Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on
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Speaker 1: back to TV Reload. I want to thank you for
Speaker 1: clicking and downloading. On today's episode, with the runner up
Speaker 1: of Master Chef Australia for twenty twenty four, Australia's current
Speaker 1: favorite Tasmanian Josh Pez Perry Pezz is here to discuss
Speaker 1: the heihs and lows of that nail biting finale, and
Speaker 1: he really didn't even seem to notice that I was
Speaker 1: still sounding like a sick donkey with my cold. I
Speaker 1: apologize if I am a little bit off, but I
Speaker 1: have to say I loved chatting about his time on
Speaker 1: Mastershef Australia, something I simply couldn't miss. We will unpack
Speaker 1: the finale and find out why Pezz thinks he always
Speaker 1: comes second. There is a great opportunity to talk about
Speaker 1: his future if he will be also cooking at the
Speaker 1: Alumni restaurant, and what he hopes to achieve in bringing
Speaker 1: people to Tasmania. We will talk about why I got
Speaker 1: competitive in the final five and what sort of sacrifices
Speaker 1: people made to be on the show. We will dive
Speaker 1: deep into his reflection beyond the experience, and we will
Speaker 1: also find out what his relationship is actually like with
Speaker 1: Nat and how he truly feels about her Win. There
Speaker 1: is so much to unpack with Pezzer, as you can imagine,
Speaker 1: So sit back and relax as we unpack the wonderful
Speaker 1: world of Mastership Australia for twenty twenty four. Hi Pether,
Speaker 1: Hey gal mate, I'm good. I'm very excited to be
Speaker 1: talking to you. I think that you're everyone's favorite Tasmanian
Speaker 1: at the moment. Did you have any beers last night?
Speaker 1: I need to know, Like that was a I've got
Speaker 1: a laugh out of you just then, which makes me
Speaker 1: think that you might have punched a few beers last
Speaker 1: night while celebrating, commiser rating.
Speaker 2: Quiet night for me last night and eight two single
Speaker 2: mold Lark whiskys night was me and a glass sorry
Speaker 2: and a glass of red wine with my at a
Speaker 2: state that was good.
Speaker 1: That's on brandfoid. I wondered whether or not you'd been
Speaker 1: planning those drinks. Like if it was me and I'd
Speaker 1: been waiting months to watch this finale, I'd be like
Speaker 1: I would know that I'm getting up to talk to
Speaker 1: the media tomorrow. I have probably only two. I need
Speaker 1: to plan what they are.
Speaker 3: It was pretty quiet.
Speaker 2: That's actually the young fellow's birthday last night, so we
Speaker 2: just had a family tea and kicked back and had Yeah.
Speaker 3: Then the young fellow drunk. What did we drink?
Speaker 2: A bit of tas Maine, A bit of brim creek
Speaker 2: I think it was pen and yeah, prim creek penan noa.
Speaker 2: We had that with our steak, and then I finished,
Speaker 2: like I said with I had put a nice bottle
Speaker 2: of lark Away that I had got a I re
Speaker 2: think it was a couple of years ago, which was
Speaker 2: quite tasty. So a couple of them and a cup
Speaker 2: of tea to finish up.
Speaker 1: I would love to be a fly on the wall
Speaker 1: when you finally get to have a few more drinks.
Speaker 1: That would be a fun day down there.
Speaker 3: I reckon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'll get a bit wild sometimes when I
Speaker 2: lit the hair there mate, So I'm definitely overdue.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was really interesting and I felt like the
Speaker 1: producers really set us up. I feel like your story
Speaker 1: arc in the finale was heartbreaking, where they kept saying,
Speaker 1: they kept showing you saying I'm always number two and
Speaker 1: I was like, there is so many people that relate
Speaker 1: to that. There's so many people in their lives always
Speaker 1: feel like they're number two. At that point, I think
Speaker 1: Australia thought, well, Pez's going to win this, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: they can't say this, they can't put us through this
Speaker 1: only for them to take it away from you. How
Speaker 1: did you feel watching that?
Speaker 2: I sort of looked at the wife a few times
Speaker 2: and thought the same thing. You know, and it's not
Speaker 2: just for to tell you it's a story in my life.
