Get Me Off This Ride

Get Me Off This Ride

By Tlholohelo MakatuSociety & Culture
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Get Me Off This Ride episodes

  • It's My Birthday & I'll Cry If I Want To
    Birthday depression is real, y'all. In this long-delayed episode, TT gets vulnerable about her birthday staycation, the time away from home and the emotions it brought up. She also gets into why people might not enjoy their birthdays and how to process this.
    TW: mentions of sexual assault, alcohol use and depression

    Follow Get Me Off This Ride on Twitter and Instagram - @getmetfasap and @getmeoffthisridepodcast. If you want to send an email to the show, you can send one to [email protected].
    1 hr 47 min
  • Great PR, Beautiful PR
    The devil works hard, but the spin doctors for these animals work harder! In this week's episode, TT talks about the animals which have better reputations than they deserve and give off the appearance of being cute and wholesome, but are actual monsters.
    Follow Get Me Off This Ride on Twitter and Instagram, @GetMeTFasap and @getmeoffthisridepodcast. Follow TT on her personal IG, @tlho_tlho. If you want to write in to the show, do so at [email protected].
    1 hr 46 min
  • Caucasian Complications
    It could all be so simple... but they'd rather make it hard. In this week's episode of Get Me Off This Ride, TT runs through a few of the things that white people have complicated for no clear and understandable reason.
    Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram, @GetMeTFasap and @getmeoffthisridepodcast respectively. Follow your host, TT, on Instagram, @tlho_tlho. If you want to write into the show, you can do so at [email protected].
    1 hr 30 min
  • I'm Sleeping Because I'm Not Dead (Yet)
    Sleep deprivation never looks good on anybody, please. In this week's episode, TT shares an exciting development and recent adjustment in her life, then goes in on hustle/grind culture and how we're all worse for it, and most importantly, speaks on the importance of sleep.
    Follow the podcast on Twitter and Instagram, follow TT's personal account on Instagram (@tlho_tlho), and write into the show at [email protected].
    1 hr 32 min
  • Scam The Beloved Country IV
    Pyramid schemes are like cockroaches - through changing cultures they always prevail and rise to scam once again. In this week's episode, TT talks about the most recent pyramid scheme to take South Africans for a ride: Crowd1.
    Watch "Unmasking the Pyramid Kings" by BBC Africa Eye on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0EjjArvzXA
    Earworm(s) of the Moment: "Right To Kill" and "Riddim Machine Broke" by Viperactive
    Follow Get Me Off This Ride on Twitter and Instagram, and follow TT on Instagram, @tlho_tlho.
    Thanks for listening and enjoy the show!
    1 hr 52 min
  • When Hye-ri Met Sandile
    After watching many a Korean drama, one is bound to start extrapolating. This week, TT lists the things that South Africans and South Koreans have in common, as well as where they differ.
    Earworm of the Moment: Juanna - Intoxicated (Rothmann Remix)
    Follow Get Me Off This Ride on Twitter and IG, and follow TT, @tlho_tlho, on IG.
    1 hr 43 min
  • The Episode Designed To Be Deleted. Forever.
    In this week's episode, TT talks about an interesting dream, bemoans capitalism (as usual), and most importantly, shares the wildest and weirdest Hinge profile answers she has come across from trying out the dating app.
    Follow Get Me Off This Ride on Twitter and Instagram, and send an email to the show at [email protected].
    1 hr 9 min
  • #GautrainIsOver 2: Electric Boogaloo
    It's the 50th episode, Reluctant Riders! Bringing it full circle, TT revisits the topic of her very first episode: the Gautrain service. She checks what's new with the Gautrain and goes back into her disdain for the transportation service.
    Listen to the very first episode and a few others of this podcast, when it was under a different name, at https://soundcloud.com/just-the-southernmost-tip.
    Follow Get Me Off This Ride on Instagram, @getmeoffthisridepodcast, and Twitter, @GetMeTFasap. If you want to send an email, you can do so to [email protected].
    1 hr 35 min
  • Hot Girl Sun, Sad Girl Moon
    In this week’s episode, TT shares the details of her natal chart, how she decided to get it done, and what she has learned about healing stones, chakras and astrology with the help of the Co – Star app. Stick around until the end of the episode, for a little self-care recommendation – friend to friend.
    Follow Get Me Off This Ride on Instagram, @getmeoffthisridepodcast, and Twitter, @GetMeTFasap. If you want to send an email to the show, you can do so at [email protected].
    1 hr 36 min
  • Fine Wine or Rotten Milk: Food Edition
    In this week's episode, TT recalls all the foodstuffs she ate as a child and whether she would eat them again as an adult.
    Content warning: mentions and descriptions of copious amounts of food, death

    Follow Get Me Off This Ride on Twitter, @GetMeTFasap, and Instagram, @getmeoffthisridepodcast. If you want to send an email to the show, you can do so at [email protected].
    1 hr 45 min

About Get Me Off This Ride

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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…