I welcome Rick West onto the podcast to discuss the three attractions that have had the biggest influence on him and his career in the themed entertainment industry.

You are listening to episode 414. I've had the awesome Catherine Cobbs and her lovely boyfriend, Andy D. Genova, Jason Sorrell, Justin Martin, Julie Zimmerman, and it all kicked off with Adam B's Ark. So for this one, I would like to welcome Rick West. Hey, Rick. Hey, Lee, how you doing, man? I'm good. Thanks for joining me. Oh, thanks for having me on. I'm really excited to do this with you. It's weird, isn't it? Because people think, they've just started talking and we've been talking for like 25 minutes before we started recording this. Of course. We're going to basically retread everything that we talked about.

But for real this time.

Yes.

Yes.

So, Rick, if, well, people should know who you are at this point.

I am ashamed to say that.

I didn't realize how much you'd had your hands on, but there we go.

Well, no, it's funny. And when we did start talking a few weeks ago about doing this, you know, there are, I kind of live this weird double life, whereas people know me for a long time as theme park adventure and then the conventions, Midsummer Scream.

And then there's the whole other side where I actually have worked in the themed entertainment

industry for almost 10 years now.

And I've worked for a lot of different shops here in Southern California.

And sometimes people don't make the connection or even necessarily know that the two have

coexisted for a long time.

And just a couple of years ago, I retired theme park adventure.

So now the only thing that it really exists is, is my, my career in the, in

the industry, as well as midsummer scream, which is a career into itself.

But, yeah, but a lot of people, don't feel bad.

A lot of people don't realize that because they figure, well, he's just the dude that shows up at all the Halloween stuff every year, you know, and they don't feel bad a lot of people don't realize that because they figure well he's just the

dude that shows up at all the Halloween stuff every year you know and they don't realize that you know

for the rest of the year he's actually designing things and working with folks and and it's very

interesting because it's kind of it's bled into each other um over the years the reason I work

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