Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and I heart
Speaker 1: radio podcast. Welcome to the most dramatic podcast ever. I
Speaker 1: am Chris Harrison alongside Lauren Ziema. Great show Today, the beautiful,
Speaker 1: the talented Jennifer Nettles is going to be on the show.
Speaker 1: She is obviously country music singer superstar Sugarland has done
Speaker 1: her own solo stuff as well, but now she is
Speaker 1: venturing into well my territory reality show host. She is
Speaker 1: hosting Farmer Wants a Wife, the new reality show on Fox.
Speaker 1: Also on the show today, one of the farmers farmer Hunter.
Speaker 1: I think you just like saying farmer. I do like
Speaker 1: saying farmer he is I was gonna I was trying
Speaker 1: to figure out a way how can I say he
Speaker 1: is as full as a tick on a bloodhound. Lots
Speaker 1: of rednecks sayings and lines on Farmer ONTs a Wife.
Speaker 1: It's the new show on Fox where four farmers are
Speaker 1: finding love, trying to find love, but not giving up
Speaker 1: who they are, which is they're farmers. They're living on
Speaker 1: the land. So we got four men from the heartland
Speaker 1: and we have women from all across the country vying
Speaker 1: for their love and attention. Although not all of them
Speaker 1: are up for this. You know. The show had me
Speaker 1: thinking because of the format of it, the way that
Speaker 1: the women move in right away with them. They see
Speaker 1: these guys whole real lives right from the start, and
Speaker 1: I kind of started thinking about like you and I
Speaker 1: and dating, and you know, the question of when do
Speaker 1: you reveal your whole true self and show your whole
Speaker 1: true life to someone that you're dating. It should be,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, if you're smart a slow burn. Oh interesting,
Speaker 1: I didn't expect you to say that I'm a slow reveal.
Speaker 1: Leave a little something to be desired, a little something
Speaker 1: to learn, just in that. I think relationship chips have stages.
Speaker 1: They moved to a certain point, like yes, I thought
Speaker 1: I love you early on, but we've created and gone
Speaker 1: so much deeper now, so true that I want to
Speaker 1: reveal more to you in more intimate ways, whether it's
Speaker 1: my kids, my mom, my dad, what I really think
Speaker 1: about my mom and my dad and my brother, you know.
Speaker 1: But you know what I mean. It's like, I think
Speaker 1: you scratch the surface early on, and it's like you
Speaker 1: can have them into the house or whatever. But I
Speaker 1: think then you go much deeper as you go, so
Speaker 1: I would say a slow burn. Are you saying not? Well,
Speaker 1: I have this friend and I will say she's she's
Speaker 1: been on the struggle bus in dating and I've tried
Speaker 1: to I don't agree with some of her opinions, like
Speaker 1: she said, well, I'm myself, my whole everything about myself
Speaker 1: right from date one, and so then like if they
Speaker 1: don't like me, it's like take me or leave me.
Speaker 1: And if they don't like me, then that's it and whatever.
Speaker 1: And I think there's a balance because look, you don't
Speaker 1: want to misrepresent who you are and you don't want
Speaker 1: to be that, you know, like the movie Runaway Bride,
Speaker 1: where she's like changing Julie Roberts's character infamously changed how
Speaker 1: she likes her eggs for each guy. You don't want
Speaker 1: to change who you are for someone, and you don't
Speaker 1: want to misrepresent who you are. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I think in different areas of our lives, like you
Speaker 1: don't walk into a business meeting and act exactly like
Speaker 1: you're full self, or you have different versions of yourself,
Speaker 1: like I have who I am in a first business
Speaker 1: meeting with somebody, and then I have who I am
Speaker 1: when I'm like with my siblings or with you, and
Speaker 1: so we have these different versions of ourselves. And I
Speaker 1: think when you're first dating somebody, be yourself, but be
Speaker 1: a certain version of yourself. Hopefully you could come across
Speaker 1: crazy the best version of yourself for that particular moment.
Speaker 1: Like I wasn't doing my Voldemort impression for you on
Speaker 1: the first Trust me, I did not know that's what
Speaker 1: I was buying into. I wasn't talking. It's which Harry
Speaker 1: Potter book isn't. Yeah, she didn't give me the Harry
Speaker 1: Potter test of what house you're in? All that has
Speaker 1: to come. Can we do the Harry Potter test for
Speaker 1: people right now? Not yet? Okay, the one question test
Speaker 1: Instagram if you want to do the test, because how
Speaker 1: are people going to answer that you would have to
Speaker 1: go through It would be very tough and convoluted, which
Speaker 1: I also feel like if you reveal everything about yourself,
Speaker 1: it's like drinking out of a fire hydrant early on.
Speaker 1: That's a lot for somebody to take in. Let them
Speaker 1: drink out of the water fountain. Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see on Farmer Wants
Speaker 1: a Wife like I would be. You know, obviously this
Speaker 1: is a TV show, it's an experiment, and so we're
Speaker 1: going to throw these people in right away. And the
Speaker 1: question is, can you take the full reality of someone's life,
Speaker 1: everything about who they are, the way they live, everything,
Speaker 1: right from day one. Like with you and I, you
Speaker 1: actually introduced me to the kids fairly early on, but
Speaker 1: you also said, look, a, my kids are older, they're teenagers.
Speaker 1: They're not you know, you don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: like a younger child forming an emotional attachment to you
Speaker 1: right away. Because I was a little nervous. And then
Speaker 1: you said, I have my kids fifty percent of the time,
Speaker 1: So if we're going to be dating each other, you're
Speaker 1: going to see him quite a lot. I am trying
Speaker 1: to think of how quickly I like threw you in.
Speaker 1: It really was pretty quick. But again I think I
Speaker 1: just there's also something exciting about maintaining a little mystery too,
Speaker 1: and unfolding things. Speaking of mystery, oh yes, and unfolding.
Speaker 1: And we'll get back to Farmer One's why because we're
Speaker 1: going to have Jennifer Neddles and country Icon. I think
Speaker 1: you have a little bit of a celeb crush. I
Speaker 1: do have a celeb crush on Jennifer Nettles. She's incredibly talented. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like I've been a big, yeah, huge fan Farmer Hunter.
Speaker 1: We'll see if I'm a fan. I got to talk
Speaker 1: to him, see what this farmer is all about. But
Speaker 1: the mystery that is Aaron Rodgers. Again, this is when
Speaker 1: our two worlds kind of collide. Green May Packer quarterback
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. You're transitioning into the most dramatic headlines of
Speaker 1: the week. Yeah, this has been a dramatic headline that
Speaker 1: you and I talked a lot about. He is an
Speaker 1: eccentric guy, to say the least, and he's been known
Speaker 1: for he goes on these meditative trips, these retreats. He
Speaker 1: marches to the beat of a different drummer, and he
Speaker 1: recently just went to a quiet, dark retreat. Quiet is
Speaker 1: an understatement. Okay, I'm going to take this over because
Speaker 1: for once I can speak on a sports story. As
Speaker 1: you said, usually our world's don't intersect, but when sports
Speaker 1: comes into the entertainment websites, when I see it on
Speaker 1: those that I know. Now, Aaron Rodgers has dated a
Speaker 1: lot of famous people, so I do know who he has,
Speaker 1: stated Olivia mun and stand to Patrick yes. So Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: in trying to figure out his next step in his
Speaker 1: football career, has revealed that he went to not just
Speaker 1: a quiet a four day silent retreat in almost total darkness,
Speaker 1: in a space an unknown location that was at least
Speaker 1: partially underground, and the only thing he had was a bed,
Speaker 1: a matt on which to meditate. And that's it. Yea,
Speaker 1: I saw this. It's at Skycave is the name of it.
