WEBVTT - FARMER BEN TALKS DOING HIS NUTS EARLY! 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.720 It's in the news today, but it was actually on 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:03.080 TV Reloaded podcast. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:06.480 Last do their line Welcome back to TV Reload. Mine 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:09.399 AM's Benjamin Norris and on this podcast I go behind 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:13.360 the scenes with the biggest players in television. Each episode 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:16.320 you will get a front row seat with content makers 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:21.479 like executive producers, writers, editors and casting agents, plus the 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.360 talent that we see on our screens. TV Reload reloads 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.040 the shows that you are currently watching and gives you 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:33.320 a better insight into our television industry and our streaming services. Today. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.559 On the podcast, I have another ridiculously attractive farmer from 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.680 Channel seven's latest series of Farmer Wants a Wife. It 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.640 is Farmer Ben, who is quickly proving to be quite 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:46.040 popular amongst the fans of the show. This year, as 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.080 we know, five new farmers joined the series to find 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.960 real love. In another exciting new season of Australia's favorite 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:56.960 bush fairy Tale, which is one hundred percent getting juicier 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.560 by the episode which continues on Channel seven and seven plus. 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:04.360 Farmer Ben is taking the experience very seriously and he 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:07.560 has been quite honest with the girls as he navigates 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.919 his own feelings towards them. It is a great show 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.200 to get invested in as we all secretly play judge 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.840 and jury of who is right. For Farmer Ben, we 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.560 will talk his connection with Leish, what that means for 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.520 the other girls if he has already in his words, 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.480 Doney's nuts, and of course we will talk about his 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.880 romance with Farmer Will. However, let's get started with today's guest. 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.000 I'd like to welcome Farmer Ben to TV Reload. 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.119 Well, basically oscolated from the world. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.280 Five new farmers have been plucked from paddocks around the country. 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.640 Yeah, don't even get me sad on my dance like 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:46.399 you hope you're. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:47.240 Going to go to the farm. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:48.960 But at the same point in time I might not 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:49.920 be what he's looking for. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.560 Yeah, that crushed me to know they've come to two 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:54.200 minutes of fame. 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.960 Basically, it's all too much for one farmer. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:01.920 The end of the day, productions there to make the 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.200 best possible TV shall. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.200 Please welcome Farmer Ben. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.240 Like I was falling head over it was for someone 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:10.840 so early. 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:12.840 Hi, Farmer Ben, how are you. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:14.440 I'm well, thank you? How are you? 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.480 I'm doing really well? Congratulations on getting this opportunity. How 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.360 have you gone watching the first week of the series. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:24.040 Yeah, to be honest, it's been quite cringe. 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.359 I'm one of those types of people that don't take 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.480 many photos of myself and find it hard. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:29.600 To look at myself in the mirror. 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.120 So yeah, when I see myself on national TV, it's 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:33.880 quite hard. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:35.880 And yeah, it is what it is. It's what I 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:37.040 signed up for, but it is. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.200 A bit cringe you seeing myself on TV and sort 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.040 of opening myself up and you haven't. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.960 Even seen yourself trying to dance on the dance floor 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.320 coming up this week, so that's going to be fun 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:45.600 for you. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.200 Yeah, don't even get me sad on my dancers. I 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.480 don't know where the whispers came from. They heard that 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.600 I was a good dance of it. I'm far from it. 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.680 And it's just like, yeah, they're concrete boots in the 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.040 dance floor, that's for sure. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:02.680 The setup is so spectacular. Plus, what I really enjoy 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.640 about your time on the series is that you look 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.040 like you really are taking this whole experience of dating 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:10.040 these girls seriously. 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:10.679 Yeah. 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.520 It was definitely a very serious process for me. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.480 It was the reason I applied, and I was just 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.600 at that stage in my life where i'd had put 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.160 dating on the on the back burner, I suppose, And yeah, 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.400 when there's opportunity arose, I thought, why not give it, 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.400 give it my best crack and hopefully find a wife. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:31.560 Out of the out of the process. 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.560 Is watching it all happen on television. How different does 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.040 that feel to how it happened in real life? 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.760 Yeah, I think so far it has definitely come across 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:40.640 as the way it was. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:41.040 Though. 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.800 I think we all know things do come across a 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.120 little differently than what you see when you're behind the camera, 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.120 I suppose. So there's a lot of filming that goes 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:51.800 into such a small addit. 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.120 That's what I've sort of taken from it at the moment. 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.960 But yeah, I was only myself during the show, and yeah, 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.520 the sincere, genuine person that I know I am, And yeah, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.600 I definitely hope that sort of come across so far. 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.320 You know, Farmer Will was already on the podcast and 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.280 he mentioned that you guys have a bit of a bromance. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:13.280 If I'm a betting man, should I put more money 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.720 on your bromance with Will turning out than the relationship 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:17.200 with the girls? 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.480 I mean, it'd be a gamble and that's what that's 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.120 what punting's all about. So to be a big gamble, 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.400 But Phil, there's fair, fair odds there for you to 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:26.800 jump on. 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.680 I also asked, will you know when he decided to 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.840 do this show? I was. I was wondering whether or 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.040 not he was more worried about hurting the girl's hearts 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:37.440 or hurting his own heart. Were you worried about going 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.640 in there and worried that you'd break your heart or 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.600 were you more worried about breaking these girls heart? 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.120 I think that was a bit of both. I suppose 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.680 I've obviously been through a heartbreak before and it isn't nice, 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.640 And yeah, to put the girls in that position as well, 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.400 knowing you're in full control is difficult as well. And 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.240 you've probably already seen tears, but there's a lot more 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.400 tears to come from me. I'm a very sensitive person 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.719 when it comes to people's feelings, and when I see someone. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.320 Upset, I sort of it just tips me over the edge. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:07.279 I'm hopeless. 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.440 I'm yeah, I crying kids movies, sitting down with my daughter, 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:11.640 and yeah, I. 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:13.360 Just feel for people and their emotion. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.839 But I sort of had to get myself together and 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.479 realize this is what I signed up for, and I'm 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.920 not here to have five wives, I'm here to have one. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.480 So it was all part of the process, and yeah, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.960 I did that to the best of my ability, but yeah, 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.040 there were a lot of tears along the way for sure. 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:30.800 Well, the show would be very different if it was 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.159 moremon once a wife. You know, you did seem to 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.040 have the most amount of difficulty sending girls home in 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.560 week one. What was going through your mind? Was there 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.719 a bit of fomo, like I can't send that girl 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.400 home because fear of missing out on what they. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.240 Might have been Like, yeah, look, I had my I 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.159 had my selection before I went into that room. I 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.680 think having all the girls stood there in front of me, 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.320 it's a real full on scene, and yeah, I had 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.880 my choices already selected. But when I went into that room, 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.120 it was completely different for me, and it sort of 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.960 made me go back to realize what the girls had 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:05.800 sort of put on the line to be there for 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.559 me and something you probably won't see in the outside world. 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.720 But COVID obviously did take its whole on the show, 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:18.240 and there were numerous hotel isolations and were basically isolated 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:18.920 from the world. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:20.080 So I know, myself. 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.840 Putting me in a hotel room for isolation wasn't too 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.359 much fun, and all the partners everyone had to go 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:29.120 through the same process. So I only just thought of 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.360 that when it came to making that decision, and how 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.240 much the girls had genuinely given up in their own 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.719 life to be there for me, And yeah, that crushed 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:37.080 me to know. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.000 Yeah, they've come to two minutes of fame basically. 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.040 You know what's also really hard is that, you know, 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.960 you were meeting so many girls at the early stages 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.520 of getting used to production. Is it hard to get 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.680 used to the cameras? Do you feel like as the 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.039 show goes on that you started to forget about them? 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.200 Yeah, it was very difficult at the start. I mean, 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.599 I'm one of those people that has to have at 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.599 least got a two beer Andrew's belt to sort of 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:02.600 start get talking. 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:03.360 But yeah, it is. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.799 It's a very different situation to have so many cameras 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.040 in your face and because yeah, it is hard to 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.520 sort of open up and tell someone how you're feeling 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.800 when there are so many eyes on you and looking 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:15.560 in on you. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.360 This week, we saw you take leash back to be 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.600 the first person to go back to the farm. Is 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.760 that going to make it much harder to look at 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.760 the other girls like, you know, having someone come back 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.000 and have that intimate experience, and for you, you're sort 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:31.000 of a self confessed person who falls pretty hard, you know, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:32.280 is that going to make it harder for the other 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:33.239 girls to get a guernsey? 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:34.160 I don't think so. 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:38.160 I think if I didn't have feelings for all five 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.520 girls coming back to the farmer, I wouldn't have brought 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:41.960 all five girls. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.480 From the initial impression. Do you change your mind a lot? 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.040 Or do you feel in the back of your mind 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.640 that you kind of always knew from the start who 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:51.160 you wanted. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.600 I think it all just comes down to timing, really, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.040 and how much sort of time you can put into 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.360 each of the partners that have come. I think Tom 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:03.440 is everything, and I suppose more Tom you can spend 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:07.520 with someone in such short period is so important into 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.080 making a decision in the long run. 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.560 How do you think the other girls deal with, you know, 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.280 the competition's side of things. You know, how do you 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:15.480 think the girls are going I. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.960 Can't really talk on how that would be for the girls. 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.000 I can only imagine what it would be like. I 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.320 don't know how it'd sort of be able to handle 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.280 it myself if I was in that position. So yeah, 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.000 it's obviously hard and finding out certain things that happen 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.120 on dates and things like that, it must get hard 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:35.440 for them. But yeah, I was always there for a 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.040 shoulder to lean on and someone to talk to if 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.040 they ever had an issue, And yeah, we were We 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.440 were going through the process together, so that was the 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:43.880 main thing. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.360 Do you think that Leish will cope with having to 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.000 share you now with the other girls? 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:49.000 I think yeah. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:53.160 I think Leish was very understandable of the process and 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.400 how it worked. And yeah, the fact that she did 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.120 get the first twenty four hour date, she was aware 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.120 that they're probably wasn't going to be that much time 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:06.040 with me in the next coming weeks. So yeah, she's 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.480 a very mature head and understood the process, and yeah, 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.720 probably understood that we weren't going to get that sort 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.120 of one on one time for a little while. 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.840 Yet. Well, I think every bloke in Australia is wanting 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.320 to ask you this question, and that is what's the 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.120 most awkward part in dating five women at once. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.760 I kept forgetting Madison was she was gluten free. She 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.719 was dairy free everything like that. So I'd come out 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.480 and make the girls a coffee of the morning and 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:36.800 always forget of Madison's allergies, and I'd serve her up 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.920 a cappuccino and she'd be like, got has that got 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.600 ot milk? My sorry, I'll keep. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:43.200 Forgetting about that. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.920 So yeah, I've sort of never dated someone with allergies 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:47.839 like that before, So that was that was a bit 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.400 bit hard to get used to. But I think there 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:54.439 was there was a few situations there where some girls 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.160 would come visit over night time after the cameras had 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:02.120 stopped rolling, and yeah, they'd get caught sort of coming 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.240 back from going to visit you and. 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.520 Things like that. So yeah, things to get very awkward 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:07.880 in that regard, which. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.120 Is the reason why you had to start poisoning them, 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:14.480 you know, early on, just to just to narrow it 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.760 down a little bit. What sort of confidence did you 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.880 have that you would actually walk away from this competition 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:20.880 with a wife. 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:22.920 I suppose I didn't really know what I was going 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:23.120 in for. 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.679 I obviously hoped and had confidence there that I would 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.960 find someone. I know, Yeah, signing up for farm more 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.240 ONTs a wife. It is proven to be the most 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:36.000 genuine show. So I was very confident in going into 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.360 the process and finding that life at the end. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.800 And I mean you're a father as well. Just factoring 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:42.960 in your daughter have an effect on the type of 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:44.720 girl that you're trying to choose. 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:47.560 Yeah, hugely. I've got to pick someone that's that's not 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.040 only great for me, but great for my daughter as well. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.160 And she does. I've always said she doesn't need a mother. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:57.240 She's got She's got a beautiful mother that that's yeah. 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:58.440 Doing that job just fine. 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.000 But I just I just need money my life to 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.440 be that sort of mother motherlike role model on my 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:05.880 side of the family for my daughter. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.520 Yeah. So I just love that they're coming up on 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:13.000 the show. Is this mini B and S Ball, which 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.640 I've got friends that are in the country, so I 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:17.240 know a lot about a B and S Ball. I've 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.360 heard a lot about them, But I want to know, 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.520 do you think the people's true colors come out when 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.520 you mix dancing and a few drinks at a B 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:27.840 and S Ball? Is that one of the reasons why 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:29.679 they're creating that for the show? 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.520 Yeah, the country ball we had, I think, Yeah, sometimes 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.960 in some cases people's true colors come out once you've 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.800 had probably a few beers or a few ones, So yeah, 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:43.680 it was interesting. There were some, as Benjamin would say, 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.800 some very groovy dances happening on the dance floor that night. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:52.240 But things get heated, and yeah, I suppose the truth 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.679 some truths come out once, once someone's had a few 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:56.640 drinks under their belt. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:58.840 Is it dangerous to put all of you guys together? 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:00.960 I mean, what's the chances of you falling in love 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:05.880 with save Benjamin's you know potentials? Like were the producers 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.280 worried that you might run off with someone else's cattle? 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:10.120 I don't, I don't, I don't think so. 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:14.160 I think US farmers had such a great relationship, and yeah, 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:18.840 it's a bit. It's a respect factor, I suppose, and 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.320 we all had so much respect for one another that 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.240 that wouldn't have even been an option for any of 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.400 US farmers. Whether it was an option for the other partners, 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:27.600 I'm not too sure, but. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.439 Yeah, nothing like that carried out. 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:32.360 And yeah, back to that whole respect thing, I think 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.880 US farmers just had so much respect for one another 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.240 that would never do that sort of thing. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.640 You can really see that there is a camaraderie amongst 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.840 the Farmers this year. I mean straight away from episode one, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.960 you can see the connection between you all, which I 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.000 think is an extra element to this series. That you 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.480 guys aren't throwing drinks at each other or you know, 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.560 there's nothing too dramatic about it. You're just common people 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.240 sharing common life experience, all looking for love. 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.440 Yeah, it was great, Like we're all sort of around 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.280 that same age bracket. There wasn't anyone that was a 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.199 lot older or a lot younger than us, so we 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.800 could sort of, yeah, gel with one another, talk about 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.440 very similar interest and yeah, all in all, we just 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.920 had such a great relationship and we were there to 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:15.840 help each other along the way. 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:17.840 Through the process we're all going through together. 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.520 What do you think's really works with this format? You know, 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.600 for you is there anything that the producers could do differently, 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.040 you know, rolling into the twenty twenty three series. 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.439 Yeah, Like I've mentioned it before, but it would have 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.720 would have been nice to be able to talk to 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.640 a previous farmer from a previous year and sort of 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.360 have their knowledge on how things work. Obviously US farms 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:42.880 going very blind into knowing how production works. So I 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:46.560 think just having someone there along the way helping us 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.520 that's been in that situation before that they can get 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.920 along with all the farmers and relate to them when 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.360 they do have questions to ask on how production works, 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.240 how do we get get through this? Because yeah, under 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.320 the day, productions there to make the best possible TV 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:07.160 show and where they're to find love. So it's about 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.000 meeting in the middle to sort. 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.120 Of get the best of both worlds for both parties. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.040 It's what I always wonder about this show is, you know, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.079 with so many producers, cameraman, you know, runners, there's so 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.560 many people working on this show to make it happen. 