WEBVTT - UNPACKED REALITY - MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA - DAVID 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:02.920 TV Reload. 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:04.240 The podcast last week Never Life. 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.200 And welcome back guys to TV Reload. I want to 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.000 thank you for clicking and downloading on today's episode with 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:13.560 David the eliminated contestant on Mastershef Australia, which as you 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.000 would know, is on Network ten from Sunday through to 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.800 Wednesdays at seven thirty. With a degree in pharmacology and 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.040 toxicology to his name, David Tan's day job is a 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.800 National Clinics trial administrator. While he is committed to his 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.800 important work with cancer patients on their crucial treatments, David 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.560 has put his profession on hold just to see where 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.920 this Masterschef Australia journey may take him. Growing up in 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:41.080 Singapore in a food culture that underpins society, David jokes 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.199 that eating is the national hobby and notes that his 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.400 family of five would like nothing more than driving to 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.720 Malaysia on the weekends just to have good food. I've 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.360 absolutely loved catching up with David today and I'm sure 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.000 you will enjoy our chat, which is filled with his 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.240 humble attitude. I will say David will talk about his 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.840 journey to mass to Chef Australia and what sort of 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:05.480 preparation he put into his abilities, including which dish he 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.360 was worried about the most. We will also unpack his 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.480 international cooking and find out if that is an actual 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.320 an advantage to being a skilled chef in the Master 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.319 Chef Kitchen. I will find out why he connected with 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.319 Poe the most and who he actually wants to win 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.319 the show. Now we will also discuss the contestants who 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.760 will welcome back last week, who he thought should have 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.800 returned full time, and if he knows why two of 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.400 the eliminated participants were not included. There's actually so much 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.920 to unpack with David, as you can imagine, so sit 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.640 back and relax as we unpack the wonderful world of 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.600 Master Chef Australia. Hey David, how. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.800 Are you Ben? I'm good, thank you? How are you today? 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.160 I'm doing really well. I'm also at an airport, which 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.440 I apparently you're at an airport as well, so this 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.800 is correct. Trains, planes and automobiles, we're connected. 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:56.000 Yeah, absolutely, and thanks for I appreciate the bit of 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:57.880 mixture run in time as well with you know how 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:58.560 transport is. 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.000 I'm such a big fan of this show and have 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.400 been thoroughly enjoying your time on the show as well. 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.280 So this is the length that I go to to 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.079 not miss a It's David from Cheah. 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:09.919 Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.080 You know, I think a lot of people who've been 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.919 watching the show had picked you as a possible winner, 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.280 and I even read at some point people were saying 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.919 that it had been leaked and it was you. What 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.280 are your thoughts on coming out of the competition at 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:22.720 this point? 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:26.960 Oh, look, I am just really appreciative of the whole 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.280 competition and where I'm at. I'm really proud of how 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:33.000 far I've come. Top twelve and then staff came back 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:34.960 and then got a limb, But I still take Top 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.800 twelve as it is, and look, it's it's a tough competition. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.200 You know, it's nice that people think I had the 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.080 potential to win, and you know, really worth anyone's game, 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.760 and you know, where I end up is where I 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:50.080 end up. But I've met so many amazing people, cooked 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.360 ninety percent of dishes that I've never cooked in my 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.080 life before I got some couple of top dishes, and 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.600 so look, if that's not a win you know you 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.520 kind of appreciate that. Then, yeah, I'm just bestoked. 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.440 I love how you've You've cooked up some humble pie 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:08.200 for yourself today. Is it anyone's game at this point though? 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:09.040 That's what I want to know. 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.320 It's a competition, and every cook is someone's worst nightmare 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.720 and someone else's best, you know, best thing they could 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:21.440 ask for. With last night's elimination, that was Harry's fish, 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.720 you know fish. But for me, I'm not a fish person, 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.000 and I'm not a thirty minute cook person, but ask 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.080 me in the pressure tests before that four hours cook. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.120 That's my happy place. But nobody else loves it. And 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.160 I would sign up for all of them if I could, 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.440 and everyone else would run away from them. So it 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.480 just depends on the competition and how the ebbs and flows, 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:41.760 and so, you know, you never know. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.120 You know, what I think is good though, is that 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.160 you're not a fish person, and you're you've never been 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.960 on television with that weird fish hat that he had on, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.240 I think escaping that he's a good. 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:56.040 Win exactly, That's that's an absolute win. And like that 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:57.920 fish hat was actually awesome, the. 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:59.400 Thing that I picked up on and you know, you 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.720 sort of allude to this before, but cooking something that 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.160 you'd never eaten before seemed like an interesting option. Was 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.320 there something else that you feel like now you could 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.080 have cooked that was with the fish, that you could 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.680 have done that. Now you're kicking yourself that you didn't 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.040 try and do that. Maybe you tried in the past. 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.080 I'm not one to kick myself up about this sort 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.280 of things. I was very conscious with every challenge of 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.160 this is where I'm at right now. This is the 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.680 best decision I can make right now, and I'm going 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:28.719 to give it my all. If it works, it works. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.760 If it doesn't, it doesn't. That's just the outcome. And 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.200 so I know that I did the best I could. 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.880 And after that first cook my brain was flat, you know, 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.600 Like I said, I was neurologicy, spent my creativity. I 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.919 actually set my brain so if like walked out of 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.440 me and just out, good luck, you know. And so 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.160 that's all I could do. That was the best I 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:47.440 could do at that time. And so I can't regret. 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.360 That, No, you really can't. I mean, this is the 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:50.719 thing for me. So you're going to have to clear 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.720 something up, because do you prepare a certain amount of 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.960 dishes before. Like, let's say you get the phone call 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.080 you're doing Master Chef. You've been dreaming about it for 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.080 a long time. What an exciting opportunity I could imagine 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.840 if it was me, I'd start preparing dishes in categories. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.880 I'd be like, well, what happens if they say fish? 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.719 What happens if they say yeah, what kind of plan 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:10.920 did you put in place once you've gotten the call 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.680 you're doing the show? And did you even contemplate being 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:15.679 faced with the fish? 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.520 To be honest, I didn't think too much about fish 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:23.400 because proteins, like with red meat and chickens, I'm fairly comfortable, okay, 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.320 And I didn't think about fish because I was most 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.479 scared about desserts. Funny enough, I don't make desserts at home, 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.839 and so when I found out I was going to 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.320 get onto Martha Chef, I was just immediately all right, 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.600 start working on desserts because I've gotten no clue about 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.560 dessert and I know that's a bigger portion that I 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.680 have to work on. And so fish and seafreud did 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.440 even come to my mind. But I ended up cooking 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:44.840 quite a bit of seafruit funk the show. 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:46.800 Yeah, and I realized now that you said that you're 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.799 so focused on desserts, that's why you brought raspberries into 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:54.640 your fish dish, because you were focusing, hyper focusing on yes. 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:58.360 Wait, yeah, exactly, And so I was, you know, and 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.400 there's a really good stage of bringing avery into sweet 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.480 food and I really enjoyed that. And I was trying 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.640 to keep pushing the boundaries. It's like, well, what can 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.880 you bring over to the other side to make it interesting? 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.440 And you know, you got thirty minutes. You want to 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.440 do minimal prep if you can, and so I was 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.760 just trying to make smart decisions. But hey, you never know. 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.800 You never know. Can you have phone calls like this, 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.200 You're having a phone call your auditioning, and then once 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.960 you selected, what sort of questions you're asking the producers, 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.279 because I'd want to know, do you get told that 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.360 there's going to be certain dishes coming, do you get 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.440 told if there's going to be certain chefs being a 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.960 part of it? Like what kind of preparation questions are 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.359 you trying to get out of the producers at that point? 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.640 Well, to be honest, I was just gobsmacked that I 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.560 even got the audition to be honest, and you know, 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.000 I was just like, well, what an amazing opportunity. And 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.440 the advice they said it was just look, just watch 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.960 the previous Master Chefs seasons. That will give you a 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.080 good gauge and what sort of cuisines you should be across, 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.240 what sort of timings you should be across. And that 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.320 was probably the best gauge and best advice that I 0:06:58.360 --> 0:06:59.440 was looking for in the good gif. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.159 Need to cast you because you're a good looking rooster. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.840 They needed to, They needed to up the ante on 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.880 the attractive males on the show. So you know, you 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:08.520 kicked a box. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.160 Thank you man. You're too kind. You're too kind, Bamanda, 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.600 other people that were really good looking John, I mean 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:15.640 those are top tier guys. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.200 Well, I think you're at the top. I think you've 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:17.560 beaten them. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:21.200 So you tell all of them, I know. 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:23.760 Yeah, if you listen to the podcast, you then hear 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.160 back that I've said that to everyone. 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.560 No, I'm joking exactly do that. 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.080 Do you think that being from an international background can 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.080 help you in a show like this? You know, I'm 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.640 such a big fan of international dishes myself. I'm in 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.200 love with flavor combinations. I'm in love with spices, and 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.760 I think having that sort of heritage or cultural cuisine 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:48.240 background I think is really good prep for being on 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:48.840 a show like this. 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.200 What do you think I think, look at having that 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.920 background is helpful in terms of communicating ideas, For example, 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.280 with the team really a challenge. Harry was just like, 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:03.600 all right to do Southeast Asians by curry, and so 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.760 in my head I've got a reference already roughly what 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.920 the ingredients look like around that sure, and so that 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.400 does help. And like, you know, like if you're going 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:15.000 to make a curry, you can generalize a curry recipe 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:18.040 in Southeast Asia by certain number of steps. And you know, 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.040 I was really fortunate to be in that second person, 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.360 and so I could start carrying those things up. But 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.960 in terms of cooking, I actually never learned to cook 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.160 in back home in Singapore. I only learned when I 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.680 came to Australia. And so my Asian cooking isn't that great, 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:32.200 to be honest. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.320 Ah okay, yeah, yeah. What you're telling me is that 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.240 you were very lazy when you were young. You let 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:38.319 your parents do all the cooking. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.120 That is well, when you grow up in Singapore, yok, 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:44.720 or you eat outside you don't have to cook it 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.400 all so very I just enjoyed the fruit. 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.760 I wanted to ask you about this because as a viewer, 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.200 and I also looked online to see people talking about 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.040 this as well. I think that's navs. Don't you think, okay, 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:55.640 you have to give me a just opinions. Don't you 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.000 think that she should have been included in that black 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.320 Apron challenge? Do you think it was fair her to 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.600 sit it out? You know a lot of people were 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:07.080 debating this online, and yeah, I'm wondering what you thought 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.280 about that in the time. Did you think could get 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:10.720 down here and cook with us? 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.640 You know, what did you think to be honest as 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.280 nerdy as people think I am, I'm also quite an 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.599 airhead and I don't really pay attention too much of 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.880 that sort of stuff. And you know, regardless of fair 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.199 not fair, it's not really relevant for me. What it's 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.640 relevant for me is what can I do? What's competition? 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:29.760 Would I what's cook? Will I have to cook on 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:34.040 that day? And so if she was awarded an immunity 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.920 for elimination cook, that's awesome that you know she fought 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.800 so hard she smashed out nine dish or something crazy 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.400 like that, and she fought her way back and if 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.120 that was the rules of the show, and that's what 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.080 they decided to go with out of my cro control. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.559 And so look, I'll celebrate for her, I'll come back 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.040 and I focus on what I have to do the 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:52.520 next day. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.200 See, David, this is how you've gotten through life so well. 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.000 I cry my herds. 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.679 Mentality, having this idea of yeah, that's I think that'll 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:02.400 keep you going. 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:04.400 Oh as a plan. 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.760 What about with your thoughts on when they came back 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.640 and they were cooking this week, did you have a 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.160 guess on who was going to get brought back into 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.920 the competition? Did you think you knew who was coming back? 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.760 I had, I wasn't sure, And like I said, it's 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:23.400 anyone's games, you know. I don't know exactly on what 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.640 the metrics are that they used to judge food and 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.280 how they wait each thing, whether it's like a center 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.440 weighted average or like a you know, the average across 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:37.280 the board. But personally, I loved Schnezz's dish. I would 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.560 have loved her as a person. I love all of them, 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.679 but you know, and I we had quite a few 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.920 cooks together and as bench buddies, and I think she 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.160 just left the competition too early, and I wanted to 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:50.760 see her come back. You know, if I could have 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.160 swapped with her, I would have swapped with her, and 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.160 so personally, I would have loved to see that. But again, 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.880 as someone from a science background, you wait for their 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.440 ups to come out and then you make your conclusions after. 