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Zoom. Dating is basically interviewing somebody
while judging their wal art And I guess

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you got to keep your hands in
frame right, otherwise the other person is

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going to think you're touching yourself.
What No, I usually I keep them.

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Are people thinking that? Oh?
Absolutely? Welcome to Cloud nine,

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a Superstar podcast. I'm Jason and
I'm BB and we're back talking about two

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more episodes of Superstar. We're talking
about episode eight of season six, which

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is called ground Rules, and it
aired on February fourth, twenty twenty one.

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Written by Jen Vierk and directed by
Victor Nelly Junior. Yes, and

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And we were happy to talk about this

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show, which is what we're going
to do right now. Yes, ground

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Rules. Ground Rules is Tony's first
day work. Tony Bean, Sandra's adopted

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son. Yes, who calls her
mom a lot? Yeah, like a

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lot. I'm mean about roast beef
sandwich. Mom. Come on, if

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he doesn't need every forty five minutes, he turned into a real grumposaurus.

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I like their relationship it's very genuine, and that was like something that happened

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immediately, Like when she first adopted
him, they walked down the store together.

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He was like, Mom, stop
it. Yeah, I like it.

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It's cute, it's funny. Yeah, it's like preposterous like that would

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I don't think you should have that
kind of expectation of like a foster child.

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No, but Sandra's like a mama
bear. Yeah. And Glenn is

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giving them a lot of attention because
he's very excited to have also his former

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adopted son. Yeah, like he
feels like he's a big part of this

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too. Well, my son a
Cloud nine employee. We're a dynasty like

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Billy Ray and Miley, and he
was my foster child. It's like God's

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been engraving this name tag for you
since the day you were born. Did

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you just touch my nipper? Oh, I'm sorry. And then they picked

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Jonah to be his trainer, and
they have to put things away in the

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refrigerated aisle and the freezer aisle,
and for me personally, I just think

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it's weird that they're not putting things
or stalking things from the other side of

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the freezer wall. Yeah, I
feel like they just like didn't have that

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part of the set. So they're
just in the front, but that part

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of the set shouldn't even look that
fancy or built out like they had the

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front end, So like it has
to have a back. There has to

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be a back to that. There
might not be room to shoot back there.

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Oh, but there's really not a
lot of rooms sometimes in those areas,

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depending on what a big store should
have, usually a lot of them.

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They have to have room for Jonah
to hit him in the face.

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Yeah, there had to be some
conflict and yeah, so Tony's not really

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serious about the job either. No, he's just a teenage Yeah. It

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was so funny when he opened that
box and all the pizzas wellouse. This

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episode was funny. I liked it. There was like a lot of really

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funny scenes that are just like physical
comedy. Yeah, that was one of

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the gags. And I think in
this episode there was also one of those

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cutaway scenes where the customers are involved
and one of the customers put jewelry in

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their mask yep, and that was
just fucking hilarious because people would One of

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the cutaways was just Tony like on
the couch watching was like a whale or

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something in a video. Yeah,
like Nature documentary. Every time it did

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something, he was like shocked.
Yeah, and it's nice to see like

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somebody doing that because I think they've
shown other employees kind of chilling out on

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in that area before. Yeah,
so it was nice to kind of see

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that part of the scenes. But
he went there after Jonah hit him in

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the face. Yep. So Jonah
gets all flustered because what's her name in

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the show, Nia? Nia?
Nia comes over and is like, we

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should talk about that garbage thing or
I don't know, they talk politics,

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and this teenager is like, oh, she wants it. Whoa. Tony

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looks like you got the cool teacher. Yeah, yeah, that's me.

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All right, I'm gonna go before
you bust out the guitar. I'll see

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what lunch, all right, I'll
see you, dude. She wants your

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nuts. Sorry, she's totally into
you. And Jonah starts getting in his

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head about it, and then he
starts getting excited about like seeing Nia again.

