WEBVTT - UNPACKED REALITY - FARMER WANTS A WIFE - FARMER BERT 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:05.080 TV Reload the podcast last week that line. Hey guys, 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.360 welcome back to TV Reload. I want to thank you 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:11.360 for clicking and downloading. On today's episode with Farmer Burt, 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:14.600 the cutest farmer on Farmer Wants a Wife, which started 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.240 Sunday night at seven thirty on Channel seven. This fourth 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:23.720 generation pineapple and dragon fruit farmer is impeccably mannered, selfless, 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.840 and honest. I will also say he does come across 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:28.880 a little bit shy at times, but I actually think 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.720 that's a little bit of part of his charm. Farmer 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.480 Burt has worked hard to take over the family farm 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.640 and runs it on his own. He now wants someone to, 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:40.239 of course, come and share it with him, which is 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:42.680 I guess, the whole premise of the show. His ideal 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:47.479 partner is funny, outgoing, adventurous, understands the long hours of 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.600 his work, can banter and get along with everybody, especially 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:56.040 his nana, whose disapproval could be a deal breaker. Farmer 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.120 Burt will open up about his relationship history with me 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:01.960 and explain why things haven't worked out for him in 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:05.479 the past. We will unpack Farmer Burt's process of being 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.760 cast on the show and what his family thought about 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.640 putting his chances of love in the hands of television producers. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.080 We will get some interesting insights into how they pick 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.920 these women to meet these eligible blokes, and how much 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:23.000 information did Farmer Burt know about these ladies before meeting them. 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.440 I'm also delighted to hear about a bromance that has 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.080 formed with one of the other farmers, and we'll find 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:32.120 out how that plays out throughout the series. There's actually 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.759 so much to unpack with Farmer Burt, and if you've 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:36.399 seen the promos, you know he's a bit of a 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.759 cute batunity. So guys sit back and relax as we 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.039 unpack the wonderful world of Farmer Wants a Wife for 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:44.039 twenty twenty four. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:46.720 Hey, Farmer Burt, how are you good? 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:47.480 Thanks Burn, how are you? 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:51.120 I'm done doing very well. I actually was singing to myself. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.200 Sometimes I do a bit of singing to myself to 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.040 get myself ready to do these podcast chats because I'm 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.400 often sitting here by myself, and then it can come 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.280 across as quite strange. So I try to embarrass myself 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.840 as much as possible before the chat start to make 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.320 myself feel a little bit more like I don't know, 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.160 maybe you would want to sing a song to start 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:09.600 the chat. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.880 Oh no, nobody ever needs to hear anything, mate, I'm 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:13.840 going to show you of that. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.520 I'm going to ask you straight off the bat, are 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.800 you ready for your life to change? Because this is 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.600 a very unusual experience. I think if you're in a 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:22.800 remote farm and you're probably not used to the big 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:24.600 city and then all of a sudden you're kind of 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.760 becoming like a television star, is that weird? 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.120 It's definitely something out of the ordinary for me. I 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.600 wouldn't go as far as saying as my farm's too remote. 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:36.960 I'm pretty close to the city, believe it or not. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.119 But yeah, as far as the television and everything else does, 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.040 it's definitely a very big change of scenery. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:43.640 Yeah, I was. 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.920 Actually I've got the mapp up on my computer right now, 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:47.760 so I'm looking at it. So you're really not that 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.920 far from Brisbane, But you're also not that far from 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.919 the Sunshine Coast either. I mean, it's very beautiful part 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.200 of the world, but you're still close to some of 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.440 the nightlife. Where would you normally go if you were 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.239 looking to go and look for a woman. Would you 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:00.840 be going down to is better? Would go to the 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.480 Sunshine Coast? Which one of those areas is more suited 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:03.639 to you? 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.520 Oh gosh, I'm not sure. I've no. I guess I've 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.480 really avoided the night light for a long time now. 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.799 It's well, not not so much avoided it, but just 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.680 not really had a lot of time for It's MBD 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.240 here and such. But I wouldn't say that I'd like, 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.880 you know, look in one place over the other. But yeah, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.360 they're both. You know, I can be being cloundering like 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.760 half an hour forty five minutes depending on the traffic, 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.040 so it's not very far at all. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:31.639 So the ladies that are coming to live with you, 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:33.480 they're not going to be like, you know, six hours 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.040 away from anything that on some sort of regional you know, 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.120 rex flight to try and go and see their friends. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.880 They can sort of still enjoy both sides of it, 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:41.320 I guess. 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.680 Oh, absolutely, yeah. And you know, my brother lives here 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.040 on the farm, but he works in the Brisbane like 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.640 in Brisbane City most of the time. It's not too 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.600 far to go really, so yeah, yeah, I've heard it 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.360 a few times, you know, I don't really want to 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.760 change anybody's life style, and it's worked hard to be 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.880 sort of where they are in their life, so it 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.520 is quite convenient for that being so central to pretty 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:05.760 busy business. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.800 I mean, your multi generational pineapple farmer. Was there ever 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.920 a choice for you to do anything else? Did your 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.920 parents say, well, your name's Bert and that's the tradition 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.200 in our family. Now you run the pineapple farm or 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.880 were you allowed to sort of make that decision for yourself. 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.600 Yeah, Look, I was always able to make the decision myself. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.320 You know that there was never any pressure or an 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:29.599 expectation as such to take it over. Obviously they would 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.560 love for it to continue. So you know when I 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:36.680 did come back start my own sort of farming, then yeah, 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.600 they were pretty happy with that. But yeah, I took 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.560 off for a few years prior to and lived and 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.919 you know, got to experience something other than the farm, 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.960 I suppose. You know, when my dad started farming, he 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.840 was fifteen or something like that and norly ever really 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:56.359 did was farm. So he was always very supportive of me, 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.479 you know, going out and doing something a little bit different, 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:04.080 getting the different experiences disease and stuff like that. Before 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.159 I you know, really tied yourself down because once you 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:12.440 once you commit to the farms, that's a relationship in itself. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.000 You are committing to pull a full time job at 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.560 a really signed job. You hear all the time. You know, 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.960 it doesn't matter if it's a weekend or not. You shift. 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:23.960 The work's there to be done. It's got to be done, 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.760 so you can't do it tomorrow next week. 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:31.440 Yeah, it's a relationship, of course, it's a full time relationship. 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.120 I mean, what made you want to do this show? 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.600 Though? I mean I was watching the first few episodes 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.479 and you are quite shy in the way that you 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.720 come across, which I actually think is quite endearing. I 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:44.080 think audiences will be quite endeared to that part of you, 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:45.880 which you might be a little bit embarrassed about. But 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.839 you know, I think that's actually quite heartwarming. But did 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:51.359 someone dob you in? Did you apply? Like? How do 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:52.839 you find yourself on a show like this? 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.240 Yeah? I was definitely. I had my hat thrown in 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.799 the ring for me from some of my lovely friends. 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.719 But it's always been always been a bit of a 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:04.400 I don't know, I guess a bit of not a 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.840 running joke. But you know, every year someone like, come on, 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.760 do it, do it, or you know, will tag me 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.080 in something with it, and I've always been like, you know, 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:13.120 it's too busy or you know, it's not for me. 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:16.680 And this year, they you know, sort of did the 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.400 application for me. And then you know, I was contacted 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.880 and you know, just chatting with my dad about it, 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.280 and he's like, you know what, but why not watch 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.120 what's the worst that could happen? You know? And at 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.839 that point, I was pretty happy with where I was 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.520 in the farm, you know, work wise, and my personal 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.679 life as well, and you know, I just thought, hey, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.720 why not why not do something that's you know, completely 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.160 out of your comfort zone? And but I guess how 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:43.040 it started. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.839 Well, your family okay with you joining this show. I 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.000 mean you mentioned your dad there that I can imagine 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.240 once it's all actually happening to reality, I'm assuming that 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.559 your mom or you know, other people in your family 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.920 might have had some questions. Did they do they sit 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:57.760 you down and sort of ask a lot of questions 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.320 about why are you doing this show? 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.680 Not really, they were all, you know, very very supportive 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:06.200 from day one of the whole idea. A bit Mum 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.640 always just once what's best for me, and you know, 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.160 and she'll say, oh, you know, you'd never catch me 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.840 on television and stuff like that, and I was thinking, man, 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.360 you probably would never catch me on TV. But here 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:16.680 we are. 