Connecticut - The Yale Drama Prize, The Eugene O'Neil Theatre Center and Goodspeed! - Play to Z

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, everybody, welcome to play the Ze.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Please rise for this season's introduction song fight through It Connecticut.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good job, hellllo, everybody, welcome to play the Z.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I'm your co host, Justin Bora.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm your co host Erica Kuon.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Can I say something?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah? I like that.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I start every episode with hello everybody, and sometimes you
join me and sometimes you don't.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
I honestly, I just go off vibes. It's never like
really a conivicious choice.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
It makes me laugh because I never really like look
at you when I say it. Yeah, And sometimes I
just like hear you in my ear. I was like,
why do I sound like Eric.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Car right now?

Speaker 4 (00:58):
No, I think it's honestly. So we record in my bedroom.
It happens to be the smallest bedroom that borders a
wall that.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
You have a chair on the other side. Yeah, you
have a chair.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
This is on the chair.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
I'm on the bed.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
And so sometimes if I'm like in the corner of
the bed, your mic covers your mouth and I can't
see when you're gonna go for it.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
You don't know, so I don't say anything.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Look.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
I like to keep it risky. I like to keep
it bisky. I can see your.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Full mouth today, and that's why I was able to
do that.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Aady to play zee Hey, today's the biggest episode of
the whole season.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
What because it's Conetta Cat. It's just because that's my
favorite part to playing the theme song. Honestly, I do
like that statement because of it.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Yeah, yeah, I never really thought about Connecticut until that,
until I got to play bah blah blah. Well that's
not true. I thought about Connecticut. But'm I swear I
thought about Connecticut.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
When you whip out that harmonica wants every year or two,
it does make me want to learn the harmonica?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Do you mean to I don't know the harmonica I
got that. I don't think I've ever told the story
I got the harmonica. We to do like twenty minutes
a band right now? I got. But I got the
harmonica after I saw a Girl from the North Country
on Broadway for the first time. It's my favorite chill
in the world, and I became obsessed with, Uh, listen

(02:13):
to that Tu Cane.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
We're so blow that one. Now we have to pay
them one hundred dollars due, Yeah, one hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
That'd be so funny about Dylan was like one hundred
dollars from my music right through musicals.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, but like the cultural impact that that show had
on you. It crazy came home with a harmonica.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I bought harmonica immediately. I bought it so fast.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
That's INLC.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
I'sane. I bought it so fast. Yeah, but but yeah,
I very much love the harmonica a lot in that moment.
And then and then I tried to learn it over
a winter.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Break and it was way too hard.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
But I know, I know like how to play it
a little now.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
If I look at if I look at like a
harmonica music sheet, I can like pluck out the notes. Well,
I guess we all know that because you've listened.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
To the theme songs. Right.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
That's about to my extent of harmonica.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Knowledge, real moderate stuff, super moderate, really intermediate.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Very moderate stuff, incredibly moderate.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
You know what I hate is that while you were
trying to learn harmonica, I remember like older days of
internet where there were like soundboards for everything, like you
could just go on the internet and you could find
sounds and they were.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Free and they were abundant anymore.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
And in twenty twenty four, I was trying to find
a digital harmonica and it sucked. It was really really
digital harmonica I didn't have to pay for or that
wasn't sketchy.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, hey, hey, speaking of soundboards store, and I'm going
home for a wedding. Here's the thing. We were talking
about this before. We were like, okay, we're gonna give
ourselves as much time. We just moved to New York.
We were a little behind. We were like trying to
figure out how to like live here. We're like, hey,
like we can start banking episodes.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
This one will release.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
We are like so banked up.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
It's October for us.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
It's literally at October first.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
See my mom in November.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
It was my phone. It was it was my phone.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
It was sometimes birds, So I'm by the fire escape.
Sometimes birds are just acting up over here.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Okay, yeah in your like like outside your I was
so nervous.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
I was like, can I say something? If a bird
gets inside here, I'm gonna freak out.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, I know, that's what I assumed. I was like,
that'd be crazy if I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
I've heard they're worse than like bedbugs and stuff.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
I don't know what a mite is. Don't tell me,
don't tell me, don't tell me. I won't tell you, Okay,
Erica and I have this thing where too.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Much and he knows too little. Yeah, he doesn't want
to know.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
I don't want to know. Erica almost ruined frid Rice
from me last year.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Cover yours real quick.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
No, I don't want to it's because I have to
edit the show.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
To edit the showy, you can look into why frid
Rice leftovers or stop it, stop it stopping.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Don't even talk about any more of it. I know
the name of the Seriously, stop, I'm done. I'm asking
you to stop.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
I'm done.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Don't do this to me.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
I don't want bods in here.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
You can ruined birds for me.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
I love Frida.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Tell what I tell you this on the bike. You're
never in my room except for your record.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, the person who had my room before whatever previous tenant.
I'm pretty sure that they were like training or like
you know, courting these birds, because there's like a very.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't know, rudimentary like bird feeder.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
That they've concocted with like a stick and two bowls,
and so when I first got here, the pigeons would
like roll up to my window and be like hello,
like it was like they were mad that they.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Weren't getting fed anymore. Give me, Yeah, they wanted their
snacks and like there's it's right here.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Do you see I'm not I'm not keeping that up.
You're not, no, because I don't want the birds that
I want to be able to like go out there
and all the birds to like show up.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
But you have gone out there, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Because a no one goes on their fire escapes. I
think we have talked about this.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Actually, no one else is going on their fire escapes
except for a guy who he works out on the roof.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
The that that you say it roof and say raccoon, raccoon. Okay,
don't try to don't try to like one up me
on how to say words poorly. Roof, it's the roof, raccoon,
it's the raccoon.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Okay, perfect, So we agree.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, obviously I'm furious.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Now I don't remember how we got here.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
We were talking about birds, oh, because oh no, here's
the thing. For the last three minute, feel have been confused.
This whole thing started because my phone made a little
like a reflection on the wall showing up to demand
his Yeah, Eric thought a bird was showing up to
her window, demanding her demanding his feed, demanding his feed. Right,

(06:31):
so stupid.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Anyway, we're very banked up.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
We're so banked up, like to the point where like
like we like to we like to banter a lot
because these episodes are a little bit more like informative
and one sided, so like we are bantering more and
we hope you're enjoying it.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
We are very much enjoying just talking.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
A lot of our information though, too is like relevant
to time. So when I record my next episode, Delaware,
there's some auditions that are coming up right now.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
You cannot on the ship Flo and I.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Tell you about it. You might miss it, right, not
you might You are going to miss You're gonna be three.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
Months to go for the next one. But I'm like, oh,
this is a perfect timing.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
But we are really banks Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
That's why I'm kind of keep in mind a little
like not legit submission dates, but like bringing up Connecticut
has some six stuff. But before we get into it, okay,
keep the banter going. I was gonna say something and
now I'm forgetting. Oh tonight I make my New York theater.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Debut and I get to see it.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
It's my off off, off, off, off, off, off off
Off Broadway, Brooklyn. I'm doing a stage reading on this
new play called Swives by Liz Mangen, and it's very funny. Yeah,
it's so silly. Can I talk about this I talk
about this play for a minute too, Yeah I will. Yeah,
it's fun. It's so. I'm working with First Kiss Theater,
First Kis Theater. Oh, a fun little play to Z thing.

(07:41):
The way I found out about them is because I
became acquaintances with Rachel Green. We all know Rachel Green
from XOXO Lola, John Deserves to Die. We've talked about
Rachel a lot on the show. Shout out Rachel Green.
Rachel Green also listens, so shout out Rachel. You're You're
wonderful and so talented. But last summer, First Kiss Theater
per used John Deserves to Die in Brooklyn, which was

(08:02):
one of Rachel's plays. And I kind of found them
through Rachel because Rachel's worked with them a lot. I
think Rachel might have been a resident writer with them
a year or two ago. I'm not sure, but Rachel's
worked with them a lot. I started following them through
Rachel while I was doing play Di Ze research on
Rachel Green, So I guess actually, honestly, I would have
never done Swives if it wasn't for play to Ze

(08:23):
because I found First Kiss through Rachel Green, and then
because I was trying to Rachel for a moment and
I was kind of like looking into theaters that I liked,
and First Kiss is always stuck out as like a
cool theater that I wanted to work with. When I
got to New York, they were auditioning. I was too
late to submit for their like residency writing program, but
they were like auditioning their like fall residency reading. So

(08:46):
they have like these residencies for these writers over the
course of a year. There's so much theater. When we
get to the New York state, we probably won't be
able to talk about Firstkiss. Maybe there's Little Shot out
for them too, but a really cool theater out of
Brooklyn that does a lot of really cool stuff. But
they have a residency where they have like four writers
are residents for the year and they have a like
a fall and I think a spring residency reading of
the plays that they're working on, which is cool. So

(09:07):
one of the writers is Liz Mangan and they wrote
this play called Swaves about the about the like two
thousand and six, two thousand and seven, start of the
craze of like channeling and like shifting to hogwarts and
stuff like. It's like a weird mix of like lucid
dreaming and meditation where like people could shift to the

(09:29):
like primarily women thought they could shift to the astros
it allowed. You want to turn it down? Yes, I
can turn it no, of course, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
Absolutely, it sounds it sounds weird in my ear today.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
I don't know why is it good? Yeah? Let me see? Wait,
hello talk?

