WEBVTT - UNPACKED REALITY - MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA - KHRISTIAN 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:02.920 TV Reload. 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:04.040 The podcast last week They're Life. 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:06.800 Hey guys, welcome back to TV Reload. I want to 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:10.559 thank you for clicking and downloading on today's episode with Christian, 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:14.640 the fourth eliminated contestant from MASTERSHEF Australia, which is on 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:18.280 Network ten from Sundays through to Thursday nights at seven thirty. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.799 Christian is twenty six years of age currently works in 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.280 insurance services, but he's had a passion for food ever 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.040 since he was ten years old and helped his single 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.479 mum out by stepping up and learning how to cook 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.320 at a very young age. My guest today got a 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:36.239 lot of attention during the promotion of this season, and 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:37.960 I think that has a lot to do with his 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.840 real passion for joining the show and his relatability because 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.479 he kind of feels like just one of us. He 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:47.880 loves food, He's a big softy and I have really 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.960 enjoyed watching him this season. I mean, the guy would 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.120 get excited about a spoon and didn't crumble when if 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.440 he got half the recipe. So he was a joy 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.720 to watch and a joy to chat with today. So 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:02.040 I really hope you enjoy this chat. Christian will discuss 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.920 his upbringing and what his mates thought of him going 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.840 on the show. We will also discuss who inspired him 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.080 to sign up and which previous Master Chef alumni is 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.160 one of his good mates. After chatting with Christian for 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.680 like two minutes, I realized he would be great at 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.800 going into schools and talking about his Master Chef experience. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.640 That Christian has so much to offer young people, so 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:24.960 we will discuss that a little bit. Throughout the pod. 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.080 I will find out how bad that sugar glass cut was, 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:30.920 which of the judges was his favorite, and who he 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.200 connected to the most. Through filming, there is also an 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.440 opportunity to find out how the production company sends you 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.680 off when you get eliminated, and what actually happens when 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.480 you walk out of that Master Chef kitchen. There's so 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:46.640 much to unpack with Christian, so sit back and relax 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.800 as we unpack his time in the wonderful world of 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:51.520 Master Chef Australia. 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:53.360 Hey Ben, that's me you mate. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.000 Hey, how are you sorry? As we were connecting to you, 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.640 it seemed less like we were connecting to broad Meadows 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.280 and more like we were connecting to Melmac Because there 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:02.800 was a weird it was a weird sound. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:04.880 Well, look, I am kind of technically on the border 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:06.720 of body right now, so it's probably accurate. 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:07.800 How the hell are you? 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:09.400 I'm good, mate, I feel like I know you because 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.320 I listened to about the podcast like I'm good. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:12.960 I'm actually agored it. I feel good. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.000 Well, a boy from broad Meadows with a heart of gold. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.120 What does it mean to get picked to be on 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:19.919 a show like this? 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.000 It means the world straight up, Like there's no no 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.560 butts now in betweens. It literally just means the world 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.360 to have an opportunity to even be blessed enough to 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.400 walk into the doors of the Master Chef kitchen for 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.639 one day, let alone the amount of time I was there. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.079 And what if your mate said about you getting picked 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.120 to be on a show like this? Were they excited 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.280 for you? Do they think this was sort of other worldly? 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.200 A few mixed reviews, all good reviews, but a few mixed, 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.760 mainly very happy and excited of mate, You're going to 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.040 kill it, like awesome, thank you so much, You're going 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:49.880 to just you know, do us all proud? And then 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.320 the other side is why haven't you cooked for me yet? 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.400 And and one of my best mates, got Elijah goes. 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:56.840 You know, I love you, but I'm not sharing you 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:57.400 on Instagram. 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.680 Yeah, oh Savage, I know, Like I just don't do 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:01.120 that stuff. 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.280 I'm like, mate, it's fine, relaxed and did he did? 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:03.760 He did? 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:03.840 He? 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:05.600 Just no, he texts me. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.480 Let's call him on the podcast now and give him, 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.280 give him, give him he Let's give him what for? 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.720 You know, how did you become this person who wanted 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.560 to step out of your surroundings and say that I 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:19.640 want I want more. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.720 Look, I think it just comes from being super observant. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.840 I'm the youngest of six kids, and look, I love 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:26.799 my family to bits. 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.560 They've made good choices, bad choices. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.200 But the best thing about being the youngest is you 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.360 just get to watch, You get to observe see the 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.920 mistakes people make, the good choices people make, and go, 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:35.640 i'll do that. 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:36.400 I won't do that. 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.640 And that kind of like led me into my teenage 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.920 years of doing the same thing of me doing things 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:42.200 that were mistakes and me going. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:42.880 Op, shouldn't have done that. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.320 Yeah, to me, making good decisions decisions and realizing good 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.480 decisions lead you to another good decisions. As Matthew McConaughey 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.480 would say it was a green light, and like, it 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.640 just kind of made me realize chasing green lights and 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.480 not letting red lights stop you something that I needed 0:03:58.520 --> 0:03:59.840 to do to get out of where I. 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.000 Am appreciate writing all of this down. I'm running it 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.840 all down for myself anywhere. Keep going. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.520 Yeah, like doing that and constantly realizing that even when 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:10.760 things go crappy, it's only a lesson for you to 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.120 learn to stop it from going crappy again in the future. 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:14.880 So I think it's kind of having that mindset. Don't 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.479 get me wrong, I don't have it every day. I 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.160 have days where I'm like stuff the world. You know, 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:18.960 everyone's out. 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.440 To get me. But it's not dwelling in that place and. 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.880 Not realizing, oh I had one bad cook, or I've 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:25.839 had one bad day, or my boss is angry at me. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:26.560 It was cool. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.040 Now I have something to improve on, something to grow from, 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:30.240 something to push myself further. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:32.880 Forget master chef, write a book. I think that there's 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.160 I think there's some coin in this for you just. 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.520 Oh gosh, just saying motivational speaking. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.279 Yeah, no, no, no, I think you'd make a fortune 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.720 going around to schools and talking to young people because. 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:43.919 I'd love to. 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.560 Yeah, I think I'm putting a press release together for you. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:48.839 I'm managing you from. 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.080 Now on because I've gotten lock it in deal. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.600 And we're both Melbourne boys, so like I'll I'll find 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:54.920 feel delivered. I love it. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:55.279 You know. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.840 You say things that I can imagine everyone at home 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.640 would say, and I think that's I think it's the 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.960 magic of you. In some way, I'm sort of partial 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.080 to the person who says what they see. If someone 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.760 comes into the room dressed as a frog, you kind 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.599 of go, that's a frog. You know it's genius. Was 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.599 there a previous contestant that had inspired you to apply 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:17.559 for Master Chef? 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.400 I could say many, from Julie to Brant to one 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:22.640 of my best mates actually and me. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.719 Who was on two seasons ago. He would just say, dude, 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.920 go do it. Go apply, Like what have you got 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:29.280 to lose. I did the same. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.600 Thing and I got on and I was like, oh, 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.479 he's like, just do it, and he literally hammered me 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.040 to say go and do it, and I did it. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:37.680 To this day, I still thank him to like do it. 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:38.440 I'm so glad I did. 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:40.800 A thank you for pushing me absolutely. I mean, did 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:42.280 you have a dish at home that you were like, 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.520 that's this is my Master Chef dish. This is this 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.400 is what's given me the confidence to go and be 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:47.240 on a show like this. 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.680 One hundred percent, like it would be my Opigon dish. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.160 I cooked in episode one, just a way less reform, 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.320 refined version of it, and just anytime I cooked food 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.640 for people, it wasn't what it looks like or what 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.640 it tastes like, even though everyone said it tasted great. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.560 It was just realizing what it did to people on 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.000 that deeper level of bringing them together or the enjoyment 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:05.600 they had. And I was like, well, if I can 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.640 share this with five people, why can't I share this 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:08.599 with five million. 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.600 I know, I don't know how many people watch, but. 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.200 Well, let's just say it's five million. We'll say that great. 