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Episode Date: April 18, 2026

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I'm Kathy Swartz. And we are here with Farmer Sean. And we are here to talk about all things from Farmer Wants a Wife. Season 4 coming up. So what do you say we get started? Let's do it. It's exciting season 4 coming up. Oh, my goodness.

How did you feel when they first reached out to you? And they were like, hey, come be a parent. Well, I mean, I got an Instagram DM. And one random day, I honestly thought it was a scam. And I told my parents about it. They just started laughing. And then as I was talking to people in Fox more and more, it sounded like a crazy opportunity. So I was like, I'm only young once.

I'm going to go ahead and do it. And I had been single for like a year before I did the show. So I was like, what a crazy time in my life. And I don't think there's going to be a better opportunity to find my potential future wife. Unbelievable. Wow. So I got to ask you, do you believe and love at first sight? I'm starting to believe now.

You are. Really? Yeah. I mean, I think love at first sight is a crazy saying because obviously you don't know anyone when you first see him. But I think I kind of believe in this thing called like the invisible string theory or like two people are just kind of drawn to each other. And I think when it when you know, you know. Hold on. I got to back up.

Invisible string. If you'd said magnet, I was with you. It's a same. Invisible string. I don't necessarily know if I fully understand it myself. the way I perceive it is that there's almost like a string between two people and it just draws them closer and closer. And it's just kind of like when you have chemistry with someone, you know, you know. And you never know when you're supposed to run into somebody, but eventually you always do that.

It's like meant to be. Exactly. But I heard what you just said when you know, you know. Are you one of those guys? I absolutely am. When you know, you know. And if he wanted to, he would. So I think I live by those.

I love it. I love it. So besides the farm, your family also has an amazing farm-to-table restaurant, the gathering table. In your perspective, why is gathering around the table every day so important when building a solid relationship? Well, I think, I mean, I grew up eating dinner with my family at least five nights a week. It's something that was pretty strong in my family. My dad loves to make dinner. And I just think gathering around a table, especially over good food and good drinks, it's an amazing thing.

and it's just all about connecting with the people you love. And I think that's kind of what the restaurant is all about is bringing people together and especially experiencing good food. And then in this valley and specific is the whole farm or table thing, but then also partnering with local wineries and pairing our food with the local wineries. It's such a fulfilling experience. That's amazing. With my fiancee, we always do,

we always make sure that we have like full family dinners. I love that. Yeah. That's one of the times where you get everybody out of their room, everybody out of their stuff. And we sit and we have these games on the table. that are just questions you answer. And so we'll pull questions

and then you go around the table and you answer them. I love that. It's silly things, but it really, it's amazing how it brings things together and forces you guys to just kind of slow down for me.

And I love that you make time to eat meals with each other because you both live busy lives. Have to. Okay. So speaking of cooking, I met your mom. Okay. And she gave me some fabulous pistachio cake.

Okay. And I looked at her because I love to bake. I said, did you bake this? She messed up. She said no. But that's okay. Funny enough. She's honest.

She was honest. In my family, my dad is the restaurant connoisseur, so he's the chef in my family. My dad is the one that made me a coffee. Yeah, yeah. That's right. Asking me what kind of rose. Can I just say you have not stopped talking about that coffee since we got here? I can't stop.

Okay. Well, if you're that easy to please, just give the guy a cup of coffee. Okay. I am not a great cook. I can cook. I love to bake. my bake from scratch. Love that.

Okay. So here's my question. And I'm not a big eater. I look like I am, but I'm really not. Would you rather date a picky eater or a woman like I who burns everything she attempts to cook?

Well, I think I'd rather date a girl that burns everything she attempts to cook because at least she's trying to cook something. You know, and I think... Such a good answer. It's such a good answer.

You just fell in love at the other end of the couch. Unbelievable. I'm just going to tell you, I already told your mother. So I'm just going to get silly here for a second and sappy. You know you are a wonderful guy in my opinion. And I could be your mom, almost your grandmother, but let's go with mom. And I told your mother behind every, you said this earlier, Brian, behind every good man is a good woman.

But guess what? When you find a good young man like this guy, it didn't happen by magic. It's because you have great parents. I totally agree. I credit everything in my life to my parents. I mean, they raised me so well, and I couldn't ask for better parents. Everything I have, everything I know is accredited to them. Have you ever had your heartbroken?

