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Speaker 1: Well, who doesn't love the million dollar fish? And it's

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Speaker 1: the tenth year this year, so with the tenth year,

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Speaker 1: I know they've made some changes, done some more exciting things.

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Speaker 1: And joining me in the studio right now from NT

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Speaker 1: Major Events Company, the acting CEO, Trevor Cox's good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Good morning to see you mate. Great have

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Speaker 1: you in the studio and done so good to hear

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Speaker 1: more about the million dollar Fish. Now I understand he

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Speaker 1: is ninety nine fish tagged with the ten thousand dollars?

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Speaker 1: Is that right?

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Speaker 2: Well, Katie, that's how we started the competition. But an

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Speaker 2: exclusive for you, there's only ninety seven left. Oh what

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Speaker 2: to have been caught, to have been caught already? When

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Speaker 2: one on day one, one on day two we've just

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Speaker 2: verified yet the guys are so excited. It is the

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Speaker 2: best experience when the guys come in and we verify

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Speaker 2: how much money they've wont. It's so uplifting.

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Speaker 1: Talk me through what kind of happens because I've always

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Speaker 1: wondered that, you know, you sort of like you see

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Speaker 1: people with their fish afterwards and you can't I've always thought,

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Speaker 1: what's the process exactly?

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Speaker 2: Well, the first process, I've got to say to your

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Speaker 2: viewers is you have to register. Yep, get one million

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Speaker 2: dollar fish dot com dot AUP. Because if you're over

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Speaker 2: at eighteen and your register, then you're eligible to collect

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Speaker 2: the prize money. First and foremost do that. All the

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Speaker 2: terms of conditions and the processes on the website follow it.

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Speaker 2: But it's a process that we go through verification. So

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Speaker 2: you have take photos, your ID and those sorts of things,

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Speaker 2: and we do all that and then we let them

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Speaker 2: know how much money they've won. And you should see

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Speaker 2: the smiles.

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Speaker 1: Mate, I wondered, and I was going to say, what

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Speaker 1: is the reaction, Like, I'm sure, I'm sure that there's

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Speaker 1: big smiles. I'm assuming that there's sometimes some colorful language

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Speaker 1: as well, and we've met not say that but what

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Speaker 1: those words might be. But I reckon we will be

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Speaker 1: absolutely pumped, are they? Oh?

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Speaker 2: For sure? You know that the photos till you know

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Speaker 2: in stories really and no one is disappointed. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's a great competition, it's a celebration of the territory

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Speaker 2: lifestyle and look, fishing appears to be great at the

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Speaker 2: moment people are out there, you know, people were threatening

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Speaker 2: to be out there at one minute past twelve. You

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Speaker 2: know when the campaign opened. So it's just really good

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Speaker 2: to see and almost is better. I think we've had

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Speaker 2: one caught at Buffalo Creek and then the other one

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Speaker 2: was caught out the Daily River Crossing.

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Speaker 1: How cool. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. And so with those

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Speaker 1: with the two that have already been caught, do we

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Speaker 1: have much more detail about who caught those?

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Speaker 2: Yes. So the first Lucky winner this year was Ken.

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Speaker 2: Ken's well known because he works down at Mister Barrack. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, so he's filloting fish during the day and

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Speaker 2: he was out fishing during the evening and caught the

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Speaker 2: first fish of the year. So good on Ken. And

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Speaker 2: then THEO who was just in the office with his kids.

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Speaker 2: He caught the fish down at Daily River Crossing, another

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Speaker 2: local you know, so a fantastic Oh good.

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Speaker 1: So he was out having a fish with these kids

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Speaker 1: and caught ten thousand dollar barrew. Oh that's wonderful. I

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Speaker 1: love these stories. I love you know, as they start

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Speaker 1: to flow through and you hear more about the people

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Speaker 1: that have been out there fishing in court. You know,

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Speaker 1: I caught the fish, and so there's ninety nine, well

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Speaker 1: there was, now there's ninety seven. Tag Barrow with the

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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars. How many chances have we got to

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Speaker 2: Well, in season ten, you've got ten more chances because

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Speaker 2: there are ten million dollar fish tags swimming around the

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Speaker 2: top end at the moment, and when one of them

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Speaker 2: goes off, unfortunately they convert to ten thousand the rinders. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but in a game of chance, which is what million

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Speaker 2: home a million dollars, Trevor.

