In tenth grade. I was caught between Bo and this guy Darius that he
used to freestyle wrap with what did you do? I told Bo how I
felt, and then he took a poo in the vaccie to Darius his mom's
station wagon. Shyanna has such high hopes and I have truly no idea what
to take from that story. Welcome to Cloud nine, a Superstore podcast.
I'm Jason and I'm BB and we're talking about just one episode of Superstore today.
It's a season six episode ten Depositions, which aired on February twenty fifth,
twenty twenty one, written by John Kasukis and directed by Betsy Thomas.
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us, Mike us, subscribe all that tweet ass Depositions Zisian deposition, starting
with the Carol, what's the deposition? Jason, Well, I didn't know
what this was like A you don't know? I was going to ask that
question, are you looking it up? Act of deposing someone? The deposition
is the process of giving sworn evidence right under oath. That's what the big
deal was, right. Yeah, so they're like collecting evidence before actually being
in court or however they settle it right because Carol got electrocuted by the Cloud
nine robot, yes, and Glenn was freaking out. So Jonah decided he
needed to help him. Lawyers make me anxious. It's nothing to worry about,
you know. Maybe it would help if we practiced a little bit.
Yeah, because Glenn has notoriously been very bad at these kind of public performances.
Yeah, he's not good under pressure in general. Nope, And so
Jonah was giving him a little bit of a test run and he admits to
scratching Jonah's car in the parking lot. Did you find out that accidentally hit
your car in a parking lot? Because it was just a you think you're
so perfect, you know, well I used to have a body like that
once. Check out your future your face like, oh my god, he
really blew up there, Yeah he really did. I was really shook.
And then before that, though, they were having weird like Dina and Glenn
were bringing it up in the morning announcements or whatever, and they were trying
to figure out what that meant for Carol because she's suing the company. And
they were talking about this guy who got his butt sliced off. Oh I
heard about a guy who got his butt sliced off when a shelf fell whoop
ten million. And then they were talking about what kind of rich person she
would be. The whole time she was just sitting there. Yeah. No,
she's the kind of person whould blow it all on exotic animals. Then
I broke in the bathroom of a red Robin. Carol, you can probably
just go start your shift now. No, I'm good. Is this what
today is going to be? Like? Everyone talking about me? God,
I'm gonna hate this, Like I think this is like her dream basically.
Oh yeah, she had a lot of fun this episode. Yeah. What
kind of rich person do you think Carol would be? I don't know what
was she going to name her boat? What ride? I reel like she's
gonna be like an inappropriate rich woman who hires help just to abuse them a
little bit. Oh yeah, of course. Yeah. So yeah, that
was that was pretty funny. I really enjoyed that. So Jonah is trying
to help Glenn prepare him for this meeting, but then when Jonah gets in
there. He like, really, he falls for all the tricks he was
warning Glenn about. Yeah, what's what it is? He steps in it
or he puts his foot in his mouth. So it's your understanding that he
generally avoided the robots. Oh, absolutely, so that would include performing the
required maintenance and software updates. Then he kind of inadvertly begins painting Glenn as
a very incompetent person. Shouldn't there have been like a technician or something involved.
I mean, I feel like it's unfair to expect somebody like Glenn's somebody
like Glenn. Is there a competence issue? Right? He's very technophobic or
whatever he said, technophobe and he didn't realize that Glenn's job description was to
do maintenance on the machine, and he just really stepped in it. And
it looks like and Cloud Nine's lawyers were like, well, we don't care
if Glenn gets sued. This lawsuit is against the Cloud nine corporation. But
it sounds like you're saying that mister Sturgis, as an individual, is responsible
for the injury. It's not your turn to ask questions, thank you,
but I like that question, Like, yeah, pivot to him like blame
his ass and then we're not responsible at all. But was that how it
really happened, Like, yeah, a corporation would be like, yeah,
it was not our fault. It was definitely that guy was drunk. That
guy is like irresponsible, it's him, not us. There might be a
little bit of liability that the store is involved in, but not like if
it was his fault, it was his fault, even though there are people
that are above him and should be overseeing him and making sure that he's doing
his job. Yeah, but at the end of the day, like they
don't care, like because they can't make everybody do their job exactly right,
they're gonna let whoever's gonna be falling for it go, Like yeah, I've
seen them do worse, like where people who get Workmen's comp will get fired
for getting hurt. So I don't put that below. But for me,
I'm just confused why Carol's lawyer would pursue that line of questioning when the big
payday would be to go after Cloud nine and not Glenn, Like hello,
like Glenn barely like has a car, you know, like he has this
is the only his income is from Cloud nine, Like he can't afford to
get Sudi as a two year old, and his health is like so bad.
