November 22, 2024 • 41 mins
Guess what, it's our first PLAYdough of the season! What happens when scene kids try to save a local Lochness monster? We don't know BUT we try to figure it out on today's episode! Listen in as we make up a play about alt kids in high school, cryptids hiding in the local lake, and moshing!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, Kill The Bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, Community Garden and Cabin Chronicles, through his publisher, Playscripts. Finally, you can check out Justin's YouTube channel for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out Justin's website and Erika's website for more cool stuff!
If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram @justinborak and @actualerikakuhn and Justin on TikTok for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, Kill The Bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, Community Garden and Cabin Chronicles, through his publisher, Playscripts. Finally, you can check out Justin's YouTube channel for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out Justin's website and Erika's website for more cool stuff!
If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram @justinborak and @actualerikakuhn and Justin on TikTok for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, everybody, welcome to play the Z.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Please rise for this season's introduction song, fight through It.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hello, everybody, welcome to a Z. You have your co
hosts back. I'm your co host, Cocoon And oh my gosh,
it's the first Plato of.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The season, first of the season, first season, very excited.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Shirt I thrifted once. Yeah, and it just is red
as stars on it, and it just says biggest sale
of the year.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And where come from?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Because you said first Plato of the season, which is
the same Cadence and I had his biggest sail of
the air.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I thought you were going to say. I thought you're
gonna say that. You like that? You it got like
a Plato, like a vintage Plato shirt. You fully get it,
you know.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
But my friend sweet Kelly be wears the shirt now,
and so whenever I see her wear it, I think
by guess sail the year, and then I think that's
a good one for the first playdo of the year.
Anytime like a phrase has that, I want to put
on a T shirt now stars on it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, that makes it. I mean first play o the year.
I guess that is. I guess that is kind of
the first playo of the season. I guess that is
kind of the same cadence as Biggest.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It's like I imagine someone like a salesman if their hands
going like.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
This, really, wait, what's the weirdest thing you can do
with that? Cannons, small cannibals wanted in.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
A bottle, jelly Sando, Sando is good. The amount of
chefs I know who won't call sandwiches anything but Sandos
is really Yeah, it's it's a weird thing. It's weird
and you're have to breathe it everything. I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Wait, can I tell you a New York hack that
I've recently found?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah. Also, it is like nine in the morning.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We're tired.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
We have we have tired voices.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So tired voices. I have something.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Erica got something off my shirt, thank you so much.
So Lizzen and I went to what was it? It
was dinner, I guess Listen and I went to dinner
with We had a meal, had a meal with her
and an uncle, and we went to this place called
Tiaki Girl, which is like going viral on TikTok for
like they're like wild like teka drinks and stuff and
it's really cool. Dude. They have five dollars Chicken.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Sandos wait I know about that place.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, they have five dollars amazing chicken.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
A hot deal section of my notes which is like
things you can go out to eat for under ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You gotta be a one of them. Yes, but yo.
So I we go here and I'm like, oh my god,
a five dollar Chicken Sanda. I can't believe it. And
I get like two and I eat them, and then
I go to a brow that I play that night,
Bang Bang. And while I'm there, I'm sitting next to
two strange could go by myself, and I look at
the two strangers and I go, hey, I don't know
you guys, but just let you know, if you're ever
on the Upper West Side, you should go to Tiki Girl.
(03:08):
They have fied that with Chicken sanitizvangelized, they had they
fied that I was trying to help out, and we
started this wonderful conversation and their personal assistance of the
two stars in the show and like everything. But the
guy's like, yeah, you know, I used to be a
chef at like a really nice ressaruant here New York
and now I'm and now I'm a personal assistant. But
I cook a lot. And I had these people over
(03:29):
and we their their husbands and he's like he's like,
He's like, we live right down the seat street from
Tiaki Girl and the other day I'm absolutely blowing up
this guy spot. But I'm not gonna say his name,
and I'm not gonna say who's the personal assistant of
these the stars of Left on tenth to Play, Well,
I just gave it away. The Stars of Left and
(03:50):
tenth to Play came to his apartment for like a
little like get together and they said, we want chicken,
and he was like, cool, I'll make chicken. And he
forgot to make check in and we went to this
place and bought a bunch of five dollars. It made
this like really wonderful salad.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
They were like, it's the best check out.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I'm like, oh my god, God.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I love it. When movie tropes place.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
They happened to real life. They happen something the city's
for exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I saw two people hailing a cap for the first
time last night outside of like the my you know
this one of the restaurants I work at. It's like
the entire front is glass. Yeah, so I am seeing
just events happen. And I saw two people who we
had only like seen people hail cabs in a movie,
but like not irl, which is like saying, oh.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Have you told people where you work at? It's excited?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Have I doxed myself?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
No? Have you told people where you work yet? So
Erica has been serving at this really awesome place. So
the eminem Store has this amazing dessert bar a really
quaint part of town.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
It's really slow, you know, it's really charming.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It's called Times Square, but it's cool. So if you
go into the eminem Store and you go to the
person at the if you go to the what are
they called the cashier and you say, say, eric has
send me Erica sent me, let me upstairs, and you
say it just like that, Yeah, they opened a stair.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Ask you for a password. Password is the biggest sale
of the year.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, I have to hear those. You have to goes
Erica sent me, Erica sent me, let me upstairs, and
they go, what's the password, what's the password? Give me
that now.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
And then you say it's the biggest sale of the year.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And then they put a blindfold on you and a
hatch will open, Yeah, and they've been A hatch will
open and you fall down the hatch and then you
go down there and it's Erica and she's making crembrulet
with like just eminem supplies, which is really impressive. Yeah,
but she's also serving it. So I don't know. I
love your new job. I think that's really fun. Yeah,
it pays an hour two million. You've paid two million,
(05:45):
you get paid two million a night. But yeah, I
forgot what I forgot. I was talking about. I like
doing bits where I make up restaurants that you.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Work out, so morning us where just our brains are just.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Like, do we want to talk about on this one?
We're recording to Plata this morning? Do we talk about
the roommate on this one? We want to talk about
on the next one.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Let's talk about the roommate on this one on this
one unless you want to say that for a letter, No,
let's do it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Okay, So Erica's birthday was recently, but again remember that
we record, uh we bank earlier, so you don't know
when her birthday is and leave her alone.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You don't know where I work or when I was born.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Well, you know, you know where she works. She works
underneath the Eminem Store.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I do like joxing ourselves only absurdism.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Is so funny. Wait, isn't that funny though? Like if
we just keep telling people that where we work, but
it's like the most insane place we developed, like a
stalker and they're like going to all these going to like.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Basically she's still going to go in there.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's just funny to me that like a mess of
stalker of play Dizzy walks into the eminem store and
goes if they.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Try it, that's like not even the top ten weirdest
things is gonna happen in the Times? Crimins cry, What
did I say? Is Eric?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Was it gimme? Gimme because ericacoon Erica, kun me downstairs
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You know we're recording, right, Yeah, so you'll find out
on the back end, we find we'll fix that something.
Just edit it so that just now you said the
right thing, so you don't feel dumb.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Eric, let me downstairs, Open the hatch, Open the hatch.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I want that crime by day millions.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It's a million dollars. It's really hard to get down there,
and it's really expensive. Yeah, Erica drains your bank account,
but you get to eat with all of the eminem's. Wait,
we will be the sexiest eminem to have dinner with
the Green eminem.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Right, it just depends on your type. I guess your
preference and.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
The Green Eminem. Yeah, because she has heels someone.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
That Liz's nephew like wanted to fight on site, like
just hate it the red One.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I wasn't here for when James was here.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Oh, I was like, me and Liz run into each
other constantly, like on the street and in the subway,
which is really funny. We're like ah, and I ran
it to her family visiting and like her nephew was
conked out in the stroll or whatever. Yeah, I was like, oh,
it's going on, like what we're up to? Like went
to the Times Square, went to them and m store
for this one. I'm like, oh, was it so fun?
And Liz remember what she said? She was like he
(08:08):
really wanted to fight the red one.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
He really really really wanted to.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Idea I don't know, like pro finally just like hating.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That one kid fighting them, Like I.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Haven't been there, so I don't like. Was it a
guy in a suit. Was it a statue?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I don't think they have guys in suits there. Well,
you worked there, you would know it. Also shout out Liz.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And while we're talking about it, shout out my mom.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Oh man, wow, shout out suit.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I have a family. Zoom after this.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
But oh nice, but wait, but so it was Eric's
birthday recently we went to a really cool restaurant that
was one of the first places Erica took me when
we first visited New York a few years ago, and
then went to the roommate on Broadway.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Wow, rushed it, shout out the roommate. Yeah, you rushed it.
I talked about that show on this podcast like season.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
One, season one, I think, Yeah, it's one of my
favorite gen Silverman scripts. They have like such a cool
body of work where they have such a specific style,
but every story is so unique.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
This one is one of my favorites ever. I was like,
honestly very surprised that it went to Broadway. We talked about, like,
you know, the casting.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Of this that is just one of the first I
guess other than like like John Practic's the villain now,
but like this is one of the only shows that
I can think of that, Like I read and I
was a fan of and then it went to Broadway. Yeah,
because most of the time it's the opposite. Most of
the time it goes to broad If it's gonna go
to Broadway, it goes to Broadway early, and it's like
iteration and then it kind of gets published and we
read it and we learned.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
About it moves from like off Broadway or something like.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, but this was like I don't know where it started,
but it was like years, yeah, a lot of time
until it got there. So that was kind of surprising.
