I was just wondering, you know, if maybe they'd be up for a
little mischief, you know, being a little naughty, you know, not
to be rude or anything. But I don't think my boys would be down
to bang some old dude. What Okay, I know, maybe the price
is right. I don't know. Oh, chill bowl. This isn't a
sex thing, I don't think. Welcome to Cloud nine, a superstar podcast.
I'm Jason and I'm BB and we're back. Yes, he took a
little little week off trying to figure out our schedule. We're doing two episodes
today. We're doing episode six, Biscuit and season six episode seven, the
trough yep. We're doing two episodes today to catch up. Biscuit aired on
January twenty first, twenty twenty one, written by Justin Shaine's directed by Jay
Hunter. And if you have any thoughts you want to share about the episode
or the show in general, you can always reach out to us via email
at Superstore Podcast at gmail dot com, find us on Facebook or Twitter as
Superstore Pod, and we're happy to include your input in the podcast. Yeah,
we will do that. So Miscuit is a cat. Yeah, it's
the name of the cat that Carol tried to kill on Sandra's wedding day.
I believe, yep, And I guess he's sick. And she's trying to,
like andreise for a medical procedure that it needs to save its life,
and no one's really that invested in it, right, Everyone's super reluctant and
till Carol gives her forty dollars man and Carol. Yeah, So with Carol
being like basically the void of morality for a long time in this show,
she pushes everybody to kind of give It was really good to see Sie just
give her the stink guy, Like, everybody, hold the line, I'm
low on cash, you know, because everything's digital now. That's it,
all the line. Yeah. So then like her cat dies anyway, and
she never got the procedure, and everyone's like really upset because they gave money
to save this cat. You guys are probably wondering what happened to all that
money you all donated? What, No, we would know. That's that
did not even cross our minds. Forgot if I even put in any I
don't remember if I did. I definitely chipped out I did. Yeah,
I mean, how would you feel if you donated to someone's fund for something
that didn't happen. I mean, the thing is that it didn't happen because
the cat died, right, It's not like it didn't happen because it was
a lie. So I wouldn't give what I couldn't give. You know,
if you don't want to give anything, I wouldn't let anybody guilt me into
it. Either. Is just not going to happen for me. It's money
for Sandra and her cat. And at the end of the day, that
money was for Sandra and her cat regardless. So you don't think that she
owed them anything. No, I don't, no refunds, No, it's
charity. You don't expect like an itemized receipt or like figuring, like you
don't expect to see where exactly that money goes when you give it to the
cancer kids or whatever. You know, as long as it gets like you
gave that money to Sandra and her cat and it still went to the same
people, like to me, it just makes I don't know. I wouldn't
care. It's like that sucks because like either her cat lives and I contributed
to that, or her cat dies and at least she has some kind of
money to kind of take care of whatever happens afterwards, because I can't imagine
that, like having a cat funeral is cheap or whatever. I don't know.
Well, what happens is the cat becomes a diamond. Yeah, but
then it gets snatched. Sorry, I don't need it's so humorous. That
part was hilarious to me because it's like, yeah, that's twitty. Because
so that was the other plot that kind of intersects with this one because Dina
is no longer the acting manager because Glenn is back because his quarantine is over.
Yeah, and you know, I was I'd been thinking, like,
man, nothing's happened to Glenn's car for a while, Like that was kind
of a running joke for a long time. It really was. Yeah,
but it gets towed by the security guard who didn't recognize Glenn at all.
No, Ken, that's my car. That's the manager spot. Oh,
I thought it looks familiar anyway, Dina, don't worry about it. They're
towing it right now, they told my car. Yeah, Glenn and Dina
are kind of wrestling over the management roles. I don't think Dina's wrestling as
much. It's just that she's been. She's kind of a natural in that
role and people gravitate towards her because she has more authority than him and she's
not as like dumb. I don't know, it's hard to say, like
what, there's like a quality about Dina that's more professional and more boss like.
Yeah, well, I mean she settled into the role pretty well.
It seems that she's just kind of continuing with what was working. Yeah.
