Zoom. Dating is basically interviewing somebody while judging their wal art And I guess you got to keep your hands in frame right, otherwise the other person is going to think you're touching yourself. What No, I usually I keep them. Are people thinking that? Oh? Absolutely? Welcome to Cloud nine, a Superstar podcast. I'm Jason and I'm BB and we're back talking about two
more episodes of Superstar. We're talking about episode eight of season six, which is called ground Rules, and it aired on February fourth, twenty twenty one. Written by Jen Vierk and directed by Victor Nelly Junior. Yes, and if you want to talk to us about this episode, or any episode or anything really, you can email us. You can find us on Facebook or Twitter to shoot us a message. And we were happy to talk about this show, which is what we're going to do right now. Yes, ground
Rules. Ground Rules is Tony's first day work. Tony Bean, Sandra's adopted son. Yes, who calls her mom a lot? Yeah, like a lot. I'm mean about roast beef sandwich. Mom. Come on, if he doesn't need every forty five minutes, he turned into a real grumposaurus. I like their relationship it's very genuine, and that was like something that happened immediately, Like when she first adopted him, they walked down the store together. He was like, Mom, stop it. Yeah, I like it.
It's cute, it's funny. Yeah, it's like preposterous like that would I don't think you should have that kind of expectation of like a foster child. No, but Sandra's like a mama bear. Yeah. And Glenn is giving them a lot of attention because he's very excited to have also his former adopted son. Yeah, like he feels like he's a big part of this too. Well, my son a Cloud nine employee. We're a dynasty like Billy Ray and Miley, and he was my foster child. It's like God's
been engraving this name tag for you since the day you were born. Did you just touch my nipper? Oh, I'm sorry. And then they picked Jonah to be his trainer, and they have to put things away in the refrigerated aisle and the freezer aisle, and for me personally, I just think it's weird that they're not putting things or stalking things from the other side of the freezer wall. Yeah, I feel like they just like didn't have that
part of the set. So they're just in the front, but that part of the set shouldn't even look that fancy or built out like they had the front end, So like it has to have a back. There has to be a back to that. There might not be room to shoot back there. Oh, but there's really not a lot of rooms sometimes in those areas, depending on what a big store should have, usually a lot of them. They have to have room for Jonah to hit him in the face.
Yeah, there had to be some conflict and yeah, so Tony's not really serious about the job either. No, he's just a teenage Yeah. It was so funny when he opened that box and all the pizzas wellouse. This episode was funny. I liked it. There was like a lot of really funny scenes that are just like physical comedy. Yeah, that was one of
the gags. And I think in this episode there was also one of those cutaway scenes where the customers are involved and one of the customers put jewelry in their mask yep, and that was just fucking hilarious because people would One of the cutaways was just Tony like on the couch watching was like a whale or something in a video. Yeah, like Nature documentary. Every time it did
something, he was like shocked. Yeah, and it's nice to see like somebody doing that because I think they've shown other employees kind of chilling out on in that area before. Yeah, so it was nice to kind of see that part of the scenes. But he went there after Jonah hit him in the face. Yep. So Jonah gets all flustered because what's her name in the show, Nia? Nia? Nia comes over and is like, we should talk about that garbage thing or I don't know, they talk politics,
and this teenager is like, oh, she wants it. Whoa. Tony looks like you got the cool teacher. Yeah, yeah, that's me. All right, I'm gonna go before you bust out the guitar. I'll see what lunch, all right, I'll see you, dude. She wants your nuts. Sorry, she's totally into you. And Jonah starts getting in his head about it, and then he starts getting excited about like seeing Nia again.
