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THE G.Y.M. — PILOT, ACT ONE · Table Read

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right underword Mark there's ways Are you ready?
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: Mark? Heather take it away?
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 0:07
  Speaker 3: Trailer over obnoxious pop music like an early eighties two
• 0:11
  Speaker 3: thousands ad spot.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Gym, your favorite rundown fitness shithole.
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  Speaker 3: In this pilot episode, we follow neurotic girlboch Valerie and
• 0:21
  Speaker 3: her ragtag employees as they attempt to film a commercial
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  Speaker 3: for the grand reopening of the gym.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Valerie grew up.
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  Speaker 3: In this shitty local gym as her second home and
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  Speaker 3: purchased the failing establishment after the former owner was exposed
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  Speaker 3: as the Flamingo King in a scathing tell all documentary.
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: The FBI took the.
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  Speaker 3: Birds, and Valerie spent her life savings to keep the
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: place from being bulldozed. Can she restore the gym to
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: its former glory so it lives up to her childhood's
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  Speaker 3: rose colored memories? Or will it pale in comparison to
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  Speaker 3: its leak and modern competitor.
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: Across the street.
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  Speaker 3: Solsters to find out, Come on down to the gym
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: and get a full ab workout, laughing in the comfort
• 1:03
  Speaker 3: of your own home.
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: The Gym Pilot written by Danny Hayes, Cold Open interior
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  Speaker 3: cycling studio day set, work fast on a stationary bike.
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  Speaker 1: Rock hard quads bulged through super.
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  Speaker 3: Tight biking shorts with the brand the Gym. Johnny late thirties,
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  Speaker 3: a t MoU version of Atlance Armstrong cycles on a
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  Speaker 3: play I Guess a front of an indoor cycling studio.
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  Speaker 3: The thump thump thump of workout music pulses as lights,
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  Speaker 3: Oh there we go, as lights dance over peeling paint,
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  Speaker 3: scratched mirrors, and a few scattered bikes labeled out of order.
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  Speaker 1: A voice speaks over the music.
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  Speaker 3: The guim isn't just a place behind Johnny Brian thirties
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  Speaker 3: eye candy and he knows it.
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  Speaker 1: Copies Johnny's movements to a t. It's the place, It's
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  Speaker 1: a community.
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  Speaker 3: Chris twenty eye candy and completely oblivious wobbles off beat.
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: This guy skips legg day and it shows a culture,
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  Speaker 3: a lifestyle.
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: It's home.
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  Speaker 3: Kayla mid twenties, just here for the gram bikes at
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  Speaker 3: an even base.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: She puffs her chest out. Her shirt reads at Kayla Karma.
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  Speaker 1: Cut come on, cut, cut, cut.
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  Speaker 3: Camera reveals a commercial crew packed in this tiny room.
• 2:25
  Speaker 3: Valerie mid thirties, type A socially awkward and stuck in nostalgia.
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  Speaker 1: Lane glares at Kayla.
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  Speaker 4: Kyla, I told you only our clothes for the commercial,
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  Speaker 4: but it's my instuck.
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  Speaker 3: Valerie throws a T shirt at her, It's vomit green and.
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  Speaker 1: Hugh hel do we have any other shorts? Guys?
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  Speaker 4: Look, this is all we have in stock. Okay, So
• 2:46
  Speaker 4: like Tim Gunn says, make it work.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: I like packsim in tight.
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  Speaker 3: Bryan flaps his own button, shimmy's his cheeks.
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  Speaker 4: If I wear my handle I can promote us without
• 2:59
  Speaker 4: an ad disclaimer.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: Valerie concedes. Kaylea tosses the giant shirt back to her.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, here we go, grand reopening commercial Take two.
• 3:09
  Speaker 3: Action trainers reassemble on their bikes. Commercial crew rolls, Johnny
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: begins to work out again. Valerie clears her throat and
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  Speaker 3: puts on her sales voice.
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  Speaker 1: The gym isn't just a place.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny stands out of the saddle, leans on one handlebar,
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  Speaker 3: and pulls his shorts to a just luggage that shifted
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  Speaker 3: in transit.
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  Speaker 1: A handle bar creaks under his body weight, then snapped.
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  Speaker 1: Johnny slams into the seat right on his ball. His
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  Speaker 1: testicles squish.
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  Speaker 3: And twist, He's groaned and collapses in pain.
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  Speaker 1: Another one nights the.