Speaker 1: It's a three hundred square foot it partially underground hobbit
Speaker 1: like dwelling. I saw. You can see the door, so
Speaker 1: it really is like the Hobbit. Okay, so he's paying
Speaker 1: to go be in. He's paying essentially to be in
Speaker 1: solitary confinement, which is in is in some way forms
Speaker 1: of torture and imprisonment. But yes, I think we shut
Speaker 1: down Guantanamo Bay because of this. No, but it's you
Speaker 1: and I have a little different opinion on this. We do,
Speaker 1: I think. Okay. I came to Chris and I said,
Speaker 1: this is you would be wild to me. I would
Speaker 1: never do this. First of all, I am way too
Speaker 1: afraid of the dark. I mean every night when we
Speaker 1: go to sleep, I'm waking up a couple times in
Speaker 1: the night, and I don't know if anybody out there
Speaker 1: has contacts or glasses. My contacts prescription is eight point five.
Speaker 1: Think of readers like readers, glasses are like one point five,
Speaker 1: like the bottom of a coke bottle. That's what you
Speaker 1: wear when you're six. Yes, yes, she's an eight point five.
Speaker 1: So I wake up in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: I see a shadow. I'm like, someone's in the room.
Speaker 1: I'm screaming. I'm waking you up. The idea of being
Speaker 1: in four full, twenty four hour periods of total darkness
Speaker 1: is terrifying. How long what's the over under on Lauren
Speaker 1: Zima in this room? How long? What do you mean
Speaker 1: in the hours? Could you make it a day? If
Speaker 1: I was able to just pull the plug, I would
Speaker 1: giet it maybe an hour. I don't know. I'd lose
Speaker 1: all sense of time. I also can't handle the idea
Speaker 1: of not talking to anybody for four days. Like the
Speaker 1: guy who runs the retreat will stop by and just
Speaker 1: check on you. He checks on the guests. By the way,
Speaker 1: the door is not locked. You are in control. There
Speaker 1: is a light switch. The room is fully powered. You
Speaker 1: can flip on the lights. You can walk outside, you
Speaker 1: can walk in the woods. But the idea is to
Speaker 1: put yourself in the uncomfortable and live in the uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: And what Aaron was saying, and what others that do
Speaker 1: this say is it is working on those six inches
Speaker 1: between the ears. It's about putting yourself in the uncomfortable
Speaker 1: and not reaching for your phone, reaching for food, reaching
Speaker 1: for exercise, reaching for whatever that breaks that uncomfortability. You
Speaker 1: got to live in it and sit in it. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I get scared about if I do experiences like this,
Speaker 1: like what might break in my brain or something. That's
Speaker 1: what scares me a little bit. But then I also
Speaker 1: see what you're saying. Okay, I didn't know he could
Speaker 1: take a walk in the woods. That makes if I
Speaker 1: could get outside, although then I'd be afraid somebody to
Speaker 1: be in the woods. Anyway, This is also like we
Speaker 1: could really dig into how this is Like a huge
Speaker 1: part of this is how women are raised with so
Speaker 1: much more fear and instilled with fear and to be
Speaker 1: afraid than men are. Yeah, I mean, pretty valid point.
Speaker 1: The only other person I saw that did this was
Speaker 1: this guy that crossed Antarctica and has summited Everest twice.
Speaker 1: He goes there religiously and as seven day stints in
Speaker 1: this room. Okay, so would you do this? I think
Speaker 1: it would be interesting. And so you know a Aaron's look,
Speaker 1: he's thirty nine years old, he's done. He went down
Speaker 1: to Peru and did what hyahuasca? The psychedelic. Yeah, the psychedelic.
Speaker 1: So he's been known to do these things, and this
Speaker 1: is just another step as he's trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: by the way, if he's coming back to Green Bay,
Speaker 1: and if he does, he's due fifty nine point four
Speaker 1: million dollars. I don't have to sit one day in
Speaker 1: the dark to just come back and pick up sixty mils.
Speaker 1: But this is what Aaron has done to contemplate his
Speaker 1: future and put himself in that uncomfortable position. He is
Speaker 1: an interesting guy. So would you do this? I have
Speaker 1: been to a silent monastery, you have. Okay, look at this.
Speaker 1: The mystery unfolds. I did not know. I was on
Speaker 1: the board of my church. This was back in California.
Speaker 1: And you go up to this where the monks are
Speaker 1: in Santa Barbara, and you live in silence among the
Speaker 1: monks for one to three days. And so there are
Speaker 1: times that you speak when you're in prayer or whatever.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, the entire places in silence
Speaker 1: you have. You have no phone, no reception, We're not
Speaker 1: in the dark, and there are other humans around and
Speaker 1: you're eating, but that's it. So I think it's pretty liberating.
Speaker 1: It's pretty interesting. What did you take away from that?
Speaker 1: You just spent a lot of time and thought, But
Speaker 1: what did you takeaway? What did you learn about yourself
Speaker 1: or what did you what was your big takeaway that
Speaker 1: you would remember. I've always been a believer that you
Speaker 1: need to be comfortable with yourself, by yourself, within yourself.
Speaker 1: I've always believed that It's what honestly got me through
Speaker 1: the Bachelor and Batch rec because I traveled so much
Speaker 1: of the time by myself. I would often not go
Speaker 1: with the cast, so I would be by myself traveling
Speaker 1: for days, wouldn't speak to anybody, and became very comfortable,
Speaker 1: almost too comfortable with that. I think it's important to
Speaker 1: have that spirituality, to be able to go within yourself
Speaker 1: and be silent. It's a powerful thing. Well, this does
Speaker 1: I did do And first of all, I just I
Speaker 1: can't believe I never knew this. We've we've got to
Speaker 1: go on a long date and keep learning about each other. No,
Speaker 1: I did do the hiking retreat that I did in
Speaker 1: the fall, and I told you one of my takeaways
Speaker 1: from that. Now it was on a much smaller scale.
Speaker 1: We did these hikes every day, these twelve mile hikes,
Speaker 1: and if anybody follows me on Instagram, I was doing
Speaker 1: ten k a day, ten thousand steps a day to
Speaker 1: prepare for that. What I was preparing for was twelve
Speaker 1: miles a day of hiking. And on the last day,
Speaker 1: they purposely spaced us out on the hike so that
Speaker 1: we had to hike alone, that you couldn't walk and
Speaker 1: talk with somebody else, And so I hiked by myself
Speaker 1: for a couple hours. And actually that was a big
Speaker 1: learning moment for me, because something I do think I
Speaker 1: have to work on is like being okay in the silence,
Speaker 1: being okay with myself. I always think my mind goes
Speaker 1: crazy and I need to talk to people. And I
Speaker 1: did walk away from that thinking, wow, I enjoyed being
Speaker 1: by myself and I like experiences that push you to change.
Speaker 1: So I'm totally in for this. I have to say.
Speaker 1: What scared me about the Errand thing was the darkness.
