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Some awesome things happened in 2018, we promise, in among all the kak. We chat about President Buhari's imposter syndrome, get all up in our geek feels about Stan Lee, talk about Netflix's legal battles with the Church of Satan and the Escobars, and put in a shout out to New Zealand's Prime Minister.

We're back with our podcast Christmas special, asking the vital questions like why is Christmas on the 25th of December, why we have Christmas trees, and how singing Christmas carols might be the most polite form of political protest ever.

We're back! And we're talking about those remarkable occasions when advertisers actually get it right. By which we really mean, those remarkable occasions when adverts make bigots super angry, and the rest of us get to laugh at them. Now that's truly awesome.

We're joined by the composer of our awesome jingle, Godfrey Johnson, to discuss why so many performers are introverts, why you should never compliment your children, and why we hope you don't take anything we say too seriously. Oh plus we talk about naked men on stage. Note: Godfrey, it turns out, likes to play the table in front of him as if it were an imaginary piano, so if you hear a little bit of banging in the sound this week, that's why.

Online shopping can be a bit like gambling, because you might win the thing that you ordered, or you might get something else, or indeed nothing at all. We discuss the future of the post office, why you should go shoe shopping in the afternoon, and Yaaseen introduces us to his fast food based system of economics.

South Africa has the world's largest 3D printer, Karen has a talking robot voice in her home, Yaaseen has a cunning plan to poison racists - we're talking tech innovation, Big Data energy, and saying nice things about our robot overlords, just in case.

We're talking South African representations in film and television - did you know that Scrooge McDuck once pillaged the goldfields of South Africa, and his nemesis is a boer from Limpopo? Or that Nelson from the Simpsons is really called Nelson Mandela? Or that Karen and Yaaseen really like having a go at Joburg? Now you do. For more on this topic we recommend http://www.safro.info/south-african-references-international-movies-series/

Coming soon: South Africa in film and TV

Today we have an awesome guest, Quanita Adams, who is taking us on a nostalgia trip of awesome things and words that we definitely should bring back, like pop ins, middle fingers, sunday night blues and of course, SNACKS.

Coming soon: Q is for Awesome, with our special guest Quanita Adams

Today we’re talking about an awesome homegrown dinosaur, the Nqwebasaurus Thwazi, and imagining a future where a giant statue of him replaces Cecil John Rhodes in Makhanda, and John Kani voices his roar in Jurassic Park movies. It’s wild.

Coming soon: Nqwebasaurus Thwazi