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Get Me Off This Ride

60 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -

Get Me Off This Ride is a little podcast created by TT Makatu, a Born Again South African™ and a lowkey empath. The topics that come to TT vary but there's always one unifying theme: this life thing is not working out like it was promised. Come with TT, being someone who absorbs depressing information so as to not forget them, on her journey of figuring out how to process and still live in spite of it all.

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Episodes

The Industry Is The Pits - A Shoddy Vocal Essay

November 09, 2019 23:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MB

In this episode, I talk about the ways in which South Africa’s entertainment industry is failing itself and the people and becoming stagnant. Follow Just The Southernmost Tip on Twitter and Instagram. You can also email the show at [email protected]. Drop a mail, even if it is just to say hi and let me know where you’re listening from.

BOOK CLURB: "Hlomu The Wife" by Dudu Busani Dube

November 02, 2019 18:00 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MB

Hlomu The Wife takes being a mule to new heights, and is a masterclass on how to endure as a woman to be seen as worthy. In the 2nd installment of Book Clurb, it’s all about one of the most popular books to pop off in South Africa in the past 5 years – Hlomu the Wife, which ends up spurning a series of books detailing the opulent yet shady lives of the Zulu brothers and their large family. Content warning: mentions of domestic abuse, creep behavior, miscarriage, abortion and miscarriage

The Ultimate Sims Game

November 02, 2019 17:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MB

The patch notes to end all patch notes... A rundown of all the dream features that would make The Sims as we know it, the greatest virtual reality game of all time. Follow Just The Southernmost Tip on Instagram and Twitter! 

The Story of TT

October 07, 2019 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33 MB

In this bonus episode, you get the opportunity to learn about your dear host, TT, and the life that she has lived up until this moment, and what lies ahead for the remaining 3 months of 2019. Follow Just The Southernmost Tip on Instagram and Twitter - @justthe_southernmost_tip and @JTSTpodcast respectively!

Twitter University

September 26, 2019 13:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MB

Prelude: “Twitter University Admissions are Open!” In this week’s episode, we’re going into the scourge of Twitter academia, atrocious Internet mathematics and all the terrible advice packed underneath that. I'm talking about having the airs of intellect with none of the facts! Follow Just The Southernmost Tip on Instagram (@justthe_southernmost_tip) and Twitter (@JTSTpodcast).

Attack On My Feelings I

September 19, 2019 19:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MB

The first part of a complicated dive into one of my favourite anime series – Attack on Titan. We start at the very beginning, meeting young Eren Jaeger and Mikasa Ackerman. Prelude: “Guren no Yumiya” – the TT Acapella Remix Follow Just The Southernmost Tip on Twitter and Instagram - @JTSTpodcast and @justthe_southernmost_tip respectively.

A Guide To Not Being A Creep

September 10, 2019 22:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MB

With gender based violence rife in South Africa, it is clear that a lot of men do not know that the ways they may approach women is predatory and creepy. This week’s episode delves into the many examples of creep behavior and offers a 7-step guide to becoming a person who doesn’t make others needlessly uncomfortable. NOTE: New episodes of JTST will now be released on Wednesdays as opposed to Saturdays (and sometimes Sundays) before – it will just work better with the schedule I have. If I d...

Tributaries Of Thought

August 31, 2019 19:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MB

It’s a stream of thought episode! I’ll just be talking out my ass! And I hope that you’re okay with that… Follow Just The Southernmost Tip on Instagram and Twitter, @justthe_southernmost_tip and @JTSTpodcast respectively. You’ll be pleased to know I’m hella active on Twitter, just surveying the msunery from afar. Clips used in the episode: Neighbourhood 6 – The Sims Soundtrack BTS Cypher 4 – BTS Mine All Mine – Steve Jablonsky (for Sims 3 Soundtrack)

Scam The Beloved Country I

August 17, 2019 22:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MB

Let’s dive into the myriad of ways that South Africans get taken for a ride! This instalment of a new JTST series – Scam The Beloved Country – discusses the scourge of fake prophets and the true nature of black haircare products. Follow Just The Southernmost Tip on Instagram and Twitter  - @justthe_southernmost_tip and @JTSTpodcast, respectively. Also check our Tola Okogwu’s article on Refinery29 in which she talks about the Silent Springs study about harmful chemicals in black haircare pr...

I Am Not A Rock

August 10, 2019 14:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MB

Women are made of flesh, bone and blood – remember this as you celebrate Women’s Month. This episode goes into why the saying “wathint’abafazi, wathinti’mbokodo” does not hold up well today in the 2010s. Follow JTST – IG: @justthe_southernmost_tip & Twitter: @JTSTpodcast Also check out LiTsoanelo Zwane – local feminist ICON – on Instagram & Twitter: @li_zwane! Clips played during the show: ·         Beyonce – “I Was Here” Instrumental ·         MsCosmo – “Ay Baby” featuring Rouge, Moozl...

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