Homeless Soldier On Living With Gangsters, Getting Shot, Prison / Wide Awake Podcast EP. 34

[@wideawakepodcast]

Hey everyone! I just got back from a short but much needed break. I hope you all had a good new years!

[@AndrewSparkfish]

Welcome back. So when you removing this video ...?

[@coledavids6011]

@@AndrewSparkfish what’s wrong with this video bro 😢just wondering?

[@AndrewSparkfish]

@@coledavids6011 clearly you weren't there

[@coledavids6011]

@@AndrewSparkfish why what happened there bro? I’m just wanting to know? Enlighten me

[@morengaipinge9583]

He said one one or two things that do not add up , he was deployed to Rwanda and shot 2 kids after SWAPO attacked a village ,SWAPO is from Namibia, the 32 battalion was deployed to Namibia and Angola but never heard of it going to Rwanda ( and SWAPO is Namibian)

[@RomeoFinance]

Swapo never attacked villages,some of our family members were part of those battalions.what they did attack was camps for the opposition

[@Collops]

Gavin is a very helpful guy, the kayaking community really appreciate his willingness to help.

[@imyourdoctor4799]

I like your channel Joshua.. I'm from Australia and I find these south Africa stories fascinating.... your a good interviewer for allowing them to speak and tell their story without holding any biased towards them.

[@wideawakepodcast]

Hey, thank you so much! Glad you are enjoying the interviews and I’m definitely getting better at interviewing ( I think 😂 ) I wasn’t very good when I started!

[@imyourdoctor4799]

@Wide Awake Podcast well keep it up bro.. your channel is bound to grow, hopefully u can bring in some money from it to support the channel and yourself to keep bringing us these people to tell their interesting stories...

[@friendsan53]

Be careful believing everything your hear about us South Africans. This chap, for sure as hell, is committing acts of stolen valour. Crackpot believing his own stories. Not even Japanese that he spoke. 32Bn was never in Rwanda. And he never served in 32 Bn. 100% BS.

[@carley3981]

Love your guests, all real people with real stories. Hope we see more of this ❤️

[@-Datura-]

Josh, keep them coming bro! These casts are getting better. I actually met Gavin a few times in and around SP. Was very weird to watch. Brought back some weird memories...

[@GunsSouthAfrica]

Roelof van Rensburg 7 days ago @wide awake podcast. This person has never been in 32Bn and his story brings great discredit to a unit that served with distinction. Please rectify or remove completely. Best regards Roelof van Rensburg 32 Batallion Veterans' Association Chairman.

[@nathanvandermerwe]

I'm taking everything he says with a pinch of salt. Wait, a handful of salt.

[@mo0dijudy415]

Why's that?

[@Happy_Spatula]

​@mo0dijudy Rwanda isn't near where SWAPO were. That's Namibia

[@tessdoyle9836]

Cold.. Sad.. and lonely.. This is heartbreaking.

[@GunsSouthAfrica]

Josh theres a lot of inaccuracies in this. The SADF was never deployed to Rwanda and SWAPO was in Angola. And 32 Battalion was NEVER deployed to Rwanda either. This is stolen valor. he's a bullshitter.

[@troymayers6547]

I don’t think 32 were in Ruanda. I call BS. I was at 1 parachute bn and I have never heard of any units being there.

[@wideawakepodcast]

Hey, thanks for the comments! With this kind of an episode I usually take things with a pinch of salt! I think it’s important to talk to people from all backgrounds and hear their stories but obviously with someone like Gavin it’s always hard to know what is true and what isn’t! With most of my guests their stories are known but someone living on the streets with an addiction problem might say things that are incorrect or not true! I want to start talking to people I meet randomly because I think it’s interesting. I’m not sure if you’ve ever seen the channel soft white underbelly. He talks to people living on the streets and addicts. He mainly focuses on people living in Skid Row in LA! Their stories aren’t always accurate but I think it’s still very interesting to hear from them! 🙏🏼

[@troymayers6547]

@@wideawakepodcast you are doing an awesome job. I love them and look forward to them. Maybe we can do one. I am a recovering addict and I just recently swam the English Channel. Got almost 16 years clean time. I would love to get the message across that there is life after recovery and addiction and if you can overcome addiction, you can do anything.

[@zittyvondutch9581]

I think it would be lovely if Troy got to be on the show

[@AndrewSparkfish]

Absolute bulldust flows from this wannabe. Stolen Valor

[@eto2scoops]

He's military story sounds dodgy...

[@allicialaetitiagozubuyukog153]

My 25 year old brother was homeless and addicted to drugs. Who recently started working and changing his life. Man we have no idea what the streets are like. The stories he's told me is heartbreaking. He told me I once walked past him while his head was under a blanket as he was smoking tik. I didn't know it was him but he knew it was me because I was walking and talking to a friend.

[@wideawakepodcast]

That’s extremely heartbreaking! I’m happy he is working on himself and I hope things get better soon!

