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October 9, 2025 3 mins

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 (00:17):
Every Friday on Matt and Tyler Afternoons on the Mighty
News Talk z EDB, we honor someone with the coveted
new Zealander of the Week, in honor that we bestow
on your behalf to a newsmaker who's had an outsized
effect on our great and beautiful nation over the previous
seven days. As always, there'll be two runners up, but
only one winner. But who will the big winner be?

(00:42):
Without further pissing around, this is the mad Heath and
Tyler Adams Afternoons New Zealander of the Week. Our second
runner up gets the Honest Day's Work for an Honest
Day's Pay Award. This week MP Ginny Anderson turned a
nose up at a classic Kiwi job and the area
it's done.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
And you've got to Prime Minister who's telling them to
go to Dargaville and dig up a kumra my.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
You know, they need some real.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Problem And that's the problem with your view of the world,
is it?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Come on, Ginny Doggers is all right, and if you
have to move from your home. Do you want to work?
That is a very honorable thing to do. Kumra Diggers
of Darga Ball. You are second runner up for New
Zealander of the Week. The first runner up also gets
the What a Good Doggie Award? What a Good Doggie?

(01:38):
We can all have our say, but we got to
keep people's homes and families out of it. When we
say families, we also mean politicians dogs for taking glass
to your eyes when your home was attacked by an
angry man with a crowbar. Winston Peter's dog Kobe, you
are a good doggie and you are first runner up

(02:01):
for New Zealander of the Week, and Kobe, for whatever
reason this Afternoon's Winter, cannot perform the duties as New
Zealander of the Week. You'll be asked to step up
for any public appearances, but there can be only one
New Zealander of the Week and the winner also gets
the True Blue Hero Award Star of the Beat and

(02:24):
on TV, anyone who met you would attest your stature
and great manna. Between your thirty three years in the
force and your immensely popular run on Police ten to seven,
you rounded up more criminal scum than anyone in the
history of our great country. This week you passed away
at seventy eight, and you'll be missed by your wife
for fifty seven years, your three kids, and nearly everyone

(02:47):
else in the country. Detective Inspector Graham Bow retired. You
are the Matt and Tyler Afternoons New Zealander of the week.
Take it away, Howie Morrison.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
We're looking for your help to find a group of
murderous thugs to young creep a half with a gun,
a false beard and a turban from mindless low life.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Two vicious morons, two armed and violent mongrels, three stooges,
three desperate and wild eye doubtless goons, two fat woman
and a man with a gun, This gruffy little thug,
this little germ lunatic scumbag with a steak knife.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
I'll be looking for more help from you later on.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
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