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00:06they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but be careful beholding this
00:11this is a statue of Medusa here at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery legend
00:16has it that her hair was made of snakes and that anyone who looked at her would
00:20instantly be turned to stone but the real hero of this story is Medusa's
00:24waxer let's just say that the carpet snakes match the drapes join us as we
00:29leave no stone unturned tonight at the museum
00:58they say a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing so tonight's panel is
01:02basically harmless playing for the great honor of having one of their own
01:06personal treasures put on display right here at team mag can you please welcome
01:10Suzy Youssef and her garden gnome trophy
01:15Mark Humphreys and a poster for kebab a rat skull necklace displayed here by Nikki Britton
01:27and finally with a CD from his first band it's Cameron James
01:34we're gonna find more about our guests and their wonderful items later but first let's put a label
01:39on it in just one short paragraph exhibit labels tell us the fascinating true story behind an object
01:52on display and sometimes the font is so small it is a good reminder to book in with your optometrist
01:57I'm gonna present to you a real object from the museum's collection two of our players will each
02:02read out a label for it but no one on the panel knows which one is correct our other two
02:06players have
02:07to decide which is the right label shall we see our first object
02:18well I know what these are and these are government mandated NASA candles we love it when the government
02:26mandates stuff for us seatbelts vaccines
02:32now candles uh they're from 1969 wonderful year good drop
02:39back when the NASA astronauts were going to a thing called the moon the state government here in
02:47Tasmania gave candles out to all the school kids and the idea was that on the night that they were
02:52passing they would go out into the streets with their candles and wave them up at the sky but that
02:59is what happened unfortunately the astronauts did not see the candlelight because we are in Tasmania
03:05and there was clouds and rain and also let me check the notes they were in space
03:13and that's the true story of those NASA candles mandated by the government all right Susie what
03:19have you got on your label oh I've got the actual truth Alex is what I've got so these are
03:24sperm
03:24candles which are a thing and these candles are highly sought after by colonial Tasmanians because
03:30they came from a place you may not have heard of called London and do we have any more information
03:35about the sperm
03:40there were tallow candles that existed tallow being cow fat they were so inferior compared to these
03:46candles and um the brand is field field candles very very popular brand brighter longer burning
03:54and the name of these candles is sperm candles okay Mark and Nikki which label do you think is the
04:00correct one are these the innocent candles waved by Tasmanian school children or the longer lasting
04:06firmer sperm candles not always longer lasting and not always firm as well I will say that really does
04:13depend on mood and how long you've been with the person I just I oh wow they're very different
04:21it's children supporting or it's just jizz so um Nikki go with your heart I mean you can discuss it
04:32what
04:32about you Mark well I just think that story was so lame that it just exactly it was exactly what
04:38a
04:38government would come up with thought it was well told yeah no no no no criticism of the telling thank
04:44you
04:44uh but just as a lame idea that a government would come up with to have children carry candles around
04:48for for astronauts that can't see them I'm leaning towards that as opposed to the filth that you were
04:53offering yeah I mean NASA did send a female astronaut into space and asked will 150 tampons be enough for
05:02an eight-day mission so and and was it all right what do you think Mark what are you going
05:09to put down
05:10um yeah so I think government mandated NASA candles sounds really logical to me okay and what about you
05:16I'm gonna have to go sperm candles okay yeah that is where my heart lies let's put a label on
05:23it
05:28they are sperm candles
05:34more specifically they are sperm whale candles you disgusting freaks
05:42so at the time in Tasmania whaling was a huge source of industry it was like the main thing that
05:47was getting money coming in there were so many whales in the Dermot River they said that you could walk
05:52across the Derwent River on the backs of whales and not get your shoes wet people used to complain
05:58about the noise of the whales at night time and the smell coming out of their blowholes it's true
06:06and these candles are made from spermaceti now that is the oil that is oh that's Italian
06:14spermaceti is the oil collected from the head cavity of a sperm whale it was so called because they
06:19mistakenly thought that that substance was the coagulated whale semen which begs the question
06:25what did they think was coming out of its blowhole and no you couldn't see a candle flame from space
06:32even if the weather was good but under ideal conditions on earth you could see a candle from
