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Speaker 1: Follow this and our Wide Ranger podcast now on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Every Friday on Matt and Tyler Afternoons on ZIB we

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Speaker 2: name the New Zealander of the Week in honor that

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Speaker 2: we bestow on your behalf to a newsmaker who's had

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Speaker 2: an outsized effect on our great and beautiful nation over

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Speaker 2: the previous week. As always, that will be three nominees

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Speaker 2: but only one winner, So without further ado, the nominees

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Speaker 2: for Matt and Tyler Afternoons New Zealand of the Week

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Speaker 2: AH Nominee one also gets the Stowaway Award. This week,

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Speaker 2: Ranger of the Wicker jumped in the back of a

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Speaker 2: tourist camper van and travel from the West Coast to

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Speaker 2: christ Church over the Alps. He was rumbled on Casual

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Speaker 2: Street and a few days later was returned home safe

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Speaker 2: and sound. And if he hadn't crapped and pistol all

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Speaker 2: over the seats, he might have won New Zealand of

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Speaker 2: the Week, but he still gets a norm. Ranger the Wicker,

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Speaker 2: bless you for your epic illegal fecal journey across the Alps.

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Speaker 2: You are nominated for New Zealander of the Week now

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Speaker 2: Nominee two also gets the Let's All Taser the Tool

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Speaker 2: Poppy Award. This week, an ex minister appeared on this

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Speaker 2: very radio station to say he thought New Zealand had

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Speaker 2: a lot to feel positive about that with the right attitude,

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Speaker 2: our best is still ahead of us. In response, three

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty four people texted Matton Tyler Afternoons to

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Speaker 2: tell him to shut up because he is rich and

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Speaker 2: according to them, we shouldn't listen to successful self made

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Speaker 2: people for proving that the great Kiwi knocking machine is

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Speaker 2: still operational in twenty twenty five. So, John Key, you

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Speaker 2: are nominated for Matton Tyler Afternoon's New Zealander of the Week.

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Speaker 2: Shut up, you successful bastard. But there could be only

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Speaker 2: one New Zealand of the Week and the winner also

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Speaker 2: gets the smoke him if he got him award. The

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Speaker 2: White Smokers billowing out of the Sistine Chapel and Leo

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Speaker 2: the fourteenth is the new Pope. And there's even a

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Speaker 2: local connection. Our boy from Wellington, Cardinal John Jue was

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Speaker 2: over there voting and technically had a zero point seventy

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Speaker 2: five percent chance of getting the job. He didn't, but

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Speaker 2: he still got to bang around the conclave at an

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Speaker 2: historic time, which is pretty cool for a Kiwi. So

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Speaker 2: congratulations to Cardinal John Jewe and New Zealand's four hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty thousand Catholics. You have a new post with

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Speaker 2: a lovely popy face on the staff celebration. You are

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Speaker 2: the Matt and Tyler Afternoons New Zealanders of the week.

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Speaker 2: I should have known, Cardinal John j. You wouldn't give

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Speaker 2: the job, so we're never gonna make a jury Pope.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations all you catflis on your day of celebration.

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