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Speaker 2: It's Later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere in the
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Speaker 2: nights in nine pm is none other than the inimitable
Speaker 2: Nick Polliochini.
Speaker 3: Your vocabulary is so incredible Mo truly just in general.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I always feel so well educated tuning into Later.
Speaker 4: With Mo Kelly. It's all in act. So it's fine.
Speaker 3: Thiseers is quite attractive, I do have to say that much.
Speaker 2: So how are you Boss? Always good to see what
Speaker 2: are you wearing tonight? For those who amped.
Speaker 3: Out in my Universal fan Fest Nights which actually starts
Speaker 3: this week, so that's going to be the big focus
Speaker 3: of all the details. In fact, I literally came right
Speaker 3: over the hill before the show, got to try some
Speaker 3: of the food, got to experience a little bit of that,
Speaker 3: and then I will be back there Friday night for
Speaker 3: opening night, and then I'll be back there on the
Speaker 3: ninth of May, so I'll be doing quite a bit
Speaker 3: with Universal Studios. The thing that's really cool about this,
Speaker 3: if you have ever done Halloween Horror Nights, that is
Speaker 3: something that is incredibly synonymous with Universal Studios, and what
Speaker 3: is happening now is specific to that you will be
Speaker 3: able to as you can see if you're visiting us
Speaker 3: on YouTube right now, you can get a little tease
Speaker 3: of the fan fest activities that'll be happening. But in
Speaker 3: the Halloween season you get all of the Halloween things.
Speaker 3: And so what they're doing is taking the same footprint
Speaker 3: of a lot of these walk through houses and attractions
Speaker 3: and giving them a whole new flavor. So Star Trek,
Speaker 3: if you're a fan of Star Trek, they'll be there.
Speaker 3: Of course, the two existing things that are in park
Speaker 3: all the time for you at Universal Studios Hollywood are
Speaker 3: going to be Super Nintendo World with Super Mario and Friends,
Speaker 3: and then you'll also be able to experience the Wizarding
Speaker 3: World of Harry Potter. So all of those things are
Speaker 3: there and will have an even better representation for you.
Speaker 3: But what is exciting or will be something for you
Speaker 3: to experience is going to be a Star Trek, which
Speaker 3: is not. In fact, I got a little bit of
Speaker 3: a sneak peek and I'm kind of excited about it
Speaker 3: because if you watched the series Picard on I watched
Speaker 3: some of this, so okay, when you saw the Enterprise
Speaker 3: D from the Next Generation, when you saw the bridge
Speaker 3: that was in that series, so they had to recreate
Speaker 3: it from the original series that had been retired. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's kind of been piecemealed out and a lot of
Speaker 3: different people from the Star Trek world own parts of
Speaker 3: the original Enterprise D's bridge. They actually took the bridge
Speaker 3: from Picard the series and will be on that set
Speaker 3: as part of one of the experiences.
Speaker 4: So very cool.
Speaker 3: If you ever remember attending Universal Studios years ago, I'm
Speaker 3: going to say eighties and nineties, they had a Paramount
Speaker 3: experience and you're able to experience the original series of
Speaker 3: Star Trek and now you're able to experience a whole
Speaker 3: new world by getting a little peak at a Picard
Speaker 3: but also a special walk through attraction which if you
Speaker 3: are familiar with the lot, they did a Walking Dead
Speaker 3: year round Halloween event for a couple of years and
Speaker 3: that is just up on the upper lot near Universal Plaza.
Speaker 4: That is where Star Trek Red Alert will be.
Speaker 3: You'll be able to experience it back on the back
Speaker 3: lot set and in World Experiences they're calling them. You'll
Speaker 3: actually be able to go to where certain scenes from
Speaker 3: Back to the Future were filmed, and so that'll be
Speaker 3: a whole experience for you. Also, Dungeons and Dragons Secrets
Speaker 3: of Water Deep will be there, and I actually got
Speaker 3: to see some of the dungeon masters that will be
Speaker 3: available for you, and some really incredible villains from Dungeons
Speaker 3: and Dragons will also be available. And then you've got
Speaker 3: one piece, which is anime. They have the Grand Pirate
Speaker 3: Gathering happening up on the upper lot we talk I
Speaker 3: have not you should, but I will because I also.
Speaker 4: That's where I got to eat the food from.
