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00:05Museums have always fascinated me. As a kid, these places opened up the world.
00:11Even now, 30 years later, I still see things I can't wrap my head around.
00:14Like this statue that looks oddly like Luke McGregor.
00:19Let's see what else will be wrapped by tonight at the museum.
00:23Security!
00:44Hello, I'm Alex Lee and I am very happy to be here at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery with
00:50these four curious curios.
00:52Playing for the honour of having one of their own personal treasures put on display right here at TMAG.
00:58Can you please welcome Geraldine Hickey and her wedding suit?
01:05Prophecy stones displayed here by Sashi Pereira.
01:10Bjorn Stewart and his figurines.
01:14And finally, a favourite toy owned by Tasmania's favourite son, it's Luke McGregor.
01:22We're going to find out more about our guests and their wonderful items later, but first, let's put a label
01:28on it.
01:35Labels simply tell us what's in front of us. For example, this hat once belonged to an emperor.
01:40Or this lunch in the staff room fridge belongs to Janet in HR.
01:43Either way, eat it at your own peril.
01:45I'm going to present our panel with a real object from the museum's collection.
01:50Two of our players will each read out a label for it, but no one on the panel knows which
01:56one is correct.
01:57Our other two players have to decide which is the right label.
02:01Everybody ready to see our first object?
02:04Let's bring it out!
02:13Sashi, what are we looking at?
02:15We are looking at a kelp water carrier circa 2008.
02:21You've heard of the keep cup? This is a kelp cup.
02:24A water carrier made by Tasmanian Aboriginal people by drying bull kelp.
02:30They go back hundreds if not thousands of years, but they're also making a comeback.
02:35Aboriginal people in Tasmania today are making them as part of reclaiming their culture.
02:40So it is a modern, ancient artifact.
02:46What have you got there, Bjorn?
02:47This is actually a one bag.
02:51A what? Sorry?
02:53A one bag.
02:55A one bag?
02:56Yeah, one bag.
02:57So this is actually the world's first, first, first aid kit.
03:02So Palawa groups had healers and this was made of kangaroo or wallaby leather.
03:09It's usually filled with like balms, plants and natural treatments for healing.
03:16And if someone ever needed aid, they would send for a man in a one bag.
03:23How would they carry the one bag?
03:25Like?
03:26Like a bum bag?
03:28That's good.
03:30That's good.
03:32Yeah, they would have it like around their waist.
03:35What first aid items would be in?
03:36Yeah, yeah, as I said.
03:37First, first aid.
03:38Plants and, yeah, yeah, first aid.
03:40First, first aid.
03:41First aid.
03:41First aid.
03:41Yeah, first, first aid.
03:42Well, you could almost say the original first aid kit.
03:45Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:48Um, Bjorn is indigenous.
03:50Yeah.
03:50So I don't want to call him a liar.
03:54I'm very respectful of you, Luke.
03:56It's not what you were like backstage, but.
04:01How much, uh, like, do they, it held water?
04:06Yes.
04:06Heaps of it.
04:09It was like, it's like a keep, like a, like an olden day keep cup?
04:12Yeah.
04:12Like where, where are you putting your lips?
04:16As a cup?
04:17Um, I don't know if they, I think it's to carry water.
04:21Yeah.
04:21And then they have another cup.
04:22Yeah.
04:23And they pour, pour it in, I reckon.
04:24It just feels like that's an additional, they just have the cup, you know?
04:27Just have the keep cup.
04:28Do you think that's what it is?
04:30I think if, if I see a guy walking around with just a bag of water, I'm like, no, no,
04:35I don't, I don't.
04:36Do you guys want some, do you guys want some water from my bag?
04:39No.
04:40No, I don't.
04:42Okay, Geraldine and Luke, which label do you think is the correct one?
04:45Is this a traditional Palawa water carrier or a first aid kit?
04:50Um, do you know what, I'll go the first aid kit.
04:52I'm looking.
04:52I'm going to go the first aid kit too.
04:54I think it's also the first aid kit.
04:55Let's put a label on it.
04:57Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.
05:03It is a water carrier.
05:06That's Sashi.
