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see her on the screen. Spirit

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can't. Hear Her! So she's got to

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the whole have a face at the

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moment of face it. We

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start with friends very targeted at a. Young

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girl or young girl she can crease up. She's

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got my own Athens you know what? Those little

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of that you know those fat dogs with really

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cold as ice I I I just say I'm.

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I don't coastline on that description of what christie

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take it back this is now actually

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know how tight so I'm tightening have

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face up on Christie. Probably.

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1:01

plate. she's got him for his mouth. And her

1:03

house of we've done be not been

1:05

there done that three times. Have you done

1:07

now? You're not. I've. Lived on that

1:09

one. A hater. It's awful. I only

1:11

got a tiny bit but my wife

1:13

got it really badly. Like every like

1:15

a it was everywhere. I

1:18

don't know. I mean I think you're a was. It was

1:20

one of the things that was like losing a bit bumpy

1:22

my fingers always that we won't be able to have credits.

1:24

now I'm I. Live

1:26

our lives in a children

1:29

just walk. Yeah, they are absolutely

1:31

toxic. aren't Miami? We've just recovered from

1:33

Mp. Ty. go he's just got back

1:35

into nursery. They just turn them away

1:38

at the door. You.

1:41

Can't. Blame in accounting a this

1:43

is go Oh no players. A

1:46

Clean House? Yeah. Plague. Yeah, A Plague

1:48

House plays a year. Ago

1:50

I was very lucky not get into tiger

1:52

because that can spread that can get nasty.

1:54

Or I. Only found out why but

1:56

I go was just before this recording started so

1:59

now I haven't you fan which is great yes.

2:01

Yeah. I told you that

2:03

was because I'm like a

2:06

walking encyclopedia of similar see

2:08

illnesses sister Just really inconvenient.

2:11

Sulu Well, Jack Christina was

2:13

very well. Suitable. To

2:15

do it suspiciously wealth of them would

2:17

have thought mouth i don't and allowed

2:19

it is the kids is the typically

2:21

I got the outside and it's it's

2:23

it's the kids i say at the

2:26

moment ah the moment i cattle drives

2:28

me gloomy i i feel i feel

2:30

good I feel refreshed I feel i

2:32

feel i feel like to the that

2:34

the series that the the series is

2:36

finished and I feel like weeks we

2:38

have our lives box in many ways

2:40

which is quite exciting. Well I

2:42

always have we the homework of course

2:44

and this will be doing Series Fourteen

2:46

Episode three: And

2:49

gave his I mean it was. It

2:51

is a really interesting more now mean

2:53

as a rule interesting ones in their

2:56

cars seen as the casting is a

2:58

sensational. The song was entitled

3:00

Dusty in the Middle That Lit

3:02

says. Yeah, line from Fan Brady I'd

3:04

love to be. I was still fun

3:06

Brady impression because I love her accent

3:08

by com as as com tonight. I.

3:11

Will not risk gets. I

3:13

I I did my emails. That

3:17

are some other always emails. Every time

3:19

I tried to enact some as emails

3:21

but I read this is so we

3:23

could. We were talking the reason that

3:25

we we pick this one overseas because

3:27

during the series we talked to last

3:29

about the team dynamics and this is

3:31

this series in particular that was of

3:33

the most recent series and sixty three

3:35

seventeen. there was a big split between

3:37

the teams of eighteen points between the

3:39

team three and two points for the

3:41

team states and is so I thought

3:43

to be relevant to go back to

3:45

a ah a. Series that had

3:47

a similar levels of. Ah

3:50

I must say Success! Within

3:53

within the teams are is it's

3:56

it's it's it's cool It animosities

3:58

that in our. Incredibly

4:00

mixed you have to

4:02

chaotic people a one

4:04

massive science brain. Any

4:08

in this series where you had

4:10

Dora who's is young and hilariously

4:12

matched up with fun and young

4:14

kids is it does have kids.

4:16

It's kids can with a judge

4:18

on. Hands on it it it

4:20

it is. I mean, it's one

4:22

of the great mismatches all time.

4:24

And it's interesting because obviously dour

4:26

was the a was until last

4:29

week or two. Weeks ago in fact

4:31

was the Ultimate Team Taskmaster be as

4:33

being destroyed by jobs and in many

4:35

ways the only place that Dara have

4:37

any kind of weaknesses was the team

4:39

is. Ready

4:41

dragged down, The

4:44

same for join some respect. Someone say

4:46

enough. He was. Not

4:49

many remarks he he was able a

4:51

little bit sued the counter be counteracted

4:53

by being quite like okay here's what

4:55

we're going to do and I'm really

4:57

good adults and also have this the.

5:00

The potential good fortune of having Stevens

5:02

nick A on the other team and

5:04

I lost the the neck of that.

5:07

They did and lousy. Tell her

5:10

to go to some very strange

5:12

places. Yes, let's let's go with

5:14

that. it's I think which I

5:16

think. Definitely so sorry I was

5:18

looking resubmit with that. Some Stones

5:21

team as in John Doe On

5:23

and Sophie scored four point eight,

5:25

eight points for tasks. Doris team

5:27

scored two point seven, eight. Survive

5:29

on. That last with your made

5:31

made made the money really. John John

5:34

smooth muscle cells As I said Joe

5:36

and John was very competent. You know

5:38

when we were injured in the has

5:40

anybody school dress and teams than. At

5:43

us and his gang. Wow.

5:46

It's hard to say I mean it it's

5:48

not as a star and his team like

5:50

did terribly as an they did do very

5:52

very poorly did been I did badly. They

5:55

they they were able to win a few toss

5:57

her and that which I think or size business.

6:00

That's surprising, given. Given

6:03

the dynamics of all things that it's slightly

6:05

odd say because there was a series series

6:07

one it was school differently but there was

6:09

also receive Josh and Ramesh were on the

6:12

same team and they only had three teams

6:14

house but there was one team task in

6:16

that one where they did so badly that

6:18

just basically asked them. During the record Johnson

6:21

wrote remastering the recording likes please I saw

6:23

this for what I think to see what

6:25

we need to have so I think it's

6:27

some ways you could argue they will was.

6:31

No, I mean famously know lowly.