Speaker 3: So if you look at Nick poll okayor this Week
Speaker 3: of with Nick on Instagram right now in the stories,
Speaker 3: that's also a link for you to be able to
Speaker 3: see us on YouTube. But I also gave you a
Speaker 3: preview of one of the meals that you'll be able
Speaker 3: to enjoy while you're checking out fan Fest at Universal. Also,
Speaker 3: Jiu Jitsu Kaisan Hunger of the Cursed is going to
Speaker 3: be going on. That'll be a thing for you to experience.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot happening, and I think the thing
Speaker 3: that I'm excited about this specifically is because I love Halloween.
Speaker 3: We all know that that's not news if you tuned
Speaker 3: into Later or KFI or Coast or anything here.
Speaker 4: For the time I was with, iHeart.
Speaker 3: I specifically am a huge fan of the immersive experience,
Speaker 3: and this is a whole new level of that. Because
Speaker 3: we've talked about it briefly, we'll talk about it as
Speaker 3: it comes up, because it should be August, Horror Unleashed
Speaker 3: will be coming to Las Vegas at Area fifteen. That
Speaker 3: is going to be a year round Halloween experience from
Speaker 3: Universal Studios. But specifically that's this whole thing, and I'm
Speaker 3: excited because as opposed to Disney, who does a lot
Speaker 3: of these after dark events, and I always encourage you
Speaker 3: to really go because it's a fantastic time to get
Speaker 3: really short weight times on attractions, even if you're not
Speaker 3: into that specific idea, or if that's not you know,
Speaker 3: maybe you're not a fan of a certain portion of
Speaker 3: the Walt Disney you know Canon if you will, maybe
Speaker 3: Star Wars is not your thing, but Star Wars Night
Speaker 3: is going on right now and it is still not
Speaker 3: sold out at Disneyland. It's a great time for you
Speaker 3: to experience all the attractions here at Universal Studios.
Speaker 4: Hollywood.
Speaker 3: That is a very different story. There is a very
Speaker 3: different story because these are immersive experiences like you've never had.
Speaker 3: So John Murdy, is this the Mad Scientists or has
Speaker 3: been the Mad Scientists behind all the Halloween events. I
Speaker 3: hope to meet some of the team coming up here
Speaker 3: soon with Universal, but it's exciting and I and also
Speaker 3: they added late to the game, Wicked will be there,
Speaker 3: so you'll be able to meet Glinda, and Glinda and
Speaker 3: Alphaba they will both be there, and so much more.
Speaker 3: Like there's more and more things that I have been
Speaker 3: privy to but can't really speak on quite yet.
Speaker 2: So let me ask you about that, because a week
Speaker 2: or so ago we were talking about the slow evolution
Speaker 2: of city walk sure as it leads in the Universal
Speaker 2: Studios and how Universal Studios is building out that park.
Speaker 2: They're also building up hotels around the property. What did
Speaker 2: you notice, if anything, about the change. It's really a
Speaker 2: different world. And I was going to say we did
Speaker 2: talk about it. You guys talked about it here on later.
Speaker 2: Having walked through it today, there's so many new businesses
Speaker 2: that are coming, both restaurants, bars.
Speaker 3: So it's not dead dead. It's not dead dead. And
Speaker 3: I think that's the thing. As opposed to Wall to Florida,
Speaker 3: where Universal Orlando is truly a resort. You have to
Speaker 3: always remember that Universal Studios Hollywood is a theme park
Speaker 3: that they shoved into a working studio.
Speaker 4: So it's very, very different.
Speaker 3: So when you're talking about the Hilton or the Sheraton,
Speaker 3: which overlooked the property right now, that's where the vast
Speaker 3: majority of people were being put up who were filming
Speaker 3: things up until the recent pass when there was a
Speaker 3: theme park there. So you can also see Universal Plaza,
Speaker 3: you can see one Universal, you can see NBC Universal
Speaker 3: from the one to one freeway as well as part
Speaker 3: of the one thirty four as you're coming over here
Speaker 3: towards Burbank. And so it's very interesting, but so many
Speaker 3: businesses are closed right now, and there's not a whole
Speaker 3: lot of footprint of anything once you're on site, as
Speaker 3: opposed to maybe Not's Berry Farm and Wayna Park, You've
Speaker 3: got lot of things around that area, Disneyland and Anaheim,
Speaker 3: You've got plenty of things going on here. You're kind
Speaker 3: of in Universal City. And granted you can go across
Speaker 3: the one to one over to Venture Boulevard and go
Speaker 3: over to Studio City, but there's not a lot going
Speaker 3: on there, but the things that are coming to City
Speaker 3: Walk I'm stoked for because that thing is as opposed
Speaker 3: to the Orlando Resort, where they have really leaned into
Speaker 3: their city Walk and having incredible restaurants and bars and
Speaker 3: nightclubs and everything else. We never really had that here, sadly,
Speaker 3: and so I'm excited to see what's going to be coming,
Speaker 3: especially with the new summer season right around the corner.
