MasterChef Australia - Season 17 Part 1 (w/ Christian Gillett)

Christian returns to the cringe couch in a GAY EMERGENCY to discuss The Tony Awards, And Just Like That and the first half of this season of MasterChef Australia. Who’s cuisine will reign supreme? And will Darrsh get his own share house spin-off? The pair also touch on the death of The Project and Bravo’s new show Next Gen NYC.

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Intro

SPEAKER_00 0:00

This podcast was produced on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Welcome to Australia. This is quite tragic.

SPEAKER_01 0:12

Someone who is such a connoisseur of reality television, the content is hideous.

SPEAKER_04 0:17

So sorry about this. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 0:19

It's like a well-oiled machine at this point, isn't it? It is. Christian. We know the drill. You're back, you've got your spot on the couch, tiny dog. I know. Upon you. Yeah. You've had a

The Tony Awards

SPEAKER_00 0:33

a big day.

SPEAKER_03 0:34

I know, big day for the gays. Well, mainly for us theater gays. Yes. It was the Tony Awards.

SPEAKER_00 0:39

What time does she start? So today. Is it like a Eurovision situation? Like 5 a.m.?

SPEAKER_03 0:45

Almost, well, especially on the it's always going to be Queen's birthday weekend for Paul. It's still Queen's Birthday to me. Queen's birthday weekend for me, doll. Especially on the Queen's Birthday weekend, because obviously you've got your parties and stuff, which I did not go to this year. I didn't have the strength. Yeah, good on you.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

And there were plenty of parties.

SPEAKER_03 1:03

But we had an 8 40 a.m. kickoff. Fuck yeah. Do you know what? That's my kind of party. Yeah, you're like, yeah. I mean, still, yeah, so they did the pre-show and then the main event happened at 10 a.m. with Cynthia Orivo hosting. Stunning. So she's, you know, got her her fabulous nails in every pie at the moment. Um, holding space everywhere she can. And she was really good. It was really interesting.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Did they make a holding space joke? Of course they did. She grabbed Oprah's finger.

SPEAKER_03 1:30

Yeah, she only did one joke and she grabbed Oprah's finger at the start because Oprah kind of like sent her on her way to host it, which was quite funny. Oh, that's cute. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:37

Oprah, who I heard is uh hanging out backstage with Sarah Snook.

SPEAKER_03 1:43

I know, she was. She's yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:45

And you know when Oprah gives something her blessing, everyone's gonna want to finally get involved. Well, exactly. Did she do the same thing with like Hannah Gatsby back in the day? I think it was Oprah that was like, go watch this special, and then next thing you know, like Nanette was like huge.

SPEAKER_03 2:02

And it was like you it was obviously a really big year for the Tonies because you had obviously Sarah Snook who won. Yes. Incredible for Dorian Gray, which was started here. Yes, and shout out to the Oh man. And shout out to Erin Jean Norville and Nicky Shields who originated the role here. Extraordinary. And the thing that I love about Sarah's journey on the Tony Awards um circuit is that she's been shouting out the two of them the entire way. Like, what a class that. Like what a Queen. So she won, which was great.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

All reports, so it's still on Sarah Snork, because you know, we're all five degrees away from her because there's five people that live in Australia. Yeah, but from all reports, like people that I know that know her and whatever, she's like fucking legend. And absolutely. And she's like down, she's down to party.

SPEAKER_03 2:47

Absolutely, yeah. Um, she'll still be partying now because they're still they'd be still going off.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

Cola Scholar.

SPEAKER_03 2:52

Cola Scholar a reference to Bernadette Peters winning in 1999. Like, of course, the niche that Cole will go to. And like I saw O'Mary when I went to New York, and it is the most I didn't see Cole, I saw Betty Gilpin from Hello, who was also extraordinary. And Titus Burgess has done the role as well. I would kill to see Titus do it. But like Cole is just like we're really in a comedic, like, we're witnessing the era of this comedic genius coming to I cannot wait to see what's next. It's just this unhinged, it feels almost like a John Waters kind of how is Cole like I know I know people get it, and like it will the right people do, right?

SPEAKER_00 3:32

Yeah. The genius that is Cole Scholar, but like, how do they not have just like every TV network throwing money? Like, there should be like a an auction for who wants the uh just it's yeah, there needs to be so much.

SPEAKER_03 3:49

Everything they're in there just extraordinary, and like if you remember like when they were in um Search Party, which is one of the cool characters in Search Party, like the whole pretending to be Susan Saranda thing for like six episodes, extraordinary stuff like this. Cole is a genius, and of and also the first openly non-binary person to win a leading acting category in a play, which is extraordinary. So an extraordinary night.

SPEAKER_00 4:13

Shocking to me, but also whatever.

SPEAKER_03 4:15

I know well they still have gendered categories, you know. So they won in the best male actor category, but wearing a fucking Bernadette Peters weave and dress. So shout out to Cole Water. Somewhere, if that's an appropriate look, somewhere it's the Tony's exactly honest, but of course the big award of the night was um Best Actress in a Musical. Now, this had been always with these awards, it's about whether it's the Oscars or this, the gays care about this category too. This is the one. And you had the most stacked category you could ever imagine. You had the two girls, uh Meghan Hilty and Jennifer Simon for Death Becomes Her, who were both incredible. Um, you had Newcomber, Jasmine, Amy, I think it's Rogers from Boop, um, which is about Betty Boop, which I didn't see. It wasn't on when I got there. Um, and then you had like Audrey MacDonald, six-time Tony Award winner, playing the big biggest role in musical theatre for a woman, Mama Rose and Gypsy, and Nicole Scherzinger making her Broadway debut in what I consider to be a once-in-a-lifetime performance. I saw it four times. Oh my god. I saw it once ince in London.

SPEAKER_00 5:28

Ah, I'm a homosexual because I heard so much fucking buzz about the world. Like it was so I saw it once that permeated my non-theatre.

SPEAKER_03 5:37

So I planned my New York trip based around seeing it in London. I was like, this performance shouldn't work. On paper, she's playing a faded film star. It's normally, I mean, it's associated with Glenn Close, it's associated she her main claim to fame obviously is Pussycat dolls.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

Yes. Which this is and this is a comeback from this because they they were pitching the Pussycat dolls to come back in like 2020. With that banger of a song, with React, which that song was, but then COVID, because it was like a club hit, it was like there was no club, so I feel like COVID kind of killed the Pussycat dolls. It really did, honestly.

SPEAKER_03 6:15

And we might not have got exactly I agree. And she's definitely not going back to that now. And when I tell you that this is one of, if not the greatest performances I've ever seen on her stage, it's not just her singing, which we know, like she's always had anything.

SPEAKER_00 6:29

We know she can do the puss shush dance moves.

SPEAKER_03 6:33

She's always been a belter, but when I tell you it's the most like extraordinary acting performance, and it's just it it feels like you anyone that was watching it, yeah, it feels like a once-in-a-lifetime performance. And then obviously she made a comment at the end of last year on social media about a um hat. Oh, that's right. Make Jesus First Again has.

SPEAKER_00 6:52

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 6:53

So there was all this stuff, and then obviously, and look, Nicole was very, you know, she didn't outright say who she voted for, but she was like, you know, she's always been very supportive of the queer community and stuff. And she is a she's a god, by the way, you know.

SPEAKER_00 7:07

She gives me aggressive MAGA energy. You think so? There is nothing more MAGA capitalist pig to me than a pussy than swishing your hair around on a stool for Robin Anton and Mikey Minden and that creepy Geffen records guy. You watched that show, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, search for the next doll. Fuck off that show was everything. Yeah, but so great. Creepy. But that show had a creepy uh MAGA air about it.

SPEAKER_03 7:40

So I'm I wasn't that shocked, but I but she's smart to keep her mouth shut. She's smart to keep her mouth shut, and she went, and so that looked like it had derailed her campaign, but then she found a lot of love in the community, and people seem to and you know, she's mates with Cole. They've been hanging out and stuff, so you know, I you know, we'll leave it to what happened between all of them. But regardless of extraordinary performance, then Audrey MacDonald obviously had you know this legendary career, and she is I consider her to be the greatest living Broadway star. Like she's what she does is extraordinary. I saw her do Gypsy and controversially, I don't I thought she was a little miscast, still a great performance, but she's not completely right for the role, but still she can do no wrong in a lot of people's eyes, so I get it. Um but obviously in the last couple of weeks there was a huge scandal with um uh Patty Lapone. So Patty Lapone, um Which I love this shit so much.

