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Speaker 1: for clicking and downloading on today's episode with Dash, the
Speaker 1: seventeenth eliminated contestant on Master Chef Australia, which is on
Speaker 1: Network ten next week, changing to Sunday nights through to
Speaker 1: Tuesday nights at seven point thirty. Growing up the only
Speaker 1: child of Trilling comparents, Dash's love of food was heavily
Speaker 1: influenced by his late father, a chef in an Indian restaurant,
Speaker 1: who Dash would watch in the kitchen in absolute awe.
Speaker 1: To this day, his dad remains his biggest influence on
Speaker 1: how Dash approaches life with passion and creativity to traits
Speaker 1: that he brought to the Master Chef Australian competition. In spades,
Speaker 1: Dash will unpack everything from the everything cook to peas
Speaker 1: and crabshells, and what he thinks about potential chefs auditioning
Speaker 1: for Master Chef. We will also unpack the pressure of
Speaker 1: the time restraints, the commentary from the gantry, and what
Speaker 1: actually happens to you when you get booted from the
Speaker 1: Master Chef Kitchen. I will ask about his relationship with
Speaker 1: the remaining five contestants, who he wants to win, and
Speaker 1: what also made Poe cry continuously through filming. We will
Speaker 1: also discuss his future plans and if there are any
Speaker 1: disadvantages to the way in which they set those elimination cooks.
Speaker 1: There's actually so much to unpack with Dash, so sit
Speaker 1: back and relax as we unpack the wonderful world of
Speaker 1: Master Chef Australia. Hey, May were you at the other
Speaker 1: end just and I just wouldn't be there? Is that
Speaker 1: what was happening for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I was just hang it out, Okay.
Speaker 4: That's all right.
Speaker 1: It always happens with people that I get excited about
Speaker 1: talking to. So a little bit of tea, no, But
Speaker 1: you know what, I know what's really funny was that
Speaker 1: yesterday I don't always read the comments on my podcast,
Speaker 1: but people were like, You're so nice to all of
Speaker 1: these Master Chef people, and I'm like, am I not
Speaker 1: supposed to be?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: Imagine if I had a podcast where I just you know,
Speaker 1: got on got on the chat and was like, you know, horrible.
Speaker 1: I think we should start this chat. By the way,
Speaker 1: by acknowledging how outraged the fans were that you're out
Speaker 1: of the competition, because I woke up this morning and
Speaker 1: there was like articles on like different publications with people furious.
Speaker 3: Really, Yes, I've had a chance to Adam all.
Speaker 5: So that's what I'm going to do straight after this.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: That I say this to you on good authority that
Speaker 1: this is the first eliminated person that we've seen this
Speaker 1: sort of articles being printed.
Speaker 4: So look, a lot of disappointed people that you're out.
Speaker 2: The support's been amazing, It's been absolutely wild, and I
Speaker 2: think I'll saying to the network yesterday they've been given
Speaker 2: a very kind edit and I'm not actually as nice
Speaker 2: a guy and real that's just what they're making me
Speaker 2: out to tell.
Speaker 4: Me more, what do you mean? What do you do well?
Speaker 1: You're easily one of the most talked about cooks. I
Speaker 1: think it's because of your cooking ability. Not bad to
Speaker 1: look at, always a good thing. I think that it's
Speaker 1: going to help you in some way coming out of
Speaker 1: this competition, win or lose, to take this to another level.
Speaker 1: Being memorable like this does really help, even if you
Speaker 1: don't take out the competition.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think because I'm such a huge fan of
Speaker 2: your podcast and I've been listening to it all and
Speaker 2: I remember when you were trying to lucky about like
Speaker 2: X factors and stuff like that, and you don't go
Speaker 2: into the competition obviously thinking like you've got an next factor.
Speaker 5: You just hope they.
Speaker 2: Choose you based on your cooking ability. But I think
Speaker 2: everyone in their own right had like something to bring
Speaker 2: other than cooking, you know, And so for me, I
Speaker 2: always thought that was, you know, sweet or savory, and
Speaker 2: I try to really flex like the savory because I
Speaker 2: didn't want to be the zerk eye.
