Matt and Tyler's New Zealander of the Week - 28th March

Published Mar 28, 2025, 3:34 AM

Every Friday on Matt and Tyler afternoons on ZB we name the New Zealander of the week. 

It's an honour that we grant on your behalf to someone who has had effect on our great and beautiful nation over the past week. 

There are three nominees but can only be one winner.

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Every Friday our Matt and Tyler Afternoons we name the New Zealander of the Week in honor that we bestow on your behalf to a newsmaker who has had an outsized effect on our great and beautiful nation over the previous seven days. As always, there will be three nominees but only one winner, and I think we can all agree this New Zealand of the Week Award is real and earned, not like most awards in twenty twenty five, which are a load of crack. So, without further ado, the nominees for Matt and Tyler Afternoons New Zealander of the Week AH Nominee one also gets the Anti inflam and Heart Health Award. Our superstar agricultural sector is spearheading the country's recovery, and another product has joined the party with one hundred and twenty four million bucks for popping your cherry of five thousand export tons for the first time in history. You Sexy cherry growers, you are nominated for the New Zealander of the Week. Editing YAP nomine two also gets the g You're Looking Good Mate Award. He's turning eighty in a couple of weeks but looks sixty five, and he puts it down to a purpose and life and munching fish heads. The man is sharp of suit and sharp of mind and may just live forever. Winston Peters for failing to age for the last twenty years and preaching personal responsibility in key we Health, You are nominated for New Zealander of the Week World I'm winning impressive considering the matter whiskey and darts. The great man has pounded over the years, but there can be only one, and this one is a very very worthy recipient and also gets the Some Heroes don't wear a Capes Award. All right, here we go. Now, some idiot of an MP who should no better claim that all you do is throw homeless people's stuff in the bin, that New Zealanders don't feel safe when you're around, when actually you are doing the hardest and most dangerous job in the country. Crime stats are plummeting and some goddamn appreciation would be nice. New Zealand's heroic beat cops. You are the mad Tyler afternoons New Zealanders of the Week. Whoop, you ain't hippy, but you are our brothers and sisters, so she's really an impas not for much longer.

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