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.040 They're probably just happy that you were sitting them down 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.320 and saying, I'm doing farmer wants a wife, because the 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.880 reaction to being married at first side or the Bachelor 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:25.000 might have been a little bit different. 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.960 Hey, yeah, I would think. So. Look, I'm certainly never 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:30.520 going to live it down. I think I've given my 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.840 brother all the ammunition in the world to make fun 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.440 of me for a little while here. So no, but 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.800 it's yeah, like I said, they were all all very 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:40.280 supportive of the entire thing. 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.600 So yeah, yeah, which I think is good. Well, look 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.280 the thing for me and I think this is what 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.160 a lot of people are talking about. You are a 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.120 very good looking rooster. I have to say, how have 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.200 you become? How are you single at this point in 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.360 your life? Like you're thirty and you could you could 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.080 leave the farm, you could leave the pineapples for a 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.720 career in modeling. You know what's happened? 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:01.040 How are you Sinkle of this book? 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:01.680 Oh? 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:01.800 Ma? 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.040 All I can say is they've got some pretty bloody 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.840 good cameras these days. It's maybe a little bit of 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:13.480 camera trickery, but look, I did you know once my 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.440 time have a very long term relationship, and well. 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.120 That's the question I want to know, Like what's your 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.680 dating history? I mean, how many of you? So you've 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.200 had a long term relationship in the past, is what 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:24.679 you're saying. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:25.800 What happened? 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:27.000 Like why did that work out? 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.200 Well, I don't know if you recall, but a couple 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.360 of years ago we had this big thing called COVID 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:38.080 and that she was Canadian and I was dating her 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.360 while so I lived over there, and you know, she 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.400 was supposed to move here and all of that, and 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.040 you know, once the border is shut and there was 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.120 no light at the end of the tunnel of when 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.280 those borders were to be reopened, and kind of likes 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.360 of that. So you know, eventually we had to have 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:59.839 that difficult conversation of yeah, ending it, and you know 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.720 we're still very very good friends and all of that. 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.760 You know, we're always thankful for her, but yeah, just 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.319 I guess the world had different ideas for it. 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.840 So what's a more awkward conversation? The relationship is over? 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.240 Or the relationship is over and now I'm going on 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.360 farmer once a wife, Like, let's just hope that she 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:17.959 doesn't have Channel seven over there, right. 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.080 Oh, no, she knows about it. She has a good laugh. 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.400 I know when I first told her that that I 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.520 was going on, and she actually didn't believe me, and 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.079 that went on for a little while, but I guess 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:30.920 she probably knew me better than anyone at that point. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.600 So yeah, she had a good laugh about it. And yeah, 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:35.680 now it's all good. 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.600 What about some of the big hurdles when it comes 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.560 to finding love in the past, Like, has there were 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.680 there any red flags for you? What are what are 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:44.280 the things that have gone wrong in the past with 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:45.079 looking for love? 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.560 Well, to be quite honest with you, there hasn't been many. 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.600 She was probably my only real girlfriend, you know. They 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.400 had the high school sweetheart, which you know most of 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:59.360 us did. And then yeah, when I moved to Canada 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.080 many years ago, that just just to you know, have 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.680 a bit of a couple of gap years and experience 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.520 something different. Yeah, and I just sort of hit it 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.480 up pretty good and we're together for a long time. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.320 And yeah, so the Jewish Show, I'd say, you know, 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:15.959 really my only real girlfriend as such. 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.120 So I love the way that you get all about 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.040 it as though it's a real girlfriend, like it might 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.520 be an imaginary girlfriend, like you know, maybe you've had 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.160 some imaginary girlfriends on the farm, just driving around on 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:26.600 the track to talking to the missus. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:28.160 Yeah, yeah, something like that. 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:30.520 The way in which the girls get chosen to be 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.640 on this show is actually quite interesting because they get 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.000 to watch a bio video, They get to get to 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.040 know you a little bit before they choose whether or 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:39.559 not they want to go on the show. What did 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:41.839 you know about these girls before they turned up? 