0:02

A listener, production. Like some to

0:04

die for yogas. On some perfectly

0:06

soaked bird, yeah. Bad boys get

0:09

all the yum yum. Yes. Yum

0:11

yum good. Yum yum good. It's

0:13

Matt and Alex all day breakfast.

0:16

Wow, we finally did it Alex

0:18

Dyson and it only caused us

0:20

the whole embarrassment of the world,

0:22

but Brisbane has done it. We

0:24

have locked in our stadiums for

0:27

the Olympics. I was just reading

0:29

a 60,000 cedar going in Victoria

0:31

Park. I was there on the

0:33

weekend Dice. I was there on

0:35

the weekend. Sophia hitting her very

0:38

first golf ball at the driving

0:40

range. Very proud of her. Well,

0:42

she'll probably be a bit young

0:44

to compete in Brisbane, won't she?

0:46

Oh, tell that to the 13

0:48

year old skateboarder who, you know, was

0:51

up there at the Olympics this

0:53

year. That is true. The Ozzy,

0:55

that was great. Well, yeah, 63,

0:58

63, the seats stadium. Queensland Premier

1:00

David Chris are fully unveiled the

1:02

plans a hundred days after taking

1:05

office at a after an independent

1:07

review into venues and after promising

1:10

multiple times not to build a

1:12

new stadium before the election he's

1:14

but no no look he said he

1:16

said by being honest and copying that

1:18

on the chin I'll own that no I

1:20

will I will I'm sorry and here's a

1:22

thing here's what annoys me so much they

1:25

they they said right The idea of

1:27

building a temporary stadium

1:29

with the RNA showgrounds

1:31

would be like a disaster. They said

1:33

that building a new stadium would

1:35

cost too much. Then they've just

1:38

done everything they said that wasn't

1:40

a good idea. Like they literally

1:42

openly said it so many times.

1:44

But anyway, I'm very excited. The

1:46

good news is... No, I am. I'm

1:49

excited. They're demolishing the gabber, like

1:51

the gabber after the Olympics will

1:53

be gone. Is that what I'm

1:55

ready? Yeah, apparently it's very old.

1:57

Apparently it's very old and like,

2:00

like it's like embarrassingly old inside

2:02

and like when It's one of

2:04

those things where like because I

2:06

love watching it as a spectator

2:08

But apparently if you're like a

2:10

player and stuff you're a bit

2:13

like mind your head. Oh, that's

2:15

not to hide. That's a bit

2:17

embarrassing. Yeah, that's a bit old

2:19

But the good news is I

2:21

believe that they're thinking about there

2:24

They're doing the soccer in Northern

2:26

Queensland. They're gonna do the rolling

2:28

in the crock infested rivers of

2:30

Rockhampton I think it's a funny

2:32

time because you watch the rowing

2:35

and they're just because it's a

2:37

thing you got to have the

2:39

same movement every single time the

2:41

boats are boring. You need a

2:43

little bit of a wild card

2:46

and crock infested waters are that

2:48

wild card. That is the 2020

2:50

version of rowing that people have

2:52

been wanting you know what I

2:54

mean? Like let's ramp it up

2:56

a little bit. They're also, and

2:59

I'm a bit interested in this,

3:01

the government's sticking with its plan

3:03

to build a whitewater rafting centre

3:05

in the Redlands. Now, when it

3:07

comes to looking at, and if

3:10

you Google, abandoned Olympic venues, kayaking,

3:12

I think, each year's, and I,

3:14

it's disappointing because we've done very

3:16

well with the Fox sisters, you

3:18

know, in the kayaking, in the

3:21

columns, and that sort of thing.

