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Speaker 1: Season five of Utopia begins tomorrow on the ABC at

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Speaker 1: eight o'clock. Rob Sitch joins us, Now, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know everybody's back, aren't they. Celia dil Rock,

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Speaker 1: All back, all back, love it now you play, Tony, I.

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Speaker 2: Do head of what an interesting.

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Speaker 1: I wanted myself, but I reckon it fits you meet

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Speaker 1: a few Tonies in this line. The head of the

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Speaker 1: National Building Authority, which oversees infrastructure projects like freeways, submarines,

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Speaker 1: has been caught up in real life roadworks inspired that

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Speaker 1: in parts funny.

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Speaker 2: The first episode of this season is a freeway near

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Speaker 2: my house and from maybe seven years I drove up.

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Speaker 3: And down and I think I went on, this hasn't changed,

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Speaker 3: the same guy holding a stop go. He isn't even

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Speaker 3: And so we were digging into it and trying to

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Speaker 3: find out the reason, and all we got back was

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Speaker 3: sort of media talking points, and we realized, oh, that's

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Speaker 3: the episode.

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Speaker 2: So we both did around.

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Speaker 4: Yes it is. Yeah, I how the mundane and everyday

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Speaker 4: life it can be so much great content for you

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Speaker 4: must be that's always that you don't have to search

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Speaker 4: for it.

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Speaker 2: Non us because COVID into the Normally we get an

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Speaker 2: abandoned building and build a face set in a building

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Speaker 2: that was about to be knocked down for another one.

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Speaker 2: And so we've done that four times. And when we

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Speaker 2: came back to this time, we are such a piss

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Speaker 2: and someone said, oh, maybe that your old place, because

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Speaker 2: of COVID is still available. Not only was it available,

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Speaker 2: the set was still there and there were still things

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Speaker 2: I've left on my desk that hadn't moved in three

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Speaker 2: And that's true.

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Speaker 1: That's a proper pandemic exodus right there, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: I know. Here's another quick change when we started five series.

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Speaker 2: When we start five series ago, I used to have

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Speaker 2: to explain to young is what we mean by infrastructure,

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Speaker 2: and now I have to explain what we mean by

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Speaker 2: free to wear.

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Speaker 1: Television road works though I'm stuck on the road where

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Speaker 1: I am a cynic, but I do. I've often thought

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Speaker 1: that this is just jobs for future jobs for the boys.

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Speaker 1: They could have done this all at the same time.

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Speaker 1: Why is it all of a sudden they're now saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: we have to, you know, go back and widen this

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Speaker 1: bit of road at this section as well. Do you

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Speaker 1: feel am.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, Well, I've come from Victoria, which is

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Speaker 2: the is the on our registration plates. We call it

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Speaker 2: the blowout State. And we did an episode in the

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Speaker 2: last series where it is sixty years I've tried to

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Speaker 2: build a railway link to our airport. Yes, and so

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Speaker 2: we thought, let's pretend that we're building one. So I

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Speaker 2: ran a construction mate and he said, how big the budget?

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Speaker 2: Could I make it believable? He said, are or maybe five?

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Speaker 2: And I said, could I go to seven? He said, oh,

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Speaker 2: stored of it's not very believable. Were they announced it

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Speaker 2: last year? It's going across fifteen billion dollars. So you

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Speaker 2: were a conservative, totally conservative.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Rother, the words longevity and TV shows don't often

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Speaker 4: go together, and when they do, that's a big hit show.

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Speaker 4: But there was a show that lasted two episodes recently

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Speaker 4: and something to do with balloons, I believe. But what

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Speaker 4: about what's what about a show like yours with longevity

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Speaker 4: made what was it?

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Speaker 2: Got legs? I reckon if you would have winded up

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Speaker 2: seven or eight years ago and got the balloon show

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Speaker 2: and an infrastructure show, I would have backed the balloon show.

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Speaker 2: So one advantage of being on the ABC is they

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Speaker 2: eventually run out of Scottish detective series, so they give

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Speaker 2: us a call.

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Speaker 1: I think it's the relatability that gives it legs so good.

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Speaker 2: Well, actually, that's funny thing that everyone's got in common.

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Speaker 2: And we sort of realized this years years ago. In

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Speaker 2: a way, everyone works in an office, even if you're

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Speaker 2: at the West Coast Eagles or you're.

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Speaker 4: At ninety's one day a week sometimes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a reperd by office politics in a way

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Speaker 2: or hr and so so we've got had our own

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Speaker 2: office for years and we notice, we notice ourselves doing

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Speaker 2: stupid things, and fortunately we convert that to good not evil.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, that's right. Yeah, you're right. There are those things.

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Speaker 4: There's a grumpy person in the office. There's this person

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Speaker 4: who hogs the photocopia and never puts a new paper

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Speaker 4: in so many subjects, and you can't.

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Speaker 2: When I started working, you could shout at people, and

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Speaker 2: you can't shout.

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Speaker 1: You can't even look at them funny anymore.

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Speaker 2: Rob, It's it's all the micro aggression. Yeah it is.

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Speaker 1: Well, we love it when you know, the art imitates laugh.

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Speaker 1: It's even better when art imitates idiocy. So season five

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Speaker 1: of Utopia tomorrow night on the ABC eight o'clock they

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Speaker 1: get wrong, Good to catch up

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Speaker 2: Man a right, good on it, lovely just Spay Two games,