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And one of the things that Garrett
tells him I think is really funny

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where he's like there's women outside of
this store, you know, like Nia's

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just really cool, you know,
it's the first time I've actually been kind

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of excited about somebody since Amy.
But you do know that there are women

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outside of the store, right,
You shouldn't use your workplace as your personal

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tender. You know. That was
so good and I feel like I've been

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on that a lot. Yeah.
I mean it's funny like within the show,

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but it's also almost like a meta
joke that shows like this kind of

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suffer from, like the only people
that the characters meet are like at the

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workplace, because we don't spend a
lot of time out of the store with

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them. Mmmmm yeah. So it's
pretty good. So that's like a whole

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thing. So Garrett's the one telling
him that, and he's like wrapped up

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with Dina. And that's why this
is called ground rules. Yes, because

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the last episode, Garrett and Dina
had a moment in the what they call

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it the back room, the back
steakhouse, the trough, the trough.

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It was something weird. They had
a moment and Dina like obviously was aware

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of it, and she addressed it
directly, and she brought it up to

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Garrett and he's like, yeah,
it's it was just a one time thing.

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It doesn't mean anything, and she's
like, cool, I'm gonna go

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tell my boyfriend. So I'm just
gonna call Brian and tell him everything.

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What wait, no, you said
case closed. The case is closed.

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He can't reopen the case. And
he was shocked that he did that,

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that she would do that, which
I don't know, like, would you

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expect somebody to share that if it
was like supposed to be that way,

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or would you expect them to keep
it quiet? I mean, I think

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it's important that like they literally didn't
do anything. It was like there was

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clearly a moment, just tension.
Yeah, they managed not to act on

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it. Yeah, But like so
she shares this with her partner and like

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comes back with a different attitude.
I guess, like, so, what's

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his name? Well, he walks
in and Garrett's trying to like hide,

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yeah, because he comes in and
it looks kind of intimidating. Well,

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you can't tell because of the fucking
mask, right. The fact that he

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even knew who he was with a
mask on was shocking to be It's fucking

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Brian, I knew it was something
basic. So comes in and makes a

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beeline to the service center, the
customer service area, where Garrett works,

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and he's trying to keep the security
guard there to like just be present,

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right, because he's like, I
need a buffer because this is going to

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be awkward. And it kind of
is, but not in the way Garrett

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expects because as soon as Brian shows
up, Dina pulls in and they both

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break the news that they want Garrett
to be their side piece and decided we're

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going to have an open relationship.
What you're going to be our side piece?

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Yeah, well, you know,
technically I think he'd just be your

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side piece. Well, what's my
side piece? Is your side piece?

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Shut? And I think that is
the most demeaning way to ask somebody to

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join a relationship that's like open.
Yeah, to call you a fucking side

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piece, like you're a fucking side
of French fries or like, I don't

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know, like a chicken meal.
It just felt weird. I was like,

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this is an appropriate and he was
open to it. He didn't say

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no outright, He heard them out, which I thought was also interesting.

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Yeah, I mean he might have
just felt like he was stuck in this

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situation. Fair they did corner him. You really thought this out? Yeah?

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Sure, he And there's a lot
of things for us to go over

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with you, but I want to
make sure it's clear I save the girlfriend

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stuff for this guy. Get no
point, did they really take what he

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wanted into consideration. There was like, hey, this is what we should

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do and it'll be great for you
and us. Yeah, they were just

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say like, let us use you
because I'm out of town a lot,

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and she obviously has sexual urges and
needs that you can satisfy because you already

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know this area. That's like it
was very cut and dry, and the

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moment he was just like not into
it was when they threw the teddy bear

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on him. Really important to establish
sexual boundaries, So we will stick a

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thumbs up sticker everywhere you're allowed to
touch Dina. Now, the thumbs up

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represents a general green light, but
in some cases it's so little more literal.

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I think that that created a moment
of just like pure objectification of both

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parties of Dina and Garrett. And
that was where he had to draw the

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line where it's like, I don't
like this, that's not organic for him.