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.359 By the time. By the time it's gone around, you 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.400 know that this show gets watched and gets scrutinized. It's 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.600 loved by so many different countries. It's not just it's 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:23.279 not one of those shows that just gets seen here 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.359 in Australia like it's interesting. I've spoken to contestants that 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.200 are like previous contestants that are like, it's on in 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.880 South Africa at the moment, and my Instagram's blowing up. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.760 You know, it's a it's an amazing show because it 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.040 reaches the world. You don't know how many people are 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:38.560 watching it. It's crazy. 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.080 Yeah, it's crazy. That's that's something that I want to 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:41.839 find very interesting. 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:46.200 Like Ben was right, people be flying into into Melbourne. 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.160 We've got to go to Broady go and seeing Christian, 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:49.479 We've got to go catch up with him. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.440 Oh gosh, this should be like a pre warning for that. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.080 But anyway, yeah, yeah, probably you're probably right. You know, 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.320 you're such a such a sweetheart, and I can hear 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:03.120 that in you today. And I loved your interaction with 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.039 the judges, especially the guest judges. You just get so 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:10.080 excited about being in the same room as them. Who 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.280 were you the most excited to meet? 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.520 It's most excited to meet in the sense of in 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.320 the future or no, no, no. 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.000 Like in the kitchen, like because there were so many 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.080 moments where you were like, you know, I thought you 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.480 were going to shit yourself when Jamie Oliver turned up. 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:25.560 You were kind of like R two D two from 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:27.600 Star Wars. You'd sort of rock back and forward and 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.960 beep as they came in, and you did that a 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:30.720 couple of times. 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:31.200 Yeah. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.480 Look, I can say a million different names, but still 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.640 I left to stand by Jamie like he was the 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.640 first one, but he was the one I wanted to meet. 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:40.720 I had a bucket list going into this was a 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.680 don't get eliminated first be meet Jamie Oliver and see 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:44.400 me top ten. 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:45.960 And I think two out of three is not bad. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.800 That's pretty good. Yeah, no, have that on your bingo card. 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:50.640 But you know it's interesting. You know, it's one thing 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.560 to meet they you know what they say, They say, 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.400 don't meet your heroes? Or is it or does it 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.000 meet you here? I can't remember. There's one of those 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.160 things that's out there. What does Jamie Oliver or what 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.320 does the chance of cooking alongside Jamie Oliver teach you? 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.400 And was it worth it? Did it live up to 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:05.480 your expectation? 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.000 Said exceeded his expectations. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.480 And you should definitely meet your heroes if your heroes 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.080 are somebody that's such a great guy. 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.880 Like him, because at the end of the day, his 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:15.520 mission out there is to go and help people. You 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:16.600 can see that from. 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.520 His school's series that he did with the lunches and 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.280 schools and all that stuff, and he genuinely cares so 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:26.480 much about people, food and sharing what he knows of people, 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.520 and I'm the same. So for me, realizing that we 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.800 had similar morals like that made me go, this guy 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:33.320 is going to be awesome. Then you meet him and 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.720 you realize he's just a great guy who's got a 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.560 great sense of humor, a massive laugh and when you 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.160 get to teach him what a shower there is like 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.560 me and lads did, it was just so funny to 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.600 realize that, yeah, he's a global sensation, but also he's 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:48.280 just another blowcooe pertect. 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:50.480 I'm put you can get back down on this one. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:52.319 Did you say a shower. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.320 Beer with him? And we told him what it was? Mate? 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.679 Long day work, it's been rough, or someone's mad. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:58.840 Ear you've had a crappy day. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.920 Go home, shower sinking, hot lights off, candle on, packuld beer, 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:03.559 Get in the shower. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.720 I'm having right now, best beer you're ever having your life. 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.880 Life's cold. Be a hot shower done. 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.240 It's too early in the day for people listening to 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.400 this podcast. It's nine to forty in the morning. Too 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.600 early for a shower beer. But I'm definitely putting that 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.880 on the Bingo card for the weekend. Done, did you 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:19.480 have a shower beer? Like? I want to know if 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.200 I can take you back to watching your final episode, 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:23.000 what was that? 