3:23

Go for God, so I'd love

3:25

a good one to make sure

3:27

we're ready ready to go, but,

3:29

we're ready to go. Is there

3:31

much use for it? Will it

3:34

get that much use for it

3:36

outside of the game's back? Are

3:38

you saying that there's no legacy

3:40

plan for the kayak system? I'm

3:42

saying, unless kayaking takes off as

3:45

a sport after 2032, it could

3:47

be smart to create it in

3:49

a way in which when the

3:51

water is drained out of it,

3:53

really sick skate park. And you

3:56

can just go in and do

3:58

your verts and stuff. That's what

4:00

I'm suggesting. That is actually a

4:02

very cool idea. All right. Well,

4:04

we'll float that with the Queensland

4:06

government and see how far we

4:09

get. I'm sure any, I'm sure

4:11

it'll only cost $64 trillion. dollars

4:13

which is I think the current

4:15

budget for the Olympics. No the

4:17

new stadium at Victoria Park I

4:20

believe is only going to cost

4:22

oh gee seven no three point

4:24

four billion dollars maybe yeah three

4:26

and a half bill three and

4:28

a half billion boys yeah sure

4:31

didn't it wasn't it going to

4:33

cost the New South Wales government

4:35

how much was it to put

4:37

the flag on top of the

4:39

Bro, it's $6 for a flat

4:42

white now. So I can guarantee

4:44

it's gonna be a budget blowout.

4:46

I can guarantee you. It's gonna

4:48

be more. We're in for such

4:50

a long hard road, but we're

4:52

gonna do it. We love the

4:55

Olympics. It's worth it for what

4:57

gold in the kayak slalom. We're

4:59

doing it. Let's do this podcast

5:01

right now as well. Let's get

5:03

this show on the road. Let's

5:06

go. Here we go, here we

5:08

go, here we go. You got

5:10

many WhatsApp groups on the go,

5:12

Alex Dyson. I've got our all-day

5:14

breakfast, WhatsApp group. See a bit

5:17

of action. And that's about it.

5:19

You don't have like some lads

5:21

chat that's like, you know, the

5:23

boulder balls boys or something like

5:25

that. Mememen. Just... Get in and

5:27

send me, I got no time

5:30

for memes. Got no time to

5:32

be sending memes in this economy

5:34

madokine. No, and I have that

5:36

one and I rarely respond, I'm

5:38

sorry, because I don't have notifications

5:41

on WhatsApp. I think that because

5:43

I was in a group chat

5:45

that was annoying me, so I

5:47

took off notifications and it just

5:49

means I miss everything now. Yeah,

5:52

well, I mean, given you are

5:54

technically. somewhat of a journalist being

5:56

in the media. I mean, you're

5:58

not reporting on stories, but you

6:00

are somewhat of a media figure.

6:02

It's no wonder that you didn't

6:05

get added to a top secret

6:07

WhatsApp group that happened to... a

6:09

Atlantic journalist in the United States.

6:11

Did you read this story? I

6:13

did, because the headline for this

6:16

article in The Atlantic, the media

6:18

company, is one of the most

6:20

bizarre yet impactful headlines I've ever

6:22

read, Madokine. It's astonishing. The headline

6:24

reads, the Trump administration accidentally texted

6:27

me its war plans. So

6:29

this journalist with the Atlantic gets

6:32

added to a group chat on

6:34

this app signal, which is meant

6:36

to be a bit of a

6:38

more encrypted WhatsApp, basically. I thought

6:41

as far as encryption goes, WhatsApp

6:43

is as encrypted as it gets.

