Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on
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Speaker 2: The podcast last week They're Life.
Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome back to TV Reload. I want to
Speaker 1: thank you for clicking and downloading on today's episode with Christian,
Speaker 1: the fourth eliminated contestant from MASTERSHEF Australia, which is on
Speaker 1: Network ten from Sundays through to Thursday nights at seven thirty.
Speaker 1: Christian is twenty six years of age currently works in
Speaker 1: insurance services, but he's had a passion for food ever
Speaker 1: since he was ten years old and helped his single
Speaker 1: mum out by stepping up and learning how to cook
Speaker 1: at a very young age. My guest today got a
Speaker 1: lot of attention during the promotion of this season, and
Speaker 1: I think that has a lot to do with his
Speaker 1: real passion for joining the show and his relatability because
Speaker 1: he kind of feels like just one of us. He
Speaker 1: loves food, He's a big softy and I have really
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching him this season. I mean, the guy would
Speaker 1: get excited about a spoon and didn't crumble when if
Speaker 1: he got half the recipe. So he was a joy
Speaker 1: to watch and a joy to chat with today. So
Speaker 1: I really hope you enjoy this chat. Christian will discuss
Speaker 1: his upbringing and what his mates thought of him going
Speaker 1: on the show. We will also discuss who inspired him
Speaker 1: to sign up and which previous Master Chef alumni is
Speaker 1: one of his good mates. After chatting with Christian for
Speaker 1: like two minutes, I realized he would be great at
Speaker 1: going into schools and talking about his Master Chef experience.
Speaker 1: That Christian has so much to offer young people, so
Speaker 1: we will discuss that a little bit. Throughout the pod.
Speaker 1: I will find out how bad that sugar glass cut was,
Speaker 1: which of the judges was his favorite, and who he
Speaker 1: connected to the most. Through filming, there is also an
Speaker 1: opportunity to find out how the production company sends you
Speaker 1: off when you get eliminated, and what actually happens when
Speaker 1: you walk out of that Master Chef kitchen. There's so
Speaker 1: much to unpack with Christian, so sit back and relax
Speaker 1: as we unpack his time in the wonderful world of
Speaker 1: Master Chef Australia.
Speaker 2: Hey Ben, that's me you mate.
Speaker 1: Hey, how are you sorry? As we were connecting to you,
Speaker 1: it seemed less like we were connecting to broad Meadows
Speaker 1: and more like we were connecting to Melmac Because there
Speaker 1: was a weird it was a weird sound.
Speaker 3: Well, look, I am kind of technically on the border
Speaker 3: of body right now, so it's probably accurate.
Speaker 1: How the hell are you?
Speaker 3: I'm good, mate, I feel like I know you because
Speaker 3: I listened to about the podcast like I'm good.
Speaker 2: I'm actually agored it. I feel good.
Speaker 1: Well, a boy from broad Meadows with a heart of gold.
Speaker 1: What does it mean to get picked to be on
Speaker 1: a show like this?
Speaker 3: It means the world straight up, Like there's no no
Speaker 3: butts now in betweens. It literally just means the world
Speaker 3: to have an opportunity to even be blessed enough to
Speaker 3: walk into the doors of the Master Chef kitchen for
Speaker 3: one day, let alone the amount of time I was there.
Speaker 1: And what if your mate said about you getting picked
Speaker 1: to be on a show like this? Were they excited
Speaker 1: for you? Do they think this was sort of other worldly?
Speaker 3: A few mixed reviews, all good reviews, but a few mixed,
Speaker 3: mainly very happy and excited of mate, You're going to
Speaker 3: kill it, like awesome, thank you so much, You're going
Speaker 3: to just you know, do us all proud? And then
Speaker 3: the other side is why haven't you cooked for me yet?
Speaker 3: And and one of my best mates, got Elijah goes.