Surprisingly, I mean, I've had difficult situations in a relationship, but I've never been broken up with, surprisingly. Yeah. You've never been broken up with? Damn. So then you didn't have any red flags going into this. You weren't concerned of possible heart or any, yeah. I mean, I guess I felt the control, but I just,

think in every relationship, at least I've been in, is the man. Okay, how many did you break up with right now? Give it to us. In my life, probably four. Oh. Oh, yeah. I haven't been in a lot of relationships in my life and it's just because my ideology is I, I date to marry, you know, and always. Every girl you date, you date to marry? Well, I wouldn't be in a relationship if I didn't think of a potential future spouse. I mean, that's the thing is like I don't just go date around just for fun. I do it for seriousness. Okay, so wait, you are 22 years old. You are incredibly handsome. Thank you. What characteristics do you embody, forget that you've never been broken up with, what characteristics do you embody that you think would make you a good husband?

I would say leading the relationship being the rock, my wife can always lean on, my children in the future. I think if a man is able to handle everything and his wife can be his biggest supporter, I'm full belief that behind every good man is a good woman. And I fully believe that, but I also think in every good family, there's a good man that leads the entire house. Wow. Are you ever concerned that because you always dated for marriage, that you didn't necessarily experience everything and you may get into something and then later on down the line feel like,

I missed out on life or any of that? I don't think so. I mean, I think at least the way I was raised, I mean, I came from a Christian background. I'm a man of faith. So I think I've never been the one to go, like, want to hook up with a bunch of people or go out to a bunch of bars and stuff like that. It's just not me. And so I never had the curiosity to go and do it. How important is it to you to date a woman of faith

or marry a woman of faith? Extremely important. That's what I said going into this whole show. I said, hey, that's like checklist number one. And if they're not a woman of faith, they can go home. Did you literally on your show? I'm just a little teaser here. Did you ask that question? All the time. To every girl that was on the farm. Wow. That was one of the first ones I asked each of them. Wow. That's, well, I've got to say, you're a man that stands by your faith, and that's to be respected.

Thank you. Yeah, for sure. What was the hardest part of this journey for you to navigate? Because, you know, on my show, there were some tough times. What was hardest part for you? I would say, for me, it was, although I knew the girl I was going to choose, I just think it's never a good feeling to break somebody's heart. So, I mean, when we were at the mixer at the first episode, I knew which girls I was going

to bring back to the farm. And the toughest part was sending the girls home and not bringing them back to the farm because I knew which ones I was going to bring back. And I think it was just tough to sit there and break their heart as they're standing there looking at me. I can only imagine. And yet you have to let some go to move forward in your journey. That's how the process works. Right. And I'm assuming you believe in the process. Believe in the process. Wow. Yeah. Especially in the first episode. I mean, we're all sitting there in the barn and just the layout of it is so incredibly tough. Like all nine girls are sitting up there and you call each one out by name.

It's kind of like a dodge ball game and you sit there and call them out. And the girls that you don't pick are still standing there looking at you and you can just see their heart crushed. And it's just not a good feeling. Yeah. And they put themselves out there and I kind of put them myself in their shoes and just like got to be a bad feeling to just be sent home. And yet it's part of it.

It's part of it. Yeah. It's that tough double-edged sore words. Yeah. This is what it is. It's the only way you move forward is to let some go. I'm forced to make this choice. It's not personal.

This is a very specific situation. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either. We always say that trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield. And in this new season of the girlfriends,

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It's Will Ferrell. Woo. Woo. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with them one day, and I was like, and Dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that means, but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up through, and I know it's a place that come look for up and coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry.

about you, which is really sweet. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. And he's like, just give it a shot. He goes, but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore, it's okay to quit. If you saw it written down, it would not be an inspiration. It would not be on a calendar of, you know, the cat. Just hang in there.

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It may have been about sex. Listen to Rorschach, murder at City Hall, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. So it's Kathy and Brian. Yeah. We're back here. That's me, Brian.

It's you, Brian. That is absolutely. You haven't changed a bit. I have not. We are back with another farmer. And this. time we have farmer brayden with us hi brayden how's going it's going great we're so glad to have you it's going great look it i'd show it up today and now i have like you know a nice hat on we all have our

cowboy hats i'm straight i'm straight cowboy now to be clear i came with my boots where are yours i these are my boots yeah wow yeah sneakers on a farm not there's another boots made by vans it's a it's a whole new thing okay well two of the three of us have on boots so we know who's really a farmer here and who isn't i don't like your attitude okay i'm sorry so Let's just, let's just jump in here. Okay. Question for you. What really made you want to take a leap of faith and go on this show?