Speaker 3: We've also got the brand new Fast and Furious. We're
Speaker 3: waiting on that one for the roller coaster to open,
Speaker 3: and so many other things that are being added to
Speaker 3: in and around. So I think, you know, even though
Speaker 3: a lot of Universal's resources have been focused on Epic Universe,
Speaker 3: which is getting ready to open Memorial Day weekend their
Speaker 3: third gate down in Florida, there's a lot that's being
Speaker 3: put into here, So I'm excited about that.
Speaker 4: Are they really, and maybe I'm just reading too much
Speaker 4: sure of this.
Speaker 2: Are they saying we're not going for the family quote
Speaker 2: unquote family fun.
Speaker 4: Sure, we're going for the.
Speaker 2: More tweens, teens, young adults, a little more edgier fun.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm going to agree with that.
Speaker 3: I do have plenty of offerings because obviously Super Nintendo
Speaker 3: World and Mario, that brand goes to family friendly one
Speaker 3: hundred percent. Harry Potter for the most part as well.
Speaker 3: Wisiting World is the same, although during Halloween it gets
Speaker 3: you know, the death Eaters come in and he really
Speaker 3: gets a darker turn, but it takes a beautiful turn
Speaker 3: for the holidays when Christmas comes around for the Wizarding World.
Speaker 3: So I think that what and this is something like
Speaker 3: we talked about and you were talking about earlier about
Speaker 3: going to the theater, going to the movies. I think
Speaker 3: they're looking at who is spending the money where and how.
Speaker 3: So that's why I think they're leaning into those who
Speaker 3: have more disposable income. Family vacations will always still happen,
Speaker 3: but if you look at historically our resorts here, be
Speaker 3: it at Universal, be it at Disney, and be it
Speaker 3: at Knots, those are a lot of locals that are
Speaker 3: coming over and over and over again, as opposed to Florida,
Speaker 3: where you have Kissimi and you've got Orlando, and you've
Speaker 3: got SeaWorld and Universal and you've got Disney properties. I mean,
Speaker 3: you've got four gates for Disney, you've got three gates
Speaker 3: for universal gates, meaning the different theme parks that they're available.
Speaker 3: It's literally built out to be that way, and people
Speaker 3: come from around the world to visit Orlando and Kassimi
Speaker 3: as opposed to here we get a lot of maybe
Speaker 3: folks coming off the Pacific rim. That's always historically been
Speaker 3: a very big thing, and that's why Tokyo Disneyland, if
Speaker 3: you ever go to Tokyo Disneyland, is a near copy,
Speaker 3: a carbon copy of Disneyland here because that is where
Speaker 3: the vast majority of that tourism group demographic was coming from.
Speaker 3: If you go to Tokyo Disney c that's a different
Speaker 3: ballgame altogether. But that's also very unique because it's owned
Speaker 3: not by Disney but by Oil Land, Oriental Land, and Sea.
Speaker 3: That's why it's sixty eight dollars a ticket tick right in,
Speaker 3: and that's the thing to think. It's only sixty eight
Speaker 3: bucks to get into the parks there. Thank you, Sam
Speaker 3: Goochime good chime in there. Sixty eight bucks. So they
Speaker 3: do not have an anualassoord or program in Tokyo right now,
Speaker 3: purely because sixty eight bucks, I mean, that's two movies
Speaker 3: at this point in time with popcorn and candy or
Speaker 3: that's dinner for four, Like, it's very inexpensive. And on
Speaker 3: top of that, depending on where the dollar is against
Speaker 3: the en, you're able to really enjoy a lot of merchandise, shopping,
Speaker 3: a lot of things. Oriental Lendency is very very smart
Speaker 3: with how they develop things. I mean they literally close
Speaker 3: their Space Mountain completely. It's being demolished all the way
Speaker 3: to the ground. And in twenty twenty seven to twenty
Speaker 3: twenty eight is when they'll be opening a brand new
Speaker 3: Space Mountain like we've never seen with a whole new
Speaker 3: ride system inside of it. So there's so much else
Speaker 3: happening in that realm. But also to go with Universal specifically,
Speaker 3: as they're talking about here, Universal properties in Asia are
Speaker 3: incredible and the things that they do to pour into it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm so ecstatic, and it's been a long
Speaker 3: time since I've been really stoked about something a Universal
Speaker 3: because I love it's in our backyard. I love the
Speaker 3: history that's behind it. But you don't get a lot.
