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[Assistant] Uh, this is an interesting one, to get into conversation with somebody.


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[Assistant] If you're learning English, it's a good idea to...


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[Assistant] And there are English-speaking people around. It's a good idea to try to get into conversation with an English-speaking person to give you some practice.


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[Assistant] And even if you don't know them, you can just start chatting and that's called getting into conversation, to start a conversation. Okay? And then finally,


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[Assistant] Maybe you've been invited to a friend's party, and you know...


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[Assistant] You don't enjoy the parties, unfortunately, at your friend's house. You don't like the other people who come. So you have to think of a reason why you can't go and say, Oh, sorry, I'm


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[Assistant] I'm doing something else that night. You get out of it, you find an excuse, a reason why you can't go. Okay.


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[Assistant] And if you'd like to subscribe to my YouTube channel, that would be great. And see you again soon. Bye.


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[Assistant] Come and meet our employees, Mr. Richards. Thank you, Mr. Jackson. This is Nicola Gray. And this is Claire Taylor. How do you do? Those women are very hard working. What are their jobs? They're keyboard operators. This is Michael Baker.


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[Assistant] And this is Jeremy Short. How do you do? They aren't very busy. What are their jobs? They're sales reps. They're very lazy. Who is this young man? This is Jim. He's our office assistant.


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[Assistant] Come and meet our employees, Mr. Richards. Thank you, Mr. Jackson. This is Nicola Gray. And this is Claire Taylor. How do you do? Those women are very hard working. What are their jobs? They're keyboard operators. This is Michael Baker.


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[Assistant] And this is Jeremy Short. How do you do? They aren't very busy. What are their jobs? They're sales reps. They're very lazy. Who is this young man? This is Jim. He's our office assistant.


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[Assistant] My god, I can't do it. It's not working properly. How long do we have left?


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[Assistant] I'm scared. I've got one more left. This is the main part of my dish. I can't serve bacon and eggs without the egg. I keep breaking the little eggs. It's devastated.


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[Assistant] The Africa Tower occupied by a coup d'etat force. It's exactly what Catherine told us about.


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[Assistant] Well, what are we gonna do about it, Ms. Sumeragi? Obviously we're gonna help them, right?


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[Assistant] But now that the allies are becoming involved, we can't just sit back here and watch what happens. Also, the real masterminds behind the allies are the innovators.


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter what the reasons for the rebellion are. As members of the allies, our mission is to strike down all anti-government forces to restore peace and order again.


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[Assistant] Hi. I'm Gill at www.engvid.com, and today's lesson is about what are called homonyms. And don't worry about the strange word, all it means is words which have the same sound, the same pronunciation,


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[Assistant] But there are different spellings of them, and the different spelling has a different meaning.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I think there's sometimes a bit of confusion about whether these words are actually pronounced differently.


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[Assistant] I've put in a gap to give you a chance to think of the word and the spelling yourself.


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[Assistant] So for this sentence, it should read, there was a hole in the road and it took a whole


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[Assistant] Group of workmen to fix it. Okay? So, for the word, whole, there are two different spellings. So, can you think


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[Assistant] What kind of hole this is, the hole in the road.


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[Assistant] And what kind of whole this is, a whole group of people.


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[Assistant] Handy. Okay, so a hole in the road, meaning


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[Assistant] Something that needs to be repaired is spelt.


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[Assistant] Like that, h-o-l-e.


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[Assistant] Okay? But a whole, meaning a total,


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[Assistant] Group of workmen is like this only with a W at the beginning. So,


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[Assistant] Hole, and the pronunciation is exactly the same. Hole in the road.


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[Assistant] Whole group of workmen, there's no difference in how you say it.


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[Assistant] Okay, good. Right, second one. Do you know where my phone is?


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[Assistant] And then somebody else replies, I'm sorry, no.


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[Assistant] I don't. So, do you know? And no, I don't. So, I'll just give you a couple of seconds to think about the two different spellings of that. Okay. So, do you know where my phone is?


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[Assistant] Okay, that's one of our famous silent letters, the k at the beginning.


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[Assistant] So, K-N-O-W, to know something. Do you know where my phone is? I'm sorry. No. Just the negative. No.


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[Assistant] N-O. Okay? So you can see N-O is in the middle of K-N-O-W, and the negative there, no. Okay.


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[Assistant] Where I had put my new coat.


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[Assistant] Today, I have forgotten. So you can see I'm forgetting things, I'm losing things. I don't usually... It's just for the quiz, really. I try not to forget things, I try not to lose things, but it happens sometimes. Okay. So, yesterday I knew where I had put my new coat. Today,


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[Assistant] I've forgotten. Where is it? Oh dear. So, yesterday I knew


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[Assistant] Another one. It's the past tense of no.


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[Assistant] Knew, and another silent K. I knew.


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[Assistant] Where I put my, my new coat.


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[Assistant] The new coat which I only bought a few days ago. Okay? So, again.


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[Assistant] Those are the spellings, but the sound is exactly the same. Right, next one. I don't know where I'm going to wear


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[Assistant] This hat, so this word is where in two different spellings. I don't know where.


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[Assistant] I'm going to wear this hat. Okay? So,


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[Assistant] That's where, in what place, like the question word, where, where shall I wear? Okay? I don't know where. I'm going to...


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[Assistant] Okay, so that's a slightly different w-e-a-r to where to put something on. Where and where.


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[Assistant] Okay, and then finally from this first five, uhm, can you wait for me, please? I shouldn't be more than four minutes. Four and four. Okay, so,


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[Assistant] For, wait for me. And then the number of minutes, we don't just put the figure because that's cheating.


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[Assistant] We cut the word, okay? Four minutes, so...


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[Assistant] F-o-u-r for the word. Okay, so I hope you've enjoyed that so far, and we will now move on to another five.


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[Assistant] Okay, our next five. So, the first one, the boy threw the ball through the window. Okay? So, he must have broken the window doing that.


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[Assistant] The boy threw the ball through the window. Same pronunciation, different spelling. Can you think what the two are? Okay, so.


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[Assistant] Through, that's the past tense of to throw.


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[Assistant] An irregular verb, so to throw, he threw in the past. The boy threw the ball through the window.


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[Assistant] Quite a difficult spelling, that one. T-h-r-o-u-g-h. Okay, through the window. Right, next one.


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[Assistant] Our mail, that's the post, our mail is usually delivered by a male postal worker. I couldn't put postman there because what we usually call them is postman, but that's saying the same thing twice. A male postal worker, but today it was a woman. Ah, okay. So, male,


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[Assistant] And of course, the female, well, male, female, so woman,


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[Assistant] Is the word male with F-E on the front, female. Okay. Right. Okay, next one.


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[Assistant] Don't leave your baby son out in the sun.


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[Assistant] He will get burnt. This is especially in very hot countries. In the UK...


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[Assistant] You don't have to say this kind of thing very much because we don't get a lot of sunshine.


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[Assistant] Okay, but in other countries, yes, you might need to say this quite a lot. So, don't leave your baby son out in the sun, he will get burnt. Okay? Can you think of the two spellings for that? Right, so


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[Assistant] Your baby, if your baby is a boy, then he's your son, s-o-n, but then the sun that shines is


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[Assistant] This is about someone, perhaps a little girl who's not very happy and she's being a nuisance. So somebody said, oh, please give her a piece of chocolate, and then


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[Assistant] We might have some peace, meaning peace and quiet. She won't...


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[Assistant] Don't bother us now. If we give her some chocolate, a piece of chocolate, then we will have some peace. Peaceful. Okay? So, can you think of the two spellings there? Piece of chocolate, have some peace and quiet.


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[Assistant] So, P-I-E-C-E for the little piece of chocolate, or maybe a big piece of chocolate, hopefully.


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[Assistant] We like big pieces of chocolate. Yeah. Okay. And then to have some peace and quiet.


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[Assistant] P-e-a-c-e. Okay, but the pronunciation, exactly the same. Different spelling.


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[Assistant] Right, and then finally, uhm, this is in a sports race. The race between the two men has just finished.


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[Assistant] I wonder which one won. Which one won.


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[Assistant] Spelled o-n-e, but the verb to win in the past tense, he won the race. Okay? So that's


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[Assistant] Right, so I hope you found that helpful and interesting.


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[Assistant] And if you'd like to test yourself further, you can go to the website www.engvid.com where there is a quiz.


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[Assistant] Um, to test you further on this. And if you enjoyed this lesson, perhaps you'd like to subscribe to my channel on YouTube. So, okay. Well, thanks for watching, and hope to see you again soon. Bye for now.


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[Assistant] Thanks for waiting. Hi, how are you?


