#289 - Tanya Collyer

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Hello and welcome to leading
ladies podcast.

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I have just finished recording
with a very good friend of mine,

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Tanya Collier.
She's based in Australia and has

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been a personal chef for well,
she said she's been in the

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industry for going on 25 years
now.

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Incredible woman, the stories of
just basically been in the

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industry.
Chef in for some incredible

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brands, most recently the Red
Hot Chili Peppers.

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And to top everything off, she's
now started her own catering

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company called the Rolling
Stoves.

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And all I can see is that she's
going to be a huge, huge

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success.
So I hope you enjoy listening to

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myself and Tanya.
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I do really like that video.
There was a little bit of what

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how should we do the sponsors?
Shall it be reading out a promo

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scripts like Marcel has done for
many many years?

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Or.
Should it be the video format?

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Now with podcasts nowadays, it's
not just audio.

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Spotify now you've got a button
that you can Click to video.

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And I kind of say it's like the
Formula One, the podcast world

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now.
If you watch the beginning, you

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watch the middle, you watch the
end if you've got things going

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on.
So, you know, massive fans, yes,

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won't leave, won't leave the TV
watching it start to finish.

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Those people that have other
little jobs going on.

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Really.
In fact, it's not even the

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middle, is it?
If I'm honest, it always used to

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be the crashes, sorry, or any
drama that's that's going on.

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So yeah.
So it's the same with podcasts

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now basically, you know, I
believe people TuneIn to the

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beginning see the guest as well,
because that's always A to

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visualize who's actually
speaking.

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And then obviously leading
through you get to see myself or

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Marcel and basically, yeah, then
you like tune into the end part.

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So having these video like
sponsorship promos is great

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because you get to see exactly
what light switch is talking

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about.
They produced that video for me

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a couple of months back now.
So yes, I love I love playing

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it.
I love watching it.

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And if I'm honest, I don't think
my promo script reading would be

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that good.
So I'm kind of happy on that

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one.
News in Sarah Burnie land.

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I've actually been very poorly.
I've seen very poorly.

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I've had this bug that's been
going around but it's taken.

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What's the date now?
It's the 14th of January and

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literally it's only being
yesterday.

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I've really like, really felt
better.

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My mind's being foggy and hazy.
I've still got a dry tickly

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cough that drives me nuts, but
apart from that I'm really back

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on back, back to me again.
So if I still haven't got back

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to you ladies that are out
there, I am going to contact you

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this week.
In fact, I might even do it as

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soon as I finish this, finish
this recording.

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I just haven't had the mindset
to yeah, to basically get in

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touch, work out how we're going
to chat on here and all the rest

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of it.
So I am going to be calling you,

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sending an e-mail and getting
you on the podcast.

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What other news do I have?
I can't actually think right

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now.
Really I can't.

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Oh, we've got, we're working on
the new podcast Future Tech.

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As long as things go smoothly
over like the next say 10 days,

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that will be launching basically
a week on Friday.

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It may be the end of the month,
but we're aiming for the 20 4th

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I believe.
We think it's great.

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Of course we do.
So really, to the Geezers of

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Gear, it's not just Geezers of
Gear anymore.

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It's we're creating an umbrella
of amazing things for you to

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listen to.
So of course, you've got myself,

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Geezers of Gear.
Me now with leading ladies, I

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hope you're actually enjoying
listening to me and the ladies

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that I managed to get on the
show so far.

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And now future tech.
So you know, we've got three

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podcasts under our umbrella.
We I believe we're going from

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strength to strength with
everything we're doing more so

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just, you know, you've got to
keep everything alive and and

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just just people go in for
better, for better, for better,

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for better, and that's what
we're doing.

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Muscle and I work really well
together.

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Well, I think so he might say
something different, but I

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believe so we work really well
together.

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We've got a good little
partnership going and, you know,

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throwing ideas back and forth
and then something sticks like

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this.
Now the future tech.

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So a lot more will be on social
media over the next sort of like

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a couple of weeks and then for
the launch date.

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My next guest is a friend of
mine.

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We met on the Muse tour, so that
was when I was part of the front

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of house team for the catering
side.

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Tanya came in on board as the
personal chef.

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She started in the industry over
25 years ago, so she's been in

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the industry a long time.
She has been a personal chef for

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so many incredible bands.
She's worked with so many

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incredible bands, artists I
could think of, Coldplay, Muse,

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Florence and the Machine, OMD,
the list goes on and on.

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But right now, I can't actually
think on the on the top of my

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top of my mind, I can't think of
all of them.

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And most recently, she was a
personal chef for the Red Hot

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Chili Peppers.
She's actually been with them

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for eight years.
Obviously we had the, the little

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break for the say little break.
It wasn't a break, was it?

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But for the pandemic, there was
the nothing was happening.

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But then she joined the the tour
as soon as everything was up and

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running.
And she just finished that last

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August, I think she said.
So last August was the the the

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last tour date of super, super
talented and her food is just to

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die for.
It's delicious and an incredible

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lady.
She the dishes that she comes up

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with, the way that she works.
She's been a huge, huge,

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incredible teacher for me back
when I was in the patron.

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We talk about all that, how we
met, how her story, how she got

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into the industry and basically
her first tour and everything

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going through to where she is
now.

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So not only was she was working
for Red Hot Chili Peppers strong

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job, living on buses, living
from hotels, travelling the

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world, she decided to create her
own company.

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So she has created her own
company called The Rolling

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Stoves and everything from the
details to the menus to you name

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it, she has put her mark on it.
And when you start something,

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you normally start small.
Well, not Tanya.

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Tanya literally started off big.
Two huge, huge events the

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weekend in Australia and also
Coldplay.

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I mean, you couldn't get much
bigger than those two,

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especially when you're not.
And I keep on saying, not just

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because not just is the right
word, but not just being a

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personal chef to Coldplay, but
also the basic.

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It was the whole, it was a whole
crew, you know, And for the

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weekend event it was 450 people
she was catering for, which is a

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huge, huge achievement for your
first two gigs as owner for your

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very own catering company.
So I am absolutely thrilled for

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Tanya.
It was so lovely to see her and

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chat to her on the podcast.
So I really, really, really hope

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that you enjoy it too.
Hi, Tanya.

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Hi.
How are you, Sarah?

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I'm good.
How are you, sweetheart?

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I'm so good, so good.
Australian summer so I'm doing

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pretty good.
So where are you now?

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I am at home, finally, finally,
finally.

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Where's home for everybody to
know where home is?

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Home is just outside of Byron
Bay in New South Wales,

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Australia.
Woo Hoo, and you're on.

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It's like a big farm, isn't it?
It's your mom and dad's farm.

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Yeah, Sugar cane farm.
I'm kind of like coming back and

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I'm not saying can I say taking
over, but like I've moved back

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in my my kind of set up here.
So much of the dismay of my dad

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got kind of just moving in and
and getting a shipping container

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and putting that in here.
And yeah, but it's a beautiful

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part of the world.
That's that's awesome.

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I mean, we tried to do this last
year, but you just finished

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Coldplay and then you're heading
out on another tour.

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Who was that with?
That was with Charlie Puth and

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that was a younger American,
yeah, younger American artist

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Pop.
But he's, he's got the hit.

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Like he can just hold that load
and then hear a sound and just

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be like, oh, like that's this
note.

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And you know, he's very, very
clever.

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So yeah, we traveled Asia,
mainly China, Macau, Hong Kong

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or no where.
We stopped off in Hong Kong for

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a second, Singapore, Seoul and
finished up in my favorite

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Tokyo, Japan.
Seriously, I've been following

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you on like Insta and Facebook
and every time you put up your

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reals, I was just like that part
of the world.

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I just love like.
Mind blowing and beautiful.

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The culture is amazing, the
people are amazing and the

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respect that you're shown is
just out of this world that the

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willingness to just be so
helpful and and whatever you

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want really you it can happen in
Japan really can except for me

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going to onsens because I've got
tattoos.

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So that can't happen.
But you can't because yeah, the

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ties with back with the Yakuza
and the Japanese, it's history

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that basically they don't allow
people into onsens with tattoos,

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so.
Do you know what I never knew

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that I knew that they have got.
Everyday school day.

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Seriously.
But no, I'd so for those

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listening you basically you're
you're what you're a personal

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band, chef, artist, chef.
And now you have started your

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own business, The Rolling
Stones.

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I have started Rolling Stones
catering down here in Oz.

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Yeah, but not restricted to Oz,
of course.

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I have been in industry.
So as Sarah knows, we've worked

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together many times.
But for everybody else, I have

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been in the industry for, I'm
going to say going on just under

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25 years roughly I think from
memory 2025, yeah, roughly.

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So we.
When did you when did you know

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that you wanted well, what
wanted to be a chef?

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Let's like that's the first
thing.

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When did you know you wanted to
be a chef or did you fall into

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it like?
I kind of knew early on that I

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had a passion for cooking and a
passion for what food does and

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how it is made into what it's
made.

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Like even like cooking mashed
potatoes with mom, I'm like, OK,

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that does that.
And but if you do that, then

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this happens and that tastes
better and lighter.

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And so I knew that I had an
affinity for it.

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But then in school I was kind
of, I kind of fell into it.

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I was very lucky through through
being naughty.

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I got my, I know right through,
yeah, through being kind of

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punished in a way.
At school.

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I fell into the role of
apprentice.

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I got an apprenticeship, so I
basically had my career.

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I was very, very extremely lucky
to at that age of 16, get my

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career kind of paved out for me
and go, OK, now you're doing

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this now.
And I left school and became an

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apprentice chef, which obviously
then graduated and became a big

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chef.
And and then I didn't really

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love restaurants and things like
that.

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I gave it a go, but at the same
time I was like, yeah, not

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really for me, let's see what
else is out there.

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And at that stage, this was all
environs at that stage.

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And after that I moved to
Melbourne where in Australia

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Melbourne is a foodie capital.
Melbourne is where it happens.

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The food is just fraction, just
somehow it tastes better down

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there, sweeter, lighter a lot.
And there's, there's a passion

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for it down there.
So I moved there and I was just

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working sort of through agencies
and things like that for random

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hotels.
And then I got a few

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opportunities up in the snow and
I fell in love.

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And then I moved to the UK and
that is sort of like that's that

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was 2000 or 9 near 2000.
So I just want to go back a bit

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because I, I haven't very dear
member.

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So we, we, we, we've worked.
We we first met on Muse and that

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was like, that was an awesome
tour.

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So we would European.
You came towards the last leg to

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basically take over from Pete.
Pete was the owner of Rockfall

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Catering.
And we just hit it off, got on

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really well.
Then we then you called me after

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it finished.
You said, Sarah, do you want to

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come and be like do a two man
tour with popcorn?

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And that was OMD.
And I remember saying you're

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like, yeah, I'd love to.
And then as I was flying over, I

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don't know where we met.
I can't remember now.

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It might even be the UK
actually.

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And it was the UK course we
didn't do Europe to break.

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And I was like, I'm sure two man
tours, like the front of house

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has to do cakes and desserts and
shit like that.

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And then when I got, I was like,
yes, Sarah.

