1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: The Whipper Podcast. 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:04,960 Speaker 2: This is Fritzy and Whipper. 3 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 3: We are a long way from home at the moment, 4 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 3: live from. 5 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,639 Speaker 4: Los Angeles, the Good Day USA, thanks to our friends 6 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 4: at STAN bringing Hollywood home to Australia. 7 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 5: Last night we were so lucky got an invitation to 8 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 5: Curtis Stone's restaurant, Gwen, because he's got Maored and he's 9 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 5: got Gwen. 10 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: We don't name after both grandmothers. 11 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 5: Yes, he's just such a talented man. 12 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,559 Speaker 3: It was unbelievable, amazing food, just brilliant. 13 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 1: His team love him. His hospitality was amazing. And this 14 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:39,279 Speaker 1: is the chat that we had with Curtis. 15 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 5: Do you know what, I get a bit emotional when 16 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 5: you come to LA and you come to Hollywood and 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 5: there's a local that's made it over here. There's a 18 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 5: fair sense of pride. 19 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 3: Isn't talking about Sam Worthington. 20 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: He's in New York. Sam Worthington, Welcome to the show. No, 21 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: it's not Curtis Stone. 22 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 5: We know, well yeah we first we're introduced to Curtis 23 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 5: surfing the menu, weren't we, And now that he's over 24 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 5: here and dominating in LA. 25 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:07,839 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having this mate. 26 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:09,520 Speaker 2: I'll make my pleasure. Nice to see it. 27 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 1: And we're in your environment for once. You're always coming 28 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:12,960 Speaker 1: to our environment. 29 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 2: That's right for a change. 30 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 4: You've got to do what I say, because we're we've. 31 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:20,400 Speaker 3: Just had dinner at Gwen your restaurant here. We're upstairs 32 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 3: in the office right now, but downstairs in the restaurant 33 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 3: we're just indulged for a solid three hours. 34 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: Whipper's belt is doing overtime. 35 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 3: I just say right now, in the forty three years 36 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 3: I've had on this planet, I've never been this heavy. 37 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 2: And I've got you to think after wil. 38 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 4: You knowntes Ago. 39 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: If I die in my bed tonight, could you. 40 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 3: Tell my wife that I was really happy that worries This. 41 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 2: Place is a special place. What do you mean? 42 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 4: But we're getting up and going to Fortune Gym first 43 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 4: Seas in the morning. 44 00:01:53,960 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 2: Mate, you're in town. 45 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 5: No, No, it is called Gwin. Your other restaurant's called Maud. 46 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 5: So what what does Gwen mean to you? And when 47 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 5: we eat here tonight is where is Gwen involved in this? 48 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:06,520 Speaker 1: Well? 49 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 4: Gwen was my granny, my mum's mum. She came from 50 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 4: wood End and she lived on a farm. And my 51 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 4: mom tells these stories of coming home and there was 52 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 4: a lamb hanging off the oak tree and she's like, 53 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 4: you know, mum my. Nan would be like, Ernie, what's 54 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 4: for dinner? And he'd be like, oh, what do you want? 55 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 4: And she'd say chops and he'd go out and he'd 56 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 4: come back with some shops. 57 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 5: You know why. 58 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 4: And they had a fire that would sort of heat 59 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 4: the house and they would cook on inside as well. So, 60 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:34,359 Speaker 4: you know, all of this nostalgia that I grew up, 61 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 4: you know, going to visit them in would end. 62 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 2: And when my brother and. 63 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 4: I decided to open this restaurant, we wanted a butcher shop, 64 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,519 Speaker 4: and then we sort of thought about Nan and thought 65 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 4: about her experience and that natural sort of way of 66 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 4: living and the fires and whatever. 67 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 2: So we did it and we named it Gwen. 68 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 4: And the very first night we started the fires and 69 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 4: we came upstairs we're talking about something, and then we 70 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 4: walked back down and as soon as you opened the door, 71 00:02:57,919 --> 00:02:59,239 Speaker 4: that smell of the fires. 72 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god. It's just like. 73 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 4: That's a special thing name in a restaurant after someone 74 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 4: you love, because you sort of you just have these 75 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 4: fond memories every time you say the name It's like. 76 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 3: It's the detail which you've nailed. I don't want this 77 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 3: interview to sound like something for the ABC or something 78 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 3: for print. There's just fine detail in everything you've done. 79 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 3: Oh thanks mate, and I recognize the in it. 80 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: And you're not here. 81 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:26,200 Speaker 4: We go. 82 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 5: In the sorry because you're cornered Spiegel see Can I'm 83 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 5: some shares and snapchat? 84 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: Did he give you an absolutely? 85 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 3: He gave me a couple of hundred completely different. 86 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 5: Can I try to extract even though you're in Hollywood 87 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 5: in you meeting for a while? Can I try to 88 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 5: extract the Aussie boy out of here? 89 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:46,000 Speaker 1: And these? 