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.520 Fair play, fair play, you'll have to do what I'm doing. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.760 I had the privilege of chatting to Shnaz as you 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:09.679 know I'm talking to you now, and then now we're 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.400 taking on Instagram and swapping dishes. I've gone out and 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.160 bought myself a like a Dutch like a French oven 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:17.880 is what it was called. But yeah, she keeps seeing 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.760 me it's a Dutch oven anyway. And then great, well, 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:26.000 I've been making these dishes now. And so as your 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.640 relationship with her, just like mine is with her, it's 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.080 not ended. You can still hit her up, absolutely right, 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.959 absolutely right, And she had way more to give, and 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:35.679 she just had. 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.360 I knew she had stuff that she didn't get a 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.120 chance to show, which is awesome that she did the 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.880 serving dish when she came back. And you know, right 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.120 after I got eliminated, we started chat out of chat 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.080 with all the people who got eliminated, and it's just 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.480 so awesome that on the other side of me, what. 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.480 About these people that didn't come back? Because that's the 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.200 other conversation that you kept seeing popped up online. You know, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.760 where was where was Steve? You know, was their explanation 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:59.880 to you guys as to we there was two of 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:00.760 them that didn't come back? 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.920 Do I know the honest answer, Yes, I do. I 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:05.360 actually I actually got no idea. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.280 Let's call that I didn't. We'll call it. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.000 I didn't. Yeah, we can, we can call them from 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.160 an art then, but I actually just never checked. I 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:12.520 was just like, oh, you know, I just got so 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.720 caught up with the moment of everyone coming back and 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.000 there's just such high energy, and then I realized, you know, 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.839 Stephen Lauders and dangers, like, oh, you know, I don't know. 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.080 I don't know. It's not my job, but the rest are. 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.839 Here and the rest are fighting for it, so you know, 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:25.520 I'll pay attention to what's run in front of my 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.080 eyes and where we go. 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.040 Well, you haven't helped me with any goss on that one, 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.480 so that's totally fun. There's a huge conversation about the 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.360 screen time of people this season, you know, is there 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:39.360 enough screen content for everyone? And what's your interpretation of that. 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.720 Do you think that the show should be trying to 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.680 evenly split, you know, people to make sure there's equal 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.120 screen time or do you think we just go where 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.360 the story goes? Like, how do you feel about the 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.560 way in which I know? I can't answer this myself. 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:54.920 You know. The funny thing is I can't answer it 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.200 because I didn't edit it either more than it was 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.320 compete and so and I think what with Master Chef, 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.720 you know, you get big days of filming, big days, 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.040 and how much has shown one hour that's you know, 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.960 easily less than ten percent of the content that was filmed. 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:12.800 That you've got to edit and you've got to make 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:16.960 really crazy sharp edits, And that means I guess not 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.000 everyone can get equal screen time. They want to show 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.480 the highlights, they want to show the gasping moments, they 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.440 want to show where you know, maybe it didn't do 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.720 too well, and so you know that's the editors called 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.959 on how they want to edit that. And like I said, 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.640 I'll take what comes. Some people I would have loved 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.000 to see a lot more and hopefully as they stay 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.360 in the competition, they will get a lot more airtime, 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.600 so you know, until the whole season is finished. It's 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.080 a bit hard to say, you know, what's the airtime 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.040 equal or I don't know, but all I can say, 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.600 I'm just super appreciative of when it does come out 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.000 and that we share with each other, just like, oh, 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.440 you remember this happened that wasn't shown, but you know, 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.120 I'm rich just so glad that I got a memory 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:55.360 of it. 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:57.360 Yeah, and that's a good thing as well to have 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.520 those memories. And I've been harassing everyone. It's just such 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.160 an annoying question, and you've been so diplomatic that I'm 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:04.920 now scared as to what your answer is going to be. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:08.600 I'm from Singapore. We shake cans of everyone under Asian Switzerland. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.120 That's what they call it, Asian Switzerland. Well, I don't 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.680 want you to be Switzerland. I don't want any fans 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.400 sitting Who do you want to see win this competition? 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.600 I don't want two names, I don't want three. I 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:20.760 want one name who's left in the competition that you'd 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:21.120 like to see. 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.560 To them, I would love to see them win. 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:24.160 Mm hmm. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.480 That's a tough one. That's like asking me what my 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:28.280 favorite food is. 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:29.960 That's okay, because I'm going to move on to that 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:33.240 next if you don't answer this one correctly, Oh. 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.640 Well, you know, well I tell people when you ask 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:37.400 me a question what your favorite food is, it's like 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:39.720 asking what your favorite who your favorite child is? These 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.000 are all questions. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:43.960 Yes, well you know that for different reasons. But David, 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:45.680 do you want to know you're the favorite child? You 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.720 want to know? Come on, we we well, I. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.880 Definitely I definitely want the favorite child. That's not a problem. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.320 You know, I take I claim that, and my siblings 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.240 give me for that. But that's okay. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.520 This is a this is a double barrel question. So 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.320 I'm not even just asking who do you want to win? 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:01.520 I want to know who you' favorite judges? So can 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.600 he help me? Yeah, let's go. We'll go with those 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:04.320 two questions. 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.840 Who I want to win? Okay, let's if you force 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.360 me to say one person. Yeah, I would say I 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.040 want Dash to win. Okay, because you know that when 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:17.720 he did that are chicken and gravy dessert? I mean 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.000 that for me was just like, you know what, you 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.760 pulled off something extraordinary here. I was really envious that 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:26.960 he pulled that off. That was inspirational for me. It's 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:28.600 just like I would love to pull something off like 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.120 that and so and that was like a perfect sweet, 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.000 savory dessert and it just blew my mind. And for 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.080 that reason, that's stuck in my head. And if you 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:37.880 had to force me to say, well, that's the one 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.080 I'm going with. But again, there's all of them. I 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.880 love all of them for different reasons, and that's just 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:45.600 me being diplomatic but also true. 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:47.640 Well, I like dash it and I'm really happy with 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:49.960 I'd be fine. I'd be fine him with him holding 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.800 up the plate at the end. Yeah, we haven't talked 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.360 much about the judges, and in previous chats I have 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.440 sort of unpacked youre but putting you on the spot 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.960 with this. We've got four very amazing people, all very 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.360 different in lots of ways with their personalities and the 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.640 way in which they appear to be relating to everyone. 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.880 Who did you feel you connected with the most? 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:15.360 That's a tough one for me. I connected well with 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.200 Jean Crosov and Paul. If you have to choose one 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.040 who I connected a little bit more with, I would 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:23.280 say is Paul. She you know grew up in issues 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.680 from leisure. She understand it where I came from in 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:30.240 terms of the cultural contexts, but also could respect when 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.040 I deviated off that, especially in Behind and in Chicken Rise. 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.320 She was like, you know, this is so familiar for me, 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.600 and you've done this specific thing that's different, and I 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:42.000 respect that. And she could really take that on board 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.640 and also really give me good advice, you know, and 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.440 so and you know a couple of times when I cried, 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.320 she definitely gave me a hut that's on the side then, 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:49.720 So that from me was it. Yeah. 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.720 You know, David, they often talk about this about people 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.920 being very genuine, and that's sort of a bit of 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.160 a buzzword. But the thing that I recognize about Poe 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:03.160 and the interactions I've had with her is she's present, Yes, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.560 you know what I mean. Like, that's where you can 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.919 see when someone's being genuine is when they're really present. 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:10.919 They're not thinking about what they're going to say next, 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:15.080 They're listening to you and they're curious. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:15.000 You know. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.679 And I think that's where Poe works the best. 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:22.159 Yeah, and she was really grateful that and she you know, 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.080 because it's a contestant before like Andy a bit more fresh, 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.040 and it's the first time and so you know, she's 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.240 done an amazing job. And I definitely I feel like 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:31.920