Table Read

Manifest Media / TABLE READ

Cinema for your ears. Performed by Hollywood’s best. Step inside the studio where Hollywood’s top actors bring award-winning screenplays to life... complete with a full cinematic score, immersive sound design, and the energy of a live performance. Each episode is a front-row seat to a one-of-a-kind production: 20-plus working actors, world-class scripts from acclaimed writers, and film-quality sound crafted by Emmy-winning producers. It’s not just a podcast... it’s a movie you hear. Recent guests include Mark Hamill, Rosario Dawson, Ty Burrell, Joe Mantegna, Fred Armisen, and more. Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell Manifest Media. #1 Fiction Podcast | 2025 Webby, Shorty, and Signal Winner | Cinema for your ears. 👉 TableReadPodcast.com

  1. THE G.Y.M. — PILOT ACTS 2 & 3

    15H AGO

    THE G.Y.M. — PILOT ACTS 2 & 3

    THE G.Y.M. — PILOT, ACTS TWO AND THREE By Dani Hanks Pick up where Act One left off. Valerie still cannot get her commercial. The film crew is still in her face. The Solstice gym across the street is still winning. And things are about to get considerably worse. Bryan is teaching group fitness despite not knowing what "happy baby" is, and every senior in the building keeps asking when Reggie is coming back. Kayla is supposed to be training her client. Her client is currently turning purple under a barbell. The cameraman looks weirdly familiar to her and she cannot place it. Chris is somewhere in the locker room going through a smoothie situation he did not ask for. Wade the IT guy is crawling through a server closet stuffed with the unpaid invoices Valerie has been hiding in her clipboard. And Valerie, our hero, has just told the cute IT guy that her anaconda doesn't want his real estate funds. It's fine. Everything is fine. By the time we get to the pool, Alexa is jumping off a diving board she has no business being on, Bryan is leading a secret back room of seniors through a yoga pose he learned thirty seconds ago, Wade is sitting next to a soaking wet Valerie holding the worst envelopes she's ever seen in her life, and the truth about who's been filming all day is about to drop in the middle of the room like a brick through a window. Underneath the chaos, this is what the show is actually about: a woman trying to save the only place she ever felt at home, with a crew of misfits who have nowhere else to go either. Norman Lear would recognize this gym. So would anybody who's ever worked at one. Meanwhile, across the street, in a chrome office at the new Solstice, a Southern silver fox in a tall cowboy hat is watching the whole thing through binoculars. He is having the time of his life. He is not done with The G.Y.M. Not even close. Recorded live at Podcast Movement at SXSW in front of a packed house of our peers, and you can hear it in the room. Video version available on YouTube and across our channels. CAST Heather Foster - Narrator Allison Dunbar - Valerie Yasmine Al-Bustami - Kayla and Spin Client Kensington Tallman - Alexa and White Trash Spin Diva Shaan Sharma - Wade, Bored EMT, and Johnny Joe Nemmers - Gary Hughes, Cocky Newscaster, Television, and Gruff Driver Jacob A. Ware - Bryan and Sam Brian Villalobos - Chris, Weak-Armed Client, and Handyman Amy Bailey - Mary, Gem, Peppy Newscaster, First AC, and Phone Scott Hervey - Client Carlin (special guest appearance, our attorney from Weintraub Tobin) Produced by Manifest Media. Created by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Shaan Sharma. This live read benefits Best Friends Animal Society, selected by Allison Dunbar, dedicated to bringing no-kill to every shelter in the country. Save Them All. bestfriends.org/donate See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    23 min
  2. You Might Also Like: The Personal Finance Podcast