6:45

Like how much more encryption? WhatsApp

6:48

and Signal are both end-to-end encrypted,

6:50

but signal is kind of favoured

6:52

by journalists a lot to, you

6:54

know. vet sources and those kind

6:57

of things. Oh, okay. Thank you,

6:59

producer James. And when you're using

7:01

it, you need to type in

7:04

a pin every now and again

7:06

to make sure it's you to

7:08

make sure. Right, okay. But yeah,

7:10

it goes on to say, US

7:13

national security leaders, including me in

7:15

a group chat about a coming

7:17

military strikes in Yemen. I didn't

7:19

think it could be real. Then

7:22

the bombs started falling. That's how

7:24

Jeffrey Goldberg's article starts. And he's

7:26

right. The new defense secretary in

7:29

America. face some tough questions by

7:31

the politicians there when he was

7:33

on the way in because he

7:35

was a Fox News host Who

7:38

hasn't held very high of a

7:40

position in the military He was

7:42

in there alongside the director of

7:45

national intelligence Marker Rubio Jady Vance

7:47

the vice president and then this

7:49

this journalist because when it's abbreviated

7:51

it's just this journalist because when

7:54

it's abbreviated it's just there initials

7:56

as well so he's JG and

7:58

no one thought who's this JG

8:00

in the in the group chat

8:03

with the vice president defense secretary

8:05

They start saying all these plans

8:07

for these strikes and they couldn't

8:10

believe it. I'm reading things that

8:12

says, so the discussions seen by

8:14

this journalist include comments from JD

8:16

Vance, the vice president, who appeared

8:19

unconvinced of the urgency of attacking

8:21

Yemen, as well as conversations over

8:23

what price should be expected of

8:26

Europeans and other countries for the

8:28

US removing the threat to a

8:30

key global shipping route. All of

8:32

this stuff makes me, like, when

8:35

I think of the US government

8:37

and the security people that are

8:39

in charge of their security, I

8:41

don't think that of them doing

8:44

the same things that the meme

8:46

men and the, you know, big

8:48

boulder boys do or whatever, you

8:51

know what I mean? Like, that's

8:53

the thing. They shouldn't be, because

8:55

there's, and you might recall when.

8:57

Donald Trump was running for president

9:00

the first time around. He made

9:02

a big deal about Hillary Clinton's

9:04

emails, not being on a private

9:07

government server, you know, being on

9:09

a government server, but we're actually

9:11

on a different server. Oh, this

9:13

could be a security breach. And

9:16

now they're literally using the same

9:18

meme sharing text group chats to

9:20

talk about their war plans in

9:22

Yemen. Someone took a screenshot of

9:25

Pete Exith, the guy who's the

9:27

director of the of the military

9:29

over there now, talking with Donald

9:32

Trump, saying, under the previous administration,

9:34

Biden administration, we looked like fools,

9:36

not anymore. Well, Pete, you've unfortunately

9:38

got a bit of the old

9:41

egg yoke on the Noggin. Oh

9:43

my God. Other people saying, if

9:45

this isn't a sacable offence, I

9:48

don't know what is. But could

9:50

it be just one of the

9:52

list of the long line of

9:54

things, Madokine, that just we've got

9:57

a new controversy tomorrow? Like, it

9:59

could be superseded. Yeah, put it

10:01

on the tab, man. Who cares?

10:03

Let's just keep going. Put that

10:06

on my tab. Yeah. So we

10:08

will see. We did ask you,

10:10

when have you been added to

10:13

the wrong group, Chacked? Karen said,

10:15

someone in America with the same

10:17

name as me keeps mistaking my

10:19

email address for theirs. Mine is

10:22

name dot name at Gmail. and

10:24

I guess theirs is without a

10:26

dot. I've been added to her

10:29

class chat group at uni, invited

10:31

to a funeral and wake for

10:33

their deceased uncle, and being sent

10:35

Airbnb confirmations. Their mom e-mails me

10:38

and they keep trying to change

10:40

the password. I don't have their

10:42

actual email address and can't find

10:44

them on social so I can't

10:47

tell them to stop. I emailed

10:49

the mom and told her to

10:51

tell her daughter, but she keeps

10:54

doing it. Well, I was under

10:56

the impression that the dot in

10:58

any email address, especially a geez

11:00

email one, is actually... Not important

11:03

really surely yes is the dot

11:05

in a gmail address Does the

11:07

dot in a gmail address matter

11:10

adding dots that? Yeah, the me

11:12

fact that our Instagram handle is

11:14

Matt and dot Alex tells me

11:16

that there is a separation we've

11:19

been saying that for five years

11:21

now In Gmail, dots in your

11:23

address are essentially ignored, meaning John

11:25

dotsmith@gmail.com and Johnsmith@gmail.com will both deliver

11:28

emails to the same inbox. No.

11:30

Really? Yes, I'm telling you. So

11:32

if I do Alex dot Dyson,

11:35

it won't already be taken. Well

11:37

then now there's a thing in

11:39

2019. Someone saying dots do matter.

11:41

Oh. Why would they let you

11:44

add a dot in the first

11:46

place if it's not actually... Function.

