WEBVTT - DANIEL & KEYMA LOOK BACK AT MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.720 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:05.080 TV Reload the podcast last week an welcome back to 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.639 TV Reload. My name's Benjamin Norris and on this podcast, 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:12.039 I go behind the scenes with the biggest players in television. 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.280 Each episode you will get a front row seat with 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:20.560 content makers like executive producers, writers, editors and casting agents, 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.240 plus the talent that we see on our screens. TV 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.760 Reload reloads the shows that you were currently watching and 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.080 gives you a better insight at our television industry and 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:35.680 streaming services today. On the podcast, I Welcome mastershef Australia's 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:39.960 twenty twenty two most celebrated fans. It's Kama and Daniel. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.400 This season, as the fans took on the favorites, we 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:47.080 saw some real growth from Daniel and some impressive wins 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:51.040 from Kama. Both had some ex Both had some extra 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.120 magic this season that led them to standing out amongst 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:58.160 the crowd. Kama had an infectious shimmy Daniel with his 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:02.720 boy nextdoor charm. What more could Australian audiences want. They 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.280 may not have walked away with a big prize, but 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:08.800 I guarantee you their names won't be forgotten. We will 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.640 discuss how they got so far, their lasting relationships, what 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.160 is next, and all the twists and turns along the way. However, 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.600 let's get started. I'd like to welcome Kama and Daniel 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:21.240 to TV reload. 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.080 All of them. They all have fantastic skills. 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.080 Musta Shaff has produced some of the biggest names in food. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.800 I was very open to opportunity the. 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.720 First time ever. It's fans versus favorites. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.039 It's a really weird environment as well. 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.600 Pressure test is about recreating a dish. 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.760 My strategy was asking people if they were willing to 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:48.760 teach me a few things. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:51.440 We've loved having you in the kitchen. Have you enjoyed 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:51.800 being here? 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:59.120 Surely it changed completely the way the relationships started to develop. 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:01.280 How are your mate? 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:02.480 How are you going? 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:04.840 All the better for talking to you? Who's like, you 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.240 know the people's prints of this season of Master. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:08.760 Chef, Oh stop it, but keep going. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.519 It's nice to hear a couple of compliments. But you 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.480 get that close to the finale and you don't win. 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.080 You know, you need a few compliments to lift you up. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.280 I mean yeah, like anyone that wants to give them 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.040 to me, I'll take them for sure. Everyone loves the 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.160 compliment consolation prize for not winning. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.720 I guess, well, I just want to start off as 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.560 well by saying, you know, the whole Mastership experience for 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.240 us as an audience was so amazing to watch because 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.920 you were in it. Did you feel like while they 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:36.960 were making this show that you were going to be 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:38.400 such a pivotal part of the story. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.000 Oh, absolutely not in the slightest. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:46.280 I don't know if I maybe a little bit pessimistic 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.160 on the view or not, but I just didn't. I 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.160 don't know, I didn't expect anywhere near what I managed 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.400 to get out of the experience, you know, which is 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.919 kind of a great failing because I feel like I've 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.680 gained so so much from it, and you. 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.280 Know, that's it. You know, you can't so. 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.920 Much more for being able to go there and be 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:05.920 selected in the top twenty four, get an apron, and 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:07.280 then to have all this other stuff. 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.240 It's just been gravy. It's been so good for me. 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:10.280 I've loved every moment. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.320 I think with reality TV, we love as an audience 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.720 a good journey, and you absolutely took us on the 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.360 hero's journey of the competition. Do you feel like, in 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.760 a way that you grew the most out of not 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.040 just the new people to the competition, but you know 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:24.399 even these returning favorites. 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.880 Definitely, everyone that goes on the show get some level 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.919 of growth, you know, and very very in different ways. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.960 I feel like for me, obviously, my cooking really grew massively, 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:37.080 which is amazing. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:38.440 It was all I really wanted. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.360 But I grew so much more outside of just cooking 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.040 as well, like found a level of confidence in myself, 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.360 which was which was just I never expected to get 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.880 from reality TV, I guess. But I feel so much 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.040 different as a bloke, and you know that's that's just 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:55.279 an amazing feeling. 