S1: A listener production to cuddly boys overloading the bromance quota meter.
S2: They're so cute.
S1: It's Matt and Alex. All day. Breakfast.
S3: Well, yes. Alex Dyson is here. Had a weekend in
S3: the sun at the beach in sunny Warrnambool. But I'm
S3: hoping that out of the ashes of the cyclone. Alfred,
S3: do we have a Matt Okine?
S4: Oh, man. I gotta tell you, I. I was not
S4: loving the weekend at all. I've got plenty, plenty to
S4: update you on, but I think for now, just to
S4: begin the show with something a little bit lighter. Let's
S4: all give a big shout out to National Meatball Day.
S3: Oh well, you'd think we're not talking about weather, but
S3: ever since the film cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
S3: came out, that is very weather based. No shout outs
S3: to anyone celebrating. I think National Meatball day in the States. Matt,
S3: you are. You're a big fan of the meatball.
S4: I, I don't have enough, to be honest. They. I
S4: tried to get Sophia onto it, but she doesn't like it.
S4: But then if she has spaghetti with mints, she likes that.
S4: And I'm like, kid, it's the same thing. It's just
S4: one is just bunched up together, like, come on.
S3: Yeah, but you, you do know the same way that
S3: brown M&Ms taste worse than the other colors. Um, the
S3: color and shape of things, Matt affects the flavor. That's
S3: why red cars go faster. It's the UN universal truths
S3: of our time.
S4: Oh, well. Shout out to everyone enjoying our National Meatball Day.
S4: Let's dive into some recaps about the wild weather across
S4: the weekend. This is Matt and Alex all day breakfast.
S4: Hope you're having a good one.
S5: Let's get this show on the road.
S6: Let's go. Here we go. Here we go, here we go.
S7: Gotta tell you, I was glued to.
S3: The algorithm that was showing the sand washing away on
S3: the Gold Coast beach. Nice. And. Yeah, just feeling scared
S3: for everyone I knew on the Gold Coast, including Annalise's
S3: mum and brother living up there. We were getting updates.
S3: Matt Okine but you were living it in the. In
S3: the heart of Brissy I guess. Saturday. Finally a good
S3: excuse not to go look at properties. Um, but tell
S3: us how. How did you go?
S4: Mate, I did feel sorry for anyone who was planning
S4: on buying or selling a house this weekend. I know
S4: that there's much more things to, you know, bigger things
S4: to worry about.
S3: But with the auctions cancelled on Saturday, everything seemed to
S3: be shutting. What was going on?
S4: I reckon you could have picked up a bargain if
S4: you did like it was. It was. Only the bravest.
S4: Would have been putting their hand up for that, and
S4: then you would have had to deal with the fact
S4: that there was a chance that the roof on the
S4: house that you just bought was gonna disappear.
S3: Yeah. Going, going, gone. When it comes to the roof
S3: of the property you're bidding on. Um, so how how
S3: fast did the winds get? How much rain was falling
S3: on you? How did the family go in these tricky circumstances, Matt?
S4: Well, look, it's no secret that Cyclone Alfred was a
S4: bit of a one minute man on his first appearance. And,
S4: you know, it was a very quick little play with, with,
S4: with Brisbane and then and then it was over and
S4: everyone sort of thought, oh, is that it? Is that
S4: all you got? But I tell you what, he went
S4: hard uh, on Sunday like it was pouring for like
S4: 12 hours straight. There was water like pouring underneath our house,
S4: pouring in from the neighbour's side. Our pool is absolutely
S4: disgusting because there's this sort of piece of land that
S4: they're building a house on a couple of doors up,
S4: and it's just red dirt, and all of that dirt
S4: is now at the bottom of our pool there. Like
S4: I had the broom out. I was sweeping water away
S4: from the from underneath the house. It was it was
S4: so stressful, man. Like I because I tell you what,
S4: I have lived, I have lived the last 17 years
S4: not owning a home and not owning the home that
S4: I lived in. And so I've lived in a unit
S4: these things have never like it's never affected me.
S3: Body corporate. Sort that out.
S4: Yeah, exactly. And now it's like I'm the body corporate.
