WEBVTT - UNPACKED REALITY - MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA - ALEX 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:05.120 TV Reload, the podcast Last Deep That Light. Hey guys, 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:07.360 welcome back to TV Reload. I want to thank you 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.640 for clicking and downloading on today's episode with Alex, the 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:14.720 fourteenth eliminated contestant from Master Chef Australia, which is on 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.040 Network ten from Sunday through to Wednesday nights at seven 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:22.480 point thirty. Dubbed the Sunshine in Human Form, Alex shone 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.360 her light in the Master Chef Kitchen in twenty twenty four. 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.000 One of the clear fan favorites if you read anything online, 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.280 has sadly got the chop and I am a little 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.960 bit shook. Despite earning a double degree in science, human 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.800 biology and design fine Arts, it is food that's become 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.440 the founding stone of Alex's career, working in fine food 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:47.280 sales and specializing in gourmet products, cheese and small goods. 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.640 Her daily exposure to the food scene has further fueled 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:53.840 the fire inside of her, and Alex knows that cooking 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.120 is no longer just a hobby. I have to admit 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.840 I have absolutely loved catching up with Alex. I haven't 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.480 laughed as hard as this in a while, and to 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.000 be fair full disclosure, I had to edit out most 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:09.039 of my laughing as I sounded ridiculous like foghorn, leghorn. 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:13.440 Alex will unpack everything from cute chefs, green hands, and 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.560 why she believes that when it's not your season, it's 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:19.960 simply not your season. We will also unpack the Master 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.840 Chef kitchen in terms of telling judges to back off, 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.800 quietening down the gantry, and if swearing actually happens in 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.680 the kitchen in real time. I will ask you about sports 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.560 bet and if you can bet on yourself, and Alex 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.240 will reveal while she hated those betting ods. We will 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.760 also discuss if they needed a passport to get onto 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.240 the show clearly with Hong Kong coming up, and what 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.399 songs became their anthems during filming. There's actually so much 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.600 to unpack with Alex, so sit back and relax as 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:53.160 she unpacks the wonderful world of Master Chef Australia. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:54.440 Ben, How I am. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.040 I'm doing well? I want to know right away do 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:58.320 you still have green fingers? 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.280 Can confirm I do not have green fingers, but it 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.440 took me so long to get that way. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.400 Like you'd be scrubbing your hands for days, going to 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.560 scrub this off my hands. I need to get rid 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:08.840 of it. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.720 You know, I literally used every last drop of shampoo 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.000 and body wash and even the hotel bar so to 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:16.600 get rid of that. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:22.239 Literally, I was scrubbing away Shrek fingers. Alex. 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.560 You know, we all do this, and we all watch 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.280 our favorite shows, and we think and we believe that 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.200 the people that we see on TV are our friends. 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:34.040 And you are someone I think Australia would just love 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:35.280 to have a slumber party with. 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:36.800 Hopefully that's PG. 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.080 No, oh my god, that is that is home. 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.040 I'm held down for a slumber. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:45.840 Like you bring the wine and the food and your 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.440 gorgeous personality and off some matching pajamas. 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:50.720 That's what I'm talking about. 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.960 With a I'm so down for so long as we 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.680 could watch like Mean Girls or Hot Chick or like. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.840 Some silly rom com you know, chick Flick. I'm there, 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:02.680 let's do it. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.640 I once did this so embarrassing. I was asked to 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.280 present it a charity and then they had like a singer, 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.000 like a famous singer, and it was someone from the 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.120 Voice and so you know, I had a few drinks 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:14.239 with them, and then I was like, you know, you 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.280 should come back to my place. My partner would love 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.360 to meet you. And you know, it was kind of 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.840 like facilitating this fantasy of you know that the people 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.360 on TV are your friends. And I made this person 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.400 watch episodes of the Voice. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.000 And I never heard from the memory again. Yeah, was 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:32.040 that traumatic for them? 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.440 They did not understand what I was doing. It was 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.800 so uncomfortable for them. And they never ever spoke to 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.360 me ever again. So I realized how awkward that that 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.640 whole scenario is. I kind of wanted my own DVD 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:46.680 audio commentary on the show. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:47.839 Look, there's one rule. 