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[Assistant] Christina's green team found themselves in elimination. Tonight, the reality of black descends.


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[Assistant] Is an old favourite. The blind taste test. I know, I'm feeling nervous and sick. They must draw on their senses. Hold it up. Show us your answers. To shed light on this challenge. Wow. Get it wrong.


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[Assistant] They mistakenly must have put him here. He is defective. I will take it back.


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[Assistant] Oh my child, I taught you well. You are right. There is no defect in him. He is only different than us. He is special.


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[Assistant] Does the twin drive have something to do with that? It can't be. Does this mean that Setsuna Efsai has... started to change?


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[Assistant] I am the best suited to pilot the Double-O Gundam. You think so too, don't you, Reginae? Why, of course, Ribbons. Hm. Indeed you think no such thing.


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[Assistant] Your mischief has gone too far. You know what will happen if you do it again. Don't you?


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[Assistant] And the people looked up from their day to day tasks, their day to day jobs, and their day to day masks.


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[Assistant] They heard or they felt where the whisper could lead, and they looked with eyes wide at what that might mean. And once they could see it, they hadn't a chance to resist the sweet song of the deep spell it cast.


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[Assistant] Since they saw at last, as if raised from a dream, they were almost alone on the land and the sea.


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[Assistant] But the trees had almost gone, and the bees had almost gone, and the creatures in their shells by the seas had almost gone, and the people felt sad as they saw their new earth, but they knew this was it. One wild chance for rebirth.


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[Assistant] We are rising up against you. As a puppet of the mis-governing federation, the allies are no longer a military.


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[Assistant] I will get you the dark, dull moon if you ask for it, my love. Just say it.


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[Assistant] I will say two words to you. Get out. The beautiful young lady doesn't need your dole moon. I will bring her all the sparkly stars if she wishes so.


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[Assistant] As fierce battles continue and lives hang in the balance, the light of the Trans-Am Riser sounds the birth cry of a new world. Next episode, Beyond. Setsuna becomes the true innovator.


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[Assistant] I failed as a meister. Lyle, I just wanna- I'll fight. Oh yea, I'll fight.


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[Assistant] A couple of things you should know about Shannon, just to give you a sense of what you're going to face. This man is a Cathy Freeman of the Australian culinary world. He has represented Australia more than 20 times at international cooking competitions, including winning gold at the


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[Assistant] He's also taken part in the world's toughest international cooking competition, the Bakustor, not once, but twice.


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[Assistant] Six months practice. So that's the level of detail and care and thought and technique that goes into Shannon's cooker.


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[Assistant] Obviously what you're gonna do today is recreate one of Shannon's dishes, which on any occasion would be a pretty tough ask. But, today, there's an extra degree of difficulty.


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[Assistant] In a commercial kitchen, memorizing recipes is key. So today, you're gonna recreate Shannon's dish.


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[Assistant] You will have to memorize everything. Every measurement, every process, every technique, and every time.


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[Assistant] Just for sure. The taste is good. That's the big question.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a fineness of lines, it's a, I mean the chocolate works obviously totally different.


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[Assistant] And it's that slight, the slight list, Ben's bar.


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[Assistant] Sponge, mousse, cremeux, very light. The sorbet lacks the brightness of a lot of the sorbets we've had. Already I'm starting to do that equation in my head of who's staying and who's going home. You know, we can't completely equate until we...


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[Assistant] Well Tim, let's hope your uhm, first time in black isn't your last. Let's play the dish up.


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[Assistant] The cremeux, the cremeux is too soft. I can't pick up any Grand Marnier. It's dry. And it's interesting.


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[Assistant] We've had issues that maybe, I mean, have issues of balance. But like the society, this dish is totally out of kilter.


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[Assistant] That's right George. Yeah, but I think what's interesting though is, is this is the dish.


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[Assistant] I think you'd expect to get, if you give amateur cooks a demonstration,


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[Assistant] What a great job that Steph and Larissa and Ben have done. You really hit a nail on the head there as well.


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[Assistant] You have had an unbelievable run in this competition. You've arrived.


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[Assistant] You nailed the very first mystery box with that chicken and tarragon dish.


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[Assistant] And I think we'll remember those amazing marinated lamb cutlets in the desert island dish for a long, long time. Tim, that is bloody delicious.


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[Assistant] You've had an amazing time. It's obviously an emotional time. How do you feel right now looking at your fellow contestants?


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[Assistant] Brilliant Tim, thank you so much. No worries. I'm sorry to say though, it's time for you to leave.


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[Assistant] I can't believe what I'm looking at. The dish is absolutely beautiful. It's so refined.


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[Assistant] I can't believe I have to recreate this dish purely on my memory. It's not the style of dessert that I do ever. Today's gonna be a massive challenge.


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[Assistant] I'm constantly visualising those ratios in my head over and over and over again. I know how important it is to memorise that recipe. Getting hard now.


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[Assistant] As I'm tasting these elements, I put those flavours into my memory. Although this dessert is a chocolate dessert, I'm realising that the passion fruit to chocolate ratio has to be a perfect balance because this dessert shouldn't be decadent, it should be quite refreshing.


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[Assistant] Time starts and the first thing I do is write absolutely everything down, otherwise I may forget you're in the cook.


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[Assistant] I'm just doing my tempered chocolate now. I'm not confident at all with this tempered chocolate. You can do it. It's alright.


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[Assistant] We have to make a spiral using this acetate and this tube thing, so yeaah.


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[Assistant] These chocolate twirls have to be absolutely perfect. Uh, that's so scary. I'm spreading my chocolate onto my acetate paper. It can't be too thin, otherwise it'll just shut up. It has to be perfect, so fingers crossed.


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[Assistant] I should have put the sponge in straight after I piped the mousse into the moulds.


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[Assistant] It's rock hard. I can't actually put the sponge down into the molds.


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[Assistant] I've made a big mistake with the main part of this dish, which is that perfect bar on that plate.


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[Assistant] I can't actually put the sponge down into the molds because it's rock hard.


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[Assistant] Although I've got my sponge into the mould, I have absolutely no idea if that's enough time to freeze it.


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[Assistant] I come to take my second part out of the mould.


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[Assistant] I'm very proud of what I've done, but at the same time, I have no idea if I've done a good enough job to stay here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I feel like I've already progressed so much since coming here. Uhm, you know, if I saw myself from the first day looking at this dish, I wouldn't have said that I made that dish. There's no way. And I can see myself growing. But I'm, I'm honestly just really scared because


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[Assistant] Well, just that the dish might not be perfect. Uhm, I know the other guys have such a great job and they're such great cooks. Uhm, and if I didn't put up a dish up to par, then I could be going home.


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[Assistant] If I didn't put up a dish up to par, then I could be going home and I don't want to stop.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm pretty happy with that actually. Obviously this is a bit prettier and a bit more refined too.


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[Assistant] If you've ever cooked with ginger, and I'm sure that you all have, chances are you've used at some point ginger from the Sunshine Coast.


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[Assistant] 75% of all the ginger grown in Australia comes from this area. So today we want you to bring us a dish sweet or savoury zinging with ginger. We don't want ginger to be a whisper in the background, we want ginger to be loud and proud.


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[Assistant] You know the deal, best dish, round two, face off against the top chef, beat that chef!


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[Assistant] You give Billy a first win, you take the pin out of George's pocket, and you go home with a tiny little bit of extra baggage. Baggage that could help you get all the way to the finals.


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[Assistant] I like how dark and delicious that was.


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[Assistant] I mean you've obviously made this recipe before, and this is an example of when that trusted friend of a recipe goes wrong because you're under pressure.


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[Assistant] And for us, there's one dish that had it all. It had the flavor of ginger. It had great technique. It was a bubble, an amazing dish. That dish belonged to you.


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[Assistant] Tricky in some ways. And there were little flaws that let some of you down. And for us, there's one dish that had it all, that had.


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[Assistant] The flavor of ginger, it had great technique. It was, above all, an amazing dish. That dish belonged to you. And there you go, well done.


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[Assistant] He was head chef at Cha Cha Cha and it was named best steak restaurant in Australia. And then he got kind of a bit cooler, a bit hipper. And he opened Gerard's Bistro. Which won a hat in year one.


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[Assistant] Was named, Brisbane Restaurant of the Year, in here too. And then,


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[Assistant] Took out the title of hottest restaurant in Queensland and won it's second half.


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[Assistant] He is about to open a brand spanking new restaurant called 22 Agnes. Please welcome Ben Williamson.


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[Assistant] Five iconic Queensland ingredients, one iconic Queensland chef, and one little MasterChef contestant.


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[Assistant] There's something in the air about Queensland Week. This is the Golden State. This is the Sunshine State. This is the place for a pin to go up.