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.600 From watching the show. We could see that in you. 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.760 Was there any theory to your mad the method to 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.040 the madness, method to the madness? 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.920 Yeah, yeah, I feel yeah. 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:08.000 I don't want to, you know, I don't want to 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.600 tell anyone how to skin a cat or anything. But 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.280 like for me, my thought process going in was I 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.040 had little goals, I guess, and they seem to have 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.880 paid off for me. A lot of the growth you 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.000 know in cooking I felt was it was kind of 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.880 obviously the competition's there, obviously, people are like, you know, 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:26.880 I'd love to get to the end. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:28.320 I want to make the finale and all that sort 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:28.640 of thing. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.880 For me, I can, you know, hand on my chest 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.920 to say that, I didn't expect that. So I didn't 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.160 go in there with that expectation of trying to I 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.640 didn't really go in trying to impress people from the 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.239 very get go, which which is I know it probably 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:46.640 sounds really bizarre and maybe dumb, but for me, I 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:47.160 wanted to go. 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.400 I wanted to learn. I remember a lot of the time, 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:50.640 like a lot of people. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.119 That were there, and particularly the ex contestants, were saying 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.200 that in their season and in other seasons, every contestant 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.760 that hangs around till roughly about the halfway mark, they 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.880 have a bit of a life while moment where a 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.640 switch flicks in their head and they just start together 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.200 it and they just start to understand a lot more 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.760 about food what they're trying to achieve, particularly in a competition. 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.039 And I hearing all of that, I had just sort 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:13.840 of had in myself this goal where I was like, 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:15.800 I'd love to be around long enough for that light 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.200 bulb moment that's kind of what I'd love to see 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.000 where I can look at ingredients and understand them a 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.159 little bit better. 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.599 Or how I can implement them in a different way. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.520 And right at the very start. You know. 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.000 Part of the reason I'm so thankful for Michael was 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.920 after my first cook I did the territory tacos, which 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.120 didn't seem to go down too well, but he pulled 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.280 me aside and offered help. He just simply said, like, oh, 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.400 I do quite a lot of Mexican I really enjoy it. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.760 Would you be interested in, you know, learning some to tears. 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.880 I'll buy all ingredients, I'll buy everything. Just just come 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:49.440 out of my room and I'll show you some things. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.120 And it was really amazing that he was willing to 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.680 offer that in a competition environment. For me, it was like, oh, 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.120 you know, this would be great. I can probably use 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:57.960 that later in the competition. But I also wanted to 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.599 go back home, you know whatever stay that might be 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.200 a lot of us we all call for our friends, 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.239 and I kind of wanted that bit of a story 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.840 to be like, you know, you're like these tacos. My 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.360 mate Michael Weldon showed me this technique, and from there 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.920 it sort of went to like Billy McKay obviously is 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.960 amazing at desserts. I wanted to, like I was a 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.320 pretty terrible dessert cook and my missus has a massive 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.520 suite too. I wanted to learn a cool dessert, like 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.800 a pathe how she does it, so that I could 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:24.080 come back home it's oh, Billy. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:25.760 Showed me this, like here's a pathe. 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.839 And from there that was my strategy, was asking people 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.440 to come, asking asking people if they were willing to 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.400 teach me a few things and so. 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.120 That I could bring it back home and use it 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:36.960 on another day. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.760 From there, that was kind of the light bulb moment, 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.240 I guess, because I found myself cooking in a challenge 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.560 and next thing you know, I'm whipping out a random 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.960 thing that Michael taught me or something Aldo taught me, 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:51.080 or and that was it. Just it kind of happened, 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:53.760 and it wasn't forced in the slightest. I wasn't trying 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.440 to impress people, but at the same time it kind 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:00.000 of it kind of just happened by me trusting myself 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.400 that I had learned this somewhere down the road, and 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:06.159 then the food ended out getting better, and I guess 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:07.279 that was the life of moment. 