SPEAKER_00 8:38

This is my favourite kind of scandal where it's like they haven't like specifically done anything, it's just like that person is a cunt.

SPEAKER_03 8:45

Exactly. And this had not been like we haven't had a scandal like in the Broadway community for a long time. Like it's pretty, it's a pretty, you know, open, like safe space for a lot of people, but not with Patty, apparently. If she'll tell it like it is Do you know what?

SPEAKER_00 8:59

I say good. You know, but she's earned the right to be absolute.

SPEAKER_03 9:04

For better or worse, she's earned the right to be an absolute card, you know.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

Like, so where who's saying this? Is it just everyone in the biz slowly coming out? That saying. And they've got receipts. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:16

What are the receipts? Well, the receipts are basically what happened was that she was doing a play with Mia Farrow. Um uh, and next door was Hal's Kitchen, the Alicia Keys musical. So it's a loud musical. And look, these theatres were built in the 1800s. I know there you go. Welcome. This is your education, everyone.

SPEAKER_00 9:34

This is so good.

SPEAKER_03 9:36

In the 1800s, these theatres were built. So they're not exactly the most soundproof of things, but like when you're in a Broadway theatre, you hear sirens, you hear that, like you just you can hear the other theatres. Like, it's fine. But Patty was not happy because she was in a two-handed place. So she got up in arms and tried to get them to lower the sound. And um Keisha Lewis, not a good look, right? Not a good look, and went and for a majority this a majority um by pop cast.

SPEAKER_00 10:03

You're an old white lady being like, keep that raggedy down. Exactly. Great.

SPEAKER_03 10:10

So Keisha Lewis, who won the Tony um for best featured actress for Hell's Kitchen, came out and said um that what um Patty was doing was coming from enormous privilege, yes, and that it was um that it was microaggressive and in some sort of racist rhetoric.

SPEAKER_00 10:25

She's an old white lady. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:27

And Audra gave uh some emojis in the comments. And then there was this New York uh interview with Patty, which uh was was and she was awful to Keisha basically called her a bitch and said, What do you know? You're you call yourself a Broadway legend, you've been in 11 shows, I've been in 25. Like it was horrible.

SPEAKER_00 10:46

Wow, but who's counting?

SPEAKER_03 10:47

Who's counting? Well, Patty, apparently. I love it. The interview it's like she's looking up, she's like, she googles it, and then the the interviewer's like in this in the in um underneath it's like it's actually this number, she was wrong, which I thought was fantastic. And then the interviewer asks her about Audra, and she goes, Well, yeah, Audra would do that. We're not friends, we haven't talked in ten years. So this whole thing came out that that that Patty was going after housewives, yeah, it was we're just acquaintances, we are, and that Patty was going after the darling of Broadway, literally that everyone loves.

SPEAKER_00 11:22

Yeah, it's Nicole and Terry at the Melbourne Cart.

SPEAKER_03 11:24

It is Nicole and Terry at the Melbourne carp. So there was looking like that Audre could get it, and then Nicole waved it. And it is, it was completely deserved, and it is.

SPEAKER_00 11:37

Were people sugar?

SPEAKER_03 11:39

I don't I don't think so. I think I was so much always gonna it was always gonna be the two of either one of them, so it's a flip a coin at this point.

SPEAKER_00 11:47

And it kind of makes more sense for yeah, it's a more of a win for Nicole because this is like a new space for her.

SPEAKER_03 11:52

It's a huge comeback, it's an extraordinary once-in-a-lifetime performance. She might never ever have anything like this again. Audra will probably win another eight Tony, so she's gonna be fine. And look, absolute legend, and yeah, so it was really nowhere to be seen. And Patty was not there, she was not at the ceremony, noticeably absent. Wow and Oprah made a dig as well. She goes, Well, this is a category that got a lot of talking, and I was like fabulous, giving Patty some shade.

SPEAKER_00 12:23

Well, uh, I hear that we're getting some Patty on uh my favorite show. Oh and just like that. Uh yeah, apparently she's gonna m feature in a multi-episode story arc with a fabulous wig. You know how I feel about wig. So and what, she's gonna be the mum of that like twinky Italian gay that the like friend is oh fucking.

And Just Like Trashfire

SPEAKER_03 12:50

Yeah, I mean she is Italian, but I don't think she's done an Italian accent in about 50 years ago. It's gonna be great.

SPEAKER_00 12:55

It's gonna be and look, this show is great, and it can't get any worse, so you might as well throw Patty in a wig in.

SPEAKER_03 13:03

Like, I saw the best tweet the other day that basically said it was this girl was like, is chat GPT down for anyone else? I'm a writer and just like that, and I need to finish my deadline. And is it truer than like this is a chat GPT written show?

SPEAKER_00 13:21

Oh, absolutely. Yeah. And the particular references that the the chat bot is sourcing from uh has never never been to New York before. And she never actually watched Sex in the City. Yeah, never, never, never watched it. These women are completely different people. Like Miranda. Oh my god, they have just murdered Miranda.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

Yeah, and I think I I just I just hope Cynthia, well, she's obviously getting paid through the nose because I don't think she would be liking the path of the case. Like, God, it's just insulting.

SPEAKER_00 13:56

Yeah, they really like I because I thought last season with the the alcoholic storyline, I was like, oh, this is tragic. And I thought maybe this season they were gonna make her like her fierce, fabulous comeback, but I feel like they're just making her even more miserable.

SPEAKER_03 14:12

They're making her more miserable, and they're kind of making her like almost like the butt of the jokes. Like she's kind of she's become kind of the Charlotte, which is and I find the whole thing so weird.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

And let her have some fun. Like, I was so here for her fucking Rosie O'Donnell in the first time. That was that was amazing. Yeah, and I was like, yes, we I was like, Finally, thank you, Rosie, for yeah, come for your service to the show. But then see, that was great, and I thought that was gonna go something, like if that was Sexton City, that would have gone somewhere, and it would have ended in some hilarious thing where I don't know, she's Miranda goes on a crazy journey through New York.

SPEAKER_03 14:51

There's literally no cause and effect in any state of the show.

SPEAKER_00 14:53

No, no, people come in, they're like, huh. Also, I feel like Carrie is just this judgy cunt that is so tone-deaf talking about her um her backyard renovation in New York. I'm like, bitch, like relatable content.

SPEAKER_03 15:08

It is literally like she has become the most first world problem person imaginable. It is just like it's like kind of repulsive, like she's a fucking bitch.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

And then she's like she's like poo-pooing everything everyone does. I know, including herself, when oh my god, when she dictated that voice message into her phone to then delete it. I had to pause. I was like, I was so mad for the joke. I was like, it was a minute and for her to then not send that. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 15:38

Exclamation point, exclamation point, exclamation point.

SPEAKER_00 15:41

And the rats and the wanna buy this table by the fucking table, Carrie. How is that a storyline by the table?

SPEAKER_03 15:48

Shut up. And and case in point, how is this a storyline? The whole fucking episode around Miranda is based around her loving a reality TV show. And so this was actually very this is very us-coded.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

This I felt personally attacked. I felt personally attacked. This storyline is operating in a another time where it was still socially acceptable to shame people for watching reality TV. Absolutely. And guess what? That time is gone. Shut the fuck up. Exactly. I was I'm like, are we still doing this? Yeah. Like, uh, my guilty pleasure. No, bitch. Bravo's ratings are through the roof. Shut up. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 16:29

Like, we are all addicted to this shit. It's and it's great. Yeah, and I just found the whole thing, this is all you're giving her. This is all you're giving her.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

I like that it was like a bisexual, like island dating show. I would buy bigger. I was like, I would watch this show. It was finally, I was like, it's something piqued my interest in this universe. But then to have the whole storyline be so that she can hit on the like guak waitress.

SPEAKER_01 16:55

And then the guok waitress is like, no, I just watch reality TV.

SPEAKER_03 16:59

I yeah, I was like, the line, the line where she's like, no, I uh I she's like, oh well, I thought you were queer because you watched this room. Well, I watch Walking Dead and I'm not a zombie.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

That that line was like homophobic. That was, yeah. It was like it felt very like, what, next? We let gays get married. We'll be marrying goats and chickens. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 17:20

The whole thing is just I'm like But I can't get enough of my. I can't wait.

SPEAKER_00 17:24

It's my favourite show. Every week I'm like, yes.

SPEAKER_03 17:26

Like, has there ever been a show this awful that's been renewed for three seasons? I don't know. Gotta be, but like this is truly atrocious, and it's just going, it's Do you know what my theory?

