Matt and Tyler's New Zealander of the Week - 10 April

At the end of every week, Matt Heath and Tyler Adams 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 (00:16):
Welcome once again to the Manheath and Tartar Adams Afternoons.
New Zealander of the Week on News Talks EDB a
time to get together as a radio show and award
our country for its excellence. As always, three powerful Kiwis
shall be honored. So, without further punishing hyperbolic stage setting,
let's get stuck in with our first New Zealander of

(00:39):
the Week. Thousands of Kiwi schoolgirls shoot hoops every day
with big hopes in their hearts, but millions do the
same and the good old US survey So a Kiwi

(01:00):
lady making a big on the court and the country
that invented the sport isn't easy. This week, a Wahine
blew the odds away in front of a huge crowd
in attendance and millions watching at home. A UCLA point
guard from the way Kator has become the first New
Zealand woman ever to win the NCAA Basketball Championship. Chalisledjer Walker,

(01:23):
You are a New Zealander.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Of the Week.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Sometimes it takes a little bit of time away to
get some perspective on how successful and awesome some kiwis are.
This duo has had eight years off, then out of
the blue they announced four shows and they're sold out
in minutes. Two Wellington based blokes with guitars who twenty
years ago when global with one of the funniest TV
shows ever made, and their funny little songs still sell

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out all over the planet. Amusingly, they had to watch
YouTube clips to remember how to play their own tunes.
Business Time, Sugar, lumps Hip Hopopotamus. The hs just keep
coming ahead of their upcoming Netflix is a joke festival
appearance formerly in New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar based Digibongo,
a cappella rap funk comedy folk duo Flight of the Concords.

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You are one of our cylinders of the week. In
a world where so many of us have lost control
and chosen to doom scroll the best years of our
lives away, where so many in our fine nation have
become dangerously addicted to the dopamine hits from cooked up overseas.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
News rage bait.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, in that world, the MP for Funga Paroa delivered
a very important sobering message this week.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
I've got a really simple philosophy on this is that
we must stay laser focused on the things that we
can control and largely monitor what we can't and how
it might impact us in the future. And we've got
to get on with it. We've got to accept the
fact that the world has changed. We're a small countries in
the bottom of the world, knowing osis are living. We've
got to get on the things. We've got to do
the best that we can, and that means focused on

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the things.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
That we can control and talking about the.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Things that we can do, rather than getting lost in
all the moushy of what's happening internationally. For worlds has
changed and it's not going back, and we just got
to accept it and get it on it.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
That's the good stuff idea. Imagine what New Zealand could
get done. How much better all our lives would be
if we cleaned up and spend a bit more time
focused on fixing things in front of us, the stuff
we actually have the ability to do something about right now,
rather than hooked on the things we can't do.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
About.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
The Honorable Mark Mitchell, you are a New Zealander of
the week Take It Away Sir Howard Morrison.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
A Bright.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
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