Damian Barrett
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Yeah, but you need to run a bit of a confusion route, which is like just create a bit of mayhem or a bit of confusion around it or let someone else do it.
At the Qantas, there's two lounges.
So you've got, you can really profile, if you spend a bit of time, the nature of the front desk.
Are they sort of happy or a bit serious?
And always the path of least resistance is always preferred.
But you'd be amazed how often it works if you don't, if you at least look like you belong.
Old school sneaking in is very underrated in life.
Yeah, one of the best β one of these at Super Bowls over the years extensively in the kind of owners' parties has been the kitchen.
Like there's always a slight β the back of house, the kitchen is never as secure as it should be because no one would ever think to go in the back of the house, the kitchen.
So you can find the commercial kitchen.
You'll often see six or eight or ten people out the back who are kind of having a cigarette or they're having a bit of a break from their job.
And you can integrate in with them and start chatting.
Then you can almost fold back with the staff.
Snoop Dogg was a β no, we pretended to be Snoop's people.
That was a different strategy, yeah.
Look, it speaks to the nature of the size of the deal.
It's understandable that Nine and Foxtel have started by bidding their own way.
It doesn't mean they won't come together later on, by the way.
I can promise you I'm not part of the seven consortium.