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My name is Anthony Norman. I'm 25 years old. I'm from Nashville, Tennessee.

An exciting time for us because we're about to go on our big retreat.

And that's what you're helping out with here.

Anthony, I need to talk to you right now.

Father to father, I need to talk to you. Let go!

Anthony, come up here. I'm going to talk to you myself.

Have a seat, my friend.

Have a seat. Make yourself comfortable.

Here we go. Here we go.

Okay, here we go. Camera's ready.

All right, cue dug out.

Cue dug out.

All right, listen. I just want to say what Anthony just did.

For him to bust into that room and to stop that deal, I mean, that took guts.

The truth is that we have actually hoped that you would bust through that room

and stop that deal since the very first minute you showed up at Rockin'

Grandma's. Really?

I told you that this was my last company retreat.

Yeah. What I didn't tell you was that it was also my first company retreat.

Because I'm not actually the CEO of Rockin' Grandma's.

You see, Rockin' Grandma is not a real company. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

That is not my son over there.

You're lying. You're lying.

How? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on, hold on. Anthony. I'm about to mess

my brain up. Hold on, hold on. Anthony, we are all actors, and this

is a TV show.

And the only thing that's real is you.

Give him a minute.

Take your time, baby. Take your time. Oh, man.

You know what's crazy is I've been saying that his whole time.

His whole time.

We know. We know.

Every time I'm like, this date, what's going to be next?

I feel like I'm living in a TV show.

Oh, my goodness. Y 'all are incredible actors. All of y 'all. Y 'all are

phenomenal actors.

Marjorie, too? She's an actor?

Yes.

Yes, absolutely.

Even though Rockin' Grandma's wasn't a real company, you were definitely its

best employee.

You showed that you had a deep affection for the

family of Rockin' Grandma's. No matter what we threw at you, you kept your

You calmly took on the role of Captain Fun when your boss left the retreat on

the very first day.

Everything's good. You're going to have a great time. You're captain. You got

this. You got this. I don't got this.

And Dougie, my God, you helped him every single day.

You're not going to believe me, Doug.

I got your back. No one believes me. I believe you. You sound like you don't

believe in yourself.

I do, but he doesn't. I will back you.

So this really isn't your dad?

That's really not my dad.

Really? That's really not my dad. Really, really. That's not my dad.

But what is real is the friendship that we made. You are my brother for life. So

thank you for being there for Dougie and really being there for me through this

whole thing. I love you, bro. Absolutely. Love you too, man.

Anthony. Hold on, hold on. Pause, pause, pause.

Do you really like snacks?

Like, is that real? Are you really going to make a PJ snack talk or was that all

BS? Well, now I feel like I have to.

Yeah.

Hey, Anthony.

I'm Stephanie. I'm not Helen.

And... He was my favorite.

He was my favorite.

I have to tell you what you did for me.

As an older person, you get pushed to the side a lot. You get in the last

You get chosen last for the game.

And you didn't ever see me that way. You saw me as a person.

and not some older lady.

And that means the world to me.

And the amount of love that you gave everybody here made my heart so huge and

happy. And I'm just grateful for you. And you are a fine, fine man. And don't

you ever forget that, okay?

Okay.

There's more.

For all the hard work you've done for us, we would like to give you something.

A final paycheck in the amount of $150

,000.

Okay. Congratulations.

You are. Yeah.

We love you, man.

And at this point, we have special guests who would like to join us here.

And if it's okay with you, we would like to introduce you to the

team.

Where did these people come from?

Where were y 'all hiding at?

The amount of people that went into making this possible for me to have this

experience, it seemed like people were coming out of everywhere and everything.

I'm grateful for all y 'all.

I have questions like, how did I go from an assistant to being in a

TV show?

And we've got answers.

Can I get one more hug from my family?

We are scouting Oak Canyon, which will be our home for this season.

In the first season of Jury Duty, we had to worry about essentially three rooms,

and now we have a site that is ten times that size.

