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Speaker 1: Well, the Old People's Home for four year Olds was

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Speaker 1: an amazing documentary experiment, if you will. And now the

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Speaker 1: five part series Old People's Home for Teenagers starts tonight

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Speaker 1: on the ABC on ABC and ABC I view at

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Speaker 1: eight thirty and joining us is facilitator and teacher one

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Speaker 1: of the hosts in web show Fiona good Hello, Fiona.

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Speaker 2: Good morning. How are you both very well?

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Speaker 1: Now, people loved this show, the one for four year olds,

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Speaker 1: So now what for the uninitiated, how does this all work?

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Speaker 2: So basically what we did for the first two series

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Speaker 2: and the third we grabbed ten of our older adults

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Speaker 2: who are living in residential care or their own their

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Speaker 2: own residents, yes, and ten four year olds. And so

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Speaker 2: they came from different all different walks of life, and

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Speaker 2: we popped them all together just randomly in a room

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Speaker 2: to see how they would go interacting with each other

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Speaker 2: and to see if they could kind of, you know,

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Speaker 2: help help each other with some of the concerns that

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Speaker 2: they were having in life.

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Speaker 3: Made you love, made you cry, may do everything in.

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Speaker 4: Between, and there was so much to it. It's so

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Speaker 4: cute too.

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Speaker 1: And now going with teenagers because you say that actually

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Speaker 1: teenagers like older people are among the loneliest in the

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Speaker 1: kid Yeah, absolutely, so you wouldn't think that of teenagers.

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Speaker 3: Do you think they're just moody?

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Speaker 2: But yeah, look it was it was an interesting one,

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Speaker 2: that's for sure.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Fato, Sophie under the older members of our community

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Speaker 4: to get a hell of a lot out of these contacts,

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Speaker 4: firstly with the tiny kids and then with these ones.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, without a doubt. But I think you know,

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Speaker 2: we do under we do underestimate how much the teens

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Speaker 2: and the four year olds really do get out of

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Speaker 2: this experience as well, to be honest, a little bit

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Speaker 2: harder to measure when they're fore but they I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know what we saw growth wise during those those

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Speaker 2: six weeks of growth was just huge. It was amazing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, where do you find these kids to take part? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Look, the first two series we just put like a

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Speaker 2: bit of a casting call out and for the third

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Speaker 2: one as well, it was a bit of a casting

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Speaker 2: call that kind of went out just to see what

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Speaker 2: we could we could use and then obviously we screened

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Speaker 2: them to make sure that you know they are going

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Speaker 2: to they are going to be okay. And it's the

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Speaker 2: same with the older adults. Obviously they're they're heavily screened

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Speaker 2: to make sure that you know, they've done background checks

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Speaker 2: and things like that. So it's all it's all above

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Speaker 2: board and put together really well.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure you don't want to give too much away

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Speaker 4: for you, and but there must have been some things

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Speaker 4: you weren't expecting, a few surprises that popped up, a

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Speaker 4: few nuggets.

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Speaker 2: Every single day, every single day. I mean, look, you

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Speaker 2: know you can try and come up. You know, we

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Speaker 2: come up with the plan for the day of activities

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Speaker 2: that we're going to do, and it might rain, there

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Speaker 2: might be you know, flooding. I know that we had

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Speaker 2: at one stage at the start of the year. So

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Speaker 2: there's all different things. And then you've got emotions, and

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Speaker 2: I think that was the big difference this time around

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Speaker 2: as opposed to the first two series. You know, you've

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Speaker 2: got teenagers who come with their own printed, preconceived ideas. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they've got their own reservations, they've got their own concerns,

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Speaker 2: whereas four year olds, you know, without being rude, you

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Speaker 2: can kind of show them a few shiny things and

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Speaker 2: they can easily get disrupted. But you can't do that

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Speaker 2: with teenagers. So well, I had to learn that very quickly.

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Speaker 1: Four year olds aren't usually cynical yet so correct there

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Speaker 1: would be that how important are I think into generational

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Speaker 1: friendships are fantastic?

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Speaker 3: Well, how important do you think they are for people?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: A hell of a lot more than we realize, to

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Speaker 2: be honest, And I'm really hoping that this series it

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Speaker 2: is different, so I hope it's welcomed as much as

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Speaker 2: the previous to have. But to be honest, this one

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Speaker 2: is needed so so much, and I hope we get

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Speaker 2: to do another one just to show everyone how much

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Speaker 2: it really is needed. These teens are a lot more

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Speaker 2: lonely than we realize, and our teens are, you know,

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Speaker 2: getting so much more out of this because of having

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Speaker 2: this experience, and they would never have done it otherwise,

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Speaker 2: you know, if this hadn't come knocking on their doors,

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Speaker 2: not something they ever would have put their hand up

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Speaker 2: hoping and we know we can normalize this intergenerational gap

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Speaker 2: a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: I hope we see some perceptions on both sides smashed down.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I think that was always the thing. You know,

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Speaker 2: you've got these amazing, beautiful four year olds that have

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Speaker 2: a ball of energy, but you do have some older

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Speaker 2: adults that don't want to be around four year olds,

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Speaker 2: you know, with the you know, with their young kids.

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Speaker 2: And we want children that we can We want people

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Speaker 2: that we can have a proper conversation with. You know,

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Speaker 2: we don't want the squirking, naughty paint all over our faces.

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Speaker 2: We want to engage in a normal conversation. So I think,

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Speaker 2: you know, this level of interaction that the teams and

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Speaker 2: adults have had was just beautiful. It was so humbling,

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Speaker 2: such a humbling experience to be a part of s.

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Speaker 4: There's no sponsorships, but you easily if you could have

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Speaker 4: done that, signed up some kind of tissue sponsorship deal

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Speaker 4: right with the show.

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Speaker 2: Ah yes, definitely, absolutely on a daily basis. There were tears, definitely,

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Speaker 2: and that was from me. That was not even from

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Speaker 2: anybody else. That's just from me.

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Speaker 4: There'll be some viewers again, I would imagine, all right, so.

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Speaker 3: Tissue box on the table in front of.

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Speaker 2: Your enter and in tonight, oh absolutely without it.

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Speaker 3: It's in the best possible way. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, you know you're laughing one second and then

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Speaker 2: you're crying the next, Like it's such a beautiful, such

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Speaker 2: a beautiful experience that we've all had together and I

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Speaker 2: just hope that the rest of the world can see

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Speaker 2: it in an experience of the way that we did

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Speaker 2: at the time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well it's great stuff, Fiona, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 4: Brilliant is It is.

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Speaker 1: On tonight five part series. Don't miss it Old People's

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Speaker 1: Home for Teenagers. It's on ABC TV and catch up

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Speaker 1: on ABC i V if you miss it.