6:33

I'm Joe Lysa on series for

6:35

had several toss where they just

6:38

went to the edge of collapsed

6:40

remarkably. So I think it's probably

6:42

between those two. Dara and I

6:45

think you'd also have to throw

6:47

in a Frankie and or Frankie

6:49

and Ivo Frankie Naive, I didn't

6:51

school very well a tool. To

6:54

get that when they were gold

6:56

and when they had that golden

6:58

The said golden most snake kind

7:01

is just completely save themselves with

7:03

performing one the classic songs of

7:05

all time. I was. I was

7:07

a lovely song. I went over

7:09

Frankie Frankie and I'm Frankie Ivory

7:11

together beautifully. Yeah, I. I mean

7:14

I think I think what's? Interesting. Are

7:16

these things as like the when we

7:18

say like thera terrible team like I

7:20

think Nick and Lichtenstein of probably also

7:22

points wise or a bad he just

7:24

says that joy to watch all times

7:26

I'm like and and like that of

7:28

the yeah as though I is are

7:30

you know when we say was I

7:32

don't think it's like Dora John as

7:34

far as is one of the ultimate

7:36

team because of the stupidity of they

7:38

have to go through in the side

7:40

that but also in this particular episode

7:42

there was a secret task the jones

7:44

to charged with. Creating Ah

7:46

is desensitizing the team

7:49

task. Yes and this

7:51

is actually a this is a repeat

7:53

of thing they did and from Taskmaster

7:55

New Zealand's in toughest these in series

7:57

to. which i think

8:00

at some point I think we talked about how you've got to

8:02

watch some taskmaster museums in Australia because it's all

8:04

on Channel 4. Jack I'm

8:06

dealing with Impetigo, I've got lots of things on

8:08

my plate. You

8:11

can watch taskmaster while dealing with Impetigo, takes

8:13

your mind off the Impetigo. I

8:16

just wanted to put it out there, right

8:18

now I have not got Impetigo, although it's

8:21

quite a useful thing in London because you've got

8:23

an achievement it was known that you had Impetigo, everybody else

8:25

has a shirt on and you've got a seat, nice. You

8:29

could just wear a chin mask and just say, look,

8:31

what's that? I haven't got it, I just haven't got

8:33

it, but I have got other things to do. But

8:37

just to say, in Taskmaster New Zealand they did it

8:40

in series 2 and they did it fairly late, the sabotage, in

8:43

when they would have recorded it. What's

8:45

interesting here is this is the second

8:47

task that John, Fern and Dara did

8:49

together. I do think it very significantly

8:51

spoiled their relationship in a fun way.

8:54

It very much set them up to be like,

8:56

this is a...it throws all the sauce out of

8:58

the industry. I think what was interesting was, I

9:02

mean they wouldn't have known that, they wouldn't have known

9:04

about the transitions until the actual recording in the studio.

9:07

But I think what was interesting was that

9:10

because Fern and John

9:13

do create chaos around themselves, John's

9:16

sabotage wasn't spotted because

9:19

if Dara had started behaving

9:22

like that or anybody else,

9:25

in some respects most contestants,

9:27

although I don't think very many comedians

9:29

are properly grown up, I think it's

9:32

something that doesn't get finished off properly.

9:35

But there are some that are slightly more grown

9:38

up than others. I

9:40

think also Dara is

9:42

not necessarily grown up

9:44

fully, but his version of not

9:46

being grown up fully is still someone who would

9:48

get very annoyed. He has to be

9:50

like, no we're going to do this properly, which is quite

9:53

an immature way of doing things if that makes sense as

9:55

well. He's like a really brilliant 7 year old that knows

9:57

that. knows

10:00

everything, knows a bit too much. Absolutely

10:02

right. Cause he spent the whole time being like, well,

10:05

we should've done like this. Couldn't we guys? Well, while

10:07

John is- And while everybody else

10:09

in his gang is a bit younger than him.

10:11

A bit younger, but, and he's getting frustrated, but yeah,

10:13

he's getting frustrated in the sort of seven year old

10:16

way. I do kind of agree with that. And also

10:18

that while, while Simon is getting annoyed cause she's doing

10:20

all the work and John is just laughing down the

10:22

camera, actively staring down the

10:24

camera and saying, I better not drop

10:26

this, unbelievable. Over

10:28

it goes. It's a bit like the Nick

10:31

wink, isn't it? The knowing Nick wink. So

10:34

this is, I mean, this is also the interesting,

10:36

other interesting thing is that there are similarities between

10:38

this task and the one from series 17,

10:41

because obviously there's a secret, there's a secret task

10:43

that happens before there's a secret, a solo task

10:45

that someone has given before the team task. What's

10:47

interesting about the series 17 one

10:50

is that because everyone has the secret task,

10:52

it's clear they're all thinking about it much

10:54

more than the actual main task. So you

10:56

end up with like, you end up with

10:58

the wick thing, the most important thing to

11:00

Nick and, and, and Steve doesn't notice because

11:02

he has to focus on lying on

11:04

the floor and yeah, Joanne doesn't notice that,

11:06

that John is getting all these

11:09

things from the caravan, but I think what,

11:11

what's interesting as well as I

11:13

think they definitely chose the right person because John,

11:16

John is able to sabotage in a

11:18

very good way because he is incompetent,

11:20

but also as you say, he's just,

11:23

it's just believable enough that all of

11:25

these things would be him being

11:27

stupid as opposed to him acting

11:29

like out, he's able to sort

11:31

of, or like, like you, Fern

11:35

and Dara were able to get annoyed with

11:37

him, which I do think probably then made

11:39

them more irritated as the team tasks went

11:41

on during their day, but that they weren't,

11:43

they weren't necessarily thinking John's been given another

11:45

task because John was so

11:47

like, because, because

11:50

while I love John, I can also see him

11:52

having a massive brain fart that would make him

11:54

do all these things, even if he wasn't charged

11:56

with sabotage. That makes sense. So, brilliant uses the

11:59

phrase brain fart. He

12:01

strikes, yeah, and there is

12:03

a comes and a slight shambolicness

12:05

around him that I just think

12:07

he was really convincing and he was very

12:10

convincing. And

12:12

what's interesting is a little bit so

12:14

the the Taskmaster New Zealand version of

12:16

this, they picked, I think,

12:18

so the people who are in it, we

12:20

will, as I say, we will watch the

12:22

series to have Taskmaster New Zealand because it's

12:25

possibly the best ever series of the English

12:27

language Taskmaster show. I think it's such a good

12:29

series. Okay, okay, I'm in, I'm in. But

12:33

who they picked to do the sabotage was probably

12:35

the was probably one of the most competent

12:37

people. So that

12:41

her teammates didn't didn't discover that she had done

12:43

the sabotage, but it was just a little bit

12:45

less convincing than maybe someone else. Whereas John was

12:47

able to very much lean into like the bit

12:49

in this where I know we're all over the

12:51

place, we should get to the prize task and

12:53

all the rest of it. But the job, the

12:55

bit in this where John like goes, oh, hang

12:57

on, let me look at the task again and

12:59

then like, knocks over everything. And you're like, no

13:01

one in their right mind would do that really.

13:03

But john, it's just about believing

13:05

when you meet a sand castle.

13:07

Well, you just waste time. It's

13:11

very funny. You must get back

13:13

to the start of the show. But I do

13:15

think that we're looking at things, you know, as

13:18

a whole. Yeah, holistically, that's true. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,

13:20

we're not sort of itemising every single thing

13:22

that happens in this. But let's go

13:25

back to the prize task. The prize

13:27

task was as a title was the thing you

13:29

most want on a Saturday on a Sunday morning.

13:32

And now for now. And

13:37

nobody did nobody what was

13:39

interesting was that nobody sort

13:41

of did anything like a

13:44

massive wank or, you know,

13:46

maybe did that. And

13:50

I was very surprised. Nobody thought

13:52

about breakfast in bed, which is, of course, one

13:55

of the most overrated things in the world. You

13:57

know, there's nothing worth than breakfast in bed.

14:00

guys be fucking mad. Someone wants to bring

14:02

the breakfast in bed. I just automatically

14:04

want to tip the tray over. It's never

14:07

right. It's never the way I want it.

14:10

Really? No, no. Never the way you want

14:15

it. Would you want a buffet in bed so that

14:17

you could make your own breakfast? Oh,

14:19

that now you're talking. Now you're

14:21

really talking. Yeah, I mean,

14:23

there's just, I can

14:25

be really very, very poorly.

14:28

And I will crawl to the kitchen to

14:30

make my own breakfast. I just say, you

14:32

know, nobody else, nobody else can make my

14:34

breakfast to my standards. Exactly how I like

14:37

it. I can definitely I can get that.