Because there's a lot of dating shows out there. You could have chosen. You're a handsome young dude. You could have chosen any of them. What made you want to do this? I mean, so I wasn't real familiar with a reality TV world before this, if I'm being honest. And, you know, they kind of reached out, kind of fell on my lap. And, you know, I didn't know what to expect at first.

and honestly I thought it was fake at first. Yeah, I was going to say, did you think it was a prank or something? Oh, yeah, I didn't believe it at all. And I showed a couple of my buddies and I was like, this is funny. And they're like, well, are you going to do it? I was like, no.

No. No. Nobody's even going to answer if I get back to it. You said in Santa Claus is coming over next week. And so then they finally, they're just like, well, just answer it and answered it. And they're like, dude, just take a phone call. Just see what they say.

And then took a phone call and now I'm here. So there you are. There you are. Season four of Farmer wants a wife. Answer your question. Honestly, I started running out of reasons not to do it because I was kind of like almost trying

to talk myself out of it. Of course. Just because it's a crazy thing. Had you been single a long time? Yeah. I had a brief relationship a little bit before the show, but that was about it. How did they know, do you think,

the producers of this to even reach out to you in the first place? I'm going to go, how did they know your story? and know that you were single and know that you were looking for someone. Well, they asked me. They asked me like, are you single? Okay.

Listen, I'm not a producer, but I'm going to go with the obvious answer here. He's a damn good looking guy. So let's just see if he's single. For sure, but I would assume then that he was in something. But he was already in a relationship. You never know until you ask. Brian? Are you in a relationship?

Damn. Okay. I'm happily engaged. So they don't want you for season five. No, they do not. Not as of yet. Okay. That and I'm not, that and I'm not a farmer.

So it does. Next time it's completely outside the box of what they're looking. So now you're a fifth generation farmer, right? Has there, has there any been a part, ever been a part of you that is like, I don't want to be in the family business. I don't want to do this. I want to, like, rebel and do my own thing and I have all these other ideas or has farming just that was? Honestly, no. I mean, like the cliche, like it's in your blood, you know what I mean?

and like I grew up kind of idolizing my grandpa and idolizing my dad and I just grew up wanting to be just like that. How much time did you spend with your grandpa? A lot, a lot. You all live close to each other. Oh, yeah. I spent probably every Sunday with my grandpa growing up every weekend. Wow.

Yeah, so he kind of molded me. My mom says good and bad. Helping him on the farm. Is that? Yeah, helping him on the farm or just getting in trouble doing whatever. I'm thinking a little more getting in trouble here. Teach me all the good things and some of the bad things. You know, that's called life.

Yeah, that's right. So I, we just met today. I've thoroughly impressed with you. I think you're a great guy. I love music and I understand that you love music as well. I do. I do. So do you want to find a woman who's musically inclined or do you not like to take people who are similar to you?

Because I'm going to tell you, I love music. And in dating, if a guy says to me, he doesn't like music. Well, that's a woman. weird thing for somebody to say, I don't like me. I had a friend say that once. I don't really like music. It's like, what do you mean? You don't like music.

Are you unhappy? You only have a few senses. You don't like to use all of them. How's your sense of smell? No, I'm saying, I don't really like the smell of anything. I love to listen to music. If I'm, whatever I'm doing, if I'm out walking, I've got made her buds and I'm listening, I've got playlists.

I love to listen to music. What do you think about that? Like, is it important to you? you how, how simpatico, there's a word for you. Do you have to be? I don't think it's a complete deal break. I mean, if she says she doesn't like music, I think there's something else going on other than just not like music. But like, no, I do love music. You know, I love playing music. I write music when I'm not farming. That's kind of my world outside of farming. Is there a hidden desire to be a singer-songwriter? Not like, I'll say this. I'll never be able to like totally give up.

up the farm. Like, that's just something I don't think I could ever do. And, like, no matter where life would take me, like, I'd always come back to it. And it's such a family thing. So I feel like leaving the farm would feel like I'm kind of turning away from my family in a sense. But, uh, in my, like, dad who I work with on the farm, like, he's never forced it on me. He's like, you can go do whatever you want. Like, don't ever feel like you're changing this farm. But, you know, the songwriting is something I'm very passionate about. Have you produced any music that? It's like, are you on your way to Nashville when we finish this podcast? I've been in Nashville a little bit, you know, and I got friends down there.

And I haven't put out any music on my own just because I've never claimed to be too much of like a great singer. I make the joke good enough for drunk people. Yeah. Okay. The more you drink, the better sound. For sure. Yeah. But, no, I play like every dive bar and rule, Illinois.

