TFN will be back in early 2025 with many more stories about our wonderful country and the amazing people in it. To keep you going over the holiday season, we're sharing this very special recording of Paddy's live show at SkyCity in late November. There are laughs, lessons and lots of f**** given. In part 1, Paddy explains how TFN got its name and recalls intriguing encounters with Winston Peters and Donald Trump.

Six60 frontman Matiu Walters opens up about how fatherhood has changed him as a performer. The Starship nurses' competition to keep their kids happy at Christmas. Paddy drives New Zealand's first fully electric tractor on a diesel-free farm and, in a career first, asks exactly how good is Winston Peters.

All Black legend and current Auckland FC boss Ali Williams tells Paddy why football could become bigger than rugby in New Zealand. Big-ups for Australia's ban on social media for kids. A stutterer explains how to treat stutterers with respect. And Paddy finds out how to run a house with no bills.

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Paddy's tour of Aotearoa New Zealand with a LIVE SHOW bringing the TFN positivity to your town ends this week. 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

Bella Kalolo-Suraj, the TV Personality of the Year, calls out fat-shaming in New Zealand.

Paddy comes face to face with the tattoo of himself on an Invercargill man's arm - and adds his signature to it.

How Dan Carter got a ride in a self-driving car being developed by one of our brainiest Kiwis.

And the dreams of young Kiwis with learning disabilities.

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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

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.