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Welcome back to the Epic Universal podcast. I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill, and this is the podcast where we cover the latest universal news, rumors and history. And as always, I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill, and this is the podcast where we cover the latest universal news, rumors, and history.

And as always, I'm joined by Eric Hersey, and I want to stress folks that, you know, Eric is recording this in his home in West Virginia, and I am recording this in my home in southern New Hampshire, and at

no point are we anywhere near Philadelphia.

No, no.

We didn't make it quite to Philadelphia, Jim, but I think we have good reasons, right?

Well, yeah.

I mean, we actually have a surprising amount of universal travel planned.

For example, next month, Eric and I are both out in Southern

California, and I'm going to be, you know, traveling with the Hersey clan as they make their

first visit ever to the mothership, Universal Studios Hollywood. And then, God, is it the day after that?

We then go out to Vegas and do Horror Unleashed? I think so. We're cramming you in. As soon as you fly in, now we're getting there a couple days early. But as soon as you get in there, we're going right to the parks, then we're going to go to Vegas and do all the fun stuff there. So, yeah, we got ourselves a trip. and although we had it possibly planned that we're going to try to make it out to Philadelphia,

it was like, yeah, we got ourselves a trip. And although we had it possibly planned that we're going to try to make it out to Philadelphia, it was like, well, I think we need this time to actually pack and plan and buy tickets. And so we pushed it back. I think we're going to do it, what, in April? I think when we get back. That is the plan now. But also one of the reasons we wanted to push it back to April is we wanted to give

you folks a heads up.

We're actually hoping that we can do something of a meetup in Philly, a bunch of us, go

and check out this exhibit, which we have seen some imagery, right?

There are some folks who got there when it opened this past weekend. Is that correct? Yeah, we were tagged on a couple of them on social media, and I got to kind of check. Now, Jim, I know you're kind of the gentleman that likes a spoiler, where I kind of stay away from spoilers. So I didn't go, I didn't go and find any, like, articles or YouTube videos or anything to see it, but I did check out some of the pictures. And it does look like there's some cool artifacts of, from Epic and just in general, Universal Park. So, yeah, so it's going to be a good thing to go see. And I'm going to kind of stay semi-distant from it for a little bit. But yeah, but we're going to be up close and personal with real universal stuff over in Hollywood and out west.

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