I have to imagine that, like, that working out on the. farm is, and I always talk about this with like meditation, that for me, meditating is doing like DIY and gardening and things like that. I would have to imagine that being out on the farm by yourself for a lot of the time, being creative and using music as an outlet is that they go hand in hand because so many musicians and artists come from that life. Absolutely. I mean, like, that's where a lot of the song ideas come from. Like, when you're just, is, This is going to sound like the most like country cliche thing I've ever said. But like when I'm on the tractor, like working ground or something like that,

like something just kind of pops in your head and you're just, oh, you got nothing but time to think, you know. And you have nobody distracting you. You don't have conversations going on with somebody else. When you, when you, when you, when you, on the tractor and you, and some idea comes to you and is it a theme? Is it words? Is it a series of chords?

What comes to you? It's always like when, you know, I'm not around my guitar or anything. it's always like like a line or a phrase. Like if you say it's a melody, it's a fit like you never know. And so I'm just like usually it's like just an idea or a phrase. I'm like, oh, that'd be cool. I do. Yeah.

I grew up in music. My father's a drummer. Give me a C. See, I don't know music. So like if you put music in front of me, I was like, I can't read music. So wait, when you come off the tractor and you as well, Brian, do you guys like write down? I don't even know what it's called. Do you transcribe whatever it is?

It depends. So I'm sure for you. because you play guitar. You pick up a guitar and then you start working out the melody of what you heard in your head. You kind of find whatever tool you can to immortalize what it is you were thinking because those ideas, they go as fast as they come. So if you don't put them down right away, nine times out of ten, they're gone. And you wake up the next day and you kick yourself.

You're like, oh, so good. That's why they tell you to keep a notebook and a pen next to your bed at night. like I just put it in my notes app. Yeah, phones, man. Like having the voice recorder in the phones. Wait, I want to know meeting us. Do you feel like the urge to write a song about meeting us? Oh, yeah.

About hating this experience? No, I'm going to write a song right after this. Right after this. Right, for sure. You and I are going to be famous. We're going to be a Nashville singing a duet. We're the ones that forced, yeah, that pushed him into that, like, that song about how much he hates. No, I'm loving this.

I'm loving this. There's two golden rules that any man should live by. Rule one, never mess with a country girl. You play stupid games, you get stupid prizes. And rule two, never mess with her friends either. We always say that trust your girlfriends. I'm Anna Sinfield, and in this new season of the girlfriends... Oh my God, this is the same man.

A group of women discover they've all dated the same prolific con artist. I felt like I got hit. a truck. I thought, how could this happen to me? The cops didn't seem to care. So they take matters into their own hands. I said, oh, hell no. I vowed. I will be his last target. He's going to get what he deserves.

Listen to the girlfriends. Trust me, babe. On the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up, everyone? I'm Ego Wodom. My next guest, you know from Stepbrothers Anchorman, Saturday, Night Live and the Big Money Players Network. It's Will Ferrell. Woo. Woo. Woo. My dad gave me the best advice ever. I went and had lunch with them one day. And I was like, and Dad, I think I want to really give this a shot. I don't know what that

means, but I just know the groundlings. I'm working my way up through and I know it's a place that come look for up and coming talent. He said, if it was based solely on talent, I wouldn't worry about you, which is really sweet. He goes, but there's so much luck involved. and he's like just give it a shot he goes but if you ever reach a point where you're banging your head against the wall and it doesn't feel fun anymore it's okay to quit

if you saw it written down it would not be an inspiration it would not be on a calendar of you know the cat just hang in there yeah it would not be right it wouldn't be that there's a lot of luck yeah listen to thanks dad on the iHeart radio app

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on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're dating a woman, she makes you a playlist of her favorite songs. Are you judge her music choices or are you embracing whatever music she likes? So the honest answer is I'm probably judging. Yeah, I'm probably judging a little bit. Of course. It's like, you know, I'm, you know, I kind of nerd out about music.

You know, I want to know, like, who wrote the song, you know, like how they wrote it. What's the story behind it? Yeah. And I'm pretty, like, any more, this is kind of a controversial thing is like, I can't stand listening to, like, country radio. I just, I really, because new country. Are you a fan of, like, of old country compared to new country? Yeah, and just like, kind of like the singer songwriter stuff.

Like, just like some. Who is your favorite? Oh, man. That's... Give me your top three. What's your favorite genre? How about that? Country.

I can't really... Can I interrupt here? He said he loves country. Country is a genre. Then I said, who are your top three? And you said, what's your favorite genre? So that's Pete and repeat. Fair.

Thank you. I mean, that's so hard. You know, I grew up on a lot of Alan Jackson. Oh, yeah. And, but like... like Dean Dillon probably never heard that name. I've never heard that name and I love country. He's written like every George straight hit you can think.

Really? You know what I mean? And that's just like what I kind of nerd out about because I'm just like, nobody knows who this guy is. And he's written every song, all of your favorite songs. What do you think of the new like, the country, how do I say this?