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Yeah. Only when it comes back
to what Jonah kind of points out

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to him that if he didn't have
any emotions for Dina, then he would

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just be into this and that's the
worst that he comes back because of that

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comment, because of his denial of
emotions. Emotions. Yeah, it's like

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toxic masculinity at its peak with Garrett, which is really unfortunate because it would

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have been interesting to say, what
would happen if he said, yeah,

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you know what, You're right,
I think I do have a lot of

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unresolved emotional issues with her and I'd
love to address them. Wouldn't that be

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an interesting episode? Well, it
is interesting because in this episode in particular,

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like right at the top, like
Garrett is just like brutally honest with

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Jonah about like how he's feeling,
like what happened with Dina, Like he's

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just laying it out there, Bean
and I almost kissed yesterday. What I

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mean, nothing happened. There was
no lip collision, but there was definitely

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a swerve to miss situation. Like
we've started seeing this with Gary. I

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think it was the start of the
season where he just like plainly tells Jonah

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like, hey, like you've been
a good friend. I'm glad you're in

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my life. Mm hmm. You
kind of seen this other side of him.

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But then he backslides yeah, I
feel like they just need a little

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more drama to get to the end
of the show. They can do that

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without having to erase the progress of
a character, though in my opinion,

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I don't know. I've always had
opinions about how the writing could always be

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better. Yeah, but I don't
know, Like one step backwards doesn't erase

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several steps forward. But it would
have been so good if it was like

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an actual, like emotional three way
relationship, like if it was like a

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fully open relationship, because it can't
be an open relationship when any of the

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parties are closed my like lying and
he's he's doing that, and that's just

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like, I don't know, it's
doing a disservice to a lot of the

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polyamorous relationships that do exist, in
my opinion, because they could show like

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a genuine polyamorous relationship, but now
it's just a fucking plot device instead used

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to erase a man's emotions, which
sucks and it shouldn't be that way,

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But what do I know? What
else happens in this episode Jason Well Seyenne

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is in full for supervisor mode,
giving out shift assignments, and she's turned

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it into quite the spectacle I'm going
to play both of my reverses and send

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it back to side. Oh yeah, that's cooled. Side. You're on

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bathroom duty unless you want to use
your skipstone, but just remember you won't

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get another one until next month.
Yeah. They play games like if you

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don't want to clean the toilets,
you have a little passing stone or something

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like that. Yeah. Sings like
there's a whole lot of gimmicks and it's

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like a complicated card game almost of
who's doing what. Yeah, and it

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seems to be a lot of fun
for everyone. Yeah, everyone's involved in

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participating, and they're kind of it
looks like they're even excited to get their

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work assignments because it's part of their
like routine. And in the morning,

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like that can be really shitty because
you're still, like, you know,

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coping with the fact that you have
to show up to a shitty job.

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So as this is happening, Mateo
notices it and he kind of pops in

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with some helpful advice about not letting
Elias go into the greeting card section because

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he's like in bed. Hey,
when you were floor supervisor, did Alias

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always ask to work in greeting cards? Yeah? I don't let him.

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He reads all the cards out loud
and adds words in bed. It literally

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never works. Okay, thanks,
any other pro tips? Let me know?

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Oh really well, happy to help. And that kind of goes straight

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to Mateo's head because he has that, you know, superiority complex. Yeah,

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she does ask him for advice,
and then he lays everything on her.

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It gives her too much advice.
He doesn't just give advice he can.

