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Speaker 1: services today. On the podcast, I have mastershef Australia's latest
Speaker 1: eliminated contender. It's our gorgeous indigenous goal Mindy. This season,
Speaker 1: we've been lucky enough to welcome back some of the
Speaker 1: most powerful cooks ever seen on the hit reality show,
Speaker 1: and Mindy has been building her story ever since we
Speaker 1: last saw her in twenty twelve. Mindy has a special
Speaker 1: connection to our country and this year she has brought
Speaker 1: more than just her food to the competition. Her powerful
Speaker 1: presence allowed her to influence her rivals and the positivity
Speaker 1: in her mantra has been simply inspiring. We will talk
Speaker 1: culture and the importance of food. What Mindy has planned
Speaker 1: for the next generation who she would like to see
Speaker 1: when and how the return to home country in Byron
Speaker 1: has been so important to her story. However, let's get
Speaker 1: started with today's podcast. I'd like to welcome Mindy to
Speaker 1: TV Reload.
Speaker 3: Those pressure tess are just beyond belief. Massa Sheff has
Speaker 3: produced some of the biggest names in food. God, I
Speaker 3: would love to see her holding that trophy above her head.
Speaker 2: The first time ever. It's fans versus favorites.
Speaker 3: I forget the recipe in the end, I was just like,
Speaker 3: I've just got to get this done. Thanks Mindy, We're
Speaker 3: going to cut this bad boy open and give you
Speaker 3: a taste. All Australians deserve to feel like they belong. Sorry, Minnie,
Speaker 3: unfortunately you're going home, beautiful, bright future head for all.
Speaker 2: Of us time.
Speaker 3: Indeed, jinkuila jingi wala, I'm well, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm doing so well. You know, so much has happened
Speaker 1: since twenty twelve when we last saw you our Mastership Australia.
Speaker 1: We didn't even have marriage equality and here you are
Speaker 1: married in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: Is this crazy?
Speaker 3: It's amazing? Hey, ten years I mean, look at technology,
Speaker 3: Look at equality, look at so many things, look at
Speaker 3: native foods. You know what I mean. Like time is
Speaker 3: an incredible thing because it gives us the gift of acknowledgment.
Speaker 3: It gives us the gift of reflection. And as crazy
Speaker 3: as the last few years have been in COVID, what
Speaker 3: we have learned is the most special thing in our
Speaker 3: world is our people, our loved ones, and this incredible
Speaker 3: country we are so lucky to hold home.
Speaker 1: Well, what do you think has changed the most for you? Though,
Speaker 1: in the last ten years, I mean ten is a
Speaker 1: long time.
Speaker 3: I have done so much in ten years, you know,
Speaker 3: Like I have started working in restaurants. I've run restaurants,
Speaker 3: I ran a restaurant group for a few years. I
Speaker 3: traveled overseas for all my twelve months with my beautiful partner,
Speaker 3: and then when we got back marriage equality happened and
Speaker 3: we got married within six weeks of that happening because
Speaker 3: we were just so excited about it. And now look
Speaker 3: at me. I've got a beautiful little restaurant. I've returned
Speaker 3: to country, and I'm connecting with my mob and my
Speaker 3: culture and it's such a great time of life. You know,
Speaker 3: I feel so lucky to be back home, to be
Speaker 3: connecting with this and sharing our rich indigenous culture with
Speaker 3: the rest of Australia.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's so amazing.
Speaker 1: And you know, I thought, watching the three of you
Speaker 1: girls last night, I just thought it was so amazing
Speaker 1: to see such beautiful women but also such intelligent women
Speaker 1: that represent so much, and the three of you, for me,
Speaker 1: have carried so much of my enjoyment of this series.