Speaker 2: You know, I love you, but I'm not sharing you
Speaker 2: on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh Savage, I know, Like I just don't do
Speaker 1: that stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm like, mate, it's fine, relaxed and did he did?
Speaker 3: He did?
Speaker 1: He?
Speaker 2: Just no, he texts me.
Speaker 1: Let's call him on the podcast now and give him,
Speaker 1: give him, give him he Let's give him what for?
Speaker 1: You know, how did you become this person who wanted
Speaker 1: to step out of your surroundings and say that I
Speaker 1: want I want more.
Speaker 3: Look, I think it just comes from being super observant.
Speaker 3: I'm the youngest of six kids, and look, I love
Speaker 3: my family to bits.
Speaker 2: They've made good choices, bad choices.
Speaker 3: But the best thing about being the youngest is you
Speaker 3: just get to watch, You get to observe see the
Speaker 3: mistakes people make, the good choices people make, and go,
Speaker 3: i'll do that.
Speaker 2: I won't do that.
Speaker 3: And that kind of like led me into my teenage
Speaker 3: years of doing the same thing of me doing things
Speaker 3: that were mistakes and me going.
Speaker 2: Op, shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, to me, making good decisions decisions and realizing good
Speaker 3: decisions lead you to another good decisions. As Matthew McConaughey
Speaker 3: would say it was a green light, and like, it
Speaker 3: just kind of made me realize chasing green lights and
Speaker 3: not letting red lights stop you something that I needed
Speaker 3: to do to get out of where I.
Speaker 1: Am appreciate writing all of this down. I'm running it
Speaker 1: all down for myself anywhere. Keep going.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like doing that and constantly realizing that even when
Speaker 3: things go crappy, it's only a lesson for you to
Speaker 3: learn to stop it from going crappy again in the future.
Speaker 3: So I think it's kind of having that mindset. Don't
Speaker 3: get me wrong, I don't have it every day. I
Speaker 3: have days where I'm like stuff the world. You know,
Speaker 3: everyone's out.
Speaker 2: To get me. But it's not dwelling in that place and.
Speaker 3: Not realizing, oh I had one bad cook, or I've
Speaker 3: had one bad day, or my boss is angry at me.
Speaker 2: It was cool.
Speaker 3: Now I have something to improve on, something to grow from,
Speaker 3: something to push myself further.
Speaker 1: Forget master chef, write a book. I think that there's
Speaker 1: I think there's some coin in this for you just.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, just saying motivational speaking.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, I think you'd make a fortune
Speaker 1: going around to schools and talking to young people because.
Speaker 2: I'd love to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm putting a press release together for you.
Speaker 1: I'm managing you from.
Speaker 2: Now on because I've gotten lock it in deal.
Speaker 1: And we're both Melbourne boys, so like I'll I'll find
Speaker 1: feel delivered. I love it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: You say things that I can imagine everyone at home
Speaker 1: would say, and I think that's I think it's the
Speaker 1: magic of you. In some way, I'm sort of partial
Speaker 1: to the person who says what they see. If someone
Speaker 1: comes into the room dressed as a frog, you kind
Speaker 1: of go, that's a frog. You know it's genius. Was
Speaker 1: there a previous contestant that had inspired you to apply
Speaker 1: for Master Chef?
Speaker 3: I could say many, from Julie to Brant to one
Speaker 3: of my best mates actually and me.
Speaker 2: Who was on two seasons ago. He would just say, dude,
Speaker 2: go do it. Go apply, Like what have you got
Speaker 2: to lose. I did the same.
Speaker 3: Thing and I got on and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: he's like, just do it, and he literally hammered me
Speaker 3: to say go and do it, and I did it.
Speaker 2: To this day, I still thank him to like do it.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad I did.
Speaker 1: A thank you for pushing me absolutely. I mean, did
Speaker 1: you have a dish at home that you were like,
Speaker 1: that's this is my Master Chef dish. This is this
Speaker 1: is what's given me the confidence to go and be
Speaker 1: on a show like this.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent, like it would be my Opigon dish.
