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The Universal Joint Ep 44: Just how long has Epic Universe been in the works

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🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Dustin Fuhs & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by talking about how California’s theme parks are readying to re-open. They then discuss how the delay in the production of “Fantastic Beasts” may impact Universal Orlando’s fourth theme park Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Universal Joint. I'm Entertainment writer Jim Hill and my co-host Dustin Fuse and I

0:05.3

are recording this podcast on Saturday March 6, 2021. And we would just pre-gain a little bit,

0:13.1

get a full show started. And Dustin, you're excited because you're what? You're going to get to

0:19.0

leave the house? Yeah, we're in what do they call it? Stay at home orders. I'm here in Toronto.

0:25.7

And by the time everyone hears this, I'm going to be able to leave the house and go and buy pants.

0:32.0

We're heading out of stay at home into lockdown, grey zone. And yeah, it'll be exciting to go

0:40.8

and walk through a mall, although it's going to be a little interesting to see which stores are

0:45.0

going to make it back into existence after this at least 100 days in lockdown and stay at home.

0:53.3

So it's going to be interesting. Okay, well, again, enjoy your surgery. But we get a lot of news

1:01.8

to cover. The live stuff is happening. So we last recorded a new show, including word just this

1:07.0

past week that work is resuming on Universal Orlando's fourth theme park, Epic Universe. We're going

1:13.6

to talk about that ambitious project and the second half of this week's show, folks, but first,

1:17.9

the news. And I want to tell you that the news portion of today's Universal Joint is brought

1:23.2

to you by Storybook Destination, Trusted Travel Partner of the Geminal Media Podcast Network.

1:28.4

For a worry free travel experience, be sure and book online at StorybookDestination.com. And

1:34.5

before we plunge into this week's show, Dustin, wanted to circle back to our last Universal Joint,

1:40.9

where we spoke at length about what was it? The cut-down version of Wicked that was

1:47.0

presented at Universal Japan from July of 2006 through January of 2011. And I shared a story

1:54.4

as part of that show about how over the four and a half year run of that show at that theme park,

2:02.0

use of video cameras and recordings were supposedly strictly forbidden. But Universal Joint

2:08.3

listener, Eric Gonzales, proved me wrong. Did he send you the info on this, Dustin? How there's

2:16.6

actually a YouTube video of the entire show out there? Within minutes of us posting this show,

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