Just Passing Through Podcast
Step into 'Just Passing Through,' the podcast that chronicles my Yorkshireman adventures navigating the maze of Japanese life. No guarantees of laughter, but we promise a healthy dose of raised eyebrows and bemused chuckles.
In each episode, we'll explore the quirky intersections of cultures, from attempting to decipher the intricacies of local customs to introducing Japan to the wonders of a proper brew. It's a podcast where culture shock meets dry Yorkshire wit – a journey through the everyday absurdities that make life interesting.
So, if you're up for a laid-back, eyebrow-raising, and occasionally head-scratching experience, hit that download button. 'Just Passing Through' – where each episode is a detour into the unpredictable and a reminder that life's little oddities are the spice of the journey."
Enjoy,Darren.
Episodes
211 episodes
Alan Watts ~ Smiling at the Great Illusion
Episode 210Imagine a voice—calm, curious, playful—asking you whether you are the universe pretending to be a person.In the chaotic swirl of 20th-century thought, where science clashed with religion and the East met...
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Episode 210
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26:36
Diogo Jota ~ The Number 20
Episode 209He wasn’t born into a football dynasty. He didn’t grow up in the spotlight. But Diogo Jota carved out his own place in the world of football — with grit, precision, and an eye for goal that left fans across Europe speec...
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Episode 209
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13:04
Keith Haring ~ Born to Draw
Episode 208He wasn’t looking for fame. He wasn’t trying to get rich.Armed with a piece of chalk and a head full of wild ideas, Keith Haring hit the subways of New York like a lightning bolt. While others walked pas...
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Episode 208
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14:13
Stanislav Petrov ~ The Soviet Who Stopped the End
Episode 207In the early hours of September 26, 1983, one man stood between the world and nuclear war. A quiet, unassuming lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defence Forces, Stanislav Petrov was stationed in a bunker outside Mos...
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Episode 207
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17:26
Keith Flint ~ He Lit the Match
Episode 206 He was the face of fire and fury. A punk with jet-black eyes, a sneer that could cut glass, and a voice that turned dance floors into battlegrounds. But offstage, he was a soft-spoken Essex lad who loved motorbikes, d...
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Episode 206
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19:05
Bill Wilson ~ How Sobriety Went Global
Episode 205He was a stockbroker with a drinking problem. A man who’d tasted the high life, only to lose it all to the bottle. But in a moment of utter despair, something changed. And from that darkness, he lit a spark that wou...
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Episode 205
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22:37
Hedy Lamarr ~ From Box Office to Bluetooth
Episode 204She was hailed as one of the most beautiful women ever to grace the silver screen. A Hollywood starlet in the golden age of cinema, her face lit up movie theatres around the world. But behind the glamour and fame was a ...
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Episode 204
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Shiro Ishii ~ The Empire's Hidden Lab
Episode 203Shiro Ishii was a man of science—a brilliant mind twisted by the horrors of ambition and war. Born in Japan during a time of rising nationalism and imperial expansion, Ishii rose through the ranks of the military medica...
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Episode 203
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14:47
Wiltold Pilecki ~ The Man Who Volunteered
Episode 202Witold Pilecki’s story is one of the most remarkable yet little-known tales of World War II. A Polish soldier who voluntarily went undercover inside Auschwitz, he gathered crucial intelligence and organized resistance f...
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Episode 202
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16:46
Old Mother Shipton ~ Prophetess of the Northern Moors
Episode 201She was born in a cave during a thunderstorm. A child so strange in appearance and so wrapped in mystery that whispers of witchcraft followed her from the cradle to the grave. Her name was Ursula Southeil—though most re...
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Episode 201
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24:51
Slash ~ From Stoke to Sunset Strip
Episode 200Before the top hat, before the roaring solos that defined a generation, and long before the stadiums full of screaming fans, there was just a kid named Saul.Born to a mixed-race couple in the UK — a free-spirite...
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Episode 200
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19:55
Crazy Horse ~ Echoes From the Black Hills
Crazy Horse was a Lakota warrior who stood for freedom, tradition, and resistance. Born around 1840, he grew up watching his people’s land and way of life threatened by U.S. expansion. Quiet, strong-willed, and deeply spiritual, he became a fie...
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Episode 199
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15:23
Bradford City ~ 40 Years On
Episode 198On May 11th, 1985, football fans filled Valley Parade with hopes of celebration. Bradford City had just clinched promotion—their first title in 56 years. It should have been a day of joy, of triumph, of banners waving a...
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John McCain ~ Behind Enemy Lines
Episode 197 He was shot out of the sky over Hanoi, dragged from a lake, and locked away in a prison that would define the rest of his life. John McCain was a war hero, a maverick senator, and a man who never backed down from a fig...
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Episode 197
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19:26
Ronnie Biggs ~ Robbery to Rio
Episode 196He was no mastermind, no cold-eyed kingpin orchestrating a perfect crime. Ronnie Biggs was something else entirely — an unlikely outlaw, a charming misfit who stumbled into one of the most audacious heists in British hi...
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Episode 196
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25:45
Mike Tyson ~ Forged in Brownsville
Episode 195He came from the kind of streets where nobody makes it out clean. Brownsville, Brooklyn—where the walls talked in gunshots and glass, and kids learned how to run before they learned how to read. Mike Tyson wasn’t born ...
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Episode 195
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23:52
Robert Johnson ~ The Man Who Met Midnight
Episode 194There are stories passed from mouth to mouth, drifting like smoke down dirt roads and along backwoods barrooms. Stories of a man with a guitar slung low, fingers that moved like lightning, and songs that made even the ...
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Episode 194
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23:53
Giuseppe Garibaldi ~ The Wild Son of Nice (Part Two)
Episode 193The battle may have crowned him a hero, but peace made him a problem.In Part Two of our journey, the wild son of Nice is no longer charging into war with a sword raised high—he’s limping, wounded, betrayed, and w...
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Episode 193
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21:01
Giuseppe Garibaldi ~ The Wild Son of Nice (Part One)
Episode 192Before he became a hero of two worlds, before Italy bore his name in street corners and city squares, Giuseppe Garibaldi was just a boy from Nice—driven by fire and a fierce desire to change the world. In this opening ...
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Episode 192
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22:26
Bon Scott ~ The Thunder from Down Under
Episode 191He was the swagger in the storm, the howl in the night, the electric pulse running through the veins of rock ‘n’ roll. A tattooed troubadour with a crooked grin and a voice that sounded like it had been soaked in whiske...
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Episode 191
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30:34
Captain James Cook ~ Islands, Empires, and a Knife.
Episode 190He wasn’t born into power. He wasn’t destined for greatness. But by the time James Cook sailed his last voyage, he had redrawn the map of the world.From a humble Yorkshire farm boy to the most celebrat...
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29:55
Brian Clough ~ The Sheriff of Nottingham
Episode 189There are managers who win, and there are managers who inspire. And then, there was Brian Clough. A man who did both—but never the way you expected. His story is one of belief, defiance, and an unshakable will to prove ...
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Episode 189
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Gene Hackman ~ The Everyman
Episode 188Some actors leave their mark on Hollywood with a single role. Others define entire genres. Then, there’s Gene Hackman—a man whose presence on screen was so commanding, so effortlessly real, that he became a l...
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Episode 188
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