1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the Morning. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:03,880 Speaker 2: Sam. 3 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 3: One of the most challenging but rewarding things I've ever 4 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 3: done was go on who do you Think you Are? 5 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 3: On SBS This is why where they track one arm 6 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 3: of your family tree. Denise Scott is appearing on the 7 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 3: show tonight on SBS and she joins us. Now, hello, Scotty, 8 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 3: how are you? 9 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: I'm very well? 10 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 2: Thank you on this? Well, it's a chili morning here. 11 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 2: I'm in Melbourne, of course a little different maybe to Sydney. 12 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 4: That's pretty much the same. 13 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 3: Well's chili, what's yours? Let's compare degrees? What do you 14 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:35,480 Speaker 3: think it might be? There? 15 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: About four? 16 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 3: Oh? No, okay, no, you win. In the Chili states, 17 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 3: we're about twelve at the morning. 18 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:42,559 Speaker 2: Yeah. 19 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 4: In the city by the Bay, Roxas, city that never sleeps. 20 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 3: I found with who do You Think You Are? Because 21 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 3: they film it chronologically, you never know what's going to 22 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 3: happen from one day to the next. Some people love 23 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 3: that process. I found that very confronting. How did you go? 24 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this, Amanda, where did you 25 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 2: go to your travel? 26 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 3: I went to Tasmania. I had a convict story and 27 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 3: also around the Hunter Valley, which is where some of 28 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 3: my family settled as well. 29 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 2: How about you, Well, this is the thing, you know, 30 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 2: I had my passport ready because of course each day 31 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 2: you don't know where you're going. You could be like 32 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 2: Lisa Welcomes and did a few weeks ago, going off 33 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,199 Speaker 2: to India. But I went an hour north from where 34 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 2: I lived, and I can't say it was the most 35 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 2: amazing town I've ever. 36 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 1: Been to, and that's where I spent most of my time. 37 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 2: But it was amazing because I really did begin to 38 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 2: see these places that I was quite familiar with through 39 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 2: different eyes. And it was. 40 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: Really really cold, really freezing, really wet, really sad stories 41 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: about my family. But every day, and this was the 42 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: amazing part, there were these extraordinary rainbows, Like every day 43 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: there were full rainbows. I saw that as a sign 44 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 1: of I don't know what hope. 45 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 3: Yeah. So when you say sad stories, is this part 46 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 3: of your family you didn't know about? 47 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 2: Well, yes, my mom, you know there's when I was 48 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 2: in my twenties, I learned. You know that, my mum 49 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 2: that classic story where the woman that you think is your. 50 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: Auntie is in fact your grandmother. 51 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 2: So my mom's so supposed sister was in fact her mother. 52 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 2: But I'm to go. 53 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: But there was more to that story than I found 54 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: out that that was just it was just plain sad, right, 55 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: There was no getting around the sadness of this. But 56 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: I don't believe I didn't cry. You don't on that show. 57 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: They like a tear. 58 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, but loves when you go the blood. They love 59 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 4: when you go the blood, I know. 60 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,560 Speaker 1: And they kept oh, they encouraged me, but cold hearted, 61 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 1: cold hearted Scottie. 62 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 3: It's going to it's going. 63 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 4: To take a lot more than that to make me cry. 64 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. 65 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: It was very humbling actually there. I found it really 66 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: really humbling white people, the poverty and the what they 67 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: went through. And I winge because I don't know, I 68 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: haven't got a decent loaf of gourmet bread or something. 69 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 3: I found that when I went to Tasmania and my 70 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 3: ancestor had been on Sarah Island, which was where when 71 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 3: convicts were punished they went. And I had bought a 72 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 3: pair of sneakers before I went, because they were told 73 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 3: I was told, just pack light, you don't know where 74 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 3: you're going. It was so freezing. I had to borrow 75 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 3: the producer's thermal underwear. But I took a pair of 76 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 3: sneakers and I opened them. When I got there, I 77 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 3: had been given two right shoes, so I winged constantly 78 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:18,559 Speaker 3: about this, and there I was going to a place 79 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 3: where my ancestor had been whipped to with the nameship 80 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 3: his life, and all I could do was complain about 81 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 3: my shoes. 82 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 4: Well, that's all well and good, but these two right 83 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 4: shoes are very painful. Forget a flogging, what about my shoes? Well, Denise, 84 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,039 Speaker 4: it's great to talk to your catch. Who do you 85 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 4: think you are? 86 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 3: That's fascinating, Nay. 87 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 4: Tonight seven point thirty you will see Denise Scott traveling 88 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 4: an hour from her home, not crying, not crying. 89 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, big selling point. 90 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 2: There you go. I know how to sell a show. 91 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 4: You've done well with that. Always a treat to catch up. 92 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 2: Thank you, Denise, Jonesy and Amanda, good morning,