Well, and everyone else was too, because like they approached her for questions
and issues. Yeah, and Glenn is feeling like he's on the outside now
what she is. But honestly, he never fit into that role. And
he even said it himself, like I'm still very stressed. Right, And
they split the role, which was good. But before they did that,
which is like what should have happened. But before they did that, Glenn
talked to Bo, which was we had an episode with Bo in it.
Yeah. Bo's back and he had the coolest mask. I really liked his
mask, the little alien. Yeah. So Glenn talks to Bo about testing
their security system and he sends out those two weird guys first and they start
putting pictures of the Baba dukeup. Yeah, and it was pretty funny.
And I think they made a joke about the Baba Duke looking like a celebrity.
What's going on here? These two morons have been defacing the entire store
by putting up all these pictures of Diane Keaton. But you chose the wrong
woman in the wrong store on the wrong day, wrong for you. For
me, it would be right women, right store. Just go move it.
But that was just a tip of the iceberg because they got their whole
network of troublesome friends involved, like real gangsters. How many people are gonna
go back? I don't rute Planny. Yeah, because Titus reached out to
his old Crystal deither straight, Josh, I don't even mess with that guy.
He must killed the ice cream man in the daytime because the sprinkles.
But I really like the guys that were the initial guys and how they interacted
with Guna and how they were both in love with her. Dude, I'm
like in love with this chick. Oh yeah, that was pretty funny.
They were like bo two point zero and they were ultimately like the ones that
like put a stop to everything. According to Dina, Yeah, I guess
there's like a criminal text thread that they're in charge of, which is weird.
Come back. Not to worry. I've been texting with Titus and he's
handling it on the street. It would literally do anything for me. I
really enjoyed the frenzy that happened when all of the people came to the store
to start taking things. And I really liked the mural that they left behind
of the Saint Louis arch. It was really nice. It was really good.
What was it painted on. Was it like boxes? I think it
was like soda boxes. Yeah, like like twenty four packs of leave it
up. No, like people will take product down and it'll just become it's
temporary. It was really good. You can own a piece of that mural.
Yeah. I also really liked the little vignette of that lady in the
electric scooter with her mask and her dog that was also where a mask,
yeah, like the face shield. Yeah. I'm really happy to see those
little vignettes of customers again because I think that's one of my favorite things about
Superstore. Yeah, and yeah, it was good. I liked it.
Yeah, those scenes really like they do a good job of like breaking up
the story with these things that sometimes they tie in. But sometimes they're just
random things that, yeah, get you a laugh. Well, they ground
the setting. They remind you that you're in a big box store with like
quote unquote people of Walmart. Yeah, like that's that's what's beautiful about it.
Like you you get taken into the it transports you to the grocery store
or whatever, the Walmart or the superstore. Yeah. I just feel like
we don't always give those scenes credit because they don't connect to everything else we're
talking about, but they're definitely part of the overall scene that's being set.
Usually, I like the ones with the kids, Like I remember there was
one where there was a kid you a potty that was on display, or
you know, like a parent swapping kids in the aisle. Accidentally, since
we're talking about it's from the next episode, but the lady like opens the
microwave and cook something that's splattered all in It looks like somebody put Jilli in
there without a lid and it just exploded. And that was that. That
is just Yes, that is what I That is what I miss about going
to the store. Sometimes. You know, it's sad. It's like a
reality of being an employee and in retail that one like really hit me just
because I hate cleaning the microwave. It was a display microwave, right,
wasn't even plugged in? Right? Well, No, the thing is usually
the displays don't work, Like if you want to buy the display, you're
not gonna you're not gonna want the display because it doesn't work, because they'll
cut the cord or they'll do something to make it unusable so people don't steal
it, which was weird. That's why when I was watching them take the
TVs off the wall and like the scene where everybody was like stealing everything,
I was like, that's impossible, There's no way. Yeah, I mean
some of them were in boxes, but yeah, they like pulled the one
off the wall. Yeah, that was really dramatic too. But yeah,
Dina found out that Glenn put a hit out on her, basically right,
and she even helped some people like steal mini fridges and shit. In retrospect,
I probably shouldn't have helped steal that minifridge or the washer dryer combo the
second minifridge, but then they wound up with their co manager arrangement. Excuse
me, I was told I'd find the manager back here. We are the
manager right here? She wore a three piece suit for her first day,
did in her hairs down? Looks good? Yeah, Dina's a good looking
lady. Yeah, And they don't try to showcase that very often because it's
like pull her ponytail back and where those khakis? Yeah, those khakis in
that polo. Yeah. But she took the fine looked lady. And then
also in this episode, we had Garrett trying to deal with all these like
medical returns and people. Well, there was a new return policy that says
that whatever you bought from this giant corporation and its affiliates can be returned at
Cloud nine. And every time he looked up the skew numbers, it was
grapes. I get that that's the code for the dialysis machine and Zephyr system,
but on Cloud Nine's computer it only comes up as grapes. Who cares
what kind of grape? So, like he goes through this whole character arc
of like you're bad at technology, you don't know what you're doing, You're
and he's like on the phone with like twenty different customer service lines, and
that's what like he really takes offense to because like I am the tech guy.
