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

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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 Matton Tyler afternoons on News Talk z

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Speaker 2: ed B. We name the New Zealander of the Week

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Speaker 2: and honor the wea bestow 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 seven days. As always, there'll be two runners up,

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Speaker 2: but only one winner. Without further pissing around, this is

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Speaker 2: the most significant New Zealand of the whatever award in

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Speaker 2: New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Who will it be?

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Speaker 2: The second runner up also gets the Great Breeder Award.

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Speaker 2: Left School of fifteen twenty seven years in Parliament seven

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Speaker 2: is PM eight Kids, Ambassador of the US, Head of

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Speaker 2: New Zealand posting Kiwibang stabbed in the back by the

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Speaker 2: ship but never bitter, lovingly known as the spud Rip

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Speaker 2: Jim Bolger, thank you for your service. You are second

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Speaker 2: runner up for New Zealander of the Week. The first

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Speaker 2: runner up also gets the Striking Results Award. New data

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Speaker 2: from Education Minister Erica Stanford's Structured Literacy program shows a

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Speaker 2: strong lift in early reading skills with the share of

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Speaker 2: new entrant students meeting or exceeding expectation, jumping from thirty

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Speaker 2: six to fifty eight percent for actually learning how to

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Speaker 2: read for once new entrants Kiwi Kids, You are first

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Speaker 2: runner up for New Zealander of the Week.

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Speaker 3: And a new entrant Kiwi Kids who can actually read

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Speaker 3: for once. If for whatever reason, the winner cannot fulfill

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Speaker 3: their duties as New Zealander of the Week, you'll be

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Speaker 3: asked to cut the sashes and ride the floats associated

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Speaker 3: with this coveted award.

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Speaker 2: But as I say, there can be only one.

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Speaker 1: This is huge.

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Speaker 2: First scene in Byron Bay in nineteen ninety one, one

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Speaker 2: of only four in the world. Are of the twenty

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Speaker 2: eighteen Commonwealth Games opening ceremony on the Goldie and now

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Speaker 2: spotted off Kai Khura this week, you have made the

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Speaker 2: right choice and up sticks to the greatest little country

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Speaker 2: on planet Earth. It's great to see one coming back

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Speaker 2: the other way, you big dirty barnacle backflipping old white

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Speaker 2: ossie humper. Welcome to your new home, Bongoaloo.

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Speaker 1: No harpoon for you.

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Speaker 3: Are they met in Tyler afternoons?

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Speaker 2: You Zelander of the Week, Take it away.

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Speaker 1: Howie Morrison MHM. For more from Used Talk set B

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