[@GawainPeckecc]

I was withGavin in the military and everything he said is true. Gavin is a good person.❤

[@Bystander.13]

Great interview! Follow up interview needed. Great work!

[@wideawakepodcast]

Glad you enjoyed it!!!

[@ChildofGod-g8f]

There are so many of our ex soldiers lost out there. They're not qualified to do anything but be soldiers. It's very sad. 32 battalion and the Reckies were very hardened soldiers. Many suffered from severe PTSD.

[@thinusscheepers5821]

Please don’t believe a word!

[@mish-almohamed7470]

This guy is tough mabru 🤥 glad he got time to express himself on this platform

[@YoJemaine]

Damn I love this podcast keep the good work up

[@shaneoz4006]

Bro I love your podcasts you such a good interviewer. Extremely good. Thank you for your good work

[@scottwarwick7514]

This man is talking shit about his military record.

[@markellis2358]

Yeah for true my bru never heard of a Lt pti instructor, that's a dead give away

[@calebcornelius23]

You doing good brother keep it up brother and always stay authentic!!!!

[@georgew831]

What a billiant podcast! It can be hard to find good content on youtube with so much being thrown out there. This is not only engaging its fasinating. Real stories from real people are the ones we can really connect with. Well collated and executed material that can only get better and better. Nice job mate! Keep creating.

[@seamus9750]

I really hope his dreams are realized .

[@anonymous07hh]

Listen bru you have to have this guy back on the podcast. There is way more you can discuss with him especially about his military career The battalion he was in The recce This guy has tons of info

[@coledavids6011]

I enjoyed this!

[@garyswart8864]

What a lot of Bull....this Gavin claiming he was in 32 Battalion...liar!!!! Stolen Valor. 32 was never in Rwanda...ever.

[@stephenaggett4173]

He could teach self defence for nominal fee to locals in Sea Point. Individual or group instruction.

[@troymayers6547]

If this guys was a lieutenant in 32 battalion. He was an elite soldier. One of the best. I was not aware that they were in Ruanda.

[@zittyvondutch9581]

*Rwanda 🇷🇼

[@troymayers6547]

@@zittyvondutch9581 still call bullshit on the story.

[@zittyvondutch9581]

Lol 😂

[@AndrewSparkfish]

He is delusional.......

[@garyswart8864]

He is a liar.....absolute bull. He was never in 32.

[@delanohansen7275]

Swapo was never in Rwanda, they’re are in Namibia

[@litrootkit9263]

I was wondering the same thing. I had a moment of confusion when he said that.

[@friendsan53]

And neither was 32 Bn.

[@sihlemaholwana7555]

It's now R250 a quarter R400 a half R800 a gram R1500 for 2 grams and an ounce/kg brick is R70,000 and 6 tons is R25,000,000 the numbers might look good now but selling the stuff you'll make your money but you'll end up in one of three places jail, streets, or worse in a coffin at the hands of competition

[@bretthart1499]

He did the right thing. Even an animal does not deserve to suffer that way. Not to mention flies are such killers and would have killed those kids in any case!

[@GunsSouthAfrica]

yeah hes not speaking japanese

[@nnn8502]

Really,?

[@ashirZA]

Yup, you're right @timflack87. Definitely not Japanese. It sounds like he's thrown together a few different languages - for example, (and I may be incorrect, but this is just what I hear + what words I could pick out from the languages I know a little bit of)... He says "Wǒ" which, in Mandarin, is "I". I also hear "Xiǎoqì" (possibly also Mandarin), and then he chucks in a "khon tai" which means Thai person in Thai. Not sure what his aim was tbh 😂

[@cannabisnj]

lmao definitely struck me as a chinese dialect than japanese absolutely

[@TheLostDutchman]

"Last night I threw a grenade and killed 10 people...Then the grenade exploded" -This Guy

[@kabelomsimango7015]

Mhhh at least he looks out for the weak and he has goodness it's just that drugs ruined his life

[@allicialaetitiagozubuyukog153]

Very nice interview.

[@wideawakepodcast]

Thank you!! 🙏🏼

[@sweetroots7868]

Sound like he was working with Wimmie

[@CkayZ561]

That sounds alot like Mandarin to me...

[@Mr-ec5xw]

always wondered where this guy was

[@zittyvondutch9581]

You know him? Is the Rwanda story true?

[@Mr-ec5xw]

@@zittyvondutch9581 i do know him yes and im not too sure about his stories though and how many of it are true i looked after him for a while

[@Mr-ec5xw]

@@zittyvondutch9581 still got the knife he gave me lol

[@kalibjacobs895]

Chuck Norris's brother

[@TheRoelof1961]

Nope

[@Happy_Spatula]

Meh Rwanda is not near Namibia

[@FeistyGES]

They were Swapo freedom fighters!!

[@jonabraham9291]

Lol ok Jason Bourne

[@kalibjacobs895]

Lol

[@antonvanschoor148]

Bog snert en onsin.

[@SkrollrBeats]

Amazing channel

[@rossyuill5842]

Jason bourne