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Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: On the podcast, I have another farmer from Farmer Wants
Speaker 1: a Wife twenty twenty two. It is Farmer Harry, who
Speaker 1: looks set to find a match in the series finale
Speaker 1: on Monday night at seven thirty. This year, as we know,
Speaker 1: five new farmers joined the series to find real love.
Speaker 1: In another exciting new season of Australia's favorite bush fairy Tale,
Speaker 1: which has been a really decent season on Channel seven
Speaker 1: and seven plus. Farmer Harry has been a joy to
Speaker 1: watch this year with his genuine nature and family values.
Speaker 1: I will say some questionable death moose, but to make
Speaker 1: up for that, some smooth talking Harry is a fan favorite,
Speaker 1: and I really hope he finds the right girl to
Speaker 1: join him permanently on the farm. We will talk his
Speaker 1: connection with the girls, why they didn't use his real farm,
Speaker 1: if he needed his mum's approval, what the relationship was
Speaker 1: really like with the producers, and why a swarm of
Speaker 1: leeches left the cast and crew screaming. However, let's get
Speaker 1: started with today's guest. I'd like to welcome Farmer Harry
Speaker 1: to TV reload.
Speaker 3: The Only twenty three. Why are you trying to get
Speaker 3: a wife?
Speaker 4: It's been months since our five hard working, lonely farmers
Speaker 4: began their search for true love. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 3: There was he go back to me teenage years and Jesus,
Speaker 3: it was pretty fiery and rocky along.
Speaker 1: The way Farmer Benjamin and Farmer Page found out of
Speaker 1: their search for love.
Speaker 3: He going into it. I wanted to be true to myself.
Speaker 4: Going oh Harry, I'm Harry. Unfortunately, only not being out
Speaker 4: in a film at home was just another victim of COVID.
Speaker 4: I think you just got to let love find its
Speaker 4: way and you'll know in your hearts whether it's working
Speaker 4: or not. Whoever it is, I don't necessarily want them
Speaker 4: to put their life on hold for me.
Speaker 1: Hi, farmer, Harry, how are you?
Speaker 4: Howdy? Yeah? Good, thank you? How are you?
Speaker 1: I love that you've started with howdy. That's so farmer esque. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I picked it up from some fairly friends.
Speaker 4: I reckon, That's how I got it. I never used
Speaker 4: to say. It wasn't until I reckon last year, and
Speaker 4: they'd always entered the pine with howdy.
Speaker 1: I wondered whether or not Channel seven had said to
Speaker 1: you from now on, you're a farmer, and farmer wants
Speaker 1: a wife, always saying how do you do? Everyone?
Speaker 4: And you know what a couple of times I stopped
Speaker 4: saying it because I was like, oh, I'm just really
Speaker 4: living up to the you know, the cliche. I suppose.
Speaker 1: Well, congratulations on getting this opportunity. How have you gone
Speaker 1: watching the series so far?
Speaker 4: Thank you? No, it is I do see there as
Speaker 4: an opportunity. I would like to start off with saying that, like,
Speaker 4: it's been very interesting. In all honesty, I definitely cringe
Speaker 4: when I'm on the old TV. I don't know, I like, oh,
Speaker 4: I was like, they need to add captions on. I
Speaker 4: just mumble the whole of them time the hell like
Speaker 4: I always talk like that, but the embarrassing. But I
Speaker 4: think for me, it's been more fun to just watch
Speaker 4: the other farmers and see their little stories and watch
Speaker 4: along for that, because you know, I did hear like
Speaker 4: kind of what happens on their farms when we catch up,
Speaker 4: but you don't really actually see it as a whole
Speaker 4: other thing, I suppose, So that's it's actually been very
Speaker 4: sweet kind of see how everyone else's story has progressed
Speaker 4: throughout the whole, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: You know. When I first saw you, I was like,
Speaker 1: Harry's twenty three. Does farmer want a wife? Or does
Speaker 1: farmer need a few more dates under his belt?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, I've heard that a couple of times. Believe it
Speaker 3: or not.
Speaker 4: It's funny.
