Episode 30: Is Anyone Else Exhausted? | Overexposure, GBV, Dating, Boundaries & Logging Off
30 episodes later… and we’re tired guys 😭
This week feels a little like a life update, a debrief and a “what is actually going on?” all rolled into one.
We talk about feeling overexposed online and wanting to pull back from social media, having very little social battery left, and figuring out which spaces actually fill our cups instead of draining them.
We also speak about the reality of GBV in South Africa and how difficult it is to keep watching the same conversations happen without enough changing. It’s made us think a lot about safety, dating, the people we allow into our lives and what real accountability looks like beyond another post or infographic.
And somehow, we’ve made it to Episode 30 after taking a three-year break from the podcast. 🥹 Thank you to everyone who came back, found us for the first time, watched, listened, commented and shared the show.
28 Sept 2026
Episode 29:Heritage Day, But Whose Heritage? | Culture, Heritage, Identity, and Tradition
Heritage Day had us thinking. When did it become Braai Day?
Somewhere between the specials, campaigns and Heritage Day content, it feels like we’ve lost a bit of what the day is actually meant to represent.
So we got into our own cultures and what they mean to us personally. Sinesipho speaks about being Xhosa, Mixo about growing up Tsonga, and somehow we end up everywhere from language and family traditions to marriage, kneeling for men and why women always seem to be the ones working at cultural gatherings while everyone else is having a great time.
There are parts of our cultures that we love and really want to hold onto, and then there are parts where we’re like… guys, can we talk about this?
And maybe that’s part of having a relationship with your culture too. Knowing where things come from, asking questions and figuring out what still feels like home to you.
21 Sept 2026
Episode 28: GBV Is Everyone’s Problem | Silence, Accountability & Bystander Apathy
Trigger warning: This episode discusses gender-based violence, murder, abuse and the deaths of women. Please take care while listening.
To everyone listening,
We had this conversation because of what has been happening in South Africa.At some point, we have to ask ourselves what we’re doing with all of this.GBV can’t only be a conversation for when another woman is killed. It has to be something we talk about in our homes, in our friendships, in our families and in the spaces where men are comfortable enough to say things they might not say publicly.
This conversation is about that responsibility. About the friends who know. The family members who see it. The people who hear the joke, witness the behaviour or know what someone is capable of, but choose to stay quiet.
We talk about what accountability can actually look like, the kind of content young people are growing up with, childhood neglect, misogyny and why simply posting online cannot be where our involvement ends.
We don’t have all the answers. But we do know that these conversations need to keep happening, and they need to happen much closer to home.
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