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Speaker 1: Well, you know when you say the words we're back.

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Speaker 1: This man hasn't been back here for a couple of years.

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Speaker 1: It must be a good feeling to be back in Australia.

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Speaker 1: It is the magnificent Curtis.

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Speaker 2: Star Curtise anybody, what is going on?

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Speaker 3: Fellas your voices?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, great to hear yours. And you know what I

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Speaker 4: love too, was that photo of you and your dad

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Speaker 4: embracing You haven't seen him for so long.

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Speaker 2: It must have felt good, mate.

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Speaker 3: It really did. It was quite a funny experience. You know,

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Speaker 3: my dad he's had a couple of strokes since I've

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Speaker 3: been gone, which isn't funny at all. But he's had

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Speaker 3: a couple of strokes but still doing really well. And

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Speaker 3: I got off the I got off the plane. It

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Speaker 3: was pretty emotional, you know, welcome. I've been thinking about

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Speaker 3: it for weeks and weeks and I saw him and

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Speaker 3: just just before I landed he called me in before

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Speaker 3: I left him, he said, I've got a whole I

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Speaker 3: needgey to dig because I was in the middle of

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Speaker 3: doing this fence and I ended up in hospital and

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Speaker 3: you know, there's you've got to finish off this fence,

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Speaker 3: so you no worries Dad. Of course I will mate,

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Speaker 3: you know. And then when I finally meet him, I

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Speaker 3: put my bag down. I took him a big heart

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Speaker 3: and it's a great moment. He says, to want me

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Speaker 3: to show you where that hole?

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Speaker 4: Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: We walk over beside the dam and he shows me

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Speaker 3: where the hole is going to go, and then he

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Speaker 3: shows me the shed and he shows me the tools

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Speaker 3: on me. Did he tell me exactly how I have

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Speaker 3: to do it? And I'm like, okay, no worries mate,

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Speaker 3: And I start walking inside. He says, where are you going?

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Speaker 3: And I said, what do you want to go in

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Speaker 3: and have a couple or and he goes, well, I

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Speaker 3: thought you did the whole first, put some boots on.

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Speaker 3: Can I take a shower? And anyway, he's just quite particular.

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Speaker 3: So I dug the hole, I fixed the fence, and

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Speaker 3: then he showed me the thirty trees that came down

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Speaker 3: in the last storm. And I spent the first five

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Speaker 3: days cut in woods, kidding me. Just a few years

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Speaker 3: of payback care.

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Speaker 4: That's the other thing that happens. And I did it

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Speaker 4: over summer. I drove from Sydney to Melbourne and Dad

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Speaker 4: flew up because he wanted to be part of the

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Speaker 4: drive anyway, He said, mate, we have got so much

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Speaker 4: to talk about, you're going to need me for the

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Speaker 4: nine hours.

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Speaker 2: So we get in the car. I reckon. By the

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Speaker 2: time we hadn't even hit Campbelltown and we've got nothing else.

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Speaker 1: To talk about. It's all done.

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Speaker 4: Like it was just like a scene out of the Castle.

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Speaker 4: How's Mum good? How's cake good? Louise good?

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Speaker 2: And there was nothing else to talk about. So at

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Speaker 2: least you have something to.

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Speaker 1: Do, Curtis, Can I ask you where do you get that?

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Speaker 1: Where's the entertaining side? Is it from mum or Dad?

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Speaker 1: Because didn't you have Mum recently on one of your

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Speaker 1: cooking shows and she was a bit embarrassed.

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Speaker 3: It in front of the telly she was she takes

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Speaker 3: a minute to warm up. Once she warms up, fine,

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Speaker 3: she's a bit of a ham and Dad's got an

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Speaker 3: incredible sense to hubas. So no, I think it's a

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Speaker 3: bit of a fixture.

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Speaker 2: Mate.

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Speaker 1: When you come back to Australia, what's the one?

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Speaker 2: Is there a bakery where you grew up?

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Speaker 1: Is there's something that you need to go to first,

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Speaker 1: a restaurant that you need to get back to when

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Speaker 1: that reminds you of home.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's down in wood End, so we need to

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Speaker 3: go straight to Burkey's. That's the famous bakery down there

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Speaker 3: in wood End and they make the best pie. So

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Speaker 3: the first thing I have is a pie from Burkey's.

