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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

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18:28

Musashi Miyamoto ~ The Blade and the Brush

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2025/10/05

Send us a text Episode 226 The air is thick with the scent of pine and steel. A lone figure stands on the bank of a quiet river, the rising sun glinting off the blade at his side. His hair is wild, his kimono worn, his eyes fixed on the rippling water. Soon, he will fight a man who has spent his life preparing for this one moment. Musashi, though—he has no plan. Only instinct, chaos, and the certainty that he cannot lose. But how did a boy from the mountains of Harima become Japan’s mo...

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Charles Goodyear ~ The Smell of Burnt Hope

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2025/09/29

Send us a text Episode 225 A man sits hunched over a workbench. His fingers are raw, stained black with soot and resin. The air is thick with the acrid smell of burning rubber, sulfur biting at the back of his throat. It is the middle of the 19th century, and while the rest of America surges ahead with steam, steel, and expansion, Charles Goodyear is locked in a tiny workshop, chasing an obsession. He has no money. His family lives in poverty. The world laughs at him, mocks his failures, and...

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21:47

Oliver Hardy ~ The Southern Son of Comedy

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2025/09/26

Send us a text Episode 224 It is the spring of 1892 in Harlem, Georgia. The air is heavy with the scent of pine and the sharp sound of train whistles drifting across the small Southern town. In a modest home, a boy named Norvell Hardy — later known to the world as Oliver — is born into a family that knows both comfort and tragedy. His father, a respected Confederate veteran turned county treasurer, dies when Norvell is just ten months old. His mother, Emily, strong and resourceful, raises hi...

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Dr. Barnardo ~ How One Man Reshaped Childhood

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2025/09/21

Send us a text Episode 223 Fog drifts over the East End of London. The narrow alleys echo with the clatter of horse hooves and the cries of market traders. But beneath the noise and bustle lies another world — one of ragged children huddled in doorways, barefoot, hungry, and forgotten. Into this desperate landscape walks a young man with a fiery vision. Trained in medicine, driven by faith, and stirred by compassion, he dares to ask a dangerous question: what if every child, no matter how po...

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13:04

Tom Bawcock ~ The Fisherman Who Saved a Cornish Village

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2025/09/17

Send us a text Episode 222 "On the far southwestern edge of Britain, where the Atlantic hurls itself against granite cliffs and the wind scours the land raw, lies a village small in size but vast in legend. Mousehole, a Cornish fishing port with roots older than memory, has known hardship, hunger, and the endless pull of the sea. But one winter’s night, as storms raged and bellies ached with want, a single fisherman dared to face the ocean when all others stayed ashore. His name was Tom Bawc...

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Canelo Álvarez ~ Red Fire

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2025/09/13

Send us a text Episode 221 In a sun-scorched town outside Guadalajara, a skinny boy with freckled skin and bright red hair stood out like a flame in the crowd. The locals teased him, called him Canelo — cinnamon. But the name that began as a joke would soon echo through packed arenas, whispered with awe and respect. This is the story of how a boy, marked from birth by difference, carved his way through hardship, fists blazing, to become one of the most formidable fighters of his time. ...

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Terence Crawford ~ Omaha Roots to Global Glory

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2025/09/12

Send us a text Episode 220 On the streets of Omaha, Nebraska, a boy learns to fight long before he ever steps into a boxing ring. It’s not a game. It’s survival. Every punch, every scar, every lesson in pain becomes a step toward something greater. From narrow neighborhood gyms to the bright lights of world arenas, his journey is as much about resilience as it is about skill. This is the story of how grit, discipline, and a refusal to bow to circumstance turned a kid f...

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Jozef Gabčík ~ Operation Anthropoid: To Kill the...

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2025/09/07

Send us a text Episode 219 In the dark heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, resistance was more than an act of defiance—it was a gamble with certain death. Among those who dared to play this deadly game was a young Slovak soldier named Jozef Gabčík. Trained in Britain, parachuted into his homeland, and tasked with a mission few would ever return from, he carried with him both a Sten gun and an iron resolve. His target? One of the most feared men of the Third Reich: Reinhard Heydrich, the architect...

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23:49

Davy Jones ~ Stable Boy to Stardom

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2025/09/03

Send us a text Episode 218 The 1960s. A decade of revolution. Music, fashion, youth culture—all exploding in colour and sound. Out of this whirlwind steps a boy from Manchester, slight in stature but larger than life, with charm enough to disarm the world. He isn’t meant to be here. His path was toward the racetrack, not the stage. Yet fate has other plans. In a time when television brings idols into living rooms, when teenage dreams can be broadcast coast to coast, he becomes the face that g...