SPEAKER_00 17:36

So I feel this show is more closely related to the Gossip Girl universe than the Sex in the City universe. They feel like Gossip Girl girls. Well, we had a because they're out of touch, rich people.

SPEAKER_03 17:49

And literally, there are a storyline about Ivy League schools and all. That's what did it for me. The fabulous Kirsten Schaal completely wasted. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 17:56

What was she doing? I know. That's like um Bob's Burger's fuck, what's the the girl in the voice? She's a voice actor. Louise. Yeah, Louise. Yeah. I love her. And then for her to just be this like horrible character with no comedy whatsoever. No. It was like, why why did you hire you don't put her in something unless it's gonna be like lols per minute. Exactly. And then that was for me, I was like, that's a gossip girl storyline. Totally. Like sweet and I love how it's just like the things people do, it's like, yeah, the things rich people do. That's the thing.

SPEAKER_03 18:28

There is no at least. I mean, it was always glamorised, obviously, sex in the city. And you obviously had Carrie, how could she afford to live in this apartment on you know, writing one column away?

SPEAKER_00 18:39

It's Trump's America.

SPEAKER_03 18:40

It's Trump's America. We can't have anything anymore.

SPEAKER_00 18:44

We get and just like that.

SPEAKER_03 18:46

And it's just like they've completely abandoned all the characters, and now we have these new characters, like I can't remember her name because I'm so not invested. Cole Larry Parker, the other one, the LTW, the d the documentary film.

SPEAKER_00 19:00

I f cannot stand this character. Like, what's the point? And some of the so we haven't even got into the fashion choices. Oh my god. Like, obviously, the fucking hat. Which, yeah, the that hat. I texted Maria Angelica and I was like, Victoria Montana's off the hook for worst hat.

SPEAKER_03 19:17

Absolutely, yeah. We finally had but without a hint of irony or wink at the camera, they're like, no, this is fashion.

SPEAKER_00 19:27

She's just wandering through like fucking Central Park in that hat. With a little bit of short cake hat, yeah. Someone would like say something. Like you would laugh.

SPEAKER_03 19:38

Like you would, I like New York Fashion.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Even her friend was just like, oh yeah. Hey Carrie, how you doing? She wasn't like, girl.

SPEAKER_03 19:44

Like, there's New York fashion, and this is not it. Even like outrageous New York fashion, this is not it.

SPEAKER_00 19:50

But the but LTW is it was it Lisa Todwick's, which I just that's such a dumb name. Yeah. That's AI generated character producing. But she has been wearing some fucked jewelry. Like the baubles.

SPEAKER_03 20:04

Like, I'm surprised she still has doesn't have a neck injury. Like death but character. Like, why is it her neck?

SPEAKER_00 20:11

Also, it's very like, okay, we're putting like a person of colour in like fucking Lion King. That like totally.

SPEAKER_03 20:19

Seriously. It's not cool. There's just no stakes to anything that anyone's doing. She's like, oh, I can't sleep because I've got to do a pitch.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

I think so. Clearly, like Michelle Obama is going to be in the show, right? Yeah, sure. Because why else would they set that up? Yeah. Actually knowing that they're not going to be able to do that. No, they might, but we'll never hear about it again. Yeah. She changes careers. She's like, oh, the documentary. No, I stopped doing that years ago.

SPEAKER_03 20:42

No, she starts probably going into Ivy League unique consulting. Like she's going to get her brain stormed. She's found a new thing. Lucrative career. And like Samira's like, it's Tamira, isn't it? SEMA. SEMA, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

Oh my god. So her last episode, I was like, are we supposed to like this one? I know. She's being a fucking kind of thing.

SPEAKER_03 20:59

There was a little bit of glimmer of hope in like last season, I thought, where you're like, oh, this could be.

SPEAKER_00 21:03

She was kind of cunty and fabulous last season.

SPEAKER_03 21:06

But now there's nothing. No redeemable food.

SPEAKER_00 21:09

Yeah, because last season she was kind of like sips cigarette, like, mmm, I'm a you know, fierce woman. And you were kind of like, okay, but now those dates she went on just like but the writing was so bad. Because they could have done it in a way where she was nice to these men, but like, or but they were predictable. Yeah. You know? But instead, she did it in this like fortune teller way where she was like, let me guess. Your name is James. And I'm like, why is she doing this?

SPEAKER_03 21:40

Like, this is they they've obviously put her in to fill the Samantha gap. But like Samantha would never act like this. There's no like it's just a it's just as I said, like we've got no through line with any character. They just change who they are like in the blink of an eye. We've got that remember the professor, she's not even in it anymore. That means R IP trade.

SPEAKER_00 22:02

At this point, I'm like, bring back Che Diaz.

SPEAKER_03 22:04

I know, like literally, we'll take it.

SPEAKER_00 22:07

I w actually need that.

SPEAKER_03 22:09

I know. Just bring back Jay just for a little just for a guest cameo. Maybe a showdown with the virgin virgin nun. That'd be great.

SPEAKER_00 22:16

Yes. Maybe that would actually be a great little like Easter egg to just have like Rosie O'Donnell and Chadia's like holding hands in the background.

SPEAKER_03 22:26

They've found each other.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

So good.

SPEAKER_03 22:28

They're singing for good in the background.

SPEAKER_00 22:32

Well, I certainly will be tuning in. Every single wave. Every fucking week. Hook me up for this dumpster fire. The other show that's just started is a new Bravo

Next Gen NYC

SPEAKER_00 22:43

one. Also, also set in New York City with a different generation. It's called Next Gen NYC.

SPEAKER_03 22:48

Tell me everything.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

This is, I love this. It's it's looking promising already. It's a lot of the kids of the housewives. So you've got Brooks Marks. Yeah. Meredith Marks. Oh god. God Gia TV.

SPEAKER_03 23:03

He's been gagging for a TV show.

SPEAKER_00 23:05

That's an idea. Um, yeah. Bunch of bunch of Bravo Nepo babies, basically, just like pissing up their like allowance money. It's so good. Oh, great. It's a great like double feature with Angus Like That because it's yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:22

Now it's just not everyone's affordable um streaming service, AU. Sure. Yeah, no, it is. I'll pack one score.

SPEAKER_00 23:31

Only watch uh shows on AU. Oh,

MasterChef Australia Season 17 Episodes 1-24 Recap

SPEAKER_00 23:36

but uh no, we're here tonight to discuss uh the slog of winter, which is the marathon that is Master Chef. Are we only a quarter or something? I think we're halfway. We are halfway. I think there is 50 episodes, and we are at um we're at like 25 or something. 24. Yeah, it's definitely like we just finished episode 24. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:03

Like we were talking about um Love Triangle the other week. Oh by the way, you must watch UK season two. Oh, is it good? It is extraordinary, and I hope they bring some of the things that they've put in that hint. Okay, changes the whole show, loved it. Um but we were talking about Love Triangle and how um economic it was in the fact that you could like you had your seven episodes and a reunion. In this economy, you know, and whereas this, like, it is a hard commit for because the free to air model isn't really yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

Look, this is the Australian content quota at the time, which like with Survivor, you're kind of like, fuck yeah, because that's so good. And like I don't I love Mass Chef. You think back in the day, I know I must have just been like doing less with my life. I think so. I think I was just boring as many apps, I think. Yeah, you know, and all that. It was a great COVID show because you could like cook cook along and not leave the house and it was on every night, too. Like, great, but yeah, I've got to say, I am playing catch up hardcore, and I will occasionally skip an app.

SPEAKER_03 25:02

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

Because, sorry.

SPEAKER_03 25:03

Like if it's a filler app that doesn't have anyone evicted or immunity, like the pressure tests, not gonna lie, not my face.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

It's like I I want the creativity of the cast. I don't really love when they just have to replicate something. Yeah. Depending on who the special guest is. But they've done one with a casting. So I love a back to win season. Yeah, it means this one should just be called Back to Laura.

SPEAKER_03 25:29

I know.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

Because let's be fucking real, they've put her back on to win.

SPEAKER_03 25:33

Oh, absolutely. Back for Laura to win. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

If she doesn't, I'll be shocked. Yeah, it's her or Sarah, right? Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 25:39

That'll be the final two. Sarah and her. Like, not even a question.

SPEAKER_00 25:43

Yeah, they could even do a double crowning.

SPEAKER_03 25:45

Could you imagine? Is that the first would that be the first time? I think so.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

Yeah, I would love that. Yeah, I love Sarah so much. Me too. I cannot tell you. She's such a boss. I am so attracted to Sarah in a way that I'm questioning myself. Whenever she's on screen, I'm like, I'd like to go silent. Yeah. She's so captivatingly beautiful. Yeah. Her she's like a calm, she's like a yoga instructor.

