Waste Your Time Phone Line: Request for a breakup Cake
Jun 14, 20263m
The Waste Your Time Phone Line is back with another beautifully pointless call. This time, the mission is simple: ask for cake that maybe goes against the bakers morals
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The weekend’s early morning hotspot for early birds, late partiers and night shift workers! News from SA and abroad, along with engaging chats, features, advice and games related to the life situations that we all encounter from what happens at jols that frustrates you, to relationships and heartbreak, to buying an apartment and more with a good dose of fun (and FUNNY) in the mix!
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