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Edgar Allan Poe ~ The Raven's Dark Shadow

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2025/08/28

Send us a text Episode 217 His life begins in turbulence and ends in mystery. Orphaned before he can form a memory, carried from place to place, he grows in the shadow of loss. Genius fuels his pen, yet poverty dogs his steps. He loves deeply, yet death claims those closest to him. In taverns and lecture halls, on quiet streets and in crowded parlors, he moves like a man marked by fate. Through each hardship, he writes — stories of haunted houses, guilty hearts, and dreams that curdle into n...

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17:57

Peter Grant ~ Led Zeppelin’s Ruthless Protector

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2025/08/23

Send us a text Episode 216 He was a giant of a man, both in size and in reputation. Peter Grant, the manager who turned Led Zeppelin into the biggest band on the planet, wasn’t cut from the same cloth as other music executives. Fiercely loyal, brutally protective, and unafraid of confrontation, he ripped up the old rules of the music business and wrote new ones that shifted power from the record labels to the artists. But behind the legend of smashed bootlegs, stormed offices, and backstage ...

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29:26

Alan Turing ~ Cracking the Uncrackable

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2025/08/17

Send us a text Episode 215 The war is raging across Europe. German U-boats stalk the Atlantic, threatening to cut Britain off from supplies. Hitler’s armies seem unstoppable. But in a quiet English country house, a small group of mathematicians, chess players, and linguists are working around the clock on something invisible—an enemy of numbers and codes. At the centre of this effort is a quiet, awkward man. He’s brilliant, eccentric, and far more comfortable with equations than small talk. ...

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Hulk Hogan ~ An American Goliath

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2025/08/04

Send us a text Episode 214 It’s the 1980s. America’s malls are packed. Rock ‘n’ roll blares from cassette players. Kids trade action figures like currency. And in living rooms across the country, a new kind of superhero body-slams his way into pop culture. Towering, tanned, wrapped in red and yellow, he’s part-myth, part-man. He preaches vitamins and prayers. He flexes, points, and growls his way through TV screens, arenas, and toy shelves. His name? Hulk Hogan. But before the roar of ...

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Ozzy Osbourne ~ A Controlled Burn

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2025/07/31

Send us a text Episode 213 Before he was the Prince of Darkness, before the bat, the bites, and the black leather — there was just John Michael Osbourne. A working-class kid from Aston, Birmingham, born into poverty, dyslexia, and a life that didn’t seem to promise much more than the factory floor. But behind the thick accent and troubled childhood was a voice that would one day shake the world. This isn’t just the story of a heavy metal icon. It’s about survival, self-destruction, and a stra...

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Laurent Fignon ~ Le Professeur of the Peloton

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2025/07/23

Send us a text Episode 212 He had the glasses, the grit, and the gall to defy cycling tradition. With flowing blond hair and an unapologetic attitude, Laurent Fignon wasn’t just racing the clock—he was battling a sport that didn’t always welcome rebels. Twice a Tour de France champion, he was as famous for how he won as for the heartbreak of how he lost. But behind the headlines and heartbreak was a rider of rare intelligence, elegance, and fire. This is the story of a man who pedaled against...

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Harvey Milk ~ The Mayor of The Castro

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2025/07/17

Send us a text Episode 211 He wasn’t born a symbol. He didn’t grow up dreaming of shaking up City Hall, or of becoming a voice for millions who’d been told to stay silent. Harvey Milk was a Navy veteran. A math teacher. A camera shop owner. And for much of his early life, he kept his identity tucked away—hidden from view, like so many others in his generation. But when he finally decided to live out loud, everything changed. San Francisco in the 1970s was bursting with color, chaos, an...

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26:36

Alan Watts ~ Smiling at the Great Illusion

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2025/07/14

Send us a text Episode 210 Imagine 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 the West in coffeehouses and lecture halls, one man emerged not with answers, but with questions that made the answers irrelevant. He wore tweed jackets, quoted Lao Tzu with a cigarette in hand, and turned philosophy into a performance. He spoke of Zen, Tao, the eg...

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Diogo Jota ~ The Number 20

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2025/07/08

Send us a text Episode 209 He 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 speechless. From the streets of Massarelos to the thunder of Anfield, he rose quietly, steadily — the underdog who outworked the odds. For club and country, he gave everything. Every run, every finish, every celebration was a chapter in a story still unfol...

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Keith Haring ~ Born to Draw

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2025/07/04

Send us a text Episode 208 He 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 past empty black panels, he filled them with bold, dancing figures — babies, barking dogs, radiant hearts — pulsing with joy, anger, and something else... something deeper. This wasn’t graffiti. This wasn’t gallery art. It was something in between. In just a few ...

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Stanislav Petrov ~ The Soviet Who Stopped the End

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2025/06/29

Send us a text Episode 207 In 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 Moscow, monitoring the skies for signs of a U.S. missile attack. When the alarm sounded, and all systems insisted that destruction was imminent, Petrov hesitated. He questioned what the machines were telling him—and in doing so, may have saved the lives ...

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