Speaker 1: It's in the news today, but it was actually on
Speaker 1: TV Reload the podcast last week that night.
Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome back to TV Reload.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for clicking and downloading on
Speaker 1: these episodes that I've been doing with the Farmer Wants
Speaker 1: a Wife series. Today we are finishing my interviews with
Speaker 1: Farmer Tom. This series has been the highest rating series
Speaker 1: of the show, and whilst I've noticed a lot of
Speaker 1: the fans talking about the high level of drama and
Speaker 1: some comparisons to Maps, I actually think it's great that
Speaker 1: so many people have been tuning in and watching the
Speaker 1: evolution of these farmers, you know, meet these girls and
Speaker 1: find true love. My guest today, Tom is twenty two
Speaker 1: years of age.
Speaker 2: He is a third.
Speaker 1: Generation cattle and crop farmer with a pragmatic approach to
Speaker 1: life and a genuine ability to laugh at himself, which
Speaker 1: I have really enjoyed watching. From running his own contracting
Speaker 1: business to partnering with his dad on the family farm,
Speaker 1: Tom's work, ethic and dedication is really second to none,
Speaker 1: with everyone from Samantha Armaitige the host, to Farmer Burt,
Speaker 1: one of his close friends, could affirming that he's a
Speaker 1: bit of an old soul and we really did get
Speaker 1: to see that. Along the way, I will talk about
Speaker 1: Tom's time on the show, from the awkward dinners where
Speaker 1: he needed to send people home worrying about the possible
Speaker 1: drama that could happen between the girls, and what he
Speaker 1: thinks of some of the women that are on the
Speaker 1: other farms. We will unpack his age and if he
Speaker 1: thought twenty two was too young to sign up for
Speaker 1: a show like this, including what he thought of some
Speaker 1: of the girls being a bit older that were picked
Speaker 1: for his farm, and if he had been attracted to
Speaker 1: older women in the past. Farmer Tom will discuss hiding
Speaker 1: the outcome with Sarah and what he thinks of all
Speaker 1: the rumors that keep surrounding this show. We will find
Speaker 1: out what his family thought of his final two girls
Speaker 1: and why they clashed over who he should choose in
Speaker 1: the end. There's actually so much to unpack with Farmer Tom,
Speaker 1: and I just want to quickly say thank you to
Speaker 1: everyone who has been listening to these chats this season.
Speaker 1: I've thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the farmers, and I've
Speaker 1: really appreciated all the comments that have been getting along
Speaker 1: the way as well. So yeah, sit back and relaxes.
Speaker 1: We unpacked the wonderful world of Farmer Wants a Wife.
Speaker 2: Hey, Tom, how are you good?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 1: Do you know It's so funny that I've been watching
Speaker 1: this series for so long and I've just been mistaking
Speaker 1: where you are, and I've zoomed in now on the
Speaker 1: maps to find out exactly where you are, and it's
Speaker 1: starting to make a little bit more sense that you
Speaker 1: ended up in the Bendigo Gazette.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because like our farm we kline of bought it
Speaker 3: to Bilk in the Gambi. Yeah, so I like my
Speaker 3: post codes to Builk. But yeah, like if anyone asked,
Speaker 3: I'd probably say in the Gambi sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, okay, all right, well that makes a little
Speaker 1: bit more sense. I'm my whole my partner's whole family.
Speaker 1: They live in Bendigo, So I spent a bit of
Speaker 1: time out sort of your way, but yeah, sort of
Speaker 1: putting a little bit more perspective as to whereabouts your base.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's best.
Speaker 2: How did you get yourself involved in a show like this?
Speaker 3: Well, a friend of mine signed me up for the show,
Speaker 3: or like kind of started the application and then I
Speaker 3: got contacted to like a casting and then yeah, I
Speaker 3: was kind of like should I do it? Then I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, heah, what's the worst that can happen.
