Matt and Tyler's New Zealander of the Week - 22 August

Every Friday on Matt and Tyler afternoons on ZB we name the 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. 

There are three nominees but can only be one winner.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Every Friday on Mattin Tyler afternoons on news Talk ZEDB.
We name the New Zealander of the Week and 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 two
runners up and one winner, and unlike other high profile
New Zealander awards, this isn't just an exercise in corporate

(00:42):
halo polishing, so without further ado, second runner up also
gets the Well Love Award. Kiwi Balls will be bouncing
all over Flushing Meadows in New York for the final
Grand Slam of the year. They go through one hundred
thousand of our fluffy best for bouncing you away onto

(01:03):
Center Court and the Big Apple New Zealand. Will you
are runner up for the New Zealander of the Week.
First runner up also gets the Sexy Hero with the
Whistle Award. He's our most captiizt ref a doctor and
according to the ladies, I know a bit of a hotty.
He doesn't always get it right, but he gets it
right more than anyone else in the world. The game

(01:24):
needs ref so let's celebrate the best of them. Read
all about the man in Shane Curry's Great New Zealand
road Trip Kiwi International ref Ben O'Keefe.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
You are first runner.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Up for New Zealander of the Week, and as first
runner up, Ben, if for whatever reason, when it cannot
execute their responsibilities as New Zealander of the Week, you
will take over. But there can be only one.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
This week, British comedian Russell Howard described you as the
most beautiful place in the world. Last week, the most
successful movie director of all time signed up to you
for life. And while you may have your struggles, we
are all so very, very very lucky to be living
on top of you. Two hundred and sixty eight thousand

(02:12):
square kilometers written by fifteen k of Beautiful Coastline.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
You are so very very green. You've got mountains, lakes, islands,
and what will Hee Cook said, just the best people
on the planet. It may be borne out of unfashionable positivity.
It might be some kind of inception level logical fallacy
to award New Zealand and New Zealander of the Week.
But they don't make the rules. We do. So shame

(02:40):
on the Wines after all these years. We don't know
how bloody lucky we are made. Let's get it on
New Zealand. You are the mad In Tyler Afternoons New
Zealander of the Week. Take it away, Howie. It's huge

(03:03):
for New Zealand. You got to say to in the
New Zealand of the Week.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Massive momentous day. It's going to turn the economy.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Absout is no before Malays across the country.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
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