I was like, I was very surprised that it went
there because also Jen just had they just had a
play at Second Stage Spain. So when I heard rumors
that like a gens Everyone play was gonna go to
a Broadway, I kind of assumed it was going to
be something over something.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, but yeah, that it was cool, Like, I don't know,
I just moved to New York. I grew up in Iowa.
That's like, actually a very popular negative stereotype is like
did it kids from Iowa try to make it back?
And so being in a Broadway, you know, house, and
then hearing people be like Hey, Yeah, Gilbert Street and
Iowa City.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, the university and I'm like, I used to go
there for doctor's appointments. I'm from there sincerely.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's kind of sick.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, it was very, very, very cool. The performances were amazing,
the lighting, the sound super tight, and it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Was also the lighting was sick.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
It's just really rare to see two women of that
age a on a stage, be on a stage for
more than one scene, and then see like have it
be two mature women talking yeah, for ninety minutes straight
and then people paid a Broadway take a price to
go see that. Like, that's not something that happens a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
And I mean I think we do it to say, like,
I mean, it's paddle opponent Mia Farah. They were.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It was wild.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
It was wild to see them. I had to do
h this was I don't know how I felt about this,
but I was kind of excited that I got to
see it happen. I know why they did it, but
I was like, oh, I get why they did it too.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
So at the top of the at the top of
the show, they like had Patty and Mia just like
straight up just like walk out break the fourth wall
and look so everyone could be like like classic yeah,
and then and then they exited and then the black
got happened and then the show started, and like I
know why they did that, Like I follow a bunch
(11:31):
of like silly you know, theater TikTokers who like do
like impressions. Yeah, and it's like, oh classic theater dame
like walks out and like they won't stop clapping, you know.
So I understood, like why derailed the top of the show,
which is the pacing and stuff with those texts are
really important, but it.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Was so funny it didn't make me laugh. I was like,
oh my god, I can't believe they're doing this, But
I guess it does make sense because like the place
starts in every line is important in this play, and
it does move really quick. So if like pat of
the we're going to walk out with the box and
like theater etiquette and yeah, if you were to scream
for like forty five seconds, like what you gonna do
just like hold just hold that box for forty five second.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
It's gonna be like no, no, holl you box guys.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I guess that was got that smart, but it didn't
be laughed, But everyone should go see it. It's if
it's still open by the time this comes out. It's
been like a couple of weeks, so it'll still be
open for like another week or two. But also just
read the play. It's also it was interesting, and we
talked about this a little bit. I wish I read
the script before this, but like, but like Patty and
(12:35):
me are women of a certain age, I think a
little bit older than what the original text suggested. So
it was kind of it was very different to see
a script that I knew beforehand, like change for a
like a larger stage.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, Typically for women it's the opposite.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It's like you need to be sorry, morning voice, you
need to be like really hot twenty five to play
like high school student.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah on TV.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
But then for like stage plays like I was that jerk,
I was at twenty two, like auditioning for women's roles
in their thirties and like sometimes getting them. Yeah, And
so like how that typing works is so wild to me. Also,
anytime I see a script like this that makes me,
as a woman in theater excited to get older is
so cool. Cool, and it if you're someone who is
(13:23):
like right now like struggling with type, and especially for women,
the way that we're perceived and are typing is just
like so distinctly bad. If you're like in between right
now now that like you might be coming into like
your best casting years of your life. Like I have
a friend who she knows that she's like I was
put on this earth to play moms, Like I just
know that's my vibe on the nurse in Romeo and Juliet.
(13:45):
I'm this, I'm that, And now she's like about to
enter her thirties where that's going to be believable. Yeah,
it's going to be her her decade. Yeah, I know.
It's cool to see and it's cool.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It kind of reminds me of like the it's like
the non musical version of like Kimberly a Kimbo, Like
I mean it was cool to like go see Kimberly
at Kimba because we got to see Victoria Clark kind
of come out of retirement and like be this like
star who steals the stage and the whole thing is
that she is like in her like sixty seventies, Like
that's like the vibe. So yeah, it's cool to see
(14:17):
that it's kind of something on the stage that we
can like have.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, and also again like the play is just two
people talking. Yeah, it's two people talking. There's no like
wild spectacle. There was cool design elements, but like anytime
you can capture a modern audience's attention for ninety minutes
straight with like no razzle dazzle, no pre existing story,
just people connecting and being vulnerable and being funny. Yeah,
(14:42):
oh I just think that's great and it was. It
made me very inspired. Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It was wonderful. It was really really cool, and I
loved all the lightning and stuff and the Iowa skies.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah. So, like the house was made out of scrim
and so it starts and it kind of.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Just they like projected like paneling on the side to
it to kind of make look like that like a house.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
No, that was just the that was like the I
think the scrim was like layered that. Oh yes, they
had scrim where it looked like you know, like what
would that be called, uh just sighting on a house. Yeah, yeah,
horizontal kind of trips and so it looks when you
walk in like this sort of like gray blue house.
But then obviously it's scrim So when they have the
projections in the light shining a certain way, they had
(15:24):
these massive, like beautiful blue skies, white clouds or storm clouds,
depending on what's going on in the text. Yeah, Like
one of the opening jokes is that one character from
the Bronx and she's like, isn't that so scary and dangerous?
And she's like, don't you have tornadoes here?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Like what do we do?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
And the other lady's like, it happens all the time.
Just go on the basement, right, Yeah, And so like
I don't know whoever did those projections in lighting, like
at their work, because in Iowa, like one of the
only natural not only, but one of the primary natural
areas of splendor is your skies because it's flat. It's
not getting Kirby Derby until you get to Counsel Bluffs
(15:57):
near Nebraska or you go away up to Minous. It's flat.
You can see all your farmland at once. Yeah, and
it's kind of stinky. Sometimes there's like nice areas of trees,
but it's not like the mountains or the trees of
West Virginia. It's not coastal. There's a river or some
places lake some places, but it's a flat place. And
so when you're in a flat place, you just like
you look up because you're not looking at anything. And
(16:19):
so I think our skies are storm clouds in the
summer like that to me is Iowa is like a
certain type of sunset. And if you talk to people
who like grew up in Appalachia, right, they feel like
really good about the mountains. They feel safe and protected,
where someone like me is like, I feel surveilled, I
feel enclosed. I feel like I can't see what's going
on where in Iowa, you know that person feels vulnerable
and I feel like, oh I could see a mile
(16:40):
in every direction. So anyway, yeah that was niche, but.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah, well done from Iowa.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
No, but they went to the University of Iowa.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Okay, workshop, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
They're one of the big sticks from there. So sweet
cool stuff. All right, do you dare me to generate
some words?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Well, yeah, so this is our first one of the season. Yeah,
so first Plato of the season.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
The season, So this is.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Your first season listening to Plato. Welcome to the show.
The Plato is so both Eric and I are playwrights
and we love to talk about plays. We also love
to make them up. So Plato is Erica is going
to generate three random words from random word generator.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Had some weird ones.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
We've had some weird ones already, and then we are
just going to take like fifteen minutes to like make
up a play and just like chat about what the
play could be and like come up with a fun idea.
And that's this episode. So that's about it. Yeah, let's
do this thing.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Are you ready for this?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I'm ready. We haven't done a plato in so long,
we haven't. We've done a plato since like Ohio, since
like the like since like a why we haven't done
we did?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
We did the father Time one?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Oh we did one last one? Yeah you did. Yeah,
the Raccoon one was good.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I'm not gonna lie. It is generating some naughtier words, and.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
No, well I'm kind of interested to hear it and
then try to make it not naughty. Okay, have you
found three to commit to yet?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I'm about to. I'm just a little bit surprised by
some of these words. We'll talk about them off mic, okay,
but I'm like especially we had a set of three
this morning that were like very funny.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
They were very funny, and they told the whole play.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
There would have been nothing for us to Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
It's already a eighteen minute episode with the banter. It'd
be about a nineteen minute episode with the plane out.
It'll be great, it'll be quick. Okay, but this, Yeah,
I'm excited. River good, but it'll have gotten river before.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
A lot of these are repeats. Should I try again?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Kind of now worried that whatever you get is gonna
be like naughty.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
It's just they were just like words that have connotations.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Okay, cool, let me legitate. Yeah, let me hear it again.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Also, just so you know, we can actually change to
word types so we can do three words. We could
do nouns, verbs, adjectives, extended or non English. Oh my god,
should I pick one? Do three things?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Things? Give me three things?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Peoples places and things, people's places. Okay, here we go,
Yeah we might again. They're like kind of falling into
a thing.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Lake lake scene scene device device Okay, okay, okay, lake
lake scene dice.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I have some immediate impressions.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
It makes me, I mean like it makes me think
like when I think of device, I think like theatrical device.
And then I'm thinking like, oh, what we could do
with like like I mean, the immediate thought was like,
I love I love camp. So what if we did
like a vignette play where it was like all the
different houses around one lake and it's like a camera
(19:44):
moving around and you're seeing these different families.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Cameras or what interacts with all these.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Different like houses, and like you could see like the
people from the different houses.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Going love a Plato movie.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yeah, I love a Plato movie. I love making a film.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Film for stage for Plato.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Look, look I'm gonna I'm gonna make theater when it has.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
To be which want me to tell you what my issue?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
What was your initial thought?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Do you remember seeing kids?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
No? Oh my god? Seen kids went to such like
a normal high school.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, kids who were seen.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Like not invisible. No, there's a bunch of kids that
are seen. Kids are seen all the times. Are you
yanking my chain for I'm not yanking your chain? Will
you google image right now? Two thousand seen kids? Really?
