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Speaker 1: Mix one O four point nine dot com for all

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Speaker 1: the latest news and information Now three sixty with Katie Wolf.

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Speaker 1: Everyone is listening Mix one oh four point nine one

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Speaker 2: Well, if you've been watching, or listening or reading the

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Speaker 2: news over the last few days, you would know that

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Speaker 2: Planet Tenpin, well, we're in a situation where they are

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Speaker 2: going to be closing up. And I tell you what,

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Speaker 2: it's something that so many in the community are feeling

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Speaker 2: really pretty sad about. But it seems the owners are

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Speaker 2: forced into this decision at this point in time, so it's.

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Speaker 3: A really tough one.

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Speaker 2: Now. I've honestly had so many people get in contact

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Speaker 2: with me about this, sending me messages on Facebook and really,

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Speaker 2: you know, just wanting to say how much they love

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Speaker 2: the planet, but also try to find some kind of

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Speaker 2: solution to the situation that they're.

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Speaker 3: In at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Now joining us on the line is the owner of

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Speaker 2: Planet Tenpin, Bruno Malieri.

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Speaker 3: Good morning to you, Bruno.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Bruno.

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Speaker 2: Can you talk us through the situation as it stands

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Speaker 2: for you guys at the planet.

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Speaker 4: Well, at the moment, we're trying to relocate our business.

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Speaker 4: We've done everything we have to do up to this point,

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Speaker 4: it's been a couple of year projects, quite a bit

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Speaker 4: has gone into it. We can't seem to get the

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Speaker 4: finance for just over fifty percent of the funds required

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Speaker 4: to make it all happen.

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Speaker 2: And mate, I know that you guys have been trying

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Speaker 2: really very hard sort of you know, going like trying

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Speaker 2: your best to look at different options and do various

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Speaker 2: different things to be able to come up with a solution,

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Speaker 2: haven't you.

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Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely we've gone. We've put a couple a few

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Speaker 4: different models on the table and we've done a full

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Speaker 4: business plan and development viability study. It's been quite a

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Speaker 4: bit of money on that, and yeah, it seems like

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Speaker 4: it's a good idea and everything and everyone's behind it.

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Speaker 4: That we still can't get the resources to make that happen.

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Speaker 2: So for those out there listening who maybe aren't aware

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Speaker 2: as to why you've got to leave the current premises,

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Speaker 2: talk us through that.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Well, the owners of the site have got our

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Speaker 4: development planned looks will go ahead this time. It could

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Speaker 4: start as early as July, probably won't start to later

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Speaker 4: in a year. But actually there's no longer in future here,

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Speaker 4: so we have to move on. Just how it is.

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Speaker 4: We've known for a while we will go and have

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Speaker 4: a final new location. That's why we've been working on

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Speaker 4: the project for a couple of years now, and that's

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Speaker 4: where we're out at the land now.

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Speaker 2: I know, as you've mentioned, you've been looking at lots

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Speaker 2: of different options, trying your best to sort of, you know,

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Speaker 2: to come up with a different plan. But at the

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Speaker 2: end of the day, it's an incredibly expensive process to

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Speaker 2: try and find a new location for you guys, isn't.

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Speaker 4: It absolutely to relocate crowd in the facility. It's at

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Speaker 4: least a couple of million dollar projects, so it's not

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Speaker 4: easy to do. You can't just pick up the lanes

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Speaker 4: and move them. These machines are over sixty five years old,

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Speaker 4: so they're not eahould have moved around or anything. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's a big project and we thought we're on the

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Speaker 4: right in the right direction, but we're not quite there yet.

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Speaker 2: Oh Bruno, you know, what are some of the options

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Speaker 2: that you've got And I guess, you know, are they

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Speaker 2: like what? I don't know whether that you know, whether

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Speaker 2: asking what are some of the solutions is the right

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Speaker 3: Ask, but you know, I guess what what can be

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Speaker 4: Well, there's not a lot of options. Obviously we have

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Speaker 4: to relokay, so we have to find the resources to

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Speaker 4: do that, whether we do it ourselves with a bank

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Speaker 4: sport and the government. It's hard to say. We've like

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Speaker 4: Overendo all options. But it's not about our business at

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Speaker 4: the end of the day. It's more about the the

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Speaker 4: facilities being there for the community. Yes, sport, people with

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Speaker 4: specially needs, juniors, people try to trying to have a

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Speaker 4: good time. It's not just about the business. It's about community.

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Speaker 3: Yep, Oh it really is.

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Speaker 2: And and I know you guys have had for years

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Speaker 2: in there the you know, so many community members getting

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Speaker 2: as well. Oh.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, we've got some of the best bowlers in the

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Speaker 4: country bowling this year we've had we've got two ladies

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Speaker 4: in the Australian squad at the moment. We've had several

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Speaker 4: people make Australian teams from go and nts won the

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Speaker 4: national competition several times. Not many sports and say they've go.

