1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,040 Welcome to Bricking It episode 5. 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:06,280 Can you believe we have outlasted a whole month of 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:08,760 talking about a field? Basically almost. 4 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:11,040 You can't say field though because it's a copyright. 5 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,880 But yes, a whole month. Of of waffle. 6 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:20,520 Yes, a whole month of waffle and we've got a very, very exciting 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:22,760 episode. Today we are joined with a 8 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,360 guest. But before we get into that, 9 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,400 let's just do our introductions. I am Mike. 10 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,880 I have the YouTube channel Universal Studios Great Britain 11 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,400 Updates and joining me is. Andy from Project Universal. 12 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,000 And Lawrence from Universally Bedford, you. 13 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:40,960 You have to think about that universally. 14 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,840 No, he always puts. I always do, yeah. 15 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,600 No, I, I, I like to add inflection at odd points. 16 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:49,760 I've I've it keeps people a little bit on edge. 17 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,280 Keeps people on there what the slides the. 18 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:54,520 University. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly the 19 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:58,040 universally. Bedford Universally. 20 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:00,440 Bedford. You should just add it in the 21 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:01,960 middle of words Universally Bedford. 22 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,800 That would work. I'm, I'm going to really play 23 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,320 with that inflection thing. Yeah, you do that honestly. 24 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:11,200 Not when you're here, though. Take it home. 25 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,200 Well, I'll take some homework, but you'll you'll see the you'll 26 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,680 see the you know, you'll see. You won't see my workings, but 27 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,960 you'll see the results. Okie, dokie, yeah. 28 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:22,040 Yeah, right. We have gone off on a slight 29 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,560 tangent. We had barely 30 seconds in. 30 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,800 But before we crack on, we've got a bit of housekeeping. 31 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:32,480 So it it goes without saying, do all that good stuff in leaving 32 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,840 five star reviews following us on the platforms, opening your 33 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,280 beers like Andy did right in front of the microphone. 34 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:40,520 Yep. If you would like to sponsor the 35 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,280 podcast, you can you can Chuck us an e-mail. 36 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,440 What is that e-mail? Lauren well, you know, the 37 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,360 easiest way is actually going to breakingitpod.co.uk. 38 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,600 There is a form, there is a form and you can you can get in touch 39 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,720 with us there. Equally questions too. 40 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,760 Great website, who built it? Well, it was built by a local 41 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,360 Bedford company called Los Webos. 42 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:03,760 Fantastic. Yeah, check it out. 43 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,600 Los Webos, you think? Dot co.uk, Yeah. 44 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,520 They've done a great job on it. Anyway, Mike. 45 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:10,759 Cracking, right? Yes. 46 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:13,640 So shall shall we get into the? Who at the podcast Who's with 47 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:14,640 us? Who is with us? 48 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:15,800 I have no idea. The. 49 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:19,240 Virtual version of the studio. The virtual The virtual 50 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,240 extension of PUHQ. Who? 51 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,280 Who could it? Be we we are very excited. 52 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,800 We've got the queen of theme park scoop, the hunter of and 53 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:34,000 scourer of documents, and the the best of the best when it 54 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,040 comes to following theme park construction. 55 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,440 It is none other than Alicia Stella. 56 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,000 Hey, Hey. Hello. 57 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:42,880 Hello. Welcome. 58 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:44,720 Yeah, I'm here. Did you? 59 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,080 ChatGPT or that? No, I did that myself. 60 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,640 I'm a creative writer. What did you think, Alicia, at 61 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:52,080 that? Oh, that was that was quite 62 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:53,800 wonderful. Yeah, marks out 10. 63 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,320 I also accept permit Princess. Yeah. 64 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,680 Do you know what I was going to? I was going to call out Mike 65 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,360 because Permit Princess was the one. 66 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:03,280 I was like, you're going to do it, you're going to do it. 67 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:04,840 And it's in the iteration as well. 68 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:06,440 It's perfect. I failed. 69 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:09,200 But, but I don't, I don't mind graduating to Queen, it's fine. 70 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,320 Hey, absolutely. It's a promotion upgrade, yeah. 71 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:15,240 It's going well for Prince. Sorry, King Charles, isn't it? 72 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,440 Well, there you go. You know, that's that's the way 73 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,320 that it normally works with, with princesses. 74 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,960 Soon, Elisa, you'll be you will be queen. 75 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,200 Yeah, I also have a terrifying giant red portrait in my room. 76 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:30,880 What Prince? King Charles. 77 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:34,080 Yeah. No, I'm confused. 78 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,000 No, I did have a mug. Scott Walker made me a mug that 79 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,080 says Permit Princess and. I oh permit Prince. 80 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,560 Oh nice. Ah, honestly. 81 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:45,440 I've got a project here. Have you used your project 82 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:47,960 Universal? I've washed it and it's ready to 83 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:48,760 be used. Washed it. 84 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:50,120 It's brand new. You don't need to wash it. 85 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,040 I think spat in it or something. No, no, it did. 86 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,240 Yeah, it's gone through the dishwasher 7 times. 87 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:57,320 But no, Addie, I think you're going to have to send a leash or 88 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:58,600 something. You're going to have to send us 89 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,040 some I. Don't think a mug would make it 90 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:01,920 all the way to America. It probably would arrive in 91 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:03,920 little bits. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 92 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,000 That's that's true. Anyway, Alicia, how you doing? 93 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,520 I'm wonderful. I, I am. 94 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:13,520 I'm excited to talk about this with with people who are as 95 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,760 excited to talk about this. Honestly, we are very excited. 96 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:22,200 We are less in, in in Project Universal HQ, in this, in the 97 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,760 shed here we are less than one click, as you Americans call it. 98 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:27,640 Is that a kilometre? I don't know, it's a click of 99 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:28,760 kilometre. I think it. 100 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:31,640 Is don't ask me. I I hear it in the movies. 101 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,720 We're in. We're less than 1000 metres from 102 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:37,840 from Universal. A stone's throw. 103 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,760 A stone's throw, yeah. Well, I'm surprised I can hear 104 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:42,840 you over all of the construction happening. 105 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,520 Right. Well, I you've set us up nicely. 106 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:46,520 Though that's a beautiful. Segue. 107 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,280 What a link? What a link. 108 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:51,080 Yes. So Andy, you have been down to 109 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,040 the site. I went down there today and it 110 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,040 is very busy. Oh, tell us more. 111 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:00,240 The Wazaneta 1000 of always known as the concrete crusher, 112 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,600 is back crushing concrete as it does. 113 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:10,480 There are some off off this concrete slab, Kempston Harlot 114 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:13,560 train station. They are doing archaeology in 115 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:16,200 the field opposite Universals land. 116 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:21,480 Now that field is would be where a bridge, if you were going to 117 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,480 be a bridge to go over the railway, that's where it would 118 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,400 land. So do you know what's what I 119 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,360 think they're doing? I think they've brought a chunk 120 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,320 of the land. I'm, I'm actually. 121 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:35,120 Yeah. Well, or or it's network rails 122 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:39,760 land because I know the guy who used to live in the house that 123 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,400 was on that land and he got comp purchased out of it by the 124 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,680 railway about 10 years ago. Yeah, that house has long gone, 125 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:47,880 isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 126 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,520 Now, just before, just when was it? 127 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:57,440 Gosh, a year or so ago, some leaflets appeared around Manor 128 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,520 Rd. around Cranston, Harwick train station from Network Rail. 129 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,840 So then they did a compulsory purchase order on universals 130 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:06,640 land. So they brought a sliver of land 131 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:08,440 that comes off of, I don't know what I'm doing with my hands 132 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,240 here because no one can see, but yeah, this is all. 133 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,240 But they brought a sliver of universals land or compulsory 134 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,640 purchased it. So I think they're going to put 135 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,480 the bridge in because they were talking it was either going to 136 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:22,680 be a bridge or they or they were going to upgrade the barriers, 137 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,200 the current barrier system, which is stupid because they're 138 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,720 upgrading the line to 100 mile an hour trains, that barriers 139 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,560 would be down all the time. And as everybody knows, that's 140 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,600 the main route to McDonald's. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 141 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,880 Or it was to close that junction altogether and then divert 142 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:41,800 people down through Universal's land. 143 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,160 And then, which is just a pain in the arse if you want to go to 144 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,320 McDonald's, if it's an extra 10 minutes, assuming there's no 145 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,000 traffic, well, maybe not 10 minutes, but. 146 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,600 All of their decisions are all just, you know, they've gone on 147 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,160 to Google Maps. They're looking at how easy it 148 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:58,360 is to get to Mackey DS. So what else has been happening? 149 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,400 Metal detectorists today? Oh really? 150 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:03,400 Yes. Amateur or professional? 151 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:05,760 AOC Archaeology. Oh. 152 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,400 Wow. So AOC isn't that AAOC? 153 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,200 They someone in Congress in the USI don't know. 154 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:14,920 Idea. Where were they located on the 155 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:16,240 site? What section? 156 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,000 Yeah, they're on the call zone. They're metal detecting on the 157 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,760 call zone. Today if you look at my Facebook 158 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,920 page, I made a post earlier on with a little guy with a little. 159 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:26,760 One weren't they just doing like a building, some kind of 160 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:28,600 opening, like a pathway? Yes. 161 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,720 Yeah, that's another bit. I just, I'll get onto that one 162 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:31,840 in a SEC. Don't worry. 163 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:33,200 That's what. I'm excited. 164 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:35,440 About I know, I know I'm. Saving the best. 165 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:37,720 Of life. Oh, he's, he's teasing us, he 166 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,200 teases. The photos, but I haven't put 167 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,840 them up. Like so, so the metal 168 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:42,800 detectorists and doing all of that business. 169 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:47,320 So obviously it's it's ex industrial land mostly. 170 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,360 I don't know the call zone, the call zone, they're in the middle 171 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:50,640 of the call zone. Nothing's ever been there. 172 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,680 Nothing's ever been there. Well, there was a mediaeval 173 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:55,560 village there. Do you reckon that's what it is 174 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:57,240 that they they're trying to hopefully find? 175 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,560 AI think they're a treasure chest and they was all walking 176 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,120 up and down in lines as well. So, well, not a treasure chest, 177 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:06,400 but maybe a last ditch scan of the the site before people. 178 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,040 I'm absolutely convinced and I don't think it's going to derail 179 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:13,080 the project or anything, anything like it. 180 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:15,280 I think it would just kind of add to the the mystique. 181 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:16,840 Of it or if they found a coin or something. 182 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,480 No, no, no. I think they'll, they'll find it 183 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:21,800 Like they'll find something. I I think they might find, you 184 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,200 know, something significant. Something that's how they're 185 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:25,240 holding. Sorry, I'm just gonna. 186 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,520 Dig up a castle. Yeah, who knows, right? 187 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,480 This is like this. In this country, anything is 188 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,799 possible. There is a Moat, Yeah. 189 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:35,919 There is a Moat on the call zone. 190 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,520 There is, yeah, near Broadmead Farm, if you look. 191 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:42,559 Yeah, on some LIDAR maps, yeah, you can see the outline of a 192 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:44,159 Moat down. There, so there would have been 193 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:47,240 some sort of, there definitely was a tower or something there 194 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:48,840 something. Like the Corzone, yeah, yeah, 195 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,440 100% honestly. But I think they're just, 196 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:55,360 they're just having a last check on it now it's just. 197 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,120 Dotting the eyes and crossing the teeth well. 198 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,880 Yeah, before they start digging, because like the first steps is 199 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:02,720 going to be to reshape the land. So they want to. 200 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,160 They don't want to like dig down and accidentally hit a big chunk 201 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,640 of metal like the machinery. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 202 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,640 So I think there's a plague. Pit in the middle of. 203 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,120 Well, I mean. Imagine that. 204 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:17,120 They did find a few burials, did they? 205 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:18,680 Yeah. If you read the archaeology 206 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:19,640 report, yeah. Really. 207 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,320 They found a couple of adults and a child. 208 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:25,440 How? How old? 209 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:28,320 I can't remember now. I mean not how old was a child. 210 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:29,560 How old? Yeah. 211 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:31,320 How old? Medieval. 212 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:32,680 Medieval. Yeah, I did. 213 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:36,720 I made a poster on that God a few months ago now. 214 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:38,560 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, they. 215 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:41,040 Theme park's going to be haunted by Badgers and ghosts. 216 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:44,400 Honestly, we it's going to be incredible. 217 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:49,120 It's it's go on. But just before we move, but 218 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,880 we're staying in the call zone, someone said to me earlier on, 219 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:54,360 wouldn't it be cool if they found a dinosaur? 220 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,040 Because then they could have a, an, a genuine Jurassic Park. 221 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,720 And I said it's already a genuine Jurassic Park because in 222 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,800 the 1960s, yes, they found a dinosaur in Coronation Pit. 223 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:06,800 That that's true. A full skeleton and that's off. 224 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,440 Gone off to a museum. So do you remember what it what 225 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,200 sort of dinosaur it was? Yeah, I do, but I can't say. 226 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:12,960 It's like a pill pilay saw or some palace. 227 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,360 I remember a fish. Have you ever been to the 228 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,080 museums? This was all an ocean, right? 229 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:17,680 Where it? Was Yeah. 230 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:19,840 Have you ever been to the museums at Cambridge? 231 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,400 There's so many ichthyosaur skeletons. 232 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:27,480 There. So that's the what was her name? 233 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,040 Mary Anning? Was it Mary Anning? 234 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:32,880 Or sometimes I don't. Know what the ichthyosaur's name 235 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:34,360 is? She was, she was the lady that 236 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,680 that was called. She was the first like. 237 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:37,720 It. Was called Dave. 238 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,040 Yeah, that's that's yeah, that's what that that's what the 239 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,320 dinosaur was called. That's yeah, it's come back to 240 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:43,880 me now. What's your name? 241 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:46,200 My name's Dave. I'm an ichthyosaur. 