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  Speaker 4: Dusk the bicycle, You guys, He'll be fine and.
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: Cold opens all right.
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  Speaker 3: At one exterior gym parking lot day, only two buildings
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  Speaker 3: are left standing in this otherwise demolished strip mall, a
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  Speaker 3: tech repair shop and the gym, where two handyman are
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: hanging a banner Grand Reopening, a board EMT and a
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  Speaker 3: gruff driver Lou Johnny into an ambulance.
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  Speaker 2: This used to be that third place, right They had
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  Speaker 2: like what ostrich yoga?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and parapolates.
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  Speaker 5: Did you hear what happened to him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? It sucks. The birds were the only good thing
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  Speaker 2: about this dump, but hey, at least we got a
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  Speaker 2: new gym.
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  Speaker 3: The ambulance pulls away through the empty parking lot and
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  Speaker 3: passes a full parking lot across the street.
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  Speaker 1: This is Solstice with.
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  Speaker 3: The barbell as the eye and a sign that reads
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  Speaker 3: Grand Opening Valerie size Brian, Kayla, Chris and Alexa twenties
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  Speaker 3: not the brightest crayon in the box. Watch the ambulance
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  Speaker 3: drive away for real.
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  Speaker 1: Portion is new joke is that what happened to? Is
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: that what happened to Neil Armshawn, the trumpet player. No no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking of Neil Diamond.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, you guys please circle up. They said that Johnny's
• 5:01
  Speaker 4: going to be out for two weeks, so I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I guess I have to cover his classes and his clients.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, what about the commercials?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Kayla.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we can't cancel on our members, but the
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  Speaker 4: film crew is only here for today, so if I
• 5:13
  Speaker 4: reschedule them, it's going to cost me an arm and
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  Speaker 4: a leg. Spirit of alanas help me.
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  Speaker 1: This is the.
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  Speaker 6: Rain and we can have Okay, Okay, if we split
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  Speaker 6: Johnny's work between the three of us and keep the
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  Speaker 6: place running, you can focus on the commercial and whenever
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  Speaker 6: we're free, we can be in it like you planned, right, guys.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm happy to be on camera if you
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  Speaker 4: need an extra.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a professionally trained actress. Kayla malsalong.
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  Speaker 3: Professionally trained actress, then shoots the smirk at Brian. Valerie
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  Speaker 3: checks her clipboard.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, if we're.
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  Speaker 4: Really going to do this, Chris, you're going to take
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  Speaker 4: spin class, Kayla, you take Johnny's clients. Brian, that leaves
• 6:02
  Speaker 4: you with group Fitness, but first you're with me.
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: Valerie leads the brigade back inside. She snaps at one
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  Speaker 3: handy man struggling with the grand reopening sign.
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  Speaker 1: Can we put that up any faster? We are losing customers, Interior.
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  Speaker 1: You wait to give me a little more of a
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  Speaker 1: snap on that, a little more attitude on the customer line.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Can we put that up any faster?
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  Speaker 1: We're losing customers.
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  Speaker 3: Jury Way Interior Injury Way Day, Brian, Kayla, and Chris
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  Speaker 3: split off. Alexa heads toward the mailbox that Valerie beats
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  Speaker 3: her to it. Don't worry, I've got that.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: Alexa proceeds to the front desk. Valerie flips through the
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  Speaker 3: mail invoice urgent overdue notice of default. Failure to play
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: will result in foreclosure. She hides the letters in our papers.
• 6:44
  Speaker 3: Atop her clipboard is a polaroid of young Valerie and
• 6:47
  Speaker 3: her mother in front of the gym.
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  Speaker 1: Valerie smiles at the memory.
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  Speaker 5: Breaking news.
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  Speaker 3: The camera zooms in on a TV above the front desk.
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  Speaker 3: A cocky newscaster narrates footage of an FBI raate on
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: the gym.
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  Speaker 1: Kick up. A cocky newscaster.
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  Speaker 3: Narrates footage of an FBI raid on the gym. A
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  Speaker 3: redneck man is arrested with an ostrich on a leash.
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  Speaker 5: Nelson Withers, the Flamingo King, was sentenced to five years
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  Speaker 5: today after a former employee testified that his business was
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  Speaker 5: a money laundry scheme for training exotic pets.
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  Speaker 1: Whithers was illegally housing and.
