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Speaker 1: Now the Food Fighters, as I was telling you earlier,

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Speaker 1: have ann answer. They're coming back to New Zealand next

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Speaker 1: year and in another win for christ Church's brand new stadium,

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Speaker 1: they're heading their first Caroline Harvey Tear is the CEO

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Speaker 1: of venues Ot Takahi and she's with us. Now, Hi, Caroline, gooday?

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm wealthy? I can hear it in your voice. You're thrilled.

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Speaker 2: Oh we're thrilled. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it just just gets

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Speaker 2: better and better this year and next.

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Speaker 1: And what else you've got? So you've got the six sixty,

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Speaker 1: You've got the Super Rugby, You've got the Food Fighters.

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Speaker 2: Got the Food Fighters, got the Warriors who sold out

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Speaker 2: in four days. Yeah, we've got the Rugby League World

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Speaker 2: Cup in October, got the Black Ferns, and we've got

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Speaker 2: a couple of exciting announcements coming up next month.

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Speaker 1: Oh give us a hedn't what are we talking spots

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Speaker 1: for music? But are both one of each?

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Speaker 2: Yep? Yep? So no're we're excited in our city. We've

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Speaker 2: all waited a wee while to not have to pack

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Speaker 2: our bags to go elsewhere for this type of content.

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Speaker 1: So oh god, bet, now here's the thing though, right

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Speaker 1: at this stage, much of what you've got, not everything,

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Speaker 1: but much of what you've got the stuff that well,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about the food fighters, right. I can go

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Speaker 1: and see it in Auckland and you guys are doing

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Speaker 1: it in Christch. Have you got any of these big

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Speaker 1: gigs coming your way that the rest of the country

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Speaker 1: will have to come to you to see?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that the are the things that we're working on,

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Speaker 2: you know, And that are the other things that really

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Speaker 2: shift the dial when it comes to visitation here in

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Speaker 2: christ Church, and the are the things that we want

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Speaker 2: to see here in christ Church. And this is why

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Speaker 2: we've got this beautiful new venue. So it's coming. And

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Speaker 2: those New Zealand exclusives, albeit you know, they are a

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Speaker 2: little bit harder to come by. You know, people come

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Speaker 2: a long way to get to New Zealand. They spend

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Speaker 2: a lot of spend a lot of money getting here.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, we're certainly working on New Zealand And exclusive content.

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Speaker 2: So just watch this space.

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Speaker 1: Has anybody from Dunedan called you yet and told you

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Speaker 1: told you you're cutting their lunch?

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Speaker 2: I have had a wonderfully congratulatory text from the CEO

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Speaker 2: of Dunedin Venues.

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Speaker 1: I have yep, yep, because it must suck to be

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Speaker 1: them right now watching all the stuff going on in

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Speaker 1: christ Church.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look at it's going to have an impact and

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Speaker 2: it certainly you can see that starting to happen. But

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Speaker 2: Dnedin will still get content, you know, It'll just it'll

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Speaker 2: just be a little bit more evenly distributed for a

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Speaker 2: work while.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good stuff. Hey, congratulations, Caroline, really appreciate time. That's

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Speaker 1: Caroline Harvey, ta Venues, Autotahi Chief Executive. For more from

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