There are not many things worse than an awkward blind date.
Oh wait! Yes there is! Matt and Alex dedicating an entire three hour show to
one.
The Triple J’s breakfast duo put
the call out to their listeners to see who could win a double date with long
time host Alex and the shows newsreader Amelia Marshall. Listeners Jess and
Aidan were the ‘lucky’ two who won their way into the date by telling a fun
fact about themselves. Aidan who proclaimed to be able to bend his nose so that
it lays flat on his face somehow charmed newsreader Amelia into choosing him as
her date, and Sydney-sider Jess won Alex over by being a lover of cheese. Although,
after pictures arose of what Jess looked like, some might argue that the
selection process might've been rigged to favour Alex who, like Aidan, were
punching a fair bit above their belts!
The date took place at a one star
Asian restaurant which was attached to an unbranded service station where the
menu consisted of pictures on a wall and a number stating what the dish was
called. Not the most romantic of settings for an evening out, but the Breakfast
team were obviously trying to get some cheap laughs at the expense of a ‘cheap’
date.
However the show, much how I
imagined the food from the restaurant, only left a bad taste in my mouth. There’s
only so much I can listen to a story about someone’s night out on the town with
a cute girl, and unfortunately for me, I had to endure 3 hours of the same
topic with only the designated number of songs to break up what turned out to
be one of the worst segments I've ever heard on radio.
And to make matters worse, it
seems as though the breakfast team had eaten a bit too much of the poor quality
number 3 dish from the tacky service station. The offsite broadcast (OB)
recordings that they did from the date sounded like they were recorded from the
bottom of a dumpster, making it at times very difficult to hear what was going
on. If you’re going to design a whole show around a concept, at least make sure
you make the audio to a commercial radio quality, or at least to a quality to
which its listeners can understand.
This episode of Matt and Alex
belonged in the in the same place as a 3 day old dish eaten at a 1 star Asian restaurant
attached to an unbranded service station during one of the most awkward dates I
have ever almost been able to hear – in the bin!
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