While Dré is away, we've been rebroadcasting some of our favorite MisInfoNation episodes. This one isn't just one of our favorites though, it's an episode that's really important to Neil and Dré and all of us at MIN HQ. It's the episode where we knew this show could actually do what we hoped it would - challenge stereotypes and help us look deeper than headlines. And right now, the headlines are everywhere.Especially from this part of the world. We know It won’t solve any crisis —but maybe, just...
Jul 08, 2025•50 min•Season 3Ep. 7
While Dré takes some time to share his cinematic wares with the world, Neil takes us back to where MisInfoNation all began. A conversation with a Scotsman named English helps Neil and Andrés understand just how much they don't understand about Scotland. Enjoy! --- On our inaugural episode of MisInfoNation, we’re heading to Scotland to find out what the world gets wrong, about one of the most drop-dead, absolutely gorgeous countries on the planet… and what it gets right. We’ll digest the truth ab...
Jun 24, 2025•51 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Hey there, Neil here. At Misinformation, we love great stories, new cultures, and taking you to the heart of a place. Today, we’re sharing a show that does all that—with a little more vino. It’s called Wine Tripping , hosted by Amanda McCrossin , a certified sommelier and one of the most influential voices in the wine world—and honestly, our new favorite travel companion. Amanda takes you behind the scenes into the cellars, fields, and kitchens that make wine regions unforgettable. In this episo...
Jun 17, 2025•28 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Today, we head north— way north—to Canada. Land of maple syrup, jaw-dropping wilderness, and people so polite they say sorry when you bump into them. But what’s really going on beneath the surface? Joining us are two brilliant Canadian storytellers with global roots: Hirad “Raz” Motamed and Adam Leverett. Born in Iran and the UK respectively, raised in snowy suburbia, and shaped by immigrant identity, they take us deep into the heart of the Great White North. How “nice” is Canada really? Why doe...
Jun 10, 2025•59 min•Season 3Ep. 4
This week on MisInfoNation we’re jetting off to Croatia—a truly special place, filled with crystal-clear waters, ancient stone towns, lush vineyards, and, of course, intense Balkan pride. Joining us for this unforgettable adventure is an equally special guest: the immensely talented, award-winning Croatian filmmaker Lucija Stovic. Together, we'll dive into the hilarious complexities of being Balkan, from passionate football rivalries, killer sea foam and insults, to the rich, slow-food tradition...
Jun 03, 2025•54 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Today on MisInfoNation, it's all great craic, endless rolling fields of potatoes, perfectly poured pints of Guinness, lucky four-leaf clovers, and magical pots of gold just waiting patiently at the end of every shimmering rainbow—or at least that's what the postcards and leprechauns might have you believe. But is that the real Ireland, or just the sparkly stereotype? To separate fact from folklore and reality from rosy-hued fantasy, we've invited the snappily dressed, lightning-fast-witted, effo...
May 27, 2025•57 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Today, MisInfoNation embarks on a vibrant adventure to the beautiful archipelago of the Philippines alongside our excellent, silky-voiced friend—the gloriously named, effortlessly stylish, and always impeccably dressed—Randie Alegre Dumpit. Together, we dive deep into the Philippines’ national obsession: basketball. Discover why hoops and hardwood courts can be found on nearly every street corner and how this sport, beloved nationwide, became an integral part of the Filipino identity. So settle ...
May 20, 2025•51 min•Season 3Ep. 1
MisInfoNation is coming back with all new episodes featuring some of 2025's hottest destinations. The Philippines, Croatia, Denmark, Ireland, and more. Plus Canada.,.. which at least as of the release of this trailer has not been annexed by the United States. But hey, if that changes, at least maybe we'll have helped our American friends get to know the culture of their newest state? We're joking of course. We hope. In any case, get ready for more of Neil and Dré asking the dumbest questions abo...
Apr 29, 2025•1 min•Season 3Ep. 54
Today we’re doing something a little bit different on MisInfoNation… very different in fact. To bring in the new year Neil and Andrés are looking back at some of their favorite moments from the show.. and at all the friends, old and new, they've talked and laughed with while they both gear up for a new season of the show which will focus on some of 2025’s most desirable destinations. CONNECT WITH US! On instagram: @passportpodcast | @cerca_travel On the web: frequencymachine.com/passport | cerca...
Jan 14, 2025•44 min•Season 2Ep. 53
Today on MisInfoNation Neil and Andrés visit the Fatherland . The well oiled machine that is the world’s third most powerful country in terms of GDP after the USA and China. Germany. This wonderful land of fat sausages, perfect cars and unlistenable industrial electronic techno music is a family affair today with the young, all-together, sharp as a tack, Tom Noack and his measured, cool, calm and collected uncle Felix. Welcome to a pristine, perfectly engineered, word perfect, over insured episo...