14:39

I think that the yeah, you're working off

14:41

the it's the it's the benefit of getting

14:43

someone to do it for you versus what you

14:45

actually want. And actually, a good breakfast made by

14:47

yourself is pretty good. I mean, I do. Dara

14:50

and Fern both went breakfast, but

14:53

when when breakfast themed, when yeah, I think

14:55

I liked a

14:58

lot. I did. I Dara's segmented frying

15:00

pan for cooking full English breakfast. I

15:03

mean, I liked this a lot. And

15:05

actually, Dara was very good at price dastering his

15:07

series. I did also like the way Greg said,

15:10

Oh, he's got one. Yeah. You're assuming I

15:12

don't have this. No, yeah, obviously, obviously. Why

15:15

wouldn't you? Which was

15:17

nice. And I like

15:19

Steve, he went for the double. This

15:21

is, you know, Dara sometimes reminds me

15:23

of Steve or Steve reminds me of

15:26

Dara in that going for the double in

15:28

this prize task. He

15:30

he did to lots of

15:34

breakfast in his apartment

15:36

pan. You

15:38

know, he did a hot, you know, suggested the

15:40

hot breakfast, but he actually demonstrated a buffet

15:43

sort of cold breakfast. Yes.

15:45

And I think that was that was to I'm

15:48

gonna say, right. Like I love Dara and I

15:50

think he's very, very good. I think Steve, his

15:52

double would have been like, like he's prepared this

15:54

full English breakfast for you. But actually, Greg, remember

15:57

last week when you had a full English breakfast.

15:59

That was me. I cooked it with

16:01

this frying pan and I went the waiter all

16:03

along like that, that Steve was going for. Yeah,

16:05

that female waitress that limped around

16:08

your table. That was me. That was

16:10

me. Yeah, so let's

16:12

just quickly run through what everybody else

16:14

bought in. Sarah bought in a do

16:16

not disturb sign. I think that was

16:18

a bit small. I think if she'd

16:20

done a massive grate, you know that

16:22

incident tape that you have a

16:24

murder scene and stuff like that. That

16:28

would be good. That would be very good. If

16:30

there's been a crime here, do not come in.

16:32

Yeah, because sometimes you know you put those do

16:34

not disturb signs on, they fall off, people come

16:36

in, fuck off. Yeah, I do agree with that. Your

16:39

business card was sweet. Know

16:41

what you want and have the confidence to go after it.

16:45

Someone pointed out that, so we were talking about,

16:48

do you remember the tie task from series

16:51

Yeah. Someone pointed out that the

16:54

one of the, and they said like, oh Alex, these are

16:56

my family mottos, one of the

16:59

plays said in Welsh, you know what you

17:01

want to have the confidence to go after

17:03

it. So yes. Oh

17:05

yes. Little niche references for

17:07

the nerds on the show. And

17:10

Fern was clever with her Chinese

17:12

savoury soup. I'm

17:14

not sure Alex or Greg

17:16

really fancied it, but I thought that

17:18

was a novel interpretation of a sort

17:21

of the fry up, the British fry

17:23

up, which is disgusting. Let's

17:25

face it. The

17:27

big cooked English breakfast is a

17:29

disgusting thing. You

17:32

are making some real powerful enemies

17:34

right now. Your anti breakfast and

17:36

bed. Yeah. I've stayed

17:38

in too many shit hotels

17:40

during my career. I

17:43

love a good breakfast and bed. Sometimes

17:46

I wake up early on A, when I'm

17:49

in a hotel, just sit there thinking about what

17:51

I'm going to have my breakfast and bed. Not

17:53

Breakfast and bed, in my hotel breakfast. I'm so

17:55

excited for a hotel breakfast. I'm so sorry. I

17:57

Hate them. I Hate them. Have

18:00

a sandwich the I'd thought from a

18:03

motorway serve distaste I don't wanna guess

18:05

us is a known as towards about

18:07

this before in public a can't eat

18:09

and rooms with a good topics so

18:12

a oh yeah homes on what the

18:14

hotels like of his gotten ugly carpet

18:16

and harper curtains I cannot actually eat

18:19

food surrounded by horrible have been since

18:21

I just can't do it makes it

18:23

feel like I'm eating patterns in the

18:26

carpet so i always have a spare

18:28

sandwich on me into such. As while

18:30

now and yeah and prestigious on stay in

18:32

bed. At night and strife

18:35

or just as the suited to myself a

18:37

little bit of an alibi handle a Nazi

18:39

A fucking idiots A By things like you

18:41

know, hard seized the isn't gonna go off

18:43

though the night of I'm not going to

18:45

muck about the proms. Cussing

18:49

the suit me zone Isis I only

18:51

thing to say as I did enjoy

18:53

fun getting worried about drug using it

18:55

because he is doesn't isn't the but

18:57

you come from Wales. Stories of the

18:59

roasts it's it's pretty soon be able

19:01

to recreate the guy yeah sure is

19:04

Murray Days of Pete Rose. he was

19:06

it was cut off that wasn't that

19:08

comes out with some Madelyn. Both is

19:10

great stop as she just loved are

19:12

so beautiful as well. I think she's

19:14

won the most peaceful contests I know

19:16

not about the that by god she's

19:18

a beauty. The woman's yeah, money as well.

19:20

I don't know. it's all. I don't know. Moon?

19:22

yeah. I bought in a foot Skyn

19:25

file and out. About

19:27

this. I I think I got

19:29

a great stuff known something for of the

19:31

the bleakest them it's I've had success. has

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Amazon sorry your browser for fun real real

19:35

grim stuff from from on your handle so

19:38

I mean later on we get a little

19:40

bit of insight into my news. I'm like

19:42

life and his hygiene about like being on

19:44

a no sugar diet and I a battle

19:46

but like it's a little bit like I

19:48

am not until I saw I want Monday's

19:50

life is I think mon you're as a

19:52

very like is very successful attractive man but

19:54

if I asked us be like square foot

19:56

skin and my feet every every. Every Sunday

19:58

morning and not having. The I'm not sure

20:01

be nice or there's no money on this

20:03

is not much fun but in I will

20:05

will the jury's out on that. The I'd

20:07

I just think that is very difficult unless

20:09

you're allergic to something not to join in

20:12

the eating challenges would discuss a little while

20:14

anyway. as Kyle knows. We.

20:27

Don't on now to the the

20:30

taste test and on Art is

20:32

a taste tests in every series.

20:35

I was thinking I was actually I don't

20:37

I think in sit until series fifteen I

20:39

think there may have been some kind of

20:42

tasting or some kind of you have to

20:44

lick this thing or or or use your

20:46

was in elementary have the dreaded date jelly

20:48

babies in seriously seen so far there was

20:51

a jelly babies there was a series thirty

20:53

may have to eat something in the filed

20:55

like it was like guess the liquid in

20:57

they have like test the liquid that was

21:00

horribly gross that was like about without a

21:02

pop a balloon that was filled with like

21:04

disgusting. Things are so I think they

21:06

stop doing it because Series Sixty Three,

21:08

Seventeen Thirty Two Math One which is

21:11

it a little blended, didn't date. Ah

21:13

well, no well they they they They

21:15

didn't actually have a i think I

21:17

a good the handshaking one. Suggesting.

21:20

One yeah was a So.one they

21:23

didn't actually have to eat anything.

21:25

It was ah optional so like

21:27

obviously and I was the cause.