Speaker 5: But yeah, we'll see what comes of it. It's definitely
Speaker 5: like such.
Speaker 2: An amazing experience and hopefully use it for a spring
Speaker 2: board for whatever's next, know.
Speaker 1: What that's going to be. Are you already planning that?
Speaker 1: I mean you've had a little while since the film.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so definitely I've got a few
Speaker 2: things on the go, like in the background in terms
Speaker 2: of like events and some collaborations which can't just announce
Speaker 2: just yet. But I mean, I'm going to be very
Speaker 2: active on social media, so obviously my Instagram, I love
Speaker 2: like video editing and all that kind of stuff. So
Speaker 2: bringing food, content of food that you know it'll be
Speaker 2: good to cook without that massive.
Speaker 5: Clock looming over you, and just like.
Speaker 2: Cooking stuff that is really true to you know, my style,
Speaker 2: mortial anchor and more curries, lots of desserts, that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff.
Speaker 1: I feel like at this point, like if I was
Speaker 1: your friend, I would send you a congratulations present being
Speaker 1: like a bag of peas.
Speaker 5: That would be brutal.
Speaker 2: I look, obviously the cook was a long time ago,
Speaker 2: Like obviously I only haired last night, But I can
Speaker 2: tell you I'm not over peace. I Yeah, they broke
Speaker 2: me on that day and they continue to break me.
Speaker 5: I haven't been able to look at once since.
Speaker 1: How long had you been filming the show at this point?
Speaker 1: Like had you been there for like nearly three months?
Speaker 1: When did it finish? Like how long ago?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it had finished a few months
Speaker 2: ago and I had been there for about yeah, three months,
Speaker 2: so I was there for a decent stint.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been a long time.
Speaker 2: Seeing watching it back has been really really good, And
Speaker 2: I didn't get too upset about.
Speaker 3: Watching him back last night. You know, it was a
Speaker 3: really full circle moment.
Speaker 2: And it was great to know, just reflect on the
Speaker 2: whole time. But I think the biggest thing was like
Speaker 2: with the peas was one thing, But I think I
Speaker 2: was disappointed about serving up shell to the judges as well,
Speaker 2: And just like I disappointed them in that aspect, I'd
Speaker 2: rather have just been like, oh, it was a textual
Speaker 2: thing or something else, rather than like, there's bits of
Speaker 2: crabshell in there dish.
Speaker 1: But like, it's interesting that we got to see a
Speaker 1: challenge with the three of you, and you've got Harry
Speaker 1: who is the king of fish like seafood basically his aquaman.
Speaker 1: You know, when you've got a dish that is going
Speaker 1: to lean into his skill set, do you start to think,
Speaker 1: is this a little unfair that he's been given a
Speaker 1: seafood opportunity? And does that cross your mind? I mean,
Speaker 1: do you delve that deep into it or is that
Speaker 1: just something hard?
Speaker 3: Honestly, I didn't think too much on it because we're.
Speaker 2: At that stage of the competition where I should be
Speaker 2: able to cook, you know, savy. Obviously everyone's got their
Speaker 2: own skill sets, and to be honest, when it comes.
Speaker 3: To pressure tests, the vast majority of them are desserts.
Speaker 5: So even my.
Speaker 2: First pressure test that I almost went home on that
Speaker 2: was a dessert, So it kind of like, yeah, it
Speaker 2: goes around.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you get sweet, sometimes you get savory.
Speaker 2: But when you're top six, really, if I wanted to
Speaker 2: keep pushing and up in top five, I should have
Speaker 2: been able to put up you know, take it to Harry,
Speaker 2: you take it to Sab And I think those guys
Speaker 2: just did better on the day, which is credit to them.
Speaker 1: When I go to those really expensive hotel buffets, you
Speaker 1: know where you go, and they do all the seafood
Speaker 1: and everything, and I never get the crab because I
Speaker 1: could just never work it out. I can never seem
Speaker 1: to get around the sharp edges. I never seem to
Speaker 1: be able to get around the nooks and crannies to
Speaker 1: get the meat out.
