Okay, I have one. I have one, but it's problematic. Welcome to Maintenance Faze, the podcast that isn't a knife.

Because of Australia. This is those dated reference that has ever been on this show. Good. I like it. I like it because literally all I know about this person is that he is Australian.

And all I know about Australia is Krakhan Island. I am like a Hobbs.

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Yes, all I know about this human being is that A, his name is Pete Evans and B, we have received roughly 5,000 requests to cover this gentleman.

As far as I know, every person in Australia has eaten all this. The country of Australia has requested that we cover this person.

Official requests from the scene.

I've been trying to avoid spoilers because everyone's well, it'll come up or like somebody will send us something like you guys should cover Pete Evans, comma, the guy who, and I'm like close to have close to have.

Really? Yeah. Something something problematic. So I am ready. I'm ready to be treated on this episode the way that I treat you in other episodes where you fuck with me for the first 30 minutes.

And then you tell me the truth. So I am going to drop in. See if I can drop in an image search, like image without giving you Goddain, but they all want to give you the whole link to the whole news story. And I'm like, no.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you got to, you got to do screen grabs of it like I did with Bill Gibson. I'm going to try texting it to you. That's what I'm going to do. Okay. Okay, here we go.

Oh, that's what he looks like. Here's another one. Yeah, there you go. Tell me he's got the serious one and the goofy one. These are like on their labeled on his computer. It's like hot dad. JPEG and like goofy science guy.

So the way that I have been describing the way that this dude looks in my own brain is like, Ken doll. Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought to. Ken doll in his 40s. He's like the hot math teacher at your school. He's just like a white guy with a five o'clock shadow. And I think are those blue eyes? Yes. And he's kind of like ostentatiously wearing t-shirts and both of these.

I'm really like the idea of ostentatious t-shirt wearing. It feels like thing that I aspire to. These are like publicity still. So he's like chosen to wear a t-shirt in like what appears to be like an author headshot or something. Right. I feel like it's a choice.

So interestingly, Pete Evans doesn't come to us as primarily like a diet or nutrition guy historically. He comes to us as a fine dining chef.

Oh, okay. Today Pete Evans is 49 years old. He was born in Melbourne in August of 1973 in my notes. I wrote classic Virgo, even though I don't know what that means. I did look up his zodiac side. I don't know why Scorpio rising.

Yeah. He in the mid 90s. So in his mid 20s, he moved with his brother and their business partner to Sydney and opened up a restaurant called Hugo's Bondi.

Hugo's Bondi, okay. The restaurant becomes super duper popular. People really love it. By all accounts, the food is great. So about 10 years after opening Hugo's Pete Evans starts writing cookbooks to date.

He has published about eight of them as he starts publishing cookbooks. His star continues to rise, right? He's conventionally handsome. He's young. He's a white dude. He's charming. He's a subject authority. All signs point to make this dude famous in the system that we've got.

So how does this start start to rise? He starts promoting his books and showing up like promoting his cookbooks doing little TV demos. That kind of thing. Right. He's doing the circuit and he becomes sort of a sought after guest.

Okay. That all leads up to in 2010. His TV career starts in earnest and he becomes a judge on what was then a new cooking competition show called my kitchen rules or MKR.

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