January 10, 2025 • 29 mins
Happy New Year! Here is a playdough not at all because we are out of town or anything so RELAX! Basically, what if there was a classic 90s romcom movie but like a witch was in it...PRETTY CRAZY! Also, we start back out on normal episodes next week (with Flordia)!
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!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, everybody, welcome to play to Zee.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Please rise for this season's introduction song through It Connecticut.
Good job.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Hey everybody, justin here on a very weird microphone because
I am editing, So it's okay normal. My quality will
be back in a second. But this is going to
be like kind of a random plato that we made
that we never released. Thank you so much for giving
us a hiatus week of the new year. Currently, I'm
still out of town, but next week we are coming
back stronger than ever with Florida. I think Florida, Yeah, Florida,
(01:00):
and then Georgia and then we you know, we're we're
going back to the normal setup. But thank you so
much for giving us this time on the holiday. I
hope you and Rid this episode is very silly and
fun and uh yeah, see you next week for Florida.
Take it Away past Justin and Erica. Hell well, everybody,
(01:26):
welcome to play to Ze. I'm your co host Justin Borak,
I'm your co host Erica Koon and by all bye,
it's the second plane of the year season. Yeah, if
you can't tell, we're recording this out there. We did
the first play out of the.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Season, so jokes are fresh, the jokes are hot.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
The bit from seven weeks ago that you for sure
don't remember.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
God, yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, they're so far apart, but for us, they're like
four seconds away. It's going good. I was trying to
think tis We tried to record a couple episodes whenever
we record on our days, and I when to go
see I was gonna talk about this on the last one,
but I was like, I'll save this. I want to
(02:05):
go see maybe one of the best plays I've ever seen. Yeah,
the other day, like straight up one of the best
plays I've ever seen, Bad Creole by Dominique Moreso, and
it was, oh my god, it was so good. It's
open till December first. I don't think this episode will
come out before December first, so like you're not gonna
be able to see it. But I'm hoping because I
think Concord publishes all of our stuff. I'm sure it's
(02:25):
gonna get published, so you need to read it. But
it's a really wonderful play about like family and culture.
It's about this like girl from I'm not gonna spoil it, honestly,
for none of you, primarily for Eric. I want Eric
to be able to see it. Yeah, I'm not gonna.
But it's just about this half Haitian girl who lives
in the States who goes back to Haiti to visit
(02:46):
her cousin, but also primarily like get closer with her
familial roots, familial roots, and we get to look into
like a really earnest, true family relationship, but we also
get to look into like how being like liberal and
woke in the States can is, Like it's important from
an ethical standpoint, but also it's like other countries work
(03:07):
in different ways and there are dangers in things that
like we might look at and be like you have
to get out of this thing, but like they're like
shut up, like you do not understand what's happening.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It was very good. Yeah, it was. It was so good.
It was one of my favorite plays. I mean I
haven't I absolutely haven't seen enough to be able to
say this, but like I totally think it could be
a Pulitzer nominee. I could be. I think I think
it will definitely be in people's like like lists of
like top ten possibilities for like the Pulitzer next year.
I could fully see this in there. Wow. Yeah, it
(03:41):
was really good. Yeah, and I mean I I thoroughly
liked Confederates. I haven't haven't. I never saw it. I
just got to read it. But like I like, I mean,
a lot of a lot of her stuff is like fire.
But this was like my first dominique more so play.
I just got to see live and I was like,
I cannot believe I got to see this. It was
rad nice shout out missure theater they do. And also
I've never been in that theater. I've only been We've
(04:03):
we saw stuff in the smaller They have a couple
of spaces in there. We saw stuff in the Liney,
which is the signature in New York, has like three
different spaces and they have one like that I love.
That's just like a thrust space that we saw the
seagull in. Remember, Oh yeah, we saw that. But they
also have a proscenium space in the same building, like
(04:24):
on the same side, on the other side, and it's
really big and it's it looked super sick. This that
was dope. This that was awesome. The lighting was great,
that the music was great. It was just it was
so cool. But I I do like going into these
theaters that have multiple spaces because it's like fun to
like go into like these New York like established off
Broadway houses and be like, oh, like this is how
(04:47):
they like produce so much and they're able to do
things that they really like utilize all their space, Like
I didn't really the Signature has three theaters. They had
another theater like down a hallway that I didn't even know,
and they have like four acting It's it was cool.
But yeah, it's fun to like go to theaters that
I've into before, but then like see like a huge
for Semium space that I didn't even know existed. But yeah,
that was really it was really great bad Creole. If
(05:09):
you're able to read it, check it out. Oh my god,
read it. It's so good and I need to make
Erica go. So yeah it's I'll go again. I'll go
with you. It was just so good nice. Yeah it
was awesome. But but yeah, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I'm good, Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, it's morning recording. It's
super fun. I haven't talked to the birds outside on
the fire escape yet today. Yeah, that feels off.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
How is your how's work last night? I know you
worked your shift at seven below, Yeah, which is cool.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm surprised been below being.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Five below's other half half a little a little bit
more stingy a little it's a little bit nicer because
things are seven things are you can get up dollars.
You can get up to seven dollars at seven below. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, we're selling cars now and it's you're.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Selling cars in a challengeven below.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, because they're just they're not good.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Cars are big, they're not they're clown cars. There's little
tiny cars. But the but here's the thing that's two dollars.
That two dollars is the difference.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You know how like the scooters and then the bikes
and yeah, the fast bikes have just been kind of
like wreaking havoc on like being a pedestrian. Our little
cars are just going to tear the city up. It's awesome,
those seven dollar cars.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Man, that's a good Okay, here's I think we probably
talked about it on here before. I love city biking.
It's my favorite thing in the world. Yeah, it's scarce, Eric,
I'm not going to go out I know.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Via a TB I.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's super fair for me, ideal, But what is like
the most fun vehicle that you think would wreak havoc
upon the city. Do you think it's like a little
you know, those like little cars that kids drive, Because
that's what I thought. I was like, yeah, like what.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
If it was like figure out how to make it
go fast?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Liz's nephew has shout out Liz. Liz's nephew has like
a gator, has like one of those like like like
a TV kind of quick ones and whip whips. Dude.
But I'm saying like if there was one and that
was the same size but could take someone the size
of me and go like forty miles per hour, that
would be sick. Because my bikes when i ee bike,
my bike gets up to like twenty five miles per hour.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I know. Anything that puts you like lowered to the
ground in a city with like buses is probably it's
awesome ideal for you.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Here's the thing. I would have so much fun whipping
around the city in a little hommer.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Okay, so you're talking about like a random kind of
like fe gole. This isn't exactly that, but I do
think if you had, like you know, how they made
pogo sticks that were a little bit like hydraulic or whatever, yeah,
be like extreme pogo stick stilts, Like if I had
like a stilt situation in the bike stream. Still extreme
where I'm just like, you know when you're like running
down a hill and you get that moment I'm going
(07:42):
and you're like, yeah, I'm stilting around and I'm like
seeing everything. I'm you're down low in a little car
or something. All a little car runs on lead paint,
me an intellectual up high on stilts, big wide league pants.