Speaker 1: I couldn't be in the darkness for four days. That's
Speaker 1: what's interesting is and again there are breaks from it,
Speaker 1: but to be enveloped in that darkness and there is
Speaker 1: no reception, that's a lot. Although well, you made a
Speaker 1: good point, and I will say we were talking about
Speaker 1: this a little bit before the pod. You said, we
Speaker 1: do have to put in our minds the perspective that
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, the level of fame he has, the level
Speaker 1: of money, he's like got it, Like you said, figure
Speaker 1: out what he wants. He might need some silence. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of step out a lambeau Field where there
Speaker 1: are hundreds of thousands of people screaming and yelling, you know,
Speaker 1: and to break away from that and just be quiet.
Speaker 1: I respect that. He's a very interesting guy. I've met
Speaker 1: Aaron on a number of occasions. The first time I
Speaker 1: met him, this is true story, really bizarre. I was
Speaker 1: at Bellair Country Club in LA playing golf with a
Speaker 1: friend of mine and he says, hey, do you mind
Speaker 1: if this other guy joins us. It was Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: This is pre Jojo and Jordan being on the show.
Speaker 1: He was dating Olivium on He says, hey, I had
Speaker 1: a bizarre connection to oliviam On through Oklahoma, and she said, Yo,
Speaker 1: she speaks highly of you. We love the show, we
Speaker 1: watch it. He was a pretty religious watcher of The Bachelor.
Speaker 1: He and oliviam On and we talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about it and all that had had a good time.
Speaker 1: Flash forward a year later Jojo season of The Bachelorette.
Speaker 1: Jordan Rodgers his brother. It kind of comes to light
Speaker 1: that he is estranged from his family. He doesn't speak
Speaker 1: to Jordan or his family, and we kind of blew
Speaker 1: up Aaron's life a little bit in that regard. Then
Speaker 1: I see him at another Gulf event at and T
Speaker 1: Pebble Beach. We're up at Pebble and I specifically sought
Speaker 1: him out when we were private and there were no
Speaker 1: cameras around. I didn't know if he was going to
Speaker 1: choke me out, punch me whatever. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: are we okay because I kind of blew your life up?
Speaker 1: And he says, none, no, man, We're all good. Don't
Speaker 1: worry about it, and he was actually very generous and
Speaker 1: kind about it. I see these two sides of him,
Speaker 1: and I find it very interesting in your take on this.
Speaker 1: I love Jordan Rodgers. I like Aaron Rodgers. They're both
Speaker 1: good guys. Yeah, you know, Aaron's a little eccentric and
Speaker 1: little you know, kookie, but who cares. He's not hurting anybody.
Speaker 1: So I find it interesting that if I didn't know
Speaker 1: them as brother and I was at a bar with
Speaker 1: Jordan Rodgers and Aaron walked in, I would get up,
Speaker 1: give Aaron a high five, give him a hug, and say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: come meet this guy. Jordan. He's a quo. He played
Speaker 1: he played football as well, and you should talk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: y'all should talk. You're really going to connect. If you
Speaker 1: took away what they are angry, whatever happened, they would
Speaker 1: actually probably be friends if they ran into each other.
Speaker 1: I just I thought of that as very odd. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean we have to remember we don't know what
Speaker 1: we don't know. There's probably there's history, so many layers
Speaker 1: to that and things that have happened that we have
Speaker 1: no idea about, even though we know and love Jojo
Speaker 1: and Jordan. Yeah, gosh, it's so hard because family estrangements
Speaker 1: are something that I don't think we talk about that
Speaker 1: much in our culture. It has this kind of faux
Speaker 1: paw to it and get So many people I know,
Speaker 1: including myself, have like family members that they don't talk
Speaker 1: to or haven't seen or are estranged from. And the
Speaker 1: thing that's tough about family is, on the one hand,
Speaker 1: you think to yourself, well, gosh, it's family, you know,
Speaker 1: can't you just work it out. Can't we put it
Speaker 1: aside whatever it was and figure it out. And then
Speaker 1: on the other hand, our family, these are not people
Speaker 1: who we choose, you know, your friends or people you choose,
Speaker 1: your family you're born into. And just because someone's your
Speaker 1: family member doesn't mean you're going to get along with them.
Speaker 1: So I see both sides of it. I also wonder
Speaker 1: sometimes maybe and hopefully you know, there's a time heals
Speaker 1: all wounds. Factor. Our familial relationships are so long in
Speaker 1: our lives, and I don't think any family member can
Speaker 1: go through years and years without having a fight or
Speaker 1: an issue, although you and I talk about that a lot.
Speaker 1: I fight with my family so much more than Chris doesn't.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's interesting. I wonder, I wonder if
Speaker 1: anything will ever change there, because everybody in that situation
Speaker 1: seems great. Um, although you know, we certainly don't know, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't know the real score. Yeah, yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: not for us to know unless they want to come
Speaker 1: on the show. And I'll have them both on and
Speaker 1: let's patch this. Let's bring this family back together. Another
Speaker 1: major headline that hit this week that hit close to
Speaker 1: home literally in figurative. Where did it hit? Hit? Honestly
Speaker 1: a little bit below the belt. This headline hits a
Speaker 1: little bit below the belt. My old friend Dean, Dean
Speaker 1: Anglert from Bachelor, Bachelor, Paradise fame. I think Dean's most
Speaker 1: known for Bachelor and Paradise. Yes, don't you remember Dean
Speaker 1: was like, I mean he and Kaylin are together now.
Speaker 1: But yeah, wasn't Dean the original? He was like the
Speaker 1: start of all that f boy stuff. Yeah, but his
Speaker 1: hometown really made news. That's on the show too during
Speaker 1: the Bachelorette he was. But regardless, Dean now engaged to Klin.
Speaker 1: This we're going from like one eccentric story in one
Speaker 1: of centric guy to the next because Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 1: Dean are a little bit similar in that way, the quirkiness,
Speaker 1: Like right now we would be talking to Dean about
Speaker 1: this story we're about to talk about, except he's an Antarctica. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: you couldn't get a hold of him because he's an Antarctica.
Speaker 1: You actually tried to get in touch with him, right,
Speaker 1: He's always in a van somewhere. He's in a van
Speaker 1: somewhere way south of the border anyway. So the story
Speaker 1: is this, Dean went on a podcast and was saying
Speaker 1: how he feels it shouldn't be just incumbent upon the
Speaker 1: woman for now. I think it started with Kaylin, just
Speaker 1: to be clear. Kaylin went on their podcast and said
Speaker 1: that Dean has told her he doesn't think the birth
Speaker 1: control should all fall on the woman, and so he
Speaker 1: thinks maybe he should get of a sectomy now because
Speaker 1: they're not ready to have kids yet, and then it
Speaker 1: would he would just undo it and get a reversal
Speaker 1: when it's time to have kids. Now, I think he's
Speaker 1: taken this a little further now and actually spoken to
Speaker 1: a doctor about it. But Dean, that is not the
Speaker 1: birth control you're looking for. There are others at the pharmacy.
Speaker 1: There's a whole aisle where you can put things on
Speaker 1: where things Okay, wait, I have to call you out
Speaker 1: on this right now. I think that what Dean's saying
Speaker 1: is very right, It is all in the woman, I
Speaker 1: will say, and I haven't. If Dean's had a conversation
Speaker 1: with the doctor, I haven't listened to that. My first
Speaker 1: reaction was, Okay, wait, I gotta go research this because
Speaker 1: I mean, if a sectum, he's a pretty serious surgery, right,
Speaker 1: and how and most importantly, how successful are the reversals,
Speaker 1: because you don't want to go have a surgical procedure
Speaker 1: where you might then never be able to have kids.