Speaker 4: So I mean, oh yeah, he's a bit stressful. It's
Speaker 4: a very hard thing to be able to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know what, like because I grew up
Speaker 2: like in t lank and cuisine, crabs like quite commonly used,
Speaker 2: and I grew up like getting your kind of like
Speaker 2: fingers and your thumb in there and you're kind of
Speaker 2: like popping it out and stuff.
Speaker 3: And I remember on the day, I was like.
Speaker 2: I could do this, but like, is that a bit
Speaker 2: like dodgy, like are we meant to be using tweezers
Speaker 2: to be kicking this stuff out?
Speaker 5: Like I don't want to get my fingers in there.
Speaker 5: And in the end I don't.
Speaker 3: Think they showed it.
Speaker 2: But Dad was really really clever in the way that
Speaker 2: she worked, like she went straight for the claws. I think,
Speaker 2: like the claw met it was really smart and it
Speaker 2: comes on on precious hat day, like it comes out
Speaker 2: just working smarter, really like you don't just need to
Speaker 2: work harder. And I think because I was mucking around
Speaker 2: at the body so much, and that's where exactly like
Speaker 2: you said, there's all.
Speaker 5: Those like little nooks and.
Speaker 2: The really like tiny bits of shell, that's probably what
Speaker 2: ended up being my demise.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think as well.
Speaker 1: When you get to this point of the competition, they're
Speaker 1: making things quite intimidating, and Gion was so intimidating with
Speaker 1: that dish at that point. Once they do the revelation
Speaker 1: of what you've got to do, can you go too
Speaker 1: far into your own head and find it hard to
Speaker 1: get out of or did you actually look at that
Speaker 1: and think I could do it?
Speaker 2: When I saw a dish, I was okay, well, I
Speaker 2: was all right. I was like, okay, okay, this is achievable.
Speaker 2: When they said that you had some five that's.
Speaker 3: When I started going into my head a bit.
Speaker 5: And God, there's a lot to do here, just with
Speaker 5: like the presentation and the peas and stuff.
Speaker 2: And I remember at the start of the cook saying,
Speaker 2: I need to leave myself forty minutes.
Speaker 5: That's like my target.
Speaker 2: I'm going to leave myself forty minutes to do plating,
Speaker 2: make sure everything's you know, looking beautiful.
Speaker 5: Because it's such a beautiful dish.
Speaker 2: And I remember with twenty or fifteen minutes ago, I
Speaker 2: hadn't even started. And I think we're all in the
Speaker 2: same boat, to be honest, like we all were trying
Speaker 2: to hit that target of forty or thirty minutes to
Speaker 2: plate up, and just it's nuts how much you need
Speaker 2: to get through those pressure tests.
Speaker 1: Were you aware of his food before, because I think
Speaker 1: that could also be an advantage with some of these
Speaker 1: chefs that come into the kitchen if you're more familiar
Speaker 1: with their style of cooking or you've tried to create
Speaker 1: their food at home before.
Speaker 5: I hadn't by relationship with giam was.
Speaker 2: I'd heard of him and I live in Perth, so
Speaker 2: you know, he has distro giarm at Crown Perth, so
Speaker 2: i'd heard of him and like obviously seen some of
Speaker 2: the dishes that he makes on that menu, but I
Speaker 2: definitely had not attempted to make anything like this at all.
Speaker 2: So I reckon everything on that plate was foreign to me,
Speaker 2: except for the mayonnaise, like the target mayonnaise that was
Speaker 2: around the outside. But I learned a lot from it.
Speaker 2: I learned a lot of techniques obviously stuck.
Speaker 5: That I got eliminated.
Speaker 2: I couldn't use them in the competition, but it was
Speaker 2: a fun cook Nonetheless, when I reflect on.
Speaker 1: It, Mimi, Pezza and Nat you know, they're all on
Speaker 1: the gan tree and they're all noticing and sort of
Speaker 1: watching what you guys are doing, and they kind of
Speaker 1: realized that you were doing different steps. But the three
Speaker 1: cooks were doing different steps. But yeah, you were blitzing
Speaker 1: through the start of this. I think something turned along
Speaker 1: the way. But do you listen to the or do
Speaker 1: you pay attention to the people on the gantry? I
Speaker 1: think I asked this to someone earlier in the season,
Speaker 1: and I just for me personally, I think i'd have
Speaker 1: to just block them out. But what about you, Yeah, personality,
Speaker 1: do you are you listening to the commentary? Are you
Speaker 1: paying attention to what they were.
