Matt’s Close Shave

Matt’s Close Shave

Released Sunday, 27th April 2025
Good episode? Give it some love!
Matt’s Close Shave

Matt’s Close Shave

Matt’s Close Shave

Matt’s Close Shave

Sunday, 27th April 2025
Good episode? Give it some love!
Rate Episode

Episode Transcript

Transcripts are displayed as originally observed. Some content, including advertisements may have changed.

Use Ctrl + F to search

0:02

A listener production. Coffee

0:04

for one through your hand phones

0:07

whenever you feel like it. Even

0:09

in the afternoon or after dinner.

0:13

It's Matt and Alex all

0:15

day breakfast. G'day, g'day.

0:17

Huge weekend, particularly Mato Kine,

0:19

as the famous dashing

0:22

of Kangaroo Island, Valerie, was

0:24

returned to grateful owners

0:26

after 529 days. Just raw

0:28

dog in the wilderness. out

0:31

there on Kangaroo Island. A

0:34

great new story, finally tamed once

0:36

again. I feel sorry for Valerie

0:38

because I feel like Valerie didn't

0:40

want to be found. Like

0:43

after 527 days,

0:46

I felt like Valerie was living her best

0:48

life and now she's like back to

0:50

eating canned dog food.

0:52

Like she was foraging, you know

0:54

what I mean? Yeah, she was

0:56

living her best life. It is,

0:58

I think, the movie cast away

1:00

could have been a lot better at the

1:02

end if like a plane came and Tom

1:05

Hanks was like, yeah, no, I'm all good.

1:07

Thanks. Cheers. Just me Wilson

1:09

are loving it. Hey,

1:12

we have got a big show. We're back

1:14

after a teeny tiny break. And if you did

1:16

miss us last week, we were chatting about

1:18

what might happen, you know, if Alex were to

1:20

be elected. So we won't dive into that

1:22

too much because if you want to listen to

1:24

it, listen to the AMAs that we did

1:26

last week. But we've got a big show. A

1:29

big election is coming up. We're going to talk about that

1:31

during the week. But let's just dive into some silly stuff

1:33

today. This is Matt and Alex on their breakfast. Hope you're

1:35

having a good one. Let's get this show on the road.

1:37

Let's go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Well,

1:41

Alex Dyson, I managed to do the

1:43

stupidest thing I've ever done before. OK.

1:47

Let's OK, so this is the

1:49

stupidest thing you're about to

1:51

tell us. We may as well

1:53

do a really quick top five

1:56

recap before we reveal number

1:58

one, a little hottest one hundred

2:00

countdown number five.

2:04

E -mailing the agent that

2:06

I wanted to take

2:08

me on board by

2:10

by saying that they

2:13

were hot, hot, hot

2:15

three times. Number

2:17

four. In

2:20

me and Belinda getting

2:22

down to some sexy

2:25

times and me doing

2:27

a jar rule impersonation

2:29

saying those, those.

2:32

Number three and

2:34

everything. There's no

2:36

more. There's no

2:38

more. All right. What's number

2:40

one now? So

2:44

I can't say too much about the job.

2:46

because I've, you know, signed contracts,

2:48

et cetera, but I had to film

2:50

something during the week. And

2:54

I get

2:56

to set

2:58

and the, I've

3:01

grown, like I've grown out

3:03

my beard and hair as

3:05

much as possible so that when

3:07

we get to make up, like, and, you

3:09

know, the producers can look at me and say,

3:11

okay, well, you know, let's, let's either What

3:14

are we working with? Get it to a certain point. Yeah,

3:16

exactly, you know. Yeah. So

3:18

anyways, I

3:21

sit down in the

3:23

makeup chair. We have a big discussion.

3:25

We settle on, OK, well, I'm

3:27

going to get a kind of two

3:29

blade around the head and a

3:31

nice little one blade around

3:33

the beard. So not taking

3:36

it all off, leaving you

3:38

with that shadow. Yeah,

3:40

a bit of shadow around the beard.

