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

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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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
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The mat Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons New Zealander of
the Week.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time once again for The
mad Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons New Zealander of the Week.
As you know, this is a hugely important award cobbled
together by me at home before I come to the
studio on a Friday each week. Incredible kiwis we have
talked about on the show who have had an outsized

(00:45):
effect on our great and beautiful nation are on it.
As always, there'll be two runners up, but only one
lucky winner.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Who will it be?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Without further here's the second runner up for The mad
Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons New Zealander of the Week.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Neighbor's Beer, hor Bear's beert bort.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Hinglish Wikiwis don't like the following MDF particle board and
following instructions. That's why we need real pre constructed furniture
built in its entirety out of remoot ash or some
half decent pine generational furniture. Buy once and use forever,
the type of stuff that clogs up secondhand furniture stores

(01:29):
and not landfill. That's why the newly formed think tank
the if IF b LG or Flat Pack Backlash Group
are our second runner up for New Zealander of the Week,
as the if IF b LG say buy it hoole
by at once, give it to your kids.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
AH identification. This is T one nine seventy two the
first half hour of transmission of Radio Hieraki, the fifth
of December nineteen sixty six.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
This is Radio Halaki, the home of the Young New Zealanders.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Fifty nine years ago, these great New Zealanders took to
the waters to fight back against audial oppression. Radio at
the time was all government owned and controlled and lame.
That these pirates got around that by heading out to
international waters and beaming back rock and roll to their kids.
What they did was so powerful, popular, and ultimately tragic

(02:33):
that the nerdy government had to back down and radio
was freed for all kiwis, leading to all the amazing
stations like this one you have today that we get
to listen to for free thanks to the ads the
Radio Hodaki pirates who went to see for the first
time fifty nine years ago. Get changed down Nation forever

(02:54):
and you are first runners up for New Zealanders of
the Week.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
The strength of mar connection limited mass.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
There are people in this country that do so much
for others when they pass on your kidneys, liver, heart, lungs, pancreas,
small and testine corneas, skin, bone tendons, ligaments, art belves,
blood vessels and connective tissue. You can give them all
the way, but it needs to be signed off by
family members at this most difficult and tragic moment in

(03:34):
their lives. These loved ones stand up and makes decisions.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
That can help up to ninety different people. Just because
it says donor and your license doesn't mean much. If
you want to be an organ donor, you've got to
be clear with your family while you are here, because
they make the decision. This week, it was a deeply
humbling honor to talk to the live donors and the
families of deceased donors who called up the show on Wednesday.

(03:59):
New Zealand's organ donors alive and past, and your families.
You are selfless, noble, generous and brave, and you are
being mad he and Tyler Adams New Zealanders of the Week,
Take it Away.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Howie Morrison.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Mid Water received as part of Eric Kidney, which is
a guest from some wonderful families loved him. We had
passed away and she had twenty one years. With that,
she went on to study, she got married, she traveled
the world, and she gave birth to two beautiful children

(04:55):
who are now fifteen and seventeen.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
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