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Katie Woolf spoke with Nic Poniris about the amazing weekend of Glenti · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I am incredibly excited
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  Speaker 1: for the long weekend, especially given the fact that it
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  Speaker 1: is glenty weekend. And joining us in the studio right
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  Speaker 1: now is Nick Panieras. Good morning to you, Nick, Good.
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  Speaker 2: Morning came they matter to everybody, and welcome to your listeners.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, Wash, I don't think there's anybody in
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  Speaker 1: Darwin that's not excited about Glenty this weekend and the
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  Speaker 1: amazing food that's going to be on offer.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't an amazing buzz around the city at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's loving the cool weather, the balmie weather during the
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  Speaker 3: day and then the festival setting up. We're getting a
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  Speaker 3: lot of compliments from all the tourists that are in town,
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  Speaker 3: especially the Glenteed tourists, because they've read it, seen it,
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  Speaker 3: heard it so long. Now they're actually feeling it for
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  Speaker 3: the first time. They're loving it. You know what it's like. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I sorry to cut you off. It's like we've got
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  Speaker 3: a not tourage. Rather, it can start again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I was going to ask you, how many people
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  Speaker 1: do you think have traveled from interstate to be here
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  Speaker 1: just for the Glente.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you quite comfortably the two Double Tree, Hilton,
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  Speaker 3: the Hilton on the Esperanade h Hotel to Hotel, the
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  Speaker 3: Mantra Hotel, the Dale City Hotel and a few others
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  Speaker 3: around the city of Vicinity are booked out because of Glente.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that alone, the Vats and everything after that.
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  Speaker 3: So we've just had some great deals from all these
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  Speaker 3: organizations and we've put everybody onto these deals and they
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  Speaker 3: booked out from March and April.
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  Speaker 1: That is fantastic and indeed, and you know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: real celebration of the Greek culture. There is no doubt
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  Speaker 1: about that. What's going to be happening this year.
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  Speaker 3: Lots and lots and lots, And let me tell you,
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  Speaker 3: if you're not going to be down there, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to miss out. And probably the best festival ever that
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  Speaker 3: I've been involved. This is my thirteenth year, so let
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  Speaker 3: me tell you, I'm looking forward to it and there's
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  Speaker 3: lots of surprises.
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  Speaker 2: You really need to come down and expert.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry. I will be there, but I can never
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  Speaker 1: decide what I want to eat first.
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  Speaker 3: I know, and this year is just going crazy. I'm
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  Speaker 3: celeibrating every day watching the process of preparing.
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  Speaker 1: I recommend what do you think it's the best thing
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  Speaker 1: to have a crackeut.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said to my wife, I don't eat when
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  Speaker 3: I have got to glente' and when I make that
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  Speaker 3: and never eat that.
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  Speaker 2: Just sample, sample everything. So start.
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  Speaker 3: We've got some freshly made euros. That's the Hellenic Macedonians
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  Speaker 3: are putting together. The other day they had a number
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  Speaker 3: of other community groups in there cutting the meat fresh,
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  Speaker 3: the size, the thickness, is marinating it and preparing them
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  Speaker 3: on those large skills which would be cooked, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in front of everybody. You've got the Greek school who
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  Speaker 3: are doing the doll marthers are doing the Greek meatballs.
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  Speaker 2: They got the spinach patriooles, which I'll bribe you guys.
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  Speaker 1: The other day with delicious.
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  Speaker 2: They got the musaka.
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  Speaker 3: They've got everything going off down there, and that's so
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  Speaker 3: the kitchen's going crazy smell.
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  Speaker 2: It's just amazing, Nick.
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  Speaker 1: Can you talk me through some of the kilos when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to this food? Well, laughing from out there.
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  Speaker 3: Can heroes, she put me off. Actually, what's that noise? Well,
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  Speaker 3: we've got five hundred kilos of though mathers. They got
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  Speaker 3: three hundred kilos of meatballs, we've got probably an excess
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  Speaker 3: of one and a half tons of lamb for silvla.
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  Speaker 3: We had probably five hundred kilos of chicken silvla. We
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  Speaker 3: got better part of five hundred killos for lamb shakes
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  Speaker 3: in cleftic goods called the Separate Community. We've got two hundred.
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  Speaker 3: We've got two tons of octopus. We have countless bags
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  Speaker 3: of everything else. When I sayd bags in it, we've
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  Speaker 3: had fresh to put in. I've done a quick calculation
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  Speaker 3: last night and I just saw almost fell of us.
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  Speaker 3: I've got the calculator out and redid it again. We're
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  Speaker 3: better part of ten tons of food's going to be
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  Speaker 3: cooked and sold on the weekend. And I did the
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  Speaker 3: double take that many times just to make sure that
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  Speaker 3: I was actually countered up, because the calculator just had
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  Speaker 3: too many zeros.
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  Speaker 2: So we're there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that is so fantastic. Can I tell you what?
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  Speaker 1: It is? Such an iconic event, It's such a wonderful
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  Speaker 1: event for the Northern Territory. You guys must be so
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  Speaker 1: proud every year when you see how many territorians really
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  Speaker 1: converge to celebrate the Greek culture.
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  Speaker 3: True, we are very much so, We're honored and in
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  Speaker 3: all honesty, we're very, very proud of the festival that
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  Speaker 3: we put forward. We do it mainly for our territorians
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  Speaker 3: and then we want to showcase to the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the country how good we really are. So we really
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  Speaker 3: like putting on the best possible show and a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the planning is always is how can we make
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  Speaker 3: it better for next year? And this year we believe
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  Speaker 3: we've actually done that. It was something we should have
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  Speaker 3: had in twenty twenty. Iwe a COVID sort of pushed
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  Speaker 3: us back one year, but we're bringing it this year.
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  Speaker 3: We'd added twenty percent of the excitement, so it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be fantastic. We've got an international singer on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 3: We had a concert series on Wednesday which was a
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  Speaker 3: paid event. Yep. We were able to negotiate a one
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  Speaker 3: night performance and it's this Saturday night. It's a free
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  Speaker 3: performance for everybody at a great cost of the community.
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  Speaker 3: But it's going to be one of the best things
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  Speaker 3: that gwenty has ever seen. And this is one of
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  Speaker 3: the iconic singers of Greece. They mid to the basis
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  Speaker 3: and I let me tell you, it's going to be crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's going to be fantastic. We can't wait and
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  Speaker 1: Nick will done to you and the whole team they
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  Speaker 1: put on the Glente each and every year. We'll be
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  Speaker 1: down there on the weekend. I'm not sure what I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to eat first, but I'm just going to have
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  Speaker 1: a crack at everything that.
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  Speaker 2: I agree with you.
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  Speaker 3: Let's le's crack it and every single one because let
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  Speaker 3: me tell you, but time we get home, our partners
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  Speaker 3: will be saying, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 2: We just sampled the food.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly neck Veneires. It is lovely to catch up with you.
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  Speaker 1: I hope it's a fantastic weekend. I've no doubt that
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  Speaker 1: it will be. We'll catch you again very so thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Ba