Speaker 3: I think people say that, And I don't.
Speaker 4: Know if to me it's I don't really get caught
Speaker 4: up on age or anything like that. I think it's
Speaker 4: more like your life experiences that kind of tell you
Speaker 4: when you're ready to settle down and just your approach
Speaker 4: to life. And I've always kind of said, you know,
Speaker 4: I get told like you're only well the filming I
Speaker 4: was twenty three, Like you're only twenty three, like why
Speaker 4: you're trying to get a wife and stuff like that
Speaker 4: that I think for me, Like, you know, your twenties
Speaker 4: are the know, meant to be the best times, and
Speaker 4: like why wouldn't you want to share those best times
Speaker 4: of you know, someone that you care about.
Speaker 3: I suppose.
Speaker 1: But is it different in the like in the country
Speaker 1: and regional areas, Like are people still getting married, Like
Speaker 1: back in the day people would get married, you know
Speaker 1: at eighteen and nineteen, you know, he's twenty three too
Speaker 1: young to get married out in regional areas.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Like my dead partner, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 4: she's married. Yeah, there's I know a couple of people
Speaker 4: married about you. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I want to say, I know a bunch of city people.
Speaker 4: Everyone from the city that I know is someone from
Speaker 4: the country that's made to the city. So but I
Speaker 4: don't know everyone else is like in the city, but
Speaker 4: you know, in the country, it's I don't think it's
Speaker 4: that uncommon, you know, for at least when you're in
Speaker 4: your early twenties to be completely settled down, because a
Speaker 4: lot of them are you know, high school sweethearts and
Speaker 4: stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Thought, I want that too.
Speaker 1: Oh for sure. And look from watching the show, I
Speaker 1: think that you look like you're ready to settle down.
Speaker 1: I don't think that you're pretending to do anything. I
Speaker 1: think that this just seems like a natural progression for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, it did feel very natural the whole I
Speaker 4: just had so much fun with it, getting to know
Speaker 4: the ladies, and I guess, like it's funny people ask
Speaker 4: me like, oh, why do you think you're like that?
Speaker 3: But that's just who I am. It's my natural train
Speaker 3: of thought.
Speaker 1: I guess a big point that people are discussing at
Speaker 1: the moment is, you know, how are these farmers being
Speaker 1: picked to be on a show like this? Did you
Speaker 1: apply or did you get somebody who came after you
Speaker 1: and said you're a good looking rooster, you should be
Speaker 1: on Farmer Wants a Wife.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so my mates, well, growing up, we used to
Speaker 4: watch the show and it was always kind of the
Speaker 4: family drake at Christmas time that me and me brothers
Speaker 4: would end up Wants a Wife. So, like, my cousin
Speaker 4: actually sent me a snapchat memory from like five years ago,
Speaker 4: and it's me standing in front of the tractor at
Speaker 4: home and I'm smiling giving her thumbs up, and she's like,
Speaker 4: the caption is our next season if Farm wants a wife,
Speaker 4: Farmer Harry coming out here or something like that.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, it's always been kind of a family joke.
Speaker 4: And then you know, with those advertisements that come out
Speaker 4: that they post on Facebook and whatnot, my friends would
Speaker 4: just always tag me in it.
Speaker 3: So it kind of turmed from that that.
Speaker 4: They saw it was being tagged left and center on
Speaker 4: Bloody almost every post they put up, and so they asked,
Speaker 4: is you know, is that something you'd be interested in?
Speaker 4: It kind of went from there, I suppose.
Speaker 1: And also, you know, as you know, before we started
Speaker 1: talking on the official podcast, I talked to you about
Speaker 1: chatting to Farmer Will and Farmer Ben and they both
Speaker 1: revealed that they have a bit of a bromance going on.
Speaker 1: Are you getting in on some of that action?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I suppose. So I think we all get
Speaker 4: along so Bloody Well, you know, when we do our
Speaker 4: little farmer catch ups, it's pretty funny they have to
Speaker 4: kind of like tell us to shut up, all right,
Speaker 4: we're done. Guys like to wrap up the conversation because
Speaker 4: you know, we just want to keep talking and talking
Speaker 4: because we all get along so well. It was quite
Speaker 4: funny because once we're all in a room together, it's
Speaker 4: pretty hard to keep control of a lot of us.