How much money do you think you're gonna get out of him? Really,
like I would be like, Okay, that's enough. I don't need
a grill anybody. I don't really care to even pivot towards Glenn, cause
I mean, you're right, like it's Cloud nine who hired an incompetent person,
or there should have been process and procedure to prevent something like that from
happening. But then as the episode goes on, everybody's like trying to up
Glenn because Jonah tells everyone he screwed the pooch so to speak. Glenn can
handle phone calls, yeah, keep things in binders, Oh, he wears
clothes. Honestly, when you add it up, you can do like probably
hundreds of things. I really liked where this went. But in the end,
like Glenn actually did learn how to do all this and was competent and
did everything he was supposed to. I did it, sorry, well not
at first, but I watched hours of online videos and eventually I figured it
out. We don't get to see that Glenn a lot, but like it
has to be there, like if he's been the manager this long, he
has to be capable of, you know, doing all the roles that aren't
that interesting to look at, like where orders supplies and what all that stuff.
You know, like he has to be somewhat good at his job,
even if we were always looking at how ridiculous he is. Yes, person,
Yes, I think we saw this also in the episode where Amy ordered
too many ice creams or something like that. Yeah, and she didn't realize
how Glenn worked the system and he knew like the drivers, and he kind
of had this repertoire with everybody who works with him that helps him run and
manage the store in a way that's efficient. You've been doing this for a
long time, and I should have respected that. And this is another example
of him like working undercover, like not really showing everybody, ooh, look
at me, I'm like doing my maintenance or because it's none of your business.
This is my job. I'm the floor supervisor doing my own thing.
You go do your thing on stocking little shelves over their jonah, you know,
like stay out of my business. You don't need to know anything.
And thankfully he tracked that like in his little duck calendar, and that was
that was kind of a saving grace and testament to his organizational level, which
is pretty important I think to show. And I really liked how he did
all the things to keep it maintained and he still got shocked by that stupid
robot. Yeah, so is a takeaway from that that there's just an issue
with the robot that's defective? Yeah? And Cloud nine is that what is
that company that they're owned by, holes Zerocks or what is it? Yeah?
So it's a Zephyra machine. So yeah, they owe that woman compensation
for sure, and I would love to see them kind of figure that out
somehow. Do you want to talk about Mattel or do you want to talk
about Garrett Dina? Let's go to Mateo because that ties in a bit with
Eugene and the deposition. Yeah, so I wish we knew more about what
was going on in Mateo's world with his legal status. Yeah. I think
we've mentioned that a lot specifically me. Well, they've been just kind of
like not even mentioning it at all. But when they brought it into the
episode, I'm like, Oh, we're finally going to learn more, and
I'm hoping we get some sense of closure closure by the end of the season.
Oh, we'll have to this is the last season. Yeah. But
so he's getting his ankle monitor off and they've called Eugene in for the deposition.
And if we don't remember, because it's been a long time since they
even talked about this guy, he's the one who took over Mateo's eyeball job
with that weird eyeball guy who was using him so weirdly. Yes, And
so he comes in to talk to Mateo about like how he's going to be
very transparent through the episode, about how they switched rolls, and Matteo's freaking
the fuck out because he's like, I got plans for my hot ankles,
don't worry. I'm just going to go in there and explain our situation.
How on paper, you know you still work in the vision center and I'm
Glenn's assistant. You you can't arrangement isn't exactly above board. And so he
freaks out and he locks him in his office or his broom closet. Really
yeah, and when he blocked when he uses like a little doorstopper and add
the magic of acting to make him believe that he's really stuck in there,
and Sandra gets roped in and that was a fun little interaction. I thought,
Yeah, it's kind of funny the way Eugene introduced himself. It was
kind of like he's trying to remind the audience of like, hey, this
is who I am. You can't tell him wearing a mask. Yeah,
you haven't seen me in a long time. Yeah, that was really cool.
And Matao, it's Eugene, this is what I look like in a
mask. Yeah. And then Mateo goes into the deposition answering questions in the
third person, basically so that he doesn't have to implicate himself his line because
he's technically not Eugene, but he's answering for Eugene. Eugena Mellley is glencissistant.