Speaker 3: I cooked in episode one, just a way less reform,
Speaker 3: refined version of it, and just anytime I cooked food
Speaker 3: for people, it wasn't what it looks like or what
Speaker 3: it tastes like, even though everyone said it tasted great.
Speaker 3: It was just realizing what it did to people on
Speaker 3: that deeper level of bringing them together or the enjoyment
Speaker 3: they had. And I was like, well, if I can
Speaker 3: share this with five people, why can't I share this
Speaker 3: with five million.
Speaker 2: I know, I don't know how many people watch, but.
Speaker 1: Well, let's just say it's five million. We'll say that great.
Speaker 1: By the time. By the time it's gone around, you
Speaker 1: know that this show gets watched and gets scrutinized. It's
Speaker 1: loved by so many different countries. It's not just it's
Speaker 1: not one of those shows that just gets seen here
Speaker 1: in Australia like it's interesting. I've spoken to contestants that
Speaker 1: are like previous contestants that are like, it's on in
Speaker 1: South Africa at the moment, and my Instagram's blowing up.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a it's an amazing show because it
Speaker 1: reaches the world. You don't know how many people are
Speaker 1: watching it. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy. That's that's something that I want to
Speaker 2: find very interesting.
Speaker 1: Like Ben was right, people be flying into into Melbourne.
Speaker 1: We've got to go to Broady go and seeing Christian,
Speaker 1: We've got to go catch up with him.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, this should be like a pre warning for that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, yeah, yeah, probably you're probably right. You know,
Speaker 1: you're such a such a sweetheart, and I can hear
Speaker 1: that in you today. And I loved your interaction with
Speaker 1: the judges, especially the guest judges. You just get so
Speaker 1: excited about being in the same room as them. Who
Speaker 1: were you the most excited to meet?
Speaker 3: It's most excited to meet in the sense of in
Speaker 3: the future or no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Like in the kitchen, like because there were so many
Speaker 1: moments where you were like, you know, I thought you
Speaker 1: were going to shit yourself when Jamie Oliver turned up.
Speaker 1: You were kind of like R two D two from
Speaker 1: Star Wars. You'd sort of rock back and forward and
Speaker 1: beep as they came in, and you did that a
Speaker 1: couple of times.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Look, I can say a million different names, but still
Speaker 3: I left to stand by Jamie like he was the
Speaker 3: first one, but he was the one I wanted to meet.
Speaker 3: I had a bucket list going into this was a
Speaker 3: don't get eliminated first be meet Jamie Oliver and see
Speaker 3: me top ten.
Speaker 2: And I think two out of three is not bad.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Yeah, no, have that on your bingo card.
Speaker 1: But you know it's interesting. You know, it's one thing
Speaker 1: to meet they you know what they say, They say,
Speaker 1: don't meet your heroes? Or is it or does it
Speaker 1: meet you here? I can't remember. There's one of those
Speaker 1: things that's out there. What does Jamie Oliver or what
Speaker 1: does the chance of cooking alongside Jamie Oliver teach you?
Speaker 1: And was it worth it? Did it live up to
Speaker 1: your expectation?
Speaker 2: Said exceeded his expectations.
Speaker 3: And you should definitely meet your heroes if your heroes
Speaker 3: are somebody that's such a great guy.
Speaker 2: Like him, because at the end of the day, his
Speaker 2: mission out there is to go and help people. You
Speaker 2: can see that from.
Speaker 3: His school's series that he did with the lunches and
Speaker 3: schools and all that stuff, and he genuinely cares so
Speaker 3: much about people, food and sharing what he knows of people,
Speaker 3: and I'm the same. So for me, realizing that we
Speaker 3: had similar morals like that made me go, this guy
Speaker 3: is going to be awesome. Then you meet him and
Speaker 3: you realize he's just a great guy who's got a
Speaker 3: great sense of humor, a massive laugh and when you
Speaker 3: get to teach him what a shower there is like
Speaker 3: me and lads did, it was just so funny to
Speaker 3: realize that, yeah, he's a global sensation, but also he's
Speaker 3: just another blowcooe pertect.
