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Tonight At The Museum S01E05
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00:05working in television you often come across people with big heads but none as big as this skull of a
00:11sperm whale these graceful ocean dwellers have the biggest brains of any animal but grace and
00:18big brains aren't the only thing she and I have in common we're both stuck in this museum our
00:24diet consists mostly of live squid and if people want to touch me I make them wear gloves but now
00:29the gloves are off tonight at the museum
00:51hello I'm Alex Lee and welcome to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Lutruwita joining me
00:58tonight for the honor of having one of their own personal treasures put on display can you please
01:04welcome Claire Hooper and her mother-in-law's questionnaire Alexi Toliopoulos and his vinyl record
01:14a teddy bear owned by Genevieve Morris and finally a wallet displayed here by Nazeem Hussain we'll find out
01:26more about our guests and their wonderful items later but first let's put a label on it
01:35museum labels serve two purposes one to tell the story of a particular exhibit and two to distract
01:42the voice in your head saying go on give that vase a little push I'm gonna present our panel with
01:47a real
01:48object from the museum's collection two of our players will each read out a label for it but no
01:54one on the panel knows which one is correct our other two players have to decide which is the right
01:59label shall we reveal our first object mm-hmm let's see it Alexi wow what are we looking at here
02:13well
02:14this is of course Martin Cash's walking stick he's one of Tasmania's most notorious bushrangers he was
02:22transported from Ireland because he was housebreaking but the real reason was he shot through a window at
02:29his mistress's lover hitting him in the bottom oh he's known as a gentleman bushranger because he
02:36was relatively non-violent but then the plaque further goes on to say he escaped from prison in
02:42Port Arthur killed the police officer in a shootout and was sentenced to death by hanging so he's a man
02:49of many layers I'd say this Martin Cash does your label say something different yeah look Alexi doesn't know
02:55what he's talking about oh but as a and as an expert in specifically that that is obviously Ms.
03:05Winifred Patchett's Kane from 1903 she was the headmistress of a girls school St. Bartholomew School
03:13for Girls which usually like this was before like a child psychologist and welfare coordinators they didn't
03:21have that they just had the stick it's it's seen a lot of girls wrists I guess and um bottoms
03:27I was
03:28gonna say that but I was like thinking of the ABC you can say bottoms on the ABC now that
03:33Kane will
03:33have seen a lot of girls bottoms you can't say girls bottoms we're putting this straight online out of
03:39context Nazim if that Kane could talk it would scream okay to punish the girls for all sorts of
03:46things including insolence in mathematics Kane if you laughed after getting caned you get caned again
03:52fist fights after school so she punished violence with more violence and also putting leaf on forehead
04:00that's those other the tick-tock dancing of the day and this is one other thing about Ms. Winnie
04:10female teachers were forbidden to work once they were married so she decided to stay single her entire
04:15life she looked at men and she was like nah I'd rather Kane girls she chose violence well Claire and
04:24Jen which label you thinking is the correct one here was this Kane in the hands of a bush ranger
04:29or used
04:30on the hands of naughty school girls Wow both stories so richly violent which to choose I mean
04:38traditionally we don't celebrate the achievements of women which makes me lean towards the male history
04:43to a criminal yes how about you Genevieve what was that year was yours eighteen hundreds yeah
04:50so it's got a range of 100 years it could be from I all right okay I don't know why
04:56but I I go
04:58towards Naz's stick I'm gonna I mean I'm gonna go I don't know why it's Winifred and oh my god
05:11feeling
05:11about these stories Claire I'm gonna put my money on Martin Cash's walking stick so you've heard of
05:16Martin Martin Cash yep let's put a label on it it is Martin Cash's walking stick so Alexi's story was
05:33all
05:34true right down to shooting in the bottom but that is not just any old walking stick take a look
05:40at this
05:40it's actually a walking stick that turns into a gun oh my lord so what I'm unscrewing here this is
05:48the tamper down the end so this is where the bullet would have come out and you would have had
05:53to have
05:53preset this gun at home probably and gone out walking with it ready to go because you've got
05:58your sight just here so you can look straight down the barrel there and then should you actually wish
06:03to shoot someone there's a tiny little button just there don't press it well thank you very much
06:09Isabel fascinating wow wow so cool and as for Miss Winnie there is no St Bartholomew's but there was
06:18a ban on married women working in the public service so that bit was true that wasn't lifted until 1966
06:26yeah lucky for me hosting this show on our public broadcaster otherwise you all might have gotten
06:30Will Anderson again so Genevieve no points for you Claire you're correct so two points for you
06:38all right ready for your next object let's see what we have