Speaker 2: Was it intense to be in a pressure test with
Speaker 2: Julie and Billy? My god, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Those pressure tests are just beyond belief. Unless you've actually
Speaker 3: been in one, you cannot describe the amount of intensity
Speaker 3: and pressure and stressed places on everyone and watching it
Speaker 3: throughout the competition because I've never been in a pressure
Speaker 3: test before. The week before so I had my first
Speaker 3: two pressure tests. I went out on my second, but
Speaker 3: I just saw the amount of stress and pain it
Speaker 3: was putting people through and I thought, you know, guys,
Speaker 3: this is not what food is about. So I got
Speaker 3: the girls together and I said, you know, let's make
Speaker 3: this about us today. We're great, strong, powerful women. We
Speaker 3: know how to cook. They're going to throw something crazy
Speaker 3: at us, but let's band together, bring our strength, stand
Speaker 3: in our power, and let's give them hell. And you
Speaker 3: know what we did that We had so much fun.
Speaker 3: It dissolved the stress completely within the set and you've
Speaker 3: got a sense of it, like it was almost like
Speaker 3: Jock was a little bit shocked about how powerful and
Speaker 3: strong we felt and that presence that we created, and
Speaker 3: it was so uplifting and that is what food is
Speaker 3: about at the end of the day. So it took
Speaker 3: the pressure out of it. We just really reined it
Speaker 3: in and we gave it all. And my god, we
Speaker 3: gave them hell. It was so much fun, it really was.
Speaker 1: The pressure test gives me so much anxiety, even before
Speaker 1: those nervous violins start playing, which obviously you know, get
Speaker 1: put into production later on. Like imagine, though, if you
Speaker 1: were doing those pressure tests and they had like an
Speaker 1: orchestra there to do those violins while you were cooking.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine?
Speaker 3: I wish they did have a soundtrack because I'm all
Speaker 3: about the good vibes and dancing, and I would say
Speaker 3: to the gantry, I was like, give me some good
Speaker 3: vibes and would be down there, would have a bit
Speaker 3: of a boogie and get into a groove because you know,
Speaker 3: you've got to have fun with it. You've got to
Speaker 3: embrace it, you've got to kind of absorb that energy.
Speaker 3: And converting that negativity and that stress into something so
Speaker 3: positive is such an important thing to do, and I
Speaker 3: hope that comes across on screens because God, we're all
Speaker 3: under so much pressure these days, aren't we in this
Speaker 3: modern world? And if we can find ways of actually
Speaker 3: converting that that negativity and that pressure into something really positive,
Speaker 3: I think we're going to be onto something really good.
Speaker 3: So I'm all for just embracing it, giving them hell,
Speaker 3: having fun with it, and creating some really beautiful experiences
Speaker 3: for everyone.
Speaker 1: You just radiate, You're radiating. You're operating on a higher
Speaker 1: frequency than most people. And I have to ask you,
Speaker 1: you know, where do you get this positivity?
Speaker 2: Where does it come from?
Speaker 3: Baby? I'm on country. You know, I'm lucky. I'm a
Speaker 3: very high energy person anyway. But i feel like I've
Speaker 3: got so much to share and I've got so much
Speaker 3: to give, and I really want to share that with
Speaker 3: the rest of Australia and abroad. And when I'm kind
Speaker 3: of winding down at the end of the night, I
Speaker 3: you know, I put my feet in the sand, I
Speaker 3: go down to the beach and that really does heal
Speaker 3: and rejuvenate me. And I really encourage everyone to get
Speaker 3: out on country and get those experiences, because life is
Speaker 3: a blessing and we are so lucky to call Australia home.
Speaker 3: And the more that we embrace what's around us and
Speaker 3: this incredible country and the gift that it is, you
Speaker 3: know we're going to have a really special future together
Speaker 3: as a united country.
Speaker 2: I know that.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: I have to say, oh my God, to start with,
Speaker 1: because that cake. I don't know whether or not you
Speaker 1: end up hating that cake, but as a viewer, I
Speaker 1: ended up hating that cake. Might have been delicious, but
Speaker 1: I ended up just looking at it the whole time
Speaker 1: and feeling like it.
Speaker 2: Was a curse.
Speaker 1: Did you know that that cake might be something that
Speaker 1: could send you home as you were cooking it?
Speaker 3: You know, I didn't. It didn't even cross my mind.