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I was like, well, I've never
done that, Yeah.

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Yeah, that's what touring is
though, don't you reckon?

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It's just like so lone on the
job.

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It's like, oh OK, I'm doing this
now.

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Yeah, no, I mean, if I'm honest,
that was like that was probably

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one of my best tours for
learning, for doing stuff.

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And again, for you teaching me,
this is how you do it.

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This is an easy recipe.
This is your base.

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This is how you do this, you
know, coming together end of

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every night.
What have you got going on for

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tomorrow, blah, blah, blah.
And like really like you just

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you brought the best out in me
and I always I can't thank you

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enough for that.
And of course then COVID

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happened and then that just that
was that was the last tour I did

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was with you.
So like that was just.

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Before that, Hey, that was just
before that.

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Yeah.
Oh my God.

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Because I remember booking a
holiday on my way home to

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Australia, on to Thailand, on
the way home to Australia.

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And that's where I started
seeing all the all the videos

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and everything.
I remember us, we're in a run of

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van at like 5:00 in the morning.
I'm like, I'm doing it, Sarah,

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I'm going to Co Tau.
Yeah, you remember.

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Yeah, it was because you were
trying to book all your flights

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and it was like, things are
really, the things are dodgy

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happening and blah, blah, blah.
But yeah, so that's how we met

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and I love that because we
really, we've, we've done so

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we've, yeah, been to some
amazing places.

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Had a great boat day in Lisbon
which was really awesome.

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Yeah, we've.
Worked hard playing hard as they

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say.
But I was asking, I remember you

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saying about like your training
as you were starting, was it

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something some like you, you
specialized in Japanese food, is

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that right?
That's.

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Yeah, I did My I, the I got sort
of chosen at the at the school

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when I was being naughty.
I got chosen by one of the kids

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fathers.
Was coming to do like an

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orientation day of like the
younger school kids coming into

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high school to see if they like
that high school.

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And one of the kids fathers
owned a Japanese restaurant in

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in Byron.
And we sort of, yeah, I, I guess

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I was a little overconfident
and, and like I knew how to use

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a knife and he just go, he was
looking for an apprentice and I

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was doing like a cooking
demonstration.

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And yeah, that would that's, he
basically said, would you like

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an apprenticeship?
Then came in, asked the

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principal.
The principal was basically

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like, yeah, yeah, yeah, go, go,
thank God, please.

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And and I started and I fell in
love with it.

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I really did.
And the Japanese it, it really

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opened my eyes as a little 16
and a bit year old to, to food,

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you know, different food, the,
the furiosity of a kitchen, the,

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the heat, the lifestyle, the
everything.

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And I, I fell in love with it,
to be honest.

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And I fell in love with how food
can be manipulated to just bring

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smiles to people's faces.
And, and the Japanese cuisine

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is, is just so clean and so
healthy and.

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Yeah, and I I was for Japanese,
but I always just think it's,

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it's more of a speciality, you
know, like even how to cook it,

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how to, how to make it, how to
prepare it, you know, everything

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about it.
It's not like just doing an

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apprentice in a normal
restaurant, you know, like it's,

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it's for me, that's just how I
like kind of see it.

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Like, you know, to have that
kind of skill set, you know, not

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only as a amazing chef, but also
with that, I mean, how many

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times on tours people like,
yeah, please cook me some Asian

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food, Jackie, whatever, like.
Every time, every time.

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Thank you, babe.
Well, I love Asian, I love Asian

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cooking.
And did you?

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I love Asian cooking and I love
definitely Japanese.

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And yes, I agree, it was
definitely a leg up in when I

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came over and even started
working in the touring industry.

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Like that's how I got the job in
the touring industry.

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It's because of my my Asian
cookery background.

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You moved from Australia to the
UK and based based in London.

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Oh, there was a bit of bit of
fuckery before I got into like I

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based in Brighton, then moved to
Spain, then a little bit of

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travel around and I arrived in
in London with 50 American

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dollars.
So I really had to hustle a

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little bit to and no bank
account.

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And back then it was like Green
Bank, but pre like the Internet

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was there obviously, but pre
everything on an app and there

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wasn't smartphones, there wasn't
FaceTime, there wasn't any of

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that.
So to get a bank account, you

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needed a job.
To get a job, you needed a bank

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account.
To get a house, you needed all

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the the trifecta.
And it was just, it was a long

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hard Rd. in the UK to to get
started and obviously having no

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money it was harder.
But it I don't know it

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definitely it made me work
harder and try and find I was.

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Going to say get more, yeah, but
in the morning to get up and do

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it.
He wasn't just have any money,

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you know, to just.
Yeah, there was no savings.

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They got spent.
I think we went to Vegas on our

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way through.
First time in Vegas.

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I was just like what is this?
It was great, but it didn't help

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me.
Obviously arriving into England

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in February in like a it would
be just feed.

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We did back then.
We were young so we could do

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like the SCA travel thing, which
is like a cheaper travel, but it

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was cheap.
But we got to go to all these

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countries.
Like I left Australia, went to

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New Zealand, Fiji, Rarotonga,
the States and then from the

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states we flew back to, we flew
to London, so.

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You didn't have any.
I know right?

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Had a great time.
What's money, right?

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Exactly.
But I arrived though in February

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in a short skirt, a coconut cane
woven hat and a coconut ukulele

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in February in the UK.
Stupid old but and then I was

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like Oh my God I can't even
afford to buy a jumper right

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now.
I'm always I'll fitting ill

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prepared both shoes and jackets
me so.

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So actually you started that.
You did before we jumped online.

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You told me that we are at the
moment you're seeing photos of

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people in knickers and like
underwear on the tube.

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So you started this years ago?
Yeah, amazingly.

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Yeah.
That's funny getting on the tube

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in your knickers.
Love it.

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Love it for that.
Yeah, it'd be pretty.

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Cold right now, January
knickers. -6 and she's like just

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outside of, of London, but -6
this week.

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Oh my.
Not for me, Thank you very much.

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Done that, done my time in the
freezing cold.

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I'm pretty happy in the sunshine
these days.

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Even, you know, sometimes it's
cold and I'm like, oh, I just

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don't like it.
I just stay in, say, you know,

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that's it.
Yeah, I know.

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I love it.
Yeah.

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It's creep.
Yeah.

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Yeah.
But it's cold.

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I didn't expect that.
We.

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Yeah.
Well, we've got snow at the

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moment on the mountains, so you
can go skiing here.

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Just that you have to walk up
the mountain to ski down.

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Yawn.
No, I love it.

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He did once and when I say we
didn't, you know, we Minoria was

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learning.
So we we only went up a little

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bit.
But even that I was like, this

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is really shit for like walk up
with your skis, then get them on

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and come down and he's like,
here's what skiing is.

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I was like, no, my love.
It really isn't.

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But no, well done.
Yeah, good for you.

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Good thing.
And it was so cheap, it was like

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35, was it €35.00 with all your
equipment and the two hours

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private lesson?
Oh, that is cheap.

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Yeah, but then again, you know,
you're walking up there, walking

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up the mountain to.
Yeah, there's no ski pass in

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that, is there?
None of those.

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What are they called?
They're Yeah, I know.

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You think, yeah, chair lift,
chair lifts and any, any kind of

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things.
So when you got to London, what

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how did you get into?
You said that it was because of

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your skills, you know, in Asian
cooking that you got your first

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job.
Who was your first job with and

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how did that lead you into
touring?

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So when I was in still in Oz, I
met this this backpacker and he

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gave me post it note that had
the name of a company he would

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he'd built stages and things
like that with in festivals and

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things like that.
And he said, oh, there's always

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there's catering and he was
bigging up how much he get paid

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an hour in the UK versus how
much I was getting in in in

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Australia.
And he literally doubled like he

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overshot by quite a far away of
what you what I should expect to

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be paid in pounds.
I was like, oh wow.

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Like it was it's just magical
land of pounds.

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And I was like, OK, cool.
So I obviously went tried, got

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left Australia, put that post it
note in my bag.

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And then I was coming going
through my bag one one day when

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I was in London and I found this
post it note and I was like, Oh

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well, it can't hurt, can it?
I'll just give him a shot.

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So I rang and they said, can you
send me through your CVI?

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Sent through my CV.
They had a job at that point

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with it was quite a corporate
job, actually, but it was a

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Japanese business dinner.
And I came in and because of my

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experience, they were like, oh,
can you run the job?

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And I was like, whoa, OK, yes,
OK, yeah, it was cool.

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It went off without a hitch.
And they kept giving me jobs.

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They kept giving me words.
So from from that I, I did do a

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lot of corporate work with them,
but at the same time I was kind

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of double dipping in, in the
rock'n'roll side, touring side

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and, and the corporate world as
well.

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But then my first tour, I went
out with them Goldie looking

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chain with Tomo.
It was great.

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Tomo and this Tomo.
Tomo.

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Yeah, I went out with Tomo and
this guy that was like, I don't

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know, it was like a foreign
exchange student called Yan and

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he his eyes were just
completely, his mind was blown.

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Mine was too, in a good way.
But like Yan, I'm not really

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sure.
I've never seen him again.

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So.
But we just did a tour of whales

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basically.
And it turns out that I was OK.

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I was good on a bus and I could
get up and cook those eggs in

447
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:07,720
the morning and party at night.
And back then that's how that's

448
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,880
just how you did it.
And I, of course, I had youth on

449
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,080
my side back then.
So I did that a lot.

450
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,120
I partied a lot.
But that was it.

451
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,400
It was really yeah.
Especially with Tomo blessed.

452
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,640
Everyone loved Tomo.
But it was great, you know?

453
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:26,000
It was great partying hard,
getting up and like you said,

454
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,040
you know, as long as you can get
up in the morning, get that

455
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:34,880
kitchen all set up, everything
and you're still, you know,

456
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,240
yeah, you're you work hard.
Then you pack everything down

457
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,360
and you you know you start again
for the.

458
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,120
Yeah, rinse and repeat.
That's that's the thing with you

459
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:51,720
saying that before with like,
oh, thank you for, for teaching

460
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,520
me and things like that.
It's not a thank you.

461
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:57,040
It's just like this is, this is
an industry that you don't get

462
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:02,800
your handheld, you don't at all.
You literally show up to that

463
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:07,640
job because you've been given
that opportunity basically

464
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,280
because it is, let's face it, is
a massive opportunity to work in

465
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:16,600
a fantastic industry that you
don't get your handheld.

466
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,240
You've got to think on your own
2 feet.

467
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:21,080
But if there is somebody there
to help, it's going it's going

468
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:25,320
to make everyone's life easier.
You know, you're going to you're

469
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,400
going to learn something and and
maybe hopefully take it forward

470
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,720
onto your next jobs or or then
pass that on, but pay it forward

471
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,520
or whatever.
If you choose never to come

472
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,640
back, then hopefully you had a
good time on that.

473
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,360
You know, it's just paying it
forward and and keeping the

474
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,600
industry alive.
I suppose that like the less

475
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:50,080
people that hell and and pass on
this knowledge that we do have,

476
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:54,720
because you don't you're not
just a chef, You're no, you're a

477
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,720
plumber, you're an electrician
for a bit.