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh, I know what it is?

Speaker 1 (09:43):
What is it? We have each other's headphones?

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah? It is. Let's do a quick swap. See, let's
do a swap sea. I was like, something's mine because
I I always do it with one off like I
do with one. I'm gonna put my head my hell.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Yeah that's what I sound like.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
I was like, I'm worried that we're not recording, actually right.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
So I always do it with one. Where is it?
There we go?

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Can you still turn me down?

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Because oh my god, the biggest complainer is that you
is that you are going down. Yeah. Well, up. You
want to ask thank you.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
No, I was worried we weren't recordings, like it doesn't
sound right.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
No, that's so this is what I just go one
ear on one year off and know.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
It makes you look really cool and kind of.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Like like, I'm a I'm a I'm a professional podcaster.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
I do one on one ear. I'm sorry, keep going,
Oh but so so.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Swives is basically this play about like the craze of
like the obsession behind Hogwarts and Harry Potter and stuff.
And it follows four women who meet on a like
chat forum and they all are swives, which are people
who have shifted to the astro plane of Hogwarts and
have decided to create a romantic relationship with several Snape
and start and ta get very very serious. They have

(10:53):
wedding vows and they some of them have earthly husbands
that they channel snape through for physical intimacy. And it's
it's very intense and wild and uh, Liz wrote this
wonderful play about these like four these four women meeting
up in a cabin in the woods to write the

(11:16):
scripture of sever a snape and two of them bring
their husbands to be earthly vessels for Snake to come
through if they need to, and I'm one of the
earthly vessels.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
It's bananas.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
It's crazy. It's like exactly what I kind of wanted
to be, like reading stuff when I came to New
York show. I'm very excited about it. But we sold out.
So here's the thing. Yeah, you guys couldn't come to
this because we're talking about it probably two and a
half three months after it happened. But also it sold out,
so you can't come anyway.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
You had to be there.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
You had to be there, and it's hard to be there,
look two months ago.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
But yeah, so I'm doing that tonight, which I'm really
excited about.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, it's gonna be super fun.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Yeah, Eric's coming. Eric is helping put out chairs.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
I am. I kind of do it all.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
We sold out. We sold out super fast, and I
wasn't expect That's something that's weird too, is that, like
I didn't expect it to sell out. I mean not
because like I thought it's bad. I think it's great,
but I was just like so surprised that like some
New York theater really like sells out super super quick.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah you never know.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah, it's better to be more aggressive here about tickets
and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
But also like I love like waiting for a deal.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Which yea happens all the time. Yeah, so it's wild.
It's very very different. There's also so much indie theater.
We were talking about it before this, and I kind
of feel like the indie like comedy scene in Chicago
of like so many indie shows happening that are just
like one off readings and stuff like that, Like, and
the director of this show is like, I've done so
many readings in the last year, and it's just super
interesting that like a lot of people are getting their

(12:42):
work up like that and try to like kind of grow.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
As creators and I feel like moves around or not.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah, it's cool. But but yeah, like like next week
maybe we'll talk about it on a Dellle episode. But
next week I have my an industry reading of Hater's
Gonna Hate, which is a play I wrote that we've
talked about on the podcast. But yeah, lots of really
cool stuff happen. Exciting time, exciting exciting time.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Do you want to tell me about your relationship to Connecticut?

Speaker 1 (13:05):
If you say the state's name right, No, say it Connecticut. No, Connecticut,
thank you. Yeah, let's get into Connecticut.

Speaker 4 (13:17):
I was so afraid you're going to make me pronounce
a Connecticut. I'm really scared.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Is that how you say it?

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, wait until you get to your facts.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Whoa A little, A little two? Choose one?

Speaker 4 (13:29):
Lie?

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Oh my god, confusion early.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh my gosh, you're really trying to get one right.
Have you gotten me yet?

Speaker 2 (13:35):
No? I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
I think maybe you've gotten me one. But oh you
did get me.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
I don't. I don't stand by.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
I've gotten you all three times.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
I'm not a good like. I don't like lying. It's hard.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
I'm really good.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
I'm a good liar.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Okay. I like to start every single episode of mine
with the Wikipedia paragraph.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
Let's do it, Let's do it.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Connecticut could knit to cut could Net at the South
is the southernmost state in the New England region of
the eastern United States. It lies on the Long Island Sound,
which enters the Atlantic Ocean. Ooh, we got an ocean
side property.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Baby, The New England South like kind has a ring too.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, it's kind of cool. Yeah. It borders Rhode Island
to the east, Massachusetts to the North New York to
the west. It's is oh wait, New York to the
west and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital
is Hartford. Its most populous city is Bridgeport. Connecticut lies
between the major hubs of New York City and Boston
along the Northeast Corridor. The New York Metropolitan Area, which

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includes six of Connecticut's seven largest cities, extends well into
the southwestern part of the state, while the northeastern corner
reaches Greater Boston. Connecticut is the third smallest state by
area after Rhode Island and Delaware Boom, and the twenty
ninth most populous, with slightly more than three point six
million residents as of twenty twenty, ranking it fourth among

(14:55):
the most densely populated US states. All Right, freaking boom boom, Dude,
got all of our facts laid out. Here's the thing, Yeah,
Connecticut or we're gonna talk more about the theater stuff. Obviously,
Connecticut might be one of the best places to move
to if you're like I do not want to be
in a city, but I want to do theater because

(15:15):
it's like it is so close to There's so much
we're going to talk about, so much.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
There's so much in Connecticut.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
I primarily talk about two big things that I really
wanted to talk about, but there are like there's a
lot going on. But also it is a driving distance
to New York and Boston, and there's a ton of
theater in both of those. Obviously New York, but there's
also a ton of theater in Boston.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
I think this is our first like week where our
two states are so close to each other. Yeah, and
their commuter states, yeah, with commuter cities for theater.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Which is pretty cool. Yeah, But before we get into
the theater stuff, I want to talk about fun facts.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
Let's do it.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
This is the time where, so as we all know,
before every episode I have Erica study the states that
I'm doing, where she like knows like the state flower
and the state burn and stuff. So these are really
so bullshit and all the answers really quick. So I've
been prepped that you've been doing really well, so so
I'm just gonna kind of say something and then she'll
like finish it out really quick.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
So let's do it.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
So, the Connecticut state bird is.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
The blue bird.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
No, it's the American. Robin's weird. That's weird. I thought
you knew that one. Okay, let's try another one. Okay.
The Connecticut state flower is.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Mmmm, beautiful tulips.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Can you imagine that they specifically write beautiful tulips? Tulips
that are a little dead are not Connecticut.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
It's a bad guess.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
I'm just kind of guessing at random because we're talking
about you, my state. But there's a bunch of tulip
festivals in like other places, but not Connecticut.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
So that was a bad guess on my part, even.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
As a bit that's a crazy like state. Though. There's
a bunch of tulip festivals in another place, place called Pella.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
We got Pella, Iowa. They have a big tulip festival.
It's very famous.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
In Rochester, New York, they had the Lilac Fest, the
National Lilac Festival.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
And that's why I wouldn't guess lilac. It's a mountain.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
It's a mountain, Laurel.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
I was gonna say, wait, what did you say, the
mountain Laurel.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
There you go. Okay.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
The Connecticut state tree is the white oak.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
Yeah, that's it, the white oak.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
Good stuff.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Okay, next one, American fish or the Connecticut I kind
of give it away. The Connecticut state fish is the.