242 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,920 Thanks for the delayed response to my hilarious. 243 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:50,200 Gap. Oh, it was, it was a, it was a 244 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:51,840 wonderful gap. I had to go. 245 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:56,880 All the way across the ocean. All right. 246 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:00,400 OK, finally on the call zone. Go on, this is the bit this. 247 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:02,880 Is the bit you're waiting for. They have. 248 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:06,680 They've knocked through now next to the concrete plant. 249 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:08,480 They've knocked through onto the call. 250 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,520 Zone on Manor Rd. because that wasn't originally what they were 251 00:11:11,560 --> 00:11:12,800 going to do, was it? It was going to be. 252 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:14,320 From the other side of the field on the plan. 253 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,080 Was it? I thought there was one from 254 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,560 Nia's Stuart B side. It's gonna be the main access 255 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:20,840 point. Yeah, Broadmead Rd. 256 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:22,720 One on either side, one where it isn't. 257 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:25,480 You've took take Alicia's waiting patiently for me to tell 258 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:28,600 her the story about the panels. And you're trying to join the 259 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:31,920 Randy on Broadmead Road? Yes, the the entrance they've 260 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:35,040 got now, but and also one up near Broadmead far and on the 261 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,320 other side of the railway line until they get the bridge over 262 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:39,200 and then they'll scrap the Broadmead. 263 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,240 It'll become a secondary. Clearly. 264 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,120 You don't look at my Facebook page, do you? 265 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:44,280 He's not been watching the videos. 266 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:46,720 Last week I put a whole load of maps up. 267 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,360 Yeah, showing all the road layouts. 268 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:51,960 There's 4 stages of access for construction. 269 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,640 Yeah, I think I put them up last week and you can, you can kind 270 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,480 of guesstimate at what point they're going to be at based on 271 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,600 where the roads are going to be. So you need to go and look at my 272 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:02,680 Facebook page. Will do. 273 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,440 Go and sign up now, everybody. Yeah, now I'm talking to you my. 274 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:10,800 Right. Right. 275 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,120 So back to, yeah, they've knocked through now next to the 276 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:19,160 concrete plant Cemex, and they have had loads of these huge 277 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:24,000 square panels delivered temporary roads and they started 278 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,080 putting them down and it started about what we are now, firstly 279 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,320 probably started to begin. It's probably started on SDO. 280 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:30,960 Day. Yeah, yeah. 281 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:33,080 No, I don't think it was SDO then. 282 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,240 Maybe the day. After, day after or so wasn't 283 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,400 it? Articulated lorries started 284 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,480 turning up full of these things and they were off loading them 285 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,560 and funnily enough, I was driving down Manor Rd. early on 286 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:46,480 today and another Arctic went past me full of these things. 287 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,480 Really they're not slowing down at all, but they're making some 288 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,120 kind of compound is very muddy that field, but they they're 289 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:53,960 making a compound on the field putting down. 290 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,240 A floor. Yeah, putting down a solid. 291 00:12:57,440 --> 00:12:59,840 So smart they waited till the 2nd day because the first day it 292 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:03,560 was filled with all the vloggers who wanted to report the start 293 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:07,600 of construction, ironically impeding the start of 294 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,920 construction. It's what we do best, yeah. 295 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,560 Yeah, I can't remember. Did I go down on SDO day? 296 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,000 I think? I think you, I think you might 297 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:18,320 have. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you might have 298 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:20,720 done. But no, I mean, we've been 299 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,480 eagerly awaiting the the, the groundbreaking photo, you know, 300 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,440 with the world's largest. Yes, we're going to go spade 301 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:28,960 ourselves, aren't we? But I think we're going to have 302 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,520 to do it because, you know, we can't leave it to the we keep 303 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,480 saying it, we said in the last one, and we haven't bloody done 304 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:34,400 it yet. We still haven't done it. 305 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,520 Too cold or too wet. Yeah, it's a trek. 306 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:40,320 It is a Trek. To the field now is is a good 20 307 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,120 minute walk isn't. It it is. 308 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:45,160 You got to walk across the. It's not so easy to get there in 309 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:46,400 really you got to walk across the. 310 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:49,560 Footpath still public. It's still public, but it's but 311 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:53,240 I'm just lazy. I prefer curious. 312 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:55,240 I prefer to it's. Not an allegation. 313 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:00,680 I prefer to to park where I'm going to create if you like. 314 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:05,320 Yeah. So, yeah, so loads, loads stuff 315 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,800 going on. And I think I mean, because you 316 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:16,080 know, Alicia, were you expecting when you saw that, you know, the 317 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:19,000 12th of January was the day that it would become law, would you 318 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,800 expecting things to immediately begin? 319 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,080 Or do you think, did you think there'll be a kind of a moment 320 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,520 where it would just be a bit? Well, I'm of three mindsets. 321 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:33,800 Number one, I'm not certain when the period that people can 322 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:39,200 contest this starts, whether it was when the SDO announcement. 323 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,040 Happened or when it kicks off. Exact same for. 324 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:46,560 So I'm not sure when the what is it 4 weeks or six weeks? 325 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:48,320 I'm not sure when that actually begins. 326 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:52,840 So I'm like, well, it's at at least two weeks after the 12th 327 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:55,840 would be the shortest that period could be or it's going to 328 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:58,880 be 4 weeks after the 12th. But also I'm of the mind that 329 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:05,080 like the whole first year of work is just land grading and 330 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:06,920 building ditches to put pipes in. 331 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:11,520 So even when the work does start, it's not that exciting. 332 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:13,720 Yeah, Thank you. No, it's. 333 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:15,480 True. Like we've kind of already seen 334 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:18,520 a little bit of it, like with this little like work area that 335 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:20,880 they've set up, this little compound that they set up. 336 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,600 Like that was more exciting to me because that's the start, 337 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,600 start, start of something, yes. Like they got, they got vehicles 338 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,200 parked there, they got a security hub. 339 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,320 That was exciting. Now it is exciting that the core 340 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,600 zone's being touched because it's been untouched up to this 341 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,400 point, right? Yeah, well, they're spreading 342 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:37,200 out now, aren't? They I'm already excited. 343 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,040 I don't the next steps are literally just going to be the 344 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:42,600 factor is moving left and right, left and right for about a year. 345 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:46,960 Yeah, yeah, I know. I can't wait for the, you know, 346 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:48,920 just to be hypnotized by everyday. 347 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,080 I've just been watching Andy's videos, just being kind of. 348 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:54,520 If you go back again to the posts that I made last week 349 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,920 regarding the maps, you'll see that this entrance they're 350 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,760 putting in now is, is at the moment it's going to be primary 351 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:03,360 entrance to the call zone. But that won't be the primary 352 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,000 entrance forever because they're going to put a whole Rd. in bang 353 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,760 opposite the current entrance. So they'll chop the trees down 354 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:11,920 and they'll go straight in there. 355 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:14,040 So you can come off of the concrete slab. 356 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:16,680 Yeah, straight across Manor Rd. They'll probably put some 357 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:19,520 temporary lights or something there and straight onto the call 358 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:23,440 zone, and then they'll make that a secondary entrance. 359 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,280 Isn't there like a stream or a brook that runs alongside 360 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:27,760 because it's a very narrow entrance? 361 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,440 Yeah, but even what where they're working at the moment? 362 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,080 Where the the new little entrance is. 363 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:39,160 The stream there kind of goes, you, you walked across it, you 364 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,320 went across the little wooden bridge in one of your videos 365 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,920 recently. That's the stream and it goes up 366 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,200 to Manor Road and then it goes under Manor Rd. 367 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:50,360 OK. Where is the the little 368 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:52,640 backstage area that they got with the parking lot and 369 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:54,920 security and stuff? Where is that in the zones? 370 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,600 So the kind of the bit that's all paved over. 371 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:01,240 But the bit they're doing now? Yeah. 372 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,920 So that that's kind of so the the bit where we've got like the 373 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:09,280 security, the cabin popping up and all of that, that's just in 374 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,200 the lake zone. Is it the? 375 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:12,960 Base of the lake zone. Yeah. 376 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,319 So it's it's it's the bit of the lake zone, which is. 377 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:18,240 Are we talking about all the copies, the big compound? 378 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,160 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that where the. 379 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,920 Staging stuff is. And yeah, that's the lake zone, 380 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:25,640 but close to Manor Rd., close to the central, that little Rd. 381 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:26,160 that runs through. Them. 382 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,000 Is that like where the utility stuff's going to? 383 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:30,680 Go. I think all the big stuff will 384 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,320 go it. Is yeah, so yeah, when I can't 385 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:39,680 remember which of the many, many documents there were, but it it 386 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:44,400 did delegate that particular part of the lake zone for 387 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,520 utility generation and. Which makes sense then why it 388 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,000 because I'm like sitting here, like lake zone's mostly going to 389 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,040 be on touch through this like next four years of construction 390 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,240 because they don't they have the animal habitats like in the lake 391 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:01,760 of the zone. But it makes sense if that area 392 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:05,040 will eventually be like power plant and stuff. 393 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:07,880 If it's that that, then it's OK because they're they already 394 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:10,440 have that earmarked for construction anyway. 395 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,400 So I do wonder if they'll move to the like back of the core 396 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,040 zone where backstage will eventually be and that becomes a 397 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,880 new construction hub. And then this area gets like 398 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:24,600 redone and land graded next for utility stuff. 399 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:26,600 Yeah. I mean, what we've seen they've 400 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:30,000 been, they've been kind of chipping up the concrete and 401 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,000 chipping away at that that whole pack because it's, it's an 402 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,200 enormous spread of laid concrete. 403 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,960 And I think all of our assumptions were that would just 404 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,960 become, you know, that would that was the perfect staging 405 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,240 site. But we all assumed it would. 406 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,720 Yeah, it's massive. There used to be 6 or something 407 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,280 6 or 8 chimneys there. Yeah, and that, but they they've 408 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,160 just been slowly chipping away at it. 409 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,640 Are they saving the bricks? Are you seeing them cart off the 410 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,360 bricks into like these little stacks on a truck? 411 00:19:01,520 --> 00:19:03,280 I know them off into the crusher. 412 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:06,840 They need to. They need to at least save 2 at. 413 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,480 Least at least do you know what actually, I've I so when when 414 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:17,680 all of this started going going down, I realised that behind my 415 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,200 garage I've got a pile of bricks. 416 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:24,080 And in this, this is a bit of an admission of of kind of, you 417 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,880 know, a bit of what a sad person I am. 418 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:33,040 But I went through that pile of bricks, looking at the markings 419 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,720 on those bricks to see if I had a universal brick. 420 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:39,560 And I have what? Do they say Kempston Hardwick on 421 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:43,200 them? No, they say BBCI, think Bedford 422 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,640 Brick Company. Yeah, if you've got a Redlands 423 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:47,200 one that's even. Oh, really? 424 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:48,440 That's a collector's item, is it? 425 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:49,600 I think. I think it's Redlands. 426 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,560 I don't have a Redlands one. I've I've got, I mean, they're, 427 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,360 they're all Bedford bricks. I've got some Marston Vale 428 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:59,960 bricks. This is such a super interesting 429 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:02,280 and exciting conversation. I'm I'm so glad I took. 430 00:20:02,280 --> 00:20:04,960 Because when Universal realises they forgot to save some right, 431 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:08,480 they know where to go. I don't think they'll ever, I 432 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,720 mean when they knock the chimneys down, they push most of 433 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,400 bubble into the lake, so they're never ever going to be. 434 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:14,760 Just be there with a fishing rod. 435 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:16,440 Yeah, they did. Threaten to use some though, 436 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:17,320 didn't they? They were going to. 437 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:20,120 Well, they used a lot to shore up something somewhere. 438 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:22,200 I don't aware how they're going to get around that. 439 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,960 Saying that, we did use it to fix some land slippage. 440 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:29,080 Now, Gee, I I would have built like like the fountain when you 441 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,120 first walk in the University of Hollywood with like the director 442 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:35,440 guy, like just build the this fountain and embed it into the 443 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:36,840 base. And then you can have a little 444 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:40,880 plaque that says these bricks are from the former Brickworks 445 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,360 side on this very low like that, and you're done. 446 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:46,280 That's it. Just save like one row of bricks 447 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:47,240 at the base of a fountain. It's. 448 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:50,280 Not that hard, yeah. Some salvageable from somewhere 449 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,000 still. If not, I know a guy who's got 450 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:54,760 some bricks. I know a garage. 451 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,920 They don't have to be load bearing on the fountain, just 452 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,840 embed them to the base like sticking out of the mortar so it 453 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:03,280 looks like they're part of it. It's all good. 454 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,080 Yeah, I mean, and the the these fountains, they could be, they 455 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,280 could be fashioned like industrial chimneys. 456 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:12,200 Oh no, that's too. Smart you set him off now. 457 00:21:13,120 --> 00:21:14,200 You've set him off. You're putting too much. 458 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:15,240 You're putting too much. Stuff. 459 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:16,400 No, I am. I am I'm. 460 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,480 Sorry, we're going to copy and paste the one from Hollywood. 461 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,800 Now. Oh, right, OK, so construction 462 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,160 update I. Think we're, Yeah. 463 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,040 I mean, we've covered this very, very busy. 464 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:29,600 I'm going to have another look tomorrow. 465 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,480 We'll keep you posted and updated here. 466 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:34,280 I'm breaking it. And of course, on all of our 467 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:36,120 YouTube channels. Indeed. 468 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:40,480 So Alicia, I think Mike, Mike's got a a few little bits and 469 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:41,840 pieces. We have a Bank of. 470 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:43,480 Questions. We do, we got a real bank. 471 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,440 So, so are you sitting comfortably? 