Speaker 1: I'm put you can get back down on this one.
Speaker 1: Did you say a shower.
Speaker 2: Beer with him? And we told him what it was? Mate?
Speaker 3: Long day work, it's been rough, or someone's mad.
Speaker 2: Ear you've had a crappy day.
Speaker 3: Go home, shower sinking, hot lights off, candle on, packuld beer,
Speaker 3: Get in the shower.
Speaker 2: I'm having right now, best beer you're ever having your life.
Speaker 2: Life's cold. Be a hot shower done.
Speaker 1: It's too early in the day for people listening to
Speaker 1: this podcast. It's nine to forty in the morning. Too
Speaker 1: early for a shower beer. But I'm definitely putting that
Speaker 1: on the Bingo card for the weekend. Done, did you
Speaker 1: have a shower beer? Like? I want to know if
Speaker 1: I can take you back to watching your final episode,
Speaker 1: what was that?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What did you choose to do? Please don't tell me
Speaker 1: you decided to try and recook that Jean Christophe Jack
Speaker 1: in the Box.
Speaker 3: I haven't tried to recook it yet. It definitely will
Speaker 3: be on the cards one day. My future mother in
Speaker 3: law's already said can we remake that? And I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh gosh, PTSD. But honestly, the first thing I did
Speaker 3: was call my partner, let her know what happened, and
Speaker 3: she was just there to support me the whole way through,
Speaker 3: met me with a massive hug and a kissed and
Speaker 3: said you know, I'm so proud of you. And then
Speaker 3: walking around the hotel that night, realizing everyone felt the.
Speaker 2: Same way, was just kind of like, ah, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm not a failure.
Speaker 3: I did good like you kind of realized that in yourself.
Speaker 3: When you get eliminated from a show like this, you think,
Speaker 3: oh I'm crap or I suck, But hang on, look
Speaker 3: at all the good you did up until this point
Speaker 3: and what good could come from this? Change your mindset
Speaker 3: and go this isn't a red light, it's a green light.
Speaker 1: It's almost as though in some ways I've always wanted
Speaker 1: to I don't think I've ever asked this, but like,
Speaker 1: what's the exit plan leaving a show like this, because
Speaker 1: we as an audience, what you turn around and walk
Speaker 1: out of the kitchen and just assume, you know, like
Speaker 1: cab picture up takes you home and then you cry
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. What is it that?
Speaker 1: What happens? Are they do they pull you aside, do
Speaker 1: you see a counselor do you get a chance to
Speaker 1: go look.
Speaker 3: One thing I'll say about the Mastershift team and and
Speaker 3: them all is that their level of support for all
Speaker 3: of us is absolutely amazing. They care about us foremost
Speaker 3: and support us all the way through. They're like that
Speaker 3: for everyone.
Speaker 2: And you're met.
Speaker 3: Outside with a big cuddle and a kiss from someone
Speaker 3: and a lot of support and love the whole way
Speaker 3: through to the point of you eventually getting.
Speaker 2: In that cab and going home.
Speaker 3: But they definitely reach out, they check in, they take
Speaker 3: care of you, They give you the time you need.
Speaker 3: They think of that first before you know, important stuff
Speaker 3: of getting the card or getting to take their main need.
Speaker 2: They just want to make sure you're okay, and for
Speaker 2: that I'll always think them.
Speaker 1: But do you get to watch the episode in advance?
Speaker 1: Are you watching it with Australia with the ads, with everything.