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.760 I guess just a few little bits and pieces. I'd 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.760 say it's quite similar to what they would have seen 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:51.400 of me, you know, like a little bit of a 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.480 bio and you know some some you know, hobbies, interest, 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.000 a little bit of career stuff, stuff like that. You 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.760 know enough to sort of, I guess, have a grasp 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.280 of who they may be. And then it's the rest 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:04.600 of it's all up in the air from there. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:06.640 And the people who make this show, you know, the 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.200 producers of the real matchmakers. You know, there's no love 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.400 experts there that are a part of the show. What 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.920 sort of interrogation did you get to have with those 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.000 sorts of people just to make sure that they find 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:17.000 the right partners for you? 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.640 I guess a lot of the stuff they really want 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:24.319 to know is the values that you want in being 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.280 a partner. I suppose. I guess if you valued aren't 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.800 really lining up, then it's probably probably not going to 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:31.960 be an overly long relationship. So it's a lot of 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.640 that sort of stuff. Interest who these people are, and 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.800 if our interests and everything align. That's both. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:39.920 Did you have any deal breakers, like, you know, did 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.640 you say no tattoos or did you say age bracket, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.240 like don't send me on a date with a forty 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.640 or a fifty year old? Like did you say there 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.320 was any deal breakers like that? 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.280 You give a bit of an age range of sort 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.880 of where you're looking, And look, I don't really have 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.160 many things that are a deal breaks me or like 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.120 tattoos are fine. I don't personally have any. But I'm 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.440 a pretty laid back guy, so it's not a lot 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:02.320 really bothers me. 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.360 Imagine if there was a farmer, you know, there was 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.960 like a you know, into mills, and so they were like, yep, 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.400 I'm twenty two, you know, I'm from Caloundra and I'm 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.079 into ladies over fifty. Do you reckon that'll make a 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.640 good a good season A farmer wants a wife, I 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.079 guess with a different show. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.400 On the maturity of the blow. But I think that 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.599 would be dancing on the edge of more of a 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:24.800 married at first sight or something like that. 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.400 I mean, the women that you're matched with are very 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.559 close to your age. I did notice that how did 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:31.440 you go with connecting with some of the girls that 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.560 were just that little bit younger? I think Morgan's the 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.319 youngest and she's like twenty two. Was that too much 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:37.240 of an age gap for you? 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.400 At the end of the day, age only is a number, 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.240 and it's more so about the connection that you have 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:47.160 with the person. And I guess the maturity levels and 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.079 interest and stuff like that have to align. And I 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.000 wouldn't say that it was, you know, one hundred percent 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.160 in age thing, just more so finding a connection with 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.240 you know, who you were going to bring back to 0:12:58.280 --> 0:12:59.640 the farm rather than. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.280 The Were there any big surprises, like was there anyone 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.320 that turned up and you were like, that's not this 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:05.880 is not who I thought she was going to be. 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.040 You were you shocked by any of the ladies that 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.960 turned up or were you thinking chef's kiss well done. 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:14.640 Oh, I had a lot of feelings. It was. It 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.880 was very overwhelming. I'm not sure how many times you 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.760 sat down for speed dating with you multiple different women 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:25.920 back to back, so it's it's quite an intimidating day 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.360 and just trying to, you know, absorb as much as 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.320 you can from each conversation. And yeah, I guess then 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.600 go to picking you know who you're going to bring 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.560 back to the farm. Okay, I don't think you could 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.760 really say that you could be too shocked by anything 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.960 because you don't know the girls until you get there, 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.120 so it's all it's all up in the air. Until 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.120 that point, it was it was a wild ride, let's 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:47.680 put it that way. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:49.600 I do love a wild ride. I always think that 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.480 makes good television. But you know, speaking of wild rides, 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.079 is there a chance that when you're all in that 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.160 hall in the first episode, that you know, do the 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.400 producers tell you not to look at farmer Joe or 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.520 Farmer Dustin or farmer Dean girls like do you think 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.360 that can become quite difficult? Or did were you standing 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.559 there thinking, well, I'm happy with my ladies but there's 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.520 a couple of ladies over there with farmer Tom. How 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.720 do they make sure that you're staying within, you know, 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:12.520 your own cattle. 