Get Me Off This Ride

Nov 02 2021
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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 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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It's My Birthday & I'll Cry If I Want To

Nov 02 2021 106 mins  
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 depressionFollow Get Me Off This Ride on Twitter and Instagram - @getmetfasap

Great PR, Beautiful PR

Sep 17 2021 105 mins  
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, @tl

Caucasian Complications

Sep 12 2021 89 mins  
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

I'm Sleeping Because I'm Not Dead (Yet)

Aug 16 2021 91 mins  
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

Scam The Beloved Country IV

Jul 17 2021 111 mins  
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=M0EjjArvzXAEarworm(s) of the Moment: "Right To Kill" and "Ri

When Hye-ri Met Sandile

Jul 10 2021 102 mins  
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.

The Episode Designed To Be Deleted. Forever.

Jun 06 2021 68 mins  
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].

#GautrainIsOver 2: Electric Boogaloo

May 22 2021 94 mins  
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-souther

Hot Girl Sun, Sad Girl Moon

Apr 17 2021 95 mins  
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 Twi

Fine Wine or Rotten Milk: Food Edition

Apr 10 2021 104 mins  
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, deathFollow 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].