And one of the things that Garrett tells him I think is really funny where he's like there's women outside of this store, you know, like Nia's just really cool, you know, it's the first time I've actually been kind of excited about somebody since Amy. But you do know that there are women outside of the store, right, You shouldn't use your workplace as your personal tender. You know. That was so good and I feel like I've been
on that a lot. Yeah. I mean it's funny like within the show, but it's also almost like a meta joke that shows like this kind of suffer from, like the only people that the characters meet are like at the workplace, because we don't spend a lot of time out of the store with them. Mmmmm yeah. So it's pretty good. So that's like a whole thing. So Garrett's the one telling him that, and he's like wrapped up
with Dina. And that's why this is called ground rules. Yes, because the last episode, Garrett and Dina had a moment in the what they call it the back room, the back steakhouse, the trough, the trough. It was something weird. They had a moment and Dina like obviously was aware of it, and she addressed it directly, and she brought it up to Garrett and he's like, yeah, it's it was just a one time thing. It doesn't mean anything, and she's like, cool, I'm gonna go
tell my boyfriend. So I'm just gonna call Brian and tell him everything. What wait, no, you said case closed. The case is closed. He can't reopen the case. And he was shocked that he did that, that she would do that, which I don't know, like, would you expect somebody to share that if it was like supposed to be that way, or would you expect them to keep it quiet? I mean, I think it's important that like they literally didn't do anything. It was like there was
clearly a moment, just tension. Yeah, they managed not to act on it. Yeah, But like so she shares this with her partner and like comes back with a different attitude. I guess, like, so, what's his name? Well, he walks in and Garrett's trying to like hide, yeah, because he comes in and it looks kind of intimidating. Well, you can't tell because of the fucking mask, right. The fact that he even knew who he was with a mask on was shocking to be It's fucking
Brian, I knew it was something basic. So comes in and makes a beeline to the service center, the customer service area, where Garrett works, and he's trying to keep the security guard there to like just be present, right, because he's like, I need a buffer because this is going to be awkward. And it kind of is, but not in the way Garrett expects because as soon as Brian shows up, Dina pulls in and they both break the news that they want Garrett to be their side piece and decided we're
going to have an open relationship. What you're going to be our side piece? Yeah, well, you know, technically I think he'd just be your side piece. Well, what's my side piece? Is your side piece? Shut? And I think that is the most demeaning way to ask somebody to join a relationship that's like open. Yeah, to call you a fucking side piece, like you're a fucking side of French fries or like, I don't know, like a chicken meal. It just felt weird. I was like,
this is an appropriate and he was open to it. He didn't say no outright, He heard them out, which I thought was also interesting. Yeah, I mean he might have just felt like he was stuck in this situation. Fair they did corner him. You really thought this out? Yeah? Sure, he And there's a lot of things for us to go over with you, but I want to make sure it's clear I save the girlfriend stuff for this guy. Get no point, did they really take what he
wanted into consideration. There was like, hey, this is what we should do and it'll be great for you and us. Yeah, they were just say like, let us use you because I'm out of town a lot, and she obviously has sexual urges and needs that you can satisfy because you already know this area. That's like it was very cut and dry, and the moment he was just like not into it was when they threw the teddy bear on him. Really important to establish sexual boundaries, So we will stick a
thumbs up sticker everywhere you're allowed to touch Dina. Now, the thumbs up represents a general green light, but in some cases it's so little more literal. I think that that created a moment of just like pure objectification of both parties of Dina and Garrett. And that was where he had to draw the line where it's like, I don't like this, that's not organic for him.