I don't know why you don't What do you mean
you don't know why? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
It's like a Midwest emo thing. Seen kids. We graduated
one graduating class apart like two. I think, No, it
wasn't it was one.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I graduated in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I graduated in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Oh yeah, well maybe then maybe it was a place
like a place then.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I don't know. I think maybe you just hung out
with like popular kids.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh my god, seen kids.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
You've never seen a person who looked like that when
you were a teenager.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
No, I've seen people like this. I they had a
name called weird. Yeah, exactly, popular, call them weird. Here's
the thing I bullied the kids.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Actually, so telling because you were on the football team. Yeah,
and I was the quarterback of group improv.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I was. I was in show choir too.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Were the scene kids in show choir?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
No, there's no scene. They were weird. This is the
scene the kids, the kids who were the kids who
dressed as scene kids at my school. I mean they
were like we were like there wasn't really a lot
of bullying at my school, but like like any like alternative,
Like no we did, but they like I know exactly
who these kids were. They would like sit in like
they would sit in like a corner of the cafeteria
(21:37):
and like now really talk to us. Yeah, they would
like do their own thing, pretty hardcore. I didn't know
that had a name for scene kids. I just thought
they were I thought they were like punk goth kids.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, I would say the scene to emo, hipster pipeline,
whatever it was. But it was a really specific aesthetic
in time. So in my head I was like a
group of like really apathetic scene kids, like find out
that there's like a nating device onto the lake and
they have to save the day. But they're just like
really not inspired to save the town. But it's like,
well they won't they Why is there a device.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Such a bad like ticking. It's such a bad story
because it makes all the heroes so like apathetic, like
they just do not.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Really don't know if we're going to save the town.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
They don't know if they're gonna save the town. I
don't know, they don't want to. They like have no sucks.
That's so funny, Lakes, it's so funny to wait. It's
so funny to create a play that has a like
very big important like like this is clearly what the
play is about, but none of the protagonists give a ship.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
The other thing I thought about was like, is it
the lake that has the Lochness monster and is the
government like funding a device.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Well, now, okay, the scene kids are are all kids.
They're alternative, they're like edgy.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
They're cool.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
You don't have to go down the stroad. I'm just saying,
I love it to two different runs.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
No, I love it if if they the devices making sense,
because they wouldn't give a they wouldn't care about like
about saving the town, but a lock in this monster
that they're like the government's hiding. I could see. I
could see a bunch of scene kids being like the
man is holding nests down.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, like feeling like a kid.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay, I like that idea.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Okay, so it is that has locked a sponsor.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
So where the play is set in rural Iowa, and
there's a bunch of scene kids and and they hear
a rumor that in their local lake like nests.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
It's so crazy that it would be Iowa, but I'm
willing to go with you.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, it was a bunch of scene kids. It's early
two thousands, and they hear a rumor, a.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Story, there's a rumor that there's something in the lake.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Or something in the lake, and they go to the
local Harbingers like like a little like fish Den. You know,
Harbinger is like a horror movie. It's like the person
that like the protectonists before. Like here you be the
scene person coming to get information from the Harbinger. I'll
be the harbinger. Yeah, just open when you open the door,
give me a ding because my door is a bell
(23:57):
on it. We're adding first seasons. We're gonna add a
couple of little prov things for this Dan Dang. Why
hello there, Welcome to my star.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
How can I help Awe? I love her hair? Do
you have Arizona iced tea?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Wear Arizona iced tea? We have anything you need, sweet child?
How are you? You look tired?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Are you tired right now?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You look tired.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
We're going to the lake.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Oh that's fun. Don't don't be there too long. Don't
be there at night for sure? What do you mean, well,
you don't want to be You don't want to be
at lake nasts at night or or the creature might
come on Cutcha.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
You sound crazy right now.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
No, I'm not crazy. My name's Philip Wilkins, and I've
been at this lake for a hundred years. I'm one
hundred and six I'm one hundred and I can tell
you one thing I know that's like better than anybody.
The mayor of this town doesn't want you to know
that the loch Nest monster had a and the government
(25:01):
flew them over to Iowa and dropped them in our
lake on accident. So now we have a little baby
lock Nows. But it's been fifty years and that's an
adult lock Noss. I treat her wild though. I throw
breadcrumbs into the lake at night. It feeds her good,
it feeds her strong, it makes her fast.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Whatever, dang ding.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That that lady was so tired.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
She was just she should smile more.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
She should smile more. She's trying to get a little
bit of sleep.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
She looked, really funny thing. The Scene kids are the
nicest kids at my school, like kind of just doing
like a maul off emo. I'm like, but also I'm
like thinking about all the Sea kids were like so
nice to me and like would push my car the snow,
and I'm like, I'm doing them dirty. Wait really, yeah, dude,
I'm from Iowa.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Like, okay, we had bad stuff too, but the Scene
kids were never the kids that would help out. The
see kids like did their own thing and like hated everybody.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Well, can I say something, Yeah, I know you were
popular in your own the football team.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I wasn't popular.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Well, you didn't know that scene kids were called seeing
kids weren't people's friends.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I knew they were called freaks exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
So I was like kind of friends with everybody because
I was in like activities. And you can have a
scene kid on the drum line.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
It's happened, No, it happened. Their hair wouldn't fit in
the hat. Tell me I'm wrong, Tell me I'm wrong.
Tell me a see kid's hair wouldn't fit into a
drum lines hat.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
It wouldn't be done like that. This is like not
someone who was fully committed to the hair.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Okay, so they're not a scene kid, they're a partial
Wait what is it? What are they called? What's the
really bad thing people call people in Harry Potter a
half blood mud blood? Mud blood?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, anyway, respect on seeing kids' names. But anyway, she
walks out, she goes back to a red what is
it like a grand dam. There's so many of those.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Oh yeah, cool, And and she.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Slams the door shut and she's like, let's got a lake,
and everyone's.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Like, Delia, why are you, Delia? Why are you in
there for so long? Talking to old Philip Willikins. That
guy's crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
I heard that guy's crazy.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I heard that guy's crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Everyone's like anyway, Arizona iced Tea, it's right here, I've
got it. We're gonna split it. Split got an Arizon
iced tea Guardettas. It wasn't what was like the most
popular candy high school and Pixi sticks, Yeah, pixie stick. Yeah,
one Arizon iced tea, Guardados and Pixi sticks on a dream?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Why are we going to the lake, Delia? I don't
want to go to the lake, Delia because because why
my mom.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Said not to let's go.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
That is what happened. And then they go.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
So they're going to the lake and they get to
the lake and they're on like a dog. Let's let's
give them a dog.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah. They are in their awn nights, are sitting hearing one.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Lakes are dangling over. Yeah, we're we're sharing one cigarette.
We're not actually inhaling.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah, they have no idea how to.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Do it now that it's a film for you, I guess.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Or don't have to be a film projections. Whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I think we should get like a shot of the
dock of like their feet dangling and it's like converse vans.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, like a dock mark. Oh wait, can I say?
I think? Okay? So, so Delia has this like kind
of like Delilah whatever, has this like protagonists our protagonist,
Delia Delilah, that's her name, Delia Delilah.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I'm like pulling up pictures of Scene Kids because I
need to visualize her better.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So wait, so here's the thing. She has just like
kind of on and off again thing with this dude
named Aaron who's also a Scene Kids. He's there, he's
on the dock, and Aaron's kind of like why are
we even here? And Delia Delilah is.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Like I heard you know, you know why they would
be there in this era to take photos for my space?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah? Photo? Well, I like to I'd like to think that.
I'd like to think that they're there because like the
moms like don't go to the lake. And then like
Philip Willikins is like the locking sponsors here. He's like,
she's like, we have to take a photo. So my
mom gets pissed and everyone's like, oh my god. They
saw a lockness monster.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
We should take a photo and then edit in the
lockness monster in the background.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
But then here's the thing. Everyone's like, delay, Delilah, you're crazy,
and Aaron looks at her and goes, that's why I
will never work. And all the Seene kids get up
and start to walk off the dock and Delia Delilah.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
She goes, wait, you drove me here.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I love that you're making the conflict, not the locknest monster.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Still, I thought we're setting her up to be alone
and to meet the creature.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, that's what I've Yeah, they drove her there.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
That's so in Iowa, Like they take a highway.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
To a road to a road they haven't left yet.
They're walking away. Oh okay, and she remembers Philip Willikin's voice,
and Philip goes, I dropped bambs. She looks at her
picky stick, pixie stick, pixie stick. Okay, and she's like,
if he likes bread combs, he's gonna love and she
pours her pixie stick in the water. Aaron turns around
(29:52):
and goes, Delia, Delilah, don't don't, don't waste the sticks.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
The tea was ninety nine cents and the a because
it's two thousand and nine, and.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Nothing pops up, and she's like, oh, man, I guess
I was wrong. It's just to walk away. And Aaron
Saniels looks back at her and goes, and it's the
name of the guy from Mean Girls. But I think.
Aaron looks back, I can't believe you, and she sees
a little yeah, a shadow shadows cast across the stage,
(30:24):
and we see this little head that almost like it
could be like almost like a turtle.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Can I say something?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, it has hair and it has a little bit
of hair, and.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
It has hair that completely covers one of its eyes.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
One of it's a scene kid.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Lock that monster.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
The head keeps crying growing kid has his long neckets
longer and longer.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
It's got the colors in.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
The volume fudge. That's so funny. Huh oh my god.
