1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,080 Okay, now that I know what I'm looking at, which is the Fringy Mini for this week, of course, 2 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:10,640 I don't even know where my head was at. I'm going to leave it in your hands because I have no one 3 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:16,400 else's hands to leave it in to. Feel Good, which includes UFOs because they make us feel good. 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:22,160 Feel Bad, now with even more bad news. The bad news just continues. It just keeps on growing. 5 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:27,600 The bad news overflow with feelings uncertain and can't choose between good or bad feelings, 6 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:34,320 which may be the same category. It may not, we're not sure, but I am filing things in either one, 7 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,760 which leads me to believe that they are separate headings. 8 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:46,160 Is there no feelings, I see anymore? There is. It's restocked, but I would, I'd let that one 9 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:51,440 build up. Okay, let's let it build up. Yes, let's, before we fill like science again. Okay, well, 10 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:58,400 I am really curious about can't choose between feeling good or feeling bad and what separates it 11 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:05,120 from undecided. Well, that I can't tell you. That one's forever going to. I might be able to decipher 12 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:11,360 it if I hear this. It's going to forever remain a mystery, probably, unless someone's dedicated 13 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:18,000 enough to pull aside each category we've done to see what is setting it apart. Let's just pick it 14 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:25,760 random. Let's go with this one. So this article is from some sort of symbol news. Oh, okay. 15 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:32,240 ABC News. I don't know. It's a weird symbol. It looks like a candy. And it's by James Dunne 16 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:39,520 Levy from 5th to December 2022, specifically 10, 17 a.m. That may have contributed to why we are 17 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:44,720 feeling not being able to choose between good or bad feelings. And it's titled, Stop Calling the 18 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:50,960 Last Thylacine Benjamin. Tasmanian tiger researchers say poor Benjamin. There's a picture of them. 19 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:56,560 I may have to stop after this article. We'll see. So it came at the end of a press conference for 20 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:01,680 scientists announcing the news they had solved the mystery surrounding the last ever thylacine. 21 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:06,480 Researcher Robert Paddle and museum curator of vertebrate zoology, 22 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:11,920 Athern Medlock, said on Monday they had managed to track down the remains of the final thylacine 23 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:18,640 to die in captivity, which had been thought lost. Might I also add had thoughts been named Benjamin? 24 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:24,000 Well, exactly. Because it even says so in the title. Speaking to reporters at the Tasmanian 25 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Museum and Art Gallery, Dr. Paddle credited Dr. Medlock for her work in examining archival 26 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,840 records, including the taxidermist annual reports, inducing the remains had erroneously been entered 27 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:42,240 into the museum's education collection rather than the zoological collection, following its death in 28 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:48,480 1936. It worked out the remains had been used as a touring science exhibit with its skin showing 29 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:56,720 the flattened areas where school children had been allowed to pad it. But you know what they're 30 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:02,560 talking about, you see it all. Compact the last remaining remnants of this species. Compact. Until 31 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:07,760 it was stored in a cupboard at the museum until the 1980s before being moved to more suitable 32 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:13,360 accommodation at another Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. They're just calling it PMAG now. 33 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:18,320 And then Trompley lost. Yes. Their detective work had identified that set of remains as being the 34 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:23,200 skin and skeleton of the last ever Tasmanian tiger. And it is there the press conference 35 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:28,160 probably would have ended. Oh man, we're getting something's gonna happen. But for another question 36 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:34,480 from a reporter who asked Dr. Paddle about Benjamin, a name which often accompanies stories, videos, 37 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:40,640 and online discussion about the last stylus scene with a laugh, then an exhalation of breath, 38 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:45,680 Dr. Paddle launched into something which by the tone of his voice had clearly caused him some 39 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:53,280 exasperation. Quote, in May 1968, an individual approached Graham Pizzi, the Victorian naturalist, 40 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:59,760 and said, quote, a quote within a quote, I'm the last curator at Hobart Zoo. End quote, an end quote, 41 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:05,840 he said. He tells this fantastic story of the last specimen Thylazine being mailed and called 42 