Matt and Tyler's New Zealander of the Week - 2 May

At the end of every week, the Afternoons team name their pick for 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.

This week's nominees are Tory Whanau, the RUNIT Championship League, and the kākāpō.

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Episode Transcript

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Every Friday on Matt and Tyler Afternoons on ZIBB, 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 little nation.
As always, there will be three nominees, but only one winner.
And remember, like the Time magazine and the Kiwibank yearly humiliators,
the ZBVOS, New Zealand of the Week isn't always an

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agent of good. Sometimes the nominees are awesome, often awful.
So without further ado, the nominees for Matt and Tyler
Afternoons New Zealand of the Week are nominee one also
gets the self Belief against the Odds award. Her city
is a mess, she is the lowest approval rating of
any mayor ever, and she's the only person in New
Zealand who could make Andrew Little seem like an exciting option.

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But one person thinks she's amazing, and that is herself.
In fact, this week, Mia torri Fano has given her
performance and impressive nine out of ten for celebrating yourself
with a nine when everyone else thinks you're a negative
five tory. Funo, you are nominated for New Zealander of
the Week. Funny your competence matched your confidence. You could

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really achieve great things. Nominy too gets the media beat
up on a good old fashioned beat up award. There's
a combat sport coming in which a runner and attackler
collde on a twenty meter battlefield, and no surprises, the
chicken lickens are coming out of the woodwork to panic
harden up New Zealand. Thousands of people already straightened the
attack on rugby grounds nationwide every weekend. Some have called

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it the dumber sport. Ever, real Kewies have been doing
this kind of thing safely forever. So I take it
up the guts, run at Championship League your legends. You
have been nominated for New Zealander of the Week. Yes,
world a take it up there, run it straight all right,
but there can be only one winner. Woo, and the

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winner also gets the never Gonna Happen Mate Award. For
the first time in a century, cackapool have been heard
booming on the North Island's mainland. Booming is a mating
ritual in which the male bird sits in a hole
and makes a low frequency sound, hoping to attract a mate. Amusingly,
there are no females at the Mango Tatari Sanctuary, so

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good luck getting any action boys forgetting it to go
with the ladies with no hope of success, like so
many of us Kiwi males before you Mainland booming Carkapaw,
you are the Matt and Tyler Afternoons New Zealanders of
the week. Yeah, those of us who grew up in
rural New Zealand communities know exactly what those carcapo are

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going through. Stuff out there, just booming away and a
whole hoping a lady will turn it up. Actually, a
lot of us experience that in our own homes, even
when we have a lady just booming away hoping for
some congratulations.

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Give my taste of Kiwi.

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God bless and God speaks. Boom boom boom, Any ladies,
anyone can mate

Speaker 1 (03:24):
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