But yeah, so they see this scene kid locked us
monster and ready the scene kid locks that Monster comes
out and looks at all the scene kids and goes.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Hi, and they all go blink blink, hi, and the
line of.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Monster goes thanks for the picks, and it goes back
into the water.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
And then so They're all just sitting there. They're in shock.
They're like, did that just happen?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Yeah? Yeah, did that just happen?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And then I would say, Dealey, Delilah goes, I told you,
I told you. We have to go talk to mister Willikins.
He knows everything about the Lockos monster. Yeah, we can.
We have to let everyone know that this person that
this creatures here.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Paddled to the metal on the red grand Am. Yeah.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
They fly back ding ding ding. Uh there, Oh it's you,
the tired girl.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah whatever. She shudges her bangs again. Yeah, I guess
you were telling the truth, huh about Nassa.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Absolutely? I never lie. I never lied once in my life.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I don't know why you told us not to go there.
I don't know if you're bigoted or something against people
with really good hair. No, but people like us. I love.
I give her bread crumbs, right. But you're trying to
keep her a secret. Why Because she's seen people are
people are going to try to take her because of
her banks.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So there's there's this group of people are so not
understanding of the actual thing that's happening. No, it's a
lock nessmuk.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Just because you can't see one of my eyes and
you can't see one of her eyes doesn't mean that realize,
can't realize realize, And I'm going to go back to
that leg. I'm gonna bite her to sit with us
at lunch. That's so ere gonna get me and my
mom won't and you never will.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Please don't do that. That's so funny that she doesn't
and accused the one guy who like takes care of
because it's a monster, because because she's altered. So funny.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
So she walks out and she's like, guys, we gotta
go back. We gotta get her out of that lake.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
You gotta get her out of that lake.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
There's a Day to Remember concert on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
She's gotta be there, and she has.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
To be there. You know why because she's really tall.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Her neck is so long and you could sit on
her neck and we can imagine that in the pit,
she can wash like a giraffe. Think about it.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
You fight with their next she's like, Aaron, Aaron, does
your dad still have that truck?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah? My piece of trash.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Dad, You're a piece of dumb ass trash.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
That Yeah, my ass trash dad. Yeah, my ass trash
dad dumb. Yeah he runs, yeah, he runs the contract Yeah,
he runs a contracting company. Cont I could take his truck.
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Let's go get his trucks.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Get his truck. They get his truck out the grand down.
They talk about the grab. They get a truck a hook.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
They go back to and then they stop at them all.
They go to Hot Topic. They get a bunch of
studded belts.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Nice, that's smart.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
They go back to the lake. They nagle the studded belt.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
But before they lead the mall, Dealey Delilah grabs a
ton of pixie sticks form one of those things you
put a quarter in.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
A ton of studded leather belts. We go back to
the dock. Yeah, pixie sticks going.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
In going okay, Dey Delilah goes like Nessie, we love you.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Year. One of a belts getting belted together. Everyone's wearing
stripey tights. They're in kind of their concert.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Look, okay, is this Saturday? Yea Saturday?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Ye tight t shirts?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, a couple of days to get t shirt. But
they go back Saturday now, so Nessie is called coming
from a bag.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yeah, and can I say something. Her hair looks better
than ever. It's bigger, it's bolder, it's batter. Everyone just
takes a beat to go.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
It's somehow dry. It looks perfect.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Everyone's like, oh, wow, you're so cool, and she goes,
that's crazy. I've never had friends before.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Philip Willikins in the corner are.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Just like in the movie version. It's like, is she
crying or is she wet from the lake?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
We don't know, We don't know, we don't know.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
They go, we got into something and it's the studded
belts belted together to be at Locknest scale. They go,
put this around your waist. We're getting out of this lake.
She goes, Guys, my mom's gonna be pissed.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
And they go, we now, we now. Have you ever
come to Sagre? We all just tried.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
She goes, no, I can bring under water though.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
They got that's so cool, that's so cool.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
She goes, Also, what have you been putting in the water?
It makes me go so fast?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
It's PECKSI stacks.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
I like that And they stick their tongue at us.
All they all have blue and you're just like us
for real.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
So they get her out.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
They belt her out into the pickup truck.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Put her in the truck.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
The device works.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
The device works.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
They go to the concert.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
They dragged in the concert.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
They get her into the those plastic water cups, you know,
the cooler they're keeping her white keep heist.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
She kills like thirty people on accident because of her
big neck, and she's the locking us monster. They bring
her into the pit. Yeah, yeah, she definitely would cause problems.
Theriff comes, the comes, he's like, guy, he's wait, here's
the thing. Here's it's another situation where they don't understand it,
like stopping me in to her because of her hair.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Yeah, And he's like, he's like, no, she kills one.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
She killed a bunch of a couple of kids. She
killed a couple of kids in the pit. They're like,
you can't. And this is the moment where Dealey Delilah
gets up on a pedestal and goes, you treat all
of us differently just because.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Of our hair, because our hair is better than.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yours, and because we're alternative, and because we like the
music that we like. And everyone's like, she killed someone,
and they're like and they're like, don't try to turn
this around on that, don't you know you can't do that.
That's so funny. They're like, Nessie's our friend, and Nessie's
one of us, and if she goes down, we all
(37:00):
good down. Yeah, And they all get in front of her,
like they're trying to save a tree, like yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
They blink arms yeah yeah, and they and because they're
linking arms like, and the hair keeps moving because it
never stays. Yeah, They're like they're like jerking their head
because they want to keep their eye on the sheriff,
but like they can't.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
They all of them the whole time.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
But then the rest of the concert misreads the situation.
They think, oh, are we about to about to mach again?
Elbows go up, elbows go up. Right now, we're all mashing.
Sheriffs are like, wait a minute, this mashing thing seems
kind of cool. Actually, this is actually kind of The
Sheriffs were huge squares in high school, never alternative, They
never got to popular. Yeah, and the machine just kind
(37:39):
of takes hold those kids who died. I guess I
don't know if we're going to put a bow on that.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh here's the thing. It wasn't kids. It was a
bunch of criminals. Disguised as kids. My god, the monster guys.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
This is so fun. Also I did that on purpose.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yeah. Well the Sheriff's like, honestly, thanks, those guys are bad.
They still a lot of money the church, right, and
then Deally Delilah's like, my mom runs the church.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Oh my god, it's just we don't know about police
brutality yet.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
We don't understand. Kids don't get for a few more years.
I guess they don't know. They don't know, they don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
So in the end, the Lockedness Monster child a sort
of child gets out of the lake.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Did kill some people.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
The scene kids get to speak their truth and the
town gets to recognize them.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
The scene kids truly don't understand what the play is about.
Still they still fully don't get it, and in the
end we give them this big monologue where I think
a lot of people watching those play would be like, oh,
they're finally going to get it. They still don't get it,
and the play is called you're better at this than me.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
I mean I would think of like a play on
like like Lock of Hair and Lockness Monster. Yeah, the
lock nests do, but if it was called lock but
like the brand is l h but it's the it's
the scene haircut or what if.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
It was oh well wait, h kind of looks like
a lock times monster because it's a hump and then
a long line. What if it was lock but then
like the h was like the hump of the and
the L is like is like the hair. Yeah, the
l could be like the hair, and the age.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Can be we get into the typography of the situation.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Look, we really work with a graphic designer on this one.
Here's the thing. I think we just wanted Tony.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
What if it's called locks, because like you're.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Oh, that's good l Yeah, and then the hair could
be the ass because the as it kind of looks
like wavy like a hair.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Yeah. I assume the monster is green this whole time.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Yeah, it's green blue tongue, green green blue tongue. But
like pink black hair. Yeah, like black hair, huge black
hair with like the crazy pink yeah. Yeah. Wow, oh
my god, the past what a black what a what
a blast from the past.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Believe, oh my god. We got to keep it tighter.
Like I know, I loved it because I rambled about
T shirts for like twenty minutes with my morning voice.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
I don't know, man, I really loved that we added
a couple of improv elements into it. Maybe that'll be
something for this to keep that up. Yeah, I think
we should keep that up. That's fun. Well, guys, thank
you so much for listening to play This has been locks.
I hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
I hope that if you used to have hair like that,
you drop us a pick. Yeah yeah, wait, if you
had hair like that and then had like a huge transformation,
I like, I'm not gonna lie, like, I want to
know all the picks in between.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
And I know you're wondering where do we send this picks.
You can follow us on Instagram at actual Erkacoon at
Justin Borak. You can email us at play Ze podcast
at gmail dot com. Thank you to everyone who's been
emailing us. We've beginning a bunch of emails about your
states and we're excited they'll work those in productions yeah,
which we're super pumped about. Oh you check out our
plays on new play Exchange. Go read Kill the Bird
(40:44):
on Erica's New play Change. Read my stuff. Go check
out community artt and Camra Chronicles. They're both public playscripts.
Uh yeah, thank you. Guys so much for listening. Make
sure you go see theater in your area wherever you are,
and know that if you have a car, if there's
public transit, you can always find like a cool theater,
a community theater, high school, something that's doing something, and
(41:05):
go watch and go enjoy it. Support your local art scene.
And uh yeah, I'm gonna end this episode the way
I end every episode, but looking Erica, my best friend,
her blue blue, big blue blue blue eyes and saying you.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Can jump back into that that little harm your character,
didn't you.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Mark A. Cone, I love you so much.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Justin borack ingering, I love you so much.
