Gavin Learns

Superintendent Mel Aitken is a Police Officer based at head quarters in Wellington. 

She is currently the National Manager for Safer People which is responsible for the Health and Safety and wellbeing of all employees within the organisation. Prior to her current role, Mel was the area commander of the West Coast of New Zealand.   

I wanted to talk to Mel about a whole lot of stuff regarding the nature of being a police officer, managing the public's perception of the police especially taking into consideration recent issues in the United States of America and the mental wellbeing of officers in the street.   

This was a blast!  

Check out my tour page: https://americanrefugees.co.nz/

Today's interview was with Aimon Kong. Aimon is a magician currently based out of Wellington, New Zealand. 

I first came across this gentlemen when I was walking up the street late at night and saw him performing. He was the first person I had seen performing magic in the street and so I was naturally intrigued by how he was operating both performatively and financially. I had seemingly caught him on the come up, funnily enough. It sounds like things are going really well for him, both as a busker and as hirable act.   

You can find Aimon's channels below.  

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbJYOOAQwQZoxkw66bRsvQg 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aimonkong/ 

Aaron Barber is a fellow comedian, American, and all around gentleman who I will be embarking with on a comedy tour across all of New Zealand starting in February.  I wanted to get Aaron on the podcast to introduce him to the audience and to shamelessly plug the tour we will be doing.  On that note, the tour we are doing will be across both the North and the South Island. 

You can find links to it right here:  https://americanrefugees.co.nz/ 

You can find Aaron Barber's details right here:  

Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGME... 

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/aaronbarber_us 

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/aaronbarber... 

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/aaronbarber.us

On this episode, I interviewed Te Rina Taite who recently spent two weeks in New Zealand quarantine having come back from Sydney. Te spent her two weeks of quarantine up in Auckland and gave me the full run through of what her experience was like. Going into this interview, I realised that I haven't actually talked to anyone who returned from overseas during the Covid-19 pandemic. So wanted to learn more about what is involved in going through two those mandatory two weeks, mentally, physically as well as practically.  

Great episode and thoroughly enjoyable.

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Today I interviewed Mr Kozo Kaos. Kozo is a street performer, magician and all round entertainer. I used to bump into Kozo when I was walking down the street in Wellington and one of the things that really interested me was figuring out what life was like as a street performer. One thing that really blew my mind was learning about how street performers earn their money. My first though was that credit cards would have made it harder to earn a living and I really wanted to dive a bit more into the financial section of things and boy did we.  

 You can find Kozo here:  

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/kozk 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kozokaos 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kozokomatsu...

Another day another episode!   

Today I interviewed Nathan Wallis who is a Neuroscience Educator.  

I first heard about Nathan through a conversation with a colleague of mine who works in the education space. Nathan had done a speaking event which my colleague had attended. The speaking event focused on the importance of early childcare and the early phases in a human being's development. I was really intrigued and reached out to learn more.  

 We talked about the difference between nurture vs nature, the influencing factors in ones development and the importance of the early stages in a child's development (i.e. the first 1000 days). One of the really inspiring things I took from this podcast was that people's personalities and thinking patterns could be changed, regardless of how crazy an upbringing they initially had.   

To learn more about Nathan Wallis, check out the following:  

Website: https://www.nathanwallis.com/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUeT25tE-IXTp55fcT41ZsQ

Instagram: @Nathandwallis

Episode 19 everyone... we are so close to episode number 20!   

Today's interview is with my friend Lucy Roche who is a sex worker as well as a comedian. You may remember Lucy from episode 9 where we just stared at each other for a full hour.  I learned a lot from this episode, not really a whole lot in episode 9 though. I learned about how being a sex worker has shaped Lucy's opinion towards men, the in's and out's of the industry and what attracts Lucy to the work.  

You can find Lucy on Instagram at @lucyfruitz and on twitter @lucyfruits.   

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Podcast episode number 18 ladies and gentlemen!   

Today I interviewed comic, producer and creative, Kate Creatif (Kate Spencer). Kate runs a show in Wellington called Naked Women Reading, which, you guessed it, is where women jump on stage naked and read. So we thought it would be a fun idea if she decided to jump on the podcast naked... and talk!  We talked about nudity, sexuality and the Wellington creative space. 

This was fun! You can find Kate on Instagram @katecreatif or her website at: https://creatifkate.com/ Check me out on Instagram @gavin.hews and don't forget to like and subscribe.

Hello ladies and gentlemen, today's episode is a little weird.   I decided to talk about fitness, working out and general health with my friend Jovan Legetich, whom you can find on Instagram @classics_gym. Jovan is a physical trainer and a JACKED man. While doing the interview, I wanted him to physically train one of my friends and run them through a series of workouts just for a laugh. My friend who went through the workouts is Niamh and you can find her on instagram @quirkykfitness.  

The episode was fun but certainly didn't goes as planned or as expected. None the less, it was fun and different

In episode number 16, Gavin sits down and interviews a professional clown.  

Gavin and Booth The Clown go into depth about what being a clown entails, how you become a clown and what kind of money you can make doing it. They talk about Booth's past, what got them into being a clown and where they go in the future.   

You can find them on Instagram @booththeclown.  

Enjoy the interview and let me know what you think.