Speaker 4: Doing up there?
Speaker 2: I am a little bit and early on, like in
Speaker 2: the first two hours, I was definitely listening to That
Speaker 2: was great. They were really good and they're like, you know,
Speaker 2: you're tracking really well, mainly as her and that were
Speaker 2: like dash keep, but I'd be tracking really well, and.
Speaker 5: That was great encouragement.
Speaker 2: I remember when I got to the peas, which were
Speaker 2: like the hardest bit, you know, and that was saying,
Speaker 2: think of ways to work faster, being smarter. And she
Speaker 2: was obviously seeing what Sad was doing, and Sad had
Speaker 2: a really good technique going on, and that.
Speaker 5: Just didn't cross my mind. You know what, house sav
Speaker 5: did it.
Speaker 3: So I do remember about an hour in and Nat
Speaker 3: and I have.
Speaker 5: A great friendship.
Speaker 2: She won't mind me saying this, but I remember she
Speaker 2: was yelling our encouragement and I was just like, nah,
Speaker 2: like I'm trying.
Speaker 5: To dud, like, just let me, let me do my thing.
Speaker 2: So I did get to a point where I was like,
Speaker 2: let me just focus because it's getting a bit too much.
Speaker 1: That would be mean. I'd be the first person to
Speaker 1: say shut the fuck up on television when it comes
Speaker 1: to that, that would be mean. And then I asked
Speaker 1: to leave the show. But that's what's happening. I was
Speaker 1: going to say that there was just so much going
Speaker 1: on in these cooks, especially when we looked at the
Speaker 1: everything cook that happened the day before, and there've got
Speaker 1: to be ways to sort of separate the tower left
Speaker 1: in the competition with six people. Did you feel as
Speaker 1: though the separation of who was safe and who wasn't
Speaker 1: was a reflection of where you are all at the
Speaker 1: competition at this point.
Speaker 2: I can't speak for you know, Harry and Sa but
Speaker 2: definitely for me, and I've had a lot of time.
Speaker 3: To reflect on this, I think I ended up where
Speaker 3: I should have.
Speaker 5: That's the honest truth.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, Top six was a phenomenal achievement
Speaker 2: for me, and I think that the guys that are
Speaker 2: and I really mean this to the top five that
Speaker 2: are there, they are better cooks than me where they
Speaker 2: were at the time in the competition.
Speaker 1: You really got the Master Chef experience. I mean by
Speaker 1: this stage of the competition, I always say you got
Speaker 1: the show bag because there's not much left in the
Speaker 1: show bag that you could possibly need out of it,
Speaker 1: because it's right at the very end. What would you
Speaker 1: say was the best thing for you about saying yes
Speaker 1: to this show? Like what was it that I think
Speaker 1: is your hero moment?
Speaker 2: Look one hundred percent right, Like I'm really grateful that
Speaker 2: I got to experience the entire pretty much from start
Speaker 2: to finish.
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it was great.
Speaker 2: But I think the biggest thing for me was just
Speaker 2: being exposed to so many people that have such a
Speaker 2: passion for food, like and but also like I'll take
Speaker 2: Pezza for instance, never in I can I can't think
Speaker 2: of a single scenario where I would meet Pezzer outside
Speaker 2: of this competition, you know what I mean. He's a
Speaker 2: tazzy butcher in not even in Hobart, like he's out
Speaker 2: of the way. But the fact that I got to
Speaker 2: meet such a down to earth amazing blow that's great.
Speaker 2: And then take Nat like I probably wouldn't have met her,
Speaker 2: and like Josh from Queensland. Just to meet all these people,
Speaker 2: that's been like the highlight of my experience, and those
Speaker 2: are friendships that are going to last forever. And it's
Speaker 2: also just connections that as we go forward into pursuing
Speaker 2: our food dreams, that we can lean on. And yeah,
Speaker 2: that's honestly been the biggest thing is the friendships and
Speaker 2: the relationships that we formed.