478
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,520
Obviously you've got a radio to
call all these bits, but

479
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,120
catering it just goes absolutely
tits up sometimes, you know,

480
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,360
like, well, shit, I haven't got
a plug.

481
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,080
I haven't got this.
Those pipes are leaking.

482
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,840
I'm just going to strap that up
with some cling film, make a

483
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:20,000
belt while I'm at it, you know,
and you just you got to think on

484
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,880
your feet.
Sometimes you'll put in

485
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:27,600
underneath the underneath the
stairwell with no windows, no

486
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:28,920
whatever.
And they're like, oh, here you

487
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:31,400
go, here's the kitchen, figure
it out.

488
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:36,000
So the more the more people help
each other in this industry, the

489
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,600
better.
You know, it's just.

490
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,360
It.
And makes it far easier.

491
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,920
It does make it far easier.
I mean, like you sort of

492
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,920
mentioned, like, you know, you
can be given, like, I mean, the

493
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:50,440
tiniest of spaces.
You could be given a place with

494
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,240
no windows.
You're literally catering is

495
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:57,400
kind of like, OK, not the last
to be thought about as such.

496
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,800
But like really, you're like,
what am I meant to do here?

497
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,240
You know, I've got all the ovens
to breed and I've got all

498
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,200
absolutely everything.
I've got to set it all up.

499
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,760
Like you said, I've then got to
work out my power because I

500
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,600
haven't got someone right here
for the power.

501
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:11,960
I haven't got this.
I haven't got that.

502
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,240
And then before you know it, you
know, in within a this is what

503
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,280
always surprised me, literally
probably with it within the

504
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:22,360
hour, you've got a dining room,
a kitchen set up and a full

505
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,080
blown like full English, like,
you know, like full English.

506
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,040
And you know, and and everybody
say that in the restaurant

507
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,960
world, you know, you rock up the
kitchen's beautiful, you know,

508
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:39,760
stainless steel here this that
the other you've got your space,

509
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:44,000
you've got everything you come
in, but that isn't and you said

510
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,680
before restaurant wasn't for
you.

511
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,800
But it's the same As for me that
doing every day.

512
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:54,800
That wasn't what I was
interested in, that craziness of

513
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,400
coming it from a bus, you know,
whether you've got a hangover

514
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,720
with or whether you've not got a
hangover coming straight from

515
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:06,680
the bus, straight in set up and
then see an amazing restaurant,

516
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,320
which now is becoming more and
more like a five star

517
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:14,080
restaurant, you know?
It's definitely it's advanced,

518
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:15,920
doesn't it?
It's definitely moved along

519
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,000
since I've started the
expectation.

520
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:23,000
The expectation and and you've
noticed the difference from when

521
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,679
you first, I say the first tour
with Tomo, from the first tour

522
00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:27,639
with Tomo to like what you've
just done.

523
00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:32,400
Yeah, Yeah, yeah.
Well, obviously there's budget

524
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,639
constraints.
Budget plays a lot into that.

525
00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:41,199
So like Doggy looking Chain, for
example, in the early 2000s on

526
00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:45,560
Coldplay 2024, I bet they've got
a lot more to play with.

527
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:50,560
And but then Coldplay has always
been such a large band, for

528
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:56,280
example, that they they've
always had so many choices.

529
00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,480
And because there's so, so many
people on their crew, you've got

530
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,600
to account for everyone.
You've got to cater for

531
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:08,480
everyone, which is down to down
to what did we have this last

532
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,160
time?
He was allergic to onions and

533
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,640
the onion family.
So we had to accommodate for

534
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,480
that.
And every you can imagine onions

535
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,120
go and everything, right?
So, yeah.

536
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,480
So every single thing, like we'd
write him a specialized menu.

537
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:28,720
But it it did contain the soup,
the salad, the the main, the

538
00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:33,080
dessert, the, you know, everyone
has to be thought about these

539
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,760
days.
Whereas back then in the early

540
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:42,240
2000s, like vegetarians got one
choice and, you know, there was

541
00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:44,920
two.
It was no vegan.

542
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,640
But if you did you, you
basically just took the cheese

543
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:48,960
off whatever it is.
OK.

544
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:49,600
Yeah.
Not really love you.

545
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,800
You know what?
You mean?

546
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,680
Yeah, but, and now we've got,
we've got menus and and it's

547
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,400
great.
It's more of a health conscious

548
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,400
society, which is great.
It tests us as as professionals

549
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,480
to to push the boat out and
yeah, right.

550
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:14,600
Make this what is generally
classed as a meat and dish.

551
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:21,920
Make that somehow into a gluten
free, dairy free extravaganza 4

552
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,200
But then times that by three,
you've got three choices of

553
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:29,240
vegan vegetarian now rather than
rather than the one you know.

554
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,120
And it's it is, it's great, it's
healthy and, and I.

555
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:37,720
Think more people are wanting
the healthy you know because

556
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:42,080
you're on tour a lot you know
they you know they want the

557
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,880
healthier option or just the
simple option because I know at

558
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:50,680
some point we lunch is always
more I'm not going to say simple

559
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,840
because it's not but it's you
know it's it's a lunch you've

560
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,640
got all different you've got
yeah anything if you want to

561
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,440
make yourself a sandwich if you
want to make it like a more

562
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:03,120
basic but then dinner is always
in mind it was always just so

563
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,920
elaborate you.
Know what really what The thing

564
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:11,600
is with this, this industry as
well is we're not going into a

565
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:15,360
restaurant where there is a menu
card that you've done day in,

566
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:20,120
day out for, for like a season,
for example.

567
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:24,080
And then hopefully that
restaurant that you're working

568
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,160
in then changes their menu per
season.

569
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:30,360
It is literally every day that
we have to come up with

570
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,560
something, something that is
going to knock people's socks

571
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:38,160
off.
And that's the beauty of it

572
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,720
though, is it's not just one
person doing this.

573
00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:47,280
Generally, it is conglomeration
of all these beautiful thoughts

574
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:51,680
and, and, and inspirations from
all around the world.

575
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,360
And then as soon as one chef or
or front of house or whoever is

576
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,400
involved in that menu meeting
says something, then that'll

577
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,160
kick off with another person.
They'll be like, Oh, well, I can

578
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,520
backing up with that.
And all of a sudden you've just

579
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:10,680
got like an absolutely knocked
out of this world menu that that

580
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:14,960
does cater for everyone that
does cater for the more simple.

581
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,920
But then the S like you said,
you've got the elaborate ones

582
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,920
over here.
But then you've got the simple

583
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:24,760
and the, the plane, the dairy
free, the, and by the end of at

584
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,160
that menu meeting, you will walk
away with a beer in hand just

585
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,480
going, yes, OK, this is going to
be a great day after you've just

586
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:36,880
done a 16 to 18 to 20 hour day
of, of food.

587
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:41,640
You know of, of everything from,
like you said, the full English

588
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:49,000
with all the trimmings to lunch,
dinner, dressing rooms, snacks,

589
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,360
fast food.
There's so many different

590
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,600
things.
I think that it, it's, it is

591
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:59,000
incredible to when you say it
like that, you know, it's not a

592
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,600
seasonal, even though it's not
even a tour menu.

593
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,160
It's not, you know, you're not
doing the same menu every single

594
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:06,480
day.
Never changes.

595
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,200
It changes for dinner and never
repeats itself.

596
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,320
You might have a dish that
people really like and have

597
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,120
requested again.
Yeah.

598
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,320
But, but really, you know, and,
and when you think about it, so

599
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:24,400
the last tour you've just,
you've just been, let's say, as

600
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,600
a personal chef working for say
somebody else was the Red Hot

601
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,760
Chili Peppers so red.
Hot Chili Peppers, Yeah.

602
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,120
So you started that because I
again, the last time I saw you

603
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:39,200
it were because Manoli and I
were working doing the warehouse

604
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:43,200
for Rockford.
Yeah, you're like all the all

605
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,560
the rigs ready.
Basically you came in at the

606
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,680
last minute to Add all the bits
and pieces and then you were.

607
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:51,960
Yeah, he was heading out on to
Chili's.

608
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,560
You have been everywhere with
them in the last what was it, 2

609
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,080
years at all?
South Africa?

610
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,560
I'd like to find out.
OK.

611
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:08,040
It's not a sore point at all.
I was in a 2 year tour, I can't

612
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:13,040
remember.
Well, so I've been with with the

613
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,720
Chili's as their personal for
eight years.

614
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,440
Well, that that does include
COVID, those COVID years,

615
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:25,520
obviously, but we so it's a two
man tour basically.

616
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:31,600
It's just literally looking
after the band and the a party,

617
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:37,920
which would be their management,
their security, their, their

618
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,240
family.
So you're going to be adaptable

619
00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:42,320
in how many people you feed and
everything.

620
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:52,400
So that started in 2017, ended
in 2019, 1/2 I think.

621
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:57,240
And then I came off that came
and met with you did OMDI think.

622
00:40:57,240 --> 00:40:59,120
And then that was the last one
before COVID.

623
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:03,840
And then that was pretty much
the 1st 10.

624
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,360
I'd done another tour with
Genesis for somebody else also

625
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,440
after COVID and then we kicked
off.

626
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,360
So I've been doing that since
then.

627
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:23,160
So since when was that 20?
Some 2022 until August, yeah,

628
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:29,320
August 1st of August I got back
home and then I went straight

629
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,640
into, well, I'd been organizing
the company, so I went straight

630
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:36,480
into Rolling Stones after that.
Yeah, it was pretty quick

631
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:39,920
succession.
But the Chili's is amazing

632
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:45,720
because it's yes, we're just
cooking for the band and they're

633
00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:48,440
they're guys, so not the whole
shebang.

634
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:53,400
It's very centralized on exactly
what they want.

635
00:41:53,400 --> 00:42:00,400
They're they're very they like
to keep their their schedule,

636
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,920
their meals, even down to what
they're down to the time down to

637
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,960
what they eat.
Pretty similar on a show day,

638
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:12,480
but then we've got scope to go
go pretty crazy when when we're

639
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,040
sending food like after show for
example, because they've

640
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,200
generally got a day off or a
travel day the next day.

641
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:25,280
So they can, as long as it's
within the confines of no sugar,

642
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:31,480
no gluten, no dairy and healthy,
healthy.

643
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,880
Well, when you take out no
sugar, no food, no dairy, you're

644
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,800
pretty healthy anyway.
But but like lots of vegetables,

645
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:43,200
lots of meat, like slow cooked
meats, braised meats and things

646
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:46,160
like that for them.
And they kind of just let you

647
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,800
let us go.
We just go for it and they'll

648
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,120
tell us we know what they're
like.

649
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:54,480
So we just kind of keep it
simple.

650
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,280
Yeah.
And to to the point.

651
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,800
And then if they don't like it,
they'll tell us.

652
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:05,360
But definitely they're not shy.
So really day in a life like

653
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:09,000
we're saying like 18 hours.
I mean say, I don't say you've

654
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,200
come from the hotel, you've come
from the bus, wherever you come

655
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:14,880
straight in, you work with
another lady on or you have

656
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,520
been, what's her name?
I have been here with Karina.