Hey, everybody, welcome to play the Z.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Please rise for this season's introduction song, fight through It.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Hello, everybody, welcome to a Z. You have your co
hosts back. I'm your co host, Cocoon And oh my gosh,
it's the first Plato of.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The season, first of the season, first season, very excited.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Shirt I thrifted once. Yeah, and it just is red
as stars on it, and it just says biggest sale
of the year.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And where come from?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Because you said first Plato of the season, which is
the same Cadence and I had his biggest sail of
the air.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I thought you were going to say. I thought you're
gonna say that. You like that? You it got like
a Plato, like a vintage Plato shirt. You fully get it,
you know.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
But my friend sweet Kelly be wears the shirt now,
and so whenever I see her wear it, I think
by guess sail the year, and then I think that's
a good one for the first playdo of the year.
Anytime like a phrase has that, I want to put
on a T shirt now stars on it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, that makes it. I mean first play o the year.
I guess that is. I guess that is kind of
the first playo of the season. I guess that is
kind of the same cadence as Biggest.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
It's like I imagine someone like a salesman if their hands
going like.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
This, really, wait, what's the weirdest thing you can do
with that? Cannons, small cannibals wanted in.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
A bottle, jelly Sando, Sando is good. The amount of
chefs I know who won't call sandwiches anything but Sandos
is really Yeah, it's it's a weird thing. It's weird
and you're have to breathe it everything. I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Wait, can I tell you a New York hack that
I've recently found?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah. Also, it is like nine in the morning.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
We're tired.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
We have we have tired voices.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So tired voices. I have something.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Erica got something off my shirt, thank you so much.
So Lizzen and I went to what was it? It
was dinner, I guess Listen and I went to dinner
with We had a meal, had a meal with her
and an uncle, and we went to this place called
Tiaki Girl, which is like going viral on TikTok for
like they're like wild like teka drinks and stuff and
it's really cool. Dude. They have five dollars Chicken.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Sandos wait I know about that place.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, they have five dollars amazing chicken.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
A hot deal section of my notes which is like
things you can go out to eat for under ten dollars.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
You gotta be a one of them. Yes, but yo.
So I we go here and I'm like, oh my god,
a five dollar Chicken Sanda. I can't believe it. And
I get like two and I eat them, and then
I go to a brow that I play that night,
Bang Bang. And while I'm there, I'm sitting next to
two strange could go by myself, and I look at
the two strangers and I go, hey, I don't know
you guys, but just let you know, if you're ever
on the Upper West Side, you should go to Tiki Girl.
(03:08):
They have fied that with Chicken sanitizvangelized, they had they
fied that I was trying to help out, and we
started this wonderful conversation and their personal assistance of the
two stars in the show and like everything. But the
guy's like, yeah, you know, I used to be a
chef at like a really nice ressaruant here New York
and now I'm and now I'm a personal assistant. But
I cook a lot. And I had these people over
(03:29):
and we their their husbands and he's like he's like,
He's like, we live right down the seat street from
Tiaki Girl and the other day I'm absolutely blowing up
this guy spot. But I'm not gonna say his name,
and I'm not gonna say who's the personal assistant of
these the stars of Left on tenth to Play, Well,
I just gave it away. The Stars of Left and
(03:50):
tenth to Play came to his apartment for like a
little like get together and they said, we want chicken,
and he was like, cool, I'll make chicken. And he
forgot to make check in and we went to this
place and bought a bunch of five dollars. It made
this like really wonderful salad.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
They were like, it's the best check out.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I'm like, oh my god, God.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I love it. When movie tropes place.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
They happened to real life. They happen something the city's
for exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I saw two people hailing a cap for the first
time last night outside of like the my you know
this one of the restaurants I work at. It's like
the entire front is glass. Yeah, so I am seeing
just events happen. And I saw two people who we
had only like seen people hail cabs in a movie,
but like not irl, which is like saying, oh.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Have you told people where you work at? It's excited?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Have I doxed myself?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
No? Have you told people where you work yet? So
Erica has been serving at this really awesome place. So
the eminem Store has this amazing dessert bar a really
quaint part of town.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
It's really slow, you know, it's really charming.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It's called Times Square, but it's cool. So if you
go into the eminem Store and you go to the
person at the if you go to the what are
they called the cashier and you say, say, eric has
send me Erica sent me, let me upstairs, and you
say it just like that, Yeah, they opened a stair.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Ask you for a password. Password is the biggest sale
of the year.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, I have to hear those. You have to goes
Erica sent me, Erica sent me, let me upstairs, and
they go, what's the password, what's the password? Give me
that now.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
And then you say it's the biggest sale of the year.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
And then they put a blindfold on you and a
hatch will open, Yeah, and they've been A hatch will
open and you fall down the hatch and then you
go down there and it's Erica and she's making crembrulet
with like just eminem supplies, which is really impressive. Yeah,
but she's also serving it. So I don't know. I
love your new job. I think that's really fun. Yeah,
it pays an hour two million. You've paid two million,
(05:45):
you get paid two million a night. But yeah, I
forgot what I forgot. I was talking about. I like
doing bits where I make up restaurants that you.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Work out, so morning us where just our brains are just.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Like, do we want to talk about on this one?
We're recording to Plata this morning? Do we talk about
the roommate on this one? We want to talk about
on the next one.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Let's talk about the roommate on this one on this
one unless you want to say that for a letter, No,
let's do it.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Okay, So Erica's birthday was recently, but again remember that
we record, uh we bank earlier, so you don't know
when her birthday is and leave her alone.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
You don't know where I work or when I was born.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Well, you know, you know where she works. She works
underneath the Eminem Store.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
I do like joxing ourselves only absurdism.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Is so funny. Wait, isn't that funny though? Like if
we just keep telling people that where we work, but
it's like the most insane place we developed, like a
stalker and they're like going to all these going to like.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Basically she's still going to go in there.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's just funny to me that like a mess of
stalker of play Dizzy walks into the eminem store and
goes if they.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Try it, that's like not even the top ten weirdest
things is gonna happen in the Times? Crimins cry, What
did I say? Is Eric?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Was it gimme? Gimme because ericacoon Erica, kun me downstairs
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You know we're recording, right, Yeah, so you'll find out
on the back end, we find we'll fix that something.
Just edit it so that just now you said the
right thing, so you don't feel dumb.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Eric, let me downstairs, Open the hatch, Open the hatch.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I want that crime by day millions.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It's a million dollars. It's really hard to get down there,
and it's really expensive. Yeah, Erica drains your bank account,
but you get to eat with all of the eminem's. Wait,
we will be the sexiest eminem to have dinner with
the Green eminem.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Right, it just depends on your type. I guess your
preference and.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
The Green Eminem. Yeah, because she has heels someone.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
That Liz's nephew like wanted to fight on site, like
just hate it the red One.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I wasn't here for when James was here.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Oh, I was like, me and Liz run into each
other constantly, like on the street and in the subway,
which is really funny. We're like ah, and I ran
it to her family visiting and like her nephew was
conked out in the stroll or whatever. Yeah, I was like, oh,
it's going on, like what we're up to? Like went
to the Times Square, went to them and m store
for this one. I'm like, oh, was it so fun?
And Liz remember what she said? She was like he
(08:08):
really wanted to fight the red one.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
He really really really wanted to.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Idea I don't know, like pro finally just like hating.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That one kid fighting them, Like I.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Haven't been there, so I don't like. Was it a
guy in a suit. Was it a statue?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I don't think they have guys in suits there. Well,
you worked there, you would know it. Also shout out Liz.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And while we're talking about it, shout out my mom.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Oh man, wow, shout out suit.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
I have a family. Zoom after this.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
But oh nice, but wait, but so it was Eric's
birthday recently we went to a really cool restaurant that
was one of the first places Erica took me when
we first visited New York a few years ago, and
then went to the roommate on Broadway.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Wow, rushed it, shout out the roommate. Yeah, you rushed it.
I talked about that show on this podcast like season.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
One, season one, I think, Yeah, it's one of my
favorite gen Silverman scripts. They have like such a cool
body of work where they have such a specific style,
but every story is so unique.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
This one is one of my favorites ever. I was like,
honestly very surprised that it went to Broadway. We talked about, like,
you know, the casting.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Of this that is just one of the first I
guess other than like like John Practic's the villain now,
but like this is one of the only shows that
I can think of that, Like I read and I
was a fan of and then it went to Broadway. Yeah,
because most of the time it's the opposite. Most of
the time it goes to broad If it's gonna go
to Broadway, it goes to Broadway early, and it's like
iteration and then it kind of gets published and we
read it and we learned.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
About it moves from like off Broadway or something like.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah, but this was like I don't know where it started,
but it was like years, yeah, a lot of time
until it got there. So that was kind of surprising.
I was like, I was very surprised that it went
there because also Jen just had they just had a
play at Second Stage Spain. So when I heard rumors
that like a gens Everyone play was gonna go to
a Broadway, I kind of assumed it was going to
be something over something.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yeah, but yeah, that it was cool, Like, I don't know,
I just moved to New York. I grew up in Iowa.
That's like, actually a very popular negative stereotype is like
did it kids from Iowa try to make it back?