Speaker 3: Then as we got more into it, yeah, I was
Speaker 3: just like, now this would be good.
Speaker 1: Well, you were a fan of the show, Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: this is what I always think, you know, looking at
Speaker 1: you on the show up to this point, I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't imagine you're sitting around watching Farmer
Speaker 1: Wance a Wife, but maybe it's your favorite show.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Oh well, like if I got home in time, I
Speaker 3: probably would have put it on and watched it. I've
Speaker 3: watched a very few of the seasons, Like I've never
Speaker 3: really watched the whole whole season back to back, But
Speaker 3: then I've watched plenty of it.
Speaker 1: I always think, as well, when you get asked to
Speaker 1: do a show like this and then it's about to
Speaker 1: come to crunch time, do you then go back and
Speaker 1: watch previous seasons? Did you start trying to bone up
Speaker 1: on you know, how you were.
Speaker 2: Going to play this?
Speaker 3: Oh? Not really, I'd probably fly. I'm pretty blind, to
Speaker 3: be honest. I had a bit of an understanding of
Speaker 3: what how it works and like what sort of to expect.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and I just kind of went into it.
Speaker 1: Was this dating show the best way for you to
Speaker 1: get out of your comfort zone, because like how long
Speaker 1: had you been single before taking this show on.
Speaker 3: I've probably been single like a year and a half
Speaker 3: maybe a year sort of thing. And yeah, yeah, like
Speaker 3: it was good in that sense, like because yeah, like
Speaker 3: I do work a lot, so like the only real
Speaker 3: place where i'd kind of meet people either like they
Speaker 3: work at the same place where I'm kind of working,
Speaker 3: or yeah, kind of like somewhere where I'm shopping.
Speaker 1: And why has it a relationship worked out for you
Speaker 1: in the past, Like why has your relationships ended when
Speaker 1: you've been in other with other girls?
Speaker 3: There's always been multiple like yeah, like different reasons. Like
Speaker 3: one the one that was probably the closest to going
Speaker 3: to work out, like it was a fair age gap,
Speaker 3: and yeah, there was like that just kind of yeah,
Speaker 3: like I was still quite young, so I was like
Speaker 3: we'll both just kind of like, yeah, this probably is
Speaker 3: going to work out a few others, like because I've
Speaker 3: worked a lot, they might want me to do things
Speaker 3: that I just kind of can't at that time year,
Speaker 3: and that always makes things challenging.
Speaker 1: Some years, you know, a few scandals fall off the wagon.
Speaker 1: You know, during and after the show. Were you worried
Speaker 1: about putting yourself on national television and having people scrutinize
Speaker 1: your life?
Speaker 3: Oh, like, I'm not that worried about that. Like anything
Speaker 3: anything that I've done, I'll just own it and be like, yeah,
Speaker 3: whatever had happened, Like there's no point yeah, kind of
Speaker 3: like trying to deny it. Like if it happened, it happened.
Speaker 3: You just try and grow as a person and do better.
Speaker 3: But no, like, yeah, I wasn't that worried about it.
Speaker 3: Like you've just kind of got a hope that no
Speaker 3: one kind of makes anything up that's not true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which people can do. I mean, people feel relevant
Speaker 1: both like they have information. So sometimes you know, people
Speaker 1: have this need to say something that maybe they think
Speaker 1: is true but isn't true, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: just to make themselves feel heard.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, definitely. And lies always travel faster than the.
Speaker 2: Truth, so it's usually a little bit more exciting. Yeah, usually, yeah,
Speaker 2: a little bit more scandalous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the truth can be quite worrying sometimes He's twenty.
Speaker 1: Two years old too young to be getting married, well, like,
Speaker 1: and I kind.