They're flowing in the breeze, insane, and I'm looking at everything.
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You're a perfect a big hydraulic stills, a perfect view
of it all.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Anyway, seven blows only. Okay. They don't offer health care.
It's like, okay, my coworkers are kind of needy.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
They don't get they don't off our healthcare. Honestly, it's
really messed up.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
They offer health care, it's just can't be anything that
costs more than seven dollars. So the diabetes has been
a challenge.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It's been a challenge. That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Do we to generate some words?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Oh yeah, so we're doing a plato. If you don't
know what a plato is, that's where Eric and I
are both players who love talking about plays that I
have already been written. But we also like talking like
making up plays. So we're gonna get three random words
generated and make up a fun story. Last time we
made a story about seeing kids and the Locknest Monster.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Have we not done Locknest Monster before?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Now? I'm like, we might have, but that we definitely didn't.
We definitely didn't do what we did.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Last about West Virginia, like brought out the cryptis kind
of culture.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I love cryptids.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
We also used to play in the woods a lot more, mom,
not like in a bad way, in.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
A bad way.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
My mom's scared of the woods for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Oh shout out to ku.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Our three words are They're fun and they're a little spooky.
Halloween even everyone else.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Who is not, but for us, Halloween's kind of relevant. Yeah,
here we go.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Word number one history, History, word number two, witch Witch
word number three X e X like your ex girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Or whoa X? Yeah, oh my gosh. Immediately I was
thinking history like it would be like a Salem Witch
Trials thing. But then like when I think, but then
when you said X, I was like, oh, It's like,
what's that? What was that movie that was? Like I
think it was like Hugh Grant or someone, but like
all of his exes were like ghosts and they would
(09:46):
follow him around and he would like have to like
figure out how to like live with all of these axes.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, it makes me think like xes in history is
like the history of your exes, but how could they
be like spooky witches. I'm trying to think, like, how
can give me your idea?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
There's this witch Okay, yeah, and she's a serial dater.
Her dating history is insane, only she's like not able
to like move on, and being a witch is like
a hazardous path obviously for her. I'm thinking like cauldron
pointy hat like classic witch Wickan And so her partners
(10:25):
and lovers keep dying, but because she can't let go,
she casts a spell, a curse if you say and
if you may, and she won't let her lovers like
pass on because she'll miss them too much. We're kind
of doing a vigils and so all of her.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Kind of like a from Claire Baron.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, all of her exes are ghosts who are actually
on stage. We're doing kind of like a blithe spirit thing.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
We're doing so many of them. We're doing the holy
ghost people.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Every scene of the play is another couple years or
months into the future, and she's you meet the next
boyfriend and she can engage with them, except like that
the next up me boyfriend girlfriend whoever?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Like can't Oh, it's like, oh, what's that TV? There's
that TV show to do really well in CBS ghosts.
They don't know that one these like this couple like
moves into this house and everyone in this house who
has died in this house is a ghost and you
can see it when you like fun kind of yeah,
it's like house but like fun and silly.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
So we're doing like the dark rom conversion of that
where she keeps she can't be single, so she keeps
dating someone and then every scene there's more and more
ghosts and they're like, dude, like we dated, we went
on two dates. I ghosted, Like actually I think I ghosted.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Funny, funny, funny ghosted. Ghost. That's a good name. Ghost.
It is a good name. Okay, Well with the drash,
why can't.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
She be single? Like how did this woman become a
witch er? Come into her power and then b be like.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Does she come from a family of witches?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, let's say family of witches.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Okay, but where? But she's based in Seattle. Okay, I
like to think that she's from like Salem, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Salem and Seattle, Salem, Seattle.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
But but she but she was like all these other
everyone else in her family was so committed to like
the cause, like getting people to sign like blood in
the book, like like learning how to take over the world,
all that stuff, and she just would like sit, she
would just sit in her house with her like head
in her hands. She's looking out the window, just being
like I want a boy to come wrestling with me.
(12:27):
And her There was a moment where her mom, what's
this girl's name?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Her name?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
What we what do we name her? Sally? Sally Salem, Salem, Sally,
Salem Sally. Yeah, okay, now we're cricket, but so Salem
Sally is like all sad about boys. And her mom
comes over and is like, Salem.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Sally, Salem, Sally, you were born of a toad's tear
and a bit of a bone and a sparrow's feather.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Mom, I don't care what I'm born from. All I
want is a boy friend.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Oh, Sally, Sally, Sally, Sally, Sally, Sally. When will you learn?
Boys are the subjects for curses, not companionship? Have a cat,
have another toad?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Mo, Mom, Maybe I'm not into curses? What maybe I'm
in the love.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Listen, honey. I won't always be here to guide you
in this life, So just in case you ever need
to talk to me, I'm going to give you a
very special spell. It only works on someone that you
love with your whole whole heart. And when you cast
a spell on someone that you love with your whole heart,
you can see them again after life. But be careful.
It must be used wise wisely.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
It must be used sparingly.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Okay, Mommy, And she folds it up, she puts it
in her pocket. Pumpkin ship locket puts it in her pocket.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And everybody right, here's that thing ready, And everybody goes
to bad And the mom wakes up, and the mom goes,
I gotta talk to Sally, And she goes over.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I think she's old enough for this responsibility.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And she goes over Sally's bad empty, Sally's dresser, empty,
suitcase gone, and there's a note on the dresser, and
the dresser says, Mama, Mama, I'm going to find love
and the only place I know Seattle, Seattle. She Salem
(14:14):
Salad stars a little star in another movie, pans to
an airplane in the sky above said the mom goes.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Okay, but is she in the plane or is it?
Like the gag is like, because, okay, we keep doing
film shots, but I'm okay with it. We can have projectionist.
We see the plane flying, We're like, oh, Salad's on
the plane. And then the plane goes down to land.
