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Speaker 2: of this show as possible. This episode of the podcast,
Speaker 2: I have three men whose lives are set to change
Speaker 2: as they take on the roles of the bachelors, which
Speaker 2: launches this Monday night at seven thirty on Network ten
Speaker 2: and ten Play on demand. Jed, Felix, and Thomas joined
Speaker 2: me to discuss exactly what we have installed as the
Speaker 2: production company Warners shakes up one of their biggest global franchises.
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna be shocked, but in a really
Speaker 3: good way.
Speaker 2: Felix has already had his fair share of interest on
Speaker 2: social media.
Speaker 1: Kind of funny like it's like the main tweets sort
Speaker 1: of set up like I quite enjoy it.
Speaker 2: Jed unpacks the Neapolitan ice cream theory and which flavor
Speaker 2: he thinks they all are.
Speaker 4: I'd say I'm Strawberry, Tommy's shock, Philixma, yeahs, wow.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with Vanilla?
Speaker 2: Thomas explains which series of The Bachelor was his favorite,
Speaker 2: plus reveals his favorite Bachelor and Bachelorette.
Speaker 5: I'll probably say that my favorite Bachelorette so far, just
Speaker 5: like personality wise.
Speaker 2: I will also find out what the relationship was like
Speaker 2: between the boys between takes.
Speaker 4: But having these guys and us next to each other
Speaker 4: and getting a lot so well, we just ultimately had
Speaker 4: the support system there.
Speaker 2: And of course we will get some pretty exclusive stories
Speaker 2: from all the boys, and I think you'll also start
Speaker 2: to get an impression on what we can expect from
Speaker 2: their personalities this season. However, we really should get started.
Speaker 2: Let's bring in Felix, Jed and Thomas into the podcast
Speaker 2: and I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Hi boys,
Speaker 2: how are you good?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 2: I'm going to make this as easy as possible for
Speaker 2: people who are listening to this podcast because we've all
Speaker 2: got different names, so I am going to annoyingly have
Speaker 2: to ask questions that go to certain people, which may
Speaker 2: seem a little bit rigid, but as we go on,
Speaker 2: I might drop it depending on how different are you
Speaker 2: all sound?
Speaker 1: Well, just put we could put on some accents. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's fine.
Speaker 6: I can't put on an Italian.
Speaker 2: Accent quite natural to you. That was actually quite convincing.
Speaker 2: You know, earlier this year Australia was so excited to
Speaker 2: see who would be the next Bachelor, and it's clear
Speaker 2: now from what I can see before me, that they
Speaker 2: couldn't decide.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, he was definitely it was you know, we
Speaker 1: knew very late in the piece that it was three bachelors,
Speaker 1: but it's I think it's a lot better. Like I'm
Speaker 1: from a team sport background, so I like to do
Speaker 1: everything in a group. I don't really like to be
Speaker 1: doing stuff like this on my own, and having gone
Speaker 1: through it, I don't know how anyone ever did this
Speaker 1: in the past just with one person, because we're bouncing
Speaker 1: stuff off each other and all that. Like, I can't
Speaker 1: imagine coming home from a full day and then you
Speaker 1: just sort of sit in your own like, I just
Speaker 1: think that'd be so stressful. So it definitely made it
Speaker 1: a lot easier, well, Jed.
Speaker 2: It's been described as the Neapolitan ice cream of Bachelor's
Speaker 2: which makes me want to ask you the annoying question
Speaker 2: of who is what flavor? Who is chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.
Speaker 4: I'd say I'm strawberry Tommy's shock, but flix, y.
Speaker 1: Well, what's wrong with vanilla? There's nothing wrong with vanilla.
Speaker 1: But I think that I bring a little bit more
Speaker 1: spice to the equation.
Speaker 4: Than to be the vill I think we're I don't
Speaker 4: think we're Neapolitan. The thing is, I think we're you know,
Speaker 4: we're all golden gay time. We're a bit you know,
Speaker 4: we're at but we're like the rainbow one, Like we're
Speaker 4: all a bit of a different way.
Speaker 1: We've gone from Golden Gay have to rainbow off each
Speaker 1: other all the time.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to leave that. You know, it's up
Speaker 2: to everyone's interpretation on you know, what those flavors mean.
