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  • Jazz Thornton warns social media ban for under-16s will put young Kiwi lives at risk

    Jazz Thornton warns social media ban for under-16s will put young Kiwi lives at risk
    2025/05/21
    Mental health advocate Jazz Thornton has delivered a blunt message to the Prime Minister: "Christopher Luxon, if you go ahead with this ban, you will once again be putting some of our most vulnerable rangatahi in our country at risk." Plus, Taupō finally has something more interesting than its toilets. Meet Boom Boom the dinosaur!
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    21 分
  • How a brush with death changed Hamish McKay's life

    How a brush with death changed Hamish McKay's life
    2025/05/14
    Hamish McKay is an iconic Kiwi sports presenter who kept us up to date on Three News for a decade. Since he left our screens nearly ten years ago, something has happened to Hamish that almost cost him his life. He reveals what occurred - and the drastic change he made as a result. Last weekend, Paddy headed down south and cycled from Queenstown to Invercargill - all to raise money for our rescue choppers. Discover why they’re such a vital service for Aotearoa. And there’s a real buzz at the moment about kava and its relaxing superpowers. Paddy sees an upside to its surge in popularity.
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    25 分
  • ‘I was a lump of lard’: Newsreader reveals incredible weight loss

    ‘I was a lump of lard’: Newsreader reveals incredible weight loss
    2025/05/13
    Broadcasting legend Hamish McKay tells Paddy about the shocking image behind his decision to lose a life-saving 50kg. The former 3News sports presenter ballooned to 135kg before getting bariatric surgery in the public system to lose the weight.
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    12 分
  • First home buying hacks: Derek Handley’s real estate reality check

    First home buying hacks: Derek Handley’s real estate reality check
    2025/05/07
    Paddy sits down with entrepreneur and systems thinker Derek Handley to uncover why so many New Zealanders have lost hope in homeownership - and why they shouldn’t. Doctors said she’d never walk again after a motocross accident. Casey Brady said, “Watch me.” Hers is a remarkable story of resilience, recovery, and how hope - backed by action - is transforming her future. Hear her message for every Kiwi facing the impossible. And how good is David Seymour’s call to take the axe to what he calls our bloated number of MPs? So good!
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    23 分
  • Trim the fat: Why Seymour’s call to cut ministers is so good

    Trim the fat: Why Seymour’s call to cut ministers is so good
    2025/05/06
    How good is David Seymour’s call to cut what he describes as a bloated number of MPs pocketing easy money as highly paid ministers? So good. There is so much waste at the top of government, and it's an insult to ordinary, hard-working Kiwis.
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    3 分
  • Cecilia Robinson reveals why she's leading call for social media ban for kids

    Cecilia Robinson reveals why she's leading call for social media ban for kids
    2025/05/06
    Launched today, B4-16 is a group of parents, experts and business leaders who want a ban on social media for under-16s. Mum and entrepreneur Cecilia Robinson tells Paddy why the ban is vital - and delivers a blunt message to social media bosses like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg.
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    12 分
  • 'There were times I felt properly scared': The toll online abuse took on Kanoa Lloyd while hosting The Project

    'There were times I felt properly scared': The toll online abuse took on Kanoa Lloyd while hosting The Project
    2025/04/30
    When Paddy's friend and colleague Kanoa Lloyd lost her job fronting The Project on TV3, one thing she didn’t miss was the regular online abuse. She reflects on that frightening period in her life - and how realising she was a ‘mushroom’ led her down a new career path. This week’s Brainy Kiwi has been on Paddy's radar since last year, when the AI-powered ‘Pill Bot’ device he invented won the 2024 Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition. Twelve-year-old Gabriel Anthony tells us what inspired him to come up with the potentially life-saving gadget. And Paddy has a message for Health Minister Simeon Brown on how he can - and why he should - help to ease the suffering of dying children.
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    29 分
  • Do the Tory Whanau haters actually realise what they have done?

    Do the Tory Whanau haters actually realise what they have done?
    2025/04/29
    Tory Whanau should be saluted for putting Wellington first and saving a no-doubt divisive and energy-sapping scrap for the mayoral race with Andrew Little.
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    3 分