Pop country that's so prevalent today. This is what I say. Like I don't mind a lot of it. But when I'm listening to somebody like, this is my biggest thing. If I believe it, if I believe what you're saying, even if it's like that poppy stuff, like if I believe it, then I like it. If it's, if I just see, you know,

whoever, like singing this song and I can tell they're kind of like playing this act, like that's just kind of what turns me, turns me off to it. This is a true country music man here. I love my, I mean, you know, I've got my country music literally all the time going, but I like the pop. Contraille. I do too. I mean, I like some of it and like I don't hate it. Music is a tough one. Like for me, I know whenever I hear music where you can tell that it's been produced for like perfection, then it loses the emotion that's tied to it. And then I don't like it as much because to me, music invokes emotion. That's the beauty of it. I grew up, I grew up in it. My dad is a, he was a country drummer. He was torn with Glenn Campbell. That's so awesome. I was foreign. Who's Glenn Campbell. Glenn Campbell, Rhinstone Cowboy. Yeah.

So my dad, okay, my dad played drums on that. That is so cool. Yeah. That is so cool. Yeah. Wow.

So I hadn't thought about it, but I do know there are some music purists who don't like exactly describing what you're saying. Yeah. And like I said, I do like, you know,

I like Morgan Wall and like I like that stuff. Morgan, I was going to ask it. Yeah. And it's just like sometimes, I don't know if this is like me being bitter or like being a songwriter, but like sometimes you hear a song on the radio

and you're like, I could write this in five minutes. You know what I mean? It's like this guy's making millions of dollars. And you'd be retired from, okay, so speaking of being retired and moving back to farming, I have one question that I so want to ask you,

going through this experience of being on the farmer wants a wife, and how to have its ups and downs. You're a positive guy. You know, you seem to have a good vibe about you. What did you lean on to get you through the difficult decisions during the show? because I know that they were,

it had to be tough. You have lovely women that's got to be tough to let people go, who, what, how did you get through it? Well, that was the hardest part.

And I never like, just sending somebody home just felt horrible. It just, no matter. I've been crying for weeks. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

like, it's, because sometimes like with this world is like, you got to send some people home, like, especially early on that don't really, deserve it. You know what I mean? Like it's, you don't really have a reason to send them home sometimes. It's just kind of like what you have to do. It's kind of the name of the game. And so that was really

tough. What criteria did you use to send people on me if you, assuming you did send people on there? Honestly, well, they wouldn't let me keep everybody. Right. He said that. He tried. He was like, as a new show. That was not. That was on the game, but was it looks? Was it the quick interview? No, I mean like, honestly like when it got down so it became super real for me and that's like something that I wasn't really expecting but um honestly again as cliche as it sounds is like you really just got to like trust your gut and like fall your heart and like you know I just was always thinking about like who am I thinking about right now like who's like who am I thinking about when I'm not like around them and

like who's sticking out to me at the end of the day like you're like you're thinking about right now like you'd go to bed, whom I think and about. Interesting. Wow. Wake up in the morning, you can't wait to see somebody when you get there. Yeah. I can only imagine, yeah. I can trust me, I really can only imagine.

Yeah, it seems like you would start having those moments. Absolutely. That's got to be really, really scary and then also really exciting at the same time. It's like a push and pull because you hate to send people home, but at the same time sending people home is getting you to. closer to closer to the goal of finding, hopefully finding your person. One thing I was kind of guilty of and,

you know, talking with other guys is like, it's easy to get this way is sometimes you're, you're just constantly thinking about like who you're going to send home. Because it's like such a hard decision. So you get, you want to get it over with. You get hung up on that instead of like thinking about like,

you know, oh, like it's her. Like she's right there. You know what I mean? You know? Who are the knots? Yeah, there's a lot going on.

That's unbelievable. I can't imagine the pressure. I'm being honest, I was not the chosen one on my show. And so I didn't have to do what you had to do as a lead because I wasn't one. But I think that's got to be really tough to look at people who are potentially, theoretically, they've been vetted. They're all lovely human beings and you to say bye-bye. Yeah.

What's amazing is you watch this. show and you think, oh my God, how are these women so, especially episode one, how are they already so committed and in this, but you forget, you don't think about what it's like to be on the other side of that, having to choose people and knowing that you're going to hurt people's feelings. Yeah. Well, can I tell you what I've been thinking? How lucky, Brian, you and I are to have met you today. Yeah. You all are too amazing. You are an amazing guy. We wish you all the best. I appreciate you. We hope your season is everything you wanted to be and that you, you find the beautiful, lovely, incredible woman

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