Speaker 3: I was just so in the zone. And when I
Speaker 3: looked at it for the first time, I couldn't believe
Speaker 3: it was actually food. It was precise, it was perfection.
Speaker 3: It looked like velvet. It looked like black velvet, looked
Speaker 3: like a fabric that was just ready to be like
Speaker 3: wrapped around someone. And then of course you cut into
Speaker 3: it and there's layer and layer and layer of like
Speaker 3: sweet terror and I just thought, my god, chocolate tempering,
Speaker 3: chocolate moose, chocolate spray foams, Oh my god, how am
Speaker 3: I going to do this? And I didn't actually think
Speaker 3: I was going to finish that in that very short
Speaker 3: amount of time, and you probably should. Right at the end,
Speaker 3: it was chaos. We're running and we are sprinting, and
Speaker 3: we're just running and at libbing. I forget the recipe.
Speaker 3: In the end, I was just like, I've just got
Speaker 3: to get this done. And I was so proud that
Speaker 3: I plated every component up, so proud. I mean I
Speaker 3: had a fingerprint in it at the end, which was
Speaker 3: like a total shame job, but played it and it
Speaker 3: was a very close kind of representation of what person
Speaker 3: had to actually presented to us. And you know what,
Speaker 3: I'm mad enough that I'll actually make it again because
Speaker 3: it did taste so damn good.
Speaker 2: Maybe that you've just started thing.
Speaker 1: You know, the new way that chefs leave a signature
Speaker 1: of what they've cooked for you is they leave a
Speaker 1: fingerprint in the food.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know if it's going to
Speaker 2: take off.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I'm not sure if the guests are
Speaker 3: going to love that scene dirty fingerprints all over their things,
Speaker 3: but you know it might be something in a piece
Speaker 3: of art in that How.
Speaker 1: Do you unpack and get over a master chef hangover?
Speaker 1: I mean, I heard you preempt the trip back to
Speaker 1: the beach to put your feet into the water. But
Speaker 1: I can imagine this experience is all encompassing and really
Speaker 1: hard to shake at the end of it.
Speaker 2: How did you go?
Speaker 3: Look, it's all consuming. I think the biggest thing was
Speaker 3: actually coming home and feeling what a sense of actual
Speaker 3: normality is. It takes time to read just being back
Speaker 3: with your family. You know, I've been down in Melbourne
Speaker 3: kind of live in this separate life from my partner
Speaker 3: and my family, and you kind of feel like you
Speaker 3: live in this single life, which is really crazy. To
Speaker 3: come home, adjust to being together again, understanding how to
Speaker 3: function as a person and as a couple, and then
Speaker 3: as a business owner. It's crazy. And then not to
Speaker 3: be seeing my bestie is like Sarah and Aldo every
Speaker 3: day I was getting like separation anxiety from not seeing
Speaker 3: my mob, you know, like they've become so part of
Speaker 3: my life, and I'm lucky that we're so connected that
Speaker 3: you know, I'll be catching up with next week and
Speaker 3: we plan to do trips together and travel to India
Speaker 3: and Italy and eat with our families. So it was
Speaker 3: a lot to adjust to, but I know that there's
Speaker 3: a beautiful, bright future head for all of us.
Speaker 1: It's like a really weird factory reset with your partner.
Speaker 1: Like I know, with my partner, he goes he's family
Speaker 1: and Bendigo, so he'll often go to Bendigo without me,
Speaker 1: and when he comes home, you kind of have to
Speaker 1: break yourselves back into the routine of being together. As
Speaker 1: much as you love them and I love him, you
Speaker 1: know the rules that have have to be re established again.
Speaker 2: It's a strange, really.
Speaker 3: True, And it is strange because you're so comfortable with
Speaker 3: each other and you love each other to death, but
Speaker 3: then you realize all those little kind of intricacies of
Speaker 3: yourself and your partner that suddenly come to the surface,
Speaker 3: and you've got to be really mindful and respectful of
Speaker 3: not compromising that because you know you want your partnership
Speaker 3: flourish and you want yourself to flourish in your relationship,
Speaker 3: but it does. It does take time to readjust and
Speaker 3: to get back into that that mojo of your relationship,
Speaker 3: that's for sure.
