WEBVTT - REAL REALITY - FARMER WANTS A WIFE - SAMANTHA ARMYTAGE 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.760 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:05.560 TV Reload the podcast last week airline. Hey guys, welcome 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:07.520 back to TV Reload. I want to thank you for 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:10.920 clicking and downloading on today's episode with Samantha Armitage, the 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.720 host of Farmer Wants a Wife for twenty twenty four, 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.040 which starts on Sunday night at seven thirty on Channel seven. 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:21.480 Samantha Armitage is an Australian journalist and television presenter. Sam 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:25.280 was previously co host of the Seven Networks breakfast television 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:30.000 program Sunrise from twenty thirteen to twenty twenty one alongside 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:34.199 David Kosh. Only a few years ago, Samantha was slowly 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.920 integrated into the Much Love reality series, and last year 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.120 her inclusion as a full time host saw the show 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:44.960 rise sixteen percent in its category. This season, thousands of 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.680 eligible women from all around Australia applied to meet the farmers, 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.600 and after a series of speed dates in the Hunter Valley, 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.920 the farmers will choose their top five ladies to invite 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.240 back to the farm. During the first two episodes, I 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:02.080 can reveal that the five farmers from twenty twenty four season, 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:06.920 Bert Dean, Dustin, Joe and Tom must choose five out 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:10.000 of the eight ladies to return to their farms across Australia. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.320 This leaves a total of fifteen women who had been 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.520 hoping to find love having to head home before their 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.000 farmer journey can even properly begin. It's actually really brutal, 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.319 but I know you guys are going to love it. 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:25.759 Samantha reveals her thoughts about the media landscape and if 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.000 she has closed the door on her journalistic career for good. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.320 We will unpack the new Farmers and find out if 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.800 the Victorian farmer Tom is too young to be looking 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.160 for a wife. You will get some interesting insights into 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.800 Samantha's move out of Sydney and what she thinks of 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.240 the workforce for women in a post COVID world. I'm 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.600 also delighted to hear what Sam thinks of me pitching 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.600 Farmer Day from Big Brother fame and if it's time 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.800 we see a queer farmer on this show. There is 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.440 so much to unpack with Samantha today, so sit back 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.120 and relax as we unpaw the wonderful world of Sarma 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.280 Wants a Wife for twenty twenty four. Hi, Sam, how 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:05.600 are you? 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:06.280 I'm good. 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:06.640 How are you. 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:08.600 I just think you're getting your dog out of the room. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.840 I used to have to do that too, he'd start barking. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.800 Last year, when we were talking, you had Banjo sitting 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.919 with you. So I'm sorry to hear that Banjo is 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:18.960 no longer with us. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.800 I know me too. He was a darling, I means 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:23.040 very very shit. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.800 Well, Oscar's fourteen, and I tell you the other day 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.239 I was walking him and this lady cart to and 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.680 she said, oh, I used to have a Westy. They 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.960 live until they're about ten and then they just they 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.960 just fade away. How old's your dog? And I was like, fourteen. 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:38.960 Well, the little dogs can go on and on. The 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.600 bigger dogs that are harder. I know a mate who's 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:43.880 got a Westy who's sixteen. 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:45.880 He's sixteen, so I. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.000 Think they go on forever. So yes, when they're gone, 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:49.960 you miss them because they are such a part of 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.080 your life. So it's been very sad times for mat. 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:53.640 Looks quite good to be busy now. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:55.800 I'm so sorry. You know what a great way to 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.680 start a podcast. Let's just make you cry like that's great. 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:03.200 I'm the best podcast ever. Anyway. Well, welcome back to 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.760 another season of Farmer Wants a Wife. You know, you 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.080 would have to be so happy with the rating spike 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.680 that happened with the show once you joined. I mean 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.240 it's the highest It was the highest rated entertainment show 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:14.440 on the network last year. 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.400 Yes, it was huge. I didn't see that coming. So 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.280 I was very very pleased with that, as you would 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.680 be when you when you join a show and it 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.960 does well. It was up sixteen percent last year on 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.800 the previous year, so that's just unheard of in free 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.359 towear TV in this day may so I was very 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.080 pleased with that. The beauty of the show is the people, 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:38.200 and the farmers are so so genuine and so lovely, 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.280 and we had such a great group last year and 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.480 they all found love. I mean, it was just you 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.440 couldn't you couldn't write the script on that. And this year, 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.440 I'm pleased to say, is it's just as good. We're 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.640 found some really lovely farmers and some really impressive ladies, 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:55.920 and I think we've got the recipe for another great season. 