Speaker 1: And like, to me is like I kept saying to
Speaker 1: my friends, he's like he's stuck in the a is.
Speaker 4: Like it's twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: But the way that he presents himself just just some
Speaker 1: of the turn of phrases that he has where he
Speaker 1: talks about his missus or whatever, just all of it
Speaker 1: makes me think that he has been stuck in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty one.
Speaker 5: And you know what, like.
Speaker 2: Smithton in Tasmania is probably going to come after me
Speaker 2: when I say this, but it probably is stuck.
Speaker 5: In nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1: So that's still got a sanity and a Blockbuster video.
Speaker 1: You know, they've got all the old stores. I'd believe that.
Speaker 1: I'd believe that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that doesn't sound like sometimes I want to
Speaker 2: go down to a Blockbuster and rent out a video.
Speaker 1: So maybe I'll go back to the eighties and a heartbeat.
Speaker 1: That's just a sign of real of really who I am?
Speaker 1: Is it anything?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Looking back at the competition that you wish that you
Speaker 1: would have done differently or are you just making peace
Speaker 1: with it at this point?
Speaker 2: There's you know what, the one cook that I think
Speaker 2: I'm not one to typically regret or like, you know,
Speaker 2: to say what it should have could have, But I'm
Speaker 2: gonna the one cook was the everything box that you know,
Speaker 2: knoed me into that elimination, and I think especially watching
Speaker 2: him back and how smart everyone else worked with their dish,
Speaker 2: particularly Mimi, Like, I think I saw the chicken and
Speaker 2: I was like, I need to cook that chicken instead
Speaker 2: of like what she did was she took the skin,
Speaker 2: which I had done earlier in the season, and I
Speaker 2: saw that. I was like, that's so smart, Like why
Speaker 2: didn't I think about that? Or using the bones for
Speaker 2: a broth. So I think that cook is one where
Speaker 2: I would have gone, like, you know what, I could
Speaker 2: have been smarter.
Speaker 5: I've cooked like a roast cabbage before. You know, it's
Speaker 5: one of the most.
Speaker 2: Delicious things ever when you roast the cabbage properly and
Speaker 2: you get like a real caramelization on it.
Speaker 5: And I think that's.
Speaker 2: Probably what I would have done instead of that Frankenstein
Speaker 2: dish that I ended up putting up.
Speaker 1: But I think it's also really stressful sometimes when you've
Speaker 1: given parameters like that and Everything Box can be really
Speaker 1: hard because you're like, Okay, I've got to use everything,
Speaker 1: but you can use some things very small with different yeah,
Speaker 1: all the techniques without having to try and incorporate everything
Speaker 1: as the largest hero flavor.
Speaker 4: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I think that's what we saw in that cook was
Speaker 1: you know, some people understood that, and it's just so
Speaker 1: hard in the moment because people at home don't realize
Speaker 1: that there's none of that orchestra playing in the background
Speaker 1: to freak you out. But that clock is like looking
Speaker 1: at you. It's just looking at it.
Speaker 5: It is yeah, yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: And like I remember going at the start of that
Speaker 2: cook saying to myself because I love the show, I've
Speaker 2: watched it so many times before, and one thing I
Speaker 2: was really conscious of with the Everything Box is like
Speaker 2: creating a single.
Speaker 5: I remember, I think it was season fifteen.
Speaker 2: Last year where the Everything Box a lot of people
Speaker 2: just made like a sausage or a kebab where they
Speaker 2: just like dumped everything together, minced it all up, and
Speaker 2: that was like everything And I remember saying to myself,
Speaker 2: I don't want to do that, like, I don't want
Speaker 2: to just take everything and blitz it together.
Speaker 5: That feels like a bit of a cop out.
Speaker 2: But I think I went too far the other way,
Speaker 2: and I was like, Okay, I'm going to separate everything
Speaker 2: into its separate elements, and then I ended up with
Speaker 2: just too many things. And the judge's feedback was, it's
Speaker 2: too many things on the plate that don't really work together.
