Matt and Tyler's New Zealander of the Week - 17 April

At the end of every week, the Afternoons team name their pick for New Zealander of the week.

It's an honour that we grant on your behalf to someone who has had effect on our great and beautiful nation over the past week.

Listen to see who came out on top this week.

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Episode Transcript

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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Every Friday on Matt and Tyler Afternoons on zb we
name the New Zealander of the Week in honor that
we bestow on your behalf to a newsmaker who has
had an outsized effect on our great and beautiful nation
over the previous week. As always, there'll be three nominees,
but only one winner, So without further ado, the nominees
for Matt and Tyler Afternoons New Zealander of the Week

(00:37):
are Nominee one also gets the War on Pointless Admin Award.
The second test is stupid, expensive, complex, and does absolutely
nothing to make our roads safer and makes Kiwi suspicious
of government competency, logic and fairness from a young age.
The same chicken Lickings that always scream about the sky
falling will scream about the sky falling, but we aren't
listening anymore. Transport Minister Chris Bishop, for your efforts to

(01:01):
kick the second stupid practical driving test to touch, you
are nominated for New Zealander of the Week.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Nice for Sheep.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Nomine two also gets the horrible racket, but still cute
toward it's very specific award this one. This week I
slanted this famous Kei we act, calling them a scourge
on the old Fresco dining community in our country's most
profitable tourist trap. I stand by this, but in the
face of pushback from my ZBI boss in about one
hundred Texas on nine two ninety two, I'm willing to concede.

(01:29):
It's not the dog's fault. The Queen's down singing dog,
Busker's dog. Your singing has nothing to do with the tune.
It's just a bunch of horrific howling. But you are cute,
so you are nominated for New Zealander of the Week.
Good boy, it's a good boy, all right, Okay. There

(01:50):
can be only one winner, and this week the win
it also gets the attack of the drones and they
give them a taste of Kiwi awards. The New Zealand
Defense Force is going hard on drones, spinning up to
four hundred million over the next few years. On them
are the future when it comes to protecting our impressively
large EEV. And guess what we make the coolest ones
right here in New Zealand, so the New Zealand government

(02:12):
can buy our own stuff for once. You make them
for land, Sea and Sky and your SEM three hundred
USV is so hardcore looking makes me proud to be
a Kiwi for making high tech uncrewed vehicles down at
the Mount Sios Aeronautics. You are the Matt and Tyler
Afternoons New Zealander of the week. Yeah, cluck it up.

(02:36):
SM three hundred USB aggressive. It's a lot cooler than
their blue bottles we just bought out of Australia.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
It's a sexy grind, very sexy.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
There's six wheel land Ones, bloody cool, good value. I
might get myself a prig of to drone the taser
on it.

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