Season 3 Hiatus!

Hey guys! Some sad news, Erika and Justin are taking a short hiatus from the show. Projects are catching up with them, living in New York is ALOT, and they both need to get their bearings before hoping back into their research and work they put into each episode. Thank you SO much for listening through all these epsidoes and hopefully we won't be gone too long! In the meantime, give us a follow at our insatgrams below and we will keep you updated on the status of the show!

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!

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Episode Transcript

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:12):
It Connecticut, good job.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Hell, everybody, welcome to play Z. I'm your co host
Justin Borak. I'm your co host Eric, And I know
you probably expected us to dive into the wonderful state
of Illinois. Illinois, Illinois, Illinois.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
You're from there.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, I'm from there in a way. But you probably
read the title of this episode and we're like, what
the heck is going on?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
So will An?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, New York is hard, It's a lot. There's a
bunch of stuff going on, and I think we are
gonna have to take a brief pause, a little hiatus
from the show as we get some stuff in order
here in New York.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, catch up on projects, do stuff like that. Obviously,
we've been doing this for years. We love you guys
so much, so we wanted to come on here and
let you know, brief hiatus pause. We're hoping for spring summer,
depending on how things play out with different projects and stuff. Yeah,
but yeah, you're gonna be getting a little break from
us for a while. We're so sorry. Sorry, we miss you.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
We're sorry, we miss you already. Yes, but Yeah, we
just want to figure some stuff out, and you know,
we have some cool stuff coming up and everything, and
we want to be able to make sure that we
are able to like banking up episodes and make sure
that we have that backlog so we can be dropping
stuff and also both feel comfortable living in New York
and like have the time and effort to put in
because also this season is so research heavy.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
It's very research heavy. Yeah, this is great news. If
you're one of those w states, you have plenty of.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Time to contact so much trying to reach out to
as I've played the podcast at gmail dot But in.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
The meantime, where can people look for for updates?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, so we might be back. You can follow us
on Instagram. I think that'll be probably the first place
both of us post if when like things kind of
like like when we have a date or whatever or
all that for play is he coming back and stuff
as you can follow us at actual acricoon, at justin
work on Instagram cheerly that's the best place to go
to check in. Also, if you have a we fully

(02:25):
have the intention to finish out the United States, So yeah,
if you have a w if you have a late state.
If you are from the beautiful state of Wyoming, feel
free to take this time send us an email at
Platozy podcast at gmail dot com, and we will happily
take all of the information that you gave us and
put it into an awesome episode, hopefully in the future.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, and if you miss us too bad, start.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
At the beginning, Start at the beginning of season one. Yeah,
I know, go listen to us on the radio station.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Rewrite down any plays that we talked about that you
need to go read or play. It's check out. Yeah,
be nostalgic with us for the radio days.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
And in the meantime, if you're in New York, come
see our work, go read our stuff on their new
play exchanges on our websites. And yeah, we love you
guys so much. And this isn't like goodbye. This is
just us being like, well, we gotta take a little break,
we gotta take a breath. But yeah, anything else we
wanna say anything else?

Speaker 2 (03:18):
No, I don't think so. Thank you so much for
listening to us for so long and for being such
like an engaging and supportive community. Go see plays, replays,
we have you kisses, kisses all right, Yeah, bye,