Speaker 2: It really is so many seconds in footy, you know,
Speaker 2: to coach for a year and then get bet in
Speaker 2: a grand viol and do it all again with the
Speaker 2: same team and think we won better and then go
Speaker 2: down again. It was just it has been the story
Speaker 2: of my life and maybe it is Pez a second again.
Speaker 2: That's probably how it's just always going to be for me.
Speaker 2: But I think one thing that really hit home was
Speaker 2: when Andy said, you know, you haven't disgraced your family.
Speaker 2: You definitely haven't felt like I'd let them down. And
Speaker 2: he said, you haven't let them down. And I think
Speaker 2: that's where I'm probably first places that I've got a
Speaker 2: lot more than what other people don't have, you know,
Speaker 2: so a really loving and caring family that I'm super
Speaker 2: proud of my kids and the wife. So I'll make
Speaker 2: up for it in different place. Made I might not
Speaker 2: have got the two hundred and fifty thousand then took
Speaker 2: the win, But I'm a pretty lucky boy and really
Speaker 2: happy with where life is for me at the moment
Speaker 2: and where it has been for a long time. So
Speaker 2: I really started with that.
Speaker 1: I always think of that story about Cindy Crawford, and
Speaker 1: we're about the same age, so we know who Cindy
Speaker 1: Crawford is, while people who are a bit younger might
Speaker 1: not necessarily know who that is. But she went to
Speaker 1: university and she came second in her class, and I
Speaker 1: always think of that whenever I come second. I think,
Speaker 1: if Cindy Crawford is number two, that ain't bad. It's okay.
Speaker 3: May yeah, I thought the same.
Speaker 2: Pope kept doing it all through this season, you know, like,
Speaker 2: I come second and look where I am now. And
Speaker 2: that's a real good one too, you know when you
Speaker 2: look back at what post achieved since she comes second
Speaker 2: on the first ever season. So look, I think there's
Speaker 2: still big things for me. And if there's not I'm
Speaker 2: just so happy with what I did and where I come, Like,
Speaker 2: I was so close to the first episode to be
Speaker 2: going home first, you know. So I grew through the show,
Speaker 2: I still think, and they've sort of put that out
Speaker 2: there a lot. I'm probably one that grew the most
Speaker 2: through the show and that's something that, look, I can
Speaker 2: hang my hat on that I've done really well and
Speaker 2: I'm happy on my journey.
Speaker 1: So do you think that there is any psychology that
Speaker 1: unconsciously you only believe that you can be number two
Speaker 1: and that somehow affects the outcome? And I'm not a psychologist,
Speaker 1: so I'm asking you this question. I've got nothing for you,
Speaker 1: but I'm just curious about how you interpret that, because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people in this world that thinks
Speaker 1: that they bring about what they think about. And then
Speaker 1: I thought about this a lot last night after watching
Speaker 1: the finale, and I thought, is it that you believe
Speaker 1: that you're the number two? Is there a chance that
Speaker 1: we need to talk to you about leveling yourself up
Speaker 1: and making you think it's possible to win.
Speaker 2: Your sound of a wife mate, you really do, That's
Speaker 2: what she said to me last night. She says, like,
Speaker 2: if you think you get in the flu. Josh, you'll
Speaker 2: talk yourself into it. You was talking yourself into Coven
Speaker 2: second before the show, even before the episode started. So look, mate,
Speaker 2: you could be tirely right. I might be just and
Speaker 2: I'm probably thinking that it could be right. I could
Speaker 2: be thinking that, jeez, I don't want to be second
Speaker 2: again in this football Grand Final, and I played out
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 3: So look, maybe I do need a mindset change.
Speaker 2: But I'm getting too old for football now, so I've
Speaker 2: retired and.
Speaker 3: I don't know what more challenges I'm going to go. Look,
Speaker 3: I've made second in the.
Speaker 2: Best Bacon in Australia a couple of times like it.
Speaker 3: It just seems to be me. So maybe I do
Speaker 3: talk myself into it.
Speaker 1: And it needs to change. We definitely need to change
Speaker 1: that about you. But at the same time, I also
Speaker 1: think there's something about your underdog status that was really
Speaker 1: endearing throughout the series. And I also don't think that
Speaker 1: we always need to win. I think sometimes being clipped
Speaker 1: just that little bit means that you work just that
Speaker 1: much harder, and as long as you don't give up
Speaker 1: and you keep going, I think sometimes coming second or
Speaker 1: sometimes just competing is important.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 2: It probably keeps that bit of fire burning inside your
Speaker 2: belly to keep you wanting to go on to morow
Speaker 2: and something new. So I've never been one to sit
Speaker 2: back and dwell on what's happened. I know you do
Speaker 2: for a day, but then you've got to get back
Speaker 2: on the bike and you've got to go again. So
Speaker 2: I think I've still got that drive to do something
Speaker 2: where you could quite easily say, oh this is me.
