Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly

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...
Listen here and subscribe to SAD OLIGARCH Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!
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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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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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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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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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