Passport Podcast

To Hell and Back, Part-1 features the compelling life story of actor/author Manny Fernandez. Beginning in the late 1980's To Hell and Back is a wild tale of dysfunction and despair for a young boy as he navigates the poor relationship choices of his mother who divorces from Manny's father and takes up with a string of drug dealers and abusive addicts. These poor decisions expose young Manny to a life of violent crime beyond what most people can even imagine, much less survive to tell about it. Manny is taught to fight his way violently through life. Incredibly, he is forced to smoke crack cocaine at just 11 years old, and it's all downhill from there with the young Manny dropping out of school at 14. Manny then begins working at fast food jobs to help support the family before he eventually becomes homeless, hitting the streets and becoming an East Bay gang member.  Hear this incredible tale of survival and what it means to exposure to sociopaths, drug addicts and violent criminals starting at just eight year

Episode 4 takes us on a virtual tour of San Francisco as seen through the eyes of a longtime resident and current "Bus Monkey" tour guide. Nick Messinger has called San Francisco home for the past 30 years, and he had a successful career as a TV News Producer. After taking an early retirement from his job and then while facing critical life questions, Nick had an epiphany to become a tour guide on a double-decker tour bus. Little did he know how much his new career would impact his outlook on life. Host Keith Breitbach gets the inside scoop on what compels someone out of retirement to become a tour guide with an insatiable appetite for San Francisco history and trivia. Messinger takes us from the 1848 Gold Rush to a discussion about current politics, the arrival of Tech workers and skyrocketing real estate prices. Over the past 30 years, Nick Messinger's journey wound its way across the country to the Mission District then to The Haight and North Beach neighborhoods. His history gets woven with that of the ci

A welcome and introduction to the Passport Podcast.  

Passport Podcast Episode 2 features a conversation with Bradmundo Breitbach. This show recalls the time host Keith Breitbach and his brother Bradmundo set out on an epic road trip adventure in a car they purchased for $100. The 1993 journey covered more than 6,500 miles of visiting national parks in the U.S. and Canada. Bradmundo also shares how that trip inspired the next adventure of living, working and traveling throughout the United Kingdom including London and Scottland. Bradmundo shares the highs and lows of the journey from landing at Heathrow and managing to find his way in a strange land as a young and inexperienced traveler venturing abroad for the very first time. From riding public transit, staying at youth hostels, pouring pints in pubs to trying his hand at international banking and living the London "rave" scene lifestyle is a whirlwind tour that provides an informative and entertaining travel story. 

Episode 1: We meet 19-year-old Sam and Emma at a drum circle on Maui's Little Beach, and they join him for the inaugural podcast to share their adventures of dropping out of college to work at an organic farm while living the Hawaiian island hippie lifestyle. But there's always more to the story, and the conversation develops into a far-ranging discussion covering everything from nude beaches, breaching whales, winning the battle over depression through yoga, train hopping, flow art and finding your way in this crazy world.