Speaker 3: I'd say we had the handsfull, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: A few people this week talking about your farm not
Speaker 1: being a farm, which I think is in a real
Speaker 1: It's not even a big issue to me because obviously
Speaker 1: during COVID, you know, we were lucky to get any
Speaker 1: television made. Do you see that kind of commentary online?
Speaker 1: And do you think it's you know, a storm and
Speaker 1: a tea cup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I think, yeah.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, not being able to film at home was just
Speaker 4: another victim of COVID, and it's just, yeah, it sucked,
Speaker 4: but I guess, you know, like you said, lucky to
Speaker 4: even have the opportunity at all.
Speaker 3: And it's not like the girls missed out.
Speaker 4: It was still an operating farm and they I definitely
Speaker 4: still had them out there driving tractors and milking cows
Speaker 4: and feeding calfs and everything.
Speaker 3: They still got the full farm experience.
Speaker 4: And I think, yeah, I'm trying to just don't let
Speaker 4: it affect me that much. It's just that's how it is,
Speaker 4: I suppose, and people are always going to want to
Speaker 4: ask up about something, and.
Speaker 3: I guess that's just kind of just got to take
Speaker 3: it on the gin.
Speaker 1: I suppose did you have to say to like your family,
Speaker 1: keep this on the download, but I'm not actually filing,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not actually filming on the actual farm.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that you sort of have to play along.
Speaker 1: But do you expect your family to play along with
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff as well?
Speaker 4: Well, no one was ever expected playing like it was
Speaker 4: the first ten seconds, you know, it was. It was
Speaker 4: pretty obvious it wasn't It wasn't kai. I think anyone
Speaker 4: could see that, like where we film was a lot
Speaker 4: different to home. But yeah, like I said, it was
Speaker 4: never said that it was my farm. It was Harry.
Speaker 4: Ladies are working with farmer Harry, and so you know
Speaker 4: it was We never ever put out the idea that
Speaker 4: it was my property to begin with, so I never
Speaker 4: felt like little lying at all.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not a country connoisseur, so I had no idea.
Speaker 1: It looked like your farm for sure. You definitely sold
Speaker 1: it to me, and I couldn't have cared.
Speaker 4: Less, thank you. Yeah, it was. It was still great
Speaker 4: to get out there and the girls, Yeah, like I said,
Speaker 4: they didn't miss out on any you know, what they
Speaker 4: would have experienced at home. Really they were still out
Speaker 4: their milk and cows and feeding them and you know,
Speaker 4: drenching cattle at one point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great.
Speaker 1: You also seem to have a really strong relationship with
Speaker 1: your family. Was your mom's approval something you know of
Speaker 1: a non negotiable? Was when it came down to picking
Speaker 1: the right girl, did you make sure that your mom
Speaker 1: gave you the sign off and gave you the ticket approval?
Speaker 4: You know, it's that's so funny you should say that,
Speaker 4: because like, yeah, mum's approval is really important, but my
Speaker 4: mom has it has a pretty different approach. She's never
Speaker 4: once told me in my life like this is what
Speaker 4: you got to do. She's always you know, Harry's happy,
Speaker 4: I'm happy. And going back to when she had to
Speaker 4: decide on that, you know, who would go on that
Speaker 4: overnight date, she actually kind of struggled with that because
Speaker 4: she's like she didn't want to make that decision for
Speaker 4: me because she was like, oh, it's Harry's Harry's girls
Speaker 4: and he wants you know, his life kind of a thing.
Speaker 4: And that's always been her approach is as long as
Speaker 4: we're happy. She's happy, and she's been really really good
Speaker 4: about the whole process really and even just going on
Speaker 4: the show, she was like, oh, like she was excited
Speaker 4: for me, but also, you know, you think about it,
Speaker 4: make sure this is something you want to do, because
Speaker 4: once you do it, your life will never be the same.