Speaker 3: Of like, yeah, plenty of people have said that, like,
Speaker 3: we don't get it's like we actually get married at
Speaker 3: the end of the show, like that's obviously the long
Speaker 3: term plan. But no, like, I still wouldn't say it's
Speaker 3: too young. Like, I know plenty of successful relationships that
Speaker 3: have got together at like nineteen twenty and if you
Speaker 3: go back forty fifty years and like a bit further,
Speaker 3: that's when they were getting together, Like they're married by
Speaker 3: eight a nineteen.
Speaker 1: I guess I was sort of curious about these getting
Speaker 1: married at a younger age still a thing in Central Victoria.
Speaker 3: I like, it's probably not the most common thing, but yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like anything, if you're going to Yeah, if you're
Speaker 3: open to it and going to make it work, I
Speaker 3: don't see why it can't happen. So as long as
Speaker 3: the kind of maturity levels there with both parties, they're like,
Speaker 3: I don't see the difference in the age sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Well, the other farmers and Samantha have been telling me
Speaker 1: each week that you're a bit of an old soul.
Speaker 1: I think that they think that you're not really this
Speaker 1: twenty two year old guy who hasn't got his shit
Speaker 1: together an actual fact, you're a bit like a thirty
Speaker 1: year old bloke in a twenty two year old's body.
Speaker 1: Is there any truth or how do you resonate with that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's probably true, and like really like normally when
Speaker 3: I kind of go and just getting around doing whatever,
Speaker 3: like everyone thinks I'm kind of like twenty seven kind
Speaker 3: of thirty two anyway, So yeah, I don't know, And
Speaker 3: all my friends are a lot older, like I wouldn't
Speaker 3: have any friends in my own age really, like they'd
Speaker 3: probably vary from like twenty seven to forty five sort
Speaker 3: of things.
Speaker 1: So, well, what's your relationship like with Farmer Burt? Because
Speaker 1: when I spoke to him, I said, you know, how's
Speaker 1: it all going, how's the ladies and what's it like
Speaker 1: with the other farmers? And he quickly circled, you know
Speaker 1: and singled you out and said how much he's really
Speaker 1: enjoyed having you there and going through this show together.
Speaker 1: What's what's the story there? What's the relationship between you
Speaker 1: and farmer Bird? Like, how have you connected?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, we get along really well, Like I don't know,
Speaker 3: kind of from the get go. We got on very
Speaker 3: well and like, yeah, I don't know, we probably talk
Speaker 3: on the phone every second day or something like now
Speaker 3: that it's kind of like the show is obviously over
Speaker 3: now and yeah, like yeah, I flew up and saw
Speaker 3: him a couple of weeks, probably a month or two
Speaker 3: ago now, yeah, and we talk a fair bit. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know, just kind of sometimes and you click
Speaker 3: with someone, you get along super quick.
Speaker 1: And I guess it's easy now because you both can
Speaker 1: watch the show and now you can put a face
Speaker 1: to some of the names, because I'm assuming if you
Speaker 1: were talking through filming, you probably would have been talking
Speaker 1: about the ladies that were on your farm.
Speaker 2: And then now you get to sort of see how
Speaker 2: it all.
Speaker 3: Unfolded exactly, and like I kind of knew, yeah, like
Speaker 3: we did. I've got to meet most of his girls.
Speaker 3: Like the first one that went home, I didn't get
Speaker 3: to meet her, Like I probably met her once, but
Speaker 3: you know, like not enough to actually get to know her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, true.
Speaker 3: And then the second one I don't really remember her.
Speaker 3: But then the last like three that he had, like yeah,
Speaker 3: like I got to know them quite well, Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: they're all pretty good, good people. So no, it's interesting
Speaker 3: to see like kind of like he'd be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: this happened, and you kind of can't really know exactly
Speaker 3: what happened, but no, it's good to be able to
Speaker 3: see it and kind of get some context of what
Speaker 3: we were talking about.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like with you that they did
Speaker 1: a good job of picking these girls, like some of
Speaker 1: the sets of girls to some of the farmers, I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit like, oh, I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: just thought, you know, they did a pretty good job
Speaker 1: of being able to I guess find out what you
Speaker 1: were interested in in a partner and finding them. What
Speaker 1: did you think of all of these women that were
Speaker 1: picked for you?