SPEAKER_03 26:11

Yeah. Her demeanor, the way she holds herself, the way she manages to be calm in the face of everything. Like, even if she's frantic, it's so still.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

And the way she like operates as a like ally to the Indian community is actually stunning. Yeah. I think she does it in because you know, when like dude bros get really into like Mexican food or whatever, and it's kind of like yes, hello feeder. Um, and it's kind of a bit like cringe town, Sarah does it in this way where you're like, no, no, like you've you've put in the work, yeah, you understand the cuisine and the culture behind it, and you're paying respects. And you're doing it in like a boss bitch way.

SPEAKER_03 26:56

Yeah, she is my personal I favourite that I would want to win.

SPEAKER_00 27:01

And then look, how do you feel about Laura?

SPEAKER_03 27:03

Look, I like Laura, and it's you can't that's the thing. You never dislike anyone in this show, I really think. Like it's it's not I mean uh We'll get there. Yeah, we'll get there. There's a few. Um but for the most part, like you you root for them. It's a warm hug this show. It is a warm hug this show, and it's like, you know, and I but it is, yeah, as you said, everything is being orchestrated to it. But I I love Laura.

SPEAKER_00 27:28

We went to Laura's restaurant in Adelaide a few years ago, and she was there, she came out, she talked to us, and I was like, oh, and she just yeah, I love her. She's like the girls I went to high school with. Yeah, um, and I love now she's like a mum. Yeah I did she just like pop out a kid like two minutes before the season started? Like crazy, yeah. She's superwoman. Um, yeah. I mean to plus, oh my god, when they do the like moments with her and Andy like reminiscing about Jock. Oh my god. Yeah, I get an emotional girl.

SPEAKER_03 28:04

No, it's yeah, it's it's something that I don't think like is ever gonna leave any of these people that game. Like it's true, like it's it's yeah, it's very moving every time they mention it, because it's just you know what a harrowing thing they all had to go through, and I think they kind of all bonded over it as well, you know.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

The judging panel are back.

SPEAKER_03 28:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

It's their second season? Third.

SPEAKER_03 28:31

Third? I think it's their third, is it?

SPEAKER_00 28:33

Maybe even. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:35

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

They feel they're humming now.

SPEAKER_03 28:38

I think so, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 28:39

Yeah. I mean like loving them. I saw this like clip from MasterChef Canada the other day on Reddit. Like someone posted it being like, whoa, did you guys like know that the other MasterChef franchises are not like ours? And they showed it, and it's like this guy screaming. It's like you give me this. He's like yelling and like throwing shit at them. It is in name only. So I do like and then all the comments like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All the rest of them are like this. Yeah. The Australian one is known for being kind and supportive, which is what I like.

SPEAKER_03 29:17

They compliment sandwich everything.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

Which I love, and it's it feels genuine. And I know it's produced television, but this is the only one where I actually forget.

SPEAKER_03 29:25

Well, I think also because you've got Poe there as well. She's been through it. Fucking love. I love Poe so much.

SPEAKER_00 29:30

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 29:31

Um, but like, you know, she's been through it, they've all been under the microscope in some way in their chosen like whether they've been a chef or a critic. Um, you know, they've all they all know what this is like.

SPEAKER_00 29:41

And it's the yeah, they say everything like it feels like a big family.

SPEAKER_03 29:45

Totally.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

Which I'm all about. Um who else from this cast should we talk about? Audra. She's got she's been getting some airtime.

SPEAKER_03 29:54

She has, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:55

Yeah, I've got some pickies here. Yeah, I'm just gonna have to. I don't remember her season.

SPEAKER_03 30:02

No, she's real I there's something about her, I'm like, you're fucking great.

SPEAKER_00 30:06

She's cool.

SPEAKER_03 30:06

Yeah, she's really coming up in all the challenges.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

Yeah, like, oh wow, like she's always um she'll come out of nowhere and you'll be like, oh wow, this was really and they keep they always pitch it to us like she's either gonna fuck it up and go home or slay, and then like to date she's been slaying.

SPEAKER_03 30:24

Yeah, she's been slaying.

SPEAKER_00 30:25

Yeah, Andrew Can we just so I've totally get another one where he must have been early days, right? I'm weirdly attracted to Andre, but he's kind of annoying.

SPEAKER_03 30:38

He's kind of annoying and he's really in his head. Oh yeah, he's so in his head. He is, he needs to chill. It's not been a good week for him, yeah. And like he's very it's all and it always starts, like all these challenges start with like catastrophe. So he never gets out of that mindset, and they don't end up bad, I don't think, a lot of them. Yeah, you know, sometimes you know he'll fuck up a big thing or something, whatever. But like he just starts off and then can't get out of that.

SPEAKER_00 31:04

And he's got a really annoying South Australian accent. Yeah, just the tweet.

SPEAKER_03 31:08

Yes, it is a different accent.

SPEAKER_00 31:10

But he's you're cute. Yeah, I like that I don't remember him from before. There's actually a lot of kind of earlier on people.

SPEAKER_03 31:17

Well, that's the thing, I'm glad you've got the photos up. Yeah, there are so many people in this show. Yeah, we're at like it still feels like there's that many in there. It does.

SPEAKER_00 31:23

But oh my god, Bo, I'm like, sorry, are you on the show? Yeah, yeah. So she is not she's not there. Same with Alana. What? Yeah, these people there. Ben is getting a lot of screen time because of his buddy Pin, which he won't fucking play. But oh, I kind of like his cheeky little uh his?

SPEAKER_03 31:43

Yeah, I'm I'm enjoying him and I think he's yeah, he's doing some good stuff.

SPEAKER_00 31:47

Yeah, he's got cool dad energy. Like I wanna yeah. I want to smoke a joint with him and like I don't know, talk about food. Yeah, uh Callum, another one that I cannot explain, but I'm very sexually attracted to Callum.

SPEAKER_03 32:04

This is a really big season for you in terms of people you're sexually attracted to. Because I mean you've had Dash, like you're forever loved.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

RIP.

SPEAKER_03 32:14

I know. We haven't even got there yet. I know. Oh well, spoilers.

SPEAKER_00 32:18

But yeah, no, Callum, he's like profusely sweaty, kind of like eternally kind of twinky. And for some reason, I don't know, I'm into that.

SPEAKER_03 32:27

Yeah. I've got to say Andy, some of his lips. Andy Allen in the last judge Andy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Some of his lips like I'm like, fucking hell, daddy. Well, because remember when they first really good he's hot.

SPEAKER_00 32:40

When they first started dressing him, remember he would always be in like an oversized pant and like a little tucked-in t-shirt, and I was like, no, but now they're getting it back to the bottom.

SPEAKER_03 32:50

And he had like a white singlet on and like a blue shirt, and I was like, oh yeah, and he's hot. Hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like very hot, very hot.

SPEAKER_00 33:00

Plus, I did see him IRL when I went to like a taping at a the at the food stall challenge at the Vic Market.

SPEAKER_03 33:10

Oh, that's right, yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 33:12

And IRL, very captivating. Yeah, yeah. Poor cat.

SPEAKER_03 33:17

I can't I've kind of like I love Jamie.

SPEAKER_00 33:20

Oh, see Love Jamie. Love Jamie. He's also hot, right? And in a ch he's a he's a cheeky fucker. Yeah, no, he's like, he gives hospo vibes, like yeah, you can see him like working at the restaurant, yeah, clocking off, punching like 20 darts, absolutely, like pushing back cocktails.

SPEAKER_03 33:42

He's fun. Yeah, he's giving like Jeremy Allen what's his face vibes. Yeah, like that's how he works. Yeah, it's hardcore.

SPEAKER_00 33:50

Love him. Love to pinter. She's like a bit of a dark horse. She is a dark horse. She could come out, she could be top three.

SPEAKER_03 33:57

Yeah, there was she did some good stuff this week.

SPEAKER_00 33:59

This week she was kind of slaying.

SPEAKER_03 34:00

Yeah. And who else we got? Uh Samira.

SPEAKER_00 34:04

Oh, I love her! I love the money. She's like mum, she's like the mum of the show. I know. Yeah, Samira's doing great. She gives really good confessional. She's always like, Oh, I don't know. I, you know, I thought it was all over, but then I told myself, Yeah, you can do this. And it's like, yeah, yeah, and you're at home just like fist pumping for Samira. Yeah. Declan has grown on me. He's the one who's oh Declan's my name, and fish is my I actually really liked Declan. No, it's the same lot of times. But on his season, I was like, shut up.