472 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:46,600 It's going to be I am comfortable. 473 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,960 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you know before we kick off 474 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:51,560 just a little kind of segue into it. 475 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:55,240 The thing that I'm I was, I was chatting to my wife earlier. 476 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,960 And the thing that I I'm so excited about talking to you 477 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:03,840 about is that we are just starting a journey that you 478 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,920 began six or seven years ago with Epic. 479 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,960 So I just wanted to kind of, gosh, yeah. 480 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,840 And. How long ago was that? 481 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:18,000 Yeah, I mean, that's what is that 18/22, 1:29. 482 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,760 Eight years. I think 8 years, Was that your 483 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,480 first? Toe dipping into this type of 484 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,520 project. Well like when they build Skull 485 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,120 Island Reign of Kong. RIP to the 3D. 486 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,560 That was my first foray into like covering any construction 487 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,000 at theme parks. I called it construction and. 488 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,600 I. Was there like the week that 489 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,440 they first started clearing the land and I just happened to be 490 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,240 there when I had my camera And I'm like, this is like before 491 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:50,600 cell phones had good cameras. It was even that long ago. 492 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:53,000 And I took pictures with my camera and I like, I have a 493 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,680 blog. I have like usually post little 494 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,640 movie reviews. I'm going to post some like a 495 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,800 construction update on this thing that's like still 2 years 496 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,960 away from being announced and three years from opening or 497 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,080 whatever. And I followed it like near 498 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:07,600 weekly for the construction and my little blog. 499 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,800 And then like subsequently YouTube posts that I didn't talk 500 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,800 in the YouTube videos. I just showed the construction 501 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,200 in different clips, started to take off a little bit and I was 502 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,560 like, oh, this is fun. And like I'm getting ad revenue 503 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,880 from my blog. I made one month. 504 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,600 I made $50 off of Google, which is actually more than I make now 505 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,800 because the world has changed ad blocker. 506 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:32,400 So I started my own website and like, but then very shortly 507 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,800 after, because I was 2017, I started the website 508 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:40,600 orlandoparkstop.com. A year later, there's rumors and 509 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,560 the Universal bought land that they used to owned back from 510 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:48,280 like like the Lockheed Martin land and they and I was like, Oh 511 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,200 no, they're going to build a new theme park. 512 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:53,400 So I just like was searching permits, which I'd gotten better 513 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,240 at by the time and like constantly looking into the 514 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,840 water drainage stuff. And then one day it popped up. 515 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:03,280 There's like a giant plan for a hub and spoke type land with a 516 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,960 giant parking lot. And I'm like, they're building a 517 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:07,640 theme park. That's amazing. 518 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:12,560 I I literally covered it from the like to the point where it 519 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,120 was so far in advance no one even believed me. 520 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:19,080 And I'm like, why else would Universal buy, you know, 750 521 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,160 acres of land if they're not going to build a theme park? 522 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,600 Honestly, people. And then they would be like, 523 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,960 yeah, but it's miles away from the main site. 524 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,720 How would people get there from the thing? 525 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,320 And I'd be like, listen, there's this, there's this 10,000 car 526 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,480 parking lot in these plans. Do you not see it? 527 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:40,160 So it's kind of nice with this project that Universal confirmed 528 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,400 that they're looking into building a theme park the next 529 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,720 day. So we didn't have to do the 530 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,960 whole like YouTube comment argument with. 531 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,520 People like no. Seriously. 532 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,640 Instead though, with your case, we have to do the argument that 533 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,720 like it is happening because everyone has like the London 534 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,040 resort. PSTB plenty of there oh. 535 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,440 Yeah, well, look, do you know what, as you were talking there, 536 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,240 I, I was having that exact thought because I, I was 537 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,640 listening to your your podcast the other week and I know you 538 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,520 were mentioning that what you every time you do a video on 539 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,760 this project, the comments are full of never going to happen, 540 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,040 right? Right. 541 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:16,400 I'm like, literally, it's happening. 542 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,120 What more do you need? I mean, you know, if if you 543 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:22,200 didn't know anything about the British mindset before that 544 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:26,200 moment and now you do, because, you know, even when it's built, 545 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,640 it won't have happened. Yeah, we won't believe it until 546 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,000 we're stood in there, and even then it's going. 547 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,200 To be even then it's going to be, you know, something's going 548 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,960 to go wrong, it'll be ripped away from us. 549 00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:41,440 I've got a couple of ladies on my Facebook page and they're 550 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,200 both in the same mindset. And one of them is it's going to 551 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,240 fail within a few years. They'll knock it down and build 552 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,080 houses. And the other one, still, it's 553 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:50,400 never going to happen. Yeah. 554 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:51,960 And I kind of just leave them to it. 555 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:53,920 Right. I see some comments like that 556 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,600 too on Facebook. They're like, when do I get my 557 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,720 chance to speak up? And I was like, you had a whole 558 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,160 year. Yeah, go to the meetings or they 559 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,080 took in thousands of complaint, like requests. 560 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,840 It all happened. This is already. 561 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,440 We're past that part. Your part, your point to 562 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,560 complain is already over. It's over. 563 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:15,720 Exactly. It's that mindset, unfortunately 564 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,800 I think that got people into not speaking up when they had the 565 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:20,640 opportunity. They just assumed it wasn't 566 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,360 going to happen and just and now it is. 567 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:26,200 I think so. I mean, I don't think, I don't 568 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:30,480 think the British people are shy when it comes to having a moan. 569 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,640 No, they're not, but there are certain people on Manor Rd. 570 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,240 Who they weren't at any of those consultations. 571 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,160 Oh, they weren't at the consultations, but they would 572 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:40,480 have. But they've, they've been all 573 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,840 over the BBC, they've been all over council meetings. 574 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:44,840 They have, but they weren't. Then when they had the 575 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,200 opportunity, yeah. True, true. 576 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,240 Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, I suppose there 577 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,040 are odd ones the world over, Yeah. 578 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,440 Well, like back in when, when did the the, the giant documents 579 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:57,240 come out? July. 580 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,400 And there was 2000 pages of everyone's writing answers, 581 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:03,960 which they probably had no idea it was going to be public. 582 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,080 So that was so much fun. Yeah, that's funny. 583 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,600 Oh. The the whole thing has been, 584 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:13,760 it's just been, yeah, it's, it's been dynamite Entertainment. 585 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:14,880 Yeah, it has. We're not. 586 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,200 We're. Still at the start, so. 587 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,120 The journey's not even begun my. Oh yeah, I forgot the question. 588 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:20,560 The question. Oh yeah, sorry, what was it? 589 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,360 But the answer is like, yeah, I did just go through this, but 590 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:27,360 like, I was sad that it was bittersweet that it ended. 591 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:31,320 Like, so to have another theme park like lined up and ready to 592 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,800 start all over again is exciting because I'm now addicted to it 593 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,760 and there needs to always be one under construction or I won't be 594 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,640 able to live it's. It's your oxygen. 595 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,560 Is that what pushes your sort of buttons then is it, is it the 596 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,320 sort of uncovering news? Is it the watching construction 597 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:52,080 or is it going to the park or is it like a combination of 598 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:52,600 everything? Well. 599 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:56,480 I've always loved how theme parks evolve and grow and 600 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:01,800 change, whereas most people are like completely upset when their 601 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,680 childhood is ruined because they like retheme a ride. 602 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,040 I walk in and go, it's so cool how they changed this. 603 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,360 Like it's so neat to see how this became that and this became 604 00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:13,040 that. And that's always been like an 605 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,640 obsession with mine that like learning the little factoids in 606 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,360 history of everything single like attraction in Orlando. 607 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,960 But then as I got older, they started building new things. 608 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,880 So now it's exciting to see it from the ground up so that when 609 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,240 like a ride gets rethemed at Epic Universe, I'll know the 610 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,680 full history since the dawn of Epic Universe. 611 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,200 Like even during the construction of Epic Universe, 612 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,760 there was like a, a, a werewolf themed like theater show that 613 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,080 got redone into a werewolf roller coaster. 614 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,280 And it's like I now have in my brain the little back story 615 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,960 behind that and no one even knew it happened. 616 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,680 And then one day they'll tear down that roller coaster and 617 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:54,320 build a good attraction like. It's so funny how. 618 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:59,240 I, I, I just, I like when your favorite rides get demolished 619 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,360 and replaced with something mediocre, because to me it's the 620 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,400 thrill of the chase. I love that. 621 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:10,640 And, and, and there is something that's, yeah, when something is 622 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,480 gone, it's, it's, it's limited. It's almost more special then, 623 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,160 isn't it? It's it's kind of you can, you 624 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,920 can put it in that special place in your heart where it's like, 625 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:23,480 yeah, yeah, I did that and and now it's replaced by The 626 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,280 Simpsons. Yeah, yeah, that. 627 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,560 Was always my favorite ride. Like earthquake. 628 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,880 Is now Fast and the Furious. Oh yeah, for the for the time 629 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,320 being, as as rumors would have it, if you watch Alicia's 630 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,720 videos. Well, indeed, indeed. 631 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,000 And and and and do you know what It's it's fascinating. 632 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,840 So I'm, I'm heading over your way later this year, Alicia, and 633 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,040 I'm just tomorrow. I'm I'm, I'm paying the rest of 634 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,240 it off, which is, is going to be I'm actually having to psych 635 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,560 myself up for that, you know, because it's, it's, it's 636 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:59,760 disgusting. But but so I'm, I'm heading your 637 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:04,080 way in May and I'm, I'm, I'm like, I'm fascinated because 638 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,960 part of me is kind of a bit sad about RIP ride rocket not being 639 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,280 there, you know, in a kind of like a little bit of a kind of 640 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,160 masochistic way. You're the one who's going to 641 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,080 miss that ride. Yeah, I'm, I'm the one, I'm the 642 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,480 one, the one, but no. But at the same time, I'm like, 643 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,800 wow, how much am I going to be able to see of what comes? 644 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,840 Yeah, it's not like a new track that's like 6 months from now. 645 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,520 I know, I mean, because I was saying that they, you know, 646 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,920 they've already got the, you know, the frame up for the 647 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:33,440 service building for the new ride. 648 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,960 It went past. It's, it's, honestly, it's, it's 649 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:41,600 such a fast moving landscape, it's, there's always something 650 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,440 to pick up on. When, when will this podcast go 651 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,400 out like that? We're recording right now. 652 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,920 Well. I wrote all this down in the 653 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:50,800 Yeah, you see your next week, dear. 654 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,360 Dear listener, you will be listening to this on 21st the 655 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,640 20. First, today is the 21st, yes. 656 00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,680 Today is the 21st of January. Of course it. 657 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:04,280 Is we are shit at doing this pre recording stuff aren't we? 658 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,640 The fear I have when I record a podcast or even do a video is 659 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,080 that it will be outdated by the time I put it out. 660 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,320 So I just put in like little recordings in the podcast. 661 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:17,080 They're like actually, yes. So just know that by the time 662 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,240 this comes out, like, like there could be tracks showing up for 663 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,480 this roller coaster and an announcement for all we know. 664 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,840 Like it's about that time they've got the footers there. 665 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,400 You know, every time bio reconstruct goes up in a 666 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:31,000 helicopter, I'm like, come on track, come on track. 667 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,480 It's been a lot. Because as soon as that shows 668 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,440 up, they're going to have to say something because, well, maybe 669 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:37,440 they don't. Velocicoaster. 670 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,000 It was a churro stand for two years though. 671 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,520 That's true. I mean, what's your spider sense 672 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,520 telling you about that particular ride? 673 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,720 Well, this one's just like, right, like right at the front 674 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,160 of the park and right on Citywalk. 675 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,080 I think it's a good opportunity to put a giant sign out front 676 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,720 that says like, you know, opening next year, this, this 677 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,440 and this. Like this is the type of thing 678 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,640 you need to promote early. Yes, yeah, absolutely. 679 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:03,120 I mean, and because you know that that park at the moment, 680 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,760 you could say it it, it could be looking a little bit light. 681 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:08,440 It needs some love. It needs a bit of love. 682 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,120 It needs a bit of love. It's got DreamWorks land, what 683 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:12,640 more do you need? Well, that's true. 684 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,440 I stand corrected. Woody Woodpecker Closer. 685 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,280 What more do you want? I, I was in Orlando in September 686 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,560 and I for two weeks at Universal, I did not step in to 687 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,640 DreamWorks land once. Did you know, I didn't even 688 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,800 cross my mind to go in there apart from to walk past it to go 689 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:29,640 to ET. Yeah, at least. 690 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,480 ET got a nice sign out of it. That's true. 691 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,040 Hey, every cloud have. You have you met by a 692 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:42,720 reconstruct? Yeah, he he, he transcends all 693 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:49,080 that is alive and is, I believe he's a beam of light like he 694 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,920 doesn't. He exists in all time and and 695 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,880 all space. I I figured he was just a. 696 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,720 Helicopter. So we've all met him. 697 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,880 Yeah, he lives in all of us. We we are all bio reconstructs. 698 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,800 I love that. I was, I was thinking that I 699 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,640 could take on the British bio reconstruct kind of thing at the 700 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:06,840 beginning and then and then I've. 701 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:08,760 And now here I am talking if you got yourself. 