05:09It is a water carrier.
05:10It's called a rikawa.
05:11Now this particular one, as Sashi said, is modern.
05:14It was made by Pakana artist Vicky West.
05:17But there are two historic examples still intact.
05:20Now one is in the British Museum and another, which is more than 200 years old,
05:25was rediscovered by Palawa curator Dr Gaye Skullthorpe in a French museum.
05:30She found that it was wrongly labelled and placed in their African section.
05:34So she wrote to them about the mistake and it was sent back to country on loan to TMAC.
05:39Yes, it's an amazing story behind that.
05:44I would also like to retract all of my bag jokes knowing that it is really nice.
05:49So Geraldine and Luke, no points for either of you.
05:53Let's reveal the next object.
06:02Geraldine, what are we looking at over here?
06:04That's my Deb dress from 1995.
06:07No.
06:08I wouldn't fit into that.
06:10This is a, it's the Whaler's Ball gown from 1957.
06:16So it was worn by Kathleen Stephens and she was Tasmania's 1957's Whaler's Belle of the Ball.
06:26And the Whaler's Ball reflected Tasmania's history with whaling.
06:30And it coincided with the humpback and southern right whales migration.
06:35To win, to be Belle, you were judged on composure, poise and a performance of a whale song.
06:49And the whales judged it.
06:52They were the judges.
06:54And part of the prize, you were paraded around in a ute, in the back of the ute.
07:02With, with the, um, the winner of the Best and Fairest award for, for the footy team.
07:10And, so that year that, that was, uh, Trevor Barry.
07:14And then, how's this?
07:16They ended up getting married.
07:19Yeah.
07:20Yeah, that's the, the original Beauty and the Beast.
07:25What have you got, Luke?
07:26I, uh, would like to start by saying that Geraldine is a liar.
07:32Uh, this is a Neighbours wedding dress from 1987.
07:38This wedding dress was worn by the Kylie Minogue when Charlene married Scott on Neighbours in 1987.
07:47Scott, of course, being played by a whale.
07:50Well, look.
07:52One of the biggest moments in TV.
07:54More than 20 million people in England tuned in.
07:57Prove it, I can't.
08:00Normally costumes like this would be sold, um, at private auction.
08:03Normally they go for a lot of money.
08:04Um, but this one, uh, a volunteer wrote to the production company that made Neighbours asking about having it donated.
08:10And one day it just turned up at the museum in a padded post bag.
08:14Huh.
08:16LAUGHTER
08:17Kylie Minogue's quite short.
08:18That...
08:19That's quite short.
08:20That's quite a short dress, isn't it?
08:21Do you reckon?
08:21I can't tell from here.
08:23Oh.
08:23It also doesn't have a head, so it's hard to gauge.
08:25LAUGHTER
08:27The, the performing of the whale song.
08:29That's, that's correct, right?
08:31Yeah.
08:31Yeah.
08:31They would perform.
08:32Yeah, yeah.
08:33And then before they got married, because Trevor, he proposed by going, um, whale you be mine.
08:40LAUGHTER
08:41Yeah.
08:41And she answered by going, ooooh.
08:46Ooooooh.
08:48Ooooooh.
08:48Ooooooh.
08:49Ooooooh.
08:50Ooooooh.
08:50Ooooooh.
08:50Ooooooh.
08:50You can see why she wears.
08:52That's funny.
08:53I picture like a whale just crashing through the wall.
08:56LAUGHTER
08:57Do we think that Australia would be so disrespectful to such an iconic moment in television history?
09:06It's, that's a tough one.
09:07What are you leaning towards?
09:08The padded sleeves are totally 80s.
09:11Yes, yes.
09:11But then that was a 50s thing as well?
09:13I don't know.
09:13Yeah.
09:14All right.
09:14Sashi, what's your answer?
09:15What are you going to go with?
09:16Kylie Minogue or Whaler's Ballgown?
09:18It's so, the Whaler's Ballgown is just so outrageous, and Jez has made it more outrageous,
09:25so I'm going to choose it.
09:27Okay.
09:27Yeah.
09:28What about you, Bjorn?