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  Speaker 5: Selling hundreds of birds, including a flock of penguins in
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  Speaker 5: the saltwater pool.
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  Speaker 3: Valerie stands between the camera and the TV.
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  Speaker 1: To obscure view.
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  Speaker 5: Tru we turn it off.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: I love snow interior front desk area, at same.
• 7:38
  Speaker 3: Time as Alexa Crouch slams into the underside of the desk.
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: She pops up and rubs her head.
• 7:44
  Speaker 3: Alexa turns off the TV, then crawls back under the
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  Speaker 3: desk with her iPhone charger. She traces wires through the
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  Speaker 3: power strip.
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: Wissy computer printer. She unplugs one and plugs her phone in.
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  Speaker 1: It's up. Hello, Alexa stands and hits her head with
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: another smack.
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  Speaker 3: Shy spin client thirties grimaces. Alexa plasters on a smile.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Hello, welcome to the gym. How can I help you?
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  Speaker 1: That's my best I know Heather Reader back in from
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  Speaker 1: Alexa stans yep.
• 8:22
  Speaker 3: Alexa stands and hits her head with another smack. Shay
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  Speaker 3: spind client thirties grimaces. Alexa plasters on a smile.
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  Speaker 1: Hlly, Hello, Hello, welcome to the d y m. How
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  Speaker 1: can I help you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm here for a spin class. I got the by
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  Speaker 4: to get when tree deal.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm bike number five or seven Alex.
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  Speaker 3: Alexa clicks on her point of service system but only
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  Speaker 3: gets error the system is down.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry my singy is it loading?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Here? Alexa pulls out a sheet of paper.
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  Speaker 4: If you put your name down, I'll check you in
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  Speaker 4: when the system's back up.
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  Speaker 1: Any bit should be fine.
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  Speaker 3: Shy spin client signs and wanders off. A tall man
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  Speaker 3: in a pinstripe suit. Real estate vulture approaches the desk
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  Speaker 3: with a briefcase and a shit eating grin.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, welcome to the gym.
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  Speaker 4: Are you here for our spin class promotion?
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  Speaker 3: From across the room, Valerie sees real estate Vulture lean
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  Speaker 3: in to talk to Alexa with a slick smile. Valerie
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: charges over and shoes him out like a dog.
• 9:31
  Speaker 4: This property is not for sale, buddy, not last week,
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: not today, not next week, So make like MJ.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: Just beat it.
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: Brian sees the exchange and rushes toward the front desk.
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  Speaker 1: Oh down, the point of service system isn't working.
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  Speaker 3: That's why they call it a POS.
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  Speaker 1: Alexa doesn't get it. Valerie breaks down.
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  Speaker 4: My god, I knew I should have upgraded that old thing.
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  Speaker 4: We're already behind schedule.
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  Speaker 6: We go breath, great, just skilled back skill, right.
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: He says, relaxes. Frankie says, relax, relax, don't do it
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  Speaker 4: when you want to get to do it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to stop you right there, because you set
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  Speaker 6: up with the film crew and I'm right behind you.
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  Speaker 6: Alex just got this.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, call the service agentcy No, no, no, no, no, She's
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: got it. Valerie paces towards the weight area.
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: Once she's gone, You got this right, Alexa blinks at him.
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: Don't don't, don't, don't run over the narration. Alexa blinks
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: at him. She does not got this. Okay, how about
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: you just called the it guys next door? Why are
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: we calling the art guys?
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: Kyles swoops in to hear the hot gossip. Chris follows
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  Speaker 3: behind her. He speaks in broken English with a finish
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  Speaker 3: accent I.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: The system is down. Brian pulls him into a huddle.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: All right, Sam, Johnny's out. The system is out. This
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: place is the Titanic. Okay, we're Leo. We gotta keep
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: Kate Aflip and Leo. We just have to supports out.
• 11:09
  Speaker 6: The g y M needs this commercial, Kayla. It'll promote
• 11:15
  Speaker 6: your instat Chris, you need this place to stay open
• 11:18
  Speaker 6: for your visa.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: Being in a commercial would look great on my resume.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll see what we can do, and any issues
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  Speaker 6: come up, we handle them ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Deal.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, come hands in g y N All three on.
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: Brian leaves his hand down, Alexa puts hers on top.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: Chris is confused. Kayla rolls her eyes and walks away.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: What two Brian? He rushes off.
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  Speaker 3: Chris leaves Alexa is alone.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, he rushes off.