Speaker 1: But I will say that, Okay, for example, I know
Speaker 1: a lot of women who have IDs getting an IUD,
Speaker 1: and I don't have one. But getting an IUD, from
Speaker 1: what I've heard from all my good friends, is so painful.
Speaker 1: It is. I mean, I have had women say that
Speaker 1: they think you should go on they wish they'd gotten
Speaker 1: to go under for it because it's super painful. And
Speaker 1: so that's not nothing. And women taking birth control pills
Speaker 1: every day for months or years of their lives, that
Speaker 1: comes with major risks. I mean, it's hard. There's birth control,
Speaker 1: while so important, every option comes with the downside. Dean's
Speaker 1: not wrong, but he's also not right. Okay, why don't
Speaker 1: you just tell everybody just be real? Chris Harrison about
Speaker 1: why you said it hits below the best. This is
Speaker 1: an operation I'm I'm very familiar with. I went through
Speaker 1: this operation post my two kids, so I've been there
Speaker 1: and done that. And the operation itself not a big deal. Really,
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't say that that way, but it's not.
Speaker 1: It's really not a big deal. How do you mean
Speaker 1: it just it's not it's not painful, it's not that uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: It's just you get it done. It's i mean, probably
Speaker 1: took thirty forty five minutes. They put a little booboo
Speaker 1: strip on you and you go. You know, they pull
Speaker 1: your vast deference two about they cut it, they carterize it.
Speaker 1: And here's the problem. I also know people who have
Speaker 1: gotten reversals. The reversal is painful, it is much more
Speaker 1: of a laborious project. I'm not a doctor. I have
Speaker 1: played one on TV for twenty years, but I'm not
Speaker 1: a doctor. But I do know plenty of people because
Speaker 1: I am of that age where a lot of my
Speaker 1: friends have done this, some have gotten reversals. Yes, it hurts,
Speaker 1: and the pain thing, it's not a big deal. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying don't do it for the pain, but it's
Speaker 1: also not. It's not. And I know I don't know
Speaker 1: what the averages are. I don't know what the percentages are.
Speaker 1: But I know two guys that I talked to this
Speaker 1: week I played golf with. Both tried to have reversals.
Speaker 1: Both did not work. One had to go in twice
Speaker 1: and the other guy just didn't work. There's a famous broadcaster, sportscaster.
Speaker 1: He tried to get a reversal. He told me about it.
Speaker 1: So it is much it's a much more intensive project
Speaker 1: to try. And because when they cut your vast deference
Speaker 1: tubes and they literally carterize it, you're smoking. It's like
Speaker 1: think of a welder. They're welding it shut. So they
Speaker 1: got to find those two water and connect them. So
Speaker 1: it's not just as easy as hey, I'm gonna cut
Speaker 1: these Yeah, I'm gonna turn the spicket off for a
Speaker 1: little bit and then we'll turn it back on when
Speaker 1: we want to have kids. So I again, Dean, you're
Speaker 1: not wrong. I appreciate what he's saying, and you're right.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't just be on the woman, and it shouldn't
Speaker 1: be that you can't go through a little uncomfortable pain
Speaker 1: or whatever to get this done and be there. But
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're right in this is the
Speaker 1: correct path for you if you really want to have
Speaker 1: kids soon. So when you were saying, Dean, there are
Speaker 1: other methods of birth control available, what you were trying
Speaker 1: to say A condom? Okay, I mean put on a condom.
Speaker 1: They got lots of them. It's just an easier way
Speaker 1: to go. Well, look, I was doing some light googling. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm no expert, but I saw one doctor talking about
Speaker 1: how like eighty five percent success right on the reversals,
Speaker 1: which is high, but still do you want it to
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're if you've never had kids and
Speaker 1: you're doing this as your birth control method, it sounds
Speaker 1: like you would not want to go to the sectomy
Speaker 1: route when you're you'd then only have an eighty five
Speaker 1: percent chance of If you had told me when I
Speaker 1: was twenty five, twenty whatever, when I knew I was
Speaker 1: going to have children, that I wanted to have children,
Speaker 1: that was a part of my life plan, if you
Speaker 1: had said, hey, go through this, it's going to knock
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty percent off your chance of having a kid.
Speaker 1: It's already kind of difficult enough for many couples to
Speaker 1: have children. As you know, that's not knocking. Fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty percent off is a big deal, Like, that's not
Speaker 1: not a percentage I would be willing to take. Well, everyone,
Speaker 1: you know, we thought we were talking about Dean and
Speaker 1: his dramatic headlines, but now Chris Harrison has revealed he
Speaker 1: had a vasectomy. And on that note, we're gonna snip
Speaker 1: this and take a break. When we come back talking
Speaker 1: to Farmer Wants a Wife host Jennifer Nettles, I will
Speaker 1: not bring up my vasectomy. And one of the farmers,
Speaker 1: Hunter Grayson, going to join me on the show. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back. Welcome back to the most dramatic podcast ever.
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison here. The new show on Fox is Farmer
Speaker 1: Once a Wife. The new host is Country icon Jennifer Nettles.
Speaker 1: A move I didn't see coming, but a move I love.
Speaker 1: And she joins us now on the pod. Jennifer, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for being here, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: We are you? Are you in Nashville? No, I'm home.
Speaker 1: I'm in New York. Oh, New York. New York is home.
Speaker 1: New York is home. Really not a Southern girl, Well
Speaker 1: a southern girl at heart where I lay my head
Speaker 1: happens to be in the big city. We're down here
Speaker 1: in Austin, Texas. So we love our country music. And
Speaker 1: I have been a huge fan of admirer of you
Speaker 1: in your music. But I love seeing you on Farmer
Speaker 1: One's a Wife. My one nitpick about the show not
Speaker 1: enough Jennifer Nettles, You know what, That's what I said too.
Speaker 1: This show is great, but I'm just gonna get a
Speaker 1: little more me. I'm glad. I'm glad you feel that way,
Speaker 1: you know what. I'm producers, if you're listening, hey here,
Speaker 1: from one reality show host to another, it's probably just
Speaker 1: triggering to me because I fought those battles every day
Speaker 1: as well. Do you guys realize how funny I was?
Speaker 1: That's right, don't you know? Don't you know? Yeah? But one,
Speaker 1: but one thing I really do want to see more of,
Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll get there, and I've only seen the
Speaker 1: first episode was this relationship, and I'm curious. I had
Speaker 1: a very interesting relationship with the Bachelor Bacherette because I
Speaker 1: had one person to worry about, and that was something
Speaker 1: that we fostered in the whole show was about one person.
Speaker 1: You're obviously dealing with four farmers across the country. Not
Speaker 1: so easy for you. So how was your relationship with
Speaker 1: the four farmers and how did you feel you were
Speaker 1: being used in that way? So the format is obviously
Speaker 1: a bit different than what you describe in your experience,
Speaker 1: and for good reason, because there are four different farmers.