It will be the basis of the retreat.

Thinking about doing a yurt with a roof piece, I have some renders here.

We need to build a huge amount in addition to the existing structures to

us to cover the storylines we have planned, as well as accommodate the

cast and hero that are staying on site throughout the shoot. It's a massive

undertaking. We're building a fake world they'll all be living in.

Hi, my name is Ryan Perez.

Hi, my name is Erica Hernandez.

I'm Mark Salisa -Flair.

My name is Rachel Colley. Hi, my name is Warren Burke.

Stephanie Hodge. Hi, I'm Jim Wood.

Hey, I'm Rob Latham. Hey, my name is Alex Bonifer.

So I did tell you, y 'all are going by y 'all's normal names. I'm not relearning

names. Can I tell you, we barely know each other's real names. Yeah, we don't

know everybody's names.

Really? We barely.

Y 'all seemed so close. Like, there was no prep work at all. Oh, there was.

Months of rehearsal.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the next iteration of Jury News Day.

202, act one.

Waiting for Doug to arrive and start the morning meeting.

All right, you guys.

I'm going to make an executive call. I'm thinking we should probably wait for my

dad before we get started.

No, otherwise.

People talk about how they can laugh.

I'm Helen Saper. I've been here since 1999, which is 26 years.

I was the first employee Doug called.

And I was surprised that people did not like the honey butter chips from Korea.

I thought it'd be a hit, but, you know, we learned.

And at 5 o 'clock, I'm out. I'm picking up the twins from soccer and karate.

On Fridays, we go to church.

Amen. Hallelujah.

Before doing this show, I sort of had the misconception that, like, if you

up and sort of mutter some improv, you know, with an earshot of a normal

that there's a show. Quite to the contrary, the show, it involves a very

work. We knew that our cameras were here, here, and here.

You were coming in and talking to Hiro, right?

Part of your job before you get into the scene is you keep talking to him,

right? Oh, yeah, yeah. So you're talking like this because now Hiro's going to

talk to me this way.

Right. And now I'm now we can see the hero. Right. Your blocking has to be

precise in certain cases.

I think it's just a twisty.

Oh, man.

It was actually more like doing a stage musical at certain points than doing an

improv show just for sheer precision.

Don't do it.

Stop. Stop the bananas.

You can face up. Okay. That'd be a funny place to panic. Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then we see you like this, right? You're holding up

what? Oh, my God.

And then like trying to move and you kind of can't move. Okay.

Yeah, Jackie!

I almost just destroyed Max.

One, two.

To prepare for the battle that happens in the Doug Castle line, Wendy, who

Elizabeth, and I met with Charlie, who's the stunt coordinator on this. The

hardest part of rehearsing for that was doing it while balancing on the

inflatable cord.

Yeah.

I don't know how you prepare for that. It is really hard to stand up there.

This is designed to take you.

So, I mean, if you want to reach with the elbow a little bit, it's natural.

The biggest part of that cell, honestly, was then Wendy ran over to the side and

got bloodied up for that reveal.

So that he didn't know that this was all just like TV magic.

Grandma's hot sausage.

We have not tried this one yet. No, we tried the green and you did not like the

green.

It's smoke forward.

Smoke forward?

Is it too smoky? It's so smoky. I thought it maybe tasted like a tiger.

It is day one.

Enjoy it. Have a great day today. We buy all the fun and games that we're going

to get into for the next two weeks. We're all so excited to be working with

everyone in this room. Thank you very much. We've come this far.

Have a great day.

Okay,

here we go again.

Let's do it.

Yeah, Brian, heroes landed. Heroes landed.

Let me see you widen out and include a piece of PJ in your frame there.

Let me get a little conference room spot for you, Benji.

I think the conference room light's auto -turned off. That's fine.

Here we have probably 45, 50 cameras.

We've got tents everywhere.

Everything has to be blacked out.

Another false wall. We shortened the hallway.

I just, all of this for little old me.