21:30

But when I read about the

21:32

a round hole content was that

21:34

was a yeah Blue States or

21:37

I'm just goods it up pick

21:39

you up on or another. Oh

21:42

no not not that reminds you of

21:44

know the taste. test the i'm not

21:46

so which sues it was it was the

21:48

mystery pies you members the but they weren't

21:50

loves states they just have to smell could

21:52

not could not breach she could not breached

21:55

the pie or this is it series one

21:57

this is in fact the second episode of

21:59

the show was the first taste. I

22:01

mean, okay, so it's slightly different that one because

22:03

they didn't, they was actively, you

22:06

can't eat this pie. So I suppose it

22:08

was more work out the pie through that.

22:10

So there are there are some that are

22:12

like taste test adjacent. There's one in like,

22:15

theory 13, which is a good

22:17

description. Taste test adjacent. Taste test

22:20

adjacent. Well, because I mean, the

22:22

department pan that is taste test

22:24

adjacent. You've got this taste here,

22:26

that taste there. Separated.

22:29

Well, I mean, in your series, you did

22:31

have the which I do think was possibly

22:33

what's slightly interesting, I suppose is that in

22:35

series, maybe they worked out from series 14,

22:38

and everyone's reaction here

22:41

about how much they hated eating this ice

22:43

cream, that, that potentially

22:45

splitting up the taste test into a team task

22:48

means that you have the people who are going

22:50

to be willing to eat it. And then you

22:52

have the other people who can use their skills

22:54

in other ways, which I suppose you could say

22:56

is what Kyle did in his in

22:58

his version of what he did in your series or

23:01

what he did in your task. He

23:03

wasn't on the sugar-free diet. There was nothing wrong

23:05

with that lad. He just wouldn't eat anything he

23:07

didn't want to eat. It

23:10

was incredibly funny to watch that that that

23:12

is one of my favorite team tasks in

23:14

terms of like strange dynamics between teams.

23:17

That whole team task is so funny. But

23:19

just remember, it's very much

23:22

more than a taste test, though,

23:24

because it was taste test slash

23:26

bondage slash periodic table, it

23:28

was kind of insane. It

23:31

was I do think that I suppose what I

23:33

mean is that by making sure it wasn't just

23:35

taste test, you were able to sort of go

23:37

like, look, if you don't want to taste anything,

23:39

you can be the one working out the periodic

23:42

table and doing the proof. Yeah, but but I

23:44

also think that ultimately what happened there was just

23:46

me was like, I'm gonna eat this. And

23:48

I've ever I've got no taste buds left. So I was Completely

23:53

useless. I just don't have any taste buds. I Mean,

23:56

I can taste this. You

24:01

know they have to be quite strong stomach

24:03

or very good sense of smell as was

24:05

is the last solo taste testers bit on

24:07

the show may be series a team will

24:10

have one who can say I mean there

24:12

are some properly gross things in their feet.

24:14

On my more time zone life I don't

24:16

like see spitting out. yeah I still don't

24:18

see anybody being so grossed out by a

24:21

taste that they have to spit. It makes

24:23

me feel uncomfortable. So. With

24:25

their with I was spitting out

24:27

I think with series sixty weds a

24:29

Julian Clary to spot or not or

24:32

yeah yeah Alex I think some me

24:34

it's a bit so doing because

24:36

it reminds me been back in the

24:38

jungle. numbs do things less everybody's

24:40

tagging and is parents' house television be

24:43

sexy grin. What? Seized y will

24:45

say this one i think as with it does

24:47

good about it is that the way it says

24:49

you must you must find the old delicious so

24:51

that me that of have people don't like oh

24:53

other to be the guy wow for delicious kick

24:55

all that which I think as far as allows

24:57

that to me it's not just people like putting

24:59

something awful into the mouth and goes by demons

25:02

ice to. Say that disgusting that

25:04

snake you know? a nice and.

25:06

Listener. And when the oh no. Was

25:10

let's hope this gets wanna some.

25:13

I'm. Sure that any more up. We've got

25:15

all of the contestants gases which were

25:17

horrifying. I am I didn't which is

25:19

that your imagination can take you to

25:21

worst places in the production team would

25:23

actually do is. It's. Little it

25:26

like that thing where you halloween they'll be

25:28

like this is the brains of some one

25:30

of their just be like spaghetti bolland and

25:32

and because he can't see think it's disgusting

25:34

I'm so it was the the things they

25:36

had were mama and porridge which most people

25:39

thought was dog food. The. At the

25:41

I like my mom, I align porridge

25:43

that wouldn't. Have a problem for me. Second

25:45

one that was not. it

25:47

was korea naan bread which i can i

25:49

can imagine is all the things you can

25:51

imagine being a strange as the blumenthal style

25:53

restaurant which i think you're probably where they

25:55

were think i guess the problem is the

25:57

people thought guessing gross things and then yeah

26:00

your imagination runs away. Yeah,

26:02

edible, edible, edible, very much

26:04

edible. White chocolate and

26:06

macaroni cheese, which can't see the problem.

26:09

Well, for that, for some reason, that one's less about

26:11

being gross and more just about being like a like

26:13

a cream overload. I just

26:16

feel like it's wrong, but it's

26:18

not gross. It's not like, you

26:20

know, smashed up snail shit. I

26:22

don't know where that came from.

26:24

Back in the jungle, Jenny, I'm

26:26

so sorry. I mean,

26:28

I think that's, I think that's the

26:30

element where it kind of like the show is

26:32

never going to be like, guess what, you just

26:34

ate a kangaroo testicle or nothing. It's never going

26:36

to do that. But I suppose that you're

26:39

always going to get into this thing where people think

26:41

it's something else and therefore get freaked out. But

26:44

the last one was Béchamel sauce and

26:46

Brussels sprout puree, which is kind of

26:49

gross, but again, not, not

26:52

inedible. Well, it's just a cold

26:54

left up and it's a sort of

26:56

leftover Sunday lunch, isn't it? Yeah,

26:59

I think that's usually what they go for is something that

27:01

is like is just something

27:03

that you wouldn't necessarily think to eat. But

27:05

then if someone was like, if you went

27:07

to a restaurant and said, this is being

27:09

served on a bed of Béchamel sauce and

27:11

Brussels sprout puree. I don't do that. I

27:13

don't do that. Exactly. You'd be

27:16

like, that's good. And then you'd eat it. You'd be like, you

27:18

know what, it does taste like petrol, but I'm glad I tried

27:20

it. Right,

27:27

then next task, next task

27:29

was, oh, catch something

27:31

the most spectacular catch wins you have

27:34

20 minutes of time starts now. This

27:37

is weird, Jack, how

27:39

the sex is divided over their

27:41

initial thoughts about what you could

27:43

catch. What you can catch it

27:45

because you had you had Sarah instantly going for

27:48

COVID and infectious

27:51

diseases. All she was interested. Too fair.

27:53

It was 2022. We were all thinking

27:55

about it. And we should

27:57

all be thinking about it now as well. But that like.

28:00

Like it makes sense. And

28:02

fun being like a bird. A

28:05

bird, a fish or a person. A

28:08

person. Yeah. So

28:10

funny. And then and then

28:12

obviously yeah, everyone else or not everyone

28:14

else that the men were there being

28:16

like we can catch a ball. Well

28:19

do an American football. American football

28:21

I bought I caught an American football once or I can catch

28:23

a ball like this. Yeah, it's sort of it. You're

28:26

right. What was nice

28:28

is that everyone had I think that often with

28:30

these things you can kind of get if

28:33

everyone has the same reaction to things then you

28:36

sort of can fall into a similar you can

28:38

get pushed into a into a direction. It could

28:40

look repetitive as well. And

28:42

this is the joy of Taskmaster

28:45

is that because the way they

28:47

cast and the personalities they choose,

28:49

there's very seldom a crossover. There's

28:52

not three people catching a baby. Yes,

28:56

which I think I think that was important.