657
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:23,960
We worked very closely together
for for just for the A party.

658
00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:28,600
So a day in the life in the
Chili's or a day in the life of

659
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,920
A to a caterer.
Very different.

660
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:37,680
Very, very different.
Yes, Band Chef Day in the life

661
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,560
of a band chef.
Day in the Life of a Band Chef

662
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:48,400
by Tanya Collion OK so we
generally wake up because the

663
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,280
band isn't going to come in till
later.

664
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:54,760
Obviously they're going to be
there for soundtrack maybe.

665
00:43:55,120 --> 00:44:01,440
So we've got a little bit of a
chance to to go and have a less

666
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:06,680
rough morning, let's say.
So we would have done all of our

667
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,240
advancing before.
I generally did that and

668
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,840
advanced each show.
So they had our dressing room

669
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:19,160
ride out and any stipulations
like even down to organizing our

670
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,200
own kitchen sink and
refrigeration and things like

671
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,640
that.
So that was all done via

672
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:30,440
production and we would send in
a that advance.

673
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,760
We would have had a few
conversations with the local

674
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:36,280
people by this stage.
So that's cool.

675
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:39,880
That's off our our plate in a
way.

676
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,880
Dressing rooms are done.
We've got then we would have

677
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:47,840
written a menu together and just
written down a small shopping

678
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:51,920
list.
And we go to some pretty nice

679
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:58,320
stores and we get to, to spend a
lot of money on their products,

680
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:03,720
which is always going to be like
top, top shelf stuff, you know.

681
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,720
So we would have probably
sourced this stuff like

682
00:45:08,720 --> 00:45:12,800
generally through a butcher.
They, they eat a lot of marrow

683
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,120
as well, which needs to be
ordered in advance.

684
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,040
So anytime that we're ordering
the marrow, generally we're

685
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:19,640
getting put in touch with a
butcher.

686
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,920
So then we can have that combo
and just be like, OK, we're

687
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:27,000
thinking about doing this.
Do you have any of this in stock

688
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:30,240
right now?
Are you able to supply?

689
00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:33,200
Generally we get a oh,
absolutely.

690
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:39,720
And, and they're more than
willing to supply, to supply us.

691
00:45:39,720 --> 00:45:43,920
And generally we end up out at
their farm or, or we, we get

692
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:49,320
ourselves into all situations
like with, with, I suppose it's

693
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,360
who we're working for.
People get excited definitely,

694
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:56,480
but it's also our, our passion
for what we're doing as well.

695
00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:05,720
So we get invited into chefs
tables, we get invited into

696
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:09,040
oyster bars and like they're
always all in the house and

697
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,400
people want to showcase what
they've got also.

698
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:16,080
So like sometimes we're in in
the butchers and he goes, oh,

699
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,840
come back.
So we'll go back into and see

700
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,240
their operation and they're also
happy and giving.

701
00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:26,640
And I generally walk out there
with, because of the accent,

702
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,440
especially in America, I get
away with murder.

703
00:46:29,720 --> 00:46:34,440
So I walk away with bags and
stuff, bags and stuff.

704
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:40,720
So, yeah, we, we get our
shopping done depending on

705
00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:46,080
whether we've had a loading day
the day before, we gently try

706
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:51,560
and go in and, and because the
rest of the tour is tipping,

707
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,160
tipping out all their gears off
the truck and they're doing a

708
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:59,240
loading day.
So we tend to go and meet the

709
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:05,560
meet the cases and get
instructed to our location that

710
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,480
we're going to be at.
Usually that's going to be

711
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:13,880
around by request, of course,
around the the compound, if it's

712
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:18,200
a festival or their dressing
room area or if it's a stadium

713
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,320
or an amphitheater or whatever
we've been doing.

714
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:24,240
We've had a bit of a a mix up of
sizes and venues that we've been

715
00:47:24,240 --> 00:47:27,000
doing.
So you've got to adapt and

716
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:30,320
overcome like we were saying
before and and just get on with

717
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,600
whatever you've given really.
Yeah.

718
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:39,760
So, yeah.
So if we've had that opportunity

719
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:44,400
that there was a loading day, we
would then walk in to purchase

720
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:48,600
turned on.
And so basically, so you're the

721
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,960
end of the game.
If, if we've got that loading

722
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:54,440
day, we're going to set it up
because it just takes off that

723
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,680
extra bit of stress in the
morning.

724
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:03,320
If we can't like if, if the
power has any sort of situation

725
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:08,440
or the the sinks leaking or
anything, we use that loading

726
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:12,760
day to to just make ensure that
it's going to be OK.

727
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,480
And normally just yeah, I mean,
most people know like with

728
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:21,000
loading days, like obviously
that's mainly for like stadium

729
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:25,880
gigs because you always have the
what what what like I mean, what

730
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,760
you call it now, but the the pre
day, the pre day, then you have

731
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:30,240
the show day.
So you.

732
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,600
Like a production day, yeah.
Production, yeah, that's what I

733
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,800
was trying to think they're
having that day.

734
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:38,280
You know, you probably see that
on the schedule and think, OK,

735
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:39,680
brilliant.
You know, we've got the

736
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,960
production day.
We can go in and also, you know,

737
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:47,520
not be not be as stressed
because if you're doing arenas

738
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:49,920
for artists and bands, you're
going straight in.

739
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:53,640
You've got to set everything up.
Yeah, plus do drop in plus get

740
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,160
the dressing rooms, plus get
everything plus, plus, plus,

741
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,080
plus, plus.
And then you, it's a role.

742
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,800
And exactly.
And then you can start your day

743
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:04,080
cooking.
Exactly.

744
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:07,920
Yeah.
So production that we always do

745
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:13,080
bank, we're very thankful for
that day just because, yeah,

746
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:17,680
like you said, you can you've
got a bit more up your sleeve

747
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,160
because you're trying to do it
all on the show day shop.

748
00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:25,400
And we've done it plenty of
times because of the confines of

749
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:29,160
of travel days and things like
that.

750
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:35,400
But like then we would rock up,
go to put everything in the

751
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:40,360
fridges from our shop that's all
being set up and just get on

752
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,560
with it.
Go and generally go and set up

753
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:49,840
dressing room first so they can
walk in at whatever time we get.

754
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,840
We get told, but sometimes they
change and we're not told.

755
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:57,000
So it's just that's kind of a
priority is, is getting it done,

756
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,000
getting our portion of the
dressing rooms done.

757
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:04,880
There's another team that is, is
doing all the the room setting

758
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,760
and everything, but we do
everything by mouth for that for

759
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,880
these guys.
So, so we've got our, our

760
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:14,000
tables, our fridges, all of
that, all of the snacks and

761
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,440
everything like that.
We we take care of which is

762
00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:20,800
minimal, to be fair.
It's mainly cutting fruit and,

763
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:22,520
and putting it into little
bowls.

764
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,880
So they're in the fridges.
So if they were, if they were

765
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:29,920
hungry between us feeding them
and then going on stage, then

766
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,800
there you go.
And then obviously, yeah,

767
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:38,080
there's also family guests and
things like that and friends

768
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,080
hanging out in the dressing room
free.

769
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:46,000
So they've got we, if it's
family, we'd feed them and the

770
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:50,680
production, we'd feed them.
But they generally, if they want

771
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:54,360
people fed, then they will sort
of point that out to us, you

772
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,600
know?
So try and keep it to a minimum.

773
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:01,000
The rest of the crew, Do I take
it at the rest of the crew?

774
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:05,040
I mean is there another Tour
Company catering that go travel

775
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:08,400
with them and do the crew or is
it all local everywhere you go?

776
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:14,880
With the Chili's on the last one
in the amphitheaters, we did

777
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,720
have another company that was
travelling around.

778
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,760
But amphitheaters as you know,
it's quite, it's quite small.

779
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:26,920
So we left stadiums not not
having a touring caterer and

780
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:31,480
having locals to then going into
amphitheaters and having a

781
00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:36,600
touring catering company with us
also, as well as ask the band

782
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:40,200
chef who has got like a pretty
although, although we're only

783
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:45,880
cooking for like let's say 20 a
day for a.

784
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:48,560
Lot it's.
Enough.

785
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:51,480
It's enough for two people.
When you've got all these

786
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:57,080
different stipulations as well.
It's a long day, but that made

787
00:51:57,080 --> 00:52:00,040
it a little bit more difficult
because of the space space

788
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:06,120
issue.
Like the there's generally in an

789
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:09,760
amphitheater, there's one sink,
not 2 sinks for two different

790
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:12,320
catering companies.
So you're sharing a sink, you're

791
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:15,520
sharing a space, you're sharing
walkway, you're sharing like

792
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:21,400
fridges and things like that.
But where we kind of ensure that

793
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:27,680
as it's a party and as it's the
people that are going on that

794
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,880
stage that we ensure that we
have.

795
00:52:32,720 --> 00:52:36,240
I don't want to say priority and
sound like a Dick, but with no

796
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,000
you do.
No you do.

797
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:42,560
No, that's fair if I'm honest.
It is fair.

798
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:46,800
It is fair because because as
you know, like the bandship is,

799
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:52,640
is so concentrated on these guys
that have the same things pretty

800
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:55,000
much every day.
We know exactly what they want

801
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:59,040
to crew catering, which is
changing every day.

802
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,440
The menu is changing every day.
They're also on a different

803
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:06,880
budget because obviously the,
the band is the one paying for

804
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:13,160
everyone to be there, you know?
So it's different between, yeah,

805
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:17,280
there's a, there's a few little
differences, but it's still the

806
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:23,280
same, same amount of love, care
and and hours of work, you know?

807
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:26,880
Yeah, of course.
And so you would normally just

808
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:32,080
say just, but you do dinner for
the a the A group.

809
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:34,920
Yeah.
Did you did you ever used to do

810
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:40,080
like after show food as well?
Yeah, so we do a pre show which

811
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:44,640
would be there like then just
eating something simple and

812
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:49,320
light, but like like generally 4
hours before the show for

813
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:52,880
digestion.
Excuse me.

814
00:53:53,280 --> 00:54:00,560
And then they'd go on stage.
We'd make sure we'd clean up all

815
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:02,560
the dressing room and
everything, do a little bit of a

816
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:05,440
reaching.
And at the same time as they're

817
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:12,560
on the stage, we are cooking and
placing, placing the after show

818
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:17,160
food in either their rooms or
we'll send it to go If they, if

819
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:20,200
they choose to do a runner off
stage, then we've they've got

820
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:23,040
little Thermo bags that we've
packed for each each one of

821
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:26,200
them.
And OK, if you go bye.

822
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,000
Bye.
And then it's packed up on

823
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:34,040
everything, ovens cleaned.
Down, packed, down cleaned out,

824
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:39,680
packed wheels.
But again, when you think a gig,

825
00:54:39,720 --> 00:54:42,200
you know normally finish, you
say around midnight, you know,

826
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,320
and then you're still I know
everyone else is loading out as

827
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:47,120
well.
But again, that makes it an

828
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:51,160
extremely long day from when
you've gone in to set everything

829
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,000
up.
You go all the way, like all the

830
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,520
way through till midnight to
still be cooking.