Speaker 1: I tell my friends that I have to rain him
Speaker 1: back in, But that's not a good trait. That makes
Speaker 1: it sound like I'm some sort of controlling person.
Speaker 2: In a relationship, you know. But I'm like, I got
Speaker 2: to I reckon.
Speaker 3: It might be you that needs raining in, and it's
Speaker 3: certainly me. My partner, Shall says, Oh my god, you
Speaker 3: were so exhausting. She said when you and he I
Speaker 3: would actually sit on the couch and just watch TV.
Speaker 3: She said, when you were here, you were like a whirlwind.
Speaker 3: You do not stop. And He's absolutely right. So I've
Speaker 3: got to find a way of winding it down and
Speaker 3: dialing it back a little bit so i can actually
Speaker 3: have a bit of downtime with her.
Speaker 1: And I think, as well, you know, you're somebody who
Speaker 1: sort of believes in the universe and things happen for
Speaker 1: a reason. Was it strange to see? I mean, is
Speaker 1: that sort of the reason as to why you saw
Speaker 1: Aldo go home and then you came you left straight away?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: Was it because you guys were so in sync that
Speaker 1: that was the mastershift journey for you both.
Speaker 3: You know, to be honest, I had a sense that
Speaker 3: it was my time. I really had a sense of it.
Speaker 3: I thought, you know, like you kind of get to
Speaker 3: this space and when you're quite an intuitive person and
Speaker 3: you feel like a greater sense of connection. I kind
Speaker 3: of knew it was my time. And I kind of
Speaker 3: knew that it was time for me to get to
Speaker 3: back to country and to be doing things, and to
Speaker 3: be honest, going home just after Aldo and going off
Speaker 3: the back of a crazy challenge like a Curson Tiole's dessert,
Speaker 3: it felt right in a weird way. I just knew
Speaker 3: it was my time. And that's why you kind of
Speaker 3: have to embrace those things. I know that the universe
Speaker 3: has a story for you, and the universe has a
Speaker 3: way of giving you and providing you what you need.
Speaker 3: And I know, I mean already great things are happening
Speaker 3: from that experience. It's not just about being at the top.
Speaker 3: It's not about the win. What I have won is
Speaker 3: a connection to my country and my culture. What I've
Speaker 3: won is these incredible friendships and I know that I'm
Speaker 3: going to have for a last like a lifetime, and
Speaker 3: that is so much more valuable than two hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty grand in the bank. Even though that would be
Speaker 3: great for an awesome holiday somewhere, Master Cheff provides you
Speaker 3: so much, many more riches than than a bank check
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, it really does.
Speaker 1: It's a reality show that there's a feast for the
Speaker 1: audience in you know, a great turn of phrase because
Speaker 1: of the food and a feast, but also it is
Speaker 1: such a long journey and it is something that you
Speaker 1: can really sink yourself into. And I don't know how
Speaker 1: much TV you watch, but do you think that Master
Speaker 1: Chef is the reality show with the best representation of
Speaker 1: Australian diversity?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Well absolutely, And how important is it? I mean
Speaker 3: to be honest, Every production is so responsible and they
Speaker 3: should be accountable for diversity and inclusion. That is what
Speaker 3: we're built on as a nation. We are multicultural. We
Speaker 3: want to embrace that and celebrate that and make sure
Speaker 3: that everybody feels that they are represented on our TV
Speaker 3: screens and that's what it's all about. So I love
Speaker 3: the fact that we're seeing that more and more, you know,
Speaker 3: and we need that to continue. We are heading in
Speaker 3: the right direction, but we've got a long way to go,
Speaker 3: and it really is in the hands of the networks
Speaker 3: and the powers above to make sure that stuff happens.
Speaker 3: And it only in riches us, It only makes us better, stronger,
Speaker 3: and it all, you know, just helps us buy together
Speaker 3: as a community. So I love it because food is powerful.
