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Katie Woolf spoke with Bar Manager at Smoke and Oak Alex "Bubba" Johnston · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: We noticed on the weekend well known publican Jason Hannah
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  Speaker 1: had posted, or it'd said, on social media that that
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  Speaker 1: Diageo thereafter.
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  Speaker 2: The world there will they're world class.
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  Speaker 1: And he said that there's a search on right now
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  Speaker 1: for the world's best bartender country against country, but they've
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  Speaker 1: also got to compete here in Australia first now, apparently
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  Speaker 1: there's a list of the top one hundred in the
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  Speaker 1: country and it's got nine passionate territorians on there, and well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Jason said in his post on the socials,
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  Speaker 1: wonderful stuff and and well done to all of those territorians.
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  Speaker 1: And one of them joins me on the line right now.
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  Speaker 1: He's the bar manager at Smoke and Oak and it
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  Speaker 1: is Alex Bubba Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Alex. How are you really well? Alex?
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  Speaker 1: In the top one hundred around the around the country.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you did the play number of us as well,
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  Speaker 3: which is excellent.
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  Speaker 2: Alex.
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  Speaker 1: I know that you're competing obviously for the world's best bartender.
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  Speaker 1: What's the process that you've got to go through, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to become well? I guess to first off become the
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  Speaker 1: best in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: So for those street and starts off the first round
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  Speaker 3: and we just now which is wheeled it down to
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  Speaker 3: the top one hundred and then that's all online. So
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  Speaker 3: you take take at the recipe up and then it
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  Speaker 3: gets judged and the next thing is they then come
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  Speaker 3: up to die it. So that's that process of the
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  Speaker 3: top one hundred gets broken down to the top twenty
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  Speaker 3: three and then that gets broken down to in the
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  Speaker 3: third round.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this is pretty exciting stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Now when do you find out if they're coming to
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  Speaker 1: Darwin or if any of our wonderful you know, if
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  Speaker 1: any of our wonderful Darwinians like yourself are in that
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  Speaker 1: that sort of whittled down list.
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  Speaker 3: So that actually there's a meeting home right now pulling
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  Speaker 3: us through. What the next You've just got another but
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  Speaker 3: it gives you another challenge. The first challenge they have
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  Speaker 3: a couple of briefs. You could have chose which one
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  Speaker 3: you wanted, and then this next day is a whole
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  Speaker 3: plan brief and the judges come up to go and.
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  Speaker 2: To come and trying to put to oh, Alex, what
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  Speaker 2: are you going to make?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure yet. My mind's not set up there
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  Speaker 3: it's literally just given us a brief this morning, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm still going for it, still thinking and they have
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  Speaker 3: to be using drinning water.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's going to be difficult.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel like do you feel as though the
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  Speaker 1: pressure is on or are you feeling like it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a bit of fun.
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  Speaker 3: I could give it fun. Obviously, it's quite pleasure. So
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  Speaker 3: you're getting this far into it. There's a couple of
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  Speaker 3: guys that the first time entering as well, and it's
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  Speaker 3: again it's get this far, but you've got to enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: You're not enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it sounds as you know, here in the
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  Speaker 1: top end, we've actually got some amazing bartenders. I mean
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  Speaker 1: the fact that we've got nine passionate Territorians are part
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  Speaker 1: of the top one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty good going.
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  Speaker 3: It's very good. Was literally name by them their shows.
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  Speaker 3: Just how much what's coming along? Yeah, you think most
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  Speaker 3: peop would probably think we're a little bit behind the
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  Speaker 3: but there's still some fantastic yep Alex.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody on that list from the territory that you're most
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  Speaker 1: concerned about about, anyone that's you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, really good at their job that you're a bit
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  Speaker 2: worried about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, some fantastic people you've got before that Analysa and
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  Speaker 3: as you went to Mexico year before, somebody does. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: well Jerry in there and the top eight in the
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  Speaker 3: country before COVID a year and a half back in
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  Speaker 3: as a separate competition as well. It can be great.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well mate, let us know how it all goes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to keep in contact and you know, as
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  Speaker 1: those different rounds go forwards, let us know how how
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  Speaker 1: our wonderful Territorians are going.
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  Speaker 2: I always think it's great to.
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  Speaker 1: See Territorians doing well in their fields of work, and
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  Speaker 1: you know this is no different. Hopefully imagine if we
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  Speaker 1: end up with the best bartender in the world, that'd
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  Speaker 1: be amazing than It's lovely to talk to you this morning, Alex,
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  Speaker 1: thanks so much for your time.
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome everyday.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. That is Alex Baba Johnson there. He's the
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  Speaker 1: bar manager at Smoke and Oak And as you've heard, well,
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  Speaker 1: out of the top one hundred in the country in
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  Speaker 1: the best bartender competition, it is Drgo's world class the
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  Speaker 1: search for the world's best bartender, nine of them are Territorians.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty amazing stuff, and we only know that because Jason
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  Speaker 1: Hannah had alerted us.
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  Speaker 2: To it on the socials.
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  Speaker 1: And like I always say, I think it's great to
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  Speaker 1: hear about Territorians doing wonderful things in their professions, and
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  Speaker 1: you know this is no different. Really, if we end
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  Speaker 1: up with the best bartender here in the territory, it
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  Speaker 1: would be awesome.