Speaker 2: I'm done, and i don't mind what's next, and I'm
Speaker 2: happy where I'm at, because I'm never going to be
Speaker 2: happy where I'm at. I'm one of those guys that
Speaker 2: likes to keep spending money and growing, and whether it's
Speaker 2: the business, or whether it's the family house, or whether
Speaker 2: it's something else, it's just just a passion of mine
Speaker 2: that I'm not happy where I'm at.
Speaker 1: Yet.
Speaker 3: You know, you only get.
Speaker 2: Out a lot what you put into it, and I
Speaker 2: just still want to grow in and leave some of
Speaker 2: the beautiful kids that I've got and look, there's already
Speaker 2: a few bits and pieces. But the bigger that I
Speaker 2: get and the more I do, and the more I
Speaker 2: can give them, And that's what I'm all about so
Speaker 2: definitely haven't heard the last of me.
Speaker 3: That's for sure.
Speaker 2: That there's something bigger and better just around the corner
Speaker 2: for me, I think, and we've just got to find
Speaker 2: what that is and take it full noise and hopefully
Speaker 2: do it the best time and come number one.
Speaker 1: I think that there was something about you that is
Speaker 1: in your eyes. And I don't know whether or not
Speaker 1: this now makes me seem creepy, like I was watching
Speaker 1: too hard. But you're a bit of a dreamer, do
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And you're the type of
Speaker 1: guy that moves on to the next project and dreams
Speaker 1: up something big and to get onto Master Chef to
Speaker 1: come second, this is a huge it's a huge achievement
Speaker 1: like this doesn't happen to other people, and I think
Speaker 1: that that comes down to the importance of dreaming big.
Speaker 3: Look, I totally agree.
Speaker 2: I've got a lot of people and look, there's some
Speaker 2: bad stories about it, but I'm not going to get
Speaker 2: into that that people around here think that I am
Speaker 2: a dreamer and he's never going to do it.
Speaker 3: But I like to prove people wrong. That's me and
Speaker 3: I am a dreamer and.
Speaker 2: I've got these so many big ideas that what I
Speaker 2: still want to do. You know, I want this restaurant
Speaker 2: and I'd love a small goods plant at the back
Speaker 2: of it, and I'd love a gin distillery and to
Speaker 2: make my own whisky. And so everybody comes in and
Speaker 2: they can drink more whiskey and drink the gin, and
Speaker 2: you know, and see that the meat hanging in the
Speaker 2: dry aging room, and get taught to make sausages and
Speaker 2: eat a beautiful steak, and you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: that whole experience of what's so beautiful here in Tasmania.
Speaker 3: So I've still got a lot of big dreams.
Speaker 2: And what eventuate from that is is going to be
Speaker 2: entirely up to me and where I want to take it.
Speaker 2: So the kids, I want to teach them to think.
Speaker 3: Big their self.
Speaker 2: This is a small place, but it shouldn't be small
Speaker 2: smith and shouldn't be a small place that nobody.
Speaker 3: Wants to come and visit. We should get everybody.
Speaker 2: You know, there's so much beautiful beef, so much beautiful
Speaker 2: vegetables and lamb and the produce available here in the
Speaker 2: home of Cape Grim Beef.
Speaker 3: And look how big is the dairy industry in here.
Speaker 2: We should have ice cream shops, and we should have
Speaker 2: chocolate shops and we should have everything here.
Speaker 3: It's just so beautiful.
Speaker 2: We've just got a cheese shop, and we need to
Speaker 2: get people off that boat at Devonport and getting to
Speaker 2: turn and ride instead of going to Hobart, Like I
Speaker 2: think they can go that way too, but we've got
Speaker 2: to mix it up a bit. So three and Big
Speaker 2: Life's you're icedy and know if you have a real crack.
Speaker 1: I love Tasmania. So that was just an advert Tasmania.
