Matt and Tyler's New Zealander of the Week - 11 April

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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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 who has
had an outsized effect on our great and beautiful nation
over the previous week. As always, there will be three nominees,
but there can be only one winner, So without further ado,
the nominees for Matt and Tyler Afternoons New Zealand of
the Week are Nomine one also gets the Queen's Down

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of the North Award. Twenty seven thousand years ago, a
volcano blew up and left a massive wet hole in
the middle of the North Island. This weekend, the supercars
will be ripping that same general area a new one
and it's gonna be freaking awesome. I'll be down there.
Love the topor love the v eights topau Supercars. You
have been nominated for New Zealander of the Week. Nomine

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two also gets the Fannish Smeller Award.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
We're gonna make it role now A stroke down the
coll In the morning.

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If that was my nae where you're from? What do
you do for a crust? What do you do to relax?
It's New Zealand's favorite TV show. Two thirds of us
watched it last year. Now we are doing our own
Kiwi version, well kind of. The Chase New Zealand is
being shot in Australia and in a shockingly stingy mood.
If you think you're smart enough and you want to
be a contestant, you have to pay for your own
ACM and flights to Sydney, which is rough as you

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generally win absolutely no money for your efforts. Anyway. It
could be great like the UK one or not so
great like the Aussie one. But either way The Chase
New Zealand you cheap bastards. You are nominated for New
Zealander of the Week, all right, but there can be
only one who Right here we go. The winner also

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gets the dish lick or reward. They're beautiful and they're
fast and amazingly, they are rated the second best apartment
dwelling dog in the world. Good news, three thousand of
them are becoming unemployed and need a home. And get this,
many of them won't even kill every cat they see
for working so hard to find home for these beautiful
skinny beasts greyhounds as pets dot org dot in zid.

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You are the Matt and Tyler afternoons new Zealanders of
the week who catch yourself like a good doty goo
goo docky. If you've got a greyhound standing by, man,

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it's really keen to jet with one. Alex, Welcome to
the show. I got a cut in the greyhound. I'm
gonna try and pull to one of your wishes, Matte.
First off, Twiggy Hey tweets it's a seedy celebrity on
the phone. That's a compliment one. When student News Talks
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