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Speaker 1: Last year we obviously saw the million dollar fish go off,

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Speaker 1: nineteen year old Keegan Pain from Catherine. He reeled in

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Speaker 1: that sixty seven centimeter million dollar barrew. How big an

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Speaker 1: impact do you reckon? That's had on the competition in

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Speaker 1: terms of really us in the national and international spotlight

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Speaker 1: that here in the Northern Territory we have got this

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Speaker 1: competition where you can go on fish. Not only are

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Speaker 1: you going to fish for a barrow, which is a

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Speaker 1: bit of a bucket list experience as it is if

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Speaker 1: you live in another state, but you can actually potentially

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Speaker 2: Look without a doubt, and you know, we have great

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Speaker 2: major events across the territory from Patcham to the Red

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Speaker 2: Center and that's the supercars, which we've had going for

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Speaker 2: twenty five years. But when you give away a million dollars,

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Speaker 2: it peaks everybody's interest. So we had people like yourself

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Speaker 2: in Melbourne on radio talking about it. It was broadcast globally.

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Speaker 2: People were picking it up and it definitely I think

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Speaker 2: helped with the recent announcement of the event TEX Awards. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Anty Major Events has been named number six in the world.

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Speaker 2: That's so an amazing effort with over three hundred entries

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Speaker 2: from globally and we're number six.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like what the team Major Events does in the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory is pretty incredible. And then when you look

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Speaker 1: at what we do, like what you do on that

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Speaker 1: national stage, and then you know, to be recognized in

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Speaker 1: this way is a really great thing and great for

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Speaker 1: the NT to be proud of too.

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Speaker 2: I think. So look, look, I know our team are

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Speaker 2: super proud of the achievements they've made, but I think

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Speaker 2: as a territory and all that we do is we

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Speaker 2: celebrate territory lifestyle, you know, so territories should be really

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Speaker 2: proud of this event and the notification and it's really

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Speaker 2: building on brand territory.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right. Through events. We're making the territory

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Speaker 2: a greater place to live through events. So it's an

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Speaker 2: awesome message.

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Speaker 1: It is. It's a great thing. Hey, on the million

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Speaker 1: dollar fish before you go, what are the other changes

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Speaker 1: this year? So we've got we have now ninety seven

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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollar fish up for grabs. We've got ten

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Speaker 1: of the million dollar fish swimming around, but once one

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Speaker 1: is that still happening this year?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it certainly is, along with the very popular double

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Speaker 2: the dough it's back in season ten. We've also got

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Speaker 2: fish miss March Madness that'll all occurse still so and

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Speaker 2: then there's over eighty thousand dollars worth of prizes as well.

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Speaker 2: That's just by entering or registering, you can go into

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Speaker 2: the drawer to win monthly prizes with the charity partner.

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Speaker 2: This year, we've decided to select one charity partner to

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Speaker 2: make a greater impact, so that charity partner receives one

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars every time ten thousand dollars fish goes off,

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Speaker 2: and if or when the million dollars is one. They'll

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Speaker 2: receive ten thousand, and our charity partner is the Cancer

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Speaker 2: Counsel Mt Good Stuff this year, which is a great alignment.

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Speaker 2: You know, the sun Care message is really strong with

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Speaker 2: FIS shows. Most fish shows do do it, but it's

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Speaker 2: a really good reminder to look after yourself when you're

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Speaker 2: out there fishing trying to catch that million dollar fish.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Oh that's a really good one, great charity partner.

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Speaker 1: But I know you guys are busy. What's the next

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Speaker 1: event on?

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Speaker 2: Look, we're pretty excited about our Springs Masters Games. We'll

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Speaker 2: kick off in just over a week's time, eight days

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Speaker 2: of sensational sporting action in the Center. We're so excited

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Speaker 2: to be looking after that event, and the team and

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Speaker 2: our Springs have rived up and been going hard. We've

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Speaker 2: had a few of us heading down to help out

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Speaker 2: for the eight days of the game, so that'll be good. Absolutely,

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Speaker 2: And look the way the fisher being caught, We're going

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Speaker 2: to be kept pretty busy. I think right through it.

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Speaker 1: To Mark, I reckon you will be I reckon you

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Speaker 1: will be well. Trevor Cox's CEO acting CEO for n

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Speaker 1: Team Major Events Company. Lovely to catch up with you,

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Speaker 1: this morning. Thanks so much for your time.

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Speaker 2: Cheers Guddie, Thank you