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[Assistant] And that's, and that's alright. You do what you know. You do what you know and you do what you know very well. And that, and I think this makes it very interesting because if pineapple is the core ingredient, that's a pineapple cake. This is gonna be very close.


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[Assistant] And that's all right. If pineapple is the core ingredient, that's a pineapple cake. This is gonna be very close.


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[Assistant] Delicious is a given, but then at that point, you know, make it look different, make it look spectacular, let it come to the table, you go, wow, that's amazing. It's a great choice of ingredient with a missed opportunity.


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[Assistant] A grand total of 25 for you, and that means no pin.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna mess with this cola a little bit more and make a cola caramel. I take the rest of that cola, pop it into a pot and reduce it right down to it's really, really thick and syrupy. Good idea.


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[Assistant] I think my dish could be top three. I've got some really interesting, um, flavours. My beautiful cola vanilla cream with some beautiful fresh raspberry. Some of that spearmint sugar. I really gently pick up my brandy snap twill and I pop it.


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[Assistant] I've made a bit of a play on your brandy snap basket, I guess. They've made a, um, a cola cream and raspberries, um, a brandy snap twill, and there's spearmint sugar and a cola caramel. Okay.


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[Assistant] There it is. I've actually done pretty well in invention tests so far. Today I'm going to have to try and cook a sweet dish and it must feature some breakfast cereal.


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[Assistant] Heston and Georgia have come by my desk and they said something about texture, but I don't know how else to make it and I need to get it in the glass chiller. I just need to keep moving. I pop some of my parfait mixture into these lovely log moulds.


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[Assistant] I've got my raspberries and I've got my sauce ready to go on the side.


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[Assistant] And I know it's not going to come cleanly out of the mould. It's not set enough. So I think, well, I'll just get some cornells.


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[Assistant] My Cornell's don't look fabulous. It's actually a really rough texture, this nougat. So they're not as beautiful as a lovely log would be. But right now, I just need to get something tasty up for the judges.


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[Assistant] I've made a honey nougat parfait with some fresh raspberries and a raspberry syrup.


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[Assistant] No, I was just gonna put them in. Put the crunch, yeah. But I'll maybe try doing that.


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[Assistant] Coco pop chocolate mousse cake with toasted rice bubbles.


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[Assistant] It's a chocolate and custard tart with a Chantilly creme fraiche.


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[Assistant] A comet is a mixture of rocks, dust and ice. This ice is basically frozen water and frozen gases.


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[Assistant] When a comet approaches the sun, it starts to heat up converting ice directly into gas and releasing the trapped dust particles in space.


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[Assistant] No, it is true. The ultraviolet radiations from the sun ionize the gas. And the solar wind carries this ionized gas away from the sun, forming an ion tail. Whereas, the light from the sun exerts pressure on the dust particles and pushes them away, creating a dust tail.


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[Assistant] He's a runner. He runs. He really likes running. Uhm, and so this is a meditation on what it means to run, why he runs, what he gets from running, how running relates to writing and his craft.


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[Assistant] How both of those things, I think, help each other, how they intertwine and connect, and it just sounds wonderful. I think really what it breaks down to is like the solitariness in both of those activities. When you're running, like, it's just you and your body, when you're writing, it's just you and your words, and so how those kind of...


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[Assistant] Like, being human. He no longer identifies as part of that species. He completely disqualifies himself from counting as a human being.


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[Assistant] We follow a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who speaks to them. A geologist working to end futile wars over a glacier.


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[Assistant] Octogenarian lovers. A mother struggling to free her revolutionary son. A yeti who seeks human companionship.


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[Assistant] I just, wow, this sounds like absolutely breathtaking, sounds like it's gonna be an absolute new favorite, uhm, I cannot wait to read this. Like that, did you like this in office? Right? Am I right? Uhm, I would totally have bought this if I like passed it at a bookstore and just picked it up and saw the cover and read the back, so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and we have two people who are not from the location in which we are set, which is the immense archipelago of tiny islands known as the Sunderbans. Life here is precarious, ruled by the unforgiving tides and the constant threat of attack by Bengal tigers. So we have two people who come to the Sunderbans who are from


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[Assistant] Always wanted to read it. This vlog, this vlog, this book is gonna get a whole vlog.


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[Assistant] It's absolutely beautiful. We're gonna spend a lot of time talking about this right now, I can feel it. It looks like a library book. And then when you take it out...


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[Assistant] Where every- oh no no no, this is what I was talking about. It is a library book where every single page is written on. There's stuff inside.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and this library book essentially gets left, like, in a library. And we have these two people, we have, uhm, a graduate student, and I believe, no, maybe she's an undergraduate student, and then we have, like, uh,


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[Assistant] Kind of study under him, uhm, Rodin was definitely a bit of a tutor and a bit of a huge, massive influence on Rilke and Rilke's own life and writing and work in philosophy, and he also wrote a monograph.


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[Assistant] And yeah, especially I believe it says it focuses on Rilke's letters.


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[Assistant] This one is set in the 1680s, when the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root.


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[Assistant] This ethical philosophy mindset that he is preaching to his students and that everyone really thinks like he stands for basically. But when Paris with like its atmosphere and its lushness and everything that the back says that like spills out of Paris in this book.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and this is by Caleb Azuma Nelson. So I've heard absolutely, absolutely beautiful things. I've heard it's so poetic. This one is set in the UK. I believe we're set in London. Yes, in a London pub. And two young people meet for the first time. They form a relationship. There's a connection. And then we follow them. I don't think it's through the course of their lives, but just through the course of their...


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[Assistant] Give it to me. And so we follow Titus in this one, who is our protagonist. When the novel opens, he's just been born. But he's been born at this castle. And he is the heir to Lord Supplegrave. Not so subtle.


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[Assistant] Highly recommend, that is a wonderful piece of futuristic sci-fi, and I believe Binti is around kind of the same thing.


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[Assistant] Because we're following our protagonist, her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Unza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. The world she seeks to enter is long warred with the Medus, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. So their university has wronged the alien species. Okay, I'm interested, I'm really interested.


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[Assistant] I think I wanna read it. And so this one is split between two timelines, we're always following Vanessa, it's split between I think 2000 and 2017. In 2017 we have the Me Too movement and a whole bunch of women come forward in this one specific case to come out and speak out about


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[Assistant] Uhm, this professor who was teaching at the school that Vanessa was attending when she was 15 in the year 2000. And in the year 2000, if we go back, uh, Vanessa and her literature?


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[Assistant] Eat. Eat words. I literally just want to eat words. So uhm, like she does with a few other collections I have on my shelf, like for example I have the Oresteia, which is her translation of three plays all concerning the same tragedy by three different ancient Greek tragedians, but


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[Assistant] One of my favorite writers, if you haven't experienced her, go meet her. Like go out, meet her, shake her hand, get a cup of coffee with her. She will change your life. So, cool. That is the book haul for today.


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[Assistant] Once, in a kitchen that looked rich and elegant, sat blush the teapot.


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[Assistant] Expensive and delicate, Blush was made to sit on a soft cushion and was always surrounded by shiny cups.


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[Assistant] Only the maid of the highest rank was supposed to touch blush. That too with gloves on.


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[Assistant] Blush was a beautiful teapot. She had a long handle and spout, which was artistically curvy.


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[Assistant] She was made using expensive clay and was hand decorated. She was classy and gorgeous.


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[Assistant] The spoons, the pans, the old tinderbox, the big old clock were all mesmerized by her beauty.


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[Assistant] But nobody complimented her. They never appreciated anything she did. They were secretly jealous of her. Her beauty scared them.


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[Assistant] But Blush saw a gray flaw in herself. She had a tiny scratch on her lid.


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[Assistant] But that never stopped Blush from feeling incomplete.


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[Assistant] While for her owner, she was the most beautiful teapot. For blush yourself, she was a teapot with a scratch.


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[Assistant] What? How is that possible? The chandelier is up there! No, no. I know the story.


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[Assistant] She was jumping once to go somewhere and the lid kept flapping.


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[Assistant] I mean, she is supposed to be beautiful! And look at her now!


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[Assistant] Just then, Blush was picked up by the maid with a white glove.


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[Assistant] She opened her lid and poured hot water in.


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[Assistant] Blush loved being filled with hot water. It made her feel warm inside.


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[Assistant] But each time, she was also silently scared that her scratch will suddenly be visible to all.


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[Assistant] As Blush was busy being cautious for nothing, something terrible happened.


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[Assistant] As her owner came in and picked her up, he wasn't steady enough, which made Blush slip through his hands.


