ANDREW DENTON: How can you look 28 and be 60?
PETER BROCK: I, I must say that when you do reach 60, you don't mind an accolade coming your way, so thank you very much.
ANDREW DENTON: No, there's clearly a deal with the Devil. I'm sorry, you're...you don't have an ounce of flab on you, you barely have a crease in your face. Your hair is a subtle grey, I'll give you that.
PETER BROCK: (Laughs) You mustn't be looking into the same mirror I'm looking into but anyway. No, look, I do feel pretty good. I guess I started off...maybe 20 years ago, watching what I ate and doing a bit of exercise and things like that.
ANDREW DENTON: But, correct me if I'm wrong, vegans won't eat anything that's an animal product?
PETER BROCK: But I do. So I'm not totally vegan. I eat eggs and stuff like that. I eat eggs. I'm sorry out there, all you vegans...
ANDREW DENTON: God, you're gonna get so much mail now.
PETER BROCK: So I'm not strictly vegan but I'm pretty close to it.
ANDREW DENTON: OK, 'cause, you know, my father always theorised that tofu actually comes from toe jam.
PETER BROCK: Yeah. And, do you know, I'm saying your father was pretty close to the mark.
ANDREW DENTON: Is that right?
PETER BROCK: It's pretty crook stuff, I can tell you.
ANDREW DENTON: See, I respect the fact you can eat a vegan diet because I'm, you know, I'm a brains and veins man. Yeah. Yeah, I like...yeah, yeah. That's, I like, you know.
PETER BROCK: Well, I used to be.
ANDREW DENTON: I'm the top of the food chain. I've worked hard to eat things smaller than me.
PETER BROCK: (Laughs) Look, I'm a...I guess you could say that that was a gradual process. That I didn't actually just overnight say, "I'm going to become a vegie burger and I'm going to stop eating meat," and stuff like that. It was like getting off red meat and getting off, you know, I guess, poultry and fish and stuff like that. And around about 15 years ago, I thought, "This is not really suiting me." So I just went onto a vegie-type diet. Then I cut out dairy, so that's made the difference.
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