Speaker 3: We don't get a lot here now. We Florida gets
Speaker 3: incredible things, but they have the land and then spice
Speaker 3: and everything else here we have a physical working studio,
Speaker 3: to the point that Universal the company has sold off
Speaker 3: portions of the back lot to other studios. Now not
Speaker 3: only were they contracting and still contracting, but like it's
Speaker 3: piecemealed out, so you'll be able to go through things.
Speaker 3: But you have to think Fast and Furious. The three
Speaker 3: D attraction just closed, and you've got also Peter Jackson
Speaker 3: with his King Kong three D. That's King Kong three sixty.
Speaker 3: Rather that could be on the chopping block here in
Speaker 3: the near future, but there's so much happening the thing
Speaker 3: that I would be excited. I think this is kind
Speaker 3: of like the not to go off topic a little bit,
Speaker 3: but the studio tour is where you experience or previously
Speaker 3: experience the Fast and Furious portion of the attraction. Here
Speaker 3: in Florida, it's a free standing attraction.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 3: There's talk that they're going to turn it into oz
Speaker 3: and we might be seeing Wicket as the very closing
Speaker 3: sequence for the new newly imagined studio tour that's coming.
Speaker 4: That could be its own theme park, could be.
Speaker 3: But that soundstage where Fast and Furious was right would
Speaker 3: be epic to be able to have a way for
Speaker 3: you to actually go on a ride and go through
Speaker 3: and meet and greet the Wizard and Alphaba and Glinda.
Speaker 4: But I know we gotta go. I want to coming back.
Speaker 4: Though we're coming back. I got so much more. But
Speaker 4: like I'm excited. So I know we got a good break,
Speaker 4: but I got more for you?
Speaker 2: What's up with Nick Poalochini more? In just a moment,
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Speaker 4: What's for you? What's what? Caf I?
Speaker 2: Mo Kelly, Nick Polio, iHeartRadio YouTube video, all the things, Nick,
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Speaker 3: So we were talking about FanFest nights that start off
Speaker 3: this Friday. They are select nights all the way through May,
Speaker 3: and that's happening at Universal Studios. But let's take it
Speaker 3: to the Free ninety nine world. You and I kind
Speaker 3: of I mean me for sure, but live in the
Speaker 3: South Bay. So this weekend I've talked about it before,
Speaker 3: Open Studios, Long Beach, but this is going to be
Speaker 3: arts Open Sam Pedro so open Studios and Galleries happening
Speaker 3: both Saturday, and Sunday, Saturday from noon to six and
Speaker 3: Sunday from noon to four, and that'll be April twenty
Speaker 3: six and twenty seven. This is a great opportunity for
Speaker 3: you to get out. And again we're always talking about
Speaker 3: spending a few extra bucks on your local community and
Speaker 3: what's in your own backyard. And one of my favorite
Speaker 3: places to go that I've talked about many many times
Speaker 3: is Crafted, which is at the Port of Los Angeles,
Speaker 3: and it is a collection of many artists who have
Speaker 3: between food and drinks and flowers and soap and candles
Speaker 3: and you name it. All the goodies are there. So
Speaker 3: you've got so much as you can check out in
Speaker 3: the San Pedro area. But it's a great opportunity for
Speaker 3: you to get out. A lot of the studios will
Speaker 3: be avail even if they're not at the facilities, such
Speaker 3: as Crafted, which is a big warehouse. But there's gonna
Speaker 3: be dance parties going on. They've got looks like Tango Lessons,
Speaker 3: Dance Factory, Folklodco, Ivy League Suit Okay, lots of stuff
Speaker 3: going down. I mean yeah, I was like at this point,
Speaker 3: I'm just kind of looking over some of the events.