She's on a broom.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
She's on the room behind the plane, and she's on
a room behind the plane and she's zooman she's zoomed.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Hairs whipping, yeah, no bangs.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We fast forward like three years. She's an absolute girl Boston, Seattle.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, she's selling. She has a candle shop where women
come in like like they don't know that they're buying
like bewitched candles, but women come in. She's like, oh
my gosh, like my regulars, how are you? And she's like, oh,
money's been tight this month, Like we had a bill
come up and she's like, oh, look, you should use
this candle candle I just got. Don't think you would
like it? She wins the lottery. Yeah, yeah, she's blessing bitches.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, she's blessing. She's blessing bitches. But she's but she's
cursing boys. I'm trying to think, Yeah, is.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
She cursing boys?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Well? Kind?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I mean, I mean she's a little like boy quote
boy crazy. I think she like wants love.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
But I think after those three years, the three years
plan over. The person leaves the shop after getting the
candle that will make her win the lottery, and then
from the back you hear like a couple guys voices
and they're talking to her as if they're like her
partner or something, and you're like, oh, that's oh and
she's like, yeah, yeah, bring those back, and they go,
you know, I can't do that, and she goes, oh yeah, sorry, sorry.
(15:37):
She goes back and grabs the box. And then they
come out and they little casper the thing. They look normal,
but the bottom of their legs fused together and the
casper ends. You know what I'm talking about, Like a mermaid, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
So it looks like they're kind of slithering around and
they've all studied like kabookie and stuff like that. So
they are gliding.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's really impressive.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Actors are they're physical, they're movers.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Their physical moverss. But yeah, but that's when we find
out that every dude she's ever dated she casts a
spell on.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
She cast a spell on, Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
On the first she casts on the first date. And
it's not to curse them. It's because she's like, this
is the one.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, it's because and if anything were to happen, Mama
Witch told her, if you love some of your whole heart,
this is what you have to do.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And she loves. And when her mama which said that,
when the mama which said that, she.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
She left before her frontal her frontal cortex lobe was formed.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
She's only like twenty twenty three, the back end of
the day. She doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
She didn't remember it was a curse. She thought special spell.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
She thinks she's falling in love every first date, every
time and now and now here's the thing. All of
these boys who have died and are now like stuck
with her forever. Yeah, are like or like, you can't
love all of us, And she's like, I'm still figuring
it out. It's like every time she's dating someone, she's
just like she still loves the first guy she did this,
(16:51):
she just and she she keeps.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The guys are like, this isn't being Polly.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
This isn't trapped. This is a trap. You're trapping that.
She goes, No, I'm just in love.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
No, I love you my whole heart. They go, there's
a ring of salt around your store. She goes, that's
so mama Witch doesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Find Mama Witch doesn't find us, and you guys can't.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Leave and they go yeah, and she goes.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, that's called trapping. That's love. What is love but entrapman?
What what is in trapman?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
But trap chapman?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
But chairman but love? Okay, So she's in Seattle. She's
casting these.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Spells at which something shifts for her. I think, oh wait,
I don't think she's been killing these guys right, Like
they've just all had like accidental like I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That's yeah, that is that's more funny.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
That's the gag. Is that like she's casting a potion
and it like ricochets and she's like, oh, shoot another one,
or she's like, will you grab this bottle?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
She is the cause of their death, but she's not killing.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
It's accidental, Like it is farcie in that way almost,
And I think we should see each person like die
in the way that they die and he'll be like,
oh no, guys, she like goes into it.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I like the idea that she like pretends to be
like a normal girl and then like when she like
what however the is she reveals that she's a witch
is the thing that kills that. So she like is like,
let me put a blindfold on you. I want to
show you something. And put a blindfold on a guy
and puts him on her broom and like flies up
into the air and goes, take your blindfold off. I
want to show you who I really am.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
He hasigo.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, yeah, another one. But then she goes to sleep
and she wakes him. The next morning. He's at the shop.
He's at the shovel of this little slither.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Leg freaking out what is going on?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
All the other guys are like, did you go on
a day with her? She's like yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
He's like yeah, it's like what happened to you?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It's like, broom, what happened to you? She made me
eat a frog? Yeah, she made a frog ate the
whole frog, exploding cauldron, sploiting cauldron, splooding cultrondron I like
exploating sploading cultures is funny. Splooding cauldron.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Okay, it's all going on. It's all going on. It's
getting tight in there, it's getting packed.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
There's a lot of them. Here's here's the thing. Yeah,
you give me your idea. You go, well, I was
going to say it's getting packed. And all the boys
like a meeting with her with Sally, and they're like, look,
you have to cut this out. You have to stop.
And she goes, you're right, you got to need more space,
and she just expands. She just gets she buys the building. Yeah,
(19:17):
she just makes it. She doubles the size, doesn't actually
fix her twist for you give me the twist.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Okay. So she's like, okay, guys, this is not a
form for you. I'll simply expand they're like, no, that's
not what we meant. She's like, it's okay, I got
a really really old warehouse. It's going to be really
big tons of room. They're like, oh my god. She's
anticipating a lot of deaths, a lot of exidal deaths.
She goes into the warehouse. We see her with her
moving box. She's like, like my character moment, like looking
around the perfect She puts down the box. She's a
mug in both hands. She's like, I can't believe my business.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
She's somehow holding all of them. I guess she's a witch.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, anyway, she puts it down and someone goes, hello,
there's someone in here. And she goes, oh, oh my gosh,
I'm I'm so sorry. I was just here to move in.
And he's like, oh, I'm so sorry. I was on
my way out. He's behind a bunch of boxes talking
to her. He's like, I'm so sorry, I was actually
on my way out. I'm the person who used to
used to live here, used to own this warehouse. Yeah,
there's kind of a beat. There's like a little moment
(20:07):
of passion. And she goes really like you're you say, handsome,
I can't believe you're moving out when I'm moving in.
And he goes, oh, that's crazy, Like we should get
coffee sometimes. And he steps out from behind the boxes
and you see he already has a tail. He's already
a ghost. And she goes, what happened to you? And
he goes, I fell off a ladder here, but you know,
if you're moving in, like I can hang out. It's
(20:29):
just that, like you'll always get older and I'll always
stay the same and one day you might need to
get a new hairhouse, but always be here. And she realizes,
She's like, I can't actually experience love with someone who's trapped.
I need a spell to turn this ghost back into a.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Man back in I can date him, so you know
what she does seriously gets on our broom, gets right
on that broom, flies back to Mama, which which is me?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Which I'm home, Uncle Sally sailor MoMA?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Which is like, you've been gone for five years?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
What has been going on? Girl? What have you been doing?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
You gave me that spell, I've been using it.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Up bonds to only be used on me.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
You didn't even use it on me. You left before
you could.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I never listen to you.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I don't care. I just don't care about that.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I care about boy the boy crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
What do you need? And she's like, I've been turning
a lot of men into ghosts, but I now I
need a spell to turn a ghost into a man. Yeah,
and Mama witch. Mama Witch goes, so, that's death, that's death,
and death already got him.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Death is eternal. Yeah, but what you can do is
if you die in the same place where he died,
and you do this spell, you both you don't know
where you'll go, but you'll go there together.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
You'll be going somewhere.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
We'll be going somewhere together. So she goes back to Seattle.
