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Katie Woolf spoke with David who had one job, and thanks to Erich Friedl GM for Novotel and Mercure Darwin Airport we could help him with it. · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: If you want to know what's happening on the local
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  Speaker 1: political landscape, Katie Wolf has it covered on three sixty.
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  Speaker 2: Every one is listening Mixed one oh four point nine.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there is always plenty happening around the place, and
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  Speaker 1: I know that accommodation and everything booking out has been
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  Speaker 1: a real issue for a lot of people. Was speaking
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  Speaker 1: to somebody on Friday who said that they've got an
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  Speaker 1: event coming up in Darwin over the next few weeks
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  Speaker 1: and they've been really struggling to find somewhere to be
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  Speaker 1: able to stay. Now I've got a listener on the line.
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  Speaker 1: David joins us right now. Good morning to you, David.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Katy.
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  Speaker 3: How are you not too bad now?
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  Speaker 1: David, You've got a big day coming up on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: July thirty one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct, big day for us.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on? You're getting married?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so me and my partner, my fiance. We've been together,
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  Speaker 2: that gone on thirteen years now, so got together quite young.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still together, which is great. We're looking to tie
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  Speaker 2: the knots on the thirty first of July.
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  Speaker 3: She siding up here and yeah, I bet it is
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  Speaker 3: so mate.
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  Speaker 1: You've got no doubt you're going to have plenty of
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  Speaker 1: family and friends here for the big occasion.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. We've got a couple family members in to day,
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  Speaker 2: but the majority are here in the territory, mostly in
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  Speaker 2: our springs, so they'll be coming up, traveling up, looking
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  Speaker 2: to come visit for our special occasion.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you've had an interesting lead up to this day though,
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  Speaker 1: haven't You've had to postpone the wedding a couple of times? Now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because we were living in our springs, we got
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  Speaker 2: engaged and then we were looking to get married in
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, but due to me having to go back
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  Speaker 2: and do some work, had an opportunity that sort of
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  Speaker 2: put that on hold. And then we looked out planning
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  Speaker 2: for twenty twenty, but due to COVID obviously that didn't
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  Speaker 2: go ahead. So then we sort of just look for
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  Speaker 2: a date sometime during the dry up here in darw And,
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  Speaker 2: which was the thirty first July.
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  Speaker 1: Well you what, mate, what's your fiance's name?
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  Speaker 2: Her name's Kirby.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, can you say that again?
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  Speaker 1: Kirby kirbybe Oh, well, I'll tell you what I understand
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  Speaker 1: that Kirby is a fantastic organizer and that she has
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  Speaker 1: done a fantastic job in terms of organizing things.
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  Speaker 3: But David, mate, you were given one job, is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that is correct. Basically, she's she's she's the engine
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  Speaker 2: room of our family. She does everything. Without her would
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  Speaker 2: just come at a standstill. So basically she took on
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  Speaker 2: board everything. She gave me one job from the beginning
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  Speaker 2: a few months ago. Oh, pretty much last year when
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  Speaker 2: we had to postpone so I thought I just left
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  Speaker 2: it last minute, and that was the book accommodation for
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  Speaker 2: our wedding night.
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  Speaker 1: Now, mate, you are in a spot of bother because
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  Speaker 1: you can't actually find any now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, one hundred. I've been looking since probably early started
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  Speaker 2: this year. I did a quick look around, but unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: due to the wedding dates, the day we picked he's
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  Speaker 2: actually the day on Cuple weekends. So it's probably the
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  Speaker 2: biggest time in daw And I guess in terms of
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  Speaker 2: people come in to dow And and accommodation has just
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  Speaker 2: been snapped up. Well and really ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Does she know that you can't find accommodation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we did have a discussion a while back when
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  Speaker 2: I sort of just said she'd asked me how I
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  Speaker 2: was going and basically I just had to break the
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  Speaker 2: news that actually didn't end up getting anything at the time,
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  Speaker 2: So we've kind of been looking together. She doesn't she
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  Speaker 2: doesn't know that I'm on today, but yeah, I want
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  Speaker 2: to just rise and just hopefully see if I can
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  Speaker 2: sort of make it up to her because she was
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  Speaker 2: she was pretty upset about it, disappointed, and I knew
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  Speaker 2: I dropped the ball big time with my one job mate.
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  Speaker 1: I can sympathize with you because the day that my
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  Speaker 1: husband and I got married, he just had the job
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  Speaker 1: of getting a hair cush and all organizing the cars.
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  Speaker 1: Now he got the haircut the day of the wedding
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  Speaker 1: and then the day that will do to get married,
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  Speaker 1: he was like, oh goodness, I haven't.
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  Speaker 3: Even thought about the car, so he had to organize
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  Speaker 3: that on the day of the wedding.