28:58

And I think actually what helped in this

29:00

one was it's it's an incredibly vague task,

29:02

which again, I think is to its benefit

29:04

and they started doing a few more vague

29:06

tasks as the series has gone on. Like

29:08

there was in your series, there was fake

29:10

something, which was is very vague.

29:12

It could be you know, it could be absolutely

29:14

anything. And everyone went

29:16

to very different extremes. And

29:19

similarly, in three 17, the most recent one,

29:21

there was create tension, which again, I

29:24

like the fact that everyone that

29:26

everyone had a different reaction there. And I think this

29:28

is this is not the first one. I think there

29:30

was one before this one in series 13 that was

29:32

show off, which is again, very, very, very

29:34

open. And

29:37

that one has an element of being like, oh, you

29:39

bastard. Like, what can I do? What

29:41

can I do here that shows up but doesn't make me look like a prick?

29:44

Yeah. But the physical

29:46

catching, I mean, Munya basically

29:49

made Alex do all the work. I

29:52

don't I've seen that very often

29:54

before, where Alex basically

29:57

is is a contestant's ball.

30:00

Frequently what happens is contestants who aren't doing very

30:02

well, Alex will help and like will help in

30:04

a kind of like, I can move this thing

30:06

for you or okay, we'll do this because I

30:09

know it's not going to affect the points overall

30:11

because you're not doing particularly well.

30:13

In creative tasks, that doesn't happen very

30:15

often because usually it's like, let's allow

30:17

the open ended ones like this, it's

30:19

like, let's allow the contestant to do

30:21

whatever they want and kind of like,

30:25

you know, let your mind run wild. It was very

30:27

much like the bulk of the work was put on

30:29

Alex here. And also in a way that was

30:31

like, the catch, so

30:33

many of the captures that Alex

30:36

did some amazing throws, it's worth saying Alex

30:38

is just, he's great at throwing and Munya

30:40

was actually like he was rubbish but he

30:42

was so good at throwing and Munya just

30:44

wasn't catching it like he just, he could

30:46

have just caught it, he could just caught

30:48

one of the balls Jenny, it was a

30:50

very simple catch. It's

30:53

impossible because Alex couldn't, could

30:55

Alex see where Munya was?

30:57

Munya was sitting on Greg

30:59

statue's shoulders, which looked great.

31:01

I have to say that

31:03

is one of the greatest positions in the garden

31:06

ever taken. I think it is a great, I

31:08

think often people use, this is what we're saying

31:10

before, people use the statue

31:12

with high ambition and often it doesn't go very

31:14

well. And here's a good example of it because

31:16

it didn't go particularly well. I suppose what I

31:18

mean is that in a

31:21

way, what you want, and

31:23

maybe this would have been the thing to do, is

31:25

you want Munya to throw the ball and then Alex

31:27

to be the one catching it but then you could

31:29

argue that Alex

31:31

is not the one catching it. No,

31:33

it would have to be when you're

31:36

doing the catching because that was the

31:38

challenge, I think. But the

31:40

difficulty has put so much on Alex

31:42

there. Oh, too much. Too

31:44

much is on Alex. And the fact is that there

31:46

are some that Munya isn't going to be able to

31:48

catch because Alex can't get it right every time. But

31:50

the ones where it comes close, Munya

31:53

should be catching them. Munya,

31:55

he would also, he was

31:58

precariously ballast. a tricky setup.

32:02

According to Greg, it was the first time Alex has

32:04

ever sworn on the show, because

32:07

Munir got quite demanding in

32:09

the Alex throw better. And

32:12

there was a muttered under

32:14

breath fucks sake from Alex. Alex Blauwman When

32:16

this episode went out, I did some stats

32:18

on it. And I think we worked out

32:20

that it wasn't the first time he has

32:22

sworn in the show,

32:24

he has sworn while quoting other

32:26

people. And while like making a

32:28

joke, it is the first time you

32:31

sworn in anger in the show. Alex Blauwman

32:33

I don't think there's anger, I think there's

32:35

frustration. And you know, he had done a

32:38

lot of good throws. I mean, crickets off

32:40

is comedy saying. Paul Jay Oh, very true.

32:42

And I think, I mean, Parvie

32:44

wonders if there was a way to, like,

32:48

create some kind of tennis ball firing machine.

32:50

That sounds mad, doesn't it? Even saying it

32:52

out loud, that couldn't be right. But just

32:54

take some of the burden off of Alex.

32:56

I can appreciate he wants to catch something, but

32:59

it's too hard. It's just too hard. Parvie Wojtland

33:01

It was too hard. But it wasn't

33:03

as hard as what John as the

33:05

task. John said to yourself. I

33:07

watched that and it just reminded me I

33:10

took Arlo, my grandson,

33:12

the Crown Prince of Lambert

33:15

to Peckham ride the other day. And

33:17

there's a squirrel and it was going round

33:19

and round a tree and Arlo was trying

33:21

and he never could go as fast

33:24

as the squirrel. And he just he

33:26

couldn't give up. He got a glimpse of his

33:28

tail and round he went again and a squirrel

33:30

sort of raced up the tree again

33:32

round and round and round. It was I felt

33:34

very sorry for him. But I you know, I

33:36

was also laughing quite a lot. And

33:38

this very far, Camille does the exact same thing.

33:40

She sees a squirrel and like, gah, and runs

33:42

after it. And then it's like, but I like

33:45

the squirrel. Why is a squirrel run away? It's

33:47

very sweet. So they would get on like a

33:49

house on fire. Just just say just say, just

33:51

say, do all the talking. He's a strong, silent

33:53

type. Now,

33:55

but so John had had this magical

33:58

child memory. of

34:00

catching a ball and running with it

34:02

when he was small, which obviously was

34:05

a golden day in his memory. Yeah,

34:08

it was it was it was

34:10

quite a lot, though. So it was quite a sweet thing. And

34:12

there's weirdly there are quite a lot of references

34:15

to happy, or happy

34:17

and slightly sad memories

34:20

with their father from the contestants in this series. Another

34:22

one where Dara is talking about like, maybe

34:26

it was actually it might have been

34:28

Greg actually mentioned the fact that he would

34:30

he would play tennis with his dad once,

34:32

like his dad took him out to play

34:34

tennis and his dad just fired aces down

34:36

like against Greg was like

34:38

cowering in the corner. And Dara was like, in

34:40

this situation, am I you or your dad? I

34:43

can't work it out. But I do. Is

34:45

there something very sweet about this? And it

34:47

is sweet. He's trying to he's trying to

34:50

emulate that feeling. It never quite comes off

34:52

for him. Would say

34:54

it comes off, but in a

34:56

sort of quite halfhearted way. It works

34:59

because the ball bounces off the roof

35:01

several times and sort of comes down

35:03

eventually quite slowly. I think that's OK,

35:06

though, because there's nothing in there that

35:08

says like catch a ball or catch

35:10

something that hasn't bounced or anything. I

35:12

think that's fine. But it wasn't it

35:15

wasn't spectacular. It wasn't grand. But

35:17

I also think that John and this is very

35:19

true of John throughout because he has another one. We

35:21

have to have the most amount of fun with

35:23

a with these

35:25

pipes. They have these pipes like, you know,

35:27

that, you know, the ones that you the guys like

35:29

the guttering, the ones that are building sites where they

35:32

put stuff down to the skip. Oh,

35:34

yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The the show. The big, the

35:36

kind of big ones. Yeah, the kind of big,

35:38

the big, the big, the big, slidey ones, the

35:40

big, slidey ones. Yeah. Yeah. They get a bunch

35:42

of those and say, have the most amount of

35:44

fun with this. And John spends the whole time

35:47

trying to head a ball into one. And he

35:49

doesn't have a good time at all. But his

35:51

ambition is really, really strong. His ambition is amazing.

