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Speaker 2: Every Friday on Matt and Tyler Afternoons on zb 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 has

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

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Speaker 2: over the previous week. As always, there'll 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 Zealander of the Week

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Speaker 2: are Nominee one also gets the War on Pointless Admin Award.

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Speaker 2: The second test is stupid, expensive, complex, and does absolutely

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Speaker 2: nothing to make our roads safer and makes Kiwi suspicious

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Speaker 2: of government competency, logic and fairness from a young age.

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Speaker 2: The same chicken Lickings that always scream about the sky

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Speaker 2: falling will scream about the sky falling, but we aren't

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Speaker 2: listening anymore. Transport Minister Chris Bishop, for your efforts to

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Speaker 2: kick the second stupid practical driving test to touch, you

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Speaker 2: are nominated for New Zealander of the Week.

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Speaker 1: Nice for Sheep.

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Speaker 2: Nomine two also gets the horrible racket, but still cute

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Speaker 2: toward it's very specific award this one. This week I

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Speaker 2: slanted this famous Kei we act, calling them a scourge

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Speaker 2: on the old Fresco dining community in our country's most

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Speaker 2: profitable tourist trap. I stand by this, but in the

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Speaker 2: face of pushback from my ZBI boss in about one

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Speaker 2: hundred Texas on nine two ninety two, I'm willing to concede.

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Speaker 2: It's not the dog's fault. The Queen's down singing dog,

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Speaker 2: Busker's dog. Your singing has nothing to do with the tune.

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Speaker 2: It's just a bunch of horrific howling. But you are cute,

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Speaker 2: so you are nominated for New Zealander of the Week.

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Speaker 2: Good boy, it's a good boy, all right, Okay. There

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Speaker 2: can be only one winner, and this week the win

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Speaker 2: it also gets the attack of the drones and they

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Speaker 2: give them a taste of Kiwi awards. The New Zealand

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Speaker 2: Defense Force is going hard on drones, spinning up to

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Speaker 2: four hundred million over the next few years. On them

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Speaker 2: are the future when it comes to protecting our impressively

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Speaker 2: large EEV. And guess what we make the coolest ones

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Speaker 2: right here in New Zealand, so the New Zealand government

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Speaker 2: can buy our own stuff for once. You make them

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Speaker 2: for land, Sea and Sky and your SEM three hundred

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Speaker 2: USV is so hardcore looking makes me proud to be

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Speaker 2: a Kiwi for making high tech uncrewed vehicles down at

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Speaker 2: the Mount Sios Aeronautics. You are the Matt and Tyler

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Speaker 2: Afternoons New Zealander of the week. Yeah, cluck it up.

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Speaker 2: SM three hundred USB aggressive. It's a lot cooler than

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Speaker 2: their blue bottles we just bought out of Australia.

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Speaker 1: It's a sexy grind, very sexy.

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Speaker 2: There's six wheel land Ones, bloody cool, good value. I

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Speaker 2: might get myself a prig of to drone the taser

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Speaker 2: on it.

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