06:48Genevieve what are we looking at here we are looking at an Air India ashtray made by Salvador Dali
06:57in 1967 the year of my birth Air India commissioned Salvador Dali
07:05why did you look at me like that I don't know I'm just letting you know as a sign of
07:09like
07:09all right respect man because I've been here for heaps longer than you because until you said that
07:13I thought we were at the same um no oh god no so in 1967 the year of my birth
07:20Air India
07:22commissioned Salvador Dali to design a luxury ashtray now Dali agreed to be paid with an
07:30elephant instead of money that's why I asked in my contracts for this show as well one small
07:37elephants please well Air India obliged and sent to his house in Spain a two-year-old elephant named
07:48big baby the grande bambino something like that what have you got Claire you know Tasmanian cricket
07:57legend David Boone David Boone also made ceramics pretty muscular fingers so it shouldn't be a surprise
08:07David Boone created this ornamental dip bowl during a sculpting course it is a dip bowl so basically you know
08:17like like like hummus wow parama salata depending on your taste could be both so the elephant represents
08:27Eden Gardens in India where he won man of the match in the world cup final and the swan represents
08:33the
08:33whacker where he scored his only double century yeah it was donated to T mag for the hidden talents
08:39exhibition wow wow wow wow my gosh how what are you thinking Nazeem and Alexi which label is the correct
08:48one is this an original piece from Dali or Boonie and when I'm looking at it I'm trying to imagine
08:54what
08:55mood I would be in would I be you know getting a little cracker or a piece of pita bread
08:59and dunking
09:00it in some parama or am I getting a little durry and just like go does anyone have any nicotine
09:07gum
09:09something's happening to me right now sorry sorry sorry sorry yeah wow wow wow do you are you familiar
09:14with David Boone no I don't know that I've never seen a single episode of sport in my life I
09:20don't
09:21know any how could you this is not an appropriate ashtray for an airplane like and was he expected to
09:27make it they weren't built into the seats then Nazeem you see so well they some of them were but
09:32because it was air India and they wanted to be fancy and they they said we're going to go one
09:37better
09:38so every time someone wants to smoke they bring up this well there's a trolley yeah and they
09:44wow you know so much about this I think that uh it could go either way but I'm going to
09:51say um I would
09:52love to believe I'm in the presence of an original Dali what about you Nazeem nothing's a dip
09:56bowl all right let's put a label on it it is Salvador Dali's ashtray
10:14so yeah it's all true in 1967 Dali did design very limited edition ashtray for air India in
10:21exchange for an elephant and Dali donated the animal to the Barcelona zoo there he is there's
10:26big baby um probably after he realized how many times a day he'd have to feed it which is especially
10:31hard to work out when all your clocks are melted as for David Boone and his penchant for pottery
10:38I'm sorry but if any cricketer would make a ceramic it would be Ian Healy he was always asking
10:43warning if he wanted a bowl Shane
10:48at the end of that round the scores are Nazeem and Genevieve yet to score but Claire and Alexi on
10:54two
10:54points
11:03a reminder whoever wins tonight will have a personal item displayed here at TMac Claire it looks like you
11:10bought some paperwork along with you this was an envelope that my future mother-in-law slid across
11:15the table to me like it was the first time I met her and we went over to her house
11:20anyway so I joked
11:22you know just to break the awkwardness I was like is that the questionnaire and she said yes you don't
11:26have to answer it right away just some time before you leave but it's like 10 questions it's just you
11:35know things other people would call a conversation things like what are your hobbies no question mark
11:43your favorite color but question eight if I inadvertently upset you would you feel that
11:48you could say to me hey you were pissing me off so back off bitch or else
11:58is this a picture from your wedding day yes that's Liz Duffin clearly very reluctant to give her husband up
12:12overseas visitors have always found australia's weird and wonderful creatures difficult to describe
12:18english naturalist george harris called the tassie devil an ursine o possum which means bear like possum
12:25and the thylacine was once called the zebra wolf and let's not even start on the two words the museum
12:31responded with when I asked if I could ride the dinosaur skeleton now you must describe as many
12:37australian animals as possible to your partner but you can only use two words alexi you'll be sending
12:44your two-word missives to claire ooh one point for each animal claire correctly guesses can you please
12:51give it up for alexi and claire two words to describe what you see and your time starts now
13:00uh loud birds kookaburra no cockatoo you got it
13:12duckbill platypus well done oh dear um uh jewelry mollusk
13:23an oyster oh no i'm so bad at this instantly i'll i participate i'll be so good at this i
13:32know so
13:32many words i could have used any of them pass next one um
13:36um uh noisy roof noisy roof noisy bat uh noisy roof
13:47noisy
13:47yeah okay amphibian jump
13:53frog yes okay uh reptile collared
13:58frill neck lizard
14:01rotund rodent