35:53

And I think that's similar here, where he has

35:55

this huge ambition that he just has to lower

35:57

and lower and lower and lower until It's. A

36:00

which I think is it's fun when

36:02

you kind of work out contestants like.

36:05

A tragic comic. Fools I

36:07

think that's Jones is likes

36:09

massive ambition. no. No.

36:14

No, No payoff. Out

36:29

the last series and thus ta.

36:31

Sorry was a pseudo task as as

36:33

I yeah I got a really golf

36:35

on this earth smith. Guy

36:39

and what you mean is a good one. It's

36:41

a good one and it's it's a good one

36:43

that is slightly like it it's a little bit

36:46

way a like if they designed the task slightly

36:48

batch like a look at how I really want

36:50

to learn like whether all the things on that

36:52

side are all the things that were there were

36:54

loud or or sell or quietly as single thing

36:56

on seen as an eye on on could be

36:59

known as a bleak so I would be happy.

37:01

With that has said it was

37:03

noted to play cards right at

37:05

the on I didn't want is

37:07

not being done because it was

37:09

even tell that it was good

37:12

game because the reactions from the

37:14

contestants were so mixed. Yeah.

37:17

It was. It was in a way it

37:19

was very it's very some of the one

37:21

that was a series seventeen base is heavier,

37:24

is lighter with a young age and that

37:26

they did with went under one point same

37:28

Campbell did and said it's the exact same

37:31

exact same weight but I think this one

37:33

was better because it's so hard to tell

37:35

and like especially the. The

37:38

bit where they said wow and greg that's already putting

37:40

it in him out and in a regulation manner I

37:42

joined as wonder what about maimed like the a you

37:44

to be thrusting a jobbing so I believe. i

37:46

said in a regulation mother or that

37:48

point the like this could be this

37:50

could be like an olympic sport really

37:53

i'd say ah be more than happy

37:55

because i'm quite booed ally i don't

37:57

really like athletics or or any sport

37:59

really but if that was the Olympics, I'd

38:01

be happy. Sarah

38:03

won that, didn't she? Sarah won

38:05

the final task and

38:07

Jon won the episode. Which was

38:09

nice. Which was nice, especially because

38:12

if going into this episode,

38:14

there would never have been a bigger gap

38:16

between first and last, and it was Dara

38:18

who was top and Jon was very much

38:20

at the bottom. And Jon

38:22

got to win the episode, which is lovely. Was he

38:24

more at the bottom than Nick? I

38:27

think he was, only because Dara in

38:29

episode two. Because

38:34

the big split between Nick

38:36

and the rest, or Nick and Sophie, is a

38:38

bit more around episode three, episode four. This one

38:41

happened in episode two because Dara scored 30 in

38:44

one episode, which is ludicrous.

38:47

A ludicrous score. It'll possibly happen again. Did

38:49

Jon manage to ever beat that? How

38:53

do you mean? Well, did

38:55

Jon ever get 30 points in a

38:57

single episode? No. Oh,

39:00

Jon Robbins. No. Sorry, I

39:02

thought we were talking about Jon Kearns. I was like,

39:04

oh, definitely not. But Jon Robbins, actually,

39:06

he didn't. And what's interesting, and again, going in,

39:08

I dug a bit further into the stats this

39:11

week. And we'll go into the other stats because I've got

39:13

some more stats to get into. But the thing

39:15

that's quite interesting about Jon is that he

39:17

never went higher than 22 in his series. So

39:21

22 is a good score, but it's not like May

39:23

hit 27, 28 at some point, I think. They

39:27

were incredible. In a couple of episodes, they were really, really

39:29

good. But in other episodes, they were very, very, they

39:32

didn't do so well. Dara,

39:34

again, scored 30 in one episode. He

39:36

scored nine in another episode. So

39:39

the gaps were huge,

39:41

whereas Jon's, the gaps,

39:43

he only scored 22

39:46

is a higher score. He never scored lower than 17. It's

39:49

consistent with Jon. That's

39:51

what did it. I

39:54

Think we need to set you more homework, I've just realised.

39:56

We really do. I Think. We

40:00

we talked about this episode i think

40:02

old as said last week and there

40:04

was a was episode so series ten.

40:07

Episode seven said it was a question

40:09

about seconds that we had and it

40:11

was. It was a nice is Chris

40:13

Rock robots and seconds. We actually had

40:15

a robot in the series finale as

40:17

well as of Surrey seventeenth us a

40:19

nice link box robots chickens together at

40:21

last night. It was okay. Do the

40:23

math class.can you remember. At

40:25

saw as we've done that we don't have sort of us before.

40:28

It's Catherine Parkinson, ah, Richard Herring, Milan

40:30

Rizwan or Johnny Vegas and days him

40:32

a creeper. It is the first covered

40:35

series so it's all. it's all slightly

40:37

mad but by episode seven of the

40:39

everyone's on board with our way to

40:41

all feals. I'm glad I think the

40:43

question we are all specifically was should

40:45

because I think in the in the

40:47

tasked with the robot for the seconds

40:50

daisy i'm Catherine get disqualified but the

40:52

question was asked was should they have

40:54

been basically because. Then I will look

40:56

out for that and I will. I

40:58

will pass mice verdict next week. So

41:01

does you know hold your horses are

41:03

some decide? When

41:12

our then of what you'd have you got

41:14

lots of stuff. So Sen John well

41:16

I feel very very bad because I do

41:19

during the series when it when series

41:21

going on people email and they send things

41:23

and misinformation fats and questions Last of

41:25

us I don't necessarily have time to get

41:27

into it because we're gonna dig into

41:29

the series is going out and workouts are

41:32

all these ridiculous things so I'm I'm

41:34

going to try during the during the hiatus

41:36

during that the box of times people

41:38

obviously some me in as many spots and

41:40

and questions as they have the. Only

41:42

way many teams landlessness? Okay, make

41:44

money off of the movie houses.

41:46

Do The last I have to

41:48

do is go. Most of these

41:50

are. well

41:53

within within like i say it was maybe

41:55

within six minutes of episode one going

41:57

out someone off me a question on

41:59

twitter or X as we're forced to

42:01

call it now. And it was really, really good.

42:03

And I was like, that's a great question. I

42:05

can't look into it now. I have just looked

42:07

into it. It was from Jennifer Lauren or at

42:10

Jen has great hair. And that name is relevant.

42:12

Because she said, Hi, Jack,

42:14

I know this is very stupid, but can

42:16

we have odds like hair colour? Sophie

42:19

reminds me very fondly of Catherine

42:21

Parkinson. And I mean,

42:23

I think she's I think she's right. Because Sophie

42:27

and Catherine Parkinson both had bright

42:29

red hair. So the question basically

42:31

is, hair colour, who's the best? Right,

42:35

what colour works best, Jack? Well,

42:37

well, well, well, well, it's quite interesting. What do you

42:39

think? Who do you think has got the best? What

42:41

do you think is the best hair colour to have

42:43

is? How did you separate your hair colours? How many

42:46

hair colours did you divide it into? Well,

42:48

we've got brown, black,

42:52

blonde, red. What about

42:54

balls and balls? And what's

42:56

about grey? Grey? Oh, I

42:59

did have grey as well. Actually, I do have grey.