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Speaker 3: Fish and chips, you know, that's always high on the

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Speaker 3: agenda as well. And I've got a few little spots

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Speaker 3: that we go to for fish and ships. So you know,

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Speaker 3: it's all those old classics of coffee. You miss coffee

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Speaker 3: from Australia, so you sort of you're hanging to get

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Speaker 3: your hands on a cappuccino from an Aussie one. But

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Speaker 3: you know, it's just it's nice to be home. It's

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Speaker 3: nice to hear the sense of humor and people, and

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Speaker 3: you know, it's very different. It's a very different place

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Speaker 3: in America. So and I love it. But there's nothing

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Speaker 3: like that Chitts.

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Speaker 4: You know what's amazing. And we've only just realized this

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Speaker 4: the pennies dropped. But obviously you had a gift and

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Speaker 4: I didn't. We both went to box Hill Tape and

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Speaker 4: I did a hospitality course there. What was the course

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Speaker 4: you did there? Was it a cooking based course?

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Speaker 3: It was yeah, yeah, professional cookery. So that's where I

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Speaker 3: did my apprenticeship. The score of my and yeah, it

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Speaker 3: was a good good spot because we had this.

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Speaker 4: Weird a Swiss chef that used to do the cooking

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Speaker 4: part of the hospitality course. Yeah, tafe, right technical and

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Speaker 4: further education. And I would do like a chicken and

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Speaker 4: some vegetables. I would have cut Majuliet carrots and things,

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Speaker 4: and he would go and he because my last name's Whipfley,

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Speaker 4: which is Swiss, he would.

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Speaker 2: Go, Whipfley, what is this? What is this like? I'd

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Speaker 2: let the Swiss community down.

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Speaker 4: And that's when I knew that I bet it best

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Speaker 4: to leave the cooking to Curtis and I'll move on

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Speaker 4: from that.

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Speaker 2: I'll go into radio.

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Speaker 3: Well, you did just call Julienne carrots Juliette?

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Speaker 2: Is that what I am? All right? We're still learning.

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Speaker 2: I better head back there.

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Speaker 1: Did you get your passion we're only talking about this

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Speaker 1: before you come on, Curtis. Did you get your passion

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Speaker 1: for cooking through home economics at high school? Because we

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Speaker 1: were talking about home economics class.

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Speaker 3: Well, I went to high school with Channon Bennett, who

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Speaker 3: was a well known chef from Viudemonde and we were

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Speaker 3: good mates, and I think we were probably fourteen or fifteen.

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Speaker 3: We went to an old boys' school and Channing came

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Speaker 3: to me with a great idea that we should go

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Speaker 3: and do cooking, you know, home economics, because they did

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Speaker 3: it at the girls school and it was a bit

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Speaker 3: of a plot to meet some girls, which neither of

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Speaker 3: us were very good at. So that's why we both

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Speaker 3: did home economics and our home maxed teacher. She still

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Speaker 3: takes full credit for, you know, creating two of Australia's

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Speaker 3: better chefs, because but little did she know, for missus Barry,

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Speaker 3: that we actually only did it because.

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Speaker 4: What we wanted to do with me because I didn't

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Speaker 4: hear that part in the Oprah interview when you were

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Speaker 4: on and she said why did you get into cooking?

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Speaker 4: You didn't answer, chasing skirt you okay, we learned.

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Speaker 3: Something about a certain audience, We knew everything.

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Speaker 1: We love having your back mate, so good to hear

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Speaker 1: your voice again. And it's great to see your family

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Speaker 1: over Christmas. And when are you going back, big fellow?

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Speaker 1: How long have you got.

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Speaker 3: I'm here for the whole month. I've got, you know,

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Speaker 3: lots of stuff to catch up on. Lots of friends

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Speaker 3: and family to see, and then a little bit of

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Speaker 3: work to do too, So yeah, it's nice to be here.

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Speaker 3: I'm missing my kids, you know, I wasn't able to

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Speaker 3: bring them all over sure, sure, but yeah, it's nice

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Speaker 3: to be back for the lengthy time.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for finding the time to come

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Speaker 1: on and kick off twenty twenty two with us. So

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Speaker 1: appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Curtis always a pleasure. It's nice chatting for you.

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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody fits in Whipper