3:42

Okay, so a little bit of stubble,

3:44

but then, you know, a two blade

3:46

around the top. Okay, so short, but,

3:48

um, but certainly you want the sort

3:51

of blackness of hair there. Okay. So

3:54

in this situation, usually the makeup artist will say, do

3:56

you want me to do it or do you

3:58

want, do you want to do it now?

4:00

As in your shave your head? Yes,

4:03

basically. Now having When

4:05

you're getting a haircut, it's great when someone else

4:08

is doing it because, you know, that's what you're

4:10

paying them for. And that's, know, all that. But

4:12

when you're on set, you know, I

4:14

find that makeup artists, they're very, they're

4:16

very gentle with it all. Okay.

4:18

Cause they don't want to, you know, they don't want to be uncomfortable. And really

4:20

you just want to get it done really quickly. So I was like, I'll

4:22

just, I'll just do it. All right. Okay.

4:25

Cause you can get those clippers and just put

4:27

it on the number and just do the

4:29

same thing all over. Exactly. Right. So I put

4:31

Chuck the two of you on the, on

4:33

the clippers. And away we go.

4:35

And the makeup artist is watching

4:37

me and I'm just really going quickly,

4:40

getting the tube laid around and

4:42

everything like that. And then, then

4:44

I've done enough and I handed the clippers to the

4:46

makeup artist so that she can kind of do

4:48

a better job finishing it off, you know, just like

4:51

just to clean it all up. Okay,

4:53

now I'm talking, I'm talking to a, you know,

4:55

a fellow person who's on the set with me

4:57

and we're having a chat and blah, blah, blah.

4:59

And the makeup artist is tidying everything up and

5:01

then. The makeup artist puts

5:03

the clip is down and leaves to

5:05

start working on you know someone else

5:07

right now as me and my fellow

5:09

co -star Just having a chat. I

5:11

look in the mirror and I think

5:14

oh, do you know what? There

5:16

just feels like there's a little bit

5:18

on the top of my head here

5:20

that seems a little bit longer

5:22

Than the rest. I'll just

5:24

go over it. Okay, so If

5:27

I was there and it was someone's lawn,

5:29

you'd point out and point out and

5:31

go, Mr. Spot. Something like that.

