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Speaker 1: This is jam nation. Well, for fifteen years, Samantha Armitage

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Speaker 1: was doing early mornings and living the busy life that

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Speaker 1: comes with hosting the top breakfast TV show Sunrise.

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Speaker 2: She swapped that for.

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Speaker 1: A sleep in and a wonderful life for the former

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Speaker 1: country girl back to her roots. I think, living life

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Speaker 1: to her best with her husband Richard. This has made

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Speaker 1: her the perfect mentor to helping farmers find love. In

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Speaker 1: the new season of Farmer Wants a Wife, which kicks

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Speaker 1: off on Sunday night, Sam Hello.

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Speaker 3: Hello you two.

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Speaker 1: It's always annoying.

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Speaker 3: What the bloody hell do you call this time? I mean,

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Speaker 3: this is early for me these days.

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Speaker 4: This time?

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Speaker 2: What's on? Do you get up now?

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Speaker 3: You know Country Hours six thirty seven.

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Speaker 1: Don't you have to go on milk cows and do things?

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Speaker 3: No, the horses take care of themselves. I have to

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Speaker 3: feed the dog in the morning and usually feed the husband. Yep,

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Speaker 3: he's you know, he can go without food for a

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Speaker 3: few days.

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Speaker 1: I like this show has always had great success. I mean,

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Speaker 1: have a look at the stay that's here. Twenty three

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Speaker 1: babies from Farmer Wants a Wife. Nine marriages, another long

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Speaker 1: term relationship. I was interested to see that apparently they

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Speaker 1: get to read the applications from the farmer. That maybe

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Speaker 1: makes the difference. So it's not like they're August going

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Speaker 1: on a dating show to be famous, because they see

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Speaker 1: who that person is and they get to make a

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Speaker 1: choice too.

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Speaker 3: Yes, oh no, the girls who apply apply to that farmer,

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Speaker 3: so they work out which one they like, and then

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Speaker 3: we try to set them up. So sort of half

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Speaker 3: the hard work has already done for you. And then

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Speaker 3: my role is that I come in a little bit

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Speaker 3: later in the show and sort of upset the apple

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Speaker 3: card a little bit more because it's television and love

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Speaker 3: do we love love blossoms. But it's got to, you know,

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Speaker 3: have there's got to be a few little road bumb

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Speaker 3: Do you bring in intruders not intruders, No, we don't

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Speaker 3: use a word. I bring in some gorgeous girls and

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Speaker 3: some blokes from page because we have a female farmer

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Speaker 3: perhaps yes, who's divine, and so I bring in some

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Speaker 3: my choice. I bring in two new girls and two

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Speaker 3: new blokes for each farmer, and then they have even

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Speaker 3: more to choose from. So it just it just makes it.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's got to be a bit dramatic.

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Speaker 2: You're going to have a bit of drama. Then you've

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Speaker 2: got to have a bit of because married at first

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Speaker 2: sits changed. It's it's not married at first sight, no

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Speaker 2: pneumatic lips or anything.

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Speaker 3: No, no, it's it's quite That's why I agreed to

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Speaker 3: be part of this is quite genuine. It's lovely show.

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Speaker 3: It's really cute and this year the farmers are gorgeous.

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Speaker 3: You are going to love them. So it's you know,

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Speaker 3: it's funny how life turns out.

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Speaker 1: And do you think with COVID women are reassessing their lives.

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Speaker 1: Everyone is as too or like maybe the city is

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Speaker 1: not for me totally.

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Speaker 3: And they had so many applications this year for particularly

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Speaker 3: from women who were just saying, I'm sick of the city.

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Speaker 3: I want to get out of you know, Sydney for instance,

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Speaker 3: and it's too busy and it's too crowd and I

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Speaker 3: want to go to the country. And it's just your thoughts,

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Speaker 3: which I did, so that's why they brought me into it.

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Speaker 2: But you're originally a country girl, aren't you.