Speaker 1: I liked the relationship that you had with her will
Speaker 1: have with her, and it came across really well on screen.
Speaker 1: Every time she was there. You could see that you
Speaker 1: had a great relationship with your mum, which I always
Speaker 1: look for in relationships with my friends. You know, I
Speaker 1: think that if you, you know, if you've got a
Speaker 1: good relationship with your parents, it says a lot about you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think it does.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 3: There was go Back to Me teenage years, and geez
Speaker 3: it was pretty fiery and rocky.
Speaker 1: But I think, oh, everyone hates their mom at that stage.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think you do. And some days, you know,
Speaker 4: you wish that you were different when you were younger.
Speaker 4: But I think you can't really dwell on that because
Speaker 4: you can't really control that. You can only control what
Speaker 4: you're doing right now. You can hopefully only grow to
Speaker 4: become a better person. At the end of the day.
Speaker 4: So I think that's kind of where I've you know,
Speaker 4: I really got a lot of respect from Mum because
Speaker 4: she's done a lot. She's a bloody good woman, tell
Speaker 4: you what. She had a handsful growing up with us
Speaker 4: four kids on the farm and helping dad and then
Speaker 4: having her own job and then taking us to soccer
Speaker 4: or bloody swimming, driving us five hours to swim at
Speaker 4: for about a total of one minute in the pool
Speaker 4: and then come home. She's been great throughout my whole life.
Speaker 1: And all of your siblings, as much of a handful
Speaker 1: as you are.
Speaker 3: I think you just me some of them a bit
Speaker 3: more of a handful.
Speaker 4: I like to say I'm the craasy one, but Mum
Speaker 4: would probably say otherwise, I'm probably in the middle.
Speaker 3: There's definitely easier, but definitely a lot more stressful.
Speaker 4: I think Mum always says that raising one daughter was
Speaker 4: more it was more over handful than raising three boys.
Speaker 1: I think I made the biggest mistake. I always thought
Speaker 1: that I was the easy one, and then you know,
Speaker 1: as an adult, we're all sitting around the table, and
Speaker 1: you know, it was revealed that I was the worst
Speaker 1: of the lot. So you know.
Speaker 3: Oh jeez, that's a bad bloody way to find out.
Speaker 3: I suppose, isn't it, Like I'm the great raft?
Speaker 1: What's wrong with you there?
Speaker 4: That's always what the bad ones say, though, isn't it.
Speaker 1: I'm obviously deluded? Obviously making a show for television is
Speaker 1: quite an intrusive, you know, experience, especially when it comes
Speaker 1: to meeting women. How much did the production side of
Speaker 1: things get in the way of you building genuine relationships?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think I had a pretty I like it. Think
Speaker 4: I'm pretty laid back and nothing really phases me. And
Speaker 4: that's something I definitely learned pretty quick, is like you
Speaker 4: can't meet someone who you know needs to have structure
Speaker 4: in their life because structure just falls apart because all
Speaker 4: it takes is like one wrong turn on the way
Speaker 4: to somewhere and then you're back a whole bunch of
Speaker 4: hours or you know, a bit of rain to come
Speaker 4: that it.
Speaker 3: Stuff's the whole day up.
Speaker 4: So I think I was very big on I kind
Speaker 4: of I don't really watch TV or anything like that,
Speaker 4: like especially these show Like I don't really consume much
Speaker 4: of this stuff because going into it, I wanted to
Speaker 4: be true to myself, and I think because of.
Speaker 3: That, I had a bit of an advantage in that
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 4: Really know how it all worked, so I just took
Speaker 4: it on the chin kind of a thing, and just
Speaker 4: you know, I was like, Oh, I'm just going to
Speaker 4: be me and that's all I can do. And I
Speaker 4: think that approach kind of helped. And I think you
Speaker 4: do get nervous on camera, but by the end, like
Speaker 4: it only took a couple of days and you're pretty
Speaker 4: you kind of get used to having cameras and microphones
Speaker 4: on you. I think the only thing by the end
Speaker 4: that still freaked me out was the events, because all
Speaker 4: of a sudden, it wasn't you know, your two soundos
Speaker 4: and two camera guys. It was like thirty cameras and
Speaker 4: fifteen soundos and all this stuff was going on with
Speaker 4: it just being very like I felt very supported the
Speaker 4: whole way through too, like I had a great truth
Speaker 4: Like it was sad when it all came to, you know,
Speaker 4: the end of it, because I got along with them
Speaker 4: so well, and I really did feel like they were
Speaker 4: kind of rooting for me to find someone and be
Speaker 4: happy at the end.