5:34

Yeah, just a little bit like that. But the makeup artist

5:36

wasn't there, so I just, and I'd just been doing

5:38

it myself anyway. So I was like, I'll just grab the

5:40

clippers and I'll just give it a little jouge just

5:42

in that patch. And

5:44

we're all good. I whipped

5:46

the clippers on. I

5:48

run the clippers

5:50

a full, a full

5:53

strip over the patch that

5:55

I thought was a little bit

5:57

long. And I watch as

5:59

all of my hair falls

6:02

out. And

6:04

I'm like, what? And

6:07

then I look at the clippers and the makeup

6:09

artist at the Turing process has

6:11

taken off the like the

6:13

two blade guard. Number two

6:15

guard. So I've just

6:17

given myself right on the top

6:19

of my head, which granted doesn't

6:21

have that much hair, but

6:24

I've just given myself

6:26

the most obvious zero

6:28

landing strip. Like I

6:30

mean a full blown

6:33

masking tapes width of

6:35

just head. Like

6:37

it's like my

6:39

jaw just drops. My

6:43

co -star goes, oh my God, what did

6:45

you just do? And I'm like, I

6:47

don't know. I don't know. He's like,

6:49

I didn't pick you as someone who

6:51

would be that stupid. And was like,

6:53

I didn't think I would do that

6:55

stupid eater, man. And

6:58

we're like, oh my God, what

7:00

are we going to do? I've just

7:02

got this unmistakable bald patch. Like, yes, and

7:04

I know I've already got a bald patch, but like

7:06

it's even more bald, a bald patch. And

7:10

the makeup artist walks in and I just

7:12

turn to her and she just looks at

7:14

my head and her hands go over her

7:16

face and she's like, oh my God, what

7:18

did you do? And I was like, are

7:20

you, you took the blade off? She's like, yes,

7:22

I was cleaning it up. And I was

7:24

like, I didn't know. I

7:26

didn't know. I'm trying to handball blame

7:28

to her like, oh, oh, oh. You

7:31

took off the blade. I

7:33

know. But she's like, yeah,

7:35

they're my clippers, idiot. And

7:37

doing a hello, what

7:40

with them? So how

7:42

did you have to go

7:44

zero all over on the top?

7:46

Yes, we just had to go,

7:48

I'm just nude the whole way over. Face,

7:51

head, everything. Black Peter

7:53

Dutton, for God's sake. Sorry,

7:56

better ones. Black

8:00

Peter Dutton. I do, I was

8:02

like, oh my God. I

8:05

wonder if... Peter Dutton's.

8:08

bonus was just as number zero that

8:10

got out of here. Yeah. So

8:13

anyways, man, you see

8:15

me next time you see me on

8:17

screen and it's just, yeah, I look

8:19

like bloody Voldemort. You know why.

8:21

Okay. Is there any. any

8:23

security footage of this that we might

8:26

be able to get because I do like

8:28

the videos that pop up online of

8:30

like people trying to cut a fringe or

8:32

something like that and they twist their

8:34

hair at the front and cut it it

8:36

just springs back and they're like oh

8:38

no or like people straightening their hair or

8:40

something or curling their hair and it's

8:42

too hot and like their hair comes out

8:45

because the problem is when you do

8:47

the audition they kind of

8:49

expect that that is where you're gonna like

8:51

what it's gonna what you're gonna what

8:53

they're gonna get you know I mean and

8:55

so like suddenly I'm like in this

8:57

world where I have to try and maybe

8:59

convince the producers of why the character

9:01

now has no hair at all like I

9:03

just felt like it really suited him

9:05

that he was a bit more of a

9:08

Totally bald guy. Yeah,

9:10

gosh, you know, but thankfully, thankfully,

9:12

we made it, we made it

9:15

all work and the makeup artist

9:17

did a wonderful job blending the

9:19

mistake in. No

9:21

questions were asked by the producers. I

9:23

pretended it was a choice. All

9:29

right, when will we be able to

9:31

see whatever it is that this is? Oh,

9:33

I can't say too much. It'll be

9:35

later. It'll be later. Oh, actually probably pretty

9:37

soon. Okay. But yes, keep

9:39

keep an eye out. You'll see all

9:41

my even ball

9:43

the noggin unusual just shining back

9:45

at you from under the

9:48

hot summer sun. God,

9:50

it was a hot day. Humans

10:02

will turn anything into a competition,

10:04

MaddoKind. I

10:06

see a few of them popping up

10:08

on the algorithm recently. The slap

10:10

contests, have you seen people

10:12

just slapping each other's faces? Oh

10:15

my God, it's so stupid. The

10:18

next person gets to slap. The

10:21

next person gets to slap. They

10:23

go back and the other person has a

10:26

slap. The first person

10:28

slaps again. And

10:30

you just keep going until someone gets

10:32

knocked out. Yeah.

10:35

And funnily enough, you

10:37

as the viewer are the one that ends

10:39

up with brain damage. You know, like that's, you

10:43

have lost, you've lost the

10:45

most in that exchange from

10:47

just wasting your life watching

10:49

that stuff. Yeah.

10:51

Competitive nature takes over and two

10:53

college students have taken it

10:55

to the next level as well.

