Dr Tennant's Verbal Highs

11/08/2024

I've finally put all episodes on YouTube. I'm riding the tube dude.

Finally on YouTube in 2024... episodes from 2017 to now. Enjoy. Verbal Highs is a long-form interview podcast with people who create & innovate in their chos...

30/05/2024

The penultimate epsiode of DTVH is now live. Devin Abrams is a music producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was a founding member of Shapeshifter, before leaving the group in 2014. Devin once played basketball with Kanye West.

144: Devin Abrams is a music producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was a founding member of Shapeshifter, before leaving the group in 2014.

23/03/2024

Mazbou was a great guest. Generous, insightful, and a great communicator. Chat includes polyrhythms, effective content creation, changes in how people interface with music, and cultural appropriation. Listen via the link below or on your podcast app.

143: Mazbou Q is a Nigerian NZ hip hop artist, content creator, activist, and educator. Online he’s dubbed ‘The Rap Scientist’ for his analysis of rap flow.

23/02/2024

I wish I'd started this with a simpler layout... entering each show is a process 🤡 There are now 798 podcasts in The New Zealand Podcast Directory...

The biggest online list of New Zealand podcasts (currently 798 shows). Every listing links to show audio. Database updated regularly. Database last updated February 2024.

22/02/2024

Terrible & sad news. A life of helping people that ended while helping people. I sat & chatted with Efeso during his mayoral candidacy in 2022.

123: Efeso Collins is an Auckland Councillor, youth worker, mentor, and teacher. He is an independent candidate for Mayor of Auckland in the 2022 election.

21/02/2024

New ep is up. A great listen if you've been through an education system... *ahem* you've all been through an education system. Welby Ings is an educational reformer, university professor, feature film director, author, teacher, designer, and activist. Until the age of 15 Welby could not read or write.

143: Welby Ings is an educational reformer, university professor, feature film director, author, teacher, designer, and activist. Until the age of 15 Welby could not read or write.

15/02/2024

New ep next week mother lovers. It's been a minute & other such platitudes. Love & light for 2024...

30/12/2023

Here's the final ep for 2023. Talking 'ukuleles and s**t' with Andrew Manning. Have a safe & happy new years all!

Andrew info: 'Andrew Manning is the GM of musical instrument importer Lyn McAllister Music. In 1997 he and six friends co-founded the Kog Transmissions label & studio.'

141: Andrew Manning is the GM of musical instrument importer Lyn McAllister Music. In 1997 he and six friends co-founded the Kog Transmissions label & studio.

14/12/2023

Got any questions about ukuleles? There's a guy coming to chat at 11am.

04/12/2023

This is a great episode if I do say so myself. New ep is up, chatting INSIDE A PETROL TANKER TRUCK CAB with Jason Rockpig. Monsieur Rockpig is a fuel tanker truck driver, broadcaster, club DJ, musician, 95 bFM alumni, and family man. He drives a 2019 Kenworth T610 towing a triple axle semi tanker.

Listen on your podcast app of choice or via the link below.

140: Jason ‘Rockpig’ Hall is a fuel tanker truck driver, broadcaster, club DJ, live musician, 95 bFM alumni, and family man. He drives a 2019 Kenworth T610 towing a triple axle semi tanker.

03/12/2023

Went in a bloody fuel tank truck for the latest chat! New ep up in the next 48.

23/10/2023

Episode 139 is live! Dean Young is the creator of Studio Stories, a podcast that talks to people behind some of New Zealand’s best-known albums. In a past life, he made one of NZ’s most popular song parodies. Dean once tried to do Homer Simpson in the back of a van.

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139: Dean Young is the creator of Studio Stories , a podcast that talks to people behind some of New Zealand’s best-known albums. In a past life, he made one of NZ’s most popular song parodies.

18/10/2023

Nice to hear my podcast chat with Aaron Tokona put to further good use. Check out Dean Young's Studio Stories, episode five, Weta's Geographica...

‎Show Studio Stories, Ep Studio Stories - Weta - Geographica: Part 1 - 17 Oct 2023

27/09/2023

New ep is up! Number 138, blimey. Thanks to DJ Vee for stopping by...

138: Vishal Vasan is a music and culture promoter, networker and connector, man about town and deejay. His latest label release is a tribute to Fredrik Lager.    

