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Speaker 1: Can't to believe that it's taken the end of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five, but the first crypto sponsorship for a professional

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Speaker 1: sports team in this country has been in between Swift

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Speaker 1: X and the Warriors. Now crypto sponsorships globally are up

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Speaker 1: twenty percent this year total over a billion dollars these days. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: Cameron George is the Warrior CEO of course, and is

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Speaker 1: whether it's Cameron morning, good morning, Mike. How long is it?

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Speaker 1: I mean, don't give away the details obviously, but how

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Speaker 1: long and how significant in terms of all the deals

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Speaker 1: you deal with? Is this a big one?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly on a number of fronts. But you know,

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Speaker 2: all of our all of our partners are very value

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Speaker 2: to us. And look, the main thing for us is

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Speaker 2: achieving the area outcomes that they wish. And with swift

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Speaker 2: it was swift FX. Sorry, you know, they want to

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Speaker 2: grow on the market over here and we're a fantastic

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Speaker 2: platform to connect in the New Zealand. So very excited

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Speaker 2: by this one.

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Speaker 1: You ring them or they ring you.

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Speaker 2: No, they approached us. You know, it's it's really interesting

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Speaker 2: for a brand like them to be a part of

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Speaker 2: our journey because we're trans Tasman. We're in a strike

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Speaker 2: one week back here the next, so we do connect

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Speaker 2: to a lot of people and you know they're certainly

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Speaker 2: interested in being a part of our team here in

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Speaker 2: New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: I know them from F one So are they Are

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Speaker 1: they sports aligned in general or are they all over

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Speaker 1: the place?

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Speaker 2: I think there's a bit of everything, but they do

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Speaker 2: align a lot with sport. As you said, F one's

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Speaker 2: a big one for them, and football also in the

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Speaker 2: UK is a big one. So in this part of

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Speaker 2: the world, rugby league seems to be of interest and

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Speaker 2: you know, for us in New Zealand, we can help

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Speaker 2: grow their presence and we're very excited to go on

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Speaker 2: that journey with them.

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Speaker 1: Did you have any questions over the whole crypto thing?

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Speaker 1: Are there enough people in the Warriors who get it,

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Speaker 1: understand it, trade it, whether they're fly by night as

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Speaker 1: you know, here to stay all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Are They're very credible? You know this company and look,

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Speaker 2: we do our homework, but you know a lot of

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Speaker 2: our partners come to us because they are growing as well,

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Speaker 2: and you know we need to understand what they're about

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Speaker 2: equally they do with us, so you know, we both

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Speaker 2: sharing the journey and we both believe that there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of credibility with their growth and opportunity and that's

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Speaker 2: what we're here to do help them get there.

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Speaker 1: What's the sponsorship market generally like for you guys, I

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Speaker 1: mean in sport at the matter, is there plenty of

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Speaker 1: money out there if you're selling the right thing and

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Speaker 1: doing the right thing.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the point, Mike. If you if you've

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Speaker 2: got the right option, we can attract a lot of

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Speaker 2: interest and as I said, trans Tasmin interrants as well.

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Speaker 2: And we're very fortunate in the New Zealand market. We

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Speaker 2: have great brands such as One New Zealand and the

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Speaker 2: likes that support us. So we've got a lot of

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Speaker 2: interest with us at present and we're going to continue

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Speaker 2: to grow that and continue to meet their desires and

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Speaker 2: give people New Zealand and the opportunity to connect with

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Speaker 2: great brands and we're a great platform for that.

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Speaker 1: Always a pleasure. Make go well, Cameron, George, excuse me

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Speaker 1: out of the Warriors this morning. For more from the

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