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  Speaker 1: So I know all of the men out there listening
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  Speaker 1: this morning, we'll be sympathizing with you at this point
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  Speaker 1: in time, David, I've got someone in the studio with
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  Speaker 1: me right now that I would like you to meet. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I've got I have got Eric from he's the general
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  Speaker 1: manager for Novitel and mcure Darwin Airport.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Eric, Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Hi David, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning? I'm good, Thanks here you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm excellent. Hey David, we obviously heard about your challenge
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  Speaker 4: finding accommodation and we definitely wanted to help you out here.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazingly, David.
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  Speaker 4: As you know, all hotels are pretty much full, and
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  Speaker 4: so are we, but we have a brand new product
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  Speaker 4: coming onto the market. We're currently building a tropical pool
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  Speaker 4: villa and they'll be just ready before you arrive.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's that's done real so oh yeah, very much pressure.
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  Speaker 2: That's sort of taken off my shoulders and looking I'm
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  Speaker 2: hoping my partner's listening today. Yeah, it's exciting.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much, David. You and your partner will
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  Speaker 4: want offer be on our first customers guests to experience
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  Speaker 4: our brand new Tropical pool Villa products, and we're really
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  Speaker 4: looking forward to welcoming you both.
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful and I appreciate it. Thank you very much, pleasure.
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  Speaker 4: I hope we could help you out and put a
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  Speaker 4: bit of pressure off you.
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  Speaker 2: That's definitely going to help. I'll definitely be in the
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  Speaker 2: good book now.
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  Speaker 3: Oh mate, how are you feeling right now? And how
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  Speaker 3: do you reckon your wife?
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  Speaker 1: Kirby is going to be feeling if she's or you're
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  Speaker 1: soon to be wife, if she's listening.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm hoping that this will definitely take a lot
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  Speaker 2: of stress off her. Like I definitely drop the ball
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  Speaker 2: in this tie, and I'm thankful for the people around
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  Speaker 2: me that sort of helped me out, sort of figure
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  Speaker 2: out how we can fix this one, because that's the
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  Speaker 2: one job. So I'm thankful the ladies in the office
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  Speaker 2: definitely helped me. Well, they reached out to you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I thought how we could do it.
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  Speaker 1: And I tell you, well, we're so grateful to to
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  Speaker 1: Eric who is the general manager for Novtell and the
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  Speaker 1: Mercure Darwin Airport because as you've heard, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: are just revamping this whole area and you are going
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  Speaker 1: to have one of the well I reckon it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be arguably one of the best rooms in Darwood.
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  Speaker 3: After dropping the ball.
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  Speaker 2: That's yeah, that's unreal. I'm totally excited. I can't wait.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Katie, You're right, it will be. It will be
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  Speaker 4: a fantastic new product in the market for Darwin and
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  Speaker 4: we really look very exciting to launch that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, David, mate, we are so glad that that
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  Speaker 1: we could help you, and we wish you and your
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  Speaker 1: soon to be wife, Kirby all the very best. Stick
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  Speaker 1: on hold and we'll make sure that you've got all
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  Speaker 1: the details. But we really hope that you have the
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  Speaker 1: most beautiful wedding day and that you absolutely love the accommodation.
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  Speaker 2: No, thank you very much, much appreciate it, no.
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  Speaker 3: Worries at all.
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  Speaker 1: And I tell you what, Eric, we're excited about this
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  Speaker 1: place coming online. Tell us a little bit more about
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  Speaker 1: these pool villas.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be an exciting it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be an exciting new product, you know, really a private experiences,
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  Speaker 4: great for people who wanted to go normally to Bali,
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  Speaker 4: you know on those pool experiences, and we will be
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  Speaker 4: able to offer it. But not only that. Post property
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  Speaker 4: is going to go through major renovations and like I said,
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  Speaker 4: quite exciting times ahead and I'm sure we be talking
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  Speaker 4: more in the future.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it couldn't come at a better time.
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  Speaker 1: We know that it's so busy in the territory at
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  Speaker 1: the moment, so many people here, so fantastic news.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, we can't thank you enough.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so very much, Eric and the whole team
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  Speaker 1: obviously at Navtel and Mature Darwin Airport for coming on
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  Speaker 1: board and helping David Oush with his with his wedding
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  Speaker 1: and this accommodation.
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  Speaker 3: We're so grateful to you.
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  Speaker 4: It's a pleasure, pleasure and looking forward to doing more.
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  Speaker 3: Great thanks, oh good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well I tell you Wash, it's a happy ending and
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  Speaker 1: we're so pleased that we could help David at this
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  Speaker 1: point in time with the help such a generous offer
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  Speaker 1: from from the Nuvetel and the Macure Darwin Airport, and
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  Speaker 1: these new tropical pool villas are going to be absolutely amazing.