Speaker 3: I'm watching it live with everyone, and it was all
Speaker 3: happening live with everyone, and I was like tuning in
Speaker 3: like everyone else, And to be honest, I was absolutely
Speaker 3: loving it and like actually laughing the whole way through
Speaker 3: of enjoyment. When I'm sitting with my partner and she's
Speaker 3: drinking a bottle of wine, freaking out, stressing out, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, relax.
Speaker 2: It's all good.
Speaker 1: This is the magic of you. Like I was watching
Speaker 1: you walking up and you're like, I, I have forgot
Speaker 1: to put the nuts on it. And then the wall
Speaker 1: fell down, you know, the sugar glass wall fell down,
Speaker 1: and you were like it's okay, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I was fretting for you. Where did you? Where do
Speaker 1: you come? Where does that sort of confidence or sort
Speaker 1: of this is this is how it is? Where does
Speaker 1: that sort of mantra come from?
Speaker 2: Well, there's a few things. It is what it is.
Speaker 3: It is probably one I stand by, and then fellow
Speaker 3: Melbournian's sushi mango say, sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe not.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to use the word, but look, it's
Speaker 3: the truth. Like good things happen, bad things happen, you
Speaker 3: have to roll with the punches. My sugar walls weren't great.
Speaker 3: Wall fell down. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: I finished the Michelin star dessert that I had no
Speaker 3: business making in the first place, never thought I.
Speaker 2: Would ever make.
Speaker 3: Started, didn't give up, and finished, and that's a win
Speaker 3: of my books, Go Home or not.
Speaker 1: You know, it looked fine to me. It was funny
Speaker 1: when you plated it, and then the judges saw it,
Speaker 1: because I think it was. Sophia was like, you know,
Speaker 1: this does not look like yours, Jean Christoph and I
Speaker 1: was like, what are you talking about? That thing looks amazing,
Speaker 1: Like I couldn't make that if you paid me a
Speaker 1: gazillion dollars, Like it's interesting. Though we don't see as
Speaker 1: much of her as maybe some of the other judges.
Speaker 1: What was it like in the kitchen? I mean, is
Speaker 1: she quieter than the other judges And that's why she's
Speaker 1: kind of a little bit on the backburn this season,
Speaker 1: or that.
Speaker 2: She's a gem.
Speaker 3: Sofia is an absolute gem, and look, this is the
Speaker 3: big breakout for her obviously, but people don't realize she's
Speaker 3: got a food blog that she does, a magazine that
Speaker 3: she emails out.
Speaker 2: She knows more about food and her little finger than.
Speaker 3: A lot of people, and she loves food, respects food,
Speaker 3: and is just an absolute delight.
Speaker 2: So she's super supportive, super.
Speaker 3: Caring and generally, like all the other judges, just want
Speaker 3: to see us succeed.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, still a competition.
Speaker 3: There's a little level of respect that's needed for the
Speaker 3: food and a level of realization of not every dish
Speaker 3: a pressure test is going to be amazing because we're
Speaker 3: all making the same thing and there's going to be
Speaker 3: for somewhere. I wouldn't want to be in their positions
Speaker 3: having a pick out of the four of us who
Speaker 3: was on going home because we all did such a
Speaker 3: great job no matter what.
Speaker 1: But do you have any idea like this is what
Speaker 1: I also was curious about. You've had the baby boxes
Speaker 1: and we now know who's going into this pressure test.
Speaker 1: Do you guys have a feeling going into it? Who's
Speaker 1: going to go home? Did you, you know, like it
Speaker 1: could be or was there any finger pointing, like did
Speaker 1: anyone did you guys have a conversation about it?
Speaker 2: Look, we definitely chatted about it.
Speaker 3: I think it was more so after the cook or
Speaker 3: just before, and we were all just kind of like,
Speaker 3: no one thought about it. It was just like, we
Speaker 3: know one of us is going home, but we're not
Speaker 3: going to make it a thing. Let's support each other,
Speaker 3: let's finish, let's make this dish, let's do our best,
Speaker 3: and let the cards play what they played. And at
Speaker 3: the end, like it was so supportive. I remember talking
Speaker 3: to them in me and going, hey, we're not lose
Speaker 3: whatever happens, love you, I'm so glad to have met you,
Speaker 3: and you're going to do great things. And we all
Speaker 3: said the same thing to each other of whatever happens today,
Speaker 3: we're still a family.