Speaker 1: I think Andy might have said, Oh it wasn't Andy.
Speaker 1: I think it was. Curtis ed it as well. He
Speaker 1: was like, this man is a walking, talking advertisement for Tasmania. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he told me.
Speaker 2: Said to me once before, he said, look, Peza, if
Speaker 2: you're not running Tasmanian soon, something's wrong. You are tourism
Speaker 2: Tasmania written all over you, like there's they should be
Speaker 2: gobbling you up and just running with your ideas, because
Speaker 2: who comes on a show like this and just cooks
Speaker 2: all Tasmanian produce And you know, you just believe and
Speaker 2: you're believable.
Speaker 3: Your story is believable. So yeah, it's easy.
Speaker 2: If you do believe, you can sell things that you're
Speaker 2: passionate about.
Speaker 3: It's harder to go on and.
Speaker 2: Me to sell something that I don't love. But what
Speaker 2: we produce here I love and I'm passionate about, so
Speaker 2: it's easy. It's an easy sell for mate.
Speaker 1: I'd love to know how many people actually now go
Speaker 1: to Tasmania because you're on this show. I feel like
Speaker 1: there'd be a lot. I wish that we could just
Speaker 1: do a little you know, a little click as they
Speaker 1: walk through and then you get a little bonus. That'd
Speaker 1: be good.
Speaker 3: Sound sounds good.
Speaker 1: I'm all for that. Well, I speak to you in
Speaker 1: a week's time and you'll be the face. You'll be
Speaker 1: the face of tourism.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: A few questions about the show. I'd love to know
Speaker 1: who was your biggest support throughout the filming process, throughout
Speaker 1: the cooking. Who was it that you were there cooking
Speaker 1: alongside that was your biggest supporter.
Speaker 2: It was a if you noticed, it's not like a
Speaker 2: cup road competition.
Speaker 3: We're all really really close, like we support each other.
Speaker 2: But I guess I lived with Steve O, which was
Speaker 2: the crocodile man, Steve Dennis. It was a good mate
Speaker 2: early on, and Juan de la Cruz, you know, the
Speaker 2: Argentinian man. That was our little group. There was me
Speaker 2: and him and Steve myself and one and even being
Speaker 2: John O. That we sort of hung together pretty close
Speaker 2: early days. And then they sort of went sort of
Speaker 2: around that fifteen twelve to fifteen sort of position, and
Speaker 2: I was sort of left not left alone. But then
Speaker 2: I guess we sort of, me and Dash become roommates
Speaker 2: and become pretty close and hung out and we always
Speaker 2: cook together. Look sad and submit and look they used
Speaker 2: to cook big feast.
Speaker 3: We was all pretty close.
Speaker 2: But I guess probably my best friend on the whole
Speaker 2: show would have been one I would be and yeah,
Speaker 2: but then got really close towards Dash, Harry and Lockey
Speaker 2: towards the end because we went pretty deep.
Speaker 3: They've guys. So look, a very hard question because I
Speaker 3: love them all.
Speaker 1: No, it's a hard question because also, Master Chef, what
Speaker 1: people don't realize is so chaptered. You know, when people leave,
Speaker 1: your living conditions change. You know, you might be then
Speaker 1: by yourself for a little bit, but then they move
Speaker 1: someone else in with you. So it's a very unusual
Speaker 1: process behind the scenes over such a long shoot. And
Speaker 1: Master Cheffer, I think is the longest shoot that we
Speaker 1: do for a reality show these days in Australia. So
Speaker 1: you know, it's quite the process, no doubt.
Speaker 2: You're looking at nearly half a year's it's a big commitment.
Speaker 3: And that's the thing.
Speaker 2: More you get close to people because they see you're
Speaker 2: ups and down, you know, especially the guys.
Speaker 3: I think, the people you live with. You know what I've.
Speaker 2: Seen and down from all them guys. I've seen, you know,
Speaker 2: Steve O go home. I've seen him go through that
Speaker 2: emotion of going home. I seen the people that I
Speaker 2: was with, I seen them all go home, because obviously
Speaker 2: it was only I was the end. But that's hard,
Speaker 2: and it's you know, you try and talk and we
Speaker 2: have our ups and downs with bad cooks, and you know,
Speaker 2: you come home and we used to eat a lot together,
Speaker 2: just sit down and cook a meal for each other.
Speaker 3: And there's a lot of.
