TWINS

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
New show on Channel nine and nine. Now, Maney, Australia's
most Identical Twins. Okay, there's been a lot of twin
things happening lately.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
You know.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's twins saw that Actually they went viral. This is
a little bit of the show cases identical twins look
the same because the naked eye can only detect differences
in facial features for about half a centimeter.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
All more so, we called in the big guns three
D scanning engineer Ben tay.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hi.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
I'm taking.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Ben's a leader in facial scanning technology and he can
measure differences in the twins' faces down to the menometer.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
So we're looking for Australia's most Identical twins, and joining
us is the host of the show, Doctorana Pittman. Good morning, Yanna,
how are you? Hello?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Good morning guys.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Now, you've got twins of your own, isn't that right?

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I do. I'm very likely they'll come storming into this
room many minute now, So I'm trying to make it professional.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
With a they identical your twins.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
No minor fraternal twins, boy girl twins. So, I mean,
anyone finds twins fascinating hints. I think this show is
quite cool, but yeah, my two are vastly different. They
would never win.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
Ah like this, Yeah, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
So when you say, for people who don't understand, obviously
identical twins come out looking exactly the same. So fraternal
twins tell us about that.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Identical twins come from the same egg and at some
point inside the mum, obviously they split and hence they
share the same DNA, whereas fraternal are completely separate eggs.
So I ovulate twice and just so happens that two
babies grow up in the same roomb, right, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Right, because I've got cousins who are twins, look nothing along.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
Yes, would be yeah, yeah, okay, I know a lot
of people get that confused. All right, And how what
are you finding in this show? Like, because I mean,
obviously identical twins. It can be things from the fact
that they feel things at the same time. Do they
talk very similar, not only look similar? What are some
of the findings that you are coming across in this show?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Look, lots of variation. I think you've got the mirror twins.
Obviously the boys that are similar and actually have facial
features and things are opposite. So some of them debate around.
I think the biggest thing for me that's coming out
so far, and obviously you've forgot time to go, is
that they aren't as identical as people expect. So where
one often will take on one of the strengths of
the personality versus someone else, where their co twin is

(02:17):
the softer and more gentle variation of the pair. So
I think we have all this sorts of expectation that
people are so so similar, embrace and embrace that that
they are the same person. You know, can they interspop
with each other? Do they date the same person? If
you've seen some of the interviews, and often they don't.
And I found that really interesting to think that they
are vastly different despite growing up in the same environment,

(02:39):
with the same genetics, and with a lot of the
same experiences.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Look, Janna in the room with us is our resident
news director Tony Thompson. Now she is a twin. Good
morning tone, how are you morning? Okay? So I wanted
to know whether she's an identical twin or a fraternal twin.
Anything that you and your sister Tony have exactly like
a spot on your butt because I know you speak

(03:04):
the same.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yeah, you sound the same. Yeah, we look pretty similar
and we sound the same.

Speaker 4 (03:10):
Right, But are you are you fraternal twins or identical twins?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (03:15):
I always thought I was a I was an identical so.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
I think you are. I've met her sister, Janna, and
they are very similar, very same mannerisms too when they
speak exactly.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, we have different personalities. So and she was saying
about the softer twin, and I have to say I
was in that role, being the older the two. So yeah, definitely.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yeah. So if we used facial recognition or anything like this,
that the technology that you're using. How close are some
of these twins that you've got on the show.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
I mean some of them are incredibly close, and some
of them are vastly different. I guess as they age
throughout life. You know, I've got obviously the farm boys
are young, the child and they took so early in
their life that they're going to look quite similar, and
then and then as people get older, they sort of
become quite different.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
These are the twins that went viral all over the world,
which is just crazy. They spoke, It was it was
incredible hell that they talked the same.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
Oh, our heart started the p and I said well Mom,
where's mum? And Paul, is.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
This what gave you the idea for the show? You know,
because that came.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Out a little after Scotty and Channel nine and obviously
came and asked off to do it. But I saw
that a few months ago, and I don't know about
you guys, but I was sitting there doing is it real? Yeah,
they do, they practice this like. I found that so
fascinating and I'm hoping that's why people are tuning into
this show too, to see how much of genetics, how
much of environment, how much of life makes a huge

(04:45):
difference in how similar people are. Because you know, we
even had quite a few people who didn't even know
they were identical until they know got nominated to do
the show and one of the hundreds to be part
of it, and as they started doing the testing, they
found out thirty forty is into their life. Oh actually
I am an identical twin. I just thought we were fraternal.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Right, Okay, all right, well we're going to have to
leave it this Yes, but I think you just summed
it up exactly fascinating. I think twins no matter what,
are fascinating. It's one of those things that people are
often intrigued by Tony.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Go home and stare at your sister, Actually spot the differences.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
She's probably yelling at the radio. I would have said this.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
I would have said that who's the better looking out
of you two?

Speaker 5 (05:30):
I can't get into that.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Thank you, Yana y Piman. Go and check it out.
It is amazing Australia's most identical seven thirty pm on
Channel nine and nine Now check it out tonight