43:01

I do have grey as well. The thing about grey

43:03

is I didn't like I'd some some some grey things.

43:05

I'm like, I do I want to I know people,

43:07

you know, whatever hair colour you have

43:09

is absolutely fine. But like, for

43:11

instance, I've classified Julian Clary as blonde because

43:13

I think his hair is blonde in his

43:16

series. But you could potentially

43:18

say it's like sort of silvery

43:20

foxy as well. It's a foxy,

43:22

blondies, streaky, bacony.

43:24

It hasn't

43:28

done well. Yes, I think you

43:30

the trouble is when you're saying grey, it

43:32

gives connotations that you don't want to. I

43:34

don't want to give but I do. There

43:36

are some people I mean, for instance, like,

43:38

I would say Steve, Steve Bambon's hair in

43:40

the most recent series was grey. In

43:43

a way, I mean, it's a beautiful grey, but I

43:45

would say it was great. So

43:48

okay, which one do you think is best out of those out

43:50

of those lists that I give in that? I'm

43:53

afraid I think it's just going to be brown. Jenny,

43:57

you're absolutely right is brown. Is

44:01

that boring? I don't know. Christine

44:05

is now tossing her

44:07

brunette locks in triumph

44:10

and touching her hair like a Love

44:12

Island contestant. She's done

44:14

very, very well. Very well. Well,

44:17

what I will say is so, I mean, it's

44:19

a little bit depending on how you how you

44:21

judge these things because Brown had

44:24

people score 3.05 points per

44:26

task. They've

44:28

had former Taskmaster champions

44:30

such as Lou Sanders,

44:32

Ed Gamble, Sam Campbell. They've all

44:34

had brown hair, but

44:38

blonde hair contestants. This is where it gets

44:40

interesting, Jenny. May.

44:44

May, of course. Average 3.02

44:46

points per task, which is just

44:48

0.03 behind Brown. But

44:52

there have been seven blonde champions,

44:55

including Catherine Ryan, Rob

44:57

Beckett, Kerry Godlman, as you say, May

45:00

Martin. So like,

45:02

I mean, it's hard. It's a little bit hard

45:04

to say, I would say. I would say probably

45:07

want to be, if you think you're not going

45:09

to win, I guess go Brown. If you think

45:11

you have a chance at winning, go

45:13

blonde because then there are more blonde

45:15

hair champions. That's what I would say.

45:17

Always go blonde. If in doubt, go

45:19

blonde. Go blonde. Do you want to

45:21

know who did the worst? And

45:24

I think it might be slightly obvious given

45:26

how we started this. Catherine

45:30

Parkinson and Sophie Willan do bring the average down.

45:32

It's 2.84 points per task. Although

45:36

there has been a red-headed

45:38

champion, the

45:40

incredible Sarah

45:43

Kendall was red-headed. Fiery red. A

45:45

different kind of red-head? No, no, she's

45:47

in the red. She's in the red. We'll

45:50

include all hues of orange, pink, red. I

45:58

think about you, right. It's

46:00

a broad church. The thing to say though is,

46:02

if we're talking about, you know, if you're thinking

46:04

going blonde to win Taskmaster, the real thing to

46:06

do is to shave off your hair, because

46:09

the bald people do very well. I

46:12

think there have only been four contestants who

46:14

I would classify as being bald or clean

46:16

shaven. They are Al

46:18

Murray, Tim Vine, Dara Breen,

46:20

and Kyle Smith-Bino. But

46:23

they have an average points per task score of 3.23,

46:25

which is way more

46:28

than brown haired people. So if

46:30

you're going on Taskmaster, shave off your hair. Or

46:33

go blonde, because then you'll win at life.

46:35

Now, we have, that's very good Jack, very

46:37

good stats. Thank you. There will be more

46:39

stats later, and also, I mean there will

46:41

be many more stats because I feel so

46:44

bad that I haven't been answering questions. And

46:46

people have been sending in stats as well.

46:48

We've got an absolute corker next week, can

46:50

I just say. We've got a big old

46:52

backlog of stats for you to wait for.

46:54

Huge backlog. And there's one in particular I'm

46:56

very excited about. So if you're a fan

46:59

of stats, tune into next week's episode as

47:01

well. I'll probably just listen to the bit

47:03

where I'm talking and then when you take

47:05

over the stats, I'm teasing you. Listen, we're

47:07

going through emails because Series 17

47:09

may well be

47:12

wrapped, but the spoofs are ongoing. Email

47:14

one. Oh no. Boofs

47:16

and bloops. Boofs and bloops. Long

47:20

time listener. Hi Jack and Jenny. Long time

47:22

listener. First time caller. Big

47:25

fan of both of yours. Good.

47:27

Good. I'm writing for what I

47:29

believe to be a boof, bloop,

47:31

bloop. The episode seven instrument task,

47:33

or at least a missed opportunity

47:35

for pedantry. I think you've already

47:37

picked this up. The task in

47:39

question reads, perform a recognisable piece

47:41

of classical music without using any

47:43

musical instrument. In this

47:45

week's podcast, you, Jack, and

47:48

I quote, say, John, making a musical

47:50

instrument was very impressive. So it seems

47:52

to me that you agree with me

47:54

that John made a musical

47:56

instrument and indeed did use it. I would

47:58

also argue that Nick, six sophies and

48:00

teas as emperors and bottom classes

48:03

etc also became inter-responsory symbols for

48:05

the main purpose of being used to create

48:07

rhythm and or melody. I don't think we

48:09

can really argue with Jamie from New Zealand. Oh

48:12

no. Oh Jamie from New Zealand.

48:14

He continues. So while everyone on both the episode

48:16

of the show and your podcast made fun of

48:19

Joanne for her interpretation of the task, I believe

48:21

she is the only person that followed the rules

48:24

and everyone else should have been disqualified.

48:26

Although it would pay me to take

48:28

any points away from Nick in brackets.

48:30

Yours pedantically, Jamie from New Zealand. Oh

48:33

God. Now he's added a PS. Oh

48:36

Jamie. Well he's just blown it with

48:38

me. I pronounced

48:40

it charades. Sorry, Jenny. Yes,

48:43

yes, yes, yes, yes. Jamie. Oh.

48:46

Well what are you going to do with that, Jack? What are you going to do with

48:50

that? I think it's tricky. I don't

48:52

think. I don't think it is in

48:54

the spirit of the task to disqualify

48:56

people who create music out

48:58

of things that are not traditionally musical

49:00

instruments. That would be my, that's my

49:02

instinct. The point of that bit of

49:04

the subset is to say, don't

49:08

go just go and get an instrument and

49:10

play it because annoying. But if you create

49:13

out of objects something that

49:16

could be used to

49:18

create melody, does that make it an instrument?

49:20

Or if someone came into a room, I

49:22

suppose the question is, if someone came into

49:24

a room and you pointed at what John

49:26

had created, which is a big coat hanger

49:28

with some rubber bands and you

49:31

said, what is that? And they said, would

49:34

they say, I suppose, would they say that's a musical

49:36

instrument or would they say, I have no idea what

49:38

the hell that is. It looks like a series of

49:40

rubber bands on a coat hanger.