S4: It's so stressful. Like suddenly you're realizing how things can
S4: just disappear in a second and and. Yeah, so I
S4: didn't I didn't enjoy it one bit. We we disconnected
S4: all the gas and everything, um, for the last couple
S4: of days. So we're only cooking on a barbecue, and
S4: that's pretty pointless when there's 60ml of rain tumbling down
S4: on you at all times. We've got pots of water
S4: on the stove just in case the water cuts out.
S4: Belinda's mum in Ballina has been without power for two
S4: days a day and a half, so we don't know
S4: whether everything in the fridge is going to go. It's
S4: like it's it's the uncertainty. Alex Dyson that is the problem.
S3: Goodness me. Yeah. So you you didn't lose power in
S3: your suburb in in Brissy.
S4: No, there's some people did and some people didn't. and
S4: that's why we were kind of on edge. We had
S4: all this food in the freezer. We're like delegating, okay?
S4: If the power goes, we're starting with the homemade sausage rolls.
S4: They got frozen a few weeks ago. We're moving on
S4: to the spag bol. The mince is going to be
S4: the last one to get turned into a burger. We
S4: don't know what we're getting, so.
S3: Flat and round is okay for mince but spherical like
S3: a globe?
S4: Yes.
S3: That's the Sophia.
S4: But um. But no. And also we you know, it
S4: was Belinda's birthday on Friday, so we had this, um,
S4: dinner planned with, with a couple of friends in the Valley,
S4: which was this. I talked about it before on the podcast,
S4: but it's like a six seater special little Japanese restaurant,
S4: invite only.
S3: Yeah, I remember you mentioning that.
S4: We made the booking in October, but of course, Saturday
S4: night rolls around and they're like, look, we we can
S4: be open if you want. And we were like, we
S4: are friends live in a flood zone. So they weren't
S4: they weren't really amped at the idea of going into
S4: dinner while their house could end up, you know, halfway
S4: under water. Plus, our babysitter for the night had to
S4: drive 40 minutes from the coast coastal area, so she
S4: wasn't exactly jumping out of her boots to come and
S4: look after Sophia while we're eating is, you know, ten
S4: course meal. So we had to cancel it. But the
S4: good news is we have a new reservation. Belinda's birthday
S4: dinner will now be in August, so that's exciting. We.
S4: We've gotten.
S3: Well.
S4: Just a little six month delay. That's fine.
S3: Well, it sounds like I was somewhat similar to the
S3: position I found myself in, where a lot of the
S3: rumor mill was heating up last week that Prime Minister
S3: Anthony Albanese would call the Australian election this weekend to
S3: make it an April election with, you know, and it's
S3: obviously good looking after the people of Queensland, our fellow Australians,
S3: and concentrating on that and not distracting it with, you know,
S3: this bloody popularity contest that comes around every three years,
S3: going to push that back a bit longer. That means
S3: the campaign Meadow keen are rebooking once again the ten
S3: course menu.
S4: You've got to keep doing it. But do you know
S4: what was so annoying to me? Like there's all this
S4: discussion about how this cyclone was man made. Was there?
S4: And that I think.
S3: Like we.
S4: We have you not.
S3: Go along with different internet forums. Matt Okine when it comes.
S4: Have you not heard about this? People people are genuinely
S4: on Facebook claiming that this cyclone was man made by
S4: the US for some reason, right? But it also goes
S4: into cahoots with the idea that the Australian government is
S4: using it as a political tactic, and that they were
S4: working in the pockets of, of Bom, the Bureau of Meteorology. Right.
S3: Oh, boy.
S4: How I got to tell you, if you do get in,
S4: you know, elected to the seat of Wannon. Can you
S4: give us a few months of sunshine, please, if that's
S4: the power that you've got as an elected politician in
S4: this country?
S3: Yeah. Getting the weather machine up and going. We could
S3: give the farmers a bit more rain down here if
S3: I was doing that one. Goodness. Um. Look.
S4: So.
S3: Yeah, it's it's a stressful time. People would be stressed
S3: in many different ways. And I'm very glad that you
S3: are safe and sound. And the family is safe and sound.
S3: Matt Okine. A very difficult time for southern Queensland and
S3: northern New South Wales people.
S4: Yes, yes, we are bone dry, safe and sound. But
S4: I want to hear what you got up to over
S4: the weekend. So let's dive into it. Hey.