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[Assistant] The pans, spoons, milk jug, everybody watched in horror as the teapot made the giant fall. And then...


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[Assistant] And just like that, Blush was on the ground. Her lid was smashed. Her long handle and her beautiful spout lay on the floor beside her. The beautiful teapot was picked up and taken away.


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[Assistant] Blush couldn't understand that there was nothing she could have done to stop the fall.


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[Assistant] She was kept in the attic for days. She had no clue what her fate had stored for her.


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[Assistant] Blush cried and cried all day and all night.


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[Assistant] A few days later, the maid entered with a beautiful rose in her hands. She kept the rose beside blush. The rose was not planted in a pot. Instead, its roots were packed in a white cloth.


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[Assistant] Just then the owner came to the attic to visit his treasured teapot. Oh, I still feel so sad about you.


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[Assistant] I don't want to give you up. What do I do?


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[Assistant] As the owner sat down thinking what he should do with Blush, and Blush thought to herself,


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[Assistant] Blush thought for a while and suddenly realize something.


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[Assistant] and slightly tilted her head in her direction


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[Assistant] When the owner came back to the table, he was confused to see his teapot sitting so close to the rose.


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[Assistant] Doesn't matter. I still don't know what to do with... Wait! The rose! I can plant my rose in you!


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[Assistant] Oh! That's a brilliant idea! I am a genius!


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[Assistant] He ran with blush in one hand and the rose in the other.


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[Assistant] Wasting no time, he quickly got some mud from the garden and put it inside his teapot.


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[Assistant] A beautiful rose in a beautiful pot. Blush was the happiest teapot ever.


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[Assistant] She didn't care that she was broken or a little rough around the edges. She loved herself that way. She enjoyed the fresh breeze and the sunlight every day.


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[Assistant] After finally accepting herself completely.


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[Assistant] She was not a broken teapot or a teapot with a scratch anymore. She was blush.


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[Assistant] Yellow and red make orange.


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[Assistant] Red and white make pink.


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[Assistant] white and black make grey


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[Assistant] We know that you don't want to go home, so you have to keep fighting. Because this week's pressure test starts right now.


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[Assistant] Listen very carefully. The lune croissant dough recipe is top secret. So we're giving you the dough.


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[Assistant] You'll return to the kitchen where you have two hours, 45 minutes to finish your croissant.


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[Assistant] But today you'll have 90 minutes to prepare your croissant to go into the proving oven.


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[Assistant] Right, listen up, I'm sure you know it, but time is a-ticking. 30 minutes to go, and you gotta get these things cut, rolled, and put in the prover. Come on!


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[Assistant] Right, listen up you three. Well done. All the croissants are in the Provers. Yes, yes. They will prove overnight. So get some sleep if you can. And we'll see you back here bright and early in the morning.


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[Assistant] Flaky. Yeah, it's yummy. It's crispy, it's gooey. I like lots of that cherry jam because that's proper Black Forest. So the fact that you get chocolate, you get that dark cherry, the lovely flaky pastry. There's a nice balance to it. Yep. That is yum.


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[Assistant] We said that it's going to be the small things that are going to be your undoing. And in the end, it was, Steph, the Frangipane was undercooked. And that's why you're going home.


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[Assistant] Transported back to Spain, Rick? Well yeaah. Fabulous. Well done, Steph.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, which is a challenge in itself. We then have double cream. When you cut into it, we'll get a beautiful open honeycomb structure, which I actually think is the toughest part. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] Fast, but accurate. Follow the recipe to the letter. Because this isn't just cooking, it's a science as well.


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[Assistant] So every pass, you bring it a notch down.


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[Assistant] Steph, I reckon that's pretty good. Okay. Time is ticking.


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[Assistant] This is a really lovely piece of equipment where we can really tightly control the temperature and humidity to activate the yeast in that croissant and allow it to prove


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[Assistant] Hasn't got that same shattery flake that Simon's did. And that's because he's got more layers and they're finer.


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[Assistant] I still think that there's good definition of the layers, apart from the obvious missing element of the tempered chocolate. They're actually quite beautiful looking and I like being able to see that row of piped cream around the inside.


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[Assistant] And butterflied prawns with turmeric, garlic, butter.


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[Assistant] But I'm doing 20 prawns to a tray, so I'm just counting the 20 as I go. My brain's gone.


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[Assistant] I'm planning to cook the Butterfly Prawn shell side down to protect the flesh. But we just need to be really careful not to overcook them. They're such a beautiful produce, you don't want to wreck that.


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[Assistant] Autumn. Hello darlings, dearests of the world. Uhm, welcome back. I hope you're doing so, so well. My name is Emma. If you're new here, it's so lovely to have you. Uhm, and it's so nice to meet you. So hi.


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[Assistant] Today we are doing another episode of The Rex Room in a whole new bedroom. I'm really excited. It's coming together in here really nicely. I'm trying to just make it as cozy as possible so this episode is going to be cozy.


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[Assistant] Books for autumn, for fall, for September. Just cozy goodness, really. Most of these books are really lighthearted, really fun, wonderful, feel-good comfort books. For a couple of these, I did include a few cozy books with a few darker themes in it so that you can kind of


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[Assistant] I think with one of my favorites that I really want to read soon, this one was a gift from one of you guys. Thank you so much. It didn't come with a note, so I don't know who I have to thank for sending me my neighbor Totoro.


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[Assistant] Wonderful, essentially we have two sisters and their father who move into the Japanese countryside and they move into like a haunted house. They think it's haunted, there's some weird things that are going on inside, it's very spooky, it's all set from like, you know, the pure imagination and the perspective of these two young sisters who are 11.


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[Assistant] And a bit younger than that as well. Probably like four or five, honestly. Or six. I forget how old children are. Soon they discover this forest spirit named Todoro, who is this, of course, lovingly beautiful, big,


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[Assistant] It's so sweet, it's so wholesome, but it also deals with a lot of trauma. They also have their mother who is staying at a nearby hospital for some unknown health problems.


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[Assistant] Retailing this collection is all that stuff, extremely cozy, I find it's perfect for winter or the autumn.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it just makes life seem like a bit more magical, you know? So this one I decided to put on the Turnip Princess and other newly discovered fairy tales. I read this collection a couple months ago.


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[Assistant] These fairy tales also recommend. Speaking of fantasy and stuff like that, Heart of the Fay by Emma Hamm is also an extremely comforting read. I can just, I cannot recommend this one enough. This is absolutely beautiful. This one involves fairies and different creatures and we also follow our


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[Assistant] Cozy, and when I really wanna like, envelop myself in the reality of a book, like, it's those little moments in like, Studio Ghibli's films that like, really make you feel grounded, like the way people's hair moves, the way the blade of grass moves.


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[Assistant] Going for walks, collecting herbs, I love books where a character is like a healer or works with medicine and natural remedies because I just find that extremely cozy. It makes me feel like I can be a little...


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[Assistant] He always feels alone, he always feels apart, he always feels himself other, even among his own species, aliens of his kind.


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[Assistant] Oh god, it just looks so cute. And you just get like these animals of earth telling you super important life lessons and wisdom beyond your wildest dreams.


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[Assistant] This next one is definitely some murder mystery coziness that is definitely a really specific genre that like,


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[Assistant] I think the market for that has just been monopolized on so much recently because every time I go on Libby, the audiobook app, I just see so many cozy murder mysteries.


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[Assistant] Which is an interesting phenomena I think I would like to do a deep dive on. Why do people think it's so cozy?


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[Assistant] Agatha Christie's fault. But yea, I had to throw some Agatha Christian here. I just think she's perfect. I have one of her audiobooks on hold right now. I think it's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the next one I am going to be reading because I'm trying to follow along.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and fall and like it is that like nice atmospheric writing. You get that just like very lulling comfort.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's just there's something about it that you can't put your finger on, you can't describe, but you know that murder mysteries are just the essential, quintessential coziness. So, that is Agatha Christie.


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[Assistant] Uhm, very cozy, very atmospheric, like I said. A graphic novel that I really, really want to read this September, and I think it's perfect for like, going back to school, especially because feeling a bit anxious, not only about going back after a while, but we've just, we're in a global pandemic, so.


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[Assistant] Because it is set in a school, and we're following Komi, but she has a communication disorder. However, everyone interprets, everyone around her interprets her silence, her aloofness,


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[Assistant] But she reveals to him that she has a goal of making a hundred


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[Assistant] Ride through little tokyo is wonderful, so that is that one. Finally, the one that is a good segue into like, spooky kind of proper. This is a dark academia if we were villains. I feel like this might actually be my favorite dark academia book because I haven't actually enjoyed many of the ones that I've read, but


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[Assistant] And like the setting and the stage and the way that she just like takes you through the play, like they- they put on Macbeth on Halloween on the beach.


