Matt and Tyler's New Zealander of the Week - 5 September

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 (00:18):
Every Friday on Matt and Tyler Afternoons on Newstalk ZEDB,
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 as it forges a better and better future for
all of us. And as always, there'll be two runners
up for only one winner.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
So without further ado.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
The Matt and Tyler Afternoons New Zealer of the Week
starts now. Our second runner up also gets the follow
the Goddamn Punishing Instructions Award. Sweden is famous for abba
Minecraft Dynamite and their bikini team, and a furniture store

(01:01):
that opened in nineteen forty two and went on to
drive people around the world mental with their flat pack craziness.
And finally, after eighty one years, on December fourth, twenty
twenty five, three weeks before Christmas, the Swedes arrive on
our shores with a Sylvia Park store the size of.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Three football fields. Welcome to New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
The Swedish Icon of Icons a Kia Day one is
going to be rammed and you are our second runner
up the New Zealander of the Week. Yeahbers beer?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Who bears bear?

Speaker 4 (01:41):
If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the
end of it. If you don't, I will look for you,
I will find you, and I will kill you.

Speaker 5 (01:54):
First runner up also gets the Best Dads in the
World Award. You work so hard, you care so much,
and all you want and return this Sunday is a
burnt breakfast in bed, a hug from the kids, six
beers and.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
A week and on the couch watching sport KEI. We dads, It's.

Speaker 5 (02:11):
Your day on Sunday, Love your dad.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
You are first runner up for.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
New Zealander of the Week, but there can be only
one winner, and the winner of New Zealander of the
Week also gets the Most Exciting Home Gains Since twenty
eleven Award.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
The last time we lost Betwixt your Walls. Bill Clinton
was in the White House, Jim Bolger was our Prime
Minister and no one had email yet the PlayStation one
hadn't even been released.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Forrest Gump was the number.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
One movie at the box office, and every Man Woman
and child in the stands had a sig hanging.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Out of their mouths.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
You are our nation's castle, the spring Box. Haven't beaten
us on your beautiful green grass since before World War II.
Our national stadium, our fortress, a temple of doom for
opposition for over three decades. And this Saturday, fifty thousand
of us will pack you to the rafters. Millions will

(03:09):
watch at home and in our pubs, bars and rugby
clubs across this great nation as our mighty soldiers and
Blacks suit up and go into battle.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
But we will be challenged. And as a fan, I
see in your eyes the.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Same fear that would take the heart of me. A
day may come when the courage of our team fails,
when we forsake our friends and break our bonds of fellowship,
an hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age
of the All Blacks record at Eden Park comes crashing down.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
But it is not this Saturday.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
This Saturday, we fight by all that we hold deer
on this good earth.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
I bid New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Stand up and fight Eden Park. May you reign supreme
for decades to come. For you, Ah the Matt and
Tyler afternoons new Zealander of the week, go the abs,
give them a taste of kiweed and take it away.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
How We Morrison.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
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