Speaker 2: But I appreciate the answer because I kind of thought
Speaker 2: you were going to stall on that, Felix. I was
Speaker 2: going to ask you, how did they find you to
Speaker 2: do this show and whether any hesitations from your behalf.
Speaker 1: I think at the start, look, I'm not really you know,
Speaker 1: I've been on you know, three dates in my life
Speaker 1: before this, so I'm not really That's just not something
Speaker 1: I usually do. I like to just sort of live
Speaker 1: my own life and do my own thing. I've always
Speaker 1: done sport or other things where you're around a group anyway.
Speaker 1: So there was a little bit of hesitation because you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I could be the worst date of
Speaker 1: all time. I just didn't really really know. And now
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it on national television with stuff
Speaker 1: that I'm not really used to doing. But you know,
Speaker 1: after thinking it's through, I was. I was. I thought
Speaker 1: it'd be a great opportunity because I'm not like a
Speaker 1: not a dating apps person. I text like an old man.
Speaker 1: It's a lot easier for me to talk face to
Speaker 1: face with people, and I enjoy doing that, and I
Speaker 1: feel like sometimes the way the world's move we're going
Speaker 1: away from that a little bit more so, like I'm
Speaker 1: the annoying guy in the elevator that will try to
Speaker 1: start up an awkward conversation with you when you just
Speaker 1: want to get to your floor.
Speaker 2: So any other arena you've been practicing, you know, for
Speaker 2: a very long time before you know you get.
Speaker 1: Many arenas in the dating sense have been heard some practice,
Speaker 1: but just not the ones here.
Speaker 2: Thomas has been a very different season. You know, we've
Speaker 2: all been teased how many different changes there are. But
Speaker 2: do you think audiences are going to be shocked by
Speaker 2: those changes that have been made to a very familiar format.
Speaker 3: Yes, I think they're going to be shocked, but in
Speaker 3: a really good way.
Speaker 5: I I tuned in to watch some of the previous
Speaker 5: seasons and you know, it was fantastic, like it was
Speaker 5: all about romance and love. And this season really brings
Speaker 5: in more of the real scene of like the date,
Speaker 5: the real dating scene. You know, you won't find the
Speaker 5: candles and all the flowers and the red carpets, like
Speaker 5: it's literally two normal people going on two normal dates.
Speaker 5: You get, you get to pick what date you're taking
Speaker 5: your your your your your date on and there's lots
Speaker 5: of reality and I think that's really cool.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean I think it needed a change. I mean,
Speaker 2: this is Go Broke, I'll Go Home season, which I
Speaker 2: kind of like, Jed, did you have any requirements when
Speaker 2: it came to the type of women that you wanted
Speaker 2: to meet? Because we all know when they're you know,
Speaker 2: you meet the producers, you can have really in depth
Speaker 2: conversations about what it is that you're looking for. You know,
Speaker 2: what were some of those requirements if you don't mind
Speaker 2: me asking, Yeah.
Speaker 4: For sure, Well for me, I don't necessarily have a type.
Speaker 4: It'll sound quite a generic answer, but honestly, someone that's
Speaker 4: just I think confident, and I think someone that would Honestly,
Speaker 4: the thing is also not.
Speaker 3: Everyone would like the way that I look.
Speaker 4: So I was also like, you know, Adam and and
Speaker 4: you know, maybe giving them some sort of hint to
Speaker 4: who I am, because I'm not. If I was going
Speaker 4: into that show as a woman expecting a bachelor like
Speaker 4: these boys and you got me.
Speaker 3: I'd be like, well, gee, wish, what's going on?
Speaker 4: So I think I definitely presented my personality in someone
Speaker 4: that would fit that. But for me, yeah, I think
Speaker 4: it's just someone that loves someone that's a bit different
Speaker 4: and very true to who they are, and that's I
Speaker 4: think a woman that's confident in themselves. So that was
Speaker 4: really my only requirement, Like, I don't have a type.
Speaker 3: I think my.
Speaker 4: Dating history with girls, if you you know, were to
Speaker 4: see them, it's not like a certain type of woman.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was just someone that's.
