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Speaker 2: Every Friday on Matt and Tyler Afternoons on zid B,

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Speaker 2: we name the New Zealander of the Week and honor

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Speaker 2: that we bestow on your behalf to a newsmaker who

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

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Speaker 2: nation over the previous seven days. As always, there will

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Speaker 2: be three nominees, but only one winner. And remember, like

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Speaker 2: the Time Magazine Person of the Year, the New Zealand

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Speaker 2: of the Week isn't always an agent of good. So

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Speaker 2: without further ado, the nominees for Matt and Tyler Afternoons

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Speaker 2: New Zealand of the Week are Nominee one also gets

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Speaker 2: the quarter Pounder of Controversy Award. You will be tastefully shifty,

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Speaker 2: You will create tasty food. The snobby Elitis tried to

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Speaker 2: take you down with their hateful trailers, but the people

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Speaker 2: will not let them win. The proposed warnicer McDonald's, you

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Speaker 2: have been nominated for New Zealander of the Week, Yes,

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Speaker 2: mac az. Nominee two also wins the Shoved and Neutral

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Speaker 2: and Coast and a Christmas Award you told us to

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Speaker 2: warm our cockles. Over the next few months, you dropped

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Speaker 2: the official cash rate, then pissed off overseas before the

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Speaker 2: hard interview bat Adrian or for jumping on the Christmas

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Speaker 2: go slow early. You are nominated for New Zealander of

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Speaker 2: the Week, but there can be only one and the

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Speaker 2: winner is And this is a sad one. We lost

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Speaker 2: you far too young. Everyone who met you was impressed

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Speaker 2: by you. You were respected and appreciated across the political spectrum.

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Speaker 2: Even your biggest rival said of you politics was better

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Speaker 2: for having you in it. Well, our great country was

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Speaker 2: better for having you in it. Nicky kay Rip you

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Speaker 2: are the Matt and Tyler Afternoons New Zealander of the Week.

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Speaker 3: It is the toughest moments of my personal life that

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Speaker 3: have helped me be able to be a better member

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Speaker 3: of Parliament and Cabinet minister. Through my parents breaking up young,

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Speaker 3: a stepbrother, being charged with murder, being diagnosed with breast

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Speaker 3: cancer at thirty six, I have learned when your world

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Speaker 3: breaks and shatters, you can be your most powerful.

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