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[Assistant] That was like my favorite scene in the book. And then in their Romeo and Juliet performance, like it's just so atmospheric, it's so wonderful. I loved the descriptions, it just feels like you're there, it feels like a scene you want to inhabit. I wanted to be on that beach so badly, watching this play at midnight on Halloween.


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[Assistant] And just like, it's infused with so much love for Shakespeare. It's wonderful, it's great. This book definitely, I have a few critiques of it, but overall, I would say the atmosphere and just like, that pervasive Shakespearean-ness that like,


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[Assistant] I would love another crack at getting an immunity pin. I've done it three times already and maybe the fourth time is my moment. The dish I'm cooking is fennel and yabi.


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[Assistant] I'm wanting to hero the fennel in five different ways. I'm going to roast a lot of it, create a beautiful roasted fennel puree. I'm going to just have some confit pieces of fennel.


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[Assistant] And then have some of the fresh fennel fronds and some of the actual sort of dark green part that most people chuck out. I'm gonna slice very finely and place into a gastric to sort of candy them almost.


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[Assistant] To cook the yabbies, I just want to very simply poach them in a beautiful vanilla butter sauce. They literally need to be in there for a minute or two. They don't take long at all and I don't need to overcook those.


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[Assistant] I then sort of dress the edges of that with the roasted fennel and the confit fennel and then drop down the beautiful butter poached yabbies and finish with the light things like the fronds of the fennel and the dill.


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[Assistant] So I've made a roasted fennel puree. I have confit fennel, roasted fennel wedges. There's fennel fronds and I made a gastric and almost sort of candied some of the fennel stalk.


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[Assistant] I've fallen a little bit off track with this snapper and I've still got these two bugs to do. I'm worried it's not enough time to remove the tails from two bugs perfectly.


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[Assistant] My dish is inspired by just a traditional apple crumble. I get the apples out of the oven. I'm really happy the apples are nice and soft. I'm hoping I can nail this one.


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[Assistant] It's time to plate up my dish. I start to put the granola on the plate. I have my sauces ready. I get onto the apple. I'm going to use the red apple just because it looked pretty.


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[Assistant] Baked apple with a orange and cinnamon spice granola, apple cider vinegar caramel, as well as a brandy custard.


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[Assistant] Mother Duck found a lovely spot under a tree by the pond to lay her eggs. She laid five eggs.


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[Assistant] There came out an ugly grey colored duckling. Peep peep.


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[Assistant] The mother duck was surprised to see her and was very sad.


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[Assistant] The ugly duckling went to the pond and looked at his reflection in the pond. Nobody likes me. I'm so ugly.


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[Assistant] The duckling decided to leave the family and go somewhere deep into the woods.


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[Assistant] The duckling wandered all alone in the deep forest.


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[Assistant] Soon, when winter came by, there was snow all around. The duckling was sad, and he shivered with cold, but couldn't find any food to eat or a warm place to be in. He went to a family of ducks. They rejected him.


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[Assistant] I'm so ugly that even the dog doesn't want to eat me.


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[Assistant] The ugly duckling sadly started wandering in the woods again. There he met a peasant who took him home to his wife and children.


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[Assistant] But even there he was troubled by the cat that lived there. So he left the peasant's house.


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[Assistant] He went close to the river where he saw a beautiful swan swimming. He fell in love with her.


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[Assistant] The duckling was ashamed of himself and bowed his head low. When he bent his head,


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[Assistant] Now he realized why he looked different from his siblings.


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[Assistant] Because he was a swan, and they were ducks.


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[Assistant] He married the beautiful swan that he had fallen in love with and lived happily ever after.


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[Assistant] Give me him her, ask them a. Which one? Cup dirty. Cup dirty. Clean. Clean.


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[Assistant] Cause empty. Cause empty.


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[Assistant] Vato large. Vato large.


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[Assistant] knife sharp, knife sharp. blunt, blunt.


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[Assistant] Fork large. Fork large. Small.


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[Assistant] There's a reason why we have an entire week dedicated to sweets. So many people love them. But, everyone knows, eat too much of this stuff, and you pay the price. This is how much processed sugar the average Australian eats in a day, 60 grams, in a week, in a month,


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[Assistant] However, when you're a smart cook, you know that there are loads of other ways of getting sweetness into how you cook. Fruit, vegetables, dairy, for this challenge. We want you to bring us a sweet dish, but all other processed sugars, all products with added sugar,


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[Assistant] Is it bending your brain just a little bit? Just a little. Good. That's what it's about.


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[Assistant] So sugar free desserts, give us your favourites just on the top of your head.


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[Assistant] The amount of sweetness that you get out of that


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[Assistant] I love those chewy rice balls with the salty sweet coconut in the middle. It's a great idea. I like the char on the pineapple.


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[Assistant] But the things that derail me are things like the flavour of the yoghurt in the ice cream, which kind of...


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[Assistant] Hard things in our lives. If it's not the challenges, it's living with that constant specter of going home. Is that more scary now or less?


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[Assistant] It is the cloak of invisibility that hides all the other flaws on the plate. It's like a Harry Potter beetroot molasses.


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[Assistant] The tomato curry that you cook for Rick Stein. Exquisite. That amazing masala lobster dish which took you through to an immunity cook where you got a perfect score with your lemon pepper chicken.


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[Assistant] You came in here as a student, but we feel that you leave here as a teacher.


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[Assistant] We can't wait to see what you will teach us and the rest of the world on your YouTube channel and on your blog.


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[Assistant] Keep cooking, we love what you do. But I'm sorry Sandy.


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[Assistant] Now look at my mouth, just watch me and try and pronounce it with me if you have the chance. So what we're doing is we're cutting the sound out.


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[Assistant] Of course, another thing we might have to talk about is the actual tournament that's happening right now, which would be the World...


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[Assistant] I'm not actually pronouncing the D at the end of world, so it's becoming world cup. World cup.


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[Assistant] Last night. Now, it's a yes-no question. If you've watched my videos before, you would know that usually, usually in a yes-no question, we'll finish by taking the tone up.


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[Assistant] Underdog. So we have that schwa, but we also have the O sound. Now I hear lots of people pronounce this as underdog.


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[Assistant] Go down into the description box below and, uh, or you can go to etjenglish.com and sign up. Please give me a thumbs up if you enjoyed the video. I will see you next week. Cheers guys. Bye.


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[Assistant] Did you kick off best of the best week? Today's Mystery Box?


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[Assistant] Best selling spice. And this was a surprise to us. Onion powder. Coconut cream. Best selling herb. Coriander. And my favourite.


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[Assistant] On face value, you look at this mystery box, best of the best week, some lovely ingredients, loads of opportunity, but it's not as simple as it looks.


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[Assistant] I love the acidity in there. Little pop of sweetness from the strawberries. Why not? No wonder your husband loves this.


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[Assistant] You just cooked with some of Australia's best selling ingredients.


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[Assistant] Now it's time to cook with some of Australia's best loved ingredients. Holy moly.


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[Assistant] Launched at the Sydney Easter Show in 1934. Who doesn't at home? Just walk up to the tin.


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[Assistant] Tati, there's a smile on your face, isn't there?


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[Assistant] You know what, there's some really good desserts out there using the Milo. Tessa.


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[Assistant] So this is it, we're getting one of your dishes potentially that's going to be on your vegan smokehouse. I'm so excited. It's only taken a few weeks, isn't it? Well done, Simon. Thanks very much.


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[Assistant] This has got a lightness about it that I'm enjoying. I've never experienced it like this before. So thank you.


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[Assistant] You are on the brink of nailing donuts in a really short amount of time. Ice cream Milo?


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[Assistant] My inspiration today is to keep it as simple as possible. So I'm gonna do a crispy skin salmon with a tomato consomme.


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[Assistant] Gotta make sure that tomato content is nicely clarified and clear, and the fish is perfectly confit and not overcooked.


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[Assistant] This dish is roast cauliflower with a black garlic tum and a sherry caramel.


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[Assistant] I get my cauliflower out of the oven. The centre is nice and tender.


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[Assistant] I'm really happy with my tom. It's definitely punchy, it's definitely black garlic, and it's definitely Vegemite.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna pipe the black garlic turmeric underneath the cauliflower because I don't want it to be seen but I want it to be tasted. I'm gonna smoke the turmeric.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna thinly slice some fresh mushrooms. It is a very dark dish and so a couple of bright emeralds is gonna help it a lot.


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[Assistant] The judges keep reiterating about the fact they really want the best. I definitely think I've used in Vegemite in an inventive way. My biggest fear in this is that the black garlic torn underneath is just too intense. Simon, what have you cooked?