S8: La la la la la la la la la la
S8: la la la. Yeah.
S3: I started a new job on the weekend.
S4: No. All right, come on. Let me let me add it.
S3: Well, it sort of started with an old job. An
S3: old job back in the day of, um, emceeing at
S3: music festivals because a ripper music festival here in south
S3: west Victoria, the Port Fairy Folk festival. Absolutely iconic weekend
S3: every year um, was happening, was lucky enough to go
S3: along and got given the task. Matt Okine to introduce
S3: the one and only Missy Higgins.
S4: Oh my god.
S3: Stage.
S4: Queen.
S3: I know, and it's a second trip to the southwest
S3: recently because she popped up with G flip at the
S3: triple J one night stand down in Warrnambool last year. Okay,
S3: now back in Port Fairy, which was so sick. Um,
S3: absolutely smashing it. Can you believe like Sound of White
S3: came out 20 years ago?
S4: Yeah. Belinda went to the, um, that that the 20
S4: year storytelling session of it.
S3: Really? How was that?
S4: Oh, I loved it. Loved every single second of it.
S4: She was talking all about, you know, some of the classics, um,
S4: the special two, you know, talking about what that song
S4: was about. Uh, yeah. Though there was some really good
S4: stories coming out of it. I was very jealous.
S3: The brilliant thing about emceeing, and I recommend anyone else
S3: go into it, people remember always remember you did a
S3: really good job the less that you do, um, the
S3: quicker you go from lights going down and Missy Higgins
S3: coming on. The better. Oh, he did a great job. Like,
S3: I could just walk out and say Missy Higgins and
S3: then walk off. And people were like, brilliant.
S4: Yeah. No one. No one's there to hear you. They
S4: want Missy.
S3: Exactly right. So that was wonderful. But I did start
S3: a new job as well the next night because finally,
S3: after months of getting boxes ticked, photos checked off, bank
S3: accounts and things and everything, I did my first ever
S3: shift as an Uber driver.
S4: Did you really?
S3: Yep.
S4: Now, is this in response? Is this somewhat of a
S4: boycott of the taxis as well? Is this why you
S4: did that? Because. No, no, I saw.
S3: It is awful.
S4: Story. Awful story that came out of Adelaide with a
S4: taxi driver and, um, and a Aussie radio host, Ali Clarke,
S4: who got some terrible things said to her by her
S4: taxi driver because she wanted to go a short fare
S4: and he refused. So he was telling her to get
S4: out of her car and then telling her it's really,
S4: honestly awful stuff. He's since been fired, but I've got
S4: to tell you, it keeps happening. I don't know, I
S4: don't know how many stories need to keep coming out
S4: until the actual industry gets a wake up call.
S3: Well, I yeah, I mean, it's quite short trips around Waterville,
S3: so I wasn't making absolute bank, but I went down,
S3: found my first people, picked them up, go for a
S3: bit and then I had to they asked the question,
S3: how long have you been doing this? And I'm like, well,
S3: I'm going to be honest with you guys. This is
S3: my very first one. And they all went, hey, it
S3: was like two parents and two kids who were in
S3: Warrnambool for a tennis tournament. We had a great chat
S3: as we went around, so that was good. I dropped
S3: him at the at the wait.
S4: Wait wait wait wait wait, why are you doing this?
S4: Is this just to meet people?
S3: It's two pronged. Um, running as an independent. I mean,
S3: it's a it's a 12 month thing I'm doing for $0.
S3: You know, because I think it'll be, um, I think
S3: it'll be good for the area and the country having
S3: independence in parliament. But you do have to a lot
S3: of a lot of meat, a lot of people, and
S3: spend a lot of time. I'm like, well, maybe I
S3: could combine meeting people with, you know, getting six bucks
S3: to drop them at the pub. So now I got
S3: to tell you and I got to tell you, it
S3: is a game changer, man. The amount of people I
S3: met are really nice. And particularly, you know, it's usually
S3: with these kind of things. It's younger people on the apps.
S3: So I met a couple of dudes going somewhere. He's like, oh,
S3: can you drop my mate here and then take me
S3: to the pub? I can pay you cash afterwards. I'm like, bro,
S3: just don't worry about it. I'll just it's on my
S3: way home. I'll drop you. He's like, thanks so much, man.
