UUOP #150 - Planning Universal Studios Florida with Sam Gennawey
Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast
Lee Mallaby
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2015
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On this episode we welcome Sam author Sam Gennawey back on to the show to talk about the story behind the creation of Universal Studios Florida and how the park is designed and laid out.
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| 0:00.0 | The unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast is a member of the MiceChat Podcast Network, MicePaw.com. |
| 0:09.8 | Micechat.com! |
| 0:12.8 | Now, Discover the Universe, one theme park at a time. |
| 0:16.7 | Time. Greetings, Universal fans. This episode was made possible by Fairy Godmother Travel and the Producers Club. |
| 0:35.4 | So let's join the gang as we discover more about the Universal Orlando Resort, |
| 0:39.2 | as well as Universal Studios, Hollywood, Japan and Singapore. |
| 0:44.3 | Hey, everyone, and welcome to episode 150 of the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast. |
| 0:49.9 | That's right, we have reached the grand total of 150 official episodes. |
| 1:12.8 | I am Lee, and joining me is Hunter. Hey, what's going on, guys? How are you, buddy? Pretty good. How are you, man? All right, we've been left out with just the two of us with no chaperones, because there's no Darren and tracing. This could get dangerous. Now, joining us for this very special episode is a returning guest and fellow mice chatter, Mr. Sam Genoa. |
| 1:13.4 | Hello, Sam. |
| 1:18.0 | Hello all, and congratulations on your, what does it be, your testesquedial. |
| 1:21.2 | If you say so, I was going to go a decade and a half. Does that work? |
| 1:22.7 | A century and a half. A century and a half, is that right? Decades 10, is it? |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah, there you go. |
| 1:29.6 | Well, welcome. |
| 1:45.6 | Yes. I'm very happy to be here. Thank you very much. It's good to be back. Thanks to have you on. Well, we did kind of discuss it when the last time you were on. Actually, I'm going to plug your book first, Jetsam. Let's see if I can remember the full title of it. It is. The Universal versus Disney, the Ultimate Theme Park rivalry. Is that right? |
| 2:04.6 | If I believe so, yes. It's a very long title, but it's a great book. Yes, go and buy it. It is available on Amazon. It's, well, pretty much anyway. You can get books, isn't it, so? Is that right? It is actually. You can get it on any, it's in a lot of bookstores. It's on Amazon. It is a Kindle book, and it is an audio book as well, which apparently people like my book says audiobooks. |
| 2:01.8 | Okay. on any it's in a lot of bookstores it's on amazon it is a kindle book and it is an audio book as well which apparently my people like my books as audiobooks okay because they could like run or do |
| 2:06.4 | an errand and catch a story and then run and do an errand and catch another story so there you go |
| 2:11.5 | awesome all sorts of things about publishing lately cool cool as we said when you were on last time sam |
| 2:16.6 | we talked about you as an urban |
| 2:18.2 | planner and talking about, as it's Universal's 25th anniversary a little over a month ago now, |
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