That flies all all back to Seattle. This show is.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Great projection, helicopter this you know it lands's.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah, behind it. She lands in the warehouse. He and
oh dude. She lands in the warehouse and he goes,
did you talk to your mama?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Mom?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Which?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Mama?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Which? And she goes, yeah. The only way we could
be together is if I died in this warehouse and
then we cast a spell before we ruin the salt ring,
and then we would go somewhere together. We don't know where.
And he goes, well, I guess you've been casting spells
on men without telling them, and they've been stuck with you,
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and you haven't been giving them a choice, and now
you have to make a choice for yourself. You have
to make a choice. You have to make a choice.
That's going to impact you. And then she has to
decide is she gonna die in this warehouse and be
with this ghost forever or does she have to continue
with her thirty six dead boyfriends.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
She realizes in that moment that even with thirty six
dead axes and one dead prospect, that you cannot center
your life around men. And so she takes that broom
she wrote it on and she walks over to the
salt ring around her former business.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
The thirty six ghosts are like and they're like, wait,
wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, we don't know
where we go after this. Maybe don't maybe maybe don't
maybe don't break the salt ring, maybe don't do it. Well,
they're well now they're scared because they've been like the
only thing of death they knew was Sally.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah, okay, we get this because now it's a movie montage.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yea to film. She goes, she Shaali, Shalli, Wait, she looks,
she looks, She goes, Shalli, no, no, no, Sallie.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Guys, you guys don't have to go home, but you
can't stay here, no Shallie no. But then wait, they push,
they vanish. Then there's a montage projection montage and you
see each of those ghosts goop and they're back in
their childhood homes, and they're back at their other girlfriends,
the one that got a apartment, and they're back at
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their favorite lakes and theaters and places there.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Oh nice, So they're haunting places that they actually want
to be.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
They get to go back to the places they want
to be, and then once they're there, they get to
decide where they want to go. And so Sally takes
that little broom back. She goes back to the newerhouse
with the salt ring, with the new prospect, and he goes,
so did you decide are you gonna literally to be
with me? And she goes, no, if this love is true,
true true love like my witch witch mama Witch told.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Me about, like my witch witch mama, which Mama Witch.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Then love is forever the way that my mom loves me,
and love can wait. And he goes, you're so real
for that, and she goes, I'm just gonna give it
a shot. Clearly, accidents happen around me all the time.
Could be today, could be next week, could be twenty
years from now. But let's get to know each other
before I drop the album again and if I die
(24:53):
of natural causes.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Then we can date. I die in natural causes, and.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
If things don't work out, I'll break the salt ring
for you. That's and he goes, Wow. That was really
emotionally mature. Going a lot in these five years.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
It sounds like can I say, can I add one twist?
At the end here he finally comes out further from
the boxes for her to see his like full face
and everything.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
He's been obscure.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
He's kind of obscure. He's been in the shadows. He goes,
he goes, he goes, he comes out, He comes out,
and he goes, man, you know, you're pretty sharp. And
he smiles and you see two fangs.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
He's a vampire. He's a dracula, so he's kind of alive.
He's just still dead.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
He's a little bit of a Oh now we have
a witch and I dracula. We have a Romeo and
Julie out of horror.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Uh huh. But boy, ol boy, because he's half they
can kiss.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Because because he's half, they can kiss. Because he's half,
he can move boxes, and because move boxes, making kiss.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Saying, and they realized at the same time stage kiss blackout.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
That's so funny. Literally, she goes, wait, because you're jacular,
we can kiss. Because you're jacular kiss.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
He shoves a box out of the way. She realizes
that he is manifest physical.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You move box, they can kiss. They could kiss. What
a great end play? What's a what? What was the
name that you came up with in the beginning? He
came up with a name I don't even remember I
came I think you did, because you came up with
the one, and then we came up with the entire plot,
and then we're like, we have to flush us out.
Oh my god, let's name it something else done, witched, bewitched.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
That one's already out there.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I think be witched. No, that's something I came up with.
Think socus Pocus.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Okay, what about the other one?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Halloween Town? No, the other one me think Twilight. M hm,
Twilight curse?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Love actually like love?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Actually, yeah, let's go to love. Actually, this is love
actually a story of two love.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh no, we were doing a Sleepless in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Bit Oh, Salemonattle, Salem, Salem, and Seattle Salem, Seattle. That's fun.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I was like, wait, I already did that on this podcast.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Salem and Seattle is good.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Ago, oh man, that was a fun one.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
That was a silly one. I do like, I do
like the one. You and I both realized at the
same time when I made up that dracular thing at
the end that they could kiss. Oh man. All right, Well, hey,
if you want to produce Salem and Seattle it is published.
Go check it out. Yeah, thank you, so amure listening
to the podcast, Rate review, and subscribe. Follow us on
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(28:12):
If we haven't done your state yet, we might have
been banked up. But if you have a state later
in the alphabet, please send it our way. If you
have a state that is a little bit more obscure
or smaller, yeah, send uh our way. Yeah. We had
a friend send us a long paragraph about Rhode Island,
and I'm like, that's going to come in handy in
the later future. Yeah, so please send us stuff about
your states at play the Z podcast at gmail dot
(28:34):
com or DMUs on Instagram at actually our cocmuon at
justin Boreck. Yeah, go see theater. If you're in New
York and it's not December first, or if they've extended,
go see Bad Creole, or at least go read it.
But also just go see theater in your area. I
was just at the New Yorker Festival and I got
to see like Anny Baker talking stuff, which is really dope.
But I was with a couple of friends, and one
of my friends was in Cleveland recently, and she was like,
(28:55):
Cleveland has like so many plays off right now. I
guess that are really cool. That I'm from there. I
didn't even realize that there's like the Cleveland Public the
cluand Clarts Theater and Obama all have like really dope
plays out right now that people are loving. So like,
know that, like there's probably some decent theater in your area,
so go try to find it, Go support your local
art scene anything else.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
No, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Heck. Yeah, well, I'm gonna end this episode of the way
I had ever looking at my friend big blue eyes
and saying, Erica, I love you so much.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
My witch cursed finger.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
That's right point. But cock your arm I cock my
arm back, kind.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Of like if you were like flexing. It's accusatory.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, early, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Justin back so much.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Goodbye.
Hey, everybody, welcome to play to Zee.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Please rise for this season's introduction song through It Connecticut.