Speaker 5: So yeah, when you.
Speaker 1: Were talking about that, I was wondering how many times
Speaker 1: you may have applied for this show, because it sounds
Speaker 1: like you're a super fan and you've watched it alone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but this is actually my first time.
Speaker 2: I was very, very fortunate, But yeah, I just never
Speaker 2: really had the inkling to apply before. You know, there's
Speaker 2: just something I think when you see shows on.
Speaker 5: TV, you don't realize idle.
Speaker 2: So I didn't that they're just regular people and they
Speaker 2: could just be it could be you like, there's just
Speaker 2: this barrier between the screen where you go that's some
Speaker 2: like fantasy land that.
Speaker 3: You can't really get on.
Speaker 5: And then I think, obviously having gone through.
Speaker 2: The process, like it is very tangible, like you can
Speaker 2: end up on the other side of the screen.
Speaker 1: This is so interesting because so often we have people
Speaker 1: at this point of the competition now listening to the
Speaker 1: podcast because they're wanting to apply for the next season. Like,
Speaker 1: do you have any tips that would be able to
Speaker 1: help someone get on the show, Like, now that you've
Speaker 1: been through that audition.
Speaker 4: Process, what was it about you that they liked? Do
Speaker 4: you know what that was?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean I'm not sure.
Speaker 2: I obviously don't know why they joins me, but I
Speaker 2: think like the biggest tip I would say is I'm
Speaker 2: not trying to sound corny at all, but just like yourself,
Speaker 2: be so like true and authentic to yourself, because I
Speaker 2: remember being out auditions and there were people that were
Speaker 2: trying to like really amp it up. That's not sustainable
Speaker 2: and it's not genuine, and you can pick it for
Speaker 2: a mile away.
Speaker 5: Just be yourself.
Speaker 2: Obviously, the food is first and foremost, and then let
Speaker 2: your personality shine. But you don't need to be extravagant
Speaker 2: and boisterous. They're not necessarily the people that like you.
Speaker 2: Look at Mimi, she's not super over the top, right,
Speaker 2: or even Harry such a nice guy that comes across
Speaker 2: his genuine and that's what people love.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so you're saying that in the audition process,
Speaker 1: I love this that there's people that are just like
Speaker 1: trying to be the loudest person in the room, and
Speaker 1: that's yeah, yeah great.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, whatever your personality is, just let
Speaker 2: that shine.
Speaker 1: That's a different process to when I auditioned for Big Brother.
Speaker 1: I went I think it was I think it was
Speaker 1: rumored that I auditioned six times or something, but.
Speaker 4: I think it was before that I went through it.
Speaker 1: But I worked out that the people that were getting
Speaker 1: picked with the people that were the most polarizing, like
Speaker 1: the people yeah, okay, most annoying, and so like the
Speaker 1: time that I got picked, I went in there and
Speaker 1: I was like, just be yourself. But there was like
Speaker 1: some moments where I could be loud and annoying, and
Speaker 1: I think I've just realized that's what separates a Big
Speaker 1: Brother contestant to a Master Chef contestant.
Speaker 2: But that's the thing, right, Like some people are loud, annoying,
Speaker 2: not saying that, what are you saying? If that's you,
Speaker 2: then just be true yourself, Like yeah, I don't think
Speaker 2: I think some people might see a contestant on TV
Speaker 2: and go I want.
Speaker 3: To be like that.
Speaker 2: Person and they try and be that person, but yeah,
Speaker 2: just be yourself.
Speaker 4: Good advice, good advice.
Speaker 1: I've been asking everyone about their favorite judge and who
Speaker 1: they want to win at this point, both questions that
Speaker 1: people have really struggled with because you're all the nicest
Speaker 1: Australians and no one wants to say anything bad or
Speaker 1: hurt anyone's feelings. But at this point, you know, top five,
Speaker 1: you'd have to have an idea as to who you
Speaker 1: think is your winner.
