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Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf on Mixed one oh four

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Speaker 1: point nine thanks to Joyce Main Darwin. Gee, it's a

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Speaker 1: busy morning. But if I think I'm busy, well imagine

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Speaker 1: how Tim Wat's for d CEO of NT Major Events

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Speaker 1: is feeling this morning ahead of base in the grass

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Speaker 1: and he joins me on the line. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Tim, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: How are you very well mate? You pumped for the weekend?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I am here, we are your are psych now

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Speaker 2: we're a day out, so it's all systems go, and

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm saying, Mendel come together. It's pretty exciting.

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Speaker 3: We're all we're all on edge now read ready to party.

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Speaker 1: And we're sold out, aren't we?

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Speaker 3: We are sold out.

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Speaker 2: But I do have some news for listeners. Guys just

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Speaker 2: mentioned that we've got fifty VIP tickets that have come

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Speaker 2: back through our whole allocations available to public. So if

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Speaker 2: you if you jump on now and you're quick, you

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Speaker 2: might be able to scoop a VIP ticket. All right tomorrow,

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Speaker 2: there you go.

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Speaker 1: So fifty v IP tickets, it's still available. They've just

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Speaker 1: gone up online.

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Speaker 2: Line just gone up online.

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Speaker 1: Well let's see how fast they sell out, mate, Let's

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Speaker 1: see whether they're gone by the end of the interview.

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Speaker 1: We're waiting here. What kind of preparation has to go

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Speaker 1: into an event like this, you know, given the fact

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Speaker 1: that we're talking over twelve thousand tickets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look it is and it's a long It's been

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Speaker 2: a long two years to be quite frank sin since

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Speaker 2: we originally moved to the middle and obviously with COVID now,

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Speaker 2: so the additional preparations that you have to put in

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Speaker 2: place to big COVID safe and operating a new novel,

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Speaker 2: so to speak, does put a lot of pressure on

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Speaker 2: I think from a spatial aweness perspective, people that were

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Speaker 2: around in twenty nineteen has seen the site considerably grow

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Speaker 2: to this year. So if you want to pass kind

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Speaker 2: of mindle markets, count park area's literally the whole lot now.

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Speaker 2: So we're looking saying that it's been late nights, long days,

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Speaker 2: weekend works, the whole everything that an event manager thrives

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Speaker 2: on is all looking forward to seeing.

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Speaker 3: Them smiles and onto people's tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: So look, we're all all over. The moon's going it's

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Speaker 2: going really really well.

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Speaker 1: And tim how many stages this year and what kind

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Speaker 1: of things are going to be there. For those of

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Speaker 1: us who who haven't been before, or who aren't going,

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Speaker 1: or maybe going for the first time.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of what's not going to be there.

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Speaker 3: Effectively, we've got two we've got.

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Speaker 2: Two large or nationally large stages. This year twenty nineteen

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Speaker 2: had a smaller stage and a bigger stage. These are

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Speaker 2: two what they call forty footers, so that's a bigger

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Speaker 2: stage effectively that gets played in the country.

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Speaker 3: So there's two of them.

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Speaker 2: There's artists all the way through from literally midday through

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Speaker 2: to midnight. Some other stuff that's going on. We've got

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Speaker 2: silent disco that's going to be going around. We've got

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Speaker 2: giant lawn games, we've got some skateboards, plenty of merch

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Speaker 2: The guys at House of Darn and have done a

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Speaker 2: great job with the merchandise range. You can purchase pre

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Speaker 2: pre the event tomorrow or it will be available on site.

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Speaker 2: Three or three basketball is going to be there this year.

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Speaker 2: The guys I think you didn't get a haircut, Star

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Speaker 2: barbles are going to turn up and activate as well.

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Speaker 3: So there's actually there's literally something for everyone.

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Speaker 2: The sales speaks on.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like and it sounds like it's going to

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Speaker 1: be absolutely phenomenal, and oh look, I reckon the town

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Speaker 1: is going to be a buzz. Do you have any

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Speaker 1: idea how many of those tickets you know, now that

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Speaker 1: we're right at the pointy end of day out, how

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Speaker 1: many are actually purchased from interstate visitors?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hand on heart can say more than eight thousand

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Speaker 2: people have purchased with an interstate address. Now we also

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Speaker 2: do know and that people from the territory purchase for

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Speaker 2: their mates, So we'll do an extensive review post event,

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Speaker 2: which we do across all our events to really understand

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Speaker 2: who came along, so that number is only going to

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Speaker 2: go up. So yeah, we can definitely say there is

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Speaker 2: eight thousand people wandering the streets, and I did see

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Speaker 2: quite a few come through yesterday. Are now enjoying what

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Speaker 2: to be pretty busy on the streets, so there's plenty

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I reckon it will be. There is so much

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Speaker 1: There is so much excitement around the place and quite

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Speaker 1: a bit on and really so much more to come

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Speaker 1: for you guys at NT major events over the next

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Speaker 1: few months. How's everything going in terms of some of

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Speaker 1: those other events you're all organized. I know you're thinking

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Speaker 1: about Base today, but there's lots coming up.

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Speaker 2: There is like were literally five works away now from supercars,

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Speaker 2: so this guy started bumping in last week. So we're

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Speaker 2: activating Hidden Valley at the moment, so that's probably going

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Speaker 2: to be one of our biggest supercars in history. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to stay in particular from a motorsport program, the

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Speaker 2: fact that we've got superbikes, supertrucks, drag racing, supercars, three

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Speaker 2: days of action, and the concert with Bernard planning headlining,

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Speaker 2: is a big weekend, so the guys are obviously pinning

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Speaker 2: the years back to that. Then we've got Territory Day,

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Speaker 2: so we're going to do some stuff around Territory Day

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Speaker 2: and bring back.

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Speaker 3: The fireworks so to speak, which would be amazing.

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Speaker 2: And then we'll kind of finish up in a couple

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Speaker 2: of months after that in late August with Redturner and

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Speaker 2: app to Nola Springs. So we're in the figure of

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Speaker 2: it now, Katie and it and the place is absolutely

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Speaker 2: humming well, and.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what the weather has turned it on

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Speaker 1: for you as well. Absolutely glorious out there and it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a massive weekend. Tim Wat's for CEO

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Speaker 1: of NT major events. Always good to catch up. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for taking the time to have a

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Speaker 1: chat with us.

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Speaker 2: Good thanks for having you