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Speaker 1: Sean mcarliffe is back on SBS tonight at seven point

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Speaker 1: thirty with the show Origin Odyssey and is with us now.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Sean, Sean.

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Speaker 3: Lisa Clesy. Nice to be with you again. Are you well?

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Speaker 3: Is this going to weir have to be professional? Very well?

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Speaker 2: And no we don't as professional as you like?

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Speaker 4: Why change now?

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Speaker 1: I can fully trust that you know how to to

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Speaker 1: conduct yourself, how to keep yourself nice.

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Speaker 2: Remember you're out. My grandmother used to say, Sean, I know.

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Speaker 3: Well, look at the show is very unprofessional, the one

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Speaker 3: not yours. So no, I'm yeah, I'm very keen to

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Speaker 3: make it look as informal as possible because that's how

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Speaker 3: it ended up. So I'm pretending it's intention.

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Speaker 4: That was the goal all along.

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Speaker 1: It's called Origin Odyssey. Tell us you know the basic

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Speaker 1: concept for the show, Well.

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Speaker 3: It is really an excuse for me to just go

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Speaker 3: on holiday and have it paid for by somebody else.

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Speaker 3: But the the thing we need to make it text

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Speaker 3: deductible is it actually has to be a television show.

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Speaker 3: And I'm essentially taking young I'm taking young comedians, many

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Speaker 3: of whom I haven't met or worked with before. And

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Speaker 3: when I say young, I just being compared with me

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Speaker 3: back to their ancestral homes, I suppose. So tonight it's

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Speaker 3: Aaron Chen, his dad and mama from China. So we

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Speaker 3: are visiting China and then kind of visiting the places

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Speaker 3: of his father. We've picked his father that he would

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Speaker 3: have had to go to because of the Culture Revolution

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Speaker 3: back in the sixties, so it's it's quite a serious trip.

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Speaker 3: But of course I'm with Aaron chen By, one of

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Speaker 3: the funniest comedians in Australia, so we end up doing

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Speaker 3: I don't know how I can justify this, but we

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Speaker 3: both end up walking down a street in Shanghai doing

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Speaker 3: impressions of Donald Trump, which.

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Speaker 4: Apose to that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, just how long did it take before someone said China?

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Speaker 3: Well it took us. It took us a quarter of

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Speaker 3: a second.

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Speaker 4: That's to go to, is it.

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Speaker 1: I imagine with someone like Aaron you're probably learning things together.

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Speaker 2: He's learning at the same time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was. I mean, there is something about there

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Speaker 3: is something about when you can hear all the stories

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Speaker 3: you like from your family. You know, Grandma might tell

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Speaker 3: you a story, but unless you're actually there walking around

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Speaker 3: in their shoes, you know, it's just an abstract concept.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's pretty immersive, you know. And Aaron. Aaron's

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Speaker 3: actually on the same time on Channel ten, so we're

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Speaker 3: still one thirty. He's actually on it. He's actually on

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Speaker 3: Channel ten at seventh thirty doing task Master. And I

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Speaker 3: said to him, it's not much different, you know, we

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Speaker 3: kind of making you do stuff that you end up

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Speaker 3: would have you do on the other show. Our show

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Speaker 3: is better our show.

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Speaker 5: He's in competition with, in comp with himself. That's bizarre,

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Speaker 5: isn't it When you think about it. Have you thought

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Speaker 5: about a concept of taking radio ounces to their favorite

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Speaker 5: holiday spots for a revisit.

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Speaker 3: I reckon they'd be I think they'd be very good company.

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Speaker 3: They would be Okay, yeah, picture, I don't know whether

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Speaker 3: SBS is the right place.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm sure you know.

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Speaker 5: To kick a box there fund the streaming service Mikaaloff

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Speaker 5: does the Maldives.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and just various people and we will volunteer

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Speaker 1: to be first.

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Speaker 4: All right, done, Okay, we're up for that. You don't

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Speaker 4: even have to share a room with us.