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I was like on constructive criticism.
He starts telling her her clothes or

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shitty, she shouldn't use stickers,
and her eye makeup is terrible, like

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don't wear glitter, and it's just
basically saying stop being chyenne. Yeah,

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he's being like critical of her the
personality that she's bringing to the job,

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which is just herself. I loved
when she stood up for herself and said,

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like I got picked to do this
job, whereas you just started calling

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yourself the floor manager. And I
don't believe that I'm doing it in a

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way that's wrong or like unsuccessful.
I actually think I'm doing a really good

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job. Yeah. The games and
stuff are dorky, but they help people

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forget that their job sucks for a
second. I'm just saying, you might

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want to listen to the cold standard
floor supervisor. You weren't even given the

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job. You just started saying that
you had it. At least I was

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like chosen to do this. I
really loved that she kind of held her

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own and was like standing her ground. Yeah she did, and it was

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good to see that. It leads
to this beef between them that goes into

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the next episode. I did find
it interesting. I was never really clear

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on Mateo, like as the floor
supervisor, Like how much did he actually

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have the job besides putting a picture
of himself on the wall, Like we

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never actually saw him doing it.
He did, remember when he would assign

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everybody to the freezer. You don't
remember when he's like, oh, you

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pissed me off, you go back
and work the freezer. I don't think

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that's when he was the supervisor.
I think like Amy or someone like handed

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in the clipboard, like take care
of this, I gotta do something else.

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So he was doing it, and
he like he mentioned, like do

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this in the way that an evil
queen would command. And that's the energy

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he brought to that role. What
else we got? So this episode,

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there was this thing with the Nia
and Jonah, Jonah thinking that she was

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into him because of Tony telling him
that a teen tells you that somebody's into

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you, so you just go ham
a teen who not that long ago,

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was asking Garrett a quote buttload of
questions about love and sex. Mm hmm.

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But so Jonah asks Nia about it, and Neo straight up's like,

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I'm a lesbian, not even like
letting him explain anything or like getting any

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more information in there, and then
she casually implies that he's a lot older

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than her too. No, no, no, no, you were just

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being friendly in it, And I'm
like, this had her enormative bowl in

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a lesbian china shop. Yeah kind
of, But it's not really your fault.

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Your generation is a little more rigid
about gender and sexuality. Yeah,

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which is funny because like they I
think Eve and Garrett's like, yeah,

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you're ten years older than her,
which is disgusting to be honest. If

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she's like twenty and he's thirty,
that's a little iffy, that's a little

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sus bro. It's probably more like
twenty five thirty five. Okay, that's

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still yeah. I don't know.
The age gap can make a difference.

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But if so, with all that, he's no longer allowed to work with

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minors, but he's gonna have Chinese
with Garrett with a family, so that's

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nice. Yep, And pretty sure
Glenn has never had Chinese food before.

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Well, he had never had Mexican
food before. Well, there there is

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this Chinese place that I've been wanting
to try. Absolutely they have plain white

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rice though, right they do.
They absolutely fucking Glenn Man. But I

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don't know. I still think Jonah
really needs to not date people in the

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workplace because in the time that we've
seen these only were like dated people that

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work with him. Yeah, Amy
and Kelly, And there's that magazine interviewer

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or something. Yeah, that late
the lady from the Scrubs University, Glenn's

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daughter that he met at the store
one time. Oh my god, I've

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got about her. I'm mister RuSHA. I wish they would bring her back

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for an episode before it's all over. Yeah, so do you want to

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talk about the next episode. Let's
move to the next episode, which is

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season six, episode nine, Conspiracy. This aired February eleventh, twenty twenty

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one, directed by James Renfro and
written by Colton Dunn, who is Garrett.

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Oh okay, so how does it
open? I forgot were they talking?

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Was it? It opens with Mateo
and Cheyenne. Yeah, bah,

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back and forth, still on their
beef, talking about Bob is a party

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bus husband or something like that.
The insults were great person our history.

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I went in rush Chyan with protection. I may be a teen mom,

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but at least I don't look like
someone put a Pixar character into a microwave.

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Well, you'd be DreamWorks bitch.
And then that just like that ended

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it. Oh, it was so
bad. They were so mean, they

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cut so deep, and everybody was
really into it. It was like one

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of those like wrap battles or whatever, you know that meme with that kid

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that's like, oh like that.
And we kind of come to realize that

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they're liking the attention of their fight
more than they're really upset with each other.