And so being in a Broadway, you know, house, and
then hearing people be like Hey, Yeah, Gilbert Street and
Iowa City.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It was pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, the university and I'm like, I used to go
there for doctor's appointments. I'm from there sincerely.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
That's kind of sick.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, it was very, very, very cool. The performances were amazing,
the lighting, the sound super tight, and it.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Was also the lighting was sick.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
It's just really rare to see two women of that
age a on a stage, be on a stage for
more than one scene, and then see like have it
be two mature women talking yeah, for ninety minutes straight
and then people paid a Broadway take a price to
go see that. Like, that's not something that happens a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
And I mean I think we do it to say, like,
I mean, it's paddle opponent Mia Farah. They were.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
It was wild.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
It was wild to see them. I had to do
h this was I don't know how I felt about this,
but I was kind of excited that I got to
see it happen. I know why they did it, but
I was like, oh, I get why they did it too.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
So at the top of the at the top of
the show, they like had Patty and Mia just like
straight up just like walk out break the fourth wall
and look so everyone could be like like classic yeah,
and then and then they exited and then the black
got happened and then the show started, and like I
know why they did that, Like I follow a bunch
(11:31):
of like silly you know, theater TikTokers who like do
like impressions. Yeah, and it's like, oh classic theater dame
like walks out and like they won't stop clapping, you know.
So I understood, like why derailed the top of the show,
which is the pacing and stuff with those texts are
really important, but it.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Was so funny it didn't make me laugh. I was like,
oh my god, I can't believe they're doing this, But
I guess it does make sense because like the place
starts in every line is important in this play, and
it does move really quick. So if like pat of
the we're going to walk out with the box and
like theater etiquette and yeah, if you were to scream
for like forty five seconds, like what you gonna do
just like hold just hold that box for forty five second.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
It's gonna be like no, no, holl you box guys.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I guess that was got that smart, but it didn't
be laughed, But everyone should go see it. It's if
it's still open by the time this comes out. It's
been like a couple of weeks, so it'll still be
open for like another week or two. But also just
read the play. It's also it was interesting, and we
talked about this a little bit. I wish I read
the script before this, but like, but like Patty and
(12:35):
me are women of a certain age, I think a
little bit older than what the original text suggested. So
it was kind of it was very different to see
a script that I knew beforehand, like change for a
like a larger stage.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, Typically for women it's the opposite.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
It's like you need to be sorry, morning voice, you
need to be like really hot twenty five to play
like high school student.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Yeah on TV.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
But then for like stage plays like I was that jerk,
I was at twenty two, like auditioning for women's roles
in their thirties and like sometimes getting them. Yeah, And
so like how that typing works is so wild to me. Also,
anytime I see a script like this that makes me,
as a woman in theater excited to get older is
so cool. Cool, and it if you're someone who is
(13:23):
like right now like struggling with type, and especially for women,
the way that we're perceived and are typing is just
like so distinctly bad. If you're like in between right
now now that like you might be coming into like
your best casting years of your life. Like I have
a friend who she knows that she's like I was
put on this earth to play moms, Like I just
know that's my vibe on the nurse in Romeo and Juliet.
(13:45):
I'm this, I'm that, And now she's like about to
enter her thirties where that's going to be believable. Yeah,
it's going to be her her decade. Yeah, I know.
It's cool to see and it's cool.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
It kind of reminds me of like the it's like
the non musical version of like Kimberly a Kimbo, Like
I mean it was cool to like go see Kimberly
at Kimba because we got to see Victoria Clark kind
of come out of retirement and like be this like
star who steals the stage and the whole thing is
that she is like in her like sixty seventies, Like
that's like the vibe. So yeah, it's cool to see
(14:17):
that it's kind of something on the stage that we
can like have.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, and also again like the play is just two
people talking. Yeah, it's two people talking. There's no like
wild spectacle. There was cool design elements, but like anytime
you can capture a modern audience's attention for ninety minutes
straight with like no razzle dazzle, no pre existing story,
just people connecting and being vulnerable and being funny. Yeah,
(14:42):
oh I just think that's great and it was. It
made me very inspired. Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It was wonderful. It was really really cool, and I
loved all the lightning and stuff and the Iowa skies.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yeah. So, like the house was made out of scrim
and so it starts and it kind of.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Just they like projected like paneling on the side to
it to kind of make look like that like a house.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
No, that was just the that was like the I
think the scrim was like layered that. Oh yes, they
had scrim where it looked like you know, like what
would that be called, uh just sighting on a house. Yeah, yeah,
horizontal kind of trips and so it looks when you
walk in like this sort of like gray blue house.
But then obviously it's scrim So when they have the
projections in the light shining a certain way, they had
(15:24):
these massive, like beautiful blue skies, white clouds or storm clouds,
depending on what's going on in the text. Yeah, Like
one of the opening jokes is that one character from
the Bronx and she's like, isn't that so scary and dangerous?
And she's like, don't you have tornadoes here?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Like what do we do?
Speaker 3 (15:37):
And the other lady's like, it happens all the time.
Just go on the basement, right, Yeah, And so like
I don't know whoever did those projections in lighting, like
at their work, because in Iowa, like one of the
only natural not only, but one of the primary natural
areas of splendor is your skies because it's flat. It's
not getting Kirby Derby until you get to Counsel Bluffs
(15:57):
near Nebraska or you go away up to Minous. It's flat.
You can see all your farmland at once. Yeah, and
it's kind of stinky. Sometimes there's like nice areas of trees,
but it's not like the mountains or the trees of
West Virginia. It's not coastal. There's a river or some
places lake some places, but it's a flat place. And
so when you're in a flat place, you just like
you look up because you're not looking at anything. And
(16:19):
so I think our skies are storm clouds in the
summer like that to me is Iowa is like a
certain type of sunset. And if you talk to people
who like grew up in Appalachia, right, they feel like
really good about the mountains. They feel safe and protected,
where someone like me is like, I feel surveilled, I
feel enclosed. I feel like I can't see what's going
on where in Iowa, you know that person feels vulnerable
and I feel like, oh I could see a mile
(16:40):
in every direction. So anyway, yeah that was niche, but.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah, well done from Iowa.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
No, but they went to the University of Iowa.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Okay, workshop, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
They're one of the big sticks from there. So sweet
cool stuff. All right, do you dare me to generate
some words?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Well, yeah, so this is our first one of the season. Yeah,
so first Plato of the season.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
The season, So this is.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Your first season listening to Plato. Welcome to the show.
The Plato is so both Eric and I are playwrights
and we love to talk about plays. We also love
to make them up. So Plato is Erica is going
to generate three random words from random word generator.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Had some weird ones.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
We've had some weird ones already, and then we are
just going to take like fifteen minutes to like make
up a play and just like chat about what the
play could be and like come up with a fun idea.
And that's this episode. So that's about it. Yeah, let's
do this thing.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Are you ready for this?
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I'm ready. We haven't done a plato in so long,
we haven't. We've done a plato since like Ohio, since
like the like since like a why we haven't done
we did?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
We did the father Time one?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Oh we did one last one? Yeah you did. Yeah,
the Raccoon one was good.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
I'm not gonna lie. It is generating some naughtier words, and.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
No, well I'm kind of interested to hear it and
then try to make it not naughty. Okay, have you
found three to commit to yet?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I'm about to. I'm just a little bit surprised by
some of these words. We'll talk about them off mic, okay,
but I'm like especially we had a set of three
this morning that were like very funny.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
They were very funny, and they told the whole play.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
There would have been nothing for us to Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
It's already a eighteen minute episode with the banter. It'd
be about a nineteen minute episode with the plane out.
It'll be great, it'll be quick. Okay, but this, Yeah,
I'm excited. River good, but it'll have gotten river before.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
A lot of these are repeats. Should I try again?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Kind of now worried that whatever you get is gonna
be like naughty.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
It's just they were just like words that have connotations.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Okay, cool, let me legitate. Yeah, let me hear it again.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Also, just so you know, we can actually change to
word types so we can do three words. We could
do nouns, verbs, adjectives, extended or non English. Oh my god,
should I pick one? Do three things?
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Things? Give me three things?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Peoples places and things, people's places. Okay, here we go,
Yeah we might again. They're like kind of falling into
a thing.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Lake lake scene scene device device Okay, okay, okay, lake
lake scene dice.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I have some immediate impressions.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
It makes me, I mean like it makes me think
like when I think of device, I think like theatrical device.
And then I'm thinking like, oh, what we could do
with like like I mean, the immediate thought was like,
I love I love camp. So what if we did
like a vignette play where it was like all the
different houses around one lake and it's like a camera
(19:44):
moving around and you're seeing these different families.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Cameras or what interacts with all these.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Different like houses, and like you could see like the
people from the different houses.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Going love a Plato movie.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Yeah, I love a Plato movie. I love making a film.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Film for stage for Plato.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Look, look I'm gonna I'm gonna make theater when it has.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
To be which want me to tell you what my issue?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
What was your initial thought?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Do you remember seeing kids?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
No? Oh my god? Seen kids went to such like
a normal high school.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yeah, kids who were seen.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Like not invisible. No, there's a bunch of kids that
are seen. Kids are seen all the times. Are you
yanking my chain for I'm not yanking your chain? Will
you google image right now? Two thousand seen kids? Really?