Speaker 4 (17:27):
American shat Did you say shat No at the end
of that not shat shad.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Yeah, the American chat good stuff. Shut up, shut up,
shut up, shop American chat.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Okay, okay, tell me the answer for the next one.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Okay, it's it's sperm whale. It's the next one. Yeah,
I am okay. Could you imagine I'm like the Connecticut
state state food, Connecticut, Connecticut Connecticut state food.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
Something awful.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
The Connecticut state animal is whale. The sperm whale. Isn't
that insane?

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Why?

Speaker 1 (18:04):
I guess? Because I guess because they're near the ocean.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Ocean, but can I I don't see something.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
Whale has a connotation of being really big Connecticut really small.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yeah, it's weird. I also, like, I don't know why,
I never really thought of Connecticut as like an oceany state,
but I always thought sperm whales were like the big
whales way deep in the ocean.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, they're late. We both did the same kind of
like move their hands a little bit.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
People like big sweaters like in the fall, like it's
always falling Connecticut, but the whales.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Like they're not they're out there.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
I guess like Vineyard Vin they're out there. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, but I was like very surprised when I said that,
like the sperm whale, not even the state like like
fish or like mammal. It's like the state animal is
the is the sperm whale.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
There's a ton of sperm whales in Bridgeport, a.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Ton of them crawling with whales. All right, last one.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
I'm gonna give you. This is kind of cool, and
I I know you won't notice one because you knew
all the other ones, and I didn't prap you on
this one. Connecticut state heroin.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
What if I knew this one? Say it is? Is
it a political figure?

Speaker 1 (19:06):
It's an active she's an activist. You weren't gonna get it,
Susan B. Anthony, No, but that was good.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
It wasn't her.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Prudence Crandall born on September third, eighteen the three died
January twenty seventh, eighteen ninety was an American school teacher
and activist. She ran the Canterbury Female Boarding School in Canterbury, Connecticut,
which became the first school for black girls in the
United States. Okay, yeah, very very cool. Yeah, very very cool.
All right, but yeah, Prudence crandall seemed like a dope lady.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
I like the name Prudence.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Prudence is a great name. It's got anything to come back. Hey,
the next person who is a play des he listener
and is pregnant? Next next pregnant playby name your kid Prudence? Seriously, Hey,
if you're a pregnant playby out there, hey, hey give
me Hey, all the pregnant playbyes say hey, ever made

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all the play an all the play papa?

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Say o? Okay, somebody is somebody's.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Loving One guy one guy out there?

Speaker 4 (20:10):
One dude said, hey, should we make a T shirt
that says that says play daddy?

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Playby Papa, baby daddy? Why do you? I like the
alliteration of it. Playby Papa.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
Okay, we'll make I'm pregnant plabies and play Papa Papa.
We'll make one a T shirt baby tea and one
micro shorts booty booty graphic.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Wait, which was the booty gapic?

Speaker 1 (20:35):
I think the micro t would be playy Papa and
the and the pregnant pregnant playby? No, why did you?

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Pregnant? Playby should be.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Like like maternity clubbing like a.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Waistband, like a fold over yoga pant.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
Oh, that's fine, what I mean, like the old school,
like we remember the girls, remember, like the two thousand
and four, two thousand and Sarah seven era.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Like pant, I know exactly talking about yeah, except pregnant
play Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
On board, play beyond Board is great board bumper stickers.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
We've talked about making merch on every.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Episode for Beyond Board.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
People are gonna start getting mad at. People have already
started to get mad at. Yeah, I know beyond play
on board is great. It's so specific.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
I know I would use it.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
You wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
I don't think you have to have a playby to
get the play beyond bard.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
I guess because you're a playby.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yeah, you're the playby and you're on board.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
You're on board, So I guess you don't have to
be pregnant. Yeah, I guess in my head, Yeah, I guess.
Play on board is a bumper sticker is more versatile
than like a play on board, like on a T shirt,
because that would mean like that person is that person
is pregnant with with someone.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Who loves me work person is pregnant to a thunder bender.
We're gonna have a lot to talk about.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
That person is pregnant, and the doctor said, this person
loves new works. This person loved any Baker. This person
really really puts up the humanifestals on hold.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Harpy is strong and.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
They are mad about the Humanifestival.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Every time we bring up the humanophile, the heartbeat accelerates.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
She has she has hard feelings of concord verse dramatists. Yeah,
she's really hard feelings. Yeah, yeah, she loves plays in verse. Yeah,
I'm trying to think, like the weirdest thing a doctor
could say. Hey, I just want to say that your
baby has a really strong heartbeat, but your baby also
really enjoys. Douglas lyons, we have really bad news.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
One heart beat, uh inform is smaller than the other,
and the and the small one likes Mammott.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
I was gonna say, I was gonna say, hey, I
was gonna make a low joke you hand.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
In hand, oh man, So Connecticut, it is good that
maybe I'm actually writing that down.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
You write it down. Okay, all of our merch Okay,
so thether stuff. There are two really big things I
want to talk about with Connecticut. I mean, they're pretty
obvious and I feel like most people are going to
know what I want to talk about, but I want
to hit on a couple things because Connecticut has in
a array of theater, like an amazing array, which is
why I really do think that it's a great place

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to go to if you're like New York's not my vibe.
I don't really want to be in a city I
want to have like a house. I want to have
like a home, but I also want to be in
a professional theater scene. There's so much professional theater within Connecticut,
but there's also if you have a car there, you
can go to Boston, you can go to New York
so easily. But I want to talk about Connecticut theater specifically. Okay,

(23:29):
so let's just talk about a couple of really really
cool theater companies before we get into the two big
things we're going to talk about. First one ELM Shakespeare Company,
super cool Shakespeare that primarily does in the park for free,
very dope. It's all professional equity actors, except for they
bring in a lot of college and high school students
from the area to fill in for the smaller, smaller roles,

(23:51):
giving them like opportunities. So if you're a young student
in the Connecticut area. If you're a young student who
like goes to school somewhere, but you have family in
the Connecticut area, in the Massachusetts area and the Delaware
in New York City, this should be a really cool
theater company to reach out to because they do summer
Shakespeare in the Park and they specifically look for college
and high school actors to kind of fill in around
these really wonderful equity actors. And these relays did a

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Richard the Third that looked so dope.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
I remember like so vividly being around my first not
that I think there should be a union or non union.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
That's a really nuanced conversation. Oh for sure, you live.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
But as like a young person who's always been non union,
my first times, like working in union houses with union
actors and stuff like that was always crazy.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, absolutely, you'll learn a lot.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, you doles if you're going to join up one.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
Hundred percent, because here's the thing that is a whole
nuanced conversation. But the one thing you can't really argue
is the actors that are union have have been in
this industry for a little while. Yeah, like they've made
the decision to be union, so like they probably know
more than a high school or a college kid who's
like doing this as their summer gig, and they could
teach a lot. They could like you could learn a
lot from them about the industry and about what's going on.

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So ELM Shakespeare Company looked really really cool. Yeah. They
also they have rolling submissions for actors to go and submit,
so I mean I know that they also do take
like non union actors as well, So if you're a
non union professional, it's rolling submissions. I know, I'm gonna
send my hat shut over because I've been really in
Shakespeare just for fun and see what happens. But yeah,
Ohm Shakespeare Company looks really really cool. Good Speed, Good

(25:16):
Speed is like one of the biggest freaking yeah, like, yeah,
you've heard about it because my friend is in Maggie
right now. Yeah. Yeah, Christine Dwyer is in Maggie, which
they're premiering this new musical, This new Scottish musical is
really cool. It's one of the most amazing musical regional houses.
They were the ones that started the Broadway productions of
Holiday in Amazing Grace that how to Succeed Revival so

(25:37):
many cool, cool things. If you're in the Connecticut area
or even New York. A lot of New York people
go out to good Speed for all of their stuff
because there's trains that go right out there. Really really
really wonderful musical theater, like if you they have new
musicals happening every single season. They have huge actors, huge
stars coming out and doing revivals, and they are like
regularly getting shows to go straight from good Speed to Broadway.