702 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,240 I have a cop. Everyone knows my name. 703 00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,440 Yeah, well, I haven't got a helicopter. 704 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,800 I'm a friend of a plane. Have you? 705 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:18,800 And I would soon pull a few favours if we won't get a drone 706 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,000 ban. But if that ever did come about, 707 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:23,880 then you could you would see me circling. 708 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:25,320 Yeah. And you would be up there in 709 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,360 assessor? So you want flight radar just. 710 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,440 Put. The camera on slow motion. 711 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:31,840 I'm sure you'll get some steel frames out. 712 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:35,960 Of it, yeah, yeah. So Alicia, at what point do you 713 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:40,480 think a project goes from just being fun speculation to 714 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,560 actually feeling real? Like when did you look at your 715 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,880 epic universe construction and think, God, there's a theme park 716 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,280 emerging here? It was definitely those water 717 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,760 drainage plans, which like we've gotten essentially the 718 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,480 equivalent already for this project because there were some 719 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,960 water drainage, the the best plans in that giant clump of 720 00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:03,160 thousands of pages. There's 2 pages that showed like 721 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,480 the Ring Rd. around where the theme park will go in the core 722 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,440 zone. That was my favorite page. 723 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,280 It's a it's a water drainage plan and they accidentally left 724 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,760 in too much. When I saw that for Epic 725 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,040 Universe, I was because it showed the parking lot like it 726 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:20,880 showed zooming in, it showed the little like accessibility 727 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:25,920 disabled parking icons on the disabled parking spots like I 728 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,199 could count and a friend of mine actually did count how many 729 00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:31,719 spots were in the graphic. That's how accurate it was. 730 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,400 The only thing that changed since that first graphic went 731 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,000 out, by the way, in the permit was they added an Uber lot 732 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,880 because the world had changed. So the only difference was they 733 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,719 added the little Uber lot in the corner. 734 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:48,920 But but seeing that I was like, now it's real. 735 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,840 Like it's one thing to buy the land. 736 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,760 They were doing all they had a long lawsuit. 737 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,480 The irony. And it's a good story. 738 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,000 I'll put it in a documentary someday. 739 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,840 But there's a good story where Universal bought this land back 740 00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:01,720 that they used to own. They were going to build a theme 741 00:35:01,720 --> 00:35:04,720 park on it and they didn't have permission because they 742 00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:08,880 themselves put a disclaimer on the land that said no one could 743 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,440 ever build a theme park here when they sold it off. 744 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,080 In 2001? No way. 745 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,200 So that's a fine. Bought it back from the guy they 746 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,360 sold it to and it still had that law on it so they had to go to 747 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,160 court for themselves. Yes. 748 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,640 Amazing. So for like. 749 00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,320 Six months they were locked out of building their own theme 750 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,800 park. Arguing against themselves. 751 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,000 Yes. Incredible. 752 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,560 Yeah, it's essentially they were. 753 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:38,280 Yeah, they were, They were. They were fighting the person 754 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,840 they bought the land from in name only, who would be like, 755 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,040 yeah, you can build whatever you want. 756 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,800 This is your rule. I don't know why you're getting 757 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,560 mad before the judges, like, and do you? 758 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,600 Are you OK with this? And then, and then he looks to 759 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,640 the other side of the room. And it's also universal and 760 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:55,240 like, and you're OK with us? Yes, it's. 761 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,480 I mean, this almost needs to be a movie to be completely honest. 762 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,600 Well, it's going to be a documentary coming later this 763 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,520 year on Theme Park Stop on YouTube. 764 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:06,560 You need, honestly, you need to throw everything at it. 765 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,480 It's going. To get a reenactment. 766 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,640 I'm not joking. You need to like Hallmark movie 767 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,320 this. It needs to be it, it it I, I 768 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,360 want to, you know, I want to see actors. 769 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,680 I think honestly it that is I'm. Going to rent out a courtroom, 770 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,120 get everyone all set up. It's like for a 10 minute court 771 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,160 case. Hey. 772 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:32,320 Anyway, sorry, sorry, we're already, we're already, we're 773 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,760 already six months past that for this project. 774 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,880 Yes, we're at the. So we're past the the point of 775 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,760 no return in my mind. Well, look, you, you kind of 776 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,280 mentioned there about the stuff that's exciting. 777 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:46,040 Is there a one particular thing about this park that's exciting 778 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,000 you? But when, when it opens, like if 779 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,120 you're like, you know, you're turning up, you've landed in our 780 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:57,880 beautiful rainy country. You've, you've, you've arrived 781 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,040 and you know, and it's, it's your very own slice of America 782 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,240 bang in the middle of the British countryside. 783 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:08,960 But where are you going first? Well, the entrance I. 784 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,200 Well, you. Know I had some epic universe 785 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,360 and the universal would put like on their Twitter. 786 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,280 They'd be like what world are you going to 1st? 787 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,720 I was like Celestial Park, like that's not the gateway is you 788 00:37:19,720 --> 00:37:23,080 have to go for. Usually it's the bathroom 789 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,440 wherever the bathroom is. It's been a long drive. 790 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,680 Yeah, it's a long drive. I I am excited right now in this 791 00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:34,520 part because this is the part where everything you think you 792 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,560 know is changing behind the scenes. 793 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,880 All the rumors that were true two years ago, all the rumors 794 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,680 that were true a year ago may not be true next year. 795 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,200 And they have very small amount of like a small window of time 796 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:50,160 right now to change their mind, get scared about certain IPS, 797 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,200 rewrite things, give up on budgets and just clone a bunch 798 00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,520 of stuff from your like Orlando. Like this is the time when 799 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,120 everything can change and we technically know nothing because 800 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,680 neither does Universal like they have at this point for Epic 801 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:10,040 Universe, they had two giant indoor ride buildings that the 802 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,560 buildings themselves were already designed and 803 00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,720 blueprinted. So they started building them 804 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,040 and didn't didn't know what rides would go inside them. 805 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,520 Like that's where we are now where it's easier to just build 806 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,320 the shell for Jurassic World Adventure and then come up with 807 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,560 a new ride later. And we don't know because they 808 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,280 don't know what that ride will be. 809 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,920 So what am I most excited for? I don't know. 810 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:37,480 It hasn't been invented yet. That is honestly a fantastic 811 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,120 answer. I didn't, I didn't see that 812 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,440 answer coming, but it's a better answer than I than I could have 813 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,680 anticipated. I mean, you know, the thing that 814 00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:50,560 that's obviously kind of talk of the town round here at least is 815 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,880 this kind of potentially Back to the Future. 816 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,520 Yes. IP, well, I don't know. 817 00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,560 I followed the Sun's reporting very. 818 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,320 Closely. We don't do the sun. 819 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,200 Yeah, yeah. So tell. 820 00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:06,240 Tell us what? They're very reliable. 821 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,200 They're very reliable. I hear with you. 822 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,880 It's so funny because I make all these facetious jokes and then 823 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,920 they're going to end up being right and I'm going to be like, 824 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:20,480 damn it, the one time the sun is right the one time. 825 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:24,840 But if if Potter is on the table, then you know that Shrek 826 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,760 slash the Lord of the Rings thing in the corner might be off 827 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,480 the table. Yeah, yeah. 828 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,640 I, I feel like they couldn't really. 829 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,080 I mean I I might be very wrong, but it would it would seem a bit 830 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:42,200 confusing to have two wizardy IPS wizardy fantasy IPS in the 831 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,800 same park that would just kind of feel a bit like which one am 832 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,160 I? In unless you change all the 833 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,280 other ones, get rid of Back to the Future and make all of them. 834 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,760 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we can't. 835 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,240 Let's throw wicked in there as. Well, yeah, we got Wicked, we 836 00:39:54,240 --> 00:40:00,120 got Shrek, we got. Absolutely, Wand. 837 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,160 But a different interactive wand for each one it's slightly 838 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,760 different can. You imagine an interactive staff 839 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,520 from Gandalf kids carrying around a six foot stick. 840 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,120 Yeah, a whacking stick. What could go? 841 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:15,680 Wrong Jurassic Park, though. It's just John Hammond's cane 842 00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:19,280 with a mosquito. Yes, yes. 843 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,840 Get us on the creative team. Absolutely. 844 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:25,560 We're selling whacking sticks for for £79. 845 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:30,120 As far as back to the. Future I It's hard for me to get 846 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:35,160 super excited about a outdoor roller coaster despite even if 847 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,040 it does go 88 mph. Like the gimmick of that is so 848 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:41,000 good that it's enough to build an entire theme park around, but 849 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,240 it's not necessarily what I would be most excited for. 850 00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,280 I would be most excited for literally any dark ride that is 851 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:47,920 new to this park. Yeah. 852 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,360 Yeah, and if rumours are to be believed, it's hopefully 853 00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:56,160 completely unique from Orlando at the very least. 854 00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:58,440 I mean, there's rumours of Jurassic World Adventure and 855 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:00,880 Secret Life of Pets, but things like that. 856 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,480 But. I think they've got to do 857 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:03,680 something. Jurassic World. 858 00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:06,800 Yeah, because going back to what I said about finding the 859 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,320 dinosaur, it sure be. And it's on Oxford clay, which 860 00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,720 is Jurassic. Well, it it it's. 861 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,400 It's it's made to measure. But yeah, by the time this park 862 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,120 opens, Jurassic World will be, what, 16 years old? 863 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:21,160 I could. Just make a new one. 864 00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:23,560 Well, there's the new one. Well, I've already made three 865 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:24,840 new ones. 5 days. Because I'm hitting. 866 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:26,920 Yeah, yeah. They're trying to. 867 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,120 They've got new. Ones since this park rumours. 868 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,920 Like that's true. And no one even remembers that 869 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:33,560 it was like 6 months ago in theaters. 870 00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,120 I know, I know. It's as we were. 871 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,960 My wife was listening to one of her episodes and and she she 872 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:42,560 overheard Mike saying the Oh no, the last one wasn't that bad. 873 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,240 And she said, oh, I tried watching that, you know, 18 874 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:47,920 months ago. It was awful. 875 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,640 And I said no, no, no, no, no. There's been a new one since. 876 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:55,600 Exactly. It was fine, Yeah, while you're 877 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,440 watching it. And then it completely deletes 878 00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,880 itself from your mind and you don't care anymore after it's 879 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:00,720 over. I see. 880 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:02,960 At least it's not taking up any space up there, I suppose. 881 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,920 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Jurassic Parkland if you 882 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:10,240 got it Back to the future, land in a Jurassic Parkland with AP 883 00:42:10,240 --> 00:42:11,160 with a new ride. Yeah. 884 00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,000 Oh, sign me up then. Now I'm starting, I'm starting 885 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,760 to see the the vision here. Yeah, what about the the Back to 886 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,040 the Future ride that passes through the Jurassic Parkland? 887 00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:22,880 Oh, it's taking you well, back a little bit. 888 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:24,560 And then they're making a new movie on that. 889 00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:27,680 Yeah, don't ever do that. They never, ever. 890 00:42:27,720 --> 00:42:28,760 No. No, it's not. 891 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,120 Making Never Back to the Future No Brilliant. 892 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,800 OK, what about some of the potentially unique British 893 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,360 themes then? Because obviously there's 894 00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,480 rumours of Bond and Andy's favorite Paddington. 895 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,360 What's wrong with Paddington? You get that like Robot 896 00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,440 Paddington from the stage show in there as a meet and greet. 897 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:49,960 Yeah, exactly. I mean, there's nothing bringing 898 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:51,200 the. Talking Paddington. 899 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,440 I don't know, maybe it's because I'm an adult. 900 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,480 Those movies are whimsical enough to make children out of 901 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,160 adults. So much whimsy, yeah. 902 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,600 I think it's the best hope for a dark ride so I'm I'm fine with 903 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,760 it. Dark Ride, I could make that. 904 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,680 What's that? What is that Pooh Bear movie 905 00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,440 they made like last year or I? Mean did you know before but. 906 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,160 You and the Gregor one. No, no, no. 907 00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:18,680 Like a Pooh bear. Like a Pooh bear, man. 908 00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,680 Oh. Yeah, Oh, wait, Because the sort 909 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,920 of Five Nights at Freddy's *. Yeah, Pooh Bear, maybe they 910 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:26,240 different do that as a. Situation. 911 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,760 Sure, Sorry, I just come up with that yeah, yeah, that's my great 912 00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,200 idea great. I'm sure that I'm sure 913 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:33,880 everyone's listening, writing it down. 914 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,360 I think it's yeah, I. Think it's pretty funny that the 915 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:42,560 BBC keeps reporting the The Lord of the Rings Paddington Bond 916 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:46,440 rumor because they probably were told that by their source like 917 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,200 over a year ago. And like I said, everything 918 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,720 could have changed by now. So they keep reporting it as if 919 00:43:52,720 --> 00:43:55,720 it's a new information, but unless they got that source on 920 00:43:55,720 --> 00:43:58,960 the phone and unless that source is still plugged in, that they 921 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:00,800 might have no clue what's going on now. 922 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,320 And then every time they repeat it, it actually could hurt 923 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,040 universal because they no longer have the rights to those things. 924 00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:06,680 Right. Yeah. 925 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:07,880 Yeah, yeah. I mean because they. 926 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:11,640 Maybe did a year ago. And then the Harry Potter thing 927 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:15,920 in the sun is right and. The the guy who reported on that 928 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,520 was, is just a local reporter, Danny. 929 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:24,240 Yeah, he's he's not like a mainstream BBC reporter. 930 00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:26,200 I mean, I don't know where he's got his information from. 931 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:27,640 Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's kind of mainstream, 932 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,480 but he's he's, he's kind of works on the local rap. 933 00:44:32,240 --> 00:44:35,240 It's a it's a great rumor and I reported it in like my first 934 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:39,360 videos, but even I backed away from it because it the like 935 00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,720 things have gone a little radio silent on rumors. 