
The Many Near Deaths of John Huizinga
My father has lived an unconventional life that has included a great number of near death experiences via a great variety of circumstances. His stories seemed unremarkable to me growing up, but as this adventurer enters his eighties I realize how precious and unique they are, like the man himself. Created and produced by Sharon Huizinga, John Huizinga and Matthew Tibbs
Podcasting since 2021 • 8 episodes
The Many Near Deaths of John Huizinga
Latest Episodes
Episode Eight: Siempre Rebeldes
a case of mistaken identity in the sugarcane fields of eastern Mexico leads to a night time walk into the unknown at machete point.
•
Season 1
•
Episode 8
•
18:21

Episode Seven: Taxco, Guerrero
We join my father and his brother, George, on their travels through 1963 Mexico. In a time before google maps, expedia, air bnb and so on, they had a vague plan to get to Mexico City eventually, an open ended time frame in which to do so&...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 7
•
17:09

Episode Six: Motorcycles and Immortality
The episode we meet one of my father's early loves, the motorcycle. In my father's words, "the combination of big powerful motorcycles and youthful bravado and testosterone just spells trouble."
•
Season 1
•
Episode 6
•
14:45

Episode Five: Tobacco Harvests and Driver's Licenses
Because of this story I have always had a plan floating in my mind for what to do if both headlights were to go out on a car I was driving somewhere with no street lights. I have this plan because my father always told this story with an ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 5
•
9:29

Episode Four: Don't Take Your Guns to Town...or to the swimming hole.
This episode and the next are looping back in time to pick up a few stories that we missed earlier. We join my father and his older brother, Melle, in an episode from their Southern Ontario Dutch Immigrant farm kid lives. This story happe...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 4
•
15:25