Speaker 3: It's incredible catalyst for change, and I want to see
Speaker 3: more of it. I'm hungry for it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm hungry for is reality shows where
Speaker 1: you're just so invested. Did you feel quite proud to
Speaker 1: be a part of a show that you know could
Speaker 1: be engaging and great for the audience without having to
Speaker 1: draw upon conflict.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And that's I mean, that's not what food is about.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Food is actually about bringing people together and connecting, and
Speaker 3: to have it tainted by negativity would be to the
Speaker 3: detriment of the show, and it would be to the
Speaker 3: detriment of the viewer. What we want to see and
Speaker 3: we need to see more of, is positivity because it's
Speaker 3: out there. What we want to see is people supporting
Speaker 3: each other in a genuine way, because it's out there
Speaker 3: and it's what we should be encouraging. I want our
Speaker 3: kids and our young ones to feel proud of what
Speaker 3: they're seeing on their screens. I want them to feel
Speaker 3: proud of who they are and where they come from
Speaker 3: and that beautiful food culture that is so important to
Speaker 3: all of us. I want to inspire all the strains,
Speaker 3: and especially the young ones, to be the best versions
Speaker 3: of themselves and to be proud of who they are,
Speaker 3: whatever color cast, whatever your you know, however you identify,
Speaker 3: be proud and stand strong, stand in your power. And
Speaker 3: that's what a reality TV like Master Chef is all about.
Speaker 1: How's it going in Byron Bay. I think it's the
Speaker 1: most perfect place for you. It's just listening to you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, did Byron Bay find you? What did you find?
Speaker 2: Barron Bay? Like, I think it's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well this is country for me, babe. I'm lucky.
Speaker 3: This is ancestral land. My ancestors have been here for
Speaker 3: sixty thousand years and I feel connected to it. You know.
Speaker 3: I'm lucky that I get to spend time with my elders.
Speaker 3: They teach me the stories, and this is so much
Speaker 3: more than a place to holiday. You know. Barron Bay's
Speaker 3: traditional name is Kavin Bah and that means meeting place,
Speaker 3: and our mobs used to come here to connect, to trade,
Speaker 3: to like share stories, have ceremony, to harvest food and
Speaker 3: to share and that still happens to this very day.
Speaker 3: So our dreaming continues and I want to welcome all
Speaker 3: Australians into that experience because it makes this place so
Speaker 3: much more special and so much more rich when you
Speaker 3: connect with the knowledge systems that have been here for
Speaker 3: thousands of years. And my god, it's a special place,
Speaker 3: it really is.
Speaker 1: That kind of makes me feel like, do you want
Speaker 1: to chase the zach Efron's and the Chris Hemsworth out
Speaker 1: of town or no.
Speaker 3: Everyone's welcome. Everyone's welcome in Byron Bay. That's what it's about.
Speaker 3: It's a bit of a transient place. We have the locals,
Speaker 3: we have the people that come and go, but this
Speaker 3: is a place for healing and connection and you know,
Speaker 3: I know that people get that when they come here,
Speaker 3: and the fact that they get to come and now
Speaker 3: eat native traditional foods that come from this landscape as
Speaker 3: well with something really cool and special. But that's going
Speaker 3: to happen all across Australia, recognizing place, traditional names, the
Speaker 3: traditional people that we're there. We're coming up to Natok Week,
Speaker 3: you know, and what a great time to connect with
Speaker 3: traditional country and the people that have been there for
Speaker 3: thousands of years. So it's a great challenge for everyone
Speaker 3: and a call to action. Figure out the traditional name
Speaker 3: of the places that you live. Figure out the name
Speaker 3: of those people they tried their clan. Figure out what
Speaker 3: language they speak, and learn how to say jini allah, hello, welcome.
Speaker 3: What is that in your language? You know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 3: even connecting language is such a beautiful thing to be
Speaker 3: able to do.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about what your favorite indigenous
Speaker 1: food is? You know, growing up because I found through COVID,
Speaker 1: I was leaning into making the things that my grandma
Speaker 1: used to make me when I was sick, because they
Speaker 1: were the foods that I was you know, nourished with
Speaker 1: at that time. And you know, during such a time
Speaker 1: of uncertainty, I really enjoyed having something that made me
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, comfort food essentially, you know, for
Speaker 1: you though, growing up, you know, what was your favorite
Speaker 1: indigenous food?