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:23.240 Like? 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.360 What did you choose to do? Please don't tell me 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.720 you decided to try and recook that Jean Christophe Jack 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:29.199 in the Box. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.680 I haven't tried to recook it yet. It definitely will 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.000 be on the cards one day. My future mother in 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:35.920 law's already said can we remake that? And I'm like, 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.520 oh gosh, PTSD. But honestly, the first thing I did 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.560 was call my partner, let her know what happened, and 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:44.960 she was just there to support me the whole way through, 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.600 met me with a massive hug and a kissed and 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.600 said you know, I'm so proud of you. And then 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.760 walking around the hotel that night, realizing everyone felt the. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.080 Same way, was just kind of like, ah, you know, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:56.439 I'm not a failure. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.360 I did good like you kind of realized that in yourself. 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.520 When you get eliminated from a show like this, you think, 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.920 oh I'm crap or I suck, But hang on, look 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:05.559 at all the good you did up until this point 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.360 and what good could come from this? Change your mindset 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.319 and go this isn't a red light, it's a green light. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.800 It's almost as though in some ways I've always wanted 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.520 to I don't think I've ever asked this, but like, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:18.880 what's the exit plan leaving a show like this, because 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:21.520 we as an audience, what you turn around and walk 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.680 out of the kitchen and just assume, you know, like 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.520 cab picture up takes you home and then you cry 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.439 for the rest of the year. What is it that? 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.079 What happens? Are they do they pull you aside, do 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:32.760 you see a counselor do you get a chance to 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:33.280 go look. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:35.880 One thing I'll say about the Mastershift team and and 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.440 them all is that their level of support for all 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:42.320 of us is absolutely amazing. They care about us foremost 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.480 and support us all the way through. They're like that 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:45.040 for everyone. 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:46.280 And you're met. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.560 Outside with a big cuddle and a kiss from someone 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.439 and a lot of support and love the whole way 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.599 through to the point of you eventually getting. 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:53.360 In that cab and going home. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.120 But they definitely reach out, they check in, they take 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:57.720 care of you, They give you the time you need. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.640 They think of that first before you know, important stuff 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.679 of getting the card or getting to take their main need. 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.280 They just want to make sure you're okay, and for 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:05.360 that I'll always think them. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.440 But do you get to watch the episode in advance? 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.839 Are you watching it with Australia with the ads, with everything. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.679 I'm watching it live with everyone, and it was all 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.240 happening live with everyone, and I was like tuning in 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:18.640 like everyone else, And to be honest, I was absolutely 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.280 loving it and like actually laughing the whole way through 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.720 of enjoyment. When I'm sitting with my partner and she's 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.160 drinking a bottle of wine, freaking out, stressing out, and 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:27.640 I'm like, relax. 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:27.920 It's all good. 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.600 This is the magic of you. Like I was watching 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.760 you walking up and you're like, I, I have forgot 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:34.440 to put the nuts on it. And then the wall 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.000 fell down, you know, the sugar glass wall fell down, 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.760 and you were like it's okay, and I was like, 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.880 I was fretting for you. Where did you? Where do 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.120 you come? Where does that sort of confidence or sort 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.280 of this is this is how it is? Where does 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:50.600 that sort of mantra come from? 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.920 Well, there's a few things. It is what it is. 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.080 It is probably one I stand by, and then fellow 0:11:56.120 --> 0:12:00.360 Melbournian's sushi mango say, sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe not. 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.800 I'm not going to use the word, but look, it's 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.160 the truth. Like good things happen, bad things happen, you 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.520 have to roll with the punches. My sugar walls weren't great. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.560 Wall fell down. But at the end of the day, 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.840 I finished the Michelin star dessert that I had no 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.160 business making in the first place, never thought I. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:14.719 Would ever make. 