11:48

Okay. Okay. There's another edition of

11:51

our segment, Matt, Google's Things, live

11:53

on air. So I think you

11:55

can't add a dot to a

11:57

name that isn't already... Like

12:00

if John Smith@gmail.com exists Then

12:02

you can't just make John

12:04

dot smith@gmail.com What about John

12:06

dot dot smith or Jay

12:08

dot oh dot h dot

12:10

n dot smith? Okay, wait

12:12

Let's move on to the

12:14

next text Cal I'm telling

12:16

you this is not possible

12:18

Cal said I accidentally added

12:20

a partner of a law

12:22

firm to my grad group

12:24

chat organizing a shin dig

12:26

lull. There you go Cal.

12:29

Good work mate. The partner,

12:31

the firm gets to get

12:33

on the shenanigans as well.

12:35

Good on you for being

12:37

inclusive. A shin dig sounds

12:39

like a boot scoot in

12:41

good time and you can

12:43

just say howdy partner. So

12:45

that's perfect Cal. Well done.

12:58

You got a vinyl player, Alex

13:00

Tyson? No, I'm bringing back the

13:02

CD player, man. No, you're not.

13:04

Certainly am. Are you actually? Yeah,

13:06

I mean I've still got a

13:08

bunch of CDs from my time

13:10

working in the youth alternative music

13:12

station. You would have so many.

13:14

I would, okay, so just for

13:16

anyone who didn't understand what the

13:18

daily life was like when you

13:20

were working at Triple J is

13:22

basically, for any music lover, this

13:24

was, it was kind of overwhelming

13:26

because you would walk into the

13:28

office. And as you walked into

13:30

the office on the left, there

13:32

would be a row of pigeon

13:34

holes and you would have a

13:36

pigeon hole. And what every PR

13:38

person would do. is basically drop

13:41

into your pigeonhole a CD, whether

13:43

it be a single, an album,

13:45

a best of, a greatest hits,

13:47

whatever. Like whatever they were trying

13:49

to push. Whatever's coming out. They

13:51

would drop the CD into your

13:53

pigeonhole with like a piece of

13:55

paper. So if you were the

13:57

breakfast crew, you got the most

13:59

amount of, like you got everything.

14:01

Because everyone was hoping to. get

14:03

their song on breakfast right and

14:05

and we didn't get as much

14:07

as Richard Kingsmill did man that

14:09

man oh boy that man so

14:11

it's rounding absolutely drowning in the

14:13

stuff so out of disks he

14:15

went through so anyways you'd like

14:17

it all every single day you

14:19

would have let's say four or

14:21

five new CDs in your in

14:23

your box and if you didn't

14:26

check for a few days You

14:28

would open up and they would

14:30

fall out onto you. So you

14:32

collected quite a collection of CDs.

14:34

But you're right Die. So when

14:36

they, like it stopped, like suddenly

14:38

I stopped having a CD player

14:40

and then it was like, what

14:42

am I going to do with

14:44

all these CDs? One, they're much

14:46

cheaper. You see what they're trying

14:48

to flog vinyl for now? Like

14:50

some. You know, there's like 50,

14:52

60 bucks in some instances. Well,

14:54

they're hard to get, man. Exactly.

14:56

They're big ones. They're hard to

14:58

store. They're heavier. You have to

15:00

flip it after two songs every

15:02

day I'd get. Like the amount

15:04

of times, and I do like

15:06

it. I like the ritual of

15:08

it, but, and I did this,

15:10

when I visited your sister's place

15:13

in France. Yes, my sister is

15:15

a huge, huge, huge vinyl fan.

15:17

And you just, you see they're

15:19

talking. You'd be sitting in silence

15:21

for most of the time because

15:23

you can't be bothered to get

15:25

up and flip the thing just

15:27

again and again and again. Yes,

15:29

I have fond memories of being

15:31

at my sister's place and listening

15:33

to like the pop fiction soundtrack

15:35

or all these great old school

15:37

Records, but look records are not

15:39

the only thing that are coming

15:41

back and CDs as you claim

15:43

are not the only thing coming

15:45

back. Bumbags. We brought that back.

