1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,679 Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 2: Do you know. I know Maths has just finished on 3 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 2: television and we're looking before at the statistics of the 4 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 2: success rate with that show. There's not much, not much 5 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 2: going on there at all. But let me just say, 6 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 2: Farmer Wants a Wife has had nine weddings, five long 7 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 2: term relationships, twenty five babies. There is an air of 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 2: authenticity around this show, and it's starting on Channel seven 9 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 2: again tonight. Samantha Armitage is the host of the show. 10 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 3: Hi Sam how a, I Amanda, Hi Joines. 11 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: Good to see you again. 12 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 3: Nice to see you too, and condolen your horsey. Oh 13 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:34,559 Speaker 3: thank you. 14 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: I was reading about your horse passed away? 15 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 3: Oh did you and where did you read that? 16 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 1: I was in the newspaper. 17 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 3: Okay, yes, well this is you know. 18 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 4: I was a maid of mine who's married to a 19 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,279 Speaker 4: farmer out Hay said, if you've got livestock, you've got 20 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 4: dead stock. And we had to put a. 21 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 3: Horse down, a good horse last. 22 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 4: Week, which is devastating, but so thank you for that. 23 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 4: But this is racing, this is life. He broke his 24 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:55,319 Speaker 4: leg in. 25 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: The paddock, so just walking around the paddy. 26 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 3: Well, I don't know, I think we don't know, I 27 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 3: don't know. It's terrible, terrible. 28 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 2: See, that's life on the land, and that's what these 29 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 2: women are choosing. They have to fall in love with 30 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 2: a man, but fall in love with a life as well. 31 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 2: And that's a different thing again, isn't. 32 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 3: It It is. It's not for everybody a life on 33 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 3: the land. 34 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 4: But I am amazed how many women, how many young 35 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,560 Speaker 4: women want this and genuinely come on the show to 36 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 4: find it because I've done it and my mother did it, 37 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:25,320 Speaker 4: and you know. 38 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 3: So it's a wonderful lifestyle. 39 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 4: Living in the country, and it's great to see lots 40 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 4: of these young city girls still wanting to get up 41 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 4: and made a farmer. 42 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 5: So we've seen the rise of the influencer with Meredith 43 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 5: first Sight, they've become like a giant monster. And there 44 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 5: was one of them that came in here the other 45 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 5: day from Merredithirst site, and you could exactly see what 46 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 5: she thought if she came in here, and it. 47 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: Was like she was Elvis Presley. 48 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 5: I've arrived and I went, what have we created here? 49 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 5: Are we seeing the same types on your show? 50 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 3: I don't think so. 51 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 4: I don't think we sort of lean away from that 52 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 4: kind of drama. It is a very I mean the 53 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 4: stats that Amanda just mentioned are true. It's it's an 54 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 4: extraordinarily successful I mean, it's a reality show, but it's 55 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 4: it's had this great success rate because I think, well, 56 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 4: certainly the farmers are genuinely there for the right reasons, 57 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,359 Speaker 4: and most of the ladies so. And the farmer's very 58 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 4: clever at weeding out the ladies that aren't there for 59 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 4: the right reasons. 60 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 3: So they well, this season, all of them have fallen 61 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 3: in love, They've all. 62 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 4: Said the elder, which is quite extraordinary because it's quite 63 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 4: hard to match make people. 64 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,720 Speaker 3: But I think I've been quite good at it this issue. 65 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:37,920 Speaker 1: So you're claiming all of them. 66 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 2: Is there something about modern life that's making women in 67 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 2: cities think, young women thinking there needs to be more 68 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 2: than this. Is it something about the pace of life 69 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:50,919 Speaker 2: that's not fulfilling people at the moment? 70 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,920 Speaker 4: Yes, Look, I've been thinking about this lots lately. I 71 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 4: think post COVID, you know, everybody has this romantic notion 72 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 4: of the countryside and. 73 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 3: It can be like that. It's not always like that, 74 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 3: but you. 75 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 4: Know, the veggie garden, the great lifestyle, the lack of traffic, 76 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 4: people aren't quite as angry, you know, when I come 77 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 4: back to Sydney, which I do once a week at 78 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,200 Speaker 4: the moment, so we're pretty lucky. We're pretty close to 79 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,320 Speaker 4: the city, but there's just a different pace, it's a 80 00:03:14,360 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 4: different lifestyles. 