Is there ever a quiet week in politics? Never, right? So if you’ve missed out on some of the buzz, The Burning Platform is here to catch you up on things, with analysis from one of the country’s sharpest minds. Gareth Van Onselen - who is a liberal, a humanist and a published author... but most of all, a political animal with a deep love for ideas, statistics and argument - joins the team this week. Brought to you by Nando’s.
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11.06.21 Pt 1 - The show starts off with the team going down memory lane and talking about what a healthy poop looks like. After 8 months, the Zoom masturbator is back at work, and Leigh-Ann informs the team about the ‘1 shaft, 4 heads’ echidna’s penis.
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10.06.21 Pt 1 - There’s a bit of an uproar as a woman who gave birth to 10 kids could be fake news. Imagine receiving a DM from a drug dealer trying to sell you drugs? And Siya gives us some noteworthy relationship advice.
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21.01.21 Pt 1 - It's said that if you live through the media, you will die through the media. However, what about fake news... is there a place for it in today's society? When it's time to fix your heart, do you research your cardiologist's medical history?
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06.01.21 Pt 1 - The team debates whether artists who are found to be kiddy fiddlers should have their music removed from the airwaves or not. Home decor is discussed, specifically how often you should be moving your furniture around. The stereotypically hypermasculine South African man is under the spotlight, and have you ever been in a situation where you were questioning whether someone is mentally ill, or just an idiot?
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09.12.20 Pt 1 - Just between us... how hard is marketing? Is there a reason why so few marketing people are funny? If you encounter bad spelling, does it affect your soul negatively? Have the aliens landed already? If the aliens are already here, why haven't they killed us yet?
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30.11.20 Pt 2 - Is the notion of working in an office dead? If you live in Argentina and a person named Diego dies, don't take a photo with his corpse... you may soon join him at the pearly gates. Joburg's water and sanitation has literally put its citizens in grave danger for decades now. Just a friendly reminder to abusive men - just stop it, you are cretins and everyone hates you for what you are doing. Ruth Mthembu, the WILD OCEANS Campaign Manager joins us to talk about why WE DON’T NEED OUR OCEANS. And find out why a small Austrian village had to change its name.
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16.03.20 Pt 2 - Is less consumption possible for human beings? The Spanish flu killed a lot of humans, we’ve been here before. Germany wants to send money for the Covid-19 test to South Africa… send the tests, we’ll never see that money! Bernie thinks Ebola is back, oh dear. Before you worry about toilet paper, we tell you what the dirtiest surfaces are which you should be avoiding.
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Don’t let the trappings of Twitter, 'fake news', or being stuck in traffic every day fool you... there’s been no better time to be alive than right now - as the Editor of HumanProgress.org, Marian Tupy and his team believe, and prove this through their website that shows how the state of humanity has improved in almost every way over time. Building the site on the premise that the media misuse data to paint an overly negative picture of development, Marian chats to Gareth about the good that's happening all around us.
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Back to School
15.02.21 Pt 1 - Valentine's Day has come and gone and surprise, surprise - it wasn’t that bad. Four-poster beds are selling out in the UK thanks to the sex scenes in a certain TV series. Schools are open, parents must be excited... and a prank gone wrong.
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