1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: I'll get a team. It's Harps and tiff Sadiano for you. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: Project Hi tiv Hi Harps. Happy Friday, Happy Friday to you. 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 1: How's your energy? You're a grumpy little fucker. Yesterday your 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: energy was a two out of tech. 5 00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 2: Are like, you're dragging my grumpiness from a couple of 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 2: days to the all week. It's gone now, but I 7 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 2: was very tired this morning. I felt one hundred years 8 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 2: old when I woke up. 9 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, you get that. Were you forty one? Your next 10 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: birthday is forty two, So I mean that's going to happen. 11 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: I don't want to say that it's a slide, but 12 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 1: it's a slide. I'm scared to blink. 13 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 3: I'm scared to blink. 14 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:38,879 Speaker 1: No, that's not true. That's not I'm way older than you, 15 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 1: and I feel I feel like not every day and 16 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 1: all the time, but for the most part, I feel 17 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 1: like I have better energy, and I feel like I'm 18 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: more curious and more excited than when I was forty. 19 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: So if that's good news for anybody, I'm not sure. 20 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: But I tell you a bloke who's probably excited because 21 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: he's fucking bursting with energy, although also bursting with snot 22 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: at the moment. It's got the flu or a cold. Hi, Adriana, 23 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: how are you? 24 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:06,400 Speaker 3: Yeah? Good? Thanks? 25 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: Are going mat How do you live on the Sunshine 26 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: Coast and have the flu? 27 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 3: Oh it's traveling to Sydney and Melbourne and places like that, 28 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 3: you know, for work and then coming home bringing all 29 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 3: the all the viruses with me. Yeah. 30 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:23,119 Speaker 1: How long have you been up there? 31 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 3: I've been since twenty nineteen. I moved up to year 32 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 3: started twenty nineteen. So what's up about five years? Have 33 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 3: been over five years? 34 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: And do you have your businesses based up there or 35 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: you're just there because it's a nice place to be. 36 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I just moved up here. I don't 37 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:45,680 Speaker 3: have a business. I did have a business for a 38 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 3: couple of years just after COVID I tried a business 39 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 3: up here, but I got out of that last year. 40 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 3: But now I just freelance, so I just kind of 41 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 3: my works mainly back in Sydney, in Melbourne or overseas 42 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 3: so or working from home. 43 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: I was reading about I was reading a little bit 44 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: about you, the Sweet Assassin, the Particia of Paying, the 45 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 1: Dark Lord of the Pastry Kitchen, Lord, Lord Vulneria answer 46 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: to Willie Wonka. What's your favorite nickname? 47 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 3: Oh, I mean, I say the one that's clicked the 48 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 3: motion of sweetest happened. But it's kind of like the 49 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 3: most common one now. But but I guess I want 50 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 3: to get the most of the parties and stuff, or 51 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 3: if I go to Lord Boulder cake because people just 52 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 3: find out the funniest I think. I think everyone connects 53 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 3: to that Harry Potter moment and and yeah, it just 54 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:41,119 Speaker 3: takes a piece out of me all the time. 55 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: When you when you're a little kid, your mum and 56 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: dad are Italian, right, Yeah, did you when you were 57 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,160 Speaker 1: a little little kid, like eight, nine, ten eleven, did 58 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: you have aspirations of becoming a chef of any sort 59 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: and being involved in food or is it how did it? 60 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: Is it innate? Or was did an opportunity present itself? 61 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 1: How did it happen? 62 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 3: Yeah? Just opportunity. Like No, I definitely didn't have any 63 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,119 Speaker 3: vision of being a chef. I was the fussiest eto 64 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 3: when I was a kid, Like I said so much 65 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 3: stuff back to Mum. I wouldn't need it, the smell 66 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 3: of it, all the different things, I wouldn't eat it. 67 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 3: I was very particular. I only ate like certain cereals. 68 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,519 Speaker 3: Only et veggiemike for breakfast. You know, for most of 69 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 3: my meals, I do only have ham, sandwiches, hot chips 70 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,559 Speaker 3: with chicken salt, or dinner pretty much just have potatoes 71 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 3: with the steak had to be cut to three milimeters 72 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 3: stick otherwise I wouldn't eat it. Things like that. I 73 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 3: was real fussy when I was young at eating, so 74 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 3: I definitely had no aspirations to be in any kind 75 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 3: of chef. Sort of came along when I was around 76 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 3: fourteen and I I had to work every day after school. 77 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 3: My parents owned supermarkets, and I'd work through pretty much 78 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 3: every section, and they'd opened a new suit market that 79 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 3: my sister was running and it had to install bakery. 80 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 3: And then I started going there to work because I 81 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 3: was something different, and I started enjoying it. You know. 82 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 3: It was that or stacking shelves my two favorite jobs 83 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 3: as being young and I played a lot of footy 84 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 3: and stuff. Stacking shelves was great fitness. So it was 85 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 3: those two jobs that really gave me enjoyment. And then, 86 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 3: you know, it came to the point when I was fifteen, 87 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 3: I wanted to leave school. I wasn't enjoying I wasn't 88 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 3: enjoying school. I wasn't academic. I was more like I 89 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 3: was more hands on sort of a learner, And yeah, 90 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 3: I just put two or two together. I ended up 91 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 3: going to Sydney for a school formal for a friend 92 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 3: who was at boarding school. I partnered one of her 93 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 3: friends and I found a job while I was there. 