Speaker 1: Do you think that's the type of personality that gets
Speaker 1: picked that's that makes this family type environment for Master
Speaker 1: Chef contestants, or he's a creator's curated by the producers
Speaker 1: that make the show. I'm always curious as like, why
Speaker 1: is it that this show is full of such warmth
Speaker 1: and heart.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but honestly, I'm not in the casting thing,
Speaker 3: but they do a bloody great job because they introduced
Speaker 3: me to twenty one other people that I'm going to
Speaker 3: call my family for the rest of my life and
Speaker 3: my kids will call auntie and uncle because I'm so glad.
Speaker 2: They picked too. They picked They couldn't imagine doing that
Speaker 2: with anyone else.
Speaker 1: I'm running out of time, and I've just got so
Speaker 1: many questions to ask because I'm gonna have to just
Speaker 1: start firing some of these away. How did you hurt
Speaker 1: yourself with that glass sugar? They said, oh, he's cut himself.
Speaker 1: Did you actually cut yourself on that?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 1: How bad?
Speaker 2: I said?
Speaker 3: It dries so quickly and hardened so fast that I
Speaker 3: don't know how I did it, But I somehow ran
Speaker 3: my finger across a sharp corner and it cut me.
Speaker 2: And I was like, I just cut myself on sugar.
Speaker 1: Amazing. Okay, So that's the answer to that. That'll be
Speaker 1: in a Final Destination movie coming out soon. Well, Poe.
Speaker 1: When Poe was saying that once you make a mistake
Speaker 1: when you're doing a cook well, when you're doing a
Speaker 1: pressure test that you can't really recover, was there a
Speaker 1: point through your cook that you did something where you
Speaker 1: then didn't recover, or did you try to maintain consistency
Speaker 1: and push forward.
Speaker 3: I definitely tried to maintain consistency and push forward. Like
Speaker 3: John said, my one of my creams were a little
Speaker 3: bit overwhipped, and you know I experienced that, but not
Speaker 3: even that.
Speaker 2: The sugar work itself was so difficult.
Speaker 3: I wanted to throw in the towel and wasn't for power,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have I wouldn't have finished. To be honest,
Speaker 3: I don't think because she was so supportive and mistake
Speaker 3: or not, she got to my level and supported me
Speaker 3: through it and pushed me to not give up.
Speaker 1: Okay, well this is also really hard because you're going
Speaker 1: to have to give me one, just one. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure you just said at the start of this that
Speaker 1: you listened to some of the podcast that I'm making
Speaker 1: everyone pick one person who was your favorite judge and
Speaker 1: who is your favorite participant that you cooked alongside.
Speaker 3: Favorite judge would have to be poish as a gem,
Speaker 3: love it a bit, and favorite contestant.
Speaker 2: You're killing me, Ben, Look I'm gonna have I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have to shout out to my boy JOHNO.
Speaker 3: He's just got a Heider gold and he deserves everything
Speaker 3: coming his way and he's a laugh Like, who doesn't
Speaker 3: love Johnny?
Speaker 2: Do we we have to?
Speaker 1: I mean I think viewers in we are all connected
Speaker 1: with this thought and that is that you and john
Speaker 1: are leaving in succession. Like that has pissed us off.
Speaker 1: You guys had so much heart in your final episode.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't they have just shown you, like picking your nose
Speaker 1: and putting it in the food, or doing something that
Speaker 1: made us not like you. You guys got the warmest
Speaker 1: send off that it actually has annoyed me that both
Speaker 1: of you have gone home?
Speaker 2: Is it sad to say?