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.679 Started, didn't give up, and finished, and that's a win 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.080 of my books, Go Home or not. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.520 You know, it looked fine to me. It was funny 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.640 when you plated it, and then the judges saw it, 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:26.680 because I think it was. Sophia was like, you know, 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.760 this does not look like yours, Jean Christoph and I 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.199 was like, what are you talking about? That thing looks amazing, 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.240 Like I couldn't make that if you paid me a 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:37.800 gazillion dollars, Like it's interesting. Though we don't see as 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.400 much of her as maybe some of the other judges. 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.000 What was it like in the kitchen? I mean, is 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.520 she quieter than the other judges And that's why she's 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:46.600 kind of a little bit on the backburn this season, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:47.920 or that. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:48.440 She's a gem. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.880 Sofia is an absolute gem, and look, this is the 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.640 big breakout for her obviously, but people don't realize she's 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.120 got a food blog that she does, a magazine that 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:56.880 she emails out. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.160 She knows more about food and her little finger than. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.680 A lot of people, and she loves food, respects food, 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.320 and is just an absolute delight. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.400 So she's super supportive, super. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.600 Caring and generally, like all the other judges, just want 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:08.600 to see us succeed. 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:10.760 But at the same time, still a competition. 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:12.960 There's a little level of respect that's needed for the 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.280 food and a level of realization of not every dish 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.640 a pressure test is going to be amazing because we're 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:20.240 all making the same thing and there's going to be 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.360 for somewhere. I wouldn't want to be in their positions 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.280 having a pick out of the four of us who 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.160 was on going home because we all did such a 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:27.400 great job no matter what. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.440 But do you have any idea like this is what 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.559 I also was curious about. You've had the baby boxes 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.880 and we now know who's going into this pressure test. 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.079 Do you guys have a feeling going into it? Who's 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.360 going to go home? Did you, you know, like it 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.600 could be or was there any finger pointing, like did 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.160 anyone did you guys have a conversation about it? 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:47.640 Look, we definitely chatted about it. 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.000 I think it was more so after the cook or 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:52.120 just before, and we were all just kind of like, 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.040 no one thought about it. It was just like, we 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:55.640 know one of us is going home, but we're not 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:57.679 going to make it a thing. Let's support each other, 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.000 let's finish, let's make this dish, let's do our best, 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.920 and let the cards play what they played. And at 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.200 the end, like it was so supportive. I remember talking 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:06.840 to them in me and going, hey, we're not lose 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.760 whatever happens, love you, I'm so glad to have met you, 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:11.960 and you're going to do great things. And we all 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.720 said the same thing to each other of whatever happens today, 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:15.760 we're still a family. 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.240 Do you think that's the type of personality that gets 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:22.160 picked that's that makes this family type environment for Master 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:26.560 Chef contestants, or he's a creator's curated by the producers 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.880 that make the show. I'm always curious as like, why 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.760 is it that this show is full of such warmth 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:32.800 and heart. 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.520 I don't know, but honestly, I'm not in the casting thing, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.520 but they do a bloody great job because they introduced 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.600 me to twenty one other people that I'm going to 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.280 call my family for the rest of my life and 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.080 my kids will call auntie and uncle because I'm so glad. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:45.960 They picked too. They picked They couldn't imagine doing that 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:46.720 with anyone else. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:48.680 I'm running out of time, and I've just got so 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.400 many questions to ask because I'm gonna have to just 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.400 start firing some of these away. How did you hurt 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.760 yourself with that glass sugar? They said, oh, he's cut himself. 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:58.080 Did you actually cut yourself on that? 0:14:58.720 --> 0:14:58.920 Really? 0:14:59.440 --> 0:14:59.760 How bad? 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:00.400 I said? 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.480 It dries so quickly and hardened so fast that I 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.640 don't know how I did it, But I somehow ran 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.720 my finger across a sharp corner and it cut me. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.560 And I was like, I just cut myself on sugar. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.600 Amazing. Okay, So that's the answer to that. That'll be 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:17.200