09:30Whose story do you believe?
09:31Uh, for me, it does sound outrageous, and that's why I'm not going to believe it.
09:39And I'm going to go with the disrespect of our Australian iconic moment in history.
09:46It's a Kylie wedding dress.
09:48All right.
09:48Let's put a label on it.
09:56It is.
09:58That is the actual dress that was worn in that wedding, and everything.
10:02I knew it as soon as it came out.
10:04Did you?
10:05Yeah.
10:06It's playing with them.
10:07Oh, there they go.
10:08Oh, my gosh.
10:09They're really nice.
10:10They're stunning.
10:11I can't believe they just sent it.
10:14Yeah.
10:14Let's take it.
10:16So, yeah.
10:17It wasn't just Harold Bishop that washed up in Tasmania.
10:20This dress also found its way to Tassie shores.
10:25And it was worn by Kylie Minogue in a TV event that is up there with Molly dying in a
10:30country
10:30practice, or Luke McGregor reading out that label two minutes ago.
10:34So, yeah.
10:35It is really special that it's on display tonight because the fabric is so delicate and it's
10:40sensitive to light.
10:41So, it's normally kept in a dark box packed away and the public can't usually see it.
10:47There could be no way to display it without it degrading, right?
10:49Yeah.
10:50I think they have put it on display once in like a dimly lit room.
10:53So, we better put her back in her box.
10:57So, yeah.
10:57Have a good look.
11:00And apologies, but there was no such thing as a whaler's ball.
11:04Plus, Trevor Leo won the Tasmanian Football League's best and fairest in 1957.
11:09Yeah.
11:09Not Trevor Barry.
11:10Come on.
11:11Not the made up Trevor Barry.
11:12Come on.
11:13Sashie.
11:14Be better.
11:15You be better.
11:16So, at the end of our first round, Bjorn is the only one with points.
11:20He's got two of them.
11:28Now, Geraldine, if you win, there could be two wedding outfits in the museum.
11:33Can you believe it?
11:34That's, yeah.
11:35So, I've brought in my wedding outfit.
11:38There it is there.
11:42And so, it's been embroidered with, like, things that mean, you know, things.
11:47Like, there's native flowers and wine and cocktails.
11:50And to go with it, it's the veil that was also worn by my mother.
11:56And I haven't given it back yet.
11:59So, I'd wear that.
12:01Aww.
12:02Sort of.
12:03Aww.
12:04Beautiful.
12:06And, obviously, it belongs in a museum because you shouldn't keep a gay wedding outfit in
12:13the closet.
12:15That's beautiful.
12:17That's beautiful.
12:18That's beautiful.
12:27Museums are always looking for new ways to make their exhibits interactive and bring them
12:32to life.
12:33So, to help Team Mag with some sweet engagement, we've provided them with our latest tech.
12:39Comedian-powered talking wombats.
12:41Our players were asked to communicate some very important wombat facts to the museum's visitors.
12:48Our visitors were asked to help with the scoring.
12:50So, whoever gets the most likes wins two points.
13:04Hello.
13:06Ask the wise wombats anything.
13:11Welcome to the Hobart Museum.
13:13If you have any questions, I'm right here.
13:16Well, well, well.
13:19You are in luck.
13:20You are about to meet a talking wombat, sir.
13:23Oh, hello, man in jeans.
13:25Would you like to come chat to a wombat?
13:27You look so unsure.
13:29I literally can't move.
13:31Are you a boy or a girl?
13:32Um, can you see any balls?
13:36Negative.
13:38What's your favourite food?
13:39My favourite food is lasagna.
13:42Don't wombats only eat plants, though? How do they eat lasagna?
13:46I'm sorry, was I talking to you?
13:49Are you scared?
13:50All the time, mate.
13:51I live in a constant state of fear.
13:54What happens if you're being chased by a predator?
13:56I start twerking and then they run away.
14:00And so, are you in heaven?
14:02No, I'm in a museum.
14:03Are you annoyed that we're here?
14:05Well, you're kind of blocking my view.
14:07If you could push the green button, please.
14:09Otherwise, I will attack you.
14:12I'm a wombat and I'm okay.