831
00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,680
And it's just AI mean.
I love it.

832
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,440
I mean, just talking about it,
you know, I I do.

833
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:07,000
I do miss it and that but what
gets me?

834
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:09,920
So you've got all of this going
on.

835
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:13,560
OK, so your personal chef.
Oh, and you did an awesome

836
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,200
interview.
By the way, I saw the video last

837
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:19,680
night on the Internet that you
shopping in new.

838
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:24,320
York Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah.

839
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:28,920
We were lucky enough to get a
friend of Karina's actually

840
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:33,800
works for ABC, so we're lucky to
get interviewed by them.

841
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:41,080
When we were doing a the boys
did AI don't want to say it was

842
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:46,320
a charity gig, but it was a gig
in New York that it was

843
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:53,760
absolutely hanging with rain and
we got it didn't look like it in

844
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:57,600
the thing, but in between shots
was absolutely bucketing.

845
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:03,960
So we we kind of had a little
bit more time because it was a

846
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:08,360
festival and because it there
was a lot of different acts

847
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:13,080
within Central Park.
So you can only imagine the the

848
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:16,520
rules and regulations that that
Central Park set.

849
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,880
We couldn't have gas there.
Not that we travel with gas

850
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,400
anyway, but even like power and
things like that, we're going to

851
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,960
be an issue.
So the boys are just informed

852
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:31,880
about that before we go shopping
to make sure that we've got the

853
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:35,360
the essentials kind of thing.
Like I said before, the fruit

854
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:39,880
for the dressing room and, and
their dressing room bid and then

855
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:46,720
we would elaborate and just be,
just be able to get them what

856
00:56:46,720 --> 00:56:49,440
they want.
But they've been given a limited

857
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:52,000
menu.
So we sort of inform them when

858
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:56,120
stuff like that is is coming up
so, so they can plan ahead as

859
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:59,200
well.
It was just such a cool video

860
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:01,320
though, like like your
interview, I think it was about

861
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:05,960
5 for six minutes long and you
know, just just showing exactly

862
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:08,360
what I'll do a link so anyone
can watch it.

863
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,520
Yeah, that'd be great.
Yeah, it's pretty fun.

864
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:14,520
You're going, you know, and
exactly that.

865
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:16,640
You know, one of the things you
go to the book chair and you're

866
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:19,560
like, boy, and he gave me and
blah, blah, blah.

867
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:23,000
Just going around and you know
that whole thing that all the

868
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:25,240
cases setting it all up and
blah, blah, blah.

869
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:29,240
You get to feel it.
If actually I always I love

870
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:34,360
these videos on YouTube when you
do the like the I can't even my

871
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:37,160
words are terrible today.
The fast up version.

872
00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,760
The speedy version of when you
see loadings and time lapse.

873
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:43,840
I love it.
The time lapse is a great one.

874
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,480
Yeah, I.
Reckon you should do a time

875
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:48,360
lapse where on on one of your
next.

876
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:53,360
Gigs if only we could just have
it in the one spot this whole

877
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:55,720
time.
You know what I mean, because

878
00:57:56,600 --> 00:58:01,160
I'm I'm a bit of a mover and a
shaker, so I get myself around

879
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:06,320
but just to have have I think I
should time lapse just set up a

880
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,320
little GoPro or something and at
the.

881
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:12,520
On my little.
Chest and yeah and Time Lapse

882
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:17,880
that did it and put some like
some funky music behind it.

883
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:21,440
I believe I'm going to see that
this year.

884
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:25,000
Yeah, you just inspired me.
And there we go.

885
00:58:25,200 --> 00:58:27,640
Game on.
But there's so they I think

886
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:32,360
it'll be it'll be so cool to see
you doing yeah, just basically

887
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:36,200
your everyday, like not every
day, but a day in a life of

888
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:39,080
Tanya like these like will be
pretty awesome.

889
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:44,600
But what gets me all of that?
So you've got, you know, your

890
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:48,560
your your pre shopping, you've
got your set up, you've got all

891
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:52,600
of this going on in your mind,
on your mind.

892
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:56,760
You've got literally, you know,
you have your days off and

893
00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:59,200
generally, you know, we all know
that you're shattered, you know,

894
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:01,440
absolutely shattered.
Maybe.

895
00:59:01,480 --> 00:59:05,080
I mean, you've been to some
amazing places, but throughout

896
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:10,120
all of this, Yuko, I know what I
need to do.

897
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:13,880
I need to sell my own business.
Yeah, crazy.

898
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:16,560
What a mental case.
But.

899
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:18,280
Well.
I did.

900
00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:20,280
I did.
I thought I did it.

901
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:24,440
Yeah, I did. 2024 was quite a
large year for me.

902
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:29,560
I sort of made a decision, yes,
while still working for the

903
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:34,040
Chili Peppers that I knew that
that's this contract would come

904
00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:35,720
to an end and that's, I should
point it out.

905
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:38,720
It is all contractual.
We're all self-employed.

906
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:44,640
So it's figuring out once, once
you know, that one job is coming

907
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:48,440
to an end, you've got to as a
self-employed person that's not

908
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,840
getting holiday pay, not getting
sick pay, not getting week,

909
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:55,320
weekends often.
What's a weekend, what's a

910
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:59,080
public holiday?
You know, we've constantly got

911
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:10,640
to be on finding the next thing
without, without being too, I

912
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:12,240
don't know, it's forward or
anything like that.

913
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:15,640
If you, it falls in your lap,
you, you.

914
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:20,080
Well, in my experience, very
luckily, it has kind of fallen

915
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:22,640
in my lap.
But yeah, at that point, when I

916
01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:26,360
thought, do you know what?
Yeah, let's set up a company.

917
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:31,040
So I knew that a couple of gigs
were coming down to Australia

918
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:36,040
and to be honest, for a few
years now I've thought that I

919
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:41,600
would love to to move back down
here from England, come back to

920
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:46,240
the area that I grew up in,
which is a beautiful part in the

921
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:48,480
world.
Byron Bay slash Ballina.

922
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:52,360
If anyone gets a chance then
come on down, give me a shout.

923
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:58,960
I've got a cane.
Panic at the back, but I've

924
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:00,560
wanted to do that for a little
while.

925
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:06,200
And obviously having my family
here as well and, and being in

926
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:12,080
England for such a long time,
although I absolutely love and

927
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:18,080
still love, I'm still, I'm still
very much tied to the UK also

928
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:24,080
very much so.
And I just sort of thought,

929
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:26,440
yeah, you know what?
If there was any way that I was

930
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:32,440
going to do something like own I
own something for myself and

931
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:37,240
have another, have another
catering company, then it would

932
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:41,680
be definitely a struggle.
And do I sort of got in contact

933
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:44,080
with a few people.
Those few people said, yeah,

934
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:47,280
come and come and see what we
got going on here.

935
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:51,640
Did a couple of sites visits and
next thing you know I was on two

936
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:55,360
pretty large games.
Seriously.

937
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:59,440
So the very first one I made,
the one, it was a big, it was a

938
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:00,760
big festival, wasn't it?
Was it the?

939
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:03,280
Was that the first?
One you did.

940
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:09,280
No, I did the weekend.
So we we were awarded the the

941
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:11,480
two contracts.
So they were pretty back to

942
01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:13,840
backs at the core stadium in
Sydney.

943
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:20,040
So obviously stadium seats 60 to
80,000.

944
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:22,760
I think it was 80,000 people a
night.

945
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:28,720
Obviously I'm not feeding all
them, but we were feeding the

946
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:34,480
the crew, the touring crew and
the locals for the weekend.

947
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:39,520
So all the people, all that was
roughly around 450.

948
01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:45,120
Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Oh yeah, for my first one, yeah.

949
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:47,240
I was starting small, by the
way.

950
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:49,280
That's the one thing I said to
myself.

951
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:51,920
So let's start small and figure
out where this goes.

952
01:02:51,920 --> 01:02:55,680
Who knows?
And then that, yeah, 450, which

953
01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:59,440
is like, it's a lot of people,
It's a lot of people, It's a lot

954
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:00,400
of mouse and.
Even.

955
01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:03,480
I know you've probably hired in
a lot of stuff, but even in the

956
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:07,280
face of your, I mean all the
equipment, I mean, I love the

957
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:10,440
logo you've you've put on.
I love all your little like your

958
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:14,120
lights, your signs again, like
I'll, I'll tag you for your

959
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:16,600
insta and stuff so people can
watch what you've been doing.

960
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:23,360
But like really like you.
There's so much the thought

961
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:28,200
that's gone into everything, but
you obviously had to, I mean,

962
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:32,520
buy all to cater for these first
two massive gigs.

963
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:35,640
Like, you know, you did start
off with like a little, you

964
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:38,360
know, I'm not saying a little
arena, but you didn't just start

965
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:40,480
start off small.
You started massive.

966
01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:43,440
I went into a bloody stadium.
Yeah, I did.

967
01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:45,120
Yeah.
That was it was.

968
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:48,560
And obviously thinking that
you're going to start small and

969
01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:52,200
then being awarded a gig like
the weekend and Coldplay and in

970
01:03:52,360 --> 01:03:57,240
in any stadium show, you're
going to need a lot more plates.

971
01:03:57,240 --> 01:04:00,040
You're going to need a lot more
forks, knives and everything.

972
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:06,080
So yeah, the whatever I thought
that I monetary wise that I was

973
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:10,480
going to put into this and like
invest in a way into this

974
01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:14,600
definitely got blown out of the
water pretty early off.

975
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:19,520
And I was lucky enough because
it's a stadium and because the

976
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:24,080
core is actually, it was built
in 2000.

977
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:29,160
So it's a little bit older, but
it's, it's equipped with a lot

978
01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:33,480
of the things that I need.
So was I was able to, to save

979
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:38,600
and not spend as much as you'd
think on, on kidding myself out

980
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:41,000
and making Rolling Stones what
it is.

981
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:45,800
But yeah, there's a lot.
I feel the, I, I bought a 40

982
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:50,480
foot shipping container and it's
here on the farm and, and I

983
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:54,880
thought, yeah, that'll be loads.
I've I've, yeah, there's a lot

984
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:59,320
of equipment, but there's a lot
of because it's so, so

985
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:00,520
different.
Like you said, like we were

986
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:03,400
saying before, it's yes, it's
kitchen, it's front of house.

987
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:10,240
It's, it's lights, it's plants,
it's everything including the

988
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:14,680
kitchen sink.
And then you've got dressing

989
01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:17,920
rooms which like then you want
to, you want to make dressing

990
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:21,920
room beautiful and, and homely
for that artist to walk in and

991
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:26,080
be like, OK, you're, you're
home, you know, relax, calm

992
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:32,320
down.
So there is a lot to think about

993
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:35,240
and yet a lot of things to go in
flight cases but.

994
01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:38,880
So do you have like or for this
in particular?

995
01:05:38,880 --> 01:05:41,840
Because I saw a lot of friends
that were working with you, you

996
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:45,120
know, these like friends that
are based in Australia that you

997
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:48,280
managed to, you know, say,
right, I've got this huge gig.