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.440 Things started to work and I started to understand things 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.720 and look at things different ways, and it was it 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.560 was incredible that I realized that myself, going like oh wow, 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:15.920 like no, a thing or. 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.280 Two sounds like you can now name drop a lot 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.160 of very well known people from television in the cooking world, 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.200 and that's helping you. That's helping you with the ladies, 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:26.680 as in, that's helping you with your missus. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:31.040 So I like it, yeah, exactly, yeah, And you know, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.720 I've got a few cool roast recipes that I can 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.400 impress one with that Julie Goodwin taught me. And it's 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.920 so cool, Like I think it's such a weird thing 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.640 to think back in my mindset, but at the very beginning, 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:48.040 like constantly fearing of going home and and and doubting 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.880 myself and then turning into oh I remember I saw yeah, 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.480 and I guess the other thing too. This is obviously 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.560 what helped me and and for other people that are 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.400 looking at getting on the show in the future, you know, there. 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.520 Is no one way to do things. I found that myself. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.239 I'm obviously a visual learner and a practical learner, whereas 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:07.080 a lot of the. 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.040 Other contestants are the opposite. 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.800 Where they read cookbooks flat out study it and they 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.239 retain that, whereas I just lacked that part in my brain. 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.960 So on the gantry and watching and stuff. It was 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:20.840 kind of like a little bit of a masterclass where 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.000 I could sit there and observe what people were doing 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.400 and just taking in these little bits of information and 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.800 found myself doing it later on in the competition and 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.000 another cour well. 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:30.600 I could think A good question to ask you is 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.640 who taught you the most in this experience. It might 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.560 be an easy answer for you to have, but were 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.240 the judges more influential on you walking out of it 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:38.679 or was it the other contestants. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.360 The judges are great, I found from my experience with them. 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.760 They do a really great job of. 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:47.800 You know, I'm trying to think about this practically from 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.520 my background at work, where you're training, say a recruit, 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.560 and every recruit has a certain way of again like 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.440 talking about the way people learn. Every recruit has a 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.640 way of which they receive information better. It's a judge's 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.960 job to somewhat do that for twenty four contestants, and 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.959 each one of the judges have their own approach, and 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.319 I can only really talk from my experience and noticing 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.840 what you know, the way that they would talk to 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:12.880 others would be different to the way that they would 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.319 speak to me, but it was what that individual kind 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:20.600 of required from the judges. You know, Jock still terrifies me, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.440 but he was kind of like the way that he 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.000 spoke to me was like you know, and rightfully so 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.200 with the background that he has, was that really, for 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.200 lack of a better word, tough tough love, where it 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.360 was information. And mel on the opposite hand, she gives 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.280 that sort of emotional support where she would remind you 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.040 constantly that you are capable of succeeding in this competition. 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.040 And the three of them have their own way of 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:46.840 approaching criticism or mentorship in their own way. As for 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.480 the contestants, it's really hard to say who really helped 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:51.960 me the most or who I learned from the most, 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.440 because I could pretty much name every one of the 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:58.280 twenty three other contestants taught me something that either they 0:09:58.280 --> 0:09:59.600 went out of their way to show me or that 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.480 I picked from them in a conversation that they were 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:02.080 willing to share. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.000 So I do have to say, like, you. 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:08.120 Know, naturally, Michael Weldon and Matt Matt Landmark. 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.040 There it is, I know I was there somewhere. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.200 They were really good because the three of us could 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.760 could bounce ideas and we had no shame, and if 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:17.520 one of the ideas were bad, we would tell them 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:18.440 that that was that bad. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.880 It's not going to work. Man, don't do that. So yeah, 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:22.559 it was really great for those two guys and I 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:23.320 respect them a lot. 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.600 Well, what do you think that this competition has done 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.199 for you in terms of where you want to go? 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.080 I mean, did you go into the competition thinking, oh, 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.040 if I do this, well, this is what will happen? 