SPEAKER_03 34:36

Yeah, and in this season, I think he's really coming to his own. And he and he had such a good um moment this week. Yes, he did. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:43

And he go, and he got the Lee Come Key uh deal.

SPEAKER_03 34:48

So good.

SPEAKER_00 34:50

Yeah, he's he's like a lovable Larrakhen character, which I'm like, okay, channel two. And I think that is I'll give you this one.

SPEAKER_03 34:56

And I think that is the kind of beauty of these kinds of shows, is they throw all these people that would never normally actually hang out together. Fuck no. And they find like joy with the city. They find common ground. They do, and that's beautiful. It's the same as Bacoff and stuff. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:11

It's great when interviewing because it's yeah, just warm hug stuff. Um Jimmy loved Jimmy. I know. He we just yeah, love a camp cow in the kitchen. Uh, who the fuck else is here? Rihannan and Rue are both gone. I know. Which not mad about I liked Rue, but she yeah, she was another one in her head. Yeah. And Rihanna I've never really liked. She's always like, oh, I'm from Queensland, and I don't know. She always struggled. Yeah, she always struggled, didn't she? Yeah. Sav, another one gone too soon. I know, absolute queen. Because she's such a queen. But Snedge, we still have on the Snedge is great. Yeah. Yeah. Love her. She's a little bit too wholesome. Look at her looking like Anne Hathaway there or something. Like she's like, well, not Anne Hathaway now. She does have a like. Snez is like, what are you doing on the television, honey?

SPEAKER_03 36:13

But I love it. Yeah. And she yeah. She's so wholesome. Yeah, she's so wholesome.

SPEAKER_00 36:18

I couldn't I can't be in the same world as Snatch. Like I'm too like inappropriate for Snatch. You need more chaos. Yeah. Yeah. Which I wouldn't want to like, yeah, I wouldn't want to ruin it.

SPEAKER_03 36:31

But I also feel like Sarah would tolerate your chaos for a little bit and then she'd be like, shut the fuck up. Yeah, yeah. She would she'd like, she would appreciate filth in the kitchen being a bit, but then she'd be like, nah, get the fuck to work. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:45

Yeah. Theo is another little hottie.

SPEAKER_03 36:47

Yeah, I do love Theo.

SPEAKER_00 36:48

And I love that he's just all about bread. I know. That's give me a Greek boy that can knead with those strong hands. And then Tim, not for me. Yeah. I think we discussed his toasty last time you were here.

SPEAKER_03 37:03

Yeah, pretty basic.

SPEAKER_00 37:04

Just kind of like whatever's. Yeah. Uh but yeah, season. It's been pretty good. We've had how many weeks have we had? We've had six weeks. Six weeks of it. The first week we had Gordon Ramsay. Uh, because he apparently they shot the American Master Chef in Flemington at our studio this year. Oh, okay. Which I'm like, great. Yeah. Before Trump, you know, is tariffing the fuck out of uh offshore film production. So good thing they got that in. Uh so that's why Gordon Ramsay was there, I think, because he would have just finished filming, because he's the host of that one. Oh, yeah. So he would have hung around, done the first week of ours, and then fucked off and taken a huge check. Well done. Uh it was but tip T B H like he he's not right for this show.

SPEAKER_03 37:55

Well, no, it's too he's too mean. Even though this is him on Valiant, like it is very it's still aggressive, you know. Like it's but look, at the same time, I do appreciate them having like kitchen challenges, like where they have to run a night. I think that is good, but you are right. It's it is just you know, Curtis what's his face? Curtis and more for this show.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

Yeah, because he's the bloody Coles delivery man, him and the farmer kills me. I'm like, what are we doing?

SPEAKER_03 38:34

Yeah. But still tough, but not the Gordon Ramsey energy.

SPEAKER_00 38:39

Oh you just you just know Curtis has got some like stuff out there, like oh yeah. Allegedly, I don't know. I just yeah. Oh, he would, yes. But like I like I would say yes.

SPEAKER_03 38:56

Yeah. It's gonna be a Master Chef's really busy for you, doll.

SPEAKER_00 39:02

So Gordon started, they did this twist this year, which I thought was very unmaster chef, where they were like, you guys are all plebs back to win. Yes, but then Callum, Sarah, and Laura are superstars back to win.

SPEAKER_03 39:14

And I was like, okay. Well, that was really wow, we're ranking now. Yeah, that was cool. That's new. That was cunty.

SPEAKER_00 39:20

I thought it was a bit shit.

SPEAKER_03 39:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:22

Just pepper them in there, because it kind of makes them also awkward for them. They've got to be like, uh thanks for putting the target on me.

SPEAKER_03 39:30

Yeah, you understand why they're kind of doing it, because they're like, these are the ones that have actually gone out and done it, you know. Yeah. But like, yeah, it isn't in the spirit of the show.

SPEAKER_00 39:40

No. Ben kept up with Gordon the best and won the pin. He certainly did. Last time I checked, he still is in possession of the pin. Yeah, I don't think he played it.

SPEAKER_03 39:54

Well, who was the one that played it in the last episode?

SPEAKER_00 39:56

Did so oh did he play it? I think he did. Oh, he did?

SPEAKER_03 39:58

Oh fuck.

SPEAKER_00 39:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:02

It's a lot of those. Yeah, with the slicing. Oh, he did play it. Oh, okay. Yeah, because he's egg stuffed up, so he's like, naps, fuck this. Oh great, good on it. I'm also glad to see it played. Yeah, you gotta do it.

SPEAKER_00 40:15

The tension of that is always like, come on. Yeah, great. Uh and they did a late night snack immunity challenge, which I love that. I love when they do like pub food. Yeah. Like dirty food. Like, that's a lot of things.

SPEAKER_03 40:29

And I have to say, I can't remember who did it. I th which uh if you brought up the photo, I can tell you. But um maybe it was Andre.

SPEAKER_00 40:37

Was he the or was it the or was it Andre had a good start to the season?

SPEAKER_03 40:42

Yeah, who was the one that did the assassin past during the late night? I'm not sure. Yeah, that was him. Yeah, that pasta looked.

SPEAKER_00 40:47

I actually was that looked fucking so good.

SPEAKER_03 40:49

But I took Umridge with the judges going, I've never heard of this. I'm like, how have you never heard of this? It is I've heard of it. I've heard of it. I know, no, I agree. They were like, You just put the bluster in Ron Like Star.

SPEAKER_00 41:01

Yeah, bitch, there's like heaps of recipe.

SPEAKER_03 41:02

Like, literally, it's it's it's a very standard dish. I called Bullshit on that. Yeah, me too. I was like, all right, calm down. Like, come on. I've I've I've I've literally like it's it's assaulted me on TikTok. Everyone like it was a viral food. Why wasn't this on the viral food challenge? You know, like people know about this dish.

SPEAKER_00 41:21

Don't even get me started on viral week. Fuck me. Oh, well, yeah, but we need to discuss. Can we ban viral week? Agreed. I'm done. Uh uh Audra, though, won the challenge. So she got her prawn takoyaki with Indian flavours on Gordon's menu. And when they do these things, I'm almost like, who is this surprise for? Because Gordon's getting free. What is promoted out of it? Does she get to go to the restaurant in London and try it? Yeah. Probably not. Does she get a proceed of the sales? Yeah. Absolutely. Is her name on the menu? Yeah. Does it set like I need I need the T's and C's, honey? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:59

At least give her an all expenses paid trip to like set it up, you know, in the kitchen and be like, here's how you do it.

SPEAKER_00 42:04

It's like when they do the sauce. Yeah, I know. I love when that is the sauce. Oh, it was good. Yeah, well, I'm gonna show the sauce.

SPEAKER_03 42:11

The meatballs, Italian meatballs. Was that last season? Because that was her like um Indian inspired. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:17

It was good. But yeah, again with that, I'm like, are they getting a cut?

SPEAKER_03 42:22

Yeah, nothing.

SPEAKER_00 42:23

Her name's on the bottle. I think it's just like that's to start your food journey. And also, how long does it stay on the meat?

SPEAKER_03 42:29

Or is it just like a sea like a seasonal thing a day? Surely. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 42:32

It's like a bar snack.

SPEAKER_03 42:34

Yeah, exactly. It looked fucking yaka. They looked great, though.

SPEAKER_00 42:36

I love a takayaki.