Good job.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Hey everybody, justin here on a very weird microphone because
I am editing, So it's okay normal. My quality will
be back in a second. But this is going to
be like kind of a random plato that we made
that we never released. Thank you so much for giving
us a hiatus week of the new year. Currently, I'm
still out of town, but next week we are coming
back stronger than ever with Florida. I think Florida, Yeah, Florida,
(01:00):
and then Georgia and then we you know, we're we're
going back to the normal setup. But thank you so
much for giving us this time on the holiday. I
hope you and Rid this episode is very silly and
fun and uh yeah, see you next week for Florida.
Take it Away past Justin and Erica. Hell well, everybody,
(01:26):
welcome to play to Ze. I'm your co host Justin Borak,
I'm your co host Erica Koon and by all bye,
it's the second plane of the year season. Yeah, if
you can't tell, we're recording this out there. We did
the first play out of the.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Season, so jokes are fresh, the jokes are hot.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
The bit from seven weeks ago that you for sure
don't remember.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
God, yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, they're so far apart, but for us, they're like
four seconds away. It's going good. I was trying to
think tis We tried to record a couple episodes whenever
we record on our days, and I when to go
see I was gonna talk about this on the last one,
but I was like, I'll save this. I want to
(02:05):
go see maybe one of the best plays I've ever seen. Yeah,
the other day, like straight up one of the best
plays I've ever seen, Bad Creole by Dominique Moreso, and
it was, oh my god, it was so good. It's
open till December first. I don't think this episode will
come out before December first, so like you're not gonna
be able to see it. But I'm hoping because I
think Concord publishes all of our stuff. I'm sure it's
(02:25):
gonna get published, so you need to read it. But
it's a really wonderful play about like family and culture.
It's about this like girl from I'm not gonna spoil it, honestly,
for none of you, primarily for Eric. I want Eric
to be able to see it. Yeah, I'm not gonna.
But it's just about this half Haitian girl who lives
in the States who goes back to Haiti to visit
(02:46):
her cousin, but also primarily like get closer with her
familial roots, familial roots, and we get to look into
like a really earnest, true family relationship, but we also
get to look into like how being like liberal and
woke in the States can is, Like it's important from
an ethical standpoint, but also it's like other countries work
(03:07):
in different ways and there are dangers in things that
like we might look at and be like you have
to get out of this thing, but like they're like
shut up, like you do not understand what's happening.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It was very good. Yeah, it was. It was so good.
It was one of my favorite plays. I mean I
haven't I absolutely haven't seen enough to be able to
say this, but like I totally think it could be
a Pulitzer nominee. I could be. I think I think
it will definitely be in people's like like lists of
like top ten possibilities for like the Pulitzer next year.
I could fully see this in there. Wow. Yeah, it
(03:41):
was really good. Yeah, and I mean I I thoroughly
liked Confederates. I haven't haven't. I never saw it. I
just got to read it. But like I like, I mean,
a lot of a lot of her stuff is like fire.
But this was like my first dominique more so play.
I just got to see live and I was like,
I cannot believe I got to see this. It was
rad nice shout out missure theater they do. And also
I've never been in that theater. I've only been We've
(04:03):
we saw stuff in the smaller They have a couple
of spaces in there. We saw stuff in the Liney,
which is the signature in New York, has like three
different spaces and they have one like that I love.
That's just like a thrust space that we saw the
seagull in. Remember, Oh yeah, we saw that. But they
also have a proscenium space in the same building, like
(04:24):
on the same side, on the other side, and it's
really big and it's it looked super sick. This that
was dope. This that was awesome. The lighting was great,
that the music was great. It was just it was
so cool. But I I do like going into these
theaters that have multiple spaces because it's like fun to
like go into like these New York like established off
Broadway houses and be like, oh, like this is how
(04:47):
they like produce so much and they're able to do
things that they really like utilize all their space, Like
I didn't really the Signature has three theaters. They had
another theater like down a hallway that I didn't even know,
and they have like four acting It's it was cool.
But yeah, it's fun to like go to theaters that
I've into before, but then like see like a huge
for Semium space that I didn't even know existed. But yeah,
that was really it was really great bad Creole. If
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you're able to read it, check it out. Oh my god,
read it. It's so good and I need to make
Erica go. So yeah it's I'll go again. I'll go
with you. It was just so good nice. Yeah it
was awesome. But but yeah, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I'm good, Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, it's morning recording. It's
super fun. I haven't talked to the birds outside on
the fire escape yet today. Yeah, that feels off.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
How is your how's work last night? I know you
worked your shift at seven below, Yeah, which is cool.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I'm surprised been below being.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Five below's other half half a little a little bit
more stingy a little it's a little bit nicer because
things are seven things are you can get up dollars.
You can get up to seven dollars at seven below. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, we're selling cars now and it's you're.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Selling cars in a challengeven below.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, because they're just they're not good.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Cars are big, they're not they're clown cars. There's little
tiny cars. But the but here's the thing that's two dollars.
That two dollars is the difference.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
You know how like the scooters and then the bikes
and yeah, the fast bikes have just been kind of
like wreaking havoc on like being a pedestrian. Our little
cars are just going to tear the city up. It's awesome,
those seven dollar cars.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Man, that's a good Okay, here's I think we probably
talked about it on here before. I love city biking.
It's my favorite thing in the world. Yeah, it's scarce, Eric,
I'm not going to go out I know.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Via a TB I.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's super fair for me, ideal, But what is like
the most fun vehicle that you think would wreak havoc
upon the city. Do you think it's like a little
you know, those like little cars that kids drive, Because
that's what I thought. I was like, yeah, like what.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
If it was like figure out how to make it
go fast?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Liz's nephew has shout out Liz. Liz's nephew has like
a gator, has like one of those like like like
a TV kind of quick ones and whip whips. Dude.
But I'm saying like if there was one and that
was the same size but could take someone the size
of me and go like forty miles per hour, that
would be sick. Because my bikes when i ee bike,
my bike gets up to like twenty five miles per hour.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
I know. Anything that puts you like lowered to the
ground in a city with like buses is probably it's
awesome ideal for you.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Here's the thing. I would have so much fun whipping
around the city in a little hommer.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Okay, so you're talking about like a random kind of
like fe gole. This isn't exactly that, but I do
think if you had, like you know, how they made
pogo sticks that were a little bit like hydraulic or whatever, yeah,
be like extreme pogo stick stilts, Like if I had
like a stilt situation in the bike stream. Still extreme
where I'm just like, you know when you're like running
down a hill and you get that moment I'm going
(07:42):
and you're like, yeah, I'm stilting around and I'm like
seeing everything. I'm you're down low in a little car
or something. All a little car runs on lead paint,
me an intellectual up high on stilts, big wide league pants.
