Help With Setting Up Sonar for Podcasting

Some background...
I am using Sonar Professional 23.3.0 Build 51 x64 on Win 10.  Hardware is a Roland Duo Capture EX with a single Mic in and Headphones out.  I have a podcast and we are trying to implement a system of dropping in Audio Clips during the show in real time.  I have a Midi Launch Pad type controller that is used to trigger the audio clips as we are recording.  Everything is working well there.  The problem I am running into is that my cohost lives overseas so we communicate via google hangouts.  He records his side of the audio, I record my side of the audio.  He sends me his audio files and I drop them into Sonar and Mix the whole thing.  However he is not able to hear the Audio Clips that I am triggering through the hangouts session.  I need him to be able to hear the output from Sonar as well as the output from my Mic.  I have attempted to use voicemeeter banana to achieve this but I am running into all kinds of problems with the audio recorded from my microphone being garbled and unusable. (If I remove Voicemeeter from the equation and just use my Duo Capture into Sonar for recording and as the input to Hangouts, I have no problems except he can't hear the audio clips in Sonar that I am triggering)  I have spent far too many hours trying to figure out the correct way to do this. 
 
Anyone with any experience with using Sonar as a Podcast recorder with a remote cohost have any suggestions on how to make this work correctly.