998
01:05:48,280 --> 01:05:52,120
Was it agency?
Like how did you get everybody

999
01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:54,760
like, you know, the chefs, like
how did, how did you get

1000
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:57,640
everybody to be part of this?
And I said, I don't know if

1001
01:05:57,640 --> 01:05:59,960
anyone heard this or not, but
obviously it was the the big

1002
01:05:59,960 --> 01:06:03,680
weekend one and also Coldplay.
So that was like the like two

1003
01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:06,760
major and back-to-back just
point out again.

1004
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:10,640
Very back-to-back.
So starting is always going to

1005
01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:16,600
be the, the most difficult
because it's the logistically

1006
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:21,040
it's like different people have
got different things going on

1007
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:25,120
and, and to get people to
commit, OK, you've got solid

1008
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:30,360
dates that you need to fill.
So, so it's availability, it's

1009
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:34,320
phoning round, it's using your
contacts, it's, it's finding new

1010
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:38,880
friends.
Like I grew up with one of the

1011
01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,600
chefs that was working with me.
I went still with her and we

1012
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:46,720
became chefs and obviously like
we were both in the same little

1013
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:49,000
town.
And then I chose to, to move

1014
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:55,040
further afield, but we've grown
up going to high school

1015
01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:58,280
together, swimming in each
other's families, pools and

1016
01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:03,400
things like that to, to then
watching each other grow in both

1017
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:06,000
of our careers over over the
years.

1018
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:08,680
And she's always said, I'd love
to do what you do.

1019
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:11,160
I'd love to do what you do.
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, there

1020
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:13,440
will be a chance.
There will be an opportunity.

1021
01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:19,240
And I get back and every year.
And I was like, so remember that

1022
01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:22,840
time I said that there will be a
chance for you to do what I do.

1023
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:26,640
How do you fancy doing this?
And she jumped it, jumped at it.

1024
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:29,240
So I'm very, very lucky to have
her.

1025
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:34,480
And, and it's a little bit
different down in Australia

1026
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:39,160
because we don't, we don't drop
on the bus because it's so far

1027
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:42,360
in between, in between main
cities in Australia.

1028
01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:48,680
So, so far, so logistically, it
is impossible to to go from

1029
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:54,880
Sydney overnight into a loading
in the Gold Coast, which is

1030
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:57,920
something that I've literally
just just before you, I've just

1031
01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:00,760
been on the phone about whether
I can do that.

1032
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:08,080
And I'm like, how do I do that?
So figuring that out is is going

1033
01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:15,120
to, it's, it's going to take a
little bit of my brain power,

1034
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:18,359
but I'll figure it out because
that's what you do.

1035
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:20,720
That's what you do.
If somebody says, I want you to

1036
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:24,399
do this, you go, OK, I'll do
everything in my power to do

1037
01:08:24,399 --> 01:08:27,880
that.
So, and then there was obviously

1038
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:31,279
there was a couple of people
that I phoned that couldn't do

1039
01:08:31,279 --> 01:08:34,479
it.
And then they said I've got the

1040
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:37,560
perfect person that that will be
able to do it.

1041
01:08:38,319 --> 01:08:40,760
And that's what happens.
And that's how it happens.

1042
01:08:40,760 --> 01:08:45,640
And then that kind of snowballs
at the then there's a few that

1043
01:08:46,439 --> 01:08:50,720
what we were saying before that
it's it's a hard thing and it's

1044
01:08:50,720 --> 01:08:55,640
not for everyone.
It is not like even chef that

1045
01:08:55,640 --> 01:09:02,479
have come from restaurants.
If if you can't adapt to the we

1046
01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:08,279
we need restaurant quality and
restaurant style food, but it's

1047
01:09:08,279 --> 01:09:12,080
not a restaurant.
It's a much different like the

1048
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:16,120
the way that you need to tackle
a touring day and as a chef,

1049
01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:23,600
particularly in getting it out
fresh, fresh looking beautiful

1050
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:29,479
and never seamlessly never
running out of that seat.

1051
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:35,600
So it's it's portion control,
It's it's like artistry.

1052
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:39,560
It's everything that you could
possibly think that so a few

1053
01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:46,359
people work as enamored with the
touring industry as me, for

1054
01:09:46,359 --> 01:09:50,680
example.
So they have and no hard

1055
01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:51,640
feelings.
You know what I mean?

1056
01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:57,480
You just say, OK, thanks so much
part tell me how it went.

1057
01:09:57,800 --> 01:10:01,680
Like you get a DV brief from
them as well as giving them a DV

1058
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:05,080
brief back, you know, so if it
didn't work out, it didn't work

1059
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:07,200
out.
But I'm sure down the road

1060
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:10,680
there'll be more people.
And if you want to, if you ever

1061
01:10:10,680 --> 01:10:14,880
want to be a chef, little
Interneters out there or a

1062
01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:19,080
friend of the house, just give
me a shout because there's,

1063
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:22,560
there's all like
internationally, not just in

1064
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:27,880
Australia, but if you are down
here, it be easier to get you

1065
01:10:27,880 --> 01:10:32,400
working for Rolling Stones.
But yeah, there's, I sort of

1066
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:35,400
have an Internet.
I'll be very blessed to be able

1067
01:10:35,400 --> 01:10:43,400
to have that international kind
of contact book, I suppose, and,

1068
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:47,680
and people that I've worked with
over many, many years in all

1069
01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:51,640
corners of the globe.
So it's not just, I'm based in

1070
01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:54,480
Australia, but it's not all just
Australia, so.

1071
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:58,640
I was thinking of, oh, what's
her name?

1072
01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:00,240
I did my first tour with her,
actually.

1073
01:11:00,480 --> 01:11:02,720
Dan, Dan, Danielle.
Danielle.

1074
01:11:03,600 --> 01:11:08,200
Yeah, like she's still.
She's in Perth, so she's

1075
01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:11,120
literally on the other side of
us very far.

1076
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:15,600
We have spoken actually.
And yeah, like there's, there's

1077
01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:19,560
major things and more major
things to happen for rolling

1078
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:23,120
stoves this year, in 2025.
I hope and I hope to be able to

1079
01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:28,400
bring, bring her over and, and I
have got people like a chef that

1080
01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:31,240
I worked with many, many years
ago.

1081
01:11:31,760 --> 01:11:34,800
I bought him over and just said,
Hey, what are you doing?

1082
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:36,440
Can you help me out for
Coldplay?

1083
01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:40,200
Because it was kind of full
circle because he'd worked

1084
01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:45,160
Darren and worked for Coldplay
15 years ago.

1085
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:51,520
You know when when I also, he
was in a personal chef position

1086
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:56,160
with them still on that tour and
I basically bought Darren over

1087
01:11:56,160 --> 01:12:00,320
so, so it was like a full circle
kind of thing, you know, they

1088
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:03,720
could see each other again and
she was stoked, He was stoked, I

1089
01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:05,280
was stoked.
We were all stoked.

1090
01:12:05,280 --> 01:12:11,320
It was great.
Forgotten because you work?

1091
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:12,000
Yeah.
Was it you?

1092
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:15,360
Said 15 years ago you you did
actually work for Coldplay 15

1093
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:19,280
years ago yeah.
I mean you work for you as a as

1094
01:12:19,280 --> 01:12:20,960
a on the.
This is the part of the.

1095
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:27,720
Touring like crew, catering,
local job, you know, but we

1096
01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:29,960
worked together.
Darren and I had worked together

1097
01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:33,400
on a lot of other jobs for for
one of the companies over there

1098
01:12:33,400 --> 01:12:37,440
in England and it was just good
to be able to see each other

1099
01:12:37,440 --> 01:12:40,800
again.
And obviously for me as my first

1100
01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:47,520
massive job for Rolling Stones,
to have to have that confidence

1101
01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:54,360
that I could literally leave
that kitchen and it and it well,

1102
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:56,800
this happen.
You know, this is the thing now,

1103
01:12:56,800 --> 01:12:58,640
isn't it?
Because you know you're.

1104
01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:03,040
Now the owner of Rolling Stones,
everything's down to you or the

1105
01:13:03,040 --> 01:13:05,680
decisions are down to you, which
I love, or we spoke about this

1106
01:13:05,680 --> 01:13:07,720
before.
I love that because obviously

1107
01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:10,840
there was an options to go into
the business together with

1108
01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:15,280
somebody and you decided that
no, like it's it's it's your

1109
01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:17,600
shower, anything goes wrong,
it's down to you.

1110
01:13:17,640 --> 01:13:20,120
All these decisions, rolling
stoves.

1111
01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:22,360
Have you got anything in the
pipeline at the moment or

1112
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:26,480
working on things?
And like obviously now, I mean,

1113
01:13:26,480 --> 01:13:29,080
if there's anybody out there,
you know, obviously based in

1114
01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:34,440
Australia, but can do worldwide.
And really, I suppose now you

1115
01:13:34,440 --> 01:13:38,040
can even cater for like personal
chefs as well, where whether

1116
01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:41,000
it's yourself or it's somebody
else that you've got on board to

1117
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:46,280
go out and be a personal chef.
Arenas, Ladians like really

1118
01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:49,400
Rolling Stones now.
Is there there weddings,

1119
01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:51,520
parties, anything you know,
like?

1120
01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:55,600
Give me give us a shout yet to
answer your question, yes, there

1121
01:13:55,600 --> 01:13:59,440
is a few things in the pipeline.
I can't really give any names or

1122
01:13:59,440 --> 01:14:02,360
anything at this point.
Yep.

1123
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:11,000
But did you go back on on to
yes, being the company owner now

1124
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:15,600
as well?
And I'm not just the personal

1125
01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:19,360
chef.
I think I I think, although yes,

1126
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:24,520
I am extremely proud of of what
rolling stoves, how rolling

1127
01:14:24,520 --> 01:14:27,840
stoves started where we've got
to in the space of a year.

1128
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:32,920
It's it's amazing.
And I can only thank everyone

1129
01:14:32,920 --> 01:14:36,840
that was involved with the
entirety, not just the shows,

1130
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:42,560
but like the, the me literally
rolling in from, from Chili

1131
01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:48,760
Peppers in the, I think it was
the 30th of July to the 1st of

1132
01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:53,360
August, literally going
gangbusters to get all of this

1133
01:14:53,360 --> 01:14:56,360
stuff actually done.
Although yes, I had been

1134
01:14:56,360 --> 01:15:00,600
planning this for, for a little
while to, to get flight cases

1135
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:04,400
made and, and they then things
bought and, and things like

1136
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:07,120
that.
There was a lot of a lot of

1137
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:13,200
things went into the last two
months so that, that, that.

1138
01:15:13,200 --> 01:15:15,040
Two months that mad 2.
Months.

1139
01:15:15,040 --> 01:15:18,480
That was 2024 for for Rolling
Stones.

1140
01:15:18,480 --> 01:15:25,040
But I did it went very large.
But I also am still very much in

1141
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:29,240
my infancy.
So I am still band chef.

1142
01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:34,240
I am still like walking dishes.
I am still front of house.

