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Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talks EDB. Follow

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

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Speaker 2: As you know, every Friday on Matt Heath and Tyler

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Speaker 2: Adams Afternoons on News Talks EDB, we name the New

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Speaker 2: Zealander of the Week and honor that we bestow on

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Speaker 2: your behalf to a newsmaker who has kicked ass for

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Speaker 2: the greatest little country on Planet Earth over the past

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Speaker 2: seven days. As always, there'll be two runners up, but

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Speaker 2: only one winner. Who will it be? This is the

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Speaker 2: Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons New Zealander of the Week,

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Speaker 2: and the second runner up also gets the Equestrian Avengers Award.

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Speaker 2: This week we had flames tearing through Kaikora trees, exploding smoke,

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Speaker 2: punishing paddocks, and two ponies trapped in the middle of

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Speaker 2: it all. Luckily, a former firefighter and as partner, we're

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Speaker 2: on hand halters in their grasp, towels wrapped around their faces.

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Speaker 2: They ran straight into the blaze and led those ponies out.

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Speaker 2: Not done yet, they directed traffic, put out the alarm,

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Speaker 2: and hauled water and buckets throughout the night to protect

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Speaker 2: their neighbors Home Renee and Mark Davis, Kai Korda's pony

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Speaker 2: saving power couple. You are second runner up the New

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Speaker 2: Zealander of the Week. Our first runner up also gets

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Speaker 2: the Settlement Samurai Award. This week, a living real estate

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Speaker 2: agent had just wrapped up an open home when he

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Speaker 2: spotted some dickhead up the road waving a knife at

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Speaker 2: a woman. Some of us would have done nothing, but

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Speaker 2: most of us don't have two decades of kung fu

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Speaker 2: training behind us. This real estate agent, he entered a

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Speaker 2: zen like state, stepped up, disarmed the guy, got rid

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Speaker 2: of the knife, and saved the day before packing up

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Speaker 2: his home sale. Signs for mastering the open home and

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Speaker 2: open hand combat. Take about Levin real estate agent Stu Dunn.

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Speaker 2: You are the first runner up for New Zealander of

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Speaker 2: the Week, but there can be only one. He's played

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Speaker 2: one hundred and three All Blacks tests, one hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty five games for the Mighty Hurricanes, and at forty

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Speaker 2: three years, he played his one hundredth game for French

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Speaker 2: Top fourteen side to lorn A Kiwi barrel On Toothpicks,

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Speaker 2: who has played one hundred games for three different major teams.

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Speaker 2: Around the globe, and he's also played for the Blues.

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Speaker 2: Manu you barrel chested, ex muskara wearing Master of the Game.

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Speaker 2: You age to find dreadlocks, human wrecking ball. You are

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

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Speaker 2: Take it away, howie yeah no lukie saha sha my

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Speaker 2: no lookie best you push have your hotel, I.

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Speaker 1: Have games and no no no crost my god scorner.

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Speaker 2: Picture of the talk.

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