At the end of every week, Matt and Tyler name the New Zealander of the Week.
It's an honour that we bestow on your behalf to someone, or something, that's had an impact on our nation over the past week.
There are three nominees but can only be one winner.
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The Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons New Zealander of
the Week.
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It's time once again for the Matt and Tyler Afternoons
on zb New Zealander of the Week, a hugely prestigious
platinum level award cobbled together by me at home before
I come.
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Into the Shitty on Friday.
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Each week, one exemplary key week we have talked about
on the show, who has had an outsized effect on
our great and beautiful nation will win this award, and
by someone.
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The truth is the winner.
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Is often not human or even sentient. As always, there'll
be two runners up, but only one lucky winner.
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Who will it be? Without further passing around, here's the second.
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Runner up for the Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons New.
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Zealander of the Week. A Busy, Busy Fendleton Road and
christ Juice.
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This week, a safety vested hero did a wholesome thing
between a sea of road cones and traffic. Video of
this roadworker shared by chrys Lynch stopping traffic so a
mummy duck and her ducklings could cross the road has
warmed cold hearts nationwide. Sure it held up traffic. Maybe
we need to ask some questions around the quality of
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parenting ducks are giving their kids taking them out on
the road in the first place. But unnamed christ Church
duckling saving road worker.
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You are second runner.
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Up for New Zealander of the Week. Moving on to
our first runner up. Yeah, there's always plenty of gold
around in these parts. A yellow beauty has been quietly
hiding in the Wellington Hills for millions of years, but
now in twenty twenty five, suddenly Long Gully is the
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most talked about patch.
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Of sedentary rock in the country.
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Prospers thing bids everywhere, new companies rushing in and to
say the Resources Minister is visiting at the bung over these.
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Precious metals would be a gross understatement.
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Wow, keep moneyes and call me a wagon wheel.
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There is absolutely positively gold. And then there Wellington Hills.
Forget the economy destroying Golden Mile and welcome the gold
rush Wellington Gold. You get silver in this week's New
Zealander of the Week.
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And for whatever reason, this afternoons when it can't fulfill
their duties as New Zealand of the Week, the Gold
and Wellington's Hills will be asked to undertake the appearances,
sash cuttings.
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And parades required of the Matt Heath.
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And Tyler Adams on zb New Zealand of the Week.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, there can be only one,
and here he is. He swam one point nine bike
ninety and ran twenty one k every day this month.
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All while working as a frontline cop.
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Fifty seven k in the water, two thy seven hundred
k on the bike and six one hundred and thirty
three a's on foot. A Canterbury officer completing a half
iron Man every single day in November to raise money
and awareness for the excellent.
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Men's mental health charity better Man. What a Man, What
a charity? What an Officer?
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Get on board and support the cause at betterman dot
org dot nz slash mission. You've got a quiz on
at Eden Park tonight too if you want to go
for turning endurance into advocacy and pushing your body to
the limit to help other men's minds.
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Christchurch Cough Mick Johnston, you are a great New.
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Zealander and You Are Than Mahe and Tyler Adams.
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Afternoons new Zealander of the Week Take it Away Howie Morrison.
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