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Speaker 2: No, that's exactly right, We've got some incredible bowlers and

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Speaker 2: we are going to very shortly catch up with the

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Speaker 2: president of ten Pin Bowling, the ten Pin Bowling Association, Janine.

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Speaker 2: But Bruno, just talking, I guess the nitty gritty here.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a two point five million dollar project

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Speaker 2: as I understand it just reading from you know, from

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Speaker 2: the pressure release that you've sent out, and it has

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Speaker 2: a one point two million dollars shortfall and you've so

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Speaker 2: you've been a situation where you've not secured a finance deal.

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Speaker 3: What are the options?

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Speaker 2: I mean realistically, is this something that you guys could

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Speaker 2: go alone or do you really need the government or

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Speaker 2: somebody to kind of step in here and do business

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Speaker 2: with you.

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Speaker 4: Well, we've done a full business plan and we've got

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Speaker 4: the full costumes and everything else is yep, it's basically

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Speaker 4: it's viable to do as a business loan and on

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Speaker 4: our own. Yeah, we're happy to do it. We're here

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Speaker 4: for the sport and the community, so we're basically copy

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Speaker 4: you do it any way that works.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So if we can get alone, we'll just do

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Speaker 4: it and help the sport in the background. Any way

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Speaker 4: we can someone helped us out and I'll get a

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Speaker 4: lot more support that way, And yeah, I guess a

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Speaker 2: Oh mate, it sounds like you guys are trying your

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Speaker 2: best and I, from what I can gather, you know,

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Speaker 2: the whole sort of ten pin community is right behind you, guys.

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Speaker 2: But you know, I guess we need you know, we

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Speaker 2: need Yeah, we need some help to make this happen.

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Speaker 2: Or you guys need some help to make this happen.

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Speaker 2: Is it a matter of you know, have you sourced

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Speaker 2: where are we at?

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Speaker 4: Okay, locations are an issue. There's plenty of locations available.

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Speaker 4: We actually found a location we think the best location

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Speaker 4: for the future of the sport and the business. It's

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Speaker 4: basically for the sport to be successful, it needs a

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Speaker 4: pretty much what has to happen. So we've worked out

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Speaker 4: the best location. We've got a lease offer on the table,

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Speaker 4: We've got all the plans ready to go. We just

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Speaker 4: haven't secured the finance.

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Speaker 2: Goodness mate, who is there anybody, I mean, can the

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Speaker 2: government step in and help here in some way to

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Speaker 2: help you guys secure that finance or what's the you know,

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Speaker 2: what can happen?

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm not really sure. We spoke a lot of

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Speaker 4: people and they've said that there's a lot of talk

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Speaker 4: going on, but there doesn't give me any commitment. We've

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Speaker 4: looked at loans. For example, there were COVID bounced back

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Speaker 4: loans of up to a million dollars. We didn't qualify BECA.

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Speaker 4: We've just missed out on round two of the hardships

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Speaker 4: of the job keeper system, so things like that probably

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Speaker 4: just thought financially something you could get when you had

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Speaker 4: a good plan. And we're still looking at the options

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Speaker 2: Yeah well, yeah, goodness mate. I mean, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: maybe somebody out there listening will we'll be able to

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Speaker 2: get in contact and you know, and yeah, I point

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Speaker 2: out some other options. I know that you're working with

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Speaker 2: the government at this point in time, or you've certainly

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Speaker 2: spoken with the government, like you said, there's been meetings

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Speaker 2: et cetera. BRU, and I really hope that there's some

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Speaker 2: that it's something that you're working incredibly hard on.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I look ideally at this stage, were just like

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Speaker 4: a meeting with maybe the government and the sports and

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Speaker 4: all get together and work out what's best for everyone.

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Speaker 4: I guess. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, and you know, I.

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Speaker 2: Do wonder could the government sort of guarantee alone similar

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Speaker 2: to you know, to what they've maybe done for something

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Speaker 2: like the turf club at Silks.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm not really sure what the government can and

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Speaker 4: can't do. I'm not really an expert.

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Speaker 2: On what.

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Speaker 3: Neither am I Bruno.

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Speaker 4: I'd like to sit down and have a chat and

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Speaker 4: see what they can do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well mate, please let us know how you go.

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Speaker 2: I you know, I hope that I hope that you

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Speaker 2: are able to get a sit down meeting with them

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Speaker 2: and something's able to be worked through here.

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Speaker 3: But please keep us up to date.

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Speaker 2: As I said, you know, you've got so much support

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Speaker 2: from the community and and you know, so much support

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Speaker 2: obviously from the ten pin bowling community that that really

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Speaker 2: want a solution to be able to be found.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, the community's been great with this. Yeah, it's been

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Speaker 4: overwhelming at times. Yeah, I'm not sure what I was

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Speaker 4: I can say no.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Bruno, thanks so much for having your chat with

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Speaker 2: us this morning, and please do keep us up to

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Speaker 2: date and and you we'll see what we can find

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Speaker 2: out from our side as well.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank Katie, thank you. That is Bruno there

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Speaker 3: from Planet Tenpin, the owner