About Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly
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.
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Hello, Away Days Listeners! We want to share a new show you might enjoy, SAD OLIGARCH Season 2!
About the show: Since January 2022, dozens of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs and power brokers have died suddenly. One was poisoned with frog venom. Two killed their whole families. Several fell out of high windows. Most of the deaths are suspicious. Russia says they're coincidental suicides—that the deceased were simply depressed. We don't think so...
Sad Oligarch is an investigative podcast series that looks into the strange deaths of the Russian elite, unravelling a dark tale of Kremlin corruption and Putin's political dictatorship across the world. This is season two—Russian oligarchs are still dying and things have gotten even weirder...
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18 Aug 2025
Lil Noisy Loves Civics
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.
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11 Aug 2025
Racing Down a Secret Mountain
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...
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4 Aug 2025
Organized Crime on the Hanshin Expressway
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 fingers... for now.
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28 Jul 2025
Illegal Racing on Japan’s Kanjo Loop
We travel to Japan to find out how the next generation of illegal street racers are dodging police and keeping their counterculture alive.
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14 Jul 2025
To Live and Die in a Rio Gang War
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.
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7 Jul 2025
On Patrol With Favela Security
The Away Days Podcast explores the precarious living conditions and environmental degradation within the favelas, focusing on the role of untrained, armed young men providing security.
30 Jun 2025
Luta Livre in the Heart of the Favela
The Away Days Podcast explores the surprising and incredible presence of Luta Livre within the heart of a favela, offering a glimpse into civilian life.
23 Jun 2025
Inside Rio’s Gang Controlled Favelas
The episode explores how the Red Command gang operates as a governing force within Rio's favelas, where they administer justice and maintain order in the absence of formal authorities.
17 Jun 2025
All Roads Lead to King of the Streets
The Away Days podcast gains access to the underground No Rules fighting scene and explores King of the Streets.
9 Jun 2025
The Criminal Connection
The Away Days podcast explores a hidden underground fight club in a German border town, revealing the criminal connections between biker gangs, drug dealers, and hooligans.
26 May 2025
No Rules on the Riviera
The Away Days Podcast explores a clandestine No Rules fight club in Cannes, France, to determine if the underground fighting scene is truly expanding.
19 May 2025
A Cold Day for Violence
The Away Days podcast explores the brutal world of 'No Rules' fighting, an underground subculture permitting extreme violence without gloves or rounds.
13 May 2025
Introducing: Away Days Podcast
Journalist Jake Hanrahan introduces Away Days Podcast, an episodic documentary series, reporting unreported stories from the fringes of society with unique access and on-the-ground reporting.
Reach and audience
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YouTube views
419,465,596
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
4.6 / 5
52 ratings
Spotify
4.9 / 5
134 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
Quality
87
Social presence
0
YouTube
93
Engagement
91
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