SPEAKER_03 42:37

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 42:38

I was shocked because I thought that was gonna flop hard. Yeah. When she explained it, I think I loved the story about her husband and her and like the yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh week two was Legends Week for some reason. And this was when, yeah, old mate uh Tim made a forest gump inspired toasty. That was an abomination. Yeah. But Kath cooked her mushrooms and got sent home first.

SPEAKER_03 43:08

Well, we don't cook mushrooms anymore, don't you remember that?

SPEAKER_00 43:12

Put them straight in. Put him put them straight in. Peter Gilmore uh rocked up. We love Peter Gilmore um doing a mystery box challenge. Yes. Um then we had Kirsten Tibbles. Yeah, this is they just brought out all the like the store wart of uh the franchise. She had a coffee caviar tin that they had to recreate, which actually was quite chic.

SPEAKER_03 43:40

So I have an issue with um things that look like other things. And desserts, which I will get to.

SPEAKER_00 43:46

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 43:47

So my issue with desserts, which we're gonna get it into viral week. Oh fuck. Um I am not a dessert person. I'm a savory person. Sorry. And I think the absolute horror they put These contestants through to make these elaborate desserts, which at the end of the day, it's not the most satisfying meal. It's the end of like it's not your main meal. The absolute horror. They're like, You've got four hours on the clock.

SPEAKER_00 44:14

Plus, there's a whole nother show now. They have dessertmasters with that absolutely infuriating French man that I cannot stand. Oh, yes, yes. He is like he induces the opposite response to everyone that I've mentioned that I've been to on this show. Like I get like my dick like goes inside my body and just disappears.

SPEAKER_03 44:35

But it's like my thing is it's like you go to all this work for something that is literally consumed in two bites.

SPEAKER_00 44:41

True.

SPEAKER_03 44:42

Like it's just feel the whole payoff just feels so unsatisfying.

SPEAKER_00 44:47

I know, and I'm always like, because I'm the same as you, I'm not that into sweets. Like I I love a sweet button. I mean of course I like a piece of choice. I'm not like a cake girl.

SPEAKER_03 44:55

Like, I'm not, it's not the thing that I'm like, I don't go out to breakfast and be like, oh, I must have been a side bowl with some honey ricotta pancakes. No, I'm getting the bacon and eggs. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 45:03

You know, yeah, and when they're judging the desserts, I'm always like, okay, but it's just sweet. Like, I don't know. But the when you have a well-balanced dessert, it does stand out to you. Oh, absolutely. But I feel like that's few and far between. I don't know. You're right.

SPEAKER_03 45:16

Maybe it's just me angry because I'm on a calorie deficit and desserts don't exist to make it. It's like that's 700 calories and it's two mouthfuls.

SPEAKER_00 45:24

So then we uh got to see Shannon Bennett again, who I'm always happy to see. Uh I was surprised he wasn't made like a main judge, but maybe he's not into that. Um was this when they had to wrap stuff? I think so. Yes. It was like banana leaves. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Uh and Theo won immunity for the Lucomates, which stun. I fucking love Lucomates. Put anything in a deep fryer. Alright, Luca Mates. There you go. Yeah, don't we'll go to the well, it feels like it actually is. I hate tweets. Oh donuts. Yeah, it's a substantial donut. You can be full after them. Week three started with the fucking cube challenge. Your favourite. Even reading these notes, I'm like, Jamie misidentified strawberry as plum and his team went into round two. And that's because Jamie's been punching too many darts in the smokes.

SPEAKER_03 46:22

Or had COVID, like one of the two. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Something like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:26

It's like, can't taste strawberry from a plum. Um then we had Tim successfully crisped the skin on his roast pork belly. Yeah. Uh, which I don't know, Tim for me, just everything he does on my that looks shit. Yeah. Even if it's great, I just choose to not enjoy Tim.

SPEAKER_03 46:47

Well, it yeah, he's got a it's not a it's not a refined way of making food. He's very much like slap it on the plate.

SPEAKER_00 46:54

Yeah, and there's an audience for Tim. Absolutely. And there's a lot of yeah, there's a lot of housewives going, oh a lovely man.

SPEAKER_03 47:03

Wouldn't you love to shack up with him? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:05

In Ballarat, wherever he's uh and then uh Steph got eliminated because um she air fried some pork belly and uh yeah, girl. No. Big no no. Then we had the fridge invention test. This is the the knock fridge. Yeah. I did this product placement did work on me. I want this fucking fridge. It's so chic. Yeah. But you don't have to open it, you just give it a little tap. I was into it. Uh Andre, one dish of the day, and a five thousand dollar voucher. Great. Which I was like, just give him the fridge. Just give him the fridge. I thought that would have been a better type.

SPEAKER_03 47:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:47

It's probably worth $5,000, right?

SPEAKER_03 47:49

Oh, probably, yeah, if not more, so he can buy half of it.

SPEAKER_00 47:52

Yeah, true. Yeah. Then we had Curtis Stone. He's a he's a large man. He's very he's probably as tall as you. He's a unit. Yeah, big. What a unit. There's definitely a lot of housewives, us included, that are like Curtis's back. Great hair. Still, still got it.

SPEAKER_03 48:14

Uh still can't get a, you know, but the days of the $10 meal at Kohl's are gone, Curtis. Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 48:20

And they had to also, I hate his food because it's always like, oh, you can just nip down to Kohl's and just whip up this pork loin. It's a south store free pork. I'm like, okay.

SPEAKER_03 48:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:33

Cool.

SPEAKER_03 48:34

Well, you can whip down a coles, but your family won't eat for a week because you've spent all your food budget on this pork loyal.

SPEAKER_00 48:40

Uh Ben and Snez's dishes were near perfect and Ben won immunity.

SPEAKER_03 48:45

See, that's why Snez is a real sheet. She's really fucking good. She's doing it.

SPEAKER_00 48:49

She's doing the thing. Uh Jean-Christophe had a French service immunity challenge. Dash made a parry breast once again. That's his thing. I always forget that Dash is like Harry Breast. I do. I like that Dash is like a true verse queen. Like she can do desserts, but isn't like oh my whole personality is like dessert guy. No. She's like, no, I'm doing desserts, I'm doing everything else. That's why I like Dash.

SPEAKER_03 49:19

But has had some real success with non-deserts. True.

SPEAKER_00 49:22

But they did give Dash too much of a share house storyline this season. Yeah. They kept being like, oh, now that I live with Nat and some other guy from my season, I'm like, okay. Are you guys starting a YouTube channel? What's going on?

SPEAKER_03 49:36

I know, and let's be real, I'm sure the house is not really like your standard share house. It'd be I'm sure it's very lovely and open and fabulous. Isn't it in North Melbourne? Yeah, it's probably a house. It's like really like a warehouse. I think it's really close to here. No, because remember I was like, I've seen Nat around. I keep seeing Dodge. Yeah. I'm sure it's a lovely warehouse. It's in the building. I'm like I'm sure they have a level each. You reckon? Yeah, I think they'd have been in a really something swanky in there. They would have the knock fridge and they might then maybe they have a couple of kitchens.

SPEAKER_00 50:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:06

They'd have to. There's too many of them.

unknown 50:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:08

If you imagine fighting over kitchens, I think they're trying to pitch a show. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:12

That's what it was giving. It was giving like, oh, just three kooky kids from Master Chef living in a house together. Hey, Share. Doesn't that sound good?

SPEAKER_03 50:19

Hey Share House kids, you too can cook this. And it's like something absolutely ridiculous that no sharehouse can cook. Yeah. But we'll watch.

SPEAKER_00 50:26

Exactly. Week four. Finishing with flair elimination challenge. I liked this, except for the multiple Anzac related dishes. I was like, real a real flop for me discussing the diggers. It's like, what?

SPEAKER_03 50:49

Look, but you know, they're still pitching it to Middle Australia.

SPEAKER_00 50:54

But then they'll throw in like a wattle seed or something, so it's like woke. I'm like, okay. Fuck off. Tear that wattle seeds, you're woke. Tim. Bloody Tim. Um and I did like as well the the contestants got a little bit snippy with this challenge because they had to like give flair. And I think some of them were like, fuck that. So some of them just did like silly bits. Yeah. Like Andre, like, what did he do? Didn't he just like do a bit? He like pretended that the thing was on fire. Oh, that's right, yes. And I was like, okay, now we're jumping. Let's yeah. Yeah. Let's get some order back in the court. Yeah. They were having too much fun. They're having too much fun. But also calling out how dumb those challenges were. Who went then? Matt. That's right. One of the two I thought there's no way they're gonna eliminate someone who did an Anzac sacred dessert, but they got rid of him, and I was like, good.