1143
01:15:34,240 --> 01:15:38,320
I am still shifting.
I am still I I can I've got a

1144
01:15:38,320 --> 01:15:42,720
team and I am constantly, as you
know, Sarah, like people are

1145
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:47,720
constantly building those teams
and and figuring out how

1146
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:51,680
different people work with
others and and getting those

1147
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:59,240
teams together, trialling
people, bringing people in from

1148
01:15:59,240 --> 01:16:03,000
all walks of life.
Whoever kind of gets in contact

1149
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:05,920
with me and wants to pursue this
it absolutely.

1150
01:16:05,920 --> 01:16:09,400
I'll give you a shot if you can,
if you can handle it and you we

1151
01:16:09,400 --> 01:16:11,280
love it, then let's go.
Let's play.

1152
01:16:11,280 --> 01:16:15,200
Let's get on this road.
But yeah, I will forever.

1153
01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:26,040
I think the Jeff, but I I
personally need to to yeah,

1154
01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:31,800
yeah, I suppose.
Yeah, relax and be able to, you

1155
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:34,400
know, get those.
People that want to do this so.

1156
01:16:34,400 --> 01:16:38,520
Much that they want to take out
a tour and that we work, we work

1157
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:46,040
on the same wavelengths and and
then be able to put across what

1158
01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:49,720
I want to put across as a
company because I haven't, I

1159
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:54,720
haven't just started a company
to to be another, another

1160
01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:59,000
caterer or, you know, it's, it's
not like there's a there's a

1161
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:02,640
reason I've done it.
And that is because I think that

1162
01:17:03,760 --> 01:17:10,760
the way that I can bring
together people to to be able to

1163
01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:17,640
create that team and what we
can, what we can produce, I

1164
01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:20,960
think could be amazing.
And it is amazing what what we

1165
01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:24,680
did produce is was amazing and
is amazing.

1166
01:17:24,680 --> 01:17:30,640
So yes, just getting getting
those people and the team

1167
01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:36,520
together so I can maybe one day
be in that office, although

1168
01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:42,160
that's not really my seat.
But like there is definitely

1169
01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:45,760
scope to do any, any sort of
science.

1170
01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:49,920
Like yes, it could be me coming
out there, but more than likely

1171
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:56,000
I will have a more than
experienced roadie chef to come

1172
01:17:56,000 --> 01:18:00,960
out and and take care of
whatever needs for whoever with

1173
01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:04,240
whatever dietary requirements it
I really love.

1174
01:18:07,280 --> 01:18:09,920
I really.
Push home with whoever.

1175
01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:14,320
Works with me that everybody is
on the road and like you said

1176
01:18:14,320 --> 01:18:17,800
before, I think we're on the
road for a really long time to

1177
01:18:17,800 --> 01:18:27,480
sustain a healthy rounded diet
and a like a healthy environment

1178
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:31,040
starts within starts with the
food that we're eating right.

1179
01:18:31,360 --> 01:18:36,000
So if you can't do that, how is
life on the road living on a bus

1180
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:42,680
with 12/14/16 sometimes other
people going to be a happy place

1181
01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:45,120
to be.
If your food that you're one

1182
01:18:45,200 --> 01:18:48,960
point in your day for roadies
setting up stages, lights,

1183
01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:55,600
audio, power that is their one
hour.

1184
01:18:55,600 --> 01:19:00,320
Let's say if they're lucky to
get that hour of solace of like

1185
01:19:01,960 --> 01:19:04,800
some place.
That they can go to chill out.

1186
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:08,320
To eat good food and to be
merry, you know, that's all I

1187
01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:12,680
want to provide and for it to
feel when you mentioned.

1188
01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:13,800
This not just about the
dressing.

1189
01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:16,960
Rooms, but just, you know, the
the front of house, not front of

1190
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:18,960
house, the yeah, the crew dining
room.

1191
01:19:18,960 --> 01:19:21,240
If you're doing a big you want
it.

1192
01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:24,480
So then it's like homely.
It's they want you want them to

1193
01:19:24,480 --> 01:19:28,800
be able to come in to be able to
relax and also have nice people,

1194
01:19:28,960 --> 01:19:32,680
a nice front of house, you know,
person, you know, boy, girl,

1195
01:19:32,680 --> 01:19:37,240
whatever, whoever it is, and I
know with you as well.

1196
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:39,920
There's one thing that you
certainly won't do is take any

1197
01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:45,400
bullshit, any, any, any asshole
because OK, maybe you hire

1198
01:19:45,400 --> 01:19:49,280
someone and, you know, on paper
or they've come recommended, but

1199
01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:52,480
then they don't gel.
Well, I know for sure, for sure.

1200
01:19:52,480 --> 01:19:55,640
Obviously you've got to do it in
an HR diplomatic way, but you

1201
01:19:55,640 --> 01:19:59,360
basically will be like F off.
Like, you know, like you're not

1202
01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:01,720
part of our team.
You know, it works.

1203
01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:06,800
It didn't and blah, blah, blah.
And that's what I, I love that

1204
01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:09,880
you're yeah, I love that you're
the boss.

1205
01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:13,840
You're the boss of everything.
Every ultimate decision is down

1206
01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:16,600
to you, and you can make that
dream.

1207
01:20:16,920 --> 01:20:21,080
You're, you can make your dream
completely come true, you know,

1208
01:20:21,280 --> 01:20:24,840
because how many times have you
worked over the last 25 years?

1209
01:20:25,120 --> 01:20:28,880
And there's always been
something or someone in part of

1210
01:20:28,880 --> 01:20:32,240
the tour or something that you
don't necessarily agree with and

1211
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:36,880
you've had to fight for what you
believe is the right way.

1212
01:20:37,320 --> 01:20:38,920
You shouldn't have to fight.
I know.

1213
01:20:38,920 --> 01:20:42,280
I mean, I don't fight like if
I'm working.

1214
01:20:42,880 --> 01:20:47,360
I've ran a lot of tours that
like, if, if people don't like

1215
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:51,520
the way that I have run those
tours, then please say so.

1216
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:54,160
Like it's not.
Yeah, it's not a dictatorship

1217
01:20:54,160 --> 01:20:55,880
here.
It's literally yeah.

1218
01:20:56,040 --> 01:20:59,240
This is a teamwork.
This is what we've got to do in

1219
01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:03,360
the day.
It's a lot and it's a long 1, so

1220
01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:07,480
let's all make this happen.
And yeah, you're right.

1221
01:21:07,480 --> 01:21:11,280
Like I don't take much bullshit,
but I am quite forgiving.

1222
01:21:11,280 --> 01:21:17,800
Like there's always, there's
always, always second chances,

1223
01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:22,680
but there's not very often 1/3
like you can.

1224
01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:27,120
I would definitely.
Not allow.

1225
01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:31,240
People to piss in my pocket and
tell me it's raining you know,

1226
01:21:31,280 --> 01:21:39,200
but I and pretty fair and pretty
patient because in when when

1227
01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:43,880
you're trying to put together a
team of people that's look, we

1228
01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:49,320
are the hardest thing people to
be able to gel and to be able to

1229
01:21:49,320 --> 01:21:54,600
create that environment that
everyone's happy and luckily in

1230
01:21:54,600 --> 01:21:59,200
the industry like as especially
as a caterer you walk in you

1231
01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:02,360
pretty much know within the 1st
5 minutes whether someone's

1232
01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:06,960
going to work out OK because
yeah, there's there's a way that

1233
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:11,400
caterers are just are just are
you know we're just all right OK

1234
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:13,640
no worries we just get on with
it.

1235
01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:17,800
Oh, this isn't exactly how I
pictured it to be.

1236
01:22:18,040 --> 01:22:22,440
Oh, well, OK, you're going to
go, OK, if you can adapt and you

1237
01:22:22,440 --> 01:22:24,360
can overcome, then you're going
to work.

1238
01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:31,400
But it yeah, people are the
hardest to put together to make

1239
01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:33,360
it work.
And we've been lucky to work

1240
01:22:33,360 --> 01:22:35,680
together.
We I've been, we've both been

1241
01:22:35,680 --> 01:22:39,480
lucky to work with many other
people and many other teams that

1242
01:22:39,480 --> 01:22:43,840
have been great.
And like there's been a few

1243
01:22:43,840 --> 01:22:45,560
instances.
Yeah, definitely.

1244
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:47,960
But.
I try and if if somebody else is

1245
01:22:48,040 --> 01:22:52,760
running that tour, I will
absolutely respect what and how

1246
01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:56,480
they say they want to put things
across because we've all been

1247
01:22:56,480 --> 01:23:00,840
there, you know, like that some
somebody is going to be maybe a

1248
01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:03,880
bit of a Dick and be like, oh,
well, this is how I do it.

1249
01:23:05,400 --> 01:23:09,800
OK, let's do it your way.
You know, like I'm, I'm fine

1250
01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:15,560
with that.
But and my way is no, like it's

1251
01:23:15,560 --> 01:23:22,000
not golden, you know, it's, it's
all snippets of the last 25

1252
01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:24,120
years that I've basically put
together.

1253
01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:26,920
And this is what I want to say
from other people.

1254
01:23:27,560 --> 01:23:30,640
Yeah.
Yeah, you know, you may have

1255
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:36,160
picked up something from someone
from let's say Tomo Tomo 25

1256
01:23:36,160 --> 01:23:38,240
years ago.
So and things that he where he

1257
01:23:38,240 --> 01:23:40,400
did stuff, you know, going
through from Tomo.

1258
01:23:40,400 --> 01:23:48,040
Hope you're watching.
Hi Tom, I miss you.

1259
01:23:50,640 --> 01:23:55,520
But when you think of the, the,
the characters that you've met

1260
01:23:55,520 --> 01:23:59,680
and not just touring on the
road, but just the people you've

1261
01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:03,040
met in all these incredible
countries that you've visited.

1262
01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:06,960
I mean, you've really, you've
travelled the world, you've,

1263
01:24:07,440 --> 01:24:12,160
you've, you've just experienced
and taken in not just the

1264
01:24:12,160 --> 01:24:17,120
culture, but the food and
adapted to everything that's now

1265
01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:20,840
brought you talking to me on the
podcast.

1266
01:24:21,240 --> 01:24:22,840
Like, you know, who'd have
thought that?

1267
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:25,640
Like for four years, who'd have
thought?

1268
01:24:25,640 --> 01:24:27,800
That Who'd have thought that?
Four years later we'll be

1269
01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:34,800
chatting on a podcast with dodgy
Internet No and I'm so.

1270
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:41,600
Thankful and so honestly to use
one word and blessed I I do feel

1271
01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:46,880
blessed to have have been given
so many opportunities in my

1272
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:52,480
life, in my career.
It is definitely molded me as a.

1273
01:24:52,480 --> 01:24:56,960
Person.
And also as a chef, as a

1274
01:24:56,960 --> 01:25:02,920
professional, as A and it's I
have been to some fantastic

1275
01:25:02,920 --> 01:25:06,520
places and still keep in contact
with a lot of the people that

1276
01:25:06,520 --> 01:25:13,760
I've met and just being able to
be consumed by different

1277
01:25:13,760 --> 01:25:18,120
cultures constantly.
I, I can only say that I feel

1278
01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:23,920
blessed to to have been invited
into this industry and to remain

1279
01:25:23,920 --> 01:25:28,120
in this industry to hopefully
continue for a long time,

1280
01:25:28,440 --> 01:25:33,080
whether that be yeah, what
whatever that may bring.