24/08/2023

Here's my 'August 1st' episode ;-) Ant Timpson is a cinephile. He launched The Incredibly Strange Film Festival in 1994 and has a long & varied career in all facets of the film industry.

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137: Ant Timpson is a cinephile. He launched The Incredibly Strange Film Festival in 1994 and has a long & varied career in all facets of the film industry.

29/07/2023

Not bad for a NZ indie project...

19/07/2023

My ongoing whack-a-mole project to find & list every NZ podcast. There are now 713 podcasts in the NZ Podcast Directory....

The biggest online list of New Zealand podcasts (currently 700+ shows). Every listing links to show audio. Database updated regularly. Database last updated July 2023.

18/07/2023

A January 2019 chat.

73: Herman Loto is a rapper, MMA fighter & trainer, former King Cobras member, and security provider. His debut album Samoans: Part 2 is a slept-on classic.

04/07/2023

New ep is up! Matt Burgess is a London-based chef. His UK career began at Soho House, followed by Gordon Ramsey’s Maze Grill, then Jamie Oliver’s Threadneedle Street. Matt first encountered his father in 2021 via cleaning out a sugar bin.

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136: Matt Burgess is a London-based chef. His UK career began at Soho House, followed by Gordon Ramsey’s Maze Grill, then Jamie Oliver’s Threadneedle Street.

04/06/2023

New ep is up! Evan Short was one half of iconic drum & bass duo Concord Dawn. He now lives in Washington DC with his family, producing and performing as Evan Kiljoy.

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135: Evan Short was one half of iconic drum & bass duo Concord Dawn. He now lives in Washington DC with his family, producing and performing as Evan Kiljoy.

25/05/2023

I'm trialling leaving a clue. Or is that a spoiler? New ep up April 1.

Band: Concord DawnSong: Morning LightAlbum: Uprising [2003]From: New ZealandPlease don't cry in the morning lightPlease don't cry in the morning.

02/05/2023

May's episode is now live. Chatting a childhood of too many chickens & too much hair with journalist & podcast producer Adam Dudding.

134: Adam Dudding is an author, journalist, and podcast producer. His podcast portfolio includes Gone Fishing , True Story, Coronavirus NZ, and The Commune.

01/04/2023

I am now officially a monthly podcast... new ep every 1st! Here's April (and Zoe).

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133: Zoë George is a journalist. She hosts Stuff’s sports podcast The Podium, and focusses on telling stories about women, LGBTQI+, and minority communities.

01/04/2023

I am now officially a monthly podcast... new ep every 1st! Here's April (and Zoe).

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www.verbalhighs.com/episodes/2023/4/1/episode-133-zo-george

133: Zoë George is a journalist. She hosts Stuff’s sports podcast The Podium, and focusses on telling stories about women, LGBTQI+, and minority communities.

16/03/2023

Latest update to the NZ Podcast Directory = 700+ shows listed (with links). Enjoy.

The biggest online list of New Zealand podcasts (currently 700+ shows). Every listing links to show audio. Database updated regularly.

01/03/2023

It's been a long time since the last episode, but...

132: Manuel Bundy is one of NZ’s pre-eminent DJs, with a long & multifaceted career in music. Pauly Fuemana once told him ‘If I get big, I’ll get you to DJ’.

25/01/2023

If you're wondering why there hasn't been a new episode in a while, it's because I have been training my new Verbal Highs AI office assistant.

16/11/2022

Episode 131 is up! Riccardo Ball is a music consultant, radio plugger, broadcaster, mentor, and heavy metal vocalist. He was Music Director at The Rock from 2006 to 2014.

Riccardo once age shamed Ozzy Osbourne.

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131: Riccardo Ball is a music consultant, radio plugger, broadcaster, mentor, and heavy metal vocalist. He was Music Director at The Rock from 2006 to 2014.

31/10/2022

New episode is up. Chatting with Jane Yee, one time C4 & Channel Z host, and now runner of all things podcasting at The Spinoff. A good time was had by all.

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130: Jane Yee is The Spinoff’s head of podcasts. She is also known as a TV & radio presenter & producer, with credits including C4, Channel Z, & The Squeeze.

16/10/2022

Here's part two of my chat with Martin Bosley. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Nick Ryan.

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129: Martin Bosley is a celebrated chef, restaurateur, and food pundit. In 2014 he was blindsided when liquidators suddenly seized his restaurant of 13 years.