Speaker 3: God, I had the most blessed childhood. Honestly, Name would
Speaker 3: take us down to the beach and we didn't realize.
Speaker 3: We just thought she was trying to wear us out.
Speaker 3: She had eleven kids, so I can imagine how many
Speaker 3: grandkids you had. But she would take us all down
Speaker 3: to the beach together, and she would have us there
Speaker 3: all day, from dawn to dusk, and she would have
Speaker 3: us out there pippy doing that little pippy shuffle down
Speaker 3: on the beach, pulling up all the pippies and we
Speaker 3: would get bucket loads of them and we would sit
Speaker 3: them in the water up on the beach for a while.
Speaker 3: She would make a campfire and we would chuck the
Speaker 3: pippies straight onto that fire. We were eating them straight
Speaker 3: out of the shell, and because of the saltiness of
Speaker 3: the water, they were already like season. You don't need
Speaker 3: to do anything picking kakala also known as peak face,
Speaker 3: those beautiful succulents that would cool us off, and they
Speaker 3: tasted like salty strawberries. And you know, just being down
Speaker 3: there with her at the beach, and we didn't realize.
Speaker 3: We thought, you know, she was wearing us out and
Speaker 3: giving us a feed, but she was connecting us to
Speaker 3: our country and culture by doing that. And God, what
Speaker 3: a blessed childhood to get that experience with her before
Speaker 3: she passed away. And that's what I want to continue.
Speaker 3: I want to share that with all of Australia, because
Speaker 3: if we can connect with that in our own environment,
Speaker 3: not only are we going to respect our environment so
Speaker 3: much more, but we're going to have a sense of belonging.
Speaker 3: And all Australians deserve to feel like they belong in
Speaker 3: this amazing country.
Speaker 2: So well said, you know, such amazing messages.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping when people listening to the podcast that they're
Speaker 1: really getting something out of this. What about yourself though,
Speaker 1: you know, coming out of the back of you know
Speaker 1: mastershef what's next for you?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: What are you wanting to add into your life after
Speaker 1: having this experience?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm I'm a busy woman. But the
Speaker 3: big thing for me is making sure that we have
Speaker 3: action around these ingredients that is really genuine to it.
Speaker 3: You know, a lot of what we're doing in the
Speaker 3: Native Food Team at the moment, you can see that
Speaker 3: people using these ingredients but they don't understand the connection
Speaker 3: to culture and country through it. And it is like
Speaker 3: a twenty million dollar industry. There is six and a
Speaker 3: half thousand ingredients that are unique to Australia and there's
Speaker 3: only two percent representation of Indigenous people within that industry.
Speaker 3: So I want to increase the representation. I want to
Speaker 3: connect people with the history of the culture and the
Speaker 3: country of those ingredients. And I'm going to get all
Speaker 3: of these beautiful native foods into every primary school around Australia.
Speaker 3: I'm starting this Friday. I'm planting in our jarge and
Speaker 3: schools native food gardens for our little ones, because they
Speaker 3: are our future. And my plan is to raise the
Speaker 3: funds through my business to get them into every school.
Speaker 3: You know, kids deserve to know the food of this country.
Speaker 3: They deserve to eat amazing stuff that belongs here, and
Speaker 3: I don't know if we can get the kids involved,
Speaker 3: they're going to continue that into the future. So I've
Speaker 3: got a big job ahead of me. Girl Like, I'm
Speaker 3: going to be a busy woman for the next little while.
Speaker 2: I think it's amazing. I think it's amazing.