15:47

Yeah, we brought about the Legionnaires

15:49

hat. Legionnaires hats. We brought them

15:51

back. I brought back. Apparently, the

15:53

typewriter is on its way back.

15:55

A man in Portucket, Rhode Island.

15:58

Okay, if you say. from poor

16:00

tuckett. P-A-W-Tuckett. That is a town

16:02

from, if, that is a town

16:04

from the older days. I think

16:06

they're still using, poor, poor tuckett,

16:08

poor tuckett, only exists in Limerick.

16:10

That's it. Like, poor tuckett is

16:12

only, it's only a Limerick town.

16:14

It doesn't actually exist. There once

16:16

was a man from poor tuckett.

16:18

Yeah, that is. But anyway. The

16:20

man from poor Tuckett Rhode Island,

16:22

he repairs and sells old typewriters

16:24

out of his own shop. He's

16:26

been repairing them for 20 years.

16:28

He says that they could be

16:30

coming back. Yeah, people started buying

16:32

old iPods during the pandemic, which

16:34

has been quite a big thing

16:36

coming back. He says he's servicing

16:38

probably 20 to 25 typewriters a

16:40

week. He employs three other people.

16:43

at his shop, typewriter technicians to

16:45

keep up with demand. But the

16:47

thing with a typewriter, like, what

16:49

do you do when you make

16:51

a typo with a typewriter? They've

16:53

got some, because you might not

16:55

realize this Alex Dyson, but I

16:57

am of an era in which

16:59

I studied information processing in grade

17:01

nine, which was 1999, and When

17:03

I went into class, we had

17:05

five rows of typewriters. And we

17:07

learned... In 99, you had typewriters.

17:09

We, yes. I was playing SimCity

17:11

2000 in my year six class.

17:13

Yes, yes, but you also didn't

17:15

go to Brisbane State High and

17:17

our budget was not that big

17:19

back then. Things have changed, okay?

17:21

Oh, from boardable primary school. I

17:23

bet it was much bigger. We

17:25

used studying Latin as well? What

17:28

was going on there? We had

17:30

to write, we had to learn

17:32

letterhead writing and stuff like that

17:34

on our typewriter. On our typewriter.

17:36

They were electronic typewriters, don't get

17:38

me wrong. They did have a

17:40

computer. We had we had a

17:42

typewriter at home like that before

17:44

we even had a computer back

17:46

then. Yes, thank you. If not

17:48

a computer. Well, it doesn't have

17:50

a screen for one. It's literally

17:52

just types words. There's nothing else

17:54

you can. Like it types letters.

17:56

That's all you can do with

17:58

it with ink. Yeah, like it

18:00

like yeah, it basically. It's not

18:02

like a full blown arm like

18:04

that metal arm where it's like.

18:06

You know, but they all get

18:08

jammed if you press all the

18:10

keys at once, but it's like

18:13

an electronic typewriter But it's not

18:15

like it's not a printer No,

18:17

and had a had an arrays

18:19

kind of function So if you

18:21

make it go back and has

18:23

like a little white-out kind of

18:25

thing. Yeah, it's sort of paints

18:27

over it basically Anyways, I wouldn't

18:29

recommend would would be a nightmare

18:31

to do an emoji on it

18:33

But anyways, old mate, he's bringing

18:35

them back and it just made

18:37

us think, well, what is coming

18:39

back? Because I've got to tell

18:41

you that, you know, what they

18:43

call dumb phones is, and I

18:45

don't know if that's the right,

18:47

you know, word for it, it

18:49

is what they call them. I

18:51

don't know if it's a non-smart

18:53

phrasing, but that's like a phone

18:55

that obviously doesn't have any kind

18:57

of, yes. app technology. It's really

19:00

just text and calls. And I

19:02

find a very, very appealing, although

19:04

Becky Lucas does do a good

19:06

joke about her being like, okay,

19:08

well, I guess I'm the one

19:10

who's ordering the Uber then, which

19:12

is true. Because yeah, what do

19:14

you do when you need to

19:16

find a place? But the appeal

19:18

of it is definitely there. Imagine

19:20

a world without a computer. It's

19:22

not going to a comedian Gary

19:24

Starr. He's just got the old

19:26

flip phone. He's like, yeah, love

19:28

it. Not on social media all

19:30

the time, like it's just brilliant.