SPEAKER_03 51:56

If you desert Zucks, you desert Zocks.

SPEAKER_00 51:59

Exactly. Then we had the puppy dog cake. Remember this? The balloon animal cake. Which yeah, again, my I just shut down. But Ben always seems to be in the elimination. Never plays the pin. Never plays the pin last night. And then, yeah. Always stays. So they give him the nickname The Eliminator. Which is sounds great in a Kiwi accent. So the Eliminator. Yeah. Then they went to Sydney for one episode. That's right, yeah. Which I'm like, is that the travel budget? Yeah. Or do you think they're gonna go on an overseas trip? True.

SPEAKER_03 52:40

They can't fly them all to Singapore this time.

SPEAKER_00 52:42

But I love they went all the way to Sydney. Well, all the way, it's not that fucking far. But they went to Sydney to go to the like James Squire pub. I was like, no. Go somewhere nice. Don't they have one here? Yeah. Yeah, just go there. It's like a chain. Exactly. Well, I think last season they went to the one in Frankston. That's right, yes. So they've slightly improved that. But it is my favourite challenge where they do pub food. So I did appreciate that. It was like a fish and chips vibe. Uh so of course, um Yeah, Declan. Caluman Bo. Bo? Bo, I'm told, is a person on this show.

SPEAKER_03 53:22

We have never seen that.

SPEAKER_00 53:24

I'm not aware of his presence.

SPEAKER_02 53:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:30

Week five was oh the surf and turf loved this. Josh Darlene. I love Josh Darlin. He comes in, he's like chopping up fucking treating that fish like it's a beautiful cut of meat. Yeah. Incredible. Yeah. I was actually like properly impressed by this. Uh and then they had to do, yeah, they had to do a surf and turf thing. Again, I like when it's like a daggy thing, but they've got to make it cool. Yeah. That's a fun uh thing home. But Rihannon's uh lobster wontons in beef broth, which a lot of people did this. Yeah. They did a beef dumpling in a or like or a fish dumpling in like a beef soup or vice versa. Which I thought was a bit of a cop out.

SPEAKER_03 54:15

Yes. But it's like how many things of surf and turf can you do?

SPEAKER_00 54:19

True, but yeah, I would still if I was ordering a surf and turf, I would want both meats to be present, not want to just be a like a broth or a surface. The broth is absolutely a cop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um then we had like Ottolengi's like protege girl. Yeah. I did not like her. No. She just was kind of boring.

SPEAKER_03 54:38

Yeah. No charisma.

SPEAKER_00 54:40

But it also sounds like a total ghostwriter situation where she actually writes all of his books.

SPEAKER_03 54:45

Yeah. I know, it's like the wife with glen clothes.

SPEAKER_00 54:48

That was the vibe I was getting from her, and she was kind of like, she's finally broken free from the the writer's room. She's on TV, which is great, but I don't know. But she's never been in front of a camera before. Too easily impressed. Like someone made a toss out. She's like, that's the best toss start I've ever had in my life. I'm like, You said that's a good one. It's like we get it, you're English. Like, yeah, welcome to Australian cuisine. But I think she should have at least acted a little bit more like tough.

SPEAKER_02 55:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:17

Uh and Audra, Rue, Sarah, and Tim were sent to a pressure test after that. And what was this? Oh, this was the uh strawberry and sourdough with elderflower. I don't remember this.

SPEAKER_03 55:34

No, neither do I. It was a dessert one we switched off.

SPEAKER_00 55:38

Yeah. Oh, I remember Roo being eliminated though. So maybe I did watch it. That's right. It was kind of it was a dessert of bits. Yeah. Which I'm not a fan of. Where it just looks like cake has been ripped up. Yeah. And then there's like foams and shit. Let's get to this.

SPEAKER_03 55:57

Let's get to the big one.

SPEAKER_00 55:58

We finally made it to viral viral week. There's a lot of things. Wow. So they started with this butter thing. I like the butter sculpture.

SPEAKER_03 56:09

I know, I like that. I'd have that and use it for my morning toast. It would be fantastic.

SPEAKER_00 56:19

Uh yeah, and then Tim was finally eliminated, so thank you for doing that. Then fucking sushi mango rock up.

SPEAKER_03 56:30

This is really huffled feathers, hasn't it?

SPEAKER_00 56:32

How are they so popular? Can you explain it to me?

SPEAKER_03 56:37

Well, look, they it's the same thing. They go for it's going for your everyday Australian and especially, you know, with the Greek Canadian Canadian stuff, they're very popular. In the There's a couple of things that they've done, like videos that are quite funny, but like this was about as funny as, you know.

SPEAKER_00 56:56

Oh, it was not there. I did not even I did not even muster up a pity lol. I was I was concerned for my like safety.

SPEAKER_03 57:06

I don't know what it was. I felt unsafe. Yeah, I don't know how how or why they were on it.

SPEAKER_00 57:11

And what was with the like goggle box style? Oh, we're just uh watching uh the show. I was like, oh my god. It was just I was embarrassed to be involved.

SPEAKER_03 57:22

A jump the shark moment. That's what it felt like for me. Like it really felt like this show was like what the fuck. Felt like the end of my I was like I was like, alright, wrap it up. This is this is the last season. We can't go, like you can't go.

SPEAKER_00 57:34

It's the show can never recover.

SPEAKER_03 57:36

Like it was truly so misguided. It's fucked. And the thing was that I'm really happy about is that the majority of people watching when you go on comments and stuff were like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_00 57:46

Yeah, that made me happy. I did feel sane going on Reddit afterwards and seeing everyone be like, are these people funny? Someone because there's a lot of international viewers, and I think they were confused because they were like, they were told that these were like Australia's favourite comedians.

SPEAKER_03 58:02

They pack up bloody Rob Lai Brown for like a week.

SPEAKER_00 58:06

And they're always dressed as nonas in a kind of like they do mildly transphobic way. Yeah. Because what's so the what they also do the non-restaurant in the Yes, Mycon Street, which actually not gonna lie, the restaurant, okay. I love the camp aesthetic of it. The restaurant looks great. Every time I walk past, I'm like, oh, I want to go there. Like it looks like a non-na's house from the looks like a non's house, it's very cute, but the food, I I always perv on the food and it looks a bit avariced. It would be, it would be, but you go for the experience of this. So I like that. But uh yeah, even watching the cast have to pretend to be like, yes, if she's Laura was like, Who could it be? Laura wanted to unalive. She was like, fuck this.

SPEAKER_03 58:54

I know, but like she were like, Oh, your name is Laura, and she was like, I know, but I just love how that the whole episode she's like, I don't know who it is, like who could it be? This is like my heritage, and like and then she's like confronted with the reality and she's just like yeah, fuck. It was truly and then we had to suffer through like three-quarters of an episode of them judging because of their commentary the longest judging of all time, and they just said they contributed absolutely nothing. They know nothing about food.

SPEAKER_00 59:27

It was so bad. It was true. But how do they know nothing about food when they own a restaurant?

SPEAKER_03 59:31

Well, they wouldn't be in charge of any of the food.

SPEAKER_00 59:34

It just would have been better if they did they let them do one bit, like get your little bit out of the way one time, pre-recorded, and then come in as you, and then the contestants could actually go, Oh, so like how did you guys like turn these stupid bits into a career? Like, that would have been interesting. Yeah. But no, but no, we had to have them, and they cannot character act for very long.