Speaker 2: Nights when you come home and I just shut my
Speaker 2: door in my room and went to bed and had
Speaker 2: a shower and got in bed and didn't have anything
Speaker 2: to eat, and you're just down because the cook just
Speaker 2: didn't go to plan. And I just talked to the
Speaker 2: wife for a few hours on the phone and then
Speaker 2: hit the sack and had to be revitalized and energized
Speaker 2: for the next day to go and do it all again.
Speaker 3: That's what it was like.
Speaker 2: So but all I could say is very supportive everybody
Speaker 2: on the show. I could not say that I had
Speaker 2: any trouble with anybody, and I don't think anybody had
Speaker 2: any real trouble with anybody. Maybe an argument here and there,
Speaker 2: we didn't see eye, but nobody hated each other by
Speaker 2: any means.
Speaker 1: I don't think you asked that show that way anyway,
Speaker 1: you know, like that's exactly right. They're not looking for that.
Speaker 3: Probably got a bit competitive, That's all i'd say. Once
Speaker 3: we got to the top.
Speaker 2: Five, But you're paying for a quarter of a million dollars,
Speaker 2: like it's you understand that, And a lot of people
Speaker 2: give up their jobs to go on there, like I
Speaker 2: didn't have to do that. But you've got to give
Speaker 2: credit where credits to a lot of people change their
Speaker 2: whole life for that show. You know, left really good jobs,
Speaker 2: left had had mortgages and went on to a show
Speaker 2: that it's really tough, and then got to go back
Speaker 2: out and try and make it in this world of
Speaker 2: being a chef now, like a lot of them are
Speaker 2: trying to do that and trying to make a name,
Speaker 2: and a lot younger than me and not as well
Speaker 2: established as where I was when I went into the competition,
Speaker 2: So I take my hat off to them sort of
Speaker 2: guys young You know, there was a couple of school teachers,
Speaker 2: me and Me and James that left school teaching for
Speaker 2: twelve months and now they'll probably go back to it,
Speaker 2: but I don't know when they could, and.
Speaker 3: It's a big it's.
Speaker 2: A big thing, So good on them for having a
Speaker 2: crack and putting themself out there.
Speaker 1: What was the dynamic like with you and nat on
Speaker 1: the day? And I just spoke to Nod about this
Speaker 1: and I thought it was really interesting because you both
Speaker 1: are in there so passionate to win, And I talked
Speaker 1: to her about how emotional you were to win. That's
Speaker 1: a strange process to have you both in there side
Speaker 1: by side competing like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, me and Natty got on really well.
Speaker 2: We probably didn't spend a huge amount of time in
Speaker 2: the early days together, but look, I was so happy that. Look,
Speaker 2: she was the force to be reckoned with to start
Speaker 2: off with. That's who was all chasing I say her
Speaker 2: and Sad were really fantastic. They were already made chefs
Speaker 2: when they come through the door.
Speaker 3: That's what their flavors were. Unbelievable. I had to just
Speaker 3: crawl before I walked.
Speaker 2: You know, I knew that I had to work hard
Speaker 2: where it was natural to them guys. But when we
Speaker 2: got down to the last two, I guess the last five.
Speaker 2: For me, I was just cooking with love and having
Speaker 2: a bit of fun. And wherever I went, I went,
Speaker 2: I didn't I still wanted to win, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: but I just enjoyed it. Whereas when I first started,
Speaker 2: I didn't want to be the first to go, and
Speaker 2: I didn't want to I wanted to make that the
Speaker 2: top fifteen, and I wanted to make the top ten.
Speaker 2: But when I got down and I'm standing beside her
Speaker 2: in the grand finale, you know, I thought, and it
Speaker 2: sounds bad. I had everything to win and she had
Speaker 2: everything to lose. I thought, you're missing. And that's the
Speaker 2: way I see. You know, some football matches, you know
Speaker 2: you're going, and I was the underdog, I thought, so
Speaker 2: I needed. I just needed to really enjoyed it and
Speaker 2: see if I could pull off a miracle Abita.
Speaker 3: So we cheered each other on. There was no well
Speaker 3: I don't know what she said, but I didn't feel
Speaker 3: any acts against each other.