S3: And he found out I'm running for Parliament. And it's
S3: that thing where, like, I drop him off and he
S3: just go into the pub because he's meeting friends, so
S3: he'll go like, oh, guess who just dropped me off
S3: and tell the friends like.
S4: Hey.
S3: So dude.
S4: This is unbelievable.
S3: This is this is my new hobby. And it's like exciting. Like,
S3: when the thing goes off, you're like, oh, there's a ride.
S3: So I like, press the thing and I go, I
S3: go and pick him up, which was great. But, um,
S3: I was like, I'll do one more because it was
S3: just around Warrnambool. It's like 5 or 6 minutes to
S3: go different places. But then there was one person trying
S3: to find them, like I called him because I couldn't
S3: find where they were, like, oh, we're at the bottle shop.
S3: And I went around to the bottle shop and I
S3: picked up the two drunkest people in Australia. A daughter
S3: and a mum that had been at a hen's party.
S3: And the it was the most entertaining. And like, I
S3: was like, oh, this could go south because like, oh,
S3: we've lost our thing. We had the bottles, it's in
S3: the dark. They got the phone cameras on. I was like,
S3: can you put on some music? Put on Dom Dolla?
S3: And I'm like, I'm like, oh, here we go. And
S3: then I go, Hey Siri, play Dom Dolla miracle maker.
S3: And they're like, you know, the song? And then they
S3: were gone 20 minutes out of town. So I drove
S3: him 20 minutes out of town and dropped him off. And, um, yeah,
S3: it was just quite an entertaining evening, really.
S4: Now, now, just out of interest, how did you how
S4: much money did you make?
S3: All right. I've done a total of ten trips, and
S3: I have made $105.97 in an evening. Ten trips.
S4: And when did you finish? When did you wrap up
S4: for the night?
S3: Um, I got home about 11:15, I think, because after
S3: that one I'm like, oh, it could be diminishing returns
S3: here because 100 bucks us. I don't know how much
S3: a steam clean to get a bit of vomit out
S3: of the out of the Uber is. But if all
S3: if if I took one more, I'd just lost it all.
S4: You you stood on the edge of the WWE rink
S4: and took one look and turned around and went back inside.
S4: They Undertaker hadn't even come out yet.
S3: But it was really, really great. Everyone was really nice.
S3: So just keep an eye out for me on the, uh,
S3: the roads of Warrnambool. If you need a lift somewhere.
S9: Order up.
S10: Just how you like it. Perfect.
S11: Click click click click click click click.
S1: Fish. Click fish.
S7: Yes.
S3: Producer James back for a little bit of click fish.
S3: I mean Matt and I have told us told everyone
S3: about our weekends. James. But what did you get up
S3: to over the last couple of days?
S4: Uh, I've.
S12: Got a new hobby in my late 30s. I'm brewing
S12: my own kombucha.
S4: Oh, wow.
S3: On the booch.
S12: On the booch.
S4: How do you. How do you start, mate?
S3: Oh, I've seen someone's kombucha. And the scoby gives me nightmares.
S3: That's all I'll.
S4: Say.
S12: The scoby is funky, I gotta say. Uh, so it's
S12: similar to, you know, your sourdough. You have a starter,
S12: you buy the Scoby, which is, you know, where all
S12: the good bacteria comes from. You chuck that in a
S12: big jar.
S3: It's like a floppy, white creamy, congealed blob of bacteria
S3: that you put in the jar.
S12: Yeah.
S4: And their hotels, aren't they? You have Scoby hotels a scoby.
S4: Sounds like something you need to show your doctor. You
S4: know what I mean? It's like you should like. It
S4: should be like, hey, bro, you need to get that
S4: Scoby checked out. That's not good.
S12: Yeah. It's not it's not the nicest thing to look at,
S12: I gotta say. And there's a fine line of like,
S12: am I doing this right? Or is this growing, like, mold?
S12: You know, I'm keeping an eye on it. I'm not
S12: too sure, but I've bottled my first batch, so that's
S12: in the fridge, ready to go. It's fizzing up, so
S12: it's it's good. I think I've had a bit of
S12: a taste. I think it's I think it's good for
S12: a first batch.