94 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 3: So then that was kind of the start of it all, 95 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 3: you know. I went back home and had to explain 96 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 3: to my parents that I didn't want to take over 97 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 3: there their supermarket that they wanted me to take over, 98 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 3: and I wanted to go to Sydney and I started 99 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 3: inship at fifteen, So that's how it all kicked off. 100 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 1: How soon into that apprenticeship did you think I'm good 101 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: at Well, clearly you're really fucking good at it, right, 102 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: But how soon did you realize I've got talent for this, 103 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: I'm good at this because I feel like a lot 104 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: of people start things and they just kind of endure 105 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: them rather than enjoy them. You know, it's like, ah, 106 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: this is a means to an end, this is a 107 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: way that I can make Gough, did you have an 108 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: epiphany moment where you went, I actually like this and 109 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 1: I'm really fucking good at it, or did you just 110 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: kind of survive your apprenticeship. 111 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 3: Well, six months I knew that was I made a 112 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 3: right choice. I had that feeling that it was like, 113 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 3: I'm really enjoying this. I love this. It's a good challenge. 114 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 3: I'm pushing myself. And then probably i'd say probably a 115 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 3: couple of years into it, I'd say that, yeah, I'm 116 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 3: good at this and I'm pushing hard. You know, I 117 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 3: was always competing against other apprentices and you know, trying 118 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 3: to beat them, and you had that competitive spirit. So 119 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 3: it was good energy and I really enjoyed it. 120 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:07,000 Speaker 1: In the world that I come from originally, which is 121 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 1: just working in gyms, you couldn't find two more kind 122 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 1: of divergent areas. Like you're making cakes and I'm trying 123 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 1: to get people in shape, which we should have set 124 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: up a business next to each other. You could sell 125 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: them pastries and then I'd fucking get them in the gym. 126 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:26,560 Speaker 1: But it's like there were some people that even seems silly, 127 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: but even working in a gym where you're working with 128 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,359 Speaker 1: bodies and humans and anatomy and physiology and trying to 129 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: understand how bodies adapt to different stresses and some people 130 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: it's really natural. Like to me it was I don't know, 131 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: like I'm bad at most things, but I was naturally 132 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: good at that. I naturally understood the body, and I 133 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: naturally understood how bodies would adapt to different kinds of 134 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: stress to build fitness, strength or whatever it was. I 135 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: feel like with I mean, for me, it's like what 136 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,359 Speaker 1: you do is it's a bit of science, it's a 137 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: bit of cree activity. Obviously, it's about you've got to 138 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: make stuff that tastes good. But I feel like that 139 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 1: there would be some people who would do it that 140 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: no matter how hard they work, they might never be 141 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: great at it. Is that true? 142 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 3: Yeah? So true. Yeah, I've had I've had so many 143 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 3: people come through the kitchens over the years, you know, 144 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 3: when I had the business in Sydney and Melbourne, and 145 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 3: you know, this is just some people that just they 146 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 3: have so much ambition and want to be something and 147 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 3: they just don't have it. You know, there's just something missing. 148 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 3: They really don't click with it. They don't have the skill, 149 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 3: the understanding, they don't really know food that well. You know, 150 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 3: they obviously see things and want to be that, and 151 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 3: but you know, you try hard and give them the chance, 152 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 3: and you push and push them, but you know they 153 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 3: just they just don't have it, you know. And you 154 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 3: see those people that have it, you know, they just click. 155 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 3: You have a in a piece one understanding with the 156 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 3: food that you're cooking, the taste, the texture, the way 157 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 3: things work, the way things react. And you know, a 158 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 3: massive difference in those those two types of people. 159 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: I feel like with people that make cakes and pastries 160 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: and people in your wheelhouse. I could be wrong. This 161 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 1: is just I know nothing about this stuff, but for me, 162 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: it feels like it's a huge amount of it is 163 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: appearance and presentation and creativity. It's almost like art. Like 164 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: if you make something that tastes fucking amazing but looks terrible, 165 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: it's hard to sell, right. 166 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 3: It is, Yeah, totally, but it is. It's a fine edge, 167 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 3: right because a lot of things these days now, with 168 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 3: social media and that, they're very focused on appearance, right, 169 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:49,439 Speaker 3: and you know, may lack taste and texture, right. I mean, 170 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 3: there are some things I have both, which is amazing. 171 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 3: It's an amazing a lot of amazing chefs out there 172 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 3: that are really captured both really well these days. But 173 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 3: there's obviously some people that just focused on appearance because 174 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 3: they want to look great for their photo or whatnot, 175 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 3: and then when you go and taste or whatever, it 176 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 3: lacks the taste, the texture, the balance and all that 177 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,760 Speaker 3: kind of stuff. So for me, it's always been about 178 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 3: you know, you're going to leave with the taste in 179 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 3: your mouth. You know you'll see it and you're going 180 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,800 Speaker 3: to go yeah, But once you taste it, at the 181 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 3: last moment you're going to leave with and the last 182 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 3: thing you're going to remember it's the flavor. So for me, 183 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 3: that's always got to be number one. It can't look 184 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 3: like it can't look like dog shit or a heap 185 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 3: of crapp you know what I mean, it's going to 186 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,840 Speaker 3: look it's going to look at least okay. So you know, yes, 187 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 3: appearance is very important, but if you can keep it 188 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,679 Speaker 3: at least okay and have it tasting amazing, then you're 189 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 3: still going to get great, great rewards and people with 190 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 3: great memories. But if you can hit both on the head, 191 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 3: I mean, you know, you've got a million dollar winter 192 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 3: that yeah. 193 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: Is there is there a particular disial pastry or cake 194 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:59,679 Speaker 1: that that typically doesn't look great but tastes amazing. Like 195 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: something that you've made where you've gone. You know, this 196 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 1: is this is hard to make a beautiful picture for 197 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: the gram, but it tastes like heaven. 