Yeah. Only when it comes back to what Jonah kind of points out to him that if he didn't have any emotions for Dina, then he would just be into this and that's the worst that he comes back because of that comment, because of his denial of emotions. Emotions. Yeah, it's like toxic masculinity at its peak with Garrett, which is really unfortunate because it would have been interesting to say, what would happen if he said, yeah, you know what, You're right, I think I do have a lot of
unresolved emotional issues with her and I'd love to address them. Wouldn't that be an interesting episode? Well, it is interesting because in this episode in particular, like right at the top, like Garrett is just like brutally honest with Jonah about like how he's feeling, like what happened with Dina, Like he's just laying it out there, Bean and I almost kissed yesterday. What I mean, nothing happened. There was no lip collision, but there was definitely
a swerve to miss situation. Like we've started seeing this with Gary. I think it was the start of the season where he just like plainly tells Jonah like, hey, like you've been a good friend. I'm glad you're in my life. Mm hmm. You kind of seen this other side of him. But then he backslides yeah, I feel like they just need a little more drama to get to the end of the show. They can do that without having to erase the progress of a character, though in my opinion,
I don't know. I've always had opinions about how the writing could always be better. Yeah, but I don't know, Like one step backwards doesn't erase
several steps forward. But it would have been so good if it was like an actual, like emotional three way relationship, like if it was like a fully open relationship, because it can't be an open relationship when any of the parties are closed my like lying and he's he's doing that, and that's just like, I don't know, it's doing a disservice to a lot of the polyamorous relationships that do exist, in my opinion, because they could show like
a genuine polyamorous relationship, but now it's just a fucking plot device instead used to erase a man's emotions, which sucks and it shouldn't be that way, But what do I know? What else happens in this episode Jason Well Seyenne is in full for supervisor mode, giving out shift assignments, and she's turned it into quite the spectacle I'm going to play both of my reverses and send
it back to side. Oh yeah, that's cooled. Side. You're on bathroom duty unless you want to use your skipstone, but just remember you won't get another one until next month. Yeah. They play games like if you don't want to clean the toilets, you have a little passing stone or something like that. Yeah. Sings like there's a whole lot of gimmicks and it's like a complicated card game almost of who's doing what. Yeah, and it
seems to be a lot of fun for everyone. Yeah, everyone's involved in participating, and they're kind of it looks like they're even excited to get their work assignments because it's part of their like routine. And in the morning, like that can be really shitty because you're still, like, you know, coping with the fact that you have to show up to a shitty job.
So as this is happening, Mateo notices it and he kind of pops in with some helpful advice about not letting Elias go into the greeting card section because he's like in bed. Hey, when you were floor supervisor, did Alias always ask to work in greeting cards? Yeah? I don't let him. He reads all the cards out loud and adds words in bed. It literally never works. Okay, thanks, any other pro tips? Let me know? Oh really well, happy to help. And that kind of goes straight
to Mateo's head because he has that, you know, superiority complex. Yeah, she does ask him for advice, and then he lays everything on her. It gives her too much advice. He doesn't just give advice he can. I was like on constructive criticism. He starts telling her her clothes or shitty, she shouldn't use stickers, and her eye makeup is terrible, like
don't wear glitter, and it's just basically saying stop being chyenne. Yeah, he's being like critical of her the personality that she's bringing to the job, which is just herself. I loved when she stood up for herself and said, like I got picked to do this job, whereas you just started calling yourself the floor manager. And I don't believe that I'm doing it in a way that's wrong or like unsuccessful. I actually think I'm doing a really good
job. Yeah. The games and stuff are dorky, but they help people forget that their job sucks for a second. I'm just saying, you might want to listen to the cold standard floor supervisor. You weren't even given the job. You just started saying that you had it. At least I was like chosen to do this. I really loved that she kind of held her own and was like standing her ground. Yeah she did, and it was good to see that. It leads to this beef between them that goes into
the next episode. I did find it interesting. I was never really clear on Mateo, like as the floor supervisor, Like how much did he actually have the job besides putting a picture of himself on the wall, Like we never actually saw him doing it. He did, remember when he would assign everybody to the freezer. You don't remember when he's like, oh, you pissed me off, you go back and work the freezer. I don't think
that's when he was the supervisor. I think like Amy or someone like handed in the clipboard, like take care of this, I gotta do something else. So he was doing it, and he like he mentioned, like do this in the way that an evil queen would command. And that's the energy
he brought to that role. What else we got? So this episode, there was this thing with the Nia and Jonah, Jonah thinking that she was into him because of Tony telling him that a teen tells you that somebody's into you, so you just go ham a teen who not that long ago, was asking Garrett a quote buttload of questions about love and sex. Mm hmm.
But so Jonah asks Nia about it, and Neo straight up's like, I'm a lesbian, not even like letting him explain anything or like getting any more information in there, and then she casually implies that he's a lot older than her too. No, no, no, no, you were just being friendly in it, And I'm like, this had her enormative bowl in a lesbian china shop. Yeah kind of, But it's not really your fault.