Like, people will know this about me. I have three monitors.
Maybe you need to call on somebody who's a little more tech savvy. What
I am tech savvy? Okay, I have three monitors at home. I
haven't minimized a window in four years right home. Yeah, but I love
that how at the end of the day he just returns grapes. Yeah,
so I feel like I would just like, yeah I would. I would
do that too, and I would just give them store credit. This is
it's a return for three hundred and five bunches of green grapes. Yeah.
Mine says it's for grapes too. This isn't fraud, is it. My
probation doesn't give me a lot of wiggle room. Uh yeah, you know
what, I wouldn't worry about it. That's just a internal tech jargon.
It's like some of the shit they were returning, like it was a dialysis
machine and a propeller, and it's just like, what kind of company is
Zephyr, Like it's so weird. Well, they're like a tech company.
Yeah, but tech companies don't build propellers. That means that they're into like
some other weird shit. Yeah, well it seems like they're like, I
just like amassing other companies. They're creepy because like they had never done like
retail before before they had Cloud nine, but now they're like, yeah,
you can return your stuff here. Yeah, it's kind of like how Amazon
owns Whole Foods and like other things. But it makes no sense. That's
that's the and I think that was the joke. And I bet there are
people who are trying to return their Amazon things at Whole Foods, which is
kind of funny. But it's just like, I don't know, I just
don't like it when when corporations get that big, because it just makes things
so confusing at the base level of business, where like returns. But Garrett
figured it out. Is there anything else that happened in that specific episode,
Oh, not that I think of that I've wanted to talk about. Sandra
was sad about her cat, and then at the end, I think Cheyenne
was going around with another little jar trying to get more donations. Hey guys,
move you heard, but Sandra's cat died yesterday and then her diamond necklace
got stolen, so a few of us are collecting money to help her out.
Yanne I mean this in the nicest way, get the hell away from
me with that. Jar Jonah was just like over it, which is weird
because like, I don't think Cheyenne was like in on everything that happened.
No, she wasn't around. But it's weird that Mateo didn't talk to her
about it. Yeah, well maybe she's just busy with her floor supervisor role.
Yeah, and I guess she's trying to dos somebody. Wasn't she talking
to bo about that? Yeah, it's weird. They have weird friends.
She was talking about how like one of their friends clogged the toilet with a
scarf. What the hell, Bow, You can't keep adding Titus in Frisco
over they ruin all our stuff. Frisco already jacked up our toilet by flushing
a scarf. Well that was a different Frisco. I wonder if we will
deal with their friends when they have their own show. Yeah, that's what
I'm wondering too, Like, is Chyanne gonna be the wet blanket? I
don't know. It kind of seems like she always has to like rein in
bow. Yeah, I don't like that. That's usually the formula. It's
like a hot wife and a dumb husband. Yeah. I hate they're going
to do this show. I hope they can break away from that formula a
bit. I doubt it because it's already there, like they already kind of
set it up. But we'll see. Do you want to talk about the
next episode or you want to uh yeah, so, I mean at the
end of this episode, we learned that Carol is suing the store and that
Bridge is nicely into the next episode. This is to inform you that you
are being served with legal papers in the matter of Kara Malon versus Cloud nine.
