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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hey, it's Chris Spear with you.
Welcome to The Weekend Briefing, where we chat with the humans behind the headlines. And this weekend, it's my chat with someone who was thrust into the spotlight last year when he decided to marry a stranger on national television.
I'm six foot six. I'm covered in tattoos. It's not rocket science, really, it's not. I just want someone to connect with and have fun.
I'm Dave, I'm 36, and I'm from Melbourne. Dave Hand describes himself as a gentle giant, someone who's just a boy travelling the world filming cool TV shows. In this chat, I get to geek out on all things Married at First Sight with him, the sneaky behind-the-scenes stuff, his relationship with the producers, and those wild dinner parties. But it's not just maths gossip.
This one does go deep for a moment.
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Chapter 2: How did Dave Hand become a breakout star on MAFS?
We talk about how the show messed with him mentally and what it was like navigating a reality TV circus while his dad was battling cancer. Then we get into life aftermaths, how it cracked open the door to the Netflix universe and landed him in a villa full of other reality TV stars all chasing love.
The hottest singles in the world are headed right here to Mexico to find love and their perfect match.
I would love to meet someone that I'm like, oh my gosh, let's get married tomorrow and let's have babies and like five poodles. We also talk about Timu Tatu Guns running a business like a Tamagotchi and how he managed to avoid barley belly while in Mexico. Don't ask, just listen and you'll get it. Now, I don't want to spoil how Dave's stint on Netflix's Perfect Match played out.
If you know, you know. If you don't, do a cheeky Google. All I'll say is I'm pissed he didn't give me the heads up off mic. Anyhoo, a little later in the show, it's the weekend list, and this weekend is with Sash Bar-Bagat, where we recommend what to watch, see, do, eat and listen to. But first, here's my chat with Dave Hand. Dave, welcome to The Weekend Briefing.
Mate, thank you for having me midweek briefing, I guess. Don't spoil the magic for the listeners, Dave. Come on.
You've done how many TV projects now? Don't spoil the magic. Cut it out. Now, look, I want to kick us off by letting you lead this chat because, you know, there's different labels that are ascribed to you along the way. The Gentle Giant, the TikTok Tradie. Those are the labels the world has given you, the media has given you. But what labels should we start with today that we can unpick with you?
Um... I'm just a normal dude. Just get to do fun stuff. So, you know, you can label me whatever, but I guess I am all those things, but... I'm still going to work. I'm just doing cool TV shows, but I'm just a lad. Just a lad. All right, there we go.
Dave Hands is just a boy.
I'm actually just a boy.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Dave face after reality TV fame?
I feel overwhelmed more than I don't, but it all just works out. So just have faith and it's going to be okay.
Yeah, yeah. Talk to me about this corking business. So as I understand it, corking is the gaps that you see.
Yeah, it's like the silicon, the putty.
The silicon, the putty.
Chapter 4: What insights does Dave share about reality TV production?
That's corking for those who are familiar, my God.
Silicon Valley corking business.
Silly. Oh, good shout out. Well done, my king. So for those who aren't watching, he's wearing a Netflix top. He's already shouted out his business. He's ready to go. Dave knows what's up. Dave knows what's up. How was juggling? So you run your own business, right? Yeah. How was juggling that whilst also being on maths? Obviously, you weren't filming at that point. It was coming out.
But how was managing the attention of maths and also trying to run a business?
During filming, it was... It went downhill real quick, my business. But, you know, if you don't pay attention, it's like a Tamagotchi, it dies. So, you know, you've got to look after it. And I did that when I got back and sort of got back into the swing of things and, yeah, Yeah, it's okay.
Yeah. Did you start in, I don't want to ruin the word, in corking or were you like a builder?
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Chapter 5: What unique experiences did Dave have while filming in Mexico?
Were you a sparky? What's your profession like?
Yeah, so maths called me a builder from the start and I'm like, tell them I'm a corker. They're like, no one knows what it is. I'm like, it's my job. Yeah, I understand, but look fair enough. But yeah, I was a tradie when I was 14. I left school when I was 14 and been a tradie ever since I was a plasterer for 12 years and then did some other stuff in between and then went to Corking.
So I've been in the trade for a very long time. I guess I can build a house. I'm a builder. Sure, there you go.
The title works. It loosely fits, but it works. Yeah. So we'll accept the Builder title very loosely, but we're going to push back on that. I want to know, you're an 80s baby, technically, 88. Talk to me about growing up in Melbourne's western suburbs in the 90s and, well, late 80s.
Yeah, I mean, like... You don't really, really realise how different it is to other suburbs around Melbourne until you go there. And I didn't, you know, until I was older, venture out and realise how different it is out there. And it is, you know, school of hard knocks. It is a bit ghetto-y. It is a bit dangerous.
You know, there are the wrong crowds hanging up and, you know, you've got to make sure you surround yourself with the right people. I guess that's everywhere. But growing up as a kid, I feel like it was... You know, more often than not, you know, you're getting caught up in some trouble and doing the wrong thing. But I'm alive.
He lives to tell the tale. So you said you left school at ā well, not left school. You became a tradie at 14. Did you leave school at 14?
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Chapter 6: What advice does Dave give about handling online scrutiny?
Yeah, I did. You did. Okay. And that's where you got into the profession. What was it? School wasn't for you? 14's young, right?
Yeah.
You're not supposed to leave until 16? Yeah, I guess.
He's like, really? Yeah.
Chapter 7: How has Dave's life changed since appearing on reality TV?
I think you're not allowed to leave until you're like 15. Yeah. But I had enough. Like, I just ā Couldn't sit there. I was one of the fidgety kids and leaving was probably the best thing for me. Yeah. What was the school experience like?
I chopped and changed schools a few times, but it was, I was a tall, skinny, lanky kid, you know, and then I'm like in year seven, taller than the older kids and they're like, you know, getting bullied and stuff like that. I was like, this place is not for me.
Well, I can't relate because I was always the shorter one of the cohort and I had a brother who was like four years older. So I used to get, I would say bullied, but not like in a mean way in like, oh, this is so-and-so's brother. So I can relate to being, you know, picked up and put on top of a locker and just left there. Did you have that experience, Dave, as a tall man?
No, I didn't fit in lockers. Yeah. Okay, fair enough. All right, so we're not going to find common ground there. Okay, so talk to me, leaving school, going out and doing this thing. You're making money before, I'm assuming, a lot of your friends. What was it like, though, like socially, you're cutting off a lot of the world you knew when it came to school.
You're no longer going to that environment anymore. What was it like? Did that make you grow up a little bit quicker? Yeah.
Yeah, it definitely separated like my friends I grew up with like in the streets, riding the bikes and stuff like that to being like an older crowd where it was sort of trying to fit in with the cooler kids and which instance they were the wrong crowd to hang out with, which sort of, yeah, you come to realise that as you get a bit older and like my parents split up when I was 12 and, you know, that two-year period leading up to being 14, I was like ā
trying to figure everything out. I got up one morning and I'm like, I need to get out of here. Like I wanted to leave the Western suburbs and my dad had a girlfriend at the time who lived in Altham. Where's that for our... So it's out like east, like Greensboro away.
Totally different to where you were, yeah.
Yeah, and I was like, yeah, I need to get out and... A week later, I left. Wow. I left and I just went and started fresh over somewhere else. Like I mentioned before, you don't really realise how different suburbs are. You know, I went to Eltham a few times and they had lots of trees. It smelled like fresh air. I'm like, this place is cool. And then, yeah, I just packed up and left.
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