They're flowing in the breeze, insane, and I'm looking at everything.
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You're a perfect a big hydraulic stills, a perfect view
of it all.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Anyway, seven blows only. Okay. They don't offer health care.
It's like, okay, my coworkers are kind of needy.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
They don't get they don't off our healthcare. Honestly, it's
really messed up.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
They offer health care, it's just can't be anything that
costs more than seven dollars. So the diabetes has been
a challenge.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It's been a challenge. That's so funny.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Do we to generate some words?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Oh yeah, so we're doing a plato. If you don't
know what a plato is, that's where Eric and I
are both players who love talking about plays that I
have already been written. But we also like talking like
making up plays. So we're gonna get three random words
generated and make up a fun story. Last time we
made a story about seeing kids and the Locknest Monster.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Have we not done Locknest Monster before?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Now? I'm like, we might have, but that we definitely didn't.
We definitely didn't do what we did.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Last about West Virginia, like brought out the cryptis kind
of culture.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I love cryptids.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
We also used to play in the woods a lot more, mom,
not like in a bad way, in.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
A bad way.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
My mom's scared of the woods for sure.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Oh shout out to ku.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Our three words are They're fun and they're a little spooky.
Halloween even everyone else.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Who is not, but for us, Halloween's kind of relevant. Yeah,
here we go.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Word number one history, History, word number two, witch Witch
word number three X e X like your ex girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Or whoa X? Yeah, oh my gosh. Immediately I was
thinking history like it would be like a Salem Witch
Trials thing. But then like when I think, but then
when you said X, I was like, oh, It's like,
what's that? What was that movie that was? Like I
think it was like Hugh Grant or someone, but like
all of his exes were like ghosts and they would
(09:46):
follow him around and he would like have to like
figure out how to like live with all of these axes.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, it makes me think like xes in history is
like the history of your exes, but how could they
be like spooky witches. I'm trying to think, like, how
can give me your idea?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
There's this witch Okay, yeah, and she's a serial dater.
Her dating history is insane, only she's like not able
to like move on, and being a witch is like
a hazardous path obviously for her. I'm thinking like cauldron
pointy hat like classic witch Wickan And so her partners
(10:25):
and lovers keep dying, but because she can't let go,
she casts a spell, a curse if you say and
if you may, and she won't let her lovers like
pass on because she'll miss them too much. We're kind
of doing a vigils and so all of her.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Kind of like a from Claire Baron.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, all of her exes are ghosts who are actually
on stage. We're doing kind of like a blithe spirit thing.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
We're doing so many of them. We're doing the holy
ghost people.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Every scene of the play is another couple years or
months into the future, and she's you meet the next
boyfriend and she can engage with them, except like that
the next up me boyfriend girlfriend whoever?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Like can't Oh, it's like, oh, what's that TV? There's
that TV show to do really well in CBS ghosts.
They don't know that one these like this couple like
moves into this house and everyone in this house who
has died in this house is a ghost and you
can see it when you like fun kind of yeah,
it's like house but like fun and silly.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
So we're doing like the dark rom conversion of that
where she keeps she can't be single, so she keeps
dating someone and then every scene there's more and more
ghosts and they're like, dude, like we dated, we went
on two dates. I ghosted, Like actually I think I ghosted.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Funny, funny, funny ghosted. Ghost. That's a good name. Ghost.
It is a good name. Okay, Well with the drash,
why can't.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
She be single? Like how did this woman become a
witch er? Come into her power and then b be like.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Does she come from a family of witches?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, let's say family of witches.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Okay, but where? But she's based in Seattle. Okay, I
like to think that she's from like Salem, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Salem and Seattle, Salem, Seattle.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
But but she but she was like all these other
everyone else in her family was so committed to like
the cause, like getting people to sign like blood in
the book, like like learning how to take over the world,
all that stuff, and she just would like sit, she
would just sit in her house with her like head
in her hands. She's looking out the window, just being
like I want a boy to come wrestling with me.
(12:27):
And her There was a moment where her mom, what's
this girl's name?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Her name?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
What we what do we name her? Sally? Sally Salem, Salem, Sally,
Salem Sally. Yeah, okay, now we're cricket, but so Salem
Sally is like all sad about boys. And her mom
comes over and is like, Salem.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Sally, Salem, Sally, you were born of a toad's tear
and a bit of a bone and a sparrow's feather.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Mom, I don't care what I'm born from. All I
want is a boy friend.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Oh, Sally, Sally, Sally, Sally, Sally, Sally. When will you learn?
Boys are the subjects for curses, not companionship? Have a cat,
have another toad?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Mo, Mom, Maybe I'm not into curses? What maybe I'm
in the love.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Listen, honey. I won't always be here to guide you
in this life, So just in case you ever need
to talk to me, I'm going to give you a
very special spell. It only works on someone that you
love with your whole whole heart. And when you cast
a spell on someone that you love with your whole heart,
you can see them again after life. But be careful.
It must be used wise wisely.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
It must be used sparingly.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Okay, Mommy, And she folds it up, she puts it
in her pocket. Pumpkin ship locket puts it in her pocket.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And everybody right, here's that thing ready, And everybody goes
to bad And the mom wakes up, and the mom goes,
I gotta talk to Sally, And she goes over.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I think she's old enough for this responsibility.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And she goes over Sally's bad empty, Sally's dresser, empty,
suitcase gone, and there's a note on the dresser, and
the dresser says, Mama, Mama, I'm going to find love
and the only place I know Seattle, Seattle. She Salem
(14:14):
Salad stars a little star in another movie, pans to
an airplane in the sky above said the mom goes.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Okay, but is she in the plane or is it?
Like the gag is like, because, okay, we keep doing
film shots, but I'm okay with it. We can have projectionist.
We see the plane flying, We're like, oh, Salad's on
the plane. And then the plane goes down to land.
She's on a broom.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
She's on the room behind the plane, and she's on
a room behind the plane and she's zooman she's zoomed.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Hairs whipping, yeah, no bangs.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We fast forward like three years. She's an absolute girl Boston, Seattle.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, she's selling. She has a candle shop where women
come in like like they don't know that they're buying
like bewitched candles, but women come in. She's like, oh
my gosh, like my regulars, how are you? And she's like, oh,
money's been tight this month, Like we had a bill
come up and she's like, oh, look, you should use
this candle candle I just got. Don't think you would
like it? She wins the lottery. Yeah, yeah, she's blessing bitches.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, she's blessing. She's blessing bitches. But she's but she's
cursing boys. I'm trying to think, Yeah, is.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
She cursing boys?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Well? Kind?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I mean, I mean she's a little like boy quote
boy crazy. I think she like wants love.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
But I think after those three years, the three years
plan over. The person leaves the shop after getting the
candle that will make her win the lottery, and then
from the back you hear like a couple guys voices
and they're talking to her as if they're like her
partner or something, and you're like, oh, that's oh and
she's like, yeah, yeah, bring those back, and they go,
you know, I can't do that, and she goes, oh yeah, sorry, sorry.