Thank you. Oh yeah, because she got electrocuted. I don't remember
that she got electrocuted. They had her like fix the robot. You don't
remember that what robot is? Like? She returned to the store and like,
no one wanted to work with her, so they assigned her to fix
the cleaning robot that goes around. Oh, and she couldn't. She's like
ended up electrocuting herself. Oh and then she was gone again for a while.
Yeah, now she's back kinder than ever. So this episode called the
Trough and it aired on January twenty eighth, twenty twenty one. Written by
Renee Gubei and directed by Kim Nwinn. What do you think about this one?
I thought it was good. I liked it. I liked the last
episode too, with the cat the chaos, Carol gets nobody wants to work
with her still, it seems because even though she's like nicer, she's still
weird. Yeah, well I'm intense. Yeah, I mean she put on
like this whole fake front once before where she was pretending to be all is
in when she's actually plotting her revenge. So how could you trust her?
Yeah? I mean, and she proved that you couldn't at the end of
this episode for sure, right, Like, she's not being anyone's fool.
No, but I like that she suffers no fools, and so Cheyenne respected
that too. So you screw with me, you get fired, Ol.
That is so savage. I love you so much right now. I mean,
I think Cheyenne's got a good head on her shoulders in terms of like
knowing how to gauge people to some extent. Sometimes she's not, but I
don't know. So, like Glenn and Dina are on a skype call with
corporate and the corporate guy's like really like indirect in a way that Dina loves,
and let's be honest, keeping tabs on the employees is the entire point
of the app am. I right, it is one of many features.
Oh, I like you, Warren. You're shady but in a way that
feels legally vetted. And Glenn is like, but then he's also yeah,
and Glenn's like, so you want me to spy on her? And he's
like, those are not our words. So that was really funny, and
Glenn can't do it, and then at the end, Dina doesn't really do
it either. She delegates, right, Well, yeah, I guess she
gets sidetracked with the whole what's the trough? Yeah? No, she has
do the app stuff, and then she has Cheyenne do the Carol stuff,
so she doesn't do it either, which I thought was interesting. But so
we find out when she's talking to Cheyenne that Cheyenne is not being compensated for
her new role. I've been floor supervisor a while now, but I'm still
getting paid the same. Zephyr has the paperwork, they're processing it. It
just takes a little time. I would just be like, don't give me
it. Then I don't want it. I'm not going to do the work
period, Like, I don't understand. I was so upset. I was
so upset because I've been put in that situation before when I worked in like
that kind of environment where they were like telling me to work in a specific
place and that role required a pay raise, and they didn't want to give
me the pay raise, so I just refused to do the work. So
they gave me the pay raise because they needed somebody. They didn't like me
afterwards, but I got paid. And it's hard to put yourself out there
like that, but I think it's worth it. They're not losing anything,
and I think Carol really kind of illustrates that very clearly to Cheyenne. I
hate when corporations like that brainwash their employees into thinking that they're like a family.
That's such trash. I hate it. And it's like they drink the
kool aid, you know, people drink the kool aid for these fucking companies
that would care less if you didn't show up to work one day and you
already ran out of like your allotted amount of time that you could not show
up. They don't make any fucking excuses for anyone, and they would spy
on you to make sure that you don't get properly compensated for getting fucking electrocuted.
But they bond. That's corporate for you. They ride us till we
drop and then immediately sell our ass meat. You are so weird, You're
so weird, Which was cool. Yeah, And so I think that might
be pushing Cheyenne to be a little more critical of the store. Yeah,
maybe the management and what she needs to do to get what's so to her.
That's right, I hope. So I'm really interested to see that because
I think, I don't know, I think she still has a lot to
learn. Like Amy taught her a lot, but Amy only taught her how
to be a corporate cog right where Carol's actually teaching her how to use the
system to benefit from it and understanding that it is a system and it is
a corporation that doesn't really have your personal future in its benefit, like they
don't care. So I really I really liked that, and I thought that
was pretty cool. And then they started complimenting each other and Cheyenne kind of
let her guard down and gave Carol some foundation that she stole, and Carol's
like, well, I recorded that conversation because Cheyenne felt bad about spying on
somebody who she actually agreed with and respected for her views on this whole like
corporate environment and Carol. Carol like probably suspected that something was up. Well,
she knew right away. She said they had to get the floor manager
to watch me or to work with me. She didn't say to watch me,
but and she was really obvious to Like every time Carol almost did something
wrong, she would grab her pen. Huh. So it was like please.