(26:00):
So like, I think it's really really cool to see
stuff early on. I'm trying to think of like something
that I saw before I just got to see I
saw the minutes before it came to Broadway when it
was in Chicago. I saw infinite Loop or Strange Loop.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Strange we saw.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
We saw Infinite Life and you saw Stranger Loop, but
at the same time and they cross time.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
But I've seen a couple of things like Out, like
they're out of town try I escaped to Margaritaville and
they're like out of town Tryout. And I always think
it's really cool now knowing the theater industry, when shows
go from a regional theater to Broadway, because it means
that like you had this really I don't I don't know.
It just feels like cool to me when that happens. So, yeah,
if you're someone who's like I really want to be

(26:40):
able to say I saw oh, I saw the prom
also at the Alliance down in Atlanta before it came.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
To the Actually, yeah, I have.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
And it's something that I really enjoyed being able to
like seek out and find. So if you're someone who's
like I really want to see some new works, but
I want to see some new works out like my
win Awards and go to Broadway and stuff, and like
I get to like say, like I saw this early,
you get to if you're someone who's a theaterre maker,
you get to see it in all of its iterations.
Like I got to see the prom in Atlanta, and

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then I got to see the prom on Broadway, and
then I got to see the prom that Ryan Murphy
adapted musical on Netflix. So I got to see all
of those iterations of it and it was very very cool.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
It was I love the Alliance production.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yeah, the Alliance production felt like a high school musical
in a really good way. Like it was like very
much because like the whole point of the problem is
like it's like a queer high school kid who basically
has told they can't take their girlfriend a prom, and
then a bunch of like has been Broadway stars come
and they like are like absolutely doing like fake activism
to be like we're queer, we're here, get used to it,

(27:44):
and then slowly the Broadway stars realize like this girl
really needs their help, and they like help, and it's
really really nice, and there's like talk of like bullying,
and there's talk of like queer them in high school,
and like especially like in like the Midwest. It's in Iowa.
I think it's either Iowa. I think it's Iowa, but
it's like set in like the Midwest where like a
lot of people don't know what to do when they're

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queer and in high school. So it is a really
really wonderful I love that musical, but I love being
able to see that the Alliance. It was so freaking fun.
But yeah, if you're someone who like wants to go
see new work, wants to go see new work that
has a lot of like unfortunately, well not unfortunately, but
a lot of money and producers and teams behind it
to like build it up good. It's a great place
to go. Yeah, really really fun. The next one, I

(28:27):
want to talk about the last like theater kind of
I want to talk about not in the last theater,
but whatever. As theater works. Hartford, they're like I would say,
they're like the Debama of Connecticut. They do really cool stuff.
There's Seasons, Fire, Fevered Dreams, Christen on the Rocks, King James,
Primary Trust. Your Name means dream They have so many
like cool, cool shows. Your Name Means Dreams is one

(28:50):
that I'm really really excited about. It's a new play
written by Jose Rivera, which we know Jose Rivera from
Oh my gosh, yes honest, roun Old Century, but also
it's a new play. Jose are Vera is directing it.
Oh really yeah, it's going to theater. It's hard for
to direct the shows for him.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
I don't actually know.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
I don't know. I'm not I'm not really sure.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
I just saw that.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
I was really excited.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
I was like cool.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
I was like you know that, like you know that,
like your theater's cool. When like they're premiering a show
and the and the player, it is like I'm going
to come out and like really make sure it gets
like my kind of This is the premiere event, which
is super dope. I also love that King James is
going to be their Primary Trust. Here's the thing. I
wasn't able to see King James off Broadway. It made
me so sad. I wasn't able to see Primary Trust

(29:31):
off Broadway. It made me so sad. But you know what,
there's a train that goes straight from New York City,
from Manhattan where we live, to Hartford.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Our train game is so unmatched that, like, did you remember,
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (29:42):
Everyone listening is probably like, yeah, we know in grad
school you lived in West Virginia.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Your three hours hours from everything.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
But now we're like train from everything.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Yeah, it's really cool.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
You can like go to the woods or the beach
or like any of these places.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yeah, I like, I wanted to shout these guys out.
Because King James runs January thirtieth to March. I'm sure
the whole scene's gonna be dope, but like they're doing
two plays that I desperately wanted to see, and I'm
messed because I wasn't in New York yet and now
like like Primary Trust is happening at every Man, and
I love every Man in Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
We've talked about a.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
Bunch, but everyone's like three and a half hours away.
It's hard to get to. Like Hartford is an hour
fifteen train away. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, it's not that far.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
I could go, Like I could go to like Brooklyn,
and it's gonna take an hour fifteen.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Literally, I mean it's like it's like the train itself.
So you gotta get to you gotta get all the
way to.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
I know, like when you're thinking about like going places,
it takes so long to get around in New York
for so little miles. It's the opposite of living in
Morgantown with a three hours spoke because you could just
get in your car. Yeah, that's such a weird mind
meld for me.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, it's weird, but it's cool. Like, I mean, we
I can see King James and Primary Trust this year.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
We gotta be day trippers.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
I didn't think I was gonna be able to back
into our day I think, like we're getting used to
New York, but I think once like New York is
like I feel less overwhelmed living here. Yeah, a day
trip will feel less crazy, Like I really wanted to
go see Maggie at good speed. But there's never a
weekend where I was like, yeah, it's tight that time
to get all the way out there, and it is
kind of complicated. You gotta take the train and then
you got to get in an uber and an uber
to the theater, and then you don't really know what

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you're doing.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Like it's it is like you know what there should be.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
Yeah, you know how like there's like so many groupons
and we works and like the kind of like millennial
culture like of capitalism like always like kind of like
rock something.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
We need to.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Rock out car rentals like people our age need like
like you know, Airbnb was like we're going.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
To disrupt hotels.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
I need someone to disrupt like Avis and Hurts and
all of those guys.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
I hate flying so much. For Christmas, I'm taking a
train all the way to Cleveland so I don't have
to fly. And then Liz and I shout out, Liz,
Liz and I are renting a car and taking a
car back, and like it was here's the thing. My
argument to Liz was it's cheaper. Really, I just hate flying, But.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
I mean it's you have more control because flying these days.
It's like really really bad.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
And also I just hate flying.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
It scares me.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
But you know what I mean, Like I guess there's
like zip car and stuff like that, but I just
like I don't really understand like a subscription service like
you can, yeah I want to.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Like I'm using Enterprise and it was pricey, but it
was like it was cool, but yeah, that would be pros.
It's a lot.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
I remember when I moved here in a rental car,
shout out little budget and like trying to return it
and they just never marked it as returned. Yeah, like
days and then finally like I was able to you know,
return it, but it just looked like I just kind
of stole the car for like a week and it
was my first week in New York, and.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
It was very weird and I was like, what I
just did a little like Larsen your little grand theft
auto or not.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Like yeah anyway, yeah it was it's.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
You have a good rental hack.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Let me know Connecticut because yeah, theater Theater Woks Hartford
has like the coolest season, Like I'm so excited about it. Yeah, Okay,
the next thing I'm gonna talk about, Oh, I want
to name drop them.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
A little bit.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yukon University of Connecticut has a really really dope acting program,
a really really dope theater program. They are connected to,
uh oh, what is it? The where are where are you?
Connecticut Repertory Theater, which is a really wonderful theater. Fun
fact of the day, Well, before I get to it,
Connecticut Repertory Theater. Their season The Moors by Jen Silverman,

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The Old Man in the Old Noon by Picktent Theater Company,
Pickin Theater Company. Is they just did water They're doing Waterfare,
Elephants and broad right now. They're super dope. I love
all their stuff. Pocatello by the Abil d Hunter and
Once You Do About Nothing, which is one of my favorite.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Chasa a great season. That's a fun fact of the day.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Eric and I met at WVU. Two years before I
went at WVU, I also applied to programs.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
I was gonna say, is he gonna bring it up?

Speaker 1 (33:36):
I was, yeah, I can bring it up well because
like nothing, there's nothing bad happened, Like.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
No, I just like it truly.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
When you were like when it landed on you doing
this state, I was like, that's really ironic because that
state almost made us, not me.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
I know. I got into the Yukon MFA acting program
and I was pretty close to accepting a spot there
and then I got my first like uh slot in
like an SNL like audition. Ay thing. Yeah, So I
was like wait a minut. I was like, I need
to give Chicaga some more time. So I backed out
and I left, and I'm looking at the program. I'm like, shoot, that's.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
But here's what you gained.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
I gained you a playby baby best friend exactly, and.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
A podcast and a podcast and I learned a lot
at WVU and I did a lot, so I'm really
happy with everything.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
I remember. No, here's the thing. I don't know if
we talked about this on here before.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
I don't think we've ever talked about it.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
When we first got into our cohort, we got put
in like an email chain with everyone's like first names
and emails. Like it was like not a lot to
go on. We all immediately started cyber stocking each other.
Oh yeah, and I remember finding Justin and his like
first like primary profile pictures on stuff was him in
a Yukon sweatshirt crew neck thumbs up.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Being like I'm going to eat u Kon for my MFA.
I remember being like, yeah, is he doing this twice? Like,
what is the story on this guy? No?

