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Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from Newstalk zed B. Follow

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

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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 and 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.

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Speaker 3: Nation over the previous seven days.

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Speaker 2: And as always, there'll be two runners up, but just

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Speaker 2: one winner.

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Speaker 4: Who will it be?

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Speaker 2: Without further ado and passing around the nominees for Matt

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Speaker 2: and Tyler Afternoons New Zealand of the Week, Ah, the

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Speaker 2: second runner up also gets the award. The part of

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Speaker 2: our brewing company at Fungerpudura is a fantastic community hub.

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Speaker 5: And a house of joy for so many, But despite

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Speaker 5: bending over backwards to appease the selfish haters, it has

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Speaker 5: lost its right to sell alcohol to customers from December

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Speaker 5: twenty Shame on the DLC with your humiliating phone app

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Speaker 5: sound level tests.

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Speaker 2: You need to remember that the needs of the many

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Speaker 2: and the social outweigh the whining of the bitter, cloistered few,

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Speaker 2: or in this case two or potentially one, The part

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Speaker 2: our brewing company, Funger Puno. Don't give up. Hope you

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Speaker 2: will win your appel. You are doing great things for

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Speaker 2: the community and you are second runner up for New

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Speaker 2: Zealander of the Week.

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Speaker 5: Do you want to hear one more?

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Speaker 2: The first runner up also gets the Achievement Unlocked Award.

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Speaker 2: You can waste your life on video games, but not

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Speaker 2: these smart kiwis. They are making the buggers and bringing

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Speaker 2: in hundreds of millions of dollars to our economy thirty

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Speaker 2: eight percent growth year and year, and hiring more and

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Speaker 2: more New Zealanders. Hey, Government, if you're listening, let's give

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Speaker 2: them all the support we can get before they have

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Speaker 2: to say game over and piss off to Australia for

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Speaker 2: the flash of rebates the New Zealand gaming industry. You

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Speaker 2: first runner up.

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Speaker 3: For New Zealander of the Week, but there can be

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Speaker 3: only one, and the winner also gets the Passing Away

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Speaker 3: with the Same Dignity and Positivity that you carry through

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Speaker 3: your life award. He spent much of his working life

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Speaker 3: in the dark lands with the sorts of scary people

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Speaker 3: most of us would prefer to pretend didn't exist, but

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Speaker 3: it didn't stop the man from bringing humor and positivity

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Speaker 3: to the world.

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Speaker 2: His books have helped a huge amount of Kiwi parents

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Speaker 2: through the tough job of bringing up kids. Everyone's seen

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Speaker 2: one of his TV shows or his live appearances. He

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Speaker 2: was great at so many things, but most important of all,

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Speaker 2: he was.

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Speaker 3: A fantastic human being in his personal life.

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Speaker 2: Gone too soon. You good, good man and great great

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Speaker 2: New Zealander. As your wife Natalie put it, you spent

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Speaker 2: your life helping others and now it's your time to

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Speaker 2: reach Nigel Letter. You are Matt and Tyler Afternoons New

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Speaker 2: Zealander of the Week, take it away. Howie Morrison a.

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Speaker 4: Very very special human, a person who was and Mario

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Speaker 4: I would say, coo cool, Yeah, he was love and

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Speaker 4: love with Nigel and a man of love.

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Speaker 6: And I feel right at the moment if I look

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Speaker 6: at the response from the minister and all the responses

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Speaker 6: that are happening around the country, and as Nearly said,

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Speaker 6: she feels like Alta is giving Nigel one huge hug

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Speaker 6: right now, and that's because of the man who he was.

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