Speaker 3: Obviously, when you're trying to pick a partner for someone
Speaker 3: that you don't know, it's never going to be an
Speaker 3: easy job. But no, like they all did. Yeah, Like
Speaker 3: they're all very nice ladies and very respectful and time.
Speaker 3: So yeah, you probably couldn't have asked for a better
Speaker 3: group of girls in that way, that's for sure. They
Speaker 3: got along really well.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: That's the thing is, like, what's going to happen if
Speaker 1: these girls are all going to remain friends and you
Speaker 1: pick one of them? Are you going to be being well,
Speaker 1: this is a little bit awkward when you know she
Speaker 1: wants to go off and hang out with some of
Speaker 1: the other girls that you've probably made out with on
Speaker 1: the farm.
Speaker 3: Oh, I like, yeah, probably wouldn't have been like it's
Speaker 3: probably not ideal, but you know, like all the girls
Speaker 3: kind of left well enough that you could, Yeah, it
Speaker 3: wouldn't be a drama, like, yeah, I don't yeah, I
Speaker 3: can't see that ever been a problem, to be honest.
Speaker 1: How did you go sending them home? You know, sending
Speaker 1: some of these girls home? Was that stressful for you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely was an ideal because but you do
Speaker 3: kind of still care about the person. Yeah, kind of
Speaker 3: it's a hard situation because it's not like, yeah, like
Speaker 3: it hasn't come to like a natural ending. You've kind
Speaker 3: of just got to make that decision and stick with it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it definitely wasn't easy, and you know, like some took
Speaker 3: it very well and just kind of like thanks for
Speaker 3: letting us, like thanks for having a go and that
Speaker 3: sort of thing. But yeah, it definitely wasn't the most
Speaker 3: pleasant part of the experience, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: I just kept thinking about some of those dinners where
Speaker 1: you're all sitting there eating before you're about to send
Speaker 1: someone home. Are they as awkward in real life as
Speaker 1: they come across on screen?
Speaker 3: I think it's probably worth Yeah, it probably works because
Speaker 3: like they do take a long time because you kind
Speaker 3: of talk to each girl individually, so like, yeah, by
Speaker 3: the time you've kind of spoken to everyone and you've
Speaker 3: all sat there and like you know, like you obviously
Speaker 3: have to set up and that sort of thing, Like
Speaker 3: you've been there for a fair few hours, and yeah
Speaker 3: it is by the end of it. Yeah, you've been
Speaker 3: there for a long time, and it's quite awkward.
Speaker 1: Did you always know who you were sending home throughout
Speaker 1: those dinners? Like you left it up to the last
Speaker 1: minute to make a decision, or were you in sort
Speaker 1: of sitting there at the table trying to cover it up,
Speaker 1: you know, so that it would work for television and
Speaker 1: keep audiences guessing, like you kind.
Speaker 3: Of you don't always know you're obviously sitting there, you
Speaker 3: have like your talk with everyone and then you know
Speaker 3: kind of make your decision, like you might have had
Speaker 3: an idea beforehand, but yeah, like you know, anything can
Speaker 3: change in that sort of situation, Like probably just leave
Speaker 3: it a bit open until you've done what you had
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 1: Do you think that they knew? I'm always curious as
Speaker 1: to whether or not they're still sitting there thinking it's
Speaker 1: hope it's not me, or do you reckon that they've
Speaker 1: got a pretty clear idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't actually know, because, like obviously I never
Speaker 3: really went into that with them. They might think, oh,
Speaker 3: maybe it's me, and probably hopeful that it's not. That
Speaker 3: they're probably all in the same situation, like probably thinking
Speaker 3: because like obviously, most of the interactions are done on
Speaker 3: the dates you go on when you're on your own.