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[Assistant] Really happy. Another vegetarian dish. Step forward where I want it to go. Right in the right direction, I think. With Vegemite. Brilliant. Let's get stuck in.


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[Assistant] And today, we're going to do something a little bit different. We're going to look at an English poem. And I know you're probably thinking, poetry, that's too difficult.


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[Assistant] English prose is hard enough, but poetry, ah, no. But I'm hoping to make you realize that it is possible to read an English poem and to understand it. I've chosen quite an easy, straightforward one. It's called


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[Assistant] The owl and the pussycat, which is in the first line here.


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[Assistant] Okay, and Edward Lear was well known for his humorous writing, so a lot of his writing is funny. It makes you smile, it makes you laugh. So hopefully this poem will do that for you.


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[Assistant] And so it tells a story. It's in three


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[Assistant] Sections. This is the first of three sections.


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[Assistant] And I'm just going to go through it with you, and I will explain any words that I think maybe need explaining, and I hope you enjoy it. Okay? So, I'll read it.


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[Assistant] The owl and the pussycat went to sea.


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[Assistant] Okay, now the owl. Do you know what an owl is? You probably know what a bird is.


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[Assistant] Well, an owl is the kind of bird that is awake at night. It has big, round eyes.


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[Assistant] If you look it up on Google Images, you'll see lots of pictures of owls. Okay? So we have a bird here, an owl, and a pussycat. I'm sure you know what a cat is.


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[Assistant] We use the word pussycat. It's a sort of a comic name or a, uhm,


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[Assistant] An affectionate name for a cat. People say, Oh, puss, puss, puss, pussie, pussie, pussie, pussie. So it's a name for a cat.


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[Assistant] And children also say, Oh, pussycat, pussycat. So, pussy.


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[Assistant] And a cat. Okay? Which usually, birds and cats don't usually make friends. Usually the cat is going to attack the bird and kill it, probably.


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[Assistant] But in this poem, because it's Edward Lear and because he's being funny,


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[Assistant] He's put a bird and a cat together, and they're not just friends.


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[Assistant] But they're going on a journey together. They're on a trip together, so we'll see what happens, shall we? So, the owl and the pussycats went to sea on the sea.


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[Assistant] Pee, green, boat. So, they're in a boat. You know the word boat on the sea. A boat.


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[Assistant] It's pea green. It's not just a green boat. It's the colour of a green


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[Assistant] Pea, the vegetable that you eat, little green peas. So, it's pea green. We have all sorts of shades of green. Olive green,


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[Assistant] Sage green, light green, dark green, pea green. So the boat is the colour of a green pea. No particular reason. It just... It just sort of fits.


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[Assistant] But the rhythm, because rhythm is important.


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[Assistant] In a beautiful pea-green boat, something had to go in there.


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[Assistant] Okay, so what did they take with them? They took some honey.


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[Assistant] You know honey, the sweet stuff that the bees go to flowers and then they make honey? Honey. It's like jam, only it's honey.


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[Assistant] In a pot, very sweet, you put it on the bread and eat it. Or you put it in a pudding or something. They took some honey.


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[Assistant] And plenty of money. Well, that was sensible. They're not very sensible, I don't think, going onto the sea in a boat, but at least they've been sensible enough to take some money with them. Okay, plenty of money.


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[Assistant] Wrapped up in a five-pound note. Okay. Well, here, this is a modern five-pound note. It has the queen on it. Okay. And some other pictures on the back. Five-pound note. But that's quite small compared with


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[Assistant] In 1871, a five-pound note I think was a lot bigger than this, and it was a big, white sheet of paper, so much easier to wrap other things in.


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[Assistant] You wouldn't be able to wrap much in this little thing. You can't buy much with it either these days. Anyway,


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[Assistant] Wrapped up in a £5 note. I just hope that the honey and the money didn't get all, ooh, that would be horrible. Ugh. I hope they manage to keep it separate. Anyway, wrapped up in a £5 note. Right. The owl looked up to the stars above.


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[Assistant] So it's night time and the stars are in the sky. Little stars in the sky.


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[Assistant] Looking up at the sky is very romantic at night.


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[Assistant] The owl looked up to the stars above and sang. A singing owl. You see, I told you it was funny. This... He's not just singing, he's playing a musical instrument and sang to a small guitar.


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[Assistant] I told you it was a bit funny. Well, it's called nonsense poetry. That's the technical name for this non-sense.


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[Assistant] Sense, we try to be sensible, but nonsense is the opposite. This is a nonsense poem. Okay. He sang


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[Assistant] Hate to think what they sound like when they're singing.


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[Assistant] Anyway, this is what he sang, which you can tell from the quotation mark. He's singing


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[Assistant] Oh, lovely pussy. So he likes the cat, which is just as well because they're...


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[Assistant] Off in a boat on the sea, all on their own. Oh lovely pussy, oh pussy, my love. So he loves the cat.


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[Assistant] Oh, pussy my love, what a beautiful pussy you are. You are. You are. In music, things get repeated. That's... And in poetry. So that's why we've got you are.


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[Assistant] I think it has been set to music. That's the only bit of the music I can remember. So,


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[Assistant] The owl singing to the pussy, who he obviously loves.


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[Assistant] Okay, so moving on to the second verse, let's see what happens next. Pussy, that's the cat, said to the owl, the bird, quotation mark, you elegant fowl. Now, a fowl


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[Assistant] With owl, because this is a poem and a lot of poems have...


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[Assistant] Rhyming in them. Owl, fowl.


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[Assistant] How charmingly sweet you sing. So she loves his singing, she thinks it's sweet and charming. Okay?


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[Assistant] Now, this is 1871, and in 1871 it was very unusual for the lady to propose to the man.


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[Assistant] But this is a nonsense poem, so that's probably why. And she's a cat, he's an owl. Anything goes, really.


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[Assistant] So, let us be married. Too long we have...


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[Assistant] And again, tarried, married, he had to use tarried really, didn't he? To rhyme with married, otherwise it wouldn't sound as good.


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[Assistant] So, they've been thinking of marriage for quite some time, apparently.


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[Assistant] But they've held back for some reason, perhaps because they're different species, you know. Anyway, let's carry on.


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[Assistant] But what shall we do for a ring? A ring. Okay. First thing you think of when you're getting married. Must have a ring. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Well, some people might think of that first. Not everybody.


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[Assistant] Better not go into more detail on that. Okay. They sailed away for a year and a day. Away, a day, had to happen, didn't it?


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[Assistant] A year and a day often happens in stories, fairy tales.


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[Assistant] To the land where the bong tree grows. I don't know if there is...


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[Assistant] Such a thing as a bong tree, it just sounds exotic and funny, so...


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[Assistant] And they're in a wood where the trees are growing, in a wood. A piggy wig stood. A piggy wig is just a pig, but again, it's


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[Assistant] A name that children give to pigs, piggy-wig, because Edward Lear, a lot of his poems, children enjoyed them, but adults enjoyed them as well. So, a piggy-wig stood, a pig in the wood, oh, wood, and stood.


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[Assistant] With a ring at the end of his nose. You know, pigs have rings in the end of their nose often. Maybe to tie them up to something, which isn't very nice, really. But anyway, he has a ring at the end of his nose.


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[Assistant] His nose, his nose, with a ring at the end of his nose. Same repetition as before.


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[Assistant] Okay, so perhaps we can all guess what's going to happen next, but let's move on to the third and final verse, and we shall see.


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[Assistant] Okay, third and final verse. So, another quotation mark.


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[Assistant] So, someone is speaking.


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[Assistant] Either the owl or the pussycat, we're not sure. Dear pig, they're speaking to the pig. Are you willing to sell for one shilling your ring? Now, the word order is a bit, but dear pig, are you willing to sell your ring


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[Assistant] They are offering a shilling. Now, if you don't know what a shilling is, obviously willing and shilling, it had to happen.


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[Assistant] Because they rhyme. A shilling was an old coin which we don't have anymore. This is not a shilling.


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[Assistant] But it's similar. It was a small, silvery coloured coin.


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[Assistant] This has flattened edges, but it's totally round, maybe slightly bigger than this. This is a modern 20-pence piece from the UK, but a shilling


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[Assistant] Was worth a twentieth of a pound, believe it or not.


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[Assistant] Before the decimal currency came in, but we won't get into that. That will be...


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[Assistant] Another lesson, I promise, lesson on the old currency.


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[Assistant] Okay, so they're offering a shilling to the pig for his ring.


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[Assistant] Okay? Willing, meaning I will, I am happy to do this. So, said the pig, piggy, I will.


