Episode 7 - Stalking Fernando The Love Machine

Stalking is a serious problem. Fernando Pacheco is a man of many gigs. He’s one of the performers in the local ska/punk band “No Villains Left”. Fernando “The Love Machine is a long time Radio DJ you would know as the voice of KPOI. He also runs 808 Green Thumbs, a gardening group. He MCs at a local Luau. He parlayed that into becoming the chair for the Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts.  We open with our new feature, the “Portuguese Culture Minute” where Fernando shares an interesting fact about Portuguese history. Mom/Model Naomi Cooper Christensen then explains how she originally became friends with Attorney Marcus Landsberg. But all this is just prelude for Fernando explaining what it’s like to be a victim of stalking. He talks about how a fan became a friend, and then expected that she was more than a friend, including messaging other acquaintances he knew and finding out where he would be and showing up. Listen to how it affected him, how he figured out who it was, and how he finally made the problem end.

Personal website: https://fernandothelovemachine.com

808 greenthumbs: https://www.facebook.com/groups/808greenthumbs/

No Villains Left: https://novillainsleft.com

Mayor’s Office of Culture and the Arts: http://www.honolulu.gov/moca.html