Get ready for adventure, islands of it, man.

From the studios to Volcano Bay.

This is the Universal Joint, a podcast devoted to all things Universal,

with your host Jim Hill and Dustin Foods.

Welcome to the Universal Joint Podcast.

This is number four in the series folks,

and I apologize for the delay between shows here,

but I've been battling a late spring cold these past few weeks, which

is kind of ironic, given how hot things have gotten down in Florida, especially when it comes to

the Universal Parks and Resorts. So we've got a lot of ground to cover with today's show.

So let me bring my co-hosts, Dustin Fuse, in right now.

All right, I'm in, I'm in, I'm in.

Let's just get started with discussing all the universal related news that's broken since we last

recorded which I want to say was May. Obviously the big big big news this is a

wild card nobody knows where this is going to go.

June 13th, after months of rumor and speculation,

Comcast, which let's remember,

parent company of Universal Parks and Resorts,

not to mention NBC Universal, announced that it would be offering

20th century Fox $65 billion in cash for certain motion picture production and television broadcast aspects of that

corporation.

Now I don't need to tell you Dustin that back in December of 2017, the Walt Disney Company made a 52.4 billion dollar bid for the

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