Smile FM Ryan O'Connor Breakfast Show

Ryan O'Connor Breakfast Show

Cape Town wakes up to the Ryan O' Connor Breakfast Show every weekday morning 6am - 9am with a chance to crack Ryan's R 50 000 Noise! Sucess Lekabe on traffic, Ricky Shroeder on sports, Merentia van der Vent on News and Producer Phil De Lange.
Daily English South Africa Comedy Interviews Narrated by Success Lekabe, Ricky Schroeder
643 Episodes
460 – 480

Lindy was perplexed by this wedding gift

It's wedding season and we're about to enter the month of love. Getting married can be quite an expensive affair. Some people opt to politely ask for money instead of gifts at their wedding. This might offset the cost of marriage but it doesn't always work out that way. In…
30 Jan 2023 11PM 1 min

Formula E Cape Town organiser Ian Banner

Season 9 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship has arrived, with the most powerful, lightest and fastest electric race cars in world motorsport. Ian Banner is the man behind organising the Cape Town leg of the championship.
29 Jan 2023 11PM 4 min

Don't drink and cook

Smile Breakfast had a conversation about kitchen disasters. We heard about various explosions and floods. There was also a particularly fiery incident that we heard about that got a listener kicked out of his rental. Lindy also learned that it's a bad idea to drink and cook.
26 Jan 2023 11PM 3 min

Your kitchen disasters

Bobby nearly burned down his house by forgetting a sweet potato in the microwave. Smile Breakfast listeners got in touch to tell us about how they had some disasters of their own. So it turns out there are a million ways to make an explosive device in the kitchen.
26 Jan 2023 11PM 2 min

The technicalities of a home solar panel system

Bobby wanted to unpack some of the more technical details of the city's plans to give money to residents who produce surplus electricity. He spoke to Thomas Garner from the South African Power Producers Association. Thomas explained how the process would work from installation to production to possibly provide some…
26 Jan 2023 1AM 3 min

Geordin Hill-Lewis

Cape Town can officially start paying people for the power they sell back to the city. Smile Breakfast spoke to mayor Geordin-Hill Lewis about the initiative and how residents will be able to make some extra cash if they invest in solar panels.
25 Jan 2023 1AM 3 min

Money savvy or stingy?

The Smile Breakfast team asked our listeners to call in and tell us about the stingiest behaviour they've ever done or witnessed. We were most surprised by some of the ways two of our listeners' husbands were with money
24 Jan 2023 6AM 2 min

Bobby gets more bag out of his trash can

It's no secret that most of us struggle a few days before the next paycheck. We find ourselves getting quite creative to scrape our last pennies together. But when does it go too far? Bobby recons he can double savings on rubbish bags.
24 Jan 2023 6AM 1 min

Lindy's grandfather - a money saving genius

Lindy told us about her grandfather and his antics that made his money go a bit further. Did you know it was possible to get a sneaky 2 for 1 deal out of an optometrist?
24 Jan 2023 6AM 1 min

Bobby laughed at a skelling uncle

You know when someone is angry and they say something that makes you laugh? Bobby found himself in this situation as a youngster and it turns out he was playing with his life. All because of one mispronounced word.
24 Jan 2023 1AM 2 min

Lindy - the queen of malapropism

Malapropism - the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with an amusing effect. Lindy seems to fall victim to this quite a bit.
24 Jan 2023 1AM 2 min

When people get phrases slightly wrong

Sometimes your brain and your mouth don't cooperate. You know when you want to say a certain word but you get it slightly wrong? Or how about when you hear someone say a phrase and mess it up while you're just there keeping in your laughter? It seems to be…
24 Jan 2023 1AM 2 min

South Africa's top performing matric talks to Smile Breakfast

Kelly Grace Prowse from Rustenburg Girls’ High School emerged as the country’s top matric candidate in quintile 5 for 2022. She spoke to Smile Breakfast about her future in actuarial science, where she'll be studying, and the prospects of her solving loadshedding.
23 Jan 2023 2AM 4 min

The strange consequences of loadshedding

With the announcement by Eskom that loadshedding will likely be here to stay for the next 2 years, the average electricity user continues to feel the brunt of rolling blackouts. It's effects on small businesses, industry, traffic, and our daily routine continues to suffer. There are also some things that…
22 Jan 2023 11PM 2 min

Parental free time equals me time

By now you should have gotten into the swing of the school run. This one is for those of you who work from home, as well as the stay at home moms and dads. You probably find yourself with some extra time on your hands when the kids are school,…
20 Jan 2023 12AM 1 min

How lunchboxes changed

Lunchboxes are a big part of your first day of school. Callers told us about what their lunchboxes used to look like when they were in school. They've changed quite a bit with what you give your kids these days.
19 Jan 2023 2AM 2 min

A grade one teacher with a big heart

Lindy accompanied Ilyaaz to his first day of school. We caught up with his teacher who will be there for all the grade ones. Sometimes we forget what a special person it takes to welcome all those little pupils and get them comfortable with the start the academic year.
18 Jan 2023 3AM 2 min
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