936 00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:44,000 And I do wonder if a lot of this stuff is up in the air. 937 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:46,280 So I'm just going by what I see in the concept art. 938 00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:48,680 I do see a marmalade jar in the concept art. 939 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,080 So like Paddington seems like a shoo in, but there is absolutely 940 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:55,160 no evidence of Lord of the rings or bond in anywhere in that 941 00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,240 concept art. So I'm hesitant to continue to 942 00:44:57,240 --> 00:44:59,200 say it. Yeah, is it not a jar of honey 943 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:02,000 it? Oh no, it's the marmalade with 944 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,800 like the the. Winnie the Pooh's destiny. 945 00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:05,680 Anyway, man. Oh, is it? 946 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,160 Yeah, of course it is. Well, it doesn't matter because 947 00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:09,800 it's gone. The copyright is open. 948 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:10,880 That's true. That's true. 949 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:12,160 So they could do it. Yeah. 950 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:13,760 It's a sharp. Yeah, yeah. 951 00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:14,880 All right. I've been told. 952 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:16,320 Just can't have him in a little red shirt. 953 00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:19,400 I I for what it's worth, I mean. Axe in his hand. 954 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,040 It's. The thing is, I think the 955 00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:27,040 Paddington thing is there is hard to imagine an IP that is 956 00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:30,120 more British. Yeah. 957 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,040 I mean, I I can see why they want to do it. 958 00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:33,760 Yeah. I don't know, Harry Potter comes 959 00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:35,800 to mind as far as modern audiences. 960 00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,280 Go because that's really interesting because when I think 961 00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:41,960 Harry Potter, I don't think that's, I mean, obviously it's 962 00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,080 pretty obviously. Yeah, but you must be thinking 963 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:45,920 Sorcerer's Stone. See if you if you said 964 00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:47,760 Philosopher's Stone, then you that's. 965 00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:51,960 True, that's true. No, it, it's, it's a funny one 966 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,240 because I, I guess with Paddington, it's, it's that 967 00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:57,480 whole thing. It's, it's like a, a row of 968 00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:01,240 terraced houses in London. Everyone's drinking tea all the 969 00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:03,440 time. It's you know, there isn't. 970 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,720 And it's and the movie is a a a make. 971 00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:08,200 Believe version. Yeah, it, it is. 972 00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:14,760 And it's kind of it, it's I, I suppose in my mind, it could be 973 00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,120 anywhere, which is probably unfair. 974 00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,960 But you know, it, it feels like it could be, you know, if if you 975 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,480 changed a couple of details, you know, could be Kansas. 976 00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:26,680 Hey Wizard. In Kansas. 977 00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,800 Yeah, so now we're paid back to Wicked again, have we? 978 00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:30,760 Oh. I guess we have. 979 00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:31,880 Yeah. That's where my brain was, 980 00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:33,280 wasn't it? It all comes together. 981 00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:34,920 That's where my brain was. There we go. 982 00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,320 Yeah. It what is wicked if not the 983 00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:40,160 American like Harry Potter franchise? 984 00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,880 That is, that's fair. That's fair. 985 00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:46,720 Last year, Universal started selling Glinda's wand. 986 00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:52,080 Look, everyone keeps on talking about Wicked like it's a have 987 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:53,640 you watched it? No, I haven't. 988 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:54,840 No, no have. You watched it, Mike. 989 00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:58,280 I've seen the first one but it's like twice as long as the stage 990 00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:01,240 show because they made two movies out of a three hour show. 991 00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,800 I liked the second one a lot. I like the the production design 992 00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,640 actually. I wish it was shot better as a 993 00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,560 movie but I really like the production design so it would it 994 00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,960 would make a good theme park. It does look like it's a ready 995 00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,000 made land sort of waiting to happen. 996 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,640 Somewhere, Yeah. I mean, I, you know, only if we 997 00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:22,320 could have Jeff Goldblum on retainer because anything with 998 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:23,880 Jeff. We could have him laying down in 999 00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,800 the Jurassic Park area or. Exactly, exactly we could do. 1000 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,720 Him butter beer on his chaos theory chess. 1001 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:32,800 No, I can't. Goldblum in Harry Potter. 1002 00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:36,360 He would have made those movies better for sure. 1003 00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:40,800 But yeah, anything with Jeff Goldblum and it would be better, 1004 00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:42,840 wouldn't it? They just wrapped shooting on 1005 00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,720 the new Harry Potter HBO series. So like, do you know what? 1006 00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,840 Which, by the way, did not follow the rules that the 1007 00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:51,480 original films did, where they weren't like using American 1008 00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,280 actors. And now they are. 1009 00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,720 So like the, the, the if anything like this one's even 1010 00:47:56,720 --> 00:47:59,880 less British then, but. Are they filming that up the 1011 00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:01,600 road aren't? Well, it's yeah, they it's been 1012 00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:05,760 filmed, a lot of it's been filmed in Watford at the 1013 00:48:06,720 --> 00:48:08,560 basically. So we got the Warner Brothers 1014 00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:13,400 studio tour and which is was set up after they did the movies. 1015 00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,640 But they since they did the movies, obviously Warner 1016 00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:20,160 Brothers or that small part of Warner Brothers made a lot of 1017 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:23,480 money and they built loads more sound stages. 1018 00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,000 So they're doing the HBO. Series. 1019 00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,400 Is that from the Future theme park site? 1020 00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:32,160 About 2530 miles. Yeah, yeah. 1021 00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:35,640 I mean by road, 40 minutes, 40 minutes. 1022 00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:39,640 I mean, you can walk into the full scale Great Hall and you 1023 00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:43,000 can see the model for hogs Hogwarts castle, but isn't isn't 1024 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,440 that crazy to think they might build like a like a big Hogwarts 1025 00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:49,920 castle theme park scale and it like would it really impede on 1026 00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,080 the business of going to see where the movies were really? 1027 00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:53,840 Made right. They're very different beasts. 1028 00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:54,720 Aren't they? They're very different. 1029 00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:57,480 Beasts 1 is a museum basically and 1 is a theme park filled. 1030 00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:00,400 With I've I've always had a big argument with this a big 1031 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:01,880 problem, Sorry, with the argument that. 1032 00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:05,640 Oh, well, we've got the studio tour, so we can't have the yeah 1033 00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,280 mocking voice thing. But yeah, I don't I don't I. 1034 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,960 I feel like a couple years ago Warner Brothers might have said 1035 00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:14,520 something like that. Like I really wanted to like eat 1036 00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:16,880 into our business, but I don't know if you've seen modern 1037 00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:19,520 Warner Brothers just two years later where they've gone through 1038 00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:24,480 like 3 regime changes and they're also, to put it bluntly, 1039 00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,040 whoring themselves out to literally anyone that will slap 1040 00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:30,120 the name onto their product. There's like multiple theme 1041 00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,600 parks now where it used to be Universal was the only one. 1042 00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:37,880 There is multiple like every single possible product tie in. 1043 00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:39,800 I think I saw it on toilet paper recently. 1044 00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:43,640 Like I don't understand. Clearly they're trying to also 1045 00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,920 like Daniel Radcliffe in their way, like get every last bit of 1046 00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,080 the old imagery on to licensing before it's too late. 1047 00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:52,360 They know they're not to switch to the new one that's 1048 00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,640 unrecognizable. But like there's so much more 1049 00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:59,440 new candy and products and TV shows on the Food Network and 1050 00:49:59,720 --> 00:50:04,120 like it's non-stop. So of course, like, again, not 1051 00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,320 to give credit to the sun, but like, it makes sense that they 1052 00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,840 would say, oh, and universalist. Sure, we changed our mind. 1053 00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,040 You can build. And universal sitting there like 1054 00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:14,800 crumbling up an old Shrek plant and rebuilding like 3-3, drawing 1055 00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:16,520 up some. They're gonna copy and paste 1056 00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:18,800 like Hogsmeade into this park and we're just gonna have to 1057 00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,440 deal with it. Yeah, I fully believe it now in. 1058 00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:24,760 This conversation, I'm here for it, I mean, and I can see how it 1059 00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,440 would work for all parties. And actually, do you know what? 1060 00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:31,400 I think even Warner Brothers free the disaster that's been 1061 00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:37,240 the last 12 to 24 months it, it just makes so much sense to me, 1062 00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,200 particularly for the international visitor. 1063 00:50:39,240 --> 00:50:44,240 So many people have flown half the way around the world to go 1064 00:50:44,240 --> 00:50:48,760 to, of all places, Watford, to go to the Warner Brothers studio 1065 00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:53,960 tour. And what better way to augment 1066 00:50:54,080 --> 00:51:01,120 that 3 to 4 hour experience with being able to then live out that 1067 00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:05,840 fantasy for a day or 230 miles up the road, right? 1068 00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:07,720 It's like and vice versa. Four of the movies were made. 1069 00:51:07,720 --> 00:51:10,760 Now go in, go into the movies. Right. 1070 00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,720 And then all of a sudden then it's it's like, oh, I don't know 1071 00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:17,480 if I can justify that 8 hour flight to go to a studio tour, 1072 00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:21,600 but I can justify it to do the studio tour and then go to 1073 00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,040 Universal. Yeah, yeah. 1074 00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,640 All of a sudden then a little bit more interest going. 1075 00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,400 To venture thing they can promote things together. 1076 00:51:27,720 --> 00:51:29,760 Have a night bus that goes between the two. 1077 00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:31,080 Job done. They they. 1078 00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:33,320 They write that down. They probably will. 1079 00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,800 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, if they if they weren't, 1080 00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,240 they're going to now I. Mean purple buses. 1081 00:51:38,240 --> 00:51:40,360 Right. I had a look at flying the drone 1082 00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,440 over the top of that. Oh, good luck with that. 1083 00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:44,560 You can get right up to it can, yeah, yeah. 1084 00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:46,840 Well over the studios. Path that goes right alongside 1085 00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:48,400 where they're building the little Harry Potter town. 1086 00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:49,320 Really. Yeah. 1087 00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:51,600 It's just on just kind of a side of a ditch and that kind of 1088 00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:55,160 thing. It's, I love so my, my parents 1089 00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:58,720 live in Watford, so they, every time I go and see them, I drive 1090 00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:00,800 past it and it's on top of a hill. 1091 00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:03,000 So every time they're building something up there. 1092 00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:06,280 So you'll drive past it one day and it will look like a Turkish 1093 00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:07,920 bazaar. You'll, you'll go down there 1094 00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:11,480 like 2 months later and it will look like a, you know, a 1095 00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:14,680 mediaeval castle. It's it's, it's nuts, but it's, 1096 00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:18,240 it's sitting on top of a. The railway runs underneath it. 1097 00:52:18,240 --> 00:52:21,880 It runs underneath the tunnel. Right next to Harry Potter. 1098 00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:24,120 Harry Potter. You know, the new street for the 1099 00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:25,400 HKC? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1100 00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,960 No, it's it's nuts. Are they keeping that up to like 1101 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,720 for future seasons of that show? What the. 1102 00:52:30,720 --> 00:52:32,640 No idea. What do you think they will? 1103 00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:34,720 The street? Yeah, I imagine. 1104 00:52:34,720 --> 00:52:37,760 I imagine they're gonna just. I mean, yeah, I imagine they'll 1105 00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:39,000 just. They'll just keep it and. 1106 00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:40,720 Then in 10 years, they'll open that. 1107 00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,400 As they'll turn into a tour. Yeah, yeah, I mean, funnily 1108 00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:48,320 enough, the the houses that that, that so the the original 1109 00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:53,920 private drive where Harry was in the first movie, they built a 1110 00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,800 housing estate around that street. 1111 00:52:56,840 --> 00:53:00,280 And it's just houses now. They all look, they all look 1112 00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,880 like that house. So actually if you were to drive 1113 00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:04,480 around trying to find it, it'd be really difficult. 1114 00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:06,920 But they, they built that that road. 1115 00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:11,200 And then they thought, hey, we've got a street here, let's 1116 00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:12,360 just build some more and sell them. 1117 00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:16,520 And always building houses going, yeah. 1118 00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:20,160 It's not like the wicked cast. You know, they actually, I think 1119 00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,520 that's what they did for Edward Scissorhands in Florida. 1120 00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:25,600 I really. It was like a upcoming 1121 00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:27,760 development. It hasn't hadn't opened yet. 1122 00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:29,960 They painted them all weird colours and they sold them like 1123 00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:31,400 that and then. I love that. 1124 00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:35,240 The the the, the mint green and the like Peach and all these 1125 00:53:35,240 --> 00:53:36,840 pastel houses and they actually just kept. 1126 00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,120 Oh man. One of the kids program called 1127 00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:42,560 Ballymori, Yeah, they know what they have in the Scottish Isles. 1128 00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:43,800 I mean, it was a different lot to. 1129 00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:46,200 Alicia Yeah, other. People will know what's a very 1130 00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:50,600 niche for Google Ballymori and you'll you'll see the houses 1131 00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:55,560 that we're talking about. So OK, we've got some nice shiny 1132 00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:57,560 concept art for the park, don't we? 1133 00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:01,080 Which is released really early on in the the process, 1134 00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:03,520 especially when compared to Epic Universe. 1135 00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:07,840 I don't think the concept art landed for what, a year or two 1136 00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:09,560 into construction? Is that right? 1137 00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:15,160 When yeah, it would be the equivalent of 1 year from now I 1138 00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:18,440 think where the land degrading is done and the pipes are going 1139 00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:22,240 in. So we've, so I, I think you all 1140 00:54:22,240 --> 00:54:25,440 got it early because the announcement was made earlier 1141 00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:28,640 than they like were planning to. And but it is similar. 1142 00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:30,640 I know you guys said it on the podcast last time. 1143 00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:33,880 It is similar to Beijing, where an announcement was made very 1144 00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:35,680 early because of the partnership. 1145 00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:39,760 And then about like a year or two into construction, they put 1146 00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:43,120 out the final concept art, which looked drastically different. 1147 00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:46,040 Whereas Epic Universe, the concept art from the start 1148 00:54:46,240 --> 00:54:49,600 looked nearly like exact to what they would eventually build 1149 00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:52,920 because they had already locked down the plans by the time they 1150 00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:55,800 put out that art. So right now with this this art, 1151 00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:59,040 I do feel like it could change. Do you think any of the the 1152 00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:02,200 obvious themes will change? Do you think at this point the 1153 00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:06,440 whilst the right might not be locked in, the themes are? 1154 00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:11,400 I maybe most of them except for the whatever's going on in the 1155 00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:15,080 top right, which as you pointed out with that railroad, nothing 1156 00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:16,200 makes sense in the top right of that. 1157 00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:17,160 Image. No, no, no. 1158 00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:21,080 It, Yeah, everything. Everything's a lie about that, 1159 00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,760 that part of the image. That part of the image, I think 1160 00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:26,520 they had something there and they last minute replaced it 1161 00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:29,160 with Shrek because the licensing wouldn't allow them to show what 1162 00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:31,320 was there. Yeah, but then you can see like 1163 00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,600 Back to the Future, other than removing the clock tower face 1164 00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:36,760 looks exactly like it probably did. 1165 00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:39,080 Yeah, the. The street entering looks 1166 00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:40,480 exactly probably like the concept. 