Speaker 1 (34:52):
I I And here's the thing. I think you saw that.
And then I looked at my stuff after I cyber
stocked everybody and I realized it was still up and objective.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yeah, and then you took it down, but I saw
it first.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah, you did. That's so funny. We actually didn't know
that you saw that. I saw that, and I was like,
that's so funny. We've never talked about you seeing that.
Buzz really No, no.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Dude, I saw it, and I was like, well, what's
the story there?

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Because I was so funny.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
It was like either he started and.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
Left and yeah, or he got kicked out I got booted,
or he's like trolling.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
True, I wait, how funny?

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Without that?

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Every year I posted a new school that I got into.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
For my MFA, a new college, like we're getting more.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Acting affairs, which is you have so many.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Yeah, class of twenty twenty seven. There I come.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
That's but speaking of speaking speaking of, there are two
things I want to talk about today.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
Yukon's great. They have a fully funded program for a
lot of things, especially MFA and acting. If you're someone
who has heard us talk about an MFA and you're like,
that's something that I'm really interested in, that's something that like,
I really want to do, That's something I could see
my career going for. Look at UCON, they auditioned throughs.
I looked at the same way I booked WVU, and
they and the head of their program. I'm not sure
if he's still there. I should have done more research,

(36:01):
But I'm gonna shift to the other things I want
to talk about, Like he's a Cleveland guy who's super nice.
Everyone's there, super dope. They have great seasons, and they
have a professional theater attached, which I think is really important.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
Again, like I don't know about you, I had a
really tight set of requirements for MFA programs.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
Always dms if you like have any questions.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
But I truly believe that to move forward in this
world as an artist, unless you have some sort of
immense support system that not everybody does, you should be
considering fully funded programs.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah, and there are. I will say I understand that
that's easy for us to say because we got into it.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
There's not a ton, but it's worth reaching out to them.
Say you're like, I'm thinking about an MFA. Maybe they're
only recruiting every two or three whatever years, because that
happens with these cycles, like reach out to them when
it's also got fully funded offers without even going to Artists.
She just only individually contacted and started making connections with
the programs themselves.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yeah, a year in advance. I will also say Artists
has some really good scholarship programs. I used it my
second time around that I auditioned for free, which is sick,
but but yeah, do not be afraid to like shop it.
If you're thinking about grad school. Yeah, try to get
a scholarship for Urda's and just go and submit and
see what happens, because you'll probably get into some schools

(37:10):
that are not fully funded, and those are schools that
you don't have. It could be totally right for you.
And if you can do that, then awesome. But also
like there's a lot of a lot of the fully
funded schools go to Urda's.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Yeah, so it is a good place to start getting your.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Feet wet in like grad school auditioning.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
But yeah, I'm gonna talk about two really big things.
One is maybe the biggest theater college in the country.
And then the other is one of the coolest opportunities
for new works in the country. First, we're gonna talk
about Yale, the David Geffen School of Drama, I mean classic. Yeah.
Yale University founded the Department of Drama in the School
of Fine Arts in nineteen twenty four through the generosity

(37:44):
of Edward S. Harkins BA eighteen ninety seven. In nineteen
twenty five, while the University Theater was under construction, the
first class of students was enrolled. George Pierce Barker or
George Pierce Baker, the foremost teacher of playwriting in America,
joined the faculty to service. The first chair of Department
and the first Master of Fine Arts in Drama, was
conferred in nineteen thirty one. In nineteen fifty five, by

(38:06):
vote of the Yale Corporation, the department was organized as
a separate professional school, the Yale School of Drama, offering
the degrees of Masters in Fine Arts, Doctor of Fine Arts,
and Certificate in Drama for those students who completed their
three year program without having the normally prerequisite bachelor's degree.
The school is now the David Geffen School of dramat
Yale University and celebration of a one hundred and fifty
million dollar gift made by David Geffen Foundation in twenty

(38:29):
twenty one exactly to support tuition remission for all degrees
and certificate students in perpetuit perpetuity.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
In perpetuity is so hot.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yeah, it's freaking sick. Yeah. The Yale School of Drama,
I mean, is one of the greatest schools ever. Yeah,
they have just so much I totally am blanking School
of Drama, like alum like there, it's just I mean,
Angela Bassett, Catherine Hahn, Paul Giamatti, Lapia Nawongo, Leave Schreiber,

(39:04):
Sigourney Weaver, freaking Meryl Streep. It's just huge, massive, massive names.
It's just huge, huge names of people that are from
the school, which is very very cool, Like it's very
cool to know that, like they have like pumped out
people for a long time. On top of that, they
have a really wonderful professional theor and I mean, here's

(39:26):
the thing, Yell, the David Geffen School of Drama is
one of the most well funded programs in the country.
They have MFAs in directing and dramaturgy and drama criticism
and playwriting and acting. All of that is something that
you can get there. You don't also get your bachelor's there.
You can get your PhD there. There's so so much.
Throw your hat in the ring if you if you can,
please do I know. I'm probably going to every year

(39:47):
for the next five years as a playwright, just because
it would be life changing.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Sure.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Yeah, their season is insane because it's they're like, they
do so many shows at the School of Drama. It's
kind of hard like figure out like what their main
sage ones are. But the big thing is the Yale
Repertory Theater. The Yell Repertory Theater is one of the
like coolest, most wild freaking shit Like.

Speaker 4 (40:11):
It's like it's in some of the best scripture Ever're
gonna read, like that's where something was before Broadway.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
Literally, it's it's absolutely insane. Their season is crazy this year,
So I'm gonna talk about their season really quick. Their
season is a world premiere of Falcon Girls by Hillary Bettis,
the one person show Macbeth and Stride Eden by Steve Carter,
The Inspector, newly adapted by your Eura Kodonski and then

(40:37):
notes on Killing seven, Oversight Management and Economic Stability Board
members by Mara Vella's Mendez. These shows are so cool.
I'm going to go through all of them a little
bit because I just think they're freaking awesome. Falcon Girls
is a true story in the nineties and rural Falcon, Colorado.
Sixteenage girls on an f FA horse judging team are
determined to make it to nationals come hell or high water,

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but to do that they must grapple with jealousy, rivalries, sex,
jesus aol chat rooms, impossible expectations, and rumors of a
serial killer. Hillary Battis's Falcon Girls is a achingly funny
and brutally honest coming up age memoir and a love
letter to girls she grew up with and the horses
who saved their lives. This play is maybe one of
the I don't think I've read a description of a

(41:21):
play and wanted to read it more like it made
me so excited. I want to read this play so bad.
Falcon Girl by Hillary Battis is it just seems very
very cool. Macbeth and Stride is a show from the
perspective of Lady Macbeth pulled through like R and B
bangers and like it's like a musical thing. Whitney White
is like an Obie Award winning performer. Was in Judges

(41:42):
African Hair Branding on Broadway, was in The Secret Life
of Bees in London. Has done, was in on sugar
Land at New York Theater. Workshop has done a ton
of really dope stuff. So yeah, this is there like
one person show that comes from the state of Lady Macbeth.
There's a bunch of other shows. The last one I
want to talk about, notes on killing seven Oversite Management
and Economic Stability Board members is so cool. Okay. Early

(42:06):
one morning, Lalita, a young Barakian trans woman, arrives at
a suspicious, let's say, evil Wall Street office with a
mission to take that on all seven members of the
Puerto Rico Oversite Management Economic Stability Board. Much to her surprise,
the receptionist who welcomes her has more than a story
to tell a show to put on. A revenge saga
giving existential drag extravaganza Mara Velez Melendez savagely funny play

(42:32):
takes aim at the unelected officials who think they know
what's best for people and for our own bodies and
the elected ones who appoint them. It sounds crazy. Yeah,
it sounds sick.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
I love like a long title.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Also, that's just such a like a little thing in
my head. But like notes on killing seven over Site Management,
Economic Stability Board Members is such a good title play
of playing anything else too.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
Yeah, these descriptions I find like, you know how when
you're an actor or no, you go and you see
a play and you're reading the program your bios and
they're in the certain tense, right, and it's like at
the end of the day that actor had to provide
that they probably wrote it, yeah, which is weird.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
And humiliating and strange to think about.