198 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 3: I think sometimes I fund if I'm just playing around 199 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 3: with flavors and textures, a lot of my stuff don't 200 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:18,640 Speaker 3: look great, you know, just like piling on top of 201 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,439 Speaker 3: each other in a plate and eating it. Right, A 202 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 3: lot of it's covered in crumble and little dots of 203 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 3: jelly and damn, and you just put it all on 204 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 3: top of each other because in hindsight, that's the best 205 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 3: way to eat it. You know, when it's all in 206 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 3: one one spoon and you can get it all in 207 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 3: one here. That's the ultimate dessert eating experience. Yeah, you 208 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 3: know when it's all like, oh, here's this, and then 209 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 3: this is spooned over here, and that's put here, and 210 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 3: it looks beautiful on the plate when it comes to 211 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 3: your table, but then you've got to like grab this 212 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 3: and then grab that, and then grab this, you know, 213 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 3: and move yourself around and navigate the plate. Then it 214 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 3: experiences a little bit lackluster already. So I mean, for me, 215 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:04,000 Speaker 3: those kind of deconstructed i'd say deconstructedy kind of piles 216 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 3: on a plate would be the say the OLiS, but 217 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 3: a lot of time could be the most tasty. 218 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: Yeah. What My main job in inverted Commas is speaking, 219 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: corporate speaking and working with teams and groups. And I'm 220 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 1: always thinking about how I can share an idea or 221 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: a lesson or a question or some kind of insight 222 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: with you know, the group the world, whether or not 223 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,199 Speaker 1: it's on a podcast or on a social media post 224 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 1: or a bunch of humans in a room. But I 225 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: feel like, to an extent, I'm always really reinventing the wheel, 226 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: like I'm sharing, you know, how do we make great decisions? 227 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 1: How do we be resilient? How do we self regulate? 228 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: How do we be the carm and the chaos? These 229 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: are not new concepts, but I'm kind of trying to 230 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 1: deliver them in in ways that resonate and are unique 231 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: and maybe a bit entertaining and amusing. But I feel 232 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 1: like with what you do that you can actually create 233 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:08,679 Speaker 1: new things that nobody's created or a variation like I mean, 234 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: this is not the right word, but you know what 235 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 1: I mean. Do you ever invent things where people are 236 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 1: like fuck, I've never seen this, Like rather than going 237 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: I'm going to do another Chocolate de Claire, but this 238 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: is better. I'm going to do another. Like do you 239 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: ever bring something new into the world, Like, what was 240 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: that thing that came out ten years ago? 241 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 3: Was it the Cronatron? Yeah? Yeah, yes, I mean yeah, 242 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 3: I wouldn't Yeah, I'd probably say you probably have over 243 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 3: time more reinvent something. I wouldn't say like completely. Everything 244 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 3: kind of has a base in a sense. I'm it 245 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:47,560 Speaker 3: goes back to classics. I mean, even with the cronut, 246 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:49,480 Speaker 3: it's a combination of a doughnut. In the croissant, it's 247 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 3: it's a mixture. So it's a reinvention of those two 248 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 3: things that he played around with and got a great 249 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 3: result in in his creation. So and we're always tinkering 250 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 3: with those things to create a different experience and a 251 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 3: different a different journey. So for people to eat. For myself, 252 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 3: I'm probably more on the texture side. I've probably reinvented textures, 253 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 3: you know, to create less sugar, less fat in some textures, 254 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 3: to create a cleaner taste. For me, fat and sugar 255 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 3: mask flavor. But we need them. We need them because 256 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 3: they give something to the flavor, but too much of 257 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 3: it damages the flavor. So most commonly in most pastry 258 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 3: you see in Australia and around the world, United States 259 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 3: and all those kind of places, it's heavily masked and sugar. 260 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 3: So everyone's eating sweetness. It's just sweet sweet, and it'll 261 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 3: have a little fragrance of something because it's it's there 262 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,839 Speaker 3: and it's sort of the flavor roofs. But if you 263 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 3: pull that back, you can really punch out the flavor. 264 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 3: Right if you want a strawberry. You know, if I 265 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,000 Speaker 3: made you a strawberry cupcake and we went and bought 266 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 3: a strawberry cupcake from one's shop, you'll taste the difference 267 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 3: because I'll pull back all of the fat from the 268 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 3: sugar and just have only the amount that I really 269 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 3: need to make it stable. I mean, I'm only using 270 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 3: the fat to make the icing stable and create a 271 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 3: little bit of mouthfeel, and the sugar is just there 272 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:22,400 Speaker 3: to give the pop, you know, enough sweetness, enough sweetness 273 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 3: to make that flavor pop, because that strawberry without any sugar, 274 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 3: it's just doesn't really it just takes like eating a 275 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 3: piece of fruit, which doesn't make why it was gone 276 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 3: by a piece of fruit, So you've got to give 277 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 3: it something that at least gives you a little bit 278 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 3: of a different experience, but you don't want it to 279 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 3: be like eating sugar out of a bag when you 280 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 3: put in your mouth, Like a lot of things aren't. 281 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,560 Speaker 3: So it's like delving into those things. For me, was 282 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 3: the most interesting in reinventing textures in my inside of 283 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 3: my cakes when I make them to make my cakes 284 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:51,120 Speaker 3: taste better. 