1 00:00:09,093 --> 00:00:12,892 Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from Newstalk ZEDB. Follow this 2 00:00:13,053 --> 00:00:16,933 Speaker 1: and our Wide Ranger podcasts now on iHeartRadio. 3 00:00:18,413 --> 00:00:21,813 Speaker 2: Every Friday on Matt and Tyler Afternoons on Newstalk ZEDB, 4 00:00:21,973 --> 00:00:24,253 Speaker 2: we name the New Zealander of the Week in honor 5 00:00:24,253 --> 00:00:26,733 Speaker 2: that we bestow on your behalf to a newsmaker who 6 00:00:26,773 --> 00:00:29,173 Speaker 2: has had an outsized effect on our great and beautiful 7 00:00:29,253 --> 00:00:32,973 Speaker 2: nation as it forges a better and better future for 8 00:00:33,173 --> 00:00:36,213 Speaker 2: all of us. And as always, there'll be two runners 9 00:00:36,293 --> 00:00:37,573 Speaker 2: up for only one winner. 10 00:00:38,412 --> 00:00:40,373 Speaker 3: So without further ado. 11 00:00:40,853 --> 00:00:43,732 Speaker 2: The Matt and Tyler Afternoons New Zealer of the Week 12 00:00:43,893 --> 00:00:51,253 Speaker 2: starts now. Our second runner up also gets the follow 13 00:00:51,333 --> 00:00:56,093 Speaker 2: the Goddamn Punishing Instructions Award. Sweden is famous for abba 14 00:00:56,533 --> 00:01:01,133 Speaker 2: Minecraft Dynamite and their bikini team, and a furniture store 15 00:01:01,173 --> 00:01:04,093 Speaker 2: that opened in nineteen forty two and went on to 16 00:01:04,253 --> 00:01:08,253 Speaker 2: drive people around the world mental with their flat pack craziness. 17 00:01:08,653 --> 00:01:13,572 Speaker 2: And finally, after eighty one years, on December fourth, twenty 18 00:01:13,613 --> 00:01:18,493 Speaker 2: twenty five, three weeks before Christmas, the Swedes arrive on 19 00:01:18,572 --> 00:01:21,613 Speaker 2: our shores with a Sylvia Park store the size of. 20 00:01:21,693 --> 00:01:25,453 Speaker 3: Three football fields. Welcome to New Zealand. 21 00:01:26,013 --> 00:01:30,173 Speaker 2: The Swedish Icon of Icons a Kia Day one is 22 00:01:30,212 --> 00:01:33,773 Speaker 2: going to be rammed and you are our second runner 23 00:01:33,853 --> 00:01:36,613 Speaker 2: up the New Zealander of the Week. Yeahbers beer? 24 00:01:36,733 --> 00:01:37,773 Speaker 3: Who bears bear? 25 00:01:41,733 --> 00:01:43,693 Speaker 4: If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the 26 00:01:43,773 --> 00:01:47,533 Speaker 4: end of it. If you don't, I will look for you, 27 00:01:48,693 --> 00:01:52,453 Speaker 4: I will find you, and I will kill you. 28 00:01:54,173 --> 00:01:57,333 Speaker 5: First runner up also gets the Best Dads in the 29 00:01:57,333 --> 00:02:00,853 Speaker 5: World Award. You work so hard, you care so much, 30 00:02:00,973 --> 00:02:03,613 Speaker 5: and all you want and return this Sunday is a 31 00:02:03,693 --> 00:02:06,933 Speaker 5: burnt breakfast in bed, a hug from the kids, six 32 00:02:07,013 --> 00:02:07,813 Speaker 5: beers and. 33 00:02:07,813 --> 00:02:11,653 Speaker 3: A week and on the couch watching sport KEI. We dads, It's. 34 00:02:11,493 --> 00:02:13,893 Speaker 5: Your day on Sunday, Love your dad. 35 00:02:13,973 --> 00:02:15,973 Speaker 2: You are first runner up for. 36 00:02:16,133 --> 00:02:20,893 Speaker 3: New Zealander of the Week, but there can be only 37 00:02:21,013 --> 00:02:23,413 Speaker 3: one winner, and the winner of New Zealander of the 38 00:02:23,413 --> 00:02:26,333 Speaker 3: Week also gets the Most Exciting Home Gains Since twenty 39 00:02:26,453 --> 00:02:27,173 Speaker 3: eleven Award. 