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Speaker 1: Sun You did a who do you think you are?

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Speaker 1: Didn't you? Back in the day?

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Speaker 3: I did? Yeah, a few years ago when I was

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Speaker 3: doing talking about your generation. I did. I went back

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Speaker 3: to my dad's I went to Yeah, I went to both,

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Speaker 3: but I went to Malta and I've never been there before.

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Speaker 3: That's where dad comes from and mum's lot come from Ireland,

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Speaker 3: so I got to go there and I ended up

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Speaker 3: in Turkey in a barracks that was looked after by

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Speaker 3: Florence Nightgo. I mean, I mean, my series, my series

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Speaker 3: is nowhere is interesting? Is this my experience?

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Speaker 5: But there's a beauty of the comedians because it makes

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Speaker 5: it funny as well as the heartfelt stuff.

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Speaker 3: Exactly, it is about the journey, Like you know, we're

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Speaker 3: on trains, we're on Usually you just cut to the destination,

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Speaker 3: but we have fun in the in the travel, and

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Speaker 3: I think that's more like everyone's experience of traveling. It

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Speaker 3: is a hard slog.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, Sean.

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Speaker 5: I did mention that you were a prolific man of

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Speaker 5: Australian TV earlier, but the word retirement gets bandied around

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Speaker 5: a bit too much. It sounds so final. But you

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Speaker 5: did know I'm getting somewhere a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 5: Did you really retire and said you weren't coming back

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Speaker 5: to TV?

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Speaker 4: Was that true?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I can explain that. I can explain. I lied.

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Speaker 3: I lied, I was nominated. I was nominated for a

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Speaker 3: Gold LOGI that year, and I thought that that if

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Speaker 3: I if I said I was never going to appear

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Speaker 3: on TV, and I thought I'd get a sentimental vote.

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Speaker 3: It did work. Sonya Kruger won and she's still on TV.

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Speaker 2: Yes, if you could take any.

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Speaker 1: The comedian or broadcaster or interviewer on a trip like this,

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Speaker 1: is there someone that you would have at the very

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Speaker 1: top of your wish list?

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Speaker 3: Well? I did pretty well in this series and the

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Speaker 3: next one with you two guys, obviously, if the third

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Speaker 3: series comes along, because we did ask. We did ask

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Speaker 3: Russell Crowe and I know he's not a comedian, but

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Speaker 3: he recently has become very interested in his ancestry and everything,

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Speaker 3: and I thought, wow, I would really I got to

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Speaker 3: spend a couple of days with him when he was

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Speaker 3: hosting the AFIS. I actually wrote for him, so I

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Speaker 3: know him vaguely. But I think the prospect of spending

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Speaker 3: a week and a bit with Russell going back to

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Speaker 3: his I think he'd be a fascinating subject.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, have some good stories too. I reckon ye

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Speaker 4: I think dinner.

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Speaker 1: Well, you've got some great people doing this origin odyssey,

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Speaker 1: like Dill Rook.

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Speaker 2: I can never say to a second I'm side to

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Speaker 2: call him to please.

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Speaker 1: There you go, Aaron Hen tonight, Michael Whipper Whipple when

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Speaker 1: we've both worked with interesting, I'm not too sure for

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Speaker 1: sure how far you have to go?

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Speaker 2: Just with Whipper we.

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Speaker 3: Went to Switzerland, did we can go?

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Speaker 2: Okay? All right?

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Speaker 1: Well it starts tonight on SBS at seven point thirty.

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Speaker 2: Sean, Thank you, Thanks.

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Speaker 3: Guys, They're always a pleasure to talk. We'll see you

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Speaker 3: for the.

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Speaker 5: Next Yeah, we look forward to the spin off there.

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Speaker 5: We'll get your people to talk to us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks Sean.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we won't forget. Can we start drawing up that

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Speaker 2: email now?

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Speaker 4: We never forget