90 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,280 Speaker 5: Can I give you a quick five seven questions that 91 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 5: I just wrote them? 92 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 2: Yes? 93 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 5: Number one, this isn't a magnificent place. But my first 94 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 5: question was lockings with mates back home? So have you 95 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 5: had your mates come over and eaten in the restaurant? 96 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 5: And said, Curtis, can we stick around and have a 97 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 5: few extra drinks? 98 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 2: Do you know? 99 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 4: I just was with the mate and we were drinking 100 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,040 Speaker 4: a couple of beers at the bar and he said, 101 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 4: this is incredible having your own place. And I said, 102 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 4: you know the funny thing when you're a kid and 103 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 4: you grow up in this industry. You always dream of 104 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 4: having your own place because you think that you'll still 105 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 4: be twenty five and you will stay up until you know, seven. 106 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 2: O'clock in the morning with the doors locked, drinking. I've 107 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 2: never done it, haven't you done it once? Which is pathetic. 108 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 3: You see Dustin Fletcher, get out of here. 109 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 2: You've lost your Australium tonight number two. 110 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 5: Number two, we've seen Matt Moran's wine cellar. So when 111 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 5: you own a restaurant, your wine cellar is unbelievable? 112 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: Is yours unbelievable? 113 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 2: It's better than Matts? 114 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:41,039 Speaker 5: Oh yes, okay, Number three, just give us one night. 115 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 5: And I know you don't like talking about this, but 116 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 5: you just got to give us. 117 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: One name where you joined. 118 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 5: A celeb at the table at the end of the 119 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 5: night because they said, Curtis, come and sit with us 120 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 5: because we just had an amazing meal. 121 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 2: James Cordon and Adelle? Did he did James Cordon tell 122 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 2: you off over and a let James Corden has always 123 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 2: and a gentleman. 124 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 5: So did they did they say come and come and 125 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 5: sit down and say hello? 126 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: Did you? 127 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,239 Speaker 2: How was Adele awesome? Isn't that amazing? 128 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 3: That her singing voice is so different to her talking voice. 129 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 2: It's very true. It's a lovely ma I fly. 130 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 5: Question number four, why do wall chefs wear crocs? 131 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 4: Because they're good for your back right all day long? 132 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 5: And last question, biggest blow up that you've ever had 133 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 5: from a head chef. 134 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 3: There's a phono of you and Marco Pierre White on 135 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 3: the wall. Yes, just did Marco him? 136 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:41,679 Speaker 2: I sure have? 137 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:42,239 Speaker 1: Have you really? 138 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 2: God? 139 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 1: Yeah? Does this blow up? Or is this someone else? 140 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 4: Actually a guy named Charlie Rushton who worked for Marco. 141 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 4: He was the head chef at the Mirrorbelle. When I 142 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:57,239 Speaker 4: went there, what happened? And he lost it like radio 143 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 4: active you just like you know, he was just throwing 144 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 4: things left and right. 145 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 5: You just have to say, you shift the whole coming 146 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 5: out there. 147 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 4: I was on the pass with him, so it was 148 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 4: me and him dressing the plates and everyone else giving 149 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 4: us the stuff. 150 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 2: This is God. 151 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,839 Speaker 6: Was just goingas and then the phone rang and no 152 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 6: one should call the a restaurant service, right The phone 153 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 6: rang and he picked it up and he went, just like, Charlie, 154 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 6: I know that you're listening somewhere and I love you. 155 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 4: And it was one of the most epic meltdowns I've 156 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 4: ever experienced. 157 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: Curtis were in your office. What's this trophy for? 158 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 3: It's actually not a flattering is it going to be? 159 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 3: Jim beam Block a Bourbon and bowling lowest team score. 160 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 2: He lost on the Dark We came last. 161 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 1: How are you feeling about home now? At the moment 162 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: where I knew you were going to bring it up? 163 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: I know we asked this every time. 164 00:06:57,560 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 2: I know you do. 165 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 5: It's hard any time restaurant in Australia, if you ever 166 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 5: got an opportunity. 167 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 4: I would if I moved back, because Ossie's deserved great 168 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 4: food and they would. They have a keen eye for quality, 169 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 4: So I wouldn't want to open a restaurant in Australia 170 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 4: unless I was there cooking. 171 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 5: Mate. 172 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having us. 173 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 5: We've had such a good time and it is like 174 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 5: like we said, we always get you over on our 175 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 5: show in the studio. 176 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: Or on the phone, but it's good to be here 177 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: in your environment. 178 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 2: We loved it. It's so good to see you guys. 179 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 5: Thank you. 180 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and Whippo Podcast.