19:32

So I've thought forward to the

19:34

appeal. You know how for a

19:36

while there I had my music

19:38

studio in my cupboard. I do

19:40

know that. Yep. Your computer not

19:42

connected to the internet. And never

19:45

connected to the internet. That computer

19:47

tower. It's the biggest bulkyest computer

19:49

tower ever. It has never connected

19:51

to the internet. It has existed

19:53

for the last 16 years of

19:55

my life. Not a single problem.

19:57

Like it is, it runs so

19:59

sweet every time. It's never had

20:01

an upgrade. It's never touched a

20:03

version 2.01a beta or anything like

20:05

that. Never got malware. No. And

20:07

it's beautiful. I love it. I

20:09

mean, it's huge. It takes up

20:11

half the room. But anyways. So

20:13

we asked you what? You're bringing

20:15

back? I think we should bring

20:17

back limerix, given that this guy's

20:19

from poor Tucker. No. Jess, my

20:21

iPod, classic 160 gig, still using

20:23

it in my cart of this

20:25

day. Good stuff, Jess. Wow, that's

20:27

pretty good. Evan says CDs, just

20:30

like you die. So not old,

20:32

but nostalgic. Coming back in fashion

20:34

soon and you'll all be upset

20:36

that you've thrown out your so

20:38

fresh hits of spring 2001. Yeah,

20:40

although there was, you can get

20:42

some good ones at the op

20:44

shop, like the Salvos, I had

20:46

bought some great albums, like a

20:48

Cera Blasco album, what else did

20:50

I get from there? Yeah, there's

20:52

some good stuff. I bought a

20:54

CD player for my computer to

20:56

sample, to sample, dig. Oh, that's

20:58

good. I did, um, there is

21:00

a shop on Swan Street in

21:02

Richmond in Melbourne, which is still

21:04

doing sort of selling DVDs and

21:06

DVD. One of the last video

21:08

shops in Melbourne. We may have

21:10

even interviewed the guy back in

21:12

the guy back in the guy

21:15

back in the guy back in

21:17

the day. But I remember going

21:19

in there because I like the

21:21

new CD player, I was excited,

21:23

I went in and it's like,

21:25

the CDs are like, there's still

21:27

like new released CD price from

21:29

back in 99. So like, Absolution

21:31

by Muse, I saw, and I'm

21:33

like, oh sit, that's a great

21:35

album, that'd be good to have

21:37

on CD. 2999. I'm like, oh.

21:39

So I do have Spotify premium

21:41

and put it on whenever I

21:43

want to. So yeah, so I

21:45

was like, damn, I'll have to

21:47

bring it back in a more

21:49

cost effective way in this particular

21:51

crisis, you know. Kelsey says I

21:53

refuse to use cloud photos. My

21:55

phone is constantly out of storage.

21:57

I hear Kelsey, I don't trust

22:00

the cloud that much, but also

22:02

I have been, Belinda and I

22:04

have very, you know, commonly gotten

22:06

each other, the disposable cameras for

22:08

birthdays and Christmases and taking snaps

22:10

of our life and then and

22:12

putting in a photo album. And

22:14

I gotta tell you, I love

22:16

it. Aaron and Harry are you

22:18

on the corded headphones never going

22:20

to give into the Bluetooth Pods?

22:22

Me too. Nah, you know what

22:24

killed the corded headphones for me?

22:26

COVID. Because I put my mask

22:28

on and off and you take

22:30

your mask off it'd pull your

22:32

bloody headphones out in your ears.

22:34

Yeah. And vice versa. So when

22:36

I went the buds, I was

22:38

like, oh, I can't go back

22:40

from this. How about this? Jazner

22:42

says the telephone on my wall.