49:42

I would probably say they would say the latter

49:45

and therefore John should get away with that. Similarly

49:47

with Nick, you're never going to look

49:49

at some glasses and go, what a

49:51

great musical instrument. What a great musical

49:53

instrument. Traditionally used, traditionally used when I

49:55

was out on the circuit in the

49:57

early days as the Brighton

50:00

bottle orchestra and that's what they

50:02

specialised in. And I think

50:04

that what I missed was somebody

50:06

doing a sort of

50:08

very 60s sound scapey, you know,

50:11

making some mashed potato and then

50:13

throwing it to the wall or

50:15

something like that. I

50:18

know what you mean. I think that

50:20

maybe I mean, in a way, that's

50:22

what Joanne did. But without Joanne even

50:24

furthering that. Yeah, you sort

50:26

of you sort of did

50:28

want someone to take literally, like

50:30

household, like found sounds, I guess,

50:32

and then and then put them

50:35

together to make, but then I

50:37

guess you just coined a great

50:39

description. Found sound, found

50:42

sound totally. Make a mind you. And

50:44

then but then it's so difficult, isn't

50:46

it? Because I was just thinking didgeridoo with

50:48

you know, those hoovers have got the bendy

50:50

flexy bit, but then basically

50:52

what you're making a didgeridoo. But

50:55

it's inside the bottles and the glasses all

50:58

over again. I'm just sticking with my make

51:00

some mashed potato, throw it at the wall,

51:02

record that and

51:04

then say it's Beethoven's fifth. Yeah,

51:07

it's perfect. Apparently

51:09

they're doing they're making a new

51:12

album of Pink Floyd

51:14

music that is recorded

51:16

from the brain patterns of people

51:18

who listen to one of their

51:20

original albums. What

51:25

do I do with that information? I don't

51:27

know, Jack, I don't know. But it's

51:30

in the spirit of throwing mashed potatoes at

51:33

a wall. I know what I'm trying to

51:35

say. I'm just not doing it very well.

51:38

Anyway, we have another email. Go

51:40

to the next email. Jack saves me. It says,

51:42

hey, silly, I know. But

51:46

as someone with a disability myself, I had a

51:48

little cry watching Rosie Jones pop up on my

51:50

screen as one of the new Taskmaster contestants. Honestly,

51:53

I've never thought it would happen. Really glad

51:55

the show has included Rosie. It sends such

51:57

a positive message about diversity and inclusive. If

52:01

Taskmaster can make their show accessible to

52:03

disabled contestants, surely any show can! Thanks,

52:05

Paul! Thank you, Paul.

52:07

That is very nice of you. That's a

52:09

good email and we hope you enjoy it.

52:12

I mean, listen, we all hope Rose is

52:14

going to win, but we actually guessed Emma

52:17

Cydie. But let's not hold that against

52:19

us. Yeah, John Robbins thought that Rose

52:21

is going to win. It

52:24

wouldn't necessarily be a surprise. You won't stop

52:26

anything, that girl. She won't stop anything. She'll

52:28

give her damnness to win. That's

52:30

the thing. And I think that she also won't like...

52:33

There'll be no exceptions made. And I think that's how

52:35

she'll want to play as well, which is quite exciting.

52:38

I'm so excited. I can't wait to see it. It's

52:40

going to be a goodie. Right. So

52:42

we're all looking forward to that. Our third email came

52:45

with the subject line saying A+. It's

52:47

got a suggestion in it. I'm

52:51

enjoying the review of older series and getting Jenny's thoughts

52:53

on them since she didn't watch in the past. Also,

52:56

thanks to Jenny for avoiding

52:58

net source contractors for the sake of the pod.

53:02

I'm trying my best. Lastly,

53:04

can we have a podcast listener

53:06

meet up in Edinburgh 2021-24? Well,

53:09

you'd have to pay for my accommodation, love, because...

53:12

Have you seen the prices? Have

53:15

you seen them? I've

53:18

got an over 60s travel card, so I'm cheap

53:20

on the train, but I don't think I can

53:23

afford accommodation. So unless somebody is prepared to

53:25

put us up in a five-star hotel, because I'm

53:27

not fucking about with anything left, because

53:29

I want a nice breakfast. I

53:32

see. And check that floor. Make sure there

53:34

is no carpet. No need. No

53:36

disgusting carpet. The curtain

53:38

is not furnishing for me because I'm

53:40

very delicate. This

53:43

will not do for Jenny. It's

53:45

a lovely thought. It's a lovely thought. I'd love to be

53:47

popping up to her. Maybe we could do it

53:49

in London. Get on the bus. That'd

53:52

be way less fun, isn't it? That'd

53:54

be the first time I've met you in real life. I don't know whether

53:57

I can really cope with that. I know. It's a bit

53:59

unbelievable. Should

54:01

we only meet each other on stage and then have like,

54:03

and it'd be, and it's like, um, uh,

54:05

like, I was gonna say married at first sight, but it's not

54:07

that. And

54:10

usually you'd go, go, I didn't know you'd look that old.

54:12

And I'd go, Oh, I thought you'd be taller. All this

54:14

sort of thing. That'd be really awkward.

54:16

Yeah. Really awkward. Now, Christine would be

54:18

in the middle tossing her hair. Um,

54:21

and she still wouldn't be able to say, we wouldn't be

54:23

able to hear her. We wouldn't know why. It'd be so

54:25

confusing. It's too much, bros. It's too

54:28

much. So it's a love, it's an unsigned

54:30

email, that one. I don't know. I

54:32

mean, come back and we sign it. Come back and

54:34

we sign it. Listen,

54:39

that's all we've got time for. I think

54:41

Jack this week. Thank you so much to

54:43

everyone who's written in. Thank you so much

54:45

to everyone who's written in, whether you sign

54:47

your emails or not. Um,

54:50

we'll be a little bit suspicious about that.

54:53

But anyway, it was nice. Paul

54:55

and, Paul and Jamie, you're getting, you're getting

54:57

personalized. Thank you. And we might

54:59

invite that to you. No, we're not going to

55:01

get into the pen pile situation. No.

55:03

But thank you to everybody. And

55:06

also Jenny with the great hair. Jen with the

55:08

great hair. You have great hair as well, Jenny, but other Jenny

55:10

with the great hair. I did actually look up when

55:13

you said Jen with a great hair then. And I

55:15

sort of looked at you physically as if, say you take

55:17

this. So

55:20

we'll have some great stats for you next

55:22

week. And yeah, and keep

55:24

sending in your emails, keep sending in your

55:26

thoughts and spooks and loops and all the

55:28

rest of it. Your thoughts on series 18

55:30

as well. Also any thoughts of residual thoughts

55:32

on series 17 you have, that

55:35

email address is. Fans at

55:37

talasmaster.tv. And don't, whatever

55:39

you do, don't forget to rate and subscribe.

55:42

Please. Please. A good thing to say.

55:44

Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you, thank you,

55:46

thank you. Well,

55:50

look, I want, I want Christine to not

55:52

have Hansel in my email. She hasn't

55:54

got it. Has kids subscribed to it? You should

55:56

not have in the end. They're

56:00

both clean! This

56:02

time next week, one of us will

56:04

have something because, you know, just the

56:07

toddlers, the amount of toddlers between us,

56:09

we're bound to have some nasty things.

56:11

Anyway, all, good luck, good luck, may

56:14

the sun shine and the slugs die.

56:21

See you later, bye! Bye! Bye!