Speaker 4: Confident in them in themselves and would like a tattooed
Speaker 4: bleach haad drummer.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well I'm just going to be really honest because I'm
Speaker 2: that person. But I actually met you at a at
Speaker 2: a function not that long ago the launch of Yeah,
Speaker 2: Yeah and Boy, and I didn't when the press release
Speaker 2: came out and I saw the photos, you were not
Speaker 2: my favorite out of the three because I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is a little a little left of center for
Speaker 2: the Bachelor. But then when I met you for the
Speaker 2: three days that followed, I just kept thinking about you,
Speaker 2: and you are a very intoxicating person. So you know,
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be interesting to see what
Speaker 2: people think of you. Three before it starts and then
Speaker 2: see where we end up.
Speaker 4: Definitely, No, I appreciate that. I think I'm comments on
Speaker 4: not promising. No, I'm very keen for it to come out.
Speaker 4: I think, especially in my history, I'm sort of judged
Speaker 4: quite quickly, so I think sometimes, you know, when I
Speaker 4: open my mouth, I thought it wouldn't be a good thing,
Speaker 4: But now I actually can't wait for people to hear
Speaker 4: me speak and see who I am. So yeah, No,
Speaker 4: but I appreciate that compliment. It means a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're looking for something different as well.
Speaker 2: You know, we can't just stick to the same old
Speaker 2: sort of formulas. But interestingly enough, so Felix, you have
Speaker 2: more to say this time around with who you have
Speaker 2: a connection with. You know, with these initial dates, we've
Speaker 2: heard that there's initial dates to narrow it down, so
Speaker 2: you can't even get to the mansion without you guys
Speaker 2: sort of having a bit of a saying that as
Speaker 2: surely there were some horrible dates. Can you describe to
Speaker 2: me like one of the worst dates that you went
Speaker 2: on prior to.
Speaker 1: I can't go to detail about what the individual dates happened,
Speaker 1: but I can tell you, yes, there were some absolute
Speaker 1: shockers because sometimes you just don't you just don't hit
Speaker 1: it off, especially when I'm someone that talks so much
Speaker 1: and you know, usually doesn't shut up. It can sort
Speaker 1: of get weird with your always having to drive the conversation.
Speaker 1: But I think the thing that we all all agreed
Speaker 1: on was that just how brave the girls had to
Speaker 1: be to agree to do this, because you know, when
Speaker 1: you usually come on the red carpet, you know, you
Speaker 1: can wear a silly outfit or something and it's all
Speaker 1: a bit of fun, but you really have to put
Speaker 1: yourself on the line here, and that was so hard
Speaker 1: to like, like, who am I to say no to
Speaker 1: someone else? Like since when do I get that power?
Speaker 1: And I think that was the hard part, whereas like,
Speaker 1: this girl's just done something. Because if it was me
Speaker 1: in that situation and they said take someone on a
Speaker 1: first date, it's on national TV and they might reject you. There, hell,
Speaker 1: no am I going to do that? Like you have
Speaker 1: to be so brave to do that, And that was
Speaker 1: an attractive quality in every one of those girls because
Speaker 1: it's something I like, so yeah, I think for most
Speaker 1: of the time, I was just like, man, you got
Speaker 1: to be so brave to be doing this and credit
Speaker 1: to you know, even the girls that didn't make it
Speaker 1: to the Mansion like to go through life with that
Speaker 1: sort of attitude where you know what, I'm just going
Speaker 1: to give it a crack. I think was just a
Speaker 1: really special thing, and a lot of people are going
Speaker 1: to relate to some of those awkward moments in the dates,
Speaker 1: both from the guys and the girls, because everyone's you know,
Speaker 1: everyone's been on one.
Speaker 2: The currency of the show, though, isn't it that you know,
Speaker 2: we can all relate because we've all been on the
Speaker 2: shittiest of dates and.
Speaker 1: You know that we've got flaws. It's not we're not
Speaker 1: put up on this pedestal as if we're the perfect
Speaker 1: person and you can do no wrong. You know, you're
Speaker 1: saying all the perfect things, like we stick our foot
Speaker 1: in it sometimes maybe more than the other.
Speaker 3: No, ik, yeah, bit, well do it.
Speaker 1: We're sitting there going, jeez, this isn't how the Bachelor's
Speaker 1: meant to work. They team it up against me here,
Speaker 1: I'm fighting for my life. I'm about to get I
Speaker 1: thought I was about to get evicted.