Oct 08, 2024•58 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Learn how to lisp, grab a classical guitar, pop a flower in your hair, put on your espadrilles, and let's go for a late night dinner and brisk ramble through the humid and historied streets and cities of our home… España. Me and Andres call Spain home and have done, collectively for more than 38 years… we could have picked a multitude of friends to take on the mammoth task of MisInfoNation but we didn’t… we chose a new friend. An unexpected friend. The tall, handsome, thoughtful, intelligent, Ja...
Aug 23, 2024•44 min•Season 2Ep. 50
Don your tweed, grab a parker, make sure you’ve got your bits and bobs, pop your wellies on, and let's go for a stroll through the blustery countryside of this beautiful nation of shopkeepers: Fair olde England. Today on MisInfoNation, we’re tackling a country with two very special guests: The dry and hilarious, Scottish blooded, English-hearted Andy Young and Cerca’s own, equally dry and hilarious, Northern-souled, Ryan Hammond. A dead queen, the class system, surreal comedy, bad teeth, terribl...
Aug 08, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 49
Today as always on MisInfoNation: We try to clear up some of the outright lies, mistakes, myths and misnomers of an entire country... this time... And with the 2024 Summer Olympics just getting underway, here was one country in particular we wanted to study under the MisInfoNation microscope. That's right, we're headed to France! So grab a baguette, find your fanciest horizontal stripes, hop on your oversized basketed bicycle, light a cigarette and let's go for a ride through one of the most des...
Jul 26, 2024•57 min•Season 2Ep. 48
Hola Passport faithful! Neil, Dré, and the Passport team are busy cooking up some new episodes of MisInfoNation - and maybe even a few other surprises, too. But in the meantime, we wanted to share a new show that we really love. Because we think you'll love it too. Don't Drink the Milk mixes history with a good dose of travel, pop culture, and controversy. The show explores the curious backstories of familiar things, and how they've changed as they moved through time and around the world – by fo...
Mar 26, 2024•34 min•Season 2Ep. 47
In this episode Neil and Andrés are off to beautiful Portugal for some fado, sweet port, codfish and maybe even a little Ronaldo - to find out if the world has it right about this Iberian treasure trove. Showing us around the facts and the follies today is the one and only Catarina Araújo; A globe hopping, Lisbon-born marketing specialist and the writer of the excellent travelog aportugueseaffair.com which you can also find now in podcast form in the Cerca app and anywhere you get your podcasts....
Aug 08, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 46
Today on MisInfoNation we ready our minds, stomachs and souls to tackle The United States of… Mexico. These 31 federal entities and Mexico City, which is its own thing entirely, is a rich, historied country filled with incredible food, ancient culture, and an iconic identity. Also long fiestas and longer siestas… or is it? We head there with our friend Elena Garcia Beltran. She’s a mother, she’s a lover, she's sometimes a fighter but most importantly… She's the most hilarious corporate lawyer yo...
May 18, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 45
Drop the Ikea Allen key, put on your warmest, most fashionable outdoorsy threads, and fill up on some delicious meatballs because today on MisInfoNation we’re going to the nordic utopia of Sweden with soon to be TV superstar, set designer, and bonafide Swede, Johan Svenson. For this episode’s full show notes, download the free CERCA app , available for iOS. Get maps, photos, and info on the places mentioned. Plus, ad-free listening, bonus content, and early access to other episodes in this guide...
Apr 27, 2023•54 min•Season 2Ep. 44
Bordered by Israel and Syria on the East Coast of the Mediterranean sea, Lebanon is something of an unknown quantity in the eyes of the world. Its position in the Middle East has never given it much stability in recent history. The lives of the people who live there, even the young adults, are tarnished with conflict but also an undeniable resilience and perspective. The Lebanese are impassioned, intelligent and intense personalities and we are lucky enough to call the brilliant Hasan Chaaban a ...
Mar 21, 2023•59 min•Season 2Ep. 43
MisInfoNation returns with a trip to Belgium - a place that's often overlooked and mostly defined in popular imagination by bureaucracy, beer, fries, chocolate, Tintin and a statue of a boy peeing. But Neil and Dré aren't content to just let these easy oversimplifications define a whole country and its people. That's why they've invited their friend and 3D Designer Dennis Vanneste to help set the record straight. --- Follow Dennis on Instagram: @vannestje . For this episode’s full show notes, do...
