Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - South Africa Has One Big Problem With Dan Carter | Itty Bitty Bit

Episode Date: August 27, 2026

A South African radio host meets Dan Carter and Richie McCaw, but it's Dan's appearance that completely derails the rugby chat! Then things get competitive as we lock in a wager ahead of this weekend's All Blacks vs Springboks showdown.   Join the Itty Bitty Hitty Committee HERE!Instagram:  @THEHITSBREAKFASTFacebook: The Hits Breakfast with Jono, Ben & Megan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The All Blacks take on the Springbox in South Africa around about 3 o'clock in New Zealand time on Sunday. The second test, the Allblakes won the first one last weekend, 3316. So springbox are going to try. They'll be bouncing back at home, aren't they? Yeah, and we're joined by our friend who hosts a radio program over in South Africa. Mikey V's on the 5 FM weekend breakfast. Good morning. Good morning.

The wonderful team at the hits. How are you? We're doing all right. So now we wanted to talk about the rugby, obviously New Zealand on it like an old-fashioned tour. It feels like they're away for like six years, these All-Blacks. They arrived. What feels like an eternity ago, it's a much excitement to admiration. And so for the last couple of weeks, we've had this spirit of New Zealand and South Africa.

We've kind of seen people in the malls who are wearing All-Black's jerseys and speaking with slightly, off Australian accents. It's just a really festive time. Last night, you were just telling us before you were at a function with Dan Carter and Ritchie McCaw. So impressive to see them in real life. So it was Dan Carter, it was Richie McCaw, it was John Smith, our World Cup winning captain, another Bach captain in John DeVille as I watched them together.

And the big takeaway was one, how softly spoken to Ruchy McCor is. I mean, it's someone you really admire because you get a real sense of his levity and leadership. And then secondly, and then secondly good looking. It's not fair that someone is that good at everything and looks that good. You know what I mean? It's just, come on, Dan. That's the problem.

That's the problem. You know, the real leveller is I sometimes see him driving around in a people mover picking up his kids from school. So he's one of us. He's the common man basically, you know? He's almost got better looking, I think. With age, yeah, he's George Clooning. Yeah, like, he was always good looking, but he's, yeah. Okay, so big game this weekend.

I mean, great the All Blacks won, the first one, but, you know, I think South Africa are going to be hungry for this second test. Everyone's been talking about the wounded bach over the course the last couple of days. I think that we went into the series probably quite aggressively when you consider it to the All Blacks, right? We have great admiration for the All Blacks. And for the first time, we had to wear the label of being the favorites for a tour of this nature. And I don't know if that suited us particularly well. And I think that the All Blacks just withstood so much pressure on Saturday. And we are very, very hopeful that it leads to a wonderful bock lash on Sunday.

Saturday. Sunday morning in your time. And hopefully we can we can deliver an interesting result so that at least we're going one-one into the third test match. That would be exciting.

Now last time we spoke Mike we had a little bit of a wager going on. Well it wasn't so much of a wager. Well you shot your mouth off Jotto and in the end you ended up having to sing the South African anthem which you learnt and performed at End Park. You're being very kind.

We'll play some audio now. You got like 22 different languages in one anthem. We weren't messing around. It was like, you know, when a song gets released, and then it becomes popular, and then three different people wrap on the remix. That's kind of what our anthem feels like. It just changes up as we go. We want to keep you on your toes.

Now we thought we could have another friendly wager. Yeah. Okay. on whose country wins, the losing radio show will have to play a song on air of the winner's choice. So that could be like a South African pop artist, you know, or a song that you think is special to South Africa. We can decide on a New Zealand song that maybe you could play. I think this is perfect. You know, it gives me great honor to be able to represent my country's proud music heritage with you. And so I'm fully expecting a result in the box because I don't want to be

playing a deep cut New Zealand track on a South African radio station if I can avoid it. Do you what I mean? I don't want it to go too deep or whatever. Well, we want to be playing Hakuna Matata so. Lovely talk to you. We'll catch out with you next week. Good luck to both themes on the weekend.

You two have a beautiful time. Enjoy the rugby and enjoy that early alarm. Okay, well so let's help us out. So if New Zealand won, it's manifest it, the All Black's win. What song do we want to get on South African Radio? Yeah, if something needs to encapsulates the country.

Because you want to impress them too. We've only got one song to impress them. Yeah, they want to go, oh, this is New Zealand. I like this. This is broadcast over the whole of South Africa of this radio show. 4487 on the text. We need to decide by the end of the show.