Paddy Gower’s TFN - The F#$%ing News

It's a super-special episode of TFN as Paddy goes wild on the pristine Rakiura-Stewart Island.

His odyssey includes a hunt for two of our most iconic native species, the kiwi and the blue cod. But things don't go entirely to plan.

Paddy also visits the southernmost cafe in Aotearoa for his morning flat white and meets the Brainy Kiwis who run it after swapping the mainland for island life.

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Paddy is touring Aotearoa New Zealand this November and December with a LIVE SHOW, bringing the TFN positivity to your town. He'll share yarns from his book, find a local Good Kiwi, and he's keen to meet you. For tickets go to paddygower.co.nz

He's the 22-year-old Kiwi who's been causing quite the stir since returning to Formula One in the latter part of this year. Liam Lawson is fighting for a permanent seat in next year's championship, and has been single-minded in his approach to making this happen. In his short time back in the top flight he has won points at two Grands Prix, developed an ongoing feud with a driver in the senior Red Bull team (including pulling the finger at him) and called the McLaren team's choice of national anthem “complete bull****.”

Now he sits down for an extended, revealing chat with Paddy to talk goals, heroes, being fast and driving a manual.

Paddy is touring Aotearoa New Zealand this November and December with a LIVE SHOW, bringing the TFN positivity to your town. He'll share yarns from his book, find a local Good Kiwi, and he's keen to meet you. For tickets go to paddygower.co.nz

Mark Inman tells Paddy about his fundraising for a Whakaari tragedy memorial.

Who's getting a tattoo of Paddy this week, and more importantly WHY?

How hard would it be to get free period care products at your workplace? Paddy talks to the women who've achieved that at one of NZ's biggest companies.

And Paddy finds out exactly what 'Incrediballs' are, and you'll wish YOU'd invented them.

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Paddy is touring Aotearoa New Zealand this November and December with a LIVE SHOW, bringing the TFN positivity to your town. He'll share yarns from his book, find a local Good Kiwi, and he's keen to meet you. For tickets go to paddygower.co.nz

Paddy Gower talks to Mark Manson, the author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*k. He answers how can Kiwis give fewer F**ks?

The one-armed tyre guy who has changed 30,000 tyres is a very very Good Kiwi.

At US Election time, Paddy dares you to disagree that MMP makes New Zealand great.

And Paddy says Goodnight Kiwi to young Meila.

Plus, the small Kiwi company that's solving our food waste problem with thousands of muffins!

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Paddy is touring Aotearoa New Zealand this November and December with a LIVE SHOW, bringing the TFN positivity to your town. He'll share yarns from his book, find a local Good Kiwi, and he's keen to meet you. For tickets go to paddygower.co.nz

Paddy chats to White Ferns legend Suzie Bates on what it takes to win a Cricket World Cup, after failing and failing and failing.

Meet the 'Yarnties" - a knitting group from Orewa that has donated over 3000 items THIS YEAR, to women and children escaping domestic abuse.

Plus, move over Marmite and Vegemite... there's a new kiwi player on the 'mite' scene.

To contact Paddy email [email protected]

Come and See Paddy Live: join Paddy at his national The F@#$ing News tour this November and December all around New Zealand. Visit paddygower.co.nz for tickets.

All Black midfielder Anton Lienert-Brown talks to Paddy about the crippling anxiety he lives with.

We meet the Kiwi woman who should be dead from Pancreatic cancer but has survived 97 rounds of chemotherapy. Yes, 97!

And don't miss Paddy's yarn with Jono, the guy that pranked Prime Minister Christopher Luxon at the Auckland FC game at the weekend.

To contact Paddy email [email protected]

Come and See Paddy Live: join Paddy at his national The F@#$ing News tour this November and December all around New Zealand. Visit paddygower.co.nz for tickets.

In the middle of the America’s Cup regatta, Paddy has one question - “what and why is a ‘Cyclor’?” So he interviews Emirates Team New Zealand cyclor Louis Crosby about suffering, fake uncles, and who is going to win the Cup.

Paddy meets the Brainy Kiwi going global with technology that can predict your health future by using AI to analyse a routine eye exam. 

Our Good Kiwi is the angel in Wellington giving free dental care to the homeless. 

And Paddy warns us not to take the kiwi bird for granted. 

To contact Paddy email [email protected]

Come and See Paddy Live: join Paddy at his national The F@#$ing News tour this November and December all around New Zealand. Visit paddygower.co.nz for tickets.

Paddy talks to Dame Lisa Carrington about her Te Reo journey and her creative process writing a children’s book.

Femmi is a Kiwi app for women athletes that actually takes menstruation, pregnancy, contraception into account instead of ignoring it.

Meet the Good Kiwi who, despite living with cancer, continues her incredible work feeding the homeless in suburban Auckland.

And... Paddy accidentally crashes a wedding.

To contact Paddy email [email protected]

Come and See Paddy Live: join Paddy at his national The F@#$ing News tour this November and December all around New Zealand. Visit paddygower.co.nz for tickets.

Hey everyone, Paddy here. Welcome to my new show which is all about bringing positivity into the news world.

Our first TFN guest is Dai Henwood, who is facing terminal cancer with optimism. Dai has gotta be the most positive man in New Zealand right now!

There's also a bunch of other good kiwis, great kiwis and brainy kiwis in this episode... enjoy your weekly dose of TFN.

To contact Paddy email [email protected]

Come and See Paddy Live: join Paddy at his national The F@#$ing News tour this November and December all around New Zealand. Visit paddygower.co.nz for tickets.

The F#$%ing News flips the script on the news - short, upbeat, inspirational and f%$#ing good fun journalism with the nation’s favourite everyman reporter, Paddy Gower.

TFN sees Paddy talking to Kiwis who are the good, the great and the brains of our nation.