Speaker 3: Obviously the girls now happen on their own, but they
Speaker 3: don't know what's happened on a date with a different girl,
Speaker 3: so they're always going to be like, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't think they would know like that in some situations
Speaker 3: they might, but definitely not in all of them.
Speaker 1: I love it on reality TV as well that you
Speaker 1: were whispering goodbye it's Sarah A. But it's all on camera. So,
Speaker 1: like I was wondering, when you're whispering to the girls
Speaker 1: at times, is that because you don't want the other
Speaker 1: women to know, or are you hoping that whispering doesn't
Speaker 1: get picked up on the camera. What's it like filming
Speaker 1: the show? Do you sort of forget at times that
Speaker 1: you're always miked up?
Speaker 3: No, I know you kind of know that you're always
Speaker 3: miked up. And yeah, like if it was said quietly,
Speaker 3: it probably was just to kind of like fit the
Speaker 3: conversation that was happening. Yeah, Like nothing was there, Like
Speaker 3: I didn't do anything differently because it was cameras there, Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it would have just been done quietly because yeah, kind
Speaker 3: of how that mood was.
Speaker 1: You know, you were giving her some serious reassurance and
Speaker 1: I think, you know, maybe you were just trying to
Speaker 1: keep it down because the girls out the back would
Speaker 1: be like, well, why is he sending her home? But
Speaker 1: like it was a nice thing to do. I think
Speaker 1: it was sort of, you know, more gentlemanly to sort
Speaker 1: of say good on you, you'll find love and sorry
Speaker 1: it hasn't worked out, do you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like she's a lovely girl, Like she was very good,
Speaker 3: like always very happy, buddly. Yeah, you probably couldn't have
Speaker 3: asked for more of a nice person. I always wanted
Speaker 3: to do the right thing by her, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Now, what was the age difference between you and Chrissy.
Speaker 1: Was there a bigger age difference there?
Speaker 3: Oh, there is a bit, but I couldn't tell you
Speaker 3: exactly what it is because she.
Speaker 2: Was a bit older, right, so like I think she
Speaker 2: was like yeah, so I'd say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she's twenty nine. I mean, hit it
Speaker 1: you hit it off with Chrissy. But that age gap seemed,
Speaker 1: you know, it seems like it's quite big in comparison.
Speaker 1: I mean, in you're twenty two and she's twenty nine.
Speaker 1: Does that makes me want to ask you this question?
Speaker 1: Do you go for older women usually?
Speaker 3: I probably would. Yeah. Yeah, Like I'd nearly always go
Speaker 3: for an older, older girl. That's not to say that
Speaker 3: I wouldn't go if someone was younger or my own age.
Speaker 3: That's just kind of and it's probably more to do
Speaker 3: with how I've met people too.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 3: They're kind of at that career stage. They've been to university,
Speaker 3: they've studied, they've done all that sort of thing. So yeah,
Speaker 3: by the time they're kind of in the career where
Speaker 3: I'll meet them, they're kind of at that thirty years
Speaker 3: old twenty five. Well, it's probably more of the rate
Speaker 3: not gone for older people. And yeah, just kind of
Speaker 3: like the conversations we can have just to match that.
Speaker 1: I think maybe with you being a bit of an
Speaker 1: old soul, that you probably a little bit more suited
Speaker 1: to being with an older woman. I think that's probably
Speaker 1: a better match because you yourself seem to be a
Speaker 1: little bit wiser than your age.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I agree.
Speaker 1: And then the baby talk is something that really needed
Speaker 1: to be taken into consideration. Do you think that Chrissy
Speaker 1: might be wanting kids sooner and that might be a
Speaker 1: bit of a decision maker for you?
Speaker 3: Oh, Like, it's always something to think about, that's for sure. Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: like John, you obviously can't have children forever. It's definitely
Speaker 3: something you have to weigh into your decision. Yeah, like
Speaker 3: the conversation about having children was always going to have
Speaker 3: to happen.