1167 00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:41,600 They didn't have to change anything. 1168 00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,520 They removed something from the Jurassic World entrance to the 1169 00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:46,240 right. Yeah, like there's. 1170 00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:47,800 And they did that with the Epic Universe art too. 1171 00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:51,480 Like there's some like removals and blurs and like effects that 1172 00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:54,360 they do to try to remove all the they even did it with the Texas 1173 00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:56,440 Kids park. And it's like, yeah, I know what 1174 00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:58,560 a Jurassic World arch is, even if you take the words off. 1175 00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:06,400 So what was the question like? The themes are the themes. 1176 00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,240 Like, yeah, the themes, are they locked in? 1177 00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,320 I wonder if Minions is locked in. 1178 00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:13,760 I wonder if this is something because it's like a carbon copy 1179 00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:17,720 of Beijing's, which is like an easy slam dunk. 1180 00:56:17,720 --> 00:56:20,080 Just slap it right in there. But that still has a ride from 1181 00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,400 Orlando. And I don't know if you 1182 00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,320 necessarily, I don't know if you get like the mileage out of the 1183 00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:29,880 Minions franchise that you used to or that like that attraction 1184 00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:34,160 that replaced the fantastic world of Hanna Barbera and like 1185 00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,760 Jimmy Neutron Nixon Blast as a last minute quick way to get 1186 00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:39,840 Minions into the park. Like, I don't know if that's 1187 00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:42,160 necessarily what you want to build in a brand new park. 1188 00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:46,120 So if they were looking for real estate to add something new and 1189 00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:48,080 Harry Potter shaped, that'd be a good spot. 1190 00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:52,080 You already have other kids stuff with a section of Jurassic 1191 00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:55,480 World has a kids area. I noticed Paddington's going in. 1192 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:59,200 I also wonder if the little Jaws representation will stay. 1193 00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:01,960 What like what's going on with that little Jaws thing is that 1194 00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:04,520 is that a, is that just like a, a temporary thing? 1195 00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:06,280 And then when they go to actually do the plans, they're 1196 00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:07,920 like, we don't need this and they just erase it. 1197 00:57:09,240 --> 00:57:12,840 Yeah, it, it, that's, that's a, that's a super weird one because 1198 00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:17,240 it, it, it takes up such a tiny footprint of the. 1199 00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:18,480 Concert. I also think it's a seafood 1200 00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,040 restaurant. Like I I don't think it could be 1201 00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:24,120 anything because it's so small. I don't think it could be like a 1202 00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:27,320 show, unless it is the show theater that's behind it, which 1203 00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:31,720 is probably facing the other direction on the Main Street and 1204 00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:35,840 is like probably like a Bourne Bond stunt show or something. 1205 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,800 Yeah, yeah. That was our, that was our 1206 00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,320 theory. I mean, OK, actually, this is 1207 00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,080 the one. This is the one that sparks a 1208 00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:46,960 little bit of conversation. They've got like an arena that 1209 00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:50,960 looks it's just Waterworld. It's just Waterworld. 1210 00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:53,960 It's just. But are we going to get Costner 1211 00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:56,240 here? We don't need it again. 1212 00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:57,840 No, we don't. Need it again. 1213 00:57:58,440 --> 00:57:59,960 It's just Waterworld I really want to see. 1214 00:57:59,960 --> 00:58:04,240 It I have no so people are like showing me the Goddard art from 1215 00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:06,200 1000 years ago and be like, look, it could be like Bond, it 1216 00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,440 could be this. And I'm like, it's clearly the 1217 00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:10,760 exact same water. Well, for the waging art. 1218 00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:16,920 It is 100% unchanged end since they considered that a land in 1219 00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:20,120 Beijing like now they like there's a food stand out front, 1220 00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:23,560 so it's a land. I can very much see it getting 1221 00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:27,600 completely cloned to 100%. I do think that the wording in 1222 00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:32,800 the the SEO and the wording in the original like proposal is 1223 00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:35,320 worded in such a way that they can get away with having the 1224 00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:36,920 explosions from the water world show. 1225 00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:40,080 I feel like that they worked. They worked it out just so like, 1226 00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:42,520 oh you can have small bursts of pyro during the day. 1227 00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:44,880 Gee, I wonder what would have small bursts of pyro during the 1228 00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:46,160 day? The Water World Show. 1229 00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:48,640 Yeah, yeah. And, and it would be fully 1230 00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:51,640 enclosed with in an arena. It wouldn't be kind of just like 1231 00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:54,560 bursting off in front of the. And if the light was coming out 1232 00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:57,520 too much then they just won't run it at night like that's the 1233 00:58:57,760 --> 00:58:59,320 it'll be fine otherwise. That's true. 1234 00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:02,360 Well, I'm I'm a very happy person if water world comes 1235 00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:06,880 because you see, my wife has gone to Florida lots of times, 1236 00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:09,880 but she missed. Water World. 1237 00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:13,080 She missed every other every other resort, isn't it? 1238 00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:15,640 Yeah, every single one except for Orlando. 1239 00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:18,520 Has it And does that make you feel a little bit sour? 1240 00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:21,200 No, because we have 3 theme parks. 1241 00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:23,440 Yeah, I know. Which I fair enough. 1242 00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:28,600 Isn't it a bit, I mean, I love Water World. 1243 00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,560 I think it's a great film. Isn't it getting on a bit now? 1244 00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:34,120 It's it's to keep. Getting on a bit, Keep inside. 1245 00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,200 Watch a video of it mate. Sensational. 1246 00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:37,520 No, no, no. I mean the movie. 1247 00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:39,720 I mean the the the memories of the movie. 1248 00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:44,320 No one wants the Universal like parks and resorts don't want you 1249 00:59:44,320 --> 00:59:46,560 to think of the Water World Stunt Show as the movie. 1250 00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:51,040 It is its own thing now. The movie flopped so hard that 1251 00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:53,360 it's like Dark Universe at Epic Universe. 1252 00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:54,080 I like the. Movie. 1253 00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,680 It certainly isn't named after the movie franchise. 1254 00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,080 Yeah, yeah. No, it's that that's true. 1255 00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:03,240 I mean it. I, I, I and yeah, I, I would be. 1256 01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:06,080 Yeah, I I'd be absolutely overjoyed to see it. 1257 01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:10,400 I mean, it could all change, but as of right now in the art that 1258 01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:13,200 that's clearly waterfall. Well, I'm, I'm very happy to 1259 01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:14,800 hear it. So thank you for making my 1260 01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:18,480 dreams come true. We we will agree to disagree 1261 01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:22,120 because, yeah, beaten a that dead horse has been well and 1262 01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:24,840 truly beaten to death. Well, we'll see. 1263 01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:28,160 I mean if it. If it's there, I will go and see 1264 01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:31,280 it and I will enjoy it, but I will do so begrudgingly. 1265 01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:33,720 I'm disappointed. It has an airplane going through 1266 01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:34,800 flames and landing. In. 1267 01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:36,680 I know, I know. That's cool. 1268 01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:37,720 Could you? Yeah. 1269 01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:39,920 Honestly, that's what I'm having to work with here. 1270 01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:42,080 What? What am I like? 1271 01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:44,840 Yeah, yeah. I mean I hate the Bourne movies, 1272 01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,800 but I like the stunt show. That is a that is a stunning. 1273 01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:50,480 Could we not just a stunning show, turn that into a bond? 1274 01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:52,840 Oh yeah, it lends. It's that technology lends. 1275 01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:57,240 It's I'm, I'm, I'm that was the intention and that's what the 1276 01:00:57,280 --> 01:01:00,200 the building is in the the Hollywood area at the entrance. 1277 01:01:00,640 --> 01:01:03,320 We'll see if it happens, but I think that was my guess. 1278 01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:04,800 Yeah, that. Would be that would that would 1279 01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:06,400 be. I'm not a Bond fan but I'd I'd 1280 01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:08,880 be here for that. Yeah, yeah, 100%. 1281 01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:12,240 Are you OK for time, Alicia? Oh yeah, I got nothing. 1282 01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:14,320 Oh, wonderful. That's, that's great because 1283 01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,520 we're having a great time. But you know, I just wanted to 1284 01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:18,880 be courteous. Yeah, yeah, we're here. 1285 01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:20,720 We've done an hour now. We'll just carry on. 1286 01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:21,600 I've got another 3. Hours. 1287 01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:23,840 I'm not fascinating on doing something I should be doing. 1288 01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:26,160 So wonderful. Well, let us help you with that. 1289 01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:33,760 So how do you see the? I don't know how familiar you 1290 01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:38,520 are with the UK theme park Sphere, but how do you see other 1291 01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:43,120 parks in the UK seeing Universal and responding to the presence 1292 01:01:43,120 --> 01:01:49,280 of Universal coming? I don't know about the theme 1293 01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:52,960 parks themselves because I feel like everyone can fill their own 1294 01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:56,800 like niche and we don't necessarily need another company 1295 01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:59,400 to step up and try to compete with Universal at their own 1296 01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:02,640 level. Instead, it's like what happened 1297 01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:06,720 over here is like as Universal took more like more ground, more 1298 01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:10,320 footing, and Disney obviously isn't losing any of theirs. 1299 01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:13,200 Other smaller things like SeaWorld and Busch Gardens have 1300 01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:16,000 like leaned into what they think they're good at. 1301 01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:19,320 So they those parks have a new roller coaster opening every 1302 01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:23,360 single year where they do extreme discounts for residents 1303 01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:25,960 like they're, they know they're not getting the the tourism that 1304 01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:28,640 they used to because everyone's going to the new theme parks. 1305 01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:32,400 So they're really like hitting against like the, the, the 1306 01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:35,520 locals, like we have this new food food festival and like 1307 01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:38,880 SeaWorld will literally give the annual pass holders $10 to spend 1308 01:02:38,880 --> 01:02:41,640 in the parks every month. Like it just shows up in your 1309 01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:44,040 account and you just go there to spend it because they know that 1310 01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:46,440 once you're in the park, you'll have to buy food or something. 1311 01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:48,800 So like they have sneaky ways of doing this. 1312 01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:54,600 So like you'll see your local parks, like try to retain you as 1313 01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:59,760 guests and maybe do like the roller coaster a year thing, 1314 01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:02,640 which they did literally for the last six years at SeaWorld and 1315 01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:05,680 Busch Gardens. It's great because they're like 1316 01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:08,880 relatively inexpensive unthemed coasters, sometimes off the 1317 01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:13,600 shelf coasters and it, it works to get people through the door 1318 01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:16,600 that like locals who hadn't been coming and they're like, oh, I 1319 01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:18,120 got to go to the new roller coaster. 1320 01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:21,440 But they don't have to spring for the theming that a universal 1321 01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:23,960 like Velocicoaster would do. Like they're not sitting here 1322 01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:26,680 paying for rock work. So it costs a fraction. 1323 01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:30,440 Like instead of $100 million, it's $10 million, you know, so 1324 01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:33,680 maybe we see more of that where like they fall into a niche. 1325 01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:36,880 I mean, some of the parks over there I think are really well 1326 01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:39,520 themed. You just might not have the 1327 01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:41,280 licensing deals that Universal can pull. 1328 01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:43,280 Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's the big thing is they're 1329 01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:45,640 just not going to be able to compete from a licensing point 1330 01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:46,840 of view. I mean, we've got Chessington 1331 01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:52,640 again, Minecraft in 2027, but it's not really going to compete 1332 01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:54,360 long term. With so you're going to see a 1333 01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:57,160 lot of coupon days I. Think Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1334 01:03:57,160 --> 01:04:01,040 I mean for sure. I mean, so, so just kind of we 1335 01:04:02,280 --> 01:04:06,840 the the prices for us to get to let's say an Alton Towers or a 1336 01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:12,120 Thorpe Park, which are probably the two premier theme destiny, 1337 01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:15,120 sorry, thrill destinations, I suppose in this country. 1338 01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:18,680 And they they do have a bit of theming. 1339 01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:23,600 You know, it's, it's kind of it's not consistent, but a 1340 01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:29,480 ticket to go there is if you buy it on the door, it's like 29 1341 01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:33,200 lbs, which is what like $50 on the like £60? 1342 01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:35,960 Is it about 60 odd quid? Well, something just I guess 1343 01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:38,960 I've been I've been on mine against smart, my cash, no. 1344 01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:42,360 Even still, even if that's what it is, this park's going to be 1345 01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:43,960 double. Yeah, easy. 1346 01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:47,600 Like you're going to be paying more money than anyone has ever 1347 01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:49,680 paid for a theme park in the country. 1348 01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:54,480 And that will open a door for the other parks to to say, hey, 1349 01:04:54,480 --> 01:04:57,440 we're the affordable option. Like go to Universal once every 1350 01:04:57,440 --> 01:04:59,080 two years because, you know, they have something new or 1351 01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:01,240 whatever. But then come to us every couple 1352 01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:02,600 months because we're here for you. 1353 01:05:02,600 --> 01:05:06,000 We've always been here for you. And we don't charge an arm and a 1354 01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:07,880 leg. Yeah, yeah. 1355 01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:10,800 On the flip side, the quality is not nowhere near as good. 1356 01:05:11,880 --> 01:05:13,800 Yeah, but it's there. It's there for you. 1357 01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:14,600 Do you see? Yeah, I mean. 1358 01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:17,120 You. Don't have to pay like 30 1359 01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:21,160 something pounds for parking. You know, like I, I remember 1360 01:05:21,160 --> 01:05:23,600 that was in the in the plans. Yeah, that's going to sting A. 1361 01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:25,680 Lot of people, yeah, that's that's going to hurt. 1362 01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:28,240 I think that's a sneak preview of what we have to look forward 1363 01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:30,640 to this park. Yeah, It's like, you know, 1364 01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:32,920 they're spending billions to build it and it's going to have 1365 01:05:33,160 --> 01:05:36,400 the best IPS and the best theming and the best everything, 1366 01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:40,240 but at a premium. Yeah, it, it is a business. 1367 01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:45,000 And if they're spending billions of pounds, billions of dollars, 1368 01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:47,800 they're going to want to see a profit. 1369 01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:53,520 Yeah, yeah. Epic Universe is a little sneak 1370 01:05:53,520 --> 01:05:58,160 preview too because a ticket to studios or islands of adventure 1371 01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:03,640 here goes for 140 ish and a ticket one day for epic universe 1372 01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:08,360 IS170180 dollars. I just to get an idea of what a 1373 01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:11,680 new theme park from Comcast is worth in their eyes. 1374 01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:15,760 And and and for the first, you know, year we couldn't bundle it 1375 01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:17,800 with a multi day ticket. You had to buy a single day 1376 01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:20,400 ticket. We could only get one day, Epic 1377 01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:22,800 Universe with your five day pass like whatever, right? 1378 01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:25,920 Or in your case, like a 14 day pass, but only one day. 1379 01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:27,440 Is it epic? Yeah, that's what I'm looking 1380 01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:28,480 at. That's what I'm looking at for 1381 01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:29,640 me. And I'm I'm. 1382 01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:31,680 It's breaking my brain if I'm being honest, because I'm. 1383 01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:34,000 Looking at wait, no, they they they they should have multi 1384 01:06:34,160 --> 01:06:36,120 multi day now as of January 1st. Oh. 1385 01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:38,320 Good, I need to go. Look it up again I. 1386 01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:41,360 Need to I need to refresh my Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1387 01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:43,440 Refresh your browser. Refresh my browser. 