• 11:57
  Speaker 3: Chris leaves Alexa is alone. Cameraman Sam twenties no nonsense,
• 12:05
  Speaker 3: taps Alexa on the shoulder.
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: Alexa smiles and presents herself to the camera. Hey, excuse me.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: What is g y M stand for? It stands for something.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: Interior Free Weights Area Day.
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: Valerie watches Brian Flubb push up claps through a monitor.
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: Brian, I'm gonna be honest.
• 12:26
  Speaker 4: I've only seen you land one of these, drunk off
• 12:28
  Speaker 4: your ass at a gay bar.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: You No, I got this.
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: I get this.
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: I did like poor my internew for Solstice Jim that
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: shall not be named, Oh, Group Fitness.
• 12:42
  Speaker 6: Do we have a program written up?
• 12:45
  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: And the system Alexa. Call the company number right.
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: Interior Front Desk day Wade, thirties people pleaser shuffles in
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  Speaker 3: the door with a messenger bag and his shirt buttons
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  Speaker 3: all the way to the top.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, is it your NEMO? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Ti, I'm from Check.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: Why do we read?
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: Can we read a bit?
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: Interior Front Desk day Wade, thirties people pleaser shuffles in
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  Speaker 3: the door with a messenger bag and his shirt buttoned
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  Speaker 3: all the way to the top.
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: I'm from tech Warrior. Uh next door?
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: Thank god, the system is down. I can't log in.
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: Nothing sloading.
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: She turns the screen towards him and rapidly clicks refreshed.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, okay, yet, yes, that's all right. That
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: doesn't help. Could be an issue with the server. Do
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: you know where the box is? Kayla spots way from
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  Speaker 1: across the room and hurries over.
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  Speaker 4: I'll show you, I'll show you handsome.
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  Speaker 1: Interior free weights area Day.
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  Speaker 3: Brian cues for another push up, but sees Kayla leading
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  Speaker 3: Wade into the server closet.
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  Speaker 1: Valerie turns to follow.
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  Speaker 3: His gaze, but Brian fumbles a push up.
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  Speaker 1: Valerie helps him up. You're gonna break something. What's the
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: matter with you?
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: Kayla hurries, waiting to the closet, Valerie none the wiser.
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: A TV above Brian displays a local news spotlight.
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  Speaker 1: All thanks down, that was the old and in what's
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: the new? Luxury Joe Cha Solstice, It's opening up?
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  Speaker 5: Brand news?
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: Locare this thing?
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  Speaker 4: Anyone?
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: Interior Front Desk Day, White Trash Spin Diva fifties riftish
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: sheet struts past Alexa without stopping.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: You know me, sweetheart Bike Chris approaches the desk class food.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Huh how we have ten people only night and bike's working?
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: Johnny brooklue this morning? Shoot Fike number one just got here.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: They share a look and run Interior Cycling Studio Day,
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  Speaker 3: Chris and Alexa around the corner, just as White Trash
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  Speaker 3: Spin Diva notices shy spin client.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: On Bike one. Who the hell do you think you are?
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  Speaker 1: Shoot Love Cool Interior Free Weights Area Day.
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  Speaker 3: Brian finally lands a perfect clap push up when.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: Number one since Richard Simmons was sweating too. The oldie
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  Speaker 1: white dressed spin Diva Chase's sy stink.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: Client out the front door, ruining Valerie shot interior Front
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: Desk Day.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Valerie confronts Alexa. Brian hot at her heel. What is
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: going on? Brian grimaces and gives it a cut it
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: out motion? Geeze us upset. We didn't want to be
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: on the list. The class is fall because of the promotion?
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Are you on something?
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Bright?
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  Speaker 1: Commercial blares on the TV above the front.
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  Speaker 3: Desk sleek aesthetics, modern machines, sexy fitness trainers.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: Now here you want to get fit? Your first is Free.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Valerie slaps the off button.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: All TVs are conspicuously off for the rest of the episode.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: We get the TV commercial again, and while you do it,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: I'd like to get some you know reactions, you know,
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  Speaker 1: booze hissess that commercial place? Okay, So we'll read it
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: and you can do a radiover the commercial.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Stupid is Free.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Valerie slaps the off button.
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  Speaker 3: All TVs are conspicuously off for the rest of the episode.
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  Speaker 1: End of back one, Yeah, pitch up.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Now pretend you're all listening the next week in
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: your car