SPEAKER_03 59:57

No, there is no such thing as improvisation with them.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:00

No, no, no, no. Yeah, that was a flop, so I was 10, but some good dishes, though, I thought.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:06

There was yeah, oh, well, that's the thing. That's the thing always. And I actually didn't mind the whole spanocopota thing. I was like, it was not that crazy either.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:16

Because you can have a ricotta and spinach like tortellini anyway.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:19

And I was like, no, but obviously, you know, they make a joke out of that, and that was about their reaction, it was about as funny as you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:24

Oh, look, girls and the tights. Okay. Just yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that never again. Then we had wait for it, another person.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:36

Don't get me fucking started on this episode.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:38

Another person that I'm attracted to, though, is the dessert master. Oh, yeah. John Demetros. He's a tasty. I just wish he loved savory. Yeah, I'm sure he does too, but this He's good at making tart is he the Tartsanon guy? I think he is. Yeah, I think. Because he likes Anon. Yeah. Oh. He is a tasty little snack. Um, but also a chocolate meteor. Like Soz.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:03

That's the thing. This this is gets me fucking pissed off. I can't deal with the amount of work this takes for someone.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:11

To look that shit. It was like a kid's science project. Like, I made a made up.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:14

And they're frothing over it, and the fact you have to have a balloon in it, and like such an unsatisfying conclusion. All that work and putting it. And like, you know, poor Andre and tempering his chocolate a million times.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:32

Oh no, I was like, bring back the balloon dog. I know, but I like it. Bring it back.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:37

We welcome back our new grand our new glorious leader, the balloon dog. Bring it back.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:42

At least it wasn't a poo. I know. Yeah. Just an absolute thing. I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:48

Yeah, I this was a flop episode.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:51

One uh and look rightfully so.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:54

So we loved that for our queen. Love this for her, but like for me, I just found this this was the hardest episode for me to get through. That was bad. Because at least with the sushi mango, I could do a hate watch.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:04

Oh, I was like hate masturbating to sushi mango. I was like, ooh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:12

Oh, what a night, you'd be exhausted the next day.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:16

Then they did redeem themselves. I loved this sandwich challenge the next day. So good. Good. Every episode should have a sandwich, a quick fire sandwich round at the start. Yep, agreed. Agreed. So fun.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:32

So good. Like there was so and the lobster thing that came out of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:38

Oh yeah, so then they had to do the like crossover thing, like a cronut or whatever. Yeah. Declan killed it with the lobby lair and lobster eclair. Delicious.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:46

It just looked extraordinary. I could put a few of those away. Oh yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:50

Also, good challenge. Like, yeah, get them to come up with a trend. Yeah. So it kind of made sense.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:56

Yeah, agreed. In within the wall. That was better. Yeah, that worked for me.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:00

Then they had this guy who apparently has five billion streams and 16 billion views. And I was like, I've never heard of this stream. Never heard of him, yeah. And he just looked like an average guy. I don't know. I was like, like, power to him.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:15

Yeah, well, it's not that guy that's writing a book just because he wrote a review books on TikTok.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:20

Yes. But this is yeah, the algorithms are doing strange things these days. And this was proof of that.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:28

Yeah, exactly. And I think probably our algorithms are very fine to get tune to what Oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:33

My reels. Can I tell you? There's actually a lot of food on my reels. Then there's a lot of z hairy men. Yep. And then like tattoos. Yeah. What's on yours? On chihuahuas.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:45

Just a lot of show tunes. Yours is Patty La Pone. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:50

And do we both have get Chihuahu content? Surely. Oh yeah, absolutely. Sometimes it's both sometimes it's hot guys with chihuahuas.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:57

Have you seen the one that's like lives in the Ukraine that's got like three chihuahuas? The chihuahua daddy. Yeah. I love him.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:03

And he's got like three of them, and he goes. He loves them so much and he just kisses them and he's so in love with you. He like looks after and he's like bathing them. I know. They are those chihuahuas are drugged, right? Because I cannot I could not hold Frederick like that. She would be like fuck off.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:19

Like Bruiser would literally like annihilate me if I even tried. Like I I have to I have to take. I have to take Bruiser down to the one with the um there's a pet shop near me that has a hu like one of the huge ones for big dogs, and I put him in there and he still manages to get the fuck out of that. He has jumped over it. He hates being bathed so much.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:40

Yeah, oh she c if I open, if I walk near the cupboard where the bucket that we bathe her in is located, she's straight under the couch. Yeah. Even if I just like suggest they for made it. I'm so excited that someone else knows about this Ukrainian man. Oh, I love that. He's prolific. And it it's called what's it called? Like in love. Yeah, it's in love.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:02

It's like so obviously like Google translated, which I love.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:05

Um he's a huge ripped tatted man.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:09

He looks like if you walk down a dark alley, depending on how it would go, you could either be murdered or have a great time.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:15

Yeah, yeah. And or like UFC father vibes. And then he's just got three two hours and he just treats them like little princess.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:21

I know, and it's like it's a great content. You want to come back. If you come back reincarnated, it says one of his dogs. Oh, yeah. You would want for those big arms. Exactly. Oh, I'd love that. I love that we've gone to Ukrainian chihuahua, Daddy.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:35

But then apparently on some people's feeds, it's this bloke. I know. Just being like, and then they showed the videos. They were like, oh, there she's gone. They showed the videos.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:47

Oh, she's really going for it. Yeah. Good for her.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:50

Girlfrida. They showed the clips, and it was like the most basic shit ever. Which I get it, people want to make the stuff. But it like it wasn't even like shot good. No I mean I can't talk. But do you know what I mean? I just was I was scanned it actually I was like what is going on in society.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:13

Well that's yeah, it's just there are so many things now that you hear about that I have no idea exist.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:19

Sushi mango that literally The divide normal people and us fabulous Like literally I think it is the great divide is normal people and queers It is and then fucking Dash got eliminated which I was really sad about my boy they sent my boyfriend home back to his sharehouse He even mentioned the share house as he got eliminated He's like oh better just hop on back to the old share house with that who knows what we're gonna get up to better get on the number 57 yeah Oh no to be 59 because it's coming from No it would be the 57 there are straight drops you off at Erl Street Or a very low cost Diddy Yeah Oh I love D D yeah sad to see him go but I think yeah again It was just He regressed no like last was he on last season whenever he was on which was that was last one He was so good and I felt like this season he was not as confident Well I think it is you know even though in the first episode they pitted them against each other And they told them that they weren't as good as Laura Cullum or Sarah But you do have people that have literally been out running restaurants Oh that's true Whereas he's been out running a share house Running a share house Yeah bless But you know what he we will see him again Oh I have a feeling I have a feeling the eye viewer is

The Project is Dead But Gruen is Not

SPEAKER_00 1:07:55

that to the project they're probably gonna announce a whole bunch of new shows coming soon and one of them will be the share Oh yeah so tell me what happened to the project done after I mean I mean too bad so sad yeah but like Oh no people will have to actually engage with news media I know actually like news media that's not filtered through Tommy Little and that guy they had yeah Tommy's quite fun of that you know the one that they had that was there to be like oh I'm the grumpy right okay so he's truly awful is he just gone now he'll be gone yeah so they end at the end of the month he darked me out man well I lot I you know they're putting him there to have the opposing but it's just gross but how many times I think in theory that sounds good yeah like the the view or something you know where you have like MAGA and Whoopi Goldberg in the same do you know what I mean? But no it doesn't work like that. No well you uh how many times would you watch that show and everyone would be having a really good conversation and Walid would be like talking about something political in a really succinct way and sometimes he he could be a bit annoying whatever but and then and then he would Steve would just shit on the whole conversation by going oh nah I just don't think that's very Australian and then there would just be awkward silence and then they would just cut to the break.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:14

I remember we had there was one time where it was there was a whole segment devoted to Dan Andrews not being allowed into golf clubs and he literally went on for like 20 minutes and you can tell they had to cut him off by the end because I'm like this is insane. Like this isn't actually offering anything of value this is not offering a viewpoint.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:33

You're just a cranky old bastard yeah which like could actually be funny.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:37

Yeah but it's it just never was and he's not intelligent enough to be funny.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:40

It's like George Gruen it's like having Russell Howcraft who I love who like I know he's probably like a centre he's more like center conservative anyway but he delivers his conservative he's not even conservative he's realistic.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:55

Yeah and I feel like Wally it's the same in terms of he's always very like in the centre.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:59

He doesn't for the most part yeah having him on that panel is a delight yeah and then you've got the whole thing with Tim and Todd and like they play it up but they act they don't really disagree or don't like each other well but they just have different views and it's like light and shade. Yeah I think they were going for something like that but Steve was not the right choice. Yeah it's Australian television for you it's like if you just sit around you can collect fucking Carrie Ann I know fucking Karen she sat she sat on our screens for how long?

SPEAKER_03 1:10:34

For so long.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:34

Oh just ugh yeah sorry well that's all end of the month done girl at it yeah what are our what are our hopes and predictions for MCF back to win I really want Sarah yeah yeah she's I think Sarah it's Sarah's turn I think it's Sarah's turn but hang on did she win before no she wouldn't couldn't be because no I would love a double crowning between Laura and Sarah but I actually think yeah I think Laura will come second again.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:02

Yeah and I just feel like the whole narrative about Sarah and the way how she's running restaurants doing like it's just and that hair just the for her hair alone just give her the cheekbones like everything about it like she's fucking flawless.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:17

Give her a Tony give her a Tony put her on Broadway she's taken over from Jersey yeah oh and just like that Christian we've uh we got through a lot doll that was a lot I know thank you so much for joining so much see you next time sounds good by