Your generation is a little more rigid about gender and sexuality. Yeah, which is funny because like they I think Eve and Garrett's like, yeah, you're ten years older than her, which is disgusting to be honest. If she's like twenty and he's thirty, that's a little iffy, that's a little sus bro. It's probably more like twenty five thirty five. Okay, that's still yeah. I don't know. The age gap can make a difference.
But if so, with all that, he's no longer allowed to work with minors, but he's gonna have Chinese with Garrett with a family, so that's nice. Yep, And pretty sure Glenn has never had Chinese food before. Well, he had never had Mexican food before. Well, there there is this Chinese place that I've been wanting to try. Absolutely they have plain white rice though, right they do. They absolutely fucking Glenn Man. But I
don't know. I still think Jonah really needs to not date people in the workplace because in the time that we've seen these only were like dated people that work with him. Yeah, Amy and Kelly, And there's that magazine interviewer or something. Yeah, that late the lady from the Scrubs University, Glenn's daughter that he met at the store one time. Oh my god, I've got about her. I'm mister RuSHA. I wish they would bring her back for an episode before it's all over. Yeah, so do you want to
talk about the next episode. Let's move to the next episode, which is season six, episode nine, Conspiracy. This aired February eleventh, twenty twenty one, directed by James Renfro and written by Colton Dunn, who is Garrett. Oh okay, so how does it open? I forgot were they talking? Was it? It opens with Mateo and Cheyenne. Yeah, bah, back and forth, still on their beef, talking about Bob is a party bus husband or something like that. The insults were great person our history.
I went in rush Chyan with protection. I may be a teen mom, but at least I don't look like someone put a Pixar character into a microwave. Well, you'd be DreamWorks bitch. And then that just like that ended it. Oh, it was so bad. They were so mean, they cut so deep, and everybody was really into it. It was like one of those like wrap battles or whatever, you know that meme with that kid
that's like, oh like that. And we kind of come to realize that they're liking the attention of their fight more than they're really upset with each other. It's not as fun without anyone watching, right. I feel like we could get their attention back if we just up our game a little. Yeah.
Yeah, they're still kind of bitchy towards each other, but then they start not getting as much attention because said finally breaks up with his horrible girlfriend and everybody gives him like so much attention and support that it bugs them. Okay, let's get really real about Cyan. Well it happened. Then it dumped me. Oh no, really, damn it. I'm so sorry.
You guys were just at the cheesecake factory like three weeks ago. You look so happy, guys getting really real about which was honestly, like pretty sweet to see, like characters that like don't really get along that much or just all there for SAYI. Yeah, because I remember when Sayid and Justine just had they also have had their beef, so you didn't see it coming at all. No, I always expected her to kill me, not to break up with me. Well, if you ever need a quick pick me up
or whatever, you have my number. Yes, you've been very clear. Thanks. But it was nice to see them like being supportive and like letting something that is obviously more important than two petty arguments like on the side, Like, I think that they were right in the way that they spent their attention. Yeah, for sure. But then with that, Mateo and Cheyenne start to get closer, even though they're still making digs at each other,
they start to work together and really collaborate again. Which I think reignites the real friendship. Yeah, and it's kind of funny the way they're still fighting but going to do things together because no one else is interested in right, they're bullshit right, And eventually Matteo does apologize, which is nice because he does oh chyan apology. He refused to at first, like he and he like was like, when are you going to apologize to me? Because I'm
leaving soon? My boyfriend's picking me up, So TikTok, are you being serious you expect me to apologize to you. I have nothing to be sorry about. I was giving you amazing advice and you mocked me and made me show my penis to the world. The only reason that you were giving me advice was so that you could relive your glory day. So it was cool to see them in their dynamic. Yeah. Oh and then this episode was the conspiracy one, so yeah, Glenn, I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner.
