If you love reality dating shows, it’s hard to beat the drama of “Temptation Island.”
The couples are separated and surrounded by singles to see how committed they are to each other.
It’s a wild concept that produces many messy, heartbreaking, and even some heartwarming moments.
Oh boy, I think a couple of things.
What do you consider your most important task as the host of the show?
Well, there’s what I consider my most important task and what has become my task.
My task is to host the show.
I don’t know that I stay unbiased.
Here’s where it’s at for me.
I’m not completely objective.
I’m enrolled in their journey with them.
Do you think being invested like that has helped you while you host the show?
This one has a little bit more consequence to that investment.
That’s a choice I make.
I say to them right off the bat, “I’m 100% with you on this ride.
You chose to come here.
That’s uncomfortable, and I don’t enjoy that by any means.
It’s still not fun, that part.
When the viewers see it, it’s all condensed into a way that makes sense.
What is it like kind of seeing all that drama behind the scenes?
My wife and I watch it and go, “Oh my God, I had no idea.”
I could probably know more about what’s going on than I do.
I’ve seen maybe six or seven episodes, and no, I really don’t know everything.
Do you enjoy that process of reacting in real-time at the same time fans are watching it?
Yeah, if I weren’t on it because it’s really hard to watch myself.
I don’t enjoy that so much.
I do like the gushy stuff; I like that … What’s been your favorite thing about hosting the show?
There are so many answers to that.
One of my favorite things is the staff and crew that I work with.
That part I love.
I also love my executive producer and how we work together.
That’s really beautiful.
I also really love meeting the people on the show.
Again, I’m really trying to host the show in the most authentic way that I know how.
There are all kinds of benefits from the surface, which is all the influencer stuff.
There’s also, like I said, it’s not a scientific process.
It’s not what I would suggest for people going through problems in their relationships.
There’s what you tell me is the reason you came here.
“We have issues with our relationship.
He’s too much of that.
She’s too much of this.
I wish it was this.”
The path to both of those successes are the same thing, honesty and authenticity.
That’s what people respond to.
They come to some things.
I don’t think there’s a secret.
It’s not a gauntlet you run.
I think certain couples, two things can happen, right?
That’s the good side.
The other side, which is also good, I guess, is that you’re forced … You cannot work on them or control them.
All you’re able to do is look at your stuff, your own stuff.
In that, a new definition of what a healthy [loving] relationship is can happen.
It has to do with who you are as a person in all of your relationships.
Would he and his wife ever go on Temptation Island?
You’ve mentioned your wife [Robbi Morgan Walberg].
You guys have been together for a long time.
Is there any advice you think couples on the show could take from your relationship?
I really don’t have a go at use my relationship as a model of anything.
She gave me a quote that I put in the show.
That’s a very simple truth.
I always use her to say, “Did that land what I said?
Did I miss something?”
We are in that conversation a lot.
I really don’t use my relationship as an example of anything.
That’s why when I say stuff at the bonfire, it doesn’t come from a PhD.
It doesn’t come from having gone to school to learn this.
Would the two of you at any point have considered going on “Temptation Island?”
There’s no way in hell.
Robbi is a very private person, that’s my wife, and I tend to be really private.
I love doing the work, but I don’t particularly need to be famous at all.
I’m happy to be working.
What reality TV show would they go on?
I’m on a project.
I’ve never thought about it like that.
She would love for me to go on “Dancing With The Stars.”
She’s great, but I suck.
That would probably be the show that she’d want us to go on.
I think you guys would be great.
They can make an exception for the next season.
She’s really, arguably, far more talented than I am.
I happen to be on TV right now.