I don't know why you don't What do you mean
you don't know why? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
It's like a Midwest emo thing. Seen kids. We graduated
one graduating class apart like two. I think, No, it
wasn't it was one.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
I graduated in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I graduated in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Oh yeah, well maybe then maybe it was a place
like a place then.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I don't know. I think maybe you just hung out
with like popular kids.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Oh my god, seen kids.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
You've never seen a person who looked like that when
you were a teenager.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
No, I've seen people like this. I they had a
name called weird. Yeah, exactly, popular, call them weird. Here's
the thing I bullied the kids.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Actually, so telling because you were on the football team. Yeah,
and I was the quarterback of group improv.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
I was. I was in show choir too.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Were the scene kids in show choir?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
No, there's no scene. They were weird. This is the
scene the kids, the kids who were the kids who
dressed as scene kids at my school. I mean they
were like we were like there wasn't really a lot
of bullying at my school, but like like any like alternative,
Like no we did, but they like I know exactly
who these kids were. They would like sit in like
they would sit in like a corner of the cafeteria
(21:37):
and like now really talk to us. Yeah, they would
like do their own thing, pretty hardcore. I didn't know
that had a name for scene kids. I just thought
they were I thought they were like punk goth kids.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Yeah, I would say the scene to emo, hipster pipeline,
whatever it was. But it was a really specific aesthetic
in time. So in my head I was like a
group of like really apathetic scene kids, like find out
that there's like a nating device onto the lake and
they have to save the day. But they're just like
really not inspired to save the town. But it's like,
well they won't they Why is there a device.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Such a bad like ticking. It's such a bad story
because it makes all the heroes so like apathetic, like
they just do not.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Really don't know if we're going to save the town.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
They don't know if they're gonna save the town. I
don't know, they don't want to. They like have no sucks.
That's so funny, Lakes, it's so funny to wait. It's
so funny to create a play that has a like
very big important like like this is clearly what the
play is about, but none of the protagonists give a ship.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
The other thing I thought about was like, is it
the lake that has the Lochness monster and is the
government like funding a device.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Well, now, okay, the scene kids are are all kids.
They're alternative, they're like edgy.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
They're cool.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
You don't have to go down the stroad. I'm just saying,
I love it to two different runs.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
No, I love it if if they the devices making sense,
because they wouldn't give a they wouldn't care about like
about saving the town, but a lock in this monster
that they're like the government's hiding. I could see. I
could see a bunch of scene kids being like the
man is holding nests down.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yeah, like feeling like a kid.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay, I like that idea.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Okay, so it is that has locked a sponsor.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
So where the play is set in rural Iowa, and
there's a bunch of scene kids and and they hear
a rumor that in their local lake like nests.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
It's so crazy that it would be Iowa, but I'm
willing to go with you.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, it was a bunch of scene kids. It's early
two thousands, and they hear a rumor, a.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Story, there's a rumor that there's something in the lake.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Or something in the lake, and they go to the
local Harbingers like like a little like fish Den. You know,
Harbinger is like a horror movie. It's like the person
that like the protectonists before. Like here you be the
scene person coming to get information from the Harbinger. I'll
be the harbinger. Yeah, just open when you open the door,
give me a ding because my door is a bell
(23:57):
on it. We're adding first seasons. We're gonna add a
couple of little prov things for this Dan Dang. Why
hello there, Welcome to my star.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
How can I help Awe? I love her hair? Do
you have Arizona iced tea?
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Wear Arizona iced tea? We have anything you need, sweet child?
How are you? You look tired?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Are you tired right now?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
You look tired.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
We're going to the lake.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Oh that's fun. Don't don't be there too long. Don't
be there at night for sure? What do you mean, well,
you don't want to be You don't want to be
at lake nasts at night or or the creature might
come on Cutcha.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
You sound crazy right now.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
No, I'm not crazy. My name's Philip Wilkins, and I've
been at this lake for a hundred years. I'm one
hundred and six I'm one hundred and I can tell
you one thing I know that's like better than anybody.
The mayor of this town doesn't want you to know
that the loch Nest monster had a and the government
(25:01):
flew them over to Iowa and dropped them in our
lake on accident. So now we have a little baby
lock Nows. But it's been fifty years and that's an
adult lock Noss. I treat her wild though. I throw
breadcrumbs into the lake at night. It feeds her good,
it feeds her strong, it makes her fast.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Whatever, dang ding.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
That that lady was so tired.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
She was just she should smile more.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
She should smile more. She's trying to get a little
bit of sleep.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
She looked, really funny thing. The Scene kids are the
nicest kids at my school, like kind of just doing
like a maul off emo. I'm like, but also I'm
like thinking about all the Sea kids were like so
nice to me and like would push my car the snow,
and I'm like, I'm doing them dirty. Wait really, yeah, dude,
I'm from Iowa.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Like, okay, we had bad stuff too, but the Scene
kids were never the kids that would help out. The
see kids like did their own thing and like hated everybody.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Well, can I say something, Yeah, I know you were
popular in your own the football team.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I wasn't popular.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Well, you didn't know that scene kids were called seeing
kids weren't people's friends.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I knew they were called freaks exactly.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
So I was like kind of friends with everybody because
I was in like activities. And you can have a
scene kid on the drum line.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
It's happened, No, it happened. Their hair wouldn't fit in
the hat. Tell me I'm wrong, Tell me I'm wrong.
Tell me a see kid's hair wouldn't fit into a
drum lines hat.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
It wouldn't be done like that. This is like not
someone who was fully committed to the hair.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Okay, so they're not a scene kid, they're a partial
Wait what is it? What are they called? What's the
really bad thing people call people in Harry Potter a
half blood mud blood? Mud blood?
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah, anyway, respect on seeing kids' names. But anyway, she
walks out, she goes back to a red what is
it like a grand dam. There's so many of those.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Oh yeah, cool, And and she.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Slams the door shut and she's like, let's got a lake,
and everyone's.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Like, Delia, why are you, Delia? Why are you in
there for so long? Talking to old Philip Willikins. That
guy's crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
I heard that guy's crazy.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I heard that guy's crazy.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Everyone's like anyway, Arizona iced Tea, it's right here, I've
got it. We're gonna split it. Split got an Arizon
iced tea Guardettas. It wasn't what was like the most
popular candy high school and Pixi sticks, Yeah, pixie stick. Yeah,
one Arizon iced tea, Guardados and Pixi sticks on a dream?
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Why are we going to the lake, Delia? I don't
want to go to the lake, Delia because because why
my mom.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Said not to let's go.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
That is what happened. And then they go.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
So they're going to the lake and they get to
the lake and they're on like a dog. Let's let's
give them a dog.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yeah. They are in their awn nights, are sitting hearing one.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Lakes are dangling over. Yeah, we're we're sharing one cigarette.
We're not actually inhaling.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah, they have no idea how to.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Do it now that it's a film for you, I guess.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Or don't have to be a film projections. Whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I think we should get like a shot of the
dock of like their feet dangling and it's like converse vans.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, like a dock mark. Oh wait, can I say?
I think? Okay? So, so Delia has this like kind
of like Delilah whatever, has this like protagonists our protagonist,
Delia Delilah, that's her name, Delia Delilah.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
I'm like pulling up pictures of Scene Kids because I
need to visualize her better.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
So wait, so here's the thing. She has just like
kind of on and off again thing with this dude
named Aaron who's also a Scene Kids. He's there, he's
on the dock, and Aaron's kind of like why are
we even here? And Delia Delilah is.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Like I heard you know, you know why they would
be there in this era to take photos for my space?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Yeah? Photo? Well, I like to I'd like to think that.
I'd like to think that they're there because like the
moms like don't go to the lake. And then like
Philip Willikins is like the locking sponsors here. He's like,
she's like, we have to take a photo. So my
mom gets pissed and everyone's like, oh my god. They
saw a lockness monster.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
We should take a photo and then edit in the
lockness monster in the background.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
But then here's the thing. Everyone's like, delay, Delilah, you're crazy,
and Aaron looks at her and goes, that's why I
will never work. And all the Seene kids get up
and start to walk off the dock and Delia Delilah.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
She goes, wait, you drove me here.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I love that you're making the conflict, not the locknest monster.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Still, I thought we're setting her up to be alone
and to meet the creature.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, that's what I've Yeah, they drove her there.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
That's so in Iowa, Like they take a highway.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
To a road to a road they haven't left yet.
They're walking away. Oh okay, and she remembers Philip Willikin's voice,
and Philip goes, I dropped bambs. She looks at her
picky stick, pixie stick, pixie stick. Okay, and she's like,
if he likes bread combs, he's gonna love and she
pours her pixie stick in the water. Aaron turns around
(29:52):
and goes, Delia, Delilah, don't don't, don't waste the sticks.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
The tea was ninety nine cents and the a because
it's two thousand and nine, and.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Nothing pops up, and she's like, oh, man, I guess
I was wrong. It's just to walk away. And Aaron
Saniels looks back at her and goes, and it's the
name of the guy from Mean Girls. But I think.
Aaron looks back, I can't believe you, and she sees
a little yeah, a shadow shadows cast across the stage,
(30:24):
and we see this little head that almost like it
could be like almost like a turtle.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Can I say something?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, it has hair and it has a little bit
of hair, and.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
It has hair that completely covers one of its eyes.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
One of it's a scene kid.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Lock that monster.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
The head keeps crying growing kid has his long neckets
longer and longer.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
It's got the colors in.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
The volume fudge. That's so funny. Huh oh my god.
But yeah, so they see this scene kid locked us
monster and ready the scene kid locks that Monster comes
out and looks at all the scene kids and goes.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Hi, and they all go blink blink, hi, and the
line of.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Monster goes thanks for the picks, and it goes back
into the water.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
And then so They're all just sitting there. They're in shock.
They're like, did that just happen?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Yeah? Yeah, did that just happen?