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.760 Are they like thousands of cupids around you, trying to 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.320 push you into finding love? Or do they try and 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.240 hold back so that the experience is being captured naturally? 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.040 What sort of role do they play? Are they saying, hey, 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.600 I reckon that, you know, Leish is the better one 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.920 to go with? Like, is there any kind of input 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:36.360 that they have? 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.840 Yeah, most of the input obviously comes from from the 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:41.200 producers themselves. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.880 Yeah, the cameramen and soundos. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.080 Sort of stay out of that, otherwise they get themselves 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:48.880 in trouble with it with the producers. 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.440 But I'm just imagining them the two thumbs up, you know, 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.840 just in the background going yeah, I reckon, Yeah, a 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:55.320 good one. 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:01.040 I had a great relationship with my with my cameraman sounders, 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.160 and yeah, the things you'd hear that had come back 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.880 to is would be quite funny. But no, they never 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.600 push that, never pushed me to make decisions that I 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.840 didn't want to do. So yeah, it was a lot 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.880 better knowing that I wasn't forced to have to do 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:14.040 something that I didn't want to do. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.920 Yeah, fair enough. What sort of impression do you think 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.520 that Australia will have of you when this series is over? 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.240 Sort of looking forward and knowing what you know, what 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.400 do you think Australia is going to think of farmer Ben? 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.440 Yeah? Look, I just hope I come across as a 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.720 very genuine, down to worth person like I know I am, 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.640 and my family know me as as well. So yeah, 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.920 it'd be great to, yeah, be sort of looked at 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.840 in that regard. But yeah, obviously to know that I 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.600 did go on the show for a reason to find 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.400 a wife, and you'll just have to yeah, wait and 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:47.360 see if I've done that. 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.120 Have we got any early report cards from your family 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.160 and friends on how you're going so far. 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.680 We're sort of keeping it pretty hush hush about it. 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.680 Obviously I am comfortable watching it, but it is a 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.760 bit cringe at the moment for me, so we just yeah, 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.800 we're keeping pretty low low wraps on it at the moment, 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.000 but yeah, once we sort of get further down the. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.840 Track, I'm sure it'll yes start being the talk of 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:11.600 the town for sure. 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.880 You know a question that I have to ask you 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:19.440 from Sunday Nights episode is something that you a phrase 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.440 that you say a couple of times? What does done 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:23.200 my nuts mean? 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:28.360 Done my nuts? I do remember saying that. 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.400 It comes up three times. You tell three different people 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.160 that you've done your nuts. You tell her, you tell Leish, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.520 you tell one of the other, you tell everyone. You're like, 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.320 you know, guys, I've done my nuts, And I'm like 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.760 is it? I just was like, is it? I don't 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:44.480 know what You're going to need to explain this a 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:45.400 little bit better for me. 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.600 I think it was. Yeah, it was definitely in regards 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.960 to Leish and yeah. 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:52.920 Have you got a bag of nuts? Or is that 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:53.760 what's going on here? 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:55.720 I don't know where I was going with it, but 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.280 I've used a phrase before. But I think it was 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.520 just a connection I had with Leish early on. Yeah, 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.080 I sort of tell the farmers told her I've done 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.960 me nuts, like it's like I've I've fallen head over. 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:11.880 It was for someone so early, but yeah, I think 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:12.960 that's what I meant by that. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.640 Yeah, by that phrase, I'm pretty sure. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:16.960 Why do you think that Farmer Wants a Wife is 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:18.680 still so popular in Australia. 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:22.800 I think, yeah, it is a very just genuine TV program. 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.399 There's obviously a bit of drama that comes with it, 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.800 but it's nothing like other dating programs with the drama. 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:30.359 It's very genuine. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.240 And the girls are there for the right reasons and 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.679 the farmers are as well. We're not there it's for 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.960 media attention after the program or anything. So it's yeah, 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.439 it's a win win because both parties are there for 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.800 the exact same thing, and that's to find love. And 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.960 I think that's yeah what makes the show so special 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.800