Speaker 2: But it was that sort of work again.
Speaker 1: I think that was a that was a cool part
Speaker 1: like that's how the real world works.
Speaker 6: It's not.
Speaker 1: You're not standing up there and picking and choosing. You know,
Speaker 1: you actually have to if you want to build a
Speaker 1: relationship with someone. It's a two way street, and I
Speaker 1: think it's really well represented in this series.
Speaker 2: Thomas, had you watched the show and do you have
Speaker 2: a favorite previous bachelor or bachelorette?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 5: I have watched a couple of seasons, and Samanthias out
Speaker 5: here and there. I mostly focused on the latest one,
Speaker 5: so Jimmy and I really enjoyed watching his love story unfold.
Speaker 5: I'll probably say that my favorite bachelorette so far, just
Speaker 5: like personality wise, is being Brittany Hockley. I really love
Speaker 5: her vibe and Felix.
Speaker 2: Did you have any previous bachelors or bachelorettes offering you
Speaker 2: any advice? You know, once we announced that you guys
Speaker 2: were doing the show, you know, Australia all new, I'm
Speaker 2: assuming that some of them might have, you know, slid
Speaker 2: into your DMS and given you a heads up. Did
Speaker 2: you speak to any of them? And can you tell
Speaker 2: me who you spoke to?
Speaker 1: Me? You would have hoped so, Ben, but none of them,
Speaker 1: None of them reached out. All I had was a
Speaker 1: couple of dms called me white Bread and Vanilla, and well, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: Just your posts, that's just the other boy.
Speaker 1: But no, no, I didn't have any reachie. The only
Speaker 1: actual ex person that I've had a conversation with was
Speaker 1: Brooke Blurton. I was at a basketball thing and she
Speaker 1: was there as well. She super nice and she just said,
Speaker 1: you know, reaffirmed my fears that it's about to get
Speaker 1: incredibly crazy and all that sort of stuff. But no, no,
Speaker 1: she's the only person I've really run into from the show.
Speaker 1: But she was fantastic sort of prepping for a little
Speaker 1: bit of what it's like, you know, on social media
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff while the show is
Speaker 1: going on.
Speaker 2: It'd be the first thing that I'd do. I'd be like,
Speaker 2: I've got to go go on the show and I've
Speaker 2: got to ring everyone or ask all these questions that
Speaker 2: people who've done it before me. Had either of the
Speaker 2: other two of you, had you tried to hit up
Speaker 2: any previous bachelors of Bachelorettes and ask for advice.
Speaker 4: No, really, I saw an article pop up with Jimmy
Speaker 4: giving us advice publicly, so and I really yeah, I
Speaker 4: got that really quick.
Speaker 3: Why that wouldn't be a good thing? But no, I
Speaker 3: didn't reach out to anyone. I was just sort of like,
Speaker 3: let's go.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think the good thing is we have even though
Speaker 4: they haven't done it before, but having these guys and
Speaker 4: us next to each other and getting along so well,
Speaker 4: we just ultimately had their support system there and obviously
Speaker 4: not having our phones on the show, this is what
Speaker 4: we had and like, thank goodness, we get along and
Speaker 4: we're O, that's been a solid soundboard for each other.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, A solid bromance is obviously formed, which means
Speaker 2: that you know, we've been told that, you know, there's
Speaker 2: two proposals, which means it's disappointing for one of you,
Speaker 2: but at least you walk away with the ultimate bromance
Speaker 2: of you know, one of the other guys.
Speaker 3: But it's not as if no one walks away with anything.
Speaker 3: So you have to tune in and see what happens.
Speaker 2: That is a good teas that is a very good tease.
Speaker 2: I enjoy that. I enjoyed a lot. What I was
Speaker 2: gonna ask, I was gonna ask Jed, has there been
Speaker 2: could you see yourself having friendships with these guys. You know,
Speaker 2: post show, do you think it's just one of those
Speaker 2: scenarios like the movie Speed, where you know, situations based
Speaker 2: on extreme situations you know, don't work out. Do you
Speaker 2: think that you'll be friends with these boys for life?