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.960 I'm not too sure. It's not like I was told 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.560 to do something or not to do anything like that. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:21.560 I mean, you're going to have a glance around the 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.480 room and just see who's there. And I can't speak 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.720 for any of the other boys, but I do get 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.320 to know all these people at the end of the day, right, 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.960 so when you know, we meet at different different times 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.960 throughout the show, as I'm sure you know, and yeah, 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.400 you're forming friendships as all of them as well. But no, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.600 I was definitely very happy with that came down to 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.160 meet me and yeah, I'm not about to go out 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.640 there and make things any harder us for sure. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.480 Did you learn anything about yourself while you were filming? 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.360 Like the interesting thing about this is such an unusual experience. 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.080 I mean, it's not something that everyone gets a chance 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:57.800 to do. Well. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.320 I definitely know I still get an uncomfortable talk about 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.480 my feeling, so that do more of that, but hey, 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:09.760 some of it exactly exactly. No, Look, I guess towards 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:11.440 the end of the series and all that you do 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.640 do get more so used to you know, the cameras 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.840 being around and all of the questions and stuff like that. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.800 But I'm certainly no pro. 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.880 You came across Like I was talking about this earlier, 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.720 like you seemed more shy than the other farmers. But 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:28.760 I just was wondering, is that just who you are 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.240 by nature? Like do you stay that shy throughout the series? 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.480 Or do eventually you get used to the cameras and 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.200 the style of the show and you sort of relax 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.080 a little bit more Like I mean, I'm still not 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:38.960 saying this is a bad thing. I actually think after 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.280 watching the first few episodes that Australia is going to 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.760 love you the most because you're just a genuine guy 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:45.800 just being yourself. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.840 Look, I haven't even seen a single episode myself, so 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.400 I'm not sure what there is on there. 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.280 But but how did you feel what I was filming 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.520 it though, because you know, as they're going along, you know, 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.200 did you find that at the start you were like, 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.800 you know, fuck me, these cameras are annoying and then 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:00.920 they run down the end. 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.320 Yeah, look, at the start of it was very difficult 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.200 for me. I guess I am quite a reserved person 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.280 to begin with. But you know, after I've known someone 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.680 for a while there I do open up a lot more. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.520 And I love having a good time with all my 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:18.080 mates and stuff. Definitely, meeting you people is always been 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.840 you know, I do come across probably a little bit 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.440 more shy and reserved, I suppose, and then yeah, once 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.400 once the walls come down, then I don't know, you 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.000 probably tell me shut up pretty quickly. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:30.360 I mean. 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.360 The other thing that I think is interesting about this 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.600 show is, you know, you get to meet these other farmers. 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:37.240 You know, there's you've got what is it, there's five farmers. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.560 Did talking to them throughout the experience help you with 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:42.840 understanding the process a little bit more to make it 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:44.600 feel a little bit easier if you could reach out 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.400 to them and find out how they're going. Have you 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.920 walked away with the bromance from one of these one 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:49.720 of the other farmers. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.000 Yeah, look all the boys, we all get along really well. 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.120 It's a great bunch of guys, and you know, it's 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.360 an experience that not a lot of people have had, 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.720 and having those guys around and you can just have 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.040 a chat with and you know, share share the experience 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.320 or I guess validated feeling that you might be feeling 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:12.080 is normal. I suppose. So, yeah, it's really great, and yeah, 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.439 yeah we all get along really well. Say we're going 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:15.280 to be friends for life. 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:16.920 Do you think that Tom might be a bit young, 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:18.720 like he's twenty two and he's looking for a wife. 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:21.080 Did you pull him aside and say, listen, twenty two, 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.160 come back when you're thirty, or do you think it's 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.760