Speaker 1: That's a great thing to be able to do and
Speaker 1: to set a goal, you know, for me master Chef
Speaker 1: this year, watching it has really taught me about eating
Speaker 1: local and about eating fresh, you know, and it's not
Speaker 1: something that I had been doing and so it's amazing
Speaker 1: that we can learn these sorts of things from a
Speaker 1: show like this. I guess the best question to ask
Speaker 1: you at this point before I let you go, is
Speaker 1: who do you think is going to win Master Chef?
Speaker 3: Yeah, big names in there still at the moment. How
Speaker 3: you look at Julie Goodwin, the original OG She's still
Speaker 3: there and hanging on. You've got Billy, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? What a powerhouse. That woman can get through
Speaker 3: any elimination and any pressure tip and is still as
Speaker 3: cool as a cucumber. I mean, they've got to be
Speaker 3: up there, those two. And of course my sister girl,
Speaker 3: Sarah Todd. I have a very special place in my
Speaker 3: heart for that woman. She is powerful, she is talented,
Speaker 3: she is courageous, and god, I would love to see
Speaker 3: her holding that trophy above her head. I really would.
Speaker 1: She'd have to be like one of the best looking
Speaker 1: humans I've ever seen, Like every time.
Speaker 3: She instantly beautiful, but the most amazing person on the inside.
Speaker 3: And god, she's sassy. I love that girl so much.
Speaker 3: She's a dancer, she's a groover, and she can sing
Speaker 3: as well, Like what can't this woman do?
Speaker 2: Seriously, tripper over, tripover? I need mindy.
Speaker 1: Something I ask everyone who joins the podcast is what
Speaker 1: is something from behind the scenes of your of your
Speaker 1: time or master chef, something that we didn't see that
Speaker 1: we you know, we won't see from behind the scenes.
Speaker 3: Well, I will fess up to you right now. I
Speaker 3: will let you know. The food that we create on set,
Speaker 3: as you know, is incredible. When we go back to
Speaker 3: that green room, my goodness, the stuff that they feed
Speaker 3: us for lunch's not not amazing and not inspiring at all.
Speaker 3: You know, when you get catering at work and you think, oh,
Speaker 3: my goodness, this is what is meant to like fill
Speaker 3: us up and motivate us and like, you know, give
Speaker 3: us that amazing nutrition. My goodness, it was not the
Speaker 3: most inspiring food that I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 3: But you know, we ate it because we were hung
Speaker 3: But my god, like a few complaints from the contestants
Speaker 3: and the group, like definitely, Oh, it was just just
Speaker 3: kind of like, I mean, this beautiful artwork behind me.
Speaker 3: A lot of the time the meals would open these
Speaker 3: containers and everything was that color of brown. You couldn't
Speaker 3: kind of differentiate what was what on the plate. It'd
Speaker 3: been sitting there for a while, and I just think, oh,
Speaker 3: my goodness, I'm gonna have to start bringing my own
Speaker 3: food to sad. It's just not inspiring food, especially for foodies,
Speaker 3: right and people that love to cook and love produce.
Speaker 3: The food was not amazing. So I'll drop that one
Speaker 3: as a little bit of a smoke bomb, and hopefully
Speaker 3: for the next seat season the food's a little bit better.
Speaker 1: Do you think that that asked someone to stay behind,
Speaker 1: you know, just anyone like someone who came out first
Speaker 1: out of the competition. Do you mind sticking around and
Speaker 1: cooking for the next season?
Speaker 3: You know, absolutely, Can you just hang out and like
Speaker 3: cook us up a bit of a feed for lunchtime?
Speaker 3: We would be happy to do it, seriously, But yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean it was it was pretty pretty terrible.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I've absolutely loved watching you on the show. I
Speaker 1: loved watching your relationship with Aldo. I thought it was
Speaker 1: so beautiful of you to speak so well of him
Speaker 1: when he came out of the competition. And I think
Speaker 1: that you have a real gift to inspire people. So
Speaker 1: thank you for letting us as Australia be on your
Speaker 1: journey with you, and yeah, enjoy the ride afterwards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, boogle Bear, thank you so much and thanks for
Speaker 3: the opportunity. I feel very privileged and very proud so
Speaker 3: Yahweh and Boogle Day. Have a beautiful day.