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It's not as fun without anyone watching, right. I feel like we

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could get their attention back if we
just up our game a little. Yeah.

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Yeah, they're still kind of bitchy
towards each other, but then they

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start not getting as much attention because
said finally breaks up with his horrible girlfriend

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and everybody gives him like so much
attention and support that it bugs them.

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Okay, let's get really real about
Cyan. Well it happened. Then it

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dumped me. Oh no, really, damn it. I'm so sorry.

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You guys were just at the cheesecake
factory like three weeks ago. You look

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so happy, guys getting really real
about which was honestly, like pretty sweet

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to see, like characters that like
don't really get along that much or just

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all there for SAYI. Yeah,
because I remember when Sayid and Justine just

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had they also have had their beef, so you didn't see it coming at

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all. No, I always expected
her to kill me, not to break

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up with me. Well, if
you ever need a quick pick me up

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or whatever, you have my number. Yes, you've been very clear.

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Thanks. But it was nice to
see them like being supportive and like letting

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something that is obviously more important than
two petty arguments like on the side,

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Like, I think that they were
right in the way that they spent their

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attention. Yeah, for sure.
But then with that, Mateo and Cheyenne

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start to get closer, even though
they're still making digs at each other,

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they start to work together and really
collaborate again. Which I think reignites the

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real friendship. Yeah, and it's
kind of funny the way they're still fighting

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but going to do things together because
no one else is interested in right,

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they're bullshit right, And eventually Matteo
does apologize, which is nice because he

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does oh chyan apology. He refused
to at first, like he and he

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like was like, when are you
going to apologize to me? Because I'm

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leaving soon? My boyfriend's picking me
up, So TikTok, are you being

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serious you expect me to apologize to
you. I have nothing to be sorry

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about. I was giving you amazing
advice and you mocked me and made me

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show my penis to the world.
The only reason that you were giving me

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advice was so that you could relive
your glory day. So it was cool

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to see them in their dynamic.
Yeah. Oh and then this episode was

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the conspiracy one, so yeah,
Glenn, I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner.

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But Glenn Uh falls down a rabbit
hole of like Zephyra being mind controlling

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five G producing technology like cult yeap, and it all started because he's not

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allowed to say have a heavenly day
to people which is like one of the

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only reasons that he like justified working
for an evil corporation like Cloud Nine,

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because, let's be honest, they
had a killer clown because their mascot.

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So he also seems to think that
not saying how the heavenly day is like

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saying the opposite. Zephyr was asking
that we no longer use the term heavenly

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day. What, Yeah, there
was a memo they feel it's a little

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loaded. Yeah. Yeah, it's
loaded with kindness. It's the same thing

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as saying have a nice day or
have a good day. Great, then

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say one of those instead to the
customers. I might as well give him

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the middle finger. Yeah, if
you don't tell people, it's like I've

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worked this, okay, So I
understand how I work in the Midwest,

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and I understand how people get so
upset when they're not allowed to say bless

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you or be blessed as an ending
or not like a goodbye or God bless

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you. That's yeah, it's like
I did not sneeze, what but yeah,

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it's it is totally weird. It
was funny how Jonah said some people

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don't believe in heaven, and it
was just dead quiet. I don't think

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could even process. It was so
good because I was like, oh,

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he's gonna say something, right,
like he's gonna say something, but then

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he didn't even say anything, and
that made it even better. But I

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do see that as an equivalent to
like people who were really hardcore about saying

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like God bless you as their like
sign off, or because I used to

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say good luck, which is so
fucking week. It's kind of shitty to

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say that to people, I think
in hindsight, because I worked at a

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hardware store and you know, people
were getting glue or nails or whatever it

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may be. They were doing their
DIY projects and I'm like, good luck.