(15:37):
She goes back and grabs the box. And then they
come out and they little casper the thing. They look normal,
but the bottom of their legs fused together and the
casper ends. You know what I'm talking about, Like a mermaid, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
So it looks like they're kind of slithering around and
they've all studied like kabookie and stuff like that. So
they are gliding.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's really impressive.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Actors are they're physical, they're movers.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Their physical moverss. But yeah, but that's when we find
out that every dude she's ever dated she casts a
spell on.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
She cast a spell on, Yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
On the first she casts on the first date. And
it's not to curse them. It's because she's like, this
is the one.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Yeah, it's because and if anything were to happen, Mama
Witch told her, if you love some of your whole heart,
this is what you have to do.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And she loves. And when her mama which said that,
when the mama which said that, she.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
She left before her frontal her frontal cortex lobe was formed.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
She's only like twenty twenty three, the back end of
the day. She doesn't know.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
She didn't remember it was a curse. She thought special spell.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
She thinks she's falling in love every first date, every
time and now and now here's the thing. All of
these boys who have died and are now like stuck
with her forever. Yeah, are like or like, you can't
love all of us, And she's like, I'm still figuring
it out. It's like every time she's dating someone, she's
just like she still loves the first guy she did this,
(16:51):
she just and she she keeps.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
The guys are like, this isn't being Polly.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
This isn't trapped. This is a trap. You're trapping that.
She goes, No, I'm just in love.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
No, I love you my whole heart. They go, there's
a ring of salt around your store. She goes, that's
so mama Witch doesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Find Mama Witch doesn't find us, and you guys can't.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Leave and they go yeah, and she goes.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah, that's called trapping. That's love. What is love but entrapman?
What what is in trapman?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
But trap chapman?
Speaker 1 (17:16):
But chairman but love? Okay, So she's in Seattle. She's
casting these.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Spells at which something shifts for her. I think, oh wait,
I don't think she's been killing these guys right, Like
they've just all had like accidental like I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That's yeah, that is that's more funny.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
That's the gag. Is that like she's casting a potion
and it like ricochets and she's like, oh, shoot another one,
or she's like, will you grab this bottle?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
She is the cause of their death, but she's not killing.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
It's accidental, Like it is farcie in that way almost,
And I think we should see each person like die
in the way that they die and he'll be like,
oh no, guys, she like goes into it.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I like the idea that she like pretends to be
like a normal girl and then like when she like
what however the is she reveals that she's a witch
is the thing that kills that. So she like is like,
let me put a blindfold on you. I want to
show you something. And put a blindfold on a guy
and puts him on her broom and like flies up
into the air and goes, take your blindfold off. I
want to show you who I really am.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
He hasigo.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, yeah, another one. But then she goes to sleep
and she wakes him. The next morning. He's at the shop.
He's at the shovel of this little slither.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Leg freaking out what is going on?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
All the other guys are like, did you go on
a day with her? She's like yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
He's like yeah, it's like what happened to you?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
It's like, broom, what happened to you? She made me
eat a frog? Yeah, she made a frog ate the
whole frog, exploding cauldron, sploiting cauldron, splooding cultrondron I like
exploating sploading cultures is funny. Splooding cauldron.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Okay, it's all going on. It's all going on. It's
getting tight in there, it's getting packed.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
There's a lot of them. Here's here's the thing. Yeah,
you give me your idea. You go, well, I was
going to say it's getting packed. And all the boys
like a meeting with her with Sally, and they're like, look,
you have to cut this out. You have to stop.
And she goes, you're right, you got to need more space,
and she just expands. She just gets she buys the building. Yeah,
(19:17):
she just makes it. She doubles the size, doesn't actually
fix her twist for you give me the twist.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Okay. So she's like, okay, guys, this is not a
form for you. I'll simply expand they're like, no, that's
not what we meant. She's like, it's okay, I got
a really really old warehouse. It's going to be really
big tons of room. They're like, oh my god. She's
anticipating a lot of deaths, a lot of exidal deaths.
She goes into the warehouse. We see her with her
moving box. She's like, like my character moment, like looking
around the perfect She puts down the box. She's a
mug in both hands. She's like, I can't believe my business.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
She's somehow holding all of them. I guess she's a witch.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yeah, anyway, she puts it down and someone goes, hello,
there's someone in here. And she goes, oh, oh my gosh,
I'm I'm so sorry. I was just here to move in.
And he's like, oh, I'm so sorry. I was on
my way out. He's behind a bunch of boxes talking
to her. He's like, I'm so sorry, I was actually
on my way out. I'm the person who used to
used to live here, used to own this warehouse. Yeah,
there's kind of a beat. There's like a little moment
(20:07):
of passion. And she goes really like you're you say, handsome,
I can't believe you're moving out when I'm moving in.
And he goes, oh, that's crazy, Like we should get
coffee sometimes. And he steps out from behind the boxes
and you see he already has a tail. He's already
a ghost. And she goes, what happened to you? And
he goes, I fell off a ladder here, but you know,
if you're moving in, like I can hang out. It's
(20:29):
just that, like you'll always get older and I'll always
stay the same and one day you might need to
get a new hairhouse, but always be here. And she realizes,
She's like, I can't actually experience love with someone who's trapped.
I need a spell to turn this ghost back into a.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Man back in I can date him, so you know
what she does seriously gets on our broom, gets right
on that broom, flies back to Mama, which which is me?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Which I'm home, Uncle Sally sailor MoMA?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Which is like, you've been gone for five years?
Speaker 2 (21:02):
What has been going on? Girl? What have you been doing?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
You gave me that spell, I've been using it.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Up bonds to only be used on me.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
You didn't even use it on me. You left before
you could.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
I never listen to you.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I don't care. I just don't care about that.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I care about boy the boy crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
What do you need? And she's like, I've been turning
a lot of men into ghosts, but I now I
need a spell to turn a ghost into a man. Yeah,
and Mama witch. Mama Witch goes, so, that's death, that's death,
and death already got him.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Death is eternal. Yeah, but what you can do is
if you die in the same place where he died,
and you do this spell, you both you don't know
where you'll go, but you'll go there together.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
You'll be going somewhere.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
We'll be going somewhere together. So she goes back to Seattle.