1388 01:06:43,720 --> 01:06:45,520 You want to be. Able to go all three parts, any, 1389 01:06:45,560 --> 01:06:47,760 any any combination of days for 14 days. 1390 01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:49,880 Oh nice. That is like one of the things 1391 01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:53,080 that they've obviously worked out really well for for UK 1392 01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:57,120 tourists is that we can get like a 14 day pass for, is it £400, 1393 01:06:57,120 --> 01:06:59,200 something like that? It's 4. £150, yeah. 1394 01:06:59,200 --> 01:07:01,040 Because they know that you're going to have to eat there. 1395 01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:03,560 You're going to buy tons of merchandise like you were 1396 01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:05,440 captive. It's trying to keep you away 1397 01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:06,880 from Disney World. No. 1398 01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:08,120 And, and do you know what it does? 1399 01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:11,120 A does a pretty good job because I mean, it's funny. 1400 01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:15,080 I, I, I listen to a few podcasts from people all over the, the 1401 01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:18,560 world and, and do you know what? The Australians are very jealous 1402 01:07:19,120 --> 01:07:21,640 of the UK deals. Do they not get the same? 1403 01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:24,720 No. So these guys, they're buying 1404 01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:29,160 their Orlando tickets through AVPN. 1405 01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:31,280 Let's say they're in London. Oh. 1406 01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:34,320 Yeah. Yeah, because in yeah, the 1407 01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:38,720 Australians, they don't get the by 7 days get 14, you know, they 1408 01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:42,640 don't get any of that. It's like, no, you're, you're 1409 01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:44,480 doing all right. We're going to charge you for 1410 01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:45,240 whack. Wow. 1411 01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:49,080 So yeah, it's, you know, in in that instance, it's actually 1412 01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:50,680 good to be British. So yeah. 1413 01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:52,920 Well. That's the one win we get, is 1414 01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:55,440 it? That's the one win we get, 14 1415 01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:59,160 days for seven. Does Epic do a yearly pass? 1416 01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:01,720 No, no annual pass yet for anyone. 1417 01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:06,200 No, and I'm it'll probably be an upgrade to existing passes but 1418 01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:08,600 they're still waiting till they can figure out capacity issues I 1419 01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:10,680 guess. What do you think that will come 1420 01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:15,080 in at what price? I think that my current 2 park 1421 01:08:15,080 --> 01:08:19,560 pass will be forced to be at a three park pass when renewed at 1422 01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:23,520 a certain point when it comes available and I'm guessing 1423 01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:26,040 between 400 and $500 more a year. 1424 01:08:27,359 --> 01:08:30,160 That's what I'm guessing that they think that park is worth, 1425 01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:35,040 which is close to 1/3 like of what the total cost. 1426 01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:38,399 Like originally it was like $40.00 for one park, $800.00 for 1427 01:08:38,399 --> 01:08:40,279 two parks, $1200 for three parks. 1428 01:08:40,319 --> 01:08:43,040 I think like the math is going to be fairly accurate. 1429 01:08:43,399 --> 01:08:46,479 However, it's going to end up probably being the same price 1430 01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:48,399 that I pay for four parks at Disney World. 1431 01:08:49,359 --> 01:08:51,880 Right. Because that's the way Universal 1432 01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:56,840 has like premium ties, their Epic Universe experience like 1433 01:08:56,840 --> 01:09:00,680 the the quick service food is all $5 more a meal and Epic 1434 01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:04,240 Universe everything is more. Quick as a service as in as in 1435 01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:07,040 as in new download for queue up. Actually, do you know what? 1436 01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:11,640 This is great because actually, not only is, you know, there are 1437 01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:14,279 a lot of people that that are listening to the pod because 1438 01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:17,240 they've been to Florida and they're excited to see when it 1439 01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:19,240 comes over here, But there are also a lot of people that are 1440 01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:23,040 listening who have never been and don't quite get. 1441 01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:25,840 And I think actually, you know, something that you just said, at 1442 01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:27,720 least that kind of quick service restaurant, right? 1443 01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:32,680 It's to Annie. What the hell are you talking? 1444 01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:34,800 About right? Theme park fast food. 1445 01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:37,560 The one where they don't bring it to you, the server doesn't 1446 01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:39,720 bring it to your to your table. You go to a counter. 1447 01:09:39,760 --> 01:09:42,359 The counter service, yeah, Although at Epic Universe. 1448 01:09:42,359 --> 01:09:45,399 So like a normal in England, a normal like a McDonald's? 1449 01:09:45,399 --> 01:09:50,080 No, no, like so if you're in a theme park in England, every 1450 01:09:50,600 --> 01:09:53,760 every food offering is quick service. 1451 01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:56,960 Pretty much yeah. We only have like 2 full service 1452 01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:59,280 in in our theme parks anyway. Yeah. 1453 01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:05,440 And those are $4050 a meal. It's $2025 a meal at the fast 1454 01:10:05,440 --> 01:10:09,800 food locations in the Epic Universe like it is the premium. 1455 01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:13,120 Do they still expect a tip? Because I know you Americans 1456 01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:14,000 love to tip. Not. 1457 01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:15,720 Not a quick only, it's a twofold only. 1458 01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:17,680 It's a twofold eat. But The thing is, it's a hybrid 1459 01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:18,920 where they bring the food to you. 1460 01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:21,640 You order it on your phone now and you don't wait in line and 1461 01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:24,000 they just bring it to your like it started a Minion Cafe and 1462 01:10:24,880 --> 01:10:27,120 they bring it to your table. So like they're doing the work 1463 01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:28,720 of a server but without getting tips. 1464 01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:33,160 I don't know how tips will go down in the UK because we don't, 1465 01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:35,920 we're not a tipping nation. I mean if you go to a high end. 1466 01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:37,560 Restaurant. I feel like we only have one 1467 01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:39,920 besides the hotel anyway and it was Jaws themed. 1468 01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:41,760 And then earlier in this conversation, I cut it from the 1469 01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:43,280 plan, so don't worry. OK. 1470 01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:44,320 All right. OK. 1471 01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:48,760 Yeah. No, I think it is really 1472 01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:51,600 fantastic. Look, there's so much kind of 1473 01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:56,240 really kind of deep dive stuff that that that you specifically 1474 01:10:56,240 --> 01:11:00,040 can can help us with at least. But just as somebody who is 1475 01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:05,560 super familiar with these parks, how would you describe the 1476 01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:10,000 experience of going to 1 to somebody who wants to but has 1477 01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:13,280 never, who's looking forward to it turning up on their doorstep? 1478 01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:15,240 It's. Like me, it's. 1479 01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:20,120 Wild because like nowadays, the theme parkification of theme 1480 01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:23,960 parks has changed the way that we theme park to the point where 1481 01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:27,320 if you haven't been to a theme park, you're going to be very 1482 01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:29,920 confused by how theme parky it is. 1483 01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:34,360 You're going to walk into Epic Universe for the first time, not 1484 01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:38,200 having downloaded an app and see a bunch of signs telling you, 1485 01:11:38,480 --> 01:11:42,320 hey, you need to download an app because nothing, nothing is done 1486 01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:45,400 without the app. And if you walk into a Disney 1487 01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:48,240 park and you're going to be told to download an app and, and 1488 01:11:48,240 --> 01:11:50,000 you're going to be like, what's a Lightning Lane line? 1489 01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:51,680 And they're going to be like, it's too late. 1490 01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:53,280 You should have done that three days ago. 1491 01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:54,920 And it's like, but I'm at the theme park now. 1492 01:11:55,440 --> 01:11:58,040 Like, that's the theme park world we live in now where 1493 01:11:58,480 --> 01:12:02,840 everything is like on a computer, on a phone, and 1494 01:12:02,840 --> 01:12:05,600 everything costs twice as much as it did five years ago. 1495 01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:09,840 And everything breaks down because everything is 1496 01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:12,280 technologically advanced to the point where it can't actually 1497 01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:15,400 work. Tiano's bio adventure is the 1498 01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:18,480 newest ride at Magic Kingdom. It doesn't work at all Like it 1499 01:12:19,320 --> 01:12:23,120 doesn't it it we're it is such a weird time now where the theme 1500 01:12:23,120 --> 01:12:27,480 parks have gone off the rails. This is scary. 1501 01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:29,040 This is scaring me. So you're. 1502 01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:31,160 Going to walk into this brand new theme park? 1503 01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:37,200 Expect nothing to work Express lines to be as long as you think 1504 01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:39,640 the regular line is and the regular line to be so long 1505 01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:42,320 you're going to only get on 2 rides that first day like 1506 01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:44,480 expect. Although when I went to Epic 1507 01:12:44,480 --> 01:12:47,120 Universe on opening day there was no lines because they only 1508 01:12:47,120 --> 01:12:50,000 let 4000 people. So you know you never. 1509 01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:51,720 Know without good PR, yeah, yeah. 1510 01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:55,440 It was too good, it was creepy, it was quiet. 1511 01:12:55,440 --> 01:12:58,040 Do you think? Universal are going to learn 1512 01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:01,920 anything from Epic, and obviously it's got 11 rides, 11 1513 01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:05,120 attractions, so do you think they're going to learn anything 1514 01:13:05,120 --> 01:13:08,000 when they open this park and maybe open a few more so that 1515 01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:10,680 sort of thing doesn't happen? No, I don't think they ever 1516 01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:12,000 learn anything. I think. 1517 01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:17,400 I think that they were so worried about repeating the 1518 01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:20,480 mistakes of 1990 that when they opened Islands of Adventure, 1519 01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:23,920 they had been testing like the Spider Man ride for a year and 1520 01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:27,200 everything worked so well, but they forgot to promote it and no 1521 01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:29,680 one came. And by the time they opened Epic 1522 01:13:29,680 --> 01:13:32,720 Universe, they had forgotten the lessons from islands of 1523 01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:36,360 adventure and started over. And it was like nothing worked 1524 01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:39,320 and nothing, no one came. Like it was a very weird 1525 01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:43,760 situation where just now people are starting to fill up into 1526 01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:46,920 Epic Universe and the capacity has been hired and still nothing 1527 01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:49,400 works because they didn't do that full year of testing. 1528 01:13:50,360 --> 01:13:52,600 So what lessons will they learn for for this park? 1529 01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:54,040 Nothing. They're they've already set a 1530 01:13:54,040 --> 01:13:56,440 date in in, in mind. They're going to do exactly what 1531 01:13:56,440 --> 01:14:00,560 they did before under build it and meet a deadline that's 1532 01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:03,720 impossible, change all the plans three years in like they are 1533 01:14:03,720 --> 01:14:06,840 now, but it's going to be so exciting to. 1534 01:14:06,840 --> 01:14:09,600 Watch. Look, there is nothing more 1535 01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:12,760 exciting than chaos. And you got a front row seat 1536 01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:14,680 with Project Universal, the number one. 1537 01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:20,480 Every time I say that, Mike's face, it's because you look at 1538 01:14:20,480 --> 01:14:21,400 me when you. Say it. 1539 01:14:21,400 --> 01:14:27,120 Do you know what the really dispiriting thing about it is? 1540 01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:30,720 As I said, my wife listens to the podcast and I can hear her 1541 01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:32,800 sometimes laughing as she's listening to I said, what you 1542 01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:34,920 laughing at? And she's just like, oh, Andy 1543 01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:37,080 promoting his his YouTube channel again. 1544 01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:41,720 Hi, Sophie. Yeah, it, it sounds like I'm 1545 01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:43,200 down on theme parks, but I love it. 1546 01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:46,160 I revel in it. I I find this all fascinating 1547 01:14:46,160 --> 01:14:48,880 that this is the world now that that we live in And, and I 1548 01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:50,960 wouldn't want any other way. I see people complain all the 1549 01:14:50,960 --> 01:14:53,440 time when prices go up on like annual passes. 1550 01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:55,560 And I'm like, you know, you're going to pay it. 1551 01:14:55,560 --> 01:14:56,720 What what are you complaining about? 1552 01:14:57,040 --> 01:15:00,160 Like, they have us and they're going to do whatever they want 1553 01:15:00,160 --> 01:15:01,920 with us. And this is the world we live 1554 01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:03,520 now. Just accept your fate. 1555 01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:05,160 We are. Under the theme park Thumb. 1556 01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:08,400 We, we, we, we absolutely are. We, we, we can't, you know, 1557 01:15:08,400 --> 01:15:12,400 we're, I suppose we're just, we're like an abused partner of 1558 01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:14,120 it. And when we're just OK, we're 1559 01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:16,520 just, we're just stuck. We're stuck in that, in that 1560 01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:18,920 which we're trapped. It's like Stockholm syndrome or 1561 01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:22,360 something like that. But I will say though, the first 1562 01:15:22,360 --> 01:15:25,080 time I went to Epic Universe walking in after covering it for 1563 01:15:25,080 --> 01:15:29,320 all these years, you, you can't predict how it will actually 1564 01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:32,640 make you feel. Like I've seen like the aerial 1565 01:15:32,640 --> 01:15:35,240 photos and zoomed in and everything, but from the ground 1566 01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:37,440 it looks completely different. It feels completely different. 1567 01:15:37,440 --> 01:15:39,880 The smells in the park, like are completely different. 1568 01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:41,880 Like I thought for sure I would know it. 1569 01:15:41,880 --> 01:15:43,600 Like, oh, it's going to smell how that new theme park smells. 1570 01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:46,320 It smell like paint or whatever. And like, no, it has completely 1571 01:15:46,320 --> 01:15:48,400 weirder smells and there's a water treatment plant there and 1572 01:15:48,400 --> 01:15:52,680 it stinks sometimes. Look, all I'm saying is it's 1573 01:15:52,720 --> 01:15:55,920 you're going to have an emotional reaction to being 1574 01:15:55,920 --> 01:15:58,120 there for the first time, but you can't predict what it'll be. 1575 01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:04,760 No, I, I'm with you. I think that I think just the 1576 01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:08,400 complete unexpected, the not knowing how things are going to 1577 01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:12,040 shake out, the surprises around every corner, I think that's 1578 01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:14,880 it's it's going to be a fascinating ride. 1579 01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:18,080 I thought, I thought Super Nintendo will be my favorite 1580 01:16:18,080 --> 01:16:19,760 land in Epic Universe when it opened. 1581 01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:21,920 And now I hate it and I won't even go in it. 1582 01:16:22,520 --> 01:16:25,320 Like the last three times I went to Epic, I didn't even step foot 1583 01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:27,280 in Nintendo. And the last two times I didn't 1584 01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:29,160 even step foot into how to train your dragon. 1585 01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:31,200 And that's not even because I don't like how to train your 1586 01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:32,840 dragon. I just had more important things 1587 01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:35,160 to do. There's a Cafe in Paris that I 1588 01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:37,920 really like and I go in there. I don't even care about Harry 1589 01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:40,800 Potter, but the food is so good I can't stay away from it. 1590 01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:44,360 And I go and I ride monsters unchanged over and over and over 1591 01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:46,360 again. And I just chill and hang out in 1592 01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:48,920 Celestial Park. In my mind, Super Nintendo World 1593 01:16:48,920 --> 01:16:51,600 is just there to suck in all of the other people so that my 1594 01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:54,600 areas are quiet. I love that I totally. 1595 01:16:54,600 --> 01:16:58,040 Get where you're coming from that the assault on the sensors 1596 01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:00,160 in Super Nintendo world is just insane. 1597 01:17:00,160 --> 01:17:04,640 You step in there and it's color and sound and movement and it's 1598 01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:07,240 like I just kind of want to curl up into a ball. 1599 01:17:07,360 --> 01:17:10,040 Yeah, I go and visit. Like I pop in, I fill my 1600 01:17:10,040 --> 01:17:13,040 freestyle cup with a Coca-Cola product from the machine and I 1601 01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:14,160 leave. I'm like, well. 1602 01:17:14,200 --> 01:17:15,160 That's enough of that for. Today. 1603 01:17:16,200 --> 01:17:18,800 Honestly, I'm, I think I'm going to have to sedate myself in in 1604 01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:21,720 May, definitely, yeah, for that, for that moment. 1605 01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:23,280 How many days have you got, Epic? 1606 01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:27,760 It'll probably only be one, probably will only be 1 because 1607 01:17:28,800 --> 01:17:30,960 and you can actually maybe you can help me with this at least 1608 01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:33,880 because so we've got, we've got a four year old and a one year 1609 01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:37,360 old and we're a little bit concerned about the lack of 1610 01:17:37,440 --> 01:17:42,400 shade in May at Epic with two very little ones. 1611 01:17:43,160 --> 01:17:46,480 They just installed a ton of tables and chairs with umbrellas 1612 01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:51,360 like last week because I was just there with friends and 1613 01:17:51,360 --> 01:17:54,120 family and they made me go into Nintendo. 1614 01:17:54,120 --> 01:17:57,840 How dare they and I was actually surprised. 1615 01:17:57,840 --> 01:18:00,200 I was like, that's great. Like they're finally, they're 1616 01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:03,240 finally finishing the park that they six months ago. 1617 01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:09,560 But I, I, I shameless plug. I have a book that I Co wrote 1618 01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:13,760 called the unofficial guide to Universal Orlando 2026 edition. 1619 01:18:13,760 --> 01:18:16,360 Oh my God, dropped last month, last month. 1620 01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:19,880 Yeah, Universal Orlando 2026 unofficial guide. 1621 01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:23,560 You can find it at Amazon and wherever books are sold or at 1622 01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:25,840 the unofficial guide series website. 1623 01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:29,760 And it has a section on touring the parks with young kids. 1624 01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:33,040 It has tour plans for Epic Universe, including ones with 1625 01:18:33,040 --> 01:18:37,920 little kids and it tells you some tips for what to do like 1626 01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:39,800 when you're traveling with children. 