Matt and Tyler's New Zealander of the Week - 21 November

At the end of every week, Matt and Tyler name the New Zealander of the Week.

It's an honour that we bestow on your behalf to someone, or something, that's had an impact on our nation over the past week. 

There are three nominees but can only be one winner.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Every Friday on Mattontailer afternoons on Newstalk ZEDB. We name
the New Zealander of the Week, a powerful but also
completely made up honor that we bestow on your behalf
to a newsmaker who've discussed on eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty over the.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Last week, someone something or some people.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Who have done good for the greatest little country on
planet Earth. As always, there'll be two runners up, but
only one winner. Who will it be. Let's get on
to it.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Call the way Ada gets It finds the gap, does
Darryl Mitchell, and it's the raise the Bat moment, simply
brilliant for Mitchell on his way to his seventh One
Day International hundred.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
The second runner up bats and bowls. He is also
bald and beautiful and this week he became the first
Kiwi batter in forty six years to reach number one
on the ICC Men's odi I'D batting rankings. Darryl Mitchell,
you son of them, you are second runner up.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
The New Zealander of the.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
Week got to understand.

Speaker 6 (01:12):
You've gotta have a nack.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
You've gotta be able to read the room and hear
the room.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Pack onto our first runner up. You're two hundred meters long.
You can carry three thousand and sixty passages between years,
two point four kilometers of vehicle lane and forty rail wagons.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Each an eveven.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
With the infrastructure in the match, you still cost two
point three billion, cheaper than the original plan.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
Crison.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
You may not exist yet, but Winston's two new rail
enabled into roland of theories.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
You are first runner up for New Zealand over the Week.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
But there can be only one, and by one I
mean fifty thousand people, and by one I also mean.

Speaker 6 (01:58):
Hold my breath as I wish for death. Oh please
God wake me. Fourteen songs, nearly three heavy, heavy hours.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
What a show, What a band, What a crowd of
good buggers, for whom the bell told Master of Puppets,
seek and destroy the fifty thousand kiwei metlers who packed
Eden part for the mighty Metallica.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
You are the Mattin Tyler Afternoons, New Zealanders.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Of the Week, take it away, James Kirk, Robert and
to a lesser extent, last.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
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