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Speaker 3: So I grew up downey Koma on the Manaro a

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Speaker 3: nice area, beautiful country, snowy mountains.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're on a property down there for twenty

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Speaker 3: five years, so I'm genuinely a country girl. And then

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Speaker 3: I spent all those years in the city and I

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Speaker 3: was always trying to work out how to get back

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Speaker 3: to the country, but I couldn't. And then life gets

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Speaker 3: you know. Then my career just went from stage to stage,

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Speaker 3: and then I really couldn't get out of there, and

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Speaker 3: they refused to build me a television studio out in

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Speaker 1: And this is what I like, is that we have

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Speaker 1: to remind ourselves that the choice is ours and this

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Speaker 1: is what you've done because your mum said to you,

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Speaker 1: edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. This is your masterpiece.

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Speaker 1: You are in control. It's easy to think life happens.

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Speaker 3: To you, but you do have choice totally. And I

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Speaker 3: think when you're in TV you think you don't. You know,

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Speaker 3: just got to a point where thought, you know what,

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Speaker 3: it's been great, but I'm sort of done with it now.

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Speaker 3: And I think it was shocking because no one ever

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Speaker 3: does that in television. But I was quite proud to

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Speaker 3: be one of the first ones.

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Speaker 1: To get to choose your exit.

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Speaker 3: You never get to choose your exit usually, but you

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Speaker 3: know what it's sometimes when you sort of blow things up,

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Speaker 3: then better things happen. Because then seven came back and

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Speaker 3: offered me a terrific contract. And here we are.

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Speaker 2: I say, this is good. So you've got money putting

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Speaker 2: food on the table, Richard, That's what.

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Speaker 3: I say to you.

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Speaker 4: Richard gets fed, don't Richard's not sitting there with his

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Speaker 4: knife from four game.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's like like a Kenny Rogers song.

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Speaker 3: No neither Richard nor bound Joe the Dog are fading away.

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Speaker 3: We're all doing quite well good.

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Speaker 2: And what do you miss about not being on TV regularly?

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Speaker 3: Some days I miss having a voice, like I miss

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Speaker 3: having a say, but they're pretty few and far between.

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Speaker 3: Then I sort of look back and think, oh everybody's

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Speaker 3: having a say. It's quite a nice time to actually

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Speaker 3: be quiet. I've quite enjoyed just going to ground. I

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Speaker 3: don't miss the hours, but sometimes I miss having my

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Speaker 3: hair done.

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Speaker 4: A matter of miss the free stuff, all the free stuff,

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Speaker 4: free stuff. Well, like farmer wants a wife. Yesterday I

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Speaker 4: dropped us off a bunch of SCons and jam and cream.

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Speaker 3: Did you eat your SCons?

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Speaker 1: And I did? Brandon?

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Speaker 2: Did I had about three of them. Good nothing, and

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Apparently they put buttermilk in the SCons.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's a thing. Oh really, I thought you made

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Speaker 2: these set. I thought anything I said that you made them.

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Speaker 3: But you know, this is one of the things. I

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Speaker 3: think a lot of people during COVID have been doing this.

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Speaker 3: I have after all these years of being a TV

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Speaker 3: career girl. You know, I use my oven for storage,

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Speaker 3: for storage jumpers. I've started cooking and maybe married life

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Speaker 3: has brought it out of me and I love it.

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Speaker 3: Quite creative. I'm not very good at baking. I did

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Speaker 3: not make the SCons, but I love.

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Speaker 1: That's how I relax on the weekend.

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Speaker 2: I bake. Do you yeah?

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Speaker 3: Are You're good?

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Speaker 1: Not always? But I love the process. Put a bit

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Speaker 1: of music on and bake.

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Speaker 3: It's it's very it's quite an art form baking.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I like it, because it's not free form.

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Speaker 1: I have to follow a recipe like I'm mixing explode.

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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you should get there in the kitchen and

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Speaker 2: whip us up some you.

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Speaker 3: Know, we'll come down anytime you're anytime you're in there.

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Speaker 2: I want your address.

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Speaker 4: I'll just write, well, just go down the long driveway. Sam,

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Speaker 4: it's always great to see your Farmer Wants a Wife.

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Speaker 4: Premiere is Sunday, seven o'clock on seven And it is

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Speaker 4: nice to have you back on the Telly.

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Speaker 2: And it's nice to have you in here. We've missed you.

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Speaker 3: I've missed you too, nice I do. I see bits

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Speaker 3: of you and pieces all around. But it's lovely to

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Speaker 3: be back. Thank you for having me