40 00:02:28,173 --> 00:02:32,373 Speaker 2: The last time we lost Betwixt your Walls. Bill Clinton 41 00:02:32,413 --> 00:02:35,133 Speaker 2: was in the White House, Jim Bolger was our Prime 42 00:02:35,133 --> 00:02:38,933 Speaker 2: Minister and no one had email yet the PlayStation one 43 00:02:39,133 --> 00:02:40,773 Speaker 2: hadn't even been released. 44 00:02:40,893 --> 00:02:42,412 Speaker 3: Forrest Gump was the number. 45 00:02:42,252 --> 00:02:45,293 Speaker 2: One movie at the box office, and every Man Woman 46 00:02:45,373 --> 00:02:47,453 Speaker 2: and child in the stands had a sig hanging. 47 00:02:47,293 --> 00:02:48,293 Speaker 3: Out of their mouths. 48 00:02:48,733 --> 00:02:52,813 Speaker 2: You are our nation's castle, the spring Box. Haven't beaten 49 00:02:52,933 --> 00:02:56,412 Speaker 2: us on your beautiful green grass since before World War II. 50 00:02:57,093 --> 00:03:01,013 Speaker 2: Our national stadium, our fortress, a temple of doom for 51 00:03:01,213 --> 00:03:06,213 Speaker 2: opposition for over three decades. And this Saturday, fifty thousand 52 00:03:06,213 --> 00:03:09,093 Speaker 2: of us will pack you to the rafters. Millions will 53 00:03:09,093 --> 00:03:11,813 Speaker 2: watch at home and in our pubs, bars and rugby 54 00:03:11,853 --> 00:03:16,173 Speaker 2: clubs across this great nation as our mighty soldiers and 55 00:03:16,252 --> 00:03:18,693 Speaker 2: Blacks suit up and go into battle. 56 00:03:19,333 --> 00:03:22,413 Speaker 3: But we will be challenged. And as a fan, I 57 00:03:22,532 --> 00:03:24,093 Speaker 3: see in your eyes the. 58 00:03:23,972 --> 00:03:26,733 Speaker 2: Same fear that would take the heart of me. A 59 00:03:26,893 --> 00:03:29,573 Speaker 2: day may come when the courage of our team fails, 60 00:03:29,933 --> 00:03:33,333 Speaker 2: when we forsake our friends and break our bonds of fellowship, 61 00:03:33,813 --> 00:03:37,693 Speaker 2: an hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age 62 00:03:37,693 --> 00:03:41,013 Speaker 2: of the All Blacks record at Eden Park comes crashing down. 63 00:03:41,613 --> 00:03:43,293 Speaker 3: But it is not this Saturday. 64 00:03:43,853 --> 00:03:47,653 Speaker 2: This Saturday, we fight by all that we hold deer 65 00:03:47,973 --> 00:03:49,133 Speaker 2: on this good earth. 66 00:03:49,413 --> 00:03:50,973 Speaker 3: I bid New Zealand. 67 00:03:51,133 --> 00:03:55,733 Speaker 2: Stand up and fight Eden Park. May you reign supreme 68 00:03:55,853 --> 00:03:59,893 Speaker 2: for decades to come. For you, Ah the Matt and 69 00:03:59,973 --> 00:04:04,733 Speaker 2: Tyler afternoons new Zealander of the week, go the abs, 70 00:04:04,973 --> 00:04:07,893 Speaker 2: give them a taste of kiweed and take it away. 71 00:04:07,973 --> 00:04:09,613 Speaker 3: How We Morrison. 72 00:04:39,413 --> 00:04:42,013 Speaker 1: For more from News Talks at b Listen live on 73 00:04:42,133 --> 00:04:45,093 Speaker 1: air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever 74 00:04:45,133 --> 00:04:47,733 Speaker 1: you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.