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: I think I think we all actually went through way
Speaker 4: more of a personal journey than we thought a reality
Speaker 4: TV show would bring on me personally, had one of
Speaker 4: the most growing times and realizations of my life during
Speaker 4: the filming and in the gap between it filming and airing,
Speaker 4: And honestly, these two boys have been in my life
Speaker 4: in some of the most roughest and intimate times and
Speaker 4: been there for me and during the film, and it's
Speaker 4: an intense thing, and we all let out a lot
Speaker 4: of emotion, and probably the most emotion I've ever let
Speaker 4: out has been to these two boys. And from the
Speaker 4: start to the beginning to now, outside of the show
Speaker 4: and forever, I can honestly see, you know, these boys
Speaker 4: standing next to me at my wedding.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I love them.
Speaker 1: Wedding wedding coming up, don't anything.
Speaker 2: Who's wedding not my wedding. I've been engaged for ten years,
Speaker 2: that's not happening.
Speaker 1: Do it.
Speaker 3: I'll come to yours too.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, And Thomas, I was going to say, the
Speaker 2: season promises swingers, walkouts, and tantrums, and that's just what's
Speaker 2: in the promo. Although what I want to know is
Speaker 2: do the girls change their mind and start going for
Speaker 2: a different bloke, because you guys are all in this
Speaker 2: mansion now and you've picked these girls, but surely they're
Speaker 2: going to change their mind. I mean I started off,
Speaker 2: you know, Thomas, thinking you're my favorite, and you know
Speaker 2: now I've gone to Jed and by the end of
Speaker 2: this chat it will be different again. How did you
Speaker 2: stop these women?
Speaker 4: You know, it's all three at the same time you realize, Look,
Speaker 4: that's one of the good things about about this show,
Speaker 4: Like it's it's a it's a free world, right, and
Speaker 4: it's it's absolutely free choice on.
Speaker 5: The show, and we we go with who we vibe with,
Speaker 5: and there's definitely a few surprises happening that again, it
Speaker 5: just keeps this show really real. So there's been a
Speaker 5: few of those things happening, and they've been they've been good.
Speaker 6: There's been some drama.
Speaker 5: A few of us have been very surprised, but towards
Speaker 5: the end, it was just again super real, which is
Speaker 5: what you want.
Speaker 2: I also love the fact that we're talking about the promos.
Speaker 2: I liked the James Bond in themed you know themed
Speaker 2: ad where all three of you arriving like you know,
Speaker 2: you're a spy, which was fun.
Speaker 4: But that's our usual vote of transport license to as
Speaker 4: we said, very realistic season, so we thought we'd kick
Speaker 4: it off with our usual transitation device.
Speaker 2: That is, I kind of reminded me of the start
Speaker 2: of Wolf of Wall Street where Leonard Dekapra crashes helicopter.
Speaker 2: You know, it's all very schmid, but if it was
Speaker 2: real world, I'm assuming that just we.
Speaker 4: Didn't go that mar continue which one of you is
Speaker 4: the James Bond out of the three of you, though
Speaker 4: me it is definitely I'm more like the Swedish villain
Speaker 4: with a weird eyes driving the Jaguar.
Speaker 2: Well, Jed has the doorway open for more reality TV
Speaker 2: after this? I mean, has the realities of reality TV
Speaker 2: scared your way? Or would you do more shows like this?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: I think you know, Music's always been my thing and
Speaker 4: I came here for a reason, and I think you know,
Speaker 4: you'll find out If that's the case, then there's no
Speaker 4: really need for me to be on anything else, So
Speaker 4: I can't see myself continuing onto anything else. I think
Speaker 4: this has been a really special experience and it gave
Speaker 4: me a lot more than I thought it really would,
Speaker 4: and it hasn't even aired yet, so I think personally,
Speaker 4: to me, I actually cherished that quite close to my heart,
Speaker 4: and I think if I was to jump on something
Speaker 4: else one it definitely wouldn't be anything to do like this.
Speaker 4: But too, I think think this has just been so
Speaker 4: special for me. I want to hold you know, my
Speaker 4: experience on TV like this and yeah, yeah, not tarnish
Speaker 4: it with something else. I'm happy being a drummer, so
Speaker 4: I'll ride off into the sunset and.
Speaker 3: Be happy doing that.
