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Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly

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    August 18, 2025 · 28 min

    Today is the finale of the Away Days podcast. We hear from one of the mountain pass street racers about why he’ll only race a Honda Civic, and talk to the Away Days co-founder about the terror of Kanjo. Watch Away Days documentaries at…

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    August 11, 2025 · 29 min

    Today we discover the Across Racing team, who take us all the way up a secret mountain pass for a race. Usually they'd ride the Kanjo, but the police are after them... Watch Away Days documentaries at youtube.com/@awaydaystv   See…

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    August 4, 2025 · 28 min

    We go to meet the head of one of Osaka's best known underground racing crews. What we didn't know, is that he's allegedly involved in a notorious organized crime thing. This makes things tricky, and we see access slip through our…

  • Illegal Racing on Japan’s Kanjo Loop

    July 28, 2025 · 29 min

    We travel to Japan to find out how the next generation of illegal street racers are dodging police and keeping their counterculture alive. Watch Away Days documentaries at youtube.com/@awaydaystv See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…

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    July 14, 2025 · 31 min

    Our final episode of the Favela Government chapter shows first hand the cycle of never-ending-violence in Rio's favelas. People we met are dead, sewers are wide open, and the gang war continues to keep civilians living in fear. Watch Away…

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  • On Patrol With Favela Security

    July 7, 2025 · 32 min

    Security in the favelas is impoverish young men with guns, who’re untrained and unscrupulous. We went on patrol with these armed foot-soldiers at the higher, more impoverished levels of the shanty town. There we saw a different side to…

  • Luta Livre in the Heart of the Favela

    June 30, 2025 · 29 min

    We want to see what life is like for the civilians of the favela. So far we've only been around armed foot-soldiers and serious gang members. What we find in the heart of the favela is more incredible than we ever expected. Watch Away…

  • Inside Rio’s Gang Controlled Favelas 

    June 23, 2025 · 28 min

    Red Command is Brazil’s oldest gang. Inside the shanty towns they control, there’s no police, no government, no rule of law. Street justice only. We spent a week with Red Command to see how a gang takes on the role of a government. Welcome…

  • All Roads Lead to King of the Streets 

    June 17, 2025 · 29 min

    After almost two years of working on access and devolving our project on the underground scene of No Rules fighting, an entryway into King of the Streets finally opens up. Watch Away Days documentaries at youtube.com/@awaydaystv See…

  • The Criminal Connection

    June 9, 2025 · 30 min

    We travel to a German border town to attend a hidden underground fight club in the heart of the underworld. Biker gangs, drug dealers, and hooligans all brush shoulders to watch the first ever female No Rules fight… Watch Away Days…

  • No Rules on the Riviera

    May 26, 2025 · 28 min

    We travel to the south of France to see if a new clandestine No Rules fight club is the real deal. The underground fighters who’ve supposedly set this one up claim it’s in the most luxurious city in France—Cannes.  Either we’ve been…

  • A Cold Day for Violence

    May 19, 2025 · 27 min

    Welcome to the world of ‘No Rules’, a new underground fighting subculture where anything goes. Biting, head stamping, eye gouging, hair pulling, elbows, headbutts—it’s all allowed. These fights are fought on concrete, with no gloves, and…

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About the show

Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society.  We’re compassionately documenting the underground without watering it down or editorially obscuring it. This is independent journalism with no filter. Real, raw, and ugly. Journalist Jake Hanrahan, the host and creator of Away Days has spent the last 10 years embedded in places he’s not meant to be. With unique access and a straightforward style of on-the-ground reporting, the listener will be taken deep into the places they didn’t know existed. Watch Away Days documentaries at youtube.com/@awaydaystv