Yes, oh you can just say I you gena Melee just thinks a
little differently. And I hope that doesn't come back to bite him in the
ass. I hope that's enough. Yeah. I mean they were talking in
the beginning of the episode, like walk that line of what they call it
perjury. Yeah, yeah, he didn't want You don't want to perjure yourself
for sure, well, yeah, that seems pretty reckless. I can see
why though, like, especially if he's been but and the thing is,
just because your ankle monitor is off does not mean that you're in the clear.
The courts know where you work, they know where you live, they
know where you've been going. So like, it's hard, especially in the
United States for people who don't have aren't legalized in the system. It's it's
like sometimes you wait like five to ten years to get your documentation in order,
and sometimes they'll send you back to your home country in order for it
to go through properly or whatever. I've seen people that are like days away
from getting it and then their appointment gets rescheduled for like another two years.
So it's really shitty. It's a shitty system. And I just hope that
they're I want him to have a happy ending quickly. Otherwise he should just
get married. Just marry, just get get married. You'll have an episode
with America Ferrera and it'll be good. I mean that could be where they're
going, because they did show what's her brother's name, I don't know.
They did show his boyfriend Eric, yeah, Eric, and kind of show
that they're like moving in together into a house, so like could be setting
that up. But yeah, they're basically just not going to spend the resources
to be tracking him with the ankle monitor. Yeah, which, by the
way, the person who is wearing the ankle monitor is actually paying for it.
You get to rent it. Yeah, that's the court systems. Yeah,
anything else on those MATEO, Sandra Eugene. I like that Sandra was
with him one. Yeah, someone's getting their ankle monitor off today. Oh
my god, it's huge, I know, right, that was so good
to see them and how she even like was like, you're not a boot
person because in the tale is like that was the first person that I saw
him share that with, right, And she suggested Caprice And he's like,
I'd rather die, and I get yourself some Capri pants too, so you
can show off your ankle. I'd rather go back to jail. That was
really good. Now do you want to move on to the love triangle,
the relationship we're most invested in. Yes, Dina is watching Garrett do returns
with women customers. She starts getting pissed off territoriale. What do you think's
going on between Garrett and that woman? I don't know it looks like he's
helping some girl with a dead tree. Yeah, but it seemed like she
was laughing. If anything, he should be laughing at her for that ridiculous
return. Oh my god, are you jealous? And it's weird. It's
weird to see her jealous. She wants to make plans with him to go
to Laser Tag, and he's like, let's go to that mediterranean food place
next door. Yeah, so that's what first they set that up. Yeah,
and it's so like, very clearly like a date. Listen, we
should go later tonight. Yeah, and as that mediterranean place next door,
we could feel love first. But he was like he was trying to understand
the boundary. I'm just trying to be good about the boundaries that you and
Brian set up. Oh no, it's not like a date as long as
whatever we're doing ends in sex. It's like the Laser Tag is just extended
four play right, four place, surrounded by teenagers and cardboard aliens. Don't
I don't agree. If you're feeding somebody and fucking them, that's like a
different type of relationship that you probably need to include your other partner with.
We are adults in a complex relationship where I am the hinge between a romantic
primary and a sexual secondary. In my opinion, I feel like eating food
with somebody and going to a laser tag experience is leaning more towards romance instead
of sexual type relationship. Yeah, or at least platonic friend things that you
can do without sex, you know. So it's just it's really mixed signals,
and it's really it's messy. It's really messy for Dina, and it's
so messy that she starts talking to Cheyenne about it, and Cheyenne calls her
out. She's like, you like him, you like like him, and
she gets super defensive, but she still like hates watching Garrett interact with any
women, to the point where she sends out a company wide email about stay
away from my man. Due to recent complaints, employees at Customer Service are
here by off limits in regards to flirting and or dating. Which concept are
you fuzzy on? And yeah, what do you think about the advice that
Cheyenne gave him? Gave her Dina? What was the advice she said that,
like when Bo had that same situation with another guy, when I'm pooped
in that guy's car, and if Garrett doesn't want to poop in somebody's car,
then maybe he's not worth all this effort. You know, she should
communicate her feelings to see if they're reciprocal and reciprocated sorry and so correctly.
But anyway, if they're mutual, like if he's down to like have a
real relationship, then she can figure out what to do with Brian or whatever.
But when she brings it up, it totally doesn't go the way she
wanted. But I don't think she was clear and what she wanted. Our
situation has gotten a little complicated. Okay, well i'll make it less complicated.
