The Thank you. The Welcome to the WDW News Today podcast, episode 49.

We are recording this live because last week was very busy.

I'm also flying solo because of that.

So no Eric, no Nick.

Eric will be back with us next week.

Maybe Nick.

I have to ask him later today.

But we will be celebrating 50 episodes next week, so a major milestone. But thank you for watching. Please hit that like button. Please subscribe.

And this is going to be a weird show, mainly because I don't know that anyone's ever done one alone.

Did Eric do one alone while I was gone or no? No, he didn't.

So this will be the first one anyone's done alone. It Eric do one alone while I was gone or no? No, he didn't. So this will be the

first one anyone's done alone. It's always good when Tom is left alone with his thoughts. Nothing

can go wrong at that point. So there's two sections to today's show essentially, obviously

over the last week with the announcement of an opening date and the sale of

tickets, hotels, packages, et cetera, for Epic Universe. I want to talk about that in relation to

historically how these things have been done in the past, how they're being done now, and

generally talk about the discourse between Disney fans and Universal fans and how there's not

really two different things. And what's going on in the internet right now doesn't necessarily

reflect reality. So I'm going to warn you, a disclaimer at the top of the show. If you are

going to be one of those people that right now Universal can do no wrong for you,

you're probably not going to like what I have to say, but a lot of it will be, I will try to keep

opinion out and use mostly facts to back my case and historical context, because context is key,

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