22:45

That's good. Do you reckon do

22:47

you reckon they're they're gammon or

22:49

what? No, it's got to be

22:51

got to be going on Yeah,

22:53

the bad thing is is if

22:55

it's that sort of one where

22:57

you curl the numbers up and

22:59

it Wines back that was always

23:01

fun But you just got to

23:03

hope they put the zero at

23:05

the start. Oh yeah for the

23:07

end for that triple zero call.

23:09

Yeah, I think Tommy Dean used

23:11

to have a joke about that

23:13

and we just hope a few

23:15

other people you know, amongst friendship

23:17

groups, we just hope that when

23:19

they get there, we're like, I'm

23:21

bringing back the Matt and Alex,

23:23

you know, because I still get

23:25

asked, like, oh, do you keep

23:27

in touch with Matt O'Kite? I'm

23:29

like, yeah, yeah, yeah, every day.

23:32

So we've got to get people

23:34

to start bringing back the Matt

23:36

and Alex, you know, they don't

23:38

realize that it's here available for

23:40

them, whatever they want. We have

23:42

the typewriters of podcast. Exactly. We

23:44

were just doing a bit of

23:46

retro. Way! A bit about Alex

23:48

in the mornings. Old school! Can

24:00

I ask you a question?

24:02

It's called? Ask Alex. Yes,

24:05

that time of the week

24:07

where we answer your burning

24:10

questions as to

24:12

life, love, relationships.

24:14

Anything else we cover?

24:16

Yeah, there has been

24:18

the occasional sexy thing. But

24:21

who knows what's happening this week?

24:23

Frankie's gotten in touch with a

24:25

question. You can always do this

24:27

on at Matt.n. Alex on Instagram.

24:29

We usually like it when you

24:31

send in a voice message as

24:33

well, just like Frankie did. Hi there

24:36

Alex. My name is Frankie and I'm

24:38

starting a new job tomorrow. And

24:40

I'm a little bit nervous on

24:42

making friends as an adult. What

24:44

suggestions would you have and broaching

24:46

that issue? Thanks for that. Not

24:49

a problem at all Frankie. It can

24:51

be it can be tougher in the in the

24:53

older age to start making some

24:56

pals because Like asking people

24:58

and particularly this new job Frankie.

25:00

I'm sure When you're hanging out at

25:02

work. It'll be fine. Everyone will be

25:04

pleasant. That'll be good. But yeah if you

25:06

want to say to someone who you've just

25:09

got to get you to know it's like

25:11

oh, do you want to? come around

25:13

and watch the footy or something

25:15

it's just like it's it's more

25:18

nerve-wracking sometimes and asking someone for

25:20

a date yeah it is on

25:22

it to catch up outside of

25:24

work and also sometimes sometimes the

25:26

friendship date is just as awkward

25:29

as the Like romantic partner date

25:31

if it doesn't go well because

25:33

if you've then still got to

25:35

see that person Like let's imagine

25:37

you think I might I might

25:39

be friends of this person then

25:42

you go to the food festival

25:44

with them and it's not hitting off

25:46

Then you see them every day And

25:48

they're like, hey, you want to come over to

25:50

my place? You know, I'm cooking lambingtons this weekend

25:53

and you got to keep finding excuses. Then they

25:55

find out that, oh, this person's not that into

25:57

me as a friend. And then it just, it

25:59

turns. So you guys, it's hard,

26:01

Frankie. So Frankie, I would say,

26:03

when you're starting in there, one

26:05

is to not push it, you

26:08

know, just let it develop naturally,

26:10

but also remember the wise living

26:12

standards of schools of fish, all

26:14

right, or group big groups of

26:16

penguins in the cold, safety in

26:18

numbers, all right? I reckon your

26:20

first kind of interactions, try and

26:22

do it in a bit of

26:24

a group. scenario, okay? Maybe a

26:26

few people after work, like, hey,

26:28

after work, did you guys want

26:31

to get a drink down there?