81 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 3: The country is a great place to bring up kids. 82 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 4: And yes, I think more and more young women. You know, 83 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 4: you can have your big career and be in the country. 84 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:26,919 Speaker 4: It's not like it was in my mother's day where 85 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 4: you were out there and you were just sort of 86 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 4: just a homemaker and you know, raising children. You can 87 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,440 Speaker 4: now transfer your career to the country and have this 88 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 4: great lifestyle in the region. So you've got this fantastic 89 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 4: situation in regional Australia where you've got all these dynamic 90 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 4: women moving out there, marrying farmers, really getting these communities going. 91 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 3: The schools are full. It's great out there in the bush. 92 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 5: What's your favorite bit of farm infrastructure, you know, a tractor. 93 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: Slasher? 94 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 4: Well, look, I do enjoy the moer I love I 95 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 4: love the chainshaw chainsaws. 96 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 3: I have discovered pruning with the chainsaw. Yeah, use it 97 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 3: on your legs ridge. It's like just put it down. 98 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: Keep the chain saw down. 99 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 5: But there is nothing better when you get a change 100 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 5: and not one of those new you know, electric chainsaws 101 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 5: like a thn petrol. 102 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,960 Speaker 3: No, I don't use the big petrol one. I used 103 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 3: the little girl. 104 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: You get one far. Have you ever seen the fart 105 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: you have? 106 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 5: The farm boss, the farm boss, there's still farm boss. 107 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 5: You get in your hand and it's got so much horsepower. 108 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 5: It's like as your revert, a twists in your hand. 109 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: From your talk. 110 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 3: That's how you cut your legs off. 111 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, there's a I had a mate that had 112 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,040 Speaker 5: a situation down at his farm and it nipped the 113 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 5: top of his knee and he's in the middle of nowhere. 114 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: He had to drive his ut with the legs straight so. 115 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 3: It wouldn't get himself to hospital. 116 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 1: To get himself to hospital. 117 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 3: Well, see, this is the downside of farming. 118 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 4: There's not a lot of h sometimes and it's a 119 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 4: long way from hospital. 120 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 1: That's when you think mobile phone coverage. 121 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:00,800 Speaker 3: It's just a whole different out there. But it's a 122 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 3: lovely world. It's nice to be part of it. 123 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: Well, Sam, it's great to see. 124 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 5: If Farmer wants a wife will return to Channel seven 125 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 5: and seven plus on Monday, the tenth of April, and 126 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 5: you really you said it here. 127 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 1: You are the matchmaker. You're the one. 128 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 3: That's yeah, I like to take credit. 129 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:14,680 Speaker 1: You're not backing away from it. You're leaning into it. 130 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 3: I'm leaning into it. It's been fun, it's been lovely 131 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 3: to be part of it. 132 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 4: It was a really good cast and crew and it 133 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 4: was a bit like first. 134 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 3: Day at school. 135 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 4: I walked in on set, well, I think we started 136 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 4: filming in November, and I was a bit nervous because 137 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 4: I thought, you know, a new television crew and I 138 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,360 Speaker 4: won't know anyone. And then I walked in and it 139 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 4: was all these old cameramen that all used to work 140 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 4: in the newsroom with me, so I knew half the crew. 141 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 3: So it was fantastic. 142 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:40,799 Speaker 1: She's back. 143 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good to be part of it. 144 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: What's good to see you. Thank you for joining us. 145 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 3: So nice to see you too. And Amanda, you're looking 146 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 3: very well well, thank you. 147 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 2: I'm at home recuperating from my hit replacement. I've got 148 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:52,560 Speaker 2: a hot water bottle and I've got a cup of 149 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 2: tea and my dogs is just sitting next to me, 150 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 2: and I'm loving it. 151 00:05:56,320 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 5: For me With the Thunderbirds, we were on the Thunderbirds 152 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 5: so Amanda's on Tracy Island. 153 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 2: There's some a little satellite island, just sitting at the Thunderbirds. 154 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 2: Has no brains involved, obviously, it's the drugs. 155 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: It looks wearing off, wearing off as you can see. Sam, 156 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: Thank you. 157 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,479 Speaker 3: That's a pleasure. Thank you for having me.