So. Also in this episode was Amy's brother Eric. Yeah, I
was hoping for that. I was really hoping to see them. I think
I've talked about it before, how I was hoping to see more of them.
Yeah, because it was him and Mateo returning a shower head and they
were complaining about their crappy apartment. Yeah, I don't know they moved in
together, did you. I don't think so. I don't know, because
there's a lot of a lot of roommate switching because Marcus was living at Mateo's
old place. Yeah. I thought that was a good situation too. He
was getting cold and eating well, I mean, he seemed to have like
a really good relationship with Potato's family really for real, Like he's probably going
to like their family events and Thanksgiving and stuff, being the tallest white guy
there. But yeah, so we've learned that Jonah is still living at Amy's
old place, which I guess was like a rental. I think she lived
in a house. Yeah, but he says he's paying rent, not to
her. I bet it's to Amy, you think so, I bet it
is. I bet it's that pathetic. I think it would add to a
layer of it that he has to still like couldn't communicate with her even like
w before Joe before Marcus moved in, like him telling Amy, oh,
man, I can't pay rent today. I'm sorry, Like, I bet
it. I hope it's that pathetic, Like in my head, that's how
I thought of it. Yeah, I don't know, because that's the house
that Amy lived with her ex husband, Yeah, where he would film those
weird YouTube videos and now Tale and Eric, right, Eric, they want
to move in there because their apartment sucks, But they don't know that Jonah
has a roommate, right, which is Marcus, and he's like a secret
lover. Wouldn't it make your life easier if we just told people I'm living
there with you. Then they know you're not sad and lonely because you got
me, which is really funny when him and Justine are like bonding over being
secrets. I can't tell you who it is because they want to keep it
a secret. I totally get it. My boyfriend wants to stay anonymous,
and it's driving me crazy because he's actually perfect. Obviously, Marcus has had
to be a secret longer, whereas Justine has a whole nother thing happening with
her, and it's actually not a secret lover, but it's Dina and Garrett
trying to figure out where the secret places. And that's like another storyline.
So this episode has a lot happening in it, and I really like that.
The thing is Justine like only a couple hours had pass, but she
had built this whole relationship. She had talked to her parents, right,
Yeah, she does. She was ready to have the day of the night
of her life or the day of her life at work, it was you
guys the whole time. Yes, it was us, the whole two hours
ago. I can't believe this. He was never real What am I going
to tell my parents? So that was interesting also, interesting is that Garrett
didn't know about that place. Hold up, there's a new secret spot in
the store to chill and nobody told me about it. I'm a fan.
Well, he's not having sex at work, true, But I mean I
feel like most everyone knew about it. Maybe because he's like too close to
Dina and Glenn and Amy and all the like higher ups. Too risky.
Yeah, because once Dina finds out, I feel like it's over, you
know. But yeah, So while Dina and Garrett are trying to figure out,
like what's going on on the employe app? So apparently there's an employee
app where you can have private conversations and corporate has access to that and there's
dick pics on it. Taylor invited Sarah for another quickie. Eddie attached a
dog pick. Oh my man, what is with that camera? Angle right
down the barrel? Come on right? And I'm just thinking, why would
you have private conversations on a corporate app? And why would you send dick
pics? Period? In general? Why in general would you send a dickpic?
Because that's terrible And the way that they described the dick pic was horrifying,
where you said, right down the barrel that was, Yeah, But
they find the secret hideout that's called the Trough, which is disgusting to name
it that, right, but I guess it makes it so that you couldn't
figure out where it was because you can't call it like the back room in
the warehouse or whatever. Yeah, and Garrett mentions how it sounds like the
name of a bar, and it does sound like a dive bar that looked
kind of the way that room looked. Yeah, yeah, pretty much.