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:49.560 If we do get together for a sum but we 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.600 are absolutely not watching Mastership, and especially not the last 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.880 episode that I was eliminated on because I refuse to watch. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:00.320 Yeah, yeah, well I think that that's fair enough. Now, 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.640 Hugh Allen reminds me of how talented man syndrome can 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:08.080 make someone so attractive, sort of brings another element to him. 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.440 What did you learn from being in that final cook 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:13.680 and having such close contact with him? 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:14.760 What did I learn? 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.240 To be honest, I don't think my brain was actually 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.520 functioning that whole cook. I felt like everything that kind 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:22.680 of went in one ear came out the other and 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.839 everything I was doing was in such a flurry, almost 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:27.080 can't recall most of it. 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:28.239 What did I learn? 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:33.080 Assistance is key, like just keeping on until the job 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.440 is done and don't become two stars struck by cute 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:37.320 boys in the kitchen. 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:42.360 So it's interesting because that Banksier pod dish, as Sophia said, 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.919 was mind blowing. But also that's my ultimate fear about 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:48.839 being on a show like this is coming across a 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:53.160 dish like that. I wonder whether that becomes super duper intimidating. 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:54.240 Was that dish? 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.320 It was so intimidating I actually had a little cry 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.200 because there was no way in my right mind that 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:03.039 I thought I could ever make something like that. 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.120 So the fact that I got it all on a plate, 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:06.600 although it didn't look the. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.400 Part or taste the part whatever, so be it. It 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.039 was all up there, every element, as best as I 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:15.400 could have done in the circumstances. So yeah, very intimidating, 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.599 super intimidating, but I gave it my best shot. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.120 I mean, is that even something that we can make 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.279 at home? Like, do you think that's something that the 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.520 everyday Australian could see that and follow a recipe? Like 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:27.920 that at home or do you need to be at 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:29.680 the level that you guys are. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.359 Look To be honest, you probably could, and only because 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.200 you don't have the pressure of that damn master chef 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.839 clock above your head and people screaming at you, you know, 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.640 judges coming over to interview you whilst you're like on 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.440 page bloody twenty of this eighty page long or what 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.919 felt like eighty page long recipe. I feel like you 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.440 probably could do it, whether I recommend that, No, I 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.240 probably wouldn't because it would take you the whole day. 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.120 I reckon when the judges come over. This is like, yeah, 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.440 I don't know whether this is something more about me, 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.560 But do you ever just go not now? 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.520 Yea, all the time, literally all the time. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:09.000 But I'm just so polite, and I just I say 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:10.960 it as if it comes across as a joke when 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.440 I'm very well meant it. 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:18.040 It's like literally shoefly like, bye, I don't have time 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:18.720 for this right now. 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.359 I don't think you realize, but I'm actually under an 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.920 immense amount of stress and pressure to get this up 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:25.200 on a plate so that you. 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.000 Can eat this. But if you keep festering me, it's 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:29.560 not gonna happen, and. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.920 How much of what they're saying up on the gantry, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.960 you know, the safe contestants, because they're often yelling things out, 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.640 can you actually hear? Because I feel like I would 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.560 either be distracted by them or I'd probably tune them out. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.359 Yeah, so funny. So on the Hugh Allen episode My 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.040 Last Cook, I think I remember a point in time 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.560 that because in the first part of that cook, I 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.400 was so flustered, like I wasn't getting anything done, and 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.120 I was organizing my bench of all things, trying to 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:56.960 keep clean, and. 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.680 I remember Dash and that just being like, stop trying 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.400 to tel just get onto it. You're so har behind. 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:04.680 And I think they just kept saying push, push, push, 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.120 And I remember turning up to them for a hot 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:08.640 minute and being like, guys. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.640 Can you just leave me alone for a sec? I 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.040 need a focus and I can't. 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:13.720 Like I was in I just felt like I was 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.120 pulled in every direction. So yeah, you definitely can tune 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:21.120 them out, but it's almost impossible sometimes and sometimes and 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.880 very politely, you just have to ask them to just 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.440 give you some space so you can focus and retrain 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.960 your thoughts because there's a lot going on in that kitchen. 