That flies all all back to Seattle. This show is.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Great projection, helicopter this you know it lands's.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah, behind it. She lands in the warehouse. He and
oh dude. She lands in the warehouse and he goes,
did you talk to your mama?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Mom?
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Which?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Mama?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Which? And she goes, yeah. The only way we could
be together is if I died in this warehouse and
then we cast a spell before we ruin the salt ring,
and then we would go somewhere together. We don't know where.
And he goes, well, I guess you've been casting spells
on men without telling them, and they've been stuck with you,
(22:32):
and you haven't been giving them a choice, and now
you have to make a choice for yourself. You have
to make a choice. You have to make a choice.
That's going to impact you. And then she has to
decide is she gonna die in this warehouse and be
with this ghost forever or does she have to continue
with her thirty six dead boyfriends.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
She realizes in that moment that even with thirty six
dead axes and one dead prospect, that you cannot center
your life around men. And so she takes that broom
she wrote it on and she walks over to the
salt ring around her former business.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
The thirty six ghosts are like and they're like, wait,
wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, we don't know
where we go after this. Maybe don't maybe maybe don't
maybe don't break the salt ring, maybe don't do it. Well,
they're well now they're scared because they've been like the
only thing of death they knew was Sally.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah, okay, we get this because now it's a movie montage.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yea to film. She goes, she Shaali, Shalli, Wait, she looks,
she looks, She goes, Shalli, no, no, no, Sallie.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Guys, you guys don't have to go home, but you
can't stay here, no Shallie no. But then wait, they push,
they vanish. Then there's a montage projection montage and you
see each of those ghosts goop and they're back in
their childhood homes, and they're back at their other girlfriends,
the one that got a apartment, and they're back at
(24:02):
their favorite lakes and theaters and places there.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Oh nice, So they're haunting places that they actually want
to be.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
They get to go back to the places they want
to be, and then once they're there, they get to
decide where they want to go. And so Sally takes
that little broom back. She goes back to the newerhouse
with the salt ring, with the new prospect, and he goes,
so did you decide are you gonna literally to be
with me? And she goes, no, if this love is true,
true true love like my witch witch mama Witch told.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Me about, like my witch witch mama, which Mama Witch.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Then love is forever the way that my mom loves me,
and love can wait. And he goes, you're so real
for that, and she goes, I'm just gonna give it
a shot. Clearly, accidents happen around me all the time.
Could be today, could be next week, could be twenty
years from now. But let's get to know each other
before I drop the album again and if I die
(24:53):
of natural causes.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Then we can date. I die in natural causes, and.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
If things don't work out, I'll break the salt ring
for you. That's and he goes, Wow. That was really
emotionally mature. Going a lot in these five years.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
It sounds like can I say, can I add one twist?
At the end here he finally comes out further from
the boxes for her to see his like full face
and everything.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
He's been obscure.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
He's kind of obscure. He's been in the shadows. He goes,
he goes, he goes, he comes out, He comes out,
and he goes, man, you know, you're pretty sharp. And
he smiles and you see two fangs.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
He's a vampire. He's a dracula, so he's kind of alive.
He's just still dead.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
He's a little bit of a Oh now we have
a witch and I dracula. We have a Romeo and
Julie out of horror.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Uh huh. But boy, ol boy, because he's half they
can kiss.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Because because he's half, they can kiss. Because he's half,
he can move boxes, and because move boxes, making kiss.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Saying, and they realized at the same time stage kiss blackout.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
That's so funny. Literally, she goes, wait, because you're jacular,
we can kiss. Because you're jacular kiss.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
He shoves a box out of the way. She realizes
that he is manifest physical.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
You move box, they can kiss. They could kiss. What
a great end play? What's a what? What was the
name that you came up with in the beginning? He
came up with a name I don't even remember I
came I think you did, because you came up with
the one, and then we came up with the entire plot,
and then we're like, we have to flush us out.
Oh my god, let's name it something else done, witched, bewitched.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
That one's already out there.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I think be witched. No, that's something I came up with.
Think socus Pocus.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Okay, what about the other one?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Halloween Town? No, the other one me think Twilight. M hm,
Twilight curse?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Love actually like love?
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Actually, yeah, let's go to love. Actually, this is love
actually a story of two love.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh no, we were doing a Sleepless in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Bit Oh, Salemonattle, Salem, Salem, and Seattle Salem, Seattle. That's fun.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I was like, wait, I already did that on this podcast.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Salem and Seattle is good.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Ago, oh man, that was a fun one.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
That was a silly one. I do like, I do
like the one. You and I both realized at the
same time when I made up that dracular thing at
the end that they could kiss. Oh man. All right, Well, hey,
if you want to produce Salem and Seattle it is published.
Go check it out. Yeah, thank you, so amure listening
to the podcast, Rate review, and subscribe. Follow us on
(27:50):
Instagram at Justin Borick at actual Erica komb to post
about the show all the time. Read our plays. You
can check out our new play exchanges and you kill
the Bird play. Read some of my stuff on my
new place, Change or good. Check out my published titles Community, Guarden,
Than Cabin, Chronicle, Go produce some Go see theater. Oh wait,
email us that play the Z podcast at gmail dot com.
(28:12):
If we haven't done your state yet, we might have
been banked up. But if you have a state later
in the alphabet, please send it our way. If you
have a state that is a little bit more obscure
or smaller, yeah, send uh our way. Yeah. We had
a friend send us a long paragraph about Rhode Island,
and I'm like, that's going to come in handy in
the later future. Yeah, so please send us stuff about
your states at play the Z podcast at gmail dot
(28:34):
com or DMUs on Instagram at actually our cocmuon at
justin Boreck. Yeah, go see theater. If you're in New
York and it's not December first, or if they've extended,
go see Bad Creole, or at least go read it.
But also just go see theater in your area. I
was just at the New Yorker Festival and I got
to see like Anny Baker talking stuff, which is really dope.
But I was with a couple of friends, and one
of my friends was in Cleveland recently, and she was like,
(28:55):
Cleveland has like so many plays off right now. I
guess that are really cool. That I'm from there. I
didn't even realize that there's like the Cleveland Public the
cluand Clarts Theater and Obama all have like really dope
plays out right now that people are loving. So like,
know that, like there's probably some decent theater in your area,
so go try to find it, Go support your local
art scene anything else.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
No, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Heck. Yeah, well, I'm gonna end this episode of the way
I had ever looking at my friend big blue eyes
and saying, Erica, I love you so much.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
My witch cursed finger.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
That's right point. But cock your arm I cock my
arm back, kind.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Of like if you were like flexing. It's accusatory.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Yeah, early, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Justin back so much.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Goodbye.
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