14:15I'm here to answer your questions.
14:18What do you like to do for fun?
14:20I'm a wombat and I don't know what fun is.
14:26Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda.
14:30Oh, you guys are in luck.
14:33I know my mouth's not moving, but trust me,
14:35you are meaning a talking wombat.
14:38Do you ever bite?
14:38We don't bite.
14:40We tend to mostly defend ourselves with our bums,
14:44which are built like a tank.
14:46Now, which one of you four is the most popular?
14:48Me.
14:49I will now decide who is cool using my cool radar.
14:55You're all cool except the guy in the back with the hat on.
14:59Are you okay?
15:00I'm pretty uncomfortable,
15:01but this is an important part of history that needs to be preserved.
15:05What part of history?
15:06Oh, the one where the British got it really right.
15:09Please like and subscribe.
15:11Well, you can't like and subscribe,
15:12but can you please like it?
15:13For me.
15:14Well, that was strange.
15:23We got given a fact sheet and with a certain amount of facts about wombats on it.
15:31And nobody asked me any questions about the facts behind you.
15:36So, everyone kept asking how I died as well.
15:41They were like, how did you die?
15:43I was like, I can't remember.
15:46It's a flashing light coming towards me.
15:48Yeah, one lady asked me, is there a heaven?
15:52I'm like, uh, let me just check.
15:57So, that wombat is really cool.
15:59It's known by the staff here at TMAG as the zombat.
16:02Because did you notice its funny pose up on its hind legs?
16:05Yeah.
16:06Like this.
16:06And it is a replica of the first wombat that was taken back to England.
16:11And the taxidermists there had never seen a wombat before.
16:14And they just assumed that's what it looked like.
16:17Well, we did crunch the data and tallied up the likes.
16:21So, let's see how you went.
16:26Hello?
16:27Oh, God.
16:40So, otherwise, Luke with no points.
16:43Sashie and Jez all tied up with one point each.
16:48And, Bjorn, two points for you.
16:58Just a reminder.
16:59Whoever wins tonight will have a personal item displayed at TMAG.
17:04Bjorn, what little guy did you bring along?
17:06Little guy?
17:07Actually, this guy's over 9,000.
17:10It is.
17:15Goku.
17:20I can't get the thing in.
17:23He's got a little stick there.
17:24There we go.
17:25His staff there.
17:27Yeah.
17:27So, this character, his name's Goku.
17:30He's from an anime television series called Dragon Ball Z.
17:33It was created by the late Akira Toriyama.
17:38Why I've picked this is that it's captured a cultural, like, a zeitgeist for, like, millennial and Gen Z BIPOC
17:48men.
17:49And, this is only anecdotal, but, every black fella that I come across, I meet, we love Dragon Ball Z.
17:57This series will get you into the gym.
17:58It gets you exercising.
17:59It got me beaten up because I tried to, yeah.
18:03Yeah.
18:04That's it.
18:04That's it.
18:04That's why you go to the gym.
18:05I tried to power up mid-fight and it didn't work.
18:09Did you?
18:11Nothing.
18:12You got a Naruto arm out of it.
18:15Yeah.
18:16I get you.
18:17I get you.
18:17Well, very soon, we will know exactly whose item will be on display for all to see, while
18:22the others will have to get their items in a museum the old fashioned way, having it stolen
18:27by the British.
18:35This round is called Deadly or Deadly.
18:38In this game, I'll present you with an object and you simply have to raise your paddle
18:42and tell me if it is deadly, as in, has it ever killed a person, or is it deadly, as
18:47in, it's cool.
18:48One point for every correct answer.
18:50Now, before we start, let's just have a look at the paddles.
18:53Can you show me the side that signifies deadly lethal?
18:57Yes.
18:57Very well done.
18:58And now, can I see what represents deadly cool?
19:01Oh.
19:03Pretty cool?
19:04We were told that everybody would be sending a photo in with their thumbs up, and then
19:09it's just me.
19:10Yeah.
19:11I feel...
19:11We couldn't beat it.
19:12That's as cool as it gets.
19:14Alright, ready to play?
19:15Yeah.