Speaker 1: I think that's the best way to do it. Like
Speaker 1: if you're going to do reality television, you know, you
Speaker 1: want to be doing the right thing. You sort of
Speaker 1: want to be pointed in the right direction and trust
Speaker 1: those relationships. I think as soon the trust is broken,
Speaker 1: you know, that's when it probably becomes a much harder
Speaker 1: relationship to try and work through or try to be authentic,
Speaker 1: because you know, it's like anything really, you know, once
Speaker 1: trust is broken, something like this can be really difficult.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I suppose I guess, like you've got to
Speaker 4: be true to yourself and be yourself, because god, I
Speaker 4: can't imagine doing it any other way, because like it'd
Speaker 4: be so exhausting, Like it was exhausting be myself, but
Speaker 4: putting on a character, don't. I don't know how anyone
Speaker 4: could do it. Really, Like they're long days. I don't
Speaker 4: think people realize that, like twelve hours of footage gets
Speaker 4: to cut down to like thirty seconds. It seems like
Speaker 4: that has probably been the hardest thing to you know,
Speaker 4: watch is see all these things that we did and
Speaker 4: that doesn't end up on TV. And then in a way,
Speaker 4: it's kind of cool that like even when we're doing
Speaker 4: that stuff, just to care that everyone looking to making
Speaker 4: sure everything looked good, and you know, everything was running smoothly, knowing,
Speaker 4: you know, knowing that there's a pretty good chance it
Speaker 4: won't even end up on TV. It's kind of heartbreaking
Speaker 4: the to see things that you did and even moments
Speaker 4: you shared with people or you know, farm work that
Speaker 4: you thought was really fun with the ladies and it
Speaker 4: doesn't end up, you know, going to TV and people
Speaker 4: miss out on it. That is a little bit of
Speaker 4: a shame for it, but that's just how it goes.
Speaker 1: I yess interesting that you know farmer will you know,
Speaker 1: he's kind of like a model, Like he's the most
Speaker 1: beautiful looking man, you know when you look at all
Speaker 1: the photos. But you know, I think watching the show,
Speaker 1: you became more attractive as the show went on because
Speaker 1: you were so genuine And I think that that was
Speaker 1: what was interesting to me as a viewer, was that
Speaker 1: you became more appealing than some of the other farmers
Speaker 1: because you genuinely look like you're having a good you know,
Speaker 1: you just genuinely look like you're having a good time
Speaker 1: and happy to be there.
Speaker 4: I had so much fun, Like I literally like it
Speaker 4: was the funniest thing ever, real, Like, seriously, this was
Speaker 4: like a highlight. I was just I don't know, it's
Speaker 4: been explained to me. It's a little bit of imposter syndrome.
Speaker 4: So it kind of it's a good thing aboud thing
Speaker 4: because I was just like, it's a privilege to be here. Really,
Speaker 4: Like I was convinced, especially in I was like, they're
Speaker 4: going to realize I'm awkward with these girls.
Speaker 3: I'm awkward on camera.
Speaker 4: They're going to a big mistake, and they're going to
Speaker 4: say I'm going to get a phone call and they're
Speaker 4: going to say, look, carry we've thought about it and
Speaker 4: we just can't go through with you.
Speaker 3: You're just it's not quite right. Like I was just
Speaker 3: convinced that was going to happen.
Speaker 1: Because you've been fired.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is like a once I life on Opportunity
Speaker 2: is the only time there's going to be like three
Speaker 2: hundred people that were going to making sure my hair
Speaker 2: is right and my outfits match and stuff.