Speaker 3: I'm like all right, well that sounds interesting. But the
Speaker 3: thing that's really cool going on Sunday, the San Pedro
Speaker 3: Ballet will be performing as well as giving some novice
Speaker 3: classes if you will, So if you're curious about ballet,
Speaker 3: that's something to check out. You can get details about
Speaker 3: all of this by checking out event bright dot com
Speaker 3: Arts Open San Pedro or just check out the link
Speaker 3: in bio at a Nick Poliochini or this week I
Speaker 3: with Nick. Also, if you are out and about and
Speaker 3: are going to be happening to be in the La
Speaker 3: Live Downtown LA area on Saturday, keep an eye for
Speaker 3: Staffushani because we will be I know he may not
Speaker 3: be here now.
Speaker 4: He missed it last year, did you or something?
Speaker 3: I missed it last year, but he went last year
Speaker 3: and so Pizza City Fest Los Angeles will be happening
Speaker 3: both Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are still available both at
Speaker 3: the general admission and the VIP level. Steffush and I
Speaker 3: will be there on Saturday, so if you happen to
Speaker 3: be heading out, be sure to say hello, snap a
Speaker 3: picture with us. Always love to meet listeners, so that's
Speaker 3: a great opportunity for that. And then the last thing
Speaker 3: that's going on this weekend it's been Filipino Food Month,
Speaker 3: and also this weekend is Filipino Weekend at Disneyland, and
Speaker 3: so there's actually a special event that has been really
Speaker 3: hard to come by. I actually will be there on Sunday,
Speaker 3: but happening at Pixar Place Hotel, which used to be
Speaker 3: a Paradise Peer hotel which has now had the whole
Speaker 3: Pixar overlay at the Great Maple Restaurant. There, they're actually
Speaker 3: having a special so calf Filipino Food Month celebration. So
Speaker 3: if you're interested in it, you can check it out
Speaker 3: on again Nick Pouli o'kinny this weekn and Nick event
Speaker 3: Bright also has it by looking at Filipino Food Month.
Speaker 3: But it is an opportunity for you to go into
Speaker 3: a place that doesn't usually serve that are specifically cultural
Speaker 3: in one way or another unless it's attached to a
Speaker 3: movie or attached to Adventureland or Frontierland or whatever it is.
Speaker 3: So there's some really fun things that are going on.
Speaker 3: But you can also again check out event Bright or
Speaker 3: this week of a Nick Nick Poliochanni the Lincoln Bio
Speaker 3: and get more information about Filipino Food Month, which will
Speaker 3: be you know, wrapping up the end of April. So
Speaker 3: that's enough. It's enough. It's enough to keep me busy.
Speaker 3: But it's so much fun. And I think the thing
Speaker 3: that's so nice right now is that we're getting back
Speaker 3: into a time period where the weather is nicer. And
Speaker 3: I love that we live in southern California because we
Speaker 3: really can do so much outdoors all year round, and
Speaker 3: so we really are spoiled in that regard, and so
Speaker 3: go to kind of going back to CityWalk. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of stuff coming to it back with you, and
Speaker 3: that's the thing is I'm excited to see what's coming.
Speaker 3: For a long time, it was the very stale things
Speaker 3: that had been there for years, and that's great, but
Speaker 3: CityWalk really, I mean, the funniest part is there's an
Speaker 3: Abracarm and Fitch that was there for years and that
Speaker 3: will become a new store now. And there are many
Speaker 3: many restaurants that have been there for years that I
Speaker 3: had never even thought about attending, and now the new
Speaker 3: places are coming and I'm so excited for so it's
Speaker 3: nice to have something on this side of town. I
Speaker 3: am hoping sending out big hopes, hopes hopes with Cedar
Speaker 3: Fair having purchased six Flags. Along with that whole merger
Speaker 3: between Nottsberry Farmer and six Flags, I'm hoping that we'll
Speaker 3: be seeing some nice things coming to the future of
Speaker 3: six Flags. Magic Mountain up in Awesome Town or Valencia,
Speaker 3: So we'll see, because it's another opportunity for you to
Speaker 3: enjoy a place to go for the summer season again.
Speaker 4: How can they find all this information? Again? Social media?
Speaker 3: You can find me Instagram is probably the fastest and easiest,
Speaker 3: but Nick Poliochini which could be a little bit more challenging.
Speaker 3: So this Weekend with Nick is the easiest link in
Speaker 3: bio for both will take you to all the things
Speaker 3: I've talked about today tonight and so much more for
Speaker 3: you to check out in and around the Southland.
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