06:372.6 kilometers away good to know so Nikki you were correct so two points for you mark no points
06:43for you
06:56so the correct label here is that this is a memorial to a champion jack russell named tigger and so
07:04this is from uh the year 1900 and so jack russells actually came to australia uh on the convict ships
07:10and they were known as ratters uh because they had to go and
07:13uh you know eat rats uh and uh as a result of that when settlers came to this fine area
07:20uh they held races with the terriers and uh they were known as the rat races and they were held
07:27in uh in devonport and uh so this is a type of a memento mori
07:31a sort of a tribute to and a reminder of uh our own mortality it's kind of you need to
07:38be reminded of that some people forget that we will all die one day
07:41uh and so yeah so this is the uh part it's the jawbone of this uh racing dog it's a
07:50gorgeous item it goes for fifteen hundred dollars
07:52um i believe me
07:56what does your label say Nikki i mean firstly i just have to say i'm embarrassed for you mark because
08:01that's just an absolute load of
08:04horse shit um
08:07because this is obviously a thylacine jawbone
08:11pin cushion
08:13yeah it's a lot to get your head around
08:15so just take a sec and obviously this was made in 1900
08:18tasmania lousy with tigers at the time
08:22obviously now completely extinct
08:24but this
08:26particular one this was
08:28fashioned into
08:30a pin cushion
08:32which was my
08:35nickname in high school actually um
08:37ironic nickname because i was never for it
08:40we got there in the end
08:42um
08:43this particular object did win second prize at the glamorgan horticultural show for fancy needlework
08:53i don't know who won first prize
08:54i imagine
08:55something spectacular
08:57yeah
08:58this
08:58that is
08:59that is exactly what this is
09:01hmm
09:02come and susie which label do you think is the correct one
09:05is this a memento mori of a champion canine or the second prize pin cushion from the glamorgan show
09:10i mean i can't imagine why it wouldn't have won first
09:14well to be fair the the points were awarded on originality
09:18i suppose it's pretty original um
09:21um have you seen another one
09:24i guess i haven't now that you mention it
09:27can't get them it came up mate
09:29it's not anko branch
09:33okay susie what do you think
09:35look
09:36maybe just because i don't believe anything that mark says
09:40i'm i'm i'm thinking
09:42i'm thinking it's nikki's thylacine
09:44you're gonna go with thylacine
09:46i'm gonna go with nikki's thylacine
09:48well because i believe all men
09:54sorry my character on this show is an alt-right mra
09:57in case you haven't picked that up
09:59oh yeah your character
10:00yeah my character
10:01uh no i um i don't see it as a pin cushion um
10:05whereas you of course i do see um
10:07yeah
10:08as a pin cushion
10:09yeah
10:10and i'm a i'm a big dog lover so it pains me to say this
10:13but i do think it may be the memorial to uh paul little tigger
10:16let's put a label on it
10:22it is a thylacine jawbone pin cushion
10:33we have to be the only tv show in the world that has ever put those words together
10:37although earlier i did say coagulated sperm
10:40so maybe that's another first
10:42and it won't be the last
10:45what's rare about this
10:46now besides the fact that no one else would ever think to do it
10:49is it is one of the very few objects known to have been made from a thylacine
10:53and it is the only known artifact we have that isn't made from the animal's skin
10:58yeah so when it was donated to the museum it came with a note saying that the artist and her
11:02family
11:02had received permission from the tasmanian parliament to trap and keep thylacines on their property
11:07you've got some thylacines lying around
11:09you've got a craft show coming up and this is what happens
11:12and as for our false label we did make tigger up but even if we didn't jack russell's were not
11:19on convict ships in fact they didn't come to australia until 1960s so at the end of our first round
11:24we have mark and cam
11:26languishing on zero and nikki and susie with two points
11:37just a reminder that you're all playing to have a personal treasure put on display here at t-mag now
11:43nikki
11:43your object is a rat skull necklace that was a gift what face do you make when you unwrap that
11:49um look you try to remain polite this was gifted to me by a hollywood a-lister whose house i
12:01hosted a
12:02full moon party at because she believed i was a shaman i needed to go to a museum because my
12:09dog
12:09um does keep digging it up wherever i hide it and also it just gives me the heebie-jeebies
12:15so please take it off my hands why did she believe you were a shaman because you told her you
12:20were a
12:20shaman i was doing what i thought was a parody character and they um you know really kind of
12:27deified me if anything um they gave me this they gave me a long shamanic cloak to wear and suggested
12:35that i don't wear underwear because it will get in the way of my feminine energy as we worship the
12:39moon
12:39i just found a pack of tarot cards and i was like are we ready
12:45and that's how i opened the full moon party wow amazing nikki well we'll find out soon which