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It could be it's like I genuinely
hope you have good luck in this

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endeavor, or it could be like
you're not gonna get it, you're gonna

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need it. But yeah, So
it was interesting that that was like what

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drove him down this conspiracy rabbit hole. And I was surprised that Sandra and

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Marcus were in on this weird conspiracy
theory line. I don't dress that for

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either. I've learned some stuff.
You're ready to wake up? Well I

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am awake, not yet. I
mean, Marcus doesn't surprise me that much.

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No, but Sandra and Marcus together, like when she's like, Marcus,

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tell him what you told me.
It's all true and there's videos to

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prove it. Just google Zephyra mind
control guy goes nuts at Red Lobster,

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Like I would think that she would
know better when she hears things coming out

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of Marcus's mouse, But I kind
of I think it shows like how conspiracy

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theories can affect anybody. Yeah,
didn't take long on the internet for going

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to like fall down that rabbit hole. Nope. It started doing some research

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and I came across this article the
truth about Zephyra. I think there's a

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fishy business going on. Oh.
I love how they he started talking about

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it and they're like, Okay,
we got to cut your screen time,

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buddy. And when they started talking
about conspiracy theories, like Dona wanted to

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like just stop talking about it.
Yeah, and Jonah's like, let me

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play Devil's EDWI cute and nobody likes
that guy. Now hang on because often

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these ideas become stronger when people feel
shamed or marginalized. All right, let's

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talk this out. Why do we
think Zephyr controls mine. As soon as

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he said that, I think I
heard Garrett say, oh, here we

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go, and they went there like. It didn't take very long before they

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started having flat earth or theorists coming
out. Yep, Cody's right. They

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could have easily doctored the moon landing
footage, just like they show us photos

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where the Earth looks around when it's
definitely flat, and we got there.

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You're right, Jonah. This is
so much better than shutting it down.

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But it was so funny when fucking
Jonah was like, no, the Earth

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is a flat. When you sit
out in the docks and you watch the

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ships go and they disappear, you've
done it. Put on your little pea

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coat and stood on a dop for
hours until ships disappeared. We know that

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Jonah wears a little pea coat and
he would not sit out there and watch

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those boats for hours. And I
don't know that she was like advocating for

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the flat earth. I think she
was just calling Jonah out. I'm like,

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you've never done that. Yeah,
you need to shut the fuck up

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if you don't know nothing about like, but me use a different example,

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friend. But that's funny. I
don't know. I thought it was a

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good a good conversation that you would
not want to have at work, but

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that happens at work anything else.
And that's all I really wrote down for

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this episode. At the end,
they go ahead and tell Glenn that he

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can say heavenly day. Turns out
that corporate got Glenn's email after all,

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and it totally changed their minds it
did you know what I saw that memo?

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Too? Good job, Glenn.
I keep refreshing, but there's nothing.

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What time was it sent? Don't
know, Dina. But what I

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do know is we can say have
a heavenly day now. And that's a

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great thing because that means we don't
have to go crazy. Yeah, because

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he was going to resign, like
he's like so upset about how everything is

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changing and he feels obsolete and working
for a corporate environment that he doesn't trust

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is not really worth being in.
And I think it's really not fair to

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manipulate him into state. That was
an interesting thing Garrett did and said because

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at the end he said this and
it kind of affected what him and Jonah

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were talking about earlier. Yeah,
Oh yes, that's what all else was

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happening. Was Jonah brought up some
like some conflicts that he had had with

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Garrett when they lived together, and
Garrett just didn't have any memory of them.

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I mean, I remember watching Dune
with Randy, but you were there.

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No. No, That's why I
was so pissed. Remember and then

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and then to get you back,
I made six brandzinos and stunk up the

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place. That's why you did that. I thought you were just pre making

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your meals for the work week.
You thought I was going to eat a

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brand Zeno every day for a week. I don't monitor your fish intake,

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and fucking Jonah blows up. Randy's
phone wouldn't respond to him at all.