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[Assistant] So yes, he's agreeing to sell his ring in exchange for a shilling coin. So,


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[Assistant] They took it away. They took the ring away.


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[Assistant] And were married next day. That was quick.


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[Assistant] Oh, of course, if you want to get married, you go to a turkey. Yeah, a tur... Do you know what a turkey is? Another bird. There are lots of birds here. That's another bird. Now, in... In the UK,


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[Assistant] We eat turkeys at Christmas. It's our traditional bird that we eat. I think in America they eat the turkey


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[Assistant] Uh, for Thanksgiving in November. So it's a sort of traditional bird. Not good news for turkeys, but anyway, this turkey apparently has the power to marry people. So, the turkey who lives on the hill. Okay? So that was convenient again.


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[Assistant] So they get married by the turkey, and then of course they have to have their reception, their meal to celebrate. So what do they eat? They dined, meaning they have their dinner.


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[Assistant] On mince, which is sort of meat in little pieces, little pieces of beef usually, little pieces of beef that have been cut up into small pieces. Mince.


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[Assistant] And slices of quince. We're rhyming again. A quince is a kind of fruit that grows on trees.


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[Assistant] A slice, you cut it, cut it into slices, cutting into slices. So, mince and quince, why not? Sounds good. Main course, pudding, dessert, yep, sounds good.


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[Assistant] Which they ate, past tense of to eat, they ate with a... What kind of spoon? A runcible spoon. Runcible. Well, they're using a spoon.


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[Assistant] For their food, at least they're not using their hands. They're using a spoon. It's a runcible spoon. Now,


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[Assistant] A spoon that's like this, but it has pieces cut into it like a fork, so it's a combination of a spoon and a fork.


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[Assistant] With pointed pieces, and one edge of it is sharp so you can cut with it. Okay?


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[Assistant] That's a runcible spoon. If you look it up, runcible spoon on Google Images, you'll see lots of pictures of these things. Okay. And hand in hand,


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[Assistant] Do owls and cats have hands? Never mind. It should be wing.


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[Assistant] And paw, shouldn't it? Owls have wings, and cats have paws. But anyway, hand in hand. Ah, this is why it has to be hand, because they're on the sand.


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[Assistant] It's the rhyming again. Hand in hand on the edge of the sand, so they must be by the sea. The sand is by the sea.


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[Assistant] So they're right near the sea on the edge of the sand. They danced by the light of the moon. The moon, the moon. They danced by the light of the moon. And that's the end of the story. So,


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[Assistant] I think we can devise a quiz on this poem, so if you'd like to go to the website, www.engvid.com and have a look at the quiz, see if you've understood the poem, and we'll see you again soon, I hope. Thanks for listening. Bye.


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[Assistant] What have we got in store? You will find out very soon. But as promised, no one dressed in black.


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[Assistant] No pressure test. So that's gotta put a smile on your face. And we are only looking for the best dish again today. And whoever wins, joins Nicole and Simon for their chance to win immunity.


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[Assistant] Tell you what, certainly got them thinking, hasn't it? Never seen them so quiet, which is fantastic. It's gonna be an interesting cook. So you want some rules? You got 75 minutes.


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[Assistant] You got an open pantry and the garden is in play. We're tasting all of your dishes.


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[Assistant] But of course, we're only looking for the best of the best. One winner.


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[Assistant] And that person joins those two in the immunity tomorrow. Jock, do you want to kick him off? Ladies and gentlemen.


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[Assistant] That's gonna be a real challenge, especially because they know that probably you don't want a dessert, that you want them to apply it in a savoury fashion, in, in, so it'll be interesting.


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[Assistant] I don't know what jockstomfrillo's done, maybe set a brilliant challenge, because we have not felt this kind of concentration in a long time. 45 minutes to go, come on!


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[Assistant] Remember what's up for grabs. You won a chance at immunity. You want to join Simon and Nicole, and who knows, you might win a pin. So let's get this tasting underway. First up, Ben.


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[Assistant] What I enjoyed about what you were doing is you stretched yourself. You know, you ran into the garden and grabbed other things that you were excited about to go with this dish. So I think it's pretty good.


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[Assistant] You really wanted everybody to do savoury, didn't you? Yeah, I did. And you got one dessert. Let's do it.


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[Assistant] Look at you three, grinning like Cheshire Cats over there. I tell you what, when we find this many people left in the competition, we know the cooking gets good. And you're delivering on the promise. But you three, there's only one promise. You gotta promise yourself that you're gonna win that pin.


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[Assistant] You know, that's a difficult ingredient to play with because of the muddiness. And I think picking, uh, that fish was very clever.


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[Assistant] The next dish we'd like to taste belongs to the one and only Derek.


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[Assistant] I like it. I like it. Cause, you know, that's a first time go.


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[Assistant] You know, I like the idea of the almond grapefruit, the lemon-centred tea tree, uh, it's got really beautiful combination. It's not too sweet, you've got lovely acidity there, um, you know, and also, you know, knowing the fact that you went out on a limb to go, I'm gonna do a dessert.


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[Assistant] There's so much to learn from him. But at the same time, it's quite intimidating.


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[Assistant] I still have to do my fresh apples, my salted caramel sauce, dehydrated vanilla fronds, fresh vanilla fronds, roasted walnuts and vanilla dust.


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[Assistant] My hubby is a massive sweet tooth and he loves my desserts and I know that I need to get my focus back and find another gear to push this dessert out.


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[Assistant] I only deserve the very best produce.


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[Assistant] Every year Delicious Magazine scans the country for the very best artisan produce out there.


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[Assistant] Four of the best ingredients available, anyone in the world. Your job today is to create a four course menu, heroing each of you. So, in the first course you'll be using from Victoria, Holy Goats Cheezies Tom Nectar.


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[Assistant] So this is a 50-50 goats milk and cows milk cheese and it is spectacular. Cool. Oh, second course from the Northern Territory, Coral Trap from Markeitha Seafood. He supplies Vietman, he supplies Kee, all the top restaurants. Third course from South Australia, Wagyu Beef.


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[Assistant] From one of the oldest cattle stations in the country, Mayura. This is a nine score. You're a South Australian expert. Beautiful beef. And for your fourth course...


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[Assistant] Yeah, and the best thing is they think you are the world's best chefs. They have no idea that you're here, and I think you're gonna see a massive leap in the quality of what's been on your plates since the last time they cooked for you at home. So, enjoy tonight, and thank you so much for coming.


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[Assistant] Interesting dish. Yeah. That cheese is so special. And I think...


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[Assistant] Congratulations Green Team, and you really did that produce proud. Well done.


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[Assistant] What have we got? I absolutely love vegetables. I love the idea of having a vegetable and trying to do quite a few different things with it. So I'm hoping I get a really versatile vegetable today.


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[Assistant] I am so happy with zucchinis. They are one of my favourite vegetables.


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[Assistant] Today's dish is going to consist of two different purees, one using the skin of the zucchini and one using the centre of the zucchini. So I get them cooking with some garlic, some leeks and some onions and get all of that moisture out of them.


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[Assistant] Is there something else we can get on the plate? Uhm, quickly Nicole.


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[Assistant] Amazing. Amazing. But unfortunately for Ben it wasn't his day.


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[Assistant] My mouth is singing. One of my favorites this competition. I don't think it looks very good.


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[Assistant] They haven't come this far to give up now. There's no room for error. But it's not called a pressure test for nothing.


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[Assistant] I'm just trying to think back from all the mystery boxes that we've done and hopefully I can get one that I've done relatively okay in.


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[Assistant] I got the Everything Mystery Box, which means I've got to create a delicious dish out of a lamb wrap, yoghurt, lemons, parsnip, leek, rosemary, olive oil, and Brussels sprouts in the store. So I'm gonna do


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[Assistant] I guess kind of the same dish as last time, but I learnt from my mistakes last time, I needed a sauce. My tactic is to really take that dish that I've done before in this everything box and really try and elevate that to a different level. So I'm gonna do a, like the eye of the lamb. I'm gonna do some Brussels sprouts that have been charred in some of the lamb fat.


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[Assistant] I've got the everything box. So my dish today is the lamb rack with the pasta and leek puree and Brussels sprouts. Really happy with the lamb. It looks beautiful. I'm feeling it. It's still nice and tender and it's going to rest up beautifully.


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[Assistant] The next thing I need to start on my parsnip and leek puree. Last time I cooked the parsnips just in boiling water. This time I'm cooking the parsnips in cream and milk to give it that extra creaminess to the puree.


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[Assistant] I've got all my elements done. My lamb's cooked, I've got my parsnip and leek puree, I've got parsnip chips, I've got Brussels sprouts done three ways, and I've got my sauce. Really what I'm thinking is I need maybe something else that I can whip out in this last couple of minutes that's really gonna bring it home for me.