Speaker 4 (43:07):
And sometimes there's like one person who does their own
like first person point of view, and it's like it
ruins the illusion. Typically the playwrights are writing these descriptions, right, Yeah,
And so it's such like a cool teaser to know that,
like that's what they're pulling out, that's what they're offering you.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
Every time I had to do that for Kill the Bird,
I absolutely freaked out about it. I felt like I
could never do it right. I couldn't say enough and
then not give enough away like so hard. It's actually,
weirdly one of the hardest things because it makes you
be concise about really big thoughts and feelings that you
had to spend so much time teasing out that. When
someone can do that super effectively like that, I'm like,
it's like a good movie trailer. Yeah, aren't like half

(43:44):
a movie trailer now it's just the whole movie literally,
Or it's like, actually I was misled, so you'd get
me to buy a ticket?

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Yeah, if you watch I mean long legs sorry, but yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
But when a player it's able to do that, I'm like, oh, oh,
you know what you got?

Speaker 1 (43:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Yeah. Under.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
The last thing I want to talk about with Yale
is one of my favorite things is the Yale Drama Series.
The Yale Drama Series is an annual international competition for
emerging playwrights, funded by generous support from the David Charles
Horn Foundation. The winners awarded the David Charles Horn Prize
of ten thousand dollars publication of the winning play by
Yale University Press and a Stage streeting. Winners are chosen

(44:19):
by a Playwrights of Art by some of the best
players of our time. Edward i'lbe served as the series
inaugural Jude from two thousand and two thousand and eight.
David hare Ten, John Garar Marshall, Norman Nicholas right, Paula Vogel,
and the current judge is Jeremy o'harris. Crazy stuff. You
know them. You know this because I love it so much.

(44:41):
I've talked about a lot of their shows just on
this podcast. God Said This by Leon Nanak Winkler, How
to Defend Yourself. Apologies to Lorraine Hansbury, you two August Wilson.
All of these are shows that I did full episodes about.
That are Yale Drama Series Prize winners. They're great. You
can buy them on Amazon. You can buy them on

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the Yale Press website.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
You absolutely should.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
I want to talk about, though, one play that just
came out that looks so sick, it looks so good.
It's by Jezeus Valles, and it was chosen by Jeremo
Harris in his first year as the kind of Chooser
artistic director of this series. It's called Bathhouse dot PPTX.

(45:28):
In this love letter to queer bathhouse culture, the presenter,
a Mexican American public speaking student, is thrust into the
landscapes of queer intimacy, colonialism, and erotic community. When the
class presentation on the history of cleanliness and bathing starts
to unravel, what had been a single presentation soon becomes
a chorus, joining student presenters with the ghosts of bathhouse past,

(45:49):
president and future, along with the cleaning staff, a court,
a conquistador, the officials of centers of disease control to
explore queer desire and the gleeful delights of messiness here
in the bath house at the end of the world,
yazeus I Vells conquers the ever present yearning for skin
to touch skin, a place of connection that shimmers in

(46:12):
the steam of the bathhouse and refuses to ever fully fade.
Bathos PPTX is a sixteenth winner of the Yale Drama
Series Prize and the first winner chosen by Tony nominated
play right Jeremo Harris. It sounds so good. Yeah, I
still haven't been able to read it, which makes me
so sad. But it just came out. I didn't know
it existed until I was like looking into the Yale
Drama Series again. Yeah, it sounds awesome, and the Yale

(46:34):
Drum Series is honestly, usually their works are at the
Drama Bookshop.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
So also like it's it's like a way to find them.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Yeah, it's sweet, like the people.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Who are coming out of there, like that's gonna be
the next Jermy.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
I mean, yeah, it was Jens Overman one in like
twenty fifteen, Yeah, which is like right around is still
the one that won? Yeah it was still but but yeah,
I mean it sounds awesome if you're like I really
want to find a play that I probably haven't heard
of and I really want to love. I mean, there's
not really a better place to go than the Yelle
drama series. Like the last five or six or seven

(47:05):
or eight are just crazy, So yeah, make sure you
go check that out. If you can go to Yale,
go to Yale if you can't.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Go there, and like it's a classic case of if
you can go to Yale, go to ye.

Speaker 1 (47:16):
If you can't go to Yell, go to Yale.

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Brother, Like, I don't know really how else to say it, Yeah,
but but yeah, go to Yale.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
If you can't go to Yale, go to Yell Repertoire
Theater and like check out all their ye love the
one you're with love the one you're with exactly. It's
the Yales we made along the way.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Wait, is that a T shirt?

Speaker 1 (47:33):
That's the T shirt Yell the one you're with, Yale,
the one you're with. I'm kind of I'm kind of
you're really stuck with that one one day.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
The last thing I want to talk about is the
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Class This really is such a good like this state,
that's great.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
It's so great. They're like they have like huge, big
things like things. Yeah that are like really really the
rest of the country. Yeah, So the Eugene O'Neil Theater Center,
I'm just gonna read a little bit about it. The
pat of American theater, the O'Neill is the country's premium
organization dedicated to the development of new works and new
voices on the stage. Founded in nineteen sixty.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Four by George C.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
White and named in honor of eugena' neil, four time
Pultzer winner in America's only playwright to win the Nobel
Prize in Literature, the O'Neill has launched some of some
of our most important voices and works in American theater,
and it's revolutionized the way new work is developed. O'Neill's
program includes the National Playwrights Conference, the National Musical Theater Conference,
and National Critics Institute National Puppetry Conference cabrean Performance Conference

(48:32):
in the National Theater Institute period which offers six credited
earning undergraduate training programs and more camp from the campus
in Waterford, Connecticut. The O'Neill has been home to more
than a thousand new works for the stage and thousands
of emerging artists. This is like, it's just something that

(48:53):
everyone knows about. It's something that everyone submits for. It's
something that is just absolutely wonderful. The thing I really
want to talk about is a National play Rights Conference.
It's it's so so dope. It's a really great way
for you to kind of like a really I forget
how we did it before, but this was This is

(49:15):
something that I go to when I want to find
new plays to read. If you go to the website
and you hit the like, if you hit like the
National Players Conference, you can look at all of it.
You can look at the history, you can look at
all that stuff. You could look at the artistic director
Leah Benusmann, who's wonderful and done so so much cool work.
But you can also look at the twenty twenty four

(49:37):
National Player Rights Center finalists.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
I know that finalist list.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
It's like the k It's insane, it's huge, it's massive,
like it's it's just like a ton of amazing plays.
And I'd say eighty percent of them are on or
on NPX, which is sick. So like there's so much cool,
cool stuff they all have, Like if you hit their names,
it takes you to their MPX. It's really really nice nice. Yeah,
it's dope. But then on top of the National Players

(50:02):
Conference and all the other things that they do, you
also have the National Leader Institute, which I really didn't
know too much about and now I'm very interested in
being a part of because they have adult classes and
stuff with a singular schedule and an unmatched breath of
breadth of training. The National Theater Institute semester long programs
offer students a springboard to the professional world at the
two time Tony Award winning Eujuneo Neial Theater Center, found

(50:25):
in the nineteen seventy ngi's credit earning theater intensives taught
by industry professionals and master teachers, trained actors, singer, directors, dancers, designer, playwrights,
and composers.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
It seems so dope.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
It just seems so so cool. It's a really wonderful
program that you can do in the summer. That you
can do is like study abroad. There's the like Advanced
Playwriting Seminar, there's the Advanced Directing Seminar. There's like literally
institute just for theater makers people who just are kind
of doing it all. It's something that I think if
you are still in college and you were like, wow,
like I really I want to do something with my

(50:58):
summer or I want to do some with a semester
and do something really like special to like help me
grow as the theatermaker. Submit from the National Theater Institute
and see if your school is cool with like sending
you out there, because that's something that is like it
seems so dope. It just seems so cool and it
got me very very excited. But yeah, if you're someone

(51:19):
who's like I don't know how to build myself as
a theamaker, I don't know kind of where to go.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
This industry is really scary and stuff.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
The Eugene O'Neil Theater Center is like a name that
you see on almost every single person's resume somewhere, whether
they had a residency, whether they were a finalist, whether
they went to National Theater Institute, like as an adult
or as a college student. You see it kind of everywhere,
And I think it's really really smart and it's really
really nice to be able to that there is this

(51:50):
like huge mammoth of an institute that has so many programs.
I really think a lot of people can find one
that they fit and be part of. Yeah, and even
if it's just going to see some shows like next
summer at their like summer like programming, like going to
see some of the new plays, the readings that they
do and stuff. It's really really cool. It's a good
thing to have on your radar. It's a really good

(52:11):
thing to look into if you're like I really want
to do something big, I want to try something right.