19:15Yes.
19:16Our first exhibit is the animal that makes this sound.
19:20Oh.
19:26Is that familiar?
19:28That's terrifying.
19:29That's a two-year-old.
19:31Yeah.
19:32That's that lady from The Walers Bowl.
19:35I was told my mic was turned off when I went to the toilet.
19:46we told you not to eat the things in the jars
19:50so is the animal that makes this sound deadly or deadly
19:54I'm going deadly
19:59I think it's a pelican
20:03and pelicans they're pretty dangerous
20:06they've killed people
20:09they could scoop up a baby
20:11they're like the reverse stork
20:13yeah that's how
20:22of course as everyone in our studio knows
20:25it is a Tasmanian devil
20:27and they are deadly cool
20:29but not deadly deadly
20:30they've never killed a human
20:31what makes them cool is
20:33not only can they eat 40%
20:35of their body weight in half an hour
20:37I've all been there
20:38they also can sleep
20:40in the carcass of the animal
20:42that they're eating
20:42to guard it
20:44like a disgusting
20:45stinky
20:46meaty sleeping bag
20:47that's clever
20:48yeah
20:48that's cool
20:49they've never killed
20:50even like
20:51I feel like
20:5120 of them
20:52I guess they don't team up
20:54they don't
20:54there's no like
20:55oh that's the next segment
20:56it's Luke vs 20 Tasmanians
20:59well done
21:00a point for you Geraldine
21:06let's see our next exhibit
21:08now this is a fossilised tooth
21:11we're looking at the big one there
21:12do you think it has killed someone
21:15paddles up
21:17I'm going to balance up the tally here
21:19Geraldine why do you think that it's deadly deadly
21:21like maybe you think it's like from
21:24like the megalodon
21:25the big shark
21:27like the tooth
21:28like it's just fallen
21:29and hurt somebody
21:30or something
21:31but I
21:33yeah
21:34I just went the opposite
21:36Bjorn you think it's deadly cool
21:38I think it's deadly cool
21:39and I
21:40I see your argument there
21:43that
21:43you know
21:44maybe it dropped on someone's foot
21:45and they died
21:46um
21:46but
21:48probably their head
21:49I reckon
21:49okay their head
21:50yeah
21:50yeah
21:50that's good
21:52I can tell you
21:53this is the fossilised tooth
21:55of
21:56a megalodon
21:57well done
21:58oh
22:01amazing
22:01that is a giant shark
22:03about four times bigger
22:04than a great white
22:05they grew up to 25 metres long
22:07now a megalodon
22:08never killed a human
22:09because
22:10they went extinct
22:11over three million years
22:13before humans existed
22:14but
22:15their fossils have
22:16so they are
22:17deadly lethal
22:24so divers have drowned
22:26trying to bring these valuable fossils
22:29up
22:29from the bottom of the ocean
22:30yeah
22:31so they're destined to remain down there
22:32alongside
22:33all the e-scooters
22:37so
22:37Geraldine and Luke
22:39answered correctly
22:40a point each
22:41thank you
22:45and finally
22:45this metal knife
22:47from China
22:48it is from the
22:49warring states period
22:50of the Zhou dynasty
22:51roughly two and a half
22:53thousand years ago
22:54I start with you
22:55Bjorn
22:56you've gone with
22:56deadly cool
22:57just because it's a knife
22:57nice
22:58yeah
22:59what about you Luke
23:00I'm going to change my answer
23:01because everyone else has chosen green
23:02okay
23:03because now that I think about it
23:06knives
23:06knives are pretty dangerous
23:09and even if it is for shaving
23:11someone could have
23:13I feel like you're trying to double bluff us
23:15it is deadly cool
23:18a point for everyone
23:19except Luke
23:22this is a knife
23:23but it's not the stabby kind
23:25it's Chinese knife money
23:27it is an ancient type of currency
23:29in the shape of a knife
23:30one story suggests that knife money came about
23:33when a Chinese prince allowed his soldiers to pay off their debts in knives
23:37which is why you should never bring a knife to a gun fight
23:39unless you're hoping to buy the gun
