Welcome to episode 7 of the OC 154 Podcast.As has become the norm now, we start off the episode by looking back at our respective weekends. We record on Sunday evenings, so its always nice to have a quick catch up of the weekend behind us. On the Friday prior to the recording of this episode, Sifiso Nene had a comedy show, Baby Mama Drama 2, in Bloemfontein, which is where I am currently based. And of course I attended the show. So I start off by giving the gents my experience of Sifiso’s comedy and how polished and well crafted his show is, even with the bits he performs in Zulu. Which leads to me to having a banter about the poor quality of material and the laziness of vernacular comedians like bo Mashabela. You can tell here that this is something I have been waiting to share my thoughts on, it’s really bothering me. Well, I also had my very own baby drama on the evening of the show, which I also talk about. While we are still talking about comedy, we used this opportunity to give our views on the Khanyi Mbau roast that had aired during the week of recording this episode.Anyways, another thing that was happening live while we were recording is the South African Music Awards at Sun City, apparently, lol. I say apparently with a tongue in chick because no one even knew that the awards would be and had taken place during that weekend. The quality of those awards is absolutely appalling, and we certainly do not mince our words here to describe how horrible the quality of the whole production of the award show has become, and how little relevance they have left. Not even the somewhat ironic technical problems we started having while complaining about the poor quality of the SAMAs could stop us.The incompetencies in many spheres of our country then opens up a discussion about the controversial Dr Phophi Ramathuba’s video that was making the rounds. Where she is seen addressing a patient at one of the hospitals in Limpopo that are under her administration. The patient is of a Zimbabwean nationality, and this of course leads to a very contentious discussion about the illegal immigrants in the country, and the strain they put on our health system, or not. This is one of those classic OC 154 type of conversations. Difference of opinions and point of views and a good debate. More than anything, I believe the discussion is a thought provoking one that is bound to get you re-assessing your current position on the topic, in one way or another. To make sure that we also leave no stones unturned, I also play the devil’s advocate on the discussion here and there to ensure that even the views that are not held by any of the 3 of us, are well presented on the discussion. The number one rule about playing the devil’s advocate is to ensure not to straw man the arguments that you yourself do not hold as your own, I remain conscious of this throughout the discussion and I would like to think I did a good job at that.And of course, you cannot talk about the politics of illegal immigrants in the country, especially those from fellow African countries, and not discuss the EFF. Here, we get to hear H, who is arguably the most loyal EFF supporter I know personally, vehemently lambast their naïve position on the question of illegal immigrants and how they reacted to the Dr Phophi’s video. I have to say, I was quite surprised by H’s stands on this particular one.After this, we then proceed to discuss South African famous slay queens, Mihlali in particular. Listen, I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed this conversation, and I have no doubt that you will too, in fact, I can guarantee you that you, will. This conversation beautifully oscillates between the trivial and the very important, between the serious and the very silly and ridiculous. It is the sort of conversation you would probably be listening to if you were a fly on the wall in the corridors of Mens Res. The discussion addresses everything from the crass display of materialism by