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.920 I wonder how many times in the history of Mastershef 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.480 have they cut out of the edit if you c 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.680 k off, you know, like you know what I mean? 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.320 Because you know, it's interesting about this show because there's 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.960 so many wonderful people. They're so nice on this show 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.480 that one of the most delicious things about this show 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.400 is the warmth of the people that are cast on 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.760 this show. Maybe yeah, not the sort of people that 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:52.040 say that, you know what I mean? 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.640 They know that is incorrect. 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.080 And I can speak from experience because I have such 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.440 a potty mouth. I would never say something that was 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.840 a fence or mean, but I can definitely drop the 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.440 F bomb way too much. And there I feel so 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.320 sorry for the editors because they would have had not 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.400 a fun time trying to cut out the amount of 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:13.640 F words I had said. 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:19.360 About this season, we might seem, you know, really innocent. 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:23.440 And sweet, but we definitely have some spicy tongues sometimes. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.800 So I'm into that. Yeah, I'm into that. I want 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:27.760 to watch Master Chef Australia after dark. 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.600 That's so funny because we actually joked about that on 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:30.960 the show. 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.640 Wouldn't it be cool to have an after dark uncut 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.400 Raw on Raw episode. 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.079 Yeah, I it would just completely grab a lot of attention. 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:40.680 I reckon it would be so much fun. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:42.320 This is what I was thinking of talking to you 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.319 about about the judges on the double faking of what 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.920 the dishes actually taste like. And it also is very 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.600 much heightened by the style of music that's playing. But 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:55.080 I often watch these judges trying to you know, trying 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.840 the food, and you can't ever tell what they truly 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.600 think until they speak, because sometimes I look like they're 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.880 about to say something's bad, and then all of a sudden, 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.960 you know, out of nowhere, Poe will just be like, 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.240 this is the best silkiest. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.400 Signe and You're like, what. 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.600 Literally, it's like, it's so I don't even know how 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:19.880 to put into words how anxiety triggering it is bringing 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.920 out a meal to those judges and in front of everybody, 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.360 and then they pull these funny faces. They kind of 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.160 put their eyes to the sky as if they're thinking, 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:31.360 and then you just really don't know where you're at, 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.200 and all of a sudden you get these really marvelous feedback, 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.280 or it could go the complete opposite way, and it's 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.280 just like the worst thing they've ever tried in their life. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.240 Are they filming that for a long time? Like, are 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.560 they pulling those faces? Because this is all I can 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.360 think about is that they must make them pull, like 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.120 they're like, Okay, we're going to have the camera on 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.360 you tasting your food. Now give us three different versions. 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.079 I mean, you must look like four neurodivergent people sitting 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:54.720 there trying to work out what the flavors are. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.640 Maybe they just have like a secret sign language that 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.960 we don't know about, and it's like, I don't know, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.960 maybe they're talking to the mastership of gods upstairs with 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.800 different sign languages that we just don't understand as contestants. 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:08.679 But honestly, it's so daunting, and we. 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.120 Could be standing there for often for half an hour, 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.920 just standing there waiting to receive or be told that 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.680 it's great or it's not. And each of the judges, 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:19.360 and bless them, they were wonderful, but. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.000 They each give their piece of feedback and advice, and 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:23.680 it takes a long time. 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.840 It's exhausting, and often in the moment you're not actually 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:27.800 absorbing anything. 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:29.640 Well I was in anyway, it would come in one 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:30.839 ear and go out the next. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.679 So yeah, it's it's scary stuff, but it's equally as 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:35.800 fun and it's great to receive also. 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.319 Feedback to My heart is beating just thinking about it, 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.800 Like my heart is like believing what it would be 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.320 like to be sitting there in that chair. And interestingly enough, 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.200 like with last night, it felt like that Sav was 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.480 going home. How did it fall in the moment? Is 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.040 that the magic of editing that they did that. 