So they find it, they like destroy Justine. Yeah, and then they
go in and they're pretty I don't know, I think they're pretty impressed by
it. And then they have a moment where they like almost kiss yep,
but Dina has a boyfriend. I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. I'm with
Brian. I'm very happy with Brian. Oh, I'm happy with Brian too.
I love Brian. So that was pretty spicy, and that just like
makes me really excited for the next episode. These are the storylines I wanted
to see, Yeah, I mean, like, knowing that the show is
ending, like, I am excited to have some sort of closure on their
relationship because they're clearly like they've established that they're both interested and each other still,
So back to Jonah. They bring Kelly into the mix. Poor Kelly,
you guys will be working together. Isn't that funny? The two of
you who used to date and live together. Life is so random. I
don't know what this is, but I'm sorry. Am I dead? Is
that why I keep ending up here? I can't believe she was wearing those
fucking shoes to work. She's super tiny, and I didn't realize how tiny
she was until I saw how big her fucking shoes were. Those are platform
like Borderlineestrooper shoes. They're ridiculous. And she's trying so hard to stay above
the drama. I'm done getting tangled in the crazy view people. So I'm
keeping my head down and getting through this shift because I am saving for a
room life. She just can't because everybody just pushes her into it, and
I don't know. I think Jonah realized a lot of stuff talking to her,
though, Yeah, I don't know if she got anything out of it,
But I don't know. For Kelly, Yeah, that's just kind of
the burden of being a woman in retail. She's living in California, and
what I imagine is an infinity pool while I am stuck here working at her
store, living in her house, dealing with her neighbor's tree that's passed the
property line. You deal with it, Amy, it's your problem. But
it was a good episode. I liked it because it was like a lot
of layers, a lot of things happening. Yeah, they also saw Sandra
role playing as Amy totally dude, dude, she's in California. Now,
that's how people are talking. She had the worst wig and she didn't like
it. Was like, yeah, and we found out a little bit more
about Jerusha and Glenn's relationship. Yeah, I didn't need that. Jerusha winds
up playing my mother a lot, and she doesn't even need the wig because
but I'm excited to see the next episode to see what's gonna happen with Amy's
house and Carol's lawsuit. Yeah, you think Jonah's gonna have his own place
or try to move into Garrett again, or I think he needs to live
alone? I think yeah, I think Marcus was right. So now is
Marcus going to live in that big house? I am so. I think
your Marcus is going to move back in with Mateo's family and they're going to
be super excited and have a party for him. Okay, anything else,
that's it. I'm good. I think we talked about everything that happened,
yep, and we had a lot of fun watching it. Yeah, we
had to catch up. So I hope you guys keep up with us because
this is the last season, right, it is, unless some magic happens.
But I'm not trying to give anyone false hope. Yeah, I'm not
writing any letters, like I love the show and I'll sit and talk about
it, but I'm not going to write to NBC and be like, how
dare you? I wish I could, but I'm just I got other things
on my plate. I had like a little bit of hope that their streaming
service, Peacock would have picked it up because it happened with a couple other
shows. But then they announced that they're working on the spinoff, so I
assume it's not going to happen. Yeah, I doubt it. Yeah.
The next episode is called ground Rules, and it airs on February fourth.
That's interesting. Ground rules for what? Right? Oh my god, I
don't know. I'm excited. It sounds like somebody's starting like an illicit relationship
and they have to establish rules, but we'll see Yeah, and remember you
can send us your thoughts if you want to be part of the conversation.
So only a few more episodes left to do that. Yeah. Otherwise,
you can listen to our other podcast called Spacing Out with BB and Jason.
Yeah. Right now, we're watching Battlestar Galactica, and we are open to
other shows in the science fiction genre and movies, but not Star Wars.
And by the way, if you write to us, sometimes I don't respond
right away because we don't always get to watch the episode right away, and
I don't want to comment on something I haven't seen obviously, right because scheduling's
weird. And Jason likes to live a spoiler free life. I do,
whereas I love spoilers, they don't mess me up. We'll have a heavenly
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