Speaker 1: We just no no love. She was very Yeah we
Speaker 1: loved each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we loved each other's company, and we're having a
Speaker 2: bit of fun. I said, you got this, you know,
Speaker 2: and she said, like, hell, Pezzy, you know what you're like.
Speaker 3: I said, you got me with three points in the
Speaker 3: early one and no, no, they'd be silly. Pezzy.
Speaker 2: You know you know what you can do, and that's
Speaker 2: exactly right. I believed I still could, but look I
Speaker 2: put it out here now. I'm so pleased she won.
Speaker 2: I've had a chance to reflect and look, I was disappointed,
Speaker 2: and I run through my head what ifs, and as
Speaker 2: we all do, like after every final that you lose, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I should have done this, or I should what happens
Speaker 3: if i'd've done that? Not good? I've won, But you.
Speaker 2: Can't live like that. You've just got to move on
Speaker 2: and don't worry about what you know. You can't change
Speaker 2: what happened yesterday, but you can only set it up
Speaker 2: for tomorrow. So I just I'm really proud of what
Speaker 2: she achieved. She I hope she does something really big
Speaker 2: in the future. I'd love to sit down and like
Speaker 2: I said, no, I'm not paying, but I'd love to
Speaker 2: come to your restaurant. And she just laughed at She's
Speaker 2: got the energy and the skill to make something really
Speaker 2: big for herself.
Speaker 3: She's only young, so I hope she does. And yeah,
Speaker 3: I just wish her all the best.
Speaker 1: She's going to be cooking at the Alumni Restaurant, which
Speaker 1: is a crank casino in Melbourne. Are you going to
Speaker 1: be doing some cooks there as well?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: Fans get a chance to taste your food in that experience,
Speaker 1: not that I.
Speaker 3: Know of at this day.
Speaker 1: I'd love to, so we hope get me there.
Speaker 2: I'm sure I'd love to take that taste of Tazzy
Speaker 2: to them.
Speaker 3: I think they really love that over there. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I would have.
Speaker 2: Loved to have got over, and I should have got
Speaker 2: a free invitation.
Speaker 3: I would have thought to go and have a feed
Speaker 3: maybe in the mail, I hope.
Speaker 2: So I thought that that would have.
Speaker 3: Been good to see me their eatings.
Speaker 2: But no, I haven't sort of heard too much about anything. Well,
Speaker 2: I haven't got anything really planned yet, just sort of
Speaker 2: been waiting for this to all set up. There's a
Speaker 2: few people been sniffing around down here to see if
Speaker 2: I do cooks and what. And now is the time
Speaker 2: that we open up and we see what we're going
Speaker 2: to do, whether I do some pop ups or there's
Speaker 2: a few festivals down here that I've been talking with
Speaker 2: guys and just I'd really love to get out around
Speaker 2: Tazzy and and I know it sounds funny, but I
Speaker 2: think I've got fans now, Like the little kids are
Speaker 2: coming to shop are mesmerized to see you, And that's
Speaker 2: what it's all about.
Speaker 3: I love seeing little Look, I've got grandkids in that.
Speaker 2: But these little kids they come to the shop, they're
Speaker 2: too nervous to talk to their parents.
Speaker 3: Say, oh, you don't stop talking about Peter at home.
Speaker 3: Here he is, you know, talk with him. And that
Speaker 3: just makes my day, It really does so.
Speaker 2: And to hear some of the social media from one
Speaker 2: last night when I finished, I don't know if you've
Speaker 2: seen it, but a lady rode on there that she
Speaker 2: was a daughter said to her that, mommy, if I
Speaker 2: can marry somebody like Peza and have kids like he's God,
Speaker 2: I think that'd be just so fantastic.
Speaker 3: You know, that's what I want. I got a tear
Speaker 3: in my and I laid back.
Speaker 2: Look, that's that's really touched me to the wife reading
Speaker 2: it to me and she's having a tear, and I thought,
Speaker 2: that's that's what makes all the show all worthwhile to
Speaker 2: me to.
Speaker 3: Hear something like that from a lady.
Speaker 2: And if she's seen me all the time, she probably
Speaker 2: wouldn't want somebody like me. But that's what the wife said,
Speaker 2: She probably when you're out of the grog and you're
Speaker 2: a real mongrel sort of, yeah, she probably doesn't want you.
Speaker 2: But it was good and it was touching, and that
Speaker 2: that makes it all worthwhile.
Speaker 3: It really does.
