1 00:00:09,093 --> 00:00:12,892 Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from Newstalk ZEDB. Follow this 2 00:00:13,053 --> 00:00:16,133 Speaker 1: and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio. 3 00:00:17,213 --> 00:00:19,452 Speaker 2: Every Friday on Matt and Tyler Afternoons on zb we 4 00:00:19,493 --> 00:00:21,852 Speaker 2: honor a newsmaker who has had an outsized effect on 5 00:00:21,893 --> 00:00:24,293 Speaker 2: our great and beautiful nation over the previous seven days. 6 00:00:24,332 --> 00:00:26,893 Speaker 2: As always, there will be three nominees, but only one winner. 7 00:00:26,893 --> 00:00:29,773 Speaker 2: And remember, like the Time Magazine Person of the Year, 8 00:00:30,013 --> 00:00:32,213 Speaker 2: the New Zealand of the Week isn't always an agent 9 00:00:32,253 --> 00:00:34,933 Speaker 2: of good. So, without further ado, the nominees for Matt 10 00:00:34,973 --> 00:00:38,213 Speaker 2: and Tyler Afternoons New Zealand of the Week AH Nominee 11 00:00:38,213 --> 00:00:41,412 Speaker 2: one also gets the finally Freed from the shackles of 12 00:00:41,533 --> 00:00:46,412 Speaker 2: regulatory Tyranny Award. The brightness of their lights have been 13 00:00:46,452 --> 00:00:49,532 Speaker 2: brutally controlled since the eighties, as has the position of 14 00:00:49,573 --> 00:00:52,333 Speaker 2: their seats and even the very snacks they serve to 15 00:00:52,373 --> 00:00:55,493 Speaker 2: their shaggy customers. What's worse, for decades they have been 16 00:00:55,493 --> 00:00:58,892 Speaker 2: forced to cruelly discriminate against our furry friends. But this 17 00:00:59,053 --> 00:01:02,773 Speaker 2: week they were freed. So celebrate with a glass of wine, 18 00:01:02,853 --> 00:01:05,893 Speaker 2: a shampoo and a tight fade. Free at last, Free, 19 00:01:05,933 --> 00:01:08,932 Speaker 2: at last, Free, at last, New Zealand's headdresses. You can 20 00:01:08,973 --> 00:01:11,533 Speaker 2: finally be you and for that you have been nominated 21 00:01:11,653 --> 00:01:15,613 Speaker 2: for New Zealander of the Week. Who nomine two also 22 00:01:15,652 --> 00:01:18,212 Speaker 2: gets the highlighting a serious problem with your craziness award. 23 00:01:19,013 --> 00:01:21,293 Speaker 2: Last month painters were called back to a job in 24 00:01:21,373 --> 00:01:24,173 Speaker 2: christ Church. They had just finished snag listed and ticked 25 00:01:24,212 --> 00:01:27,013 Speaker 2: every box, but what they found was two hundred posted 26 00:01:27,053 --> 00:01:30,893 Speaker 2: notes per room, stuck to invisible, non existent blemishes. There 27 00:01:30,932 --> 00:01:33,212 Speaker 2: are people in this country that will never be happy 28 00:01:33,253 --> 00:01:36,892 Speaker 2: and they need to be shamed. Crazy punishing unnamed, overly 29 00:01:37,013 --> 00:01:40,733 Speaker 2: fussy trady, punishing christ Church homeowner for bringing to light 30 00:01:40,813 --> 00:01:43,893 Speaker 2: the very real issue of chronic dissatisfaction syndrome that is 31 00:01:43,932 --> 00:01:48,093 Speaker 2: sweeping this increasingly winging, ungrateful nation. You know who you 32 00:01:48,173 --> 00:01:50,493 Speaker 2: are and you are nominated for New Zealand of the Week. 33 00:01:51,133 --> 00:01:53,053 Speaker 2: CDs is real and needs to be called out wherever 34 00:01:53,093 --> 00:01:56,733 Speaker 2: it raises its ugly head. Definitely serious issue. But there 35 00:01:56,733 --> 00:01:59,533 Speaker 2: can be only one New Zealand of the Week, okay, 36 00:02:01,373 --> 00:02:04,053 Speaker 2: and the winner gets the holy crap one of them 37 00:02:04,093 --> 00:02:06,773 Speaker 2: is only six years old award, while most Kiwi kids 38 00:02:06,813 --> 00:02:09,173 Speaker 2: are sitting on their asses doom scrolling, playing video games 39 00:02:09,293 --> 00:02:10,853 Speaker 2: or pretending to be sick to get out of doing 40 00:02:10,853 --> 00:02:13,933 Speaker 2: anything other than shoving junk food into their lazy fat faces. 41 00:02:14,373 --> 00:02:17,373 Speaker 2: These ones just finished an epic two hundred and eighty 42 00:02:17,493 --> 00:02:21,413 Speaker 2: day three thousand kilometers north to south trek of New Zealand, 43 00:02:21,733 --> 00:02:24,813 Speaker 2: over mountains and beaches and through streams, forests and towns, 44 00:02:25,093 --> 00:02:27,933 Speaker 2: over hills, over plains, and in the marden in the rain. 45 00:02:28,093 --> 00:02:32,893 Speaker 2: The Williams family kept rolling along topa Shermulchers, Dad Andrew 46 00:02:33,013 --> 00:02:37,733 Speaker 2: Muncourtney Oliver thirteen, Summer eleven, Sky nine and Elliot six 47 00:02:38,133 --> 00:02:40,132 Speaker 2: for walking from the top to the bottom of our 48 00:02:40,133 --> 00:02:43,532 Speaker 2: great and beautiful land. You are the Matt and Tyler 49 00:02:43,653 --> 00:02:48,252 Speaker 2: Afternoons New Zealanders of the week, Take it away, Howie Morrison, 50 00:02:51,573 --> 00:02:57,173 Speaker 2: Great New Zealanders, what shit well, not to be mistaken 51 00:02:57,213 --> 00:03:01,733 Speaker 2: for the morokopper Man. I repeat, Tom Phillips was not involved, 52 00:03:02,093 --> 00:03:07,333 Speaker 2: No congratulations, give him a taste of kiwe. God bless 53 00:03:08,173 --> 00:03:10,933 Speaker 2: and godspeed the Williams family. 54 00:03:21,733 --> 00:03:24,373 Speaker 1: For more from News Talk set B listen live on 55 00:03:24,453 --> 00:03:27,453 Speaker 1: air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever 56 00:03:27,493 --> 00:03:30,053 Speaker 1: you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.