Speaker 1: And why is it that you don't want children at
Speaker 1: this age? Are you planning them to have them in
Speaker 1: your thirties or what's the decision there with wanting to
Speaker 1: hold off on that?
Speaker 3: Oh like yeah, and like obviously i'd want to be
Speaker 3: with the person that I was considering having them with
Speaker 3: for a fair while, Like you want a good understanding
Speaker 3: of exactly who someone is and yeah, like, yeah, you
Speaker 3: don't want to have children with the wrong person, that's
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 1: And then you've got Sarah C who's from Western Australia.
Speaker 1: Do you think that that might be too much of
Speaker 1: a move, like their families so much further away. Is
Speaker 1: the fact that Sarah Ce is from a you know,
Speaker 1: a state so far away?
Speaker 2: Is that going to play into your decision making?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I would say that definitely will play into making
Speaker 3: the decision. Like, yeah, like it's a four or five
Speaker 3: hour flight or something like that, and like I'm still
Speaker 3: an hour and a half from the airport, so it
Speaker 3: turns it into a whole day sort of thing, just
Speaker 3: trying to get there or get back or yeah, and
Speaker 3: like obviously being so far from your family is never
Speaker 3: going to be easy. But yeah, like if that kind
Speaker 3: of who I ended up with, just have to try
Speaker 3: and make it work, I suppose, Like yeah, yeah, like
Speaker 3: you've got to be open to the option.
Speaker 1: Well, we get to see you introducing these girls to
Speaker 1: your family and friends, and you can see that family
Speaker 1: is important to you. What was your family's honest opinion?
Speaker 1: Did they seem to have a collective thought on one
Speaker 1: of the girls over the other oh, like I think.
Speaker 3: It was a bit of a split decision. Like, yeah,
Speaker 3: like my family did have a bit like it was
Speaker 3: a bit of a split decision. Like one of my
Speaker 3: friends that was there, she said that she thought Chrissy
Speaker 3: would be a better match, and then like, kind, I
Speaker 3: think my little brother agreed with her, And then like
Speaker 3: my mother and father probably thought Sarah might be a
Speaker 3: better fit. Yeah, it was a bit of a split decision,
Speaker 3: but they said, you know, like both would probably be
Speaker 3: a good match for you. And yeah, like my family
Speaker 3: probably just see a slightly different side to me than
Speaker 3: what my friends do. Like my friends probably see more
Speaker 3: of like who I am at work that sort of thing,
Speaker 3: whereas like my family obviously see more of what I'm
Speaker 3: like at home. So I can probably both just have
Speaker 3: different opinions of what I need in a person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think as well, like when you're with your friends,
Speaker 1: you've got like a bit of bravado. I mean, you
Speaker 1: can be quite close and they might have a better
Speaker 1: insight and some you know, compared to some friends friendship circles.
Speaker 1: But I guess your family always knows, you know, the
Speaker 1: most sensitive, the more real side to you at home,
Speaker 1: and would understand a companionship then how that might work
Speaker 1: out better than say, your friends exactly. Some may say
Speaker 1: that you've had a lot less drama on your farm.
Speaker 1: Have you been watching the show and having an opinion
Speaker 1: on what seems to be happening at the other farms,
Speaker 1: because for you it's all pretty easy, where for the
Speaker 1: other blokes it does seem like at times that they're
Speaker 1: a little bit out of their debts.
Speaker 3: Things on my farm were pretty smooth, Like all the
Speaker 3: girls got along really well, Like there wasn't much drama
Speaker 3: at all, So like I was probably lucky in that sense.
Speaker 3: And yeah, like obviously us blokes were catching up when
Speaker 3: we go to an event and talk about what have
Speaker 3: been going on, and now I'll just have to kind
Speaker 3: of say, yeah, I'm trying to get away with this
Speaker 3: pretty easily. But yeah, they definitely did have a lot
Speaker 3: more drama than what I had.