I'm done. What Look, I knew this thing was going to be
fun and weird, but I was really hoping that fun would win. Turns
out it's a blowout for weird. What do you think? What do you
like? Well, so Garrett got into this knowing he had complicated feelings,
and he's like, you know, whatever, No, I don't try having
Yeah. Well I think he just he did it as like a way to
dare himself, just to put himself into a situation where he's not going to
catch feelings. Yeah, whereas Dina herself convinced that this is going to be
a very clear cut, complicated, but not messy. I feel like she's
one of the people that like craves complications because she thinks she's better than them,
like she can over come them, she can rise above all of the
mess and clean it up and keep it very surgical. Yes, she can
manage all these moving parts, and yeah, when she clearly could it in
this situation. Yeah, I like that she was admitting having feeling But did
she admit to have feelings to Garrett. No, exactly. To me,
that's where it all falls apart. If she would have started with that,
I think he would have had a different conversation with her, and that's where
the drama comes in and the conflict. Well yeah, I mean I see
this as something that's going to go on till the final episode. They're just
going to keep missing each other, and I kind of love it. I'm
very excited. I hope that Glenn not Glenn, sorry, I hope that
Garrett moves on quickly because he will because he's like one of those guys that
would fuck the pain away, and that Dina like tries to fix things with
Brian so that he's around more or she like self sabotages in some way in
different like situations. I can see her like trying to be more sexy too
with her little suits. I do like her in those suits though. Yeah,
it's a good change. I hated those khakis in that polo, but
yeah, good times. I liked it. I like the conflict. I
liked how they dealt with it, and I like I did like that she
was withholding with Garrett in a way that he's been with her in the past.
So that was very good. Right. I'm interested that there's a laser
Tag place that's the wheelchair accessible. Yeah, I know, I don't I've
never been laser tag, so I don't know. I just thought there was
always a wheelchair accessible in my mind. I mean, maybe they are because
the kind of like stairs and stuff. Oh really, yeah, they'll be
like an upper level and a lower level. Oh, you're usually not supposed
to run like you can walk fast, and it's a lot of like ducking
and hiding, and yeah, if you have a motorized wheelchair, it'd be
fun if you could get up, like if there was ramps, like in
that video game level of Mario Kart where you're doing the battle and there's all
those ramps to get up and down. That would be cool with Laser Tag.
Probably. I've never played Laser Tag though, so I don't know.
I have no reference. Is that it or did we do a show?
Are we going to talk about next episodes and things to come? We did
a show? This kind of feels short just because we did one episode on
episode I love it. Yeah, I have one piece of news. It's
kind of interesting. The Superstore is getting a Spanish language adaptation. What that
makes me think of Ugly Betty but backwards? And there's not a lot of
information about like the hoew they're going to adapt the stories or anything like that.
But said they ordered a season of forty eight one hour episodes. Yeah.
Girl. In Spanish, they don't fuck around with seasons. They just
give you a show that's that's a whole solid year. Yes, it's beautiful.
I love it. That's how Tellentovela's work. So it's like a novela
but funny. I'm sure it's going to have humor. I wonder if they're
going to call it Walmart. You don't think so that's the Spanish translation of
Walmart. Yeah, I thought that was interesting, interesting to check out.
Can we watch it? Yeah, hell you. I'd be curious to see
how they like adapt, how closely they adapt, like the characters and any
of the storylines. Yeah, you know what, it's probably going to be
a little different because, uh, supermarkets in Mexico are not as prevalent as
they are in the United States. It's more market based and grocery based.
But in the bigger cities you'll see supermarkets. There have been places in Mexico
where Walmart was driven out by the locals because they know what it is.
They're like, fuck that, we don't want our small businesses to suffer at
the hands of this giant corporation. And it was really cool to see that,
like back in like the early two thousands when that was happening, but
more and more there's like different versions of it. There's a lot of like
department stores too, that are pretty popular in Mexico. But it will be
interesting to see that. I feel like a lot of the characters are going
to be familiar to the audience, though they might not be they might not
be as diverse. I hate to say that, but it's kind of Spanish
television isn't known for its broad diversity, you know what I mean. Yeah,
so it would be nice to see people in wheelchairs or like people with
different body types that aren't a joke because of their bodies. Like Sandra is
a bigger woman, but she's not funny because she's big. She's funny because
she's sand gra Yeah, so I hope they do that. It might be
like The Office, you know, like how they'll take the characters, but
they'll like just change the humor. Yeah, there's a bunch of adaptations of
the Office. There's like a German one's like six different ones. Wow.
Yeah, everything else. Just the next episode is called Deep Cleaning. Oh
it's not fun, and that'll air on March four, twenty twenty one.
Wow. So we'll see you then, y'all. We will see you then.
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