26:33

Or should we all go for

26:35

a coffee at the start of

26:37

work together? Just go with that

26:39

group scenario to start not only,

26:41

you know, taking the pressure off,

26:43

other people, then more people can

26:45

do the talking and you can

26:47

have a rest at times, but

26:49

it just means that, yeah, you

26:52

get to also start getting to

26:54

know people in a group and...

26:56

Instead of picking people out individually

26:58

and having to, as Matt was

27:00

describing, walk backwards, you can start

27:02

going, okay, who would actually be

27:04

good to be friends with out

27:06

of this bigger group of co-workers?

27:08

No, look, I've got completely opposite

27:10

opinions, Alex Dyson. What you need

27:13

to do is find the alphas.

27:15

Okay, now see who the alphas,

27:17

a low-key bullying, and then join

27:19

the pylon. All right? The Alpha's

27:21

see that you are as ruthless

27:23

as them and will do anything

27:25

to be part of the click,

27:27

right? Then you are on Easy

27:29

Street, my guys. So, I think

27:31

the takeaway here is make other

27:33

people's lives hell. Don't do any

27:36

of that. But also, feel free

27:38

to look outside of work as

27:40

well. Do you know what I

27:42

did on Monday? Went to the

27:44

Crow Clay Club in Warnable. Just

27:46

played a bit of croquet. That's

27:48

beautiful. See exactly you got to

27:50

put yourself out of it. It's

27:52

a cheap membership It's you're meeting

27:54

people you're meeting friends if join

27:57

a clock and that's a good

27:59

thing then you can stop the

28:01

music I've actually got input. Okay,

28:03

here's my actual input. And my

28:05

actual input is that in your

28:07

day-to-day work space, just the same

28:09

way that you delegate time to

28:11

your work, and you know, you

28:13

think, oh, I've gonna do this

28:15

thing, it'll probably take me an

28:17

hour or anything like that. My

28:20

suggestion is to also dedicate some

28:22

of your daily work space, not

28:24

much, five, ten minutes here or

28:26

there, to chat to. the person

28:28

sitting next to you, or go

28:30

to the kitchen, make yourself some

28:32

tea or coffee, and genuinely initiate

28:34

conversations with anyone who you might

28:36

find. It feels a little bit

28:38

awkward at first, but as you

28:41

do it gradually, you might... you

28:43

start to meet people and then eventually you

28:45

will find the click with the right person.

28:47

So you have to dedicate time to do

28:49

it. It doesn't just magically happen by itself

28:51

because if you're the weird, quiet guy who

28:53

just doesn't say anything, no one's gonna magically

28:55

come up and just, you know, become friends

28:58

with you. You have to put yourself out

29:00

there. And also, Frankie, do not be scared

29:02

to address the elephant in the room. If

29:04

people are going, to just say to your

29:06

co-workers, I'm a bit nervous because I haven't

29:08

been in a group situation like this for

29:10

a while, so I'm a bit worried about

29:13

making friends, I'll be like, oh, you know,

29:15

I just, I literally address it, just being

29:17

honest and being yourself is often the best

29:19

way to connect with the, the like-minded people

29:21

who are the, who make the best friends.

29:23

All right, now here's a music. There we

29:25

go. Good bye. We'll see you tomorrow. That's

29:28

it. And you can join Matt, Alex all

29:30

day breakfast for your daily dose of friendship,

29:32

which is always good to have in the

29:34

morning a little shot a friendship in the

29:36

arm. It's a good conversation starter. You know,

29:38

that's why we have things like mind blown.

29:40

So you can go to work. And when

29:43

you're talking to someone in the kitchen, go,

29:45

did you know John from Maths is actually

29:47

a professional cricket player? And they'll say what?

29:49

I heard that they're bringing back the typewriter.

29:51

You know, exactly. Exactly! We We

29:53

are here for you.

29:55

Anyways, we'll see you

29:58

tomorrow. Same time, same

30:00

place. time, same That's it.

30:02

The All Day Breakfast the

30:04

is closed. Got something

30:06

to add to the

30:08

show? Slide into our

30:10

DMs add to the show, slide into

30:13

our D.M. at mat.and.alets.