Ryan O'Connor Breakfast Show

A wedding on Valentine's Day - we have the rings!

Robin proposed to Jorine on Smile Breakfast yesterday. She said yes and the team pushed them to get married next week on Valentine's Day! Now we're setting everything up and need all the help we can get. Aimee from Diamond Works got in touch.

8 Feb 2023 2AM 4 min

A wedding on Valentine's Day

Robin visited the studio with his partner Jorine under the guise that he brought her to play a competition called The Mating Game. The Mating Game is a quiz show where couples get tested on how well they know each other. Robin actually had a big question and Jorine agreed…

7 Feb 2023 2AM 2 min

Robin asks Jorine the big question

We're one week away from Valentine's Day and something magical happened on Smile Breakfast. Robin visited the studio with his partner Jorine under the guise that he brought her to play a competition called The Mating Game. The Mating Game is a quiz show where couples get tested on how…

7 Feb 2023 2AM 1 min

Dating romance vs romance in marriage

The Smile Breakfast team decided to unpack how things change as you grow older together. It's not that things aren't romantic anymore, it's just that it takes a different form. We heard from our listeners who told us that romance in a long term relationship means different looking texts, a…

6 Feb 2023 4AM 2 min

1 in 5 people broke up with someone because of this

It's the month of love and romance in the air. Flowers, chocolates, candlelit dinners - all things in a typical repertoire when you're trying to impress your other half. But there are some traits in your partner that just kill any hope for a romantic connection. A survey found that…

6 Feb 2023 4AM 2 min

Mosquitoes and surgery have something in common

We asked our listeners to share their stories about the worst encounters with a mosquito. We heard about poor newborns being bitten on their fist day at home, someone getting poison in the face, a remodeled bedroom, and an incident that led to knee surgery.

3 Feb 2023 2AM 3 min

Would you do this against mosquitoes?

In Lindy's Stat Chat we heard that according to a survey almost 1 in 10 people have a very unique method of dealing with mozzies.

3 Feb 2023 2AM 2 min

Bobby & Lindy go to war with mozzies

Bobby and Lindy recall their worst experiences with mosquitoes. Bobby ended up on the cold floor, while Lindy got a makeover that made her look like the love child of Elton John and Quasimodo.

3 Feb 2023 2AM 2 min

Dr Randall Ortel onSmile Breakfast

Good things come to those who wait. Patience is a virtue and probably even better when you work hard to get what you deserve. Randall Ortel is a doctor from Manenberg who drove taxis to support himself at medical school. Today he works as family medicine specialist at Groote Schuur…

2 Feb 2023 1AM 7 min

Bobby's family secret

The team got thinking about family drama and how everyone has a story that could fit into an episode of Days of Our Lives. Bobby happens to have had a moment when a memorial service revealed a relative's secret family.

31 Jan 2023 11PM 2 min

Your family drama

Listeners shared some of the stories in their family that could be worthy of an episode in a soapie. We heard it all from affairs, funeral fights, and some casual butt grabs to end friendships.

31 Jan 2023 11PM 2 min

The world's most awkward family dinner

We weren't ready for a caller who told us about some family drama that had to be kept secret for years. What could be more awkward than meeting your new partner's parents and realising you already know each other? How about meeting your boyfriend's dad only to be introduced to…

31 Jan 2023 11PM 1 min

The weirdest wedding gifts ever

According to a survey done in The Knot’s annual Wedding Registry Study the average newlywed couple has about 125 items on their registry. It's probably best to ask guests to stick to the registry, especially considering what some of our listeners got given.

31 Jan 2023 12AM 2 min

This mother-in-law's gift was hideous and cheap

One of our listeners called us and told us that not only was her mother-in-law's wedding gift hideous, but it turned out to be a stingy gift too.

31 Jan 2023 12AM 2 min

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

A sweet potato nearly burned down Bobby's house

Bobby fancies himself quite the wiz in the kitchen and he's always been a good cook. So how is it that the humble sweet potato managed to almost burn down his house?

26 Jan 2023 11PM 3 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