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.520 Or have you been surprised as to what you feel 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:36.440 like you can achieve now? 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.920 Yeah, so I think I didn't go in with any 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.200 expectation coming out, and I think that that was a 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.120 great thing to do because it's just my views on 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.319 things that you know, if you lead with expectation, you 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.520 could possibly get let down, whereas I was very open 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.960 to opportunity and that having that mindset and having what 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.520 has happened for me throughout the Confidence Competition, The best 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.960 thing that I've gained moving forward, I think is confidence. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.280 And again my Instagram could vouch for this. I was 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:04.040 I was a guy that. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.040 Was too shy to put up a photo of food 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.880 on my story. Prior to the competition. I had a 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.679 lot of self confidence issues with that sort of thing, 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.120 and it doesn't discriminate, you know, I was worried. You know, 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.679 A great, a great example of this was I went 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.800 to Japan, came back. I fell in love with ton 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.640 Koti Raman over there. I came back and obsessed on it. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.480 I couldn't find a good ramen place near me, so 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.640 I wanted to learn how to make it, and I did, 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:31.080 and that takes a long time to make, about sixteen 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:32.920 eighteen hours sort of cook put it in all this 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.360 work and made it and it was it was really nice. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.440 I took a cool photo of it in the process, 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:41.560 naturally of making this long dish. You know, I had 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.600 a few beers and gained a little bit of confidence. 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.199 I was so proud of what I managed to do. 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.360 I got a bit of the old but the courage 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.160 to post up something online. 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:52.040 And I woke up the. 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.640 Next morning so embarrassed, like, oh no, I've put it up, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.280 and put it up and deleted it straight away, even 0:11:58.320 --> 0:11:59.760 though it was up for a whole night. I put 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:01.880 aure up of it on read it and it got 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:03.880 twenty five thousand likes and all. 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.520 These people like that looks amazing, you know, like can 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.560 you share a video? And I was like, oh, I 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:09.280 really want to do that. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.640 I really want to record it, and you know, share 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:14.120 a YouTube video on how I made it. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:15.840 You know, people are there asking that's that's a really 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.160 cool feeling. And I never did it. I actually went out, 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.000 I bought a camera and everything to do it, and 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.120 it fizzled out. I just I just sort of got 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.360 inside my head and got really really scared and I 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:27.840 never did it. Naturally. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.400 I had all these reserves after that, like these sort 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:31.960 of regrets going like, oh. 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:32.560 I should have done it. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.360 I should have hit while the iron was hot there 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.559 and hated myself for a little bit, I guess, and 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.840 you know, fizzled out. And it's sort of is what 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.480 turned into applying to master Chef was I saw something 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.720 on Facebook a Master Chef you know clip, and I 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.400 was like, oh man, that would be pretty cool lurk 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:49.680 and you know, I'd love to give that a crack. 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.800 And I just googled it master Chef Applications and the 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.720 application was open for about another month for this last season, 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.880 and I sent a screenshot of it to my partner Cassie, 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.320 and I said, how cool with that be? And she replied, 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.240 it would be amazing, but I don't think you would 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.800 you would do it, which which really sucks. And then 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.240 I sort of sat on it for a bit and 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.520 we had a bad job at work and there's a 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.000 car accident, and it just all hit me at once 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:18.520 that I regretted not chasing, you know, posting a video 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:22.600 of Rahmen. And then then this job happened, unfortunately, someone died, 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.240 and it all just sort of came into perspective there. 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.880 And then at the spot that like, you know, what 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:29.840 if that was me, you know, and I didn't apply 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.960 for my chef, I'd regret it. That Why am I 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.280 so worried about stupid things of what people might think 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.440 about me or my own insecurities when there could be 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.520 so much more waiting for me out there, you know, 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.439 I will never know what's down that road, and let's 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.760 take a step. And then yeah, that's what made me apply. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.079 Kind of I've heard a little bit of your question there, 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:47.680 but there you go. 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:49.839 I couldn't know. I think it's it's a media answer. 