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Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talk zed B.

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Speaker 1: The Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons New Zealander of

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Speaker 1: the Week.

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Speaker 2: Back again for twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 3: It's the hugely popular Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons

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Speaker 3: on News Talk ZB New Zealander of the Week.

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Speaker 2: As always, there'll be two runners up, but only one winner. Okay,

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Speaker 2: it's Friday, the twentieth of February, so let's stop pissing

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Speaker 2: around and let's start celebrating our great little country. You

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Speaker 2: are the steel and concrete spine of a city. You've

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Speaker 2: carried generations across the stunning white to Mata, a defining

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Speaker 2: symbol of Auckland.

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Speaker 3: Bold and reasonably practical.

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Speaker 2: We will never belittle you by tolling you to pay

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Speaker 2: for some other pie in the sky crossing.

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Speaker 3: They can forget about charging nine.

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Speaker 2: Backs each way, but the Auckland Harbor Bridge. You are

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Speaker 2: powerful and beautiful and you are our second runner up,

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Speaker 2: The New Zealander of the Week. One thousand, three hundred

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Speaker 2: performance from thirty pipe and drum bands representing twelve nations.

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Speaker 2: It's the most spectacular spine tangling thing you could ever see,

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Speaker 2: a tattoo that on a service and honor, and some

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Speaker 2: talented Kiwis are out there blowing and banging.

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Speaker 3: With the best of them. The New Zealand Defense.

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Speaker 2: Force Guard of Honor and Combined Services Ban, the City

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Speaker 2: of in Picago, Highland Pipe Band, Pipes and Drums of

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Speaker 2: christ Church City, the New Zealand Army Ban and the

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Speaker 2: fantastic Auckland Police Pipe and Drums.

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Speaker 4: You are ah our first runners up for New Zealanders

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Speaker 4: of the Week, whilst the rest of us are complaining

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Speaker 4: about chocolate prices.

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Speaker 2: Some Kiwi geniuses in a lower warehouse have a million

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Speaker 2: degree cloud of plasma levitating.

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Speaker 3: On a magnet, not in Silicon Belly, not in Shanghai,

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Speaker 3: not in some Ponsi billion dollar EU lab.

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Speaker 2: They are pulling off milestones. Most signs are stalled impossible in.

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Speaker 3: Lower part for successfully levitating a half ton super conducting magnet,

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Speaker 3: a tiny floating sun and a warehouse near Welly.

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Speaker 2: He we teed groundbreaking BRAINIAX open Star and you're inspirational leader,

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Speaker 2: Doctor Ratu Matara. You are the magic and Tyler Adams. Afternoons,

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Speaker 2: New Zealand is of the week.

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Speaker 3: Take it away, Sir Howard Larrison.

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Speaker 5: B ah broad

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