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Speaker 1: Everybody knows. I love talking about very territory things. Whatever's

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Speaker 1: happening around the territory. I love chatting about it. And

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Speaker 1: my next guest, well, he has been running. He and

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Speaker 1: his beautiful wife have been running and own the Sam

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Speaker 1: Palms for thirteen years. Tommy Abdu joins me in the

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Speaker 1: studio right now.

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Speaker 2: How are you, mate, I'm good, Thanks, Katie.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, and good morning to your listeners and to

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Speaker 3: your fishermen and to your punners and everybody out there.

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Speaker 1: Now. Tommy, you and I first met because you were

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Speaker 1: very dear friends of the late great Pete Davies, and

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Speaker 1: you guys, you are, honestly you're a true territory and

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Speaker 1: I reckon in every sense of the word.

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Speaker 2: You're generous, you're a lovely bloke.

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Speaker 1: You run an amazing business out there, and I was

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Speaker 1: surprised to see that it was up on the market.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, after this many years, we're over twelve years now

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Speaker 3: into our thirteenth and me and Jules are getting a

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Speaker 3: little bit tired, you know, Katie. We need to have

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Speaker 3: a bit of a sit down time and sort of

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Speaker 3: have a look and spend a bit more time with

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Speaker 3: the grandkids and with the babies and that, and yeah,

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Speaker 3: I reckon.

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Speaker 2: That's fair enough because it is a pretty full on.

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Speaker 1: Thing to be doing obviously running that place, and you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't stop, you know, you wouldn't get the opportunity to

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Speaker 2: So after thirteen years you probably need a bit of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we could take a couple of weeks

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Speaker 3: off by now, I reckon you could.

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Speaker 2: When's the last time you got to have a couple

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Speaker 3: To be honest, we bought a boat for our twentieth

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Speaker 3: wedding anniversary three years ago, so Julie and I got

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Speaker 3: a bit of time there bringing that from Sydney to Darwin.

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Speaker 1: It was fun.

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Speaker 2: Oh good on you.

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Speaker 1: Now to anyone who hasn't been out to the sam Palms,

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Speaker 1: paint a bit of a picture for us, for anyone

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Speaker 1: as well who might be listening thinking, hey, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: mind buying that slice of heaven and living out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just they're going to launch it online today,

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Speaker 3: Katie and I guess for people that haven't been out there,

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Speaker 3: and I think most people in the area have spent

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Speaker 3: a bit of time out there, whether they're passing through

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Speaker 3: or staying there because we host a fair a few

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Speaker 3: fishing competitions there through the course of the year. And

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Speaker 3: we've got from where the pub is, it's four kilometers

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Speaker 3: to the salt water boat ramp into Middle Inlet, and

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Speaker 3: it's four kilometers to the freshwater boat ramp into the

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Speaker 3: Finnis River. And you've got your fermented water in the

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Speaker 3: middle of the course. So that's a pretty good attraction

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Speaker 3: there for most territorius.

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Speaker 1: Yep. And you've got a couple of crocodile resident crocodiles

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got a couple of little swamp geckos out there.

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Speaker 3: Our two dogs has been there nearly five years and

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Speaker 3: he's a bit entertaining. I'll get him there on Thursday

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Speaker 3: afternoons with him and give him something to eat and

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Speaker 3: walk him around the pen and give people a little

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Speaker 3: bit of a crocodwise experience and show him how fast

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Speaker 3: the big animal can be. But just got to be

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Speaker 3: a little bit quicker. And they reckon when you're being

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Speaker 3: chased by a crocodile, you don't need to be very fast,

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Speaker 3: just faster than the slowest person.

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Speaker 2: It took me a while to get that one.

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Speaker 1: I love that your home's still getting over you calling

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Speaker 1: them swamp geckos.

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Speaker 2: So how big are the Clocketiles property?

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Speaker 3: The little one's four point six and the big ones

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Speaker 3: just on five point two?

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Speaker 1: Oh goodness mate, you know he's he's well like, how

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Speaker 1: much has it got does it take to feed them?

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Speaker 3: Not a real light at all. It's actually one of

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Speaker 3: the lowest maintenance pets you can have. You've only got

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Speaker 3: a feed him once a week and even that seems

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Speaker 2: Just one person. Just what do you feed them?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Mostly feral pigs, a bit of beef, you know, and

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Speaker 2: Yep, big go.

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Speaker 1: So tell me more about the whole property as well

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Speaker 1: and what you're selling, because you know, many of us

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Speaker 1: know about the sam Palms, but we sort of don't

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Speaker 1: know exactly what's out there as well.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's there's a cavean park there. I put a

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Speaker 3: whole bunch of new sites in there. There's about thirty

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Speaker 3: five thirty six pound sites there and heap open camping.

