Covering the Universal Orlando Resort for over four years, you are listening to the Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast.

Hello everyone and welcome to episode 206 of the Unofficial Universal Orlando podcast.

I'm your host, Lee, and apart from my guest, I'm currently here on my own.

This is the second time we've sat down to record this this week.

Anybody listened to last week, sure you'll have heard there was slight audio issues,

and we recorded with our current guest at the same time, and the audio came out just as bad,

and I didn't think it was fair to put that out so I am sitting down

with the one the only dream finder himself Mr Ron Schneider Ron thanks for taking the time to come and

join us again my pleasure for you happy to do it it's not very often we have those sort of issues on

the show in five years but it always seems to be at the worst possible

times.

So, cool, right.

So, Rob, we have had you on previously before, twice, having chatted the other night while

we were recording, it turns out it's been four very long years since you've been on.

So for those people who don't know, well, I haven't listened to those shows, because one of them's out and one of them still sat in the vault waiting to come out.

Can you give us a brief history of your sort of tenure in theme parks and obviously especially Universal, please?

Well, I grew up in Southern California. I was at Disneyland the day it opened in 1955.

I grew up going to Disneyland, Universal Studios, Natsbury Farm, and from an early age

was fascinated with performing, magic, puppetry, and when I was old enough to realize

such a thing was possible, I decided I wanted a career performing in theme parks because

I loved working one-on-one with the guests and involving them in whatever show I'm doing.

My first theme park job was in 1970. I was in the wardrobe issue for the Christmas parade at Disneyland.

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