14:07quokka no close i think bill be a quendor a quoll
14:12oh it's not even a bandicoot not even i'm moving further away from the past
14:17god no this one's not even a creature uh mythological ocean
14:28now pass yeah oh my god mad as
14:33a cup snake
14:35mad as
14:36can i restart
14:37five
14:37five
14:38four
14:38three
14:39two
14:41one
14:42everyone stop counting
14:43stop counting
14:44stop
14:45stop
14:47come back to the desk
14:50claire do you have two words you like to say to alexi
14:56yeah i'd like to call him a jewelry mollusk
14:58what's a jewelry mollusk
15:02mollusk was a blue ringed octopus
15:05oh that's beautiful
15:08okay it's your turn now genevieve you'll be guessing and nazeem you'll be describing
15:12all right give it up for genevieve and nazeem
15:18all right you ready
15:19yep your time starts now oh god laughing bird kookaburra
15:29ouchy sponge
15:34sea urchin no
15:36ouchy sponge oh um jellyfish
15:42local legend
15:45david boone
15:48sorry legend okay tasmanian devil yes
15:55you can do this uh what would you uh like a trunk rat
16:05pass
16:09watery mufasa
16:13sea lion
16:16aldi kangaroo
16:21remember there's a kangaroo
16:23wallaby
16:23um happy feet
16:28penguin
16:29uh
16:33ah look oh no no okay yeah yeah
16:37huntsman
16:40this is the last one
16:41one
16:42wobbly neck
16:46nothing
16:46five
16:48four
16:48three
16:49two
16:51one
16:53ellicott
16:55wow
16:57okay so let's see how you went you did very well yeah i can't believe
17:00you got huntsman from our look
17:02yeah
17:06so the only one that you passed that you didn't see was trunk rat yes
17:12which was a numbat oh so to keep the theme of two word descriptions i'll describe that round
17:17as pure chaos
17:18yeah
17:24not long before we find out which of our panelists will have their item displayed here at t mag now
17:30alexi did you swing past the local record store on your way in this is
17:35a record of e.t and you may be looking at this going like wow e.t's got such a
17:40beautiful school by john
17:41williams of course they made a record of it this is not that this is an audio book of the
17:47movie e.t
17:48that they turned into a book and they turned into a record and it is narrated by the least expected
18:03person
18:04yeah wow and he keeps calling e.t that squishy little guy
18:09that squishy little guy e.t i love it yeah it's so beautiful look at that that's amazing he looks
18:15so lifelike then he went through a few more cosmetic surgeries and looked a little less lifelike
18:23one of these very items will end up on display here at the museum crazy and then you know shortly
18:29after that it will be shoved on a high up shelf in an archival warehouse
18:39hippocrates once said physicians should first do no harm but if accounts from 19th century medicine
18:44are anything to go by the pledge may as well have been try everything and hope for the best and
18:49then i
18:49know leeches in this game i'll present you with an object from the t-mag medical collection and you
18:57have to highlight where on the body it would have been used let's start with this scary looking thing
19:13that's an unboxing video look at that so mark on your body where you think this would have been used
19:21let's see your answers
19:28genevieve what have you chosen uh well an early blood pressure type so i put it here because you
19:36know that's where you get the thing right around there but i'm okay yeah nazeen what have you gone
19:42with i really tried to think of something more respectable um it looks a bit like a colonoscopy
19:48thing oh okay so you're going with bottom what about you alexi to not be too crude i thought this
19:55was um a milking device oh okay i thought it could have been to milk like a yee olde breast
20:01pump yeah
20:02something like that because it's got a little dial that presumably say that's how much milk it's going
20:06to come out of it or and it's like in a little silver tube that looks like a little milkshake
20:12maker
20:12already so i thought i thought that's yeah that's what i could hook a couple of ladies up at the
20:19milk bar
20:21and put in some vanilla malt yeah with a delicious flavor one of the great flavors claire what have
20:27you chosen well i'm looking at a tube to remove waste i'm looking at a canister that is clearly for
20:38collection and i'm looking at a pressure gauge and it just makes me think pre-surgery enema can we pump
20:45the poops out can you pump the poo out this is a pneumothorax machine oh well that's so that was
20:52used to fill a tuberculosis patient's chest with nitrous gas to deliberately collapse a lung because
20:59they thought that would help it heal it would not as it turned out so these were used from the
21:051890s
21:06until a vaccine was introduced in australia in 1945 and probably for a bit longer for any vintage anti-vaxxers
21:13oh okay so no one got that one no points i was close you were close next up mark where
21:24you think this
21:25was used wow a stone piece wow i'm just gonna leave mine the same
21:37all right claire you've left yours the same i mean i i just i was like what would nazeem think
21:47so which hole are we thinking here let's be i thought it might be an early contraceptive device
21:52oh wow okay yeah but because it's the olden days it would be like you know made of lead and
21:58would
21:58give women lead poisoning from the inside but yeah i'm i'm thinking oh like a lead dying a very
22:05inflexible diaphragm what have you got there nazeem gone foot claire gone foot okay um so it's just for