Speaker 1: Don't go on these shows to sort of have those moments.
Speaker 1: They're kind of the icing on the top icing, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like it's so surreal, and
Speaker 1: then you don't ever see yourself like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: you kind of can dream and you apply and you
Speaker 1: put yourself in that situation, but you certainly don't think
Speaker 1: you're ever going to resonate to that level, which I
Speaker 1: think is really cool.
Speaker 2: Look, I agree, you don't if you're going on there
Speaker 2: to become famous or going on this show for the
Speaker 2: wrong reasons.
Speaker 1: Don't bother about it because we'll see that. You know,
Speaker 1: people get through that pretty quickly. Before you go, I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you, you know, they bring people back
Speaker 1: on these shows like a master Chef. They certainly bring
Speaker 1: people back. You know, they'll come up with a name
Speaker 1: for it. But ultimately it's like in All Stars, if
Speaker 1: you could pick three people from this season that you
Speaker 1: think story hasn't been finished, could you pick three people
Speaker 1: that you think have got a storyline that would be
Speaker 1: good to continue.
Speaker 2: I think the ones that have been there long have
Speaker 2: had their chance, even with me and whatnot. I'd love
Speaker 2: to see some of the ones that went early in
Speaker 2: the show. I think, you know, James first to go,
Speaker 2: that he didn't get an opportunity to really showcase anything,
Speaker 2: and he could have grew just as much as me.
Speaker 2: I think he'd be a great guy. And look, I
Speaker 2: love James. You wouldn't have got a nicer guy. I
Speaker 2: think Mimi still had a lot to offer. Mimi, like one,
Speaker 2: you're only one bad cookoff going home, which is so
Speaker 2: bloody hard, So I think she had a lot more
Speaker 2: to offer. And I really thought Schnares was a real,
Speaker 2: real winner and I just got to throw one more
Speaker 2: some meat. She would have had a lot more to that,
Speaker 2: the Indian sauce queen, you know, source boss sub meat.
Speaker 2: You will not get a nicer lady than her. She
Speaker 2: was just so calming and loved everybody. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: think she had a lot more to offer too.
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with all those people. Let's organize to get
Speaker 1: together before you go. Something I ask everyone who joins
Speaker 1: the show is what is something from behind the scenes,
Speaker 1: Something that you know was a part of your journey
Speaker 1: being on Mastership this year that maybe audiences didn't get
Speaker 1: a chance to see.
Speaker 2: I just the fun that we have behind the scenes,
Speaker 2: all the contestants, you know, us getting together and having
Speaker 2: big cookups.
Speaker 3: That's what we did and we enjoyed.
Speaker 2: I like, we had a little spot where we stay
Speaker 2: where we could have a barbecue and we could get
Speaker 2: out and Christian love playing the guitar, you know, and
Speaker 2: we'd have a sing and we'd sit out and we'd
Speaker 2: all just bring a dish of food each and we'd
Speaker 2: sit up there and crack the bottles of red and
Speaker 2: the whiskey and just have really good nights where we
Speaker 2: sit down and unwarned.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of good times on the show.
Speaker 2: You see the highs and you see the lowest of lows,
Speaker 2: but you don't see the most of the time.
Speaker 3: It's a really fun place to be and we get
Speaker 3: on really really well, and we'd have a lot of
Speaker 3: fun together.
Speaker 1: I have to let you go, but I feel like
Speaker 1: I could talk to you with forever, Like you are
Speaker 1: just a very warm person. I think you're a very
Speaker 1: caring person. I think that you're extremely talented with what
Speaker 1: it is that you do in the kitchen. There's so
Speaker 1: much more to your story. And Australia I like whilst
Speaker 1: they didn't see you win, it's only made them more
Speaker 1: hungrier to see what you do next. So we're in
Speaker 1: your audience.
Speaker 3: Thanks mate, I appreciate your time. Steel free to give
Speaker 3: your call anytime.
Speaker 1: Oh my best friend is from Tasmania. Her family's still
Speaker 1: down there and so I go to Tazzy all the time.
Speaker 1: So I'll make sure I look you up in the
Speaker 1: in the yellow pages.
Speaker 3: Hoping up for one of those pes. Mate.
Speaker 1: Sounds good. Enjoy reveling this, enjoy your time, Thanks comer
Speaker 1: bye now s mate.