Epic Universe with Eric Hersey Ep 61-14: The difference between Disney & Universal’s destination resorts

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🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Eric Hersey & Jim Hill start this week’s show by talking about viewership for the Summer Games in Paris. T hey then take a look at how Universal Pictures’ recent releases have been doing at the domestic box office Throughout this episode, listeners will learn about: When was Epic Universe originally supposed to open up in Orlando In what year does NBCUniversal’s deal with the IOC for the US broadcast rights for the Olympics run out Which classic silent horror film is Universal Pictures remaking How many spots on the Top 10 box office chart for 2024 do Universal Pictures releases occupy For how many years now has the Broadway musical version of “Wicked” been presenting performances at NYC’s Gershwin Theatre Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Welcome back to the Epic Universal Podcast. I'm Entertain writer Jim Hill and I'm joined now by my co-host Eric Hersy, who has gone from being Universal
0:26.6	Curious to a full-on enthusiast when it comes to the Universal Orlando Resort.
0:31.1	Is that correct, Eric?
0:32.1	Jim, you don't even know how many YouTube history videos.
0:35.0	I've listened to a book about Universal.
0:38.0	I've read more articles.
0:40.0	Now the spoilers are gone.
0:42.0	I've been there, so I feel like now I can like engage and watch all the stuff and there's no spoiler. So yes, I am full enthusiast.
0:50.0	Cool cool cool. Okay, now Eric and I are recording today's show on Tuesday, August 20th, which is roughly a week after the two of us got home from this year's D23 Expo and have we recovered at this point or well what did you say it's a
1:08.1	day for every time zone that you know that you at least so I should be recovered although I did take a late nap
1:15.1	yesterday and found myself up until 1 a.m. watching a YouTube universal video so
1:20.7	maybe not recovered a hundred percent but we're getting there.
1:23.4	Okay cool cool. All right now of there has been a lot of talk online about the news
1:29.3	coming out of this year's D23 Expo. That's $60 billion worth of projects that the Disney Company
1:36.3	will reportedly be spending a new ride chosen attraction for the parks over the next five to
1:41.4	ten years. And I want to give credit where credit is due here I believe it was you Eric
1:46.0	when we were both out in Anaheim and hang on I okay okay when Eric and I had this discussion, which was on, this was Saturday night, August 10th, we weren't actually in Anaheim or Garden Grove at that point, we had driven over to Buena Park. And the reason we did that is unfortunately we weren't able to score tickets to the Honda Center to be there in person for the Disney Experiences presentation.
2:15.0	So we all piled in the car and we drove over to Notsbury Farm.
2:20.0	Because Eric and his lovely bride Lauren, my co-host on the I Want That 2 podcast,
2:27.0	they had never been to Mrs. Knot's chicken dinner restaurant.
2:32.0	And that was kind of a theme of the trip out there right that we
2:36.6	kept taking you to Southern California classics I mean that was that Jim you my friend rented the car and when we were done
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