12:51item will get its own display case and which one will get stuffed in a suitcase
13:02question for the panel i'm roughly eight centimeters long i have rows of white spots and i've been seen
13:06by very few people what am i could it be some kind of um rare glider oh like a small
13:15animal i like that
13:16guess but no the answer is the 40 spotted partilote
13:27here to teach us all about this tiny endangered bird can you please welcome our expert wildlife
13:33scientist dr sally bryant
13:41welcome sally now you've dedicated your life to saving wildlife why do you feel such a connection
13:47to the 40 spotted partilote it's a real little treasure it's a real tasmanian species it's pretty
13:54quirky it's got some unusual habits and it's unfortunately now one of australia's most endangered species
14:03now you have a study skin of the 40 spot there with you can you explain to us what is
14:08a study skin
14:09well study skins are actually very important they're now in museum collections for the purpose of research
14:19and now more than ever they're really important for collecting dna because species as rare as this
14:26we might not have an opportunity to get them in the wild um i don't i don't want to be
14:31inappropriate
14:31or anything it's a beautiful thing i just know the way you're holding it it's perfect for dipping
14:35into some dipping sauce and just crunching down on that thing and i just just wanted to put that out
14:41a little a little kebab is that what you're saying sally has some questions for you okay me
14:48specifically yes uh so panelists one point for a correct answer hands on buzzers please
14:53take it away dr sally bryant the name pardalote is derived from the greek pardalotus
15:02meaning spotted like what large cat i actually have a tiny story that i wanted to just say to you
15:11i heard a kid in a shop buying a tea towel and in this moment i have now realized what
15:18he was
15:18talking about he was singing a song that went pardalotus quadragintus i believe is that the full
15:25name for the bird that's worth two points alex wow
15:36there was a little boy singing the answers to our quiz questions he was i remember because it was
15:41such a banger when he was like going pardalotus quadragintus and i was and i wrote it down in
15:46my phone because i was like i didn't know what that is and then as soon as you said that
15:49word it came
15:50back wow it's like john edward or something that boy's been dead for 500 years so yes um and pardalotus
16:00meaning spotted like a leopard that's right in 1838 an english ornithologist and his artist wife
16:15traveled to van diemen's land to research our birds for a book titled the birds of australia
16:21does anyone know his name nikki i was walking around hobart today and i saw a book
16:30and it was by junk and in the moment i thought oh goldie and finch i wonder if that's got
16:35anything
16:35to do with it what was the name what was the author of the book john gould that's is it
16:39john gould sally
16:40correct john gould
16:44what's going on
16:47are you smart i've known you for a long time you've never been smart to me
16:54the irony that you don't know much about birds um
16:58giving your stance on women is it's interesting isn't it it's interesting well john gould started
17:05his collecting down in tassie in van diemen's land then and he also named this species our next
17:13question please well we know now that the 40 spot is linked to one eucalypt eucalyptus
17:20viminalis in tassie we call it the white gum white gum produces a substance called manna what is manna
17:30susie is it a tree sap i'd have to score that as a yes correct well done
17:40so it's produced by the plant or the white gum it's a really sugary
17:45sap because it looks a lot like icing sugar the 40 spots come along they pick it off
17:49they eat it themselves but during the breeding season it's about 80 of the food for the nestling
17:55have you tasted it i have it tastes just like icing sugar should we go lick a tree after this
18:01i think so well now that you've seen and learned a little about this amazing bird does anyone know
18:08how it sounds okay i'd imagine it kind of i'd imagine it kind of sounds like
18:15yeah um don't know why it sounds like borat let's hear what it actually sounds like
18:37i was so ready for it to sound like cam it has been described as whingy whingy whingy yeah so
18:45cam it does sound like you not cool susie well thank you so much sally finally someone who's
18:54willing to just tell you about birds without needing to shoehorn bees and sex in it too
18:58sally thank you for sharing your passion for this beautiful bird and you thank dr sally bryant
19:11just a reminder that whoever wins will get to have their personal item on display here at t mag
19:17now susie did you nick your item from a garden on the way in here you would think that alex
19:22but i
19:23did not this is actually a trophy i was awarded this trophy for rookie of the year for an improv
19:28competition in 2004 which is crazy because i was a baby and the improv competition was called scared
19:37scriptless because we're a whole bunch of adults without social skills
19:43and i won rookie of the year but uh the budget was so massive that it has no insignia
19:48so i wrote on the bottom of it oh and what did you write i wrote rookie of the year
19:542004 susie yusuf