Speaker 4 (52:16):
Truly for finding things alone, you know, just like seeking
out because it's really hard to like keep up, like
you're never really able to keep up with everything in
the industry, let alone like just scripts, Yeah, just what
is going on right now?

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Like what are the trends?

Speaker 4 (52:30):
But I find that, like those finalists are looking at
like the the what is it Susan Susan Smith Blackburn,
Oh yeah, kill Roy's like looking at those and seeing like, Okay,
am I recognizing people? Or am I recognizing styles? So
much easier five to ten years later being like oh yeah,

(52:53):
like things shifted after what the Constitution means to me,
or things shifted after the pandemic, and how people are
writing about things I don't know. Those are great resources
to kind of like, if you're someone who's interested in
criticism or just curious about it, it's a great place
to be.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
Yeah. Yeah, the last thing I want to talk about.
Uh so that's everything. We got a really cool email
from one of our listeners, Aleana Hansen. I'm so sorry
if I butchered your name. I'm so sorry. But they
gave us a couple of things for this season, which
we're so thankful for. One thing that they gave me,
Oh where is it? It's just very very very cool

(53:29):
play called Oh my gosh, I hate you, Open Up, Open,
Open Open. It's called psychopsychotic or everyone at Yelle is
a goddamn sociopath.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
That's Jeremeo Harris coded.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
It's so co coded. It's like the most Jeremo Harris
coded thing ever. It's a very very cool Let me
pull up their like description because it's wonderful. I don't
know why my computer's not working, but I read a
really big portion of it and I cannot wait to
finish it. I read it.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
It's all the birds interrupting the Wi Fi signal.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Oh, yeah, it must be. It must be the birds
of the window. It's all the birds, all the birds
asking for their feed.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
It's the pigeon.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Psychopsychotic or everyone yells at godamn sociopath by Alexa Germans.
And this is truly, this is one from Aleana Hansen.
I had other stuff and I have the play pulled up,
and she was like that, Yeah, okay, I hope so
wait she didn't say not to all right, I'll take
that as it.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
I'm kidding.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Oh God, don't say that.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
I think people will typically say if they don't they
don't want to.

Speaker 4 (54:29):
Yeah, yeah, let's I don't want to not give credit
to someone who's like, I know about cool stuff.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
So yeah, Aleana Hanson, if you didn't like that, let
us know, let us know. We'll take it. Well, edit
it we'll put it back up. Yeah, we'll do that.
It's it's poetic. It's it's a poetic, disturbing play about
how we put the onus on women to protect themselves
from gendered violence. Alexa Germany is a Brown MFA and
she's an amazing writer. That's Yale. No, no, no. Alexa

(54:55):
German is an MFA at Brown, but she wrote the play.
It's like about Yale.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
It's thing is like Brown Yale. These are all like
institutions that mean so much, like we'd all o ye.
There's like a huge canon of slander against a lot
of these schools. And like, as someone who's come out
of academia twice, I'm like, probably rightfully. So it's an
interesting thing to see.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
So the cast is, uh, there's three characters one, two,
and three. One is a nice guy and two and
three they're girls. That's literally all you get.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
That's the most. That's good.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
Yeah, I know the notes one projecting the scene titles
will be useful. Yeah, the second note there are no
roles for men in this play. That's hot, which I love. Yeah,
I'll send it to you. It was so good. And
here's the thing I'm on, like it's like a seventy
seven page script. I was on like page fifty when
we started recording, and I was like, okay, cool, I
need to finish this, but I wanted to shout it
out because it looks so fun. I'm not gonna give

(55:46):
it away. I will say trigger warnings for like essay,
trigger warnings for like really messed up college experiences between
boys and girls. It's it's rough, okay, but it's brilliant
and I think you should read it if you can.
And just because it was just so good I and
I was just thankful for the recommendation. Again Aleana Hanson. Also,

(56:08):
if I'm butchering it, I'm so sorry. It's filled a
l A y na A l A y na. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
That seems like Elena to me.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Maybe Elena a l A y na.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
Yeah, I'm getting Elena.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
All right, Well, miss person Hanson. Listen Hanson, look, listen Hanson, Hanson.
I was so thankful for this. And again, if you
hate this, I really hope you listened to it early,
and I'll delete everything I found. They also sent me,
or they didn't send it to us, but they had
linked in their email their new Plague change and their

(56:45):
stuff wasn't up to download, but there was one play
that they wrote that looked awesome and I just I
wanted to say, please send me a copy of burnham Wood.
It's I'm just gonna read the description that they have publicly,
but it sounds so cool. Inspired by a gruesome true story,
burnham Wood follows best friends McKenna and Ross as they
murder their way through the top of their high school
drama club.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Oh it's giving kind of like peerless peerless, Yeah, but
it got me so excited. So just shout out to Hansend. Yeah,
please send us places.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
Yeah, please send us place But honestly, thank you so
much for that for the Emailly sent. They send us
some other stuff so which is really cool, but thank
you so much for that email. This play Psychopsychoticist, it
was so good, So go grab it. You can get
it on NPX and selfishly, please send me burnham Wood
because I really want to read it. And I bet
you're a wonderful play, right, and a wonderful painter. Painter. Yeah,

(57:37):
they're a painter and they have really really cool stuff.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Amazing.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Yeah that's my and that's Connecticut. With a little shout
out with a little shout out to a play at
the end. It was fun.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Yeah, Connecticut's kind of a banger. You're right, that is
a real like hub yeah while still.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
Being Yale and having Yale and the Eugene Anial Theater
Center is wild. Yeah. Yeah, it's really good. And also
it's truly it is a great commuter state. Like I
never really thought about it, and then I was like, oh, like,
if I were to want to leave New York, I'd
kind of want to go here, Like that's where I
would want to go.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
I want to buy your roots.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
I want to go to my Yukon roots.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
Could have been so different. That's so funny. That's so stupid.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
But but yeah, so that's Connecticut. All right? Do we wanna?

Speaker 2 (58:24):
Is it time to switch it up?

Speaker 1 (58:26):
Justin maright, let's lay one down.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
This is play disease to Choose and a Lie six
to s a lie.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
And tell lies about the states you're talking about?

Speaker 1 (58:50):
This is the one. This is the one that's right.
It's time for the chi chi oh. Two truths in
a lie If you don't know what that is? Uh,
whoever has the episode that week? The other person thinks
that two truths and a lie about that state and
tries to stump the person who did all the research.

(59:12):
Are you ready to stump me?

Speaker 2 (59:13):
I'm ready? Are you sure? I think so.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
I feel so bad at this segment, which is funny
because the entire first version of this segment was also
me being bad at something.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Yeah, it's humbling you down, and now it's you humbling first,
there's me humbling you down.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
Now, no, we did, no, no, we did. All right,
go on, let me do this. You ready? Yeah, pez
candy is made there.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
No, okay, that's that's the lie. Give you tell me
the other two.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Okay. You know how at the beginning I talked about
the sea in Connecticut.

Speaker 4 (59:41):
Yeah, the sea in Connecticut comes from a seal in
England from sixteen thirty nine, originally the seal of Saybrook Colony.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
And now there is old Saybrook, Connecticut.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Okay, yeah, okay, so that's.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
The origin of the sea.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
Yeah, we've got that.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
Pezz is from there, and also hangovers my first one.
Connecticut is home to the first polaroid camera, helicopter, and
color television.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
It's the first one. Pezz isn't made.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
You think that Pezz wasn't made there pez wasn't made
there Are you lucking in on that?

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
I'm a one hundred percent sur that's the lie.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Are you joking?

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
No, I'm one hundred percent sure.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
Are you trying to be nice to me?

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
No, I'm fully I'm one hundred percent sur that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
That's true. Is it the seal?