Speaker 4: Because if I was dressing myself, it would I would
Speaker 4: wear it. I'd be wearing like blue and green with
Speaker 4: nothing in between. You know, I'd be breaking all the
Speaker 4: rules of fashion.
Speaker 1: Harry, the best thing about you was the slightly awkward moments,
Speaker 1: because that's what we want to see on television, we
Speaker 1: want to see, we want to see ourselves, and that
Speaker 1: I think we all are super duper nervous when it
Speaker 1: comes to meeting people, you know. So I think that
Speaker 1: just genuinely being all of those things was probably your
Speaker 1: best selling point where you're like, please don't fire me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I was.
Speaker 3: It was just it was just great and I just.
Speaker 4: Got along with the crew, like there was no one
Speaker 4: that I came up against the whole way through and
Speaker 4: I never want to see that person again, just like
Speaker 4: everyone was just just a ripper.
Speaker 1: Don't be like me. I'm still calling producers from a
Speaker 1: show ten years ago and pretending that we're friends, and
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they're like, you're stretching the friendship mate.
Speaker 1: No one cares.
Speaker 4: It's funny to say that, because I like, I was
Speaker 4: only catching up with my producers a few weeks ago
Speaker 4: when we were in Sydney, caught up with them and
Speaker 4: had had dinner with them and stuff like that. I
Speaker 4: still have a pretty good relationship with them. I think
Speaker 4: when we have a chat from the time to time,
Speaker 4: it's yeah, I think I've made lifetime friends out of it.
Speaker 1: I like to think do you get a chance when
Speaker 1: you're sitting there in a casual moment to give them
Speaker 1: suggestions on what worked and what you think works in
Speaker 1: this show and what they could possibly do in a
Speaker 1: future season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I have. I think, you know, you've
Speaker 4: got to be understanding. Like my biggest thing was they're
Speaker 4: not from farming world, so I can't get angry that
Speaker 4: they want me to do something. We It was a
Speaker 4: very two way relationship, Like I didn't know Dick about TV,
Speaker 4: and you know, they didn't really know much about farming,
Speaker 4: so you know, they might say, oh, Harry, can you
Speaker 4: do this. I'm like, look, that's not really something we
Speaker 4: would actually do, and they say, oh, that's great, Like
Speaker 4: thank you. We don't know, that's fine, don't worry about it,
Speaker 4: don't do it. You don't feel comfortable. That's not how
Speaker 4: you do something on the farm. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: And you know, just like i'd expect them if I
Speaker 4: was saying doing something wrong on camera that I'd want
Speaker 4: that feedback. So I think from that, you can only
Speaker 4: hope that you know, you improve it for the next time,
Speaker 4: the next batch of farmers that are coming up, and
Speaker 4: hope they you know, don't go through some of it. Well,
Speaker 4: you know, they don't have some of the struggles that
Speaker 4: you had, just because you know, you've educated the TV people,
Speaker 4: you know, on what works and what doesn't quite work.
Speaker 1: So well, it's kind of weird because you know, in
Speaker 1: some ways they want you to be very farmer esque
Speaker 1: and lean into that, and I don't necessarily see that
Speaker 1: being a massive problem. I mean, that's what the show is.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 1: And they're like, all right, to get on this horse
Speaker 1: and go on last, so you go, well or whatever
Speaker 1: it is, because they're trying to ham it up because
Speaker 1: you know it kind of it kind of suits the brand.
Speaker 1: So you know, why wouldn't they ask me to do
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I look, I suppose I get that, but
Speaker 4: I think you've got to be realistic as well. I
Speaker 4: think for me, and I was very big on you know,
Speaker 4: agriculture is something I really deeply care about so much,
Speaker 4: like I live and breathe it, and so I was
Speaker 4: very big on I want to give people a little
Speaker 4: inside on, you know, how the farming world works. And
Speaker 4: I think this show is really just the tip of
Speaker 4: that Iceberg, and I hope that anyone that sees the
Speaker 4: show and you know, shows a little bit of interest
Speaker 4: in agriculture that they you know, they don't end their
Speaker 4: journey of ag from watching the show. They go out
Speaker 4: there and you know, like you could be into interior
Speaker 4: design and.
