The Welcome back to the Epic Universal Podcast. I'm entertainer

writer Jim Hill and I'm joined this evening by my co-host Eric Hersy and he and I are recording this week's episode on Thursday, March 14th.

And apologies to our show's regular listeners. We are recording this week's show a little late, later than usual,

but Eric gets for a very good reason, right? That's because you and the rest of the Hersey

Clan were just down in Orlando for a week-long vacation, right?

Right, it was spring break here early in Wheeling, West Virginia for the kids, so we always

take that opportunity to find ourselves taking the long drive down to Orlando.

But this gym was actually really a funny trip.

This was the first trip that we actually joined and went into Disney, but I had kind of universal on the back of my mind.

The first trip since we've actually started recording and I've taken this, know this leap into a universal fandom so

it was kind of interesting as I stood in lines and listen to the the different

individuals and those standing around me when they mentioned

universal like my hair on my arms would stick up and my ears would perk out

and I'd be kind of listening and say what's going on here and I'd hear people

talking about their split stay that they're hey we're at

Universal tomorrow and and then other people were like explaining well this ride

is a lot like Hagrid's it was like an enlightening experience.

Very cool, by the way, not to be a stickler,

but the official full name of the Thoroughard

you just reference is Hagrid's magical creatures motor bike adventure.

That attraction which opened at islands back in June of 2018 that can be found

in Hogsmead, the original Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which opened

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