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March 20, 2025 2 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 (00:21):
Every Friday on Matt and Tyler Afternoons on zb 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 seven days. As always, the will be
three nominees but only one winner. And I think we
can all agree this New Zealander of the Week award
is ten times more prestigious than all the other New

(00:41):
Zealander of the Year all week awards combined, maybe even
a million times more prestigious, maybe even a billion times
more prestigious. So, without further ado, the nominees for Matt
and Tyler Afternoons New Zealand of the Week AH nomine one. Also,
I guess the Speedy Gonzales Award. When I was fifteen,
the only thing I could do at speed was grow pimples.

(01:01):
On Wednesday, this teenager made history by becoming the youngest
athlete ever to run a mile and under four minutes,
breaking the record two seconds, and then racing off to
smash some BK to celebrate. What a champion, Sam Ruth.
You have been nominated for New Zealander of the Week.
Sammy number two also gets the Rags to Riches Award.

(01:22):
Fonterra is kicking us, Tourism is booming, the PPPs are coming,
Kiwi fruits are flying out the door. India loves us.
Even the warehouse is back and black and the December
quarter GDP exploded expectations sitting at a sweet spot of
zero point seven percent the New Zealand economy. You are
nominated for New Zealander of the Week. Yes, that's the

(01:44):
first nomination for the New Zealander. The company and the
winner is there can be only one and then the
winner also receives the Superhuman Strength Award. When a car
flies through your bedroom window in the middle of the night,
sending bricks everywhere and lands on your wife and your bed,
what do you do? Panic? Cry? Well, if you're this
Roliston man, you summon the power of God, lift the

(02:04):
one and a half ton car offer and throw it
to the side like it's made of car board. For
saving your lovely wife Sue Anne's life. Llewellen Vinter, you
are a Hero and the Madam Tyler Afternoons New Zealander
of the Week. What a Town of the future, Man

(02:28):
of the future, rubbish driver.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
To be honest, I don't know how I did it.
I don't know what happened. All I know is I
had the coin my one hand and my wife on
the other hand, and within a matter of seconds we
were out of the room.

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