Just Passing Through Podcast

Send us a textCrazy 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 fierce leader—most famously at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where General Custer was defeated.He never sought fame, never signed treaties, and never allowed himself to be photographed. To his people, he was a protector. To history, he remains a powerful symbol of courage, loyalty, and the fight to preserve a disappearing world.Support the showInsta@justpassingthroughpodcastContact:justpassingthroughpodcast@gmail.com

Send us a textEpisode 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 and voices raised in song.Instead, it became one of the darkest days in English football history.In just fifteen minutes, a fire tore through the Main Stand. It claimed 56 lives and scarred hundreds more. The tragedy was swift, brutal, and left a city and its club changed forever.This is not just a story about disaster. It’s about what came after. About survival, grief, and rebuilding. About how football, even in its most tragic moments, reflects the spirit of a community.And now, nearly forty years to the day, Bradford City rise again—promoted once more. A new chapter begins, always remembering the one that came before.Support the showInsta@justpassingthroughpodcastContact:justpassingthroughpodcast@gmail.com

Send us a textEpisode 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 fight — even when it was with his own party. This is the story of the trials, battles, and legacy of a man who spent more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison, and decades in American politics — a life of service, scars, and stubborn conviction.Support the showInsta@justpassingthroughpodcastContact:justpassingthroughpodcast@gmail.com

Send us a textEpisode 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 history and then did something few manage: he vanished. This is not a story of sharp suits and silent safes, but of grit and greed, of panic and passports, of back-alley surgeries and samba drums.It’s the tale of a man who coshed no one, fired no gun, but found his name chained forever to a crime that shook the country. From a grey English prison to the sun-blasted streets of Rio de Janeiro, this is the story of a man who ran far, ran fast, and ran out of time.Ronnie Biggs: train robber, fugitive, folk antihero. This is how he slipped the net — and what happened after.Support the showInsta@justpassingthroughpodcastContact:justpassingthroughpodcast@gmail.com

Send us a textEpisode 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 into fame. He was born into chaos.He was small. He was quiet. He had a lisp, wore broken clothes, kept pigeons on rooftops. And for all the fire that lived in him, the world never looked twice—until he fought back.This story begins before the belts. Before the knockouts. Before the roar of arenas. It begins in darkness—where fists were currency, pain was normal, and nothing was ever promised.It’s about the boy who found a father in an old trainer named Cus D’Amato. The boy who was broken, then rebuilt in a crumbling gym with blood on the mats and dreams in the rafters.It’s about loss, discipline, violence, obsession. About the moment he realized he could become something terrifying. Something unforgettable. Something the world hadn’t seen before.Support the showInsta@justpassingthroughpodcastContact:justpassingthroughpodcast@gmail.com

Send us a textEpisode 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 dead stop and listen.His name was Robert Johnson. But he was more than just a name.Born into poverty, raised in shadows, and chased by ghosts—he wandered the South like a man searching for something only he could hear. They say he played so well it wasn’t natural. They say he vanished one night and came back with the Devil’s music in his blood.This is not just a tale of a bluesman. This is a walk through the mist and fire of America’s haunted heartland. A story of broken roads, lost love, cursed strings, and the thin line between genius and damnation.This is the story of the man who met midnight.And never came back the same.Support the showInsta@justpassingthroughpodcastContact:justpassingthroughpodcast@gmail.com

Send us a textEpisode 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 watching the nation he helped forge slip from his grasp. But the fire never leaves him. From the storming of Rome to the heartbreak of seeing his ideals sold off like scraps, Giuseppe Garibaldi’s final years are a story of stubborn courage, disillusionment, and an unbreakable belief in freedom.This is not a tale of quiet retirement. It’s one of final battles, old loves, bitter enemies, and a man still burning at the edge of history.Strap in. The legend isn’t done yet.Support the showInsta@justpassingthroughpodcastContact:justpassingthroughpodcast@gmail.com

Send us a textEpisode 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 chapter of his remarkable life, we trace his earliest adventures: from the windswept coast of Liguria to the chaos of revolution, exile, and first bloodshed in South America.Discover how betrayal shaped him, how exile hardened him, and how the sale of his beloved homeland to France lit a flame that would burn across continents. This is fire, blood, conviction—and the beginning of a man who refused to bow, refused to break, and lived only to liberate.Support the showInsta@justpassingthroughpodcastContact:justpassingthroughpodcast@gmail.com

Send us a textEpisode 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 whiskey and set on fire. Bon Scott didn’t just sing—he lived the lyrics. Hard, fast, and always one heartbeat away from the edge.But behind the denim, the strut, and the devilish wink was a man far more complex than the screaming frontman of AC/DC. This is the story of a Scottish-born kid who landed in Australia and set the world alight. Of heartbreak, of brotherhood, of the road, and of a voice that became immortal just as its owner slipped away.In this short journey through his life, we won't just hear the music. We’ll walk the stages, ride the vans, feel the sting of cold nights and roaring crowds. And maybe, just maybe, we’ll understand how one man burned so brightly, even if only for a short while.Support the showInsta@justpassingthroughpodcastContact:justpassingthroughpodcast@gmail.com

Send us a textEpisode 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 celebrated explorer of his age, Cook’s journeys were the stuff of myth—charting lands no European had ever seen, facing storms, starvation, and mutiny, and making first contact with entire cultures. He was a genius navigator, a man of science, and—depending on who you ask—a heroic adventurer or an agent of empire.But his story doesn’t end with glory. It ends in blood, on the shores of Hawaii, where admiration turned to suspicion—and where one of history’s greatest explorers met his unexpected and violent end.In this short history, we trace the life, voyages, and ultimate downfall of Captain James Cook—a man who changed the world, and paid the price for it.Support the showInsta@justpassingthroughpodcastContact:justpassingthroughpodcast@gmail.com