10:58

by having a competition between

11:00

each other in one of

11:03

the world's first sperm races, dubbed

11:06

the world's first ever reproductive health

11:08

competition. The University

11:10

of Southern California students

11:12

Tristan Milka and Asher

11:14

Broga. No, no,

11:16

Milka cannot be the

11:19

guy's name who's in a

11:21

sperm competition. That's

11:23

unfair advantage. I mean, come

11:25

on. If

11:28

if if he is that

11:30

good at it that his family

11:32

has been named It's not

11:35

about the race isn't as how

11:37

quickly can I You know

11:39

what's that bloke's name over there?

11:41

Oh him. He's from the

11:43

milkers gray family of miracle milkers

11:45

Yeah, they've been milking for generations. It's

11:48

not about that They literally

11:50

it doesn't matter how long

11:52

it takes to produce the

11:54

sperm they literally Once

11:58

it was produced, put it under

12:00

the microscope and

12:02

race the sperm, you

12:05

know, on a little petrogish or something. Sorry,

12:07

can we just... I don't

12:10

like the wording of this, the

12:12

world's first sperm race. The

12:14

world's first sperm race happened when

12:16

the first baby was conceived,

12:18

okay? Like ever. That was

12:20

the first race and we had

12:22

the first winner. But I guess

12:24

that's one person's material, racing its

12:26

own. It's all one person's race.

12:28

So you can't really race against

12:30

yourself. Just trying to beat your

12:33

PB, yeah, fair enough. And aren't we all

12:35

winners? Yeah, I know.

12:37

We all existed in the race. We've

12:39

all been a part of this race. The

12:41

whole thing was a... took

12:43

$1 .4 million to put together, and

12:46

it was LA Center Studios. What? It's

12:49

where they film Top Gun

12:51

and Dune and things. Tickets

12:53

were $20 for students or

12:55

$40 for the general public,

12:57

or you could do a

12:59

VIP ticket to go and

13:01

watch this race for $999

13:03

.99. The VIP

13:05

ticket gets to meet and

13:07

greet backstage with the racists.

13:14

And have a guess who won. Well,

13:17

I know Milka won. Milka. Milka

13:19

was the winner. There was no, there

13:21

was no chance. The

13:24

best of three races. He took

13:26

home a $10 ,000 cash prize

13:28

and I'm, I'm looking at a

13:30

photo of him here raising his

13:32

arms in victory. The confetti is

13:34

coming down and you are correct.

13:36

The confetti is white ticker

13:39

tape confetti in the

13:41

shape of sperm falling over

13:43

the crowd. I'm

13:45

not sure if this is going to start

13:47

taking off, Maddo kind, but. Well, I mean,

13:49

they say, OK, so the track, the race

13:51

track was eight inches long. Well, they said

13:53

it was. Yeah,

13:59

they pushed that ruler really hard

14:01

into the pubis, didn't they? They

14:05

damn near bent

14:07

that thing in

14:09

half just to

14:11

get the official

14:13

length there Yeah,

14:16

it's modeled on the female reproductive

14:18

system So there was a few

14:20

sort of you know twists and

14:22

turns along the way and I

14:24

don't know how I don't know

14:26

I'd like if you ever seen

14:28

because I did the ABC The

14:30

documentary die so the episode of

14:32

catalyst was all about male fertility And

14:34

it was, I mean, I had to, I

14:36

had to watch, like, because I got a sample,

14:39

I got a sample, I got to watch

14:41

the sample of sperm underneath, you know, the microscope.

14:43

Someone else, someone donated some. No,

14:45

it was someone else's. Although

14:48

I did also, I did also have to,

14:50

you know, do a sample for the show.

14:52

And we saw that on the screen. And

14:54

that's quite daunting when you see, because not,

14:56

I mean, a lot, there's a lot of

14:58

sperm that comes out in terms of, like,

15:00

you know, for anyone. Oh, God, this is

15:03

weird. Anyway, it's

15:06

just in general, we're talking about

15:08

millions. Watch yourself. Yeah.

