EVAN, SCOTT, HECTOR, and AMANDA meet in HECTOR’s apartment. It is a small studio condo in Los Angeles.
AMANDA
Hector, you said this place is big.
HECTOR
It is.
EVAN
Is it?
HECTOR
Bigger than anything else I’ve lived in here. I’m not made of cash you know.
SCOTT
Already, let’s figure out our streaming service. You guys are lucky I have experience with—
AMANDA
Keep it short and sweet.
SCOTT rolls his eyes.
SCOTT
Technology. I can get this thing up and running.
EVAN
Hector if you don’t mind offering us all drinks, I’m pretty thirsty from the walk up the stairs.
HECTOR
Drinks. Right. All I got is hard liquor.
EVAN
That’s fine, whatever you got.
HECTOR
That was a joke. Milk okay?
EVAN
Is it spoiled?
HECTOR
Does milk ever spoil? Drink up!
AMANDA
So anyways if we’re gonna make a streaming service, we need to find our place in the market. What can we offer that nobody else is offering?
SCOTT
We could actually air another season of a show after we announce we’ve renewed it. Some of these streamers are like the girls from all my first dates. They say there’s gonna be a second and then all of a sudden it’s like the first one never happened.
EVAN
That’s lame, I miss the days where a third date meant a fourth.
HECTOR
Yeah and then after the fourth they’d just live rent-free in my head.
AMANDA
Guys, focus! This isn’t about girls or failed dates, this is about or streaming service. Right?
SCOTT
Right. So…let’s be real, it’s gonna start as a pretty barebones operation.
EVAN
Hold on a second. Do any of you happen to be related to billionaires?
Everyone shakes their head ‘No.’
EVAN
Ok, does anybody know any billionaires?
Everyone shakes their head ‘No’ again.
AMANDA
Wait do you mean personally or does it count if you saw them in concert?
EVAN
Personally, obviously.
AMANDA
Still no.
EVAN
Well in that case I agree with Scott.
SCOTT
Best we can do is start slowly and build our way up from there.
AMANDA
So we need programming to succeed, but we have no money for programming. Great.
HECTOR
Do we really need money for programming? There’s gotta be shows that aren’t on any streaming services now. We could just get the rights to those and stream those shows.
EVAN
I was gonna say we spend $3 billion on original programming and hope to reach net zero losses by 2050 or whatever but I guess that’s as good an idea as any.
AMANDA
Let’s look up some shows we could steam. Excuse me, STREAM.
SCOTT
Amanda, I think you just came up with the name of our streaming service: STREAM.
EVAN
There are worse names already being used. I like it.
HECTOR
Bland, just like our beginnings.
EVAN
You know what, I really gotta go, I’m feeling the effects of that milk.
EVAN runs out of the apartment.
HECTOR
Poor guy. Wonder what got to him.
SCOTT
He just said it was the milk.
AMANDA
Yeah I’m leaving before I get too thirsty for expired milk.
HECTOR
Good idea. Meet here again for the next meeting?
AMANDA
Nope, we’re going to my place. See you there!