Welcome to the Universal joint. I'm Entertainment writer Jim Hill and my co-host Dustin Fuse and I are recording this podcast on Saturday, April 21, 2021.

All right, so folks, I don't need to tell you this. We are in two steps forward. One steps back country.

Dustin, up in Canada, when it comes to COVID, you guys are dealing with a research and right now the keys off of the variants, right?

We, as of April 8, we're back into a stay-at-home order in Toronto and Ontario. There was expected to last for only 28 days, but it's going an additional two weeks on top of that.

So that's at least May 20th that we're going to be staying at home. We're also having a doozy of a vaccine rollout, which is always fun.

But I am very excited to see friends and family around the world able to get their vaccine and being able to go to Universal right now.

But yeah, we're stuck in a stay-at-home order for at least almost a month now.

And what's interesting is just this past Thursday, didn't the government announce a travel restriction as well?

In an effort to shut down the variants, right?

Yeah, they're actually going into a inter-perventual travel ban. So they're going to be limiting folks from Ontario going into Quebec and Manitoba and everywhere.

It's just one more reason that the variants are basically taking over at this point.

But I'm jealous of all of my friends who get to go to WrestleMania and go to the Disney Parks and enjoy all of this amazing stuff that we're going to be talking about today.

Yeah, and I apologize folks if this seems like a somewhat downbeat way just at the show, but trust me, we're going someplace here.

You guys are dealing with the variant from India and Pakistan.

Yeah, and I think we've got a Brazil variant.

And I think the Brazil variant actually took out the entire Vancouver Canucks hockey team.

So yeah, there's a lot of things, but let's just point this out. I can't go to the mall and buy pants right now.

All non-essential retail is completely shuttered, which means that if you need clothing or need something like that, you have to go online, which is great.

Almost bought a significant amount from UniversalRalando.com the other day.

There's some really nice philosophy coaster opening hats that I was thinking about.

And in fact, just briefly touch on the legacy store has opened and that really looks like a must see down there.

Absolutely. If I wasn't stuck up here, I'd definitely be heading down there.

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