    15H AGO ·  BONUS

    You Might Also Like: The Personal Finance Podcast

    Introducing How to Build Your Investment Portfolio (The Portfolio Pyramid!) from The Personal Finance Podcast. Follow the show: The Personal Finance Podcast Most new investors start building their portfolio completely backwards. Here is the exact framework to build it the right way from the very first dollar.  👉 Join Andrew's FREE Portfolio Pyramid Masterclass. What You'll Learn in This Episode The complete Portfolio Pyramid framework and exactly how much of your money belongs in each of the three tiers Why the foundation should make up 80% of your portfolio and what happens to your wealth when you skip it The specific index funds and ETFs that belong in your foundation and why they outperform most professional money managers What the growth layer is, what goes in it, and the individual stocks Andrew is personally buying right now When you have actually earned the right to add speculative assets to your portfolio and how much is too much The biggest mistakes investors make at every tier and how to avoid all of them Four advanced Q&As covering a guaranteed $99K teacher's pension, lowering taxes on a $1M 401k rollover, Medicare costs in retirement, and protecting your portfolio as you age Start Here  Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom.   👉 Try Master Money Academy FREE for 7 days today! 👉 Join Andrew’s FREE Investing for Beginners Masterclass. 👉 Join The Master Money Newsletter where you will become smarter with your money in 5 minutes or less per week Here! Partner Deals Indeed → Get a $75 sponsored job credit http://Indeed.com/personalfinance Policygenius → Free life insurance quote http://policygenius.com Acorns → Start investing + get $5 bonus http://acorns.com/pfp Monarch → The all-in-one financial tool + Get 50% Off at http://www.monarch.com/PFP Shopify → Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at http://shopify.com/pfp   Wayfair → Get 80% OFF on April 25th through the 27th http://wayfair.com   DeleteMe → 20% off with code PFP https://joindeleteme.com/PFP20/ Tool/s Mentioned Investment Calculator Retirement Calculator  Resource/s Mentioned Trust and Will   Episode/s Mentioned The Simple Path to Wealth (With J.L. Collins)  The Biggest Retirement Mistakes People Make (Avoid These!) Jesse Cramer  Watch Next How to Invest Your First $10K  The Financial Priorities That Matter Most (By Life Stage)  AI Is Coming for Your Job. Here's How to Prepare Financially   How to Reduce Your Car Insurance (And Save Thousands)  The $10K, $100K, $1M Milestones That Change Everything Connect with Andrew Instagram Website TikTok X LinkedIn YouTube Question for you: Where are you right now in the Portfolio Pyramid? Are you still building your foundation, starting to add growth layer investments, or have you moved into speculation territory?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to team@podroll.fm.

  3. THE G.Y.M. — PILOT, ACT ONE

    MAY 5

    THE G.Y.M. — PILOT, ACT ONE

    THE G.Y.M. — PILOT, ACT ONE By Dani Hanks Welcome to the run-down fitness s******e at the end of the strip mall. Two buildings left standing, a tech repair shop and The G.Y.M., and across the street a brand new chrome-and-barbell luxury chain called Solstice is having its grand opening on the same day Valerie is trying to film her grand re-opening commercial. Valerie inherited her childhood sanctuary the hard way. The previous owner got hauled off in handcuffs as "The Flamingo King," the FBI took the penguins, and she sank her life savings into keeping the bulldozers off the lot. Now the bike handlebars are snapping mid-shoot, the wifi is down, the POS is down, the smoothie blender is wifi-controlled (a mistake), and a real estate vulture in pinstripes will not stop circling the parking lot. Her ragtag crew, an Insta-thirsty trainer, a Finnish golden retriever on a visa, a chaos-gremlin receptionist who cannot swim, a buttoned-up IT guy from next door, a smoothie-bar veteran who misses the cocaine era, and a crystal-worshipping yogi with prison connections, is the only thing standing between Valerie and the wrecking ball. It's a found-family workplace comedy in the bloodline of Cheers, Superstore, and The Bear, but make it the gym. HBO sitcom material with prime-network legs. Dani Hanks' pilot won the 2024 Austin Film Festival Josephson Entertainment Fellowship, the year-long development deal AFF hands to the one teleplay it bets the most on, and ISA named Dani one of the Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2025. We recorded this live at Podcast Movement at SXSW in front of a packed house of our peers, and you can hear it in the room. The energy, the laughs landing in real time, the cast riding the wave together. Video version available on YouTube and across our channels. Lean in with that, then let Act One take you the rest of the way. CAST Heather Foster - Narrator Allison Dunbar - Valerie Yasmine Al-Bustami - Kayla and Spin Client Kensington Tallman - Alexa and White Trash Spin Diva Shaan Sharma - Wade, Bored EMT, and Johnny Joe Nemmers - Gary Hughes, Cocky Newscaster, Television, and Gruff Driver Jacob A. Ware - Bryan and Sam Brian Villalobos - Chris, Weak-Armed Client, and Handyman Amy Bailey - Mary, Gem, Peppy Newscaster, First AC, and Phone Scott Hervey - Client Carlin (special guest appearance, our attorney from Weintraub Tobin) Produced by Manifest Media. Created by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Shaan Sharma. This live read benefits Best Friends Animal Society, selected by Allison Dunbar, dedicated to bringing no-kill to every shelter in the country. Save Them All. bestfriends.org/donate See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    17 min
  4. PV & FRANNY - Part 2