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And Jonah's just fucking crazy honestly,
Like he's acting like irrational because it's like,

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I don't know, But it's also
clear that, like so Jonah felt

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that it was a big argument,
but it sounds like he's very passive aggressive

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in the way that he had that
argument that Garrett's probably unaware of it because

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he went and like cooked some fish
to stink up the house like he thought

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you were meal prepping. Bro.
Yeah, I think Jonah really has a

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lot of issues with passive aggressiveness,
and I hope it kind of changes,

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Like the way that they kind of
interact with that, and I think it

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will and I love how Garrett kind
of handled him, because Garrett's a really

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good at that. There was one
time I told you I was going to

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make dinner. I went all out, I went to like three different grocery

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stores, and then you just text
me and told me you were having dinner

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with Amy. Totally forgot about it. Oh well, why didn't you say

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anything? Because why bring something up
just to make your friend feel bad.

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I wish there was more about Garrett
and Dina in this episode, though.

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Yeah, it didn't really follow up
on the their arrangement their three way.

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Do you think they will have a
three way or have like any sort of

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like? Well, no, I
think they did mention it a little bit

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because he didn't fill out the emotional
well being section of their post coital contract.

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Oh and make sure to text the
group chain when you arrive. Are

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we sure that Brian needs to know
the exact time that we're having sex?

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Hey, successful polyamory requires complete constant
communication. Speaking of I read your post

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coital report from last night. You
didn't fill in emotional state hungry and sleepy.

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That's usually where I'm at so they
did it like they they're starting to

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do it. But it's just not
like he's not really I don't know,

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acknowledging it or he's not really.
It feels like Garrett might just be going

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through the motions. Yeah, he's
suppressing. Yeah, and the whole episode

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suppressed it. They just made that
one comment about it and then they moved

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on. But I hope to see
more about it. Yeah, any other

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thoughts? Oh, I really enjoyed
Mateo's see through legs. That's right,

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They're like impressions of each other or
something. What's happening? Why do you

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sound like Nurse Ratchet on the Netflix
series Ratchet? Oh, I'm running this

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meeting like Matteo in a very professional
manner. Mm hmm okay, ha ha

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very funny. But you know what, even this is way better than your

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usual singles. Cruise director attitude,
Chyam put on glasses. Yeah, and

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it was starting mact oh bitchy and
everyone loved that. But then when Mateo

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try to be Chyam, it did
not work in his favor. No,

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he just embarrassed himself. Hey,
everyone, did I miss a meeting?

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Sorry? I was shotgunning Code Rats
with my party. Best I have a

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husband. I don't care if it's
unprofessional. I just want to have fun

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and do Molly with unicr. Oh
my god, Matteo, we can see

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you're junk. I think men or
people with penises should totally wear leggings,

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but definitely check to make sure you
can't see through that. But I think

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it's kind of cool and kind of
like sexy when you can see, like

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the dick print. That's why it's
sweatpants are shape. Yeah, that's what

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it's called, the dick print.
It's on a like sweatpants, Like sweatpants

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are known for this, But imagine
leggings. Come on, dude, Well

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these were just that they were so
thin and stretched that you could actually see

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through. Well wouldn't you wear underwear
though, Like why wouldn't you wear underwear?

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I don't know. And honestly though, if they were that thin and

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stretched you could probably hairs were probably
poking out as well, So be careful

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out there. Anything else That was
all I wanted to mention was no.

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I think that's it for me.
The next episode is called Depositions, so

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it sounds like we're going back in
the Carol's lawsuit and that'll air on February

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twenty fifth, tw twenty one,
so there's like a week off. And

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then we also got word that the
finale two part finale will be on March

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twenty fifth, so it's only like
a little over a month. Oh wow,

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we'll have a heavenly day. Well, actually, I got a memo.

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We're not allowed to say that anymore. I must still say it.

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on reusable bags. Oh we can
just use the ones under Matteo's eyes.

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Oh savage,