But Glenn Uh falls down a rabbit hole of like Zephyra being mind controlling five G producing technology like cult yeap, and it all started because he's not allowed to say have a heavenly day to people which is like one of the only reasons that he like justified working for an evil corporation like Cloud Nine, because, let's be honest, they had a killer clown because their mascot. So he also seems to think that not saying how the heavenly day is like
saying the opposite. Zephyr was asking that we no longer use the term heavenly day. What, Yeah, there was a memo they feel it's a little loaded. Yeah. Yeah, it's loaded with kindness. It's the same thing as saying have a nice day or have a good day. Great, then say one of those instead to the customers. I might as well give him
the middle finger. Yeah, if you don't tell people, it's like I've worked this, okay, So I understand how I work in the Midwest, and I understand how people get so upset when they're not allowed to say bless you or be blessed as an ending or not like a goodbye or God bless you. That's yeah, it's like I did not sneeze, what but yeah, it's it is totally weird. It was funny how Jonah said some people don't believe in heaven, and it was just dead quiet. I don't think
could even process. It was so good because I was like, oh, he's gonna say something, right, like he's gonna say something, but then he didn't even say anything, and that made it even better. But I do see that as an equivalent to like people who were really hardcore about saying like God bless you as their like sign off, or because I used to
say good luck, which is so fucking week. It's kind of shitty to say that to people, I think in hindsight, because I worked at a hardware store and you know, people were getting glue or nails or whatever it may be. They were doing their DIY projects and I'm like, good luck. It could be it's like I genuinely hope you have good luck in this endeavor, or it could be like you're not gonna get it, you're gonna need it. But yeah, So it was interesting that that was like what
drove him down this conspiracy rabbit hole. And I was surprised that Sandra and Marcus were in on this weird conspiracy theory line. I don't dress that for either. I've learned some stuff. You're ready to wake up? Well I am awake, not yet. I mean, Marcus doesn't surprise me that much. No, but Sandra and Marcus together, like when she's like, Marcus, tell him what you told me. It's all true and there's videos to
prove it. Just google Zephyra mind control guy goes nuts at Red Lobster, Like I would think that she would know better when she hears things coming out of Marcus's mouse, But I kind of I think it shows like how conspiracy theories can affect anybody. Yeah, didn't take long on the internet for going to like fall down that rabbit hole. Nope. It started doing some research and I came across this article the truth about Zephyra. I think there's a
fishy business going on. Oh. I love how they he started talking about it and they're like, Okay, we got to cut your screen time, buddy. And when they started talking about conspiracy theories, like Dona wanted to like just stop talking about it. Yeah, and Jonah's like, let me play Devil's EDWI cute and nobody likes that guy. Now hang on because often these ideas become stronger when people feel shamed or marginalized. All right, let's
talk this out. Why do we think Zephyr controls mine. As soon as he said that, I think I heard Garrett say, oh, here we go, and they went there like. It didn't take very long before they started having flat earth or theorists coming out. Yep, Cody's right. They could have easily doctored the moon landing footage, just like they show us photos where the Earth looks around when it's definitely flat, and we got there. You're right, Jonah. This is so much better than shutting it down.
But it was so funny when fucking Jonah was like, no, the Earth is a flat. When you sit out in the docks and you watch the ships go and they disappear, you've done it. Put on your little pea coat and stood on a dop for hours until ships disappeared. We know that Jonah wears a little pea coat and he would not sit out there and watch those boats for hours. And I don't know that she was like advocating for the flat earth. I think she was just calling Jonah out. I'm like,
you've never done that. Yeah, you need to shut the fuck up if you don't know nothing about like, but me use a different example, friend. But that's funny. I don't know. I thought it was a good a good conversation that you would not want to have at work, but that happens at work anything else. And that's all I really wrote down for this episode. At the end, they go ahead and tell Glenn that he
can say heavenly day. Turns out that corporate got Glenn's email after all, and it totally changed their minds it did you know what I saw that memo? Too? Good job, Glenn. I keep refreshing, but there's nothing. What time was it sent? Don't know, Dina. But what I do know is we can say have a heavenly day now. And that's a
great thing because that means we don't have to go crazy. Yeah, because he was going to resign, like he's like so upset about how everything is changing and he feels obsolete and working for a corporate environment that he doesn't trust is not really worth being in. And I think it's really not fair to manipulate him into state. That was an interesting thing Garrett did and said because at the end he said this and it kind of affected what him and Jonah
were talking about earlier. Yeah, Oh yes, that's what all else was happening. Was Jonah brought up some like some conflicts that he had had with Garrett when they lived together, and Garrett just didn't have any memory of them. I mean, I remember watching Dune with Randy, but you were there. No. No, That's why I was so pissed. Remember and then and then to get you back, I made six brandzinos and stunk up the place. That's why you did that. I thought you were just pre making
your meals for the work week. You thought I was going to eat a brand Zeno every day for a week. I don't monitor your fish intake, and fucking Jonah blows up. Randy's phone wouldn't respond to him at all.
