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
day. Have a heavenly day by attention Cloud nine choppers. You can support us by subscribing to the podcast and leaving a rating or review. Find us on Facebook and Twitter at Superstore Pod. You can also email us at Superstore Podcast at gmail dot com. Have a heavenly day. I'm co manager now and I am not going to allow this store to become a brothel on my watch, We're not zoned for that.