285 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: So did you ever like my background or part of 286 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: my background is in science, right, and so what you're 287 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: doing is very scientific, Like it's literally research. It's literally 288 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:05,720 Speaker 1: R and D, research and development. Like it's a very 289 00:15:05,760 --> 00:15:09,200 Speaker 1: scientific process that you're doing. You does that dawn on you? 290 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 3: Now? You just do it when you're in the moment. 291 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,000 Speaker 3: You know, you know what you want to do, and 292 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 3: you just sort of work you work it out. But 293 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 3: you learn along the way, you know what I mean? 294 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 3: Like I said, I dropped down in uten I'm not 295 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 3: really okay. I failed science, I failed English and all 296 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 3: those things at school. So it wasn't because I wasn't 297 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 3: smart enough. It was the way they teach you. It 298 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 3: wasn't for me. It wasn't for me, do you know 299 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 3: what I mean? 300 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, completely, They. 301 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 3: Try and teach you with textbooks and I can't focus 302 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 3: on textbooks. I need to focus on hands on and 303 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 3: then yeah, sorry. 304 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: You're an experiential You're an experiential learner, like a lot 305 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: of people are that. And it's like, the funny thing is, 306 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,320 Speaker 1: we're digressing from pastries by the moment, but there are 307 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: a lot of brilliant, talented, highly intelligent people who aren't 308 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: suited for traditional school you know. And I mean it's 309 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: clearly your intelligent and creative and you've clearly been successful 310 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 1: despite the fact that and again this is not hanging 311 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 1: shit on schools, but the truth is when when there's 312 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: thirty students in one class and there's one teaching model 313 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: in that class, and there's one style of learning and 314 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 1: one style of communication coming from the same teacher, which 315 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 1: is not their fault, that's just the system. And there's 316 00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:36,360 Speaker 1: always going to be people like you who that doesn't 317 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,120 Speaker 1: that doesn't work for you because you don't learn that way. 318 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: And then you could get me, who maybe would do 319 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: slightly better in some settings, and then put me in 320 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: the kitchen next to you, and I'm a fucking idiot, 321 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: and I don't understand what you're talking about, Like I 322 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:55,000 Speaker 1: think intelligence is context dependent, you know what I mean? 323 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, I do. Yeah, I totally believe that, you know. 324 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, depends on what what we're doing. And so if 325 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: you had to, like if we went to do what 326 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:09,399 Speaker 1: you do and correct me if there's another thing I 327 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,159 Speaker 1: should add in, Like there's fork Like I feel like 328 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:19,400 Speaker 1: you're part artist, part chef, part performer almost like I've 329 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,919 Speaker 1: watched something ships and then part businessman. So if we 330 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 1: go artist or creative, chef, performer, businessman, where how would 331 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:34,080 Speaker 1: you rate yourself? What? What's one? And then what's the least? 332 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 3: Uh? 333 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 1: Artist, chef, artist, chef, performer. 334 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 3: I think I'm a chef and then artists, performer and businessman? 335 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,920 Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, I do. You're wrong. I like the 336 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,439 Speaker 3: business is it. I've done a lot of it, but 337 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 3: it's probably like the thing I enjoy the least. That's 338 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 3: why I put it at the end. You know, Yeah, 339 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 3: I think you kind of got a we think like 340 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 3: business in their everyday life. So it's definitely it probably 341 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 3: cuts across all of it in some sense because as 342 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:11,120 Speaker 3: we grow older and we learn and we develop and 343 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 3: we change our pathway in how we earn or work. 344 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 3: You know, there's obviously more business focus in a lot 345 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 3: of the things that we do, because you know, we 346 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:27,639 Speaker 3: have a different mindset. So but yeah, definitely, it's probably 347 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 3: like not something that I focus on as much, but 348 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 3: it is part of I think all those elements in 349 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 3: some way. 350 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,399 Speaker 1: I know that over the years, you've owned lots of businesses, 351 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: you've done lots of telly, You've been on lots of things. 352 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 1: And you know you're still young. What are you forty 353 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:42,399 Speaker 1: two or something? 354 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 3: Now forty two, Yeah. 355 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 1: Forty two, you're just a baby. But you'd started working 356 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: at fifteen, so that's twenty seven years, so you've been 357 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,159 Speaker 1: working more than half your life for me. For me, 358 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: I started working in gyms when I was eighteen. Then 359 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:02,399 Speaker 1: I owned my own gymsmultiple gyms, and and I feel 360 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,679 Speaker 1: like that for me, I got to the point where 361 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:08,639 Speaker 1: that kind of where I'm owning gyms and I'm running 362 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: lots of staff and I've got one hundred moving parts 363 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:16,159 Speaker 1: and lawyers and accountants and marketing and branding and fucking 364 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:19,679 Speaker 1: business meetings, and it's not bad. But for me, it 365 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: almost had it used by date where I went, yeah, 366 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,439 Speaker 1: I don't want to that's not me anymore. It's not 367 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:26,359 Speaker 1: that it's bad. It's just not what I want to 368 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 1: be doing. Have you kind of did that? Is that 369 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: a version of what happened for you? 370 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 3: Or yeah? I get that? Yeah, I think, And I 371 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 3: think that last