Matt and Tyler's New Zealander of the Week - 28th February

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 an 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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Episode Transcript

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Every Friday on Matt and Tyler afternoons on zb we
name the New Zealander of the Week in honor that
we bestow on your behalf to a newsmaker has had
an outsized effect on our great and beautiful nation over
the previous week. As always, there will be three nominees
but only one winner, So without further ado, the nominees are.
Nominee one also gets the Good Behavior Award. The New

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Zealand Warriors kick off their season on Sunday, our time
in Las Vegas, and unlike two members of the Raiders
who immediately got into a fight while checking into their hotel,
the Warriors have been on their best behavior for not
doing anything humiliating in the city of Sin yet. The
New Zealand Warriors, you have been nominated for New Zealander
of the Week.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Good Ever for boys so far.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Nominee two also receives the Wolf from Pop Fiction Problem
Solving Award. This is a self saucer, but I think
it's important to reward good deeds where and where you
see them. When catastrophe hits great New Zealanders step up
and run into harm's way to help. I spilled a
coffee into the console a few days ago. You might
have heard about it, and three gentlemen ran in and
saved the Mike Costing Memorial Studio with no concern for

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their own safety for cleaning up my horrific spill ed
Chris and Richie, you are nominated for New Zealander of
the Week, Jens, all right, there can be only one,
and the winner is and the winner also receives the
Economic Backbone Award. One's already twenty four percent of our
earnings and is expected to add an additional four billion

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to the economy this year. The others bring in seven billion,
with only eighty five percent of pre COVID visitors, dairy
and tourism. You little beauties. Without you, we would be
completely and utterly rooted. You are the Matt and Tyler afternoons.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
New Zealanders are the week whoop editing.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
You milk them cows and moke them tourists. New Zealands.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Mote them to economic recovery. Congratulations, give them a taste
of kiwik. God bless and godspeed.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
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