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Speaker 1: Pre sixty with Katie Wolf covering the issues that are

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Speaker 1: important to you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to Joyce Main Darwin.

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Speaker 3: Well, the top ends weather. I can tell you it

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Speaker 3: is absolutely glorious down here at the waterfront. A little

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Speaker 3: on the warmer side than what we're expecting, but it

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Speaker 3: is beautiful down here. And today we are heading for

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Speaker 3: a top of thirty one in the city, thirty four

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Speaker 3: in the rural area and in Katherine mostly sunny in

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Speaker 3: thirty four as well. The Mix one oh four point

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Speaker 3: nine sweat Factor with over forty six thousand listeners. You

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Speaker 3: your business. And the UV index is a very high

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Speaker 3: top of seven point five. The top ends tied times

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Speaker 3: in an outball marine is dar in time of Quintrex

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Speaker 3: bar Crusher, Stabbycraft, Premium alloy boats and world leading Yamaha outboards.

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Speaker 3: And today we've got that high tide six point three

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Speaker 3: meters at ten point forty this morning. In Darwen it's

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Speaker 3: on twenty eight degrees, it's twenty eight in the rural area,

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Speaker 3: and in Katherine we're sitting on twenty seven degrees. And

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Speaker 3: as I said, we are doing it live this morning

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Speaker 3: from the Darwin Waterfront and it is all part of

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Speaker 3: well a lot of activities in the lead up to

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Speaker 3: the Merlin Darwin Triple Crown on the weekend. And joining

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Speaker 3: me right now is the CEO of NT Major Events,

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Speaker 3: Tim Watsford.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning Katy. How are you?

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Speaker 3: I tell you what it is good to be out

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Speaker 3: and about and we're better to do an outside broadcast

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Speaker 3: than the waterfront.

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Speaker 1: They're right, it's look, it's definitely coming together. The guys

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Speaker 1: have been working on morning for getting ready for one

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Speaker 1: thirty this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: But looking around now you're almost there. Come down, have

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Speaker 2: a look at.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty Sorry, Well there's cars all over the lawn,

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Speaker 3: parked on the lawn. I know that that's not usually allowed,

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Speaker 3: but for you guys anything in the lead up to

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Speaker 3: the supercar say, and everyone's down here having a lot, Well,

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Speaker 3: that's right. And twelve fifty five, I believe is the

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Speaker 3: official welcome to country and then the drivers are going

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Speaker 3: to be here from one o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I think it's really important.

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Speaker 1: We're obviously on Marraka land and from a welcoming perspective,

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Speaker 1: lurky nation's got behind us and really want to welcome

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Speaker 1: everyone to the church to the top end for this

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Speaker 1: one and then then we're into it.

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Speaker 2: From a driver's perspective, they're all in town.

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Speaker 1: I've spoken of supercars last night, which is good. We've

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Speaker 1: obviously got a little bit of a scare COVID related

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Speaker 1: which doesn't make me sleep much in Sydney. So we're

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Speaker 1: all clean out of Sydney, so to speak. But no

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Speaker 1: of you wheready to go from Monday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say that. So we've got

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Speaker 3: a bit of a situation at the moment in New

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Speaker 3: South Wales, Wales where we are all keeping a bit

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Speaker 3: of a close eye on this well, this case that's

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Speaker 3: come through. But how is that impacting things for you

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Speaker 3: at the moment in terms of the management and the

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Speaker 3: lead into the day well to the racing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look at what.

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Speaker 1: We've got an eye on everything at the moment unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: and look with the stuff going around in the east

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Speaker 1: and suburbs. Look, hopefully it is contained. The mail coming

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Speaker 1: out of NTO Health as obviously from an exposure site perspective,

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Speaker 1: so we've run that to ground with our supercars and

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Speaker 1: our programming.

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Speaker 2: Guys, they're all in town now, which is good.

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Speaker 1: They'll go do their checks and balances on making sure

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Speaker 1: that none of those exposure sites have been visited, which

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at that and they haven't. So look where

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Speaker 1: we're ready to race. Unfortunately, some people may be in

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Speaker 1: New South Wales from a from a spectator perspective, impacted. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you get to get me mailed out of that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say, do we know whether

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Speaker 3: we've got many visitors here for the supercars from New

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Speaker 3: South Wales in terms of those ticket sales or not?