Speaker 1: That being said, the majority of my interaction and connection
Speaker 1: was when everyone came together. Yeah, and we came together
Speaker 1: every episode for these big social events. Okay, so that
Speaker 1: was the majority of my interaction, which was I considered
Speaker 1: I consider myself more like a fairy godmother kind of
Speaker 1: role where I get that yeah right, you know where
Speaker 1: I come in, and I like pat them on the
Speaker 1: especially for the guys, especially for the guys in this scenario,
Speaker 1: because these are four guys. They are they are real
Speaker 1: life farmers. They are they have dedicated their lives to
Speaker 1: their work, which means where farming is concerned, it is
Speaker 1: very demanding. And they live in small towns, you know.
Speaker 1: The joke that they've made is like, look, I know
Speaker 1: all the women in this town and I'm related to
Speaker 1: half of them, So like, what's a guy to do? Um?
Speaker 1: So that being said, that then you put them in
Speaker 1: this environment where they've never had, you know, possibly one
Speaker 1: woman on their farm, much less a whole group of them. Okay,
Speaker 1: and there's cameras, and it's as as delicate of a
Speaker 1: subject as love. So it's super exposing and super vulnerable.
Speaker 1: So these guys needs the couragement, Like, all right, they're
Speaker 1: also really good freaking guys, Chris, here's here's there. They're
Speaker 1: like really nice people, so they don't want to hurt
Speaker 1: anybody's feelings. So the entirety of the time, it's just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I know you don't want to hurt anybody's feelings and
Speaker 1: say that you have more of a connection with one
Speaker 1: than the other. But you can't live forever on your
Speaker 1: farm with eight women. I'm sorry, Like it's you just can't.
Speaker 1: Well did you notice that that change, because obviously that's
Speaker 1: something that each Batcher and Batchette has the toughest time with.
Speaker 1: It's oddly those early we call them rose ceremonies, by
Speaker 1: the way, what did you guys call them? That? The
Speaker 1: hay bale ceremony, the round up? Well, and there isn't
Speaker 1: that that's another that's another distinction that it's not the same.
Speaker 1: There really isn't a ceremonial moment. It can happen at
Speaker 1: any point in the show. I was just wondering what
Speaker 1: you guys called it early on as everybody got together. Um,
Speaker 1: but I did you find that, not that they've become
Speaker 1: more calloused, but you almost become better at breaking up
Speaker 1: because you realize at the end of the day, like
Speaker 1: you said, you're not going to have eight wives, You're
Speaker 1: not going to have that many, So you are there
Speaker 1: to meet one. You're there to meet the love of
Speaker 1: your life. Did you find it got easier for them?
Speaker 1: Were you able to facilitate that better as time went on?
Speaker 1: I found that it did get easier. I found that
Speaker 1: at the very least, I think they became more comfortable.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would say easy, but they
Speaker 1: definitely became more comfortable and more experienced slash more practiced
Speaker 1: at realizing Like, look, guys, there is a timeline structure here.
Speaker 1: I know it is a reality show, but the the
Speaker 1: you know it is we do have a show to make, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm curious. Obviously, great call by Fox and by the
Speaker 1: production team to call you to do this. You are
Speaker 1: a natural fit. What made you want to do it
Speaker 1: because obviously you have the sky's a limit for your
Speaker 1: your career. You're crushing it in the country music world
Speaker 1: when they call you, what was it about this that
Speaker 1: you said, Yeah, you know what, I'm going to go
Speaker 1: do reality t You know, I've done a little bit
Speaker 1: of it here and there before. But really, for me,
Speaker 1: what got me with this show is, you know, as
Speaker 1: a as an artist, as a storyteller, I love telling stories,
Speaker 1: and I love and as a romantic, I love a
Speaker 1: love story. Okay, so who doesn't. So this I really
Speaker 1: as I had learned more about the concept and saw,
Speaker 1: you know, a few of the episodes from other shows
Speaker 1: in other countries that they've done, I really felt like,
Speaker 1: this is my opportunity to facilitate someone else's love story,
Speaker 1: and I love being that kind of observer. For me
Speaker 1: as an artist, I definitely pull from that, you know, observationally,
Speaker 1: but to get to actually be a part of it
Speaker 1: with someone, even if it's just adjacent, I felt like
Speaker 1: that was a really fun opportunity. Well, and you've been
Speaker 1: in the trenches before. You have loved publicly, you have lost,
Speaker 1: you've been divorced, you've been remarried, so you have been
Speaker 1: on that coaster ride, which I think is important as
Speaker 1: a host because you have to truly be empathetic and
Speaker 1: understand what are these people looking for, what are they
Speaker 1: scared of, what are they afraid of in all of this,
Speaker 1: So it makes you a better host. Oddly, the crazier
Speaker 1: stuff you've been through personally. Yeah, I mean, and I
Speaker 1: don't even know if I would says it's the crazier
Speaker 1: because when we look at the majority of people, you
Speaker 1: just life, it's just like it's just for people. But
Speaker 1: I will say, you know, the more challenging and therefore
Speaker 1: on the other side of it enriching. I think that
Speaker 1: does add a patina, or it adds a level of
Speaker 1: grounding where you're able to then offer something experientially that
Speaker 1: feels authentic to someone who might be searching and struggling
Speaker 1: within that kind of scenario where love is concerned. So
Speaker 1: I said the same thing. I oddly was hired because
Speaker 1: I was married and had a child at the time.
Speaker 1: But I felt like I became a better host once
Speaker 1: I got divorced and realized, oh, this is what's out there,
Speaker 1: this is how hard it is to date. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: also I think you know, it's just the older I get, Chris,
Speaker 1: the more I realize that I have gone into way
Speaker 1: darker caves and therefore come out way more enriched, with
Speaker 1: way more skills than I ever did in my youth. Right,
Speaker 1: And not to say because at the time everything feels
Speaker 1: you know, when you're geting it, everything feels big. But
Speaker 1: as I look back, the stakes as we get older,
Speaker 1: become higher and higher. But so do you know, so
Speaker 1: do the rewards. And so I feel like, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's valuable, man. And that's what's beautiful because we start
Speaker 1: seeing that in your music, you start seeing it in
Speaker 1: your hosting skills, in your life. And I'm sure this
Speaker 1: has poured out into the pages of your music. Has
Speaker 1: there been some correlation or some kind of crossover into
Speaker 1: your music from all this and this experience? I mean,
Speaker 1: of course, I always you know, there are some there's
Speaker 1: some of my music that is confessional, there's some of
Speaker 1: it that is observational, there's some of it that is
Speaker 1: absolutely fictitious. Um. But but I but you know, as
Speaker 1: as an artist, we can't help but put our own
Speaker 1: parts of ourselves into it. I may not understand what
Speaker 1: a specific scenario is, but I definitely understand my version
Speaker 1: of what the emotion behind it is. So all of that,
Speaker 1: all of that life experience, for sure, it becomes what
Speaker 1: I draw from as a writer and as as a
Speaker 1: performer and as an artist or as a host, you know,
Speaker 1: all of it. We pull from all of it. It
Speaker 1: is interesting and I'm curious about your your idea of
Speaker 1: what it was going to be like to host a
Speaker 1: reality show and what it turned out to be. We know,
Speaker 1: I did a little bit of it with this show
Speaker 1: back what eleven years ago, UM called Duets very different.
Speaker 1: It wasn't it wasn't romance reality, it wasn't dating reality.
Speaker 1: It was like music competition reality. So I desert that
Speaker 1: I did go big show. I was a judge on that.
