{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Recovery Room","title":"Binnelanders' Dr Tertius on burnout, absent dads and starting over at 40","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2554,"description":"You've watched Reynardt Hugo play Dr Tertius Jonker on Binnelanders for nearly two decades. You probably don't know what was happening behind the performance.\nIn this episode, Reynardt sits down with Jennis and JC to go back to the beginning - a military kid from Palabora who moved to the city wearing shoes to school for the first time, sat alone at breaks from primary school through to his Binnelanders years, and somehow ended up as one of the most recognisable faces in Afrikaans television without ever planning to be an actor.\nHe talks about booking Binnelanders at 21 when he was too young for the role, co-founding ADAM and running a boyband and a soap career simultaneously for a decade, the burnout that finally forced him to step back in 2025, and why becoming a father changed everything he understood about his own dad. He also opens up about living with a chronic mental health diagnosis, the book Soldaat, and why he thinks mental wellness is still the conversation the Afrikaans entertainment industry refuses to have.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/VeysRUnZLXd7hdN2pYUQ-cCoE-aEVyVO6sGJE50AeH4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMzFh/Y2JjYjNlZGNjZjE2/ZmE5Yzc3MDY3NTkx/MzRkNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}