S3: And what flavours are you chucking in with the Scoby
S3: in the jar?
S12: Got a bit of a tropical one to start with.
S12: I bought a premade flavour kit so that's all. All good.
S12: So yeah, it's kind of a a tropical vibe.
S4: Well, I look forward to you. You know, launching your
S4: own wellness channel on Instagram. I'm very, very excited.
S3: Keep it eye out. Well, alongside that, James, you have
S3: been trying to find the worst clickbait article in the
S3: week that we dare not click on, but actually kind
S3: of attempted to. What did you uncover?
S12: Yeah. So this one for this week is man who
S12: broke the record for time spent in world's quietest room,
S12: reported experiencing several horrifying side effects.
S3: I've heard about these quiet rooms, and it does sound
S3: a bit scary because it's so quiet in there. Like,
S3: you make a noise and you can't hear it because
S3: it just goes like the walls dead in it so quick.
S3: You've just got the sound of like, your blood going
S3: through your head or something. It can send you insane.
S3: First of all.
S4: I guess pounding.
S3: Before we guess what the side effects are. Can you
S3: tell us how long he lasted to get that world record? James?
S12: Yes. So this guy is Callum McGinley. He's a YouTuber,
S12: and the record he set was one hour and 26
S12: minutes in the anechoic chamber. The previous record was set
S12: in 2019 and that was 67 minutes. So you did
S12: a pretty good job.
S4: See, this is one of those things that doesn't sound
S4: like it would be hard. Like, I truly feel like
S4: I could do it. Yeah, but.
S3: I've sat through terrible movies that have gone for 90
S3: minutes and thought, I need to get out of this
S3: so I at least could go 90 minutes. You'd hope.
S4: What's his, what's his name and age again? What's his age?
S12: Uh, I think he's in his 30s.
S4: Okay. 30 year old guy, uh, spends a long time
S4: in a silent room. I'm gonna guess the terrifying symptom
S4: was he left and decided he didn't want to start
S4: a podcast. That that was his the side effect. He
S4: was like, silence is actually okay. I don't need to
S4: share my opinion.
S3: Um, I, I reckon I reckon I'd actually be able
S3: to beat this dude because I've had a lot of training,
S3: like the amount of medical comedy shows I've sat through.
S3: Absolutely dead silence in the room.
S4: Just the blood pulsing through your veins. It was horrifying.
S3: That's all you could hear? Uh, no. Oh, is it like.
S3: Is it painful to hear after, like, your ears adjusting
S3: to that sort of thing afterwards?
S4: Or does it, like, affect his sense of taste or
S4: something weird like that? I don't know. What's the horror?
S4: What's the horrifying side effect?
S12: So he had a few things that happened to him.
S12: You're kind of on the money. He had a burst
S12: of extreme tinnitus in both ears, followed quickly by pressure
S12: in his head, and had visions of lights flickering around
S12: the room. But again, the other big thing he touched on,
S12: which I think you're you're right about, is that he
S12: said he could hear his own blood running through his body,
S12: but at first he actually thought it was the sound
S12: of the London Underground because he was in a chamber in,
S12: in London. Um, but it was actually the blood rushing
S12: through his head.
S3: Oh, boy.
S4: I mean, all the other symptoms, they're they're similar to
S4: what it's like being me at one of my gigs
S4: as well. Just blinded by the lights. Sudden, like pressure
S4: in the head, like, oh my God, what am I doing?
S1: Ah.
S4: Um. So yeah. No, we can relate. Um. All right. Well,
S4: thank you very much, James. Hopefully he can. The gentleman who,
S4: you know, broke that record could, uh, you know, leave
S4: the chamber and do the first thing he wanted to
S4: do with being able to hear again, which was listening
S4: to him. Episode of Matt and Alex all day. Breakfast.
S3: Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly what happened. So thank you
S3: to you, Callum, for listening. And thank you to you,
S3: not Callum for listening. I really appreciate you tuning in
S3: for another edition of Matt and Alex All Day Breakfast.
S3: We've got another big app for you tomorrow, so sit
S3: tight and we'll see you then.
S4: Bye bye.
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