15:11

We're talking about millions,

15:13

OK, in every

15:15

sample. Microscopic. And so

15:17

much of it is like there's

15:19

so you literally see like ones

15:21

with two heads, ones with heads

15:24

like bent backwards, ones just

15:26

going in circles and stuff. So. Yeah,

15:28

so to like find the good ones, you

15:30

know, you watch the doctor kind of take them

15:32

out one by one and they have to

15:34

whack them. Have I told you this? I'm

15:39

pretty sure I would have

15:41

remembered if you'd told me that

15:43

the doctors would have to

15:45

whack your sperm. They

15:49

do. Not even just my sperm. This

15:51

is, I was watching a like a fertilization

15:53

happen in real life. As part of

15:55

this show and they find the good ones

15:57

because there's all these ones here swimming

15:59

in circles and stuff then they find the

16:01

good ones swimming through the sort of

16:03

Canals and then they and then they and

16:05

then they and they literally with a

16:07

little tiny needle so they they're not so

16:09

much doctors as they are talent scouts

16:11

I'll tell you. Yeah. Well, basically and what

16:13

they are is like, you know, those

16:15

are video game machines where the Where the

16:17

crocodiles come out and you got to

16:19

whack them with the with the with the

16:21

mallet. I remember those at like time

16:23

zone Yeah, like whack them all. That's what

16:25

they do. They get the needle and

16:27

they see a really fast straight swimming one

16:29

and then they just give it a

16:31

whack and it like stops. They

16:33

like knock it out. And then

16:35

they pick it up. Yeah. And then they drag

16:37

it over to the side and then they flatten

16:40

it out to make it all look nice and

16:42

long and everything. Make sure it's got a good

16:44

form and everything. And then they suck it up

16:46

into a little vacuum and then they move over

16:48

to the egg and then they just pump it

16:50

into the egg. So the sperm is like knocked

16:52

out when the egg gets fertilized. So

16:55

really, that's

16:57

the slapping competition

17:00

once again. It

17:03

all comes back to that. It

17:05

all comes back to that. click

17:16

fish click fish and now racing

17:18

into the studio to give us the

17:20

worst articles of the week it

17:22

is producer James hello again James hello

17:24

happy Monday well hey you know

17:26

you just mentioned that the livestream went

17:29

for six hours yeah of that

17:31

sperm race but I'm googling it now

17:33

and yeah apparently sperm can travel

17:35

an inch every 15 minutes that's not

17:37

very long I thought sperm traveled

17:39

a bit faster than that That's

17:42

really slow at 15 minutes an inch.

17:44

Yeah, I thought it would be faster.

17:46

So the race would have taken it

17:49

like about an hour Yeah, but do

17:51

you need like five hours of build

17:53

up? Well, have you ever watched an

17:55

origin? Oh my god The

17:57

way they build that pump

17:59

that up. Oh mate versus mate

18:01

State versus they've got the

18:03

orchestra playing in the background. They

18:05

probably got sperm from, you

18:07

know, 19 who played from 1968

18:09

to 1972, you know, talking

18:11

about how good it was. Mate

18:13

versus mate, bait versus bait. So

18:17

anyways, James, what's been happening? Ah,

18:19

you know, not a lot. Just, yeah,

18:21

still finishing off that Easter chocolate. There's

18:23

always a little bit that just kind

18:25

of hangs around, and you're like, oh,

18:27

yeah, there's more there. Oh, it's not

18:30

a proper Easter egg finish off until

18:32

you find one, and the chocolate's gone

18:34

white on the outside. Yeah, oh, yeah.

18:36

That's still good. Fair enough. Well, look,

18:38

what have you been clicking on in

18:40

this last week that we've been away?

18:43

All right. This one, we

18:45

have Gen Z won't consider

18:47

a job if an employer

18:49

doesn't mention this during the

18:51

interview process. I

18:54

reckon how much money

18:56

you'll get. I reckon

18:58

that is a very fair question. What's

19:01

the remuneration? Also,

19:03

oh, whether you can work

19:05

from home. That has been topical.