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Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, we do. We do, one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: We do, and it's and it's literally from a demographic perspective,

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Speaker 1: it is rural New South Wales to be honest, so

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Speaker 1: that to try to come up here, So we're hoping

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Speaker 1: that you know, those exposure sizes hasn't been visited by

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Speaker 1: the people that are coming up or the here already

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Speaker 1: and are doing what they need to do. But look

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Speaker 1: from a from a visitation perspective, this event is probably

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Speaker 1: one of the biggest ones in the territory. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're definitely coming from right across the east and see

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Speaker 1: bill to the top of this weekend.

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Speaker 3: Well, it is the place to be. How pumped are

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Speaker 3: you for the weekend or are you there you just

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Speaker 3: not slept basically, no, No, Look, we're excited.

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Speaker 1: This is this is I'll say it's personal favorite obviously

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Speaker 1: based on the grass and what we do through the

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Speaker 1: Red Center, but are Big four but kind of what

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Speaker 1: really floats our boat and watching the watching the convoy

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Speaker 1: kickoff last night, and I think we spoke earlier in

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Speaker 1: the week around you know what it means in the

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Speaker 1: community and seeing some of the young faces and and

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Speaker 1: the smiles go pass as those in pretty impressive trucks

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Speaker 1: do their thing and really welcome to the Churchory, Look,

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Speaker 1: this is Look, we're pretty excited. And I think looking

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Speaker 1: at a drag car now Katie in front of us,

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Speaker 1: they're impressive vehicles. And the fact that they'll be running

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Speaker 1: around tomorrow afternoon as the first time ever, plus superbikes.

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Speaker 2: Look, we're pretty keen to get away and get rolling.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun. There

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Speaker 3: is no doubt about that. And do we have any

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Speaker 3: idea really how many people we are anticipating at the

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Speaker 3: track this weekend?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, we set our sights and thirty six thirty

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Speaker 1: seven thousand through the gates over the weekend was a

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Speaker 1: pretty aggressive target. We thought we were doing our budgeting

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Speaker 1: end of last year. I'm relatively comfortable, even though we

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Speaker 1: own some impacts out of Melbourne and New South Wales

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Speaker 1: that we'll seed that based on our sales today. So look,

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Speaker 1: there are tickets still available jump online, Supercarsdale and dot

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Speaker 1: com dotu in particular drag racing guys. I think it's

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Speaker 1: going to be something pretty special. Not many people get

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Speaker 1: to experience it, and it's something thats been well supported

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Speaker 1: Nightrop North over the years and the top end. You know,

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Speaker 1: the fact that I think it's forty and other top

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Speaker 1: sixteen funny cars from the country are actually in town.

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Speaker 2: So look, it's going to be exciting.

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Speaker 1: And obviously got the big stuff through the weekend and

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Speaker 1: Burn the Fanning headlining Saturday.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, we're expecting a pretty healthy ground.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is going to be a lot of fun,

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Speaker 3: there's no doubt about that. But this afternoon it's all

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Speaker 3: happening here the driver signing from one o'clock. There's going

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Speaker 3: to be a big lineup, isn't there, Tim, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there is definitely going to be and look I'm

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Speaker 1: going to I aways asked people to be patient we'reb's

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Speaker 1: operating in a COVID environment. I I've got to put

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Speaker 1: that out there, so social distancing will be key, and

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Speaker 1: the MG major Events staff are down here and we'll

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Speaker 1: help with everything that has to get done to make

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Speaker 1: sure you get an autograph if you want to get too.

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Speaker 1: There's also a driver signing sufternoon at Middle Beach as well,

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Speaker 1: So guys are pretty busy.

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Speaker 3: Today, Well just get down here early. It would be

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Speaker 3: my advice as well. You know there's plenty of parking.

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Speaker 3: It's a great spot. Like we know that there's plenty

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Speaker 3: of parks here. You can definitely get here and find

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Speaker 3: the space to be able to make it happen. Get

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Speaker 3: those get all your merch signed, and the merchant I

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Speaker 3: van is there as well, ready.

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Speaker 2: To go, already going, already going sold.

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Speaker 1: They are, yeah and look and to reiterate the point,

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Speaker 1: thanks to the Waterfront for gun jumping on board and giving.

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Speaker 2: Us a hand with this one. That's there is something

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Speaker 2: for everyone.

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Speaker 1: They've alsosly opened their beach club recently as well, so

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Speaker 1: we'll come down and spend the day.

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Speaker 2: It's yes, can be a good one.

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Speaker 3: It's the place to be, no doubt about it. Tim Watsford,

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Speaker 3: CEO for NT Major Events. Good to catch up with you.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you again over the weekend. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Mix ONEOW four point nine three sixty

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Speaker 3: coming to you live this morning from the Darwin Waterfront