    APR 28

    PV & FRANNY - Part 2

    PV & FRANNY A girl with a glockenspiel. A boy with a guitar. A high school full of weirdos, mascots who may or may not be unhinged, and a mystery that isn’t what anyone thinks it is. A dead-serious love story… that refuses to behave like one. One flier turns into a band. One band turns into obsession. And before they ever play a real set, everything is already ridiculous. ACT TWO If Act One is about starting a band, Act Two is about what happens when everything immediately gets in the way. Franny does what any rational person would do. He writes a love song. Which would be fine… except for the rule. No romance. Ever. And PV means it. What follows is a series of perfectly logical decisions that somehow make everything worse. A love song that says too much. A date that shouldn’t exist. A plan to fix things that only complicates them further. Because if PV won’t date a bandmate, there’s only one solution: Make the competition part of the band. Which works. Until it doesn’t. As alliances shift, rules get enforced, and Franny finds himself deeper in a situation he cannot control, the band becomes something else entirely. Not just music. Not just friendship. Something closer to a test. Of loyalty. Of identity. Of whether you can separate what you create from how you feel. And in the middle of it all, the stakes quietly expand. A school competition that suddenly matters. A partnership that feels more intense than anything either of them expected. And a realization that success might not look the way they imagined it. Act Two is where the band takes shape, the lines get blurred, and the consequences of those rules start to land. Because sometimes the only thing more complicated than love… …is trying to avoid it. 🎭 CAST NARRATOR – Ty Burrell AJAY – Rahm Braslaw JUDY – Samantha Morelos MARIAN – Eileen Fogarty PV – Kensington Tallman RYUZO – O’Neill Monahan FRANNY – Liam Richardson GROUNDSKEEPER – Fred Armisen DALE – Ruben Ray TAP WATER BOTTLED WATER JINGLE – Chris Mann 🎬 PRODUCTION Written by Tommy Wallach Directed by Mark Knell & Jack Levy Executive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, and Mark Knell Table Read is a Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    18 min
  5. PV & FRANNY - Part 1

    APR 21

    PV & FRANNY - Part 1

    PV & FRANNY A girl with a glockenspiel. A boy with a guitar. A high school full of weirdos, mascots who may or may not be unhinged, and a mystery that isn’t what anyone thinks it is. A dead-serious love story… that refuses to behave like one. One flier turns into a band. One band turns into obsession. And before they ever play a real set, everything is already ridiculous. ACT ONE Overton High is chaos in a controlled environment. The mascot smokes. The journalist thinks she’s breaking Watergate. The nicest bully in school politely refuses lunch money. And then there’s PV. Brilliant. Intense. Completely uncompromising. She doesn’t want to start a band. She wants to build something real. Franny Blevins just wants to be part of it. What begins as an awkward coffee shop encounter quickly turns into a partnership built on music, rules, and one very firm boundary: No romance. Ever. Which becomes a problem almost immediately. As Franny gets pulled deeper into PV’s world, her music, her logic, her investigations, and her completely upside-down way of seeing everything, the stakes escalate in the most unexpected ways. A hate note that isn’t hate. An audition that turns into an interrogation. A band that starts to feel like something much bigger… and much messier. Act One is the beginning of the band, the beginning of the obsession, and the moment everything starts to spiral just slightly out of control. 🎭 CAST NARRATOR – Ty Burrell AJAY – Rahm Braslaw JUDY – Samantha Morelos MARIAN – Eileen Fogarty PV – Kensington Tallman RYUZO – O’Neill Monahan FRANNY – Liam Richardson GROUNDSKEEPER – Fred Armisen DALE – Ruben Ray TAP WATER BOTTLED WATER JINGLE – Chris Mann 🎬 PRODUCTION Written by Tommy Wallach Directed by Mark Knell & Jack Levy Executive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, and Mark Knell Table Read is a Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    21 min
  6. MY LADY'S SONG - Act 3

    APR 7

    MY LADY'S SONG - Act 3

    A mother is murdered. A tape destroys everything. And a driver who kept his mouth shut for twelve years finally decides to speak — with blood. ACT THREE The blackmail worked. That’s the problem. Because once the truth is out, there’s nothing left to negotiate. Only what it costs. Sal is done driving. He’s done surviving. And for the first time since he walked out of prison, he’s not trying to stay clean... he’s trying to settle accounts. Hara finally reveals what Lotta really built, not a hustle, not a side game, but a system designed to take down men who thought they were untouchable. Vincent moves to contain it. Charlie gets caught in the fallout. And Carmela... the only innocent in a guilty world, pays for all of it. That’s the moment the story breaks. Not when the tape surfaces. When the family does. Act Three is not about power. It’s about what power does when it slips. Doors close. Phones stop ringing. Old friends don’t answer. And the men who used to run everything start hiding from one man who has nothing left to lose. Sal isn’t looking for a way out. He’s looking for the last word. And it’s waiting in a garage... one hostage, one voice over the intercom, and one decision that decides who walks and who gets carried out. My Lady’s Song was never about blackmail. It was about what happens after. This is the part nobody survives. 🎭 CAST SAL – Ronnie Marmo CHARLIE – Sam McMurray SENATOR BAXTER / THE JOHN – Joe Mantegna VINCENT – Dan Lauria HARA – Gia Mantegna LOTTA – Ally Dunbar DONNA – Janelle Marmo CARMELA – Patty McCormack PORN DIRECTOR – Robert Wuhl LEO – Zeke Alton ANTHONY – Alec Leonard NARRATOR – Vanessa Richardson With additional performances from: Janelle Marmo, Ally Dunbar, Gia Mantegna, Zeke Alton, Alec Leonard 🎬 PRODUCTION Directed by Jack Levy & Mark Knell Executive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Mark Knell, and Jack Levy Table Read is a Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    49 min
  7. MY LADY'S SONG - Act 2

