1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,679 Speaker 1: Jerzy and Amanda gam Nation. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 2: He's the man that can do it all. 3 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 3: You can direct, you can write, it can produce, he 4 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 3: can act. Rob Sitch returns to the Box Tonight Wednesday 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 3: as Tony Woodford in season five of Utopia. This show 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 3: is a comedy, but it's so real it's to watch 7 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 3: it sometimes. 8 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 2: What fat doc? 9 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 3: Oh there you go, Rob Sitch? 10 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: Hello, Oh, good morning to your boat. 11 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 2: It's great to have you on. 12 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 4: Amanda's not for me with TV terms, but fact doc 13 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 4: is the new thing. 14 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 2: I've been called worse. 15 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, a copyer. I'm going to steal that one. 16 00:00:37,120 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 3: Yes, that's right. 17 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 2: I thought you know all about fact doc. 18 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: No. No. We normally, when a comedy is not funny, 19 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: you call it a drama drama. 20 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 2: So Utopia is funny. 21 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 3: It is funny, but it also it infuriates me because 22 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 3: I think this is so real and this is where 23 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 3: our taxpayer money goes. Are we allowed to feel angry 24 00:00:59,360 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 3: when we watch? 25 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: I think so. I think when we started we used 26 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: to joke that, you know, the titles we were using 27 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 1: with like three four bidion, And slowly as the series 28 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 1: has gone on, we've had to add a nought because 29 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 1: it seems that stuffing up infrastructure is one of the 30 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: few bipartisan things we have in this country. 31 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's incredible. 32 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 3: I was readly an article that said that you first 33 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 3: came up with this idea when you drove past roadworks 34 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,680 Speaker 3: for four years. You thought, has anything changed there over time? 35 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: It was the fact it was I think it was 36 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: six years. And I tried to find out what was 37 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: the delay, but I got talking points and you get 38 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: the media excess speaking to you. Well, you know, really 39 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: good infrastructure takes all that sort of stuff. And so 40 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 1: I thought, oh, that's that's the first episode there. 41 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 2: And that's true. 42 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 4: And whenever I watch Utopia, I always just think this 43 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 4: is just real life, like in Sydney the light rail 44 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 4: debacle for all those years, I'm thinking, this is an 45 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 4: episode of Utopia. 46 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: Well I can predate that with the moral in Sydney. 47 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 2: Oh yes, wow. 48 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 4: I went on the monorail when it was closing down. 49 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 4: I thought I should go on the monoail just to 50 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 4: see what it's about. And I kid you not, this 51 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 4: old guy walked from Darling Harbor to send a point 52 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 4: tower quicker than I did in traveling around the whole manager. 53 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 1: I remember being slows The funny one was about we're 54 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: in our first series. We came up, where's the stupidest 55 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: place to build a really expensive stadium? And so we 56 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: made an episode about building one in Hobart and talking 57 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: about life imitating art. They're about to do it. 58 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, we need to be careful what you asked you 59 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 4: because what you guys did with Frontline you're doing now 60 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 4: with Utopia and. 61 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: You know that. Well, it's announced the big review into 62 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: all the infrastructure. It's funny though everyone everyone loves good infrastructure, 63 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: just no one wants to pay it. I remember hearing 64 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,920 Speaker 1: a story once that Athens in five hundred BC almost 65 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: went broke building the path and on. So it's a 66 00:02:59,320 --> 00:02:59,959 Speaker 1: long history. 67 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 3: What's some of your favorite storylines. What are the ones 68 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 3: that you're most chuffed about? 69 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: Well, the dating one was the one one the most 70 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: because we couldn't think of a reason. So when when 71 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 1: the Prime Minister announced it, I wonder what reasons. The 72 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: turm we came up with is a multi purpose stadium 73 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: and then you change the subject and blow me down 74 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,240 Speaker 1: there he is saying multi it's a multi purpose. 75 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 2: Could remember the multi function policy? 76 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 3: Yes, I did about a thousand beyond two thousand stories. 77 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 2: It was a multifunction policy. 78 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 3: I think it was just like an industrial suburb where 79 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 3: all things would be possible. 80 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 4: Because I me, MFP, well, I remember last time we 81 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 4: were talking and you said something about intermodial and I 82 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 4: didn't even know what intermodial was. And then one day 83 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 4: I'm on my way to work and sure enough, this 84 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 4: science is intermodial area. And intermodial is all different transport forms. 85 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 4: You got truck, you got rail, and something else. 86 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: Well, Sydney's got a huge one, the more Park one, 87 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: and you say, yeah, so whole here if you get 88 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 1: an intersection of big trucks and rail and it's a 89 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: sort of a clearing house. And so there's a lot 90 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: of common test behind an intermotial. I must a been. 91 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: I'll give that one the tick. 92 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 3: But every time you see a project that's worth something, 93 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 3: you know it's going to be ten years before it's completed, 94 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 3: and it's reason for being could just shift completely by. 95 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: Then, So I go. The easiest thing in researching utopia, Amanda, 96 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: is all you do is you enter what you're researching 97 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 1: hydroelectric plant, and then you just add blowout and so 98 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: it it just throws up all these articles. 99 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 2: But I like it. I like the terminology like shovel ready. 100 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, shovel ready. I mean, it's just because all 101 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 1: the incentives are mismatch, because the media cycles twenty four 102 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: hours in the freeways twenty four years, so it's sort 103 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 1: of they don't sit side. 104 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,359 Speaker 2: By, they don't. No, they don't. 105 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 4: Well, we look for a word to seeing you back 106 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:04,119 Speaker 4: on the Telly tonight. Season five of Utopia starting up tonight. 107 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,359 Speaker 4: It's on Wednesdays. It's at eight pm on the ABC. Robsich, 108 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 4: thank you, Thanks Johnsy, Thanks Amanda As loves to talk 109 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:10,919 Speaker 4: to you.