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.560 Well, last year, as you said, all the farmers found love. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.120 I mean, I don't know if you saw this, but 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.280 even Brenton and Rachel have been hanging out, and he 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.000 was the only farmer that you know that separated over 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.240 the last twelve months. And now he's recoupling with one 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:09.920 of the girls that he was on the show with. 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.320 So we're back to one hundred percent success, right. I know. 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.840 It's an amazing how life turns up. I did read 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:17.800 that too, and I thought, oh, good on him. You 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.880 know that, isn't that wonderful? And actually, during the show 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.880 last year when it was on air, because I let Richard, 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.320 my husband, just watch it as a normal viewer, I'd 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.600 never tell him what's what's happening. All the ways to 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.480 the show. He wanted Brendan to pick Rachel, and then 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.520 when Brendan didn't, he was disappointed. And now they're together. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.680 Is he allowed to say? Is Richard allowed to say 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.880 anything to you while watching the show? Because I was 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.000 chatting to Sonya Krueger recently and I asked her about 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.839 Craig watching the show with her and she was like, oh, no, 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.159 we've got a rule. He's not allowed to say anything. 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:51.960 Oh no, commentates the whole time he and he gets 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.800 really into it. It's really because I you know, because 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:56.599 I've been there on set, so I know what's happened? 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.680 And I know, you know, all the personality type, but 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.840 he gets really invested in it, and he's constantly saying 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:04.520 to me, I think you know, so and so is 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.359 going to get together. And I'm like, oh, do you 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.240 really think that? Okay, will you just have to watch 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:08.760 next week? 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.359 How is your poker face? Are you able? No? 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.560 My poker face is excellent. I'm very good at not blubbing. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.120 And he enjoys it, so that's nice. But I mean, look, 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.320 it's just such a great show. The brand is incredibly strong. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.760 I literally have people walking up to me in the 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.599 streets saying when Farmer on, I can't wait. I want 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.760 my son to go on it. You know, it's so popular, 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.279 and its amaze me how quickly viewers have sort of, 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.000 you know, put me together with the show. Normally, as 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.760 on air personality, you take a few years to become 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.080 part of a show and the branding situations behind the scenes, 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.440 but this is instant. It's been incredible. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.440 Well, I think that you're the most overqualified host of 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.800 a reality show that we've ever seen in this country, 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.039 and I love that you're a journalist in this role. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.719 I want to ask you, though, do you actually use 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.279 your journalistic background. Do you put it to work whilst filming? 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.839 Do you find yourself asking leading questions? 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.640 Well, I think that's part of it. I mean, I'm 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:05.479 not trying to do gotcha questions with the farmers because 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.000 they're really you know, they're not politicians. I'm very kind 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.720 to them, and also they're so nervous that my job 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.320 with them is to put them at ease, help Australia 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.720 get to know them and help them come out of 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.599 their shells and then create a match. But obviously, you 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.400 know the skills you have as journalists for interviewing people 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.480 and asking questions of people and storytelling, you know, at 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.440 the heart of this show. I know it's a reality 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:32.560 dating show, but really it's about telling stories. And you know, 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.640 that's what I do for a living. It's what I've 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.720 always done for a living. So it's a great opportunity 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.719 for me to use some of my skills. And you know, 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.279 the producers are constantly saying to me on set, I 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.800 can't believe you speak farmers, and I'm like, well, I 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.880 did grow up in the land, and my father was 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.960 a farmer and my brother's a farmer, and now I'm 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.240 married to a retired farmer. So you know, I know 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.839 farmers and I know country people because I am one. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.800 So the producers was surprised. 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.359 There's something about you, Sam, like I just want to 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.560 tell you my story, do you know what I mean? Like, 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.039 there's something about your manner and the way that you 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.559 talk to people that is quite authentic that makes people 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.560 feel at ease. And I don't know, I just want 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.400 to tell you my most embarrassing stories. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.880 Oh well, that's great, then tell me anytime. 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:16.960 Look I do. 