little business I had for two years 372 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 3: just that I just posed last year was just a 373 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:40,360 Speaker 3: nail it. And you know, I think I just did 374 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 3: it because after my first business kind of collapsed there 375 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen, I still had it in me. You know. 376 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 3: I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think COVID 377 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 3: here and it probably wasn't the best time to probably 378 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 3: open a new business coming out of COVID, but I thought, well, 379 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 3: it's coming back. I thought people must be might be 380 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 3: want to getting into it. And you know online businesses 381 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 3: kind of like pick up or like those kind of 382 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 3: business were like really populus throw stuff like that. And 383 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 3: it wasn't too bad, but it was a grind, you know, 384 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 3: it was a tough grind. And then you know, it 385 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 3: was just pushing all the time, and a few other 386 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 3: things came to play, like there was other work coming 387 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 3: in and I was like I was having to close 388 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,920 Speaker 3: my business to go and do this other work, which 389 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 3: which was better, which was actually making me money to 390 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 3: do the other work, whereas you know, at the business 391 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 3: and you know, you're just paying bills, so you know, 392 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:33,360 Speaker 3: all those things kind of came into play. And then 393 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 3: my wife got pregnant and all that kind of stuff, 394 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,400 Speaker 3: and she was running the front and then I said, look, 395 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 3: I don't want to run the back in the front 396 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 3: and everything and plus doing this and doing that, and 397 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 3: I just know, it all just came in to play 398 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 3: and I went, you know what, I'm just going to 399 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 3: get out for now. You know, I think it's not 400 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 3: my sort of place that I want to be, and 401 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 3: I want to kind of focus on doing what I 402 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 3: really enjoy. And it's like, you know, creativity, teaching, you know, 403 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,600 Speaker 3: you just stuff like that, creating and being able to 404 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 3: network with other people and do fun things. I guess, 405 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,120 Speaker 3: so that's what I've kind of chosen that part for now. 406 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 3: Not to say that maybe something might come up, but 407 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:14,399 Speaker 3: I don't think I would run it. 408 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 4: If we got back in the business, in a sense, 409 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 4: maybe it would be more of O, but that won't 410 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,119 Speaker 4: never ever happen. So you know, it's all depends what 411 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 4: happens in life. You just don't know, you know, Journeys 412 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 4: change and come and go and see what happens again. 413 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 1: So you've been on Mastership a million times. There was 414 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: a six part doco on you on SBS. You've been 415 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:37,840 Speaker 1: on like, there's a Netflix series that you're in that 416 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 1: you host, what else stuff on channel like Channel seven? Like, 417 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: you've done lots and lots of tally, what's the unique 418 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:50,399 Speaker 1: challenges that we sitting at home on our bums watching you? 419 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: What are the unique challenges of cooking if that's the 420 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 1: right word on TV like because it obviously it's not 421 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 1: the natural habit attack so there must be a lot 422 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 1: of restrictions that you know, lights, camera, action, producers and mate, 423 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:08,679 Speaker 1: you've got to be in and out in four minutes. 424 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,640 Speaker 1: Then we go into an ad and all of that. 425 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,880 Speaker 1: What how did you find working in that environment? 426 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I enjoyed it. I think it's too me 427 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 3: is great, you know in a sense, you know it fun. 428 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:22,960 Speaker 3: It's definitely the early days. It was early days has 429 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 3: like just been guest chefs and that coming in for 430 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 3: a day, you know, throwing down a challenge, you know, 431 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 3: creating a bit of shaking everyone up, creating a little 432 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,160 Speaker 3: bit of fear in the in the kitchen and then 433 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 3: going home. So it was easy. You know, it was 434 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:39,960 Speaker 3: a great way to enter the TV scene, and you know, 435 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 3: it built built a great name for myself, made me 436 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 3: pretty much a national name and an international name, so 437 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,439 Speaker 3: you know, I owe a lot to that. And then 438 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 3: having my own show and being a more major part 439 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 3: of the show was good as well. You know, it 440 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 3: was a great experience and you can't falter it in 441 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 3: a sense, but like it definitely is what we don't see. 442 00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 3: It's a long day. It's very boring. You know, you're 443 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 3: kind of sitting around most of the day, you know, 444 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,199 Speaker 3: just kind of waiting to taste dishes and at the 445 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,919 Speaker 3: end of the day. And the hard thing is, I 446 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,440 Speaker 3: think for me being more hands on and wanting to 447 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,159 Speaker 3: be keep active, sitting around, like I just get I 448 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 3: get really tired, and really it takes all energy out 449 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 3: of me. So like I just want to at least 450 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:23,119 Speaker 3: even just get in there and like give them a 451 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 3: ask me a question, help, you know what I mean 452 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 3: something like that. But you know, you're allowed to. So 453 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:30,159 Speaker 3: it's a competition and they have to. They have to 454 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 3: you know, find their feet themselves and grind it out. 455 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 3: But you know, other than that, it's it's a great experience. 456 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 3: It's a great moment. And I think from what I've 457 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,919 Speaker 3: found after the shows, what you do for their lives 458 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 3: is bigger than anything. So you know, when they come 459 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 3: back to you and say how you've changed your lives, 460 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 3: you know, just them being on the show and that, 461 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:55,120 Speaker 3: which is something you don't think about when you start it, 462 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 3: but learning about it after it's Yeah, I think it's 463 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 3: a it's a great feeling. 