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.760 I think in the moment as well as Sav deeply 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.080 believed that she was going home. And you know, I 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.400 can totally relate because that was like flashback to the 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.920 Curtis Stone keeping up with which was such a horrible 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.920 moment for me because I genuinely thought that that was 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.320 going to be me leaving and not so so. Yeah, 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:12.320 I think with every different challenge, you're running your own rape. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.400 You don't know what others are doing. You're focused on 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.160 everything that you were doing. So yeah, in the moment, 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.160 you only know what you've done and how you feel, 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.719 and yeah, you definitely convince yourself that you're going home. 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:24.920 There's been plenty of times where I thought that for myself, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.800 and to be honest, something I felt intrinsically in that 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:33.280 week lead up to Hugh Allen's cook was that I 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.280 thought it was going to be the end of my 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:36.960 time soon or soon approaching. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.920 So it's just weird. Yeah, you just get this instinct feeling. 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.320 At what point did you think you were going home? Though, 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.040 Like as in, when did it really go okay? I 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:46.560 think it's me for this particular. 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:47.199 Yeah. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.520 Look, I think there was a moment when we. 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.079 Had like our lunch break after the cook and I 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:53.800 was sat there on the grass in the sun of 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.080 Lockie and that and Dash, and we had the pillows 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.000 out and we were just chilling in. 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.600 The sun because that's what you do and you down time. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.000 And I just sat there with my thoughts for a moment, 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.600 and I thought this was it. I didn't voice that, 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.280 but in my gut, that's that's how I felt. 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.200 And I was really actually at peace with that, to 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:12.600 tell you the truth, Like, I've. 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:13.560 Done some awesome stuff. 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.120 I've met, you know, some of my biggest food idols, 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.280 and I've made the best of friends. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:19.120 With literally everybody. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.280 I kid you not like it sounds so cliche, but 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.040 I've formed such a connection with every single one of 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.600 the contestants and the judges. So it was my time 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:28.760 to go, and I truly believe that the universe has 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.640 its ways, and when it's your season, it's your season, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:32.600 and when it's not, it's not. 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.200 So yeah, I kind of just sat with that and 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:36.240 that was Okay. 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:38.520 You weren't in my bingo card for going home, let 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.440 me tell you that much. Nor were you in any 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.800 of my friends. We're on a group chat. We watched 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.560 the episode and everyone's you know, texting away and yeah, 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.800 I think we. I think the group of friends that 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.520 I have, we all had you in the final three. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.880 So it was it was a big shock to see 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:53.240 you go. 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:54.160 But I. 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.720 Think you penetrated the audience really well. I think that 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.840 when people think about only twenty four Master Chef, you 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.160 are one of the faces that people will remember forever. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.080 Ah, that's so special. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.199 You know, you could be an excellent cook, you can 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:12.640 win the show. There's many different things that can you know, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.520 sort of permeate when people watch a show like this. 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:17.120 But yeah, it's funny when you think back to some 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.200 of the most iconic reality shows, people often get it wrong. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.640 People often say, oh, who was the winner of that year, 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.680 and they get it wrong because it's one of the 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:29.679 personalities that resonates that yeah, and connects that makes you think, oh, 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:30.600 I think it was them. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:32.840 Well, I'm really glad you feel that about me. I 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.760 feel like what you see is what you get. Like, 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.080 you know, I definitely have my fair show of cringe 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.560 worthy moments and some weird facial expressions, but I literally 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:43.920 that is just me in the real world. And it's 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.520 so funny having all my friends and family and colleagues 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.080 reaching out being like, oh my god, you are exactly 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.679 the same on the TV as you are in real life, 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.200 and they just yeah, it's so cool, Like you just 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:55.480 have to be yourself at the end of the day. 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.160 And I think those who are truly themselves and sit 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.040 well with themselves and understand who they are as people 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.679 and accept that they do cool things, and they go 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.199 really far with you know, a show like this in particular. 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.160 So it's cool to hear your feedback. I really appreciate that. 