    MAR 31

    MY LADY'S SONG - Act 2

    A limo driver. A blackmail tape in motion. A senator with everything to protect.   What started as leverage is about to turn into control, betrayal, and survival. ACT TWO The ride is over. The damage is not. What was leverage becomes exposure.   And everyone wants a piece of it. Sal thought he could drive away from it.   He was wrong. The tape moves. Hands change. Intentions shift.   And the people behind it start stepping into the light. Vincent steps in. Old world. Old rules.   A man who understands that power isn’t what you have… it’s what you can take back. Charlie circles.   Smiling just enough to make you wonder how far this goes. And Baxter? He doesn’t panic. He recalculates.   Because men like him don’t lose… they rewrite the outcome. Hara sees it too. The angles. The leverage. The opening.   And she’s not asking permission. The city fades in the rearview. The road stretches out.   What’s left is distance… and decisions. Who controls the tape?   Who controls the story?   And who walks away from it? Because now it’s not about the job. It’s about ownership. Act Two is where alliances fracture, truth gets negotiated, and silence becomes the most dangerous move in the room. And by the time it’s over… no one is clean. 🎭 CAST SAL – Ronnie Marmo   CHARLIE – Sam McMurray   SENATOR BAXTER / THE JOHN – Joe Mantegna   VINCENT – Dan Lauria   HARA – Gia Mantegna   LOTTA – Ally Dunbar   NARRATOR – Vanessa Richardson   DONNA – Janelle Marmo   CARMELA – Patty McCormack   PORN DIRECTOR – Robert Wuhl   LEO – Zeke Alton   ANTHONY – Alec Leonard   With additional performances from:   Janelle Marmo, Ally Dunbar, Gia Mantegna, Zeke Alton, Alec Leonard   🎬 PRODUCTION Directed by Jack Levy  & Mark Knell Executive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, and Mark Knell   Table Read is a Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    43 min
  8. My Lady's Song - Act 1

    MAR 24

    My Lady's Song - Act 1

    MY LADY'S SONG A limo driver. Two porn stars. A senator with everything to lose. One night in New York that turns into leverage, betrayal, and war. ACT ONE New York. Late-night Eighth Avenue. Strip clubs, neon, and power moving quietly behind tinted glass. Sal “The Barber” Marino is a former soldier of the streets, a man who did twelve years without talking and now makes a living driving high-end clients through a city he no longer trusts. One call pulls him back in. A simple job. Easy money. Drive the girls. Pick up the client. Keep your mouth shut. But the client is a powerful senator. The ride is being recorded. And the job isn’t what it seems. What starts as routine turns into leverage. a blackmail setup that reaches into politics, unions, and the last remnants of old-school control. As the night bleeds into morning and the city gives way to the open road, Sal is locked in with Hara; young, sharp, and unpredictable. Two worlds collide. Old code versus new survival. And then it breaks. A confrontation. A line crossed. A slap that lands harder than anything that came before. That’s the moment everything changes. Act One ends when business becomes personal... and there’s no going back. 🎭 CAST SAL – Ronnie Marmo CHARLIE – Sam McMurray SENATOR BAXTER / THE JOHN – Joe Mantegna VINCENT – Dan Lauria HARA – Gia Mantegna LOTTA – Ally Dunbar NARRATOR – Vanessa Richardson DONNA – Janelle Marmo CARMELA – Patty McCormack PORN DIRECTOR – Robert Wuhl LEO – Zeke Alton ANTHONY – Alec Leonard 🎬 PRODUCTION Directed by Mark Knell & Jack Levy Executive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, and Mark Knell Table Read is a Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    43 min
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Cinema for your ears. Performed by Hollywood’s best. Step inside the studio where Hollywood’s top actors bring award-winning screenplays to life... complete with a full cinematic score, immersive sound design, and the energy of a live performance. Each episode is a front-row seat to a one-of-a-kind production: 20-plus working actors, world-class scripts from acclaimed writers, and film-quality sound crafted by Emmy-winning producers. It’s not just a podcast... it’s a movie you hear. Recent guests include Mark Hamill, Rosario Dawson, Ty Burrell, Joe Mantegna, Fred Armisen, and more. Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell Manifest Media. #1 Fiction Podcast | 2025 Webby, Shorty, and Signal Winner | Cinema for your ears. 👉 TableReadPodcast.com

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    Manifest Media / TABLE READ
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    2023 - 2026
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