Speaker 1: Well, Farmer Bert, you know, from my opinion, it looks
Speaker 1: like he is the most confused. Maybe too many pineapples
Speaker 1: in play on his farm, I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bert definitely had plenty on his hand. It probably
Speaker 3: had a lot more to do with their age too
Speaker 3: as well. Like I give you kind of put five
Speaker 3: very headstrong, superint like quite intelligent women together. It's not
Speaker 3: unheard of to have issues. Like I kind of expected it,
Speaker 3: like I probably expected more drama than what I got
Speaker 3: to be just kind of going into the experience. I
Speaker 3: was just kind of like, yeah, I was kind of
Speaker 3: mentally prepared for quite a bit of drama, but no,
Speaker 3: like I got away with it quite quite easily. And yeah,
Speaker 3: we were all the girls got along.
Speaker 1: What was the most stressful situation for you, Like, what
Speaker 1: was that the highest point of drama whilst you were
Speaker 1: picking between these women?
Speaker 3: Well, they kind of wasn't really any like we'd come
Speaker 3: back from a date, and like obviously in seasons gone by,
Speaker 3: like you kind of see there like like an interrogation
Speaker 3: when you get back, but like they didn't do it,
Speaker 3: and I was I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, right,
Speaker 3: this is yeah, Like I was almost shocked that they
Speaker 3: weren't like that in some ways.
Speaker 1: But that's why I was saying to you before I
Speaker 1: really did see that they did a great job. I mean,
Speaker 1: some of Wants a Wife is, in my opinion at
Speaker 1: this point, the best dating show that you could possibly
Speaker 1: be on, because it seems like there's a little bit
Speaker 1: more care in finding the right people, Like it's less
Speaker 1: about you know, stunt pasting and getting some girl that's
Speaker 1: going to turn up like Ursula from The Little Mermaid
Speaker 1: and destroy the town, you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: it seems like they're looking for a number of very
Speaker 1: suitable women, and if you picked any of them, I
Speaker 1: think you'd be happy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I agree, Yeah, And like it's probably also
Speaker 3: the situation. Sometimes people will react differently to it, like yeah,
Speaker 3: like some people are going to get very fiery, and
Speaker 3: then you get some people that are just very easy going.
Speaker 3: So even like some birds girls, like there might have
Speaker 3: been plenty of drama there, but like I think I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure they're still friends now. And like they were awesome,
Speaker 3: awesome girls, like great to get along with, great fun.
Speaker 3: They would have had their moments, but they seem to
Speaker 3: get over it quite quickly. Yeah. Yeah, Like even when
Speaker 3: there is drama, I think they all kind of still
Speaker 3: got along well. Like obviously not all of but most
Speaker 3: of them at the end still got along so well.
Speaker 1: Farmer Joe, I reckon at the moment, he's got some
Speaker 1: he's got a few cats on the fence that I'd
Speaker 1: probably hose off, but you know, he seems to be
Speaker 1: pretty clever of being able to work out what to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like Joe definitely had some very strong personalities, like
Speaker 3: that's for sure. And yeah, like I got to know
Speaker 3: some of his girls quite well, but not not all
Speaker 3: of them. Yeah, but like most of them. Yeah, everyone
Speaker 3: that was there was pretty genuine. Yeah, you probably couldn't
Speaker 3: have complained. It's not like there was anyone there that
Speaker 3: was just a horrible person, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: What about Todd do you know do you think because
Speaker 1: he's come in later replacing a different farmer, do you
Speaker 1: think it's harder for him having to try and pick
Speaker 1: these girls a little bit quicker?