Speaker 3: You can get a job in agriculture. That's what I
Speaker 3: love about it.
Speaker 4: For me, I just agriculture is just, I don't know,
Speaker 4: it's my whole world. And I think in a way,
Speaker 4: even though a lot of people don't think about it,
Speaker 4: it's their whole world too. You know, at the end
Speaker 4: of the day, you've got to eat something and that's
Speaker 4: going to come from somewhere, and you know, it's ag
Speaker 4: that provides that. And I think the more people that
Speaker 4: are involved and have an understanding of agriculture. I'm very
Speaker 4: big on being transparent about the industry towards people and
Speaker 4: it's always a good thing when someone gets to see,
Speaker 4: you know, how their food and fibers produced. Especially in Australia,
Speaker 4: We've got you know, gold standards of the world being
Speaker 4: produced right here. And I'm really proud to say that
Speaker 4: I'm involved.
Speaker 1: In that absolutely, you know, and I think it I mean,
Speaker 1: I think the show could lean more into the more
Speaker 1: education on what it's like to be an actual farmer
Speaker 1: in Australia.
Speaker 3: You know, you asked me, there's never enough.
Speaker 4: I'd always I could always say, you know, they could
Speaker 4: lean more into it. I don't think you can ever
Speaker 4: be exposed enough of how your food is produced and
Speaker 4: how you know you will sparn I guess, and you
Speaker 4: know how you end up with nice winter jackets going
Speaker 4: in the summer now, it's probably I don't know what
Speaker 4: will products you use on pants, but I'm getting lost
Speaker 4: eye tract.
Speaker 1: When you ramble off and start talking about farmer stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they just plan ed Sheeran song in
Speaker 1: the background and fade you back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's literally what they do. I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be surprised they are. The farmers are just rembling out
Speaker 4: the farm stuff again.
Speaker 1: Once for the cutting room floor. You know, I was
Speaker 1: a little surprised to see that. You know, Tess said that,
Speaker 1: you know, she still needed to finish off a few
Speaker 1: things back at home, you know, on the Gold Coast
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know, she had to finish off a
Speaker 1: few things. Couldn't just pack up her stuff and move
Speaker 1: straight to the farm. Is it kind of a bit strange?
Speaker 1: I mean, I was a little bit annoyed with her
Speaker 1: at that point because I was like, come on, you're
Speaker 1: on farmer wants a wife? You know. You know that
Speaker 1: feel is if you bag the bloke. If you snag
Speaker 1: the bloke, you're moving to the farm. Was it strange
Speaker 1: to hear or have those conversations?
Speaker 4: And I think that's partly my fault because I don't
Speaker 4: think it's it's.
Speaker 3: Been shown, but I've been quoted as.
Speaker 4: Saying, you know, I don't my partner, whoever it is,
Speaker 4: I don't necessarily want them to put their life on
Speaker 4: hold for me, like I think, I just want their
Speaker 4: life to work for me is probably the biggest thing,
Speaker 4: and I'd rather it was. It did kind of suck
Speaker 4: to hear that, But at the same time, I suppose
Speaker 4: it's better to have the true and get to the
Speaker 4: end and find out that that wasn't ready to move
Speaker 4: with the farm until she'd finished UNI, I suppose.
Speaker 1: I think the other thing that everyone's talking about at
Speaker 1: the moment was it was a bit sad to see
Speaker 1: Farmer Benjamin and Farmer Page walk away empty handed. Are
Speaker 1: they maybe going to come back next year. Do you
Speaker 1: know if they're still single? Could they be back on
Speaker 1: Farmer Wants a Wife next year?
Speaker 4: I don't know. Well, they've already announced the next lot,
Speaker 4: so I don't think you're on next season. But no,
Speaker 4: I think I still, like I said to Page before
Speaker 4: she left, you know, she's made lifetime friends on that
Speaker 4: show out of us boys, and we're always going to
Speaker 4: be there for it. So I do keep in contact
Speaker 4: with her, And yeah, I can't really say much else
Speaker 4: because it's her life and I don't really feel comfortable
Speaker 4: spout enough from what she's doing on her adventures.