464 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:03,919 Speaker 1: So, yeah, amazing. What did I read somewhere that you 465 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,640 Speaker 1: grew up in Italy or you spent I know your parents, 466 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 1: I know you're born here, but did you go back 467 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:09,639 Speaker 1: and live in Italy for a while. 468 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 3: I used to go back every year Italy with my parents. 469 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 3: My parents come back every year. When I was younger, 470 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,400 Speaker 3: I used to stay there, you know, about six months 471 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 3: at a time, like my mom and my dad would 472 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 3: do things like that. And then and then as I've 473 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 3: gotten older, you know, we used to go every year 474 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:28,199 Speaker 3: for a month or so. And then you know, throughout 475 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:32,240 Speaker 3: my late teens and that when I was doing my apprenticeship, 476 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 3: I'd travel to France and Italy just to do some 477 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,919 Speaker 3: training and stuff, you know, do courses or stars just 478 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 3: like work for free in places that I could find, yeah, 479 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 3: you know, just to get more experience, so to better 480 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 3: my skills, because back when I was coming through my apprenticeship, 481 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 3: food wasn't big in Australia, like in the sense it 482 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 3: was it was here, but I didn't have the presence 483 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 3: it does now. Or you know, there were restaurants and 484 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 3: people went to restaurants, but the masses didn't really I 485 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,400 Speaker 3: didn't really see food as they see it now. Yeah, 486 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 3: pastry shops were very few, you know, there were very 487 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 3: few pastry shops. Most of them were just su stand 488 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 3: at Aussie Bakery selling cream buns and marine frogs and 489 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 3: all those kind of you know, fun Leavington, old School, Lamington's, 490 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:24,240 Speaker 3: you know, all those things, and you know, and then yeah, 491 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 3: so there wasn't much a route, so I had to 492 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,919 Speaker 3: go looking overseas to get those extra skills that I 493 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 3: kind of was that i'd seen, you know, through books 494 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,919 Speaker 3: and stuff like that in my younger years, and that 495 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 3: was a great experience for me and they helped me 496 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 3: when I was coming through the ranks at a young 497 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 3: age to deal bit different and and be a little 498 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:46,880 Speaker 3: bitead of the game. 499 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,879 Speaker 1: Who's the best in the world? Adriano I mean, maybe 500 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 1: there's not, but in terms of if you had side, 501 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 1: there's one one country that does it great. I'm guessing 502 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,600 Speaker 1: at the European country. It's like who does pastries and 503 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: cakes and sweets better maybe than anyone in the world. 504 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 3: Oh, I think everyone has its own sort of like 505 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 3: culture and own sort of presence. But there's probably i'd 506 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 3: say three or four countries that i'd probably name as 507 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 3: the top I'd probably say Spain. Oh, okay, Spain, Japan, Japan, 508 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:27,960 Speaker 3: I would not. 509 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: Have I don't know why, but I know, fuck all, 510 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 1: but I wouldn't have Japan. 511 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, France and then Italy what Okay, four countries 512 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,520 Speaker 3: will be on the top list if I was to 513 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,399 Speaker 3: cut it in my vision, and this is only my vision. 514 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,920 Speaker 3: Everyone else is going to be different. The top two 515 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 3: for me is Spain and Japan. Wow, it's Spain at least, 516 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 3: just a different set of creativity. They're just for me 517 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:02,360 Speaker 3: in in ground breaking sort of development in pastry. They're 518 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 3: ahead of the game, you know. They've just got a 519 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:10,120 Speaker 3: beautiful vision for artistry and a different mindset on cakes 520 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,159 Speaker 3: and desserts. I really enjoy. They're a little bit more 521 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 3: adventurous and then for me, Japan you can get a 522 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 3: bit of everything. Right, Japan has everything that France has 523 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 3: because they Japanese love the French and all the major 524 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 3: major pastry shops out of France are in Japan because 525 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 3: of that. But plus, Japan has its own pastry culture 526 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 3: which is very very unique, you know, in a sense, 527 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 3: like they have stores where it's only one product and 528 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,879 Speaker 3: that's all they sell, or one fruit. You can go 529 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,399 Speaker 3: to a shop that just sell strawberries. Every cake in 530 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 3: there's made with strawberries. Yeah, so there's not many, and 531 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 3: they have a lot of this kind of pastry. So 532 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,120 Speaker 3: you know, doing a pastry tour of Tokyo or you know, Kyoto, 533 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 3: any of those places and just delving deep into all 534 00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,200 Speaker 3: of it, it's just amazing, you know, and you get 535 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 3: such a great experience. Plus all the kitchen they have 536 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 3: so many kitchen kind of fun things as well that 537 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 3: kind of come out of there that you know, they 538 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:07,760 Speaker 3: make their way over here a little bit too with 539 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,680 Speaker 3: all these trends and stuff, but you know, you get 540 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 3: all that kind of fun stuff as well in Japan, 541 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 3: so it's very exciting. But the Japanese are known for 542 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,760 Speaker 3: recreating everything, even better than the people who invented it. 543 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 3: So they just have that mindset and that dedication to 544 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 3: do things great. I think it's just part of their culture. 545 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: So that's amazing, that's fascinating, is it? Like in twenty 546 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 1: twenty four more than ever? You know, there's lots of 547 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: understandably talk about health, wellness, fitness, nutrition, you know, sugar 548 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: fat as you were talking about. Is there any and 549 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,760 Speaker 1: I know that pastry and health don't necessarily go together, 550 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:55,120 Speaker 1: of course, no disrespect, but is there any pressure on 551 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: you people who work in that space to create healthier 552 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 1: options or is that just like fuck it, we just 553 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: care that it tastes great. 