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Speaker 3: There's twenty five motel rooms, swimming pool there. They're all

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Speaker 3: air cons and on suited et cetera. Yep, there's a rest,

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Speaker 3: there's a bar, there's a side deck smoking area out

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Speaker 2: There's yeah, something for everyone.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot there to do in a very close proximity. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's primarily fisherman another target because it's just so close

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Speaker 3: to everything. But it's also a lot of fun had

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Speaker 3: out there. We've had a hell of an experience since

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Speaker 3: we've been there. We haven't. We weren't pub people when

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Speaker 3: we bought it came we were. Julie's worked in the

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Speaker 3: pharmacy most of her career and I'm a rig pig

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Speaker 3: for about twenty five years before I tried working on

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Speaker 3: the other side of the bar. And it's been a

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Speaker 3: hell of an experience, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Was it a hard transition to go from being in those,

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Speaker 1: you know, those other fields to then being pub owners

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Speaker 1: and having all, you know, that accommodation and everything to

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Speaker 3: I think you just get in and have a go,

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Speaker 3: you know that sort of Julian I as attitude has

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Speaker 3: been all that way.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: I come home years ago and I said, well, look

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Speaker 3: we need to go and live in Malaysia for a

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Speaker 3: couple of years. That caves You've packed all the bags

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Speaker 3: up off we went and everything. Ye, So you know,

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Speaker 3: you just got to be adaptable and be ready to

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Speaker 3: get in and have a bit of a go, And

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Speaker 3: that I think is way life should be. You get

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Speaker 3: out of it what you put into.

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Speaker 2: It, one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: And your wife, Julie is an amazing woman as well,

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Speaker 1: and an amazing family. I think it's a fantastic property too,

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Speaker 1: obviously buy for anybody out there who's after a bit

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Speaker 1: of would you call it a bit of a territory adventure?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely? Yeah, absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Tell me what's the most exciting thing that's ever happened

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Mate, we did two seasons of Dog a Hog, So

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Speaker 3: we had the feral pig hunting competition out there two

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Speaker 3: years in a row. And I'm telling you then people

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Speaker 3: are fair or it was good fun though. There was

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Speaker 3: a hell of a good adventure. We had over a

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Speaker 3: thousand people in there for roast dinner on the Sunday night.

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Speaker 3: That's going back about seven years eight years ago. Now,

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Speaker 3: that was a pretty big weekend. We did that two

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Speaker 3: years in a row. We still have fish and comps.

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Speaker 3: We've had a lot of bands out there. Yeah. I

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Speaker 3: think you're only limited by your imagination because there's still

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Speaker 3: a lot of land there that's not being touched.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: And so real Estate Central are obviously taking the lead.

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Speaker 1: They are they've got your property or it's launching today

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Speaker 1: on the market.

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Speaker 2: Correct, Tommy, it's a bit of an end of an era,

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Speaker 2: is mesh.

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Speaker 3: It is for us, But I don't We're not going

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Speaker 3: to go anywhere, Katie. We're going to stay in the area.

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Speaker 3: We only live a away. So whoever takes it over

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Speaker 3: if they need to find something out, I'm just a

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Speaker 3: phone call, you know. So we're pretty amicable like that.

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Speaker 2: And you two are fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Honestly, if you were going to be purchasing this amazing property,

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Speaker 1: you two would be so much help but also such

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Speaker 1: good people.

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Speaker 2: In terms of helping those new owners out.

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Speaker 1: I reckon it is going to be a fantastic cell

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Speaker 1: And no doubt, I don't know whether.

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Speaker 2: It do you reckon it'll be local or interstata.

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Speaker 3: Oh, the climate is right just for interstate. But there

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Speaker 3: are a lot of people around that are still interested

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Speaker 3: in buying this sort of opportunity in the territory because

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Speaker 3: it is a piece of the territory. Yep. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I guess ask me that question in

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Speaker 3: a week or I'll probably have a better idea.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Tommy, it's lovely to have you in the studio

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Speaker 1: this morning. I know it's been a while since you

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Speaker 1: were last in the studio. Pete Davies was still alive

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Speaker 1: when you were last in. I know you and I

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Speaker 1: have spoken since then, but we both miss him. Absolutely

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Speaker 1: wonderful man. And and you know, if it weren't for Pete,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't know you either. Tommy. It's lovely to see

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Speaker 1: you in the studio and lovely to catch up with you, and.

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Speaker 2: All the best to you and Julie.

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Speaker 1: If people do want to check out the property and

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Speaker 1: find out a bit more info, real Estate Central are

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Speaker 1: going to be going live with that one a little

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Speaker 1: later today, aren't they they are. Yeah, good stuff, Tommy,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for coming in.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Katie, I appreciate it. See you, sou