And Jonah's just fucking crazy honestly, Like he's acting like irrational because it's like, I don't know, But it's also clear that, like so Jonah felt that it was a big argument, but it sounds like he's very passive aggressive in the way that he had that argument that Garrett's probably unaware of it because he went and like cooked some fish to stink up the house like he thought
you were meal prepping. Bro. Yeah, I think Jonah really has a lot of issues with passive aggressiveness, and I hope it kind of changes, Like the way that they kind of interact with that, and I think it will and I love how Garrett kind of handled him, because Garrett's a really good at that. There was one time I told you I was going to make dinner. I went all out, I went to like three different grocery stores, and then you just text me and told me you were having dinner
with Amy. Totally forgot about it. Oh well, why didn't you say anything? Because why bring something up just to make your friend feel bad. I wish there was more about Garrett and Dina in this episode, though. Yeah, it didn't really follow up on the their arrangement their three way. Do you think they will have a three way or have like any sort of like? Well, no, I think they did mention it a little bit because he didn't fill out the emotional well being section of their post coital contract.
Oh and make sure to text the group chain when you arrive. Are we sure that Brian needs to know the exact time that we're having sex? Hey, successful polyamory requires complete constant communication. Speaking of I read your post coital report from last night. You didn't fill in emotional state hungry and sleepy. That's usually where I'm at so they did it like they they're starting to do it. But it's just not like he's not really I don't know,
acknowledging it or he's not really. It feels like Garrett might just be going through the motions. Yeah, he's suppressing. Yeah, and the whole episode suppressed it. They just made that one comment about it and then they moved on. But I hope to see more about it. Yeah, any other thoughts? Oh, I really enjoyed Mateo's see through legs. That's right, They're like impressions of each other or something. What's happening? Why do you
sound like Nurse Ratchet on the Netflix series Ratchet? Oh, I'm running this meeting like Matteo in a very professional manner. Mm hmm okay, ha ha very funny. But you know what, even this is way better than your usual singles. Cruise director attitude, Chyam put on glasses. Yeah, and it was starting mact oh bitchy and everyone loved that. But then when Mateo try to be Chyam, it did not work in his favor. No, he just embarrassed himself. Hey, everyone, did I miss a meeting?
Sorry? I was shotgunning Code Rats with my party. Best I have a husband. I don't care if it's unprofessional. I just want to have fun and do Molly with unicr. Oh my god, Matteo, we can see you're junk. I think men or people with penises should totally wear leggings, but definitely check to make sure you can't see through that. But I think it's kind of cool and kind of like sexy when you can see, like the dick print. That's why it's sweatpants are shape. Yeah, that's what
it's called, the dick print. It's on a like sweatpants, Like sweatpants are known for this, But imagine leggings. Come on, dude, Well these were just that they were so thin and stretched that you could actually see through. Well wouldn't you wear underwear though, Like why wouldn't you wear underwear? I don't know. And honestly though, if they were that thin and stretched you could probably hairs were probably poking out as well, So be careful
out there. Anything else That was all I wanted to mention was no. I think that's it for me. The next episode is called Depositions, so it sounds like we're going back in the Carol's lawsuit and that'll air on February twenty fifth, tw twenty one, so there's like a week off. And then we also got word that the finale two part finale will be on March twenty fifth, so it's only like a little over a month. Oh wow, we'll have a heavenly day. Well, actually, I got a memo.
We're not allowed to say that anymore. I must still say it. Who's gonna check me? 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. Next up, we're running short on reusable bags. Oh we can just use the ones under Matteo's eyes. Oh savage,