Speaker 2: You know what, I'm not going to beat around the bush,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to say that that and I we
Speaker 2: formed a really good friendship on the show. But just
Speaker 2: having seen the way that she works with her timers
Speaker 2: and everything she is, she's kitchen ready, right, she could,
Speaker 2: like even if she got eliminated, you know the next episode,
Speaker 2: great song by the way, she could walk into a
Speaker 2: kitchen and I think she would get snapped up instantly.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2: That is my pick and Judge, you are my favorite judge.
Speaker 4: I definitely do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Poe was just like I know quite a few
Speaker 2: people have said, Poe, They're all absolutely incredible and they
Speaker 2: were so nurturing from the get go, or for judges.
Speaker 2: But I think Poe just she really I could see
Speaker 2: empathized with a lot of us, and she she showed
Speaker 2: a lot of emotion. I remember at the end of
Speaker 2: the cook they didn't really show it, but she was
Speaker 2: actually crying at the end of the pressure test because
Speaker 2: I think she felt so she felt that she was
Speaker 2: like partially responsible for putting us all in that situation
Speaker 2: where we were just like killing ourselves.
Speaker 3: So she's been so great and supportive.
Speaker 5: Even post the airing period, so the competition. So yeah,
Speaker 5: Poe is my favorite.
Speaker 1: She's just a great chick, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like she just feels things. And I'm going to say
Speaker 1: that it's maybe PTSD, you know, because like for her,
Speaker 1: she's been in that scenario. She knows what it's like
Speaker 1: to be in those situations where the pressure is so
Speaker 1: hard to deal with and so hard.
Speaker 5: To see exactly. So yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 4: Just very stressful, very stressful.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah. I mean and Andy was obviously on
Speaker 5: the show as well.
Speaker 2: So he knows what we went through, but he won,
Speaker 2: so he doesn't know what we've beat.
Speaker 1: See that's so good. I never even thought about it
Speaker 1: like that, you know. See, but Andy that's there. That's one,
Speaker 1: and you've got Poe that's in almost one. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: a couple of.
Speaker 3: Times, honestly, you know, Andie.
Speaker 5: The one thing I'm going.
Speaker 2: To say about Andy is like I think people have
Speaker 2: thought that Andy's kind of taken on this bit of
Speaker 2: our Like, you know, he comes around in pressure tests
Speaker 2: and he kind of goes like staatey obvious. I remember
Speaker 2: my last pressure test. He was like, you're behind, mate.
Speaker 5: I'm like, a fucking no, mate, I can see.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I know what's going on.
Speaker 2: But he really I think he identifies the contestants that
Speaker 2: he can say that too, and that is going to
Speaker 2: push them to another level. He can really like he
Speaker 2: was there to push us and to really get us
Speaker 2: the dig deep. So you know, it might come off
Speaker 2: as a bit like annoying soccer mom, I think is
Speaker 2: the way that sav put it, but he really knew
Speaker 2: how to get us to another gear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, always states the obvious though He's done that since
Speaker 1: he started, like with his critiques on the food, like
Speaker 1: and it's interesting people are saying, you know, maybe without
Speaker 1: his mate Jock there this year, that it's they've noticed
Speaker 1: it more. But he's always done that you know, like
Speaker 1: it's kind of and you need someone who you know,
Speaker 1: when a frog walks into the room, where a person
Speaker 1: walks into the room dresses a frog, someone goes, it's
Speaker 1: a frog, do you know what I mean? Like she
Speaker 1: needs someone who's going to state the obvious, And like
Speaker 1: audiences at home, there's probably one person who sits there
Speaker 1: and goes, oh, I hate it when they state the obvious.
Speaker 1: But then there's others that don't pick up on those
Speaker 1: sorts of things. So they need somebody to read the story,
Speaker 1: read the children's story book about what they're watching.
Speaker 4: And I think, well, you know.
Speaker 2: And he has taken on so much this year, really,
Speaker 2: you know, after the shake up of the judging lineup
Speaker 2: and all that, and a year of Master Chef, like
Speaker 2: he wasn't just there to mentor us, like he was
Speaker 2: there with the judges as well, like kind of phenomenal
Speaker 2: effort on Andy's could have.
Speaker 4: Also dominated as well.