What's the proper name for this room? Control. The control room.

And every day there'd be about 30 people hiding in this room.

Silently. And we would sneak out every morning and every evening. You know

what's crazy?

I was like, we never go back here. What is this?

All right, let's keep on coming.

Anthony, are these carts?

Yeah. Yeah, there's cameras in those.

Hitting cameras everywhere.

Everywhere. There were hides everywhere, like the garbage cans.

look like just regular old garbage cans, and there's cameras behind them. You're

walking, there's a camera tracking you on a wire.

Yeah, it was really cool.

Oh!

Oh, my goodness.

You looked right up at Liz today for about five seconds, and looked straight

him. Oh,

no.

No,

no clue.

I'm trying to replay everything in my mind all at once.

How did I miss this? How did I not see any of this going on? Every morning when

you would leave, all these people would come in and then we would go back out. I

was kind of curious because sometimes we would literally just go get breakfast

in the morning and come back and I'm like, what the fuck are we doing?

We send Hero off on a run.

Then a hundred people swarm into this little area like cockroaches coming out

the room.

And then we have this quick meeting, because he's coming. He's coming. He's

coming. We got to get out. We got to get out.

Hold the talk. Let's go. We got to get out of here. All right, guys.

Super, super short, because he's got a tiny run, because it's late. We got to

get out of here. But holy, great job.

A hundred people swarm out, and then it's just the, like, 14 of us.

Did you look at my card?

I did.

Yeah.

Yes, cameras are down, but, like, we're still, In character.

Come on, dude.

Boom.

Did you hear about how we almost ruined our own ending today?

When the notary arrived, we needed him to lock his keys

and his stamps in the car to delay the signing.

But when he pulled up...

Why is there a window?

The car was like, you just go over and... Reach in? Yeah. Reach in and open

And we were like, oh, no.

Marjorie, we have an emergency.

I need her card. Do you have the card?

I need you to hustle over towards the front of the welcome center.

Hustle over towards the front of the welcome center.

Okay. So what should I do? He can't play the lock bit now because the window's

open on his car and he doesn't realize it.

So you got to come help him. ASAP. ASAP. Run. You got to hustle down there,

Marjorie. Sorry.

You're like, oh, good. You're here.

Oh, good. You're here.

You know what?

Hang on one second.

No, no, no.

Intercept him.

Get him now. Get him now. He's about to go back.

No, no, no. Shake his hand. Hey, I'm Marjorie. Hey, Marjorie. Arnold, how are

you? Nice to meet you. Sorry. You made it. Yeah, I made it. Okay, good.

Hang on one sec.

No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no.

It's okay. Okay. You're good. So you just go back to the business center.

I'll show him. Yeah, sorry.

Okay.

Stay with him, stay with him, stay with him.

Okay, slowly walk behind him.

You know, we appreciate you coming out and helping us get through this, I

deal. All right, make sure they don't come back. John's going to run out, roll

up the window, we're going to lock the car.

Doug,

he doesn't know the car is locked yet, so he's going to have to go back and

check for a stanchion in the car.

Thank you.

I left my stamp in the car. The car is locked, right?

I'm going to give MVP to Marjorie.

Marjorie, you saved our butts.

Yeah, no problem. I look forward to explaining to me what the hell just

happened.

Can we hold on a second? Listen, that's where they're going.

Those are fire trucks.

There was something that smelled like smoke earlier.

That day that they're playing, we were like, we can't hold for sound.

We can't hold for sound.

That was wild.

Did you guys call the,

like, for me? Yeah.

Did Marjorie?

I don't know. Did Marjorie call, like, rescue?

I don't think so.

Oh, when you were missing, maybe. I hope she didn't call.

I don't think.

Oh, something we should let you know is that, like, we had a lot of speakers in

educational classes.

Only about, like, three or four of those were, like, real people.

Most of those were, like, just actors pretending to try to give advice and get

jokes out of it. Any other questions? Yeah.

Yeah, can you speak about the corrosive influence of money in politics?