554 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think there's any pressure. I think there's 555 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 3: I think there's a bunch of like pastry chefs and 556 00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 3: definitely a bunch of companies who sell products kind of 557 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 3: trying to get that message out there to chefs to 558 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 3: use these boats because they make things healthier. There are 559 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 3: a few chefs trying to create what they're pitching as 560 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:26,680 Speaker 3: healthier recipes. But I think when someone is the cake, 561 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,959 Speaker 3: they ain't looking for health exactly. People, if you're going 562 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 3: to eat a cake, right, I always believe this, like 563 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 3: you're going to if you eat sugar and fat, eating moderation, 564 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 3: you know, the body needs it in a sense right 565 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 3: in some way. Don't overreat it, don't overindulge, don't go stupid. 566 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 3: Have it as a treat, and that's what we're there for, 567 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 3: for a beautiful little treat. Now, as a chef myself, 568 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 3: I reduce it, not so much totally for the health reason, 569 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 3: but also for the like I said before, the flavor. 570 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 3: But yes, it has a better health benefit as well 571 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 3: because I've reduced all that sugar and fat so coming 572 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 3: into play. I think there's a market there in that 573 00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 3: sense where it's better for you. Not so much. I'm 574 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,959 Speaker 3: not going to ever say it's healthy because it's you know, 575 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 3: I don't think any indulgence shouldn't be healthy. I don't think. 576 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 3: And most of the time most of the things that 577 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 3: I eat or try that are are targeted at health 578 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 3: or you know, those kinds of things. It tastes okay, 579 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 3: but just don't give you the same result, you know 580 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 3: what I mean. And I think if you're in you 581 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 3: might eat it once or twice and okay, fit the 582 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 3: fit the void for a moment. But if you're eating 583 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 3: that all the time you get sick of it. So 584 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 3: I think it's all about moderation. I don't feel there's 585 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 3: a lot of pressure in that sense. I think people 586 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 3: when they want to have a treat, they should have 587 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 3: a treat and you know, and just balance out their 588 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,120 Speaker 3: macros and their diet and you know, just work it 589 00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 3: into their schedule. You know. I know heaps of people 590 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 3: that do that. And I see them smash and you know, 591 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 3: croissants and all those kind of things, and there they look. 592 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 3: I mean, they're fitter than me. Anyway, mate, I agree 593 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 3: with you. 594 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,560 Speaker 1: I think the idea of deprivation forever and never having 595 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 1: a cake or never having something that you love, I 596 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 1: actually don't think it's a good plan. And I think 597 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: being able to everything in moderation. There is one person 598 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: in this conversation that hasn't spoken much, who may or 599 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,760 Speaker 1: may not be a chocoholic, who may or may not, 600 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,239 Speaker 1: who may like sixty percent of a diet, may or 601 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 1: may not be chocolate other than if other than chocolate, 602 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 1: and your addiction to chocolate, which is well documented. What's 603 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 1: your next favorite suite? Like if you had to something 604 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 1: from a bakery or something that Adriano might make. 605 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 2: Well, it's anything. I'm less. I'm not croissanti or pastry, 606 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 2: ishe unless it's got n atilla in it? 607 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 3: Of course. Yeah. 608 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm team chocolate. 609 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 3: Chocolate a chocolate every day. 610 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go. 611 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 3: I'm on it. Chocolate. It's good for chocolates, good for 612 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 3: the mindset, you know what I mean. I think it's 613 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 3: you know, like I say, with certain sweets and certain things, 614 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 3: it gives you a certain joint us and it brings 615 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 3: something For me that brings something right. I mean, I 616 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 3: eat dark chocolate, so you know, it's kind of like 617 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,520 Speaker 3: has a lot of benefits as well. And you know, 618 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 3: I think people are going to look at those things. 619 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 3: So if it brings you a little bit of joy, 620 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 3: then for me, that's part of a healthy diet, you 621 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 3: know what I mean. Like, as long as you don't 622 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:40,720 Speaker 3: over indulge it, there's nothing wrong with it. I agree. 623 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 2: And I'm really good in all like I'm extra good 624 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 2: in all the other areas. And I put all my 625 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:52,239 Speaker 2: my indulgence into that into something that I love the 626 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:53,960 Speaker 2: very most, and then I get to have it what 627 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 2: feels like all the time nice. 628 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 1: That's isn't it Funny? When there's something that you love 629 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,400 Speaker 1: of Like, I eat almost the same dinner every night, 630 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,120 Speaker 1: which is just doesn't matter what it is. But it's like, 631 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 1: it's just rice, veggies, and there's kind of almost minced 632 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,920 Speaker 1: beef concoction that I have that tastes fucking amazing. Sometimes 633 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,520 Speaker 1: I have chicken, but my dinners are almost the same 634 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 1: every night. But every night it's like, this is the 635 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 1: best thing I've ever had. When did this get invented? 636 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: Every night my taste buds are just as excited. It's 637 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 1: when you love something like tif when you have chocolate, 638 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 1: if you have it one hundred days in a row, 639 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 1: on the one hundred and first day, it's not like, oh, 640 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 1: your receptors have shut down, you don't enjoy it anymore. 