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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 a beautiful.
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.
12:27Museums are always looking for new ways to make their exhibits interactive and bring
12:32them to life.
12:33So to help Team Ag with some sweet engagement, we've provided them with our latest tech,
12:38comedian-powered talking wombats.
12:41Our players were asked to communicate some very important wombat facts to the museum's
12:47visitors.
12:48Our visitors were asked to help with the scoring, so whoever gets the most likes wins two points.
13:04Hello!
13:07Ask 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.
13:22Oh, 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?
13:45How do they eat lasagna?
13:46I'm sorry, was I talking to you?
13:49Are you scared?
13:50All the time, mate.
13:52I 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.
14:13I'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?
14:39We 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.
14:57Yes.
14:59Are you okay?
15:00I'm pretty uncomfortable, but this is an important part of history
15:03that 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, but can you please like it?
15:13For me.
15:14Well, that was strange.
15:22Incredible work by everyone there.
15:24We got given a fact sheet with a certain amount of facts
15:30about wombats on it, and nobody asked me any questions
15:33about the facts that I knew.
15:37So, 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?
15:52Uh, 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 taxidermist 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.
16:27Oh, Bjorn!
16:29Oh, Bjorn!
16:33Oh, Bjorn!
16:35Oh, Bjorn!
16:39Oh!
16:41So, otherwise, Luke with no points, Sashi and Jez all tied up with one point each.
16:47And, Bjorn, two points for you.
16:57Just a reminder, whoever wins tonight
17:00will have a personal item displayed at TMAG.
17:04Bjorn, what little guy did you bring along?
17:06Little guy? Actually, this guy's over 9,000.
17:10It is. Thank you.
17:15Goku.
17:20I can't get the thing in.
17:23He's got a little stick there.
17:24There he goes, his staff there.
17:27Yeah, so 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,
17:43like a zeitgeist for, like, millennial and Gen Z
17:48BIPOC men.
17:49And this is only anecdotal,
17:51but every black fella that I come across, I meet,
17:55we 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...
18:02Yeah.
18:03Yeah, that's it.
18:04That's why you go to the gym.
18:05I tried to power up mid-fight, and it didn't work.
18:09Oh, did you...
18:10Nothing.
18:12You got a Naruto arm out of it.
18:15Ah, yeah.
18:15Yeah, that's how you escape.
18:16I get you.
18:17I get you.
18:17Well, very soon, we will know exactly whose item
18:20will be on display for all to see,
18:22while the others will have to get their items in a museum
18:25the old-fashioned way, having it stolen by the British.
18:35This round is called Deadly or Deadly.
18:38In this game, I'll present you with an object,
18:40and you simply have to raise your paddle
18:42and tell me if it is deadly,
18:44as in, has it ever killed a person,
18:46or is it deadly, as in, 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, very well done.
18:58And now can I see what represents deadly cool?
19:01Oh, ho, ho.
19:03Pretty cool?
19:04We were told that everybody would be sending a photo in
19:08with their thumbs up, and then it's just me.
19:10I'm doing, yeah, I feel...
19:11We couldn't beat it.
19:12That's as cool as it gets.
19:14All right, ready to play?
19:15Yeah.
19:15Yeah.
19:15Our first exhibit is the animal that makes this sound.
19:20Oh, my God!
19:26Is that familiar?
19:28That's terrifying.
19:29That's a two-year-old.
19:32That's that lady from The Whaler's Ball.
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.
19:56Deadly cool?
19:58Deadly, deadly.
19:59I think it's a pelican.
20:03And pelicans, like, they're pretty, like, pretty dangerous.
20:07And they've killed a...
20:08They've killed people, yeah.
20:10A pelican, they could scoop up a baby.
20:12They're like the reverse stalk.
20:13Yeah, that's how...
20:19Humans.
20:21They're good at that.
20:22Of course, as everyone in our studio knows,
20:25it is a Tasmanian devil, and they are deadly cool.
20:29But not deadly deadly, they've never killed a human.
20:32What makes them cool is not 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 in the carcass of the animal
20:42that they're eating to guard it,
20:44like a disgusting, stinky, meaty sleeping bag.
20:47That's clever.
20:48Yeah.
20:49That's cool.
20:49They've never killed even, like, I feel like 20 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 versus 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.
21:13Do 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, like, the megalodon shark...
21:26The big shark.
21:27Like, the tooth...
21:29Like, it's just fallen and hurt somebody or something.
21:31But I...
21:33Yeah, I just went the opposite.
21:37Bjorn, you think it's deadly cool?
21:38I think it's deadly cool, and I see your argument there that, you know, maybe it dropped on someone's
21:45foot and they died.
21:47But...