Speaker 3: I'm glad that's the way it was sent off, because
Speaker 3: it's kind of like one of those cliche haanger moments.
Speaker 2: So you don't want to see this eequel.
Speaker 1: Well, if either of you two, if one of you
Speaker 1: two don't come back in a future season, I'm going
Speaker 1: to get the notepad and pen out and write something
Speaker 1: to Network ten. Anyway, what is next for you moving forward?
Speaker 2: Look next to me, I've got a few things on
Speaker 2: the play.
Speaker 3: Obviously, I've still want to open up any shop chitch,
Speaker 3: but you know, with those takes a lot of money.
Speaker 3: So let's try and see what we can do about
Speaker 3: that one. Not winning is going to put that in
Speaker 3: the bit of a bit of a slow burn. But
Speaker 3: I just want to do what I can to get
Speaker 3: out there, put my name on the map, share my
Speaker 3: recipes of people to help them be able to make nutritious,
Speaker 3: great food for them, friends, their family on a budget.
Speaker 2: Inspire the future.
Speaker 3: Generation of kids that were like me, not knowing what
Speaker 3: to do with thought's in the pantry because you know
Speaker 3: their parents aren't around, or they're kind of in their
Speaker 3: own situation that's not great. And I just want to
Speaker 3: find a way to, like you said, get into schools,
Speaker 3: cook with them, inspire them, and just kind of give
Speaker 3: a light to the young Christian kind of guy or
Speaker 3: girl who's just got the world against them and they
Speaker 3: want to somehow push through.
Speaker 1: Christian. Can I tell you that this is a really
Speaker 1: it's a bit of a myth. Winning a show is
Speaker 1: not going to open those doors for you. Could be
Speaker 1: the winner of Master Chef and those things may not
Speaker 1: happen for you. It is win or lose. How you
Speaker 1: want to take this journey now is going to be
Speaker 1: a hero's journey regardless, and it comes down to your mentality.
Speaker 1: Just telling the schools, writing to the principles, telling them
Speaker 1: that you have a story like this is going to
Speaker 1: open doors for you. No one's going to care that
Speaker 1: you didn't win this show.
Speaker 3: It doesn't work well, mate, I hope so as Po
Speaker 3: always says, you don't have to win to win.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely, and she should knows. She's lost a thousand
Speaker 1: times on many reality shows. Let's bring up on a celebrity,
Speaker 1: maybe not before you go something. I ask everyone who
Speaker 1: joins the pod, and what is something from behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: something that we didn't get a chance to see, kind
Speaker 1: of like a fun sort of behind the scenes, you know,
Speaker 1: anecdote or something that happened to you while you're making
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: That's a really good one. Look for me.
Speaker 3: It would literally just have to be the great there.
Speaker 3: So we had with all the producers and all of
Speaker 3: the team at end themle they were a laugh. They
Speaker 3: were right there with us in the trenches, and it
Speaker 3: was such so much bigger and the twenty two of us.
Speaker 2: As the family.
Speaker 3: Many card games, many laughs, and many great meals for
Speaker 3: shared and I'll remember it forever.
Speaker 1: Well, mate, I just want to say thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: so much for sharing your story with me today. I
Speaker 1: know that there's lots of people that have been you know,
Speaker 1: more people have been listening to this, to my interviews
Speaker 1: with the Master Chef people than any other Master Chef
Speaker 1: season that I've done before. Great, and I think that's
Speaker 1: quite amazing and something beautiful to tell the participants, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's nice.
Speaker 2: The road together, then I'm on it.
Speaker 1: Anyway. Welcome, look after yourself. Enjoy chatting to the media.
Speaker 1: This is today's your moment, so just enjoy it.
Speaker 2: Thanks mate, really appreciate it. It's been an absolutely pleasure
Speaker 2: again to talk to you.
Speaker 1: Sounds good, alright, I'll chaut to you. Letterbab yeah bite