Speaker 1: Um so, so some of that live in the moment
Speaker 1: element of it. You know, I definitely love and can
Speaker 1: feed off of that. But but never having done um
Speaker 1: the dating shows and the romantic shows, I wasn't necessarily surprised,
Speaker 1: but I was happy to feel the connections that I
Speaker 1: did when I was like invested myself, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like, Oh, if I always felt if I cared,
Speaker 1: then the people watching are going to care. Well, there
Speaker 1: you go. And that's true. That's true because at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it's like we're all and I
Speaker 1: say this as a fan, whether I'm listening to music,
Speaker 1: watching television, a movie, or whatever it maybe we all
Speaker 1: want to see elements of our own humanity within that.
Speaker 1: So when when the person who is in the role
Speaker 1: as a host is invested, you can be invested too,
Speaker 1: especially if you trust that host. You know, and are
Speaker 1: you a big fan? Are you a big country fan?
Speaker 1: In that, do you try to see who's on the horizon,
Speaker 1: who's up and coming, or do you just listen to
Speaker 1: your old your old favorites, M a little bit of everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm you know, now because of social media,
Speaker 1: I definitely get more information about who's on the horizon.
Speaker 1: And with the way just simply with the way that
Speaker 1: those algorithms work, I know, with the way that the
Speaker 1: algorithms work, you know, they know what you like, they
Speaker 1: know what you listen to, and they're going to offer
Speaker 1: you some more of it that they think you're gonna like. Um,
Speaker 1: some of which I do and some of which I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm always watching my peers in terms of who they
Speaker 1: also might be championing um so a little bit of both.
Speaker 1: But I listen, I am definitely I'm going to age
Speaker 1: myself here when I say this, but I'm definitely of
Speaker 1: the age where, yeah, I love going back and listening
Speaker 1: to what I have always loved listening to, which which
Speaker 1: is who oh my god, so many. I mean like
Speaker 1: it depends like Linda Ronstad, uh Stevie Nicks, the Indigo Girls,
Speaker 1: Indigo Girls, all right, nineties baby right there, Oh, big time,
Speaker 1: big time, big time, you know, and then and on that.
Speaker 1: I could go off on a whole agent. We could
Speaker 1: get into RM, we could get into Tory Amos, we
Speaker 1: could get into we could go you liked a little
Speaker 1: alternative back in the day, Oh totally. You were like
Speaker 1: back into depeche Mode and Dran Durana you two, and
Speaker 1: loving all of it, Okay, new wave, old way, all
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, I was. I was into all that
Speaker 1: the cure forget about it. I mean, like loved, loved,
Speaker 1: but I love all music and I still do. I
Speaker 1: still do. But you know, in terms of when I
Speaker 1: think about country, then I would probably go back to
Speaker 1: the nineties too, you know, and I would look at
Speaker 1: the Shannias and the Faiths and the Dixie Chicks and
Speaker 1: you know, and and the Garths. Oh yeah, Martina McBride,
Speaker 1: we can go on nineties Ladies for forever. Trishi, Trisha
Speaker 1: Yearwood was killing it, when Kathy mattea Carpenter who I
Speaker 1: still love, Oh my god, Nancy Griffin, Patty Griffin. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's was there a place that when you it may
Speaker 1: not be like Madison Square Garden or someplace huge, but
Speaker 1: was there a place when you played there you thought
Speaker 1: I did it? Like this is the place, Like I'm
Speaker 1: here in Austin, Texas, so you know, whether it's Greenhall,
Speaker 1: maybe you play a cl live or there's just certain
Speaker 1: haunts around here that people play and you're like, this
Speaker 1: has always been the place for me? What what bar?
Speaker 1: What place was that for you? I mean I grew
Speaker 1: up cutting my teeth in a little listening room in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: really Decatur, Georgia called Eddie's Attic, and that place is
Speaker 1: a gem of a space. But it's tiny. It's like tiny, tiny, tiny,
Speaker 1: little listening room space. And that's where I started out.
Speaker 1: But so many artists continue to flock to that, you know,
Speaker 1: almost in pilgrimage. All that being said, for me in
Speaker 1: terms of what you know might be more well known,
Speaker 1: I would say a couple of things. Red Rocks for sure,
Speaker 1: Iconic um Sesame Street. Wow, Okay, didn't see that coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah when because I you know, I grew up watching
Speaker 1: Sesame Street and all of these artists that I loved
Speaker 1: were there. Okay, everybody, James Tabe, You're right, everybody. And
Speaker 1: so when I got on Sesame Street, I just I
Speaker 1: don't know, it held such meaning to me. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that sounds no, No, I love that answer,
Speaker 1: but it's true. So so I and that shows also
Speaker 1: to the spectrum in this wide, wild career that you know,
Speaker 1: everything from Red Rocks to you know, to to Sesame
Speaker 1: Street is just wild. I think Kennedy Center Honors was
Speaker 1: huge for me when I I got to honor. I
Speaker 1: got to perform on that twice, one honoring um Neil
Speaker 1: Diamond and the other Bruce Springsteen. I just saw him
Speaker 1: here in Austin last week at the Moody Center, seventy
Speaker 1: three years old and just killing it, killing the game,
Speaker 1: I mean crushed it. And the King, George Strait is
Speaker 1: the one who came on and introduced him. It was
Speaker 1: a great night. Oh my god. So I now that
Speaker 1: I know your musical taste, was Red Rocks a big
Speaker 1: deal for you because of the YouTube video? Totally? Totally.
Speaker 1: I wanted the smoke, the red, all of it, all
Speaker 1: of it. That's funny. Go back, kids, go google YouTube
Speaker 1: and Red Rocks and the famous video. That's that's very funny.
Speaker 1: So one thing about hosting a reality show like Pharmer
Speaker 1: once a wife, your love life and your private life
Speaker 1: becomes more open, or at least that's what people expect, right,
Speaker 1: So have you found that? Have you found a lot
Speaker 1: more interviews? People are asking because you seem to be
Speaker 1: a little private about your love life this go around private. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm super private about it. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: while you know, I have some things that are protectively
Speaker 1: off limits for me, myself, my heart is very open,
Speaker 1: so you know, where sharing the matters of the heart
Speaker 1: without trying to get into like weird celebrity details that
Speaker 1: people just want to know, which I don't even want
Speaker 1: to know that about other people, but okay, some people do.
Speaker 1: I definitely feel open when I share. When I share
Speaker 1: it from that context, you know what I'm saying from
Speaker 1: the context of But did that change. You were married
Speaker 1: once before, were you more open in that affair relationship
Speaker 1: than your second marriage? Like, did you learn something from
Speaker 1: that first one where you're like, Okay, next time, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna kind of keep the door a little closed. No,
Speaker 1: I mean the ways that it's happened for me over
Speaker 1: my career where where that you know, that graph of
Speaker 1: my personal life and my work life I've intersected. The
Speaker 1: timing of it has been such that I've I've never
Speaker 1: been one to be super out there in terms of
Speaker 1: my private life. I just feel like, you know, for me,
Speaker 1: I put myself into my work so much, and the
Speaker 1: people that I love I want to protect them and
Speaker 1: they don't need to be subjected to that. And I've
Speaker 1: always been like that. To see what's next for you
Speaker 1: so much friend, um always always fingers popping. I mean
Speaker 1: I have. I just announced this last week. I'm in
Speaker 1: the movie The Exorcist. I just got no way in
Speaker 1: terms of my acting yep, yep. So I'm always congratulations,
Speaker 1: thank you, And it's a it's a it's a key role.