Speaker 1: That's what I kept saying to people, Like he could
Speaker 1: have just been like I've been.
Speaker 4: Here before, dudes, you know, like watch me.
Speaker 1: But he gave people space to be who they were,
Speaker 1: and I think that that was really powerful. I think
Speaker 1: that's a really hard choice to make. I hope he's
Speaker 1: listening so that he loves us just that little bit
Speaker 1: more than Yeah. Okay, So but to leave the podcast,
Speaker 1: I ask everyone what is something from behind the scenes?
Speaker 1: And I was actually laughing with an upcoming episode which
Speaker 1: I recorded yesterday about how everyone from Master Chef has
Speaker 1: basically had the same behind the scenes secret, and that
Speaker 1: is that everyone got along.
Speaker 4: So I'm going to rule that out. I'm going to
Speaker 4: take that out of him.
Speaker 1: We know that you guys all get along, But what's
Speaker 1: something from behind the scenes that you know, maybe a
Speaker 1: super fan who's been watching it for sixteen seasons would
Speaker 1: love to know about what it's like to be in
Speaker 1: the Master Chef kitchen. Yeah, like, what do they do
Speaker 1: when you get eliminated? Did you do they bring you
Speaker 1: back into that kitchen after you walk out? And do
Speaker 1: you get a chance to hug everyone or do you
Speaker 1: just get put in a cabin and send home?
Speaker 2: You know? All right, there's a couple I might say
Speaker 2: a couple, I'll say one that comes to mind. I remember,
Speaker 2: so just yeah, when you do get a lide, obviously
Speaker 2: walk out the doors and you kind of walk into
Speaker 2: oblivion and then someone grabs you and like you go
Speaker 2: into a room just for like a post you know,
Speaker 2: briefing to make sure you're okay. Because but I remember
Speaker 2: walking because you walk back past kind of the kitchen,
Speaker 2: but outside the building. And because the kitchens obviously all wood.
Speaker 3: And everything you hit like it echoes.
Speaker 5: And we would always film They never show it, but.
Speaker 2: We would always film like a closing sequence like oh,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously half episode guys, but I go home, rest,
Speaker 2: come back to my But as I was leaving, I
Speaker 2: remember just hearing like, you guys are the top five
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four and they're all cheering, and I'm
Speaker 2: like sick, I've just been eliminated and now all my
Speaker 2: mates and they're just like cheering in.
Speaker 5: My I know a bunch of I know that would brutal.
Speaker 1: That was Yeah, it is so hard, my friend. But
Speaker 1: can I just say, you don't need to win reality
Speaker 1: shows in Australia.
Speaker 4: It's not actually I mean it's great and.
Speaker 1: Everyone wants that to put that on the wall, but
Speaker 1: it isn't who becomes the most successful. And if this
Speaker 1: is your passion, and I believe that it is, I
Speaker 1: honestly think that there's so much more that you can
Speaker 1: do with this whole experience, and you should be so proud.
Speaker 1: There's nothing I can't even imagine. I can't remember a
Speaker 1: season of this show where I can't pick the winner,
Speaker 1: and that's because it's so tight, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, thanks man.
Speaker 2: That really means a lot, mate, And you know, I
Speaker 2: strongly urge everyone out there if I want to apply for.
Speaker 5: Mastership or whatever their mastership is.
Speaker 2: You know, it might not be Masteref, who might be
Speaker 2: big Brother, it might be a survivor, it might be
Speaker 2: you know, chasing a job in another country.
Speaker 3: Like, just go out and do it.
Speaker 2: There's nothing bad that can come from chasing your dreams.
Speaker 4: I'm obsessed with I think you're amazing. Good luck with
Speaker 4: it all. Enjoy chatting to the media.
Speaker 1: And yeah, like I've said to so many people who
Speaker 1: have also stood out and stood above and stood on
Speaker 1: the shoulders of this competition, Australia is in your audience.
Speaker 4: And they want you to succeed. We want to see
Speaker 4: what you can do with this.
Speaker 2: So so good luck, awesome, Thanks so much, Ben, appreciate
Speaker 2: it's been great
Speaker 4: Talking, lovely chatting to you.