Jennifer Nettles

 Jennifer Nettles zooms in to talk about the new reality show 'Farmer Wants a Wife' which she's hosting, music and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Roe Mario Lopez joining me now on Zoom from
the new dating show Farmer Wants a Wife. Singer and
actress Jennifer Nettles. Welcome to the show, Jennifer. How are you?
I am well. How are you today? I'm doing well.
Thank you. That's a lovely background you've got right there,
so thank you. Tell us how this show works. I'm
assuming there's farmers out there that are just too busy

(00:20):
with their with their duties on the farm, and they
want someone that will appreciate that sort of lifestyle and
that relates or is it something different. I think you
pretty much hit it on the head, at least in
terms of the beginning of the log line, in the
sense that being a farmer, as you can imagine, is
quite a demanding job. It requires a lot of sacrifice
in terms of your time. It doesn't leave you open

(00:42):
to possibly go out and play the field, no pun
intended as it were. And also to a lot of
these you know, these guys are from small towns, as
they've joked and said, like, look, I'm from a small town.
I know all the women here and I'm related to
half of them like that, plus not have any time
doesn't really bode well for finding, you know, a partner

(01:03):
in life. Slim pickens and to no fall to their
own for reasons you mentioned. And I have a friend
of mine, a good friend of mine as a matter
of fact, who happens to be a farmer, same situation
right there. So who who has a bigger culture shocking
these relationships, the farmer men or the city women. You
know what, It's a little bit of both in the
sense that and my job's sort of on this show,

(01:26):
I've gotten to play like Terry godmother, so my support
comes in a lot more, it seems for the guys,
because their shock has been going from, as you've said,
slim pickings to suddenly here are eight women, and then
here are five women in their homes on their farms
altogether at one time. You know, if you haven't had
a day to night or how long, and then suddenly

(01:46):
you have five prospects in your house. I mean, that's
pretty jumping into the right into the fire, right, So
I definitely saw some shock in that way for the farmers,
and then for the women. You know, many of them
are from the city, and what they are there to
do is also try out the life because I think

(02:07):
obviously the farm comes with the farmer, and if you
connect with the person, if you fall in love with
the person, Like all of us, we have to ask
ourselves the questions, right of Okay, wait a minute, what
kind of lifestyle does this person lead? And can I
be supportive of that? And that's something that I want
to share in the show's aired in thirty two countries
and it's resulted in one hundred and eighty marriages. That

(02:28):
is a heck of a track record right there. Yeah,
and over four hundred children. Man over, Wow, you're starting
a community out there. I know, what do you think
it is about this particular show that has had successful
relationships compared to the other dating shows out there? I
love that you've asked this because, honestly, you know where
the other dating shows are concerned. When this first came across,

(02:51):
you know, my death, so to speak, I was like,
m I don't know, because I've never really related to
the reality dating genre, right. It always fell a little
bit forced, just I would say forced, and a lot
of drama. And you know that is genuine with intentions, correct,
And these are real people who are looking for real love,

(03:14):
and you will feel that it is, and consequently it's
super endearing. It's very heartwarming, and you root for these folks.
You want them to find love because it is real.
So I think that authenticity of what they're looking for
and the reasons that they're looking for and the reasons
that they've come on the show is what leads them
to the success and those numbers that we've just shared.

(03:35):
You're you're part of the cast of the New Exorcist.
How will this be different from the original, because I
was a huge fan of the franchise. Yeah, I mean, yeah, right,
I can't say a lot because they've got everything under
wraps right now. You know, it's like so fun and
they want to control it all until they're ready. But
it is a wonderful in the sense that David I've

(04:01):
worked with him for a while on The Righteous Jim Stung,
but he did all the Halloween, the New Halloween reboots, right,
so he's very infants that has done a ton of
other horror stuff too, but that that being the most
recent reference. He did the script for this in the screenplay,
and it's just it's fantastic everybody. I think everybody's going
to be into it. If you can handle it, you know. Yeah, yeah, no,
look it forward to that. And I read you're working

(04:23):
on a musical. Is there anything you can share about that? Sorry, Yeah,
I can absolutely share about that. I've been working on
just for a few years, and these things take quite
an amount of time. I call it My Great White Whale. Man.
It's like it's like my Moby Dick, Like I am
just constantly obsessed with this thing. But I'm not having to,
you know, to do something else. But it is the
story of a woman named Julia Tofana. She was a

(04:44):
real woman throughout history and what I call the hidden
half of history. She was an Italian seventeenth century poisoner
and also a liberator of women. I'll just leave it
at that. She helped women get out of their challenging
circumstances relationship. I didn't know poisoner was an occupation or
it was something that was a common label back then.

(05:06):
That sounds fascinating. Good luck with that. Look forward to
checking it out, thank you. In the middle. Yeah, once
that happens, I'll be back when we will talk all
about that. Okay, yeah, yeah, I want to find out
all about poisoners. But in the meanwhile, We're going to
check out Farmer Wants a Wife Aaron Wednesdays on Fox. Jennifer,
thanks so much for hacking out. Thank you for having me.
Always good to see you you too. Take care all right,

(05:27):
good bye,