Speaker 1: And I can't say a ton about it because they
Speaker 1: just announced it and they're trying to keep everything else
Speaker 1: under wraps, but it's it's I can't wait for everybody
Speaker 1: to see it. And it has been so enriching and rewarding,
Speaker 1: so we get to see a dark side of Jennifer Nettles.
Speaker 1: M I love it. And then what else, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm working on a musical that I've been working on
Speaker 1: for years. It has become Chris what I call my
Speaker 1: great White Whale. It is my Mobe Dick. Okay, I
Speaker 1: am obsessed. I am, and it's too at critical mass
Speaker 1: right now where it's it's I've spend most of my
Speaker 1: creative time on that. So you've reached that tipping point.
Speaker 1: We're doing this. This is going oh yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's happening, and it's like, you know, it has picked
Speaker 1: up momentum as it has started to circle. So it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: like it is. It's it's getting ready for whatever the
Speaker 1: next phase is. But it is definitely that's been a
Speaker 1: long and rewarding process and by nature, those are quite
Speaker 1: timely to right. So those are those are a couple
Speaker 1: of things. Obviously righteous gemstones on HBO that I do.
Speaker 1: We finished our third season that should be out I
Speaker 1: think the summer. Maybe, I don't know. If they've announced
Speaker 1: when that's happening. But yeah, so a few things coming
Speaker 1: up and then play a little country music on the
Speaker 1: side and host a reality show. Been a little bit
Speaker 1: of country music and yep, I'll be in your homes
Speaker 1: every night that you will, I don't know, click it
Speaker 1: or stream it. Jennifer, we have never had the pleasure
Speaker 1: of meeting, and I'm so glad you took the time
Speaker 1: to come on. You are an absolute gem and I really,
Speaker 1: honestly I mean this. I really enjoyed you on Farmer
Speaker 1: Wants a Wife. I think you did a great job.
Speaker 1: You fit in for someone who's I know you've kind
Speaker 1: of dabbled in it, but to step into that role
Speaker 1: it's not easy, and it's easy to look like a
Speaker 1: fish out of water, and you didn't. You look really
Speaker 1: comfortable you That means a lot coming from you, Chris,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Really enjoyed it. So thank you
Speaker 1: for being here. And I look forward to what's next.
Speaker 1: And I'll see you on Broadway then, Yes you will,
Speaker 1: Yes you will, my friend. Thank you, all right, take
Speaker 1: care of Jennifer, you too, Jennifer Nettles. What an absolute dream, sweet, talented, incredible,
Speaker 1: The host of Farmer Wants a Wife. Farmer Wants a Wife.
Speaker 1: There's four cowboys in there. Coming up next. One of
Speaker 1: those cowboys, Hunter Grayson, is going to join us right
Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back to the most dramatic podcast ever.
Speaker 1: Chris Harrison and we just talked to the amazing Jennifer Nettles,
Speaker 1: the host of Farmer Wants a Wife. Well, I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk to one of the farmers. What was it
Speaker 1: like to be one of the four joining us from
Speaker 1: I assume Georgia, Hunter Grayson. He's out there on the farm. Hunter.
Speaker 1: How are you doing, Bud? I'm doing pretty good. How
Speaker 1: are you doing? If anybody thinks that this show is
Speaker 1: not legit, trust me. I've been waiting on Hunter for
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes because I don't know where you are. But
Speaker 1: he has no service. He has no wireless internet. The
Speaker 1: poor guy can't even get in to do a podcast.
Speaker 1: I had some cows get out telling him I had
Speaker 1: a podcast. Apparently not a good enough excuse for the bovine.
Speaker 1: They didn't seem to care at all about the fact
Speaker 1: that you had an interview to do. Hey man, congratulations,
Speaker 1: it's really good to meet you. Watch the first episode
Speaker 1: and really had a lot of fun. As a Texas guy,
Speaker 1: I relate to this show as I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people in the Heartland will. What was your first
Speaker 1: take when you heard about the concept and how did
Speaker 1: you get involved? Did someone initially bring you up or
Speaker 1: did you actually go and try this out yourself? Initially
Speaker 1: I was approached for being on the show, and you know,
Speaker 1: at the time, I was single and just there hadn't
Speaker 1: been a whole lot of luck in the dating world
Speaker 1: prior to and so you know, but you know all two, Well,
Speaker 1: so I'll just kind of like, why not try it
Speaker 1: on TV? Yeah, well, it reminded me of I used
Speaker 1: to host a show called The Bachelor, and we did
Speaker 1: a season with this guy, Chris Souls, who was a
Speaker 1: farmer out in Iowa. And I went to his house
Speaker 1: and so I know, when you say you are out there,
Speaker 1: you guys are out there. I mean, where is the
Speaker 1: next big town from your house? If you got in
Speaker 1: a car right now you wanted to go have a
Speaker 1: good meal, how far are we driving? Oh, you wanted
Speaker 1: an average meal, you could go the Athens, Georgia. It's
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes for me. Atlanta's about an hour, So well,
Speaker 1: actually Atlanta's an hour from Atlanta, so it just depends
Speaker 1: on drafting. So not easy for a guy like you
Speaker 1: to find love, no, sir, And they bring you on
Speaker 1: this show, And what was the process like at first?
Speaker 1: Because I know you guys did some whittling down before
Speaker 1: that first episode. How many women did they show you?
Speaker 1: What was your process like going through and trying to
Speaker 1: figure out that initial eight that you started with. Oh goodness, Uh,
Speaker 1: that was pretty grueling. If I'm gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: straightforward and honest. It's We were presented with some profiles
Speaker 1: of some just stunning ladies, and we kind of got
Speaker 1: a little brief bio about them and where they were from,
Speaker 1: and just you know, just kind of got kind of
Speaker 1: a foot in the door about who we might be meeting,
Speaker 1: and we had to sort through the ones that we
Speaker 1: thought were going to work better on our individual farms
Speaker 1: and ranches. And it was kind of, you know, almost
Speaker 1: like a dating profile that we sifted through originally and
Speaker 1: sorted it down to the ones we got to meet.
Speaker 1: And sparks flew from there. And you go from being
Speaker 1: single on your farm there in Watkinsville, Georgia, and now
Speaker 1: you have five women who you do not know and
Speaker 1: you really have never met other than the one speed
Speaker 1: dating moment, and you're gonna move them onto your farm. Well, Chris,
Speaker 1: I would say I've done crazier things in life, but
Speaker 1: I don't know that that would be the most truthful
Speaker 1: thing I've ever said. Yeah, it was a it's been
Speaker 1: an eye opening experiences U Thus far, it's been a
Speaker 1: phenomenal ride, and I'm just really looking forward to what
Speaker 1: it has laid ahead. What was the most awkward part?