1627 01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:43,760 But I will say Epic Universe actually has the best child swap 1628 01:18:43,760 --> 01:18:44,880 rooms. Really. 1629 01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:46,640 Every one of them has a bathroom. 1630 01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:49,480 They they don't have really good stuff on the TV, so bring a 1631 01:18:49,480 --> 01:18:52,640 tablet or something. But I will say like they're 1632 01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:56,080 really comfortable and usually air conditioned except for one. 1633 01:18:56,560 --> 01:18:59,280 And it's super convenient for the rest of your party to like 1634 01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:02,720 swap places and ride and reride. It's like you only need one 1635 01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:04,800 person to swap and then the other person can keep riding, 1636 01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:07,640 riding, riding, depending on how many adults you have in your 1637 01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:09,000 party. But yeah, there's a bathroom. 1638 01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:11,760 There's a changing table right there in the, the, the, the 1639 01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:13,400 child swap room. It's great. 1640 01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:18,000 And there's also immediately going to be purchasing your, 1641 01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:22,040 your, your book. There's a quiet child care 1642 01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:25,400 family center at the back of the park next to the left side of 1643 01:19:25,400 --> 01:19:28,600 Potter at Disney World. The child care centers are 1644 01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:34,120 noisy, like I was going to say kennels, but that's not, but you 1645 01:19:34,120 --> 01:19:36,800 know what, it's accurate. They're mod houses, I get it, 1646 01:19:36,800 --> 01:19:39,800 but they're not, not as many children go to universal parks. 1647 01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:43,000 So it's actually quiet and it's air conditioned and has couches 1648 01:19:43,200 --> 01:19:46,040 and all the amenities that you would need and quiet changing 1649 01:19:46,040 --> 01:19:48,280 areas. So that might be your friend. 1650 01:19:48,280 --> 01:19:51,760 Get a locker at the guest services. 1651 01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:53,880 Like there's a little concierge kiosk in front of all the 1652 01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:56,560 portals. There's one over near the Potter 1653 01:19:56,560 --> 01:19:58,880 area and there's a family care center and that could be a 1654 01:19:58,880 --> 01:20:00,360 little place to get away from the sun. 1655 01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:03,640 Because you have children, you have a good excuse to go in 1656 01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:05,840 there. I absolutely love that. 1657 01:20:05,840 --> 01:20:09,880 We'll stick a link to it in the podcast. 1658 01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:15,440 Yeah, I'm looking at it now. It's it's got your favorite part 1659 01:20:15,440 --> 01:20:18,520 of the park as the cover. It's a great picture though. 1660 01:20:18,840 --> 01:20:21,360 It is a great picture. It is a great picture. 1661 01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:24,560 Yeah, I can almost hear it. And with. 1662 01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:27,600 Children, and with children, I do feel like the Power Up band 1663 01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:29,640 is the best thing in the park. Yeah. 1664 01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:32,520 Meeting meeting Toothless and the Power Up Band are the best 1665 01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:36,840 thing for little kids so. No, I I, you know, I I've I've 1666 01:20:36,840 --> 01:20:41,160 got an inner battle in a battle. Sorry about kind of you know how 1667 01:20:41,160 --> 01:20:46,560 much I know they'll love it. But then also like just just the 1668 01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:50,360 the the exhaustion. Usually dispatched within one to 1669 01:20:50,400 --> 01:20:52,440 three months though, so you better order it. 1670 01:20:52,440 --> 01:20:53,680 I'll put. Can I get a hurry? 1671 01:20:53,680 --> 01:20:56,000 Can I get it on a Kindle? Yeah. 1672 01:20:56,400 --> 01:20:57,720 There's a Oh, there you go, I can have it. 1673 01:20:57,720 --> 01:20:59,280 It's really. Small, so you have to zoom in. 1674 01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:02,200 I can have it. I can have it on my device. 1675 01:21:02,240 --> 01:21:04,600 With read you should do an audio book anyway. 1676 01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:06,240 I read books. Audio book. 1677 01:21:06,400 --> 01:21:09,840 Have you considered it? I like do you want? 1678 01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:11,720 Do you know how many words are in this book that we updated 1679 01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:13,640 every year? We'd have to re record it. 1680 01:21:13,640 --> 01:21:15,120 By the time we're done recording. 1681 01:21:15,400 --> 01:21:17,280 It next year. Yeah, you don't want to do that. 1682 01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:19,520 I mean you could just drop in bits like voice notes. 1683 01:21:19,520 --> 01:21:21,680 I mean, she didn't die, she got a. 1684 01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:25,040 Bad review on Amazon and the bad review says there's too much in. 1685 01:21:25,040 --> 01:21:25,960 This book just. Read that. 1686 01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:27,960 Really. There's too much in this book. 1687 01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:30,880 Too helpful. Oh yeah, yeah. 1688 01:21:30,880 --> 01:21:32,680 Honest to God. It has to be fair. 1689 01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:36,240 It's got 4.6 out of five so. You can't. 1690 01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:39,680 You can't knock that. No, I, I honestly, I will be, 1691 01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:42,720 I'll be devouring it. So no, thank you. 1692 01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:45,200 Thank you very much for the tip. And, and I'd encourage everyone 1693 01:21:45,200 --> 01:21:48,520 to to, yeah. There's Get bored at the very 1694 01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:50,240 end of the book and it'll be easy for the Kindle. 1695 01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:53,120 Literally the last couple pages are the touring plans so it's 1696 01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:55,040 like a CHEAT SHEET of what to do in what order. 1697 01:21:55,440 --> 01:21:58,200 I love that. Oh, you've honestly, you've made 1698 01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:01,360 my day. No, it's absolutely spectacular. 1699 01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:03,280 Yeah, we can throw the whole podcast away. 1700 01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:04,200 This is all they're really about. 1701 01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:05,360 Yeah, Yeah. I mean, this is it now. 1702 01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:07,080 Now we're now we're planning my holiday. 1703 01:22:07,200 --> 01:22:08,800 Now we've got to the bit that matters. 1704 01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:13,760 Go ahead, Mike. What you got? 1705 01:22:14,200 --> 01:22:16,240 Well, we've actually pretty much gone through. 1706 01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:19,600 I've got one more question. One more question, One more 1707 01:22:19,600 --> 01:22:21,720 question. And I suppose we we've been 1708 01:22:21,720 --> 01:22:24,200 leading up to it throughout in that set up. 1709 01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:28,240 Obviously we're at the the very early stages of this project for 1710 01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:33,400 us here in the UK and Alicia, you've seen the entirety of many 1711 01:22:33,400 --> 01:22:36,200 projects in Orlando through from sort of inception through to 1712 01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:40,200 being on the Thing. So what advice would you have 1713 01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:44,480 three young felony lads with YouTube channels and platforms 1714 01:22:44,480 --> 01:22:47,280 when it comes to covering such a massive project like this? 1715 01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:52,680 Before we started recording, I was making my second cup of 1716 01:22:52,680 --> 01:22:55,520 coffee this morning and like the thought popped into my head. 1717 01:22:55,760 --> 01:22:58,480 I didn't finish listening to your last episode of the podcast 1718 01:22:58,480 --> 01:22:59,560 yet. I'm only halfway through. 1719 01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:02,920 And then I thought, once I get you on here, I need to tell you 1720 01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:06,600 all don't burn yourselves out. We have a long road ahead. 1721 01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:08,560 You don't have to make this many episodes. 1722 01:23:10,520 --> 01:23:12,280 You can read this out. Yeah. 1723 01:23:12,280 --> 01:23:16,640 I mean, we do 2, we do 2A fortnight, so we only spend a 1724 01:23:16,640 --> 01:23:18,000 couple. I mean, I don't think I could 1725 01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:22,800 sit in the same room as Mike for much longer than two hours. 1726 01:23:22,880 --> 01:23:24,880 How long has it been Do you? I felt like you were doing it 1727 01:23:24,880 --> 01:23:27,720 every week in the beginning. Well, look, so so we you know, 1728 01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:33,640 the the video content, the video content, I think is that that is 1729 01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:36,800 the biggest that's. A completely separate project. 1730 01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:38,120 We do our own thing. We have. 1731 01:23:38,120 --> 01:23:39,360 Nothing to do just about the podcast. 1732 01:23:39,640 --> 01:23:42,000 Just about the podcast. Five and you just started. 1733 01:23:42,160 --> 01:23:45,840 Yeah, I mean, so, yeah. I mean, The thing is we, So 1734 01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:50,720 what, What we we were meeting up having a few beers at the local 1735 01:23:50,720 --> 01:23:53,600 pub for like what, maybe a year ago? 1736 01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:56,600 Yeah, we said we could record. This And we said, why are we 1737 01:23:56,600 --> 01:23:58,360 having these conversations and not recording them? 1738 01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:01,880 So then we just thought, let's just record them. 1739 01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:05,240 So now we've got an excuse to get together, have a few beers 1740 01:24:05,280 --> 01:24:08,680 and have a good old chat. I see you're doing this because 1741 01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:10,160 you're having fun. Yes. 1742 01:24:10,160 --> 01:24:11,840 Yes. Are we doing it wrong? 1743 01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:13,920 No. No. 1744 01:24:14,160 --> 01:24:17,200 I just wonder, you're setting expectations. 1745 01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:21,760 And then I I worry that a year down the road and it's just dirt 1746 01:24:21,760 --> 01:24:24,960 moving around and you're all like, we have to go do another 1747 01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:27,400 recording and talk about it, but nothing's changed. 1748 01:24:27,560 --> 01:24:29,880 Yeah. And then a year after that, so 1749 01:24:29,880 --> 01:24:32,680 much will be changing so fast. You'll be like wanting to record 1750 01:24:32,680 --> 01:24:34,680 every week. So you'll go through phases. 1751 01:24:35,040 --> 01:24:37,280 And I know it's exciting because you're just starting the podcast 1752 01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:38,080 now. So I get it. 1753 01:24:38,080 --> 01:24:40,600 You have like a backlog of information to get out, right. 1754 01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:42,200 So, like, I get it. I get it. 1755 01:24:42,400 --> 01:24:45,080 Just know, you know, take a breath, take your time. 1756 01:24:45,240 --> 01:24:48,720 Yeah. But also savor it because one 1757 01:24:48,720 --> 01:24:51,320 day it'll all be over and the park will exist. 1758 01:24:51,480 --> 01:24:52,200 Would be sad. And. 1759 01:24:52,320 --> 01:24:54,640 We'll have that bittersweet feeling that you talk of. 1760 01:24:55,120 --> 01:25:00,000 Because I miss doing my near weekly video updates that the 1761 01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:02,280 last year of construction because so much would happen. 1762 01:25:02,400 --> 01:25:10,160 So I know we were all my eyes were just kind of peeled for new 1763 01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:11,920 updates. I was one of those with the 1764 01:25:11,920 --> 01:25:17,680 little bell ticked on on YouTube and yeah, it it was, it was 1765 01:25:17,680 --> 01:25:20,440 great that that last 12 months it was, it was. 1766 01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:22,040 And. It's been a life adjustment for 1767 01:25:22,040 --> 01:25:25,000 me to like, get back to normal life was I forgot what life was 1768 01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:27,240 like before they were building a theme park here. 1769 01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:30,520 So like, yeah, you know, and now I'm sitting here going like, I 1770 01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:31,920 got this, like I got a taste of it. 1771 01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:34,120 They're they have expansions that they're starting at the 1772 01:25:34,360 --> 01:25:35,640 universe. And I'm like, it's like a little 1773 01:25:35,640 --> 01:25:36,800 taste. It's like, it's like the old 1774 01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:37,760 life is back. Yeah. 1775 01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:41,520 My, my, my dictionary said. But yeah, you, you guys have a 1776 01:25:41,520 --> 01:25:44,520 long road ahead and just savor it. 1777 01:25:44,520 --> 01:25:48,320 Like it's, I sound cynical here, but like I, I had the most 1778 01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:52,440 amazing time covering this and, and, and seeing the like, the 1779 01:25:52,440 --> 01:25:54,960 fruits of all the labours of the people who designed this stuff 1780 01:25:55,160 --> 01:25:57,560 getting built. And then like seeing them in 1781 01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:00,880 their little, like the videos that they did in last January 1782 01:26:01,160 --> 01:26:03,160 leading up to like the full announcements to everything, 1783 01:26:03,440 --> 01:26:05,800 seeing the universal creative talking about what they've been 1784 01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:07,600 working on. It's one thing for me to go 1785 01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:10,520 through the patents, but to actually see the designers talk 1786 01:26:10,520 --> 01:26:11,960 about it, it's like completely different. 1787 01:26:11,960 --> 01:26:15,280 And it was so fulfilling. No, I, I, you're right. 1788 01:26:15,280 --> 01:26:18,880 And actually, do you know what, it's funny because we went to, I 1789 01:26:18,880 --> 01:26:21,960 think we all went to one of the one or both of those 1790 01:26:22,000 --> 01:26:24,480 consultation events. Yeah, I I was at the Stuart B1. 1791 01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:29,040 I, I went to both. So no, no, no, no. 1792 01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:31,400 But no. It was, what was great was they 1793 01:26:31,400 --> 01:26:36,280 had people who were working on Epic in various roles. 1794 01:26:36,920 --> 01:26:39,200 They're just milling around and you could have a chat with them. 1795 01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:42,000 And it was great. I was, I was chatting to this 1796 01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:43,680 one guy and he was, he got his phone out. 1797 01:26:43,680 --> 01:26:46,560 It was like showing me pictures. Oh yeah, here. 1798 01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:50,720 I am of the people who design and work like on these projects, 1799 01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:54,680 like the that's the. It's so incredible to see these 1800 01:26:54,680 --> 01:26:58,560 things come to life for us as fans imagine them, having spent 1801 01:26:58,560 --> 01:27:01,400 the last decade designing this. Incredible. 1802 01:27:01,720 --> 01:27:04,760 Absolutely incredible. Because you know that there's, 1803 01:27:04,760 --> 01:27:09,400 there's R&D for technology and there's IP conflict. 1804 01:27:09,400 --> 01:27:12,440 They're doing contract negotiations for years and 1805 01:27:12,440 --> 01:27:14,760 there's pitch art and pitch meetings. 1806 01:27:15,080 --> 01:27:18,040 Like they've been working on this for like 2 years, probably 1807 01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:20,960 prior to even us like figuring out they were doing it. 1808 01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:23,600 And then another two years since then where they've been like 1809 01:27:23,600 --> 01:27:26,800 having to turn their ideas into like plans and blueprints. 1810 01:27:27,120 --> 01:27:29,920 And then now this next two years of having to prepare the land 1811 01:27:29,920 --> 01:27:32,880 and start the foundations and then they build the theme park. 1812 01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:35,560 That's a long time for these people to see their dreams 1813 01:27:35,560 --> 01:27:39,440 actually get built. It, it is and it, I can't 1814 01:27:39,440 --> 01:27:44,520 imagine what it must be like to be one of those guys just, you 1815 01:27:44,520 --> 01:27:48,280 know, going through that experience and, yeah, seeing 1816 01:27:48,280 --> 01:27:51,560 actually happen. You know, we're, we're doing our 1817 01:27:51,560 --> 01:27:54,520 best to imagine it from the outside in, but yeah, no. 1818 01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:58,120 It's I haven't. I haven't universal here said 1819 01:27:58,120 --> 01:28:01,000 that they've got enough stuff to go on for the next 100 years or 1820 01:28:01,000 --> 01:28:02,680 something. Yeah, the 100 year plan I. 1821 01:28:02,680 --> 01:28:06,320 Think we'll be just fine? We, we can ink it out. 1822 01:28:06,400 --> 01:28:08,640 We'll be, we'll be doing this from the old people's home. 1823 01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:12,520 Don't worry about that. There's a a documentary coming 1824 01:28:12,520 --> 01:28:17,360 on to Disney Plus tomorrow based on when this podcast comes out. 1825 01:28:17,560 --> 01:28:20,600 So like a week from now or whatever. 1826 01:28:20,960 --> 01:28:25,720 Disney Plus, it's called Disneyland Handcrafted by Leslie 1827 01:28:25,760 --> 01:28:28,240 Iworks. And I got to see a like sneak 1828 01:28:28,240 --> 01:28:32,680 preview with AQ and a with the director and it is just old 1829 01:28:32,680 --> 01:28:37,680 construction footage from 1954 through 1955 for the year that 1830 01:28:37,680 --> 01:28:41,840 they were building Disneyland. And it is the most like it. 1831 01:28:41,840 --> 01:28:44,520 It took me right back to Epic Universe like it is seeing, but 1832 01:28:44,520 --> 01:28:47,520 from like most of it's from the ground point of view of actually 1833 01:28:47,520 --> 01:28:50,360 building the theme park. But like the title cards come up 1834 01:28:50,360 --> 01:28:55,240 on the screen and you see an empty lot and it says 12 months 1835 01:28:55,240 --> 01:28:58,720 before grand opening lately empty. 1836 01:28:59,360 --> 01:29:03,280 And my like, my stomach drops and I'm like, imagine that what 1837 01:29:03,280 --> 01:29:06,280 we saw for six straight years for Epic Universe, all happening 1838 01:29:06,280 --> 01:29:09,200 in 12 months. So you have to see this 1839 01:29:09,200 --> 01:29:11,840 documentary. It is just like an hour straight 1840 01:29:11,920 --> 01:29:14,600 of footage of this park being built. 1841 01:29:14,800 --> 01:29:18,160 Which is sound bite for people. To help design it and worked on 1842 01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:20,000 it. But it's like them carving 1843 01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:23,880 bricks out of like the the concrete and assembling the 1844 01:29:24,480 --> 01:29:26,920 Sleeping Beauty Castle. And it's just like breathtaking 1845 01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:31,640 how what we see now take four to six years done in at like 8 1846 01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:33,000 months. It's shocking. 1847 01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:36,640 I love it. Do we have wool in a Jeep? 1848 01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:40,040 Smoking a cigarette, driving around Jungle Jungle Cruise. 1849 01:29:41,640 --> 01:29:46,480 No, he's he, but you do have him in a train of a second, a train 1850 01:29:46,480 --> 01:29:49,800 shows up, he well. He he materializes good, good, 1851 01:29:49,800 --> 01:29:52,080 good, good, good, good, good. But there are several shots of 1852 01:29:52,080 --> 01:29:55,000 people like without safety lines sitting on top of brilliant 1853 01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:58,680 having a cigarette. Yeah, that's why they could do 1854 01:29:58,680 --> 01:29:59,400 it. Yeah. 1855 01:29:59,560 --> 01:30:01,480 Just clamor up stuff if they need to, yeah? 1856 01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:04,480 Yeah, well, you get done in in 12 months if you don't have any 1857 01:30:04,480 --> 01:30:05,400 safety. Yeah. 1858 01:30:05,800 --> 01:30:08,480 Yeah, exactly. Yeah, simpler times. 1859 01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:11,120 Yeah. Wonderful. 1860 01:30:11,360 --> 01:30:14,880 Well, look, honestly, Alicia, thank you so, so much for coming 1861 01:30:14,880 --> 01:30:18,760 on. It's been just, it's, it's been 1862 01:30:19,040 --> 01:30:24,200 an incredible pleasure just to be able to chat to you about it, 1863 01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:27,840 knowing that you've kind of been through it and having followed 1864 01:30:27,840 --> 01:30:32,400 your stuff as well. So yeah, just give us one last 1865 01:30:32,560 --> 01:30:35,680 plug of of where you're at and where everyone can find you. 1866 01:30:36,720 --> 01:30:39,800 You can find me on YouTube at Theme Park Stop. 1867 01:30:40,040 --> 01:30:44,480 You can find me at on the web at orlandoparkstop.com. 1868 01:30:45,200 --> 01:30:49,080 You can find me on Twitter and other places as Alicia Stella, 1869 01:30:49,720 --> 01:30:51,560 although you don't want to find me there 'cause I'm kind of 1870 01:30:51,560 --> 01:30:54,400 crass and. That's the best one. 1871 01:30:55,800 --> 01:30:58,720 Exactly. And I, you know, I, I, I'm, I'd 1872 01:30:58,720 --> 01:31:02,160 love to come back and, and like check in every once in a while 1873 01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:03,320 and. On the. 1874 01:31:03,400 --> 01:31:06,840 Show 'cause I love, I love talking with y'all and you're 1875 01:31:06,840 --> 01:31:10,480 the, you know, you're the go to for this, like on the ground 1876 01:31:10,480 --> 01:31:12,640 covering of the of, of this big project. 1877 01:31:12,680 --> 01:31:15,520 And like, I can read through all the documents and get my own 1878 01:31:15,520 --> 01:31:19,120 assessment, but it's nothing compared to you all literally 1879 01:31:19,120 --> 01:31:21,240 being within earshot of the construction happening. 1880 01:31:21,400 --> 01:31:24,800 Well, let me tell you, you're always welcome in the shack. 1881 01:31:24,840 --> 01:31:28,560 Anytime in the shack, the shed. Yes, the shed. 1882 01:31:28,760 --> 01:31:31,720 Yes, the the. Yeah, the executive shed, the 1883 01:31:31,720 --> 01:31:35,720 executive shed and. Hopefully we see you over here 1884 01:31:35,720 --> 01:31:37,960 in 2013. 21 as well. Alicia when the park. 1885 01:31:37,960 --> 01:31:40,440 Actually, you know, I, I might, I might just swing that I might 1886 01:31:40,440 --> 01:31:43,480 actually like, I want to pull that off. 1887 01:31:43,800 --> 01:31:47,120 Yeah, I think that it, especially if you have rides 1888 01:31:47,120 --> 01:31:48,480 that are just closed from Orlando. 1889 01:31:48,480 --> 01:31:50,440 Let's see what happens. Yes, exactly. 1890 01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:54,600 Yes, 100% no. Honestly, thank you so much. 1891 01:31:54,600 --> 01:31:56,560 Thank you very much, Alicia, for joining us. 1892 01:31:56,560 --> 01:31:59,160 It's been a lot of fun. 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