Helen's eyes are closed.

Okay, hi.

Just making sure.

We were supposed to not laugh during seminar, but I failed every time.

I'm going to put be a whore on my bucket list. Oh, my God. Oh, do not do that.

Do not do that. I couldn't help but laugh because it was ridiculous.

What are you doing?

Why did you turn my computer off?

This is like...

I had a huge problem with the seminars because I couldn't stop laughing.

But if I was an HR representative and you hand me this, I would have thought

that's a Cheerios.

So that's... You can learn a lot by handwriting.

Yeah. Thank God my penis remained in my suit, but the testicles was what I was

worried about. The Scott Norris workshop, talking about his balls. I

was all shocking. Like, we didn't know what was going to happen in the seminars

a lot of the times. My testicles are black.

They're hard. They're ice cold. Now the dead tissue that were my testicles, I

take myself.

I mean, Ian Roberts was so funny. It was just like he really just like pushed

the buttons over and over and over without breaking.

Pushed snow next to my testicles. And at this point, I'm like, God, kill me!

One of my favorite memories was when Rob and I were making out at... page brush

and i have that earwig in and just giving notes to rob inside of his mouth

going like they're still coming they're watching they're coming oh keep going it

was so funny because we you could like feel each other smile can you see when

they come back okay i mean i have to get ready

To go from saying no to Kevin down to making out with other Anthony, I'm just

like, Amy.

No Herbie's, no hickeys. No relationship.

And this might be the most unbelievable thing to you, but I have two kids.

My position here is assistant sourcing and procurement

manager. So I'm in charge of, like, ordering all the ingredients for the hot

sauce. Oh, hey.

The way he acted, like, I believed every moment of who he was and just his

personality. I was just like, he's an interesting character.

Well, he's your mailman, Mom. He's not, I don't think he's spying.

He's allowed to open that. That's your mailbox.

I don't want this to come across the wrong way, but are you a mama's boy?

Uh, I, uh, yeah.

No shame, hey, hey, no shame. I called home to my mom just as much as I called

to talk to my son. This is strength right here. Right, right.

And what did you think of this season's bad guys when Trucas showed up?

They were like robots, honestly, to me.

They were just part of this big company that they all looked alike.

I don't really have a dog and fight. I just wish what's best for the employees.

I will say that I hope we don't see a big business take over and turn it into

something that it's not.

My heart's been with you even though I've needed you to hate me, but I've

you watching. I'm not going to lie, you did an amazing job.

I still have a little bit of... Not really, but when I see y 'all, I'm like,

these guys, get them out of here.

They did a great job acting as well.

It was acting because we're not...

We're not robots. We actually have souls, and it felt so shitty to be mean

these people. You guys were so warm. I'm shitty. I'm actually mean.

I will say this. If trucas think they can just come in and do whatever they

like they want to do, they're in for a rude awakening.

Also, you might like to know that, as they became known, Boy Red and Girl Red

were also writers on the show.

We got reports back. You were saying stuff like, man, you can't write this

stuff.

I guess you can.

Dougie ran away, and you were like, he's got to be up that mountain. We're like,

who sent him this?

I mean, a part of me feels like he might have went that way just to go get lost

in nature and be by himself.

Like up in the mountain.

The only place I could think is like he would cross over the river and like go

be up by himself in nature, like up in the mountain.

That makes sense. That makes sense.

That's a good point.

Yeah, we got to find him.

We're like, that's not part of the script yet.

We still got three more lines. Hold on. We're like, okay, we got to go.

This whole show is predicated in a way on a normal human being being smart

enough and being curious enough to make all the connections and being able to

put. the plot together and everything and caring enough. Think about coming

maybe for like, at least the last couple of days, just so that way you get to

have this experience with us and then we get to have this experience with you,

man. I've been telling you I think you should come back, but you know, if

not ready to come back, then I get that.

It was meant to kind of be like, oh, maybe I'll sort of come back or

And that invitation came almost right away. It was like, come back, come back.