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.720 It's funny as I get older, the older I get, 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.480 the more I enjoyed listening, you know, the less I 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:26.080 enjoy talking. So it's probably a good show for me 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.440 to be on at this point because there's not a 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.400 lot of listening going on in the media these days. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.760 It's just a big talk fitt, isn't it. So I quite. 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.680 I mean, I think that's the whole point of the show. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.360 You've got to encourage the farmers and the ladies. You know, 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:39.960 you want to tell their stories. You want to set 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.320 this up for the audience at home, but you also 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:43.960 to listen to them, and you have to know when 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.640 to not talk, let things breathe a bit. So that 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.120 you really get to know people and you can get to, 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.600 you know, get stuff out of them so that the 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.440 show is genuine because it's coming from their heart. And 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.800 I think we manage that pretty well well. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.360 I think when it comes to my favorite journalist, actually 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.200 when it comes to my favorite actors, when it comes 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.840 to people in general, I like people who are curious, 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.280 and people who are curious they want to ask a 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.000 good question, but they want to listen to a good answer. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.240 And I think that's what makes good journalism. That's what 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.000 makes me be drawn to people you know, and you know. 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.440 Ben, I've been a journal for twenty five years. I'm 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.000 ashamed to admit. That shows you how old I am. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:28.200 And it's fascinating. Everybody has a story. It doesn't matter 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:32.040 whether you're on Sunrise interviewing you know, celebrities from Los 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.840 Angeles or you're just dinner party at Wagga. Everybody has 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:37.840 some kind of story and all you have to do 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.000 is ask or just stick quietly for long enough where 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.479 they feel comfortable to tell you. And it should be fascinated. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.880 But unfortunately, the way society is, it's just everything's so 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.160 loud and noisy, and me, me, me, that you know, 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.280 I think that is one of my strongest feels is 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.760 that I can listen. But as you can tell from 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:57.760 this podcast, I can also talk. 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.920 Quite well, so can I. That's why we need a 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:03.960 talking stick every year. Like, you know, I listened back 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:05.719 to our chat last year and it was a good 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:07.760 yarn like but I mean, I was going to ask 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.719 you today because we were talking about this last year. 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.960 In nineteen ninety eight, you joined your first newsroom, and 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.600 you've been away from that for a little bit. You've 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.800 sort of been away from that environment. Is there an 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.360 ech that you want to scratch to go back to 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.560 that and or have you closed the door on that 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:22.400 part of your resume. 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.319 No, I haven't closed the door on it. But the 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:30.000 itch is not itchy at the moment, and I. 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:33.000 Think, excuse that's crazy anyway. 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.760 I know I'm gross. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:37.680 I led you there, Sam, I led you there, So 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:38.720 it's my fault me there. 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.280 I'll blame you. No, Look I do. I look at 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:47.079 the new cycle at the moment, and I'm not that interested. 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.520 To be honest, I am incredibly choosy about what I 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.199 read and what I listened to. And you know, I've 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:54.360 seen it from the inside, so. 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.360 I understand how this all works. 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.680 I see the amount of bias in the news these days. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.960 I see the amount of noise. I know the characters, 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.920 and I'm not that interested. So I'm not sorry that 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.440 I'm not part of that at the moment. But also 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.800 I subscribe that, you know, if you're not in any arena, 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:13.960 you know, getting your ass kicked, then you don't have 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:15.560 a crack at the people who are. So I'm not. 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.800 You know, I take my hat off to anyone who wants. 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:18.920 To go in there each day and do it. 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.120 I just don't at the moment because the new cycle, 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.160 you know, I think about the last couple of years, 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:25.280 you know, talking about. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.880 COVID, it's a long day. Yeah, oh it's a lot. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.640 And then you know, now talking about Trump every day, 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.360 and you know, we just move in these circles and rubbish, 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:39.040 and I think I'm really glad to not be in that. 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.400 At the same time, I feel like there could be 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.760 a really good companion piece because I can imagine you 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.600 going out there because things have changed since COVID, and 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.360 I think that there's more people living in regional areas. 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:51.760 I'd love to see you go out there and talk 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.840 to the women that are now out there working in 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.120 regional areas, that are making a living out there. I'd 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.959 love I mean, that's you know, I guess it's one thing. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.280 That's that's one job, and then I guess if you 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:03.920 put your hand up for that, then they're probably doing 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.680 a lot more. But I'd love to see you go 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.600 out there and talk to people in Australia that had 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.040 been affected by COVID and had a lifestyle change. 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.319 Yes, well, it's interesting because I'm seeing it firsthand because 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.439 I'm you know, I live while I live in the 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.040 Southern Highland, so we're not exactly that isolated, but I'm 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.080 certainly out of Sydney and my father's Wogga and my 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.400 brothers at Yas, you know where. I know the regions, 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.240 and we spend a lot of time driving around the regions, 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.120 going to parties in the you know, I see I 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.520 talk to a lot of country people, and I see 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.880 the houses being built on the suburbs, you know, the 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:36.400 outer suburbs of Wogga. 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:37.640 Expanding into the paddocks. 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.080 There is such a movement, such a migration to the 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:44.719 regional areas at the moment that it's quite extraordinary to 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.520 see that and then I guess, sighing into the show 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.480 into Farma, what I'm seeing in my real life and 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.520 is being reflected in the show quite nicely, is that 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.679 women who in my day, and certainly in my mother's day, 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.160 I found old saying that, but women who had to 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.439 go to the city for their careers. They didn't wanted 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.400 to be a farmer's life and stay at home and 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.000 have children and maybe be a school teacher. They wanted 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:11.640 to keep their careers going and. 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.000 Have good lifestyles. 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.440 And that can happen now, you know, with Zoom, I 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.920 mean yes, as you say, COVID has dramatically changed the 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.520 way we work. So you've got this situation where all 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:28.240 these incredibly dynamic, powerful, strong, career driven women and now 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.800 pick those careers up, to pick those jobs up and 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.280 take them to country areas. Maria farmers have a family 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:36.800 with a great lifestyle with space for the kids to 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.599 run around, and you know, not be you know, agitated 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.840 by the city living and still keep their jobs, you know, 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.520 still have their own lives and their own independence, and 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.720 still use their brains. So it's wonderful. It's a great 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.960 migration that I'm seeing in my real life. And then 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.360 I'm seeing it on the show. I think it's wonderful. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.320 Yeah, do you know what I also think is that 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.800 we don't necessarily know how easy it is for everyone. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.520 But back when Farmer once a Wife first started, it 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.200 was kind of a daunting prospect to these women. You know, 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:06.760 do you want to marry a farmer live out there? 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:08.560 And there'd be no internet, there'd be none of that. 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.520 They were sort of isolated themselves. Where these days that's 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.160 sort of broken down a bit. And as you mentioned, like, 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.600 women are far more dynamic these days and are able 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.080 to have their cake and eat it too, And who 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:21.960 doesn't want to move out to the country and raise 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.880 their children? I mean, sounds far too appealing to me. 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.800 I know it is. It's a great I mean, it 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.719 was my childhood, so I know what it's like to 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.080 be a kid in the country, and it's great and 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.839 it sets you up to be you know, in my case, 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.559 my family's case, I think are really well rounded and 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.120 you know, your values. I can't generally, I suppose I 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:46.520 shouldn't generalize here that. You know, country values are a traditionally. 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:46.880 Very good value. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.600 You know, you hard work, Honestly, there's nothing wrong with that. 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.720 So I love that there's this migration going on, and 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.120 I love that I'm seeing it in real life as well. 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.920 And there's also this situation I know, I went to 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.760 it for many years where you know, you're in the city, 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.480 you're dating blokes in the city. You get to a 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.000 point where you're bit disillusioned with the blokes in the 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:10.120 city and you think, you know, there's a romanticism to 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.160 marrying a farmer, and the show sort of captures that. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.440 But it's a real thing. So, you know, as far 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.640 as reality shows go, to me, it's the most authentic 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.920 sort of reflection of the real world. 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.200 But you know, it's really interesting because I think back, 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:25.920 because I'm forty four, and I think back to when 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.160 I would be looking for, you know, to find someone, 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:30.520 and I used to go to the pubs and the 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.360 clubs and things like that. I felt like we had 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:33.920 to work a little bit harder. Do you think that 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.760 the way in which there's apps and dating apps these days, 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.760 do you reckon that's affected the way that some of 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.320 these men might socialize because they're limiting it that sort 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.200 of face to FaceTime that we were having before. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.840 Oh god, well, I can't speak Sam. 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:50.560 We've been off the market for a while. We don't know. 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:52.000 I have to watch VI Cares. 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.560 God, yeah, thank god, I've been off the market. 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:56.400 But I do look. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.440 I look at Richard's daughters, who are in their twenties, 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.680 and it's just a whole different world now. I think 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.680 my day it was no one. You know, I've never 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.000 done it. I never could because I was hosting a 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.440 big show and it was not I just never did it. 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:09.960 I didn't want to do it, and I wouldn't have 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:10.320 done it. 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.720 But now you apps, did you imagine the headlines from that? 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:15.920 Good lord, Oh my god, can you imagine? 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.520 But now young people are you know, it's perfectly acceptable. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.680 This is how they meet online and they get to 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.160 know each other online really quickly. And I don't know 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.760 for good off the bad. Society will work that out 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.240 in the next couple of decades. But so who am 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.320 I to say? But it's a very different world now. Gosh, 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:34.400 you don't know me to tell you that. 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.760 No. But also, Tom is twenty two, right, and here's 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:41.560 from Victoria, And I think twenty two is too young. 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:43.480 Do you think twenty two is too young to be 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.600 looking for a wife when you're out there in the 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:46.560 regional environments. 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.760 Well, look, of course it's the course. You know, he's 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.760 a very he's quite a serious young man and he's 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.160 quite well. I wouldn't have picked him at twenty two. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.640 I think he's quite mature, and he's quiet, and he's 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:04.200 quite introspective. He's a nice young bloke, Tom and you know, 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.640 he wanted to apply he I think particularly, Look, I 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:09.600 don't know, this is just country people and this is 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.720 just human nature. But I think what you've seen your 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.800 parents do in their marriage, I think what you've seen 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:16.960 your grandparents do in their marriage. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:18.160 Affects you quite heavily. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.800 And I think he had a very happy family situation 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:23.680 that he was coming from. That he wanted what the 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.960 generations before him had and I sort of admire that, 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:27.800 you know, I mean. 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.680 I've got I couldn't have got married at twenty two. 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.280 I'd like to all my young female friends to keep 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.360 their rings off their fingers until they're thirty. I might 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.200 go and travel and finish your career. You all finish 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.480 your education, I think is important. And I'm like, so 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.160 I said that to my sister, and she she didn't 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.800 end up in a serious relationship until she was thirty, 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.680 but she'd traveled the world, she'd got a degree. I 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.680 don't know. I just think that I tell everyone under 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:55.640 the age of thirty, but who am I some person city, Well, 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:56.840 this is the peaks to. 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:00.440 Their own and I'm very the older I get, the more, 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.200 you know, I just think, you know, live and let 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.160 live and Tom and last season we had Matt who 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.720 was twenty three. He was pretty young too, but he 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.600 was really serious and he's done. Like I think, these 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.880 blokes know when they're ready, and if they're ready at 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.320 twenty two and twenty three, then good luck to them. 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.239 I mean, my father was kind of think. I mean, 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.480 I'm not are, but my father was twenty four when 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.439 he got married. Mum was twenty one and in those days, 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:30.280 no I thought twice about that. Admittedly that was seventies, 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.120 but who knows. Who knows when you when you're ready, 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.760 you're ready. And it's quite nice for us on the 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.359 show to have that mix of ages because the the 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.720 older farmers are you know, well into their thirties. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:42.440 So that's good. 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.440 Yeah, well, I think a good mix is always right, 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:46.399 you know. What I was also thinking is that whenever 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.560 I watched the show, people talk about the diversity and 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:51.800 people always ask me. They're like, are they are there 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:53.639 any gay farmers? Like, are we going to see any 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.480 gay farmers on this show? I'd love to see that. 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.280 And I'm like, well, if there are, and there would 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.240 be that apply and they'd be on the sho show. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.440