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

At the end of every week, Matt and Tyler 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. 

Each week three nominees make the cut, but there can only be one winner. 

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Every Friday on Matt and Tyler Afternoons on ZB we
award 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 fantastic and beautiful nation
over the previous week. As always, there will be three
nominees but only one winner, So without further pissing around,
the nominees for Matt and Tyler Afternoons New Zealand of
the Week are nominee one also gets the hard Men

(00:39):
for Hard Time toward. It's been a great season so far,
but the hard part of winter is here. The toughest
comp in the world always gets tougher in July. Charms
is down, DWZ is down, the Mighty Mitch Barnett is down,
and worst of all, breakout Standoff Metcalf is down. You've
already had more wins than you got all last season,

(01:01):
but it just got real the New Zealand Warriors as
you hit the punishing end of the season, give them
a taste of key We again. It's the Dirty West
Tigers this Sunday at Gohart Stadium. They're fourteen, we're top four.
Surely we've got this see at Gohart Stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Give them our boys.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Nomine two also gets the you need to write a
book Buddy and the Golden Frog Awards. Forty years ago
you were just a french Man at a Kiwi police college.
Then the Rainbow Warrior got bombed and before you knew it,
your bilingual ass was promoted and deployed on the trail
of the dirty culprits. Jacques Legrove for what you did
to catch the bad guys Alai my far and Dominic

(01:42):
Priere all those years ago and all the cool stuff
you've done since. You are nominated for New Zealander of
the Week. AHRD and I listened to the new podcast
Rainbow Warrior of the Clotton History wherever you get your pots.
It was forty years ago, yesterday done. You know, huge
but still so very rude. But there can be only
one winner, and the winner also gets the Missus and

(02:05):
I would love to buy you and run you award
specifical that you're one hundred and sixty two years old,
you're iconic if you've got an old car out the front,
You're cozy and warm. You do the best hub nart
shows in the country. You're the most looked at property
in the history of our great land and you have
a ghost living in one of your rooms. We've all
fantasized about packing our punishing lives up and running you

(02:29):
so grab a carriage and a Clydesdale. The iconic Kadrona
hotel is on the market and it is the Madame
Tyler Afternoon's New Zealander of the week. Yeah, take it away, howie.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
You could just be the local publicans, pillars of the
community country life with many heath, cold, cold, good horses, fluffy.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Hooks, memories, well, just running the icon ye through the
story really this doma that goes on and just being
part of it. It's always amazing when it snow's bringing
people out, you know, that's always a really fun time,
beautiful times, you know, very different to the rest of
the country when you get to snow on the ground
around the business. Prince Harry coming that was always membable.

(03:21):
I've got married and had kids in the time we've
been here. It's just too many really.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
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