23:50now we're close to seeing who here will have their item on display at TMAG
23:56currently in fourth place
23:57Luke
23:58give him a clap
24:00give him a clap
24:00from fourth place
24:01Jez and Sashi tied in the middle
24:03but streets ahead is Bjorn in first place
24:08with only one round left
24:10it's still anyone's game
24:11so let's go take a look at the museum's marine life exhibit
24:15and finish with a quiz
24:16we're calling everything's better
24:18down where it's wetter
24:23hands on buzzers
24:24which rotund and gentle sea herbivore
24:28is thought to be an inspiration behind mermaids
24:31Geraldine
24:33the manatee
24:35the sea cow
24:37correct
24:37yes the dugong or the manatee
24:39well done
24:40every year off the east coast of Australia
24:43what do humpback whales create
24:45that spreads across the Pacific
24:47Luke
24:49is it sound noise
24:51yeah I'll give that to you Luke
24:53like a supersonic whale
24:54or the other
24:56oh if you've given it to me I'm going to stop talking
24:57yeah you should stop talking
24:59so each year the males compose a tune
25:02off the coast of Australia
25:03and then as new whales learn it
25:05it spreads east
25:06so like the song that the whales off the coast of Australia
25:09were singing one year
25:10the whales off the coast of New Caledonia
25:12are singing it the next year
25:13oh wow
25:14yeah but nowadays it's all AI slop
25:18discovered a kilometre deep in 2003
25:21off the coast of Norfolk Island
25:24which deep sea creature became an internet meme
25:27Bjorn
25:29that thing
25:29do we have a name for that thing?
25:33blobfish
25:34correct
25:35what?
25:36good God
25:39over an average great white shark's lifetime
25:42what do they have more than 30,000 of?
25:45Bjorn
25:46so fast on the buzzer
25:47yeah
25:47teeth
25:48teeth is correct
25:49yeah
25:52clownfish
25:53often live in association
25:54with which stinging marine invertebrate?
25:58Geraldine
26:00anemone
26:01yes
26:02yes
26:02they did that to us
26:05yes
26:06yes
26:06clownfish are immune
26:07to the anemones toxins
26:08because of a coat of mucus
26:10because the anemones like
26:12gross
26:14dolphins have been reported
26:16to pass around puffer fish
26:18and gently chew on them
26:19for what certain
26:20recreational
26:22Geraldine
26:23A bit of fun.
26:24Yeah.
26:25A bit of fun?
26:26What kind of fun exactly?
26:27Sexual fun.
26:28Not sexual fun.
26:30Bjorn?
26:31Recreational drug use.
26:32That is correct.
26:37Yes, pufferfish release a neurotoxin and dolphins have been observed lightly chewing on it
26:43and then they've seen them just floating under the surface of the water mesmerised by their own reflections.
26:48That's awesome.
26:51Get it, dog.
26:53How do archerfish knock down insects who rest on nearby low-laying branches?
27:01Luke.
27:02Okay, archerfish.
27:04So I'm guessing some sort of bow and arrow made out of seaweed.
27:08A little Robin Hood fish.
27:09No, but archerfish is a clue.
27:12Bjorn?
27:12They flick themselves out of the water.
27:14Wrong.
27:14But fun.
27:16Sashi, do they have like a sharp nose or something?
27:19No.
27:21They spit water at the, um, and they get the insects that way.
27:26Let's have a look.
27:27Yeah.
27:29Get him.
27:30Got him.
27:32Take that.
27:36Final question.
27:37Feeding everything from penguins to whales in the Antarctic is over 700 trillion what?
27:45Jazz.
27:47Fish?
27:48No.
27:48Oh, look.
27:51Krill?
27:52Krill is correct.
27:54Well done.
27:56That's the end of the show, which means Bjorn, you are the winner of the winner of the winner.
28:04It's time to give away your Goku victory.
28:10Off you go, congratulations Bjorn and Team Aga, super happy to have an item from an indigenous
28:18artist that was donated voluntarily.
28:21Woo!
28:30Oh, what a note.
28:32The winner of the winner of the winner of the winner of the winner of the winner of the winner
28:37You
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