Speaker 3: You'd have to ask her.
Speaker 1: But very on Australian Harry, it's very un Australia.
Speaker 4: Sorry, yeah, but no, she seems to be happy with
Speaker 4: you know how it is, and she's got got mates
Speaker 4: out of us, so she got something.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 1: Will people be shocked by anything coming up in the
Speaker 1: season finale and the reunion, is anything that you can
Speaker 1: tease us with as to what we are expected to
Speaker 1: see in the last two episodes.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I think you'll just have to wait
Speaker 4: and see. I'm pretty excited just to see how decisions
Speaker 4: go for everyone else like I live through it.
Speaker 3: I'm keen to see how everyone else's decision day went.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I don't know. I'm a little bit like
Speaker 4: people like, oh, what's coming up? And I'm very big
Speaker 4: like just watch it, like I get a kick out
Speaker 4: of seeing what's going on, Like I don't want to
Speaker 4: know anything, Like don't you just get.
Speaker 3: Excited at the unknown? Like that? It's so special for
Speaker 3: me and I bluddy lived it, you know, part of it.
Speaker 1: All of you and will oh well if you will
Speaker 1: and Ben all find the perfect match. Could you get
Speaker 1: like a group discount on a joint farmer wedding?
Speaker 3: Might need to look into that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll take.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Harry, it's so lovely to chat to you. And
Speaker 1: something I always ask everyone who joins the podcast is
Speaker 1: what's something from behind the scenes, something that we didn't
Speaker 1: see that we won't see. That's kind of a behind
Speaker 1: the scenes secret of Farmer wants a wife? Is there
Speaker 1: anything you can tell us?
Speaker 4: Leeches, holy hat, leeches were everywhere, I think with it
Speaker 4: being quite a wet year, like every day we're getting
Speaker 4: attacked by leeches. I remember like having a really deep
Speaker 4: conversation with Gabrielle early on it was a very important conversation.
Speaker 3: And I could literally see multiple leeches crawling.
Speaker 4: Along the damn ground, climbing.
Speaker 3: Onto my shoe.
Speaker 4: And then after we finished film and we're all driving
Speaker 4: home in their cars and then I had like this
Speaker 4: weird like stinging on my leg and I cut down
Speaker 4: and as a leech on me.
Speaker 2: Cameraman, We're getting attacked by leeches.
Speaker 3: He it was buddy, it was how that was everywhere.
Speaker 4: It was funny as though, because it did mate for
Speaker 4: some pretty funny moments of screaming through the forest and
Speaker 4: stuff like that.
Speaker 3: It was quite kind of good to watch.
Speaker 1: And leeches is obviously not a code word for the
Speaker 1: first round of girls that you rejected from taking.
Speaker 4: No, the little lam things that suck your mind.
Speaker 1: Harry, It's been so lovely to chat to you. You know,
Speaker 1: it's been a fantastic season. The casting this year has
Speaker 1: been brilliant. It's just been a joy to watch. And
Speaker 1: you know, I really hope that you find yourself for
Speaker 1: missus and and this show really pays off for you.
Speaker 4: Thanks. Mate, really appreciate you taking the time the chat
Speaker 4: to me, and yeah, it's been great. The first time
Speaker 4: on a podcast hopefully started.
Speaker 3: My career, I listened to so many podcasts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then you become so criticalized a minute, I
Speaker 1: always get really critical. I'm like listening to podcasts all
Speaker 1: the time because I do them, and I'm like, I can't. Actually,
Speaker 1: the weird thing about it is that I hate the
Speaker 1: sound of my own voice, so I find it really
Speaker 1: hard to listen back. So here's a tip. Don't listen
Speaker 1: back to the podcast. You'll hate it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't listen back to your own everyone now, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's yeah, that's not a bad idea.
Speaker 1: Well, thanks for being so generous with your time. It
Speaker 1: was a good chat.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Geez, appreciate it.