22:14if you've got a flat foot you just stand on that thing and then it cures you like what you're
22:20saying
22:20is an early very poor masseur sandal yeah yeah pretty much okay alexi uh yeah i thought it was a
22:27hat
22:28i thought it was a little a little hat a medical hat a little hat you know maybe to protect
22:33from x-ray
22:34oh oh sorry protect the brain genevieve yep what body part did you go for uh the nipple uh-huh
22:42some
22:42women have inverted nipples some men have them too who cares so this was a a nipple tip nipple
22:50nipple tippler nipple tippler all right well i can tell you that these are metallic nipple shields
22:57oh my god wow she did it she did it wow wow doctor these were sold by dr wainsborough and
23:09recommended by the
23:10most eminent medical men truly a sight for sore nipples until that is they were banned in the us
23:18because claire hooper they were made of lead oh my god yes so they made them like that on purpose
23:28because they thought the lead would mix with the milk to create lead lactate to soothe the nipples
23:34full of iron but also as it turns out kill babies so not as good not worth it i'm going
23:40to give you
23:40a point genevieve and forgetting the letter i'll give one to you too claire
23:47and finally this
23:54oh my god wow interesting fascinating shape on that thing yeah oh no
24:03all right so i'll wait for the eye back and claire what have you done i swear i didn't i
24:10don't mean
24:10to you know what when you like i'm just i'm putting my money on red again i'm like well i
24:16didn't get it
24:17the first one i'm just gonna leave the arrow there until i have a right so what do you think
24:21it is
24:22well it looks to me like a very terrible idea for a tampon and absolutely invented by someone who has
24:30not bled it just looks pluggy enough and it's got holes i'm not proud but i couldn't think of anything
24:38else all right
24:43don't you go
24:44my mum and dad are gonna watch this
24:46lowering the tone of the show you could be right that was a douche oh oh my god
24:54so claire you are correct wow
25:03believe in yourself so yes it was a douche uh which is very rare to see outside of the comment
25:10section on my instagram that they existed long ago this one's made from bone and was used to prevent
25:17conception so it was used to spray some sort of liquid up there like oh at the end of that
25:26round
25:26dr claire did the best and claire maybe you should have pursued medicine after all
25:39with only one round left it's still anyone's game let's go take one last look at the museum's convict
25:46display with a quiz we're calling cell of the century
25:53hands on buzzers nine year old convict john hudson was sent to australia after leaving sooty footprints
26:03behind in a house that he was burgling what was his profession nazeem burglar
26:12not burglar genevieve chimney sweep that is correct
26:19if i were an unwell convict in sydney and i was sent to the sydney slaughterhouse where was i going
26:27alexi uh to the next realm principally hell so this was a nickname that the convicts gave this place
26:34nazeem oh okay now that you said nickname i'm not going to say abattoir not the abattoir
26:42the hospital correct yeah it was the convict hospital this penal punishment
26:49shares its name with which common piece of gym equipment alexi um i would say that would be the
26:57treadmill yeah you're correct they would spend weeks doing it that have 40 minutes on 20 minutes
27:05off john caesar was one of at least 15 convicts on board the first fleet who were of african descent
27:12he went on to become australia's first what nazeem african victim of racism
27:21what would have been one of the early ones but no i'll have a guess um professional boxer
27:27no some sort of outlaw alexi was stranger that's correct
27:38that's right so all these guys walking around with ned kelly tattoos should be having this guy
27:43instead among the convicts sent to van diemen's land were warriors such as hohepite umuera
27:49transported from which country oh i i mean it sounds like maybe new zealand correct oh no yeah
27:58they were maori political prisoners who were part of the colonial resistance there
28:02by today's standards what is unusual about this pair of convict made shoes they look different to
28:09the shoes that you and i wear alexi square toes not in fashion currently so a faux pas if you
28:17will
28:17oh embarrassing couldn't get into the nightclub wearing no no not sartorially sounds nice i was
28:22gonna say like there's no beer in it but they've probably already drank it
28:28um is there no delineation between the left and the right they're the same thing you are correct
28:33oh my god nice one there we go they didn't use left and right for to choose until the 1850s
28:41oh my
28:41gosh wow final question oh gosh a well-dressed and powerful group of convicts at the cascade female
28:49factory shared the same name as what surprising public dance nazeem macarini
28:59jennifer flash mob correct
29:06they were like these poor female gangs and they were called the flash mob because they dressed flashy
29:11oh yeah there you go that is the end of the show which means claire you are the winner of
29:17tonight
29:18it is time to give away your mother-in-law's western air
29:29congratulations to claire and as a special extra surprise we have your mother-in-law here with 10 more
29:35questions just kidding
29:41thank you all so much for playing along with us i've been alex lee good night
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