Speaker 2: I really like the answer, you know, Felix osher Is.
Speaker 2: I've know Osha. I've interviewed him a couple of times,
Speaker 2: been at a few parties with him, and I know
Speaker 2: him to be, you know, quite jovial, a bit of
Speaker 2: a prankster behind the scenes. Did you click with him
Speaker 2: straight away or was he like an annoying big brother
Speaker 2: throughout this process?
Speaker 1: No, Osha was great. Look, I think from the start,
Speaker 1: I think we've both got our you know, weird quirks
Speaker 1: and that sort of stuff. Like I think we we
Speaker 1: did get along quite well during it and the journey
Speaker 1: that I went on through it. Osha actually gave me
Speaker 1: some really good advice throughout it, because you know, even
Speaker 1: some of our background stuff was a little bit similar
Speaker 1: and been through sort of similar circumstances that we discussed.
Speaker 1: So I think I really used him as a bit
Speaker 1: of another sounding board outside of these guys in a
Speaker 1: few of the chats that we so he played it
Speaker 1: seem played a really crucial part, and more so than
Speaker 1: I think is represented in the show. You know, just
Speaker 1: as a host. He's a lot more than that when
Speaker 1: it comes to this, Like this guy's heart and soul
Speaker 1: is in this show, like it. He's absolutely all about it,
Speaker 1: all about the journey and finding love, Like he's well,
Speaker 1: he's so proud that the amount of people that have
Speaker 1: finished the show and remained together. Yeah, and you can
Speaker 1: tell when he talks about it that it's genuine It's
Speaker 1: not just you know, a host up there making the
Speaker 1: show nice and warm and fuzzy. He's really speaking from
Speaker 1: the heart, like he genuinely seems like the type of
Speaker 1: guy that would do this for free. Yeah, like he
Speaker 1: just he just come out here and say I want
Speaker 1: to be involved with this.
Speaker 6: It's been a good mentor Yeah, he.
Speaker 2: Invests in the conversation. I think that's one thing that
Speaker 2: for me, you know, doing interviews. But you know also
Speaker 2: when you meet people that you've seen on television, you
Speaker 2: straight away get the sense that someone's being authentic if
Speaker 2: they are, and with a show like he can be
Speaker 2: a lot of things. He can be outspoken, you know,
Speaker 2: he could be really kind, and he can be all
Speaker 2: of these things, which makes him so real and so
Speaker 2: accessible I think to audiences and probably why it's been
Speaker 2: you know, doing a million seasons of The Bachelor and
Speaker 2: used to come. If you'll get divorced, you could come
Speaker 2: back and do the sequel to the Bachelor's and try
Speaker 2: and find someone else with Oschiginsburg. Before you go, I
Speaker 2: was gonna say, Thomas, I'm assuming you have to keep
Speaker 2: these relationships really hush hush, and there has been a
Speaker 2: longer wait than we expected to have. You know, does
Speaker 2: that put an unrealistic expectation or pressure on these relationships
Speaker 2: that you've managed to finish off with trying to sort
Speaker 2: of hide them for as long as you've had to
Speaker 2: hide them.
Speaker 5: So I see, I always try to find the silver
Speaker 5: lining in everything and the lesson and everything, and so
Speaker 5: I'm in a point where if it's taken longer, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna just like ride it and just do my best
Speaker 5: to maintain a good relationship. So despite the weight, like
Speaker 5: for me, even the weight is positive because I can
Speaker 5: then really manage to like build on my relationship at
Speaker 5: a distance.
Speaker 4: I've managed to do fairly well. Like it hasn't been
Speaker 4: too hard, I think. And the thing that people don't
Speaker 4: realize too is the network organizes really secret rendezvous and
Speaker 4: things like that so we can see them. So people
Speaker 4: may think that you finish it and then you can't
Speaker 4: see them ever again, but it's definitely.
Speaker 6: Not the case.
Speaker 1: He's the one. The one thing that is difficult is like,
Speaker 1: obviously I like to go out and have a good time,
Speaker 1: and you know, I never go out trying to pick
Speaker 1: up women. I go out and I stand a meter
Speaker 1: from the DJ booth and I dance for twelve hours.
Speaker 1: So people always assume if you're out.
Speaker 2: Which is why you single it thin, how do that.