19:08

That's an expectation that people are

19:11

now thinking that you can work.

19:13

From home is it either one

19:15

of those two James? Yes, you're

19:17

right the first time it is

19:19

pay nearly half 44 % of Gen

19:21

Z college grads said they'd been

19:23

turned off by interviews that didn't

19:25

mention a salary range sometimes flat

19:27

out ghosting the recruiter according to

19:29

a report I'm surprised that it's

19:32

only 44 % of people. I

19:34

know I know Like you should

19:36

be like I mean it you

19:38

would you even be going for

19:40

the job? if you didn't know. I

19:43

think it should be a

19:45

requirement for every every job at

19:47

to upfront tell you you

19:49

know how much this this job

19:51

is well there was quite

19:53

a big there was quite a

19:55

big you know I think

19:57

I've even mentioned quite a big

19:59

talent show on Australian television

20:01

that were asking about me once

20:04

and I was like sure

20:06

how much and then they wouldn't

20:08

say Um

20:10

and I and we and we kept going

20:12

back and forth They were like we just

20:14

want you to do the you know, we

20:16

want you to talk to our Sort of

20:18

director first and I was like yeah, but

20:20

just let me know what sort of ballpark

20:22

We're talking here and then they wouldn't say

20:25

and so then I just said nah So

20:27

this is like a reality show that wanted

20:29

Maddo kind to be one of the celebs

20:31

taking part Yes, exactly and they wouldn't tell

20:33

me well, you know what I was looking

20:35

at and I think it was because they

20:37

wanted to judge judge it on the on

20:39

the talent that I was going to be

20:41

bringing to the show and that talent is

20:44

not one that I'm that familiar with so

20:46

they were saying how about you just show

20:48

us what talent you've got and then we'll

20:50

judge whether you're going to be in this

20:52

show for a while or not and I

20:54

was like why don't you just tell me

20:56

how much It's worth, and then I'll bring

20:58

the talent. And then

21:00

they went cold, and I've never heard from ever

21:02

again. And that's absolutely fine, because I think

21:05

you should know how much you're going to get

21:07

paid to do a job. Yeah,

21:09

I mean, employers should

21:11

not be treating

21:13

people's livelihoods and jobs

21:15

like restaurants treat ordering

21:17

fish. you know and

21:19

just saying oh it's market price yeah

21:21

but what is it like oh you've

21:24

got to order it first before we

21:26

tell you at least restaurants let you

21:28

know beforehand like oh do you want

21:30

the job or not we'll tell you

21:32

how much afterwards like no no no

21:34

bracket and it's like you know 10

21:36

grand difference and that's like well can

21:38

you be more specific you know well

21:40

look anyways i'm to blame any gen

21:42

z for uh for not wanting to

21:45

do that but um The good thing

21:47

is we do this show at market

21:49

price every single day. And

21:51

luckily for you, it's $0 a kilo. Don't

21:54

say that. Means there

21:56

is absolutely no market for

21:58

what we're doing here. we

22:00

are not charging anything for

22:03

this. So So maybe one

22:05

day market price jump up

22:07

a little bit, but you're

22:09

right, When you put it on the scales, it's

22:11

big fat doughnuts staring you back in

22:13

the face. Zero dollars a kilo, but

22:16

we're still bloody tasty. Hey, we're going be

22:18

back tomorrow for another episode of Matt and

22:20

Natalie's All Day Breakfast. Same time, same place. Hope

22:22

you have a good one. Bye -bye. That's it.

22:24

The The All Breakfast kitchen is closed. Got

22:26

something to add to the show? Slide into

22:28

our DMs at .and .alice.

Unlock more with Podchaser Pro

  • Audience Insights
  • Contact Information
  • Demographics
  • Charts
  • Sponsor History
  • and More!
Pro Features