19:56and i think i nearly misspelled my name oh god well only one of you will get that honor and
20:01for
20:02those that don't the abc is not paying for your extra luggage back home
20:06thank you
20:14convicts use a secret language called flash to communicate without being understood by authorities
20:20for example susie if we were convicts i might say to you hey let's nibble that bum trap
20:26to which you might reply kiss your mother with that face hole
20:32well i just said let's rob that guard so i don't know what you were on about anyway i'm gonna
20:37give
20:37you some convict slang and put it in a sentence all you have to do is tell me what the
20:43word means
20:44hands on buzzers your first word is boned that's the last time i commit a crime i'm sick of getting
20:52boned what does mark this is when you get sacked from the nine network
21:00nikki i can't just say anything else just say it just say it nikki the sex
21:09excuse me is it sex it's not is it getting boned is it getting a boner and then getting boned
21:15with it
21:15no you know how you when you commit a crime you get sex that's uh sometimes yeah
21:21the policeman boned me that didn't really help it's not it's is it boned like a baton no the answer
21:29is
21:29arrested your next phrase is woolly birds last night i was tossing and turning but then i started
21:38counting woolly birds and just like that i was out cameron is it shape it's shape oh my god
21:45your next word is kicksies you know what honey i think the ozempic is working my kicksies keep
21:51falling down and this was convict language
21:55it was called the bubonic plague yeah it was very slimming the plague i believe it must be pants it
22:04is pants well done next question come on put on your nice kicksies tonight we're going to the lush crib
22:12what's a lush crib mark well i mean a lush is someone who is a drinker so lush crib is
22:20a drinking
22:21establishment yes very good oh there you go the way you answered that really sounded like ai i don't know
22:29why there's a real chat gpt vibe coming from you tonight and finally who's a horny i'm not
22:38uh this guy i believe it's nikki britain i'm not sure if the guy who boned me was a horny
22:46or a senior
22:47horny either way he knew his way around cuffs what's a horny and who's a horny i think a horny
22:54is a cop
22:54you are correct susie it is a constable really well done because of their penises oh we really
23:04haven't moved that far away from convict language though if you're getting boned by a horny
23:09i mean that's a sentence that i would hear on the regular must be nice i'm getting going by a
23:16senior horny
23:19but soon enough i'll get everything he owns well it just goes to show when you're a convict it's not
23:27about the sentence you were given but rather the sentences you made along the way very impressive
23:32we've each got a point so when it comes to convict flash nobody flashes better than you
23:46now we're close to seeing who will have their item on display at t-mag cam and mark with a
23:52bit of work
23:53to do and susie and nikki leading from the front let's see how they'll fare in the quiz let's take
24:00a
24:00stroll through the museum's herbarium with a quiz called dill or no dill and i'll be your host plant
24:08denya hands on buzzers the nullah boar plane takes its name from the latin words nullah and arbor
24:20what do they mean mark uh no tree that's correct yes
24:27good start mark next question the kakadu plum has over 100 times more vitamin c than which
24:35impossible to rhyme with citrus cameron orange that's correct yes yes the kakadu plum if an
24:45orange had scurvy you would need to eat a kakadu plum what australian icon is considered an invasive
24:51species in california nikki the eucalyptus tree that is correct yes gum trees specifically blue gum
25:00trees well done i was going to say australian backpackers in palawakani the language of the
25:06tasmanian aboriginal peoples this is a toilini palawa canoes like this one are made from which
25:13part of a tree mark bark that's correct next question what white gum dependent bird does cam
25:23think sounds like this oh susie that was an uncanny 40 spotted part alone correct well done
25:40someone in tassie is giving you a pink eye what tuberous vegetable would they be talking about susie
25:47a potato that is correct susie's been getting plenty of pink eye in tasmania with a circumference
25:57of over 30 meters australia's girthiest tree belongs to which species susie is it a fig it is a fig
26:05well
26:05done yes i like big buttresses and i cannot lie featuring on the order of australia what is australia's nikki
26:16wattle that is correct australia's national floral emblem is the golden wattle
26:25our final question it all comes down to this big boy beef master bush goliath and bradley
26:32are varieties of what camp cool dudes not cool dudes susie tomato correct
26:45that is the end of the show which means susie you are the winner of tonight at the museum
26:54susie it's time to give away your gnome oh wow susie heads over to give her gnome a new home
27:00here at tmac she has gone from most improved to tonight's champion it is now in the very good hands
27:08of
27:08the tasmanian museum and art gallery thank you so much for playing with us good night
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