Speaker 1: Add twenty to that? But that's something that I just
Speaker 1: really enjoy doing. Like I've got a couple of mates
Speaker 1: and we just go like techno and dance like that.
Speaker 1: That's just what we enjoy doing. And you go out
Speaker 1: and every one assumes like, oh, you must be single
Speaker 1: because you're out, And I think that's the misconception that
Speaker 1: you're not necessarily looking for women or even talking to anyone.
Speaker 1: You just out to have a good time. And even
Speaker 1: like you got it. I got it once at a
Speaker 1: restaurant I was out with you know, two couples and me,
Speaker 1: and then one of the girlfriends said, Oh, you're obviously
Speaker 1: not in a relationship because you're here, and it's like
Speaker 1: you're sitting at dinner. Like people read into things so
Speaker 1: much that it sort of it gets a little bit annoying.
Speaker 6: Sometimes, Yeah, that is annoying.
Speaker 4: I think people definitely catch on that, you know, I'm
Speaker 4: always gone out, you know, for walks by myself and
Speaker 4: playing gigs and out at venues. And I think on
Speaker 4: one hand, you know, people don't understand it's like, well,
Speaker 4: of course we can't be with them yet because you know,
Speaker 4: show hasn't aired. But two, I think people put their
Speaker 4: own relationships in our foot and like, maybe you can't
Speaker 4: deal with a few fair bit of distance.
Speaker 3: But maybe we can. You know. I think other people
Speaker 3: are like, oh, how does that work. It's like, well,
Speaker 3: you know it actually it works.
Speaker 2: It's interesting.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I've been together with my partner for thirteen years and
Speaker 2: in gay years, that is eight hundred years. But it's funny.
Speaker 2: I want him to be his own person, and so
Speaker 2: I go to family things by myself. I go out
Speaker 2: with my mates by you know, one on one, and
Speaker 2: he doesn't have to come with me everywhere, and nor
Speaker 2: do I want him to. And I think that's the
Speaker 2: essence of having a good relationship is championing your partner
Speaker 2: to be their own person and have their own life
Speaker 2: outside of you know, the romance, which can still be there,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think all this has done is actually
Speaker 4: tested something early on which solidifies something.
Speaker 3: For me.
Speaker 4: It's honestly been quite a good thing, especially you know,
Speaker 4: given my world and how I travel a lot. For me,
Speaker 4: it was a key part of finding someone that's okay
Speaker 4: with a bit of distance and you know, one that's
Speaker 4: why I went on this show to find someone you know,
Speaker 4: sort of willing to put themselves out there in front
Speaker 4: of an intense environment that coupled with a bit of distance,
Speaker 4: and feel like it's sort of perfect for me.
Speaker 2: But yeah, someone out there, there's someone out there for
Speaker 2: all of us. I mean, I genuinely believe that, and
Speaker 2: I think different, different hours, different lifestyles, you will still
Speaker 2: find someone that will be compatible. And you guys already
Speaker 2: have a headstart because you're all ridiculously good looking. Sound
Speaker 2: like Jeff Goblin Towards the end thered.
Speaker 3: I need the extra pump up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys don't need the pump up. You guys
Speaker 2: are looking all right now.
Speaker 3: I've seen the comment section I need the pump up.
Speaker 2: I had a question in there actually to ask you
Speaker 2: about that. I was going to say, you know, online
Speaker 2: you've had probably more of the most unusual comments that
Speaker 2: are out there. And I deleted that question and sort
Speaker 2: of rephrased it to what I was saying to you
Speaker 2: about me changing my mind. And I think, you know,
Speaker 2: I think you're going to take people on a real journey,
Speaker 2: and I think it'll be the reward for having to
Speaker 2: read some fairly hectic things at times, do you know
Speaker 2: what I mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think for me, I've always looked like this
Speaker 4: and dress like this, and I've been bullied my entire life,
Speaker 4: so a bit of social media isn't a shock to me.
Speaker 4: And I've actually found this day and age for someone
Speaker 4: that looks like me, and even just being straight looking
Speaker 4: like this, It's never been a more peaceful, beautiful place.
Speaker 4: But when it wasn't when I was growing now that
Speaker 4: really sort of gave me the confidence and thick skin.