Are you the amazing father that I looked up to?

Yes. I have a daughter.

Okay. I'm Doug Jr., CEO of Rockin' Grandma. You're not Doug Jr. I did it

Senile old person checking out. Here we go.

I'm Doug Womack. You know that.

You're the best.

Don't worry about it.

It's okay. It's okay.

My son, Dougie Womack Jr.

Oh, I love you. I love you.

I love you, buddy. I love you.

Love you. You're the best. I love you.

Take care. I love you.

I think that's really what sold, like, them being, you know, even if this was a

show, everybody was acting, like, I still would have believed that they were

related or, like, that was pops because they were kissing each other.

Last one.

Love you, buddy.

Yo,

this is a big dude. If he wants the kiss, you're kissing.

Is there anything you want to ask these guys about stuff that happened? Was your

face really breaking out? No.

Really? I'm sorry.

In my head, I was like, she's a little wild. Like, she knows it's going to, you

know, mess her up, but she kept going anyways.

When I have the allergic reaction to the crab legs was one of my favorites. Just

because it's like, you know, Anthony goes down the hill. We had 20 minutes to

kind of get me into this makeup.

All right.

Game time.

Makeup.

Day is about to get better. What do you think about turf and surf?

Does that feel good for you guys? Yeah, I think so. Yeah,

they're saying yeah.

Get her back out.

Okay, let's get her out.

And then I had to pretend to be having this big allergic reaction.

Your face.

What? Oh, my God. It's like broken out.

You need to go get better.

I don't know if people make that noise, but my grandma did that all the time.

She always had itchy ears, and she would walk around the house being like...

And I was like, that's disgusting.

Ameth, what are you thinking about right now?

I just, like, I can't imagine what he did.

It's just so cool.

And, like, you accepted all of us. And, yeah, I don't know. It just makes me

laugh that you would give Dougie a chance.

Absolutely.

Early on in the process, I said something to Jimmy.

I said, this will be the best gig we ever have.

And it's because of you, Anthony. You changed my life for real. And you

all of ours.

I

would

like to say one more thing. Like, I'm really still shocked and surprised is my

word because I'm still surprised. Like, in this moment, even though I know

the... The jig is up, or however you say it.

Y 'all did a phenomenal job, and thank you.

Well, thank you. It would be really weird if you weren't shocked.

I still love each and every one of you guys, even though y 'all were lying to

me.

If there's one thing I can take away from the Rockin' Grandma experience,

not the job, it's the people that you work with and the environment that you

to every day is what makes you feel whole and makes you feel like you're

the right thing.

Oh, yeah.

You had me working this hard, and you had to pump the whole time.

My bad.

Come here.

You're good, man. Take a breath. Breathe.

No. All right. Yeah, no, I appreciate it. As long as you're being yourself,

that's all that matters.

That's true.

Yeah.

You're doing good work, man. Keep rolling with the punches, boss. You got

It really just starts with the way that they made me feel. They made me feel

very welcome and at home.

I want to whisper something here that I meant to tell you when we were in

Europe, but I just couldn't speak.

If I had a son, I would want him to be you.

And that's the truth.

I know if you had a son, he would be better than you.

No. I don't think there's very many people better than you.

So I definitely was taking away the fact that whenever I go back to look for my

purpose in life, to make sure that...

Whatever it is I'm doing is I'm doing it around the right people.

All right, one, two, three.

Stay

tuned

for a special follow -up series taking us behind the scenes of company retreat.

Currently boarding my airplane on my way back to L .A.

I have a lot of questions for you. Oh, I know you do, man. I'm sure you

do. No,

I'm here.

I thought I was only doing one season of this show. I'm not a series regular.

The first cut, man, you look good, brother. It's good to see you.

I mean, I've got a million questions.

I don't feel like I should be rewarded.

I don't think that y 'all should call me a hero or anything like that because I

just feel like I did what I was supposed to do.