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Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast

UUOP #344 - The Rides That Made Me with Jason Surrell

Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast

Lee Mallaby

Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.6543 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

  On this episode we talk to veteran theme park creator, Jason Surrell for "The Rides That Made Me".

We discuss the three attractions that have had the most impact on him and his career as well as some other themed entertainment talk.

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0:00.0

We talked to author and veteran theme park creator Jason Sorrell for the Rides That Made Me on episode 344 of the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast.

0:28.2

Hey everyone, I'm your host Lee and I'm on my own, but not completely on my own.

0:33.4

There's no Darren, no Chris, no Tracy, because I am joined. I am very, actually very excited to be joined by another theme park creator. I'll introduce him in a second.

0:38.6

But this episode is another rider that made me.

0:41.0

And if you haven't heard the previous ones,

0:42.8

please go and find them,

0:43.9

because I had the awesome Adam Bizarck on

0:46.7

and the wonderful Julie Zimmerman

0:48.2

to talk about the attractions

0:50.8

that had the biggest impact on them and their career. And this is someone we've

0:58.1

wanted to talk to for such a long time on the show. So I would like to welcome the inimitable

1:02.5

Jason Sorrell. Hey Jason. Hey, Lee. How are you doing? I am good. Thank you for joining me. This is

1:08.1

a privilege to speak to such a theme park veteran as yourself.

1:12.6

It couldn't be that big a privilege. There have been 343 of these things before me.

1:17.6

But okay.

1:19.6

I like to start off small and get bigger as we go on.

1:22.6

Thank you. That was a good recovery.

1:25.6

So yeah, as I said, you know, the idea behind this segment was to invite theme park creators on the show and basically talk about three attractions, because I will say attractions.

1:36.0

It started off as rides and Adam threw that out the window with his first one straight away.

1:39.8

So it's three attractions that have had an impact on you as a person, Jason, and obviously your

1:46.9

career. And it's not so much about the attraction itself. It's more about why that attraction

1:51.5

has had that influence on yourself. Absolutely. Yeah. Because as we said before, we started recording,

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