Speaker 3: So the comments everyone sort of like, oh, I don't
Speaker 3: look at them.
Speaker 4: It's like I've been dealing with this stuff for years
Speaker 4: and physically beaten for the way that I look. So
Speaker 4: now a few comments from people on Instagram who I
Speaker 4: don't know, honestly doesn't know, affect me. So my whole
Speaker 4: position is, you know, twofold coming on here to find someone,
Speaker 4: but honestly, you know, hopefully I can inspire some other
Speaker 4: people that are a bit left of center to be
Speaker 4: confident and help them along the way.
Speaker 2: I like to look at it as you know, you've
Speaker 2: already lowered everyone's expectations, so you've got so far to
Speaker 2: go from here. With the other two, they've they've got
Speaker 2: a higher perch to fall off, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I actually, yeah, I very much enjoy the online stuff,
Speaker 1: Like I think it's if you don't know someone personally
Speaker 1: and they're posting it, it's kind of funny, like it's
Speaker 1: like the mean tweets sort of set up. Like, I
Speaker 1: quite enjoy it. The only thing I worry about is
Speaker 1: when family sees it, Like you Grandma's on Facebook and
Speaker 1: she scrolls through and it's just me getting cussed out
Speaker 1: for being white, like the entire time, and it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, she doesn't understand that it doesn't affect me
Speaker 1: and you know, my parents stuff like that. When it's
Speaker 1: for me, it's like, you know, I laugh at it.
Speaker 1: But it's sometimes they're the ones you worry about, the
Speaker 1: people who don't really understand how social media works. Like
Speaker 1: you know, you go into anyone's account and you even
Speaker 1: if they're the best person on earth, you find negative things.
Speaker 1: You have the comments, it's just what people like to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, certain generations don't really understand that, like
Speaker 1: why are they saying that? Why are they saying that
Speaker 1: like that that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my sister still sends me. This is ten years ago.
Speaker 2: I was on Big Brother and there was people wrote
Speaker 2: all this horrendous stuff. She still sends me the worst
Speaker 2: top five tweets of all time, and they're so funny,
Speaker 2: like as in, they're so outrageous that someone would not
Speaker 2: know or have met you, but willing to put something
Speaker 2: like that together. Just before we go, I ask everyone
Speaker 2: this question to everyone who joins the podcast, but one
Speaker 2: of you can probably answer it, So pick who would
Speaker 2: want to answer it. But what is something from behind
Speaker 2: the scenes, something that we won't see? Kind of like
Speaker 2: a behind the scenes secret of The Bachelor's twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 4: Say I took the longest to be dressed and done
Speaker 4: up because I require a bit more.
Speaker 6: He's definitely the deal.
Speaker 1: I'll give you behind the scenes one. I actually gained
Speaker 1: six kilos throughout the show as all I was eating
Speaker 1: was Tim Tams because we could order whatever we wanted,
Speaker 1: so I pretty much lived off Tim Tams for the
Speaker 1: entire time. And then as it went on. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a pool scene late in the piece where I
Speaker 1: was like, oh no, I'm going to leave this one.
Speaker 1: I was quite happy to get the shirt off at
Speaker 1: the start of the show, but Tim Tams has done
Speaker 1: an absolute number on me.
Speaker 5: I'll give you something. I'll give you some details. So
Speaker 5: I was actually in shock in the space of an
Speaker 5: hour and a half two hours probably he ate a
Speaker 5: whole family tray of Tim Tams.
Speaker 6: Was like a packet of like there's Cadbury chocolates, how
Speaker 6: they go in the corn?
Speaker 2: Funny Channel ten is network. Ten is actually rebooting The
Speaker 2: Biggest Loser, So maybe, yeah, I'm not eating your way
Speaker 2: into another show.
Speaker 1: If I went on another reality TV sho I'll be
Speaker 1: on that one next.
Speaker 2: For what I went through, guys. I just from being
Speaker 2: able to chat to you guys today, I can tell
Speaker 2: this is going to be a really fun series. I'm
Speaker 2: so excited for austral to finally get a chance to
Speaker 2: see it. And I just want to say thank you
Speaker 2: for teasing us with what is going to be a
Speaker 2: very interesting season of The Bachelor now called The Bachelor's Again.