Speaker 1: You know, because you know when on other shows there's
Speaker 1: a mansion, there's a resort, you know, it's it's a
Speaker 1: curated experience. This experience, you're going straight to the hometown,
Speaker 1: straight to Hunter's actual farm in his house. So what
Speaker 1: was the most awkward part of opening up your life
Speaker 1: like that to these ladies and national television. You know, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's a great question. It's I thought a lot about that,
Speaker 1: and I think that's that answer changes on a on
Speaker 1: the daily, but it um, you know, I let the
Speaker 1: ladies live in my house. I actually live in an
Speaker 1: apartment over the top of my bar, and I saw
Speaker 1: a barn minium, and I let the ladies live in
Speaker 1: my house. And I lived in my rodeo trailer, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, just a living quarters horse trailer, and that
Speaker 1: was a big adjust to me. I was. I moved
Speaker 1: from a you know, twenty two hundred square foot apartment
Speaker 1: to a eight by twenty foot long living quarters and
Speaker 1: my dog quickly kicked himself out of that and he
Speaker 1: decided to come live with the girls. Smart. That's a
Speaker 1: smart dog. I can't blame him. So can this work?
Speaker 1: Can we bring these city girls out to the farm
Speaker 1: and you truly find love this fish out of water
Speaker 1: kind of social experiment. You know, I have said at
Speaker 1: least one hundred thousand times stay tuned to find out,
Speaker 1: and I think i'd answer I have to answer that
Speaker 1: to myself with this, I will say with this show,
Speaker 1: and I'm not I don't have a whole lot of
Speaker 1: time to watch a lot of shows and whatnot. But
Speaker 1: I know, like you said, some other shows, they're going
Speaker 1: off to boor or boor or whatever around the world
Speaker 1: and basically going on on, you know, a vacation with
Speaker 1: the group of people that they're pursuing and then they
Speaker 1: have to come back to reality. This show really does
Speaker 1: put the real in reality, like they're not. We didn't
Speaker 1: go on some glamorous vacation to just go hang out
Speaker 1: for two months. This was these ladies put their life
Speaker 1: on hold and came out here. See what we do
Speaker 1: here out in the ranch. And what they didn't know
Speaker 1: they picked up quickly and we're at least willing to learn. Look,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure, I'm sure it's different for Alan and
Speaker 1: Ryan and Land and the other three farmers and cowboys
Speaker 1: in this show. But for you, what is a day
Speaker 1: in the life like you know? Whoever, if you end
Speaker 1: up with somebody, is their life? What can they expect
Speaker 1: on the daily? Um? Uh, A lot of early mornings,
Speaker 1: late nights and a lot of hard work in between.
Speaker 1: But it there's a lot of beauty in it. It's
Speaker 1: one of those professions. It's that it's not a profession,
Speaker 1: it's a lifestyle. It's uh a lifestyle that basically just
Speaker 1: takes over everything about you. You know that we've had
Speaker 1: good days, bad days, fun ones, tough ones, everything all
Speaker 1: in between. But there's there's so much beauty in the
Speaker 1: simplicity of certain aspects of it and the trials of
Speaker 1: the hard parts that it just averages it all out
Speaker 1: and it makes it just a beautiful, a beautiful way
Speaker 1: of life. And you know, I'm not gonna say whoever
Speaker 1: they or may not end up with is a lucky
Speaker 1: one or anything like that. I'll definitely be a lucky one.
Speaker 1: I'll be the lucky one based on the women on
Speaker 1: My Way exactly. It's something that I'm so excited to
Speaker 1: share with someone. It's a see you run a two
Speaker 1: hundred acre ranch, I mean legit cattle and horse rancher.
Speaker 1: Little known facts because we haven't really gotten to know
Speaker 1: you yet in those early episodes, but you play in
Speaker 1: a band called Hunter Grayson and the Hat Creek Band.
Speaker 1: So quick shout out to the boys. Jennifer. Jennifer Nettles
Speaker 1: Country Music Icon is the host of this show. You're
Speaker 1: in a band, You're a country boy. You love country music,
Speaker 1: it's in your blood. What was it like? I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a woman who you danced to her songs.
Speaker 1: That's right, That's right. It was when I walked through
Speaker 1: the barn door and saw her, I was just, you
Speaker 1: know where I'd heard that she was going to be
Speaker 1: the host, and I was already excited about that. But
Speaker 1: when you're just when you're standing there and you just
Speaker 1: you're hit by. I mean just she's just naturally a star,
Speaker 1: like I'm just I don't mean just on stage. She's
Speaker 1: just such a bright person and she made everything so
Speaker 1: enjoyable and as easy as it could be. I mean,
Speaker 1: there were a lot of difficult decisions, but just her
Speaker 1: her genuineness is like she just made everything so easy
Speaker 1: and so smooth, and she just had that good down
Speaker 1: home field. It made everything absolutely that much more enjoyable.
Speaker 1: You know, the band stuff cool, and so I just
Speaker 1: to be standing next to country music royalty like that
Speaker 1: was was a cool little depth in my step. Well,
Speaker 1: and I talked to her earlier, and I know it
Speaker 1: was difficult because we're talking about four cowboys at four
Speaker 1: different ranches around the country that aren't easy to get to,
Speaker 1: so she didn't get to spend a ton of time
Speaker 1: at each house. But was she able to impart some
Speaker 1: wisdom and kind of help you guys when y'all were
Speaker 1: all together. Yes, she offered so much wisdom and guidance,
Speaker 1: and she was there with us through every step, the
Speaker 1: fun times we had, the tough times we shared, and
Speaker 1: you know, it was we've really become a really close,
Speaker 1: close knit group and it felt a lot like family
Speaker 1: when you're making these tough decisions and everybody had each
Speaker 1: other's back and yeah, from the guys to the girls.
Speaker 1: I mean it was everything. Everybody was such a good team,
Speaker 1: a team player and just supporting each other and you
Speaker 1: know everybody's endeavors. It made everything truly a great experience.
Speaker 1: Be honest, did you slipper a demo tape and just say, hey,
Speaker 1: this is this is the Hat Creek Band. Just take
Speaker 1: a listen, tell me what you think. No, sir, I'm
Speaker 1: sure I'll kick myself later in life for that. But
Speaker 1: you know, I love the music, but I didn't want
Speaker 1: I didn't want this opportunity to be just like pushing
Speaker 1: towards my music. This was I'm not looking for a partner,
Speaker 1: business partner, you know, farmhand or anything like that, or
Speaker 1: a publicity deal. I'm looking for a partner in life,
Speaker 1: and I really wanted at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I'm a cattle wrencher. I happened to sing music, and
Speaker 1: I've had some success with that and it's been a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. But there's never been to be a
Speaker 1: song song, or a note played or a stage performed
Speaker 1: on that's going to keep me from missing my potential
Speaker 1: kids first steps. Your bandmates are going to kick your butt,
Speaker 1: but I appreciate the sentiment. Hunter. I'm glad I got
Speaker 1: to know you man. You are the real deal. And
Speaker 1: this show is too. Farmer Wants a Wife it's a
Speaker 1: it's a great look into the heartland into a bunch
Speaker 1: of working cowboys who are looking for love, and I
Speaker 1: wish you the best. I can't wait to see how
Speaker 1: this turns out for you. Thank you so much, Hunter Grayson.
Speaker 1: My thanks to Hunter and Jennifer Nettles for taking the
Speaker 1: time today. And if you want to see how Hunter, Alan, Ryan,
Speaker 1: and Land and all four cowboys do, I'll check out
Speaker 1: Farmer Wants a Wife. Good show, good social experiment there
Speaker 1: on Fox. Thank you for joining us and I cannot
Speaker 1: wait to talk to you next time on the Most
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