641 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:42,120 Speaker 2: Noah, I love it every day. 642 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: What's the if I was, which I'm not gonna but 643 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 1: if I went, you know what, I'm going to start 644 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,800 Speaker 1: to try to make a couple of desserts. So I'm 645 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: going to try to open the door on developing. And 646 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,480 Speaker 1: I'm sure some of our listeners now are thinking, fuck, 647 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: I want to try and make something, but I'm not 648 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:02,719 Speaker 1: great in that space. Yeah, what's something like a getting 649 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:07,720 Speaker 1: started project Adriana, where a sweet or something that people 650 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:11,880 Speaker 1: could have a go at that doesn't require your skills. 651 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:17,080 Speaker 3: O man, like you know anything like like a Freni 652 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,360 Speaker 3: pan tire. You know, it's pretty simple. It's just a 653 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,239 Speaker 3: tart based almond cream. You know, put some put your 654 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:23,840 Speaker 3: favorite fruit in it, and bake it off, you know 655 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,600 Speaker 3: what I mean. It's so simple, you know. And almond 656 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 3: cream is equal parts pretty much of everything. And then 657 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,160 Speaker 3: I mean, if you don't want to make tartas tree, 658 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 3: you can just buy a short cross out of the 659 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,640 Speaker 3: freezer and line a cardshell. I mean, there's many simple 660 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,960 Speaker 3: ways to navigate desserts. You can make a putting, a 661 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:43,439 Speaker 3: sticky date pudding, chocolate lava cake. I mean there's so 662 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:47,520 Speaker 3: that's there's no skill needed in that, right, It's any 663 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 3: skill needed is in the baking. 664 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 2: Really, I do love sticky date pudding. I do love 665 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:53,680 Speaker 2: sticky date putting. 666 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,560 Speaker 1: Your eyes just lit up like a Christmas tree when 667 00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:57,760 Speaker 1: he said sticky date pudding. 668 00:34:58,160 --> 00:34:58,640 Speaker 3: Shout out. 669 00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:02,040 Speaker 2: Shout out to tigl Winery that have. When you order 670 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:05,640 Speaker 2: a sticky Day pudding, it's actually an enormous slab big 671 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,040 Speaker 2: enough for people. 672 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:13,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's crazy table share now. Uh. 673 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,319 Speaker 1: And I will say that when I was a fat 674 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:21,239 Speaker 1: little fucker, probably thirty percent of my diet was cheesecake, 675 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,759 Speaker 1: which which may which may or may not have had 676 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,799 Speaker 1: something to do with the state I was in. But 677 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,239 Speaker 1: I fucking and not not that I don't mind the 678 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: normal cheesecake, but I love baked cheesecake. 679 00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:41,839 Speaker 3: Baked cheesecake. Yeah, it's good, Like it's so good, so creamy, mate. 680 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,560 Speaker 1: I could I could literally have, I reckon, I could 681 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,279 Speaker 1: eat three meals a day of cheesecake and nothing else 682 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,000 Speaker 1: and eventually I'd get sick of it. But I'd give 683 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,640 Speaker 1: that a good crack for about a month. I love 684 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,520 Speaker 1: che cheese. That kind of cheesecake to me is almost 685 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:57,640 Speaker 1: like a meal because it's quite dense. 686 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:03,279 Speaker 3: It's very dense. Yeah, very very dense. Yeah that's good. 687 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,440 Speaker 1: Well, mate, We appreciate you. We appreciate you. It's been 688 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,279 Speaker 1: fun getting to know you a little bit and chat 689 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: to you. Do you what's next on the horizon? Is 690 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,920 Speaker 1: there anything coming up? Any projects? Any TV stuff for you? 691 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,400 Speaker 1: Kicking back being a dad and a husband and just 692 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,600 Speaker 1: fucking life in the hammock at. 693 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:23,959 Speaker 3: The moment, a bit of everything, you know, just taking 694 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 3: as it comes. But yeah, I'm a master Chef. A 695 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:27,879 Speaker 3: few episodes of Master Chef this. 696 00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 5: Season tv wise, a few classes overseas, a few eventsy locally, 697 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,000 Speaker 5: there's bits and pieces. Really keep doing my I t 698 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,840 Speaker 5: at the QT hotels, you know, things like that. So 699 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 5: just keep that keeps me busy, busy enough and now 700 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,200 Speaker 5: and flexible, so which is good with the with the 701 00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 5: baby in that. 702 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:54,839 Speaker 3: So yeah, just keep plugging away until something more thought comes, 703 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:55,560 Speaker 3: if it does. 704 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,880 Speaker 1: You know, has parenthood has been a dad mate? 705 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's man, it's good. You know, it's you know, 706 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,680 Speaker 3: like it's different tiring, and it's look, I mean, I 707 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,279 Speaker 3: travel before work, so I can't say overly tiring for 708 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:09,880 Speaker 3: me all the time because I'm not not here all 709 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:13,160 Speaker 3: the time. But yeah, when I'm here, it's definitely. Yeah, 710 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,120 Speaker 3: it's a different moment. But you know when when he 711 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,479 Speaker 3: smiles all the time at chally, you know, it's it's 712 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,560 Speaker 3: just I don't know, you can't take something away. So 713 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,560 Speaker 3: it's one of those moments. Yeah, you've got to enjoy it. 714 00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 1: But I feel like having a baby is both chaos 715 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:30,200 Speaker 1: and therapy. 716 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a therapy. That's a good word. 717 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:37,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, we appreciate you. How do people find you, follow you, 718 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,640 Speaker 1: connect with you, get involved in some capacity. How do 719 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:42,080 Speaker 1: they do that? 720 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:47,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, you can follow me on Instagram or Facebook or 721 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:52,280 Speaker 3: I'm at the Sweet Assassin or Adrian Zumbo on those 722 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:57,719 Speaker 3: all those channels LinkedIn X but I don't really use 723 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:02,640 Speaker 3: X anymore. But but all I see, yeah, mainly mainly Instagram, TikTok, 724 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:09,080 Speaker 3: Facebook LinkedIn. I do have a website, but it's under 725 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,680 Speaker 3: construction at the moment, so when it comes back on 726 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,719 Speaker 3: and it's just adronizmore dot com. So other than that, 727 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:19,200 Speaker 3: all good man, it's been fun. Yeah, it's been great shading. 728 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,480 Speaker 1: Thank you. We'll say goodbye off fair Back for the moment. 729 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:24,400 Speaker 1: Thanks for being on the You project. 730 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,480 Speaker 3: It was nice to meet you, absolutely amazing. Thank you. 731 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:29,799 Speaker 1: Boom