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:13,360 Benjamin of it being tame and of it being fed live rabbits. Can those both be true? Both tame 43 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:19,200 and eating live rabbits? Like what if you had a pet rabbit? Well, I don't know if they're talking 44 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:26,320 about their habits. No, but okay, never mind, continue. Okay, okay. The individual Dr. Paddle 45 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:31,120 is referring to is Frank Darby, whose story referring to the last stylus scene as Benjamin 46 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:38,080 was published in the Melbourne Press in 1968, but didn't filter down to Tasmania until the 1980s. 47 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:43,440 Quote, suddenly there is an explosion of Benjamin, not just in newspaper articles, but in video tapes, 48 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:50,000 DVDs, poems. Dr. Paddle said once Darby's story of Benjamin being fed live animals for show reached 49 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:56,960 Tasmania, local reporters tracked down Alison Reed, whose father ran the zoo until his death in 1935, 50 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:01,760 and who worked there herself. I'm so curious why they don't want his name to be Benjamin. Ms. Reed 51 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:07,040 told reporters in no uncertain terms that nobody called Frank Darby was ever a keeper of animals 52 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:12,480 at Hobart Zoo, Dr. Paddle said. She took incredible offense at the idea that her father and herself 53 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:18,000 were feeding live prey to their carnivores at a public exhibition, he said. Dr. Paddle said Frank 54 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:24,160 Darby exposed himself as knowing nothing about the species when he asserted it was mute, voiceless. 55 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:28,800 This was a myth created by the farmers and bookies in the 1920s when everybody was saying 56 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,960 thylazines were out there destroying the sheep industry and the reasons you can't find them as 57 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:38,000 they don't make a sound, he said. Despite the Darby story being debunked semi-regularly, 58 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:43,360 the Benjamin story has persisted to the annoyance of Dr. Paddle. Well, this is kind of letting me 59 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:49,040 down. It was female and it certainly was not called Benjamin. It was an unfortunate myth created 60 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:54,880 by a bullshit artist of the first degree. What he said is tragic and it is time to remove it from 61 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:59,360 the literature. With popular web pages still referring to Benjamin, including the National 62 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:05,120 Museum of Australia, Wikipedia, The New York Post, The Times, UK, the Smithsonian, and Australian 63 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:10,640 Geographic, we should have covered this with the Smithsonian cover-ups. Yeah. It's one of those 64 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:15,760 other cover-ups, the real name of the last islasi. It would seem that there is a way to go before 65 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:20,720 Dr. Paddle's wish is fulfilled. I really thought there was going to be more of a twist on why we 66 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:26,240 shouldn't call them Benjamin or a threat even, but there was neither. We're fucking killing me. 67 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:34,240 Those Australians. So I mean, it really held with my can't choose between good and bad. 68 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:39,520 And I just go by feel on the title of the article. So I feel like I filed that one 69 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:44,000 really correctly because it wouldn't have fit under feeling uncertain. It was definitely for 70 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:51,840 that leaves us right where we opted for. Yeah, I'm actually really disappointed. It didn't end 71 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:57,520 with any sort of, by the way, his name was Marbles or something like that. Her name was Marbles. 72 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:04,960 Marbles. I like that. Or Thylacina or something like that. 73 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:10,560 No, it was just don't call it Benjamin. No threats or anything. It was kind of a 74 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:16,080 laxadiesical in that sense. Yeah. And in fact, they went really far and debunking the fact that the 75 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:21,200 guy who came up with the name Benjamin was full of shit without saying the name wasn't Benjamin, 76 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:26,400 just that he was full of shit. Yeah. And had never been. It's kind of like saying that zebras 77 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:30,640 don't exist because some guy in Michigan is saying it just pulling a bit from our man. 78 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:36,640 He's like the sound and saying like he's never been there. We don't know, but zebras do exist. 79 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:42,240 Yeah, that's that. Okay. That'll get us through the week, I hope. Yeah, at least two days. You guys 80 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:49,200 have already ate that. Okay. Anyhow, we'll see you. Should we threaten them? 81 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:54,880 Don't fucking kill you. Just kidding. I don't think we're allowed to do that. Please come back. 82 00:07:54,880 --> 00:08:00,320 We love you and we'll hold you dearly come Friday. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Anyhow, have a good week. We'll 83 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:25,920 see you Friday. Bye.