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[Assistant] I really wanna win best dish today. I've had this box before. I was almost there, so I wanna redeem myself. I'm doing everything that I can.


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[Assistant] Last time I cooked the Everything Mystery Box, they got tasted, but I didn't get to go straight through to immunity. Hopefully today I've got what it takes.


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[Assistant] Come on, Larry. Come on guys, keep pushing.


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[Assistant] This holiday season, people around the world will give and receive presents. You might even get a knitted sweater from an aunt.


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[Assistant] But what if instead of saying thanks before consigning it to the closet,


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[Assistant] The polite response expected from you was to show up at her house in a week with a better gift. Or to vote for her in the town election. Or let her adopt your firstborn child.


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[Assistant] All of these things might not sound so strange if you are involved in a gift economy.


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[Assistant] This phrase might seem contradictory, after all isn't a gift given for free?


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[Assistant] But in a gift economy, gifts given without explicit conditions are used to foster a system of social ties and obligations.


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[Assistant] While the market economies we know are formed by relationships between the things being traded, a gift economy consists of the relationships between the people doing the trading. Gift economies have existed throughout human history.


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[Assistant] The first studies of the concept came from anthropologist Breneslaw Malinowski and Marcel Moss, who described the natives of the Trobriand Islands making dangerous canoe journeys across miles of ocean to exchange shell necklaces and armbands.


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[Assistant] The items traded through this process, known as the cooler ring, have no practical use.


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[Assistant] But derive importance from their original owners and carry an obligation to continue the exchange.


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[Assistant] Other gift economies may involve useful items, such as the potlash feasts of the Pacific Northwest, where chiefs compete for prestige by giving away livestock and blankets.


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[Assistant] We might say that instead of accumulating material wealth, participants in a gift economy use it to accumulate social wealth.


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[Assistant] Though some instances of gift economies may resemble barter,


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[Assistant] The difference is that the original gift is given without any preconditions or haggling.


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[Assistant] Instead, the social norm of reciprocity obligates recipients to voluntarily return the favor.


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[Assistant] But the rules for how and when to do so vary between cultures, and the return on a gift can take many forms.


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[Assistant] The status gained from gift ceremonies even determines land ownership.


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[Assistant] The key is to keep the gift cycle going with someone always indebted to someone else.


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[Assistant] Repaying a gift immediately or with something of exactly equal value may be read as ending the social relationship.


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[Assistant] So, are gift economies exclusive to small-scale societies outside the industrialized world? Not quite.


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[Assistant] For one thing, even in these cultures gift economies function alongside a market system for other exchanges.


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[Assistant] And when we think about it, parts of our own societies work in similar ways. Communal spaces such as Burning Man operate as a mix of barter and a gift economy, where selling things for money is strictly taboo.


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[Assistant] In art and technology, gift economies are emerging as an alternative to intellectual property.


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[Assistant] Where artists, musicians, and open source developers distribute their creative works, not for financial profit.


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[Assistant] But to raise their social profile or establish their community role.


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[Assistant] And even potluck dinners and holiday gift traditions involve some degree of reciprocity in social norms.


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[Assistant] We might wonder if a gift is truly a gift if it comes with obligations or involves some social payoff. But this is missing the point.


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[Assistant] Our idea of a free gift without social obligations prevails only if we already think of everything in market terms.


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[Assistant] And in a commercialized world, the idea of strengthening bonds through giving and reciprocity may not be such a bad thing, wherever you may live.


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[Assistant] I'm doing strawberry sorbet and then I'm doing coriander coconut parfait. Got a bit of salt that I'm going to dust so it's going to be sweet and salty.


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[Assistant] I'm completely aware of time and I know that it's running very, very fast.


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[Assistant] I'm worried I need to chill that to sit. If it's not chilled enough, I cut it, all the logs are gonna just go everywhere. But I'm not gonna give up, I'm just gonna go.


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[Assistant] I add the star anise, the cinnamon, the wine. It's a Christmas smell on the pot.


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[Assistant] This is the moment of truth. If it doesn't work out, there's no way to hide.


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[Assistant] Either I'm gonna have a complete piece on a plate or I'm gonna have nothing at all. This is the moment of truth.


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[Assistant] I've got a piece on the plate in one hour.


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[Assistant] Even if the world should reject me, I'll keep on fighting until I'm punished. Guess I won't be heading to where you are just yet.


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[Assistant] These shapes are circles.


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[Assistant] These shapes are rectangles.


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[Assistant] These shapes are hearts.


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[Assistant] You don't have to say anything. I understand.


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[Assistant] Oh wow. What we've got on this table are four ingredients.


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[Assistant] The four most commonly thrown out in Australia every single day.


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[Assistant] There's no question about this. This year is a land of opportunity. I mean there is so many opportunities within each of those four ingredients to create something super delicious. Merci beaucoup.


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[Assistant] This is about waste not want not. Where's the rest of the duck? It's in the fridge.


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[Assistant] She's so worried about the concept, she's lost the most crucial part of cooking, which is flavour. Yeah. Deliciousness. And also the idea to make sure nothing goes to waste.


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[Assistant] Not only did you choose an ingredient to go with your radicchio, that was contrary to the brief.


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[Assistant] Ben, we wish you all the best. Thank you so much, but now it's time to say goodbye.


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[Assistant] What we know is that some emotions are tied very closely to certain body expressions and that that works in both directions because it's hardwired.


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[Assistant] Your body and your mind are constantly in conversation with each other. And your body is largely driving that conversation. Why not take control of that? Why not have your body tell your mind that you're safe and powerful?


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[Assistant] So if you take non-human primates, I mean, you see them expand their chests, uh, pound their chests. They do things to make themselves appear bigger than the other individuals in their hierarchy.


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[Assistant] You see this kind of body language across the animal kingdom. And similarly, when animals feel powerless, they do exactly the opposite. They make themselves tiny.


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[Assistant] Humans are animals as well, and we do the same kinds of things.


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[Assistant] In the classical ballets, the female lead character is usually either dead or half dead.


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[Assistant] She's fragile and frail and by the end she's all, you know, withered up on the floor like the dying swan.


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[Assistant] In more contemporary ballet, you see a lot more expansiveness in the female lead characters.


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[Assistant] I think it's a really dangerous message that we send to our daughters that femininity is tied to being fragile and frail and, and, you know, wrapping oneself up.


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[Assistant] When we walk and we're sad, we walk in this slouched way. And when we walk and we're happy, we're walking in a more erect posture and we're, you know, swinging our arms more and you know, our stride is longer. So getting people to walk in a happy way makes them feel happier, even if they have no idea what they're doing.


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[Assistant] This is a really new area of research that some people call embodiment and I don't think we know exactly what the mechanism is. I think what we know is that some emotions are tied very closely to certain body expressions and that that works in both directions because it's hardwired.


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[Assistant] I think some of the most promising applications of this work, and we're just at the beginning of this now, uh, that are in the area of treating people with things like post-traumatic stress.


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[Assistant] Are maybe less likely to want to talk about.


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[Assistant] I'm really hopeful that we're gonna learn more about how to use body-based interventions to treat, uh, psychological disorders. I think that there is a lot of potential there.


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[Assistant] Good morning. Nice to see big smiles on your faces. At this point of the competition we are well and truly accelerating towards the grand finale. And of course along the way, losing some very good cooks.


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[Assistant] I'm very curious to find out what you're cooking, because when you picked eggs, you went dessert, and then you picked alliums. What's the idea?


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[Assistant] Today started off with time auction. Bottom line, it's a really uncomfortable point in the competition, not just for them, but for us, because we're sending really great cooks home.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's a really nice thing to lock on to. I think that's smart. Thank you.


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[Assistant] It fills my heart with joy because what he's done is he's taken essentially two ingredients and just absolutely championed them.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, all we can do is cross our fingers and hope that, uh, the 20 minute challenge works out for you.


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[Assistant] The best part of it is the pasta and the ricotta. The onion sauce is not particularly nice. It's got this raw, not very sweet, flavour.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the pork belly crackling's not crackly all over it. There's a bit of crackling, there's no melty fat, there's no...


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[Assistant] The MasterChef auction. A bit of fun, but a formidable challenge.


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[Assistant] Over the years it's bought some of the best contestants unstuck. And today was no different.


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[Assistant] Congratulations, you are safe.


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[Assistant] Compliments. They are one of the most beautiful things in the whole world. I love complimenting people, but I hate receiving them. How do I respond?


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[Assistant] How do I say thank you in the best way possible without getting all awkward and shy? Well let's find out today.