Jan 17, 2023•53 min•Season 2Ep. 42
There are things we think we know about places. But history, prejudice, stereotypes and the nature of 24 hour news and social media has made common knowledge about far away places even more twisted than ever. So we’re taking the initiative once more, putting ourselves in the line of fire and asking the dumbest of questions so you never have to ever again. MisInfoNation is coming back! Come and join Neil Innes and Andrés Bartos as they try their hardest to clear up some of the outright lies and s...
Jan 13, 2023•2 min•Season 1Ep. 41
While we gear up for all new episodes of Passport and MisInfoNation we wanted to share something with you guys in our feed. Greetings from Somewhere is a beautifully produced podcast about the world. A show after our own heart, obviously. A charismatic host named Zack Mack, some excellent sound design, and we were instantly in. So we wanted to share with you one of our favorite episodes so far. Zack has gone to Burning man, Mount Rushmore, Disneyland, he’s taken trains, planes, automobiles and w...
Aug 10, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Neil and Andrés make a very special announcement. Or is it just a thinly veiled apology for not having season two ready just yet... Introducing CERCA by Frequency Machine. The world's best audio travel guide. Want a sneak peak? Want to help shape what we make? Drop us a line at info@cercatravel.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Apr 01, 2022•4 min•Season 1Ep. 39
For every Celestial Emu there’s a planet-killing space rock on an inevitable path towards earth. In our season 1 finale, Passport producers Jennifer Carr and Andrés Bartos head back Down Under to talk about asteroids, the scars they leave, and the stories they’ve created. For all of the wonder and the fascination the night sky holds, it’s also filled with warnings, omens and pure chaos. Australia’s First Nations Peoples have been interpreting those signs for longer than any other culture on eart...
Jan 26, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 38
For this season one finale of Passport , we head to Australia to explore the star-studded skies of the country’s Western Outback. Scarce on people and heavy on sheep and cattle stations, the vast expanses of land and desert here offer pure darkness and one of the top global destinations to stargaze. Astro revellers travel from all over the world, but what many miss out on is the rich tapestry of indigenous creation stories, myths, and customs that the stars can all point to. The Australian Abori...
Jan 19, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 37
South Africa, the rainbow nation. A place of dazzling sun, incredible wildlife, rugged coasts, and tabletop mountains, with a people as diverse and creative as the landscape. The country’s art scene too is in rude health, one of the most forward thinking on the continent. But South Africa as a place of space, of technology, of the future? It’s not where your mind immediately goes. Today, the country’s creatives are not remaining stuck in tradition. Take one look at South Africa’s best young arti...
Jan 12, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Clowns: freaky, funny or downright mystifying? This week, we tread the boards of the French capital and dive into the city’s age-old love affair with this very distinct form of theatrics. Paris has been an epicentre for performance artistry since the 1800s, but today the face of clowning and the circus look and feel very different. These days, clowning is cutthroat – demanding, grueling, and for some in the industry, a dying art that few can master. Besides a look at some of Paris’ most competit...
Jan 05, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Traditions are weird, almost by definition. But where do they come from? In this week’s special Xmas episode of Passport , Neil and Andrés talk to Sergi Del Bas and historian Dani Cortijo about one of the most misunderstood regions of Spain. Catalonia. Or as the locals call it Catalunya. This is Spain, but it is very much not Spain. And here in Catalunya, there exists what is perhaps one of the strangest Christmas traditions in the entire world. There is no Santa here. Here Xmas involves a log. ...
Dec 15, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 34
The mission of MisInfoNation is to help us understand whether our ideas about a place are real or just Imagined. But what about a place that was built on imagination? A place that would be the most visited country on earth… if it was a country? This week, we’re finding out with a trip to Disney. Disney’s films are burned into the memory of nearly every single person alive. It’s world is immense, unavoidable, unmatched and undeniable. But the parks… well the parks are the real country of Disney. ...
Dec 08, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 33
On this episode of Passport, we go across India by train to find a melting pot of culture sitting within the carriages. From history, literature, Bollywood and real love, you never know what’s round the corner when you hand the conductor your ticket and take your seat. Why have trains inspired poems, films and writing throughout India? What makes them the perfect protagonist and why they are a great place to start a story? Especially love stories. This week, tales from inside the trains and a mi...
Dec 01, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 32
The Passport team is off for Thanksgiving this week, but we’ve got a taste of what’s to come. This season we’ve taken you to over 30 countries. We’ve met the world’s most famous extra in Belfast, investigated a stolen Van Gogh in Amsterdam, met mafia fighting chefs in Palermo, spent the night in the hotel that inspired The Shining, and set the record straight on Italy, Iran, Iceland and Russia. But we’re not done yet! Coming up on the show: we search for love on the rails in India, visit Disneyl...
Nov 24, 2020•3 min