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:51.960 I think it's a good answer, you know, it's a 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.600 series of unfortunate and fortunate events that always lead us 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.360 to in the right place at the right time. And 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:02.000 absolutely and even listening to you trying to unpack a 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.520 lot of this, I mean, I can see where you know, 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.520 the producers and the storytellers at Endemol Shine have been 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.920 able to utilize your talents because you're just a very 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.360 honest guy who's just wanting to do a good job 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.640 and gain some experiences in life. And it's very Australian, 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.080 you know, And I. 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.560 Think, yeah, like I don't want it to sound corny 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.600 or cheesy, but I have. I have had a lot 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.720 of people no, no, no, no, well, I mean what 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.160 is cheesy? I guess really like I've had a lot 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.040 of messages and a lot of comments saying which are 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.840 really lovely, saying just that that you know, you're you're 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:33.720 that Australian guy. 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.320 And I remember being a young fellow. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.200 Seeing you know, back in the early two thousands where 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.840 it was like Australia's about having to go and we 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.880 get around each other for that and I've really have 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.400 experienced that and it's fullest where I can again I 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.240 can wholeheartedly say that it's not that I didn't want anything. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:50.840 I mean, if if you know toyot or if someone's 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.800 responsored me like fabulous. But I didn't go in with 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.560 any expectations of that or chasing that. I went in 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:02.480 and still do what I do because unfortunately with life, 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.120 we're given as much time as we're given. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.320 There's no sort of if. 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.240 Or butts with that, and I want to try and 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.120 really just learn as much as I can and have 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:11.560 as much fun and have a crack. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:11.880 While I can. 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.080 It sees the day, you know, saying that, you say 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:16.680 that's the day. 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.280 I mean, the question is the day. 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.600 And I've always wanted to ask people who do the show, 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:22.640 is you know when you stand out like you have 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.600 on the show to restaurants or job offers, or have 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.600 you been asked by like a restaurant or. 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.160 Yeah, I suppose to still early days, but I have 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.520 been approached by a restaurant now in Melbourne who would 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:34.160 love to hire me. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.600 That's probably the only real thing that comes to mind. 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.240 You know. I've had other bits and pieces where they've 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:42.160 offered me different products and stuff like that. But yeah, again, 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:43.320 I guess it's on the early days. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.520 My episode is only air the other day and I 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.320 guess I'm so excited to see what comes from it. 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.520 I get, well, it's cold down here. You're not used 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.560 to the call, No, I'm not. 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.800 I like the warmth in palm trees and I'm going 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.480 to probably annoy a lot of people, but you know, 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:58.720 Terseley sunsets are. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.360 Better blown away by the Northern Territory. Like we had, 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.920 Like my partner and I just went there three years ago. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:06.840 We had the best time and it was such a surprise, 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:11.320 Like the food was amazing, the sunsets were amazing, the markets, 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.040 type of stuff, all of that is phenomenal. It's a 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:13.800 great way to live. 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.240 It is, it is, and it's I love the lifestyle. 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.800 Everyone is so crazy and they're on their own time. 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.640 You know, there are things that you miss out on unfortunately, 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.480 like live sports and life. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.600 You know, as much love music as you get down there. 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.840 But it is. It is a really cool place to live, 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.840 for sure. And I think that's it's a surprising thing 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:31.440 to me too. 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.520 After being in Melbourne for six months, well so, after 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.400 being in Melbourne for quite a while, I realized how 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.480 many people just haven't been to the top end, particularly 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:41.920 in Melbourne. 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.360 I've met a lot of people there that just haven't 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:44.480 been it that want. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.280 To go, But yeah, I haven't been whereas it's the 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:47.920 opposite up here, you know what I mean, everyone in 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.360 Darwin has been to every other major city because we're 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.760 so far away from everyone. And I think it's on 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.720 a lot of people's listed just check out each major 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:56.120 city while they can't, like up here. 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.920 I hope anyone listening to this also goes and you know, 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:00.760 books a trip to go there, because, as I said, 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.720