21:48Probably their head, I reckon.
21:49Okay, their head.
21:50Yeah.
21:50Yeah.
21:51That's good.
21:52I can tell you this is the fossilised tooth of a megalodon.
21:57Well done.
22:00Amazing.
22:02That is a giant shark about four times bigger than a great white.
22:05They grew up to 25 metres long.
22:07Now, a megalodon never killed a human because they went extinct over three million years before
22:13humans existed.
22:14But their fossils have.
22:16So they are deadly lethal.
22:19Oh!
22:24So divers have drowned trying to bring these valuable fossils up from the bottom of the
22:30ocean.
22:30Yeah.
22:31So they're destined to remain down there alongside all the e-scooters.
22:37So Geraldine and Luke answered correctly a point each.
22:44And finally, this metal knife from China.
22:48It is from the warring states period of the Joel dynasty, roughly two and a half thousand
22:54years ago.
22:54I start with you, Bjorn.
22:56You've gone with Deadly Cool.
22:57Just because it's a knife.
22:58Nice.
22:58Yeah.
22:59What about you, Luke?
23:00I'm going to change my answer because everyone else has chosen green.
23:02Okay.
23:03Because now that I think about it, knives are pretty dangerous.
23:09And even if it is for shaving, someone could have...
23:14I feel like you're trying to double bluff us.
23:16It is Deadly Cool.
23:18A point for everyone except Luke.
23:22This is a knife, but it's not the stabby kind.
23:25It's Chinese knife money.
23:27It is an ancient type of currency in the shape of a knife.
23:30One story suggests that knife money came about when a Chinese prince allowed his soldiers
23:35to pay off their debts in knives.
23:37Which is why you should never bring a knife to a gun fight unless you're hoping to buy
23:41the gun.
23:50Now we're close to seeing who here will have their item on display at TMAG.
23:56Currently in fourth place, Luke.
23:59Give him a clap.
24:00Give him a clap for fourth place.
24:01With Jez and Sashie tied in the middle, but streets ahead is Bjorn in first place.
24:08With only one round left, it's still anyone's game.
24:11So let's go take a look at the museum's marine life exhibit and finish with a quiz.
24:16We're calling everything's better down where it's wetter.
24:23Hands on buzzers.
24:25Which rotund and gentle sea herbivore is thought to be an inspiration behind mermaids?
24:32Oh, Geraldine.
24:33The manatee, the sea cow.
24:37Correct.
24:38Yes, the dugong or the manatee.
24:40Well done.
24:41Every year off the east coast of Australia, what do humpback whales create that spreads
24:46across the Pacific?
24:48Luke.
24:49Is it sound, noise?
24:51Yeah, I'll give that to you, Luke.
24:53Like a supersonic way?
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 off the coast of Australia, and then as new whales
25:04learn it, it spreads east.
25:06So like the song that the whales off the coast of Australia were singing one year, the whales
25:11off the coast of New Caledonia are singing it the next year.
25:13Oh, wow.
25:14Yeah, but nowadays it's all AI slop.
25:19Discovered a kilometre deep in 2003 off the coast of Norfolk Island, which deep sea creature
25:25became an internet meme.
25:28Bjorn.
25:29That thing?
25:32Do we have a name for that thing?
25:33Blobfish.
25:34Correct.
25:35What?
25:35Good God.
25:39Over an average great white shark's lifetime, what do they have more than 30,000 of?
25:45Bjorn, so fast on the buzzer.
25:47Teeth?
25:48Teeth is correct.
25:49Oh, God.
25:52Clownfish often live in association with which stinging marine invertebrate?
25:58Geraldine.
25:58An-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an-an
26:01-an-an...
26:19For what certain recreational, Geraldine?
26:23Bit of fun.
26:24Yeah.
26:25Bit 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 and
26:43then they've seen them just floating under the surface of the water, mesmerised by their
26:47own reflections.
26:48That's awesome.
26:49Gentle.
26:51Get it, dog.
26:53How do archerfish knock down insects who rest on nearby low-laying branches?
27:01Look.
27:02Okay, archerfish.
27:04So I'm guessing some sort of bow and arrow made out of seaweed.
27:08Ah, little Robin Hood fish, no.
27:10No, 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.
27:28Yeah.
27:29Yeah.
27:30Got him.
27:32Take that.
27:35Final question.
27:38Feeding everything from penguins to whales in the Antarctic is over 700 trillion what?
27:45Jez?
27:47Fish?
27:48Nah.
27:49Ah, 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 third episode.
28:05Woo!
28:09Off you go.
28:11So, congratulations, Björk and Team Aga.
28:16Super happy to have an item from an Indigenous artist
28:19that was donated voluntarily.
28:30What a no!
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