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A guest contributor on being a woman without children on Mother’s Day, the ticking clock everyone else can hear, and choosing your own timing.

A year into the pandemic, Derry Sandy writes from abroad about Trinidad’s uneven restrictions, the people who skirt them, and a diaspora that just wants to come home.

Two young men, two funerals with the bodies posed upright, and a country arguing about it. Derry Sandy on zess culture, grief, and what a funeral is actually for.

Derry Sandy road-tests Trinidad’s most famous aphrodisiac, Bois Bandé, so you don’t have to. Adult humour, no medical advice.

Part three of The Loss of Carnival: Derry Sandy’s survival kit for a February with no fetes, no J’ouvert and no road.

Part two of The Loss of Carnival: a guest contributor on the small human moments of a Trinidad Carnival that a cancelled year takes away.

With Carnival 2021 cancelled, Derry Sandy traces what the festival is, where it came from, and what Trinidad loses when the road goes quiet.

Carnival is woman, carnival is mas, but all round the Savannah people are catching their tail. The shout is that carnival is getting too expensive; is it, or is it just business? The cost of carnival and whether that wine is worth the squeeze.

All bodies are carnival bodies, but presentation matters. Also on the table: what is this about tuition being paid through the cricket industrial complex, and the fine art of ghosting.

A horn is a horn only if both parties decide it is worth their time to take it on. Infidelity, commitment and the rules nobody agreed to but everybody enforces.

Another week, another carnival, another position, another misconception. From carnival bodies to how to deal with a body, another ole talk.

The first #onlymans episode, on, of all things, emotions. They laugh, they cry, they pontificate, and they try not to miss the fourth host too much.

Merry, happy, new podcast season. Season 3 opens after months of planning, with a new segment, Jus a Question, and the crew counting their blessings out loud.

The podcast started as a way to talk about Trinidad and the Caribbean from a place of love. In that spirit: where do we want to see Trinidad in ten years, and what would it take to get there?

Carnival is woman, Carnival is mas, but most of all Carnival is a vibe, and the music drives it. This week: the invasion of Afrobeats, what it is doing to soca, and who the square queens are.

What do women want? The crew tackle “I can do bad gyal tings all by myself”, whether that reference is too old, and what short kings bring to the table.

Two members of the JOT team are taking applications to be sugar babies or sugar daddies after this one. Guess who. Must be able to pronounce plantain. A long lime on culture, dating and everything in between.

It has been a long, hard road, but Trinidad Carnival 2023 is back on. The crew on the excitement in the air, and why all that social media carnival talk still has to be proven in the streets.

Back after a break, and behind on every holiday at once: belated Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and Emancipation Day in one sitting, and the life-altering moments that happened in between.

Childhood, discipline and the difference between Jamaica and Trinidad. Did Miss Trinidad World ever get licks, or is this what happens when children are not disciplined?

Groupthink versus independent thought. Why do we think the way we think, nature or nurture, and what does critical thinking look like in the age of social media and a pandemic?

Two parts of rant. Everything about Trinidad the crew think could be better, and are baffled has not been fixed yet. Said with love; nobody is ragging on the motherland.

A change of pace: what independence actually means, whether the curfew worked, the vaccine debate, and the flood of explicit videos on everyone’s phone.

Cancel culture, moral scrutiny and whether we are sanding off the parts of human life that make it interesting, or finally growing up.

A new voice joins the crew. Raisa’s first episode is exactly what the title says: a small lime, no agenda, to introduce her to the show.

Frank the alien is back and wants a Trini Christmas, so the crew take him to Paramin, the heart of parang, and ask everyone for their favourite Christmas songs.

A Mother’s Day episode. The crew talk about their mothers and the effect those women had on the men they became. Thank you, Mama.

Growing-up stories from Trinidad: the licks, the limes, the neighbours and the vibes that only make sense if you were there.

If a music-loving alien crash-landed in Trinidad and asked for the twenty songs that explain the island, what would you play? The crew builds the list.

A bonus spoken-word piece by Derron Sandy, recorded for the Carnival that did not happen in 2021. Carnival cannot be locked down.

Meet the Jus Ole Talk crew: who they are, why they started a podcast, and what ole talk means when you sit around and do as much of it as they do.