Speaker 3: Yeah, in some ways. But like I think, if you know,
Speaker 3: you've got a set period of time, you just kind
Speaker 3: of have to get into it, get to know them
Speaker 3: really well, and I think you can make that sort
Speaker 3: of decision pretty quick. Like you know, like, obviously it
Speaker 3: may not work out long term, and everyone's got to
Speaker 3: be aware of that, But I think when you meet
Speaker 3: people like that, you can kind of get a pretty
Speaker 3: good idea of who you want to be with and
Speaker 3: like who's going to be the best fit for you.
Speaker 3: It obviously made it harder for him, and I don't
Speaker 3: think any of us gave him any good advice at
Speaker 3: the start.
Speaker 1: So well, I guess at that stage, you know, you
Speaker 1: guys were still working out how to do it. And
Speaker 1: it's also different for each farm. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: different set of girls, it's a different set of situations.
Speaker 1: So there's only so much that you'd be able to
Speaker 1: tell them that, you know, producers wouldn't have been able
Speaker 1: to try to help you guys out with at the
Speaker 1: start anyway.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, And like what happened was like he showed
Speaker 3: up and then that said something like, oh, have you
Speaker 3: got any advice for him? And I think I said
Speaker 3: something like a couple we went in blind, so so
Speaker 3: can you savage? But like you seem like straight off
Speaker 3: the bat, you could kind of tell that you had
Speaker 3: a bit of a sense of humor and could kind
Speaker 3: of take it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, kind of you can.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we didn't really hold back. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, clearly the cat is out of the bag and
Speaker 1: you've you've picked Sarah C. So congratulations. I think that's
Speaker 1: an amazing match for you. How did you go keeping
Speaker 1: that a secret? I mean, how do you go keeping
Speaker 1: that from the locals.
Speaker 3: I like kind of just kind of yeah, like not
Speaker 3: been out in public too much and yeah, just kind
Speaker 3: of like like it's kind of my busiest time of
Speaker 3: the year at the moment anyway, So I can't say
Speaker 3: I've been like out and about to be honest. So yeah,
Speaker 3: just kind of like doing what I have to do, working,
Speaker 3: go home, go.
Speaker 2: To bed, candlelight dinners at home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Obviously some people might have been
Speaker 3: something around town and they might have a bit of
Speaker 3: an idea, but that's always going to happen, and when
Speaker 3: you're it would.
Speaker 1: So what is something from behind the scenes, something that
Speaker 1: you know, people who are watching this show might not
Speaker 1: necessarily know, you know, kind of like a behind the
Speaker 1: scene secret as to being a farmer and farmer wants
Speaker 1: a wife. What's what's something that surprised you through production?
Speaker 3: Oh, you don't get much work done? Yeah, Now apart
Speaker 3: from that, I don't really know. Yeah, Like it's all like, yeah,
Speaker 3: like a lot of people go as a filmed on
Speaker 3: your place, and like all the stuff that's done on
Speaker 3: the farm is on our farm.
Speaker 1: Now you're watching it and thinking, wow, they actually make
Speaker 1: my place look really good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in some ways. Yeah, it comes up right on
Speaker 3: camera because I don't really take many pictures.
Speaker 1: Like once the girls go home, do you ever see
Speaker 1: them again or do they quickly put them in a
Speaker 1: car and hustle them away?
Speaker 2: Like what happens with that? Like do you ever speak
Speaker 2: to them or hear from them ever again?
Speaker 3: Oh? We like you could you could obviously message or
Speaker 3: whatever like find them that way, but like on the show,
Speaker 3: like as soon as you've sent him home and they
Speaker 3: get in that car, that there, they don't come back.
Speaker 1: You know, Tom, I think that you've had the most
Speaker 1: authentic journey on this show and I've really loved watching
Speaker 1: your story unfold. I wish you and Sarah see all
Speaker 1: of the best and I can't wait to catch up
Speaker 1: with you and see you two at the reunion. And
Speaker 1: like the rest of Australia who have been watching this show,
Speaker 1: I think we're just keen to see how your relationship evolves.
Speaker 3: All right, no, thank you,