UUOP #63 - John Murdy
Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast
Lee Mallaby
4.6 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2013
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On this episode we bring you one of the greatest interviews we have had the pleasure of conducting, we welcome on to the show, John Murdy, the current Creative Director of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood.
We had the opportunity to talk to John about how he became part of Universal Hollywood leading creatives and his history working at the park and how he became the Head of Halloween Horror Nights.
Following that, Norm brings you a special edition of What's Newniversal : The Hollywood Edition, in which he gives us a walking commentary through Universal Studios Hollywoods Iconic attraction, the House of Horrors.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought you by the MicePops. |
| 0:03.0 | The MiceCat Podcast is at MiceChat.com and Micepod.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Micepod.com |
| 0:10.0 | Micechat.com I'm Greetings Universal Orlando fans. |
| 0:45.2 | It's time for the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast with your hosts, Lee, Tracy, and Darren. |
| 1:06.3 | Thank you. Tracy and Darren. Hey, everybody, and welcome to episode 63 of the unofficial Universal Orlando podcast, brought to you an association with mice chat and sponsored by Be Our Guest Destinations. |
| 1:15.3 | I'm Darren, and we're running a little bit late here, so I'm going to go ahead and try to get Lee and Tracy on the line here. |
| 1:20.8 | One moment. |
| 1:26.1 | Okay. Oh, |
| 1:36.9 | Hi there. Tracy and Lee aren't available at the moment as we're in Orlando frantically buffing up Barney's Echo Tunnel in time for tomorrow's meet. Leave a message. |
| 1:42.5 | Oh my gosh, how could I have forgotten? |
| 1:44.5 | It's the podcast meetup time. |
| 1:47.6 | I got to hurry up and get this show recording, get over there. |
| 1:50.9 | So if you're listening to this on the day of release and you're attending the meet, we'll see you tomorrow. |
| 1:56.2 | This is what we got coming up for you today. |
| 1:58.4 | First of all, this is a big one. |
| 2:00.0 | We were really nervous to record this, but super excited and very thankful for Universal for putting this together for us. We interviewed the creative director for Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood, John Murdy. If you do not know that name, go ahead and look him up. He's an icon. It's pretty amazing. So let's go ahead and listen to that. |
| 2:16.9 | So first of all, John, thanks very much for coming on the show and talking to us. |
| 2:21.2 | My pleasure. |
| 2:22.4 | So basically what we wanted to talk to you tonight was about was your history with Halloween Horror Nights creative at Universal. |
| 2:28.4 | So, you know, we would start off, for those who don't know who you are and shame on them. |
| 2:38.1 | Can you tell us about your background now you ended up working for Universal Hollywood, |
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