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And then I would say, Dealey, Delilah goes, I told you,
I told you. We have to go talk to mister Willikins.
He knows everything about the Lockos monster. Yeah, we can.
We have to let everyone know that this person that
this creatures here.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Paddled to the metal on the red grand Am. Yeah.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
They fly back ding ding ding. Uh there, Oh it's you,
the tired girl.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah whatever. She shudges her bangs again. Yeah, I guess
you were telling the truth, huh about Nassa.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Absolutely? I never lie. I never lied once in my life.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
I don't know why you told us not to go there.
I don't know if you're bigoted or something against people
with really good hair. No, but people like us. I love.
I give her bread crumbs, right. But you're trying to
keep her a secret. Why Because she's seen people are
people are going to try to take her because of
her banks.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So there's there's this group of people are so not
understanding of the actual thing that's happening. No, it's a
lock nessmuk.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Just because you can't see one of my eyes and
you can't see one of her eyes doesn't mean that realize,
can't realize realize, And I'm going to go back to
that leg. I'm gonna bite her to sit with us
at lunch. That's so ere gonna get me and my
mom won't and you never will.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Please don't do that. That's so funny that she doesn't
and accused the one guy who like takes care of
because it's a monster, because because she's altered. So funny.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
So she walks out and she's like, guys, we gotta
go back. We gotta get her out of that lake.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
You gotta get her out of that lake.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
There's a Day to Remember concert on Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
She's gotta be there, and she has.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
To be there. You know why because she's really tall.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Her neck is so long and you could sit on
her neck and we can imagine that in the pit,
she can wash like a giraffe. Think about it.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
You fight with their next she's like, Aaron, Aaron, does
your dad still have that truck?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah? My piece of trash.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Dad, You're a piece of dumb ass trash.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
That Yeah, my ass trash dad. Yeah, my ass trash
dad dumb. Yeah he runs, yeah, he runs the contract Yeah,
he runs a contracting company. Cont I could take his truck.
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Let's go get his trucks.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Get his truck. They get his truck out the grand down.
They talk about the grab. They get a truck a hook.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
They go back to and then they stop at them all.
They go to Hot Topic. They get a bunch of
studded belts.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Nice, that's smart.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
They go back to the lake. They nagle the studded belt.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
But before they lead the mall, Dealey Delilah grabs a
ton of pixie sticks form one of those things you
put a quarter in.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
A ton of studded leather belts. We go back to
the dock. Yeah, pixie sticks going.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
In going okay, Dey Delilah goes like Nessie, we love you.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Year. One of a belts getting belted together. Everyone's wearing
stripey tights. They're in kind of their concert.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Look, okay, is this Saturday? Yea Saturday?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Ye tight t shirts?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, a couple of days to get t shirt. But
they go back Saturday now, so Nessie is called coming
from a bag.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Yeah, and can I say something. Her hair looks better
than ever. It's bigger, it's bolder, it's batter. Everyone just
takes a beat to go.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
It's somehow dry. It looks perfect.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Everyone's like, oh, wow, you're so cool, and she goes,
that's crazy. I've never had friends before.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Philip Willikins in the corner are.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Just like in the movie version. It's like, is she
crying or is she wet from the lake?
Speaker 1 (35:10):
We don't know, We don't know, we don't know.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
They go, we got into something and it's the studded
belts belted together to be at Locknest scale. They go,
put this around your waist. We're getting out of this lake.
She goes, Guys, my mom's gonna be pissed.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
And they go, we now, we now. Have you ever
come to Sagre? We all just tried.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
She goes, no, I can bring under water though.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
They got that's so cool, that's so cool.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
She goes, Also, what have you been putting in the water?
It makes me go so fast?
Speaker 1 (35:40):
It's PECKSI stacks.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
I like that And they stick their tongue at us.
All they all have blue and you're just like us
for real.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
So they get her out.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
They belt her out into the pickup truck.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Put her in the truck.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
The device works.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
The device works.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
They go to the concert.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
They dragged in the concert.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
They get her into the those plastic water cups, you know,
the cooler they're keeping her white keep heist.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
She kills like thirty people on accident because of her
big neck, and she's the locking us monster. They bring
her into the pit. Yeah, yeah, she definitely would cause problems.
Theriff comes, the comes, he's like, guy, he's wait, here's
the thing. Here's it's another situation where they don't understand it,
like stopping me in to her because of her hair.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Yeah, And he's like, he's like, no, she kills one.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
She killed a bunch of a couple of kids. She
killed a couple of kids in the pit. They're like,
you can't. And this is the moment where Dealey Delilah
gets up on a pedestal and goes, you treat all
of us differently just because.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
Of our hair, because our hair is better than.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Yours, and because we're alternative, and because we like the
music that we like. And everyone's like, she killed someone,
and they're like and they're like, don't try to turn
this around on that, don't you know you can't do that.
That's so funny. They're like, Nessie's our friend, and Nessie's
one of us, and if she goes down, we all
(37:00):
good down. Yeah, And they all get in front of her,
like they're trying to save a tree, like yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
They blink arms yeah yeah, and they and because they're
linking arms like, and the hair keeps moving because it
never stays. Yeah, They're like they're like jerking their head
because they want to keep their eye on the sheriff,
but like they can't.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
They all of them the whole time.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
But then the rest of the concert misreads the situation.
They think, oh, are we about to about to mach again?
Elbows go up, elbows go up. Right now, we're all mashing.
Sheriffs are like, wait a minute, this mashing thing seems
kind of cool. Actually, this is actually kind of The
Sheriffs were huge squares in high school, never alternative, They
never got to popular. Yeah, and the machine just kind
(37:39):
of takes hold those kids who died. I guess I
don't know if we're going to put a bow on that.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Oh here's the thing. It wasn't kids. It was a
bunch of criminals. Disguised as kids. My god, the monster guys.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
This is so fun. Also I did that on purpose.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yeah. Well the Sheriff's like, honestly, thanks, those guys are bad.
They still a lot of money the church, right, and
then Deally Delilah's like, my mom runs the church.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Oh my god, it's just we don't know about police
brutality yet.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
We don't understand. Kids don't get for a few more years.
I guess they don't know. They don't know, they don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
So in the end, the Lockedness Monster child a sort
of child gets out of the lake.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Did kill some people.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
The scene kids get to speak their truth and the
town gets to recognize them.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
The scene kids truly don't understand what the play is about.
Still they still fully don't get it, and in the
end we give them this big monologue where I think
a lot of people watching those play would be like, oh,
they're finally going to get it. They still don't get it,
and the play is called you're better at this than me.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
I mean I would think of like a play on
like like Lock of Hair and Lockness Monster. Yeah, the
lock nests do, but if it was called lock but
like the brand is l h but it's the it's
the scene haircut or what if.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
It was oh well wait, h kind of looks like
a lock times monster because it's a hump and then
a long line. What if it was lock but then
like the h was like the hump of the and
the L is like is like the hair. Yeah, the
l could be like the hair, and the age.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Can be we get into the typography of the situation.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Look, we really work with a graphic designer on this one.
Here's the thing. I think we just wanted Tony.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
What if it's called locks, because like you're.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Oh, that's good l Yeah, and then the hair could
be the ass because the as it kind of looks
like wavy like a hair.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Yeah. I assume the monster is green this whole time.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Yeah, it's green blue tongue, green green blue tongue. But
like pink black hair. Yeah, like black hair, huge black
hair with like the crazy pink yeah. Yeah. Wow, oh
my god, the past what a black what a what
a blast from the past.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
Believe, oh my god. We got to keep it tighter.
Like I know, I loved it because I rambled about
T shirts for like twenty minutes with my morning voice.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
I don't know, man, I really loved that we added
a couple of improv elements into it. Maybe that'll be
something for this to keep that up. Yeah, I think
we should keep that up. That's fun. Well, guys, thank
you so much for listening to play This has been locks.
I hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
I hope that if you used to have hair like that,
you drop us a pick. Yeah yeah, wait, if you
had hair like that and then had like a huge transformation,
I like, I'm not gonna lie, like, I want to
know all the picks in between.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
And I know you're wondering where do we send this picks.
You can follow us on Instagram at actual Erkacoon at
Justin Borak. You can email us at play Ze podcast
at gmail dot com. Thank you to everyone who's been
emailing us. We've beginning a bunch of emails about your
states and we're excited they'll work those in productions yeah,
which we're super pumped about. Oh you check out our
plays on new play Exchange. Go read Kill the Bird
(40:44):
on Erica's New play Change. Read my stuff. Go check
out community artt and Camra Chronicles. They're both public playscripts.
Uh yeah, thank you. Guys so much for listening. Make
sure you go see theater in your area wherever you are,
and know that if you have a car, if there's
public transit, you can always find like a cool theater,
a community theater, high school, something that's doing something, and
(41:05):
go watch and go enjoy it. Support your local art scene.
And uh yeah, I'm gonna end this episode the way
I end every episode, but looking Erica, my best friend,
her blue blue, big blue blue blue eyes and saying you.
Speaker 3 (41:20):
Can jump back into that that little harm your character,
didn't you.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Mark A. Cone, I love you so much.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Justin borack ingering, I love you so much.
Popular Podcasts
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
Gregg Rosenthal and a rotating crew of elite NFL Media co-hosts, including Patrick Claybon, Colleen Wolfe, Steve Wyche, Nick Shook and Jourdan Rodrigue of The Athletic get you caught up daily on all the NFL news and analysis you need to be smarter and funnier than your friends.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com