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.280 How did you feel though watching it back? Was there 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.520 anything that you learned about yourself? Because the interesting thing 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.679 about reality television is it does hold a mirror up 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:21.760 against us, and yeah, that could be quite interesting as well, 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.000 because you can see what other people see and watch 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.480 things that you go oh, I didn't know I did that. 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.400 Look to be honest, like, as I said, what you 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.440 see is what you get, and I don't know how 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:35.080 to be anybody. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:35.440 Else but myself. 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:38.120 So what I saw on the TV watching back was 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.320 like I didn't. I don't feel like I really learned 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.840 anything different or new about myself watching back other than 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.760 what I felt at the time. And I think reflecting 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.040 back on it, it's like far out, like I'm actually 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.200 capable of so much if I put my mind to it, 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.680 And I think that's what I learned more than anything. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:58.080 Definitely not from watching myself on the Telly, but definitely 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.800 in going through each of these challenges, just being able 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:05.480 to sustain momentum and drive and yeah, get through it. 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.160 Who do you think is going to win though at 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.320 this point, because I thought anyone's game, Like I actually, 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.600 if you seen me, yeah you get a million dollars 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:14.440 if you can pick the winner of Mastership. I am 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:17.040 no closer to a million dollars than ever before than 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:17.640 I've ever been. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:18.000 Yeah. 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:21.640 Literally, it's so tricky because everybody is so talented and 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.160 talented in their own rights as well, and so it 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.640 really just depends on the challenge when it comes to it. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.600 Oh, I couldn't tell you, but. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.160 I know you're going to be like, just pick one 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.120 because I've listened to all your other podcasts, and because 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.760 everybody is so talented in their own rights, it's going 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.560 to come down to who I really, really really want 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.800 to win, and purely because they are my ride or 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:43.840 dive from the start. So I'm going to throw Dash 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.840 under the bus here, No pressure, man, Yeah, let's go Dash. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:49.760 He's versatile, he's a gun. 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.040 He just has this ability to focus and be calm, 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:54.600 and I think that gets a long way in a. 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.040 Competition like this. You've just got to be able to focus. 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.160 Saying your own lane, be calm, but also not afraid 0:15:59.200 --> 0:15:59.920 to experiment. 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.760 And he's very good at all of that. So let's 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.160 go team wa Dash. I'm rooting for you. 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.600 Don't let me down, and don't let anyone else come fear. 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.600 That's all okay, But anyone else is smell in the competition, 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.240 is listening to the pod. I'm going to be asking 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:17.000 you soon, so you will be here too, my friends. 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.080 I kind of asked you this a little bit early 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:20.960 because I wanted to ask you about something that had 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:24.680 been sitting on my mind. You know how you can 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.600 bet online. I don't know if you've been aware of this, 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.760 but there's like a sports I'm probably not even promoting 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.040 their business correctly because it's probably not even sports, but 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.600 it's probably something else. But yeah, do you know if 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.480 contestants are allowed to bet on themselves? 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:41.480 That would just be like the biggest no no. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.200 And I feel like even without it, well, it must 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.560 be in our contract. But even without it being in 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.680 a contract, we would absolutely not be doing that. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:52.239 But it's so funny you bring this up with the. 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.440 Whole season, I've been at the bottom of the rank, 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.480 so I've been told it's like nobody had faith in 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.920 me from the start, so of course I was never 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.080 gonna win this shit. 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:03.600 Who puts that stuff together? Like, because okay, this is 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.800 I'm going I'm going to share something with you about. 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:07.919 This is the reason why I don't look at that 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.640 because I used to look at it years ago. Anywhere 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:14.760 in twenty twenty, they were bringing Big Brother back and 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.920 they had who is going to host the show? And 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.840 I was at number one, and I was like, no 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.359 one has called me. The only interest that anyone had 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.720 in me hosting that show? I felt like there was 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.160 some fantasy in the back back of my mind, and 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:35.120 that's where I realized that whoever is creating these things, yeah, 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.400 I have to drink and don't know enough about it, 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.280 and they don't know what they're talking about exactly. 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.480 I'm going to put it down to that too, because 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.119