1281
01:25:33,440 --> 01:25:37,840
I've got no sort of.
Obviously I've got ideas.

1282
01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:41,520
Of where rolling stoves.
I would like it to to go and and

1283
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:49,720
up and up is the answer to that.
And I just hope that yeah,

1284
01:25:49,720 --> 01:25:54,280
people love what we do for them.
You.

1285
01:25:54,280 --> 01:25:58,560
Know it's.
And I'm and I'm sure I said.

1286
01:25:58,560 --> 01:26:01,240
I'm sure they do, I said.
I've, you know, when I very

1287
01:26:01,240 --> 01:26:05,920
first saw the first, the little
short video of you like loading

1288
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:08,520
the truck the first time, I was
like, wow.

1289
01:26:08,520 --> 01:26:13,520
Like it was just such a, a
moment of bloody awesome.

1290
01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:15,280
Like, you know.
Just and I.

1291
01:26:15,320 --> 01:26:20,480
See all all the little things
that I've seen like like maybe

1292
01:26:20,480 --> 01:26:23,120
nobody else would notice it, but
you know, as like as a front of

1293
01:26:23,120 --> 01:26:25,400
house person.
God, that looks awesome.

1294
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:26,840
That looks cool.
How are you?

1295
01:26:26,920 --> 01:26:28,760
You did that.
That's awesome.

1296
01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:31,920
And it just makes everything
just look great.

1297
01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:35,080
The style, the everything that
you've put.

1298
01:26:35,560 --> 01:26:37,400
Oh, really?
Everything you've put put into

1299
01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:40,200
it, obviously.
But there is one thing I just

1300
01:26:40,200 --> 01:26:42,440
want to want to ask you before
we go, because I know you've got

1301
01:26:42,440 --> 01:26:43,120
to go.
You, you.

1302
01:26:43,160 --> 01:26:46,120
You said you had about an hour.
Yeah, we're going over, but I

1303
01:26:46,320 --> 01:26:48,320
thought I'm enjoying.
It I'm enjoying this.

1304
01:26:48,320 --> 01:26:51,680
Yeah, I've got, I've got to do
this cold coming up in like 20

1305
01:26:51,680 --> 01:26:58,000
minutes, but we're going, right.
Jipper, are you still continuing

1306
01:26:58,000 --> 01:27:01,600
with that or just cut like with
the flavours and like, you know,

1307
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:04,840
because you that was one of the
things before, but of course,

1308
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:07,960
hit by COVID that kind of like
messed everything up a bit more.

1309
01:27:08,080 --> 01:27:10,800
Jipper Jipper sort of
disappeared a little bit as.

1310
01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:15,840
Far as like taking it to I mean
it made it to the shelves but

1311
01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:20,160
remaining on the shelves made it
really really difficult because,

1312
01:27:20,160 --> 01:27:25,960
like obviously with any product
in a supermarket type setting or

1313
01:27:27,600 --> 01:27:32,320
when you're trying to the lack
of a better word sell your

1314
01:27:32,320 --> 01:27:36,520
product the one thing that
you've got to do when it's food

1315
01:27:36,520 --> 01:27:39,560
is get that product into
people's mouths get them tasting

1316
01:27:39,560 --> 01:27:44,240
it get them liking it get them
coming back some more and get

1317
01:27:44,240 --> 01:27:48,880
them to buy your product in the
end and COVID obviously put a a

1318
01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:53,960
major stamp on that right we
couldn't even be in that hand no

1319
01:27:54,120 --> 01:27:59,080
people samples yeah there was
nothing yeah so there was and

1320
01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:04,160
yeah that that was kind of a
real bummer so I did invest a

1321
01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:09,600
little bit yes into into JIPA,
but then it as soon as I went

1322
01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:13,000
back on the road I was like OK
this is kind of where I'm meant

1323
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:19,640
to be for now Yep we still
definitely use.

1324
01:28:20,320 --> 01:28:23,760
The.
Sauces and like, as in like we

1325
01:28:23,800 --> 01:28:28,080
make them fresh and serve them
in within our menu sometimes on

1326
01:28:28,080 --> 01:28:34,760
our salads, like on, on like El
tacos and I, I constantly say,

1327
01:28:34,760 --> 01:28:38,440
oh, here you go.
So it's, it's possible that it,

1328
01:28:38,560 --> 01:28:43,240
they may come back around
because I've, I do believe Gypa

1329
01:28:43,240 --> 01:28:50,480
was a fantastic product and it's
just getting it to, to where it

1330
01:28:50,480 --> 01:28:56,200
once was and be able to, to get
it back onto the shelves and

1331
01:28:56,240 --> 01:28:59,000
into the refrigerator shelves.
I should say it's a refrigerated

1332
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:02,720
product.
Fresh sauces can put on anything

1333
01:29:02,720 --> 01:29:07,800
but like it I think right now
and I just need to concentrate

1334
01:29:07,800 --> 01:29:11,880
on on one thing and then JIPA
absolutely will come back, come

1335
01:29:11,880 --> 01:29:15,400
back around maybe some yeah,
come back around something for

1336
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:18,400
the.
Future and you know, it's not

1337
01:29:18,400 --> 01:29:22,640
like like I said, you're using
JIPA, you know, for your tour

1338
01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:25,720
tour in life, you know, tour
like for the so it's still

1339
01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:28,200
there.
It just didn't reach the shops

1340
01:29:28,200 --> 01:29:31,400
and we'll we'll blame that on
COVID because I mean, it did

1341
01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:34,360
like the shops.
It just then couldn't just stain

1342
01:29:34,360 --> 01:29:36,720
the.
Shops which is the yeah you know

1343
01:29:36,840 --> 01:29:41,400
but whatever we'll we will bring
zipper back like and like you

1344
01:29:41,400 --> 01:29:45,680
said yeah we are we are still
people are still eating the

1345
01:29:45,680 --> 01:29:50,480
sauce but not really I suppose
knowing that is Jeff they're not

1346
01:29:50,480 --> 01:29:53,360
getting it out of the jar.
They're getting us, Ask the

1347
01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:59,120
chefs, putting the sources on.
Produce your own, get your jars

1348
01:29:59,120 --> 01:30:01,760
and put them on front of house.
Yeah, I've still I've got the

1349
01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:03,440
jars.
I've got the jars.

1350
01:30:04,320 --> 01:30:08,760
Well, the labels got lost in the
flood, so I'd have to relabeled,

1351
01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:14,440
but it's definitely something
that I have been thinking of how

1352
01:30:14,760 --> 01:30:20,920
I could reincorporate that into
Rolling Stones and possibly in

1353
01:30:20,920 --> 01:30:27,160
the future, maybe in the near
future, but like get that back

1354
01:30:27,160 --> 01:30:30,800
onto back onto shelves.
But it's another different the

1355
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:33,960
whole different ball game as
well, Sarah that it's and having

1356
01:30:34,480 --> 01:30:41,440
like a product that has to have
all these stipulations into the

1357
01:30:41,440 --> 01:30:47,800
general public and there is a
lot of exit cost.

1358
01:30:48,520 --> 01:30:53,960
Cost is a major thing in
producing that exactly the same

1359
01:30:54,240 --> 01:30:59,000
way as you did in every single
bottle in to the point that it's

1360
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:03,160
going to have a little label on
it say exactly what is in there

1361
01:31:03,280 --> 01:31:07,120
and when you've got when you've
got fresh produce, particularly

1362
01:31:07,120 --> 01:31:12,120
with the way that COVID say as
seen.

1363
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:14,400
In every country.
It's not just Australia, it's

1364
01:31:14,400 --> 01:31:16,120
not just UK, it's not just
America.

1365
01:31:16,120 --> 01:31:19,720
Wherever you are in the world,
we have seen some sort of

1366
01:31:19,720 --> 01:31:23,240
inflation.
So with fresh products

1367
01:31:23,240 --> 01:31:26,640
especially that Dipper was it
was all fresh.

1368
01:31:26,960 --> 01:31:35,560
There was nothing that was was.
It had no sugar in it, so I had

1369
01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:38,840
to.
You have to counteract pH

1370
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:40,560
balances and all this sort of
stuff.

1371
01:31:40,560 --> 01:31:46,400
But right now the affordability
just isn't going to happen.

1372
01:31:46,400 --> 01:31:49,440
It's not that because of the
cost.

1373
01:31:49,480 --> 01:31:52,480
Of.
Products these days to put in a

1374
01:31:52,480 --> 01:31:57,760
jar and we don't get a lot.
Of we get.

1375
01:31:58,800 --> 01:32:03,480
We get fresh veg here obviously,
but literally it's seasonal.

1376
01:32:03,480 --> 01:32:06,160
So you know when it's when it's
when it's not not available,

1377
01:32:06,160 --> 01:32:07,200
it's not available.
That's it.

1378
01:32:07,560 --> 01:32:10,880
Well, once a year we get
asparagus.

1379
01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:13,440
OK, literally once a year, but
it's only for like a week and

1380
01:32:13,440 --> 01:32:16,200
there's just a handful in our
little supermarket.

1381
01:32:16,480 --> 01:32:19,160
You know, yesterday I was like
asparagus.

1382
01:32:19,440 --> 01:32:22,400
So I picked a bunch up, not even
thinking put it down.

1383
01:32:22,600 --> 01:32:27,720
Then when I got home and I was
like €8.50 for asparagus.

1384
01:32:32,560 --> 01:32:35,320
Wow.
And it's not in season.

1385
01:32:36,800 --> 01:32:38,280
You guys right now it's like,
oh.

1386
01:32:40,120 --> 01:32:42,600
Yeah, I mean, we wouldn't.
That crazy I.

1387
01:32:43,240 --> 01:32:47,480
Don't.
So anyway, I bought it and yeah,

1388
01:32:47,480 --> 01:32:50,440
never, never again.
Oh, I hope you cooked it well

1389
01:32:50,440 --> 01:32:51,920
and you enjoyed it so.
Much.

1390
01:32:53,400 --> 01:32:55,320
I haven't.
I'm going to have you for lunch

1391
01:32:55,320 --> 01:32:59,760
in a minute.
Thank you for doing this and

1392
01:33:00,200 --> 01:33:02,600
anybody out there.
Oh, thank you so much for.

1393
01:33:02,600 --> 01:33:07,000
Your yeah wanting to.
Get into the.

1394
01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:11,440
Industry in Australia looking
for front of house chef in

1395
01:33:11,440 --> 01:33:14,320
contact Tanya and also
production managers.

1396
01:33:14,320 --> 01:33:18,800
Anybody out there contact Tanya
roll The Rolling Stones.

1397
01:33:19,160 --> 01:33:23,320
So love you loads darling and I
will see you hopefully sooner

1398
01:33:23,320 --> 01:33:25,760
rather than later.
But yeah.

1399
01:33:25,760 --> 01:33:27,880
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.

1400
01:33:28,840 --> 01:33:47,280
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