:24)/ Teen slang and I oop sk sk sk (11:00)/ Randy-spiced (17:24)/ The fable of the grasshopper and the Equinox (17:54)/ Judgmental Jiminy Cricket (19:44)/ A date crasher (22:26)/ two times getting stood up in one week (25:00)/ fixing Tommy’s Jersey joke (30:40)/ Tommy the road comic and Tommy wit...

Oct 23, 201959 minSeason 7Ep. 13

S07E12. Love Letters Into the Abyss

This weird, wacky world/ Tommy’s show with Kevin Farley, meeting Kevin, and talking about Chris Farley (1:15)/ All the OMG Girls ran out of White Claw and do they make pumpkin-spiced White Claw (3:40)/ The world rebooted two weeks ago and now we have White Claw (5:05)/ Kevin Farley’s best friend (7:25)/ Dan Akroyd on Joe Rogan (8:50)/ Dan Akroyd spooned with a ghost (10:21)/ what Tommy believes (12:24)/ Ego in creativity (16:27)/ Learning to throw a boomerang (17:14)/ Gretchen Witmer - fix the d...

Oct 01, 20191 hr 14 minSeason 7Ep. 12

S07E11. Bang Blows

Randy was assaulted and MRS becomes a big, dumb true crime show: My Almost Perfect Murder/ these called newspapers (3:15)/ paperboys? (4:30)/ Paperboy the NES game (5:50)/ “chew on this”(6:28)/ Tommy’s tale of smartness (8:22)/ Tommy’s vicious cycle (12:30)/ Tommy is going to dinner with Kevin Farley (14:20)/ Tommy’s stupid voice is not Randy’s (16:00)/ An argument over a blue t-shirt (17:20)/ an entitled retail encountered and bang blow (20:00)/ Tommy’s faded glory and pre YouTube fame (23:00)/...

Sep 24, 20191 hr 2 minSeason 7Ep. 11
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