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Yeah? Did you make up the whole seal thing? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
The seal is not anything to do with it being Connecticut.
Connecticut comes from the name of a river, and it's
like been mispronounced or not mispronounced, but like mistranslated, So
it comes from the name of a river, not a seal.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
There is a place called Old Saybrook, Connectic Yeah, that's
why I knew it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
Because I knew Old say Brook.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
You'd get another little twister though. That's not but that
has nothing, that's not Yeah, but you put a fact.
You put a fact in your lie.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
Old Saybrook is a place in Connecticut.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Yeah, but that doesn't have anything to do with why
Connecticut's called Connecticut. It's called Old Saybrook.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
You have Old Sabrook is a place in Connecticut?

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Is this bad? Did I do it again? You put
a truth in your lie? Do I don't know how
to lie without like telling you a little truth.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
Can't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
But I was so sure. I was like, I was like,
I was like, I know the helicopter things.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
I saw that, and I know Old Saybrook is a
place in Connecticut, Like, oh, so it has to be
the pet thing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
You are the worst. No, the seal of Connecticut is
it's about a river. But the why did you say
the Old Sabrook thing to throw me off? To lie?

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
That's the lie is a real thing, though, but it
has nothing to do with why Connecticut is called Connecticut.
Nothing about Saybrook in England has the word Connecticut involved.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
That's a completely I understand that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
That's the wait. I'm actually like, I I cannot think
objectively right now. I'm just so surprised. You keep putting
little truths in your lies. I guess, so, yeah, you
gotta lie, you gotta say something that's fully not true.
Connecticut has nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
I understand that there was a lie in there, but
you threw threw a truth then.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
So when you're lying, you're just fully like.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
I'm fully making up something. I'm writing a statement that
is fully not true, and I'm doing this direction you're
doing misdirection.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
And we talked about this every six week. Wait, I'm like,
actually I think something. No, I think I need to
talk to like a specialist.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
That's so funny. We talked about it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
I can't lie. We talked about it so many times.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
I was so sure the past thing was right because
I'm like, oh, I know Old Saybrook is a place
in Connecticut. I know helicopters were made there because I
saw that when I was doing research. I was like, cool,
I got it again.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
No, I need to love the segment. I like, I
literally my head is like, oh, I'm not doing that
this time.

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
Really, I'm like, I'm not doing this this this time
because the seal has nothing to do with that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
I understand. I get what you're saying, right, it's padded
by something that something you just didn't say the last sentence.
It would have been a great lie, but you added
the Old Sabrook thing at the end there where you
were talking.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
About last sentence.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Okay, read the lie.

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
The lie was the reason that Connecticut is spelled that
way with the sea is because of the original seal
from England of Old Saybrook.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Yeah, so, which there is a seal of Old Saybrook colony.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
And like Old Sabrook is a place in Connecticut.

Speaker 4 (01:03:01):
Yeah, but the seal from Europe and stuff that has
nothing to do with why Connecticut's called Connecticut.

Speaker 3 (01:03:05):
No, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
So what I'm saying is it brought up if not
even the last sentence their information that is real.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
If you didn't say old Saybrook, if you just said
the seal from Europe like period and or England period
and a sentence, yeah, that would have been a full
lie because you're saying a seal from England is the
seal of Connecticut.

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
That's not what I'm saying though, No I know, but I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
Saying saying Old Saybrook is the thing that they think
that it was true?

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
Yeah, because Saybrook is real, but it has nothing to
do with the thing I said. But the why do
you say it? I think? I think because I thought
that was a good lie. I'm lying to be but
that's the truth.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
But that's the truth.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
That's a real place.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
Yeah, there's a real place, but that place has nothing
to do with why Connecticut's called Connecticut.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
But in Connecticut, yeah, it does exist.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
Yeah, so there was a fact within it, it's a
different fact.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
Yeah, I see what you mean, I'm the game by
giving you some relevant contact, like real stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
The most on different pages in a game I think
we've ever been on.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
It's really honestly like, I do want if anyone here
is like getting there like post grad psych okay, redsych,
post grad sixe. Yeah, if you can be like, hey,
here's what's up with your pathology? I'm like genuinely curious
because I I literally today I was like, I'm not
going to do that again, and I like fully clearly

(01:04:22):
have done.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
Maybe maybe it's me, maybe that should be maybe I live.

Speaker 4 (01:04:27):
We literally discussed this and we're like, yeah, we shouldn't
do twisties. And to me, in my head, I was like,
this isn't a twisty. These things have nothing to do
with each other.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
Maybe it was just me trying to figure out what
the right I know that you.

Speaker 4 (01:04:37):
Do a quick skim the hope that you're going to
remember fast facts, and so I used one of the
fast facts that comes up to lie about something different.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
But you're right that I knew you would have read
that as a fact.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
So it was a twisty.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
It was twisty. It was a twisty. How do you
lie straight?

Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
Up. How do you just make something up?

Speaker 2 (01:04:53):
True?

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
You make something up? You want me to lie? Right now? Wait? Ready?

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
I feel like my brain is generative AI right now?

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
Okay, here I'm going to do too choosing a lie.
Ok I'm gonna do it about New York City.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
Taxi cabs are yellow. There is a there is a
lake in Central Park called the Pool. And sometimes I
when I walk on the sidewalk, lose my feet.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
You lose your feet? That feels like it could be true?

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
Does it?

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
That's a lie?

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
So it's something that fully doesn't happen. Practice, Yeah, go on.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Practice commonly refer to New York as the Big Apple.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Good.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
There's a New Year's celebration every year in Times Square. Great.
It's illegal to play banjo in elevators. That's a great lie.
That's a good lie. I had to like exposure therapy practice.
That's a solid lie.

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
Why isn't so hard for me? I don't think I'm
never gonna This doesn't even feel like a win. All
the winds I've had don't feel like wins. I need
to practice lying.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
I guess it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:07):
Stopped recording when I don't know, Wait a second, never mind,
it didn't stop recording.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
Are we recording now not recording on top of past us?

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
No, we're recording a new We're continuing the it's illegal
to play banjo and elevators? Yeah, thank you, soone. Listen
to this weeks episode of played a Zee.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
You promise I'll get better. I know people are like,
is she is she hearing this? No, I'm not, And
that's the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
Think maybe they're thinking of the opposite. Maybe they're like,
Justin is being too harsh about the lies.

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
I think also, like I don't want to be a sellout,
but like I think it's some of the acting training,
you know what I mean, Yeah, the idea that like
you have to fully believe something that's fake. And I'm like,
there's no way a person would fully believe something that's
fake if not.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
A little bit of truth within it, which is like
so embarrassing and like capital I actor coded.

Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
But here I am like, honey, why I'm going to
give you more banjos and elevator's content?

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
Huh? But hey, here's the thing. If not, I'm going
to get really good at your style. God by the
end of by the end of these fifty states, I'm
gonna be really good. I'm gonna be Delaware is gonna
be twisted, Twist me. I'm gonna twist you up at Delaware.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Thank you? Don't you listening to Plate to Ze?

Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
Please write review and subscribe to the podcast. Follows on
Instagram at just work at actual Ericacoon. You can check
out our plays on New Plague Change Uh go check
us out Rea'd Kill the Bird. Read some of my
stuff up there. You can buy and produce my Placecrip titles,
Cavin Chronicles, and Community Garden if you would like, you
can go to place trips dot com and find those there.

(01:07:44):
I mean you also follow me on TikTok and see
some of my theater content over on that that platform
on that one as well. Make sure you go see theater.
If you're in Connecticut, God go see they're really really
great stuff. Theater or theater works in Hartford, good speed,
yell rap, so many cool theaters Eugene and Neil Theater Center.

(01:08:05):
But also we hope that this season is kind of
helping people realize that there's really dope cool theater in
every state, no matter where you are, Like, there's something
something for you to see, something for you to do. Yeah, yeah,
and go read really wonderful plays. So yeah, thank you
guys so much for listening to the podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
Thank you Justin for rejecting that you can't offer.

Speaker 1 (01:08:30):
It's huge, it's huge, it's massive.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
I mean end this episode the way I had never episode,
by looking at my best friend and her big blue
eyes and saying Eric Raccoon, one, I love you so much. Two,
you have beautiful blue eyes. Three Banjos, it's illegal to
play benches and elevators, Justin ba.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
One, I love you so much too. You've got a
gorgeous head of hair, Thank you. And three I'm about
to play Joined the Elevator by everybuddy

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
HM.

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